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考生注意：

1.考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。

2.本次考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答题必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。

3.答题前，务必在答题纸上填写准考证号和姓名，并将核对后的条形码贴在指定位置上，在答题纸反面清楚地填写姓名。

I. Listening Comprehension Section A 10%

Directions: In Section A. you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answer on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1. A. Cold B. Sunny C. Rainy D. Cloudy

2. A. 110 minutes B. 120 minutes C. 130 minutes D. 140 minutes 3. A. Shop assistant and customer B. Boss and assistant C. Professor and student D. Husband and wife 4. A. In a meeting room B. In a reference room C. At a booking office D. At a police station

5. A. A movie B. A lecture C. A play D. A speech

6. A. The woman shouldn’t be so upset B. He’s an hour later for the interview. C. The woman should be patient D. He’s too nervous to calm down

7. A. The man is intelligent enough B. The man does not work hard enough C. The man should get some sleep D. The man is hard-working. 8. A. He doesn’t enjoy business trips as much as he used to. B. He wants to spend more time with his family C. He doesn’t think he is capable of doing the job D. He thinks the pay is too low to support his family

9. A. The woman doesn’t have money for her son’s graduate studies B The woman doesn’t think her son will get a business degree C. The woman insists that her son should major in science.

D. The woman advises her son to think twice before making his decision 10. A. It ran into another car B. It fell into a river and sank

C. It broke down on the road D. It left the road and landed in a field

Section B 15%

Directions: In Section B. you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions o n each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following recording.

11. A. Noise B. Smoking C. Litter D. Drinking 12. A. A tour guide B. A conductor C. A teacher D. A lawyer 13. A. To prepare people for international travel B. To make the laws of different kinds

C. To inform people of the punishment for breaking laws D. To give advice to travelers to the country

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following recording

14. A Conference with the course tutor B. Active attendance and commitment C. Punctuality and politeness D. Debate and essay preparation 15. A. Inform the teacher in advance B. Just do not choose the course C. Drop out of the course D. Make it up later 16. A. One that is written by hand B. One that is original

C. One that is revise by the tutor D. One that keeps to the instructions

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. His knees and fingers ache B. He doesn’t feel like eating C. He can’t sleep very well D. His blood pressure is high 18. A. She asks him to have injections and a treatment with rays B. She asks him to have an operation and a treatment with rays C. She asks him to have a good rest and a treatment with rays

D. She asks him to have some herbal medicine and a treatment with rays

19. A. Every day for seven weeks B. Three times a week for seven weeks C. Three times a weeks for three weeks D. Twenty times for two weeks 20. A. Use hot water pads B. Sit by the stove C. Drink cold water D. Take cold baths.

II. Grammar and vocabulary Section A 10%

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word: for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson’s life story is one of success, achievement, and finally mystery because no one knows how it ended.

Thompson was born in Delaware(21)_____ the east coast of the United States in 1906. After finishing high school, Thompson went to Princeton University and later studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, Jim Thompson worked as an architect in New York City until 1940. Not long after this, he volunteered(22)______ (serve)in the U.S. Army. During World War II, Thompson gathered intelligence for the army in Thailand. It was this first taste of life in the Far East(23)______ changed Thompson’s life. He saw opportunities to develop tourism there, becoming(24)______ (involve)in an ambitious scheme to restore the Oriental Hotel.

While the hotel plan fell through, by that time Thompson had hit upon another scheme that would eventually make him a millionaire. While traveling around Thailand, he came across(25)____ he considered exquisite(精美的)samples of handwoven Thai silk, a product that(26)_____(become)rare. He persuaded the weavers to work with him and marketed the silk in New York, (27)______ it became very popular. As a consequence, the Thai silk industry was revived(复兴)and the business made Thompson and some of the weavers very wealthy.

With his success in the silk business, Jim Thompson continued his original interest in architecture on the side. He found six traditional Thai houses and had(28)_____ brought to Bangkok and reassembled there as one magnificent house. Today, not only is it a beautiful house inside and out, (29)______ it is also filled with the works of art Thompson collected.

In 1967 during a holiday in Malaysia, he went for a walk in the Jungle and disappeared forever. To this day, no clues(30)____(find)as to what happened to this wealthy American businessman who is credited with single-handedly reviving the Thai silk industry.

Section B10%

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. concern B. dramatic C. equivalent D. frequently E. impact F. imposed G. representative H. observed I. residents J. significantly K. strategies Mentally and Intellectually Harmful

Last month, the Indian Medical Association declared a public health emergency in New Delhi because of high levels of air pollution. Schools were shut and emergency traffic restrictions put in place.

New Delhi is far from alone. Our research into the___31___ of air pollution in China shows that, in addition to the more obvious physical price, air pollution can also have serious negative effects on mental health and cognition (认知),___ 32___ reducing a person’s happiness and their scores in verbal and mathematical tests.

Such harmful mental effects have serious negative consequences for livelihoods and human capital development, suggesting that development___33____ should go beyond the traditional focus of boosting GDP in the developing world.

India's recent pollution emergency is the most___34___ incidence(发生率)of dangerous air pollution, but smoggy skies have been a cause of growing___35____ in most developing countries.

Major cities across the developing world---from Thailand to Brazil, to Nigeria---___36____ experience pollution at several times the WHO safe limits. In fact, 98% of cities with more than 100.000___37___ in low and middle-income countries fail to meet the WHO’s air quality guidelines.

India’s extreme levels of air pollution are well recognized, and examining the effects provides clear warnings for other countries seeking fast growth through rapid industrialization.

We used nationally ___38___ longitudinal (纵向)surveys on mental health and cognition, matched with daily air quality data for the time and place of interviews, to see what pollution does in a given time to individual happiness and cognitive performance. Because each person in our survey was __39___multiple times, we can control for the effect of individual characteristics on the outcome variables.

We found that worsening air quality led to a decrease in happiness that day__40___to about 10 percent of the reduced happiness one would experience form a negative major life event such as divorce.

III. Reading Comprehension Section A15%