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1. 根据下列材料，请回答61-57题：
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Recently the Barbican museum in London held an exhibition called the Rain Room. During the time this exhibition was open, my Twitter stream was filled with photos of people standing in the Rain Room, accompanied by the caption(标题) “Rain Room @ The Barbican!” and a location attachment to prove that they were indeed in the Rain Room.
This got me thinking. What were people actually saying by Tweeting about their visit? I think all they were doing was meeting the obligation that we have to share. Not sharing in the sense of treasuring a moment with people close to us, but sharing in the sense of "notify the world that I am doing a thing". It's not sharing; it's showing off. When we log in to Facebook or Twitter we see an infinitely updating tream of people enjoying themselves. It's not real life, because people only post about the good things whereas all the dull or deep stuff doesn't get mentioned. But despite this obvious fact, it subconsciously makes us feel like everyone is having a better time than us.
This is the curse of our age. We walk around with the tools to capture extensive data about our surroundings and transmit them in real-time to every acquaintance we've made. We end "up with adimin is hed perception of reality because we're more concerned about choosing a good Instagram filter for our meal than how it tastes.
I don't that that it's inherently wrong to want to keep the world updated about what you're doing. But when you go through life robotically posting about everything you do, you're not a human being. You're just a prism(棱镜) that takes bits of light and sound and channels them into the Cloud.
The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; you're detracting (转移) from them because all your efforts are focused on making them look attractive too they people. Once you stop seeing things through the eyes of the people following you on Twitter or Facebook or instagram, you can make your experiences significant, because you were there and you saw the sights and smelled the smells and heard the sounds, not because, you snapped a photo of it through a half-inch camera lens.


What do we learn from the first two paragraphs?
A．Rain Room exhibition received a large audience in London.
B．Most of people feel obligated to share their experience with Mends.
C．Many people want to notify others of their experience by Tweeting.
D．All people having gone to the Rain Room took pictures.

2. 根据以下资料，回答57-56题：
        New evidence of a sick, deprived population working under harshconditions contradicts earlier images of wealth and abundance from the artrecords of the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna, a study has found．Tell el-Amarna was the capital of ancient Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh (法老) Akhenaten, who abandoned most of Egypt's old gods in favor of the Aten sun disk andbrought in a new and more expressive style of art．Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt between 1379 and 1362BC, built and lived in Tell el-Amarna in central Egypt for 15 years．The city was largely abandoned shortlyafter his death and the ascendance of the famous boy king Tutankhamun to the throne．Studies on the remains of ordinary ancient Egyptians in a cemetery in Tell el-Amarna showed thatmany of them suffered from anem/a (贫血症 ), fractured bones, stunted growth and high juvenilemortality rates, according to professors Barry Kemp and Jerome Rose, who led the research．Rose, a professor of anthropology (人类学) in the University of Arkansas in the United States, saidadults buried in the cemetery were probably brought there from other parts of Egypt．"This means that wehave a period of deprivation in Egypt prior to the Amarna phase．So maybe things were not so good for theaverage Egyptian and maybe Akhenaten said we have to change to make things better," he said．Kemp, director of the Amarna Project which seeks in part to increase public knowledge of Tell el-Amarna and surrounding region, said little attention has been given to the cemeteries of ordinary ancient Egyptians．Rose displayed pictures showing spinal (脊柱) injuries among teenagers, probably because of accidents during construction work to build the city．The study showed that anemia ran at 74 percent among children and teenagers, and at 44 percentamong adults, Rose said．The average height of men was 159 cm (5 feet 2 inches) and 153 cm among women．"Adult heights are used as an indicator for overall standard of living," he said．"Short statures(身长) reflect a diet deficient in protein．．．People were not growing to their full potential．"


What is the findings of the study mentioned in the passage?
A．The ancient Tell el-Amarna was famous for its art records．
B．The artistic exhibition of ancient Tell el-Amarna was trustworthy．
C．The art records of Tell el-Amarna showed ancient Egyptians' real life．
D．Life was really tough for average Egyptians in ancient Tell el-Amarna．

