大学生英语竞赛(neccs)c类非英语专业决赛真题2012年

大学生英语竞赛(neccs)c类非英语专业决赛真题2012年 大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)C类非英语专业决赛真题2012年 Part ? Listening Comprehension Section A In this section, you will hear five short conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. At the end of each conversation, there will be a twenty-second pause. During the pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. 1、 What does the woman think about the job application? A. She is not quite confident about it. B. She has got better qualifications. C. She might be lucky to succeed. 2、 Why does the woman support immigration? A. She thinks it is right to share resources. B. She thinks immigration brings job opportunities. C. She thinks they've got enough immigrants. 3、 How does the woman think about retirement? A. It's most people's desire. B. People don't need to retire early. C. It shouldn't be seen as an illness. 4、 Why do students join in the activity of 40-hour Famine? A. To raise money for buying food and water for poor students. B. To promote awareness of cherishing what one has got now. C. To draw attention to poor people suffering from famine. 5、 What does the woman most probably do? A. She is a director. B. She is an actress. C. She is a student. Section B In this section, you will hear two long conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. At the end of each conversation, there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause, read the questions, each with three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. Conversation One 6、 How many pre-constructed sections are made on land? A. 54,000. B. 45,000. C. 50,000. 7、 What's the main difference between maglev trains and conventional trains? A. Maglev trains travel on rails. B. Maglev trains don't have wheels. C. Maglev trains travel at 300km/h. 8、 Where was the idea of maglev trains firstly invented? A. In Germany. B. In the USA. C. In the U. K. 9、 Why are maglev trains free of noise? A. They don't use rails. B. They run under water. C. They travel at high speed. 10、 What might cause damage to an underwater maglev train? A. Ships at sea. B. A train from the opposite direction. C. The powerful ocean. Conversation Two 11、 Which organization does the guest work for? A. Engineers without Borders. B. Doctors without Borders. C. Care Canada. 12、 When did George and Parker start to have the inspiration? A. After they dropped out of school. B. After they started their work. C. Before they graduated from college. 13、 What's the initial idea for setting up such an organization? A. To purify water in developing countries. B. To improve people's life with the help of technology. C. To help people in poor nations get medical care. 14、 What would they do with next-stage projects? A. To implement some of the technologies. B. To engage more engineers. C. To conduct more experiments. 15、 Who provide them with the seed funding to keep the project going? A. The government. B. Suncor Energy Foundation and Ontario Power Generation. C. Individuals in the community. Section C In this section, you will hear five short news items. Each item will be read only once. At the end of each item, there will be a pause. During the pause, read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer skeet with a single line through the centre. How long did the first Thanksgiving Day last? 16、 A. Three weeks. B. Two weeks. C. Three days. 17、 What is the purpose of American Jobs Act calling for cutting wage taxes? A. To prevent public employees from losing their jobs. B. To call for less spending on roads and infrastructure. C. To encourage more people to look for jobs. 18、 Why does the problem of debts affect a lot more nation than just the ones that are struggling with money? A. The nations use the same currency. B. The nations have joint business corporations. C. These nations' economies are interdependent. 19、 How much money can each child beggar earn a day for their minders? A. Dozens of dollars. B. Hundreds of dollars. C. A dozen or so dollars. 20、 Why did Spain's top footballers hold a strike? A. Leading players got killed in a row. B. Two important games were postponed. C. There was a pay dispute. Section D In this section, you will hear a short passage. There are 10 missing words or phrases. Fill in the blanks with the exact words or phrases you hear. The passage will be read twice. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. Millions of television sets and old computer monitors taken to civic amenity sites as rubbish are being collected and shipped to Africa and Asia, an illegal trade worth , 7,000,000 a year, according to an unpublished report by the Environment Agency and the 21 . The business carried out by totters—people who sift through rubbish for saleable objects—became illegal on the 1st of January 2002 under European Union legislation 22 prevent toxic waste material being shipped to developing countries. Electrical equipment 23 leaded glass, particularly computers and televisions were reclassified as toxic waste. The agency is alarmed that half a million televisions and a similar numher of computer monitors which people thought were being 24 in England are being reused or dumped in the developing world. The agency is finding the trade hard to control hut is planning to publish guidance to the industry soon. Environment groups point out that this action will not be 25 to stop an illegal business. Claire Wilton of Friends of the Earth said, "The agency has known about this situation for two years but has still 26 act. The companies involved in this illegal trade must be prevented from dumping Britain's toxic waste on developing countries, where workers' conditions rarely match those expected in Europe. " Action must be taken now to stop this environmental 27 continuing. The Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling estimates that 11,000 tons of old TV sets, about 500,000 28 , and a similar number of old computer monitors find their way to developing countries each year. Many are cannibalized for spare parts but some are repaired and sold to people who would not 29 have a television or computer. The Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling defends its members who buy computers and other office equipment from industry and ship them abroad, because under EU rules the business is legal if they are working models and intended to be sold on the second-hand market. The problem arises when equipment is thrown away. The law says if it is 30 , even if it may be working, it must be classed as rubbish and cannot be resold to a developing country because it is technically toxic waste. Part ? Vocabulary and Structure There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. 