单项选择题
1、听录音,回答题

A．It is lined with tall trees．
B．It was widened recently．
C．It used to be dirty and disorderly．
D．It has high buildings on both sides．


2、听录音,回答题

A．Some new problems in her work．
B．Cooperation with an international bank．
C．Her chance for promotion in the bank． 
D．Her intention to leave her present job．


3、听录音,回答题

A． In a restaurant.
B． In a hotel lobby. 
C． At the man's office.
D． At the woman's place.


4、Questions  are based on the following passage．
Alex Pang's amusing new book The Distraction Addiction addresses those of us who feel panic without a cellphone or computer．And that, he claims, is pretty much all of us．When we're not online, where we spend four months annually, we're engaged in the stressful work of trying to get online．
The Distraction Addiction is not framed as a self-help book．It's a thoughtful examination of the dangers of our computing overdose and a historical overview of how technological advances change consciousness．A "professional futurist", Pang urges an approach which he calls "contemplative (沉思的) computing．" He asks that you pay full attention to  "how your mind and body interact with computers and how your attention and creativity are influenced by technology．"
Pang's first job is to free you from the common misconception that doing two things at once allows you to get more done．What is commonly called multitasking is, in fact, switch-tasking, and its harmful effects on productivity are well documented．Pang doesn't advocate returning to a pre-Internet world．Instead, he asks you to "take a more ecological (生态的) view of your relationships with technologies and
look for ways devices or media may be making specific tasks easier or faster but at the same time making your work and life harder．"
The Distraction Addiction is particularly fascinating on how technologies have changed certain fields of labor-often for the worse．For architects, computer-aided design has become essential but in some ways has cheapened the design process．As one architect puts it, "Architecture is first and foremost about thinking．．, and drawing is a more productive way of thinking" than computer-aided design．
Somewhat less amusing are Pang's solutions for kicking the Internet habit．He recommends the usual behavior-modification approaches, familiar to anyone who has completed a not smoking program．Keep logs to study your online profile and decide what you can knock out, download a program like Freedom that locks you out of your browser, or take a  "digital Sabbath (安息日 )":  "Unless you're a reporter or
emergency-department doctor, you'll discover that your world doesn't fall apart when you go offline．"
Alex Pang's new book is aimed for readers who
A．find their work online too stressful
B．go online mainly for entertainment
C．are fearful about using the cellphone or computer
D．can hardly tear themselves away from the Internet


5、Questionsare based on the following passage．
The international space station is getting a new，inflatable room that resembles a giant spare tire，NASA announced Wednesday．Slated to launch in mid-2015，the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module，or BEAM，will fly to space deflated before being puffed into a 13-by-10-foot cylinder．Rather than providing new living space for astronauts，the module will test whether inflatable habitats have a future as or-biting laboratories，lunar outposts or living quarters for de印-space missions．And it’s arriving at a bar-gain price for space hardware．NASA is paying Bigelow Aerospace of Nevada$17.8 million for the module．
“This is a great way for NASA to utilize private-sector investment，and for pennies on the dollar to expand our understanding of this technology，”said Lori Garver，the agency’s deputy administrator．Station astronauts will periodically enter the BEAM to check whether its thick yet flexible walls，which in。elude layers of Kevlar（芳纶纤维），adequately block the twin hazards of space travel：radiation and micrometeoroids（微流星体）traveling faster than bullets．“The plan is to have the hatch closed most of the time，with the crew going in and out a few times a year to collect data，”Garver said．The module will stay attached to the station for two years．“We have ambitions to go to the moon someday，have a base there，”said Robert Bigelow，the real estate and hotel magnate who founded Bigelow Aerospace．Inflata-bles offer two advantages over traditional aluminum-can-like modules. They weigh less per cubic foot of living space，making them cheaper to launch，and they can balloon to diameters far too wide to fit on cur-rent rockets．
Bigelow licensed the concept from NASA in 1999 after the agency abandoned plans to use inflatable living quarters for a mission to Mars．NASA is Bigelow’s first customer．On Wednesday，Bigelow said he and his wife have invested $250 million into developing inflatable space habitats．They hope to at-tract wealthy tourists，pharmaceutical companies and governments that want affordable space programs to an orbital outpost that Bigelow says will be ready to fly in 2016．
Called Alpha，the private space station will offer living space for 12，twice the occupancy of the international space station．Renting one-sixth of Alpha for two months will cost $25 million，Bigelow said，transportation not included．It’s unclear if a market exists for a private space station，said Scott Pace，director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University．Still，Bigelow has already tasted success．In 2006 and 2007，the company launched two small inflatable satellites atop Russian ballistic missiles．Both operated as planned．
Wednesday’s announcement marks a deepening of NASA’s partnerships with commercial companies．The agency is also funding three companies developing craft to transport astronauts to and from orbit-vehicles also needed to bring customers to Bigelow’s outposts．One of those companies，Space Exploration Technologies，or SpaceX，will fly the BEAM module to the space station in the ‘‘trunk” of one of its un-crewed Dragon capsules．“It sounds like a good deal for both NASA and Bigelow，”said Pace，“Nothing can replace flight．test experience．”
The project may also stymie criticism that the l6-nation international space station，which took 13 years to construct，has been underutilized by NASA，said former station commander--Michael Lopez-Alegria．president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation．“It’s a real step in the fight direction．”
According to the passage，BEAM is used as __________.
A．a new living space for astronauts
B．all orbiting laboratory
C．an outpost on the moon
D．a test for inflatable habitats


6、听音频：
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A ),B．, C． andD．, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

A．She copied another course guide.
B．She decided to skip class.
C．She went to the library instead.
D．She shared a friend's course guide.


