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. Do not mark any letter twice. A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn't much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too. 【R1】 1 The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. 【R2】 2 We are besieged by so many sounds that attract our attention. 【R3】 3 When I'm in New York, I'm a New Yorker. I don't turn either.【R4】 4I hardly hear a siren there. At home in my little town in Connecticut, it's different. 【R5】 5 It's the quietest sounds that have most effect on us, not the loudest.【R6】 6I've been hearing little creaking noises and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our house. How come I never hear those sounds in the daytime? I'm quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are. I've turned against whistling, for instance, 【R7】 7 The "tap, tap, tap" of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. 【R8】 8A. It got me thinking about sounds again.B. Like the natives.C. The distant wail of a police car, an emergency vehicle or a fire siren brings me to my feet if I'm seated and brings me to the window if I'm in bed.D. I often like the sound when I write better than the looks of it.E. I used to think of it as the mark of a happy worker but lately I've been associating the whistler with a nervous person making compulsive noises.F. In the middle of the night, I can hear a dripping tap a hundred yards away through three closed doors.G. People in New York City seldom turn to look when a fire engine, a police car or an ambulance comes screaming along the street.H. A woman had dropped what appeared to be a dime. 【R1】

CONVERSATION 2(Questions 5-8)Fred's job:【L5】 1driver. Years for doing the job:【L6】 2. Problems Fred had: trouble with【L7】 3. Correct way of lifting things: using【L8】 4.CONVERSATION 2(Questions 5-8)Fred's job:【L5】 5driver. Years for doing the job:【L6】 6. Problems Fred had: trouble with【L7】 7. Correct way of lifting things: using【L8】 8. 【L5】

You will hear two telephone conversations. Write down one word or number in the numbered spaces on the forms below.CONVERSATION 1(Questions 1-4)The name of the little boy:【L1】 1. Swallowed money: a【L2】 2. Appointment with the doctor:Time:【L3】 3p.m.Date:【L4】 4. You will hear two telephone conversations. Write down one word or number in the numbered spaces on the forms below.CONVERSATION 1(Questions 1-4)The name of the little boy:【L1】 5. Swallowed money: a【L2】 6. Appointment with the doctor:Time:【L3】 7p.m.Date:【L4】 8. 【L1】

You got a letter requesting information from Andrea Philips, the marketing manager of Lingua Services Ltd. July 1st, 2013 To someone who is concerned, I should be grateful if you would send us your brochure and price list about your translation services. We are currently developing our sales literature and web sites and are in terested in translating these into five languages apart from English. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Andrew Philips Please write a reply: to inform him of the requested information enclosed; to express your interest in cooperation; to propose an appointment for further discussions. Write about 50-60 words.

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 your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice.A. a bridgeB. air qualityC. climate changeD. renewable powerE. an unlikely targetF. future generationsG. greenhouse-gas emissions

Look at the ten statements for this part. You will hear the story of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. Decide whether you think each statement is right(R), wrong(W)or not mentioned(NM). Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet. Look at the ten statements for this part. You will hear the story of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. Decide whether you think each statement is right(R), wrong(W)or not mentioned(NM). Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.

Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.1. When one of your car tires goes flat, there are two things you can do. Groan and change or, if you don't have a spare, stand helplessly behind the road and hope someone to your rescue. Now comes a third alternative, called Quickwheel. It is designed to get disabled motorists rolling again as quickly as possible.2. Quickwheel is essentially a tiny trailer — complete with three tough little wheels of it's own — that support the flat tire and enable the motorist to drive to the service station without losing much time or expending much energy. The product is manufactured in the Netherlands but is owned and marketed by a US company. Quickwheel inc. of Greenwich, Connecticut. According to the firm's president, Robert Bockweg, the product meets each of the major concerns that consumers associate with flat tires: safety lost time and physical exertion.3. To use it, motorists simply unfold the product to its fully extended position, set it in front of the disabled tire, drive the car on to the Quickwheel's ramp and attach a special safety strap over the tire. The tire is then locked, or cradled, in Quickwheel's metal frame. The device's three wheels do the rest of work.4. According to Quckwheel Inc., its product can be driven "four miles" at speeds of up to 45 miles per hour without any noticeable change in the vehicle's breaking or steer operation. The company also claims that it can be used on just any type of car, jeep, mini-van or trailer.5. Bockweg says that Quickwheel will be sold in the US, at a price of $150. Distribution agreements now being negotiated should make the product available in Japan, Canada and West Europe in the future. 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 future marketing of Quickwheel.B. The advantages of the Quickwheel.C. How does Quickwheel work?D. The ways of dealing with flat tires.E. Quickwheel can get disabled motorists rolling again.F. An introduction of Quickwheel.G. Why is the Quickwheel invented?

