本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题），共150分，考试时间120分钟。
请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂写在答题纸上。
第I卷（选择题共95分）第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。
每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。
每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What does the man like best?A. Tea.B. Coffee.C. Juice.2. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. The sea.B. A hotel.C. An agreement.3. Why doesn’t the woman have some more cake?A. She is on a diet.B. It is too sweet.C. She is full.4. What happened to the man?A. He had a car accident.B. His car broke down.C. He nearly hit a boy.5. What is the man’s opinion about his work?A. Difficult.B. Enjoyable.C. Tiring.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。
每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。
每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. Where does the conversation probably take place?A .In a music shop. B. In a police station. C. In a clothes shop.7. What does the madam look like?A. She is short.B. She is very thin.C. She has red hair.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. When does the concert start?A. At 11:00a.m.B. At 6:00p.m.C. At 9:30p.m.9. What will the woman do to celebrate Sheila’s birthday?A. See a movie with her.B. Go to a concert with her.C. Have some coffee and cake with her.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. House agent and customer.B. House owner and renter.C. Neighbors.11.What does the man say about the apartment on Market Street?A. It has a study.B. It has one bedroom.C. It has a balcony.12. What will the woman do next?A. Move house.B. See the apartment.C. Go to the university. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Who is calling the woman?A. David.B. Paul.C. Gary.14. How did the man plan to go to the theater with the woman?A. By car.B. By taxi.C. By bus.15. What does the woman want to do now?A. Cook dinner.B. See a movie.C. Eat out.16. When will the speakers see the football game?A. On Thursday.B. On Friday.C. On Saturday.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Why is geocaching great for children?A. They will find it fun.B. They can use technology.C. They have to walk a long way.18. What is the first thing to do for a geochacher?A. Search for a geocaching website.B. Buy a small handled GPS.C. Choose a treasure to look for.19. What is the most difficult for the geocachers?A. To find out the treasure.B. To make comments on the treasure.C. To know the exact position of the treasure.20. What is the real prize of finding the treasure?A. The gold.B. The diamonds.C. The sense of achievement.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10个小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
AMy husband, Mike, is Italian, and I’m Puerto Rican. Mike is always trying to understand Spanish, and whenever my mother and I speak Spanish, he tries to pick up words. One day, he heard us say that a woman we noticed was chula. He asked what it meant, and we told him that it meant “pretty”.When we went to my mother's house for her birthday party the next week, he walked in the door, gave her a big birthday kiss and said, “Feliz cumpleanos, mi chuleta.”He danced her around the kitchen, calling my mother his chuleta, all the while thinking he was flattering his mother-in-law and impressing her with his Spanish.My mother, who is soft-spoken and shy, raised an eyebrow and looked over her shoulder at me, but she didn’t say anything. The problem is, chuleta doesn’t mean “pretty” in Spanish; it means “chop”（剁）, as in “pork chop”. In some places it has a double meaning: it’s something a boyfriend would say to his girlfriend, but certainly not a son-in-law to his mother-in-law! But Mike's intentions were so sweet: he was trying to let my mother know how much he loved her and that she was still beautiful in her old age. I’m not sure what my mother thought he was doing.I just smiled and enjoyed the irony.Pretty soon my brothers and sisters gathered in the kitchen to watch the dancing as Mike continued to call my mother his “little pork chop”. We didn’t tell him what he was doing because we didn’t want to embarrass him. But every time he left the room, we would laugh so hard that tears would start rolling down our cheeks.21. The underlined word “flattering” in Para.2 is closest in m eaning to ________.A. encouragingB. admiringC. accusingD. teasing22. Why didn’t the author and her family members tell Mike the truth?A. Because her mother liked being called “chuleta”.B. Because he had a bad nose for language learning.C. Bec ause they didn’t intend to make him awkward.D. Because they would have more chances to fool him.23. The author tells the story in a(n) ________ tone.A. annoyedB. seriousC. concernedD. humorousBAn earthquake hit Bam, Iran on December 26, 2003. The quake occurred at 5:26 AM (Iran Standard Time). Its epicenter（震中）was roughly 10 kilometres southwest of the ancient city of Bam. Maximum intensities