7、

根据材料，回答问题。
You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
A University Degree No Longer Confers Financial Security
A．Millions of school-leavers in the rich world are about to bid a tearful goodbye to their parents and start a new life at university. Some are inspired by a pure love of learning. But most also believe that spending three or four years at university--and accumulating huge debts in the process--will boost their chances of landing a well-paid and secure job.
B．Their elders have always told them that education is the best way to equip themselves to thrive in a globalised world. Blue-collar workers will see their jobs outsourced and automated, the familiar argument goes. School dropouts will have to cope with a life of cash-strapped (资金紧张的) insecurity. But the graduate elite will have the world at its feet. There is some evidence to support this view. A recent study from Georgetown University's Centre on Education and the Workforce argues that"obtaining a post-secondary credential ( 证书) is almost always worth it." Educational qualifications are tightly correlated with earnings: an American with a professional degree can expect to pocket $3.6m over a lifetime; one with merely a high- school diploma can expect only $1.3m. The gap between more- and less-educated earners may be widening. A study in 2002 found that someone with a bachelor's degree could expect to earn 75% more over a lifetime than someone with only a high-school diploma. Today the disparity is even greater.
C．But is the past a reliable guide to the future? Or are we at the beginning of a new phase in the relationship between jobs and education? There are good reasons for thinking that old patterns are about to change--and that the current recession-driven downturn (衰退) in the demand for Western graduates will morph (改变) into something structural. The strong wind of creative destruction that has shaken so many blue-collar workers over the past few decades is beginning to shake the cognitive elite as well.
D．The supply of university graduates is increasing rapidly. The Chronicle of Higher Education calculates that between 1990 and 2007 the number of students going to university increased by 22% in North America, 74% in Europe, 144% in Latin America and 203% in Asia. In 2007 150m people attended university around the world, including 70m in Asia. Emerging economies—specially China--are pouring resources into building universities that can compete with the elite of America and Europe. They are also producing professional- services firms snch as Tata Consulting Services and Infosys that take fresh graduates and turn them into world-class computer programmers and consultants. The best and the brightest of the rich world must increasingly compete with the best and the brightest from poorer countries who are willing to work harder for less money.
E. At the same time, the demand for educated labor is being reconfigured (重新配置) by technology, in much the same way that the demand for agricultural labor was reconfigured in the 19th century and that for factory labor in the 20th. Computers can not only perform repetitive mental tasks much faster than human beings. They can also empower amateurs to do what professionals once did: why hire a flesh-and-blood accountant to complete your tax return when Turbotax (a software package ) will do the job at a fraction of the cost? And the variety of jobs that computers can do is multiplying as programmers teach them to deal with tone and linguistic ambiguity.
F.Several economists, including Paul Krugman, have begun to argue that post-industrial societies will be characterized not by a relentless rise in demand for the educated but by a great "hollowing out", as mid-level jobs are destroyed by smart machines and high-level job growth slows. David Autor, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), points out that the main effect of automation in the computer era is not that it destroys blue-collar jobs but that it destroys any job that can be reduced to a routine. Alan Blinder of Princeton University, argues that the jobs graduates have traditionally performed are if anything more "offshorable" than low-wage ones. A plumber or lorry-driver's job cannot be outsourced to India. A computer programmer's can.
G. A university education is still a prerequisite for entering some of the great industries, such as medicine, law and academia (学术界), that provide secure and well-paying jobs. Over the 20th century these industries did a wonderful job of raising barriers to entry--sometimes for good reasons (nobody wants to be operated on by a barber) and sometimes for self-interested ones. But these industries are beginning to bend the roles. Newspapers are fighting a losing battle with the blogosphere. Universities are replacing tenure-track professors with non-tenured staff. Law firms are contracting out routine work such as"discovery" (digging up documents relevant to a lawsuit) to computerized-search specialists such as Blackstone Discovery. Even doctors are threatened, as patients find advice online and treatment in Walmart's new health centers.
H.Thomas Malone of MIT argues that these changes--automation, globalizafion and deregulation--may be part of a bigger change: the application of the division of labor to brain-work. Adam Smith's factory managers broke the production of pins into 18 components. In the same way, companies are increasingly breaking the production of brain-work into ever tinier slices. TopCoder chops up IT projects into bite-sized chunks and then serves them up to a worldwide workforce of freelance coders.
I.These changes will undoubtedly improve the productivity of brain-workers. They will allow consumers to sidestep (规避 ) the professional industries that have extracted high rents for their services. And they will empower many brain-workers to focus on what they are best at and contract out more tedious tasks to others. But the reconfiguration of brain-work will also make life far less cozy and predictable for the next generation of graduates.
The creative destruction that has happened to blue-collar workers in the past also starts to affect the cognitive elite.


简答题
8、中国戏曲是中国戏剧和音乐剧的结合。其起源可追溯到3世纪。中国戏曲有很多地方剧分支。京剧是其中有名的一个。京剧出现于18世纪末，并于l9世纪中期得到充分发展和认可。京剧在清朝宫廷{the qing Dy-nasty court}特别受欢迎，并已被视为中国的文化珍品之一。中国戏曲会用到面具。面具的每种颜色代表不同的含义，用来表现人物角色，说明他们的情感状态和大致性格。


9、 假日经济的现象表面 中国消费者的消费观正在发生巨大的变化根据统计数据，中国消费者的消费需求正在从基本生活必需品转向对休闲、舒适和个人发展的需求。同时，中国人的消费观在蓬勃发展的假日经济中正变得成熟。因此产品结构应做相应调整，来适应社会的发展。另一方面，服务质量要改善，以满足人们提高生活质量的要求。


10、You should start your essay with a briefdescription of the picture and then express your views on the problem oftrust crisis． 

写作导航 
1．简要描述图片，指出人们之问缺少信任是一种不良社会现象，会产生严重后果； 
2．从政府、社会机构(媒体和学校)和个人三个层面出发阐述了解决办法;
3．进行总结，建议人们从个人做起，谨小慎微，提高诚信意识。