Part Ⅰ Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled To Curb Spending? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:
1. 现在许多大学生花钱大手大脚
2. 有人认为社会整体生活水平提高了，大学生花钱多一些无可厚非
3. 你的看法
Part ⅡReading 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.
Even as the economy improves, a jobless executive may face up to a year or more of unemployment. This is a lot of time, especially for hard-charging high-performers who are not used to having any free time. While some job seekers spend hundreds－even thousands－of hours discovering daytime television, others seem to thrive on activities that boost their professional careers or resolve family issues when they aren't working.
Having an extended period of free time in the prime of one's life can in fact be a unique opportunity to focus on volunteer service, professional education or personal growth.
Community Involvement
For Lisa Perez, the wakeup call was burned pork chops. An executive who previously hadn't been particularly interested in home and health, she had become obsessed with homemaking during a stint of unemployment.
She realized that cleaning and organizing her home wasn't helping her job search. Nevertheless, "I made lists of 50 things to do every day," says Ms. Perez, a political and public-relations consultant in Scottsdale, Ariz. "My house was spotless, just so I'd have something to do."
One day, her boyfriend didn't arrive on time for dinner because he had to work late, and her pork chops were ruined. She threw a fit. "I'd never been a person like that," she says. "So I decided to stop feeling sorry for myself, and go out and do something productive."
Ms. Perez, 35, resolved to become an active volunteer for the duration of her search. She gave her time to a health-care concern, a housing program and a political campaign.
The work bolstered her self-confidence. "Volunteering takes the focus off of you. One thing you have that's still valuable is your time. And, of course, you learn that there are thousands of people with a life that's much worse than yours," she says.
Volunteer assignments are also great ways to meet powerful and well-connected people. Over a six-month period, her volunteering evolved into working as a paid consultant and then as a full-time employee, a job she still holds today. In all, she was unemployed for eight months.
Before her job loss, she thought she didn't have time to volunteer while working. "Now, even though I have a demanding job, I still volunteer, because of what I got out of it," says Ms. Perez.
Continuing Education
Gene Bellavance, a 36-year-old information-technology project manager, took another route during his unemployment. When he was laid off from a steel company near Cleveland, he knew his immediate prospects were bleak. He expected his search to take a year. He faced a decision: take a job that would set back his career or hold out for an offer he really wanted.
Mr. Bellavance, single and virtually debt free, shifted his finances into survival mode. He cashed out his pension, sold his house, unloaded things he didn't need at garage sales, and rented an apartment with a roommate. Then, he says, "I signed up for every benefit I could find."
But he wasn't just waiting out the year. He spent the rest of his search updating his skills, including becoming certified in new database and project-management software. "You have to invest in yourself," Mr. Bellavance says. "I estimated what technology was going to be the most beneficial and chose applications that were going to be pervasive, that were right for my market, and that were going to ensure top pay."
In addition to income from the occasional IT-consulting assignment, he relied on a combination of displaced-worker-retraining grants and unemployment benefits. "I went out and found the classes, submitted the paperwork, and dealt with the bureaucracy. You have to stay after them, keeping your benefits moving forward. It's up to you to make it work with your overall transition plan," he says.
His job search was one month shy of the full year he'd expected. He looked for work during his training and says he would have finished the certification programs even if he'd been hired before completing them.
"People should not feel guilty"about accepting government aid, he says. "I saw this in a lot of people. They felt they were some kind of loser for taking benefits. My advice is: Get all you can. You've been paying for these programs in your entire career, and you may as well start to benefit from them."
Family Matters
In addition to pursuing training or volunteering, some displaced careerists use their time off work to attend to family matters. Many executives rediscover their children or find time to help their parents.
Stanford Rappaport held three jobs in San Francisco, including high-tech and teaching positions. When he was laid off from the high-tech job last year, he knew it might be a long slog before he could get another post like it in the Bay Area. "I was able to do the math," says Mr. Rappaport, 46. " The number of people laid off: huge; and the number of available jobs: miniscule. At the time, I thought it might be two or three years before the tech industry recovered."
