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)Time for the man to arrive at the hotel:【L1】 1.Price of the room: $【L2】 2.Number of the unit: No.【L3】 3.On the【L4】 4floor. 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)Time for the man to arrive at the hotel:【L1】 5.Price of the room: $【L2】 6.Number of the unit: No.【L3】 7.On the【L4】 8floor. 【L1】
Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space. Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any【C1】______know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid of goods at reasonable prices,【C2】______establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide【C3】______export at competitive prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it【C4】______an increasing need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services:【C5】______advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 percent more. And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy【C6】______the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live【C7】______the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little【C8】______through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good【C9】______not to buy the inferior article more than once. If you see an article【C10】______advertised, it is the surest proof. I know that the article does what is【C11】______for it, and that it represents good value. Advertising does more for the【C12】______benefit of the community than any other force I can think of. There is one more point I feel I ought to【C13】______on. Recently I heard a well-known television personality【C14】______that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was drawing【C15】______fine distinctions. Of course advertising【C16】______to persuade. If its message were【C17】______merely to information — and that in itself【C18】______difficult if not impossible to achieve,【C19】______even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasive — advertising would be so boring【C20】______no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that is what the well-known television personality wants.
Lookatthestatementsbelowandthearticleaboutmeetingsontheoppositepage.Whichsection(A,B,CorD)doeseachstatement(1-7)referto?Foreachstatement(1-7),markoneletter(A,B,CorD)onyourAnswerSheet.Youwillneedtousesomeoftheselettersmorethanonce.Example:0apolicyofnotallowingpeopleinmeetingstobecomecomfortableandrelaxedBusinessMeetingsAManyorganisationsaredevelopingwaysofminimisingthetimeworkersspendsittinginmeetingsinordertogivethemmorehoursworkingattheirdesks.Theyrealisethatreducingthenumberofmeetingsisproblematic,butsomeareusingadevicecalledaMeetingMetertodeterminehowmuchmoneyiswastedthroughthewidespreadpracticeofover-populatedandtime-inefficientmeetings.Ageneralmeetinginabigcompanycancost￡9000anhour.EvenstaffinUKgovernmentdepartmentshavebeentoldtomakelesselaboratepresentationsandtogetthroughthemmorequickly.BAsolutionhasoftenbeentotakethingsatbreakneckspeedorabolishmeetingsaltogether.OliviaDacourt,CEOofaretailchain,makesapointofnotlettinganyonesitdowninhermeetings.'Wecovermorematerialina15-minutemeetingthanyou'dseeinatwo-hoursit-downmeeting,'shesays.Shedrillsheremployeestoshout'pass'iftheyhavenocommenttomake,therebysavingahastilymumbledagreementwiththepreviousspeaker.Inthisway,herlaststaffmeetingclockedinatsixminutes.CWebsitedesignerBarryHarehasgonesofarastochargehisclientsameeting'tax'.Iftheyaskforameeting,hedoubleshisdesignfeeof￡85anhour.'EveryoneItalktohatesmeetings,buttheydon'tknowwhattodoaboutthem/hesays.'Well,I'veactuallydonesomething.'Similarly,atJPProducts,managershaveinstigatedaNoMeetingsDayeveryFriday.Theschemewasdevisedbyin-houseindustrialpsychologistAdaPearsonafterhearingemployeesjokeabouttheneedfora'meeting-freeday'.DButabolishingmeetingsisnotassimpleasclearingthemfromyourdiary.AtJPProductssomeworkershavefelttheneedtogetroundtheNoMeetingsDaydirectivebyholdingspontaneous'huddles'and'nicetoknows'toupdateeachotheronprogress.Afterhersuccessinreducingthemeetingsquota,Pearsonisunderpressurefrommeeting-wearymanagerstoimplementdaysthatarefreeofemailsandtelephonecalls.Butunfortunatelyshehasotherpriorities-thankstoalengthymeetingwiththechiefexecutive.
Look at the notes below. You will hear a woman giving instructions to a colleague about dealing with job applications. Look at the notes below. You will hear a woman giving instructions to a colleague about dealing with job applications.
You are a manager in the customer services department of a large store. Your line manager has asked you to write a report on the results of a recent customer survey.Look at the information below, on which you have already made some handwritten notes.Then, using all your handwritten notes, write your report.Write 120-140 words.
Look at the note below. You will hear a man calling a colleague about making changes to his schedule. Look at the note below. You will hear a man calling a colleague about making changes to his schedule.
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】
Look at the ten statements for this part. You will hear a passage about "Credit Cards History ". 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 passage about "Credit Cards History ". 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.
You will hear five different opinions about friendship. For questions 9-13, choose from the list A-F what friendships mean to them. Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use.A. A real friend can share your happiness, accept and forgive faults.B. Sometimes your best friend is yourself.C. Family is more important than friends in his mind.D. Friendship is more important than love.E. A friend is someone who can understand you.F. His best friend is his wife, because she knows what kind of mood he is in. You will hear five different opinions about friendship. For questions 9-13, choose from the list A-F what friendships mean to them. Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use.A. A real friend can share your happiness, accept and forgive faults.B. Sometimes your best friend is yourself.C. Family is more important than friends in his mind.D. Friendship is more important than love.E. A friend is someone who can understand you.F. His best friend is his wife, because she knows what kind of mood he is in.
Assessor invites candidates in and indicates chairs.Interlocutor:(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?- What is your favourite time of the year?- Could you talk about some changes in your hometown?- What would you like to do if you got a one week break?- What do you think is the most efficient transport in China?- Do you think interviews play an important role in job-hunting?- Which do you prefer, longer holidays or short ones?
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 your Answer Sheet Recycling Paper The process of recycling paper can help to reduce deforestation and energy consumption on a significant scale. There are many different reasons why we should recycle paper products, and some of these are【C1】______in the paragraphs below. Energy consumption will always be on the【C2】______as population levels grow, and so any manufacturing processes which help to reduce energy consumption are【C3】______ The Energy Information Administration(EIA)claim that there can be as【C4】______as a 40% energy saving when recycling paper over producing paper【C5】______the direct raw material. Although recycling paper has many【C6】______, it also has its drawbacks. One of these drawbacks is that we cannot recycle the【C7】______paper product for eternity, as the fibers contained within the paper degrade over time,【C8】______their strength and length. On【C9】______, an individual paper fiber can only be recycled a【C10】______of six times. Although this is a significant drawback, the six time recycling process will help to【C11】______a great deal of energy when you consider【C12】______much paper there is to be recycled. If paper fibers can be recycled up to 6 times, and we recycled all paper products, this could help to【C13】______the intensity of deforestation for paper products up to a factor of 6. With paper production said to【C14】______around 40% of harvested wood, and paper said to【C15】______around 90% wood, you can see how recycling paper is an important process for the【C16】______of our forests. Today, the use of recycled paper products is on the increase, as more and more people begin to recycle paper【C17】______products around the home. Although there are slight differences in the recycling processes of different【C18】______of paper products(e.g. corrugated, mixed paper, newspaper products), we are able to recycle just about any type of paper product around today. The recycling logo helps to【C19】______a recyclable product and can also sometimes help to identify if the product contains any recycled material, in the form of a percentage. This helps a consumer to identify the【C20】______of recycling various products.
You are a tour guide in a travel agency and are requested to make a written announcement to all the tourists for the details below: a bus tour to Summer Palace the detailed information about the bus tour how to sign up for it Write about 50-60 words.
You have a part-time job in a bookshop. The manager wants to make the shop more popular among young people and asks you to write a report making some recommendations. Write your report in 100-120 words. Write your answer in an appropriate style.
