单选题Farming on steep slopes (陡坡) as well as in dry, windy climates ______ particular soil conservation methods.

单选题—Can we please get a new air conditioner for our bedroom? —______. —Can't you see that it's not working right? A. Do you have to repair it? B. It is not very hot in this season. C. I also think we should buy a new one. D. What's wrong with the one we have now?

单选题{{B}}Section C{{/B}} Directions: In this section, there is one passage followed by 7 statements. Go over the passage quickly. For questions 66-71, mark T (for True) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage," F (for False) if the statement contradicts with information given in the passage; NG (for Not Given) if the information is not given in the passage. Questions 66-72 are based on the following passage. Although one might not think so from some of the criticism of it, advertising is essential to the kind of society in which people in the United Kingdom, and a very large part of the world at large, live. Advertising is necessary as a means of communicating with others. It is also a way of telling people about the goods and services that are offered. If it were not for advertising, some goods information would never reach the ears of many people. Advertising helps a great deal to raise the people's standard of living. In talking about advertising, one should not think only in terms of commercial on television, or an advertisement in the newspapers or periodicals. In its widest sense, advertising includes many other activities such as packaging, shop displays and even the spoken word of the salesman. After all, the roots of advertising are to be found in the market place. For many years it was thought that it was enough to produce goods and supply services. It is only more recently that it has become increasingly understood that the production of goods is a waste of resources unless those goods can be sold at a fair price within a reasonable time span. In the competitive society in which we live, it is essential that we go out and sell what we have to offer, and advertising plays an important role in this respect, whether selling at home or in export markets. About 2 percent of the U.K. gross national product is spent on advertising. But it must not be thought that this advertising tries to sell goods to consumers who do not want them. Of course, advertising does try to attract the interest of the potential consumer, but if the article purchased does not match up to the standards that the advertising suggests that it will, it is obviously unlikely that the article will sell well.

单选题{{B}}Section C{{/B}} In this section, there is one passage followed by five incomplete sentences. Read the passage carefully, and then complete each sentence in a maximum of 10 words. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. We learn to lie when we are children, discovering as we get older and as our awareness of self and others grows what we can and can't get away with. Come on, admit it. we've all been guilty of blaming a lack of homework on the unfortunate eating habits of the family dog. Child psychologist Jean Piaget, in his study of moral development, says that "the tendency to tell lies is a natural tendency ... spontaneous and universal." It seems that to lie is to be human. {{U}}The Evolution of Lying{{/U}} As humans, we communicate with each other via various verbal and non-verbal signals such as spoken language, facial expressions, and body gestures. But our ability to communicate is enhanced by our understanding of what is going through someone else's mind—our capacity to empathize with each other. Not all living things on this earth have the ability to empathize. Although animal psychologists may protest, evidence of empathy has really only been witnessed in higher primates that means chimps, gorillas, you and me. This ability to empathize is a product of being able to recognize other minds as separate from your own—something that you are able to do after about the age of two. Robert Wright, author of "The Moral Animal", suggests that lying is a fundamental part of this empathy, a by-product of sorts. If you want to purposefully deceive someone, you first have to be able to understand what that person might be thinking. Many plants and animals deceive others around them in order to get ahead in life. The Tawny Frogmouth is camouflaged to look like the tree upon which it is perched to deceive its predators and hide itself during the day. Some orchids deceive male insects by looking like their female partners, getting a free pollination and fooling the male into thinking it's his lucky day. However, the distinction between deception and lying is an important one. How aware are these plants and animals that they are engaged in deception? Although deception in the animal kingdom can look like lying, finding examples of conscious lying amongst animals is difficult, says Richard Byrne, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of St. Andrews in the UK and author of The Thinking Ape. But, according to Byrne, there is certain evidence that the higher apes—chimps, bonobos and gorillas—do engage in a conscious form of deception that is different to the plant and animal deception mentioned above. {{U}}Monkey Liars{{/U}} When chimpanzees are foraging for food, a chimp who comes across something tasty will occasionally pretend not to have noticed the food so as not to alert the chimps nearby and lose his prize. But sometimes a competitor chimp will walk past the pretending chimp, then hide behind a tree and peep out to see if the pretending chimp really does have some food. There are many examples of animals pretending not to have seen food in order to save it for themselves later, says Byrne, but not of a competitor hiding and turning back to peep. Byrne suggests that this could be an example of lying, monkey-style. "Why would you do that if you didn't have an idea that something is going on? If you have some kind of idea that there is something secret going on, you understand deception. " Lying in this sense is part of an ability to take into account the likely response of another. This is the ability to understand another's mind. Such an ability evolved because individuals and groups that possessed this skill thrived. Why? Because they were able to communicate and interact more effectively as a group, which in turn affected their capacity to survive. {{U}}Ability to Speak=More Lies{{/U}} In the case of humans, the possibility for lying increased even further because of our use of oral language. To quote Robert Wright again, "We are far from the only dishonest species, but we are surely the most dishonest, if only because we do the most talking. " However, there is a restriction to the advantages of lying and the benefits it can bring. Otherwise, we'd just lie all the time! Paul Ekman, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, believes that we did not evolve to be inherently deceptive creatures because it would pervert our success as a society. "I suspect that our ancestral environment was not one in which there were many opportunities to lie and get away with it, and the costs for being caught in a lie might have been severe. "

