1、A19. B20. C21.4Where did Alice go on the weekend?ATo the countryside. BTo the entertainment park.CTo the cinema.5Why didnt Helen come to the party?AShe was not invited. BShe forgot the time. CShe had a piano lesson.第二节 (共15 小题,每小题1.5 分,满分22.5分) 听第6段材料,回答第6至7题。6Where does the conversation probably ta
2、ke place?AIn a school. BIn a store. CIn a hospital.7What does the woman think of the food there?ATerrible. BHealthy. CDelicious.听第7段材料,回答第8至9题。8What do the two speakers probably do?AThey are teachers. BThey are students. CThey are photographers.9What day is it today?ATuesday. BWednesday. CThursday.听
3、第8段材料,回答第10至12题。10Where does the woman work?AIn Tokyo. BIn London. CIn Oxford.11When will the two speakers have dinner?AToday. BTomorrow. CThe day after tomorrow.12Who is probably Jane?AThe womans customer. BThe mans boss. CThe mans wife.听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。13Who is Holly?AThe mans friend. BThe mans cl
4、assmate. CThe womans friend.14When will the party be held?ANext Tuesday. BNext Wednesday. CNext Thursday.15How is the man?AHe is active in the school. BHe is shy and nervous. CHe is humorous.16What do we know about the woman?AShe wont go to the party.BShe is quite special.CShe likes people.听第10段材料,回
5、答第17至20题。17Whats the weather like today?AIts foggy. BIts sunny. CIts windy.18What does the man do?AHe is a painter. BHe is an engineer. CHe is a weatherman.19What does the man think of his jobs?AEasy. BTiring. CDangerous.20Why does the man love his job?ABecause he can stay in the mountains.BBecause
6、he can enjoy the beautiful view.CBecause he can experience different weather.第二部分阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。 AThe Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity ChallengeDare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform
7、you of the sixth annual Curiosity Challenge. The challenge invites, even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity and how it inspires them to explore their world.Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article,
8、 take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue, Cambridge 02139 by Friday, February 8th.Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are sel
9、ected as winners will be honored at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will be exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be inclu
10、ded in the celebration and brunch will be served.Between March 10th and March 15th, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related information are available at : http:/cam-bridgesciencefestival.org.21W
11、ho can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?ASchool students. BCambridge locals.CCSF winners. DMIT artists.22When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?AOn February 8th. BOn March 10th.COn March 15th. DOn April 21st.23What type of writing is this text?AAn exhibition guide. BAn art show review.CAn a
12、nnouncement. DAn official report.BYou are the collector in the gallery of your life. You collect. You might not mean to but you do. One out of three people collects tangible (有形的) things such as cats, photos and noisy toys.These are among some 40 collections that are being shown at“The Museum Of”the
13、 first of several new museums which, over the next two years, will exhibit the objects accumulated by unknown collectors. In doing so, they will promote a popular culture of museums, not what museums normally represent.Some of the collections are fairly commonrecords, model houses. Others are strang
14、ely beautifulbranches that have fallen from trees, for example. But they all reveal (显露) a lot of things:ask someone what they collect and their answers will tell you who they are.Others on the way include“The Museum of Collectors”and“The Museum of Me.”These new ones, it is hoped, will build on the
15、success of“The Museum Of.”The thinkers behind the project want to explore why people collect, and what it means to do so. They hope that visitors who may not have considered themselves collectors will begin to see they, too, collect.Some collectors say they started or stopped making collections at i
16、mportant points:the beginning or end of adolescence“its a growing-up thing; you stop when you grow up,”says one. Other painful times are mentioned, such as the end of a relationship. For time and life can seem so uncontrollable that a steady serial (顺序排列的) arrangement is comforting.24How will the ne
17、w museums promote a popular culture of museums?ABy collecting more tangible things.BBy showing what ordinary people have collected.CBy correcting what museums normally represent.DBy accumulating 40 collections two years from now.25What can be learned about collectors from their collections?AWho they
18、 are. BHow old they are.CWhere they were born. DWhy they might not mean to collect.26Which of the following is an aim of the new museums?ATo help people sell their collections.BTo encourage more people to collect.CTo study the significance of collecting.DTo find out why people visit museums.27Accord
19、ing to the last paragraph, people may stop collecting when they _.Abecome adults Bfeel happy with lifeCare ready for a relationship Dfeel time to be uncontrollableCThere have always been a lot of commonly believed but false ideas about being fat and doing exercise. Some people believe that they cant
20、 help putting on weight as they get older, while others hold that if they stop exercising, their muscles will turn into fat. Here are some more myths:Ill never lose weightI come from a fat family Wrong! While we cant change the body type we are born with, we cant blame our genes for making us fat. T
21、heres plenty of evidence that fatness runs in families, and the main reason is that they share the same habits of eating too much and exercising too little.I am fat because I burn calories slowly Fatness is not caused by a slow metabolism (新陈代谢). In fact, although fat people consume more energy than
22、 slim people, they also fail to realize how much they eat! Keeping a diary can help you work out your daily food intake more accurately.Exercise is boring Anything will become boring if you do it repetitively. The key is to develop a balanced and varied program thats fun as well as progressive. If y
23、ou enjoy a Sunday walk, take a different route. If you do yoga, try a tai chi class. If you like swimming, set yourself a distance or time challenge.No pain, no gain Exercise is not meant to hurt. Indeed, pain is your body telling you somethings wrong, and continuing to exercise could lead to seriou
24、s injury. You may experience mild discomfort as you begin to exercise regularly, but this is your body adapting to the positive changes in your lifestyle and the aches should disappear relatively quickly. If they dont, rest and seek medical advice. 28What does the author think about being fat?AIt is
25、 the family genes that make people fat.BPeople are fat because they consume too little energy.CA diary of exercise can prevent people from becoming fat.DIt is the consequence of peoples unbalanced lifestyle.29According to the author, how can we make exercise more interesting?ABy taking varied exerci
26、se. BBy choosing simple exercise.CBy doing regular exercise. DBy sticking to outdoor exercise.30What is the authors opinion about“No pain, no gain”in exercising?AKeeping fit is essentially a painful experience.BExercise should be stopped if continuous pain is felt.CPain in exercise is a precondition
27、 for reaching your goal.DGetting used to pain leads to positive changes in your body.31What is the purpose of the passage?ATo declare the importance of keeping fit.BTo clarify some misconceptions about fatness and exercise.CTo confirm what has long been believed about keeping fit.DTo explain some me
28、dical facts about being fat and doing exercise.DWorking with a group of baboons (狒狒) in the Namibian desert, Dr. Alecia Carter of the Department of Zoology, Cambridge University set baboons learning tasks involving a novel food and a familiar food hidden in a box. Some baboons were given the chance
29、to watch another baboon who already knew how to solve the task, while others had to learn for themselves. To work out how brave or anxious the baboons were, Dr. Carter presented them either with a novel food or a threat in the form of a model of a poisonous snake.She found that personality had a maj
30、or impact on learning. The braver baboons learnt, but the shy ones did not learn the task although they watched the baboon perform the task of finding the novel food just as long as the brave ones did. In effect, despite being made aware of what to do, they were still too shy to do what the experienced baboon did.The same held true for anxious baboons compared with calm ones. The anxious individuals learnt the task by observing other
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