问答题Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 sentences in English. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

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问答题A former colleague relished telling me last week about two forthcoming new additions to the population. His wife is fit to pop with identical twin girls. He and our sister publication, The Times, got me thinking: could the twins live to be 1507Times2 posed this very question alongside a photograph of a thumb-sucking newborn. Decrepitude is no longer inevitable, it said. Science will help us to stop the rot. There is, some scientists say, are al Dorian Gray among us--someone who, through a mixture of good genes, healthy lifestyle and timely medical interventions, will give the impression of staying young throughout an extra ordinarilylong life. I was still pondering the likelihood of living to 150 when I was presented with another big question: just how did Derren Brown do it? In a television stunt, he claimed to have predicted the six winning Lotto numbers, sparking an online guessing game about how it was achieved. Indeed," Derren Brown" and "lottery" were the two top searched-for keywords on the web that led users to times on line, co. uk. Dozens of theories were offered--from camera trickery to simple sleight of hand. Even actuaries were speaking about it. Clive Grimley, a partner at Barnett Waddingham,bought into the most popular theory. "According to someone on You Tube, he used split-screentechnology to give the impression that the balls were in the live shot, when in fact they were a staticimage," he mused. "The left-hand side of the screen, which showed the numbered balls in a row, was a frozen image. In reality, an assistant was putting the balls in place during the 30-second delay between them being drawn and Brown revealing his numbers. Like Edward Norton in The Illusionist, it's all a trick. " Just as illusory, he says, are projections of retirement in come. Pensioners today can expect to spend a third of their lives in retirement--a figure that could grow to half our life or more, as we all die later. It may sound good in theory, but Grimley has some sobering views: the state pension age will have to rocket, a growing number of people will be forced to take "the glide path—gradually winding down into retirement rather than stopping work altogether immediately--and the onus for funding our latter years will increasingly fall on our own shoulders. The NHS will crumble under the pressure, with 100-plus pensioners battering down the doors at doctors-- surgeries. Early evidence stacks up his argument. It is already proposed that the state pension age for women will rise to 65 by 2020, making it equal to that of men. For both sexes, it will rise to 68 by2046. That will be far from sufficient, though. "Increases to state retirement age are going to have to be fairly radical--I don't think anyone wants to admit just how radical," said Grimley. When you reach the magic age--whatever that may be--you could be sorely disappointed. The Institute of Directors said last week that the government should freeze the state pension to help cut its growing budget deficit, and freezes--or cuts--could soon become the norm. How much you stand to get from personal pension savings could be a shock, too. Annuity rates have dropped almost 10% since last summer, pushed down by the government's attempts to reflate the economy. It has pumped $175 billion into the financial system by buying up gilts. This has pushed gilt prices up and yields down by as much as 50 to 100 basis points, and it is these that determine annuity rates. Moreover, the sort of income you can expect from your pension pot is also determined by life expectancy. Clearly, the longer you're expected to live, the lower the annuity rate. Three decades ago, in 1980, benchmark annuity rates for a 65-year-old man were almost 16%. Today, they' re less than half that at 7%--knocking $ 9,000 a year off what you'd get for a $100,000 pot. What if in another 30 years they're just 3%? That would knock off another $ 4,000, giving you a pitiful $ 3,000 a year for every $100,000 of pension savings. Never mind the twins. I'd better get on with cracking the code for predicting the numbers of those Lotto balls.1.Why does the author introduce the topic of the likelihood of living to 150 at the beginning of the passage?

问答题What we forget—what our economy depends on us forgetting—is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss the disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us that it is ok not to be happy, that sadness makes happiness deeper. As the wine-connoisseur movie Sideways tells us, it is the kiss of decay and mortality that makes grape juice into Pinot Noir. We need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet somehow, a breath of fresh air.

问答题上海合作组织成员国能够超越彼此在地缘，文化等方面的巨大差异，紧密团结在一起，共同应对国际和地区风云变幻的考验，最根本的一点就是，上海合作组织的宗旨和原则符合各成员国的切身利益。它们是：第一，致力于发展成员国之间的睦邻友好关系；第二，致力于发展成员国在经济、文化、教育各个具体领域的合作，照顾各成员国的利益；第三，致力于打击恐怖主义、分裂主义和极端主义，维护地区的和平与稳定；第四，致力于促进建立公正和平文明的政治经济新秩序。这4个方面完全符合成员国的现实和长远利益。因此，尽管在过去5年国际上和本地区发生不少事情，但都没能动摇上海合作组织的基础。上海合作组织显示出强大的生命力，正蓬勃向前发展。

问答题Directions: In this part of the test. you will hear 2 passages in English. After you have heard each paragraph, interpret it into Chinese. Start interpreting at the signal...and stop it at the signal... You may take notes while you are listening. Remember you will hear the passages only once. Now let us begin Part A with the first passage.

