2010年12月英語六級考試模擬試題及答案(3)
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Salary or Interest. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:
1. 如今的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生面臨的職業(yè)選擇：興趣重要還是工資重要
2. 你的觀點(diǎn)
3. 結(jié)論
Salary or Interest
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet 1. For questions 1-4, mark
Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes
Happy April Fools' Day. To mark the occasion, National Geographic News has compiled a list of some of the more memorable hoaxes in recent history. They are the lies, darned(可恨的) lies, and whoppers(彌天大謊)that have been perpetrated on the gullible(易受騙的)and unsuspecting to fulfill that age-old desire held by some to put the joke on others.
Internet Hoaxes
The Internet has given birth to a proliferation(增殖)of hoaxes. E-mail inboxes are bombarded on an almost daily basis with messages warning of terrible computer viruses that cause users to delete benign(良性)chunks of data from their hard drives, or of credit card scams that entice the naive to give all their personal information, including passwords and bank account details, to identity thieves. Other e-mails give rise to wry(歪曲的)chuckles, which is where this list begins.
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide(一氧化二氫)
City officials in Aliso Viejo, California, were so concerned about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide that they scheduled a vote last month on whether to ban foam(泡沫)cups from city-sponsored events after they learned the chemical was used in foam-cup production.
Officials called off the vote after learning that dihydrogen monoxide is the scientific term for water.
"It's embarrassing," city manager David J. Norman told the Associated Press. "We had a paralegal(律師助手)who did bad research."
Indeed, the paralegal had fallen victim to an official-looking Web site touting the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. An e-mail originally authored in 1990 by Eric Lechner, then a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, claimed that dihydrogen monoxide "is used as an industrial solvent and coolant, and is used in the production of Styrofoam(聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料)."
Other dangers pranksters(愛開玩笑的人)associated with the chemical included accelerated corrosion and rusting, severe burns, and death from inhalation.
Versions of the e-mail continue to circulate today, and several Web sites, including that of the Coalition to Ban DHMO, warn, tongue-in-cheek, of water's dangers.
Alabama Changes Value of Pi
The April 1998 newsletter put out by New Mexicans for science and Reason contains an article titled "Alabama Legislature Lays Siege to Pi". It was penned by April Holiday of the Associmated Press (sic) and told the story of how the Alabama state legislature voted to change the value of the mathematical constant Pi from 3.14159 to the round number of 3.
The ersatz(假的)news story was written by Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Mark Boslough to parody(滑稽地模仿)legislative and school board attacks on the teaching of evolution in New Mexico.
At Boslough's suggestion, Dave Thomas, the president of New Mexicans for science and Reason, posted the article in its entirety to the Internet newsgroup Talk. Origins on April 1. (The newsgroup hosts a lively debate on creation vs. evolution.) Later that evening Thomas posted a full confession to the hoax. He thought he had put all rumors to bed.
But to Thomas's surprise, however, several newsgroup readers forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups.
When Thomas checked in on the story a few weeks later, he was surprised to learn that it had spread like wildfire. The telltale signs of the article's satirical intent, such as the April 1 date and misspelled "Associmated Press" dateline, had been replaced or deleted.
Alabama legislators were bombarded with calls protesting the law. The legislators explained that the news was a hoax. There was not and never had been such a law.
TV and Newspaper Hoaxes
Before the advent of the Internet, and even today, traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio, and television, have sometimes hoaxed their audiences. The deceptions run the gamut from purported natural disasters to wishful news.
Swiss Spaghetti (意大利式細(xì)面條) Harvest
Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes, a regularly updated Web site that also appeared in book form in November 2002, said one of his favorite hoaxes remains one perpetrated by the British Broadcasting Company.
On April 1, 1957, the BBC aired a report on the television news show Panorama about the bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland.
Viewers watched Swiss farmers pull pasta off spaghetti trees as the show's anchor, Richard Dimbleby, attributed the bountiful harvest to the mild winter and the disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.
The broadcaster detailed the ins and outs of the life of the spaghetti farmer and anticipated questions about how spaghetti grows on trees. Thousands of people believed the report and called the BBC to inquire about growing their own spaghetti trees, to which the BBC replied, "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
"It was a great satirical effect about British society," Boese said. "British society really was like that at that time. The British have a tendency to be a bit insulated(絕緣的) and do not know that much about the rest of Europe."
Taco Liberty Bell
On April 1, 1996, readers in five major U.S. cities opened their newspapers to learn from a full page announcement that the Taco Bell Corporation had purchased the Liberty Bell from the U.S. government. The announcement reported that the company was relocating the historic bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Irvine, California. The move, the corporation said in the advertisement, was part of an "effort to help the national debt".
Hundreds of other newspapers and television shows ran stories related to the press release on the matter put out by Taco Bell's public relations firm, PainePR. Outraged citizens called the Liberty Bell National Historic Park in Philadelphia to express their disgust. A few hours later the public relations firm released another press announcement stating that the stunt was a hoax.
White House press secretary Mike McCurry got into the act when he remarked that the government would also be "selling the Lincoln Memorial to Ford Motor Company and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial".
Crop Circles
Strange, circular formations began to appear in the fields of southern England in the mid-1970s, bringing busloads of curious onlookers, media representatives, and believers in the paranormal out to the countryside for a look.
A sometimes vitriolic(諷刺的)debate on their origins has since ensued(跟著發(fā)生), and the curious formations have spread around the world, becoming more and more elaborate as the years go by.
Some people consider the crop formations to be the greatest works of modern art to emerge from the 20th century, while others are convinced they are signs of extraterrestrial communications or landing sites of UFOs.
The debate rages even today, although in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two elderly men from Wiltshire County, came forward and claimed responsibility for the crop circles that appeared there over the preceding 20 years. The pair made the circles by pushing down nearly ripe crops with a wooden plank suspended from a rope.
Moon Landing—a Hoax?
Ever since NASA sent astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972, skeptics have questioned whether the Apollo missions were real or simply a ploy to one-up()the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The debate resurfaced and reached crescendo levels in February 2001, when For television aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?
Guests on the show argued that NASA did not have the technology to land on the moon. Anxious to win the space race, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios, they said. The conspiracy theorists pointed out that the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include stars and that the flag the Americans planted on the moon is waving, even though there is though to be no breeze on the moon.
NASA quickly refuted these claims in a series of press releases, stating that any photographer would know it is difficult to capture something very bright and very dim on the same piece of film. Since the photographers wanted to capture the astronauts striding across the lunar surface in their sunlit space suits, the background stars were too faint to see.
As for the flag, NASA said that the astronauts were turning it back and forth to get in firmly planted in the lunar soil, which made it wave.
1. Some people have the age-old desire to put the joke on others.
2. According to the passage, the only form of Internet hoaxes is e-mail hoax.
3. Dihydrogen monoxide is a very dangerous chemical, which is often used as an industrial solvent.
4. Dihydrogen monoxide can accelerate corrosion and rusting, and cause sever burns and even death from inhalation.
5. The reason why the ersatz news that Alabama changed the value of Pi spread wildly was that ________ forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups.
6. Traditional media outlets such as ________ may still hoax their audiences nowadays.
7. According to Boese, many people believed the report of Swiss spaghetti harvest because the British did not know ________.
8. According to a hoax announcement, the Taco Bell Corporation bough the Liberty Bell and moved it to Irvine to help ________.
9. The crop circles were thought to be the greatest works of modern art, the signs of ________ or landing sites of UFOs.
10. Some people thought that NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios partially because the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include ________.
Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D], and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
11. [A] She's enjoying the music.
[B] The music will keep her awake.
[C] The music doesn't bother her.
[D] She would prefer a different style of music.
12. [A] She will take the subway.
[B] She will hurry to the conference.
[C] She will skip the conference and go sightseeing
[D] She will take a bus.
13. [A] She thinks big parties are too impersonal.
[B] She would like to invite friends to a big party.
[C] She feels she has to spend a lot of money in holding big parties.
[D] She would like to be invited to small parties.
14. [A] It is quite unexpected.
[B] She has already got the news.
[C] She has confidence in the man.
[D] It is not exciting to learn about it.
15. [A] He is not satisfied with the pay.
[B] He is not able to enjoy paid holidays.
[C] The job is not very challenging for him.
[D] There is no hope of promotion.
16. [A] He has to change the topic for his composition.
[B] He has fallen behind others in English class.
[C] He hasn't made up his mind as to what to write about.
[D] The book he borrowed will be due tomorrow.
17. [A] She is against the man's plan.
[B] She thinks it needs a lot of money.
[C] They need some time to think about it.
[D] It's good for his career development.
18. [A] She should present him a book on music.
[B] The teacher has some interests other than reading.
[C] It's a good idea because the teacher loves reading.
[D] The teacher would like to have a book on language teaching.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19. [A] He is a professional electrician.
[B] He possesses a basic knowledge of electricity.
[C] He knows nothing about electricity.
[D] Electricity is his major.
20. [A] To wire her office. [B] To fix the transformer.
[C] To wire her building. [D] To fix the wires.
21. [A] The transformer. [B] The battery.
[C] The fuses. [D] The wires.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
22. [A] At a public forum. [B] In an auditorium.
[C] On TV. [D] In a classroom.
23. [A] Exposing oneself to the target culture.
[B] Attending regularly a good language program.
[C] Coming up with a study plan.
[D] Developing good note-taking skills.
24. [A] A realistic goal for learners is to reach a certain level of language proficiency, not native fluency.
[B] Students can achieve native-like pronunciation through focused study.
[C] Learners should interact with native speakers to gain greater fluency.
[D] Teachers need to help students foster a good self-esteem and confidence.
25. [A] Remembering as many words as possible.
[B] Learning only useful words.
[C] Remembering a lot of words a day.
[D] Learning to use a few words a day.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some question. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. [A] Food is no longer a basic need for us, while it was for primitive people.
[B] We eat a wide variety of food.
[C] We no longer eat fruit that primitive people ever ate.
[D] We eat more food than primitive people did.
27. [A] It is needed to adjust the temperature of our bodies.
[B] It is our second need.
[C] We need clothing to cover our bodies.
[D] Weather is changing all the time.
28. [A] The climate. [B] One's social position.
[C] The materials available. [D] Family size.
29. [A] Human Basic Needs. [B] Material Comfort.
[C] Food: Human Basic Need. [D] Basic Necessities of Life.
