I. Choose the one answer that best explains the underlined word or phrase in the sentence. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (20 points)
1. The skies were void of smog, but a light sea mist blanketed the bay in a trippy, wobbly haze. A. free B. full C. empty D. depleted
2. By the time I get to the office 10 minutes later, I‟ve already risked being hit by a car several times. Italy and China are very similar in this respect. Traffic lights have more of an ornamental function than a practical one. A. boycott
B. extraordinary C. decorative D. legal
3. As it is in the vicinity of the embassy area, the district where the complex is located is a major residential location for foreigners and foreign companies. A. similar area B. unknown place C. main street D. neighborhood
4. Not long ago, Zheng Yuanjie, a famous author of children‟s literature, openly expressed his opposition to China‟s class council system in his micro-blog, arguing that this system will exert a negative impact on children‟s personality development, triggering discussions on whether the current class council system should be cancelled. A. igniting B. resulting C. enclosing D. inviting
5. In 2012, Chinese enterprises will be confronted with unprecedented challenges, said the Report of Chinese Enterprise Development, issued by the Development Research Center of the State Council on January 8. A. serious B. worsening C. exceeding D. unparalleled
6. The policy incurred queries from the public. Many said that establishing a link between employment rate and college courses is reasonable because colleges have the responsibility to provide useful human resources to promote social development, but deciding a major‟s fate based solely on that rate, however, is not. A. caused B. demanded C. eliminated D. associated
7. Anyone who has any understanding of China will agree that we will be able to achieve a soft landing, supported by buoyant domestic demand. A. dwindling B. emerging C. flowing D. thriving
8. Twenty-nine Chinese nationals abducted by local rebels in Sudan were successfully rescued by the Sudanese army and arrived at the Chinese Embassy to Kenya that day. A. seized B. freed C. exploited D. moderated
9. In China, antibiotics are commonly referred to by another name — medicine to diminish inflammation, which has contributed a lot to the spread of antibiotics. A. curtail B. level C. dwindle D. shrink
10. Because Apple products are released much later in China than in other countries, many Apple
fans turn to smugglers to satisfy demand. A. black-market B. howlers
C. contrabandist D. dealers
11. We see some tactical differences in the region. But on the whole, the United States and China
have either commonality or complementarity of interests. A. consensus B. mismatch
C. parts that make a good combination D. needs of both two parties
12. Rather a cursory skim of its text reveals that it is in fact a surrogacy intermediary website. A. go-between
B. information emission C. express service D. transformation
13. Despite a widespread tendency to romanticize Van Gogh‟s ill health, modern critics see an
artist deeply frustrated by the inactivity and incoherence brought about by his bouts of illness. A. attacks B. hoarding C. recovery D. vulnerability
14. Many people claiming to have been forcibly treated for nonexistent mental illnesses are
institutionalized by family members.
A. internalized
B. sent to an institution C. hospitalized D. ignored
15. From harping on the trade deficit to a discussion of whether it is proper for the candidates to have investments in China, the word “China” came up 22 times—always negatively—in the second debate, and 35 times in the finale between Obama and Romney. A. talking tediously B. arguing fiercely C. relating forcibly D. debating vigorously
16. His work is said to bear a strong resemblance to the 1982 Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia
Marquez. The Nobel Committee in Sweden praised Mo‟s “hallucinatory realism,” which blends aspects of “fold tales, history and the contemporary,” and said that his works reminded people of Marquez‟s and William Faulkner‟s works. A. creel B. sheer C. phantasmal D. homicide
17. Walking toward the house, a small woman saw me and ran out to usher me the rest of the
distance—-about 10 feet to the chair. She ran inside, brought out a cup, threw in some tea leaves, repeating the words “Longjing cha” several times and then added hot water. A. push B. escort C. press D. take
18. While Chinese observers recommend sticking to the principle of a peaceful resolution, they
warn that if Japan takes further provocative acts the bilateral relationship could spin out of control. A. swirl B. jump C. disperse D. scatter
19. One solution to improve the poor drainage system in Beijing is to gradually upgrade the
underground conduits and design standards, but it is not a job that will be completed soon. A. accelerating. B. outpouring C. storing D. drawing off
20. The piranha is not the only alien species that has appeared in China. Although it remains
unnecessary for swimmers in Liuzhou to worry about piranha attacks, other alien species have long plagued economies and ecosystems. A. vicious B. invading
C. foreign D. ancient
II. Grammatical Structures (10 points)
Directions: In each of the following sentences there are four underlined parts marked A, B, C and D. Identify the part that is grammatically incorrect. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. The most easiest process for mining gold is panning, which involves using A B
a circular dish with a small pocket at the bottom.