31、 The president's education speeches contained______the tongue leading to public confusion over education policy. A. a slide of B. a slip of C. a skip of D. a glide of 32、 The word "right", in most languages, is usually connected______the meaning of "correct", whereas the words associate______ "left", generally have negative meanings. A. to; with B. with; to C. to; to D. with; with 33、 Gas prices rose 4% in April, a ______ rise but the smallest since January. A. mighty B. severe C. steep D. massive 34、 It seems a very simple thing to tell the truth, but beyond all question, there is nothing ______lying. A. half so easy as B. so half easy as C. half easy as D. so easy as half 35、 ______until recently, people who are left-handed have been considered abnormal. A. Up B. Unless C. Down D. Not 36、 Sorry about the loss. But it'll give you some relief if your house is______ against fire. A. assured B. ensured C. insured D. pledged 37、 When______ in a downpour without an umbrella or a raincoat, most people would pick up their pace. A. sunk B. caught C. plunged D. grabbed 38、 In 1993, V.S. Naipaul was awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize in______of his lifetime's achievement. A. identification B. acquaintance C. recognition D. perspective 39、 Many linguists ______that our highly evolved brain provides us with innate language ability not found in lower organisms. A. suggest B. claim C. promise D. convince 40、 I'm in a slightly______ position in that he is not arriving until 12:00 which is 3 hours late. A. tight B. weird C. awesome D. awkward 41、 Tactless she may be, but ungrateful______think her. A. should not you B. should you not C. not should you D. you should not 42、 More than 30 people died in the train accident, most of______ children. A. which B. them C. whom D. that 43、 He admits that his team really ______him to play a role of responsibility. A. look forward to B. look down on C. look up to D. look on 44、 —Do you know the students have been protesting against the increased tuition? —I've heard about the protest, but A. I've joined in it to support the students. B. I don't see any good it will do. C. I do know the reason for it. D. I think it'll be a great success. 45、 —I hear you're a journalist now, Paul. That must be exciting. —______most of the time. But like all jobs, it has its disadvantages. A. It's boring B. It's a piece of cake C. It has drawbacks D. It's a buzz Part ? Cloze Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Fill in the following blanks in one of the three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letter(s) of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. There is a phenomenon that sociologists call reference anxiety—or, more popularly, keeping up with the Jo 46 . According to that thinking, most people judge their possessions in comparison with others'. People tend not to ask themselves, "Does my house meet my needs?" Ins 47 they ask, "Is my house nicer than my neighbor's?" If your two-bedroom house is surrounded by three-and four-bedroom houses, with some ar 48 the comer doing a tear-down to build a McMansion, your reference anxiety may rise. Suddenly that two-bedroom house—one that your grandparents might have considered quite nice, even luxurious—doesn't seem enough. And so the money you spent on it stops 49 (provide) you with a sense of wellbeing. Americans' soaring reference anxiety is a product of the widening gap in income 50 (distribute). In other words, the rich are getting richer faster, and the rest of the population are none too happy about it. During much of the U.S. history, the 51 (major) lived in small towns or urban areas where conditions for most people were approximately the samehence, low 52 anxiety. Also, most people knew relatively little about those who were living higher on the hog. But in the past few de 53 , new economic forces have changed all that. Rapid growth in income for the top 5 percent of households has brought ab 54 a substantial cohort of people who live notably better than the middle class does, amplifying our reference anxiety. That wealthier minority is occupying ever-larger homes and spending more on each change of clothes when the middle is doing O. K. In nations with h 55 levels of income equality like the Scandinavian countries, well-being tends to be higher than in nations with unequal wealth distribution such as the United States. Part ? Reading Comprehension Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions. Respond to the questions using information from the passage. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. Section A Several research groups in the United States are conducting genetic research aimed at retarding aging. If the breakthroughs of recent years are anything to go by, it is likely that we will see several-fold longevity increases in mice within the next decade or so. Already such genetic manipulation has increased by almost 50% the life span of flies. Results are also promising in mammals ; scientists have extended longevity in mice by 50% through genetic interventions. Achieving similar results in humans will be harder. Scientists have already identified genes that appear to accelerate human aging, but they have yet to find genes with the opposite effect. But with the sequencing of the human genome, we are now in a better position to find out more about aging in humans as well as animals. For those who cannot wait, there is one method available today that might delay human aging, caloric restriction. This means simply a diet with few calories. Experiments have shown longevity increases of more than 50% in certain mammals that follow such diets. Most people, however, feel that the secondary effects of this outweigh the benefits. After all, what is the point of living longer if you cannot enjoy life? If science is to extend human longevity, it will have to do so by extending the duration of human life in age-related disability. The extra years of life must allow future grandparents to enjoy life, not just live. Although some scientists argue that aging will never be cured and our grandparents will continue to fit our stereotypes, many others remain confident that we will soon learn how to modulate the human aging process. "I believe our generation is the first to be able to map a possible route to individual immortality ," says William Hasehine, CEO of Human Genome Sciences Inc. in Rockville, Maryland. If a therapy could slow human aging by 50%, for instance, we could have 30 or 40 more years of life. In that time, new discoveries could be made that would allow us to live even longer, and the cycle could continue until a cure for aging is discovered. "It's possible that some people alive now may still be alive 400 years from now," claims gerontologist S. Michal Jazwinski of Louisiana State of University Health Sciences Center. But what would be consequences of extending human longevity or finding a real cure for aging? Complete the summary with words from the passage, changing the form where necessary, with only one word for each blank. Researchers have achieved success in 56 the aging of flies. But similar results in humans are not encouraging. Other than finding genes that slow down human aging, scientists have identified genes that appear to 57 it. However, there might be one way of delaying aging, i. e. caloric 58 which means following certain diets with few calories. Meanwhile, it is necessary to think about the significance of living longer and how to 59 the aging process. Some optimistic people believe that it is possible to extend human longevity while others are quite concerned about the 60 of it. Section B No matter how carefully you plan a trip with a friend, or family member, there will probably be conflicts along the way. Even after the dates, destination, and length of the trip are decided, there's still the chance that problems could happen on the trip. Here are a few tips to help you solve problems that may come up between you and your travel companion: Plan the trip together: Sometimes one person takes the lead and plans the trip to fit his or her interests. Planning together allows for a more diverse and balanced vacation. Some people want to walk; some people would rather use public transportation. So it's importanl to find out how compatible you are in terms of everything concerned. Find out about lifestyle: Differences in lifestyle can be challenging if they haven't been discussed in advance. There's nothing worse than being in the room and awake at 6:00 a.m. when your companion wants to sleep until noon. Sleep patterns can be very disruptive to people that don't have the same pattern. The same can be said for dietary and other restrictions. Knowing those differences in advance helps people adapt to each other more quickly. Be aware of coping strategies: Ask questions and use your understanding of your companion's coping strategies—how they may respond to stressful situations. You can ask your travel companion about his/her best and worst trips. What happened? How did that person respond? Knowing a little about how your companion deals with difficult situations can be helpful. Compromise: Try to compromise in order to have a good time. Agree to disagree. Do you really want to use your energy feeling anger on your vacation when you should be relaxing and enjoying it? Buy travel journals for yourself and your travel partners. Writing in journals can be a way to reflect on the trip to relieve some of the frustration that may come up. Take a break: Split up when tensions are high and your interests are different. Be sure to set a time and meeting place and have a backup meeting set in case of an unforeseen delay. People tend to feel like they have to stick together when they are together on a trip. But anybody with someone 24 hours a day needs a break from the other person. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or falseF. according to the passage. 61、 This passage aims to help travelers solve problems between them and their travel partners. 62、 Lifestyle differences can cause travel problems because all people enjoy sleeping till noon when on vacation. 63、 Even though your travel interests are different, you must always stay together with your travel partners. 64、 Answer the following questions according to the passage. 64. Why do people have to ask their travel companion about his/her best and worst trips? 65、 Which way might help relieve the frustration that may come up? Section C Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had passed she went away to her room alone. She refused to have anyone follow her. There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that filled her body and seemed to reach into her soul. She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams. She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines indicated repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off in the distance on a patch of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought. There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the wounds, the scents, the color that filled the air. Now her bosom rose and fell with excitement. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was struggling to beat it back with her will, as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath, "free, free, free!" The empty stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed sharp and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body. She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as of little importance. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked except with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. Complete the following sentences with information given in the passage in a maximum of 2 words for each blank. 66、 Most women were shocked into a______on hearing the news of their husbands' death, but Mrs. Mallard was not. 67、 When returning to her room, Mrs. Mallard was pressed down by______both physically and mentally. 68、 Mrs. Mallard's dull stare indicated a______of deep thinking rather than a sign of contemplation. 69、 Choose the best answer according to the passage. 69. What was Mrs. Mallard's first reaction on hearing her husband's death? A. She pulled herself together with the help of her sister. B. She stayed in her room and refused to meet anyone. C. She abandoned herself into grief for a while. D. She couldn't stop weeping and crying. 70、 How did Mrs. Mallard feel towards her husband's death at the end? A. Bitter but relieved. B. Fearful but relaxed. C. Dull and desperate. D. Calm and suspicious. Section D No Creatures can stride as human beings. They are not physically designed to support and balance a vertical body balanced on two long lower limbs, propelled forward by a foot engineered exclusively for body support and forward propulsion and to do so with a stride at high-speed locomotion. While other bipeds walk in a similar fashion, human walk is unique. Bipedalism by itself offers no comparison with the distinctive human gait form. And, significantly, no other biped can actually cover more than a tiny fraction of the walking distance that can be sustained by humans. Striding requires a special design of hip, knee, and ankle joints, plus an arched foot, plus long lower-limb bones. These "finishing touches" demanded extended evolutionary time. Striding provided numerous advantages over the simple stepping gait. For example, the ability to cover twice the distance with the same number of steps is a definite survival advantage. It also added much speed to running, more height to jumping. None of this would have been possible without, first, a foot equipped to support and balance an erect body and to produce the leverage necessary to propel the body forward in locomotion. The ape foot was not suited for this. A new kind of foot was essential if those hominids were to become full-scale bipeds. Indeed a pair of human feet has one-fourth of all the body's 206 bones and 244 joints. Why this extraordinary number of bones and joints concentrated in such a small part of the body? 71 Because the intricate network of the many different parts required not only for supporting and balancing a heavy superstructure but to enable the multiple motions and actions, hundreds or thousands of times daily. No other part of the body comes even close to the amount and degree of stresses imposed on it. The human foot had to go through an extensive evolutionary development in which it underwent enormous design changes in cohering its 28 bones, 37 joints and 107 ligaments, and 32 muscles and tendons to adapt to the body weight and numerous torsions. 72 In fact, it probably wasn't until only about 400, 000 years ago that early humans were fully striding, the final touch of human gait. Orthopedist Philip J. Mayer writes in the Orthopedic Review: "The development of a true stride on an orthopedic foot was the most crucial of all the steps of human evolution. " Nature had perhaps never undertaken an anatomical engineering project of such complexity. Answer the following questions according to the passage. 71、 What is the difference between humans and other bipeds regarding walking distance? Why is the human foot equipped the way it is? 72、 73、 What kind of evolution has the human foot undergone? 74、 Translate the underlined sentences in the passage into Chinese. 74. Because the intricate network of the many different parts is required not only for supporting and balancing a heavy superstructure but to enable the multiple motions and actions, hundreds or thousands of times daily. 75、 In fact, it probably wasn't until only about 400, 000 years ago that early humans were fully striding, the final touch of human gait. Part ? Translation Translate the following sentences into English, using the hints given in brackets. Remember to write your answer on the answer sheet. 76、有人建议，中国所有的博物馆都应对中 小学 小学生如何制作手抄报课件柳垭小学关于三违自查自纠报告小学英语获奖优质说课课件小学足球课教案全集小学语文新课程标准测试题 生免费开放，使他们有更多机会获得广博的知识。 (access) 77、校方对此次违纪事件既没有处罚相关责任人，也没有对其他师生解释原因。(倒装) 78、在制定预算时候，他们忘记考虑价格上涨的因素，因此才导致目前资金紧张。(account) 79、连年的战争不仅使人们丧失了对生活的热情，还让他们失去了对未来的希望。(deprive) 80、此次团队训练留给我印象最深的是队员表现出的勇气、毅力和奉献精神。(主语从句) Part ? Error correction Proofread the passage as required. Each indicated line contains a maximum of one error. Correct the passage in the following way: for a right line, put the sign "?" in the corresponding blank ; for a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank; for a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with the sign "?" and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank; for an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with the sign "—" and put the word with the sign "—"in the blank. Write the answers on the answer sheet. Pyramid City is an even more ambitious project to solve Tokyo's housing problem. A 1,000-metre tall pyramid, 12 times higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, would contain 55 smaller pyramids, each of them 81. ______ would be the size of the Giza original. If it is built, the pyramid will consist in a series of skyscrapers suspended from the inside of the structure, 82. ______ the pyramid will be 80 storey high, with parkland in-between the skyscrap 83. ______ ers. Three quarters of a million of people will live there. The skyscrapers will 84. ______ be linked by series of hollow tubes containing a high-speed transport system. 