单选题Ode to the West Wind was written by ______. A. William Blake. B. William Wordsworth. C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D. Percy Ｂ. Shelley.

单选题By no means ______ look down upon the unemployed.

单选题Questions 56-60 on following passage. Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand what he wants to teach them, and what he wants them to learn from him. What visual artist like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experience into shape and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist. Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and at rest' s their choices indicates that these aspect of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects. If one painter chooses to paint a decaying leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphasizing something--all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.

单选题The receptionist ______ we handed the forms pointed out that they had not been properly filled in.

单选题Interviewer: Most people love the circus. Are you ready for tomorrow afternoon's performance? Circus leader: We'll be working all day and half the night. And ______, by tomorrow morning everything will have been set up in time for the afternoon performance. Interviewer: Good luck! A. so to speak B. touch the wood C. fingers crossed D. as you promise

单选题—How often do you eat out? —______, but usually about twice a month.

单选题Conversation 2

单选题The correct order of the pictures marked a), b), c) and d) that match Paragraphs 1-4 is _____.

单选题The largest and smallest states of the United States are ______. A. Alaska and Rhode Island B. Texas and Maine C. Texas and Rhode Island D. Alaska and Maine

单选题Why can't they watch a video at Susan's house?

单选题—I don't like to complain, but I bought this camera last week and it's stopped working. —Hum-yes, it's faulty. Do you have your receipt? We can either exchange the camera or offer you a credit note. You can use it for anything in the shop. —No, ______. —I'm afraid that isn't our company policy, sir. —But it is the law-and I'm a law student. So refund my money or I'll see you in court. OK? A. I'd rater have a refund B. I'd like a new camera C. there must be a discount D. I must get something free

单选题What does the woman want to be in the future?

单选题For security reasons, always log ______ when you leave your computer unattended for any period of time.

单选题The jobs available to people with little education are, in the main, insecure and low-paid with irregular hours, high levels of intensity, little protection from health and safety______and few opportunities for promotion. A. hazards B. interference C. guarantee D. harassment

单选题The farm produced more food than ______ thought possible during World War Ⅱ.

单选题{{B}}Section A{{/B}} There is one passage in this section followed by five questions. For each question, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice, then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre. If art seeks to divorce itself from meaningful and associative images, if it holds material alone as its objective, then I think that the material itself ought to have the greatest possible plasticity, the greatest potentialities for the development of shapes and the creating of relationships. For that reason I think that the sculpture which has been created with a view to being form alone has been a great deal more successful and interesting than has been the painting in that vein. The sculptor sets out with two pre-existing advantages: one, that he must have craftsmanship, and the other, that he works in the round. He does not have to stimulate depth nor create illusions of depth because he works in volume—in three-dimensional form. Thus Noguchi, working in marble, is able to develop relationships in three-dimensions rather than two and yet retain both simplicity and unity. He has at his disposal the advantages of light and space, and the natural translucence and glow of marble, all of which he exploits and reveals with great elegance. Henry Moore is one of the great contemporary imaginers who has brought new materials and new concepts into sculptural form. He discovers the naturally heroic character of bronze and exploits feelingly the graining and fine surfaces of wood. Undoubtedly his most remarkable feat has been the surrounding of open space and his use of such space as a sculptural material. But beauty and craft and idea are still paramount with Moore and he never obliterates these qualities in the shock of the new. Questions: