{{B}}PART I DICTATIONDirections: Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work.{{/B}}
PASSAGE THREE
A. mentally B. stand C. assist D. complex E. shelterF. strolling G. coordination H. survival I. As J. supervisionK. comprehensive L. cope M. wandering N. dwelling O. increasing The homeless make up a growing percentage of America's population. Indeed homelessness has reached such proportions that local governments can't possibly【C1】______. To help homeless people toward independence, the federal government must support job training programs, raise the minimum wage, and fund more low-cost housing. Not everyone agrees on the number of Americans who are homeless. Estimates range anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million. Although the figure may vary, analysts do agree on another matter: that the number of the homeless ' is【C2】______. One of the federal government's studies predicts that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade. Finding ways to【C3】______this growing homeless population has become increasingly difficult. Even when homeless individuals manage to find a【C4】______that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night, a good number still spend the bulk of each day【C5】______the street. Part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs. And a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. Many others while not addicted or【C6】______ill, simply lack the everyday【C7】______skills needed to turn their lives around. Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are【C8】______programs that address the many needs of the homeless.【C9】______Edward Zlotkowski, director of community service at Bentley College in Massachusetts, puts it, "There has to be【C10】______of programs. What's needed is a package deal."
Your ideas, ______, seem unusual to me.
PASSAGE TWO
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He was almost ______ to Jack, but somehow looked a little shorter.
_____ I like economics, I like sociology much better.[2003]
A. looking B. focus on C. various D. extensive E. region F. differences G. famous H. enormous I. entire J. overall K. neither L. exactly M. need N. either O. geography Geography is the study of the relationship between people and the land. Geographers compare and contrast【C1】______ places on the earth. But they also go beyond the individual places and consider the earth as a whole. The word geography comes from two Greek words, ge, the Greek word for "earth" and graphein, which means "to write." The English word geography means "to describe the earth." Some geography books【C2】______ a small area like a town or city. Others deal with a【C3】______a state, a nation, or an【C4】______ continent. Many geography books deal with the whole earth. Another way to divide the study of【C5】______ is to distinguish between physical geography and cultural geography. The former focuses on the natural world; the latter starts with human beings and studies how human beings and their environment act upon each other. But when geography is considered as a single subject, 【C6】______branch can neglect the other. A geographer might be described as one who observes, records, and explains the【C7】______ between places. If all places were alike, there would be little【C8】______ for geographers. We know, however, that no two places are【C9】______ the same. Geography, then, is a point of view, a special way of【C10】______ at places.
PASSAGE ONE
She feels it a disgrace to speak to those socially _____.
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With the development of society, more and more ordinary people are engaged in charity activities. Accordingly, a new form of charity comes into being, that is, micro-charity, in which ordinary people can take actions or donate small amounts of money to express their kindness. What is your view on micro-charity? Write a composition of about 200 words on the following topic: My View on Micro-charity Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Our experiment was conducted under optimal condition. The underlined part means ______.(2014-80)
John wants to visit me today. I'd rather he ______ tomorrow.
An Australian research group may ease humanity's collective conscience over a spate of prehistoric extinctions on the southern continent. The die-off, they say, was not the rapacious work of newly arrived humans, but was due rather to changing climate. Australia's large prehistoric animals, called megafauna, were as bizarre as anything that lives there today. King of them all was the marsupial lion, a 130-kilogram meat-eater who lived alongside giant kangaroos, huge lizards called goannas, and Diprotodon, which resembled a three-tonne wombat. After the arrival of humans on the continent, at least 45, 000 years ago, these weird and wonderful creatures began to die out. Experts blamed the colonizers, arguing that they launched a hunting ' blitzkrieg' that wiped out the megafauna(巨型动物)within a few generations. But the animals may have survived for a lot longer than people thought, argues Judith Field of the University of Sydney, who has analyzed fossil remains. Her excavations seem to show that man and beast lived side by side for as long as 15, 000 years. She suspects that as Australia approached the most recent ice age, the growing cold and aridity turned much of the continent into a place where these large animals simply could not survive. Although man probably did hunt the large animals, the fact that they survived for so long argues against the blitzkrieg(闪电战)model, she adds. Field and her colleagues collected animal bones from a ten-metre-deep section of earth at Cuddie Springs, New South Wales. They focused on bones from four layers: two with evidence of human settlement, such as stone tools, and two deeper ones with no evidence of tools. They dated the bones by measuring the amounts of radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium, that remained in the bones. They found that the various animal carcasses in each level would indeed have lived cheek by jowl with humans as recently as 30, 000 years ago. The team report their research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Proponents of the blitzkrieg model had previously argued that the dating of the Cuddie Springs material was not certain, but Field says their research clears up the matter. Well-preserved bones at other sites have been very hard to find, probably because they are too dry, whereas Cuddie Springs is the site of an old lake bed. A second group, reporting in the journal Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, has also unveiled evidence that climate change may have killed off many of Australia's animals. By looking at smaller animal bones from the Darling Downs in Queensland, they show that their disappearance seems to have coincided with increasing dryness. But the matter is not settled yet, particularly as the timing of humans' first foray into Australia has still not been agreed. Fossil evidence from Lake Mungo in New South Wales suggests that they may have arrived 60, 000 years ago. And it is possible that they hastened the megafauna's demise by burning habitats to make way for primitive agriculture. Field remains convinced, however, that it was climate that drove the animals to their death. "The arid zone grew to encompass 70% of the continent by 30, 000 years ago, " she says. "There would have been very few opportunities once it got dryer."
When he first started in university, he really felt at ______ with his major — economics.[2008]
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Which of the following italicized parts is a predicative clause(表语从句)?