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Part I Listening Comprehension ( 28 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear several conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer.
1.
A) A diet.
B) A coke and cheesecake.
C) A diet coke and a slice of cheesecake.
D) A diet coke and a slice of cheese.
Script: Woman: Room service. What would you like to order?
Man: Hi, I’m in room 1201 and I’d like an order of a diet Coke and a slice of cheesecake.
Question: What does the man order?
正确答案： C
2.
A) He believed that he could find good jobs with them.
B) He doubted the usefulness of these ads.
C) He would like to have a try.
D) He wanted to be creative.
Script: Woman: Do you want these want ads after I’m finished with them?
Man: No, I’m not going to find my dream job in the classified ads. I’m going to have to get more creative with my job search.
Question: How did the man feel about the classified ads?
正确答案： B
3.
A) She cannot afford the airfare.
B) She is sick.
C) She is homesick.
D) She does not have any holiday.
Script: Man: Why the long face?
Woman: It’s just that the holidays are coming up and I won’t be able to go home because I can’t afford the airfare. I’m just longing for some of the comforts of home, like my mom’s cooking and being around my family.
Question: Why is the woman not happy?
正确答案： A
4.
A) 3:00 pm on Tuesday.
B) 2:00 pm on Thursday.
C) 3:00 pm on next Tuesday.
D) 3:00 pm on next Thursday.
Script: Man: Hi, Maria, is the lecture on Antarctica Exploration at three o’clock on Tuesday?
Woman: Well, it is changed to next Thursday because the professor is on a conference.
Question: When will the lecture be?
正确答案： D
5.
A) Travel agency and customer.
B) Real estate agent and a landlord.
C) House renting agency and customer.
D) Landlady and potential tenant.
Script: Woman: What sort of tenants are you looking for? Students, you said? Man: That’s right. But it’s quite a way from the university, I guess they’d need a car.
Question: What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?
正确答案： B
Questions 6 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Script: Lucy: I'm so excited! My friend, Marlene, is coming to town for a visit. Buddy: Have I met Marlene?
Lucy: No, I don't think so. We grew up together and we were always joined at the hip.
Buddy: When I was little, I had a friend like that. We were blood brothers. Lucy: Yeah, Marlene and I did everything together and I shared all of my secrets with her.
Buddy: She sounds like a great friend.
Lucy: Yeah, she always had my back and I could always count on her to be frank
with me.
Buddy: A friend like that is hard to come by. Are you still close?
Lucy: Not as close as I'd like. We live in different cities and it's hard to keep up with what's happening in each other's lives.
Buddy: I can see that. Does she know you're getting married?
Lucy: No, I wanted to break the news to her face-to-face.
Buddy: Why? I would have thought you'd want to tell her the good news right away. Lucy: Well, I want her to be my maid of honor and I'm not sure how she'll react to the dress she'll have to wear.
Buddy: Is it that bad?
Lucy: My future mother-in-law picked it out and I can't say "no." Here's a picture of it.
Buddy: Well, I'm glad she's such a good friend, because if anything can break up a friendship, it's that dress.
6.
A) Sisters-in–law.
B) Blood brothers.
C) Good friends.
D) Sisters.
Script: What is the relationship between the woman and Marlene?
正确答案： C
7.
A) Because of some misunderstanding.
B) Because of the wedding dress.
C) Because of the bride maid dress.
D) Because they lived in different cities.
Script: Why are the two girls not as close as before?
正确答案： D
8.
A) It is pretty.
B) It breaks the friendship.
C) It is for the bride.
D) It may be old-fashioned and not attractive.
Script: What can be inferred from the conversation about the dress?
正确答案： D
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Script: Kevin: Hello.
Amy: Hi, could I speak to Kevin?
Kevin: This is Kevin.
Amy: Oh, hi, it’s Amy from work.
Kevin: Oh, hey, how’s it going? I didn’t recognize your voice.
Amy: Not bad. Listen, the reason I’m calling is that I’m having a dinner party a week from Saturday at my place around 7:30. I wanted to see if you could make it. Kevin: So it’s not this Saturday but the Saturday after that. That would be the 17th.
Amy: Yeah, that’s right, the following Saturday, the 17th.
Kevin: Let me just check my calendar. Yeah, I think I can make it. Are you inviting anyone else from work?
Amy: Yeah, I am. Jennifer from marketing will be there for sure and I’m waiting to hear back from James in accounting. I’ve also invited a few other friends. Kevin: Just out of curiosity, are they in finance, too?
Amy: No. My friend Janis is in the medical field. She’s a surgeon. She’s bringing her boyfriend, Tim, and I think he’s an engineer in the automobile industry. Then, there’s Megan. She works part-time in retail and as a tour guide on the weekends. She’s been wanting to get into the hospitality industry for a long time.
