一、語音知識
1、
A．enjoys
B．knows
C．talks
D．begins
2、
A．a(chǎn)venue
B．a(chǎn)rgue
C．barbecue
D．clue
3、
A．baggage
B．suggestion
C．biography
D．paragraph
4、
A．color
B．comfortable
C．bachelor
D．born
5、
A．carriage
B．giant
C．liable
D．diamond
二、詞匯與語法知識
6、 They kept me ________ for more than an hour.
A．waits
B．wait
C．waited
D．waiting
7、 New ideas have been put into practice ________ he was elected our leader.
A．a(chǎn)fter
B．for
C．since
D．before
8、 The development of the light bulb _________ partly as a result of the widespread availability of electricity and the need for cheap, clean light.
A．occurring
B．was occurring
C．was occurred
D．occurred
9、 -- I've never seen that movie.
——________ have I.
A．So
B．Either
C．Neither
D．Too
10、 If motorists had to pay an extra tax to drive in cities, they ________ their cars a lot less.
A．use
B．will use
C．used
D．would use
11、 Joseph, the politician who ________ last week, has been released unharmed.
A．is kidnapped
B．was kidnapped
C．has been kidnapped
D．had been kidnapped
12、 Tonight we are probably going to eat in the hotel restaurant and then get to bed early. I hate staying in hotels but it's part of ________ job.
A．(blank)
B．the
C．a(chǎn)
D．a(chǎn)n
13、 Mr. Wang and his son, both looking very happy, ________ taking a walk in the park.
A．a(chǎn)re
B．is
C．has
D．have
14、Only with your help,________ such difficulties in the field．
A．can we overcome
B．we can overcome
C．should we overcome
D．we should overcome
15、 When we woke up, everywhere was ________ snow.
A．covered
B．covered in
C．covered with
D．covering
16、 Unless you work hard you ________ your test.
A．will pass
B．will not pass
C．would pass
D．would not pass
17、 For a late drink, come to our nightclub,________stays open until 4 : 00 a. m.
A．where
B．that
C．which
D．what
18、 From here, we can see the bridge ________construction.
A．below
B．under
C．by
D．with
19、 Many modern critics of American literature have called Mark Twain, born Samuel
Clemens,________.
A．a(chǎn)s America's greatest writer
B．was America's greatest writer
C．America's greatest writer
D．to have been America's greatest writer
20、 We returned school late from a party and found the door of the students' apartment ________.
A．had closed
B．close
C．to close
D．closed
三、完型填空
21、根據(jù)下面內(nèi)容，回答21-35題：
Thousands of years 21 humans began the process of domesticating the dog and shaping what"being a dog" really means. Through careful selection and breeding, an astonishing variety of dog breeds 22 been created. Desirable traits have been selected for in various breeds that are of a benefit 23 humans. There are some traits, however, that quickly become undesirable when expressed too frequently. Barking is a(an) 24 of a natural behavior that is encouraged in terms of guarding behavior, but becomes a problem when the behavior is produced in excess. A recent health insurance investigation revealed 25 the sound of a continually barking dog was cited as the most disruptive and stress inducing 26 for humans.
Barking, in addition to whining, howling and growling, is a dog's 27 means of communication. Barking is characterized by a series of short, sharp sounds, that tend to vary 28 in tone or pitch. A dog's bark 29 signify territorial protection, exertion of dominance, or expression of some need.30, barking is "a means of communication triggered by a state of excitement. " Being a natural trait, barking is not considered a behavioral problem,31 it is produced in excess.
The key to solving the problem of excess barking in your dog begins with an understanding of what is causing 32 behavior. Once you have determined a cause,33 have a greater chance of choosing the most effective solution (e. g., more exercise) or behavioral modification. Modifying such an instinctive and natural behavior 34 barking can be difficult, and may require considerablepatience, time, and hard work.35, however, are possible, and worth the effort.
