part i listening comprehension (20 minutes)

section a

directions: in this section, you will hear 10 short at the end of each 

conversation, a question will be asked about what was both the conversation 

and the question will be spoken only after each question there will be a  

during the pause, you must read the four choices marked a), b), c) and d), and 

decide which is the best then mark the corresponding letter on the answer 

sheet with a single line through the

example: you will hear:

you will read:

a) 2

b) 3

c) 4

d) 5

from the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they will start at 9 

o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the therefore, d) “5 hours” is the 

correct you should choose [d] on the answer sheet and mark it with a single line through 

the

sample answer [a] [b] [c] [d]

a) she met with thomas just a few days

b) she can help with the orientation

c) she is not sure she can pass on the

d) she will certainly try to contact

a) set the dinner

b) change the light bulb

c) clean the dining

d) hold the ladder for

a) he’d like a piece of  

b) he’d like some coffee 

c) he’d rather stay in the warm

d) he’s just had dinner with his

a) he has managed to sell a number of

b) he is contented with his current

c) he might get

d) he has lost his

a) tony’s

b) paul’s

c) paul’s

d) tony’s

a) he was fined for running a red

b) he was caught speeding on a fast

c) he had to run quickly to get the

d) he made a wrong turn at the

a) he has learned a lot from his own

b) he is quite experienced in taming wild

c) he finds reward more effective than

d) he thinks it important to master basic training

a) at a

b) at the dentist’

c) in a

d) in the

a) he doesn’t want jenny to get into

b) he doesn’t agree with the woman’s

c) he thinks jenny’s workload too heavy at

d) he believes most college students are running

a) it was

b) it was just

c) the actors were

d) the plot was funny

section b

directions: in this section, you will hear 3 short at the end of each passage, you will 

hear some both the passage and the questions will be spoken only  

after you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices 

marked a), b), c) and d). then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet 

with a single line through the

passage one 

questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just

a) social

b) medical care

c) applied physics

d) special

a) the timely advice from her friends and

b) the two-year professional training she

c) her determination to fulfill her

d) her parents’ consistent moral

a) to get the funding for the

b) to help the disabled children

c) to train therapists for the children

d) to set up an institution for the

passage two 

questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just

a) at a country school in

b) in a mountain valley of

c) at a small american

[page]

d) in a small village in

a) by expanding their minds and

b) by financing their elementary

c) by setting up a small primary

d) by setting them an inspiring

a) she wrote poetry that broke through national

b) she was a talented designer of original school

c) she proved herself to be an active and capable

d) she made outstanding contributions to children’s

a) she won the 1945 nobel prize in

b) she was the first woman to win a nobel

c) she translated her books into many

d) she advised many statesmen on international

passage three

question 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just

a) how animals survive harsh conditions in the

b) how animals alter colors to match their

c) how animals protect themselves against

d) how animals learn to disguise themselves

a) its enormous

b) its plant-like

c) its instantaneous

d) its offensive

a) it helps improve their

b) it allows them to swim

c) it helps them fight their

d) it allows them to avoid twists and

part ii reading comprehension (35 minutes)

directions: there are 4 passages in this each passage is followed by some questions or 

unfinished for each of them there are four choices marked a),b),c) and 

d). you should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the 

answer sheet with a single line through the

passage one

questions 21 to 25 are based on the following

there are good reasons to be troubled by the violence that spreads throughout the  

television and video games are full of gunplay and bloodshed, and one might reasonably 

ask what’s wrong with a society that presents videos of domestic violence as most 

researchers agree that the causes of real-world violence are a 1993 study by the  

national academy of sciences listed “biological, individual, family, peer, school, and community 

factors” as all playing their

viewing abnormally large amounts of violent television and video games may well contribute 

to violent behavior in certain

the trouble comes when researchers downplay uncertainties in their studies or overstate the 

case for causality (因果关系). skeptics were dismayed several years ago when a group of 

societies including the 

american medical association tried to end the debate by issuing a joint statement: “at this 

time, well over 1,000 studies… point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media 

violence and aggressive behavior in some ”

freedom-of-speech advocates accused the societies of catering to politicians, and even 

disputed the number of studies (most were review articles and essays, they said). when jonathan 

freedman, a social psychologist at the university of toronto, reviewed the literature, he found 

only 200 or so studies of television-watching and and when he weeded out “the most 

doubtful measures of aggression”, only 28% supported a

the critical point here is the alarmists say they have proved that violent media 

cause but the assumptions behind their observations need to be when 

labeling games as violent or non-violent, should a hero eating a ghost really be counted as a 

violent event? and when experimenters record the time it takes game players to read ‘aggressive’ 

or ‘non-aggressive’ words from a list, can we be sure what they are actually measuring? the intent 

of the new harvard center on media and child health to collect and standardize studies of media 

violence in order to compare their methodologies, assumptions and conclusions is an important [page]

step in the right

another appropriate ster would be to tone down the criticism until we know several 

researchers write, speak and testify quite a lot on the threat posed by violence in the that is, 

of course, their but when doing so, they often come out with statements that the matter 

has now been settled, drawing criticism from in response, the alarmists accuse critics 

and news reporters of being deceived by the entertainment such clashes help neither 

science nor

why is there so much violence shown in movies, tv and video games?

a) there is a lot of violence in the real world

b) something has gone wrong with today’s

c) many people are fond of gunplay and

d) showing violence is thought to be

what is the skeptics (line ) view of media violence?

a) violence on television is a fairly accurate reflection of real-world

b) most studies exaggerate the effect of media violence on the

c) a causal relationship exists between media and real-world

d) the influence of media violence on children has been

the author uses the term “alarmists” (line ) to refer to those who

a) use standardized measurements in the studies of media violence

b) initiated the debate over the influence of violent media on reality

c) assert a direct link between violent media and aggressive behavior

d) use appropriate methodology in examining aggressive behavior

in refuting the alarmists, the author advances his argument by first

a) the source and amount of their data

b) the targets of their observation

c) their system of measurement

d) their definition of violence

what does the author think of the debate concerning the relationship between the media and 

violence?

a) more studies should be conducted before conclusions are

b) it should come to an end since the matter has now been

c) the past studies in this field have proved to be

d) he more than agrees with the views held by the

passage two

questions 26 to 30 are based on the following

you’re in trouble if you have to buy your own brand-name prescription over the past 

decade, prices leaped by more than double the inflation treatments for chronic conditions can 

easily top ＄2,000 a month-no wonder that one in four americans can’s afford to fill their 

the solution? a hearty chorus of “o ” north of the border, where price 

controls reign, those same brand-name drugs cost 50% to 80%

the canadian option is fast becoming a political wake-up call, “if our neighbors can buy 

drugs at reasonable prices, why can’t we?” even to whisper that thought provokes  

“un-american!” and-the propagandists’ trump card (王牌)—“wreck our brilliant health-care 

” super-size drug prices, they claim, fund the research that sparks the next generation of 

wonder no sky-high drug price today, no cure for cancer so shut up and pay

common sense tells you that’s a false the reward for say, a cancer cure is so 

huge that no one’s going to hang it nevertheless, if canada-level pricing came to the united 

states, the industry’s profit margins would drop and the pace of new-drug development would 

here lies the american who is all this splendid medicine for? should our 

health-care system continue its drive toward the best of the best, even though rising numbers of 

patients can’t afford it? or should we direct our wealth toward letting everyone in on today’s level 

of care? measured by saved lives, the latter is almost certainly the better

to defend their profits, the drug companies have warned canadian wholesalers and 

pharmacies(药房) not to sell to americans by mail, and are cutting back supplies to those who 

meanwhile, the administration is playing the fear officials from the food and drug [page]

administration will argue that canadian drugs might be fake, mishandled, or even a potential 

threat to

do bad drugs fly around the internet? sure-and the more we look, the more we’ll find, but i 

haven’t heard of any raging epidemics among the hundreds of thousands of people buying 

most users of prescription drugs don’s worry about costs a  

they’re sheltered by employee insurance, owing just a $20  

the financial blows rain, instead, on the uninsured, especially the chronically ill who need 

expensive drugs to live, this group will still include middle-income seniors on medicare, who’ll 

have to dig deeply into their pockets before getting much from the new drug benefit that starts in 

what is said about the consequence of the rocketing drug prices in the

a) a quarter of americans can’t afford their prescription

b) many americans can’t afford to see a doctor when they fall

c) many americans have to go to canada to get medical

d) the inflation rate has been more than doubled over the

it can be inferred that america can follow the canadian model and curb its soaring drug 

prices by

a) encouraging people to buy prescription drugs online

b) extending medical insurance to all its citizens

c) importing low-price prescription drugs from canada

d) exercising price control on brand-name drugs

how do propagandists argue for the drug pricing policy?