C D
2. In the United States, both the federal and state governments have laws A
designed to guard consumers against deceptive advertise. B C D
3. Anthropologists agree that our primitive ancestors who inhabited the A B
tropics probably have natural protection against the sun.
C D
4. A principle of manager is to ensure that every action or decision achieves a A B C
carefully planned goal.
D
5. Researchers at the university are investigating a series of indicators that A B
could help themselves to predict earthquakes. C D
6. A common use with gold in the nineteenth century was as a standard for the A B C value of money. D
7. How many people realize that agriculture is a source of raw materials for A B C
clothing and to shelter? D
8. Principal known for his dictionary, Noah Webster was also the first A B C epidemiologist in the country. D
9. Window treatment, furniture and color combine all contribute A B
to the overall impression of a room.
C D
10. a patent gives inventors exclusive rights to their inventions for a fix period A B C
of time. D
III. Cloze Test (20 points)
Directions: There are two short passages in this section. In each passage, ten words are missing. Fill in each blank with an appropriate word that best suits the context to complete the passage. Notice that the first letter of the missing word in each blank is given and write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Passage 1
Note-taking is a skill that can help you do well on all your schoolwork—everything from taking tests to researching a paper. But (1) u______, most schools don‟t have classes that teach you how to take (2) n______. So here are some taps.
Write down (3) k______ facts. If you have a teacher who writes notes on the board, that‟s a bonus. You can (4)______ them down. If not, write down the most important (5) p______ from class. Does your history (6) t______ mention the date of a key Civil War battle. Does your English teacher give examples of Shakespeare‟s use of dramatic irony? Does your math teacher go over a particular formula? Write it down!
It can take some experimenting to (7) f______ out what information is helpful, so keep trying and don‟t give up. (8) D______ teachers do things differently. For example, some teachers may mention lots of dates and facts in class but only write the key ones on the (9) b______. Other teachers may not write anything down, but they may repeat a certain date or piece of information. That‟s a 10) c______ that it‟s probably important.
After a while, you‟ll get to know a teacher‟s style. Passage 2
A growing number of companies are finding that small-group discussions allow them to develop healthier ways to think about work. People at all (11) l______ of corporate structure are starting groups that meet weekly or (12) m______ to talk over ways to make workplaces (13) m______ ethical and just.
Several factors must be present for small-group (14) d______ to be successful. First, it is important to put together the right (15) g______ Groups work best when they consist of people who have (16) s______ duties, responsibilities, and missions. This does not mean, however, that everyone in the group must think in lockstep.
All (17) p______ should agree on the group‟s purpose. Finding the right subject matter is essential. There are several (18) w______ to fuel the discussion: by using the company‟s mission statement, by finding readings on work and ethnics by experts in the topic, or by analyzing specific workplace incidents that have affected the company or others like it.
Finally, the dynamics of the group should be balanced, and the discussion leader must not be allowed to overwhelm the conversation or the agenda. Groups work (19) b______ when the same person is not always in charge. It is better to (20) r______ the leadership for each meeting and let that leader choose the material for discussion.
IV. Reading Comprehension (40 points)
Directions: Below each of the following 4 passages you will find questions or incomplete
statements about the passage. Each statement or question is followed by lettered words or expressions. Select the word or expression that most satisfactorily completes or answers each question in accordance with the contents of the passage. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET:
(1)About myopia-if you have it be happy. As shown by numerous scientific studies, nearsighted men and women boast a higher average intelligence than their nonmyopic cohorts. The precise mechanism of this association remains unknown, but it is tempting to postulate an effect of myopia on early childhood development. Most nearsighted kids wander around undiagnosed for years, and during this formative period—unable to see the baseballs, Frisbees, and rocks thrown at them by their playmates—they spend a lot of time indoors. The nonathletic myopias who take up reading to while away the hours get high scores on the SATs, while those who take up eating tweak our claustrophobia by overflowing the adjacent seat on airplanes. Myopia also exerts a compelling influence on career choice: the great majority of my fellow ophthalmologists wear either contact lenses or thick myopic spectacles. Pathology breeds preoccupations.
However beautiful the human eye, it serves a more important purpose than romantic allure. Forty percent of the brain is devoted to vision, which provides us with more information than our other four senses combined. Our optic nerves transmit millions of impulses to the brain every second, impulses that specify the location, color and intensity of light for all the points in our visual space. Better yet, thanks to a mysterious algorithm that fuses the slightly disparate images from each of our eyes, our visual cortex, via a neurological miracle known as depth perception, shows us the world in three dimensions. An impressive feat since a video camera, arguably the benchmark of modem technology, can muster only two dimensions.
Certain ocular tissue stands on the pinnacle of evolution. How does nature, so crude in claw and fang, create a surface that brings light into a pinpoint focus? This surface must be perfectly curved, perfectly transparent, perfectly smooth. It must be water! Which is to say, the cornea owes its optical perfection to a tear film whose dissolved salts, lipids, and proteins maintain a flawless wetted surface. A man who has no tears stands on the brink of blindness. Worse yet, that man will writhe in agony: a dry cornea, thanks to the most exquisite pain threshold in the human body, responds to each blink with a tormenting jolt. Dry eye victims compare the sensation to that caused by rubbing the eyeball with shards of glass. 1. Myopia is blessing in disguise because ______. A. shortsighted people earn more. B. shortsighted people read more. C. shortsighted people live long. D. shortsighted people eat more.
2. “Pathology breeds preoccupations” most probably means, by analogy, ______. A. eye doctors choose their career because they like his career. B. surgeons choose their career because they suffer from injury. C. gynaecologists choose their career because she is a woman.
D. ear, nose and throat doctors choose their career because they wish to have a beautiful voice. 3. To ensure the eyes function normally, the most important thing is to ______. A. read less to let the eyes have a rest.
B. see the doctor when there is something wrong with the eye.
C. not to focus on an object over a long time. D. need water to moisten the cornea.
4. The sentence “However beautiful the human eye, it serves a more important purpose than romantic allure” can be best interpreted as ______. A. But the human eye is beautiful, it... B. Although human eye is beautiful it...
C. No matter beautiful the human eye is, it...
D. Despite the fact that the human eye is beautiful, it...
5. Which organ receives the most information, according to the author? A. Ears. B. Tongue. C. Hands D. Eyes
(2)That evening at the academician‟s dormitory, I went out onto my balcony and lit a cigarette. A few minutes later, the door of the adjacent balcony opened. The balconies were extremely close, the railings separated by a mere ten inches of black space. An elderly woman stepped outside and stood very still, gazing sternly into the distance, apparently her own thoughts about Tolstoy. Abruptly she turned to me. “Would you be so kind as to give me a light?” she asked.
I fished a matchbook from my pocket, lit a match, cupped my hand around it, and held it over her balcony. She leaned over, ignited a Kent Light, and began puffing away. I decided to take advantage of this moment of human contact to ask for shampoo. (There wasn‟t any in our bathrooms, and mine was lost somewhere with my suitcase.) But when I mentioned shampoo, some strong emotion flickered across the old woman‟s face. Fear? Annoyance? Hatred? I consoled myself that I was providing her an opportunity to practice resignation of the soul.
“Just a minute.” said my neighbor resignedly, as if she had read my thoughts. She set down her cigarette in a glass ashtray. The thread of smoke climbed up into the windless night. I ducked into my room to find a shampoo receptacle, choosing a ceramic mug with a picture of the historic white gates of Yasnaya Polyana. Under the picture was a quotation from L. N. Tolstoy, about how he was unable to imagine a Russia with no Yasnaya Polyana.
I held the mug over the narrow chasm, and my neighbor poured in some sudsy water from a small bottle. I realized then that she was sharing with me literally her last drops of shampoo, which she had mixed with water in order to make them last longer. I thanked her as warmly as I knew how. She responded with a dignified nod. We stood a moment in silence.