85. ______ Parts of the construction, include more than 150 kilometers of tunnels, will be 86. ______ built by spider robots, and power will be provided by waves and wind. A major problem is that Japan is situating on the seismic "ling of fire"— 87. ______ an area of volcanic activity where stretches around the Pacific Ocean. 88. ______ Pyramid City will have to withstand earthquakes, tsunamis and underwater 89. ______ volcanic eruptions. The designers of Pyramid City are certain that it will be built and make 90. ______ safe from earthquakes, but probably not for another 100 years. Part ? IQ Test There are five IQ Test questions in this part. Write your answers on the answer sheet. 91、 A frog, a skunk (臭鼬), and a duck went to the movies. The admission was $1.00. Who did not get in? 92、 What's the phrase represented by the following picture? 93、 I am very fragile. When you say my name, you break me. What's my name? 94、 Which picture comes next? 95、 There is a four-digit number made with 1 -9! Its 2nd digit is twice greater than its 3rd. The sum of all the digits is thrice greater than its last digit! The product of its 3rd and 4th digits is 12 times greater than the ratio of its 2nd to 3rd. What is it? Part ? Writing ? 96、 Study the change in world of work in the U. K. and write a report based on the information given in the chart. You should state the information, explain possible reasons and draw your conclusion. You should write about 100 words in art appropriate style on the answer sheet. ? 97、College students have many ways to finance their college education. They may get help from their parents, find part-time jobs, apply for loans, or win scholarships. Which ways do you think are better for college students to choose in order to cover tuition fees and other living costs? Give your ideas and state your reasons for it. Write an article of about 140 words in an appropriate style on the answer sheet. 答案 八年级地理上册填图题岩土工程勘察试题省略号的作用及举例应急救援安全知识车间5s试题及答案 : Part ? Listening Comprehension Section A 1、A [解析] M: Listen, you've been saying for ages that you wanted to change your job. This one's perfect. W: I know, but I'm sure there'll be hundreds of applicants, especially with a salary like that. And I'm sure they'll be better qualified than me. I don't want to waste my time. M: Look, you might as well apply for it. What have you got to lose? And you might be lucky. Come on, go for it. 男士鼓励女士去应聘，但是女士觉得自己能力不够，说明女士不够自信，因此选A项。 2、A [解析] M: What are your views about immigration? Do you think we allow more people to come into this country than we should? W: Not at all! In fact, I think we should allow even more immigrants to come than we do at the moment. I think it's right that we should share what we have with other people. We live in a multi-cultural society and we should help people who are in danger in their own countries. M: So you don't worry that immigrants are taking our jobs? 女士认为应该和别人共享资源，而且应该救济那些在本国处于危险之中的人们，故选A。 3、B [解析] M: Many people can't wait to retire, but you don't think it's such a great idea. W: No, retirement is a disease. After about six months of retirement, so many people are bored. And they may have financial problems, too. So I encourage people to stay at work as long as possible. M: So, I think, that's why you're still working in a pharmacy, and keeping on writing. 对话中女士认为退休是一种病，可知她不赞成提早退休。 4、C [解析] M: Lily, for listeners who have, maybe, never heard of 40-hour Famine, can you tell us a little bit about it? W: Yeah, sure. Well, it's about young people, students mainly, not eating food for 40 hours, although water is allowed. The idea is to promote a bit more awareness of what it's like for poor people who are starving because of famine. M: So this is the second year you've taken part? Lily提到学生们参加40-hour Famine的目的是让更多的人了解穷人的挨饿的境况。 5、B [解析] M: Maria, the curtain goes up on your new play next week. Are you at all anxious or is opening night an occasion which no longer bothers you? W: Well, it depends on the production. But in this case, I've been privileged again to have an excellent director. I've learned from him that I don't just learn the part, I live it. And that takes away any fears I might have. M: I've heard that no one dares to challenge the director's opinions. Is that true? 对话中提到下周女士的新剧要上演，因此推断她是一位演员。 Section B Conversation One 6、A [解析] 6-10 M: Good evening! And welcome to the science show. We've heard a lot recently about extreme engineering. And one of the most amazing and astonishing ideas is a rail tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean, linking New York and London. With me in the studio to discuss this is Professor Massa. Welcome to the program, professor. W: Thank you. M: So, the first question, how would the transatlantic tunnel be built? W: Well, it will be built in pre-constructed sections. M: Urn, pre-constructed sections? W: Yes, they would be made on land, and then put together under the sea. M: Oh, how many of them? W: Fifty-four thousand. They will be held in place by giant anchors which will be fixed to the bottom of the ocean. The tunnel will float 200 meters under the surface. M: Amazing. And now as I understand it, the train running through this tunnel would be a magnetically levitated train, is that right? So what is a magnetically levitated train? W: A magnetically levitated