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单项选择题
1、听音频：
回答题：
问题
A．See a doctor about her strained shoulder．
B．Use a ladder to help her reach the tea．
C．Replace the cupboard With a new one．
D．Place the tea on a lower shelf next time．
2、根据以下内容，回答题。
The End of Food
Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?
A．In December of 2012，three young men were living in a claustrophobic(患幽闭恐惧症的)apartment in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district，working on a technology startup．They had received a hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the incubator Y Combinator．but their project—a plan to make inexpensive cell-phone towers——had failed．Down to their last seventy thousand dollars．they resolved to keep trying out new software ideas until they ran out of money．But how to make the funds last?Rent was a sunk cost．Since they were working frantically,they already had no social life．As they examined their budget，one big problem remained：food．
B．They had been living mostly on ramen，com dogs，and Costco frozen quesadillas——supplemented by Vitamin C tablets，to stave of rescurvy(坏血病)——but the grocery bills were still adding up．Rob Rhinehart，one of the entrepreneurs，began to resent the fact that he had to eat at all．“Food was such a large burden，”he told me recently．“It was also the time and the hassle．We had a very small kitchen，and no dishwasher．”He tried out his own version of“Super Size Me．”living on McDonald’s dollar meals and five．dollar pizzas from Little Caesars．But after a week．he said,“I felt like l was going to die．”Kale was all the rage——and cheap——so next he tried an all．kale diet．But that did not work，either．“I was starving，”he said．
C．Rhinehart，who is twenty-five，studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech，and he began to consider food as an engineering problem．“You need amino acids(氨基酸)and lipids，not milk itself,”he said．“You need carbohydrates(碳水化合物)，not bread．”Fruits and vegetables provide essential Vitamins and minerals．but they’re“mostly water．”He began to think that food was an inefficient way：of geRing what he needed to survive．“It just seemed like a system that’s too complex and too expensive and too fragile，”he told me．
D．What if he went straight to the law chemical components?He took a break from experimenting with software and studied textbooks on nutrifional biochemistry and the Web sites of the F.D．A．,the U．S．D．A．，and the Institute of Medicine．Eventually,Rhinehan compiled a list of thirty-five nutrients required for survival．Then，instead of heading to the grocery store，he ordered them ofr the Intemet--mostlyin powder or pill form——and poured everything into a blender'with some water．The result．a slurry of chemicals，looked like gooey lemonade．Then，he told me，“I started living on it．”
E.Rhinehart called his potion Soylent，which，for most people，evokes the 1973 science-fiction film“Soylent Green．”starring Charlton Heston．The movie is set in a dystopian future where，because ofoverpopulation and pollution，people live on mysterious wafers called Soylent Green．The film ends with the ghastly revelation that Soylent Green is made from human flesh．
F.Rhinehart’s roommates were skeptical．One told me，“It seemed pretty weird．”They kept shopping at Costco．After a month，Rhinehart published the results of his experiment in a blog post，titled“How I Stopped Eating Food．”The post has a“Eureka!”tone．The chemical potion，Rhinehart reported，was“delicious!I felt like l’d just had the best breakfast of my life．”Drinking Soylent was saving him time and money：his food costs had dropped from four hundred and seventy dollars a month to fifty．And physically,he wrote，“I feel like the six million dollar mail．My physique has noticeably improved，my skin is clearer,my teeth whiter,my hair thicker and my dandruff gone．”He concluded．“I haven’t eaten a bite of food in thirty days，and it's changed my lifc．”In a fcw weeks，his blog post was at the top of Hacker News——a water cooler for the tech industry．Reactions were polarized．“RIP Rob，”a comment on Rhinehart’s blog read．But other people asked for his formula，which，in the spirit of the“open source”movement，he posted online．
G.One of Silicon Valley’s cultural exports in the past ten years has been the concept of“life hacking”：devising tricks to streamline the obligations of daily life．thereby freeing yourself up for whatever you’d rather be doing．Rhinehart’s“future food”seemed a clever work．around．Lifehackers everywherebegan to test it out，and then to make their own versions．Soon commenters on Reddit were sparring about the appropriate dose of calcium-magnesium powder．Atier three months，Rhinehart said，he realized that his mixture had the makings of a company：“It provided more value to my life than any app．”He and his roommates put aside their software ideas．and got into the synthetic．food business．
H. To attract funding，Rhinehart and his roommates turned to the Internet：they set up a crowd-funding campaign in which people could receive a week’s supply of manufactured Soylent for sixty-five dollars．They started with a fund．raising goal of a hundred thousand dollars，which they hoped to raise in a month．But when they opened up to donations，Rhineha It says，“we got that in two hours．”Last week，the first thirty thousand units of commercially made Soylent were shipped out to customers across America．In addition to the crowd．funding money,its production was financed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists，including Y Combinator and the blue．chip investment firm Andreessen Horowitz， which contributed a million dollars．
I. Soylent has been heralded by the press as“the end of food，”which is a somewhat bleak prospect．It conjares up visions of a world devoid of pizza parlors and taco stands——our kitchens stocked with beige powder instead of banana bread，our spaghetti nights and ice-cream socials replaced by evenings sipping sludge．
J.But，Rhinehart says，that’s not exactly his vision．“Most of people’s meals are forgotten，”he told me．He imagines that，in the future，“we’ll see a separation between our meals for utility and function，and our meals for experience and socialization．”Soylent isn’t coming for our Sunday potlucks．It’s coming for our frozen quesadillas．
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
What will be the consequence of his direct study of raw chemical components?