a) low prices will affect the quality of medicines in

b) high prices are essential to funding research on new

c) low prices will bring about the anger of drug

d) high-price drugs are indispensable in curing chronic

what should be the priority of america’s health-care system according to the author?

a) to resolve the dilemma in the health-care

b) to maintain america’s lead in the drug

c) to allow the vast majority to enjoy its

d) to quicken the pace of new drug

what are american drug companies doing to protect their high profits?

a) labeling drugs bought from canada as being

b) threatening to cut back funding for new drug

c) reducing supplies to uncooperative canadian

d) attributing the raging epidemics to the ineffectiveness of canadian

passage three

questions 31 to 35 are based on the following

age has its privileges in and one of the more prominent of them is the senior 

citizen anyone who has reached a certain age-in some cases as low as 55-is 

automatically entitled to a dazzling array of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial 

eligibility is determined not by one’s need but by the date on one’s birth  

practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many 

businesses-as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on

people with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them；yet，

millions of americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent (有支付能力的). businesses that 

would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older 

the practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “elderly” and “needy” 

are synonymous (同义的). 

perhaps that once was true, but today elderly americans as a group have a lower poverty rate 

than the rest of the to be sure, there is economic diversity within the elderly, and many 

older americans are poor, but most of them aren’ it is impossible to determine the impact of the 

discounts on individual for many firms, they are a stimulus to but in other 

cases the discounts are given at the  

directly or indirectly, of younger moreover, they are a direct irritant in what 

some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the

generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over social security benefits，[page]

which mostly involves a transfer of resources from the young to the employment is another 

sore point, buoyed (支持) by laws and court decisions, more and more older americans are 

declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job-thereby lessening employment and 

promotion opportunities for younger

far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable 

economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don’t need

it no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve 

priority over those of senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people 

can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment； and they threaten the creation of a new 

myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other 

age senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older americans are fighting 

against-discrimination by

we learn from the first paragraph

a) offering senior citizens discounts has become routine commercial practice

b) senior citizen discounts have enabled many old people to live a decent life

c) giving senior citizens discounts has boosted the market for the elderly

d) senior citizens have to show their birth certificates to get a discount

what assumption lies behind the practice of senior citizen discounts?

a) businesses, having made a lot of profits, should do something for society in

b) old people are entitled to special treatment for the contribution they made to

c) the elderly, being financially underprivileged，need humane help from

d) senior citizen discounts can make up for the inadequacy of the social security

according to some politicians and scholars, senior citizen discounts

a) make old people even more dependent on society

b) intensify conflicts between the young and the old

c) have adverse financial impact on business companies

d) bring a marked increase in the companies revenues

how does the author view the social security system?

a) it encourages elderly people to retire in

b) it opens up broad career prospects for young

c) it benefits the old at the expense of the young

d) it should be reinforced by laws and court decisions

which of the following best summarizes the author’s main argument?

a) senior citizens should fight hard against age

b) the elderly are selfish and taking senior discounts for

c) priority should be given to the economic needs of senior

d) senior citizen discounts may well be a type of age

passage four

questions 36 to 40 are based on the following

in 1854 my great-grandfather, morris marable, was sold on an auction block in georgia for 

＄ for his white slave master, the sale was just “business as ” but to morris marable 

and his heirs, slavery was a crime against our this pattern of human rights violations 

against enslaved african-americans continued under racial segregation for nearly another

the fundamental problem of american democracy in the 21st century is the problem of “structural 

racism” the deep patterns of socio-economic inequality and accumulated disadvantage that are 

coded by race, and constantly justified in public speeches by both racist stereotypes and white 

do americans have the capacity and vision to remove these structural barriers that 

deny democratic rights and opportunities to millions of their fellow 

citizens?

this country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural 

the first reconstruction (1865-1877) ended slavery and briefly gave black men voting rights, 

but gave no meaningful compensation for two centuries of unpaid the promise of “40 acres 

and a mule (骡子)”was for most blacks a dream deferred (尚未实现的).

