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PART ⅠGRAMMAR & VOCABULARY [60 MIN] (1×30=30 POINTS)There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Please choose the correct answer that best completes the sentence and mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.1. The old couple moved to the countryside ________ their health for the doctor said fresh air would do them good.A. for the sake of B, because of C. in case of D. in spite of2. Lover of towns ________ I am, I realize that I owe a debt to my early country life.A. becauseB. whereC. whoD. as3. She was trying ________ by the teacher in class.A. avoiding questioningB. avoiding to questionC. to avoid being questionedD. to avoid questioning4. ________ , I must do another experiment.A. Be it ever so lateB. It is ever so lateC. It be ever so lateD. So late it be ever5. He might have been killed ________ the arrival of the police.A. except forB. but forC. withD. for6. He’s ________ as a "be llyacher" —he’s always complaining about something.A. who is knownB. whom is knownC. what is knownD. which is known7. The law requires that everyone ________ his car checked at least once a year.A. hasB. would haveC. loveD. will have8. Until then, his family ________ from him for six months.A. didn’t hearB. hasn’t been hearingC. hasn’t heardD. hadn’t heard9. Nowhere but in the continuous research work ________ find the meaning of his life.A. for him toB. he canC. he couldD. can he10. In order to escape from the boring and heavy study tasks, many students choose to play video games to feel ________ .A. emotionally highB. high emotionalC. high emotionallyD. emotional high11. By the time Bob arrives in Beijing, ________ .A. we have been staying here for two daysB. it has been for two days we have stayed hereC. it is already two days before we have arrived hereD. we will have stayed here for two days12. Carmakers challenged the law, in part ________ CO2, was not an air pollutant.A. on the groundB. on groundC. on the ground thatD. on ground that13. ________ in a famed university abroad was what his parents wished for.A. The boy to be cultivatedB. The boy cultivatedC. The boy’s being cultivatedD. The boy was cultivated14. We looked for a table to sit down, but they were all ________ .A. reserved forB. engaged forC. used upD. taken up15. In spite of his ________ appearance, his movements were as spirited as a young man’s.A. agingB. agedC. being agedD. having aged16. Sales usually go up in the stores during December, but ________ again aider Christmas.A. drop offB. drop outC. drop byD. drop down17. It was impolite for you to leave without saying goodbye; you really ________ have done so.A. shouldn’tB. wouldn’tC. couldn’tD. mustn’t18. The detective and his assistant have begun to ________ the mysterious murder.A. look intoB. see toC. make overD. come through19. ________ travels faster than ________ .A. The light, soundB. Light, the soundC. Light, soundD. The light, the s6und20. Being wronged, the little girl tried to ________ her tears at first, but on seeing her mother, she burst out crying.A. keep awayB. keep toC. keep upD. keep back21. Their refusal to sign the international treaty was ________ by many countries in the world.A. announcedB. denouncedC. renouncedD. pronounced22. When she saw how frightened he was at his mistake, her anger began to ________ .A. fade awayB. die awayC. fall downD. die down23. Mary is so ________ about her weight that she doesn’t eat staple food at all.A. sensibleB. sensationalC. senselessD. sensitive24. His dog was ________ by a truck last night and died immediately.A. run intoB. run overC. run outD. run through25. The Christmas presents were all ________ in shiny paper.A. done overB. done with C, done out D. done up26. The diamond is very big. It ________ any diamond that I’ve ever seen.A. dwellsB. dwarfsC. distainsD. dwindles27. Mary became ________ homesick and critical of the United States, so she fled from her home in west Bloomfield to her hometown in Austria.A. completelyB. sincerelyC. absolutely D, increasingly28. It is well known that knowledge is the ________ condition for expansion of mind.A. incompatibleB. incredibleC. indefiniteD. indispensable29. The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her ________ attitude toward customers...A. impartialB. mildC. hostileD. opposing30. Since it is too late to change my mind now, I am ________ to carrying out the plan.A. obligedB. committedC. engagedD. resolvedPART ⅡREADING COMPREHENSION [60 MIN] (1.5×20+2×5=40 POINTS) In this section there are five reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions and 5 short answer questions. Please read the passages and then write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.TEXT AI live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells "happiness". But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he’s honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out ever they want and sleep as late as they want. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations we can ever come to. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.31. Which of the following is true?A. Fun creates long-lasting satisfaction.B. Fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness.C. Happiness is enduring whereas fun is short-lived.D. Fun that is long-standing may lead to happiness.32. To the author, Hollywood stars all have an important role to play that is to ________ .A. write memoir after memoir about their happinessB. tell the public that happiness has nothing to do with funC. teach people how to enjoy their livesD. bring happiness to the public instead of going to glamorous parties.33. In the author’s opinion, marriage ________ .A. affords greater fun.B. leads to raising children.C. indicates commitment.D. ends in pain.34. Couples having infant children ________ .A. are lucky since they can have a whole night’s sleep.B. find fun in tucking them into bed at night,C. find more time to play and joke with them.D. derive happiness from their endeavor.35. If one gets the meaning of the tree sense of happiness, he will ________ .A. stop playing games and joking with othersB. make the best use of his time increasing happinessC. give a free hand to moneyD. keep himself with his familyTEXT BFilm has properties that set it apart from painting, sculpture, novels, and plays. It is also, in its most popular and powerful form, a story telling medium that shares many elements with the short story and the novel. And since film presents its stories in dramatic form, it has even more in common with the stage play: Both plays and movies act out or dramatize, show rather than tell, what happens.Unlike the novel, short story, or play, however, film is not handy to study; it cannot be effectively frozen on the printed page. The novel and short story are relatively easy to study because they are written to be read. The stage play is slightly more difficult to study because it is written to be performed. But plays are printed, and because they rely heavily on the spoken word, imaginative readers can conjure up at least a pale imitation of the experience they might have been watching a performance on stage. This cannot be said of the screenplay, for a film depends greatly on visual and other nonvisual elements that are not easily expressed in writing. The screenplay requires so much "filling in" by our imagination that we cannot really approximate the experience of a film by reading a screenplay, and reading a screenplay is worthwhile only if we have already seen the film. Thus, most screenplays are published not to read but rather to be remembered.Still, film should not be ignored because studying it requires extra effort. And the fact that we do not generally "read" films does not mean we should ignore the principles of literary or dramatic analysis when we see a film. Literature and films do share many elements and communicate many things insimilar ways. Perceptive film analysis rests on the principles used in literary analysis, and if we apply what we have learned in the study of literature to our analysis of films, we will be far ahead of those who do not. Therefore, before we turn to the unique elements of film, we need to look into the elements that film shares with any good story.Dividing film into its various elements for analysis is a somewhat artificial process, for the elements of any art form never exist in isolation. It is impossible, for example, to isolate plot from character: Events influence people, and people influence events; the two are always closely interwoven in any fictional, dramatic, or cinematic work. Nevertheless, the analytical method usessuch a fragmenting technique for ease and convenience. But it does so with the assumption that we can study these elements in isolation without losing sight of their interdependence or their relationship to the whole.36. What is mainly discussed in the text?A. The uniqueness of film.B. The importance of film analysis.C. How to identify the techniques a film uses.D. The relationship between film analysis and literary analysis.37. Why is it not handy to study film?A. Because screenplay is not as well written as literary works.B. Because a film cannot be effectively represented by a printed screenplay.C. Because a film is too complicated.D. Because publishers prefer to publish literary works.38. From the third paragraph we learn that ________ .A. the means by which we analyze a literary work cannot be applied to film analysisB. a good film and a good story have many elements in commonC. we should not pay extra effort to study filmsD. using the principles of literary analysis makes no difference in film analysis39. Why can’t we divide film into various elements for analysis?A. Because these elements are interwoven with each other and cannot be separated without failing to appreciate a film as a whole.B. Because films cannot be written down and it is inconvenient to analyse them.C. Because films elements are too complicated.D. Because films need not to be analysed in detail.40. What does the word "it" refer to in the last sentence of the passage?A. The analytical method.B. The fragmenting technique.C. Ease.D. Convenience.TEXT CModern technology and science have produced a wealth of new materials and new ways of using old materials. For the artist this means wider opportunities. There is no doubt that the limitations of materials and nature of tools both restrict and shape a man’s work. Observe how the development of plastics and light metals along with new methods of welding has changed the direction of sculpture. Transparent plastic materials allow one to look through an object, to see its various sides superimposed on each other (as in Cubism or in an X-ray). Today, welding is as prevalent as casting was in the past. This new method encourages open designs, where surrounding and intervening space becomes as important as form itself.More ambiguous than other scientific inventions familiar to modem artists, but no less influential, are the psychoanalytic studies of Freud and his followers, discoveries that have infiltrated recent art, especially Surrealism. The Surrealists, in their struggle to escape the monotony and frustrations of everyday life, claimed that dreams were the only hope. Turning to the irrational world of their unconscious, they banished all time barriers and moral judgements to combine disconnected dream experiences from the past, present and intervening psychologicalstates. The Surrealists were concerned with overlapping emotions more than with overlapping forms. Their paintings often become segmented