Passage Two
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. [A] The meaning of facial expressions depends on situations.
[B] Facial expressions can cause misunderstanding across culture.
[C] People from one culture may lack facial expressions because they experience less emotion.
[D] Facial expressions may disguise true feelings.
31. [A] They smile to cover embarrassment
[B] It is an unusual and even suspicious behavior.
[C] They smile to show politeness.
[D] It is an expression of pleasure.
32. [A] We shouldn't judge people by reading their faces.
[B] We shouldn't smile in the wrong place.
[C] We shouldn't cover our true feelings.
[D] We shouldn't express our emotions too openly.
Passage Three
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33. [A] In 1938. [B] In 1946. [C] In 1955. [D] During World War II.
34. [A] It reflects commercial interests.
[B] It is a fashionable professional event.
[C] It is an essential affair for international cinema.
[D] It is more concerned with the art of film than with financial interests.
35. [A] It is awarded to the best film of the festival.
[B] It was introduced in 1959.
[C] It was introduced by a commercial organization.
[D] Only American directors have received this award.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Taking your dog on vacation may have been (36) ________ a decade ago, but today it's free.
(37) ________ the pet-friendly hotel, where dogs are just part of the family, the Loews Miami Beach has had more than 1,200 (38) ________ guests so far this year. Dogs, like kids, stay free there.
A lot of people just want to travel with their animals, so the hotel (39) ________ guests to come with their pets. The hotel has a special (40) ________ for them from the time they enter the door till the time they leave.
There are fresh grapes by the pool for the discerning dog and a cup of ice cubes for the hot dog. And don't forget the special doggie dinner menu. The hotel kitchen (41) ________ to canines as well as their masters. The most popular dog dish is a (42) ________ of beef, vegetables and rice. It's really great. (43) ________, the people food is even better.
(44) ________________________. Some of them don't have children, and the dogs may fill that gap for them. (45) ________________________. But what pet wouldn't want to be welcomed back to a welcome meal that includes an all-beef hamburger bone?
(46) ________________________.
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.
Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Wild ducks and other migratory(遷移的) birds could be important carriers of deadly bird flu, researchers say. Even so, the infectious-disease experts say there is no solid basis for killing wild birds to protect poultry and minimize the risk of human infection.
The European team investigating the global spread of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza(禽流感)says certain duck species may be infecting wild bird populations. Geese and wading birds are also possible vectors(帶菌者)of the virus, the team says.
The team's study was led by Björn Olsen of Umea University in Sweden. Olsen runs Europe's largest wild-bird flu monitoring program.
Studies have shown that influenza viruses in lake water, generally passed via bird feces(糞), can stay infectious for up to 30 days. The migration or feeding behavior of dabbling ducks could at least partially explain the spread of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the researchers add.
This group of duck species includes mallards, teal, pintails, and others that feed at or near the surface, where viruses in water are most likely to be picked up. Perhaps as a result, dabblers have the highest known rates of avian influenza infection, the study says. For instance, nearly 13 percent of mallards tested positive for bird flu. Other species tested include the American black duck (18.1 percent), blue-winged teal (11.5 percent), and northern pintail (11.2 percent).
However, bird flu viruses appear to exist in ducks in a low-pathogenic form, meaning infection doesn't usually lead to severe illness and death.
"Dabbling ducks are for sure the prime hosts for low pathogenic viruses," said study co-author Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands. "But the big question is, how much of our knowledge about these viruses can we translate to high-pathogenic viruses such as the H5N1 strain of bird flu?"
In poultry avian viruses can mutate(變異)into more virulent influenza strains, including H5N1. If this mutated virus then finds its way back into wild populations, the birds could then spread the disease through migration.
Some scientists have argued that wild birds infected with HN51 would be too ill to migrate. Swans, for instance, appear to be particularly vulnerable to the strain. "Swans apparently drop dead quite easily, but they are unlikely to be the vector because they are not going to fly very far if they are dead," Fouchier said.
But the study team says that some birds that have been purposely infected for the sake of research show that wild birds can survive H5N1. "For some reason H5N1 has adapted so it no longer kills dabbling ducks," Fouchier said. This means the ducks may be able to spread the virus over a wide area.
The study team says migratory geese may also be vectors, because they often graze in huge flocks, a practice that could encourage transmission.
Migrating ducks, the researchers add, "could provide an intercontinental bridge" for bird flu to North America, which has not yet had any known cases of H5N1.
47. According to the author, what may be the possible carriers of bird flu?
48. The main sources of influenza viruses in lake water are ________, which may stay infectious for up to 30 days.
49. By saying "bird flu viruses appear to exist in ducks in a low-pathogenic form" (Para. 6), the author suggests that infection ________.
50. On what condition can the birds spread the influenza through migration?
51. According to the study team, ________ is a practice that can encourage transmission of the bird flu.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
For about three centuries we have been doing science, trying science out, using science for the construction of what we call modern civilization. Every dispensable item of contemporary technology, from canal locks to dial telephones to penicillin, was pieced together from the analysis of data provided by one or another series of scientific experiments. Three hundred years seems a long time for testing a new approach to human inter-living, long enough to set back for critical appraisal of the scientific method, maybe even long enough to vote on whether to go on with it or not. There is an argument.
Voices have been raised in protest since the beginning, rising in pitch and violence in the nineteenth century during the early stages of the industrial revolution, summoning urgent crowds into the streets on the issue of nuclear energy. "Give it back," say some of the voices, "It doesn't really work, we've tried it and it doesn't work. Go back three hundred years and start again on something else less chancy for the race of man."
The principle discoveries in this century, taking all in all, are the glimpses of the depth of our ignorance of nature. Things that used to seem clear and rational, and matters of absolute certainty-Newtonian mechanics, for example-have slipped through our fingers; and we are left with a new set of gigantic puzzles, cosmic uncertainties, and ambiguities. Some of the laws of physics are amended every few years; some are canceled outright; some undergo revised versions of legislative intent as if they were acts of Congress.
Just thirty years ago we call it a biological revolution when the fantastic geometry of the DNA molecule was exposed to public view and the linear language of genetics was decoded. For a while, things seemed simple and clear: the cell was a neat little machine, a mechanical device ready for taking to pieces and reassembling, like a tiny watch. But just in the last few years it has become almost unbelievably complex, filled with strange parts whose functions are beyond today's imagining.
It is not just that there is more to do, there is everything to do. What lies ahead, or what can lie ahead if the efforts in basic research are continued, is much more than the conquest of human disease or the improvement of agricultural technology or the cultivation of nutrients in the sea. As we learn more about fundamental processes of living things in general we will learn more about ourselves.
52. What CANNOT be inferred from the first paragraph?
[A] Scientific experiments in the past three hundred years have produced many valuable items.
[B] For three hundred years there have been people holding a hostile attitude toward science.
[C] Modern civilization depends on science so man supports scientific progress unanimously.
[D] Some people think three hundred years is not long enough to set back for critical appraisal of scientific method.
53. The principle discovery in this century shows ________.
[A] man has overthrown Newton's laws of physics
[B] man has solved a new set of gigantic puzzles
[C] man has lost many scientific discoveries
[D] man has given up some of the once accepted theories
54. Now scientists have found in the past few years ________.
[A] the exposure of DNA to the public is unnecessary
[B] the tiny cell in DNA is a neat little machine
[C] man knows nothing about DNA
[D] man has much to learn about DNA
55. The writer's main purpose in writing the passage is to say that ________.
[A] science is just at its beginning
[B] science has greatly improved man's life
[C] science has made profound progress
[D] science has done too little to human beings
56. The writer's attitude towards science is ________.
[A] critical [B] approving [C] neutral [D] regretful
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Here amid the steel and concrete canyons, green grass grows. A hawthorn tree(山楂樹) stands in new soil, and freshly dug plants bend in the wind.
But Chicago City Hall here seems an unlikely spot for a garden of any variety—especially 20,000 square feet of gardens—on its roof.
As one of a handful of similar projects around the country, the garden is part of a $1.5 million demonstration projected by the city to reduce its "urban heat islands", said William Abolt, the commissioner of the Department of Environment.
Heat islands-dark surfaces in the city, like rooftops-soak up heat. The retention can bake a building, making it stubborn to cooling.
The roof of City Hall, a 90-year-old gray stone landmark on LaSalle Street in the heart of downtown, has been known to reach temperature substantially hotter than the actual temperature on the street below.
The garden will provide greenery and shade. "And that," said the city officials, "will save the city dollars on those blistering summer days." The project savings from cooling is about $4,000 a year on a new roof whose life span is about 50 percent longer than that of a traditional roof.
The sprawling open-air rooftop garden is being carefully built on a multi-tiered bed of special soil, polystyrene, egg-carton-shaped cones and "waterproof membrane" mall to keep the roof from leaking, or caving under the normal combined weight of soil, rain and plant life.
The design calls for soil depths of 4 inches to 18 inches. When the last plants and seedlings are buried and the last bit of compost is laid, the garden will have circular brick stepping-stones winding up to hills.
"The primary focus of what we want to do was to establish this laboratory on the top of City Hall to get people involved and understanding their impact on the environment and how the little things can make an impact on the quality of life", Mr. Abolt said, adding that the plants also help to clear the air.
Rooftop gardens, in places where concrete jungles have erased plants and trees, are not new, not even in Chicago. Arms of greenery dangling over terraces or sprouting from rooftops, common in Europe, are becoming more so in the United States as people become increasingly conscious about the environment.
Richard M. Daley, who urged the environmental department to look into the project after noticing rooftop gardens in Hamburg, Germany a few years ago, has praised the garden as the first of its kind on a public building in the country.
It will hold thousands of plants in more than 150 species-wild onion and butterfly weed, sky-blue aster and buffalo grass-to provide data on what species adapt best. Small plants requiring shallow soil depths were chiefly selected.
57. The rooftop garden project ________.
[A] is common and popular in the country
[B] is a demonstration project and costs the city government 1.5 million dollars
[C] will make the ordinary cooling down of the city in summer unnecessary
[D] aims at getting people involved and understanding their impact on the environment
58. What can we learn about the City Hall?
[A] It was built ninety years ago and is the most outstanding feature in the center of the city.
[B] It is originally proper to build a garden on the top of the City Hall.
[C] The temperature on its top is a little bit lower than that on the street below.
[D] It is the first building in America to have a garden on it.
59. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
[A] Every year, Chicago spends about $ 4,000 on cooling the city.
