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B.as tall
C.taller
D.no less tall
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第1题
听力原文： I travel quite a lot in Beijing. I think the underground railway is marvelous. I nearly always travel by tube because it is fast and cheap. But I also like to travel by bike, particularly for short journeys. Beijing's public transport is quite efficient. You can go almost wherever you like by public transport. Buses usually run at very short intervals. But they are rather crowded and slow, particularly in the rush hour. The roads get very congested and there are traffic jams at busy crossroads. When you are in a hurry, the best way to travel in Beijing is by tube. Taxis get held up in traffic jams and besides, the fares are quite high.
In China today the most common way of traveling is still by rail, although traveling by car or coach is getting more and more popular. We have almost all the provinces and big cities connected by the railways. There are over 53,000 kilometers of track in China. Rail transport provides a very important service to the public, to industry and commerce. Rail fares are usually lower than airfares. They are almost the same as coach fares, but traveling by train is more comfortable than traveling by car or coach.
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A．How to improve transportation.
B．The best transportation facilities.
C．A comparison between railway and airplane.
D．Transportation in China.
第2题
M: Sure. What have you got there？
W: Well, it's some kind of shellfish. I thought it might be a brachiopod, but I am not sure. I found it when I went out hiking last weekend.
M: I think you might be right. It certainly appears to be a brachiopod. But it's easy to confuse them with the bivalve mollusks. Superficially they resemble one another. Both have two shells for example.
W: How can you tell them apart then？
M: Well, there are some minor differences in the shell. A lot of brachiopods have ridge shells like this one. There are other distinctions of course. Internally they are quite different. Mollusks and brachiopods belong to different animal groups, and they had been in competition with one another millions of years ago.
W: How old do you think this one is？
M: It's hard to tell. The earliest brachiopods were from the Paleozoic era, 300 to 500 million years ago. They were quite successful then in terms of the number of species. It's not out of the question that your fossil could be that old.
W: Wow, that's amazing. It makes paleontology seem more interesting when you can hold it in your hand.
M: You know, that gives me an idea. Would you mind bringing this to our next class？ The others might find it interesting too.
W: Well, I could. But if you don't already have one in your collection, I thought you might as well keep it.
M: That's very kind of you.
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A．Ways to determine the age of a fossil.
B．The identity of a fossil the woman found.
C．A comparison of two shellfish fossils.
D．Plans for a field trip to look for fossils.
第3题
History as the artificial extension of the social memory (and I willingly concede that there are other appropriate ways of apprehending human experience) is an art of long standing, necessarily so since it springs instinctively from the impulse to enlarge the range of immediate experience; and however camouflaged by the disfiguring jargon of science, it is still in essence what it has always been. History in this sense is story, in aim always a true story; a story that employs all the devices of literary art (statement and generalization, narration and description, comparison and comment and analogy) to present the succession of events in the life of man, and from the succession of events thus presented to derive a satisfactory meaning. The history written by historians, like the history informally fashioned by Mr. Everyman, is thus a convenient blend of truth and fancy, of what we commonly distinguish as "fact" and "interpretation". In primitive times, when tradition is orally transmitted, bards and story-tellers frankly embroider or improvise the facts to heighten the dramatic import of the story. With the use of written records, history, gradually occurred; and with the increase and refinement of knowledge the historian recognized that his first duty is to be sure of his facts, let their meaning be what it may. Nevertheless, in every age history is taken to be a story of actual events from which a significant meaning may be derived; and in every age the illusion is that the present version is valid because the related facts are true, whereas former version are invalid because based upon inaccurate or inadequate facts.
第4题
听力原文：W: Mark really needs to see this article in Psychology Weekly.
M: Why？ What's it on？
W: Reasons for negative behavior. patterns—like procrastination, habitual lateness...
M: You're right. That's Mark. He's never on time. So what does it say？
W: That people who are always late often do it for a reason--either conscious or unconscious. It could be an expression of anger and resentment—or a way of resisting authority. It could even be anxiety.
M: Well, I don't know. In Mark's case, I think it's because he wants to be noticed.
W: That's the next reason in the article—the need for attention. They give the example of movie stars who used to make these grand entrances.
M: That's not really Mark's style. though—he's so quiet.
W: What gets me is that he's late for his friends all the time—but not for other things, like work.
M: Well... but they might deduct pay for that.