Mr. Rappaport's remaining job, a part-time faculty position with City College of San Francisco, didn't pay enough to support him. After a couple of months of searching with no results, he decided to escape the Northern California jobs meltdown. "My plan," he says, "was to get out of an expensive living situation, and either seek work in another section of the U.S. or overseas, for those two years." Mr. Rappaport, who speaks five languages, had worked overseas before.
Before he found an assignment, his Arkansas-based mother was diagnosed with a serious chronic illness, and he was called into duty as a son. Mr. Rappaport was able to help his mother get her affairs in order not to interrupt his search by using a San Francisco mail drop and cellphone. "I continued to look for work in California while I was in Fayetteville, Ark., helping my mother through this crisis."
He took his mother to medical appointments, made repairs on her house, bought her a better car, and straightened out her legal and financial affairs. "I even got to go through my father's effects, which in the five years since he had died were simply piled in boxes in his office," he says.
Mr. Rappaport's stay in Arkansas lasted six months. "It's amazing that at this stage I had the opportunity to spend a significant amount of time with my mother and improve her life and get a lot of things done for her. Most people never have that opportunity. I'm very thankful that I had the chance. It was absolutely worth it," he says.
One of the unexpected benefits was the huge boost in confidence he gained from his role as caregiver. He'd been feeling depressed and defeated when he left California, but after returning, he felt renewed. He landed a job with a former employer after returning to San Francisco and remains a part-time faculty member.
Discovery and Exploration
Instead of spending time off lamenting your unemployed status, ask yourself: "Is there something I've always wanted to do but haven't because of the demands of my job?"
Felice Fisk, a 29-year-old in Seattle, recently left an account-manager position at a contract-furniture company. During seven months of unemployment, she took an interest in fine-art painting and completed 18 pieces before returning to work. "I found the art work, or some kind of creative outlet, to be really beneficial," she says. She's now an interior designer for an interior-design firm.
Michael Ross, 42, a former IT administrator in El Cerrito, Calif., recently spent his 10 months of unemployment playing guitar and exploring his lifelong interest in scriptwriting and the movie business. "After 18 years at my former employer and how hard I had worked, I knew I had to recover, to get restored," he says. "I looked at this as an opportunity, rather than a penalty. This was very much about clearing space for me."
At the executive level, even a very efficient and successful job search may be quite lengthy. It makes sense to spend that time in an enriching and productive manner. These job seekers pursued service, continuing education and shoring up family bonds. How you'll look back on a period of unemployment depends on what you do with it.
1. This passage mainly tells that being unemployed is not all bad.
2. Lisa Perez found a new interest in homemaking during the period of unemployment.
3. Lisa Perez was always optimistic during the period of her unemployment.
4. After she got a new job, Lisa Perez regretted that she had not done volunteering work earlier.
5. Unemployment means a lot of time, especially for those hard-charging executives who are not used to having any time.
6. Being a volunteer is helpful because volunteer assignments can provide you with chances to meet people.
7. Mr. Bellavance cashed out his pension, sold his house and unloaded things he didn't need at garage after losing his job in order to change his finances into mode.
8. When unemployed, some careerists take the opportunity to family matters in addition to pursuing training or volunteering.
9. The role as caregiver brought about a huge boost in to Mr. Rappaport. After returning from California, he felt renewed.
10. Michael Ross resigned and spent his unemployment time playing guitar and exploring his lifelong interest in scriptwriting and the movie business for he looked at this as an , rather than a penalty.
Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (25 minutes)
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.
A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the proper time and is never late in keeping an appointment.
The unpunctual man, on the other hand, never does what he has to do at the proper time. He is always in a hurry and in the end loses both time and his good name. There is an old saying which says, "Time flies never to be recalled." This is very true. A lost thing may be found again, but lost time can never be obtained again. Time is more valuable than material things. In fact time is life itself, and unpunctual man is forever wasting and mismanaging his most valuable asset as well as others'. The unpunctual man is always complaining that he finds no time to answer letters, or return calls or make an appointment. But the man who really has a great deal to do is very careful of his time and seldom complains of want of it. He knows that he cannot get through his immense amount of work unless he faithfully keeps every appointment without the least delay and deals with every piece of work when it has to be attended promptly. Failure to be punctual in keeping one's appointments is a sign of disrespect toward others. If a person is invited to a dinner and arrives later than the appointed time, he keeps all the other guests waiting for him. This is a great impoliteness both towards the host and the other guests.
