单项选择题
1、根据下列材料，请回答题：
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
When it comes to video games and apps, what's a parent to do? On the one hand, we're told about the harm of letting kids play with computer games and gadgets (小器具). On the other, we're attracted by games and apps marketedtd us as "educational".
It's a tricky line to follow. Kids' apps range from "baking" cupcakes to crushing war demons (恶魔)Most of them have some educational aspect--at the very least kids learn what ingredients are used in cupcake baking, and the physics of launching Angry Birds at just the right angle to kill the piggies. That's learning, isn't it?
There lie the vague boundaries. Not all games are educational, and not all are shallow forms of entertainment. In fact, most have some elements of both. The trick is to figure out what we want kids to learn and to experience. To collect them all into one category is to miss out on a huge treasure trove (宝库)of learning opportunities. Real learnh apps have a set of criteria that qualifies them as educational, sorather than writing them all off as a waste of time, parents can figure out what their kids are exposed to."We don't ever want to separate engagement from the purposes of learning," said Daniel Edelson, Executive Director and Vice President of Educa on and Children's Programs at the National Geographic Society at a cyber-learning conference last week. "When you're engaged with activities that have learning goals, you can connect the dots between engagement and learning. If you use engagement in its broadest possible sense when people are paying attention because of bright lights and activity, then you don't find that connection. "
So should parents feel guilty allowing their kids to play games on mobile devices?
"No," says Dr. Michael Levine of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, which recently released a study called Learning : Is There an App For That. "Kids see their parents using mobile phones all the time. It's only natural for them to want to use them too. And from the data in our study it looks like, many parents are letting their children use them responsibly--with restrictions and in moderation. "

What can be inferred from the first paragraph?
A．Parents feel confused when choosing video games and apps for children.
B．Parents should prevent children from playing video games and apps.
C．Parents are told about the harm of different computer games and gadgets.
D．Parents are suggested to expose children to educational gantes and apps.


2、

Questions are based on the following passage.
To get a sense of how women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a storied place, the 36 of some of the most important discoveries in modern science--starting with Ernest Lawrence's invention of the cyclotron (回旋加速器．in1931. A generation ago, female faces were 37 and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits 38 the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 39 all of them white males.
But climb up to the third floor and you'll see a 40 display. There, among the photos of current faculty members and students, are portraits of the 41 head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro, and four other women whose research 42 everything from the mechanics of the universe to the smallest particles of matter. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago. Although they're still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real 43 may be in the smaller photos to the right: graduate and undergraduate students, about 20 percent of them female. Every year Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the country's top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic, but also 44 "I believe things are getting better," she says, "but they're not getting better as 45 as I would like.
A．circumstance
B．confidence
C．covers
D．current
E．deals
F．different
G．exposing
H．fast
I．honoring
J．hope
K．presently
L．rare
M．realistic
N．site
O．virtually
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3、Questionsare based on the following passage.
In recent years, a growing body of research has shown that our appetite and food intake are influenced by a large number of factors besides our biological need for energy, including our eating environment and our perception of the food in front of us.
Studies have shown, for instance, that eating in front of the TV (or a similar distraction) can increase both hunger and the amount of food consumed. Even simple visual cues, like plate size and fighting, have been shown to affect portion size and consumption.
A new study suggested that our short-term memory also may play a role in appetite. Several hours after a meal, people's hunger levels were predicted not by how much they'd eaten but rather by how much food they'd seen in front of them in other words, how much they remembered eating..
This disparity (差异) suggests the memory of our previous meal may have a bigger influence on our appetite than the actual size of the meal. says Jeffrey M. Brunstrom, a professor of experimental psychology at the Univerity of Bristol.
"Hunger isn't controlled solely by the physical characteristics of a recent meal. We have identified an
independent role for memory for that meal,'" Brunstrom says. "This shows that the relation_ship between hunger and food intake is more complex than we thought. ""
These findings echo earlier research that suggests our perception of food can sometimes trick our body's response to the food itself. In a 2011 study, for instance, people who drank the same 380-calorie(卡路里) milkshake on two separate occasions produced different levels of hunger-related hormones (荷尔蒙), depending on whether the shake's label said it contained 620 or 140 calories. Moreover, the participants reported feeling more full when they thought they'd consumed a higher-calorie shake.
What does this mean for our eating habits? Although it hardly seems practical to trick ourselves into eating less. the new fmdings do highlight the benefits of focusing on our food and avoiding TV and multitasking while eating.
The so-called mindful-eating strategies can fight distractious and help us control our appetite,
Brunstrom says.
What is said to be a factor affecting our appetite and food intake?
A．How we perceive the food we eat. 
B．what ingredients the food contains. 
C．When we eat our meals. 
D．How fast we eat our meals.


