单选题Directions: Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below by choosing A, B, C or D. Thanks to closed doors and fierce gatekeepers, bosses are tricky to observe in their natural habitat. Yet it might be useful to know what they do all day, and whether any of it benefits shareholders. A new Harvard Business School working paper sheds some light. Researchers asked the chief executives of 94 Italian firms to have their assistants record their activities for a week. You may take this with a grain of salt. Is the boss's assistant a neutral observer? If the boss spends his lunch hour drinking a lot, or in a motel with his assistant, will she record this truthfully? Nonetheless, here are the results. The average Italian boss works for 48 hours a week and spends 60% of that time in meetings. The most diligent put in another 20 hours. And the longer they work, the better the company does. Less diligent chief executives are more likely to have one-to-one meetings with people from outside the company. The authors speculate that such people are trying to raise their own profile, perhaps to secure a better job. Bosses who work longer hours, by contrast, spend more of them meeting their own employees. Bosses often complain that they get bogged down in day-to-day operations, says Rajesh Chandy, a professor at the London Business School. Regulations that make them legally responsible for their underlings' wrongdoings are partly to blame. The prospect of jail is a powerful attention-grabber. Many bosses also feel they must dash around the world pitching to clients. Mr Chandy thinks bosses should spend less time with clients and more time thinking about the future. How much time they spend thinking about anything is hard to measure. But in an experiment, Mr Chandy measured how often bosses use forward-looking words like "will" and "shall" in their public statements. He concluded that bosses spend only 3%～4% of their day thinking about long-term strategy. Brian Sullivan, the chief executive of CTPartners, a headhunting firm, says the most difficult part of his job is saying no to people who want a piece of his time. Mr Sullivan says the only time he gets for blue-sky thinking is when he is in the sky. Bill Gates took regular "think weeks", when he would sit alone in a cabin for 18 hours a day reading and contemplating. This, it is said, led to such strategic masterstrokes as "the Internet tidal wave memo" in 1995, which shifted Microsofrs focus to the web. But not every boss thinks he needs more time for thinking. "You can hire McKinsey to do that for you," says one.

单选题Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C, or D. In spring of 2004, when US gas prices hit US $2 a gallon, University of Washington senior Jo Blue kept on driving. After Hurricane Katrina last August, prices topped US $3 a gallon. But Blue kept driving. Now, when prices have leveled at about US $2.25, she still commutes an hour everyday to her job as a swim coach. Blue has to get to work and public transportation is not an option. Buses to the suburb where she works are infrequent, so Blue has no choice but to spend US $30 a week on gas. High gas prices, which began to soar in 2004, have Americans-whose way of life depends on carscomplaining, but not doing much to change the country's car culture. Like Blue, most Americans, except those in major cities, drive to work. Many live in sprawling suburbs which are accessible only by car. The average American spends 55 minutes each day behind the wheel, according to the US Department of Transportation. In 2003, the US's 290,000 residents registered 237,000 vehicles. Many experts say that this car driven lifestyle is unsustainable. "An event like Hurricane Katrina demonstrates how constrained and fragile the energy supply is now," said Barry Silverthorne, producer of "The End of Suburbia", a documentary about American car culture. In the 1950s, King Hubert, a geologist working for Shell, a major US oil company, predicted that the rate of oil extraction (提取) could not continue to increase forever. Once all the high quality or easiest-to-reach oil was extracted, oil would become progressively scarcer and more expensive until the supply runs out altogether. Many major oil fields in the Middle East have reached or will soon reach their peaks, says Megan Qinn, director of the Community Solution, an organization that promotes sustainable development. Though most experts agree the US should become less dependent on cars, few have addressed the issue of "how" "Deep down in America many of us have a sense that we are about to hit a brick wall of some kind. But people are too distracted by Paris Hiton and iPods to notice," said Silverthorne.