Friends sometimes grow cold towards each other, or even become enemies, because one of them has been neglectful of answering letters or keeping appointments.
Unpunctuality, moreover, is very harmful when it comes to one's duty, whether public or private. Imagine how it would be if those who are entrusted with important tasks failed to be at their proper place at the appointed time. A man who is known to be habitually unpunctual is never trusted by friends or fellow men. And the unpunctual man is a source of annoyance both to others and to himself.
47. According to the passage, if a person cannot do things at a proper time, he will lose .
48. A punctual man will seldom complain that he finds no time to answer letters or return calls for he is very careful of .
49. If a person is unpunctual in keeping his appointment, he is showing towards others.
50. Why some friends may become enemies according to the passage?
. .
51. No one will trust a person who is known to be according to the passage.
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 centre.
Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
It happened one morning 20 years ago. British scientist Alec Jeffrey stumbled upon DNA fingerprinting: He identified the patterns of genetic(基因的) material that are unique to almost every individual. His discovery changed everything from the way we do criminal investigations to the way we decide family law. But the professor of genetics at the University of Leicester, UK, is still surprised, and a bit worried, by the power of the technology he released upon the world.
The patterns within DNA are unique to each individual, except identical twins, who share the same pattern. The ability to identify these patterns has been used to convict murderers and to clear people who are wrongly accused. It is also used to identify the victims of war and settle disputes over who is the father of a child.
Jeffrey said he and his colleagues made the discovery by accident while tracking genetic variations. But, within six months of the discovery, genetic fingerprinting had been used in an immigration case, to prover that an African boy really was his parents'son. In 1986, it was used for the first time in a British criminal case: It cleared one suspect after being accused of two rapes and murders and helped convict another man.
DNA testing is now very common. In Britain, a national criminal database established in 1995 now contains 2.5 million DNA samples(样本). The U.S. and Canada are devloping similar systems. But there are fears about the stored DNA samples and how they could be used to harm a person's privacy. That includes a person's medical history, racial origin or psychological profile. "There is the long-term risk that people can get into these samples and start getting additional information about a person's paternity or risk of disease," Jeffrey said.
DNA testing is not an unfailing proof of identity. Till, it is considered a reasonably reliable system for determining the things it is used for. Jeffrey estimates(估计) the probability of two individuals'DNA profiles maching in the most commonly used tests at between one in a billion or one in a trillion.
52. The passage is mainly about .
A) the discovery of fingerprinting by Jeffery
B) the practice of fingerprinting in court
C) the fingerprinting in the present situation
D) the merits and demerits of fingerprinting
53.The phrase "stumbled upon"(Line 1, Para. 1) is closest in meaning to " ".
A) discovered after great efforts B) found out quite by chance
C) amazed and confused by D) invented in experiments
54. The significance of the DNA fingerprinting is that .
A) the patterns of genetic material are unique in everybody
B) it can be used to identify criminals by testing their DNAs
C) DNA testing can tell the wated information of some people
D) DNA testing can help those who are wrongly accused
55. The British DNA database is established to .
A) find the identical DNA profiles B) help criminal investigations
C) store people's personal information D) treat people of potential diseases
56.By saying"DNA testing is not an unfailing proof of identity", the author means .
A) DNA testing can be wrong in its practices
B) there are identical patterns of genetic material
C) many people have the identical DNA profiles
D) DNA testing are endangering people's privacy
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
In recent years crisis in welfare states has been high on the political scheme both in the Scandinavian（斯堪的那维亚）countries and elsewhere. The crisis consists of many individual elements and is partly due to the fact that the present welfare arrangements originated and developed in the 1960s and 1970s at a time of high economic growth and low unemployment. It has never been the intention either with unemployment, sickness benefits or with cash benefits that so many people should receive them or that they should receive them for so long as has been the case in recent years. The financing of the welfare state has thus become a problem, and as it has not been politically possible to increase taxes, which are already very high.The question is therefore whether the national compromise can be maintained in the future. Generally speaking, the changes and cuts which have been made in the welfare systems in the Scandinavian countries in recent years--and there are actually many-foretell an on-going adaptation of the systems to the present economic situation. This does not mean that changes are being contemplated in the concept of the welfare state, i.e. that it is the intention to adopt another welfare model. However, there is already now much to suggest that a more fragmented welfare system is slowly but surely emerging in the Scandinavian countries.