[B] The design of the garden on the City Hall specially takes into consideration the weight the roof can stand.
[C] The Mayor urged the environmental department to look into rooftop gardens in Hamburg and build similar ones in America.
[D] Heat islands mainly refer to those dark-colored rooftops which receive and retain heat and will not easily release the heat.
60. Why should the rooftop garden be built on the top of City Hall other than on any other buildings?
[A] Because the City Hall is large.
[B] Because the mayor had urged the environmental department to do so.
[C] Because it can make people understand their impact on environment better through a public building.
[D] Because the experts just want to make the City Hall a convenient laboratory.
61. The word "substantially" (Line 2, Para. 5) most likely means ________.
[A] a little bit [B] in fact [C] materially [D] considerably
Part V Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word. put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example:
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. 1. time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. ____/____
as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. ____the____
Language learning begins with listening. Individual
children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do after 62. ________
they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners.
Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time
before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly
accurate like a description of the eager and delighted 63. ________
cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can
speak, many children will ask questions in gesture and by 64. ________
making questioning noises. Any attempt to trace the
development from the noises babies make to their first
spoken words lead to considerable difficulties. It is agreed 65. ________
they enjoy making noises, and that during the first 66. ________
few months one or two noise sort themselves out as 67. ________
particular indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so 68. ________
on. But since these can be said to show the baby's intention to 69. ________
communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of
language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they
play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they
are able to add new sounds to their repertoire. This
self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds
making or words spoken to them by other people. The 70. ________
problem then arises as to the point which one can say that 71. ________
these imitations can be considered as speech.
Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
Directions: Complete the following sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
72. It turned out that getting fired from that company ________________________ (對我來說是發(fā)生在我身上的最棒的事情).
73. It is necessary that ________________________ (馬上把他送到醫(yī)院).
74. Make a list each day of all that you are grateful for, ________________________ (這樣你就能每天都注意到從別人那里得到了什么).
75. His silence suggested that ________________________ (他贊成我的決定，并決定執(zhí)行那個計(jì)劃).
76. Only with combined efforts, ________________________ (我們才能期望我們的國家有新的面貌).
Part I Writing
Salary or Interest
Upon graduation, virtually all college students will confront the problem of choosing their careers. It is truly a tough choice. Students’ opinions differ greatly on this issue. Some hold that priority should be given to their interest in the job, but others take the attitude that salary is the most critical factor influencing their career choices.
As for myself, I prefer the latter view. A well-paid job exerts a tremendous fascination on a great number of people, with no exception to me. Although it might be impossible to measure the value of one’s job in terms of money, salary counts most when I choose my future career. In my view, our career choices largely depend on how and where we have been brought up. I come from a poor urban family and my parents are both laid-off workers. In order to finance my tuition, they have been working hard over the past four years. As the only son in my family, I have to shoulder the burden of supporting my family.
In short, salary is the first consideration in my choice of career.
Part II Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)
1. Y 根據(jù)題干中的信息詞age-old desire定位到原文第一段，可知美國圍家地理新聞?wù)砹私跉v讓人印象深刻的惡作劇，這些謊言欺騙的是那些易受騙的、輕易信任他人的人，用以滿足有些人想要捉弄他人的想法，故該句表述正確。
2. NG 根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Internet hoaxes定位到第一個小標(biāo)題，可知互聯(lián)網(wǎng)促進(jìn)了惡作劇的增多，該部分接著介紹了通過電子郵件騙人的把戲，但并沒有表明電子郵件惡作劇是惟一的網(wǎng)絡(luò)惡作劇形式。
3. N 根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Dihydrogen monoxide定位到第二個小標(biāo)題，由該標(biāo)題下的第二段可知，所謂的一氧化二氫其實(shí)就是H¬2O，也就是水。而關(guān)于水被用做工業(yè)溶劑的說法是嚇唬人的，故該句表述錯誤。
4. N 根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Dihydrogen monoxide定位到第二個小標(biāo)題，再由corrosion and rusting定位到該標(biāo)題下的倒數(shù)第二段，可知愛開玩笑的人還將加速腐蝕和生銹、嚴(yán)重?zé)齻?、吸入致死等其他危險(xiǎn)和一氧化二氫聯(lián)系起來，結(jié)合前文提到的一氧化二氫就是水可知，這些不過是哄弄人的說法，故該句表述錯誤。
5. several newsgroup readers。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Alabama changed the value of Pi定位到第三個小標(biāo)題，再由forwarded the article定位到該標(biāo)題下第四段，可知有些新聞讀者將文章發(fā)給朋友，還將其登在其他新聞版塊中。再結(jié)合上下文可知，正是這些新聞讀者的做法導(dǎo)致了那條虛假新聞的大肆傳播。
6. newspapers，radio，and television。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞traditional media outlets定位到第四個小標(biāo)題，可知在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)出現(xiàn)之前，甚至是現(xiàn)在，報(bào)紙、廣播和電視這類傳統(tǒng)媒體有時(shí)也會捉弄公眾，由此可得答案。
7. much about the rest of Europe。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Swiss spaghetti harvest定位到第五個小標(biāo)題，該部分最后一段提到，Boese表示，英國人不太了解歐洲其他國家。再結(jié)合上文可知，這正是許多英國人相信瑞士的意大利面條大豐收的原因。
8. the national debt。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Taco Bell Corporation和Liberty Bell定位到第六個小標(biāo)題，再由Irvine定位到該標(biāo)題下的第一段，可知一項(xiàng)公告報(bào)道Taco Bell公司買下了自由鐘，并要將其挪到加利福尼亞的歐文市，該公司表示移動該鐘是為了幫助緩解國家債務(wù)，由此可得答案。
9. extraterrestrial communications。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞crop circles定位到倒數(shù)第二個小標(biāo)題，再由UFOs定位到該標(biāo)題下的倒數(shù)第二段，可知有些人認(rèn)為麥田圈是現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)最偉大的作品，也有人確信那是外太空通信的跡象或不明飛行物的著陸地。
10. stars。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Apollo program和pictures transmitted from the moon定位到最后一個小標(biāo)題下的第二段，可知有人認(rèn)為阿波羅計(jì)劃是在攝影棚里拍攝出來的，他們指出，從月球傳回的畫面上并沒有星星，這應(yīng)該就是他們懷疑登月真實(shí)性的部分原因。
Part III Listening Comprehension
Section A
11. B 綜合推斷題。男士問女士自己播放的音樂有沒有影響到她的學(xué)習(xí)，女士回答說自己沒有學(xué)習(xí)，但是自己想睡覺，結(jié)合選項(xiàng)推斷，本題選B(音樂會讓她睡不著)
12. D 綜合推斷題。女士說自己不必在中午之前趕到會場，由此推斷，她并不著急，可能會乘公共汽車，所以D正確。
13. B 信息明示題。女士說她想舉辦大型聚會，以回報(bào)朋友的邀請，所以B正確。要注意的是，對話中的pay back意為“報(bào)答”。
14. C 綜合推斷題。本題的關(guān)鍵是理解女士所說的deserve的含義，即“值得，應(yīng)該享有”，由此推斷，女士相信男士的實(shí)力，所以C正確。
15. C 綜合推斷題。男士表明即使有機(jī)會加薪，他也要辭職，因?yàn)樗胝乙环菽艹浞职l(fā)揮自己能力的工作，由此推斷，目前的工作對他來說缺乏挑戰(zhàn)性，所以C正確。
16. C 語義替換題。男士正在為明天要交的作文發(fā)愁，因?yàn)樗€不知道要寫什么，所以C正確。本題的關(guān)鍵詞come up with意為“找到，提出”。
17. A 綜合推斷題。女士認(rèn)為他們已經(jīng)為男士在該國的事業(yè)投入了很多時(shí)間和金錢，再結(jié)合她所用的比較生硬的語氣Do I have to remind you…推斷，她對男士的計(jì)劃持反對態(tài)度，所以A正確。
18. B 綜合推斷題。男士說應(yīng)該送史密斯教授一張唱片，他認(rèn)為語言教師并不只是一味地讀書，言外之意還會有別的興趣，所以B正確。
Conversation One
19. B 信息明示題。女士問男士是否了解電，男士回答說，電是大多數(shù)電腦的動力來源，因此他確實(shí)掌握一些基本知識，故選B。
20. C 綜合推斷題。女士想要男士修理接線盒，接著解釋說也就是把電線接上，男士問女士是否希望自己給其房子裝電線，女士說不是希望，而是想要，故選C。
21. B 信息明示題。女士說她有男士裝電線需要的所有東西，包括變壓器、電線和保險(xiǎn)絲，但并沒有提到電池，故選B。
Conversation Two
22. C 綜合推斷題。女士在對話開始?xì)g迎男士到他們的節(jié)目之中，接下來還提到了電視觀眾(viewers)，由此推斷，這段訪問應(yīng)該是一段電視節(jié)目，故選C。
23. C 信息明示題。男士說學(xué)習(xí)另一種語言的要點(diǎn)之一就是制定有規(guī)律的學(xué)習(xí)計(jì)劃，故選C，其中come up with意為“找到或提出(答案、辦法等)”。男士并沒有提到有規(guī)律地去參加好的語言項(xiàng)目，故排除B。
24. A 綜合推斷題。男士說他所指的是，堅(jiān)持遵照有規(guī)律的集中學(xué)習(xí)過程有助于達(dá)到掌握語言的境地，但母語的流利和語言的精通還是有差別的，由此推斷，男士認(rèn)為對于學(xué)習(xí)者而言，現(xiàn)實(shí)的目標(biāo)是精通語言，而不是達(dá)到如母語般流利的程度，故選A。
25. D 信息明示題。男士最后以學(xué)習(xí)生詞為例，他說計(jì)劃每天學(xué)5個生詞，并學(xué)會如何運(yùn)用它們比學(xué)習(xí)30個生詞卻在第二天全都忘掉要好得多，由此可知，男士認(rèn)為比較好的方式是每天學(xué)會運(yùn)用幾個生詞，故選D。
Section B
Passage One
26. B 信息明示題。由文章第一段第一句可知，比起古代人，現(xiàn)代人食物的選擇范圍更廣，所以B正確。
27. A 信息明示題。由文章第三段可知，衣服是用于調(diào)節(jié)(regulate)人體熱度的，住在溫帶的人比住在熱帶的人要穿得多，同樣地，服裝要隨季節(jié)的變化而改變，所以A正確。
28. D 信息明示題。文章最后一段提到，決定人們住什么樣的房子的因素有climate，one’s social position, materials available等，惟獨(dú)沒有提到family size，故選D。
29. A 主旨題。全文談到了人的三種基本需求，所以A正確。B(物質(zhì)享受)，C(食物——人類最基本的需求)和D(生活必需品)都不符合文章大意，故排除。
Passage Two
30. C 信息明示題。由文章第二段可知，某一文化背景下的人不像另一文化背景下的人那樣公開地表達(dá)自己的情感，這并不意味著他們沒有經(jīng)歷這些情感，故選C。
31. B 信息明示題。由文章第一段中的many people in Russia consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even suspicious behavior可知，B正確。
32. A 綜合推斷題。文章最后指出，如果我們以自己的文化標(biāo)準(zhǔn)去衡量表達(dá)感情方式不同的人，可能會做出不正確的判斷，所以A正確。
Passage Three
33. B 信息明示題。文章第一段指出，直到l946年才舉辦第一屆戛納電影節(jié)，所以B正確。
34. D 信息明示題。由文章第一段中的more concerned with advancing the film industry than the art of film可知，戛納電影節(jié)更注重推動電影產(chǎn)業(yè)的發(fā)展，故選D。
35. A 信息明示題。由文章第二段中的for best film of the festival可知，金棕櫚獎被授予電影節(jié)的影片，所以A正確。電影節(jié)組委會于l955年設(shè)立了該獎項(xiàng)，所以B、C均不正確。文末提到新西蘭導(dǎo)演執(zhí)導(dǎo)的影片也曾獲得過金棕櫚獎，排除D。
Section C
36. unthinkable 37. Introducing 38. four-footed 39. encourages
40. program/programme 41. caters 42. blend 43. Actually
44. Most masters consider their dogs as part of the family
45. But dogs are dogs，and part of the deal is that owners have to agree to do the dirty work. The hotel does not clean up droppings
46. Of course, hotels that don’t accept pets don’t get their business Part IV Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth)