RECORDED MESSAGE(Questions 5-8)Message from Ted - Trade Fair New【L5】 1is very popular. Most orders taken for【L6】 2cable package. Not many orders for【L7】 3typing software. Send more【L8】 4disks today.RECORDED MESSAGE(Questions 5-8)Message from Ted - Trade Fair New【L5】 5is very popular. Most orders taken for【L6】 6cable package. Not many orders for【L7】 7typing software. Send more【L8】 8disks today. 【L5】

You will hear two conversations. Write down one word or number in the numbered spaces on the forms below.CONVERSATION 1(Questions 1-4)Man's name:【L1】 1.Woman's name:【L2】 2.Name of the man's wife:【L3】 3.The man's telephone number:【L4】 4. You will hear two conversations. Write down one word or number in the numbered spaces on the forms below.CONVERSATION 1(Questions 1-4)Man's name:【L1】 5.Woman's name:【L2】 6.Name of the man's wife:【L3】 7.The man's telephone number:【L4】 8. 【L1】

Here is a letter from Colorado State University to inform the applicant Mr. Li that he has been admitted to Cognitive Psychology Program beginning with the fall semester of 2016.Dear Mr. Li, Thank you for your interest in graduate study at Colorado State University. You have been admitted to our Cognitive Psychology Program beginning with the fall semester of 2016. The enclosed brochure provides a detailed description of the Cognitive Psychology Program, including the program of study, degree requirements, mentorship program, faculty research interests and laboratory facilities. We hope you will join us this fall. Your undergraduate record, interests and experience indicate that you will gain much new and exciting knowledge at CSU. Please notify me in writing of your decision to accept or reject this offer, prior to April 15. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 555-555-5555. Sincerely, Hugh Camera Read the letter and complete the given information form. Write a word, phrase or number in the spaces 1-5. The extra expenses arising from transportation will be borne by your side. Please pay special attention to the packing for the long sea voyage. A Letter from Colorado State UniversityMr. Li has been admitted to【W1】______of Colorado State UniversityMr. Li will begin with【W2】______ of year 2016.Mr. Li receives the brochure providing【W3】______.Mr. Li is required notify CSU of his【W4】______ before【W5】______.

You will hear five short recordings. Five people are giving advice on how to give feedback to employees. For each recording, decide what advice the speaker gives. Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more than once. After you have listened once, replay the recordings.A Give feedback on a regular basis.B Choose the right time and place.C Focus on the consequences of the individual's behaviour.D Ignore your own personal feelings.E Be clear about what you're referring to.F Praise the individual's strengths.G Offer people the chance to respond.H Give feedback immediately. You will hear five short recordings. Five people are giving advice on how to give feedback to employees. For each recording, decide what advice the speaker gives. Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more than once. After you have listened once, replay the recordings.A Give feedback on a regular basis.B Choose the right time and place.C Focus on the consequences of the individual's behaviour.D Ignore your own personal feelings.E Be clear about what you're referring to.F Praise the individual's strengths.G Offer people the chance to respond.H Give feedback immediately.

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. professional and managerial employeesB. work staffC. human-resource managementD. work force skillsE. important postF. the improvement of worker's basic skillsG. more money should be invested

You will hear a radio interview with a leading industrialist and business consultant, Philip Spencer. For each question(23-30), mark one letter(A, B or C)for the correct answer. After you have listened once, replay the recording. You will hear a radio interview with a leading industrialist and business consultant, Philip Spencer. For each question(23-30), mark one letter(A, B or C)for the correct answer. After you have listened once, replay the recording.