In all the Scandinavian countries a supplementary welfare system has developed in recent years, giving greater benefits to those who are in the labor market. This is a clear deviation from the equality principle that is at the heart of the Scandinavian welfare model. The breach has occurred partly because better arrangements have been reached relating to maternity leave, sickness and pensions through the free collective agreements between employers and employees that regulate conditions in the labor markets in all the Scandinavian countries. That is to say benefits that are paid out to the vast majority of employees in the Scandinavian labor markets, who are included in such an agreement--but not to all citizens.
57. The cause of the crisis in welfare states is that .
A) the economy of these countries has been on the verge of collapse
B) there are too few people enjoying the social welfare
C) the economical situation in these countries has worsened
D) the welfare system has been outdated in the present situation
58. According to the passage, the financing of the welfare society becomes a problem because .
A) the tax rate is too low in these countries
B) the tax rate is too high in these countries
C) the population has grown larger but national revenue declined
D) the growth of population has exceeded that of the economy
59. The Scandinavian countries are .
A) considering a different welfare model B) preparing to partially modify the welfare model
C) cutting down the welfare system D) building a new welfare society
60. In the supplementary welfare system, .
A) everyone is entitled to the same rights only if he/she is a citizen
B) employers and employees have reshaped the old welfare system
C) new agreements have been reached in the labor markets
D) the equality principle is still at the core for all citizens
61.According to the article, in the supplementary welfare system, everyone doesn't have .
A) the same rights to receive education B) the same rights to enjoy pensions
C) the same medical care support D) the same unemployment subsidy
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 blanks provided. 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.
Teachers believe that students'responsibility with 62.
learning is necessary. If a long reading assignment is
given, instructors expect students to be familiar with
the informations in the reading even if they do not 63.
discuss it in class or give an examination. The ideal
student is considered to be one who motivated to learn 64.
for the sake of learning, not the one who is interested
only in getting high grades. Grade-conscious students
may be frustrated with teachers who do not believe it
is necessary to grade every assignment. Sometimes
homework is returned with brief writing comments but 65.
without a grade. When research is assigned, the
professor expects the student to make the initiative 66.
and complete the assignment with minimal guidance.
Professors do not have time to explain how the library
works; they expect students, particular graduate students, 67.
to be able to use the reference sources in the library.
In the United States, professors have other duties except 68.
teaching. Often they either have administrative work to do
or may be obliged to publish articles and books. But the 69.
time that a professor can spend with a student outside of
class is very limited. Educational practices such as student
participation indicates a respect for individual responsibility 70.
and independence. The manner which education is provided 71.
in any country reflects basic cultural and social beliefs of that country.
Part ⅥTranslation(5 minutes)
Directions: Complete the following sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
72. It was essential that (我们在月底前签订合同).
73. To our delight, she (进大学一个月就适应了校园生活).
74. The new government was accused (未实现其降低失业率的承诺).
75. The workmen think (遵守安全规则很重要).
76. The customer complained that no sooner (他刚试着使用这台机器，它就不运转了).
Part Ⅰ Writing
To Curb Spending?
The monthly expenditures of college students have been on the rise in the past few years. Some argue that if the students earn the money themselves, how they spend it is none of other people's business, and after all, the general living standard keeps rising. However, the fact is that most students live on the money their parents give them. The lure of a more comfortable and fashionable lifestyle－one with name brand clothing, mobile phones, MP3, and dining out or going to bars with a girlfriend－makes many to be frequent borrowers.