Read the following passages, eight sentences have been removed from the article. For each gap(1-8)mark one letter(A~H)on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. There's a story in Texas about the rancher who complained when a well driller found oil instead of the water he had been sent to look for. "Cattle can't drink that stuff!" the rancher cried. That story is no longer funny. We are short of both oil and water, but the water shortage is worse.【R1】 1And we are using water a great deal faster than it is being replaced. The replacement rate is dependent on rainfall(sometimes in the form of snow)to resupply rivers, lakes, and ground water.【R2】 2Worse, droughts are occurring more frequently and are increasing in severity, not only in the United States but also abroad. Even without droughts, rainfall is insufficient to maintain a balance.【R3】 3So much water has been taken from the Colorado River by Arizona and California that Mexico has complained that those states have exceeded the U.S. share under a 1944 treaty on water-sharing. Southern Californians also have elaborated arrangements to transport water from the Pacific North west, which has it in abundance, to their area, which doesn't have nearly enough to support its population. 【R4】 4 Short of a fanciful solution, the U.S. has two broad options, neither pleasant. We can conserve or we can produce. The former is inconvenient or worse: less irrigation(and thus less food), fewer swimming pools golf courses, and green lawns.【R5】 5In the quantities necessary, this would probably require nuclear power. It is technically feasible, but expensive, and was considered 30 years ago as a joint U.S.-Mexican project in the Gulf of California to alleviate the Colorado river problem. As more of it is done, the cost could be expected to come down; and as we became more desperate for water, we would be more willing to pay the cost even if it didn't come down.【R6】 6This is an arrangement whereby large landowners would sell the groundwater under their land, for whatever the market would bear, to cities that might be hundreds of miles distant. This would involve the considerable cost of pipeline construction and would mean faster depletion of groundwater reserves. 【R7】 7 It's a good bet that during the 21st century some new arrangements are going to have to be made about the nation's — and the world's — water supplies. These are likely to be neither cheap nor easy. They are more likely to be cheaper and easier if we have thought about them in advance.【R8】 8We have been sued to choices of guns or butter. This one might be water or meat.A. A century ago, a drought affected only farmers and perhaps inland navigation; now it affects everybody.B. The Northwest is showing signs of getting tired of this drain.C. It is not too soon to begin.D. We cannot live without oil in the style to which we have become accustomed, but we cannot live at all without water.E. Rivers are running dry, especially in the West.F. It would also mean less food production.G. A solution currently being advanced in west Texas is a concept called "Water Ranching". H. The latter is expensive: desalinization of seawater. 【R1】
Read the following passage and answer questions 19-25. For questions 19~25, choose the correct answer A, B, C and D. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet. While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states, at least UN is getting people off welfare. It's estimated that more than two million have left the roles since 1994. In the past four years, welfare in rolls in Athens country has been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens country poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent — twice the national average. For advocates for the poor, that's an indication that much more needs to be done. "More people are getting jobs, but it's not making their lives any better," says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the center in budget and policy priorities in Washington. Canter analysis of US census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a great percentage of single, fame-headed household were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down. But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory. "Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin that was poisoning the family," says Rector. A welfare reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It's beginning to rebuild the work ethic, which is much more important. Mr. Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked," then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.
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 your Answer Sheet. Long-Term Care Crisis The apparent demise of the Class Act leaves many middle-income Americans【C1】______to cope with rising expenses【C2】______long-term care for family members, The Times reported on Tuesday. Unlike the rich, who can afford to pay for services themselves, or the poor, who get help【C3】______Medicaid, the federal and state program for low-income people, many members of the middle class have to look【C4】______disabled relatives themselves, or pay someone to do it. Polls show that many people believe that Medicare, the federal health program for those 65【C5】______older, pays for such care.【C6】______, Medicare stops paying nursing【C7】______bills after 100 days. More than 10 million people in the United States already have long-term care【C8】______, and two-thirds of the costs are paid for by government programs,【C9】______Medicaid. Studies estimate that unpaid family members deliver an even【C10】______share of the care, and the cost of nursing home care averages $72,000,a year. The Class Act's ambitions were undercut by an impractical structure that doomed it from the【C11】______experts and government actuaries say. Its【C12】______harks back to an attempt by President Ronald Reagan and a Democratic Congress to protect the elderly from catastrophic medical expenses and provide a modest prescription drug benefit and somewhat【C13】______nursing home care. That law, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, was repealed within months of enactment after a furious response by elderly voters angry that they had to【C14】______for the benefits themselves through a tax mostly paid【C15】______the wealthy. In a famous【C16】______, Representative Dan Rostenkowski, an Illinois Democrat who was chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, was booed and chased【C17】______a Chicago street by a group of elderly people, one of【C18】______draped herself over the hood of his car. The repeal legislation created a commission to examine the issue of long-term care, but it【C19】______the appetite of many in Congress to resolve the issue. The Clinton health plan made another attempt at improving long-term care, but the bill failed. And now the demise of the Class Act is【C20】______history.