train, or maglev, isn't like a conventional train. It doesn't have wheels and doesn't travel on rails. It travels in the vacuum between two magnets. The idea about it is an old one invented in Germany over seventy years ago. M: And how fast does it travel? W: At the moment, a maglev train can travel at about 500kin per hour. However, it will be possible for it to travel at 6,000 km per hour. M: Are you serious? W: The journey from New York to London is about 5000kin, and it will take 54 minutes. M: How is this possible? W: Well, ordinary trains travel on rails, so they can only reach a speed of around 300km per hour, and they are also very noisy. Maglev trains don't use rails, so there's no noise. There's no pollution. The train would be fast, comfortable and quiet. The disadvantage is that the tracks should be specially built and they are very expensive indeed. M: And will the transatlantic tunnel be safe? W: Well, safety is the big problem. The ocean is very powerful, and the tunnel could be bent or cracked. Also a passing submarine or a drifting iceberg could hit the tunnel. 采访中Professor Massa告诉主持人一共有54,000个部件。 7、B Professor Massa介绍Maglev train没有车轮，不在轨道上行驶，因此选B项。 8、A Maglev train的想法来源于70多年前的一项德国发明。 9、A Maglev train不使用轨道，因此没有噪音。 10、C Professor Massa提到Maglev train的不好之处就在于海洋的巨大威力对海底隧道有很大的威 胁。 Conversation Two 11、B [解析] 11-15 W: You have no doubt heard of Doctors without Borders. Now Canadian engineers are launching their own international aid program to help developing nations. And joining us now : one of the cofounders, George Rotor. Good morning. M: Good morning. W: George, what is this thing? How did it get started? What was the inspiration? M: Well, I guess myself and the cofounder, Parker Mitchell, were fairly aware of some of the challenges in the developing woad as we were going through our bachelor's degrees and in school together. W: At which school? M: We were at the University of Waterloo. And that was really where the seed was planted for the organization. The idea was there. We understood that technology could have an effect on improving the quality of life of people living in the developing woad by attacking some of the basic livelihood challenges. W: For people who don't know what engineers necessarily do, just give us some of the ideas. M : Some of the ideas of the projects that we would be undertaking are allowing water to be purified, removing land mines, sanitation, and electricity. These are some of the things that we take for granted here in Canada or North America, but people in sub-Saharan Africa don't have many of these things. W: Who are the people that go overseas to undertake those projects? Are they young people? Are they still students? M: Right now what we have on the majority of our projects are students going overseas and working with existing nongovernmental organizations like Care Canada, who have been working in the developing world for twenty or thirty years. So there're a lot of experienced people there, at least in developing-world projects. And then often there're engineers on those projects who act as mentors. And our next-stage projects—and we have already begun this with the Light Up the World Project—are putting together groups of students going over there with professional engineers to implement some of technologies. W: And what do these people report back to you? What do they say? Is it rewarding? M: They love it. They come back with renewed interest, a renewed sense of vigor. And they come back and they tell us just how neat a group like Engineers without Borders is. W: So where do you go from here? You have had a couple of successful projects. You have a lot of interest. What do you do? What's your vision from this thing? M: Well, I like to think big and so do the people who are involved in the organization. Right now we have almost a thousand members across Canada, fourteen groups coast-to-coast right now. So we're growing. And we want to continue that growth then start to expand in the United States and in Britain and in Australia. W: And how do you find the funding? M: We have some great corporate citizens who stepped up and took the lead on this. Suncor Energy Foundation and Ontario Power Generation, for example, and a few other similar-type organizations have given us the seed funding to keep this going. What we need to do now is to start approaching individuals in the community who're willing to support this project, as well as other corporations and government funding for development relief. W: Well, nice seeing you. Good luck. M: Thanks a lot. 采访一开始提到了Doctors without Borders的一个创办者George Rotor，可知这位嘉宾是在 Doctors without Borders工作。 12、C George Rotor讲述了他和Parker Mitchell在上大学的时候开始有了这一构想。 13、B 两位创始人认为技术可以用来改善发展中国家人们的生活质量，于是他们创办了 Doctors without Borders这一组织。因此最开始他们的目的就是改善生活。 14、A 说到下一阶段的项目时，George Rotor说他们的目的是派遣专业工程师去改善一些以及落后的技 术。 15、B 最后George Rotor提到主要是Suncor Energy Foundation和Ontario Power Generation 为他们提供seed funding。 Section C 16、C [解析] European settlers known as the Pilgrims were celebrating their autumn harvest after a winter of struggle. Other colonists held earlier ceremonies of thanks. But the Pilgrims' three-day feast is often called the nation's first Thanksgiving. President Abraham Lincoln declared a national holiday in 1863 during the Civil War. 清教徒们历时三天的一个宴会被视为第一个感恩节，故选C项。 17、A [解析] The American Jobs Act calls for cutting wage taxes on most businesses. It seeks to prevent public employees like teachers, police and firefighters from losing their jobs to budget cutting measures. And it calls for more federal spending on roads and transportation infrastructure to help create jobs. 减低工资税的首要目的是保护public employees，使他们不丢掉工作。 18、A [解析] It's in the middle of a crisis because several countries in the European Union have massive debts. This problem affects a lot more nations than just the ones that are struggling with money. Seventeen countries all use the same currency, the euro. And if any of them take a big hit economically, all of them could be affected. 新闻最后提到由于欧盟17个国家使用同一种货币，因此只要有一个国家经济出现问题，所有其他国 家都会受到影响。 19、B [解析] A BBC investigation has found that many child beggars active on the streets of London come from Romania's Gypsy community and each can earn hundreds of dollars a day for their minders. The Gypsies, also known as Roma, are Europe's largest ethnic minority and the poorest, but the BBC found many who manage the beggars to be owners of large houses and luxury cars. 新闻第二句话提到每一个儿童乞丐一天可以乞讨到hundreds of dollars。 20、C [解析] Spain's top footballers have called off their strike and will be back in action on Saturday after resolving a pay dispute in marathon negotiations overnight. The row forced the postponement of the opening games in Spain's top two divisions last weekend. 文中讲到西班牙球员因为付款争议而使得比赛延期。 Section D 21、recycling industry [解析] 21-30 Millions of television sets and old computer monitors taken to civic amenity sites as rubbish are being collected and shipped to Africa and Asia, an illegal trade worth ,7, 000, 000 a year, according to an unpublished report by the Environment Agency and the recycling industry. The business carried out by totters—people who sift through rubbish for saleable objects—became illegal on the 1st of January 2002 under European Union legislation designed to prevent toxic waste material being shipped to developing countries. Electrical equipment containing leaded glass, particularly computers and televisions, were reclassified as toxic waste. The agency is alarmed that half a million televisions and a similar number of computer monitors which people thought were being disposed of in England are being re-used or dumped in the developing world. The agency is finding the trade hard to control but is planning to publish guidance to the industry soon. Environment groups point out that this action will not be sufficient to stop an illegal business. Claire Wilton of Friends of the Earth said, "The agency has known about this situation for two years but has still failed to act. The companies involved in this illegal trade must be prevented from dumping Britain's toxic waste on developing countries, where workers' conditions rarely match those expected in Europe. " Action must be taken now to stop this environmental injustice continuing. The Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling estimates that 11, 000 tons of old TV sets, about 500,000 in total, and a similar number of old computer monitors find their way to developing countries each year. Many are cannibalized for spare parts but some are repaired and sold to people who would not otherwise have a television or computer. The Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling defends its members who buy computers and other office equipment from industry and ship them abroad, because under EU rules the business is legal if they are working models and intended to be sold on the second-hand market. The problem arises when equipment is thrown away. The law says if it is discarded, even if it may be working, it must be classed as rubbish and cannot be resold to a developing country because it is technically toxic waste.22、designed to 23、containing 24、disposed of 25、sufficient 26、failed to 27、injustice 28、in total 29、otherwise 30、discarded Part ? Vocabulary and Structure 31、B 句意:总统关于教育的演讲出现了口误，致使公众对教育政策产生疑惑。a slip of the tongue为固定词组，意为“口误，说漏了嘴”。 32、D 句意:在大多数的语言中，fight这个单词经常和“正确”联系在一起，反之和left相关的词则经常表示负面意义。connect with联系;连接。associate with联合;与…联系在一起，两个词一般都和with连用。 33、C 句意:四月份油价上涨4%，虽然涨幅很大但已是从一月份以来涨的最少的了。steep陡的;急剧升降的。mighty有力的;有势力的。severe严峻的;剧烈的。massive大量的;巨大的，厚重的。价格上涨用steep更加形象。 34、A 句意:说实话看似简单，但是毫无疑问，没有任何事比说谎更简单。该题考察so… as…的用法。句式为so+ad+as+比较对象。通常前面可以加just，almost，quite等副词以及half，twice等数词来修饰。因此本题选A。 35、A 句意:一直到现在为止，左撇子仍被视为不正常。up until一直到…为止。unless，down不与until搭配。not until直到…才，一般分开使用。如:Tom did not come until 3 o'clock( 36、C 句意:对你所遭受的损失非常抱歉，但是你的房子如果投了火险，你还是能获得一些补偿的。assure保证，担保;使确信。ensure保证，确保;使安全。insure确保，保证;投保;给保险。pledge保证，誓言;抵押，抵押品。insure against给…投保险以防。根据第一句话可知和损失有关，进而得知与保险有关，因此选C项。 37、B 句意:当遇到倾盆大雨而且既没带伞也没有雨衣的时候，大多数人会加快步伐。从句中省略了主语和谓语，be caught in遇到，陷入;淋雨。sink in渗入;完全被理解。 plunge in头朝下跳入水中;陷入;积极参加;用力把…刺入。 38、C 句意:1993年，为感谢V(s(奈波尔在文学方面做出的终身贡献而授予他英国戴维一柯翰文学奖。in recognition of承认…而;为酬谢。identification鉴定;认同;身份证明。acquaintance熟人;了解，知道。perspective观点;远景。A、B、D项不符合句意。 39、B 句意:许多语言学家声称人类高度进化的大脑为人类提供了与生俱来的的语言能力，而这种能力在低等生物中是不存在的。suggest提议，建议。claim声称，断言。 promise允诺，许诺。convince说服;使确信。语言学家不用建议，允诺或说服，他们只是声称，表述一下他们的观点，因此选B。 40、D 句意:我的处境稍稍有些尴尬，因为他迟到了三个小时，12点才到。tight紧的;亲密的。weird怪异的;不可思议的。awesome可怕的。awkward尴尬的( 41、D 句意:她也许不够机智，但是你不应该说她忘恩负义。本题考察倒装句。本题中句子既是倒装句也是转折句，but两边的句子结构应该一致。 42、B 句意:火车事故中有30人丧生，其中多数为儿童。A、C、D项填入缺谓语。Most of them children是独立成分，在句中解释补充主语。 43、C 句意:他承认他的团队尊敬他，因为他很负责任。look up to尊敬。look forward to期盼，后加v-ing的形式。look down on看不起，轻视，与后面的动词不定式短语矛盾。look on观看，旁观;看待，与题意不符。 44、B 句意:——你知道学生们在抗议学费增长的事了吗?——我已经听说了，但是我不认为这会有什么好结果。通过but，可知说话人语气是不赞同抗议的，因此选择B选项。 45、D 句意:——我听说你现在是一个记者了，保罗。一定很刺激吧。——大多时候精彩纷呈。但是跟其它工作一样也有它的不好之处。It's a buzz时髦。It's boring无聊。 It's a piece of cake简单，容易。It has drawbacks有缺点。but是关键词，可以看出语气的转折。 Part ? Cloze 46、Joneses (reference anxiety是一个术语，基准焦虑，又被称为“跟上你的邻居”。keeping up with the Joneses是一个典型的美式习语，表示“和你的富裕邻居保持同等的生活方式或质量”，这其实是一句讽刺的话，指“和左邻右舍比排场比阔气”。根据首字母提示可得答案joneses。) 47、Instead (从文中第二句可知，不问他们自己的房子是否满足需求，相反问他们的房子有没有邻居的好。) 48、around (around the corner是在拐角处，本句是说邻居们的房子或是比自己的房间多，或是正在推倒了建更高的房子，这里是指地点。) 49、providing (stop doing sth(停止做某事。本句意思是你花在房子上的钱不再让你有幸福感。) 50、distribution (这里需要用名词，所以用distribution。) 51、majority (这里缺主语，词意为多数人，因此用majority。) 52、reference (本文主要介绍reference anxiety基准焦虑，这里是说小城或郊区的基准焦虑低。) 53、decades (这里需要时间的词，因此用decades。) 54、about (这里需要一个约数词，根据首字母得出about。) 55、high (句意为在收入公平程度较高的国家，例如斯堪的纳维亚国家，生活水平要高于财富分配不均的国家例如美国。high levels of水平，程度高。) Part ? Reading Comprehension Section A 56、retarding/delaying/slowing(down) (文章第一段第一句提到retarding aging，第三句是说在苍蝇身上取得的成功，故该空应填与延缓衰老有关的词。) 