In my opinion, young students are sensitive to fashions and new trends, thus they easily found it impossible to make ends meet and run into debt. When a student's spending steps beyond the boundaries of daily necessities, it becomes a kind of waste. Furthermore, widespread extravagant spending on the campus could have a bad influence on people's values. But many students see it as a common practice and not a fault. Though everyone has the right to enjoy a comfortable life, campus is a place for study. So just think twice before you sign a bill.
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
1. Y 文章第二段指出"在人生的黄金时期有持续的空余时间事实上是一次独特的机会，可以让你专心从事志愿工作，或继续深造。"在后面的段落里作者分别举例说明失业可以给人带来其它方面的收获。因此可以得出结论，失业并不完全是件坏事。
2. N 标题Community Involvement第一段最后一句话中的obsess一词意思为"困扰"，可以看出Perez并不愿意从事家务劳动。另外根据该标题中第二段也可得出此结论。
3. N 根据文章标题Community Involvement中第三段的最后一句话"我决定不再自怨自艾，出去做些有意义的事情"，可以看出她也曾在失业期间十分失落。
4. NG 题目中指出Lisa Perez在得到新工作后后悔没有早点做义务工作，而这一点在文章中并没有提到。文章标题Community Involvemet的最后一段只提到Perez决定不管以后的工作多么繁忙，她也会抽出时间从事义务工作。
5. free 参见文章第一段第一、二句话。
6. powerful and well-connected 参见文章标题Community Involvement倒数第二段的第一句话。
7. survival 参见文章标题Continuing Education中第二段。
8. attend to 参见文章标题Family Matters中第一段的第一句话。
9. confidence 参见文章标题Family Matters中最后一段的第一、二句。
10. opportunity 参见文章倒数第二段。
Part Ⅲ Listening Comprehension
Section A
11. B 12. A 13. B 14. D 15. C 16. A 17. C 18. B
19. A 20. B 21. C 22. A 23. A 24. C 25. D
11. W: I heard Marilyn's going to college. What's she studying?
M: She's taking courses in statistics, economics and accounting.
Q: What career does Marilyn probably plan to follow?
12. W: This doesn't look at all familiar. We must be lost. We'd better get some directions.
M: Let's pull in here. While I'm filling the tank, you ask about the directions and get me a soft drink.
Q: Where will the man and woman go for assistance?
13. W: Excuse me! Could you please tell me how to get to the park?
M: There's a park around here?
Q: What does the man's response indicate?
14. W: It's nearly ten o'clock. Let's listen to the weather forecast.
M: Here's the weather forecast. Fog is spreading from the east and will affect all areas by midnight. It'll be heavy in places.
Q: What is the weather forecast?
15. M: This cake's delicious! Did you make it yourself?
W: You must be kidding! My sister got it from the bakery.
Q: What does the woman mean?
16. W: I'm worried about those classes I missed when I was sick.
M: I'll try to bring you up to date on what we've done.
Q: What does the man mean?
17. W: If I can get Brian to pay back the money I lent him last week, I could get that new tennis racket.
M: I hope you have better luck than I did.
Q: What does the man imply?
18. W: I'd like to exchange this dress for one－a size larger.
M: Yes, of course. Pick out another one. I'll put this one back.
Q: Why did the customer return the dress?
Conversation One
W: That comes to $160.
M: A hundred and sixty dollars! I just can't believe how expensive textbooks are. And that's just for required texts. Why, if I had to buy all the books on my suggested reading lists, I'd have to take out a bank loan!
W: You could save some money if you bought used texts, you know.
M: I suppose, but it's hard for me to study from a text that's been marked up. Tell me, if I don't need some of these books, can I get a full refund?
W: Sure, if the professor changes his mind about a book or if you drop a course, just return it and we'll give you your money back－but only for the first three weeks of class. So don't write your name in the textbook or mark it up until you're sure you're going to keep it all semester.
M: And what about at the end of the semester? What's your buy-back policy?
W: As long as the books are in reasonably good condition, and they're going to be used in class the next semester, we'll give you 50 percent of their original value－even if you didn't buy them at this store. Of course, if a professor changes texts or if a new edition comes out, we won't buy them back at all.
M: Fifty percent－that's all?
W: Well. I suppose that doesn't sound like much, but that's the store policy.