Section A
47. Wild ducks and other migratory birds. /Ducks，geese and wading birds.
文章開頭指出，野鴨以及其他遷徙鳥類可能是致命性禽流感的重要攜帶者，由此可得答案;第二段又提到，鴨子可能在傳染野鳥，而鵝和涉水鳥也可能是病毒的攜帶者，由此也可得答案。
48. bird feces
根據(jù)題干中的關(guān)鍵詞lake water和30 days定位到第四段，可知研究表明，湖水中的流感病毒一般是通過鳥糞傳播的，這些病毒的傳染性可長達(dá)30天。
49. doesn’t usually lead to severe illness and death
定位到第六段可知，作者提到bird flu viruses appear to exist in ducks in a low-pathogenic form是想表明，傳染通常不會導(dǎo)致嚴(yán)重的疾病和死亡。
50. The mutated virus finds its way back into wild populations.
根據(jù)題干中的關(guān)鍵詞spread和through migration定位到倒數(shù)第五段，可知在家禽體內(nèi)，禽病毒可能變異為像H5N1一樣毒性更強(qiáng)的流感病毒，如果此類變異病毒被野鳥感染，這些鳥就會通過遷徙傳播流感。
51. grazing in huge flocks
根據(jù)題干中的關(guān)鍵詞study team和encourage transmission定位到倒數(shù)第二段，可知研究組表示，遷徙的鵝可能也是病毒攜帶者，因?yàn)樗鼈兘?jīng)常聚在一起吃草，而這可能會促使病毒的傳播。
Section B
Passage One
52. C 細(xì)節(jié)題。由文章第一段最后一句There is an argument可知，人們對科學(xué)的看法是有爭議的，選項(xiàng)C意思與其相反，故選c。D項(xiàng)干擾性大，對應(yīng)第一段倒數(shù)第二句，表面上看與文章表述意思相反，但文章接下來說There is an argument，由此可知，有的人贊成倒數(shù)第二句的觀點(diǎn)，有的人反對(即D項(xiàng)的觀點(diǎn))，故排除D。
53. D 推斷題。由文章第三段最后一句可知，人類對已有理論所采取的做法是修正或擯棄，所以D正確。A、B對應(yīng)第三段第二句，曲解了文章原意，C文中并未提及，均應(yīng)排除。
54. D 推斷題。由文章第四段可知，30年前人們將DNA的發(fā)現(xiàn)稱為生物革命，剛開始時(shí)，人們認(rèn)為DNA細(xì)胞很簡單，但隨著時(shí)間的推移，人們發(fā)現(xiàn)它其實(shí)極為復(fù)雜，由此推斷，人們還需要進(jìn)一步研究，所以D正確。
55. A 主旨題。由最后一段尤其是第一句中的there is everything to do可以看出，作者認(rèn)為關(guān)于科學(xué)還有很多方面有待于進(jìn)一步研究、探索，即科學(xué)仍處于起步階段，前面的路還很長很長，所以A正確。
56. C 觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度題。通讀全文可知，作者以客觀的態(tài)度說明了科學(xué)的發(fā)展?fàn)顩r，并介紹了對待科學(xué)的不同觀點(diǎn)，綜合而言，作者對科學(xué)的態(tài)度是C(中立的)。A(批評的)，B(贊成的，滿意的)，D(遺憾的)均不正確。
Passage Two
57. D 細(xì)節(jié)題。文章第三段第一句指出，該工程是全國為數(shù)不多的此類工程之一，所以排除A;還說它是政府投資l50萬美元的示范工程的一部分，而不是全部，故排除B;文章第四段提到屋頂花園可以降溫，但并沒有否定傳統(tǒng)降溫方式的必要性，故排除C;由文章第九段阿伯特先生所說的話可知，D正確。
58. A 細(xì)節(jié)題。由文章第五段可知，市政廳的屋頂有90年的歷史，即市政廳建于90年前，且是市中心最的建筑，所以A正確。第二段第一句中的an unlikely spot否定了B項(xiàng)中的originally proper。根據(jù)第五段可排除C，根據(jù)第十段not new可排除D。
59. B 推斷題。由文章第七段可知，市政廳屋頂花園是精心建造而成的，可以避免屋頂滲漏，或是在土、雨和植物相混合的重量之下坍塌，由此可知，屋頂花園的設(shè)計(jì)充分考慮到了屋頂能承受的重量，所以B正確。
60. C 細(xì)節(jié)題。由文章第九段可知，在市政廳大樓上修建屋頂花園主要是為了讓人們了解自己對環(huán)境的影響，所以C正確。雖然該段也提到了laboratory，但指的是讓人們了解自己對環(huán)境的影響的“實(shí)驗(yàn)室”，而并不是真正做實(shí)驗(yàn)的實(shí)驗(yàn)室，故排除D。
61. D 語義題。被考查詞在句中用于修飾比較級hotter，分析句意可知，此處應(yīng)表示強(qiáng)調(diào)，突出屋頂?shù)臏囟纫冉稚系臏囟雀叱龊芏?，選項(xiàng)中只有D(相當(dāng)大地)最符合。A(一點(diǎn))，B(實(shí)際上)，C(本質(zhì)上地)均應(yīng)排除。
Part V Error Correction
62. after→before
根據(jù)上下文邏輯，此處顯然指孩子學(xué)會說話之前的聽力，而非之后，故將after改為before。
63. like→as
like和as都有“像”的意思，但是此處要求填人一個具有“作為”之意的單詞，故將like改為as。
64. in→by
此處應(yīng)為表示方式的借詞，故用by，意為“以某種方式”。
65. 1ead→leads
此處句子的主語是attempt，而不是動詞前面的words，所以要用單數(shù)第三人稱的形式，將lead改為leads。
66. 在they前增加that
it是句子的形式主語，they enjoy making noises才是句子的邏輯主語，由于是主語從句，故引導(dǎo)詞that是不能省略的。
67. noise→noises
one or two按照復(fù)數(shù)對待，所以后面是noises。
68. particular→particularly
修飾形容詞indicative應(yīng)該使用副詞particularly。
69. can→cannot
根據(jù)上下文，此處應(yīng)為否定，故使用cannot。
70. making→made
此處指“發(fā)出的聲音和說的話”，sound和make間是被動關(guān)系，故使用過去分詞作定語。
71. 在point后加at
定語從句的關(guān)系代詞指代先行詞point，可是從句中缺少的是狀語，因此在which前加上介詞at，那么at which在句子中作地點(diǎn)狀語。
Part VI Translation
72. was the best thing that could have ever happened to me
“發(fā)生在我身上的……事情”可譯為以“事情”為先行詞的定語從句，其時(shí)態(tài)應(yīng)為一般現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)。因先行詞的限定詞為形容詞級best，因此關(guān)系代詞應(yīng)為that而不是which;;“(事情等)發(fā)生在某人身上”可用happen to sb.來表示。
73. he(should)be sent to hospital at once
“送”可以直接譯為send，此處沒有明確的施動者，因此要用被動語態(tài);該句符合it’s necessary that+(should)do的結(jié)構(gòu)，主語從句的謂語應(yīng)為(should)be sent to hospital;“馬上”可譯為at once或immediately，故此處還可譯為he(should)be sent to hospital immediately。
74. so that you can stay conscious daily of what you’ve got from others
結(jié)合給出的中英文可知，“這樣”表示的是一種因果關(guān)系，可譯為so that;“注意到”可譯為stay conscious of;“每天”可譯為daily置于謂語和賓語之間，也可譯為each day置于句末，故此處還可譯為so that you can stay conscious of what you’ve got from others each day。
75. he agreed with my decision and decided to carry out that plan
分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)，所譯部分應(yīng)為suggest的賓語從句。“贊成”應(yīng)譯為agree with sb./sth.，“執(zhí)行”應(yīng)譯為carry out。suggest在表示“建議”時(shí)，其賓語從句的謂語要用“should+動詞原形”的形式，而此處意為“暗示”，賓語從句的謂語與主句時(shí)態(tài)保持一致即可，應(yīng)為agreed with…and decided to…。
76. can we expect our country to take a new face
分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，所譯部分應(yīng)為完整的句子。給出的英文中，only修飾的介詞短語with combined efforts位于句首，因此所譯句子需部分倒裝?！捌谕笨梢宰g為expect sb./sth. to do sth.，“有新的面貌”可以譯為take a new face。
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Salary or Interest. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:
1. 如今的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生面臨的職業(yè)選擇：興趣重要還是工資重要
2. 你的觀點(diǎn)
3. 結(jié)論
Salary or Interest
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet 1. For questions 1-4, mark
Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes
Happy April Fools' Day. To mark the occasion, National Geographic News has compiled a list of some of the more memorable hoaxes in recent history. They are the lies, darned(可恨的) lies, and whoppers(彌天大謊)that have been perpetrated on the gullible(易受騙的)and unsuspecting to fulfill that age-old desire held by some to put the joke on others.
