单项选择题
1、回答题：


A．academic
B．access
C．accompany
D．clearly
E．comprehension
F．context
G．enables
H．encountered
I．enhances
J．entertaining
K．exposes
L．independenfly
M．specific
N．stick
O．survival

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2、Passage Three
Questions are based on the passage you have just heard.

A．Its large rooms.
B．Its unusual location.
C．Its comfortable chairs.
D．The number of its readers.


3、

根据以下内容回答题
Is College a Worthy Investment?
A．Why are we spending so much money on college? Andwhy are we so unhappy about it? We all seem to  agree that a college education is wonderful, and yet strangely we worry when we see families investing   so much in this supposedly essential good. Maybe it's time to ask a question that seems almost sacrilegious (大不敬) : is all this investment in college education really worth it?
B． The answer. I fear, is no. For an increasing number of kids, the extra time and money spent pursuing a college diploma will leave them worse off than they were before they set foot on campus.
C．For my entire adult life, a good education has been the most important thing for middle-class households. My parents spent more educating my sister and me than they spent on their house, and  they're not the only ones.., and, of course, for an increasing number of families, most of the cost of  their house is actually the cost of living in a good school district. Questioning the value of a college    education seems a bit like questioning the value of happiness, or tim.
D．The average price of all goods and services has risen about 50 percent. But the price of a college    education has nearly doubled in that time. Is the education that today's students are getting twice as  good? Are new workers twice as smart? Have they become somehow massively more expensive to educate?
E ．Perhaps a bit. Richard Vedder, an Ohio University economics professor, says, "I look at the data, and   I see college costs rising faster than inflation up to the mid-1980s by 1 percent a year. Now I see them  rising 3to 4 percent a year over inflation. What has happened? The federal government has started  dropping money out of airplanes. " Aid has increased, subsidized (补贴的) loans have become    available, and "the universities have gotten the money. " Economist Bryan Caplan, who is writing a  book about education, agrees: "It's a giant waste of resources that will continue as long as the    subsidies continue. "
F．Promotional literature for colleges and student loans often speaks of debt as an "investment in   yourself. " But an investment is supposed to generate income to pay off the loans. More than haft of all recent graduates are tmemployed or in jobs that do not require a degree, and the amount of student- loan debt carried by households has increased more than five times since 1999. These graduates were    told that a diploma was all they needed to succeed, but it won't even get them out of the spare  bedroom at Mom and Dad's. For many, the most visible result of their four years is the loan payments, which now average hundreds of dollars a month on loan balances in the tens of thousands.
G．It's true about the money--sort of. College graduates now make 80 percent more than people who have only a high-school diploma, and though there are no precise estimates, the wage premium (高出的部分) for an outstanding school seems to be even higher. But that's not true of every student. It's very  easy to spend four years majoring in English literature and come out no more employable than you    were before you went in. Conversely, chemical engineers straight out of school can easily make almost four times the wages of an entry-level high-sch0ol graduate.
H． James Heckman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, has examined how the returns on education  break down for individuals with different backgrounds and levels of ability. "Even with these high  prices, you're still finding a high return for individuals who are bright and motivated," he says. On the  other hand, "if you're not college ready, then the answer is no, it's not worth it. " Experts tend to    agree that for the average student, college is still worth it today, but they also agree that the rapid  increase in price is eating up more and more of the potential return. For borderline students,  tuition ( 学费) rise can push those returns into negative territory.
I． Everyone seems to agree that the government, and parents, should be rethinking how we invest in  higher education-and that employers need to rethink the increasing use of college degrees as crude screening tools for jobs that don't really require college skills, "Employers seeing a surplus of college  graduates and looking to fill jobs are just adding that requirement," says Vedder. "In fact, a college    degree becomes a job requirement for becoming a bar-tender. "
J． We have started to see some change on the fmance side. A law passed in 2007 allows many students to  cap their loan payment at 10 percent of their income and forgives any balance after 25 years. Bnt of course, that doesn't control the cost of education; it just shifts it to taxpayers. It also encourages  gradimtes to choose lower-paying careers, which reduces the financial return to education still further. "You're subsidizing people to become priests and poets and so forth," says Heckman. "You may think that's a good thing, or you may not. " Either way it will be expensive for the government.
K． What might be a lot cheaper is putting more kids to work. Caplan notes that work also btfilds valuable skills--probably more valuable for kids who don't naturally love sitting in a classroom. Heckman agrees wholeheartedly:" People are different, and those abilities can be shaped. That's what we've learned, and public policy should recognize that. "
L． Heckman would like to see more apprenticeship-style (学徒式) programs, where kids can learn in the  workplace  learn not just specific job skills, but the kind of "soft skills," like getting to work on time  and getting along with a team, that are crucial for career success, "It's about having mentors (指导者) and having workplace-based education," he says. "Time  and again I've seen examples of this kind of program working. "
M． Ah, but how do we get there from here? With better public policy, hopefully, but also by making  better individual decisions. "Historically markets have been able to handle these things," says Vedder, "and I think eventually markets will handle this one. ff it doesn't improve soon, people are going to wake up and ask, 'Why am I going to college?'"