19. What is the man buying?
20. If the man sells all the books that he buys today back to the store at the end of the semester, how much money will he receive?
21. Why would the bookstore NOT buy back the man's books at any price?
Conversation Two
W: Good morning, Peter.
M: Good morning, Julia.
W: Do come in. You've brought the results with you, I see.
M: Yes, in fact, I completed the survey last week.
W: So, I can hear the criticisms now, then?
M: That's right. And perhaps you'll be able to tell me what can be done about them.
W: I'll certainly do my best. Well, what would you like to start with?
M: The catalogues. I'm afraid many of the science students complain that they're incomplete and out of date. They think they're really bad. Is there anything you can do to improve things there?
W: Oh, yes. We can check all the cards and reprint them where necessary...or we can change to a computer system.
M: How much would it cost to do the first?
W: About six thousand pounds.
M: And how long would it take?
W: Oh, maybe three months.
M: And how much would it cost to do the second?
W: Change to a computer system? Yes, oh, about sixty thousand pounds.
M: And how long would that take?
W: Er, nine months, I'd say. About nine months.
M: Thank you. Now...next I'd like to move on to the Borrowing facilities. The social science students described these as rather disappointing. They complained that they were only allowed to borrow three books. Most of them felt they ought to be able to borrow more books, perhaps five or six for undergraduates and up to ten for graduates.
W: That may be possible.
M: Also, they'd like to be able to keep the books for a longer period, say three weeks instead of the present two.
W: That also sounds reasonable. I'll see what I can do.
22. When did the man finish his survey?
23. What do students NOT complain about the library catalogues?
24. What does the woman say about the first possibility of the library work?
25. How many books are requested by graduates to borrow?
Section B
26. A 27. A 28. D 29. A 30. D 31. D 32. D 33. D 34. A 35. D
Passage One
Welcome to Yellow Stone National Park. Before we begin our nature walk today, I'd like to give you a short history of our national park service. The national park service began in the late 1800s. A small group of explorers had just completed a month long exploration of the region that is now Yellow Stone. They gathered around the campfire and after hours of discussion, they decided that they should not claim this land for themselves. They felt it should be accessible to everyone. So they began a campaign to preserve this land for everyone's enjoyment. Two years later, in the late 19 century, an act of congress signed by President Ulysses S. Grant, proclaimed the Yellow Stone region a public park. It was the first national park in the world. After Yellow Stone became a public park, many other areas of great scenic importance were set aside. And in 1916 the national park service was established to manage these parks. As a park ranger, I am an employee of the national park service. In the national park, park rangers are on duty at all the times to answer questions and help visitors in any difficulty. Nature walks, guided tours and campfire talks are offered by specially trained staff members. The park service also protect the animals and plants within the parks.
26. According to the speaker, who originated the idea of the public park?
27. What does the speaker say about Yellow Stone National Park?
28. According to the speaker, what is one of the duties of a park ranger?
Passage Two
Is your family interested in buying a dog? A dog can be a happy addition to your family, but if you choose the wrong kind of dog, the consequences can cause you a lot of trouble.Families should sit down and thoroughly discuss the problems involved before buying a dog. Even if the children in your family are the ones who want the dog, the parents are the ones who are really responsible for seeing that the animal is properly cared for. If you don't know much about dogs, it's a good idea to go to the library or the ASPCA for books about various kinds of dogs, as well as books about how to train a puppy. In reading about the different breeds, you should know that a dog described as very alert may be too jumpy and bouncy. When a book describes a dog as an ideal hunting dog, it probably means that the dog won't be happy living in a small apartment. Dog breeds vary in popularity as the years go by. One of the most popular dogs these days is the German shepherd, this is because it provides protection as well as companionship. The family should be warned that these dogs grow up to be very big, and may be too powerful for children to handle. If space is limited, they need to be walked daily, since they cannot exercise in the space available at home.