ANSWER PHONE MESSAGE(Questions 5-8) Leaving a MessageFrom: Roger【L5】 1with J.C. Henderson Ltd.To: Mr. Barry ChanMessage: I would like to【L6】 2you on the status of the project and believe that it is worth arranging a【L7】 3I will call you back tomorrow as I will be in meetings for the【L8】 4of the day. I will talk to you then. Thanks.ANSWER PHONE MESSAGE(Questions 5-8) Leaving a MessageFrom: Roger【L5】 5with J.C. Henderson Ltd.To: Mr. Barry ChanMessage: I would like to【L6】 6you on the status of the project and believe that it is worth arranging a【L7】 7I will call you back tomorrow as I will be in meetings for the【L8】 8of the day. I will talk to you then. Thanks. 【L5】
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 the Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. Smartphone Data to Give Early Warning of Earthquakes One day last August, in the early hours of the morning, a 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Napa Valley, waking people all around California's famed wine region.【R1】 1Once the quake was over, tracker company Jawbone gathered the data in a public graphic, using it to detail the differences in disturbance for life loggers in Berkeley, Oakland and San Jose. Now new research shows that sensors in smartphones can give early warning of an earthquake too. 【R2】 2Many of us walk around laden with devices that compile data on our movements and interests - data that seismologists now want to help spot the next major earthquake. At the US Geological Survey, Benjamin Brooks is looking to smartphones rather than finely tuned scientific instruments to predict big quakes. Smartphones come equipped with GPS sensors that can tell where you're standing, give or take a few metres.【R3】 3They can also sense a sudden lurch in one direction — the kind of movement that, when logged by many people at once, might be a sign of a seismic shift. "Imagine all of Portland was out at a cafe on a sunny day, and everyone's smartphones were sitting on the table when one of these great earthquakes happened," says Brooks. "The whole city would appear to move." 【R4】 4One simulation explored a model magnitude 7.0 earthquake along the Hayward fault, and another used actual location data recorded at scientific stations during Japan's devastating 2011 megaquake. Both scenarios suggested that data from around 5,000 people would be enough to spot the beginnings of a major earthquake, leaving about 5 seconds to warn major population centres that hadn't yet felt its effects. When an earthquake is coming, a few seconds of warning can be crucial.【R5】 5"You get out in front of the situation and inform people before any ill effects," says Brooks. Smart sensing This isn't seismologists' first foray into smart phones. Two years ago, researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena came out with an app, Crowdshake, which monitors a phone's accelerometer.【R6】 6Until then, Brooks and his colleagues plan to keep putting smartphones to the test. In an upcoming pilot in Chile, about 250 phones will be stripped of their standard GPS cards and placed in boxes around the country, where they'll lie in wait to record the next big earthquake. Others have found ingenious ways to tap into human activity to locate quakes. 【R7】 7 Whenever there's a sudden surge of traffic to their website, they look at where visitors are accessing it from to get a sense of where the earthquake is and how strong it might be.【R8】 8Within a couple of minutes, they have enough information to publish their first unconfirmed reports of the quake. "The internet is the nervous system of the planet," says Remy Bossu, secretary general at the centre. "If we want to make rapid earthquake information available to the public and authorities, we have to focus on the earthquakes that matter for them."A. At the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center, seismologists rely on the internet to pinpoint where earthquakes are happening around the globe.B. Many were wearing fitness trackers.C. Unfortunately, with GPS data it isn't as simple as building an app: Smartphone manufacturers don't currently provide access to the raw data required.D. While Jawbone's post didn't inspire confidence in the privacy of users' data, it did make a point: Humans can be useful sensors.E. On an ordinary day, these are what allow us to map our way to a store or geolocate our tweets.F. Fire-station doors could start to raise, gas pipelines could automatically shut off, and city residents could jump to safety under a nearby desk.G. They also monitor Twitter for relevant keywords.H. Brooks and his colleagues have now tested what crowd sourced GPS data might look like in a real earthquake. 【R1】
Interlocutor Here is a list of topics. Now, both of you have a look at these topics and choose one to discuss together.The interlocutor gives the Candidates a list of topics for them to choose one and ask them to discuss togetherThe interlocutor may join in the conversation and ask the Candidates questions, but the Candidates are expected to develop the conversation.- What is the effect of movies on youth?- How have science and technology changed our life and work?- What do you think of the saying "Praising is a subtle art in bringing out the best in everyone"?- Discuss the changes in people's diet nowadays.- What can we do to protect the environment?
CONVERSATION 2(Questions 5-8)The patient's name:【L5】 1JohnsonThe doctor's name: 【L6】 2Appointment time: at【L7】 3a.m. on the【L8】 4.CONVERSATION 2(Questions 5-8)The patient's name:【L5】 5JohnsonThe doctor's name: 【L6】 6Appointment time: at【L7】 7a.m. on the【L8】 8. 【L5】