单项选择题
1、听录音，回答题：


A．No. He has to finish his homework.
B．No. He doesn't like going to the club.
C．Yes. He'll go after he finished his homework.
D．Yes. He'll write his paper after he returns.

2、根据以下内容回答题
What does it take to be a well-trained nurse? The answer used to be two-year associate's or four-year bachelor's degree programs. But as the nursing shortage   36  , a growing number of schools and hospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing  37   to become registered nurses with only a year or so of  38  training.
In 1991, there were only 40 fast-track curricula; now there are more than 200. Typical is Columbia University's Entry to Practice program. Students earn their bachelor of science in nursing in a year. Those who stay on for an  39  two years can earn a master's degree that  40  them as nurse practitioners (执业护士) or clinical nurse specialists.
Many students are recent  41  ; others are career switchers. Rudy Guardron, 32, a 2004 graduate of Columbia's program, was a premedical student in college and then worked for a pharmaceutical (药物的) research company. At Columbia, he was __42__ as a nurse practitioner. "I saw that nurses were in high    43  and it looked like a really good opportunity," he says. "Also, I didn't want to be in school for that long. "
The fast-track trend fills a need, but it's also creating some  44  between newcomers and veterans. "Nurses that are still at the bedside  45  these kids with suspicion," says Linda Pellico, who has taught nursing at Yale University for 18 years. "They wonder, how can they do it quicker?" The answer is they don't.
A)additional
B)applied
C)demand
D)excessive
E)experience
F)expores
G)graduates
H)operations
I)promote
J)qualifies
K)specialized
L)tension
M)trained
N)view
O)worsens
第36题应填____

3、Questions are based on the following passage．
　　As you are probably aware，the latest job markets news isn’t good：Unemployment is still more than 9 percent，and new job growth has fallen close to zer0．That’s bad for the economy,of　course．And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now．But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think．
　　That’s because job growth numbers don’t matter to job hunters as much as job turnover data．After all，existing jobs open up every day due to promotions，resignations，terminations，and retirements．(Yes，people are retiring even in this economy．)In both good times and bad，turnover creates more openings than economic growth does．Even in June of 2007，when the economy was still humming along，job growth was only l32，000，while turnover was 4．7 million!
　　And as it turns out，even today-with job growth near zero-over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month．
　　I don’t mean to imply that overall job growth doesn’t have an impact on one’s ability to land a job．
　　It’s true that if total employment were higher,it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from(and compete for)．And it's true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening，regardless of whether it’s a new one or not．
　　But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don’t is their ability to stay motivated．They’re willing to do the hard work of identifying their valuable skills；be creative about where and how to look；learn how to present themselves to potential employers；and keep going，even after repeated rejections，The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 2．7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn’t looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed．
　　So don’t let the headlines fool you into giving up．Four million people get hired every month in the U．S．You can be one of them．
The author tends to believe that high unemployment rate_____________．
A．deprives many people of job opportunities
B．prevents many people from changing careers
C．should not stop people from looking for a job
D．does not mean the U．S．economy is worsening


4、听录音，回答题：


A．Give his ankle a good rest.
B．Treat his injury immediately. 
C．Continue his regular activities.                
D．Be careful when climbing steps.


填空题
5、Questions are based on the following passage.
As warspreads to many comers of the globe, children sadly have been drawn into thecenter of conflicts. InAfghanistan, Bosnia, and Colombia, however, groups ofchildren have been taking part in peace education ____36____.The children,after learning to resolve conflicts, took on the ____37 ____ of peacemakers.The Children's Movement forPeace in Colombia was even nominated (提名)for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. Groups of children____38____  aspeacemakers studied humanrights and poverty issues in Colombia, eventually forming a group with fiveotherschools in Bogota  known as TheSchools of Peace.
Theclassroom ____39____ opportunities for children to replace angry, violentbehaviors with ____40____, peaceful ones. Itis in the classroom that caringand respect for each person empowers children to take a step ____41____towardbecomingpeacemakers. Fortunately, educators have access to many onlineresources that are ____42 ____usefulwhen helpingchildren along the path to peace. The Young Peacemakers Club, startedin 1992, provides a Website with resourcesfor teachers and ____43____ on starting a Kindness Campaign.The World Centers of Compassion for ChildrenInternational call attention tochildren's rights and how to help the ____44____of war. Starting a Peacemakers'Club is apraiseworthy venture for a class and one that could spread to otherclassrooms and ideally affect the culture ofthe ____45____ school.
__________
A．acting
B．assuming
C．comprehensive
D．cooperative
E．entire
F．especially
G．forward
H．images
I．information
J．offers
K．projects
L．respectively
M．role
N．technology
O．victims
第(36)题 __________