3、根据材料，回答题：
The argument that global warming is causing more extreme weather is problematic because it presumes the globe is warming. In fact, the global temperature trend line has been stable for more than a dozen years, while carbon dioxide has increased 7%. If carbon dioxide was the driver, then why have global temperatures stopped increasing?
Keep in mind that carbon dioxide represents 0.0395% of the Earth's atmosphere. Arguing that carbon dioxide is driving the small temperature variations in our climate as opposed to the oceans, which cover70% of the planet and have 1,000 times the heat capacity of air, or the output of our sun, is scientifically disturbing.
Weather is more publicized nowadays because of its impact on society and the constant push of the global warming agenda. Increases in population result in more people being in the path of Mother Nature's great anger. Global warming activists attribute every major weather event to man because they are either uninformed about history, or choose to ignore it. The latest claims resulting from this series of hot and dry summers ignore the fact that more state heat records were set in the 1930s than all other decades of the last century combined. Anyone remember the Dust Bowl?
Seven major hurricanes hit the East Coast from 1954 to 1960. Now that we are in a pattern similar to the 1950s, the East Coast is vulnerable once again, and attributing events like Hurricane Irene to global warming is incorrect. All the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC．projections for our climate have proved to be wrong. Global temperatures have stopped increasing and are nowhere near estimates made a decade ago. The IPCC incorrectly predicted Arctic sea ice would disappear by now.
After Katrina in 2005, more and stronger hurricanes were forecast to be the future. The Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index for the globe has instead declined to the lowest level in 30 years. This does not mean we will not see warm weather and land-falling hurricanes. We are in a pattern similar to the 1950s when U.S. heat and drought as well as East Coast land-failing hurricanes were quite prevalent.
Perhaps when the Atlantic becomes cold, we will be hearing Ice Age scares again as we did in the 1970s.
According to the first, paragraph_______.
A．there is less extreme weather
B．the global temperature is always stable
C．the globe is not waring
D．carbon dioxide delays global wanning
简答题
4、Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below．You should start your essay with a brief account ofpersonal information security and then explain who should be responsible for illegal use ofpersonal information．You should write at least 120 words and no more than180words．
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
PartⅡListening Comprehension(30 minutes)
5、“上海艺术影像展”(Photo Shangha i Expos i t i on)是中国专注于艺术影像的国际博览会，也是亚太地区级别的艺术影像博览会。展会为了响应亚太地区日益繁荣的摄影市场而创办的。将于2014年9月于上海市地标上海展览中心举行。届时，来自全球的将近70家全球领先摄影画廊和艺术机构将齐聚上海。其中包括许多欧美摄影艺术机构。展会将
重点推出亚洲当代摄影作品。
6、每年农历七月初七这一天是我国汉族的传统节日七夕节(Doub|e Seventh Festiva|)。此日活动的主要参与者是少女，而节日活动的内容又是以乞巧(cuIti vati ng femi ni ne wi sdom)为主，故而人们称这天为“乞巧节”或“少女节”。七夕节是我国传统节日中具浪漫色彩的一个节日，也是过去姑娘们为重视的日子。2006年5月20日，七夕节被国务院列入批国家非物质文化遗产名录。现又被认为是“中国情人节”。
7、You shouM write a letter to a company declining ajob offer．
写作导航
1．回应对方来信，并表达感谢；
2．委婉拒方邀请，并且说明原因；
3．再次表达感谢，并且展望未来；
4．按照书信格式落款。
8、You should write an essay entitled It Pays to Plan by commenting on the saying“lt wasn ’t raining when Noah built the ark．”You can give examples to illustrate your point．
写作导航
1．通过俗语来诠释计划的重要意义；
2．解释为什么计划如此重要，并以CE0来举例说明；
3．得出结论，建议大家做事情之前都应该制定详细的计划。
9、You shouM write a short essay on the topic ofstudents selecting their lecturers．
写作导航
1．引出现象：有些大学允许学生自由选择某些课程的任课教师；
2．指出学生选择教师时所考虑的主要因素。
3．点明学生自选任课教师的益处和可能产生的问题。
10、
1、听音频：
点击播放
回答题：
问题
A．See a doctor about her strained shoulder．
B．Use a ladder to help her reach the tea．
C．Replace the cupboard With a new one．
D．Place the tea on a lower shelf next time．
2、根据以下内容，回答题。
The End of Food
Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?
A．In December of 2012，three young men were living in a claustrophobic(患幽闭恐惧症的)apartment in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district，working on a technology startup．They had received a hundred and seventy thousand dollars from the incubator Y Combinator．but their project—a plan to make inexpensive cell-phone towers——had failed．Down to their last seventy thousand dollars．they resolved to keep trying out new software ideas until they ran out of money．But how to make the funds last?Rent was a sunk cost．Since they were working frantically,they already had no social life．As they examined their budget，one big problem remained：food．
B．They had been living mostly on ramen，com dogs，and Costco frozen quesadillas——supplemented by Vitamin C tablets，to stave of rescurvy(坏血病)——but the grocery bills were still adding up．Rob Rhinehart，one of the entrepreneurs，began to resent the fact that he had to eat at all．“Food was such a large burden，”he told me recently．“It was also the time and the hassle．We had a very small kitchen，and no dishwasher．”He tried out his own version of“Super Size Me．”living on McDonald’s dollar meals and five．dollar pizzas from Little Caesars．But after a week．he said,“I felt like l was going to die．”Kale was all the rage——and cheap——so next he tried an all．kale diet．But that did not work，either．“I was starving，”he said．
C．Rhinehart，who is twenty-five，studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech，and he began to consider food as an engineering problem．“You need amino acids(氨基酸)and lipids，not milk itself,”he said．“You need carbohydrates(碳水化合物)，not bread．”Fruits and vegetables provide essential Vitamins and minerals．but they’re“mostly water．”He began to think that food was an inefficient way：of geRing what he needed to survive．“It just seemed like a system that’s too complex and too expensive and too fragile，”he told me．
D．What if he went straight to the law chemical components?He took a break from experimenting with software and studied textbooks on nutrifional biochemistry and the Web sites of the F.D．A．,the U．S．D．A．，and the Institute of Medicine．Eventually,Rhinehan compiled a list of thirty-five nutrients required for survival．Then，instead of heading to the grocery store，he ordered them ofr the Intemet--mostlyin powder or pill form——and poured everything into a blender'with some water．The result．a slurry of chemicals，looked like gooey lemonade．Then，he told me，“I started living on it．”
E.Rhinehart called his potion Soylent，which，for most people，evokes the 1973 science-fiction film“Soylent Green．”starring Charlton Heston．The movie is set in a dystopian future where，because ofoverpopulation and pollution，people live on mysterious wafers called Soylent Green．The film ends with the ghastly revelation that Soylent Green is made from human flesh．
F.Rhinehart’s roommates were skeptical．One told me，“It seemed pretty weird．”They kept shopping at Costco．After a month，Rhinehart published the results of his experiment in a blog post，titled“How I Stopped Eating Food．”The post has a“Eureka!”tone．The chemical potion，Rhinehart reported，was“delicious!I felt like l’d just had the best breakfast of my life．”Drinking Soylent was saving him time and money：his food costs had dropped from four hundred and seventy dollars a month to fifty．And physically,he wrote，“I feel like the six million dollar mail．My physique has noticeably improved，my skin is clearer,my teeth whiter,my hair thicker and my dandruff gone．”He concluded．“I haven’t eaten a bite of food in thirty days，and it's changed my lifc．”In a fcw weeks，his blog post was at the top of Hacker News——a water cooler for the tech industry．Reactions were polarized．“RIP Rob，”a comment on Rhinehart’s blog read．But other people asked for his formula，which，in the spirit of the“open source”movement，he posted online．
G.One of Silicon Valley’s cultural exports in the past ten years has been the concept of“life hacking”：devising tricks to streamline the obligations of daily life．thereby freeing yourself up for whatever you’d rather be doing．Rhinehart’s“future food”seemed a clever work．around．Lifehackers everywherebegan to test it out，and then to make their own versions．Soon commenters on Reddit were sparring about the appropriate dose of calcium-magnesium powder．Atier three months，Rhinehart said，he realized that his mixture had the makings of a company：“It provided more value to my life than any app．”He and his roommates put aside their software ideas．and got into the synthetic．food business．
H. To attract funding，Rhinehart and his roommates turned to the Internet：they set up a crowd-funding campaign in which people could receive a week’s supply of manufactured Soylent for sixty-five dollars．They started with a fund．raising goal of a hundred thousand dollars，which they hoped to raise in a month．But when they opened up to donations，Rhineha It says，“we got that in two hours．”Last week，the first thirty thousand units of commercially made Soylent were shipped out to customers across America．In addition to the crowd．funding money,its production was financed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists，including Y Combinator and the blue．chip investment firm Andreessen Horowitz， which contributed a million dollars．
I. Soylent has been heralded by the press as“the end of food，”which is a somewhat bleak prospect．It conjares up visions of a world devoid of pizza parlors and taco stands——our kitchens stocked with beige powder instead of banana bread，our spaghetti nights and ice-cream socials replaced by evenings sipping sludge．
J.But，Rhinehart says，that’s not exactly his vision．“Most of people’s meals are forgotten，”he told me．He imagines that，in the future，“we’ll see a separation between our meals for utility and function，and our meals for experience and socialization．”Soylent isn’t coming for our Sunday potlucks．It’s coming for our frozen quesadillas．
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
What will be the consequence of his direct study of raw chemical components?
3、根据材料，回答题：
The argument that global warming is causing more extreme weather is problematic because it presumes the globe is warming. In fact, the global temperature trend line has been stable for more than a dozen years, while carbon dioxide has increased 7%. If carbon dioxide was the driver, then why have global temperatures stopped increasing?
Keep in mind that carbon dioxide represents 0.0395% of the Earth's atmosphere. Arguing that carbon dioxide is driving the small temperature variations in our climate as opposed to the oceans, which cover70% of the planet and have 1,000 times the heat capacity of air, or the output of our sun, is scientifically disturbing.
Weather is more publicized nowadays because of its impact on society and the constant push of the global warming agenda. Increases in population result in more people being in the path of Mother Nature's great anger. Global warming activists attribute every major weather event to man because they are either uninformed about history, or choose to ignore it. The latest claims resulting from this series of hot and dry summers ignore the fact that more state heat records were set in the 1930s than all other decades of the last century combined. Anyone remember the Dust Bowl?
Seven major hurricanes hit the East Coast from 1954 to 1960. Now that we are in a pattern similar to the 1950s, the East Coast is vulnerable once again, and attributing events like Hurricane Irene to global warming is incorrect. All the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC．projections for our climate have proved to be wrong. Global temperatures have stopped increasing and are nowhere near estimates made a decade ago. The IPCC incorrectly predicted Arctic sea ice would disappear by now.
After Katrina in 2005, more and stronger hurricanes were forecast to be the future. The Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index for the globe has instead declined to the lowest level in 30 years. This does not mean we will not see warm weather and land-falling hurricanes. We are in a pattern similar to the 1950s when U.S. heat and drought as well as East Coast land-failing hurricanes were quite prevalent.
Perhaps when the Atlantic becomes cold, we will be hearing Ice Age scares again as we did in the 1970s.
According to the first, paragraph_______.
A．there is less extreme weather
B．the global temperature is always stable
C．the globe is not waring
D．carbon dioxide delays global wanning
简答题
4、Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below．You should start your essay with a brief account ofpersonal information security and then explain who should be responsible for illegal use ofpersonal information．You should write at least 120 words and no more than180words．
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
PartⅡListening Comprehension(30 minutes)
5、“上海艺术影像展”(Photo Shangha i Expos i t i on)是中国专注于艺术影像的国际博览会，也是亚太地区级别的艺术影像博览会。展会为了响应亚太地区日益繁荣的摄影市场而创办的。将于2014年9月于上海市地标上海展览中心举行。届时，来自全球的将近70家全球领先摄影画廊和艺术机构将齐聚上海。其中包括许多欧美摄影艺术机构。展会将
重点推出亚洲当代摄影作品。
6、每年农历七月初七这一天是我国汉族的传统节日七夕节(Doub|e Seventh Festiva|)。此日活动的主要参与者是少女，而节日活动的内容又是以乞巧(cuIti vati ng femi ni ne wi sdom)为主，故而人们称这天为“乞巧节”或“少女节”。七夕节是我国传统节日中具浪漫色彩的一个节日，也是过去姑娘们为重视的日子。2006年5月20日，七夕节被国务院列入批国家非物质文化遗产名录。现又被认为是“中国情人节”。
7、You shouM write a letter to a company declining ajob offer．
写作导航
1．回应对方来信，并表达感谢；
2．委婉拒方邀请，并且说明原因；
3．再次表达感谢，并且展望未来；
4．按照书信格式落款。
8、You should write an essay entitled It Pays to Plan by commenting on the saying“lt wasn ’t raining when Noah built the ark．”You can give examples to illustrate your point．
写作导航
1．通过俗语来诠释计划的重要意义；
2．解释为什么计划如此重要，并以CE0来举例说明；
3．得出结论，建议大家做事情之前都应该制定详细的计划。
9、You shouM write a short essay on the topic ofstudents selecting their lecturers．
写作导航
1．引出现象：有些大学允许学生自由选择某些课程的任课教师；
2．指出学生选择教师时所考虑的主要因素。
3．点明学生自选任课教师的益处和可能产生的问题。
10、
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