Internet Hoaxes
The Internet has given birth to a proliferation(增殖)of hoaxes. E-mail inboxes are bombarded on an almost daily basis with messages warning of terrible computer viruses that cause users to delete benign(良性)chunks of data from their hard drives, or of credit card scams that entice the naive to give all their personal information, including passwords and bank account details, to identity thieves. Other e-mails give rise to wry(歪曲的)chuckles, which is where this list begins.
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide(一氧化二氫)
City officials in Aliso Viejo, California, were so concerned about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide that they scheduled a vote last month on whether to ban foam(泡沫)cups from city-sponsored events after they learned the chemical was used in foam-cup production.
Officials called off the vote after learning that dihydrogen monoxide is the scientific term for water.
"It's embarrassing," city manager David J. Norman told the Associated Press. "We had a paralegal(律師助手)who did bad research."
Indeed, the paralegal had fallen victim to an official-looking Web site touting the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. An e-mail originally authored in 1990 by Eric Lechner, then a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, claimed that dihydrogen monoxide "is used as an industrial solvent and coolant, and is used in the production of Styrofoam(聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料)."
Other dangers pranksters(愛開玩笑的人)associated with the chemical included accelerated corrosion and rusting, severe burns, and death from inhalation.
Versions of the e-mail continue to circulate today, and several Web sites, including that of the Coalition to Ban DHMO, warn, tongue-in-cheek, of water's dangers.
Alabama Changes Value of Pi
The April 1998 newsletter put out by New Mexicans for science and Reason contains an article titled "Alabama Legislature Lays Siege to Pi". It was penned by April Holiday of the Associmated Press (sic) and told the story of how the Alabama state legislature voted to change the value of the mathematical constant Pi from 3.14159 to the round number of 3.
The ersatz(假的)news story was written by Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Mark Boslough to parody(滑稽地模仿)legislative and school board attacks on the teaching of evolution in New Mexico.
At Boslough's suggestion, Dave Thomas, the president of New Mexicans for science and Reason, posted the article in its entirety to the Internet newsgroup Talk. Origins on April 1. (The newsgroup hosts a lively debate on creation vs. evolution.) Later that evening Thomas posted a full confession to the hoax. He thought he had put all rumors to bed.
But to Thomas's surprise, however, several newsgroup readers forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups.
When Thomas checked in on the story a few weeks later, he was surprised to learn that it had spread like wildfire. The telltale signs of the article's satirical intent, such as the April 1 date and misspelled "Associmated Press" dateline, had been replaced or deleted.
Alabama legislators were bombarded with calls protesting the law. The legislators explained that the news was a hoax. There was not and never had been such a law.
TV and Newspaper Hoaxes
Before the advent of the Internet, and even today, traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio, and television, have sometimes hoaxed their audiences. The deceptions run the gamut from purported natural disasters to wishful news.
Swiss Spaghetti (意大利式細(xì)面條) Harvest
Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes, a regularly updated Web site that also appeared in book form in November 2002, said one of his favorite hoaxes remains one perpetrated by the British Broadcasting Company.
On April 1, 1957, the BBC aired a report on the television news show Panorama about the bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland.
Viewers watched Swiss farmers pull pasta off spaghetti trees as the show's anchor, Richard Dimbleby, attributed the bountiful harvest to the mild winter and the disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.
The broadcaster detailed the ins and outs of the life of the spaghetti farmer and anticipated questions about how spaghetti grows on trees. Thousands of people believed the report and called the BBC to inquire about growing their own spaghetti trees, to which the BBC replied, "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
"It was a great satirical effect about British society," Boese said. "British society really was like that at that time. The British have a tendency to be a bit insulated(絕緣的) and do not know that much about the rest of Europe."
Taco Liberty Bell
On April 1, 1996, readers in five major U.S. cities opened their newspapers to learn from a full page announcement that the Taco Bell Corporation had purchased the Liberty Bell from the U.S. government. The announcement reported that the company was relocating the historic bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Irvine, California. The move, the corporation said in the advertisement, was part of an "effort to help the national debt".
Hundreds of other newspapers and television shows ran stories related to the press release on the matter put out by Taco Bell's public relations firm, PainePR. Outraged citizens called the Liberty Bell National Historic Park in Philadelphia to express their disgust. A few hours later the public relations firm released another press announcement stating that the stunt was a hoax.
White House press secretary Mike McCurry got into the act when he remarked that the government would also be "selling the Lincoln Memorial to Ford Motor Company and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial".
Crop Circles
Strange, circular formations began to appear in the fields of southern England in the mid-1970s, bringing busloads of curious onlookers, media representatives, and believers in the paranormal out to the countryside for a look.
A sometimes vitriolic(諷刺的)debate on their origins has since ensued(跟著發(fā)生), and the curious formations have spread around the world, becoming more and more elaborate as the years go by.
Some people consider the crop formations to be the greatest works of modern art to emerge from the 20th century, while others are convinced they are signs of extraterrestrial communications or landing sites of UFOs.
The debate rages even today, although in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two elderly men from Wiltshire County, came forward and claimed responsibility for the crop circles that appeared there over the preceding 20 years. The pair made the circles by pushing down nearly ripe crops with a wooden plank suspended from a rope.
Moon Landing—a Hoax?
Ever since NASA sent astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972, skeptics have questioned whether the Apollo missions were real or simply a ploy to one-up()the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The debate resurfaced and reached crescendo levels in February 2001, when For television aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?
Guests on the show argued that NASA did not have the technology to land on the moon. Anxious to win the space race, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios, they said. The conspiracy theorists pointed out that the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include stars and that the flag the Americans planted on the moon is waving, even though there is though to be no breeze on the moon.
NASA quickly refuted these claims in a series of press releases, stating that any photographer would know it is difficult to capture something very bright and very dim on the same piece of film. Since the photographers wanted to capture the astronauts striding across the lunar surface in their sunlit space suits, the background stars were too faint to see.
As for the flag, NASA said that the astronauts were turning it back and forth to get in firmly planted in the lunar soil, which made it wave.
1. Some people have the age-old desire to put the joke on others.
2. According to the passage, the only form of Internet hoaxes is e-mail hoax.
3. Dihydrogen monoxide is a very dangerous chemical, which is often used as an industrial solvent.
4. Dihydrogen monoxide can accelerate corrosion and rusting, and cause sever burns and even death from inhalation.
5. The reason why the ersatz news that Alabama changed the value of Pi spread wildly was that ________ forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups.
6. Traditional media outlets such as ________ may still hoax their audiences nowadays.
7. According to Boese, many people believed the report of Swiss spaghetti harvest because the British did not know ________.
8. According to a hoax announcement, the Taco Bell Corporation bough the Liberty Bell and moved it to Irvine to help ________.
9. The crop circles were thought to be the greatest works of modern art, the signs of ________ or landing sites of UFOs.
10. Some people thought that NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios partially because the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include ________.
Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D], and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
11. [A] She's enjoying the music.
[B] The music will keep her awake.
[C] The music doesn't bother her.
[D] She would prefer a different style of music.
12. [A] She will take the subway.
[B] She will hurry to the conference.
[C] She will skip the conference and go sightseeing
[D] She will take a bus.
13. [A] She thinks big parties are too impersonal.
[B] She would like to invite friends to a big party.
[C] She feels she has to spend a lot of money in holding big parties.
[D] She would like to be invited to small parties.
14. [A] It is quite unexpected.
[B] She has already got the news.
[C] She has confidence in the man.
[D] It is not exciting to learn about it.
15. [A] He is not satisfied with the pay.
[B] He is not able to enjoy paid holidays.
[C] The job is not very challenging for him.
[D] There is no hope of promotion.
16. [A] He has to change the topic for his composition.
[B] He has fallen behind others in English class.
[C] He hasn't made up his mind as to what to write about.
[D] The book he borrowed will be due tomorrow.
17. [A] She is against the man's plan.
[B] She thinks it needs a lot of money.
[C] They need some time to think about it.
[D] It's good for his career development.
18. [A] She should present him a book on music.
[B] The teacher has some interests other than reading.
[C] It's a good idea because the teacher loves reading.
[D] The teacher would like to have a book on language teaching.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19. [A] He is a professional electrician.
[B] He possesses a basic knowledge of electricity.
[C] He knows nothing about electricity.
[D] Electricity is his major.
20. [A] To wire her office. [B] To fix the transformer.
[C] To wire her building. [D] To fix the wires.
21. [A] The transformer. [B] The battery.
[C] The fuses. [D] The wires.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
22. [A] At a public forum. [B] In an auditorium.
[C] On TV. [D] In a classroom.
23. [A] Exposing oneself to the target culture.
[B] Attending regularly a good language program.
[C] Coming up with a study plan.
[D] Developing good note-taking skills.
24. [A] A realistic goal for learners is to reach a certain level of language proficiency, not native fluency.
[B] Students can achieve native-like pronunciation through focused study.
[C] Learners should interact with native speakers to gain greater fluency.
[D] Teachers need to help students foster a good self-esteem and confidence.
25. [A] Remembering as many words as possible.
[B] Learning only useful words.
[C] Remembering a lot of words a day.
[D] Learning to use a few words a day.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some question. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. [A] Food is no longer a basic need for us, while it was for primitive people.
[B] We eat a wide variety of food.
[C] We no longer eat fruit that primitive people ever ate.
[D] We eat more food than primitive people did.
27. [A] It is needed to adjust the temperature of our bodies.
[B] It is our second need.
[C] We need clothing to cover our bodies.
[D] Weather is changing all the time.
28. [A] The climate. [B] One's social position.
[C] The materials available. [D] Family size.
29. [A] Human Basic Needs. [B] Material Comfort.
[C] Food: Human Basic Need. [D] Basic Necessities of Life.
Passage Two
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. [A] The meaning of facial expressions depends on situations.