capsules of associative experiences. For them, obsessive and often unrelated images replaced the direct emotional message of expressionism. They did not need to smash paint and canvas; they went beyond this to smash the whole continuity of logical thought.There is little doubt that contemporary art has taken much from contemporary life. In a period when science has made revolutionary strides, artists in their studios have not been unaware of scientists in their laboratories. But this has rarely been a one-way street. Painters and sculptors, though admittedly influenced by modem science, have also molded and changed our world. If break-up has been a vital part of their expression, it has not always been a symbol of destruction. Quite the contrary: it has been used to examine more fully, to penetrate more deeply, to analyze more thoroughly, to enlarge, isolate and make more familiar certain aspects of life that earlier we were apt to neglect. In addition, it sometimes provides rich multiple experiences so organized as not merely to reflect our world, but in fact to interpret it.41. According to the passage, it is true that ________ .A. artistic creations seem to be the reproductions of modern technologyB. artistic creations have made great strides scientificallyC. artistic creations appear to be incapable of ignoring material advancesD. artistic creations are the reflection of the material world42. The welding techniques ________ .A. can cause a lot of changes in sculpture artsB. permit details of an object to be seen clearlyC. can superimpose multiple sides of sculptor’s designsD. can make artists adaptable to surroundings43. We can learn from the text that Freud’s studies ________ .A. are more ambiguous than any other scientific inventionB. have influenced other scientific inventionsC. cause SurrealismD. have infiltrated Surrealism44. Which of the following is true about Surrealists?A. They diminished all time barriers and moral judgements to combine disconnected dream experiences.B. They tried to express their subconscious world.C. They could transform real existence into incoherent dreams.D. They wanted to substitute direct expressions for fragmented images.45. The sentence "But this has rarely been a one-way street." in the last paragraph means that ________ .A. contemporary art has been nourished by modem scienceB. modern science has been nourished by artC. artists can become scientists and scientists can become artistsD. the impacts of modern art and science are actually mutualTEXT DWhen we eat may be just as important as what we eat. A new study shows that mice that eat when they should be sleeping gain more weight than mice that eat at normal hours. Another studysheds light on why we pack on the pounds in the first place. Whether these studies translate into therapies that help humans beat obesity remains to be seen, but they give scientists clues about the myriad factors that they must take into. account.Observations of overnight workers have shown that eating at night disrupts metabolism and the hormones that signal we’re sated. But no one had done controlled studies on this connection until now. Biologist Fred Turek of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and graduate student Deanna Arble examined the link between a high-fat diet and what time of day mice eat. A control group of six nocturnal mice, ate their pellets (60% fat by calories, mostly lard) during the night. Another group of six ate the same meal during the day, Turek says, which disrupts their circadian rhythm—the body’s normal 24-hour cycle.After 6 weeks, the off-schedule mice weighed almost 20% more than the controls, Turek and Arble report today in Obesity, supporting the idea that consuming calories when you should be sleeping is harmful. Turek and Arble acknowledge that the disrupted mice ate a tad more and were a tad more sluggish, but the differences could not account for all of the weight gain.In the second study, a different team of researchers investigated the link between weight and the immune system. Hundreds of genes seem to affect the accumulation of fat, but one that helps protect us from infection might help us lose weight with little effort, biochemist Alan Saltiel of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and colleagues suggest today in Cell. The researchers tested the weight-adding abilities of a protein called IKKe, which is linked with obesity, diabetes, and chronic, low-level inflammation. For 3 months, the team fed six mice missing IKKe genes a diet of high-fat chow.Because IKKe’s main job is immune defense, Saltiel’s team didn’t expect to find weight differences between knockout mice and controls. But the knockout mice did gain significantly less. Best of all, the girth the animals did add was less harmful to their overall health. "The knockout mice don’t gain as much weight but also don’t get diabetes, don’t get insulin resistance, and don’t get accumulation of lipids on the liver," Saltiel says, all of which contribute to the suite of health problems associated with being overweight. Saltiel calls IKKe "an especially appealing drug target for the treatment of metabolic disease."Tom Maniatis, a molecular biologist at Harvard University, praises the study but remains skeptical about any drug that would inhibit IKKe. He helped develop the mice used in the experiment and notes that they are vulnerable to the flu. He suspects that suppressing IKKe may help people with diabetes or obesity, "but the first time the sw ine flu comes along, that’s it."Researchers are also enthusiastic about the circadian rhythm paper. Frank Scheer, a neuroscientist at Harvard who studies sleep, was struck that "you could see something happening [to the disrupted mice] in the first week already. That’s consistent with human studies where we