填空题The party turned out to be a great ______. (disappoint)

填空题Directions: Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 6-10, with a word or phrase from the list below. For each sentence(6-10), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet, do not mark any letter twice. A. the non-broadcast television is for specific groups B. an television revolution is coming C. it influences our attitudes D. it can realize the mutual conversion between electronic impulses and image E. it is a sophisticated system of electronics F. it promotes communication between people G. television is very popular

填空题Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in 1976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.2. It is true the American don't typically plan their birth to set an example for developing nations. They are more affected by women's liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.Questions 9-13 For questions 9~13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below. For each numbered paragraph(1~5), mark one letter(A~G)on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice.A. The factors bringing down the birthrate in Europe.B. Women's liberation affects the birthrate.C. Birthrate in US raised after the war.D. Bringing population under control is possible.E. The birthrate in United States is low.F. Food shortage and urbanization brought population under control.G. The reasons that low-birthrate involved.

填空题The Japan Society"s crash course on how to bridge the chasm between Japanese and American managers forces participants to examine their own ______ assumptions. (culture)

填空题A. stronger B. your skin C. any harm D. diet E. your knees and hips F. appearance G. your back

填空题It is a ______ that no one was injured in this accident. (bless)

填空题Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14~18, with a word or phrase from the list below. For each sentence(14-18), mark one letter(A~G)on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice.A. depend on each otherB. natureC. risksD. each otherE. mountaineeringF. rulesG. climate and mountaineering

填空题Mary and her father are ______ in many ways. (like)

填空题Part 3 Questions 19-25 ·Read the following article and answer questions 19-25. ·For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. The Haunted America Countries are like little homes; they house a nation, hold ideologies and provide shelter and comfort to its people in hopes that the occupants will nurture better ideas for themselves and further flourish humanity. Such are primary desires and goals of most countries on this small planet. America is no exception. For decades, billions of people around the world slept at night on empty stomachs amidst dreadful circumstances, often dreaming of the freedoms and liberties of America, which they likened to a great land, a paradise and a final destination point. The best and brightest of the world gravitated to the great USA in search of golden opportunities; in hordes they came, and en masse they settled. America became the nation which acknowledged greatness and provided the driving force to allow the dreams of small, ordinary people to take form and flourish. Free from restrictions, allowing grand expressions with extraordinary liberties, that no other nation in the history of mankind has been able to match at such a grand scale. But currently, it seems that this home of the American nation has started to resemble that old mansion, elegantly pristine (质朴的) but known to be haunted, sitting at the end of that dead-end street where ghosts, mysterious apparitions (幽灵) and unexplainable signs have emerged. This planet, like an old street, is already full of such haunted houses, which at times seem abandoned, lifeless and unable to give or receive neighborly warmth; factors so critical for any country on the global scene. Can this badly damaged image of America be fixed today and by whom and at what cost? What must it include—a new costume, a new mask or a new heart? These are very important underlying questions, but the biggest question remains—can an entire country be branded to the rest of the world in the same fashion as a breakfast cereal or laundry detergent? The answer is a flat no. Only the branding-circus would come up with such a fake, superficial, logo-centric-slogan-happy attempt to rebuild a nation painted with banners and billboards. In reality, countries cannot be branded in such a simple process from the past; firstly, nations are already branded over decades and centuries by their histories and cultural interactions and exportable identities. A global image is not in the hands of a polling company or controlled by a branding agency. Rather, they take form in the minds of the global masses, who paint their own mental picture based on their own interpretation of a nation. Therefore, it demands an awesome force, as the global public will not be swayed by ad-campaigns, rather by the exuberance (茂盛) of sincere and honest truth and internal fixing leading to an inviting charm. After all, this is how the image of America was built in the first place. As a rule, if it has cost trillions to get where America is on global public opinion today, then it is easily understandable why it would cost a similar amount to fix the damages. Nations can only hope to improve their domestic issues first, before reflecting out to the world and preaching to the rest of the neighborhood. In commercial terms, American brands have lost their luster at an alarming rate during the last five years, and are now in serious danger of being over-powered by brand new identities arising from all over the newly repositioned world. This super-accelerated nouveau-consumerism has all the making of this global shift increasingly permanent on brand image leadership, a position that the USA once proudly held. The future is clearly drawn out for new countries currently engaged in trying out this global-image-creation-wizardry with full tbrce while the early signs indicate a major world-wide mega branding and global-image-repositioning shift. How can this great nation housed in America immediately nurture harmony within, balance the out-of-touch extreme ideologies among republicans and democrats, and educate its youth that is currently the lowest among G-8 and slipping into the level of developing countries? It must have a nation that deeply engages in voting and really takes care of its own people. Most importantly, it needs real guts and must once again re-learn to face the truth and move forward in the good, old-fashioned American style.

填空题Read the following passages, eight sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap. For each gap(1-8)mark one letter(A~H)on the Answer Sheet. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, is a long-time fan of space tourism. Aldrin climbed out of Apollo 11 hot on the heels of Neil Armstrong in 1969. 【R1】______ Together with scientists from Purdue University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas, Aldrin is designing spacecrafts that would perpetually cruise between Earth and Mars.【R2】______"Some day, people will go to Mars on a regular basis," says team member James Longuski, a professor at Purdue. "【R3】______" The average distance between Mars and Earth is 48 million miles. 【R4】______ It sounds like a trip that would require a lot of fuel. According to the engineers, the cyclers may have a natural, renewable "fuel" supply: from the gravitational forces of the Sun, the planets, and their moons. As a spacecraft travels close to a planet, its flight path is bent, causing it to whip around the planet and significantly increasing its speed(it's as if the planet's gravity gives the passing spacecraft a kick into space).【R5】______It's not just science fiction: it might help us get Mars with very little fuel on board, in a journey that would take as little as six to eight months. "The cycler is essentially in orbit around the Sun and makes regular flybys of Earth and Mars," says James Longuski. "Once you put your vehicle into a cycler orbit, it continues on its own momentum, going back and forth between Earth and Mars.【R6】______" When the cycler flies by Earth, it will be traveling at a speed of about 13,000 miles per hour.【R7】______"This is sort of like a bus that doesn't stop," Longuski says. "When it comes by, you have to run alongside of it and grab on." Aldrin and his group think that the first cycler could be on its way by as soon as 2018. 【R8】______ (It seems a long way off now, but it's closer than you think!) Fasten your seatbelts and make sure your seatback is in its upright position. Your flight to space may be departing soon.A. These crafts, known as "cyclers", would ferry people and supplies between the two planets, enabling humans to colonize Mars — something that has long been dreamed about in science fiction.B. Most people are convinced that we are going to do this; the only question is when.C. So, if you're in middle school now, you could be taking a trip to Mars by the time you're in your thirties.D. To get a sense of just how far this is, try doing this calculation: Given that there are 2,500 miles between New York and Los Angeles, how many times would you have to travel from NY to LA and back to cover the same distance?E. Now, at the age of 72, Aldrin is working on a new project that could put more of his fellow humans in space — namely, on journeys to one of our most fascinating neighbors, Mars.F. This is the "slingshot" trajectory that you may have seen in movies.G Space taxis will be needed to bring people from the surface of the planet to intercept the cycler. H. You may need to carry some propellant for an occasional boost, but it's pretty much a free trip after that.

填空题People"s pleasure in spending amounts is ______ greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy. (actual)

填空题Questions 9-13 ·You will hearfive speakers talking about advantages or disadvantages about cloning. ·For questions 9-13, choose from the list A-F which advantage or disadvantage they are talking about. ·Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use. 9. Speaker 1: ______ 10. Speaker 2: ______ 11. Speaker 3: ______ 12. Speaker 4: ______ 13. Speaker 5: ______A. The element of uncertaintyB. Reverse the aging processC. Helping infertile couplesD. Potential benefits to modern medicineE. Improving food supplyF. The potential for abuse

填空题Questions9-13·Youwillhearfivepeopletalkingaboutthemedia.·Forquestions9to13,choosefromthelistAtoFwhateachspeakersaysaboutthenameofthemedia.·Usethelettersonlyonce.·Thereisoneextraletterwhichyoudonotneedtouse.A.BBCB.ForbesC.CNND.ChinaCentralTelevisionE.VoiceofAmericaF.Fortune(magazine)Speaker1(/9)Speaker2(/10)Speaker3(/11)Speaker4(/12)Speaker5(/13)

填空题CONGVERSATION2(Questions5-8)

填空题You will hear one passage about science and daily life. Before you listen, read the list of statements, five of which are summaries of how science has changed man's life. Then listen carefully and match the statements(A~F)in the correct order(9-13). There is one extra statement that you don't need to use. You will hear the passage twice.A. Scientific discoveries are companied by the problem of air pollution.B. Scientific discoveries have changed man's moral atmosphere and caused ethical issues.C. Scientific discoveries make people use available resources more efficiently.D. Medical improvement has made people have a longer life span.E. People can communicate with each other more easily.F. Distance between two places is shorted with the advancement of transportation.

填空题Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18 with an expression from the list below. For each sentence(14-18), mark one letter(A-G)on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. build a sand dam B. fetch water C. maintain them D. drink contaminated water E. install the pump F. have a tap with safe water G. do other meaningful things

填空题1. Icebergs are among nature's most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being somewhere in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence, which in most cases no one hears or sees. They exist only a short time and then slowly waste away just as unnoticed. 2. Objects of sheerest beauty, they have been called. Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green, or purple, tinted faintly or in darker hues. They are graceful, stately, inspiring — in calm sunlit seas. 3. But they are also called frightening and dangerous, and that they are — in the night, in the fog, and in storms. Even in clear weather one is wise to stay a safe distance away from them. Most of their bulk is hidden below the water, so that the underwater parts may extend out far beyond the visible top. Also, they may roll over unexpectedly churning the waters around them. 4. Icebergs are parts of glaciers that break off, drift into the water, float about a while, and finally melt. Icebergs afloat today are made of snowflakes that have fallen over long ages of time. They embody snows that drifted down hundreds, or many thousands or in some cases maybe a million years ago. The snows fell in polar regions and on cold mountains, where they melted only a little or not at all, and so collected to great depths over the years and centuries. 5. As each year's snow accumulation lay on the surface, evaporation and melting caused the snowflakes slowly to lost their feathery points and become tiny grains of ice. When new snow fell on top of the old, it too turned to icy grains. So blankets of snow and ice grains mounted layer upon layer and were of such great thickness that the weight of the upper layers compressed the lower one. With time and pressure from above, the many small ice grains joined and changed to larger crystals, and eventually the deeper crystals merged into a solid mass of ice. Questions 1-5 Directions: For questions 1-5, choose the best title for each paragraph from below. For each numbered paragraph(1-5), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. Size and shape of iceberg B. Snows in polar regions C. Beautiful appearance of iceberg D. The dangers of iceberg E. Iceberg as a spectacular creation F. Formation of solid mass of ice G Iceberg originating from the buildup of snowflakes

填空题We believe that a holiday will help her ______. (depress)

填空题Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederic I in the thirteenth century, it may be. 【R1】______ All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here.【R2】______Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected. Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick.【R3】______Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. 【R4】______ Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age.【R5】______At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to five words. 【R6】______ Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man's brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern "toy bear".【R7】______ But speech has to be induced, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the child's babbling, grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. 【R8】______ A. What was missing was good mothering. B. A bird learns to sing and to fly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed. C. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent. D. But there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. E. And even more incredible is the young brain's ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways. F. Sensitivity to the child's non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language. G. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar. H. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking.

填空题Part 2 Questions 9-18 ·Read the following article and answer questions 9-18 on the next page. Train Your Body into Knowing When It's Time to Sleep 1. A good night's sleep actually starts in the morning. The second your eyes open, light shoots down the optic nerve and into the brain's biological clock. There it stimulates the production of hormones that regulate growth, reproduction, eating, sleeping, thinking, remembering—even how you feel from minute to minute. "Sunlight activates the brain," says Frisca L. Yan-Go, M.D., medical director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center. And activating it at the same time every morning synchronizes your body's biological clock. Then your body has a clear direction that at midnight it's supposed to be asleep and at noon it's supposed to be awake. Wake up at a different time every day and the clock is out of order. You feel sleepy and hung over for hours, and even when you start to feel a bit more alert after that first Starbucks (星巴克) , you really never achieve the mental edge of what you're capable. 2. Shall we go to bed when feeling tired? No, not just tired. Sleepy, as your eyes are tired and you keep losing track of what people are saying to you. 3. Sleeping from 11:30 P.M. until 2:00A.M., tossing and tuning until 4, then sleeping until 6 gives you eight hours in bed but only four and a half hours of sleep. That's a huge mismatch that can actually inhibit your sleep drive and cause insomnia all by itself. To prevent that from worsening your sleep issues, when you wake at 2:00A.M., get up and go to read a book in the living room. Being up increases your sleep drive—which just could make you sleepy enough to actually fall asleep when you return to bed. Caution: Don't stay in bed when you're awake. A part of your mind will begin to associate the bed with being awake rather than being asleep. And that can turn on a nasty "I'm-not-going-to-sleep!" anxiety that will speed up your engines whenever you get into bed. It's one of the causes of chronic insomnia. 4. You need one hour before bed to wind down and get transition from the woman-who-can-do-everything into the woman-who-can-sleep. Unfortunately, most women are not giving themselves one single second. According to the 2007 National Sleep Foundation poll, during the hour before bed, around 60 percent of us do household chores, 37 percent take care of children, 36 percent do activities with other family members, 36 percent are on the Internet, and 21 percent do work related to their jobs. 5. Staying up late on Friday and Saturday nights and getting up late on Saturday and Sunday mornings is frequently the gift we give ourselves on weekends after a hard week at work. Yet that little gift—small as it is—is enough to screw up our biological clocks. Even if you get to bed early on Sunday night, you will not be ready to sleep, and you will not end up being the happy camper Monday morning. Questions 9-13 ·For questions 9-13, choose from the list A-G which best summarize each part of the article. ·For each numberedparagraph (1-5), mark on letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet. ·Do not mark any letter twice.A. Do household chores before bedB. Hit the sheets only when sleepyC. Stay up late only on Saturday nightsD. Give yourself an hour before bedE. Wake up at the same time every dayF. Beware of Sunday night insomniaG. Get up when awake