4、根据材料，回答问题。
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 centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Women with low literacy suffer disproportionately more than men, encountering more 36 in finding a well-paying job and being twice as likely to end up in the group of lowest wage earners, a study released on Wednesday said.
Analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) found women at all levels of37tend to earn less than men, but it's at the lowest literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most striking.
Women with low literacy are twice as38 as men at the same skill level to be among the lowest earners,bringing in $300 a week or less, the report said.
"Because women start off so low in terms of wages, having higher literacy and more skills really 39 a big difference," said Kevin Miller, a40research associate at IWPR and co-author of the study.
Women need to go41 in their training and education level to earn the same as men, Miller said.
The42 was based on 2009 National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the most recent data 43,and focused on reading skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That data was 44 from a nationally representative sample of 19,714 people aged 16 and older, living in households or prisons.
Data showed about one-third of American adults have low literacy levels, and more than 36 percent of men and 33 percent of women fall into that45, the institute said.
A． pattern
B . senior
C． longer
D．difficulties
E.category
F. collected
G. positions
H. available
I . conducted
J. independent
K. literacy
L. analysis
M.likely
N. further
O. makes
36.__________


5、根据材料回答题
A．Amazon，by far the largest bookseller in the country,reported on May 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and．ink format．That is remarkable，considering that the Kindle has only been around for four years．E-books now account for 14 percent of All book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales．E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year,while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8percent．
B．Does this spell the doom of the physical book?Certainly not immediately,and perhaps not at all What it does mean is that the book business will go through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen since Gutenberg introduced printing from moveaB．e type in the 1450s．
C． PhysicA． books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace．Mass market paperbacks，which have been declining for years anyway,will probably disappear,as will hardbacks for mysteries，thrillers，“romance fiction．”etc．Such books，which only rarely end up in permanent collections，either private or
public．will probably only be available as e-books within a few years．Hardback and trade paperbacks for“serious”nonfiction and fiction will surely last longer．Perhaps it will become the mark of an author to reckon with that he or she is still puB．ished in hard copy．
D． As for children’s books，who knows?Children’s books are like dog food in that the purchasers are not the consumers，so the market(and the marketing)is inherently strange．
E．For clues to the book’s future，let’s look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the old technology．
F． One technology replaces another only because the new technology is better,cheaper,or both．The greater the difference，the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old．Printing with moveaB．e type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum，which comes from sheepskin．A Bible-to be sure,a long
Book required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor．Before printing arrived,a BiB．e cost more than a middle-class house．There were perhaps 50．000 books in all of Europe in 1450．By l500there were 10 million．
G．But while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out，handwriting lingered on(继续存在) well into the l 6th century．Very speciA． books are still occasionA．ly produced on vellum．but they are one—of-a-kind show pieces．
H． Sometimes a new technology doesn’t drive the old one out，but only parts of it while forcing the rest to evolve．The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace，but they didn’t，because theater turned out to have quA．ities movies could not reproduce．Equally,TV was supposed to replace movies but，again，did not．
I．Movies did，however,fatally impact some parts of live theater．And while TV didn’t kill movies，it did kill second-rate pictures，shorts，and cartoons．
J． Nor did TV kill radio．Comedy and drama shows(“Jack Benny,”“Amos and Andy,” “The Shadow”)all migrated to television．But because you can’t drive a cal ”and watch television at the same time，rushhour became radio’s prime，while music，talk，and news radio greatly enlarged their audiences．Radio is today a very different business than in the late 1940s and a much larger one．
K．Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power．Mounted cavalry(骑兵) replaced the chariot(二轮战车)on the battlefield around 1 000 BC．But chariots maintained their place in parades and triumphs right up until the end of the Roman Empire 1,500 years later．The Sword hasn’t had a military function for a hundred years,but is still part of an officer’s full．dress nniforill，precisely because a sword A．ways symbolized“an ofificer and a gentleman．”
L．Sometimes new technology is a little cranky(不稳定的)at first．Television repairman was a common occupation in the 1950s．for instance．And so the old technology remains as a backup．Steamships captured the North Atlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of its much greater
speed．But steamships didn’t lose their sails until the 1880s,because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down．Until ships became large enough(and engines small enough)to mount two engines side by side．they needed to keep sails．(The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world’s ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century．)
M．Then there is the fireplace．Central heating was present in every．upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 1 9th century．But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful selling point in a house or aDartment．I suspect the reason is a deep．rooted love of the fire．Fire was one of the earliest major technological advances for humankind，providing heat，protection，and cooked food(which is much easier to eat and digest)．Human control of fire goes back far enough(over a million years)that evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life．
N． Books-especially books the average person could afford-haven’t been around long enough to produce evolutionary change in humans．But they have a powerful hold on many people nonetheless，a hold extending far beyond their literary content．At their best，they are works of art and there is a tactile(触觉的)pleasure in books necessarily lost in e-book versions．The ability to quickly thumb through pages is  also lost．And a room with books in it induces，at least in some，a feeling not dissimilar to that of a fire in the fireplace on a cold winter’s night．
0． For these reasons I think physical books will have a longer existence as a commercial product than some currently predict．Like swords，books have symbolic power．Like fireplaces，they induce a sense of comfort and warmth．And，perhaps，similar to sails，they make a usefurback-up for when the lights goout．
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Authors still puB．ished in printed versions will be considered important ones．


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6、听材料，回答下列各题：
        You probably have noticed that people express similar ideas in different ways, depending on the situation they are in. This is very ____26____ All languages have two general levels of usage : a formal level and an informal level. English is no ____27____. The difference in these two levels is the situation in which you use a ____28____ level. Formal language is the kind of language you find in textbooks, ____29____, and in business letters. You would also use formal English in compositions and ____30____ that you write in school. Informal language is used in conversation with colleagues, family members and friends, and when we write ____31____ notes or letters to close friends.
        Formal language is different from informal language ____32____. First, formal language tends to be more polite. What we may find interesting is that it usually takes more words to be polite. For example, I might say to a friend or a family member, "Close the door, please. " but to a ____33____, I probably would say,"Would you mind closing the door?"
        Another difference between formal and informal language is some of the ____34____. There are bound to be some words and phrases that ____35____ formal language and others that are informal. Let's say that I really like soccer. If I'm talking to my friend, I might say "I'm just crazy about soccer !" But if I were talldng to my boss, I would probably say "I really enjoy soccer. "
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简答题
7、故宫(Imperial Palace)位于北京城的中心，是明清两代(Ming and Qing Dynasties)的皇宫，是中国现存的古代木构建筑群。故宫始建于l406年，历时十四年后竣工，迄今已有5000多年的历史。气势雄伟的故宫是中国古建筑艺术的精华，里面保存有大量稀世文物和珍宝，对于研究明清两代及历代艺术具有重要意义。1987年被联合国教科文组织(UNESCO)列入“世界人类文化遗产”。
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8、裸婚(naked mar r iage)是指不买房、不买车、不办婚礼甚至没有婚戒而直接领证结婚的一种简朴的结婚方式。由于生活压力以及现代人越来越强调婚姻的“自由”和“独立”，  “婚礼”在年轻一代的婚姻中被重视的程度日益削弱，因而“裸婚”也就成为“80后”新潮的结婚方式。热衷于“裸婚”的年轻一代一般年龄在20岁到35岁之间。他们大多思想前卫，其中也不乏高学历、高收入的都市白领。


9、在全球变暖的大背景下，低碳经济(| ow-carbon economy)受到越来越多国家的关注。低碳经济是以减少温室气体排放为目标，以低能耗、低污染为基础的经济发展方式。近些年来，科学界以及各国政府已基本达成一致，推行低碳经济是避免气候发生灾难性变化、保持人类可持续发展的有效方法之一。以公众的消费选择引导和鼓励企业开发低碳产品技术，向低碳生产模式转变，终达到减少全球温室气体的效果。


10、You shouM write an announcement to welcome students tojoin a club．
写作导航
1．本社团活动的内容；
2．参加本社团的好处；
3．如何加入本社团