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1、听音频,
回答题 

A.She's seeing the doctor.
B.She's supervising new employees.
C.She's having her lunch.
D.She's looking for some help.


2、Questions are based on the following passage.
As a teacher, you could bring the community into your classroom in many ways. The parents and grandparents of your students are resources and 36 for their children. They can be 37 teachers of their own traditions and histories. Immigrant parents could talk about their country of 38 and why they emigrated to the United States. Parents can be invited to talk about their jobs or a community project. Parents, of course, are not the only community resources. Employees at local businesses and staff at community agencies have 39 information to share in classrooms. Field trips provide another opportunity to know the community. Many students don't have the opporttmity to 40 concerts or visit museums or historical sites except through field trips. A school district should have 41 for selecting and conducting field trips. Families must be made 42 of field trips and give permission for their children to participate. Through school projects, students can learn to be 43 in community projects ranging from planting trees to cleaning up a park to assisting elderly people. Students, 44 older ones, might conduct research on a community need that could lead to action by a city council or state government. Some schools require students to provide community service by 45 in a nursing home, child care center or government agency. These projects help students understand their responsibility to the larger
community.
A. Assets      
B. Attend       
C. Aware        
D. especially   
E. Excellent    
F. Expensive    
G. guidelines   
H. involved
I. joining
J. naturally
K. observe
L. origin
M. recruited
N. up-to-date
O. volunteering
第(36)题应选


3、阅读下文,回答题
Young Workers Push Employers for Wider Web Access
A)Ryan Tracy thought he’d entered the Dark Ages when he graduated college and arrived in the working world. His employer blocked access to Face book,Gmail and other popular Internet sites. He had no wireless access for his laptop and often ran to a nearby cafe on work time so he could use its Wi-Fi connection to send large files. Sure,the barriers did what his employer intended:They stopped him and his colleagues from using work time to mess about online. But Tracy says the rules also got in the way of reasonable work he needed to do as a scientific analyst for a health care services company.
B)“It was a constant battle between the people that saw technology as an advantage,and those that saw it as a hindrance,”says the 27-year-old Chicagoan,who now works for a different company. He was sure there had to be a better way. It’s a common complaint from young people who join the workforce with the expectation that their bosses will embrace technology as much as they do. Then some discover that sites they’re supposed to be researching for work are blocked. Or they can’t take a little down time to read a news story online or check their personal e-mail or social networking accounts. In some cases,they end up using their own Internet-enabled smart phones to get to blocked sites,either for work or fun.
C)So some are wondering:Could companies take a different approach,without compromising security or workplace efficiency,that allows at least some of the online access that younger employees particularly long for“ It’s no different than spending too much time around the water cooler or making too many personal phone calls. Do you take those away?No,”says Gary Rudman,president of GTR Consulting,a market research firm that tracks the habits of young people.“These two worlds will continue to conflict until there’s a mutual understanding that performance,not Internet usage,is what really matters.”
D)This is,after all,a generation of young people known for what University of Toronto sociologist Barry Wellman calls “media multiplexity(多重性).” College students he has studied tell him how they sleep with their smart phones and,in some cases,consider their electronic tools to be like a part of their bodies. They’re also less likely to fit the traditional 9-to-5 work mode and are willing to put in time after hours in exchange for flexibility,including online time.S0,Wellman and others argue,why not embrace that working style when possible,rather than fight it?
E)There is,of course,another side of the story--from employers who worry about everything from wasted time on the Internet to giving away secret information and liability for what their employees do online. Such concerns have to be taken especially seriously in such highly regulated fields as finance and health care,says Nancy Flynn,a corporate consultant who heads the Ohio-based e Policy Institute. From a survey Flynn did this year with the American Management Association, she believes nearly half of U.S. employers have a policy banning visits to personal social networking or video sharing sites during work hours. Many also ban personal text messaging during working days. Flynn notes that the rising popularity of BlackBerrys,iPhones and other devices with Web access and messaging have made it much more difficult to enforce what’s being done on work time,particularly on an employee’s personal phone. Or often the staff uses unapproved software applications to get around the blocks.
F)As a result,more employers are experimenting with opening access. That’s what Joe Dwyer decided to do when he started Chicago-based Brill Street&Co.,a jobs site for young professionals. He lets his employees use social networking and has found that,while they might spend time chatting up their friends,sometimes they’re asking those same friends for advice for a work problem or looking for useful contacts.  “So what seems unproductive can be very productive,”Dwyer says. Kraft Foods Inc. recently opened access to everything from YouTube to Face book and Hotmail. With the warning that personal use be reasonable and never interfere with job activities.
G)Broadening access does,of course,mean some employees will cross lines they aren’t supposed to Sapphire Technologies LP,  an  information-technology  staffing  firm  based  in  Massachusetts,  started allowing employees to use most Internet sites two years ago,because recruiters for the company were going on Face book to find talent. Martin Perry,the company’s chief information officer,says managers occasionally have to give employees a “slap on the wrist” for watching sports on streaming video or downloading movies on iTunes. And he says older managers sometimes raise eyebrows at their younger peers’ online judgment.  “If you saw some of the pictures that they’ve uploaded,even to our internal directory,you’d question the maturity,”Perry says. It’s the price a company has to Pay,he says,for attracting top young talent that’s willing to work at any hour.“Banning the Internet during work hours would be short-sighted on our part,”Perry says.
H)But that also means many companies are still figuring out their online policies and how to deal with the unclear lines between work and personal time--including social networking, even with the boss.“I think over time,an open embrace of these tools can become like an awkward embrace,”says Mary Madden. a senior research specialist at the Pew Internet&American Life Project.  “It can get very messy.” one option is for companies to allow access to certain sites but limit what employees call do there.  For instance,Palo Alto Networks,  a computer security company,  recently helped a furniture maker open up social networking for some employees,but limited such options as file-sharing,largely so that sensitive information isn’t transferred, even accidentally.  “Wide—open Internet access is the risky approach,”says Chris King,Palo Alto Networks’ director of product marketing.However,  ‘‘fully closed is increasingly unsustainable for cultural reasons and business reasons.”
I)Flynn, at the ePolicy Institute,says it’s important that employers have a clear online policy and then explain it. She believes not enough employers have conducted formal training on such matters as online liability and confidentiality(保密性).Meantime,her advice to any employee is this:“Don’t start blogging. Don’t start chatting. Don’t even start e-mailing until you read the company policy.”