3.         Questions 56-62are based on the following passage.
         In his first term. Mayor Michael Bloomberg mapped out a fair plan to get rid of 11,000 tons of New York City garbage every day. The complex proposal was designed to make each district take care of its own trash. It was also supposed to help limit noisy garbage trucks going long distances through, the city to reach marine barges (驳船), railways or out-of-state trash facilities.
        Nobody wanted these new garbage transfer stations in their neighborhood, even with promises of new high-tech, low-smell facilities. There are already stations in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, most of them in lower-income commtmities. Only one area of the city--the Upper East Side of
Manhattan--has refused to accept a trash facility. The city should not give in to local resistance.
        It is time for residents in that neighborhood to accept a share of the city's garbage problem. The city should build a modern, environmentally sound facility at 91st Street to transfer trash from Manhattan to barges on the East River. That trash, estimated at up to 1,800 tons a day, would then go by barge to other states.
Deputy Mayor Cas Hoiloway said last week that the city has had to fight off "lawsuit after lawsuit" with "every useless argument under the sun" from those opposing the 91st Street facility. Those delays have helped push the cost for building the station from $125 million in 2006 to about $ 226 million now.
        An earlier trash station at that site, which was closed in 1999, was badly designed so that trucks idled along York Avenue. The new facility, Mr. Holloway said, has been designed to reduce the congestion problem with longer ramps (匝道) leading to the facility, which sits on the eastern side of Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. The plans also call for higher noise-blocking walls along the ramps.
        This terminal is an essential part of the city's 20-year waste management plan. John Doherty, the sanitation (环境卫生) commissioner, told critics at a hearing last week, "We will not entertain any changes to what is a fair and thoughtful, district-based approach that was founded on the principles of environmental equity for all New Yorkers."
Environmental equity, in this case, means that the Upper East Side of Manhattan has to do its part.

The plan worked out by Mayor Michael Bloomberg will______.
A．make garbage trucks no longer necessary
B．need more out-of-state trash facilities
C．reduce the amount of trash in the city
D．make each district deal with its own trash

4. 回答62-56题：
        Marriage emerged as the most popular institution throughout history primarily because it was an effective arrangement to improve the care and upbringing of children. Marriage is not necessary to have children, but it has been of enormous importance in the rearing of children.
        With the sharp declines in birth rates since 1970 in Western and other rich countries, including much larger fractions of adults who do not have any children, both men and women have significantly increased　their ages marriage, and sharply raised their tendencies to divorce. In 1950, a typical woman and man married at ages 20.3 and 22.8 respectively, whereas now the typical marital ages are 26.0 and 27.7. These changes in age at mariage are related to reduced demand for many children, increased college education of both men and women but especially of women, much greater labor force participation of married and divorced women, and the narrowing of the gender gap in earnings.
        The most important economic and social concerns due to low marriage rates are the effects on roaring of children. These effects are not due to lower marriage rates alone, but rather to the close connection between these low rates and high divorce rates, and to the greater tendency of women to have children without being married, or without living with the fathers of their children.
        Although many single mothers do an absolutely wonderful job in raising their children, common sense and most academic findings suggest that having a father present during the raising of children generally has a positive effect on the development of non-cognitive ( 非认知性) traits of children, These include a general respect for authority and reduced rebelliousness in school, and the avoidance of gangs and other criminal activities. It also appears that the absence of fathers has a greater effect, on the non-cognitive traits of sons than daughters, although that is a less well-established finding.
        I am not claiming that children are worst oft" when their parents divorce if their parents were fighting a lot, or ff they bad abusive (粗暴的) fathers. Rather, it, appears that up to a significant point, children are, better off in intact families even when their families are not ideal.

What do we learn from the first paragraph about marriage?
A．It is primarily a necessary step to have children.
B．It meets resistance in Western and other rich countries.
C．It has a tremendous impact on the rearing of children.
D．It is the most important institution throughout history.