were at Bam and Baravat, an important regional center during the 16th and 17th centuries. About 30,000 people were killed in the quake—nearly a third of the city’s population. And more were left injured. In terms of human loss, the quake was the worst to occur in Iranian history.Bam, an ancient city, was one of the most-visited historical sites in the world. But nearly everything crumbled in the disaster. Up to ninety percent of buildings and infrastructure in the Bam area were either damaged or destroyed, with 70% of houses being completely destroyed, plus 70-90% of Bam’s residential areas. This let an approximated 100,000 homeless. Not a single house was standing in Baravat. The main reason why the earthquake caused such damage was that Bam’s buildings were made mostly from baked mud. Most buildings, built in the traditional mud-brick style, were not constructed to survive such disasters. These buildings fell down in piles of dust and sand.Bam was most famed for its centuries-old castle made entirely of mud bricks, clay, straw and the trunks of palm trees. The castle was so big that it was once the city of Bam itself. Public housing lined its ground level; a marketplace and two mosques（清真寺）also fit comfortably inside.Bam was once a commercial and trading center on the famous Silk Road. In the 16th and 17th centuries, treasures from the Far East were carried along the road into the capital cities of Europe. The city was also used as an army camp until 1932 and then completely abandoned. About five decades ago, groups of architects began restoring the historic treasures of the city. Ever since, it has attracted thousands of visitors from all over the world.Following this disaster, 44 countries in total sent rescue teams to assist in relief operations and 60 countries offered assistance and supplies. With such support, spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised that theywould rebuild Bam stronger than before.24. What was Bam most famous for?A. Beautiful palm trees.B. An old mud and straw castle.C. Frequent earthquakes.D. Treasures from the Far East.25. The earthquake in Bam was such a disaster mainly because ________.A. it occurred early in the morningB. Bam was a most-visited destinationC. it happened in a commercial and trading centerD. most buildings were constructed with baked mud26. The passage is mostly taken from ________.A. a newspaperB. a rescue handbookC. a guidebookD. a collection of research papersCDemolition is the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. You can level a 5-story building easily with giant modern machines, but when you need to bring down a 20-story skyscraper, explosive demolition is the preferred method for safely demolishing the huge structure.In order to demolish a building safely, workers must map out a careful plan ahead of time. The first step is to examine architectural blueprints of the building to determine how the building is put together. Next, they tour the building, putting down notes about the support structure on each floor. Once having gathered all the data needed, they design a plan of attack. They decide what explosives to use, where to position them in the building, and how to time their explosions.Generally speaking, workers will explode the major support columns（柱子）on the lower floors first and then on a few upper stories. In a 20-story building, they might blow the columns on the first and second floor, as well as the 12th and 15th floors. In most cases, blowing the support structures on the lower floors is acceptable and enough for destroying the building, but loading explosives on upper floors helps break the building material into smaller pieces as it falls. This makes it easier to clean up. The main challenge in bringing a building down is controlling the direction in which it falls. To bring down the building towards the north, workers set off explosives on the north side of the building first. By controlling the way it falls down, they will be able to pull the building down on one side, into a parking lot or other open area. This sort of demolition is the easiest to perform, and it is generally the safest way to go.27. To tear down a building, workers first need to ________.A. hire an experienced architectB. make a model of the buildingC. study the structure of the buildingD. consult the designer of the building28.To break a 20-story building’s materi al into smaller pieces, it is helpful to load explosive on ________.A. the 15th floorB. the 20th floorC. the 1st floorD. the basement29. In the diagram, which side of the target building should be exploded first?A. The east side.B. The west side.C. The south side.D. The north side.30. What is the passage mainly about?A. When to explode a building.B. Where to start the explosion in a building.C. Why to use explosives to destroy a building.D. How to tear down a building with explosives.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
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