A．since
B．before
C．a(chǎn)go
D．later
22、
A．have
B．a(chǎn)re
C．will
D．were
23、
A．for
B．a(chǎn)t
C．to
D．in
24、
A．subject
B．method
C．model
D．example
25、
A．when
B．which
C．whose
D．that
26、
A．songs
B．noise
C．guard
D．encouragement
27、
A．powerful
B．natural
C．friendly
D．hostile
28、
A．little
B．less
C．much
D．more
29、
A．would
B．must
C．can
D．needs
30、
A．Fortunately
B．Typically
C．Sometimes
D．Probably
31、
A．so that
B．when
C．because
D．until
32、
A．its
B．this
C．such
D．bad
33、
A．you
B．one
C．dogs
D．we
34、
A．like
B．similar
C．seems
D．a(chǎn)s
35、
A．Barking
B．Problems
C．Solutions
D．Hard working
四、閱讀理解
36、根據(jù)下面內(nèi)容，回答36-55題：
By the mid-nineteenth century, mass production of paper patterns, the appearance of the home sewing machine, and the convenience of mail order catalogs brought fashionable clothing into the American home. By the early twentieth century, home economists working in extension and outreach programs taught women how to use paper patterns to improve the fit and efficiency of new garments as well as how to update existing ones.
Teachers of home economics traditionally made home sewing a critical part of their curriculum, emphasizing self-sufficiency and resourcefulness for young women.However, with the increasing availability of mass-produced clothing in catalogs and department stores, more and more women preferred buying garments to making them. As a result, home economists shifted their attention to consumer education. Through field study, analysis, and research, they became experts on the purchase and preservation of ready-to-wear clothing for the family, offering budgeting instruction targeted at adolescent girls.
Modern home sewing made it possible for American women to transcend their economic differences and geographic locations with clothing that was increasingly standardized.The democratization of fashion continued through the twentieth century as the ready-to-wear market expanded and home sewing became more of a pastime than a necessity.
According to the passage, the appearance of mail order catalogs altered the role of home economists because________.
A．mass-produced clothing rendered their jobs completely useless
B．women ceased sewing so home economists had to teach other subjects
C．their focus shifted to instruction on budgeting and buying and preserving clothing
D．the emphasis on field study and research increased for students in home economics courses
37、 This passage focuses on the________.
A．changing role of home economists as a result of changes in the world
B．impact of ready-to-wear and mass-produced fashion on home sewing
C．modernization of home sewing
D．effects of home economists on home sewing
38、 As used in paragraph 3, the best definition for democratization is________.
A．transitioning to a more democratic political regime
B．becoming more affordable to the lower class
C．gradually becoming acceptable for an entire nation
D．becoming widely available to common people
39、 Based on information in the passage, it can be inferred that home sewing allowed American women to do all of the following except________.
A．copy fashions they had seen elsewhere
B．create less expensive versions of current styles
C．create garments for pleasure rather than necessity
D．become experts on budgeting and consumerism
40、根據(jù)下面內(nèi)容，回答40-59題：
Why would anyone want to push themselves into the public eye?
"Famous people have usually experienced a negative event during childhood--often it's the loss of a parent, or rejection from a key figure in their life at a younger age," said Professor Cary Cooper. He suggested that" their motivator is therefore to achieve something they thought they couldn't manage".
He added that their fame often takes them away from "ordinary people", and they're "thrown into a celebrity group of other people who are insecure".
Canadian psychologist Mark Schaller argued that exposure to fame inevitably produces
psychological disturbance. The famous become more chronically self-conscious and self-aware because of all the attention.
Famous people constantly experience that " merely momentary discomfort" of heightened self-consciousness you feel when someone points a camera at you, said Dr Persaud. And Prof Cooper said celebrities often suffer from depression, and turning to drink or drugs could be a result of them often feeling " lonely when not on stage" Being away from home a lot, being under the scrutiny of the press, difficulty sustaining relationships--all of this "makes them vulnerable" and often has a "stress-related outcome".