found changes in just 3 days."Together, the papers suggest that there’s no simple answer to why people gain weight. Says Turek," It’s clearly not just calories in versus calories out."46. What .does the word "nocturnal" mean in the second paragraph?A. Hungry.B. Nightly.C. Healthy.D. Greedy.47. Which of the following statements is CORRECT according to Fred Turek’s research?A. The nocturnal mice and the off-schedule mice ate different pellets.B. The off-schedule mice ate significantly more and are more lively.C, If the nocturnal mice consume calories during the day, it should be very harmful.D. After 6 weeks, the group of mice ate at night gained more weight.48. Which of the following statements about IKKe is INCORRECT?A. The basic job of IKKe is to protect the body from diseases.B. IKKe is a kind of protein.C. IKKe is linked with many immune diseases.D. The mice missing IKKe genes gain much more weight.49. According to the passage, what’s Tom Maniatis’s attitude towards the second study?A. Doubting.B. Supportive.C. Negative.D. Neutral.50. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?A. IKKe: an appealing drag target for losing weight.B. Teach you how to lose weight.C. New researches about losing weight.D. Calories in versus calories out.TEXT EFew modem travel writers excite more hostility and awe than Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who died in 2003. Despising the "drab uniformity of the modern world", Sir Wilfred slogged across Africa and Asia, especially Arabia, on animals and on foot, immersing himself in tribal societies. He delighted in killing lions in Sudan in the years before the Second World War, Germans and Italians during it. He disliked "soft" living and "intrusive" women and revered murderous savages, to whom he gave guns. He thought educating the working classes a waste of good servants. He kicked his dog. His journeys were more notable as feats of masochistic endurance than as exploration. Yet his first two books, Arabian Sands, about his crossing of the Empty Quarter, and The Marsh Arabs, about southern Iraq, have a terse brilliance about them. As records of ancient cultures on the point of oblivion, they are unrivalled.Sir Wilfred’s critics invariably sing the same chorus. They accuse him of hypocrisy, noting that his part-time primitive lifestyle required a private income and good connections to obtain travel permits. They argue that he deluded himself about the motives of his adored tribal companions. In Kenya, where he lived for two decades towards the end of his life, his Samburu "sons" are calculated to have fleeced him of at least one million dollars. Homosexuality, latent or otherwise, explains him, they conclude, pointing to the photographs he took of beautiful youths.This may all be true, but it does not diminish his achievements Moreover, he admits as much himself in his autobiography and elsewhere. In 1938, before his main travels, for example, Sir Wilfred wrote of his efforts to adopt foreign ways: "I don’t delude myself that I succeed but I get my interest and pleasure trying."In this authorised biography, Alexander Maitland adds a little colour to the picture, but no important details. He describes the beatings and sexual abuse the explorer suffered at his fast boarding school. Quoting from Sir Wilfred’s letters, he traces the craggy traveler’s devotion to his dead father, his mother and three brothers. At times, Sir Wilfred sounds more forgiving, especiallyof friends, and more playful than his reputation has suggested. As for his sexuality, Mr. Maitland refers coyly to occasional "furtive embraces", presumably with men. Wearisome as this topic has become, Mr. Maitland achieves nothing by ski rting it; and his allusion to Sir Wilfred’s "almost too precious" relationship with his mother is annoyingly vague.There may be a reason why Mr. Maitland struggles for critical distance. He writes that he and Sir Wilfred were long-standing friends, but he fails to mention that he collaborated with the explorer on four of his books and later inherited his London flat. If Mr. Maitland found it so difficult to view his late friend and benefactor objectively, then perhaps he should not have tried. An earlier biography by Michael Asher, who scoured the deserts to track down Sir Wilfred’s former fellow travelers, was better; Mr. Maitland seems to have interviewed almost nobody black or brown.His book is, however, a useful companion to the explorer’s autobiog raphy, The Life of My Choice. Hopefully, it will also refer readers back to Sir Wilfred’s two great books, and to sentences as lovely as this: "Memories of that first visit to the Marshes have never left me: firelight on a half-turned face, the crying of g eese, duck flighting in to feed, a boy’s voice singing somewhere in the dark, canoes moving in procession down a waterway, the setting sun seen crimson through the smoke of burning reed-beds, narrow waterways that wound still deeper into the Marshes."51. According to the first paragraph, what kind of life did Sir Wilfred Thesiger long for?52. Why did Sir Wilfred Thesiger’s behavior call forth some criticism?53. How does Sir Wilfred Thesiger respond to the critics?54. In Alexander Maitlan’s writi ng, what kind of person was Sir Wilfred Thesiger?55. Was Alexander Maitland one of the opponents against Sir Wilfred Thesiger?PART ⅢWRITING [60 MIN] (30 POINTS)Nobody is living alone and people are living in a team or teams, so team spirit is of great importance in the present society. What do you think of team spirit? Write an essay of about 400 words entitled:On Team SpiritIn the first part of your essay you should state clearly your main argument, and in the second part you should support your argument with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.Write your essay on the answer sheet.。