29. How can one get information about the different kinds of dogs?
30. Why is the German shepherd a popular dog?
31. What are the advantages of choosing a toy dog?
Passage Three
Scientists have observed that plants themselves produce many poisonous chemicals for defense against insects. But insects have developed ways of dealing with them and, in fact, have been eating plants for about 250 million years. Now insects are using these same mechanisms to deal with man-made poisons-insecticides. This is why resistance of insects to insecticides has developed so rapidly. What should be done? Scientists studying the problem suggest that farmers use less insecticides. At the moment, farmers regularly spray crops as a precaution against problems that are caused by large numbers of pests. They should, instead, spray only where pests have actually been seen. Secondly, farmers could use a combination of two or three insecticides at once. To survive, the insects would need to become resistant to two or more poisons at the same time. The most surprising suggestion, perhaps, is that, at certain times of the year, farmers should actually try to attract new insects onto the crops they are trying to protect. The new insects will mate with those which survived from a certain kind of insecticide and will lessen the latter's resistance to it.
Scientists hope that these and other measures will postpone the day when farmers and scientists will have to stand by while new super bugs which may be resistant to all our poisons invade our farms and devour our crops.
32. What alarming conclusion can be drawn from the scientists'observation?
33. Which of the following is NOT included in the scientists'suggestions?
34. What can be inferred from the passage?
35. What do you think is the best title for the passage?
Section C
Imagine this: you wake up each morning to find your sister lying beside you. To get dressed and tie your (36) shoes, you use one hand and she uses another, you do everything else together too, even sitting on the same chair at lunch and (37) riding on the same bicycle. That's what life is like for six-year-old Betty and Abey. Like most (38) twins, the two girls look very much alike. But unlike most twins, Betty and Abey (39) share parts of the same body. Twins like Betty and Abey are (40) rare, only about 40 sets are born in the United States each year. Few (41) survive as long as Betty and Abey. That is because twins often share vital organs like a heart or (42) brain. These shared organs are often badly shaped, and may not be strong enough to support both twins. But Betty and Abey each had her own head, heart and stomach which (43) function normally. The girls share 3 or 4 lungs which provide plenty of oxygen for both twins. (44) Most their completely shared organs lie below the waist. Betty and Abey live relatively normal lives, they attend a regular school and each does her own school work. They prefer to do some projects together, though. (45) For example, to cut out paper dolls, one twin holds the paper while the other uses the scissors. But sometimes the girls don't want to do the same thing. (46) For example, sometimes they want to play with different toys. What do they do then? "We cast a coin." Says Abey.
Part ⅣReading Comprehension
Section A
47. both time and his good name 参见文章第一段。不守时的人最终会浪费他的时间和丢掉自己的好名声。