And, of course, the public's fascination with celebrities helps fuel their fame. But why do people find them so exciting? Prof Cooper said it is all about our need for " communality"--a feeling of belonging. We talk about people in the public eye and use people as metaphors in public life for our own lives. But he added that we do not actually care about them as individuals--unfortunately for the celebrities we are interested only in how their own lives might reflect our own.
Many people need to be famous because they want________.
A．the money
B．to follow their parents' steps
C．to be the best
D．to fight back the negative opinion from close ones
41、 Mark Schaller thinks that fame________.
A．a(chǎn)lways causes some kind of psychological problems
B．a(chǎn)lways end in self-destruction
C．may cause minor social adjustments
D．gives moral support to the individual
42、 Some famous characters turn to drugs and alcohol because they________.
A．a(chǎn)re in bad company
B．feel lonely
C．enjoy it
D．need it to keep on working
43、 People love having celebrities as________.
A．we want them to be part of ourselves
B．they truly admire their skills or looks
C．they are a good topic to speak about
D．everybody likes glamour
44、根據(jù)下面內(nèi)容，回答44-63題：
Love is a wondrous state, deep, tender, and rewarding. Because of its intimate and personal nature, it is regarded by some as an improper topic for experimental research. But, whatever our personal feelings may be, our assigned mission as psychologists is to analyze all facets (方面 ) of human and animal behavior into their component variables. So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in this mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists. But of greater concern is the fact that psychologists tend to give progressively less attention to a motive which pervades our entire lives. Psychologists, at least psychologists who write textbooks, not only show no interest in the origin and development of love or affection, but they seem to be unaware of its very existence.
The apparent repression of love by modern psychologists stands in sharp contrast with the attitude taken by many famous and normal people. The word "love" has the highest reference frequency of any word cited in Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations. It would appear that this emotion has long had a vast interest and fascination for human beings, regardless of the attitude taken by psychologists ; but the quotations cited, even by famous and normal people, have a mundane redundancy. These authors and authorities have stolen love from the child and infant and made it the exclusive property of the adolescent and adult.
According to the passage,________.
A．poets and other authors have deemed romantic love the only type of love
B．only adults and adolescents are capable of feeling true love
C．modern psychologists realize the importance of studying love
D．love belongs solely in poetry books
45、 The author probably supports which of the following statements?
A．Social science should not deal with human emotions.
B．Emotion is a vital aspect of the study of human behavior.
C．Love is too personal and improper for experimental research.
D．Psychology textbook writers do not feel love is an important emotion.
46、 The best statement of the main idea for the passage is________.
A．Bartlett's book publishes quotations about love
B．love is a wondrous state, deep, tender and rewarding
C．psychologists write terrible textbooks because they ignore love
D．psychologist must study all aspects of human behavior, including love
47、 The tone of the passage is best described as________.
A．objective
B．ironic
C．condescending
D．fond
48、根據(jù)下面內(nèi)容，回答48-67題：
It is bad to have food stuck between your teeth for long periods of time. This is because food attracts germs, germs produce acid, and acid hurts your teeth and gums. Flossing helps to remove the food that gets stuck between your teeth. This explains why flossing helps to keep your mouth healthy,but some doctors say that flossing can be also good for your heart.
It may seem strange that something you do for your teeth can have any effect on your heart.
Doctors have come up with a few ideas about how flossing works to keep your heart healthy. One idea is that the germs that hurt your teeth can leave the mouth and travel into your blood. Germs that get into the blood can then attack your heart. Another idea is based on the fact that when there are too many germs in your mouth, the body tries to fight against these germs. For some reason, the way the body fights these mouth germs may end up weakening the heart over time.
Not every doctor agrees about these ideas. Some doctors think that the link between good flossing habits and good heart health is only a coincidence. A coincidence is the occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance. The incidence of these events is completely random, as they do not admit of any reliable cause and effect relationship between them. For example, every time I wash my car,it rains. This does not mean that when I wash my car,I somehow change the weather.
