1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.

A．They sold their old house.

B．They built a new place for a van.

C．They sold their second car.

D．They moved to their grandparent’ house.

2.

A．A family with a baby.

B．A family with much money.

C．A family with an interest in vans.

D．A family with more than two children.

3.

A．Some people think motor homes are cheap.

B．Big families can put more things in motor homes.

C．They enable a family to have a happier holiday together.

D．They can take people to another city when people are free.

2 . A Little Is A Lot For Those With Nothing

Each year, 22 million people die from preventable causes, such as polluted water or the lack of nutrition, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. These groups are taking some of the top lights:

**** A child dies every eight seconds from water-borne disease. Global Water builds wells in very poor communities in Romania, Central America and Africa. Go to global www.water.org.

**** As much as 80 percent of the world’s population may be lacking in iron. UNICEF supplies iron supplements (补充) to women and children in more than 100 countries, preventing anemia (贫血症), low birth weight and death. Their greeting cards, calendars and gifts help fund the program; visit www.unicef.org

**** Mercy Corps fed more than 150,000 mouths in 2003. Still, more than one-quarter of children worldwide are underweight. One dollar helps feed 15 kids in developing countries like India; learn more at www.mercycorps.org.

1. What is the purpose of the advertisement?

A．To ask readers to do their bit for the people who are likely to die from preventable causes.

B．To attract people’s attention to the problem of water pollution.

C．To help the homeless children in developing countries.

D．To ask the readers to surf the Internet and become aware of the miserable things in the world.

2. You can help the children lacking in iron by ________.

A．buying special greeting cards or gifts from UNICEF

B．helping the program of digging wells in poor area

C．doing some volunteer work for them

D．keeping our environment from being polluted

3. Supposing there are 300,000 starving children, how much money will be needed to help them according to 2003 standard?

A．15 dollars.	B．20, 000 dollars.
C．4, 500, 000 dollars.	D．2, 200, 000 dollars.

3 . Origami (折纸) in Reverse

Modern communications can gain privacy with the help of passwords. However, origami would be a better choice three hundred years ago.

Before glued envelopes became common in the 1800s, letters were posted with no security wrapper. Privacy-minded writers relied instead on smart combinations of folds, tucks (褶子), slits (缝) and seals.     1     Some, like “chapel fold”, in which the letter turned into its own envelope and scaled, were the equivalent of simple locks.

But information about the practice is scarce. Most historical letters survive in their opened form, leaving fans like Ms. Dambrogio with little to go on but crease-marks (折痕) and tears.     2     For example, it seems impossible to read the letters without permanently damaging the letterlock. Now, in research published in Nature Communications, Ms. Dambrogio and her colleagues have come with a solution.

The letters in question are part of the Brienne Collection, a treasure of thousands of undelivered 17th-century letters given to offspring by Dutch postmasters.     3     To get at their letters’ contents while keeping the locks undamaged, the team turned to X-rays and computers.

    4     This meant that X-ray scanner could reliably distinguish the metallic letters from the paper background. Once the scanning had been done, with the location of folds and creases mapped, the resulting model could be virtually unfolded by a computer to reveal the hidden text. Although no big secrets have yet emerged from the Brienne Collection, the technique seems to hold plenty of promise for future research into a fascinating historical practice.

A．However, the few that remain unopened present some different problems.

B．Though some imperfections remain, it has a bright future.

C．The key lay in knowing that the inks used at the time often contained iron.

D．This practice is what Jana Dambrogio at MIT called “letterlocking”.

E．Origami has attracted a lot of attention from all over the world.

F．The collection includes 577 unopened, letterlocked official letters.

4 . Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. complicate             B. ridiculous               C. screamed             D. trend             E. introduced             F. settles G. distribute             H. barrier               I. contribute             J. persists             K. benefits

You Deserve a “Brighter” Future

WOOOOOSH! The drone (无人机) flew over our heads. Students     1     with delight and dashed around the courtyard, all heads turned skyward. Misty mountains and the green forest surrounded us, with fields caved into the wilderness. I was in the Yunnan countryside with an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) to     2     free glasses to nearsighted children.

While the children seemed quite pleased to witness a drone lift off for the first time, the sad reality was that perhaps only half could see the drone at all.

Many layers of obstacles     3     this problem, the first being access. The eye doctors are concentrated in cities, but so many urban students need eye examinations.

In addition to access, information is another     4    . If a rural student is nearsighted, there is almost no way for them to know unless their teacher notices and acts. Even if students discover they need glasses and can access an eye doctor, they face the financial challenge of paying for glasses. Many parents in rural areas, who have never worn glasses themselves, don’t understand the     5     and see no reason to spend the extra money. Some even fear that glasses will further harm their eyesight. How     6    !