Kevin: Wow, that sounds like a great group of people. I’m looking forward to it. Can I bring anything?
Amy: No, that’s okay. Just come and bring your appetite.
Kevin: Sounds great. Thanks for the invitation.
Amy: No problem. I’m glad you can make it. See you in the office tomorrow. Kevin: See you then. Bye.
9.
A) This Saturday around 6:30.
B) Next Saturday around 7:30.
C) This Saturday around 7:30.
D) Next Saturday around 6:30.
Script: When will the dinner party be held?
正确答案： B
10.
A) All in the field of finance.
B) Automobile industry.
C) Accounting.
D) Different fields.
Script: What fields are these friends working in?
正确答案： D
11.
A) Some friends.
B) Some drinks.
C) Nothing.
D) Her invitation.
Script: What does Amy ask Kevin to bring to the party?
正确答案： C
Section B
Direstions：Listen to three short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. All the recordings will be played once only. After you hear a question, please choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Passage One
Questions 12 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Script: This is turning out to be a month for seeing old friends. I got an email a couple of weeks ago from an old friend from graduate school. She and her family are visiting L.A. for a week. They plan to see family and to visit old friends. Since she moved out of the country, I hadn’t seen her in ages. I’m looking forward to meeting her new kids and seeing her again.
Another old friend called this week. She and I were good friends in our undergraduate days. She plans to drop by L.A. on her way to San Francisco. We’ve made plans to have lunch. She works in Washington D.C. as a political advisor and is usually very busy. I’m glad she could make time for us to get together. When we say good-bye to our friends, we always hope to keep in touch. But, what with this and that, it’s sometimes hard to do. With friends that I’ve fallen out of touch with, it’s sometimes hard to meet up again and pick up where we left off. We’ve both moved on to a different phase in our lives. Some of my old friends have become very successful, living exciting and rich lives. Other friends are struggling along and are just making ends meet. But, no matter how they’re doing, it’s always nice to make contact with old friends again.
I’m really looking forward to seeing these old pals of mine and catching up after all this time.
12.
A) A couple of weeks.
B) A week.
C) Three weeks.
D) Four weeks.
Script: How long will the old friend from graduate school stay in L.A?
正确答案： B
13.
A) She worked as a business woman.
B) She was a housewife.
C) She worked as a political advisor.
D) She was a graduate school teacher.
Script: What was the friend’s job?
正确答案： C
14.
A) She did not keep in touch with her friends.
B) She missed graduate school days.
C) She was not good at keeping in touch with old friends but she missed them.
D) She admired those who were successful.
Script: What can be inferred about the speaker?
正确答案： C
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Script: A bunch of my old college friends came into town for a few days and we went out last night bar hopping until closing time. We started around 9 pm and were on our third bar when we closed it down. Some of us were starving and the rest of us were slightly hungry so we decided to get a late-night snack. We didn’t want fast food so we decided to try to find a 24-hour diner.
We passed on a chain restaurant and went instead to a bar near downtown. The six of us went in and we sat at the counter. Since the place was dead, we had it to ourselves. One of my friends, Paul, got pretty noisy and the waitress had to tell him to chill out. He was pretty hammered so we had to keep an eye on him. He didn’t usually drink much, but he was depressed about a fight he had had with his girlfriend and decided to get drunk. I felt sorry for the guy, especially since I knew that he would have a terrible feeling in the morning. I tried to get him to drink some coffee, but he just wanted to stay drunk.
After we left the diner, I dropped everybody off at Paul ??s, since I was the chosen driver. They were all crashing at his place. I made my way home and fell into bed. It was good to see my old friends. But I’m definitely getting too old to party like we did in college. As the old saying goes: The mind is willing, but the body is weak.
15.
A) 9:00 pm last night.
B) 19:00 yesterday.
C) A few days ago.
D) 24 hours.
Script: When did the night bar hopping start?
正确答案： A
16.
A) A fast food chain store.
B) A snack bar.
C) A pub.
D) A chain restaurant.
Script: Where did the bunch of friends go after they had made the decision?
正确答案： D
17.
A) He was too happy with the old-time friends.
B) He was a lightweight.
C) He had a fight with his girlfriend before and was in a bad mood.
D) He didn’t drink coffee.
Script: Why did Paul get drunk?
正确答案： C
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Script: When I got home from work, I opened my mail. The letter turned out to be a surprise. I held in my hand an invitation to my 10-year high school reunion. It was a shock because I couldn’t believe it had been 10 years. The first thing I did was to call my oldest and dearest friend, Maria. We had gone to high school together and we had been best friends.
Maria said that she had received her invitation in the mail, too. I told her that I was leaning against going. After all, why live in the past? I thought. But, Maria convinced me that it would be a trip to see some of our old friends and to find out what had become of them. At the very least, we would get a chance to see each other and to talk about old times.