Read the article below and choose the best sentence from the list on the next page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap(1-8)mark one letter(A~H)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. Sleeping in Space A voyage to Mars would take about eight months on a modern spaceship. That might seem like a great opportunity to catch up on your sleep. 【R1】 1 "If we at some point really want to go to Mars and we want to send humans, then we need to know how they will cope," Mathias Basner told Science News. He is a sleep researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia. 【R2】 2 Their experiment was like a long-running game of make-believe: Six men spent 520 days — a little more than 74 weeks — on a pretend voyage to Mars. In fact, the crew spent the entire time confined inside a small, windowless capsule in Moscow, Russia. 【R3】 3 During their "trip," the travelers pretended to land on Mars and to carry out science tests. Throughout the pretend trip, other scientists collected data on the travelers. 【R4】 4Once every minute, that device recorded the man's motions. From these data, Basner's team found that the volunteers were less active and slept more as the pretend mission continued. During the last 18.5 weeks of the trial, most participants were sleeping more each day than they had during the first 18.5 weeks. 【R5】 5One man's natural sleep cycle shifted from a roughly 24-hour day to almost 25 hours long.(By coincidence, that time is closer to the length of a day on Mars.)This meant that he was sometimes awake when his crew members were asleep, and vice versa.【R6】 6Tests showed that he became less alert. Messing with sleep can have serious consequences, says Jeffrey Sutton.【R7】 7He also directs the Center for Space Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "When you are doing high-risk behavior in space, a performance deficit can be life threatening, he told Science News. The decrease in activity found by Basner's team could also prove problematic in space, says Sutton. 【R8】 8A He's a doctor and scientist who worked on the study.B Another one of the six pretend travelers slept less over time.C His team published its new findings in early January.D Each participant wore a device on his wrist.E Astronauts may need to increase their exercise to stay healthy.F But a recent experiment finds that people may develop sleep problems on a long space journey — or at least on the pretend trip in these tests. G Four of the men also developed sleep problems.H The goal of this trial: to learn how people would cope with living in close quarters during travel to and from the Red Planet. 【R1】

Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18 with an expression from the list below. For each sentence(14-16), mark one letter(A~G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice.A. heart attackB. intense curiosityC. a blocked arteryD. gender disparityE. a federal databaseF. follow-up treatmentG. a flood of stress hormones

Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space. For questions 26~45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet. During the past ten years【C1】______attention has been given to "telling it like it is". My impression is that this devotion to【C2】______one's mind has more often led to hurt feelings and ruined relationships than【C3】______great joy. I think we generally agree that never expressing real feelings and【C4】______all less-than-lovely thoughts about each other always leads to constructive communication. It's a great 【C5】______to allow ourselves to admit our human weaknesses and pursue more honest relationships with others.【C6】______we need to keep a balance between telling it all and telling nothing. Recently I received a letter from a mother who had been【C7】______by her son to attend a weekend meeting with him. Under pressure from the group, her defenses cracked and she heard herself【C8】______her son for the first time that he【C9】______an accident—that she hadn't been planning to have a child. He【C10】______told her that he couldn't recall a single day in his childhood that he'd been happy. We cried and【C11】______; I thought telling the truth had been good for us. But the trouble is, it wasn't the whole truth. By the time Tommy was born I did want him, and at【C12】______he was happy. Ever since that day, we【C13】______by some terrible feelings we exchanged. I must admit I've【C14】______the conclusion that some things are better left uncovered. Honesty is a fine policy, but we need a new sense of【C15】______. Disclosing is not a solution to every problem【C16】______even an end in itself. It's useful under some circumstances and terribly hurtful under【C17】______. It's a good idea, I think, to bite your【C18】______for ten or fifteen minutes before saying what's【C19】______your mind. Try to decide whether it's going to open up new and better ways of communication or【C20】______wounds that may never heal.

