第1部分：词汇选项(第1~15题，每题1分，共15分)
下面每个句子中均有1个词或者短语有括号，请为每处括号部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。
1. All the walls in the building had the same layout.
A. size
B. function
C. color
D. arrangment
答案：D
2. The storm caused severe damage.
A. physical
B. accidental
C. serious
D. enviromental
答案：C
3. The walls are made of hollow concret blocks.
A. big
B. empty
C. long
D. new
答案：B
4. Our aim was to update the health service and we succeeded.
A. offer
B. provide
C. modernize
D. fund
答案：C
5. Do we have to wear these name tags?
A. lists
B. forms
C. lables
D. codes
答案：C
6. Joe came to the window as the crowd chanted”Joe,Joe,Joe”
A. repeated
B. jumped
C. maintained
D. approached
答案：A
7. He inspired many young people to take up sports.
A. encouraged
B. allowed
C. called
D. advised
答案：A
8. The city center was wiped out by the bomb.
A. covered
B. reduced
C. destroyed
D. moved
答案：C
9. Most baby can take in a wide range of food easily.
A. bring
B. digest
C. keep
D. serve
答案：B
10. A larg crowd assembled outside the American embassy.
A. watched
B. shouted
C. gathered
D. walked
答案：C
11. The weather was crisp and clear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away.
A. fresh
B. hot
C. heavy
D. windy
答案：A
12. What puzzles me is why his books are so popular.
A. shocks
B. influences
C. confuses
D. concerns
答案：C
13. I think $7 a drink is a bit steep, don’t you?
A. tight
B. low
C. cheap
D. high
答案：D
14. The contempt he felt for his fellow students was obvious.
A. need
B. hate
C. love
D. pity
答案：D
15. Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.
A. slightly
B. partly
C. faintly
D. completely
答案：D
第2部分：阅读判断(第16~22题，每题1分，共7分)
下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断;如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。
Brotherly Love
Adidas and Puma have been two of the biggest names in sports shoe m anufacturing for over half a century.
Since 1928 they have supplied shoes for Olympic athletes, World Cup-wi nning football heroes, Muhammad Ali, hip hop stars and rock musicians famo us all over the world. But the story of these two companies begins in one h ouse in the town of Herzogenaurach, Germany.
Adolph and Rudolph Dassler were the sons of a shoemaker. They loved sport but complained that they could never find comfortable shoes to play in. Rudolph always said, 'You cannot play sports wearing shoes that you'd walk around town with.' So they started making their own. In 1920 Adolph made the first pair of athletics shoes with spikes（钉），produced on the Dasslers ' kitchen table.
On lst July 1924 they formed a shoe company, Dassler Brothers Ltd and they worked together for many years. The company became successful and it provided the shoes for Germany's athletes at the 1928 and 1932 Olympic Games.
But in 1948 the brothers argued. No one knows exactly what happened, but family members have suggested that the argument was about money or women. The result was that Adolph left the company. His nickname was Ad i, and using this and the first three letters of the family name, Dassler, he f ounded Adidas.
Rudolph relocated across the River Aurach and founded his own compan y too. At first he wanted to call it Ruda, but eventually he called it Puma, a fter the wild cat. The famous Puma logo of the jumping cat has hardly chan ged since.
After the big split of 1948 Adolph and Rudolph never spoke to each oth er again and their companies have now been in competition for over sixty y ears. Both companies were for many years the market leaders, though Adida s has always been more successful than Puma. A hip hop group, Run DMC, has even written a song called "My Adidas" and in 2005 Adidas bought Reeb ok, another big sports shoe company.
The terrible family argument should really be forgotten, but ever since it happened, over sixty years ago, the town has been split into two. Even no w, some Adidas employees and Puma employees don't talk to each other.
16. Adidas and puma began to make shoes at the end of 19th century.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
【答案】：B
17. The brothers’ father was a ball maker.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
【答案】：B
18. The brothers make shoes at home.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
【答案】：A
19. The brothers argued about the shoes.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
【答案】：B
20. The brothers decided to start their separate companies after argume nt.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
【答案】：A
21. Nike makes more shoes than Adidas.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
【答案】：C
22. People in town have forgotten their argument.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mention
【答案】：B
第3部分：概括大意和完成句子(第23~30题，每题1分，共8分)
下面的短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项中为指定段落每段选择1个小标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定一个最佳选项。
How technology pushes down price
1Prices have fallen in the food business because of advances in food production and distribution technology. Consumers have benefited greatly fro m those advances. People who predicted that the world would run out of fo od were wrong. We are producing more and more food with less and less c apital. Food is therefore more plentiful and cheaper than it has ever been. S pending on food compared with other goods has fallen for many years, and continues to drop.
2Supermarkets have helped push down prices mainly because of their scale. Like any big business, they can invest in IT systems that make them e fficient. And their size allows them to buy in bulk. As supermarkets get bigg er, the prices get lower.
3Huge retail companies such as Wal-Mart have tremendous power and they can put pressure on producers to cut their margins. As a result, some producers have had to make cuts. In recent years, Unilever has cut its work force by 33,000 t0 245,000 and dropped lots of its minor brands as part of its "path to growth" strategy. Cadbury has shut nearly 20 per cent of its 133
factories and cut 10 per cent of its 55,000 global workforce. These cuts hel p keep costs down, and the price of food stays low.
4Does cheap food make people unhealthy? Cheap food may encourage people to eat more. Food companies certainly think that giving people more food for their money makes them buy more. Giving people bigger portions i s an easy way of making them feel they have got a better deal. That is wh y portions have got larger and larger. In America, soft drinks came in 80z (2 25g) cans in the past, then 120z (350g), and now come in 200z (550g) cans. 1f a company can sell you an 80z portion for $7, they can sell you a 120z portion for $8. The only extra cost to the company is the food, which proba bly costs 25 cents.
5Now companies are under pressure to stop selling bigger portions for less money. But it is hard to change the trend.
Paragraph 1______
Paragraph 2______
Paragraph 3______
Paragraph 4______
A.Huge retailers force producers to cunt costs
B.Consumers like supermarkets
C.Technology helps reduce food prices
D.Food comes cheaper in larger portions
E.Chain stores provide better service
F.Bigger supermarkets offer lower prices
27. Big supermarkets can offer food at lower prices because they can b uy in___
28. Some food producers have reduced___
29. Besides cutting its workforce, Unilever also abandoned its___
30. Buyers like bigger portion because they think they have got___
A.their workforce
B.huge portions
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D.their money
E. a good barging
F.minor brands
答案：
23．【博大考神答案】：C technology helps reduce food prices
24. 【博大考神答案】： F bigger supermarkets offer lower prices
25. 【博大考神答案】： A. Huge retailers force producers to cut costs
26．【博大考神答案】：D．food comes cheaper in larger portions
27. Big supermarkets can offer food at lower prices because they can b uy ___.
【博大考神答案】：C: in bulk = in large quantities
28. Some forced producers have reduced ___
【博大考神答案】：D：their money
29．Besides cutting its cost, Unilever also abandoned its ____
【博大考神答案】：F。minor brands
30．Buyers like big portions because they think they have got ___.
【博大考神答案】：E。a good bargain = a better deal
第4部分：阅读理解(第31~45题，每题3分，共45分)
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。
第一篇
Oseola McCarty
LATE ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON in September 1999, Oseola McCarty, an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden flame house where sh e had lived and worked most of her life. It may seem like an ordinary end to a humble life, but there was something quite exceptional about this wom an.
In the summer of 1995, McCarty gave $150,000, most of the money she had saved throughout her life, to the University of Southern Mississippi in h er hometown. The money was to help other African Americans through unive rsity. She had started her savings habit as a young child when she would ret urn from school to clean and iron for money which she would then save.
She led a simple, frugal existence, never spending on anything but her most basic needs. Her bank also advised her on investing her hard-earned sa vings.
When she retired, she decided that she wanted to use the money to gi ve children of limited means the opportunity to go to university. She had wa nted to become a nurse, but had to leave school to look after ill relatives a nd work. When asked why she had given her life savings away, she replied, "I'm giving it away so that children won't have to work so hard, like I did." After news of her donation hit the media, over 600 donations were made to the scholarship fund. One was given by media executive, Ted Turner, who r eputedly gave a billion dollars.
She didn't want any fuss made over her gift, but the news got out and she was invited all over the United States to talk to people. Wherever she went, people would come up to her to say a few words or to just touch he r. She met the ordinary and the famous, President Clinton included. In the la st few years of her life, before she died of cancer, McCarty was given over
300 awards：she was honoured by the United Nations and received the Presi dential Citizen's Medal. Despite having no real education, she found herself with two honorary doctorates：one from the University of Southern Mississipp i and the other from Harvard University. Her generosity was clearly an inspir ation to many and proof that true selflessness does exist.
Oseola Marcaty
31. This woman shocked and inspired the world because ______.
A. she had managed to save so much money
B. she gave her money to African Americans
C. she gave her life savings to help others through university
D. she only spent money on cheap things
【答案】：C
32. She managed to save so much money because ______.
A. she had ironed and washed clothes all her life
B. she had worked hard, saved hard and invested carefully
C. she had opened a good bank account
D. she knew how to make money
【答案】：B
33. She gave her money away because ______.
A. she wanted to help the university
B. she wanted others to have the chance to become nurses
C. she wanted others to have the opportunity to escape a hard life
D. she want to be remembered after her death
【答案】：C
34. When her generosity was made ______.
A. people donated billions
B. hundreds of students got scholarships
C. hundreds of people put money into the fund
D. she was sent to university
【答案】：C
35. Marcarty’s generosity indicates clearly that
A. scholarship funds are popular in US
B. Kind-hearted people deserves doctorates
C. Selflessness exists in human society
D. Poor people can donate as much as rich people
【答案】：C
36题—39题
From Ponzi to Madoff
The year was 1920. The country was the United States of America. The man's name was Charles Ponzi. Ponzi told people to stop depositing money i n a savings account. Instead, they should give it to him to save for them. P onzi promised to pay them more than the bank. For example, a savings acco unt might pay you $5 a year for every $100 you deposit. Ponzi, however, w ould pay you $40 a year for every $100 you gave him to hold. Many people thought this was a good plan. They began to give their money to Ponzi.
How could Ponzi make so much money for people? This is what he did with the money people gave him: He used some of that money to pay oth er people who gave him money. However, he also kept a lot of the money
for himself. Soon he had $250 million. This was a kind of theft, and it was against the law. The people who gave him their money didn't think anything was wrong. Ponzi paid them every month, just like a bank. Ponzi continued this way of working for two years. Then one day, he didn't have enough m oney to pay all the people. They discovered his crime, and he went to priso n for fraud.
Ninety years later, people began to hear about a businessman in New Y ork named Bernard Madoff. People said he gave good advice about money. They said when they gave him their money, he paid them a lot more than t he bank. Madoff helped hospitals, schools, and individuals earn money. Over a period of 40 years, people gave him $170 billion. However, no one investi gated what he did with the money. The people who gave Madoff their mon ey also didn't think anything was wrong because he paid them every month.
One day, Madoff didn't have enough money to pay all the people he ne eded to pay. That's when people discovered how Madoff worked: He was ta king money from some people to pay other people, just the way Charles Po nzi did. However, this time, instead of losing millions of dollars, people lost billions.
Madoff was accused of fraud, and United States government officials arr ested him. He didn't have to go on trial because he said he was guilty. In 2 009, a judge sentenced him t0 150 years in prison. Bernard Madoff's crime was even bigger than Ponzi's. It was the biggest fraud in history. The lesson of this story is clear: When something seems too good to be true, it probab ly is!
36. For every $100, Ponzi promised to pay people
A. $5 a year.
B. $20 a year.
C. $40 a year.
D. $100 a year.
【答案】：C
37. What did Ponzi do with the money people gave him?
A. He spent it all on things for himself.
B. He used some of it to pay other people.
C. He deposited it all in a bank.
D. He kept it all to save for a good plan.
【答案】：B
38. What was Ponzi's crime?
A. He robbed the banks of millions of dollars.
B. He gave people more than the bank did.
C. He kept a lot of other people's money for himself.
D. He did not pay people their interests.
【答案】：D
39. How long did Madoffs tricks last?
A. Forty years.
B. Four year.
C. Nine years.
D. Ninety years.
【答案】：A
40. Why didn't Madoff have to go on trial?
A. The officiais couldn't find any evidence against him.
B. He had friends in the government who helped him.
C. He admitted he was guilty.
D. He returned all the illegal money.
【答案】：C
第三篇
Gross National Happiness
In the last century，new technology improved the lives of many people in many countries. However，one country resisted these changes. High in th e Himalayan mountains of Asia，the kingdom of Bhutan remained separate. I ts people and Buddhist（佛教）culture had not been affected for almost a th ousand years. Bhutan，however，was a poor country. People died at a you ng age. Most of its people could not read，and they did not know much a bout the outside world. Then，in 1972，a new ruler named King Jigme Sin gye Wangchuck decided to help Bhutan to become modern，but without los ing its traditions.
King Wangchuck looked at other countries for ideas. He saw that most c ountries measured their progress by their Gross Natonal Product（GNP）。T he GNP measures products and money. When the number of products sold i ncreases，people say the country is making progress. King Wangchuck had a different idea for Bhutan. He wanted to measure his country’s progress by p eople’s happiness. If the people’s happiness increased，the king could say th at Bhutan was making progress. To decide if people were happier，he creat ed a measure called Gross National Happiness（GNH）。
GNH is based on certain principles that create happiness. People are hap pier if they have health care，education，and jobs. They are happier when they live in a healthy，protected environment. They are happier when they can keep their traditional culture and customs. Finally，people are happier w hen they have a good，stable government.
