D. The day that most of the people feel blue.12. A. Jobs make people get money and social identity.B. Jobs can only offer people a lot of money.C. Jobs make people be busy every day.D. Jobs let people know many other new friends.13. A. How American workers are doing today.B. The current economic situation.C. What people say about the government.D. Th e history of work in U.S.Section C (4%)Directions: In Section C, you will hear a longer conversation. The conversation will be read twice. After you hear the conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Blanks 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation.Relieve PressureHow is John He looks pale and __14__.The reason caused stress The manager assigned two __15__ to him.Present situation The deadlines are __16__.Solution Need someone to __17__to.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.II. Grammar and VocabularySection A (15%)Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use oneword that best fits each blank.AWhat’s the frightening situation you can think of? For many people, it’s being shut somewhere they (18)____ not get out of.That’s exactly (19)____happened to an American tourist who said, “it feels good to be free” after he was locked inside a London bookstore for two hours.David Willis had been using the Internet inside the Waterstones store in Trafalgar Square, London, UK （20）____ he found that he had been shut inside, according to Sky News.He tried （21）____(get) out but failed, and it was only after posting messages on Twitter, a social network, that he （22）____( release).After he had spoken to the police but still not been released, he posted: “Hi Waterstones, I（23）____(lock) inside of your Trafalgar Square bookstore for two hours now. Please let me out.”It got the attention of thousands of Internet users. The police arrived at（24）____ store, and they finally let him out just after 11 pm on Thursday.After he was released, he posted another,（25）____(simple) message: “I’m free.”BGoogle has begun testing the electric car in Mountain View, California. The car does not have all the normal car controls. Instead, it has a smartphone app that calls it and tells （26）_____the destination, and a STOP button between the two seats in case the passengers need to override the computer.The company’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, says that they want to change the world for people (27)_____ do not find it easy to travel around. The cars have been built specially by a company in Detroit. Google will now test the cars, (28)______ are not yet for sale.There need to be detailed scans of the roads before the cars can drive on them, (29)______ they cannot collect and process enough information in real time.Chris Urmson, director of the driverless car project at Google, said: “The cars will be very basic. But they will take you (30)______ you want to go at the push of a button. And, that’s an important step towards (31)______(improve) road safety and helping millions of people travel around more easily.”So far, the driverless cars have driven 700,000 miles without an accident caused by the computer. The company says that thousands of people die each year on the roads and that about 80% of crashes are caused (32)______ human mistakes.Section B (9%)Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. decidedB. especiallyC. abroadD. problemE. findingF. strugglingG. unemploymentH. ideaI. leaveJ. experienceGovernments in Europe dream of finding a magic solution to rising unemployment. But, in thepoorest parts of the EU, __33__ continues to rise.Now, in Sardinia, Italy, a mayor thinks he has found an answer to his town’s unemployment__34__. Valter Piscedda, the mayor of Elmas, a small town near Sardinia’s capital, Cagliari,wants to pay residents to __35__. The town will pay for ten unemployed local people to take English lessons, get on a cheap flight and look for jobs in other parts of Europe.“This __36__ comes from common sense and experience,” he told the Guardian. “In the past year and a half – __37__ in the past few months – I have seen young people, almost every day, who have lost hope that they will find work. Some ask for help in __38__ work here. Others have tried everything and, now, they want to go and gain work experience __39__; life experience, too.”So he __40__ to help people who want to gain experience abroad.Sardinia, and also much of southern and central Italy, is __41__ with high unemployment.Unemployment was at 17.7% in the second quarter of 2014, according to Italy’s National Institute of Statistics. More than 54% of people under 25 are out of work.III. Reading ComprehensionSection A (10%)Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.There are about 50,000 mystery shopping trips every month in the UK. Mystery shoppers pretend to be a cu stomer in a store but they are really__42__ information on the store and how good or bad its service is. The __43__ for mystery shoppers is growing because online shopping is becoming more popular.“Retailers (零售店) are becoming increasingly __44__ that shoppers who visit a physical store want a service and an experien ce they can’t get __45__,” says Simon Boydell, spokesman for Marketforce, which has more than 300,000 mystery shoppers. “Our customers want to know how well their __46__ are delivering on that experience.”“We assign different store locations to each shopper and take turns so that they never __47__ to the same shop within three months,” says Jill Spencer of mystery shopping company ABa. “Each day, they spend up to eight hours __48__ five to ten stores, plus another hour or two writing detailed __49__ on eve ry part of their visit.” For that, the mystery shoppers can earn up to £155 a day. Their expenses are also paid. Mystery shoppers who film their visits with a __50__ camera can earn even more – around £300 a day.Mystery shoppers are usually repaid any money they spend in the stores and may also be allowed to __51__ the products they buy. “I’m always given a specific task, such as buying something from a specific department or a new product range, but I can often buy whatever I want –and keep it.” says mystery shopper Laura.42. A. collecting B. checking C. deleting D. downloading43. A. foundation B. satisfaction C. decision D. demand44. A. popular B. aware C. detective D. imaginative45. A. home B. office C. online D. paid46. A. stores B. customers C. headquarters D. access47.A. round off B. pass on C. get over D. go back48.A. staring B. simplifying C. visiting D. predicting49.A. bills B. reports C. articles D. diaries50.A. hidden B. amused C. renewed D. displayed51.A. release B. benefit C. keep D. expandSection B (15%)Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or un finished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.AAt the end of every British summer I find myself praying for a proper winter, one that will allow a bit of fun: sledging, snowballing, snowman-buildin g. I’m not very demanding; I don’t need amazing downhill skiing and the Cresta Run. What I want is a few days out with the kids. And, much as I like blue skies and sun in summer, I’d swap it every time for frozen ponds, a hillside covered in fresh snow and ice hanging off the houses. Maddy, 11, wants the same and so, instead of waiting and hoping, we are going to make sure. We are going to Sweden.Winter fun in Sweden is a bit more advanced than in most of the UK. They do snowshoeing, ice-fishing, snow house-building and so on. They also do lots of Father Christmas matter, which Maddy didn’t want: “I’m too old for that kind of nonsense, Dad.” Above all, what Maddy wanted was dogs with puppies. She’s not too old for that.We flew to Lulea, a city at the top of the finger of Baltic Sea that reaches out to the north between Sweden and Finland, almost touching the Arctic Circle, then transferred, with some other winter-hungry families, to woodland houses by the sea. There was plenty of snow and ice,but the guides were keeping a nervous eye on the instrument for measuring temperature, which was dangerously close to zero.“Normally, we are 10C below,” said Roger, our guide, who was also handing out our equipment for the days ahead: snowshoes, boots, gloves and so on. A holiday that provides all the necessary outfits will save you a fortune.52.“I find myself praying for a pr oper winter” because _________.A. winter is much more fun than summerB. I like playing exciting sports in winterC. I want a few days out with the kidsD. the activities in winter are more demanding53. What does the word “swap” mean in paragraph 1?A. offerB. exchangeC. waitD. reject54. Which best describes our trip to the city Lulea?A. We did not see any other people except the guidesB. The guides were nervous because of the low temperatureC. We had everything prepared so that we could have a good journeyD. The guides gave us the equipment in order to transfer quicklyBBRANDON Carter-Chan has the world at his feet.The Dannemor a resident danced his way to victory in a number of individual performance grou ps at the Tauranga Festival of Performing Arts last month. It’s one of the major tap-dancing awards in New Zealand and offers $1000 in prize money to the winner.“I entered because the competition offers a lot of prize money, but also because it attracts a lot of really good dancers from around the country,” Brandon told the Times.“I really like competing."If I’m entering a tap-dancing contest, I want to beat good dancers so I can learn and get better.”Brandon, 16, trains under tutor Simon Watts at the Carter-Chan Dance Performance Centre in East Tamaki, run by his mother Brigid.Mrs Carter-Chan says her talented son wasn’t as prepared for the contest in Taur anga as they would have liked.“It was a real struggle in a way,” she says.“Brandon had worked so hard on his school studies all year and was also quite sick.“One of the dances he was doing, a tango, he had to make up the week of the competition.“It was a different style to what he’s used to and that put pressure on him for the senior tap award.“He was totally out of his comfort zone.”Brandon is having a highly successful 2014. Brandon has only been competing in tap-dancing for two years and is also a highly skilled singer. He earned the people’s choice award, voted on by the viewing audience, at the Xtreme Talent Quest stage performance comp etition for teenagers in Howick in 2012.The rising star regularly performs in public as a singer and dancer, including as a cast member of the annualA. exchangedB. dealtC. connectedD. started59. We can infer from the conclusion of Weiss and Tikoo’s research that______.A. the magnetic fields of the moon can produce its electricity owing to the outside forces.B. only planets move electrically conducting fluids around themselves.C. the result of the molten liquid core leads to the magnetic field of the moonD. the moon might have had a magnetic core of its own.60. Which is true about the magnetic field of the moon?A. The moon did not have a global magnetic field in the past.B. The magnetic field of the moon is as strong as that on the earth.C. The satellite took it for finding strong signals.D. The moon could have created the original strong magnetic field due to its core.61. What is the best title of the passage?A. The secret of the magnetic field of the moonB. The result of the magnetic field of the moonC. The moon can produce the magnetic fieldD. The process of the magnetic field of the moonSection C (6%)Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statemen ts in the fewest p ossible words.There are about 29,000 deaths annually in the UK from air pollution. PM2.5, carbon and other chemicals are linked to heart and lung diseases as well as cancer. Some particle matter lies in the lungs, while the finest particles can enter the bloodstream, risking damage elsewhere in the body.There are nearly as many deaths now caused by air pollution as there are from smoking, so the main thing is we stop a new generation of children being exposed. It is said government has taken measures to make green air. Such as: Monitoring all over the country and predicting what result it will bring on time; A national plan for dealing with heavily polluting vehicles; Changes to fuel duty to encourage low nitrogen dioxide(二氧化氮) vehicles as well as low carbon dioxide(二氧化碳); Financial encouragement for other choices of fuels; Encourage walking and cycling, etc.Our dirty air will simply not clean itself, and this issue is one that will, without the government's involvement, continue to impact on present and future generations. Enough is enough. The government must act on these pieces of advice quickly if we are to improve the qu ality of the air we breathe and protect the nation's heart health."A government spokesperson said there would be a full response to the report in the future, but added: "Clean air isimportant for people's health and, while air quality has improved greatly in recent decades,we are investing heavily in measures across government to continue this, spending £2 bn since 2011 in green transport."(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS)62. What harmful matters are connected to heart and lung diseases?63. Give two examples of the measures of making green air according to the passage.64. _________ is the key to improve air quality and impact on our current and future generations.第II卷（共25分）IV. Translation (15%)Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.Translation：65.年轻人喜欢赶时髦。