48. his time 参见文章第一段。守时的人谨慎地利用时间，因此往往不会抱怨没有时间写信或打电话。
49. disrespect 参见文章第一段。约会时不守时是对对方的不尊重。
50. One of them has been neglectful of answering letters or keeping appointments. 参见文章第二段。朋友可能会变成敌人是因为一方不回信或是不赴约。
51. habitually unpunctual 参见文章最后一段。习惯性不守时的人是得不到任何人的信任的。
Section B
Passage One
52. D 文章主旨题。这一题涉及到整篇文章的大体内容，A，B，C三个选项的内容在文中都有涉及，但是文章的主旨并不在于单单说明这几点。我们从后面的文章中可以看到，DNA指纹的发现既有它的好处也有它的坏处，因此，答案是D。
53. B 词义辨析题。我们在文章的第一段第一句可以找到"stumbled upon"。但是这里并没有说清楚这个词的含义，只能确定Alec Jeffrey发现了这一方法。文章的第三段第一句接着说明了他是如何发现这一点的。由此可见，他们是无意中发现这一点的，所以答案是B。
54. C 细节题。这一题的问题是关于DNA指纹的优点的。文章第二段谈到了这一点，A选项是不正确的，因为双胞胎的DNA指纹是相同的。B，D两个选项只是DNA指纹的一种运用方式，只有C选项完整地表述了DNA指纹的优点，所以答案是C。
55. B 细节题。这一题的问题是关于英国DNA数据库的目的。我们在文章的第四段可以找到与"British DNA database"相关的内容，"In Britain, a national criminal database"。由此可见，这个数据库的目的就是帮助调查犯罪，所以答案是B。
56. B 细节题。这一题的问题涉及一个句子的意思。我们从第五段第三句中可以看出，Jeffrey认为有相同DNA指纹的人出现的几率在十亿分之一百亿分之一之间。也就是说，尽管几率很小，还是有相同的可能性，这才是作者为什么说DNA指纹不总是完全准确的原因，所以答案是B。
Passage Two
57. C 细节题。这一题的重点在"crisis in welfare states"。文章的第一段就谈到了福利社会的危机问题，建立福利社会时的经济状况比现在要好很多，这是现在的福利社会出现问题的主要原因，所以这一题的答案是C。人口在不断增加，享受福利制度的人也在增加；同时，这些国家的经济状况还没有走到崩溃的地步；福利社会也没有过时，只是需要一些改进。
58. D 辨别题。这一题的重点在"the financing of the welfare society"上。文章第一段第四句就谈到了这一点，"The financing of the welfare state has thus become a problem"。由此可见，问题的原因在上文，即第一段的第三句。通过对四个选项的分析，我们可以看出，只有D选项符合原文的意思，所以答案是D。
59. B 细节题。文章第一段倒数第二句说道，"This does not mean that changes are being contemplated in the concept of the welfare state"。由此可见，问题不是要否定福利社会体系，而是作出一些调整。只有B选项是符合原文意思的，所以答案是B。
60. C 细节题。这一题的重点在"the supplementary welfare system"上。通过对四个选项的分析，我们可以看出，这一题的问题是"the supplementary welfare system"的特点。这一点在文章第二段第三句中谈到了，"through the free collective agreements between employers and employees"。由此可见，C选项才是正确的答案。
61. A 辨别题。通过对四个选项的分析，我们可以看出，这一题的重点在于"the supplementary welfare system"之下，每个人拥有什么样的权利。从上一题中，我们知道，"the supplementary welfare system"是一种雇主与雇员之间的协议，只有A选项不是在这个范围以内，受教育的权利在工作之前就有保障，所以答案是A。
Part Ⅴ Error Correction
62. with→for 本题考查介词搭配用法。responsibility与for搭配。
63. informations→information 本题考查名词的单复数用法。information为不可数名词，没有复数形式。
64. who后面加is 本题考查定语从句中谓语的主被动结构。本题句意为：理想的学生应该内心受到激励，为获得学习本身的乐趣而学习。可见本句应用被动结构。
65. writing→written 本题考查非谓语成分的用法。writing意为"用来书写的"，written意为"书面的"。written comments意为"书面评论"。
66. make改为take 本题考查短语的搭配。take the initiative为固定搭配，意为"主动...，首先..."。
67. particular→particularly 本题考查形容词和副词辨析。本题题意为：...尤其是研究生。根据题意，所需为状语，所以用副词形式。
68. except→besides/apart from 本题考查同义短语辨析。本题题意为：...除教学之外还有其他的职责。except意为"除...之外（都是...或都不是...）"，表示的逻辑为排斥关系。而besides/apart from意为"除...之外（还...）"，表示的逻辑关系为递进。
69. But→Thus/Therefore/Hence/So 本题考查同义词用法辨析。But为连词，置于分句中间用来连接并列分句。而Thus/Therefore/Hence/So为副词，可以置于句首。
70. indicates→indicate 本题考查主谓一致。本句谓语动词的数应与educational practices而非student participation保持一致。
71. which去掉或在前面加in 本题考查定语从句用法。引导本句定语从句的先行词在从句中充当状语成分，而which在定语从句中不能作状语。
Part Ⅵ Translation
72. It was essential that we sign the contract before the end of the month (我们在月底前签订合同).
73. To our delight, she adapted(herself)to campus life a month after entering college (进大学一个月就适应了校园生活).
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74. The new government was accused of failure to fulfill its promise to reduce the unemployment rate (未实现其降低失业率的承诺).
75. The workmen think it very important to comply with／follow the safety regulations
(遵守安全规则很重要).
76. The customer complained that no sooner had he tried to use the machine than it stopped working (他刚试着使用这台机器，它就不运转了).