This is only a coincidence.
The theory that flossing your teeth helps to keep your heart healthy might not be true. But every doctor agrees that flossing is a great way to keep your teeth healthy. So even if flossing does not help your heart,it is sure to help your teeth. This is enough of a reason for everyone to floss their teeth every day.
Flossing effectively helps to keep your mouth healthy by preventing________.
A．germs from producing acid
B．food from entering your body
C．germs from entering into your blood
D．a(chǎn)cid from contacting your teeth and gums
49、 In paragraph 2, the author explains how having too many germs in your mouth can " end up weakening the heart."Using the passage as a guide, it can be understood that doctors are________.
A．reluctant to hypothesize
B．confident in their estimations
C．extremely knowledgeable
D．uncertain but speculative
50、 Using information in paragraph 3 as a guide, which of the following is the best example of a coincidence?
A．Jim wakes up with a sore throat. He eats a piece of bacon for breakfast. By noon,he feels much better. Jim decides that the bacon has cured his sore throat.
B．Laura remembers to brush her teeth every day,but she only remembers to floss once a week.
She writes a note to herself,reminding herself to floss and sticks it to her bathroom mirror.
C．Mario is not very good at baseball. He practices playing every day. After a several months of practice,he is a much better baseball player.
D．Jai has a bad heart, Her doctor tells her to eat more vegetables and less junk food. After nearly a year of doing this,the doctor tells Jai that her heart is doing much better.
51、 Which of the following best states the main idea of the final paragraph?
A．Because doctors do not agree that flossing will help your heart,it is useless to floss.
B．It is a fact that flossing can help your heart as well as your teeth.
C．Even if flossing is only good for your teeth,you should still do it every day.
D．There is no good reason to believe that flossing will help your heart, but it is still a good idea to do it every day.
52、根據(jù)下面內(nèi)容，回答52-71題：
Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less. That describes the way many of us live today. We are doing more, but enjoying it less. And when that doesn't work, we compound the problem. In our frantic search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.
The truth is simple; so simple it is hard to believe. Satisfaction lies with less, not with more. Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek.
Arthur Lindman, in his devastating book, The Harried Leisure Class, described the futility of pursuing more. His research focused on what people did with their leisure time. He found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time. But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any one of them. Carried to an extreme, he predicted massive boredom in the midst of tremendous variety. That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.
Lindman of course, is not the first to discover this. The writer of Ecclesiastes expressed the same thought thousands of years ago. It is better, he wrote, to have less, but enjoy it more.
If you would like to enjoy life more, I challenge you to experiment with me. How could you simplify your life? What could you drop? What could you do without? What could you stop pursuing?
What few things could you concentrate on?
The more I learn, the more I realize that fullness of life does not depend on things. The more I give up, the more I seem to gain. But words will never convince you. You must try it for yourself.
Arthur Lindman wrote________.
A．a(chǎn) novel
B．The Harried Leisure Class
C．Ecclesiastes
D．a(chǎn)n article on smoke
53、 Lindman wrote his book________.
A．ten years ago
B．twenty years ago
C．more than twenty years ago
D．less than ten year ago
54、 Based on the passage, we can make our life happier if we________.
A．get rid of useless things
B．buy more things
C．sell things we do not need
D．send things to our friends
55、 Based on the passage, simplifying our life is________.
A．nonsense
B．our duty
C．a(chǎn) good piece of advice
D．unrealistic
五、補(bǔ)全對話
56、根據(jù)下面內(nèi)容，回答56-60題：
A. Yes, we met
B. That's great
C. No, I'm afraid I haven't had any time yet
D. Are you excited
E. No, I haven't seen him yet
F. I was very nervous
G. I have been there
H. Thanks for calling
Betsy: Hi Brian, this is Betsy. How are you doing?
Brian: I've just returned from the Head Office. The weather is great! Boston is a great city!
Betsy: