1 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Moustache（胡子） for Cash

“Movember”, as the annual event is known, sees men in countries including the UK, US and Australia grow out their facial hair while collecting sponsorship money from friends, family and colleagues, with the money going to cancer charities.

The month of no shaving began unofficially in 2003, when a pair of men from Australia persuaded their family to join them in growing a moustache in order to encourage men to get themselves checked for cancer, which is seen as distasteful by some males. A year later, the group decided to set up the Movember Foundation, asking friends and colleagues to offer donations of money to support their efforts, and raised a massive A$54,000 which was shared between a number of health projects. With thanks most likely to social media, Movember soon went global and the foundation now operates worldwide, having raised over ￡440 million since 2004. The effects of the fundraising are wide-reaching, which had made a significant discovery in the treatment of cancer.

The issue of some men being too self-willed to visit their doctor for a checkup, or perhaps being raised in a culture of “tough it out”, has led some males to neglect their health, which may mean it could be too late if something potentially deadly did develop. However, Movember is helping to break down the shame of male health by making it more accessible, meaning that men are more likely to visit their doctors. They found a way to appeal to men in a way that other campaigns just don’t – with a sort of blokey^① jokiness.

① blokey: behaving in a way that is supposed to be typical of men , especially men enjoying themselves in a group.

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2 . 听下面一段独白,回答以下小题。
1.

A．Kids threw litter everywhere.

B．The camp director gave rude orders.

C．Some mysterious plastic litter was found.

D．Kids’ joint efforts led to a clean camp.

2.

A．By taking pictures of litter he picked up.

B．By sharing photos of the terribly dirty planet.

C．By keeping a record of crowdsourced cleaning-up.

D．By inspiring kids to pick up five pieces of litter every day.

3.

A．There is strength in numbers.	B．Birds can help to pick up litter.
C．Litter is artistic and approachable.	D．More straws should be used in the café.

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1. Which of the following statements is true about the medical alert system?

A．The users of it will be given timely support on the phone.

B．All medical serious events can be avoided after using it.

C．Its service runs in the daytime and suspends at night.

D．People can buy it from hospitals at the same price.

2. Which of the following is included in an early bird deal?

A．No set-up fees.	B．Long-term contract.
C．Shipping fee discount.	D．A water-proof necklace.

3. This advertisement aims to ______________.

A．urge the government to cut medical expenses for seniors

B．provide advice to old people on how to prevent falls

C．alert people to the high risk of falls

D．promote a medical alert system.

4. Who might make a call after reading the advertisement?

A．a father who cares for his young daughter

B．a doctor who specializes in heart disease

C．a teacher who worries about his elderly father

D．a student who makes troubles at school

4 . I have just finished my 23rd year of teaching at universities. And there have been several ___________ in the way students approach their classes. The most noticeable is that when I started teaching, students took notes in notebooks, but now every desk has a laptop on it when I give a lecture.

There seem to be a lot of obvious ___________ of taking notes on a computer. For one, it is easy to save the notes in a place where you can ___________ them later. For another, you will be able to read your notes later especially if your handwriting is poor.

Before we go out and encourage every student to bring a laptop to class, _________, it is worth checking out a study by Pam Mueller and Danny Oppenheimer. They compared college students’ _________ in tests following exposure to material. The students were assigned either to take notes by hand or using a laptop.

In the first study, students took notes while watching a lecture. Then, they engaged in other activities for about 30 minutes. Finally, they were given a quiz about the lecture. The quiz contained factual questions as well as conceptual questions that required some _________ of the subject matter.

Students did about equally well on the factual question ___________ how they took notes. However, the students did much ___________ on the conceptual questions when they took notes by hand than when they took them using the laptop.

The experiments ___________ the content of people’s notes to the lecture and found that when people typed their notes on a laptop, they were much more likely to __________ what people said directly rather than writing their impressions of it. That is, people writing out their notes had to think more __________ about the content of what they heard than those people who were just typing.

Then, in the second study, the experiments told people using the laptops to take good notes rather than just taking down what they heard. Even when people were given these ____________, they still had a greater tendency to type what they heard than people who were taking notes by hand. As before, the people who used the laptops did more poorly on a test of ____________ knowledge than those who took notes by hand.

So there is real value in having to ____________ the material in the process of taking notes. It is because handwriting is slow and ____________ that people have to think more clearly about what they want to write down rather than copying down what is being said.

1.

A．challenges

B．changes

C．problems

D．projects

2.

A．approaches

B．benefits

C．equivalents

D．guidelines

3.

A．find

B．give

C．take

D．use

4.