Some highly regulated fields,like finance and health care,tend to take serious  concern about the problem of secret information exposure.


4、Questionsare based om the following passage.
Libraries are my world.I've been a patron(老主顾)all my life,and for the past nine years I've worked at multiple libraries and archives in and around Detroit The library as an institution has many roles,but as our country struggles through an economic crisis,I have watched the library where l work evolve into a career and business center,a community gathering place and a bastion(堡垒)for hope.
In the spring of 2007 I got a Ubrary internship(实习生的位置)at the Southfield Public Library(SPL),just north of Detroit.Summers at SPL were usually slow,but that ye屿we experienced a library that was as busy as science-fair project week,midterms or tax season.Yet patrons weren’t looking for Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference or tax return forms.They were coming for information on growing their small business.
I interpreted people’s interest in our business collection as the first step to pursuing their dreams,but these patrons were not motivated by dreams.They were responding to reality,and they were looking for Plan B.
Things worsened in 2008,and in 2009 the economic crisis continues to plague Michigan.Last year, we put up a display with a variety of job resources that we restocked every hour.Each night the library closed,the display was bare.While we normally keep displays up for a week,we kept the job resources display up for months.
Then there’s the tightening credit market.People see the writmg on the wall and they want to get educated.They can’t afford a financial adviser,but checking books out is flee.Some of the most popular rifles now are Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Think and Grow Rich, and Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan.
The economic downturn affects us all.I have had to work long hours and don’t get to see much of my boyfriend or experience any kind of social life lately.but I am thankful to be in a position where I can help people overcome this struggle.In Michigan,we haven’t lost hope.As long as there are libraries here,there will always be hope.
What change has the current economic crisis brought to the library?
A.It has opened its age-old archives to the general public.
B.It has become a job and business information center.
C.It has evolved into a place for business transactions.
D.It has had to cut its budget to get through the crisis.


5、听录音,回答题

A.To go boating on the St.Lawrence River.
B.To go sightseeing in Quebec Province.
C.To call on a friend in Quebec City.
D.To attend a wedding in Montreal.


6、听录音,回答题

A.Alcohol helps develop people's intelligence.
B.Heavy drinking is not necessarily harmful to one's health.
C.Controlled drinking helps people keep their wits as they age.
D.Drinking, even moderately, may harm one's health.


填空题
7、听音频,回答题

Dung the nineteenth century,when little was known about environmentalism and conservation,it was common to hear people in Europe and America say that there sources of the sea(26)_____.They believed the world and nature would continuously reproduce all the resources they would need. For example, a(27)_____ biologist writing in the mid-nineteenth century commented that none of the great sea fisheries were to be(28)_____. Today,though,there is evidence that the resources of the sea are seriously endangered.
(29)_____, environmentalists have focused their attention on the land and air. Recently, however, they are beginning to discover that the resources of the sea are in as much danger. The list of endangered(30)_____ now included herring and crabs as well as the African elephant,Indian tiger, and the American eagle.
Furthermore,the threats to fish are more(31)_____ in some ways than the threats to animals and birds. This is because fish are a much more needed food source,and people(32)_____ depend on fish as an important part of their diet. Hence,a decline in the fish supply could have(33)_____ effects on hunger and population. Fishermen in the North Atlantic alone annually harvest 20 billion pounds of fish to(34)_____ food demand,but the world needs to recognize that these practices cannot continue without depleting fish reserves within the next few years. Rapidly declining sea resources in many parts of the world are problems that cannot be ignored any longer. Unlike the(35)_____ in the nineteenth century,we now know that food supplies in the sea cannot last forever.
第(26)题__________ 


8、根据材料,回答问题。
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you hove just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Fast food, for the first time ever, now (26)__________ more than half of all the meals eaten outside of the home in the United Kingdom.
The recession, and the subsequent squeeze on (27) __________ income, has encouraged millions of families to (28) __________ spending on luxuries, especially on meals in restaurants. This has encouraged many to (29) __________ to cheaper meals, especially burgers and fried chicken.
According to NPD, the market research company which (30) __________ consumer spending, 5.54 billion visits were made to a fast food chain in the year 2011, out of the 11 billion meals eaten in (31) __________out of the home--be it at a work canteen, restaurant, pub or sandwich shop.
This means that 50.4, percent of all meals eaten out of the home are now at a (32) __________ quick service restaurant, up from 47.3 percent just two years ago. The term "quick service restaurant" is used by the industry to describe any (33) __________where the consumer queues to buy take-away food so this does include coffee shops.
Guy Fielding at NPD said: "It's a lot about trading down. Because fast food has become so cheap, it has driven families in particular away from (34) __________.restaurants and pubs to the fast food chains."
"Families want to know what they are getting. And with the likes of McDonald's or KFC they know it is a(35) __________ experience and good value."
26.__________


简答题
9、 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 of the increasing use of the mobile phone in people's life and then explain the consequences of overusing it. You should write at least 120 words .but no more than 180 words.
People  are  crossing  the  streetlooking at their cell phones andusing walking sticks in order tosee.



10、听录音,回答题
Sleep is part of a person's daily activity cycle. There are several different stages of sleep, and they too (26) __  in cycles. If you are an (27) __  sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows. When you first fall into slumber (安睡), your eyes will (28) __  about a bit, your temperaturewill drop (29) __  , your muscles will relax, and your breathing is slow and becomes quite (30) __ Your brain waves slow down a bit too. This is called stage one sleep.
For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will (31) __ down throughstage two and stage three sleep. The lower your stage of sleep, the slower your brain waves will be.
Then about 40 to 60 minutes after you lose (32) __ you will have reached the (33) __  sleep of all. This is stage four sleep. You do not remain at this deep fourth stage (34)__, but instead about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your brain activity level will increase again slightly. Your eyes will begin to dart around under your closed eyelids as if you were looking at something occurring in front of you. This period of rapid eye movement lasts for some 8 to 15 minutes and is called REM sleep. It is during REM sleep period that your body will soon relax again, your breathing will grow slow (35) __  , and you will slip gently back from stage one to stage four sleep.
第(26)题__________


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