5. Questions56-37 are based on the following passage．
　　It was once thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic．Today,we know that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution，the problem is literally worldwide．On several occasions over the past decade，a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the entire eastern half of the United States and led to health warnings
　　even in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic．In fact， the very climate of the entire earth may be affected by air pollution．
　　Some scientists feel that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels(coal and oil．is creating a“greenhouse effect”一holding in heat reflected from the earth and raising the world’s average temperature．If this view is correct and the world’s temperature is raised only a few degrees。much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New Y0rk，Boston，Miami，and New Orleans will be under water．
　　Another view,less widely held，is that increasing particulate matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth’s temperature—a result that would be equally disastrous．A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to new ice age and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas．
　　At present we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen，though one recent government report prepared by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very likely．Perhaps，if we are very lucky,the two tendencies will offset each other and the world’s temperature will
　　stay about the same as it is now．
　　
According to the passage，people today think that air pollution________．
A．exists merely in urban and industrial areas
B．may have an effect on the entire earth
C．causes widespread damage in the countryside
D．is not so serious as it used to be

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6. Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions{TSE} are based on the following passage.
Since the late 1800s, more and more women have joined the word force. In the 1890s, only about 17% of women worked 36 of the home. Besides farm work, their jobs were mainly in traditional women’s fields such as teaching, nursing and 37 service. Women also worked in textile and garment factories. By the 1900s, the percent of employed women rose 38 , to about 20%. Occupations that were opening up to women at this time included secretary, telephone operator, and sales clerk.
During the Great Depression in 1930s, money and jobs were 39 , and many people became unemployed. Women had an especially hard time finding work. In the 1940s and United States was fighting World War II. As more and more men were 40 up to fight, many jobs opened up to women. For the first time in U. S. history, many women worked in 41 industry. By now, about 45% of women were employed.
After the war, many people 42 women to give up their jobs. They felt that the jobs should go to the men returning from war. So, by the 1950s, there were fewer women working, and fewer jobs 43 open to women. In the 1950s women were encouraged to stay at home and keep house.
Beginning in the 1960s, the 44 of women working gradually rose. In the 1960s, 35% of women had jobs, in the 1970s, 44% had jobs. Women now worked as stockbrokers, doctors, and lawyers in addition to the more 45 jobs.
A) amount         F) greatly      K) percent
B) called             G) heavy      L) remained
C) demanded     H) inside       M) scarce
D) domestic       I) light          N) slightly
E) expected     J) outside       O) traditional

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7. 端午节(the Duanwu Festival)，也叫龙舟节(the Dragon Boat Festival)，是中国农历(Chineselunar calendar)的五月初五。关于这个节日有很多传说，但是著名是屈原的传说。屈原是战国(the Warring States PerioD．时期楚国的一位大臣。他正直，忠诚，因为提出让国家和平繁荣的建议而为人所尊重。然而，国王的统治让屈原日益心灰意冷，他于农历五月初五自沉汨罗江。
8. 端午节，又叫龙舟节，是为了纪念爱国诗人屈原。屈原是一位忠诚和受人敬仰的大臣（minister）,他给国家带来了和平和繁荣。 但后因为受到诽谤（vilify）而终投河自 尽。人们撑船到他自尽的地方，抛下粽子， 希望鱼儿吃粽子，不要吃屈原的身躯。几 千年来，端午节的特色在于吃粽子 （glutinous dumplings）和赛龙舟，尤其是 在一些河湖密布的南方省份。
9. 1．下图为x市抽样调查市民对选秀节目态度的结果，请简述该图；
2．请简述双方持各自观点的原因；
3．你对选秀节目的看法，是支持、反对，还是不置可否，总结全文。

10. Poor physical condition of university students
1.大学生身体素质越来越差，每年军训中都有不少学生因体力不支晕倒
2.分析下原因
3.谈谈对策