the second reconstruction (1954-1968), or the modern civil rights movement, ended legal [page]

segregation in public accommodations and gave blacks voting rights . but these successes 

paradoxically obscure the tremendous human costs of historically accumulated disadvantage that 

remain central to black americans’

the disproportionate wealth that most whites enjoy today was first constructed from 

centuries of unpaid black many white institutions, including some leading universities, 

insurance companies and banks, profited from this pattern of white privilege and black 

inequality continues

demanding reparations (赔偿) is not just about compensation for slavery and it 

is, more important, an educational campaign to highlight the contemporary reality of “racial 

deficits” of all kinds, the unequal conditions that impact blacks regardless of structural 

racism’s barriers include “equity ” the absence of black capital formation that is a direct 

consequence of america’s one third of all black households actually have negative net 

in 1998 the typical black family’s net wealth was ＄16,400, less than one fifth that of 

white

black families are denied home loans at twice the rate of

blacks remain the last hired and first fired during  

during the 1990-91 african-americans suffered at coca-cola, 

42 percent of employees who lost their jobs were at sears, 54 percent were black, blacks 

have significantly shorter life spans, in part due to racism in the health blacks are 

statistically less likely than whites to be referred for kidney transplants or early-stage cancer 

to the author, the auction of his great-grandfather is a typical example

a) crime against humanity

b) unfair business transaction

c) racial conflicts in georgia

d) racial segregation in america

the barrier to democracy in 21st century america

a) widespread use of racist stereotypes

b) prejudice against minority groups

c) deep-rooted socio-economic inequality

d) denial of legal rights to ordinary blacks

what problem remains unsolved in the two reconstructions?

a) differences between races are deliberately

b) the blacks are not compensated for their unpaid

c) there is no guarantee for blacks to exercise their

d) the interests of blacks are not protected by

it is clear that the wealth enjoyed by most

a) has resulted from business successes over the years

b) has been accompanied by black capital formation

c) has derived from sizable investments in education

d) has been accumulated from generations of slavery

what does the author think of the current situation regarding racial discrimination?

a) racism is not a major obstacle to blacks’

b) inequality of many kinds remains virtually untouched

c) a major step has been taken towards

d) little has been done to ensure blacks’ civil

part iii vocabulary (20 minutes)

direction: there are 30 incomplete sentences in this for each sentence there 

are four choices marked a), b), c) and d). choose the one answer that best 

completes the then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with 

a single line through the

because of the           of its ideas, the book was in wide circulation both at home and 

a)originality        b) subjectivity

c) generality        d) ambiguity

with its own parliament and currency and a common       ___ for peace, the european 

union declared itself—in 11 official languages—open for

a) inspiration        b) assimilation  

c) intuition         d) aspiration

america has now adopted more _________ european-style inspection systems, and the 

incidence of food poisoning is [page]

a) discrete         b) solemn  

c) rigorous         d) autonomous

mainstream pro-market economists all agree that competition is an       ___ spur to 

efficiency and

a) extravagant        b) exquisite

c) intermittent        d) indispensable

in the late 19th century, jules verne, the master of science fiction, foresaw many of the 

technological wonders that are       ___

a) transient         b) commonplace

c) implicit         d) elementary

i was so       ___ when i used the automatic checkout lane in the supermarket for the first 

a) immersed        b) assaulted

c) thrilled       d) dedicated

his arm was       ___ from the shark’s mouth and reattached, but the boy, who already 

died, remained in a delicate

a)retrieved       b) retained

c) repelled         d) restored

bill gates and walt disney are two people america has       ___ to be the greatest 

a) appointed        b) appeased

c) nicknamed        d) dominated

the       ___ majority of citizens tend to believe that the death penalty will help decrease 

the crime

a) overflowing      b) overwhelming

c) prevalent       d) premium

we will also see a       ___ increase in the number of televisions per household, as small 

tv displays are added to clocks, coffee makers and smoke

a) startling       b) surpassing

c) suppressing       d) stacking

the advance of globalization is challenging some of our most       ___ values and ideas, 

including our idea of what constitutes “home”.

a) enriched       b) enlightened

c) cherished       d) chartered

researchers have discovered that       ___ with animals in an active way may lower a 

person’s blood

a) interacting       b) integrating

c) migrating       d) merging

the beatles, the most famous british band of the , traveled worldwide for many years, 