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问答题In order to be successful in this world, you must get along with people. This means you must learn to behave in such a way that you have the affection and respect of others.

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问答题Topic: Balance between Developing Auto Industry and Protecting the Environment in China Questions for reference: 1. What benefits can a booming auto industry bring to our nation and our people? 2. What are the side-effects of the fast-growing auto industry in China? 3. Shall we have more cars or have we had too many cars already? Give reasons for your answer.

问答题【听力原文】 My topic today is how to address the problem of hunger and starvation, which still exists in many parts of the world. To end hunger starts with people's own productivity. A dangerous and patronizing cliche we often hear is: give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. People living with chronic hunger have generations of wisdom about 'fishing' — the problem is the barbed wire around the lake. The hunger project announced recently by the United Nations cut through the barbed wire, addressing the underlying social conditions that systematically deny hungry people the opportunity they need to end their own hunger. When we invest in a hunger project, we are investing in people's productivity and giving people a chance to translate their hard work into improved well-being. We are ensuring that people get the opportunities which are rightfully theirs. Too often hungry people are isolated, marginalized and exploited. Mobilizing communities and building local organizations is critically important — both to sustain the work we do and to get more out of our precious resources and efforts. When people come together to work, a kind of social capital is created that can compensate for the lack of financial capital in rural areas. In Africa, a unique feature of the hunger project's work is to organize villages to work cooperatively on community land to produce food for food banks. This fosters collective responsibility and action for a better future for all. Another example is in some Asian countries, such as India and Bangladesh, where hunger project volunteer animators have catalyzed the creation of over 1,100 local organizations throughout the country. With nearly 50% ran by women, these local groups create savings programs and invest in individual and collective income generating enterprises, including sowing, tailoring and weaving projects, bakeries and small businesses, fish and poultry farming, bee keeping and plant nurseries. The impact of these enterprises is enormous. As women have become economically empowered, the decision-making roles have increased. As family incomes have often tripled, parents are sending more children — both girls and boys — to school.

问答题Introduce brief the current situation of inflation in America.

问答题因工作关系，我30年来，年年要外出公干，足迹几乎遍布全国，没有到过的地方只有西藏、内蒙和澳门。可惜远行奔波间，车马劳顿，总是行色匆匆，山水的怡情悦目，都如过眼的云烟，只不过领略了一个大概，不能去探寻幽僻的妙境。我凡事喜欢有自己的见解，不屑于人云亦云，即使是论诗品画，都是持一种别人珍贵的东西我抛弃、别人遗弃的东西我收取的态度。佛家有云，境由心生，因此，所谓的名胜，全在于你怎么看，有的名胜，你并不觉得它有多好；有的不是名胜，你自己却以为是个妙境。这里且将我平生的游历逐一道来，与诸君共享。

问答题What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented, has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality. You may say:”If one wants truth, why not go to the literally true book? Biography or documentary, these amazing accounts of amazing experiences which people have.” Yes, but I am suggesting to you that there is a distinction between truth and so-called reality. The novel does not simply recount experience. And here comes in what is the actual livening spark of the novel: the novelist’s imagination has a power of its own. It does not merely invent, it perceives. It intensifies, therefore it gives power, extra importance, and greater truth to what may well be ordinary and everyday things.

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问答题For a company that looked doomed a decade ago, it has been quite a comeback. Today Apple is literally an iconic company. Some of the power of its brand comes from the extraordinary story of a computer company rescued from near-collapse by its co-founder, Steve Jobs, who returned to Apple in 1997 after years of exile, reinvented it as a consumer-electronics firm and is now taking it into the billion-unit-a-year mobile-phone industry. But mostly Apple"s zest comes from its reputation for inventiveness. From its first computer in 1977 to the iPhone now, which goes on sale in America this month, Apple has prospered by keeping just ahead of the times. The company, however, is not without its critics. The firm has come under attack for refusing to make its operating-system and music-protection software available to others (a price worth paying, Apple responds, for greater reliability and consistency). And there are grumbles about manufacturing defects and customer service. Apple is hardly alone in the high-tech industry when it comes to duff gadgets and unhelpful call centers, but in other respects it is highly unusual. In particular, it inspires an almost religious fervor among its customers. That is no doubt helped by the fact that its corporate biography is so closely bound up with the mercurial Mr. Jobs, a rare showman in his industry.

问答题Paraphrase the sentence "If that hitch could be ironed out—via microfinance, perhaps—the payoff could be bright". ( Para. 8)