[B] Facial expressions can cause misunderstanding across culture.
[C] People from one culture may lack facial expressions because they experience less emotion.
[D] Facial expressions may disguise true feelings.
31. [A] They smile to cover embarrassment
[B] It is an unusual and even suspicious behavior.
[C] They smile to show politeness.
[D] It is an expression of pleasure.
32. [A] We shouldn't judge people by reading their faces.
[B] We shouldn't smile in the wrong place.
[C] We shouldn't cover our true feelings.
[D] We shouldn't express our emotions too openly.
Passage Three
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33. [A] In 1938. [B] In 1946. [C] In 1955. [D] During World War II.
34. [A] It reflects commercial interests.
[B] It is a fashionable professional event.
[C] It is an essential affair for international cinema.
[D] It is more concerned with the art of film than with financial interests.
35. [A] It is awarded to the best film of the festival.
[B] It was introduced in 1959.
[C] It was introduced by a commercial organization.
[D] Only American directors have received this award.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Taking your dog on vacation may have been (36) ________ a decade ago, but today it's free.
(37) ________ the pet-friendly hotel, where dogs are just part of the family, the Loews Miami Beach has had more than 1,200 (38) ________ guests so far this year. Dogs, like kids, stay free there.
A lot of people just want to travel with their animals, so the hotel (39) ________ guests to come with their pets. The hotel has a special (40) ________ for them from the time they enter the door till the time they leave.
There are fresh grapes by the pool for the discerning dog and a cup of ice cubes for the hot dog. And don't forget the special doggie dinner menu. The hotel kitchen (41) ________ to canines as well as their masters. The most popular dog dish is a (42) ________ of beef, vegetables and rice. It's really great. (43) ________, the people food is even better.
(44) ________________________. Some of them don't have children, and the dogs may fill that gap for them. (45) ________________________. But what pet wouldn't want to be welcomed back to a welcome meal that includes an all-beef hamburger bone?
(46) ________________________.
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.
Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Wild ducks and other migratory(遷移的) birds could be important carriers of deadly bird flu, researchers say. Even so, the infectious-disease experts say there is no solid basis for killing wild birds to protect poultry and minimize the risk of human infection.
The European team investigating the global spread of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza(禽流感)says certain duck species may be infecting wild bird populations. Geese and wading birds are also possible vectors(帶菌者)of the virus, the team says.
The team's study was led by Björn Olsen of Umea University in Sweden. Olsen runs Europe's largest wild-bird flu monitoring program.
Studies have shown that influenza viruses in lake water, generally passed via bird feces(糞), can stay infectious for up to 30 days. The migration or feeding behavior of dabbling ducks could at least partially explain the spread of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the researchers add.
This group of duck species includes mallards, teal, pintails, and others that feed at or near the surface, where viruses in water are most likely to be picked up. Perhaps as a result, dabblers have the highest known rates of avian influenza infection, the study says. For instance, nearly 13 percent of mallards tested positive for bird flu. Other species tested include the American black duck (18.1 percent), blue-winged teal (11.5 percent), and northern pintail (11.2 percent).
However, bird flu viruses appear to exist in ducks in a low-pathogenic form, meaning infection doesn't usually lead to severe illness and death.
"Dabbling ducks are for sure the prime hosts for low pathogenic viruses," said study co-author Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands. "But the big question is, how much of our knowledge about these viruses can we translate to high-pathogenic viruses such as the H5N1 strain of bird flu?"
In poultry avian viruses can mutate(變異)into more virulent influenza strains, including H5N1. If this mutated virus then finds its way back into wild populations, the birds could then spread the disease through migration.
Some scientists have argued that wild birds infected with HN51 would be too ill to migrate. Swans, for instance, appear to be particularly vulnerable to the strain. "Swans apparently drop dead quite easily, but they are unlikely to be the vector because they are not going to fly very far if they are dead," Fouchier said.
But the study team says that some birds that have been purposely infected for the sake of research show that wild birds can survive H5N1. "For some reason H5N1 has adapted so it no longer kills dabbling ducks," Fouchier said. This means the ducks may be able to spread the virus over a wide area.
The study team says migratory geese may also be vectors, because they often graze in huge flocks, a practice that could encourage transmission.
Migrating ducks, the researchers add, "could provide an intercontinental bridge" for bird flu to North America, which has not yet had any known cases of H5N1.
47. According to the author, what may be the possible carriers of bird flu?
48. The main sources of influenza viruses in lake water are ________, which may stay infectious for up to 30 days.
49. By saying "bird flu viruses appear to exist in ducks in a low-pathogenic form" (Para. 6), the author suggests that infection ________.
50. On what condition can the birds spread the influenza through migration?
51. According to the study team, ________ is a practice that can encourage transmission of the bird flu.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
For about three centuries we have been doing science, trying science out, using science for the construction of what we call modern civilization. Every dispensable item of contemporary technology, from canal locks to dial telephones to penicillin, was pieced together from the analysis of data provided by one or another series of scientific experiments. Three hundred years seems a long time for testing a new approach to human inter-living, long enough to set back for critical appraisal of the scientific method, maybe even long enough to vote on whether to go on with it or not. There is an argument.
Voices have been raised in protest since the beginning, rising in pitch and violence in the nineteenth century during the early stages of the industrial revolution, summoning urgent crowds into the streets on the issue of nuclear energy. "Give it back," say some of the voices, "It doesn't really work, we've tried it and it doesn't work. Go back three hundred years and start again on something else less chancy for the race of man."
The principle discoveries in this century, taking all in all, are the glimpses of the depth of our ignorance of nature. Things that used to seem clear and rational, and matters of absolute certainty-Newtonian mechanics, for example-have slipped through our fingers; and we are left with a new set of gigantic puzzles, cosmic uncertainties, and ambiguities. Some of the laws of physics are amended every few years; some are canceled outright; some undergo revised versions of legislative intent as if they were acts of Congress.
Just thirty years ago we call it a biological revolution when the fantastic geometry of the DNA molecule was exposed to public view and the linear language of genetics was decoded. For a while, things seemed simple and clear: the cell was a neat little machine, a mechanical device ready for taking to pieces and reassembling, like a tiny watch. But just in the last few years it has become almost unbelievably complex, filled with strange parts whose functions are beyond today's imagining.
It is not just that there is more to do, there is everything to do. What lies ahead, or what can lie ahead if the efforts in basic research are continued, is much more than the conquest of human disease or the improvement of agricultural technology or the cultivation of nutrients in the sea. As we learn more about fundamental processes of living things in general we will learn more about ourselves.
52. What CANNOT be inferred from the first paragraph?
[A] Scientific experiments in the past three hundred years have produced many valuable items.
[B] For three hundred years there have been people holding a hostile attitude toward science.
[C] Modern civilization depends on science so man supports scientific progress unanimously.
[D] Some people think three hundred years is not long enough to set back for critical appraisal of scientific method.
53. The principle discovery in this century shows ________.
[A] man has overthrown Newton's laws of physics
[B] man has solved a new set of gigantic puzzles
[C] man has lost many scientific discoveries
[D] man has given up some of the once accepted theories
54. Now scientists have found in the past few years ________.
[A] the exposure of DNA to the public is unnecessary
[B] the tiny cell in DNA is a neat little machine
[C] man knows nothing about DNA
[D] man has much to learn about DNA
55. The writer's main purpose in writing the passage is to say that ________.
[A] science is just at its beginning
[B] science has greatly improved man's life
[C] science has made profound progress
[D] science has done too little to human beings
56. The writer's attitude towards science is ________.
[A] critical [B] approving [C] neutral [D] regretful
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Here amid the steel and concrete canyons, green grass grows. A hawthorn tree(山楂樹) stands in new soil, and freshly dug plants bend in the wind.
But Chicago City Hall here seems an unlikely spot for a garden of any variety—especially 20,000 square feet of gardens—on its roof.
As one of a handful of similar projects around the country, the garden is part of a $1.5 million demonstration projected by the city to reduce its "urban heat islands", said William Abolt, the commissioner of the Department of Environment.
Heat islands-dark surfaces in the city, like rooftops-soak up heat. The retention can bake a building, making it stubborn to cooling.
The roof of City Hall, a 90-year-old gray stone landmark on LaSalle Street in the heart of downtown, has been known to reach temperature substantially hotter than the actual temperature on the street below.
The garden will provide greenery and shade. "And that," said the city officials, "will save the city dollars on those blistering summer days." The project savings from cooling is about $4,000 a year on a new roof whose life span is about 50 percent longer than that of a traditional roof.
The sprawling open-air rooftop garden is being carefully built on a multi-tiered bed of special soil, polystyrene, egg-carton-shaped cones and "waterproof membrane" mall to keep the roof from leaking, or caving under the normal combined weight of soil, rain and plant life.
The design calls for soil depths of 4 inches to 18 inches. When the last plants and seedlings are buried and the last bit of compost is laid, the garden will have circular brick stepping-stones winding up to hills.
"The primary focus of what we want to do was to establish this laboratory on the top of City Hall to get people involved and understanding their impact on the environment and how the little things can make an impact on the quality of life", Mr. Abolt said, adding that the plants also help to clear the air.
Rooftop gardens, in places where concrete jungles have erased plants and trees, are not new, not even in Chicago. Arms of greenery dangling over terraces or sprouting from rooftops, common in Europe, are becoming more so in the United States as people become increasingly conscious about the environment.
Richard M. Daley, who urged the environmental department to look into the project after noticing rooftop gardens in Hamburg, Germany a few years ago, has praised the garden as the first of its kind on a public building in the country.
It will hold thousands of plants in more than 150 species-wild onion and butterfly weed, sky-blue aster and buffalo grass-to provide data on what species adapt best. Small plants requiring shallow soil depths were chiefly selected.
57. The rooftop garden project ________.
[A] is common and popular in the country
[B] is a demonstration project and costs the city government 1.5 million dollars
[C] will make the ordinary cooling down of the city in summer unnecessary
[D] aims at getting people involved and understanding their impact on the environment
58. What can we learn about the City Hall?
[A] It was built ninety years ago and is the most outstanding feature in the center of the city.
[B] It is originally proper to build a garden on the top of the City Hall.
[C] The temperature on its top is a little bit lower than that on the street below.
[D] It is the first building in America to have a garden on it.
59. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
[A] Every year, Chicago spends about $ 4,000 on cooling the city.