_________ cultural

a) transporting      b) transplanting

c) transferring       d) transcending

in his last years, henry suffered from a disease that slowly       ___ him of much of his 

a) relieved       b) jeopardized

c) deprived       d) eliminated

weight lifting, or any other sport that builds up your muscles, can make bones become denser 

and less       ___ to

a) attached          b) prone

c) immune       d) reconciled

he has       ___ to museums hundreds of his paintings as well as his entire personal 

collection of modern

a) ascribed       b) attributed

c) designated       d) donated

erik’s website contains       ___ photographs and hundreds of articles and short videos 

from his trip around the [page]

a) prosperous       b) gorgeous

c) spacious       d) simultaneous

optimism is a       ___ shown to be associated with good physical health, less depression 

and longer

a) trail           b) trait

c) trace           d) track

the institution has a highly effective program which helps first-year students make a 

successful       ___ into college

a) transformation       b) transmission

c) transition        d) transaction

philosophers believe that desire, hatred and envy are “negative emotions” which       ___ 

the mind and lead it into a pursuit of power and

a) distort         b) reinforce

c) exert         d) scramble

the term “glass ceiling” was first used by the wall street journal to describe the apparent 

barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate       

a) seniority          b) superiority   

c) height           d) hierarchy

various efforts have been made over the centuries to predict earthquakes, including observing 

lights in the sky and       ___ animal

a) abnormal          b) exotic   

c) absurd           d) erroneous

around 80 percent of the        ___ characteristics of most white britons have been 

passed down from a few thousand ice age

a) intelligible        b) random

c) spontaneous        d) genetic

picasso gained popularity in the mid-20th century, which was       ___ of a new attitude 

towards modern

a) informative        b) indicative  

c) exclusive        d) expressive

the country was an island that enjoyed civilized living for a thousand years or more with 

little       ___ from the outside

a) disturbance        b) discrimination 

c) irritation         d) irregularity

fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and ________ .

a) stability         b) capability  

c) durability        d) availability

back in the days when people traveled by horse and carriage, karl benz       ___ the 

world with his extraordinary three-wheeled motor

a) inhibited          b) extinguished   

c) quenched          d) stunned

if we continue to ignore the issue of global warming, we will almost certainly suffer the 

_________ effects of climatic changes

a) dubious         b) drastic  

c) trivial         d) toxic

according to the theory of evolution, all living species are the modified       ___ of earlier 

a) descendants        b) dependants  

c) defendants        d) developments

the panda is an endangered species, which means that it is very likely to become       ___ [page]

without adequate

a) intact         b) insane  

c) extinct         d) exempt

part ⅳ  error  correction  (15 minutes)

directions: this part consists of a short in this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, 

one in each numbered you may have to change a word, add a word or delete a 

mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks if you 

change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding if 

you add a word, put an insertion make (^) in the right place and write the missing 

world in the if you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the

example: 

television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our

time/times/period

many of the arguments having used for the study of

_____／______

as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of

_____ the ______

until recently, dyslexia an and other reading problems were

a mystery to most teachers and as a result, too many

kids passed through school without master the printed            

some were treated as mentally deficient: many were left

functionally illiterate (文盲的), unable to ever meet their

but in the last several years, there’s been a 

revolution in that we’ve learned about reading and dyslexia,           

scientists are using a variety of new imaging techniques to 

watch the brain at their experiments have shown that

reading disorders are most likely the result of what is, in an effect,           

faulty wiring in the brain—not lazy, stupidity or a poor home            

there’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia                  

is largely it is now considered a chronic problem

for some kids, not just a “phase”. scientists have also

discarded another old stereotype that almost all dyslexies are 

studies indicate that many girls are affecting as well                   

and not getting

at same time, educational researchers have come up                 

with innovative teaching strategies for kids who are having

trouble learning to new screening tests are identifying

children at risk before they get discouraged by year of              

frustration and and educators are trying to get the 

message to parents that they should be on the alert for the

first signs of potential

it’s an urgent mission, mass literacy is a relative new                     

social a hundred years ago people didn’t need to be

good readers in order to earn a but in the information 

age, no one can get by with knowing how to read well and            

understand increasingly complex

part ⅴ  writing  (30 minutes)

directions: for this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled traveling 

you should write at least 150 words based on the chart and outline give 

below:

number of people in city x traveling abroad in 1995, 20XX and 20XX