A．additionally

B．finally

C．otherwise

D．though

5.

A．confidence

B．competition

C．expectation

D．performance

6.

A．description

B．experience

C．understanding

D．memorization

7.

A．owing to

B．regardless of

C．in the form of

D．in relation to

8.

A．better

B．faster

C．more poorly

D．more slowly

9.

A．offered

B．devoted

C．led

D．compared

10.

A．copy

B．remember

C．summarize

D．grasp

11.

A．cheerfully

B．positively

C．deeply

D．quickly

12.

A．administrations

B．foundations

C．instructions

D．restrictions

13.

A．detailed

B．experimental

C．established

D．conceptual

14.

A．come across

B．think about

C．put away

D．take down

15.

A．effortful

B．quiet

C．steady

D．casual

5 . Directions: Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Adolescents Worldwide Not Sufficiently Physically Active

New WHO-led study says majority of adolescents worldwide are not sufficiently physically active, putting their current and future health at risk.     1     "Urgent policy action to increase physical activity is needed now, particularly to promote and keep up girls' participation in physical activity," says study author Dr Regina Gut-hold, WHO.

The health benefits of a physically active lifestyle during adolescence include improved heart and lungs fitness, bone health and positive effects on weight. There is also growing evidence that physical activity has a positive impact on cognitive development and socializing.     2    .

To achieve these benefits, the WHO recommends for adolescents to do moderate or vigorous physical activity for an hour or more each day. The authors estimated 80 percent of teems do not meet this recommendation by analysing data collected through school-based surveys on physical activity levels.

    3     Urgent scaling up is needed of known effective policies and programmes to increase physical activity in adolescents. Multisectoral action is needed to offer opportunities for young people to be active, involving education, urban planning, road safety and others. The highest levels of society, including national, city and local leaders, should promote the importance of physical activity for the health and well-being of all people, including adolescents.

    4     Strong political will and action can address the fact that four in every five adolescents do not experience the enjoyment and social, physical, and mental health benefits of regular physical activity. Policy makers and stakeholders should be encouraged to act now for the health of this and future young generations.

A．Current evidence suggests that many of these benefits continue into adulthood.

B．To increase physical activity for adolescents, the authors need to identify the many causes and inequities.

C．The authors say that levels of insufficient physical activity in adolescents continue to be extremely high.

D．To improve levels of physical activity among adolescents, the study provides some recommendation as follows.

E．The authors note that adolescents' participation in physical activity will continue into adulthood.

F．The study highlights that young people have the right to play and should be provided with the opportunities to realize their right to physical and mental health and well-being.

6 . Sometimes when she felt bored, she would pick up one of the numerous biographies（传记）about herself and begin to note in. "I never did that" or "simply not true" she would write roughly in the margins at the sides of pages. Since journalists, biographers and more recently even "bloggers" had been writing about her since the day she was born, there was plenty of material to edit. Not that her notes or corrections were ever shared with the authors. Lately, however, she even seemed to have lost her appetite for correctness. Did it matter anymore if things were not right?

She knew that sitting alone chewing away on downbeat thoughts would not get her anywhere and would leave those around her confused and upset, should they ever catch her out. After all she was the decisive one, always on top of her game. A printed timetable for the following day lay on the table. A full day of openings and presentations, of smiling and nodding and flowers.

Shaking herself out of her gray mood, she stepped over towards the computer where a sudden burst of energy gave her an idea. The screen flashed up in front of her but instead of clicking on the familiar icons which would lead her to the emails Randolph considered she needed to read, she simply went to visit Mr. Google and began her search for train timetable.

A dish heaped with multi-coloured jellies and plenty of ice cream, served by a white-gloved train waiter with a perfect moustache. So many years had passed but she still remembered the jelly dissolving on her tongue in small but delicious mouthfuls. Each spoonful had to be lifted delicately to her mouth under the watched eye of her grandmother, who was a stickler for good manners. It was unlikely that they served jelly on the trains these days, what with all the concern about childhood fatness, but even a Spartan menu could not kill the romance of a train journey. As the timetable for Line-burst line flashed in front of her, she remembered that the Mayor of Alwoy would be expecting her to make a short, predictable speech at the opening of the now bridge.

1. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A．The main character is probably a journalist writing blogs about royal members.

B．The main character is always busy editing plenty of material about herself.

C．The authors probably had chances to get the notes or correctness from the main character.

D．Randolph is probably an assistant or a secretary to the main character.

2. Why does the main character recall the time she ate jellies and ice cream?

A．She wishes that she were still a child so that she could eat jellies and ice cream.