[B] The design of the garden on the City Hall specially takes into consideration the weight the roof can stand.
[C] The Mayor urged the environmental department to look into rooftop gardens in Hamburg and build similar ones in America.
[D] Heat islands mainly refer to those dark-colored rooftops which receive and retain heat and will not easily release the heat.
60. Why should the rooftop garden be built on the top of City Hall other than on any other buildings?
[A] Because the City Hall is large.
[B] Because the mayor had urged the environmental department to do so.
[C] Because it can make people understand their impact on environment better through a public building.
[D] Because the experts just want to make the City Hall a convenient laboratory.
61. The word "substantially" (Line 2, Para. 5) most likely means ________.
[A] a little bit [B] in fact [C] materially [D] considerably
Part V Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word. put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example:
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. 1. time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. ____/____
as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. ____the____
Language learning begins with listening. Individual
children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do after 62. ________
they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners.
Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time
before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly
accurate like a description of the eager and delighted 63. ________
cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can
speak, many children will ask questions in gesture and by 64. ________
making questioning noises. Any attempt to trace the
development from the noises babies make to their first
spoken words lead to considerable difficulties. It is agreed 65. ________
they enjoy making noises, and that during the first 66. ________
few months one or two noise sort themselves out as 67. ________
particular indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so 68. ________
on. But since these can be said to show the baby's intention to 69. ________
communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of
language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they
play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they
are able to add new sounds to their repertoire. This
self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds
making or words spoken to them by other people. The 70. ________
problem then arises as to the point which one can say that 71. ________
these imitations can be considered as speech.
Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
Directions: Complete the following sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
72. It turned out that getting fired from that company ________________________ (對我來說是發(fā)生在我身上的最棒的事情).
73. It is necessary that ________________________ (馬上把他送到醫(yī)院).
74. Make a list each day of all that you are grateful for, ________________________ (這樣你就能每天都注意到從別人那里得到了什么).
75. His silence suggested that ________________________ (他贊成我的決定，并決定執(zhí)行那個計(jì)劃).
76. Only with combined efforts, ________________________ (我們才能期望我們的國家有新的面貌).
Part I Writing
Salary or Interest
Upon graduation, virtually all college students will confront the problem of choosing their careers. It is truly a tough choice. Students’ opinions differ greatly on this issue. Some hold that priority should be given to their interest in the job, but others take the attitude that salary is the most critical factor influencing their career choices.
As for myself, I prefer the latter view. A well-paid job exerts a tremendous fascination on a great number of people, with no exception to me. Although it might be impossible to measure the value of one’s job in terms of money, salary counts most when I choose my future career. In my view, our career choices largely depend on how and where we have been brought up. I come from a poor urban family and my parents are both laid-off workers. In order to finance my tuition, they have been working hard over the past four years. As the only son in my family, I have to shoulder the burden of supporting my family.
In short, salary is the first consideration in my choice of career.
Part II Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)
1. Y 根據(jù)題干中的信息詞age-old desire定位到原文第一段，可知美國圍家地理新聞?wù)砹私跉v讓人印象深刻的惡作劇，這些謊言欺騙的是那些易受騙的、輕易信任他人的人，用以滿足有些人想要捉弄他人的想法，故該句表述正確。
2. NG 根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Internet hoaxes定位到第一個小標(biāo)題，可知互聯(lián)網(wǎng)促進(jìn)了惡作劇的增多，該部分接著介紹了通過電子郵件騙人的把戲，但并沒有表明電子郵件惡作劇是惟一的網(wǎng)絡(luò)惡作劇形式。
3. N 根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Dihydrogen monoxide定位到第二個小標(biāo)題，由該標(biāo)題下的第二段可知，所謂的一氧化二氫其實(shí)就是H¬2O，也就是水。而關(guān)于水被用做工業(yè)溶劑的說法是嚇唬人的，故該句表述錯誤。
4. N 根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Dihydrogen monoxide定位到第二個小標(biāo)題，再由corrosion and rusting定位到該標(biāo)題下的倒數(shù)第二段，可知愛開玩笑的人還將加速腐蝕和生銹、嚴(yán)重?zé)齻?、吸入致死等其他危險(xiǎn)和一氧化二氫聯(lián)系起來，結(jié)合前文提到的一氧化二氫就是水可知，這些不過是哄弄人的說法，故該句表述錯誤。
5. several newsgroup readers。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Alabama changed the value of Pi定位到第三個小標(biāo)題，再由forwarded the article定位到該標(biāo)題下第四段，可知有些新聞讀者將文章發(fā)給朋友，還將其登在其他新聞版塊中。再結(jié)合上下文可知，正是這些新聞讀者的做法導(dǎo)致了那條虛假新聞的大肆傳播。
6. newspapers，radio，and television。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞traditional media outlets定位到第四個小標(biāo)題，可知在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)出現(xiàn)之前，甚至是現(xiàn)在，報(bào)紙、廣播和電視這類傳統(tǒng)媒體有時(shí)也會捉弄公眾，由此可得答案。
7. much about the rest of Europe。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Swiss spaghetti harvest定位到第五個小標(biāo)題，該部分最后一段提到，Boese表示，英國人不太了解歐洲其他國家。再結(jié)合上文可知，這正是許多英國人相信瑞士的意大利面條大豐收的原因。
8. the national debt。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Taco Bell Corporation和Liberty Bell定位到第六個小標(biāo)題，再由Irvine定位到該標(biāo)題下的第一段，可知一項(xiàng)公告報(bào)道Taco Bell公司買下了自由鐘，并要將其挪到加利福尼亞的歐文市，該公司表示移動該鐘是為了幫助緩解國家債務(wù)，由此可得答案。
9. extraterrestrial communications。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞crop circles定位到倒數(shù)第二個小標(biāo)題，再由UFOs定位到該標(biāo)題下的倒數(shù)第二段，可知有些人認(rèn)為麥田圈是現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)最偉大的作品，也有人確信那是外太空通信的跡象或不明飛行物的著陸地。
10. stars。根據(jù)題干中的信息詞Apollo program和pictures transmitted from the moon定位到最后一個小標(biāo)題下的第二段，可知有人認(rèn)為阿波羅計(jì)劃是在攝影棚里拍攝出來的，他們指出，從月球傳回的畫面上并沒有星星，這應(yīng)該就是他們懷疑登月真實(shí)性的部分原因。
Part III Listening Comprehension
Section A
11. B 綜合推斷題。男士問女士自己播放的音樂有沒有影響到她的學(xué)習(xí)，女士回答說自己沒有學(xué)習(xí)，但是自己想睡覺，結(jié)合選項(xiàng)推斷，本題選B(音樂會讓她睡不著)
12. D 綜合推斷題。女士說自己不必在中午之前趕到會場，由此推斷，她并不著急，可能會乘公共汽車，所以D正確。
13. B 信息明示題。女士說她想舉辦大型聚會，以回報(bào)朋友的邀請，所以B正確。要注意的是，對話中的pay back意為“報(bào)答”。
14. C 綜合推斷題。本題的關(guān)鍵是理解女士所說的deserve的含義，即“值得，應(yīng)該享有”，由此推斷，女士相信男士的實(shí)力，所以C正確。
15. C 綜合推斷題。男士表明即使有機(jī)會加薪，他也要辭職，因?yàn)樗胝乙环菽艹浞职l(fā)揮自己能力的工作，由此推斷，目前的工作對他來說缺乏挑戰(zhàn)性，所以C正確。
16. C 語義替換題。男士正在為明天要交的作文發(fā)愁，因?yàn)樗€不知道要寫什么，所以C正確。本題的關(guān)鍵詞come up with意為“找到，提出”。
17. A 綜合推斷題。女士認(rèn)為他們已經(jīng)為男士在該國的事業(yè)投入了很多時(shí)間和金錢，再結(jié)合她所用的比較生硬的語氣Do I have to remind you…推斷，她對男士的計(jì)劃持反對態(tài)度，所以A正確。
18. B 綜合推斷題。男士說應(yīng)該送史密斯教授一張唱片，他認(rèn)為語言教師并不只是一味地讀書，言外之意還會有別的興趣，所以B正確。
Conversation One
19. B 信息明示題。女士問男士是否了解電，男士回答說，電是大多數(shù)電腦的動力來源，因此他確實(shí)掌握一些基本知識，故選B。
20. C 綜合推斷題。女士想要男士修理接線盒，接著解釋說也就是把電線接上，男士問女士是否希望自己給其房子裝電線，女士說不是希望，而是想要，故選C。
21. B 信息明示題。女士說她有男士裝電線需要的所有東西，包括變壓器、電線和保險(xiǎn)絲，但并沒有提到電池，故選B。
Conversation Two
22. C 綜合推斷題。女士在對話開始?xì)g迎男士到他們的節(jié)目之中，接下來還提到了電視觀眾(viewers)，由此推斷，這段訪問應(yīng)該是一段電視節(jié)目，故選C。
23. C 信息明示題。男士說學(xué)習(xí)另一種語言的要點(diǎn)之一就是制定有規(guī)律的學(xué)習(xí)計(jì)劃，故選C，其中come up with意為“找到或提出(答案、辦法等)”。男士并沒有提到有規(guī)律地去參加好的語言項(xiàng)目，故排除B。
24. A 綜合推斷題。男士說他所指的是，堅(jiān)持遵照有規(guī)律的集中學(xué)習(xí)過程有助于達(dá)到掌握語言的境地，但母語的流利和語言的精通還是有差別的，由此推斷，男士認(rèn)為對于學(xué)習(xí)者而言，現(xiàn)實(shí)的目標(biāo)是精通語言，而不是達(dá)到如母語般流利的程度，故選A。
25. D 信息明示題。男士最后以學(xué)習(xí)生詞為例，他說計(jì)劃每天學(xué)5個生詞，并學(xué)會如何運(yùn)用它們比學(xué)習(xí)30個生詞卻在第二天全都忘掉要好得多，由此可知，男士認(rèn)為比較好的方式是每天學(xué)會運(yùn)用幾個生詞，故選D。
Section B
Passage One
26. B 信息明示題。由文章第一段第一句可知，比起古代人，現(xiàn)代人食物的選擇范圍更廣，所以B正確。
27. A 信息明示題。由文章第三段可知，衣服是用于調(diào)節(jié)(regulate)人體熱度的，住在溫帶的人比住在熱帶的人要穿得多，同樣地，服裝要隨季節(jié)的變化而改變，所以A正確。
28. D 信息明示題。文章最后一段提到，決定人們住什么樣的房子的因素有climate，one’s social position, materials available等，惟獨(dú)沒有提到family size，故選D。
29. A 主旨題。全文談到了人的三種基本需求，所以A正確。B(物質(zhì)享受)，C(食物——人類最基本的需求)和D(生活必需品)都不符合文章大意，故排除。
Passage Two
30. C 信息明示題。由文章第二段可知，某一文化背景下的人不像另一文化背景下的人那樣公開地表達(dá)自己的情感，這并不意味著他們沒有經(jīng)歷這些情感，故選C。
31. B 信息明示題。由文章第一段中的many people in Russia consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even suspicious behavior可知，B正確。
32. A 綜合推斷題。文章最后指出，如果我們以自己的文化標(biāo)準(zhǔn)去衡量表達(dá)感情方式不同的人，可能會做出不正確的判斷，所以A正確。
Passage Three
33. B 信息明示題。文章第一段指出，直到l946年才舉辦第一屆戛納電影節(jié)，所以B正確。
34. D 信息明示題。由文章第一段中的more concerned with advancing the film industry than the art of film可知，戛納電影節(jié)更注重推動電影產(chǎn)業(yè)的發(fā)展，故選D。
35. A 信息明示題。由文章第二段中的for best film of the festival可知，金棕櫚獎被授予電影節(jié)的影片，所以A正確。電影節(jié)組委會于l955年設(shè)立了該獎項(xiàng)，所以B、C均不正確。文末提到新西蘭導(dǎo)演執(zhí)導(dǎo)的影片也曾獲得過金棕櫚獎，排除D。
Section C
36. unthinkable 37. Introducing 38. four-footed 39. encourages
40. program/programme 41. caters 42. blend 43. Actually
44. Most masters consider their dogs as part of the family
45. But dogs are dogs，and part of the deal is that owners have to agree to do the dirty work. The hotel does not clean up droppings
46. Of course, hotels that don’t accept pets don’t get their business Part IV Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth)