“Do you have any cats and dogs?” she asked finally. “No.” I said. “And you?”
“In Moscow, I have a marvelous cat.”
6. “I fished a matchbook from my pocket”. Here the matchbook is ______. A. a book.
B. a match schedule.
C. a box contains matches. D. a description of matches.
7. The passage indicates that the hotel room the author lives in is probably ______. A. expensive
B. elegant C. spacious
D. high about the ground
8. It can be gathered from the passage that the hotel does not provide its customer with ______. A. food.
B. drinking water C. bathroom. D. shampoo
9. The author might not have asked for help from her hotel neighbor in the following situation: A. She had her luggage at hand. B. She had taken a bath at home.
C. She believed that her neighbor had enough shampoo.
D. She knew that her neighbor did not have enough shampoo.
10. I thanked her as warmly as I knew how,\" means that I am grateful to my hotel neighbor so I ______.
A. thanked her most warmly. B. did it in Russia as Russians do. C. did what I should in this situation. D. asked her about her pets at home.
(3)London keeps its eyes on this far comer of the empire. Two British diplomats preside—colonial figures hardly cut from the same cloth as the old viceroys of India or governors of Nigeria or Hong Kong. The senior man is usually on the verge of retirement, having enjoyed rather too little distinction in his career, or else sporting a stated fascination with bird watching, since there is a local and much-celebrated albatross. His assistant is invariably an eager—youngster—on this occasion an ambitious young woman who was leaving after six months for a long-sought and career-boosting posting outside Kandahar. There is usually rather little for the pair to do: the only signed order currently posted on the island‟s official notice board refers to power cut due for two hours the following Tuesday.
Once in a long while, there is a crisis. The event for which Tristan is perhaps best remembered was the eruption of its volcano in 1961, and the evacuation of the entire population. The 264 islanders the population size has remained very stable for the last half century—were brought to England and put up in a disused army barracks in Hampshire. But the supposed delights of Western civilization—cars, elevators, cinemas, none of which the islanders had ever seen before—did not seduce them into staying: two years later all but fourteen went home. They built their ruined town and settled back to their uncomplicated routines of fishing for lobsters and knitting ganzeys. The Daily Mirror of the time said, admiringly, that by doing so the islanders had delivered on all smug Britons a much-deserved and contemptuous slap.
I first went to the island in 1983, then again a little later. I was welcomed, though warily: the self-reliance of the islanders is matched by a fierce devotion to self-protection and privacy. They knew I was a writer: they warned me that anything I might publish would be read and analyzed for years to come. And though nothing untoward occurred when I was visiting (my time ashore I spent fully impressed with the idea of leaving only footprints and taking only snapshots) it was shortly after that second trip that I quite inadvertently committed the indiscretion which resulted in my lifetime prohibition.
At first blush it all sounds to have been innocent indeed. It stems from a somewhat bizarre British government decision, taken during World War II, to reclassify some of its more remote island possessions as his ships. Tristan was transmuted into HMS Atlantic Isle, and its role was to patrol (from its rock-hewn state of immobility) for any German U-boats that might be lurking in the southern Atlantic. To compound the fantasy, a small party of sailors was posted there to man the ship—one of them a young and apparently romantically minded lieutenant and littérateur manqué named Derrick Booty.
11. The administrators of the Island are ______. A. able and powerful.
B. well educated and full of vitality. C. old and inexperienced. D. busy and working hard.
12. The word “power” can mean different things. In this passage in the phrase “power cut”, power definitely means ______. A. administrative power. B. muscle. C. brain power. D. electricity.
13. The island inhabitants like ______. A. modern civilization in London B. pristine life at home. C. volcano on the Island.
D. warships visiting the island.
14. It can be gathered from this piece that the British government regarded the island Tristan as if it were a(n) ______. A. warship. B. frontier.
C. fishing ground. D. netting factory.
15. In the phrase “to patrol (from its rock-hewn state of immobility) for any German U-boats”, “rock-hewn state of immobility” is another way of referring to ______. A. HMS Atlantic Isle. B. Tristan Island. C. U-boat.
D. