You are asked to write a composition in which you give your own opinions on the following statement: Traffic and housing problems in the major cities would be solved by moving big companies, factories and their employees to the countryside. Write about 120 words.

Assessor invites candidates in and indicates chairs.(To Candidate A and Candidate B.)Good morning / afternoon. My name is __________ and this is my colleague __________He / She will be listening to us.So you are A and B. Thank you.To start with, we'd like to ask you a few questions about yourselves.(Choose several questions from the following list as appropriate.)- What is your favorite hobby?- What will you do to relax yourself?- Who can be your friends?- What is your future plan?- Which season is your favorite?- Could you introduce some changes in your hometown?- What would you like to do if you got a break of one week?- What do you think is the most efficient transportation in China?- Do you think an interview would play an important role in job-hunting?- Would you like to take a long vacation or several short vacations in a year?

You are required to write an essay about 120 words on the given topic: Smoking Is Hazardous to People's Health

Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-10 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. are of much use in our lifeB. can be used in many waysC. about 5 000 years ago in EgyptD. helping to hunt these animalsE. write in a simple wayF. the Greek alphabetG. Egypt alphabet

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. Seasick? Try Controlling Your Breathing If you get seasick easily, you may prepare for boat rides with pressure-point bracelets, ginger, or a prescription skin patch.【R1】 1The technique presumably works because it helps control gravity sensors in the abdomen - a lesser-known input to our fine-tuned balance system. 【R2】 2The inner ears sense motions of the head; the eyes see where the head is; and tiny sensory organs in muscles and tendons sense where the rest of the body is. More recently, researchers have realized that sensors in many other parts of the body also play a role: in the abdomen, the lower organs, and even blood vessels.【R3】 3But if one or two don't match up, the brain gets confused and we become nauseated. Scientists knew the most sickening motions closely match the rate of natural breathing; they also knew that people naturally tend to breathe in time with a motion. 【R4】 4 Researchers from Imperial College London enlisted 26 volunteers to sit in a tilting, rocking flight simulator and coordinate their breathing in various ways with the motion.【R5】 5The natural tendency was for volunteers to inhale on every backward tilt, in rhythm with the rocking.【R6】 6They felt even better if they breathed slightly faster or slower than the cyclic heaving of the chair; using that technique, the time until onset of nausea was 50% longer than during normal breathing. 【R7】 7Abdominal sensors are known to send motion signals to the brain more slowly than those in the inner ear because they're farther away from the brain and because abdominal organs have more mass, which means they resist movement a tiny bit longer.【R8】 8But if the diaphragm opposes gravity-induced stomach motions with controlled breaths, there is less sensory conflict and less nausea. "This technique is very good for mild everyday challenges," says medical research scientist Michael Gresty, a member of the study team. "It's completely safe, and it's not a drug."A. But if the subjects exhaled on every backward tilt, they didn't get sick as quickly.B. As long as all of these sensors send matching signals to the brain, we feel oriented.C. Now there's one more remedy: timing your breathing to counteract the nauseating motion.D. So why do these tactics work?E. The brain is traditionally thought to sense body position in three ways.F. The time lag between the two types of sensors creates a mismatch that builds up in the brain and makes us gradually sicker, the researchers say.G. The tests lasted up to 30 minutes, or until subjects felt moderately sick.H. But no one had ever tested whether breathing out of time with a motion could prevent nausea. 【R1】

Read the following article and choose the best word for each space. For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet. iPhone Left in Hot Car for Three Hours The normally peaceful suburban town of Winnetka is still reeling following the news Monday【C1】______a local resident, whose name is being【C2】______by police pending a full investigation, left an iPhone unattended for more than three hours in a car【C3】______in the hot sun. "Responding to calls from【C4】______passersby, who observed the iPhone sitting in a vehicle in the parking【C5】______of the Westfield Shopping Center, police arrived on the【C6】______at approximately 4 p.m. and immediately intervened to save the device," said Winnetka police chief Douglas Blaine. "Security cameras have shown that the iPhone had been in the car — with the doors【C7】______and the windows rolled【C8】______— since 1 p.m. Due to the tragic and highly emotional【C9】______of this case, we cannot say any【C10】______at this time." According to official police records, two officers forcibly【C11】______into the car at 4:07 p.m. and found the iPhone【C12】______face down on the dashboard. The iPhone at first showed no【C13】______of life, but after a tense few seconds, officers were able to wake it and get it to【C14】______to a series of simple touch commands. Police said that if the iPhone were left in the extreme【C15】______for any longer, it could have died. The iPhone was rushed by ambulance to a nearby Apple facility for careful【C16】______Miraculously, no damage to its memory, screen, or wireless capabilities was reported. Upper-middle-class suburbanites from all over the North Shore area have reacted to the near-tragedy with an unprecedented outpouring of【C17】______. Hundreds of cards and letters have come streaming in, and local talk radio shows have been flooded【C18】______calls demanding that the iPhone's【C19】______be prosecuted. Many have come forward offering to take the iPhone into their custody, and still【C20】______have donated free downloads, ringtones, and MP3s to the victimized object.