And, Maria said, Jeff McQuillan might be there. Ah, Jeff McQuillan. He was a senior when I was a sophomore, and I had a big crush on him. I thought he was so cute and he was smart, too. He was at the top of his class. He wasn’t the class clown, but he had a great sense of humor and was voted most likely to succeed. He
never gave me a second look, but I always made sure I sat next to him in class. I wonder what he’s doing now and whether he’ll be there. Hmm, maybe this reunion will be more fun than I thought.
18.
A) It was incredible that ten years have already passed.
B) It turned out to be a bombshell.
C) It was given from the oldest and dearest friends.
D) It was from high school.
Script: Why was the school reunion invitation a shock to the narrator?
正确答案： A
19.
A) She thought it is great to go.
B) She invited Maria to go with her.
C) She did not want to go.
D) She wanted to meet Jeff.
Script: What was the narrator’s first reaction to the invitation?
正确答案： C
20.
A) He did not rank top in the class.
B) He had a good sense of humor.
C) He was the class clown.
D) He was quite successful.
Script: What was Jeff like?
正确答案： B
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
I often come across desert island questions, asking if we were trapped on a (21)_________________ island, that is uninhabited with no people, other than me, what would we want to bring along? It’s not too difficult to select our favorite
books or movies to (22)_________________ us to our lonely new home, I think.
But what if you were stranded on a desert island and given the chance to have one (23)_________________ , someone to keep you company? This person cannot be a (24)_________________ or even someone you know personally, such as your
(25)_________________ , boyfriend / girlfriend, or best friend. It must be a
(26)_________________ figure or a character from books, movies, or TV shows.
Of course, those of you who are practical-minded may immediately think of someone like MacGyver, or someone else who is extremely (27)_________________ , to help you on the island. This person would certainly be helpful, so let’s (28)_________________ he’s already on the island with you.
The question is: If you were picking someone else to be on your desert island, who would you pick? You might be (29)_________________ to know that when I asked Jeff, my husband, this question, first he said he might pick someone like Socrates or Albert Einstein. And then, he thought for a minute and asked me, “Is my wife dead?” So we know where his mind was going … and of course, we don’t blame him! I’m still trying to decide. I think I would pick someone who is a great (30)_________________ to help me pass the time. Who would you pick and why?
Script: I often come across desert island questions, asking if we were trapped on a deserted island, that is uninhabited with no people, other than me, what would we want to bring along? It’s not too difficult to select our favorite books or movies to accompany us to our lonely new home, I think.
But what if you were stranded on a desert island and given the chance to have one companion, someone to keep you company? This person cannot be a relative or even someone you know personally, such as your spouse, boyfriend / girlfriend, or best friend. It must be a historical figure or a character from books, movies, or TV shows.
Of course, those of you who are practical-minded may immediately think of someone like MacGyver, or someone else who is extremely resourceful, to help you on the island. This person would certainly be helpful, so let’s assume he’s already on the island with you.
The question is: If you were picking someone else to be on your desert island, who would you pick? You might be interested to know that when I asked Jeff, my husband, this question, first he said he might pick someone like Socrates or Albert Einstein. And then, he thought for a minute and asked me, “Is my wife dead?” So we know where his mind was going … and of course, we don’t blame him! I’m still trying to decide. I think I would pick someone who is a great storyteller to help me pass the time. Who would you pick and why?
正确答案： deserted
正确答案： accompany
正确答案： companion
正确答案： relative
正确答案： spouse
正确答案： historical
正确答案： resourceful
正确答案： assume
正确答案： interested
正确答案： storyteller
Part II Oral Tasks ( 2 minutes )
Section A
Interpret the following Chinese passage into English. You can either interpret it sentence by sentence or give out the main points in your own words. You will have two minutes for preparation and three minutes for interpretation.
31. 尽管人类肤色不同、语言不同、种族不同，但我们共同分享奥林匹克的魅力与欢乐，共同追求着人类和平的理想。我们同属一个世界，我们拥有同样的希望和梦想。
思考/准备
Section B
Read the following description of Facebook. What do you think about the online friendship or relationship? Is it possible that in the future friends are only seen on the screen of computers but not in life? Give your comments and idea on this phenomenon. You will have two minutes for preparation and three minutes for presentation.
32. Facebook, the world's largest social network connecting people online, provides additional evidence in support of Dunbar's Number. Dunbar himself found that the average number of friends people have on Facebook is 120 to 130, which is about right when you consider that some in our social network (babies, for example) may not yet be on Facebook (we hope!). Of course, there are people who have 5,000
"friends", but these are not actually people they have any real friendship or emotional closeness to.
思考/准备