When you walk the streets of cities in China today, you will find that the     7     is even more alarming. Heavy homework loads, increasing screen time on smartphones, and less sunlight from outdoor activities all     8     to worsening nearsightedness among urban students. If this problem     9    , the consequences will be more serious than you can imagine. This may lead to the county’s running out of personnel in certain fields or occupations which require good eyesight.

To give students a "brighter" future, the government has     10     a grand plan to control the country’s rising number of nearsighted children and teenagers. Before it takes effect ,why not put down your smartphone and get back to nature?

5 . Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. understanding       B. previous               C. increasingly             D. contact             E. cheer          F. issue G. concerned          H. identified               I. permanently             J. predictor            K. reach

Loneliness

The woman on the other end of the phone spoke lightheartedly of spring and her 81st birthday the     1     week. “Who did you celebrate with, Beryl?” asked Alison, whose job was to offer a kind ear.

“No one, I ...” And with that, Beryl’s     2     turned into sadness.

She admitted that she had been alone at home not just on her birthday, but for days and days. The telephone conversation was the first time she had spoken in more than a week.

About 10,000 similar calls come in weekly to an office building, which houses The Silver Line Helpline, a 24-hour call center for older adults seeking to fill a basic need:     3     with other people.

Alison said she was most     4     not about those who called The Silver Line, but those who were too depressed by their isolation to pick up the phone. “We ought to raise awareness with the people who are the hardest to     5    .” she said.

Loneliness used to be described as “the horror not to be surveyed”. But in Britain, it is     6     being viewed as something more. It is now recognized as a serious public heath     7     deserving public funds and national attention. Working with local governments and the National Health Service, prograrms aimed at relieving loneliness have sprung up in dozens of cities and towns.

Meanwhile, researchers are deepening their     8     of its biological causes. In a paper published earlier this year in the journal Cell, scientists     9     a region of the brain they believe can generate feelings of loneliness. The region, known as the dorsal raphe nucleus, or DRN, is best known for its link to depression. As a(n)     10     of early death, loneliness is no longer medically acceptable to ignore older adults who feel lonely and isolated.

6 . Patients often come into my office and ask, “How can I look younger?” While I always suggest healthy living — a balanced diet and regular exercise — in order to look and feel younger, I have never thought of facial exercises as part of that plan. That is, until a recent study, published in JAMA Dermatology (皮肤学), showed promising results that routine facial exercise may slow the merciless tide of time.

The theory behind the study originates from the fact that a major part of facial aging is due to the loss of fat and soft tissue, which leads to the growth and spread of wrinkles. If we can lift weights at the gym and enlarge muscles in arms, why couldn’t the same be done for muscles in our faces, therefore to create a more youthful face?

The concept of facial exercise is not a new one. A simple Internet search will produce a lot of blog posts and books on the subject, as well as various programmes that promise to be the next fountain of youth. What the JAMA Dermatology researchers did in their study, which was the first of its kind, was to examine this question from a more strict scientific aspect. They enrolled 27 women between the ages of 40 and 65 to perform daily, 30-minute exercises for eight weeks, and then continue every other day for a total of 20 weeks.

Dermatologists who did not know the participants were asked to rate their photographs before and after the exercise. The dermatologists found an improvement in cheek fullness and estimated the age of the participants at 51 years of age at the start of the programme and 48 at the end of the 20-week study. Furthermore, all the participants felt improvement in their own facial appearance at the end of the study.

While these results seem exalting, the study has some obvious limitations. Of the 27 patients involved, 11 gave up before completing the study. One reason may be that the programme was to time-consuming, clocking in at 30 minutes a day. The overall small size of the study also limits its generalizability to the larger population. In addition, there was also no control group, which would have helped reduce the possibility that this improvement happened by chance.

It’s also hard to draw conclusions about the longevity of these results. Probably the exercises must be continued to keep their effects. But for how long? And how frequently? Which exercises are most effective? Most studies are need to answer these questions.

1. According to the passage, which statement is true?

A．Though the concept of facial exercise is new, much information about it can be found on the Internet.

B．Some participants did not feel improvement in their facial appearance at the end of the study.

C．If there is a control group, the possibility that the improvement in the facial appearance happened by chance will be increased.

D．The reason why some participants quit the study before it was completely may be that they had not enough time.

2. What does the underlined word exalting mean?

A．Calming.

B．Challenging.

C．Frustrating.

D．Exciting.

3. What is the author’s attitude towards the study published in JAMA Dermatology?

A．Doubtful.

B．Positive.

C．Opposed.

D．Indifferent (中立的).

4. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．The study published in JAMA Dermatology is not reliable.

B．Healthy living is the only way to make someone look and feel young.

C．More studies are needed to further the present study on facial exercises.

D．As a dermatologist, the author was involved in the research project on facial exercises.

