1、1. 考试时间 120 分钟,试卷满分 140 分。2. 本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答題必须涂(选择题)或写(非选择题)在答题纸 上,做在试卷上一律不得分。3. 答題前,务必在答題纸上填写准考证号和姓名,并将核对后的条形码貼在指定位置上, 在答題纸反面清楚地填写姓名。第 I 卷(共 100 分)I. Listening Comprehension II. Grammar and vocabulary Section ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage co
2、herent andgrammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; f or the other blanks, use one word that best f its each blank.Nooks arrival, Good or Bad?Book lovers, most of them, will tell you(21)_ a pleasure it is to lend a favorite re
3、ad to the friend the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of ; the travel book that made you feel (22) _you yourself w ere on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-book users w ere to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could buy a book or magazine for yo
4、ur reading device, but you couldnt lend it out.But now, with the Nock, the US book chain Barnes and Nobles response to Amazons Kind le, electronic readers will be ab le to have their latest literary enthusiasm(23) _ (press) on their friends, just like readers of physical books can, You simply email
5、the book from your Nook and your friend can read it for two weeks, (24) _ (use) any device with the Barnes& Noble e-book reader software. Its a big improvement from previous e-book readers.The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen. just likewith Kind le. The
6、difference is (25) _on the lower part of the device theres a colour touch screen,(26) _allow s you to browse through a book or a magazine , but goes black when youre not using it so that you save power.(27) _exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-
7、book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection (28) _ (read) whole e-books at Barnes& Noble for hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes& Nobles competitors can come close to this.But the Nook, ironically,(29) _ (turn out) to be a money-loser for Barnes& Noble, o
8、r at least a job- loser for Barnes& Nobles employees. According to Marian Moniker at The Big Money Website,(30) _the Nook is successful it might take sales from the companys bookstores, eventually forcing their closure and the loss of thousands of jobs.Section B Fill in each blank with a proper word
9、 chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. branchB. department C. appropriateD. expansionE. withdrewF. dominatedG. licensedH. contractI. considerableJ. brandsK. breakthroughForeign Giants Target Chinese Milk MarketEuropean dairy products
10、giant Arla Foods has chosen a leading Chinese milk manufacture as a business partner for its (31)_ in China a clear sign that overseas companies are starting to cultivate huge Chinas dairy market by tying up with local players.Arla signed the cooperation (32) _, which comes into effect this month, w
11、ith Mengniu Dairy at the end of August to set up a milk-pow der joint venture in Hohhot, capital of North Chin as Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The deal between Arle Foods and Mengniu can be seen as a new (33) _for Multinationals re-entry into the sector.Many foreign giants have found it difficu
12、lt to create ( 34) _profits in domestic milk market, especially the liquid-m ilk sector, which is followed closely by price wars and dominated by local (35) _-companies like Danone, Kraft and Friesland Coberco have quitted dairy production in China.A few have been successful -Nestle, Inter, Bristo-M
13、yers Squibb and Wyeth have (36) _ the high-end milk-formula market in China.“We will watch the market closely and re-invest here in a(n) (37) _ time,” an official of the Dutch firm Friesland said w hen it (38) its investment in its Tianjin joint venture last year after eight years.The company has (3
14、9) _its Chinese partner to continue using its Dutch lady brand and also sells its imported Friso infant foods, Dutch Lady milk pow der and Dutch lady Calcimex in the Chinese market through its (40) _ company in Hong Kong.III. Reading ComprehensionSection A For each blank in the following passage the
15、re are four word s or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Our modern working lives are ruled by the concept of competence(能力). The idea that lies behind competence is quite simple: that one can state what people should do in behavioral
16、terms, and then _41_ whether a person has succeeded in meeting that task or not. We rarely have a second thought about whether the idea of measuring and achieving competence is a good one or not. _42_ , it is a debatable one.Humans do not learn or work in ways that can be measured by the _43_ of com