简答题
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7、回答题：
　　A) The effect of television on children has been debated ever since the first sets were turned on. Nowthree new studies find that too much tube time can lower test scores, retard learning and even predict college performance. The reports appear in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Ado-lescent Medicine.
　　B) In the first report, researchers studied the effect that having a TV in a child's bedroom can have onthird graders. "We looked at the household media environment in relation to academic achievementon mathematics, reading and language arts tests," said study author Dina L.G. Borzekowski, an as-sistant professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
　　C)  Borzekowski and her colleague, Dr. Thomas Robinson of Stanford University, collected data on386 third graders and their parents about how much TV the children watched, the number of TVsets, computers and video game consoles in the household and where they were. They also collecteddata on how much time the children spent using the different media, as well as the time spent doinghomework and reading. The researchers found that the media in the household, where it is and howit is used can have a profound effect on learning. "We found that the household media environmenthas a very close association with performance on the different test scores," Borzekowski said.
　　D)  "A child who has a TV in his or her bedroom is likely to have a score that is eight points lower ona mathematics test compared to a child who doesn't have a TV in the bedroom," she noted. Thesechildren also scored lower on the reading and language arts tests. However, children who have ac-cess to a home computer are likely to have higher scores on each of the tests compared with chil-dren who don't have access to a home computer, Borzekowski noted.
　　E) The reasons why TV has this negative effect are not clear, Borzekowski said. "When there's TVin the bedroom, parents are less likely to have control over the content and the amount watched,"Borzekowski said. "They are also unable to know how early or how late the set is on. This seemsto be associated with kids' performance on academic tests." Borzekowski believes that content andthe time the TV is on may be the primary reasons for its negative effect. "If the TV is in the familyroom, then parents can see the content of what children are watching," she said. "Parents can chooseto sit alongside and watch, or turn the set off. A simple and straightforward, positive parenting strat-egy is to keep the TV out of the child's bedroom, or remove it if it's already there."
　　F) In the second report, Dr. Robert J. Hancox from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand,and colleagues found, regardless of your intelligence or social background, if you watch a lot of TVduring childhood, you are a lot less likely to have a college degree by your mid-20s. In their study,the researchers followed 1,037 people born in 1972 and 1973. Every two years, between the ages of5 and 15, they were asked how much television they watched. The researchers found that those whowatched the most television during these years had earned fewer degrees by the time they were 26."We found that the more television the child had watched, the more likely they were to leave schoolwithout any qualifications," Hancox said in a prepared statement. "Those who watched little televi-sion had the best chance of going on to university and earning a degree."
　　G) Hancox's team found that watching TV at an early age had the most effect on graduating from col-lege. "An interesting finding was that although teenage viewing was strongly linked to leavingschool without any qualifications, it was earlier childhood viewing that had the greatest impact ongetting a degree," he said. "This suggests that excessive television in younger children has a long-lasting adverse effect on educational performance."
　　H) In the third paper, Frederick J. Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri A. Christakis from the University of Washington report that, for very young children, watching TV can result in lower test scores inmathematics, reading recognition and reading comprehension. "We looked at how much televisionchildren watched before age 3 and then at ages 3 to 5," Zimmerman said. "We found that for chil-dren who watched a small amount of TV in the earlier years, there was co nsiderable beneficial ef-fect compared to children who watched a lot of TV."
　　I) For children aged 3 to 5, the effect was not as clear, Zimmerman said. "There were some beneficialeffects of watching TV on reading, but no beneficial effects for math or vocabulary," he noted. "Theworst pattern was to watch more than three hours of TV before age 3. Those kids had a significantdisadvantage compared to the other kids." Parents should follow the American Academy of Pediat-rics recommendation, which is no TV for children under 2, Zimmerman said. "Personally, I feel thecutoff should be children under 3, because there is just not any good content for children under 3."
　　J) One expert believes that TV can have both positive and negative effects, but it all depends on whatchildren are watching. "Content matters," said Deborah L. Linebarger, an assistant professor at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, who co-authored an accompanying editorial. "Educational content hasbeen found to be related to performance on school readiness tests, higher grades when they are teen-agers, whereas, non-educational content tends to be associated with lower academic performance."
　　K) Another expert agrees. "TV watching takes up space that could be used by more useful things," saidDr. Christopher P. Lucas, a clinical coordinator at the Early Childhood Evaluation and TreatmentProgram at the New York University Child Study Center. "TV is not necessarily toxic, but is some-thing that has to be done in moderation; something that balances the other needs of the child forhealthy development."
　　L) Lucas puts the responsibility for how much TV kids watch and what they watch squarely on par-ents. "The amount of TV watching certainly has a link with the reduced amount of time reading ordoing homework," he said. "The key is the amount of control parents have in limiting the amount ofaccess. Get the TV out of the bedroom; be aware of what is being watched; limit the amount of TVwatching."
According to Borzekowski, children having chances to use a family computer are likely to acquire better results on the different tests.

8、2013年6月20日在中国各地，剧估计60万儿童和他们的老师观看了有宇航员（astronaut）王亚平在距离地球300公里的上空所讲授的科学课。王亚平与两个 同事乘坐天宫一号实验舱(the Tiangon-1 laboratory module)执行为期两周的任务。她在课上进行了一系列太空的物理演示。在有些演示中还对比了在地球上重力（one-gravity）环境下同样的实验。这堂物理 课不仅让孩子们享受了一堂知识与乐趣兼具的物理 课，也显示了我国通信科技的前进。

9、Honesty Should Be Treasured


10、Directions：For this pnn，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled What Electives to Choose．You should write at least l20 words but no more than l80 wordsfollowing the outline given below in Chinese：
1．各大学开设了各种各样的选修课；
2．学生因为各种原因选择了不同的选修课；
3．以你自己为例……
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