单选题 For years and years people have been saying that the railways arc dead. "We can do without railways," people say, as if motorcars and planes have made the railways unnecessary. We all keep hearing that trains are slow, that they lose money, and that they are dying. But this is far from the truth. In those days of expensive oil, the railways have become highly competitive with motorcars and planes. If you want to carry people or goods from place to place, they are cheaper than planes. And they have much in common with planes. A plane goes in a straight line and so does a railway. What is more, it takes from the heart of a city into the heart of another. It doesn't leave you as a plane does, miles and miles from the city center. It doesn't hold you up as a car does, in endless traffic jams. And a single train can carry goods which a plane or motorcar could never do. Far from being dead, the railways are very much alive. Modern railway lines give you a smooth, untroubled journey. Where else can you eat well, sleep in comfort, feel safe and enjoy the scene while you are traveling at speed at the same time? And we are only at the beginning. For we have just entered the age of super fast trains, trains traveling at 150 miles an hour and more. Soon we will be wondering why we spent so much on motorcars we can't use because we have not enough money to buy the oil and planes we can't fly for the same reason.

单选题People who are not self-confident depend too much on the praise of others in order to feel good about themselves. A. 人们不自信地信任别人，只为了让他们自己过得快乐。 B. 不自信的人通常在意他人的赞扬，为了让自己感觉好。 C. 缺乏自信心的人过分依赖他人的赞赏来使自己感觉良好。 D. 没有自信的人靠别人的怜悯来使自己感觉舒服。

单选题Directions: This section is to test your ability to understand short dialogues. There are 5 recorded dialogues in it. After each dialogue, there is a recorded question. Both the dialogues and questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A ), B ), C) and D) given in your test paper. Then you should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

单选题By writing this passage, the writer intends to tell us that ______.

单选题{{B}}Task 1{{/B}}{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} {{I}}After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 to 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.{{/I}} Our environment is getting worse and worse with the increase of the world population, which affects the environment in two ways. Firstly, the limited energy, resources will be used up much faster. Secondly, the increasing population creates more pollution, another severe problem that needs to be solved. Both problems are long-term ones because actions taken now show their results slowly over many years. They are also urgent because delays in action can lead to great suffering and social problems. The question seems to be difficult to handle for most people. However, a person can be a protector of environment in everyday life if he takes actions to save the environment right now. With the development of technology, cars make transportation easier and quicker than before, but we can't ignore the disadvantages brought to us by more and more cars in use. For example, we are consuming gasoline(汽油), which is a non-renew-able(无法更新的)resource, and will soon be gone. Moreover, the exhausted gas from cars pollutes our air, and our health is therefore threatened by air pollution, which has a big potential effect on our daily life. So we can consider walking, taking buses, carpooling (合用汽车), instead of driving cars alone. This seems to be a very slow process that can't be so effective if it's taken by a single person. But when more and more people become aware of the importance and positively take it as their personal responsibilities, the condition of the air will be improved to a great extent.

单选题The company announced in March that it would spend more than $1 billion in the next few years to capture a share of the Chinese market.

单选题The speaker spoke so fast that it was hard for the audience to ______ what he was saying. A. take in B. take out C. take up D. take over

单选题You can insure all your property against loss by theft or fire during your stay in Canada.A) 你可以在加拿大为你个人的财产投保偷盗险和火险。B) 在加拿大逗留期间，为使你的个人财产不遭偷盗和火灾，可以进行保险。C) 在加拿大逗留期间，你的全部个人财产都可以投保盗窃险和火险。D) 如果你在加拿大，个人财产一定要保证防止发生火灾和偷盗。

单选题Tom was on his way to meet his father, whom he ______ for many years. A. has not seen B. not saw C. had not seen D. did not see

单选题With the advance of old age, he could no longer do the work well. A. 因为年事日高，他已不能再把工作做得很好。 B. 因为年龄变老的原因，他不再想干好工作了。 C. 随着岁月的前行，他不再能做好工作了。 D. 随着年龄的变老，他再也没有能力把工作做好了。

单选题Conversation 2

单选题Anyone ______ this opinion may speak out.

单选题{{B}}Task 2{{/B}}{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 to 45. The business cycle is composed of many phases and one of them is the expansion phase. This phase is a two-fold one, including recovery and prosperity. During the recovery period there is an ever-growing expansion of existing equipment. And new facilities for production are created. More businesses are created and older ones expanded. Improvements of serious kinds are made. There is an ever increasingly positive view about the future of economic growth. Much capital is invested in machinery or "heavy" industry. More labor is employed. More raw materials are required. As more parts of the economy develop, other parts are affected. For example, the expansion in automobiles results in an expansion of the steel and rubber industries. Roads are required; thus the cement and machinery industries are activated. Demand for labor and materials results in greater prosperity for workers and suppliers of raw materials. This increases the amount of goods bought and sold. Thus prosperity develops among the various parts of the population. This prosperity period may continue to rise without an obvious end. However, a time comes when this phase reaches a peak and stops going upwards. This is the end of the expansion phase.

单选题If that"s the case, could you please be big enough to say you are sorry?

单选题 Directions：This section is to test your ability to understand short conversations．There are 2 recorded conversations in it．After each conversation，there are some recorded questions．Both the conversations and questions will be spoken two times．When you hear a question，you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A)，B)，C)and D) given in your test paper． Conversation 1

单选题The larger the house is, ______. A. the higher rent it is B. the higher the rent is C. the higher rent it would have D. the higher rent it would be

单选题The lecture hall in the university has a seating ______ of over 2 000, but that night only 1 000 people were present.

单选题{{B}}Passage 2{{/B}} Kindergarten students are typically four or five years of age. In class, they are introduced to the alphabet, numbers, and colors; they study their bodies, their, families, and their communities; they listen to stories lead aloud; they make art projects; and they learn about holidays, plants, animals, and other topics in science and social studies. Some kindergartens also teach introductory reading and mathematical skills. Kindergartens tend to offer children a foundation for the development of social skills, self-confidence, motivation, and the process of knowing. The first kindergarten was started by German educator Friedrich Froebel in 1837 in Blankenburg, Prussia (now part of Germany). Froebel chose the German term kindergarten (children's garden) because he intended children in his school to grow as freely as flowers in a garden. Frocbel's kindergarten was based on the then idea that children's play was significant. At the time. almost no children under the age of seven attended school, but Froebel designed his kindergarten for children between the ages of three and seven. The kindergarten became widely admired for its revolutionary teaching methods, and Froebel's followers soon established other kindergartens based on his educational philosophy, Froebel developed his own ideas about education by combining his belief in scientific observation with his belief in the interconnection of all things. In addition. Froebel was concerned that the spread of industrialization would negatively affect the family, but he believed that. kindergartens could increase the status of mothers and children. Froebel's ideas became increasingly popular in the 1840s, but because kindergartens were associated with liberalism and free-thinking, they were banned by the Prussian government after the failure of the liberal revolution of 1848.

单选题In every language there are two great classes of words which, taken together, consist of the whole vocabulary. First, there are those words with which we become acquainted in daily conversation, which we learn, that is to say, from the members of our own family and from our familiar associates, and which we should know and use even if we could not read or write. They concern the common things of life, and all the goods in trade of all those who speak the language. Such words may be called "popular", since they belong to the whole people; and are not the exclusive possession of a limited class. On the other hand, our language includes a large number of words which are comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversation. Their meanings are known to every educated person, but there is little occasion to use them at home or in the market place. Our first acquaintance with them comes not from our mother's lips or from the talk of our schoolmates, but from books that we read, lectures that we hear, or the more formal conversation of highly educated speakers who are discussing some particular topic in a style raised above the habitual level of everyday life. Such words are called "learned". And the distinction between them and "popular" words is of great importance to a right understanding of the language.

单选题Job applicants who have working experience will receive preference over those who have not.