Section A
47. Wild ducks and other migratory birds. /Ducks，geese and wading birds.
文章開頭指出，野鴨以及其他遷徙鳥類可能是致命性禽流感的重要攜帶者，由此可得答案;第二段又提到，鴨子可能在傳染野鳥，而鵝和涉水鳥也可能是病毒的攜帶者，由此也可得答案。
48. bird feces
根據(jù)題干中的關(guān)鍵詞lake water和30 days定位到第四段，可知研究表明，湖水中的流感病毒一般是通過鳥糞傳播的，這些病毒的傳染性可長達(dá)30天。
49. doesn’t usually lead to severe illness and death
定位到第六段可知，作者提到bird flu viruses appear to exist in ducks in a low-pathogenic form是想表明，傳染通常不會導(dǎo)致嚴(yán)重的疾病和死亡。
50. The mutated virus finds its way back into wild populations.
根據(jù)題干中的關(guān)鍵詞spread和through migration定位到倒數(shù)第五段，可知在家禽體內(nèi)，禽病毒可能變異為像H5N1一樣毒性更強(qiáng)的流感病毒，如果此類變異病毒被野鳥感染，這些鳥就會通過遷徙傳播流感。
51. grazing in huge flocks
根據(jù)題干中的關(guān)鍵詞study team和encourage transmission定位到倒數(shù)第二段，可知研究組表示，遷徙的鵝可能也是病毒攜帶者，因?yàn)樗鼈兘?jīng)常聚在一起吃草，而這可能會促使病毒的傳播。
Section B
Passage One
52. C 細(xì)節(jié)題。由文章第一段最后一句There is an argument可知，人們對科學(xué)的看法是有爭議的，選項(xiàng)C意思與其相反，故選c。D項(xiàng)干擾性大，對應(yīng)第一段倒數(shù)第二句，表面上看與文章表述意思相反，但文章接下來說There is an argument，由此可知，有的人贊成倒數(shù)第二句的觀點(diǎn)，有的人反對(即D項(xiàng)的觀點(diǎn))，故排除D。
53. D 推斷題。由文章第三段最后一句可知，人類對已有理論所采取的做法是修正或擯棄，所以D正確。A、B對應(yīng)第三段第二句，曲解了文章原意，C文中并未提及，均應(yīng)排除。
54. D 推斷題。由文章第四段可知，30年前人們將DNA的發(fā)現(xiàn)稱為生物革命，剛開始時(shí)，人們認(rèn)為DNA細(xì)胞很簡單，但隨著時(shí)間的推移，人們發(fā)現(xiàn)它其實(shí)極為復(fù)雜，由此推斷，人們還需要進(jìn)一步研究，所以D正確。
55. A 主旨題。由最后一段尤其是第一句中的there is everything to do可以看出，作者認(rèn)為關(guān)于科學(xué)還有很多方面有待于進(jìn)一步研究、探索，即科學(xué)仍處于起步階段，前面的路還很長很長，所以A正確。
56. C 觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度題。通讀全文可知，作者以客觀的態(tài)度說明了科學(xué)的發(fā)展?fàn)顩r，并介紹了對待科學(xué)的不同觀點(diǎn)，綜合而言，作者對科學(xué)的態(tài)度是C(中立的)。A(批評的)，B(贊成的，滿意的)，D(遺憾的)均不正確。
Passage Two
57. D 細(xì)節(jié)題。文章第三段第一句指出，該工程是全國為數(shù)不多的此類工程之一，所以排除A;還說它是政府投資l50萬美元的示范工程的一部分，而不是全部，故排除B;文章第四段提到屋頂花園可以降溫，但并沒有否定傳統(tǒng)降溫方式的必要性，故排除C;由文章第九段阿伯特先生所說的話可知，D正確。
58. A 細(xì)節(jié)題。由文章第五段可知，市政廳的屋頂有90年的歷史，即市政廳建于90年前，且是市中心最的建筑，所以A正確。第二段第一句中的an unlikely spot否定了B項(xiàng)中的originally proper。根據(jù)第五段可排除C，根據(jù)第十段not new可排除D。
59. B 推斷題。由文章第七段可知，市政廳屋頂花園是精心建造而成的，可以避免屋頂滲漏，或是在土、雨和植物相混合的重量之下坍塌，由此可知，屋頂花園的設(shè)計(jì)充分考慮到了屋頂能承受的重量，所以B正確。
60. C 細(xì)節(jié)題。由文章第九段可知，在市政廳大樓上修建屋頂花園主要是為了讓人們了解自己對環(huán)境的影響，所以C正確。雖然該段也提到了laboratory，但指的是讓人們了解自己對環(huán)境的影響的“實(shí)驗(yàn)室”，而并不是真正做實(shí)驗(yàn)的實(shí)驗(yàn)室，故排除D。
61. D 語義題。被考查詞在句中用于修飾比較級hotter，分析句意可知，此處應(yīng)表示強(qiáng)調(diào)，突出屋頂?shù)臏囟纫冉稚系臏囟雀叱龊芏?，選項(xiàng)中只有D(相當(dāng)大地)最符合。A(一點(diǎn))，B(實(shí)際上)，C(本質(zhì)上地)均應(yīng)排除。
Part V Error Correction
62. after→before
根據(jù)上下文邏輯，此處顯然指孩子學(xué)會說話之前的聽力，而非之后，故將after改為before。
63. like→as
like和as都有“像”的意思，但是此處要求填人一個具有“作為”之意的單詞，故將like改為as。
64. in→by
此處應(yīng)為表示方式的借詞，故用by，意為“以某種方式”。
65. 1ead→leads
此處句子的主語是attempt，而不是動詞前面的words，所以要用單數(shù)第三人稱的形式，將lead改為leads。
66. 在they前增加that
it是句子的形式主語，they enjoy making noises才是句子的邏輯主語，由于是主語從句，故引導(dǎo)詞that是不能省略的。
67. noise→noises
one or two按照復(fù)數(shù)對待，所以后面是noises。
68. particular→particularly
修飾形容詞indicative應(yīng)該使用副詞particularly。
69. can→cannot
根據(jù)上下文，此處應(yīng)為否定，故使用cannot。
70. making→made
此處指“發(fā)出的聲音和說的話”，sound和make間是被動關(guān)系，故使用過去分詞作定語。
71. 在point后加at
定語從句的關(guān)系代詞指代先行詞point，可是從句中缺少的是狀語，因此在which前加上介詞at，那么at which在句子中作地點(diǎn)狀語。
Part VI Translation
72. was the best thing that could have ever happened to me
“發(fā)生在我身上的……事情”可譯為以“事情”為先行詞的定語從句，其時(shí)態(tài)應(yīng)為一般現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)。因先行詞的限定詞為形容詞級best，因此關(guān)系代詞應(yīng)為that而不是which;;“(事情等)發(fā)生在某人身上”可用happen to sb.來表示。
73. he(should)be sent to hospital at once
“送”可以直接譯為send，此處沒有明確的施動者，因此要用被動語態(tài);該句符合it’s necessary that+(should)do的結(jié)構(gòu)，主語從句的謂語應(yīng)為(should)be sent to hospital;“馬上”可譯為at once或immediately，故此處還可譯為he(should)be sent to hospital immediately。
74. so that you can stay conscious daily of what you’ve got from others
結(jié)合給出的中英文可知，“這樣”表示的是一種因果關(guān)系，可譯為so that;“注意到”可譯為stay conscious of;“每天”可譯為daily置于謂語和賓語之間，也可譯為each day置于句末，故此處還可譯為so that you can stay conscious of what you’ve got from others each day。
75. he agreed with my decision and decided to carry out that plan
分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)，所譯部分應(yīng)為suggest的賓語從句。“贊成”應(yīng)譯為agree with sb./sth.，“執(zhí)行”應(yīng)譯為carry out。suggest在表示“建議”時(shí)，其賓語從句的謂語要用“should+動詞原形”的形式，而此處意為“暗示”，賓語從句的謂語與主句時(shí)態(tài)保持一致即可，應(yīng)為agreed with…and decided to…。
76. can we expect our country to take a new face
分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知，所譯部分應(yīng)為完整的句子。給出的英文中，only修飾的介詞短語with combined efforts位于句首，因此所譯句子需部分倒裝?！捌谕笨梢宰g為expect sb./sth. to do sth.，“有新的面貌”可以譯為take a new face。