B．She is reminded of these foods because the thought of a train journey reminds her of them.

C．She wishes she still knew where the handsome train waiter was

D．Today's children aren't allowed to eat the same things that she ate as a child.

3. A "Sparten menu" (paragraph 4) would most likely ________________________.

A．have mainly low fat, healthy foods	B．be suitable for a romantic dinner
C．include a range of sweets, but no jelly	D．include foods which are easy to transport

4. What is most likely to happen next in this passage?

A．The main character will practise her speech for greeting the Mayor of Alwoy.

B．The main character will decide to take a rail journey.

C．Randolph will send some emails to the main character.

D．The main character will update her blog on the internet.

7 . Travelling, at least travelling any considerable distance, means dealing with airports. I've seen my share of airports. They come in several _______. The smallest I have been through was in the African town of Hoedspruit where the main waiting area was smaller than many school classrooms, security and ticket checking were both _______ by one person who was also controlling the gate onto the airfield and you had to walk out to the plane and climb the stairs to get in. It was even smaller than Canada's Moncton airport where the person taking the tickets was also one of the two _______ on our flight.

At the other extreme are the _______, modern airports in the world's major cities. LAX, in Los Angeles has two parallel runways and provides the unusual opportunity to watch out the window of your landing aircraft as another one lands right beside you. Some, such as Beijing's Capital International Airport, SeaTac in Seattle and the International Airport in San Francisco, like those in Hong Kong and Shanghai, have _______ terminals connected by different buses or underground trains. Finding a connecting flight often means changing terminals, which can be a little _______.

Heathrow airport in London, England, _______ that bigger is not always better. Heathrow consists of terminals used by various _______ and is centered around an area that contains stores and restaurants. At Heathrow the tired traveller gets the _______ that they want you to spend your time in the stores because they won't announce the gate from which your flight will leave until about an hour before flight time. Given that they start to get people onto the planes half an hour before takeoff that leaves just 30 minutes to find and ________ your gate, some of which are a 15-minute walk from the store area. There is absolutely no ________ for this because the airport authorities know even before the day begins how many flights are arriving and departing and where they plan to put them. If I have just come off one long flight and I'm waiting for another, what I want is a quiet place, not an area ________ bright lights and noisy shoppers.

Travel, for me, is interesting but when I have to fly, getting there is ________ not half the fun. Airplanes are very efficient way to move people long distances and airports are a(n) ________ part of the process. Most airport do their best to provide a good travelling experience but they are to be ________, not really enjoyed.

1.

A．types

B．cities

C．areas

D．sizes

2.

A．identified

B．handled

C．promoted

D．processed

3.

A．guards

B．astronauts

C．pilots

D．passengers

4.

A．tremendous

B．crowded

C．international

D．fashionable

5.

A．flexible

B．multiple

C．available

D．irregular

6.

A．exciting

B．astonishing

C．confusing

D．encouraging

7.

A．regulates

B．emphasizes

C．encounters

D．demonstrates

8.

A．functions

B．departments

C．airlines

D．authorities

9.

A．recreation

B．presentation

C．announcement

D．impression

10.

A．look for

B．get to

C．meet at

D．check out

11.

A．exception

B．doubt

C．apology

D．excuse

12.

A．filled with

B．dominated by

C．decorated with

D．recognized by

13.

A．increasingly

B．permanently

C．attentively

D．definitely

14.

A．effective

B．optional

C．necessary

D．suitable

15.

A．simplified

B．endured

C．declared

D．paralleled

8 . Directions: Read the following three passages. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Singapore's Information Technology Strategy

Singapore's information technology strategy rests on two major legs. The first leg is world-class basic facilities. Being a city-state, it is relatively easy to connect every home, office and hotel room. Our objective is to provide broad-band everywhere, either wired or wireless. We will make it a readily available utility like water, electricity, gas and telephone. We are well on our way there. We now require, by regulation, every new home to be equipped with broad-band in the same way as it is required to have water and electricity.

The second leg is the education of our entire population in IT (information technology). Like reading, writing and arithmetic, computers are best learnt when we are young. Today's children can click the mouse faster than we can blink. In many countries, children of middle-class families have no difficulty with this new technology. But, without special effort, there is a danger that children of poorer families will miss out on the opportunity to learn IT. Like the piano and violin, one can still learn the computer as an adult. But rarely does one acquire the same facility. The strategy in Singapore is therefore to teach information technology to every child regardless of his family background. The Education Ministry now has a multi-billion dollar programme to provide one computer for every 2 schoolchildren in Singapore from first grade onwards. Every teacher will have a notebook.