Now these is some evidence of increased GNH in Bhutan. People are he althier and are living longer. More people are educated and employed. Teent y-five percent of the land has become national parks，and the country has almost no pollution. The Bhutanese continue to wear their traditional clothing
and follow their ancient Buddhist customs. Bhutan has also become a demo cracy. In 2008，King Wangchuck gave his power to his son. Although the co untry still had a king，it held its first democratic elections that year. Bhutan had political parties and political candidates for the first time. Finally，Bhut an has connected to the rest of the world through television and internet.
Bhutan is a symbol for social progress. Many countries are now interested in Bhutan’s GNH. These countries are in vestigating their own ways to measur e happiness. They want to create new policies that take care of their people，cultures，and land.
Brazil may be the nest country to use the principles of GNH. Brazilian le aders see the principles of GNH as a source of inspiration. Brazil is a large c ountry with a diverse population. If happiness works as a measure of progress in Brazil，perhaps the rest of the world will follow.
41. Who was Jigme Singye Wangchuck?
A. A president.
B. A Buddhist priest.
C. A general.
D. A king.
42. Apart from modernizing Bhutan, what else did Wangchuck want to d o for Bhutan?
A. To make its population grow.
B. To keep it separate from the world.
C. To encourage its people to get rich.
D. To keep its tradition and customs.
43. A country shows its progress with GNP by
A. selling more products.
B. spending more money.
C. spending less money.
D. providing more jobs.
44. According to GNH, people are happier if they
A. have new technology.
B. can change their religion.
C. have a good, stable government.
D. have more money.
45. Today, many countries are
A. using the principles of GNH to measure their progress.
B. working together to develop a common scale to measure GNH.
C. taking both Bhutan and Brazil as symbols for social progress.
D. trying to find their own ways to measure happiness.
答案：
41．Who was Wangchuck?
【答案】：D. king
相关句（第一段）：…anew ruler called king Wangchuck…
42. Apart from modernization modernizing Bhuta, whatelse did Wangchuc k want to do for Bhuta?
【答案】：D. keep its traditions and customs.
相关句：Wangchuck decided to help Bhutan to become modern, but wit hout losing its traditions.
43. A country shows its progress with GNP by ___.
【答案】：A. selling more products
相关句：The GNP measures products and money. When the number of p roducts sold increases people say the country is making progress.
44. According to GNH, people are happier if they ___.
【答案】：C. have a good stable government
45. Today many countries are ___.
【答案】：D. trying to find their own ways to measure happiness.
相关句：Many countries are interested in Bhutan’s GNH. These count ries are investigating their own ways to measure happiness.
第5部分：补全短文(第46~50题，每题2分，共10分)
下面的短文有5处空白，短文后有6个句子，其中5个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章面貌。
Voice Your Opinion——Change is Needed in Youth Sports
Everywhere you look，you see kids bouncing a basketball or waving a t ennis racquet (网球拍)。And these kids are getting younger and younger. In some countries，children can compete on basketball，baseball，and volley ball teams starting at age nine. (46)And swimming and gymnastics classes be gin at age four，to prepare children for competition.
It’s true that a few of these kids will develop into highly skilled athletes and may even become members of the national Olympic teams. (47) This e mphasis on competition in sports is having serious negative effects.
Children who get involved in competitive sports at a young age often gr ow tired of their sport. Many parents pressure their kids to choose one spor t and devote all their time to it. (48) But 66 percent of the young athletes wanted to play more than one sport-for fun.
Another problem is the pressure imposed by over-competitive parents an d coaches. Children are not naturally competitive. In fact，a recent study by Paulo David found that most children don’t even understand the idea of com petition until they are seven years old. (49)
The third，and biggest，problem for young athletes is the lack of time to do their homework，have fun，be with friends—in short，time to be kids. When they are forced to spend every afternoon at sports practice，the y often start to hate their chosen sport. A searchers found that 70 percent of kids who take part in competitive sports before the of twelve quit before they turn eighteen. (50) Excessive competitive away all the enjoyment.
Need to remember the purpose of youth sports –to give kids a chance to have developing strong，healthy bodies.
46题答案：B
47题答案：E
48题答案：A
49题答案：F
50题答案：C
A. Survey found that 79 percent of parents of young athletes wanted th eir children to concentrate on one sports.
B. The young soccer organization has teams for children as young as fiv e.
C. Many of them completely lose interest in sports.
D. Sports for children have two important purposes.
E. But what about the others, the average kids?
F. Very young kids don't know why their parents are pushing them s
o hard?