57、accelerate (该空内容与第一段倒数第二句意思相同，科学家已经确定了可以加快人类衰老的基因，故填accelerate。) 58、restriction (第二段第一句提到有一种方法可以延缓衰老，那就是caloric restriction。) 59、modulate (根据第三段第一句后半句…learn how to modulate the human aging process可知这里 缺 modulate。) 60、consequences (第三段最后一句提问，延长人类寿命或是找到治疗衰老的方法的结果会是什么呢? 因此填 consequences。) Section B 61、True (根据第二段可知该句正确。) 62、False (据第四段可知不是所有人都喜欢在假期睡到中午，因此该句错误。) 63、False (根据最后一段可知不必总是和伙伴待在一起，因此该句错误。) 64、To know their coping strategies/To know a little about how their companion deals with difficult situations( (由第五段可知people ask their travel companion about his/her best and worst trips的目的是 knowing a little about how your companion deals with difficulty situations。) 65、Writing in journals( (倒数第二段最后一句writing in journals can be a way to…可知这里应填writing in journals。) Section C 66、paralyzed inability (文章第二段第一句she did not hear…，with a paralyzed inability…。) 67、exhaustion (文章第三段第二句pressed down by a physical exhaustion…。) 68、suspension (文章第五段中it was not a glance of reflection，but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought。) 69、C 根据文章第二段she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms( When the storm of grief had passed she went away to her room alone(She refused to have anyone follow her(可知她先哭了一阵，然后自已回到房间，不让人打扰。 70、A 根据文章最后一段，她虽然很悲伤，但是以后的时间都只属于她一个人，她会伸开双手去迎接它们。 另外从第八段free，free，free中也可看出她有一种解放了的感觉， 因此答案为A。 Section D 71、No other biped can actually cover more than a tiny fraction of the walking distance that can be sustained by humans( (根据文章第一段内容可知不是所有的两足动物都能像人一样。答案为最后一句。) 72、It is equipped to support and balance an erect body and to produce the leverage necessary to propel the body forward in locomotion( (根据文章第三段第一句，本句承上启下，解释人类脚的独特构造及原因。) 73、It has undergone enormous design changes in cohering its 28 bones, 37 joints and 107 ligaments, and 32 muscles and tendons to adapt to the body weight and numerous torsions( (根据文章第四段内容，人类的脚经过了长期的进化来适应人类的身体，最终达到能够支持身体重量， 活动时的受力等等。) 74、这些不同部分构成的错综复杂的网络，不仅需要支持和平衡沉重的身躯，还需要保证每天几百 或几千次的动作。 (not only…but(also) 仅…而且。intricate错综复杂的。multiple多种多样的。) 75、事实上，直到约40万年前，早期的人类才完全直立行走，完成了人类步态的进化。 (not…until的强调句型，直到…才。直到40万年前早期人类才完全直立行走。fully理解为完全。) Part ? Translation 76、It is suggested that primary and middle school students should be offered free access to all museums in China, which gives them more opportunities to gain a wide range of knowledge( (将”有人建议”转化为it is suggested that句型。access to通向…的入口，在这里指进入。) 77、The school authorities did not punish people who violated the discipline, nor did they make any explanation(of this violation)to other students and teachers( (本句要求倒装，既没有…也没有…，可以用…nor…，nor是否定词，倒装时提到句子最前面，同时助 动词提前，属于部分倒装。)78、They failed to take into account the factor of increasing prices when setting up the budget, which resulted in the current tight funds( (fail to do sth(干某事失败;take…into account考虑;set up the budget制定 预算。) 79、People are deprived of both passion for life and hope for future due to years of war( (be deprived of被剥夺;due to由于，因为。) 80、What impressed me the most in the team training is the courage, perseverance and sacrifice of the team members( (what impressed me the most in the team training做主语，构成主语从句。) Part ? Error correction 81、them改为which (该句为非限定性宾语从句。) 82、in改为of (consist of包括，由…组成。) 83、storey改为storeys (这里应用复数。)84、去掉第二个of 85、series前面加a (a series of一系列的，多的。) 86、include改为including (在这里用在介词，表示包括…在内。) 87、situating改为situated (be situated坐落于…。) 88、where改为which (本句为定语从句而不是状语从句。)89、 90、make改为made (and连接的两个动词是并列关系，都应该用被动。) Part ? IQ Test 91、The skunk( (Because the duck had a bill, the frog had greenback, and the skunk had a scent(cent)。 bill，有“鸟嘴，喙”之意，鸭子有喙。greenback，绿背动物，同时有“美钞” 之意。) 92、For instance( (图中英文为stance，一共六个字母，4在中间即4 in stance，且4的英文发音为//， 和for 发音一样，因此该词组为for instance。) 93、Silence( (silence是安静的意思，当说这个单词的时候，就不再安静了。) 94、 (第一个图是向左一个箭头，一条底线，第二个图是向上一个箭头，两条底线，第三个图是向右一个 箭头，三条底线，那么第四个图应该是向下一个箭头，四条底线，因此选C。) 95、7638 (这是一个四位数，第二个是第三个的两倍，有四种可能，2，1;4，2;6，3;8，4;然后设第四 个数为a，第一个数为b，那么先假设第二第三位数为2，1，则a=12*2=24,9，不符合，同理4，2 也不符合，如果是6，3，则3a=12*2=24，a=8(8+6+ 3+b=8*3=24，b=7，则这个四位数为7638， 如果是8，4，则4a=12*2=24(a=6，6+8+4+b=6*3=18，b=0,1，不符合，所以，答案为7638。) Part ? Writing ? 96、This is a chart that reflects the change in world of work in the U. K. The number of males and females working in both services and manufacturing changed from 1978 to 2000. From 1978 to 1984, the number of people working in service, about 8 millions, almost did not change. However, males who work in manufacturing decreased from 5 millions to fewer than 4 millions. From 1984 to 2000, more and more people chose service as their jobs and females accounted for a larger part. Females who worked in the service increased up to nearly 12 millions and males also grew up to 10 millions. On the contrary, in manufacturing industry, the number of females and males both decreased by nearly 50%. So, generally speaking, the service industry is more attractive to people, especially females. ? 97、 Method for College Students to Cover Tuition Fees and Other Living Costs In China, college students should pay for the tuition fees themselves. However, most students have no jobs and the most common way to cover tuition fees is to turn to parents for help. There are also some students who find jobs in the summer before they go to college. In my opinion, the best way is to find part-time jobs. On the one hand, they are in school all the time, from primary school to high school. They never get in touch with society and need social experience. So, during college time, they can take the opportunity of doing part-time jobs to accelerate experience. On the other hand, college students can earn money to support themselves. Some students are able to earn their tuition fees and some may not. Even though the money they earn is not enough for the tuition fees, it can cover their living costs. All in all, part-time job not only can add social experience but also can support college students their everyday life and even tuition fees. It is the best way for them because they can benefit much from it.