Most Singaporeans now understand the importance of IT, if not for themselves, at least for their children and grandchildren. Over 40% of households in Singapore now own PCs. Over one-third of households in Singapore already enjoy access to Internet. What we want is for every Singaporean to be computer literate so that he can function effectively in any bank, factory or restaurant, just as one would expect an employee to be able to read, write and count. An employer in Singapore in the future should not have to worry that his employee does not now how to use a computer or the Internet.

9 . Celebrating Czech traditions

Have you ever witnessed the 300-year anniversary of a village? To me, it is so amazing that this village, named Bysicky, which is located in Bohemia in the Czech Republic, has sustained blizzards and wars for all this time, but has still kept its special charm.

Unlike transportation you’d find in Prague such as the metro or tram, the most common way to get around in the countryside is by bike, as it’s a lot more convenient. So on Saturday morning. I departed from home on a bike ride with my host family. After an 8-kilometer journey, we finally arrived at the village.

There was a road that led straight into the center of the village. Many stalls selling pizza, beer and ice cream were by the roadside. You could hear guitar music coming from the other side of the road, where an outdoor stage stood on large area of meadow.

When the performance from the guitarists finished, group of children wearing traditional costumes came on stage. As the crowd applauded loudly, the children were divided into three groups. A group of older kids playing different musical instruments stood on the left side, a group performing typical Czech dances was on the right, and a choir sang beautifully in the center.

Many of those present were relatives of the children, and we were there because my sister was a member of the dancing group. On the edge of the grassland, there were girls riding horses.

The end of the road led to a circled space, where the city hall stood in the middle, surrounded by a circle of colorful cottages. In front of the houses there were also many markets and a radio station reporting on the event.

So this is what a typical village celebration looks like, with markets food and performances from traditional Czech culture, which was quite different from festivals in big cities. Czech people value their history, so there will always be parties to celebrate a place’s existence or an important person from history. There are no high buildings in these villages, but people still like to go there to spend their weekends because of the peaceful environment. I guess that is what life really means.

1. What can we learn from the text about Bysicky?

A．The most convenient transport here is the metro.

B．The outdoor stage was set up in front of the city hall.

C．The author’s host family lives in the village.

D．It has a long history and is usually peaceful.

2. After they arrived in Bysicky, the author ______.

A．came across a famous choir giving a performance	B．heard music played by a group of guitarists
C．danced with local kids in traditional costumes	D．rode horses on the grass nearby

3. What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A．The author dislikes festivals in big cities.

B．Czech people take pride in their culture and history.

C．Czech people don’t like to live in high buildings.

D．Czech people always enjoy their lives to the fullest.

4. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the article?

A．To describe a typical village celebration in the Czech Republic.

B．To give tips on how to tour around Bysicky.

C．To inform us of different traditional Czech festivals.

D．To explain the long history of Bysicky and its people

10 . Welcome to Adventureland!

Everyone loves Adventureland! The Parks and Exhibitions were built for you to explore (探索), enjoy, and admire their wonders. Every visit will be an unforgettable experience. You will go away enriched, longing to come back. What are you going to do this time?

The Travel Pavilion

Explore places you have never been to before, and experience different ways of life. Visit the Amazon jungle (丛林) village, the Turkish market, the Tai floating market, the Berber mountain house and others. Talk to the people there who will tell you about their lives, and things they make. You can try making a carpet, making nets, fishing ...

The Future Tower

This exhibition shows how progress will touch our lives. It allows us to look into the future and explore the cities of the next century and the way we’ll be living then. Spend some time in our space station and climb into our simulator (模拟装置) for the Journey to Mars.

The Nature Park

This is not really one park but several. In the Safari Park you can drive among African animals in one of our Range Cruisers: see lions, giraffes, elephants in the wild. Move on to the Ocean Park to watch the dolphins and whales. And then there is still the Aviary to see ...

The Pyramid

This is the center of Adventureland. Run out of film, need some postcards and stamps? For all these things and many more, visit our underground shopping center. Come here for information and ideas too.

1. The Travel Pavilion is built to help visitors ______.

A．realize the importance of travelling

B．become familiar with mountain countries

C．learn how to make things such as fishing nets

D．learn something about different places in the world

2. If you are interested in knowing about what people’s life will be, you may visit ______.

A．the Travel Pavilion	B．the Future Tower
C．the Safari Park	D．the Pyramid

3. If you want to get a toy lion to take home, where will you most likely go?

A．The Pyramid.	B．The Nature Park.
C．The Future Tower.	D．The Travel Pavilion.