You will hear five short recordings. For each recording, decide which aspect of working conditions the speaker is talking about. 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 career prospectsB health and safetyC working hoursD holiday allowanceE training coursesF disciplinary proceduresG job securityH pay increases You will hear five short recordings. For each recording, decide which aspect of working conditions the speaker is talking about. 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 career prospectsB health and safetyC working hoursD holiday allowanceE training coursesF disciplinary proceduresG job securityH pay increases

Read this note from your boss, Mr. Alan Fred. April. 10th. 2011 Joanna, I am planning to arrange a trip to Europe this summer, as a reward to all the star staff members of last year. I want to hold a meeting to have a thorough and detailed discussion about that. Please inform all the senior managers and last year's star staff members of this meeting. The time is 3 pm next Monday. Any detailed plans or suggestions are extremely welcome. Thank you. Alan Write a memorandum to the managers: informing the time of the meeting; stating what the meeting is about; asking them to prepare their plans and suggestions. Write 50-60 words.

Read the following passage and decide which answer best fits each space. For questions 26~45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet. Both【C1】______and zoology are parts of a more general field of science, biology. The two are studies of【C2】______things, which share certain characteristics,【C3】______they are plants or animals. Botany deals with plants, whose organisms that can【C4】______their own food by the use of sunlight. Zoology on【C5】______hand, deals with animals, those organisms that cannot manufacture their own food and are thus dependent【C6】______plants for their food. 【C7】______plants and animals share many abilities, the extent【C8】______which plants can exercise some of those abilities is【C9】______. For example, both plants and animals need food, water, and warmth for growth,【C10】______plants can move to【C11】______those needs only by the slow extraction of their leaves and roots, while animals can move relatively【C12】______distances in relatively little time. When an animal is hurt with needle, the animal will【C13】______the part of the body【C14】______. This ability to draw back【C15】______pain or irritation, called irritability, is found only to a very limited extent in plants. If plants【C16】______the same【C17】______as animals, animals would have had a more difficult time finding food. If animals were as limited as plants, they might【C18】______a means of manufacturing their own food, as plants do now. The world would be a very different place【C19】______it is if the characteristics of plants and animals were【C20】______.

Assessor invites candidates in and indicates chairs. (To Candidate A and Candidate B.)Good morning/afternoon. My name is _______ and this is my colleague _______ He/She will be listening to us.So you are A and B. Thank you.To start with, we'd like to ask you a few questions about yourselves.(Choose several questions from the following list as appropriate.)- Where are you from?- Can you say something about your hometown?- What do you usually do in your spare time?- What do you usually do on weekends?- What do you dislike most about your job?- What do you think of food safety?- What do you like best about the community you live in? .- What kind of entertainment do you like best?- What do you plan to do in the next ten years?- Could you tell me something about your daily life?- What do you do to relax?- Which season is your favorite?- What do you think is the most efficient transportation in China?

