Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short news items. After each item, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the question and the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer.

{{B}}Section A{{/B}} Directions: Translate the underlined sentences in the following passage into Chinese. (89) {{U}}What questions do visa officers have in mind when they face a student applying for a visa?{{/U}} Here is the gist of what Consul General David T. Hopper, the head of visa operations at the American embassy, explained: Are you a genuine student, headed to the US for the purpose of studying? (90) {{U}}Some applicants use fake documents, or have no real intention of attending college in America--the whole project is just a ruse (计策) to get to the US.{{/U}} The officers look closely at 1-20 forms, diplomas and school records for evidence of fraud. Can you pay for your studies? (91) {{U}}Some applicants have full scholarships, but many are self-supporting, so the visa officer must make sure the money is available.{{/U}} Are you really going to America to study and only to study, not to work? [The problem here is work after graduation, not part-time campus jobs while the student is in an academic program.] Do you intend to leave the US when you have your degree? (92) {{U}}Of course this is quite difficult to prove to the visa officer, and correspondingly difficult for the visa officer to judge.{{/U}} But the visa officer cannot simply ignore US visa law, which states that (93) {{U}}if you give a person a student visa ,you must be con~,inced that he intends to leave the US when his studies are finished.{{/U}}

Washing habits have changed over the years. In the 16th century, most people had a bath once a month.., if they were lucky. Up until the 1950s, it was once a week. Only just recently has the concept of daily showering become popular. But now, according to the New York Times, things are changing again. The latest trend is known as "soap-dedging". It basically consists of washing less, having fewer showers and using less soap and deodorant. "I just wash my hair once a month now", said Brett Dawson, a 32-year-old management consultant. "I use a slice of lemon instead of the usual deodorant," said 35-year-old computer analyst Brandon Smith. "I have just one bath a week," said Miriam Bayliss, a 28-year-old accountant. And it appears to be growing in popularity. A poll last year for tissue manufacturer SCA found that 41% of British men and 33% of women don't shower every day. And 12% of people have a proper wash just once or twice a week. Further research by Mintel found that more than half of British teenagers don't wash every day-with many opting a quick spray of deodorant to mask any smell. But why? Over the last few years there have been regular suggestions that daily hair-washing, or even any hair-washing at all, is quite unnecessary, with the commentator Matthew Parris admitting he hadn't shampooed his hair for a decade, and broadcaster Andrew Mart reporting himself perfectly happy with the results when he followed suit for a short while. Many people clearly agree that a regular hair-wash is a hassle. In 2008, Boots reported a 45 % rise in sales of dry shampoo (a product that can be sprayed on hair between showers), while the Batiste brand has recently seen its sales double. And some people want to help the environment. "I limit my showers to about twice a week," said Nigel Hamerstone, a 42-year-old architect. "The rest of the time I have a sink wash," he adds. "I believe that I'm as clean as everyone else, and it's helped get my water consumption down to around 20 litres a day-well below the 100 to 150 average in the UK." The use of deodorant has fallen too. Some are concerned about the possible links between the aluminium in some antiperspirants and Alzheimer's disease. Others have discovered the benefits of crystal sticks (also known as "crystal mineral deodorant stones"). (74) These mineral salts prevent body odour from occurring naturally by forming a layer on the skin which kills the bacteria. They're non-sticky, non-staining and they haven't been tested on animals. (75) It might be worth us all occasionally missing a shower or two, then, so long as we don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. While being environmentally friendly is good, smelling like a bin is not. Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N(for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage.

{{B}}Section B{{/B}} Directions: In this section, there is one passage followed by 5 questions. Read the passage carefully, then answer the questions in a maximum of 10 words. Question 61-65 are based on the following passage. In the United States also there were great changes, though the causes here were due only in part to the war; they sprang mainly from technical progress, and the development of mass-production, in which the United States henceforth was to lead the world. The cheap automobile, pioneered by Henry Ford, is a good example. In 1915 the United States contained 2.5 million cars; in 1920, 9 million. Only the new mass-production techniques made it possible to build all these cars and only the growing practice of "easy-payments" made it possible to sell them. By 1925 three out of four cars, new and old, were sold in this way. About the same proportion were covered against the weather; ten years earlier, forty-nine cars out of fifty were open ones. The last fact is important. The car had not only become cheap; it had become a comfortable room on wheels not just a means of transport. First in the United States, then in Britain and other countries, the car began to revolutionize everyday life. People no longer had to live near their work or close to a railway station. So began, in earnest, the problem which is still with us. The town centers, once full of life and sociability, began to wither; evening found them dead and deserted, nothing but bright shop windows and locked doors. The car brought many far-reaching consequences and it was blamed, rightly or wrongly, for the decline in churchgoing and the increase in immorality. More recently, it meant the virtual end of horse drawn transport and a growing threat to the supremacy of the railroad.

Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short pieces of news from BBC or VOA. After each news item and question, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

Before making a commitment to a real estate agent, it is sensible to find out about ________.

语法与词汇After her death, Audrey Hepburn was________internationally as one of the favourite film actresses of all time, an icon to style,elegance, dignity and charity

语法与词汇On no account________ to anyone who works in this company

语法与词汇John: The radios terribly loud

语法与词汇The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievichfor her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time

语法与词汇Friday is a character in the novel________ written by Daniel Defoe

语法与词汇Although she didnt have much food in the fridge, Sally was able to________ a delicious meal

语法与词汇You don‟t look so happy, Bill

语法与词汇When the stranger walked towards her, she fled, the door _____ behind her

语法与词汇OK. Here‟re the departures. What‟s our flight number again? It‟s MU909. The boarding pass says it leaves from Gate B-12. Let‟s see, MU909， Gate B -12. There it is. Oh, no! The flight‟s been delayed. It won‟t leave until 9:19! And ________. Nine-nineteen! That‟s three hours from now! What are we going to do with the three hours?

语法与词汇The novel is structured around the discovery of the heros origin

语法与词汇________ out the report now, otherwise there might not be time

语法与词汇It suddenly ________ her mind that she had long promised to meet a close friend for dinner that night

语法与词汇A person‟s blood flows through a pipeline of vessels that, end to end, would stretch more than ________ half times around the Earth at the equator

语法与词汇Adrian: Boris