W: Exactly. You know, sometimes I'm tempted to tell him to come at, say, seven, and everybody else at 7.15. Then maybe we wouldn't have to wait so long.
M: We have to try something. You know, he confessed to me one day that he was even late for his sister's wedding. She was really angry.
W: I remember that. He was in the wedding--so they couldn't start until he got there.
M: Maybe you should slip that magazine under his door anonymously. And hope he gets the message.
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A．A comparison of unconscious behavior. patterns.
B．Recent trends in psychology.
C．Reasons for certain behavior. problems.
D．Causes of anxiety.
第5题
Businessmen can travel from London to New York in three hours and lots of people exceed the seventy-mile-per-hour speed limit on motorways. A person of 75 is not old these days. A serious illness does not mean certain death because there have been so many advances in medical science. We no longer need to be afraid of contracting diseases like polio or smallpox. I can speak to my son in Australia from my own sitting room here in Manchester, watch athletes running a race on the other side of the world without moving from my own home and I can even do my shopping while I sit here in an armchair. I never need to worry about food going bad in the warm weather and, at the flick of a switch, I can have a hot meal in a couple of minutes. So, it seems, the quality of life has greatly improved since my own childhood.
I'm not convinced, however, that people are happier today than they were 50 years ago. We are certainly materially better off than we were but most people still seem to be weighed down by problems. My daughter and her family are a good illustration. They have a spacious, comfortable home with every labor-saving device you can think of. There's a washing machine, a clothes dryer, a food processor, a vacuum cleaner and all sorts of other household items which are designed to save time but it seems to me that my daughter and her husband just spend all that "saved" time working! They never relax and are always complaining of being tired and "stressed".
What is the passage mainly about？
A．How life has improved.
B．How life has become worse.
C．A comparison of life now and that in the past.
D．Memory of life in the past.
第6题
听力原文：W: Welcome to our programme, John.
M: Thank you.
W: You have been playing basketball in the U.S.A. for quite a few years. Have you [alculated how much money you've made？
M: No. Seriously speaking, I haven't done that.
W: It must be a very large mount. Everybody knows that. What significance does it have for you？
M: At the beginning, I was a little bit excited. But after that, I didn't feel anything special.
W: Why were you excited？
M: It was a big change for me, a huge increase in my income.
W: Can you make a comparison？
M: At least I can say ! have much more money than I used to. I had a dream when I was a small child that I would buy a lot of toys and a lot of delicious food when I had money. But when I had money
finally, I suddenly lost all the interest in these things. I just thought how childish my thoughts had been.
W: Childish？ Really？
M: Yeah. However, it was those childish thoughts that gave me the drive to study hard as a student and to train hard as an athlete.
W: Which do you like better, the way you are now or the way you used to be？
M: Well, whenever people ask me what film or music I like, I find they are hard questions because it depends on the mood I'm in. When I'm happy, sad films aren't good choices.
W: Do you mean it depends on your mood？
M: Don't you think so？ When you feel something is the most important thing in your life, then it becomes the most important thing-- the best thing in your life.
W: I see. Let's take a break and then we'll move on to our next topic.
M: OK.
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A．An American baseball player in New York.
B．A foreign basketball player in the U.S.A.
C．A foreign baseball player in the U.S.A.
D．An American basketball player in Spain.
第7题
听力原文： While a new school term is about to begin, perhaps we should reconsider the matter of examinations. In July, two writers praised the cancellation of exams because they believe "tests don't tell the whole story."
As a teacher who has worked in four countries, I have had the experience that a student who earns good marks is generally a good student, and that a student's final mark in a subject is usually a grade average of the year's work. Of course there are exceptions, but they do not have the frequency that would give an unfair picture of a student's ability.
The simple fact is that proper class work, diligent exam studies and good marks are almost certain indicators of a student's future performance. The opposite is, almost certainly, incompetence.
There is no acceptable substitute for competition and examination of quality. How can teachers and future officials determine what a student has learned and remembered？ Should we simply take the student's word for it？ Any institution that "liberates" students from fair and formal exams is misguided, if not ignorant. And surely the "graduates" of such institutions will lack trustworthiness, not to mention being rejected by foreign universities for graduate or other studies.
When all is said and done, I sense that a fear of failure and a fear of unpleasant comparison with others is at the bottom of most ban-exams talk. Excellence and quality fear nothing. On the contrary, they seek competition and desire the satisfaction of being the best.