Read the article below. 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. Management It is strange that the number of British institutions offering MBA courses should have grown by 256 percent during a period when the economy had been sliding into deeper recession. Optimists, or those given to speedy assumptions, might think it marvelous to have such a resource of business school graduates ready for the recovery. 【R1】 1 What was taken some years ago as a ticket of certain admission to success is now being exposed to the examination of cost-conscious employers who feel that academia has not been sufficiently appreciative of the needs of industry or of the employers' possible contribution. It is curious, given the name of the degree, that there should be no league table for UK business schools; no agreement about what the degree should include; and no agreed system of accreditation. Surely there is something wrong. 【R2】 2 Perhaps companies that made large investments would have been wiser to invest In already existing managers, perched anxiously on their own internal ladders. The Institute of Management's survey, which revealed that eighty-one percent of managers thought they would be more effective if they received more training, suggests that this might be the case.【R3】 3They need the inherent qualification of character; a degree of self-subjugation; and, above all, the ability to communicate and lead; more so now, when empowerment is a buzzword that is at least generating obedience, if not total conviction. 【R4】 4We may therefore, not need to be too concerned about the fall in applications for business school places, or even the doubt about MBAs.【R5】 5If the Management Charter Initiative, now exploring the introduction of a senior management qualification, is successful, there will be a powerful corrective. 【R6】 6One hopes there will be some of that in the relationship between management and science within industry, currently causing concern and which is overdue for attention. No one doubts that we need more scientists and innovation to give us an edge in an increasingly competitive world. If scientists feel themselves undervalued and under-used, working in industrial slums, that is not a promising sign for the future. 【R7】 7 Above all, we have to make sure that management is not itself too proud of its status and that it does not issue mission statements about communication without realizing that the essence of it is a dialogue. 【R8】 8A. One wonders where all the tutors for this massive infusion of business expertise came from and why all this mushrooming took place.B. Unfortunately, there is now much doubt about the value of the degree.C. We believe now that management is all about change.D. It seems we have to resolve these misapprehensions between science and industry.E. More empowerment is required—and we should strive to achieve it.F. The surge and subsequent questioning may have been an inevitable evolution.G. There is, too, the fact that training alone does not make successful managers.H. One can easily think of people, some comparatively uneducated, who are now lauded captains of industry. 【R1】

Look at the ten statements for this part. You will hear a passageabout "A Research on Sleep ". You will listen to it twice. 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 a passageabout "A Research on Sleep ". You will listen to it twice. 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 a man talking about "The Wright Brothers ". Decide whether you think each statement is right(R), wrong(W)or not mentioned(NM). Look at the ten statements for this part. You will hear a man talking about "The Wright Brothers ". Decide whether you think each statement is right(R), wrong(W)or not mentioned(NM).

Look at the notes below. You will hear a woman giving information about a timetable. Look at the notes below. You will hear a woman giving information about a timetable.

Interlocutor: Now, I'd like each of you to talk on your own for about a minute. I'm going to give each of you two different photographs and I'd like you to talk about them.[1] Candidate A, here are your two photographs. They show two different architectural styles. Please let Candidate B have a look at them.(Hand over picture sheet 1 to Candidate A.)Candidate B, I'll give you your photographs in a minute.Candidate A, I'd like you to compare and contrast these photographs, saying what you think the two pictures indicate. Remember, you have only about a minute for this. So don't worry if I interrupt you. All right?(Candidate A. Approximately one minute.)Interlocutor: Thank you. (Retrievephotographs.) Candidate B, what do you think?(Candidate B. Approximately twenty seconds.)Interlocutor: Thank you.[2] Now, Candidate B, here are your photographs. They show two different ways people spend their holidays. Please let Candidate A have a look at them.(Hand over picture sheet 2 to Candidate B.)Candidate B, I'd like you to compare and contrast these pictures, saying what you think the two pictures indicate. Remember, you have only about a minute for this. So don't worry if I interrupt you. All right? (Candidate B. Approximately one minute.) Interlocutor: Thank you. {Retrieve photographs.)Candidate A, what do you think? (Candidate A. Approximately twenty seconds. ) Interlocutor: Thank you.

Candidate A- How do people make career choices today?- What problems is China Red Cross facing now?- What do you think of in-service education?- What are the benefits of high EQ in career development?- What do you think of house purchasing on mortgage?- How have science and technology changed our life and work?Candidate B- How do people make career choices today?- What problems is China Red Cross facing now?- What do you think of in-service education?- What are the benefits of high EQ in career development?- What do you think of house purchasing on mortgage?- How have science and technology changed our life work?

Read the following text and decide which answer best fits each space. For questions 26~45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet. We Really Can Tell If We Are Being Watched Stories about how people somehow know when they are being watched have been going around for years. However, few【C1】______have been made to investigate the phenomenon scientifically. Now, with the completion of the largest ever【C2】______of the so-called staring effect, there is impressive evidence that this is a recognisable and【C3】______sixth sense. The study【C4】______hundreds of children. For the experiments, they sat with their eyes【C5】______so they could not see, and with their【C6】______to other children, who were told to either stare at them or look away. Time and time again the【C7】______showed that the children who could not see were able to【C8】______when they were being stared at. In a【C9】______of more than 18,000 trials carried out worldwide, the children【C10】______sensed when they were being watched almost 70% of the time. The experiment was repeated with the【C11】______precaution of putting the children who were being watched outside the room,【C12】______from the starers by the windows. This was done just in case there was some【C13】______going on with the children telling each other whether they were looking or not. This【C14】______the possibility of sounds being【C15】______between the children. The results, though less【C16】______, were more or less the same. Dr Sheldrake, the biologist who【C17】______the study, believes that the results are【C18】______enough to find out through further experiments【C19】______how the staring effect might actually【C20】______.