John Williams, personnel director of a company, receives an application from Jack Smith applying for a position in the company but there are no openings. Suppose you are John Williams. Now write a letter(30-40 words)to Smith to express appreciation and explain the job situation.

Read the following article and answer questions 19-25. For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. Mark your answer on your Answer Sheet. Small, Imperfectly Formed One has to look a long time for an American politician of any political stripe who has failed to laud small businesses. Still, many have little clue as to what makes such businesses succeed or fail. Federal agencies aimed at helping small business, such as the Small Business Administration and the Minority Business Development Agency, have been around for half a century, yet persistent differences remain between the performance of businesses founded by white, male entrepreneurs and the rest. Blacks are less likely to be self-employed, for example, and when they are their businesses, on average, have lower sales and profits than do their white-or Asian-owned counterparts. If researchers could explain the causes of these differences, policy-makers could(at least in theory)supply small businesses with more useful help. Two researchers for the Census Bureau's Centre for Economic Studies, Ron Jarmin and C.J. Krizan, recently published a working paper attempting to understand demographic differences behind small businesses' success and failure. They concentrated on the years 2002 to 2005, with three databases at their disposal: the Survey of Business Owners, conducted every five years; the Longitudinal Foreign Trade Transaction Database, which includes every US export transaction between 1992 and 2005; and a database co-developed by Mr Jarmin, which allowed the authors to track whether the owners of the firms in their sample had prior experience being their own bosses. By drawing from on the power of the Census's data collection efforts, the authors hoped to create a more nuanced picture of business survival. Some of their findings were not terribly surprising. A firm's chances of survival, regardless of the race or sex of its owner, decreased in poorer areas; and the better the education of the founder, the more likely it was to succeed. Businesses owned by Asians, Hispanics, or Pacific Islanders were more likely to be exporters. Older entrepreneurs were more likely to use personal savings to start their businesses; younger owners were more likely to have to close up shop during the study period than were their middle-aged rivals. However, the data also confirmed that black-and female-owned businesses tended to perform worse than the average. They were also less likely to have been funded by bank loans. Still, the businesses that survived, regardless of the owner's race, tended to add employees at similar rates. Furthermore, after controlling for factors such as the education and race of the owner, there was no statistically significant difference in firms' abilities to expand into different locations. Finally, black entrepreneurs were more likely to have a history of self-employment than their white counterparts. Messrs Jarmin and Krizan's paper is not the first to suggest that black entrepreneurs, less likely to have other business owners in their family or personal networks, tend to "start small" when they venture out on their own. Most researchers get to end their papers by speculating, usually without much fear of consequence, as to the policy implications of their work. The authors of this paper, not wishing to imply that the Census Bureau might have policy opinions, declined to do so. But the reader can make some guesses. One is that mentorship programmes may be particularly useful for promoting entrepreneurship among blacks. Another is that reaching out to businesses based on the owner's race might be less useful than supporting businesses in poorer areas. And small businesses of all stripes would be helped by improving that other institution lauded by politicians: America's education system.

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. Do not mark any letter twice. In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television.【R1】 1But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey show. Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of "trash talk".【R2】 2For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. 【R3】 3 Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction.【R4】 4Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your workweek, to getting to know your neighbors. Compared with Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends ever with a "final word".【R5】 5Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable. Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone.【R6】 6Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life's tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society.【R7】 7They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show's exploitation. While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now.【R8】 8Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world.A. He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show.B. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual's quality of life.C. The show's main target audience are middle-class Americans.D. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans.E. The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be.F. These are 18-to 20-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love relationship, sex, money and peers.G. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format.H. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society's moral catastrophe, yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments of other people's lives. 【R1】

- The interlocutor gives you and your partner a list of topics. Both of you need to choose one to discuss together. The interlocutor may join in the conversation and ask you questions, but you and your partner are expected to develop the conversation.Topic 1: The Inequality Between Men and WomenTopic 2: Internet AddictionTopic 3: The Gap between the Rich and the PoorTopic 4: Influence of the Media (Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, Television, Movies)Topic 5: Contemporary Fashions