完形填空Weighing yourself regularly is a wonderful way to stay aware of any significant weight fluctuations

完形填空 Being a good parent is, of course, what every parent would like to be. But defining what it means to be a good parent is undoubtedly very 1 , particularly since children respond differently to the same style of parenting. A calm, rule-following child might respond better to a different sort of parenting than, 2 , a younger sibling. 3 , there's another sort of parent that's a bit easier to 4 : a patient parent. Children of every age benefit from patient parenting. Still, 5 every parent would like to be patient, this is no easy 6 . Sometimes parents get exhausted and frustrated and are unable to maintain a 7 and composed style with their kids. I understand this. You're only human, and sometimes your kids can 8 you just a little too far. And then the 9 happens: You lose your patience and either scream at your kids or say something that was a bit too 10 and does nobody any good. You wish that you could 11 the clock and start over. We've all been there. 12 , even though it's common, it's important to keep in mind that in a single moment of fatigue, you can say something to your child that you may 13 for a long time. This may not only do damage to your relationship with your child but also 14 your child's self-esteem. If you consistently lose your 15 with your kids, then you are inadvertently modeling a lack of emotional control for your kids. We are all becoming increasingly aware of the 16 of modeling tolerance and patience for the younger generation. This is a skill that will help them all throughout life. In fact, the ability to emotionally regulate or maintain emotional control when 17 by stress is one of the most important of all life's skills. Certainly, it's incredibly 18 to maintain patience at all times with your children. A more practical goal is to try, to the best of your ability, to be as tolerant and composed as you can when faced with 19 situations involving your children. I can promise you this: As a result of working toward this goal, you and your children will benefit and 20 from stressful moments feeling better physically and emotionally.

完形填空Being a good parent is, of course, what every parent would like to be

完形填空While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less harm- ful ____(1)____ is spreading through their populations like a winter sniffle: mobile personal technology

写作题Part B Directions：Write an essay based on the chart below. In your writing , you should 1) interpret the chart, and 2) give your comments You should write about 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET.(15 points)

写作题Part A Directions：Suppose you have to cancel your travel plan and will not be able to visit professor Smith, write him an email to Suppose Professor Smith asked you to plan a debate on the theme of city traffic

写作题Part A Directions: Write an email of about 100 words to relevant departments to give some advice on how to live a low-carbon life

问答题Directions: Write a letter to the customer service center of an online store, complaining about the quality of the new ipad and demanding a prompt solution. 1) introduce the problem, and 2) provide a solution. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET. Do not use your own name. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write your address.

问答题Direction:Writeanessaybasedonthechartbelow.Inyourwriting，youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.

问答题1.Describethepicture.2.Showyourunderstandingofthesymbolicmeaningofthepicturebelow.3.Giveyouropinionsoradvice.Youshouldwriteatleast150wordsneatlyonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following table, in which you should 1. describe the table. 2. state your opinions drawn from it. You should write at least 150 English words. Accidents in a Chinese City (2005) Main accident causes number of accidents in 2005 percentage rise (+) or fall (-) over 2004 1. drivers turning left without due care 608 +10% 2. drivers traveling too close to other vehicles 411 +9% 3. pedestrians crossing roads carelessly 401 +12% 4. drivers driving under the influence of alcohol 281 +15% 5. drivers failing to give a signal 264 -5%

问答题Directions:Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyouressay,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteabout150wordsontheANSWERSHEET.人口老龄化趋势示意图

问答题Quality of life is about more than the size of your pay cheque, It means being able to spend an evening with your family once a week—instead of keeping one parent at home with the kids while the other works, and then exchanging a few words when you switch roles halfway through the day. It means being able to request working hours that allow you to travel when buses are running so you do not have to walk miles to get to work. Those things matter to workers. When someone on a low wage talks about finding a better job, better pay is just part of the mix. This is why campaigns groups across America are trying to win better conditions—enabling employees to address questions of health, safety and life quality, alongside their wage gains. Short-notice rotas, as much as low pay or unsafe conditions, are central to a spate &protests across the US.

问答题In this part, you are allowed to write a letter to express your apologize for the reason why you can't attend the foreign language class. You should write a letter to your teacher to show the reason and apologize. You should write about 100words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Zang wei" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题1. state the present situation. 2. suggest ways to deal with the problem. 3. express your sincere hope. You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address.

问答题1. the time, address and content of the lecture. 2. the scope of students to participate. 3. the subject and background of the lecture.

问答题1.interpretthechart.2.giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.WriteyouressayonANSWERSHEET2.

问答题Inthissection,youarerequiredtowriteanessaybasedonthefollowingtable.Inyourwriting,youshould1．interpretthetableand2．giveyourcomments.Youshouldwriteatleast150words.AverageDistanceinMilesTravelledperPersonperYear,byModeofTravel