Part I
Writing
(30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a news report to your campus
newspaper on a visit to a local farm organized by your Student Union. You should write at least
120 words but no more than180 words.
PartⅡ Listening Comprehension
(25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you
will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and then questions will be spoken only
once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked
A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through
the centre.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
1.A)Heavy floods.
B)Safety concerns.
C)Bad economy.
D)Workers’ strikes.
2.A)It is competitive with its numerous tourist destinations.
B)It provides many job opportunities for French people.
C)It is the biggest concern of the French government.
D)It plays an important role in the nation’s economy.
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
3.A)To carry out a scientific survey.
B)To establish a new research station.
C)To rescue two sick American workers.
D)To deliver urgent medical supplies.
4.A)The darkness and cold.
B)The heavy snow and fog.
C)The biting winds.
D)The ice all around.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
5.A)By tying it to a door handle.
B)By shaking it back and forth.
C)With a remote control craft.
D)With a full-sized helicopter.
6.A)He has lots of fans on Facebook.
B)He has rich experience in flying.
C)He often suffers from toothaches.
D)He has learned to pull teeth from a video.
7.A)Spend more time together.
B)Tell them adventure stories.
C)Do something fun and creative.
D)Play with them in a safe place.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation,
you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.
After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),
C)and D).
centre.
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the news report you have just heard.
8.A)To confirm an urgent appointment.
B)To collect a package from the woman.
C)To ask the woman to sign a document.
D)To arrange the delivery of a package.
9.A)She is doing shopping.
B)She is visiting a friend.
C)She is not at home.
D)She is not feeling well.
10.A)He will be off duty the whole day.
B)He will be working somewhere else.
C)He will have to have his car repaired.
D)He will be too busy to spare and time.
11.A)Sign her name.
B)Confirm online.
C)Pay a small fee.
D)Show up in person.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the news report you have just heard.
12.A)Vacation in Italy.
B)Study abroad.
C)Throw a farewell party.
D)Go to a fashion show in Milan.
13.A)Quite sleepy.
B)Very excited.
C)Rather depressed.
D)Nearly exhausted.
14.A)He has to attend a party.
B)He has to meet a friend.
C)He has to make a presentation.
D)He has to finish an assignment.
15.A)Say goodbye to the woman at the airport.
B)Meet the woman at the Black Cat Cafe.
C)Drive the Woman to the airport.
D)Have lunch with the woman.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear
three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you
hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16.A) It has kept growing over the centuries.
B) Its top is hidden in clouds of volcanic smoke.
C) Its height changes with each volcanic eruption.
D) It has a recorded history of 1500 years.
17.A) They are now a tourist destination.
B) They attract a lot of migrating birds.
C) They provide shelter for the farmers.
D) They make good fields for farming.
18.A) They nest on the volcano’s slopes.
B) They feed on certain small mammals.
C) They compete with each other for food.
D) They match large mammals in strength.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19.A) He is self-employed.
B) He is a career advisor.
C) He studies talent.
D) He owns a magazine.
20.A) Doing what they like best.
B) Loving the work they do.
C) Making no excuses for failures.
D) Following their natural instinct.
21.A) It does not come to anything without hard work.
B) It may prove to be quite different from hard work.
C) It is a natural gift only some special people can possess.
D) It does not come to you until something special happens.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22.A) It is a bit difficult to learn.
B) It was popular in New Zealand.
C) It is a traditional type of ballet.
D) It evolved in the mid-1970s.
23.A) She wanted her to be a ballet dancer.
B) She used to be a ballet dancer herself.
C) She hated to see her idling about.
D) She was too busy to look after her.
24.A) After she started teaching English.
B) Before she left for New Zealand.
C) When she moved to New York city.
D) Once she began to live on her own.
25.A) It has renewed her passion for life.
B) It has made her happy and energetic.
C) It has helped her make new friends.
D) It has enabled her to start a new career.
Part III
Section A
Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word
for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage
through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
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Ships are often sunk in order to create underwater reefs (暗礁)perfect for scuba diving (水肺式
潜泳)and preserving marine
Turkish authorities have just sunk something a little different
than a ship, and it wouldn’t normally ever touch water, an Airbus A300. The hollowed-out A300
of everything potentially harmful to the environment and sunk off the Aegean coast
was
today. Not only will the sunken plane
the perfect skeleton for artificial reef growth, tut
authorities hope this new underwater attraction will bring tourists to the area.
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a total length of 54 meters, where experienced scuba divers will
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The plane
be able to venture through the cabin and around the plane’s
. Aydin Municipality
bought the plane from a private company for just under US$100,000, but they hope to see a
return on that
through the tourism industry. Tourism throughout Turkey is expected to
of several deadly terrorist attacks. As far as
fall this year as the country has been the
sunken planes go, this Airbus A300 is the largest
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sunk aircraft ever.
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Taking a trip underwater and
the inside of a sunken A300 would be quite an adventure,
and that is exactly what Turkish authorities are hoping this attraction will make people think.
Drawing in adventure seekers and experienced divers, this new artificial Airbus reef will be a
scuba diver’s paradise (天堂).
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A)create
B)depressed
C)eventually
D)experiences
E)exploring
F)exterior
G)habitats
H)innovate
I)intentionally
J)investment
K)revealing
L)stretches
M)stripped
N)territory
O)victim
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to each
statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from
which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is
marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet
2.
Make Stuff, Fail, And Learn While You’re At It
A) We’ve always been a hands-on, do-it-yourself kind of nation. Ben Franklin, one of America’s
founding fathers, didn’t just invent the lightning rod. His creations include glasses, innovative
stoves and more.
B) Franklin, who was largely self-taught, may have been a genius, but he wasn ’ t really an
exception when it comes to American making and creativity.
C) The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptive innovation of Silicon Valley
grew, in part, out of the creations of the Homebrew Computer Club, Which was founded in a
garage in Menlo Park, California, in the mid-1970s. Members — including guys named Jobs and
Wozniak — started making and inventing things they couldn’t buy.
D) So it ’s no surprise that the Maker Movement today is thriving in communities and some
schools across America. Making is available to ordinary people who aren’t tied to big companies,
big defense labs or research universities. The maker philosophy echoes old ideas advocated by
John Dewey, Montessori, and even ancient Greek philosophers, as we pointed out recently.
E) These maker spaces are often outside of classrooms, and are serving an important educational
function. The Maker Movement is rediscovering learning by doing, which is Dewey’s phrase from
100 years ago. We are rediscovering Dewey and Montessori and a lot of the practices that they
pioneered that have been forgotten or at least put aside. A maker space is a place which can be
in a school, but it doesn ’ t look like a classroom. It can be in a library. It can be out in the
community. It has tools and materials. It’s a place where you get to make things based on your
interest and on what you’re learning to do.
F) Ideas about learning by doing have struggled to become mainstream educationally, despite
being old concepts from Dewey and Montessori, Plato and Aristotle, and in the American Contcxt,
Ralph Emerson, on the value of experience and self-reliance. It’s not necessarily an efficient way
to learn. We learn, in a sense, by trial and error. Learning from experience is something that takes
time and patience. It’s very individualized. If your goal is to have standardized approaches to
learning, where everybody learns the same thing at the same time in the same way, then
learning by doing doesn’t really fit that mold anymore. It’s not the world of textbooks. It’s not
the world of testing.
G)Learning by doing may not be efficient, but it is effective. Project-based learning has grown in
popularity with teachers and administrators. However, project-based learning is not making.