17、petence.Take the example of a barista who is being trained to make coffee. The job title of “barista” _44_ a degree of skill in making coffee. However, baristas in large coffee chains are usually trained through_45_ qualifications. One part of these qualifications is to produce a cup of coffee to me
18、et a(n) _46_ standard. It might have to achieve a certain taste and appearance. This might seem perfectly reasonable, but there are two reasons why such an approach to training baristas does not_47_. First, the production of a cup of coffee to a certain standard is a binary(二次元的) _48_ . The baristas
19、 can either produce a coffee of a certain standard or they cannot. If they happen to produce the best cup of coffee in the world, it does not matter, as competence-based training does not reward outstanding performance. _49_, producing the worst cup of coffee would be a fail in the same w ay as prod
20、ucing a cup just below the standard. In fact, competence is not interested in the process of producing a coffee at all-only the final binary outcome.Second, if the barista does produce a coffee to a certain_50_ , competence is not interested in why the barista can do that. But humans are not machine
21、s that _51_ produce binary outcomes. We have bodies and minds which _52_ through learning.Yet we are increasingly forced to _53_ competence in our schools and workplace. We are not empty machines that simply produce binary outcomes. If w e w ant to be true human in our learning and our workplace, we
22、 need to be _54_ and special. Learning and innovation involve failure in aiming for something that is unusually good. Such things simply cannot be _55_ by the standard of competence w here the mediocre(平凡的) is the gold standard.41. A. questionB. predictC. measureD. confirm42. A. As a ruleB. As a who
23、leC. In other wordsD. In fact43. A. impressionB. conceptC. valueD. development44. A. suggestsB. assumesC. deservesD. inherits45. A. society-basedB. self-basedC. pleasure-basedD. competence-based46. A. minimumB. uniqueC. traditionalD. international47. A. lastB. workC. existD. change48. A. challengeB.
24、 appearanceC. outcomeD. practice49. A. ThereforeB. InsteadC. MoreoverD. Likewise50. A. agreementB. extentC. standardD. description51. A. typicallyB. simplyC. cheaplyD. occasionally52. A. alterB. expandC. createD. exhaust53. A. handleB. classifyC. transferD. achieve54. A. commonB. sociableC. creative
25、D. mature55. A. judgedB. achievedC. restoredD. presented Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the pass
26、age you have just read.(A)William Herschel was born on November 15 th, 1738 in Hanover in a family of musicians. In 1757, he fled to England and began earning a living as an organist and later composer and conductor. In 1772, he convinced his sister Caroline to join him as a singer. In their spare t
27、ime the brother-sister team became occupied in astronomy. William died at his home in Slough, near Windsor on August 25th, 1822, and Caroline on September 1st, 1848.Herschels first major discoveries were to show that Mars and Jupiter exhibit axial rotation (绕轴自转).Herschel struck fame in1781, when on
28、 March13th, he discovered the planet Uranus(天王星)while engaged in work aimed at determining stellar parallax(恒星视差).This being the first new planet discovered since ancient times, Herschel, until then a mere amateur astronomer relatively unknown even in England, became world-famous. Adopting a histori
29、cally proven strategy, Herschel named the new planet Georgium Sidum, in honor of the then ruling English king George III. The trick worked once again, asking George III gave William and Caroline the titles of The King5s Astronomer and Assistant to the kings Astronomer, an honor which came with a lif
30、es pension for both. In 1782 they moved to Bath, and shortly thereafter to Slough, and from this point on William and Caroline could devote themselves entirely to astronomy. The Herschel went on to discover two moons of Uranus in 1787.While Caroline became increasingly occupied with the search for c
31、omets at which she was quite successful. William became for a time interested in the Sun. Inspired by Wilson5s 1774 work, he put forth the theory of sunspot, an opinion that continued to exist well into the nineteenth century. In 1800, he became interested in the solar spectrum (太阳光谱),and uncovered the first evidence for solar energy output outside of the visible spectrum, in what is now known as the infrared (红外线).In 1801, he published two papers that effectively started t
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