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A．Exams don't tell the whole story.
B．Tests can not effectively measure students' abilities.
C．The cancellation of exams should be praised.
D．The two writers mentioned in the passage hold wrong conception of exams.
第8题
My aunt and uncle always come heavily loaded with enough food and wine for a whole army. My brother Sal and the gang usually show up an hour early and empty-handed. Joann's family is usually late while Richard's group generally arrives on time, bearing gifts for everyone. I am in charge of getting the Christmas tree. Plenty of food is served at the dinner table, and all the hours of preparation are wolfed down in a matter of minutes. Along with the yearly repeated menu comes the yearly repeated conversation.
Everyone talks about how good the food tastes. My mother then talks about all the supermarkets from which the fish was bought. This begins our period of comparison shopping. For at least 30 minutes, we show how better we are than each other at mentioning the bargains we have found.
Personally, I do not feel the need to be with a crowd on Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve, to me, is a quiet time, a time to think deeply. The over-crowdedness and noise ruin my feelings about Christmas.
What does the underlined word "gang" (Line 2, Para. 2 ) probably mean？
A．The rest of the guests.
B．Sal's family members.
C．The writer and her mother.
D．The children of the guests.
第9题
Passage Four:Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.Editor:
While a new school term is about to begin, perhaps we should reconsider the matter of examinations. In July, two writers (Letters to the Editor) praised the cancellation of exams because they believe “tests don’t tell the whole story.”
As a teacher who has worked in four countries, I have had the experience that a student who earns good marks is generally a good student, and that a student’s final mark in a subject is usually a grade average of the year’s work. Of course there are exceptions, but they do not have the frequency that would give an unfair picture of a student’s ability.
The simple fact is that proper class work, diligent exam studies and good marks are almost certain indicators of a student’s future performance. The opposite, almost certainly, incompetence.
There is no acceptable substitute for competition and examination of quality. How can teachers and future officials determine what a student has learned and remembered？ Should we simply take the student word for it？ Any institution that “liberates” students from fair and formal exams is misguided, if not ignorant. And surely the “graduates” of such institutions will lack trustworthiness, not to mention being rejected by foreign universities for graduate or other studies.
When all is said and done, I sense that a fear of failure and a fear of unpleasant comparison with others is at the bottom of most ban-exams (废除考试) talk. Excellence and quality fear nothing. On the contrary, they seek competition and desire the satisfaction of being the best.
第36题：Which of the following will the author of this passage probably agree with？
A) Tests are not effective in measuring the students’ abilities.
B) Tests are an effective measure of the students’ abilities.
C) Tests can only measure some of the students’ abilities.
D) Tests may not be useful for measuring students’ abilities.
第10题
【C10】
A．Therefore
B．Unfortunately
C．In a word
D．In comparison
第11题
根据以下材料，回答题
School Degrees
In the past， degrees were very unusual in my family. I remember the day my uncle graduated. We had a huge party， and for many years my mother called him "the genius" and listened to his opinion. Today in comparison， five of my brothers and sisters have degrees， and two are studying for their masters". However， some people think that this increased access to education is devaluing degrees.
People have several arguments against the need for degrees. They say that having so many graduates devalues a degree. People lose respect for the degree holder. It is also claimed that education has become a rat race. Graduates have to compete for jobs even after years of studying.
Another point is that studying for such a long time leads to learners becoming inflexible. They know a lot about one narrow subject， but are unable to apply their skills. Employers prefer more flexible and adaptable workers.
However， I feel strongly that this move to having more qualifications is a positive development. In the past education was only for the rich; and powerful. Now it is available to everyone， and this will have many advantages for the country and the individual. First of all， it is impossible to be overeducated. The more people are educated， the better the world will be， because people will be able to discuss and exchange ideas. A further point is that people with degrees have many more opportunities. They can take a wider variety of jobs and do what they enjoy doing，
instead of being forced to take a job they dislike. Finally， a highly educated workforce is good for the economy of the country. It attracts foreign investment.
In conclusion， although there are undoubtedly some problems with increased levels of education， I feel strongly that the country can only progress if all its people are educated to the maximum of their ability.
What can we learn about the author‘s family？ 查看材料
A.They used to disregard education.
B.They are overeducated now.
C.Few members were allowed to go to school in the past.
D.There are now more educated members than in the past.