Caplan suggests that kids who don't love school go to work,


4、
        Instinctively, the first thing we want to know about a disease is whether it is going to kill us. Twenty-five years ago, tiffs was the only question about AIDS we couJd anwer with any certainty; now, it is the only question we really camaot answer well at all.
By now, those of us in the AIDS business long term have cared for thousands of patients. No one with that kind of personal experience can doubt for a moment the deadly potential of H. I. V. or the life-saving capabilities of the drugs developed against it. But there are also now htmdreds of footnotes and exceptions and modifications to those two facts that make the big picture ever murkier (扑朔迷离).
        We have patients scattered at every possible point: men and women who cruise on their medications with no problems at all, and those who never become stable on them and die of AIDS; those who refuse them until it is too late, and those who never need them at all; those who leave AIDS far behind only to die from lung cancer or breast cancer or liver failure, and those few who are killed by the medications themelves.
        So, when we welcome a new patient into our world, one whose fated place in this world is still unclear, and that patient asks us, as most do, whether this illness is going to kill him or not, it often takes a bit of mental stammering (口吃 ) before we hazard an answer,Now, a complete rundown of all the news from the front would take hours. The statistics change almost; hourly as new treatments appear. It is all too cold, too mathematical, too scary to dump on the head of a sick, frightened person. So we simplify. "We have good treatments now,  we say. "You should do fine. "
Once, not so long ago, we were working in another universe.Now we have simply rejoined the carnival ( 嘉年华) of modern medicine, noisy and encouraging, confusing and contradictory, fueled by the eternal balancing of benefits and risks.
        You can.win big, and why shouldn't you, with the usual fall-safe combination of luck and money. You have our very best hopes, so step right up: we sell big miracles but, offer no guarantees.
What does the author say about AIDS?
A．It is definitely deadly twenty-five years ago.
B．The patients want to know everything about it.
C．We can answer anything about it with certainty now.
D．We could not answer questions about it well before.


5、Questions are based on the following passage.
　　Politics is an emotional business．Still，many people found themselves unusually moved by the historic presidential inauguration．Watching the huge crowds，we saw laughter,cheers，hugs—but also many tears．
　　It made us wonder ,why do people cry ?It is believed that tears must be good for us—a way to calm the mind and cleanse the soul．Yet studies show that crying sometimes makes people feel worse．
　　Three researchers in Florida and the Netherlands recently looked more deeply into the subject．
　　They examined detailed descriptions of crying experiences．Psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg at the University of South Florida says they wanted to study crying as it happens in everyday life，not in a laboratory．The team analyzed information from the International Study on Adult Crying．As Dart of that study,3，000 people in different countries，mostly college students，wrote about recent crying experiences．They noted causes，surroundings and any people involved in the event．They also reported how they felt after they cried．
Professor Rottenberg says the research showed that all crying experiences are not created equally．
　　Crying does not always make a person feel better,he says．About lo percent of people reported feeling worse after they cried．But a third felt better after crying．And a majority reported the experience was helpful．The research showed that people who cry alone may not do as well as those with others around．
People who reached out for emotional support at the time——and received it——reported better resuIts from the crying experience．But those who felt shame or embarrassment while crying were less likely to report that crying had been helpful．
　　Research has shown that women cry more often and more intensely than men，but it mav not be to better effect．The new findings did not show that a person’s sex was a predictor of beneficial crying．
　　In other words，just because women cry more does not mean they are more likely to have a"good"cry．
　　The paper entitled／s Crying Beneficial?appeared in December in Current Directions in Psychologica，Science．Scientists say the science of crying is still in its infancy．
According to the passage，which of the following statements about crying is TRUE?
A．Crying is absolutely good for people’s health．
B．Those crying with others around will feel better than those crying alone．
C．Crying will help a lot for those who felt shame or embarrassment while crying．
D．The benefits of crying are related to a person’s sex．


简答题
6、如今，越来越多的大学生抱怨很难找到好工作。造成这一现象的原因如下：首先，大学生把在校的大多数时间都用在了专业学科学习上，只有当他们开始找工作的时候，才意识到自己缺乏必要的职业培训。其次，大学生之间的竞争也越来越激烈，这导致任何一名大学生找到工作的机会都变小了。因此，强烈建议大学生在课余时间做一些兼职工作，以积累相关的工作经验。

7、　　对全球的应用程序(app)开发商来说，打入中国，这个世界的智能手机(smartphone)市场是非常不容易的。程序开发商们必须与数十家应用程序零售店(retail store)打交道，政府对这些零售店的监管要比美国宽松。程序开发商在中国还必须努力避免自己受到“山寨”产品泛滥的冲击，避开各种监管障碍以及中国本地程序开发商的激烈竞争。



8、Directions：For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Education Pays based on the statistics provided in the chart below(Unemployment rate in 2010)．Please give a brief description the chart first and then make comments on it．You should write at least l20 words but no more than 180 Words



9、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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10、Direction: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Marks or Abilities by commenting on the saying, “Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.” You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.