考前冲刺模拟试卷(一)
Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension)
Section A
Directions:In this section, you’ll hear 5 short conversations and 2 passages. At the end of each conversation and passages, some questions will be asked about what was said. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must bed the four choices marked A, B, C, and D, and decided which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
Short Conversations
1. A. From her friend. B. From her teacher.
C. From her boss.
D. From her brother.
2. A. Attend a meeting.B. Hold a party.
C. Take an interview.
D. Meet a friend.
3. A. In the meeting room.B. In her office.
C. At home.
D. At the bank.
4. A. It’s very boring.B. That’s too busy.
C. He likes it very much.
D. He’s going to give it up.
5. A. An engineer.B. A doctor.
C. A salesman.
D. A secretary.
Passage One
6. A. To be dry with warm sunshine.B. To be warm and sunny.
C. To be cloudy with a little drizzle.
D. To be cooler.
7. A. Northern Ireland.B. Southern England.
C. Eastern England.
D. Scotland.
8. A. Bright and sunny.B. Humid with a little drizzle.
C. Brighter and showery.
D. Cooler and showery.
Passage Two
9. A. In 1905.B. In 2000.
C. In 1851.
D. In 1785.
10. A. They have passed many laws that isolate birds and animals.
B. They teach people how to protect themselves.
C. They learn the ways in which birds protect the environment.
D. They tell the young people about ways of environmental protection.
Section B
Directions:In this section, you’ll 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. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Scientists say that climate change and human activity have increasingly led to the melting of massive pieces of Antarctic ice. The 11 of ice will not only affect
wildlife. The 12 will also cause oceans and seas around the world to rise. This 13 a major threat, especially to 14 areas. For example, the ancient city of Venice has long been 15 by rising sea levels. The 16 is made worse by the fact that its ancient buildings, built on a body of water called a lagoon, are slowly 17 . When the city was founded about one thousand six hundred years ago, the level of the Adriatic Sea was almost two meters lower than it is today.
Rising sea levels are not the only threat. The salty water is also 18 Venice’s famous buildings and artworks. The 19 government is trying to fix the problem with the 20 of a seven billion dollar system of moving flood barriers.
Part Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (40 points)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Fourteen year old Richie Hawley had spent five years studying violin at the Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles when he took part in a violin contest. Ninety two young people were invited to the contest and Hawley came out first.
The contest could have been the perfect setup for fear, worrying about mistakes, and trying to impress the judges. But Hawley says he did pretty well in staying calm. “I couldn’t be thinking about how many mistakes I’d make—it would distract me from playing,” he says. “I didn’t even remember trying to impress people while I played. It’s almost as if they weren’t there. I just wanted to make music.”
Hawley is a winner. But he didn’t become a winner by concentrating on winning. He did it by concentrating on playing well.
“The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part,”said the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin. “The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”
New research shows that Coubertin’s philosophy is exactly the path achievers take to win at life’s challenging games.
A characteristic of high performers is their intense, pleasurable concentration on work, rather than on their competitors or future glory or money, says Dr. Charles Garfield, who has studied 1,500 achievers in business, science, sports, the arts, and professions. “They are interested in winning, but they’re most interested in self development, testing their limits.”
One of the most surprising things about top performers is how many losses they’ve had—and how much they’ve learned from each. “Not one of the 1,500 I studied defined losing as failing,”Garfield says. “They kept calling their losses ‘setbacks’.”
A healthy attitude toward setbacks is essential to winning, experts agree.
“The worst thing you can do if you’ve had a setback is to let yourself get stuck in a prolonged depression. You should analyze carefully what went wrong,