You will hear two telephone conversations. Write down one word or number in each of the numbered spaces on the forms below.CONVERSATION 1(Questions 1-4) MESSAGEFrom: Mr.【L1】 1To: Mr. AdamsMessage: He is interested in the secretary position. He has had two years of shorthand training in【L2】 2high school, and has developed a high rate of speed and accuracy in bothshorthand and typing. For the last two months, he has been an administrative assistant at the Riverside Bank. He can begin work anytime next week. He wants to have a personal interview at your【L3】 3. His phone number is【L4】 4. You will hear two telephone conversations. Write down one word or number in each of the numbered spaces on the forms below.CONVERSATION 1(Questions 1-4) MESSAGEFrom: Mr.【L1】 5To: Mr. AdamsMessage: He is interested in the secretary position. He has had two years of shorthand training in【L2】 6high school, and has developed a high rate of speed and accuracy in bothshorthand and typing. For the last two months, he has been an administrative assistant at the Riverside Bank. He can begin work anytime next week. He wants to have a personal interview at your【L3】 7. His phone number is【L4】 8. 【L1】

- 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: Music in Modern LifeTopic 2: Importance of MoneyTopic 3: An Extended Family or a Nuclear FamilyTopic 4: Taboos in ChinaTopic 5: Differences between Life in a Big City and in the Country

阅读理解HOW THE CREDIT CARD CAPTURED AMERICA The proliferation of platinum American Express cards in the 1980s spawned rumors of an ultimate, highly exclusive, never publicized "Black Card". Carried by billionaires, it reportedly allowed holders to demand private shopping sprees at the world''s most exclusive shops and to summon helicopters in the middle of Sahara. American express vehemently denies the existence of such a charge card. But the persistence of the myth suggests the social importance credit cards have for so many Americans. As one business writer puts it, "to have one''s credit cards canceled is now akin to being excommunicated by the medieval church." America''s love affair with the credit card began in 1949, when businessman Frank X. McNamara finished a meal in a New York restaurant and then discovered he had no cash. In those days, gasoline and store charge cards were common, but cash was standard for almost everything else. The embarrassed McNamara called his wife, who rushed over to bail him out. His predicament gave him the idea for Diners Club. Within a year some 200 people carried the world''s first multi-use credit card. The problem was to persuade enough people to carry the cards. Diners Club turned to promotions. It gave away a round-the-world trip on a popular television show. The winners charged their expenses and made it "from New York to New York without a die in their pockets". Banks, sensing among less affluent a pent-up desire to spend, began issuing cards of their own. The first to turn a profit was Bank of America''s Bank Americard. Bankers from all over the country descended on its California headquarters to learn the secret of its success—so many that in 1966 Bank Americard, today known as Visa, began forming alliances with banks outside the state. The Bank Americard network soon faced a competitor when Wells Fargo Bank joined with 77 others to create what became Master Charge. After scooping up 1.3 million more "Everything Card" holders from what was then First national City Bank, Maser charge—today''s Master card—became for a while the biggest bank card in the country. Five million holiday credit-card shoppers would have created a bonanza for the banks, but in the rush to market, the banks had been less than cautious in assembling their lists. Some families received 15 cards. Dead people and babies got cards. Even a dachshund named Alice Griffin was sent one that promised she would be welcomed as a "preferred customer" at Chicago''s finest restaurants. Hundreds of Chicagoans discovered they could use or sell a car they "found", and by law, the person whose name appeared on it was liable for the charges—even if he or she had never requested or received the card. When the prime rate hit 20 % in 1981, the banks found that consumers didn''t mind paying rates of 18—22% on their credit-card balance. High interest rates helped attract new players into the credit-card area, including sears'' Discover Card and Visa. Airlines, car and insurance companies, even long-distance phone companies allied themselves with banks to offer credit cards. Experts estimate there are from 15, 000 to 19, 000 different cards available in the country. Of course, credit cards have not only replaced cash for many purposes, but also in effect have created cash by making it instantly available virtually everywhere. The credit-card advance is becoming as ubiquitous as the automated teller machine.