7 . Things changed for Ben Southall when the Australian state of Queensland advertised a job for someone to look after Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef. They knew it sounded like the best job in the world, but they were surprised when over 35, 000 people applied for the job. Then they had to make a difficult decision—which person to choose from so many candidates? After a lot of testing and interviewing, they announced 34-year-old Ben Southall from England as the winner. Ben now works for the Queensland Tourist Board and his job is to look after the island and to promote tourism there. Because of the unique nature of the job, the Tourist Board wanted a unique person, with a range of skills and qualities. It was a long interview process, involving a variety of tasks to find out about each candidate.

Fitness was very important; swimming ability was particularly essential. Ben can swim very well and he also likes running, climbing, diving and mountain biking. It is clear that, physically, he can do almost anything. The ability to communicate was as important as fitness. For the last part of interview process, the final sixteen candidates did various tests and tasks, including talking to TV and radio reporters. The competition was tough and the candidates needed to show what they could do. The interviewers were interested in how the candidates performed in the tasks, how they handled the press attention and their ability to write about their adventures in a daily log. The candidates did their best to impress the interviewers and they knew they couldn't make any mistakes at this final stage.

Before he went, Ben was confident about his abilities to handle the challenge. He couldn’t do everything they asked him in the interview, as he can’t speak any other language but he felt that his other skills and his personality were impressive. He made a huge effort during the interview process and he was able to convince the interviewers that he was the best person for the job. Even so, he says he was amazed when he got the job; he couldn’t believe it! He hopes to do a good job and promote the island successfully: he has to get to know every part of the island and tell the world about it in numerous media interviews. When you read Ben's blogs from his interview tasks, it is easy to see why they chose him. He is funny and easy-going and he will certainly get the attention of any potential tourist to this beautiful place.

1. According to the passage, Ben’s job includes the following EXCEPT ________.

A．drawing travellers' attention to the island.	B．going to Hamilton Island once a day.
C．being interviewed in different media.	D．knowing Hamilton Island very well.

2. During the interview process, the candidates were asked to ________.

A．go through a fitness training.	B．take part in various TV shows.
C．write about their own interviewers.	D．communicate with the press.

3. Why was Ben chosen for the job?

A．He used to be a swimming champion.	B．He kept his personal blog very well.
C．He is easy to get along with.	D．He can speak several foreign languages.

4. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A．Hamilton Island gets well protected.	B．The funniest job in the world.
C．Ben gets dream job.	D．Tourism in Australia.

8 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. honors       B. inspiring       C. cultural       D. awoke E. promoting       F. success       G. distinguished       H. similar I. considered       J. normally       K. incredibly

Sports Icons(偶像) Who Lead a Change

China’s sports industry has entered a new era when the superstars themselves become the absolute focus of public attention. Compared with the gold medals and    1    the Chinese team has received, sports stars play the role of    2    people and improving the status of their sports in China. The following is an overview of those stars who once were, currently are or in the future will become milestones to change China’s sports demographics(统计数据).

Yao Ming: China’s Ambassador(大使)

Standing at 2.29 meters, Yao Ming used basketball to become one of the mainstream    3    ambassadors in modern China. He first played for his hometown Shanghai Sharks team in the CBA where he became a CBA champion ad Finals MVP in 2002. Soon afterwards, Yao was chosen by the Houston Rockets as the top overall pick in 2002. Over an eight-year span with the Rockets, Yao became an eight-time NBA All-Star. Besides his    4    in the CBA and the NBA, Yao was also a big reason for China’s continued dominance in the Asia basketball scene and their constant presence at world-level competitions. To this day, Yao remains one of China’s most    5    sports and cultural icons.

Liu Xiang: A Great Breakthrough

China’s world champion hurdler, Liu Xiang    6    the nation’s long-sleeping interest in track and field events after he became the first man to ever win a men’s track and field event for China. Before Liu won a gold medal in the men’s 110m hurdle race at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and set a world record two years later, Chinese people had never shown such a strong interest in track and field events. Liu has become a significant player in China’s track and field events and the craze that has followed him is    7    to Yao Ming’s influence on China’s basketball. Both athletes prove how powerful a super sports star can be on    8    the development of a sport in China.

Li Na: New Image of China’s Tennis

Being the first Asian to win the singles title of a Grand Slam tournament, Li Na opened the door to tennis in China and even Asia. Her victory at the French Open 2011 was like a fairy tale and she has since been    9    as a national sports hero equal to Yao Ming and Liu Xiang. A record-breaking 116 million viewers from China tuned in to watch Li become the French Open champion, marking the start of a women’s tennis boom in a country    10    left out of the tennis conversation.

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答一下小题。
1.

A．She had run a long way.	B．She felt weak and tired in the subway.
C．She had done a lot of work.	D．She had given blood the night before.

2.

A．By lifting her to the platform to get others' help.

B．By moving her with the help of his girlfriend.

C．By holding her arm and pulling her along the ground.

D．By waking her up and dragging her away from the edge.

3.

A．Danger in the subway.	B．A subway rescue.
C．How to save people.	D．A traffic accident.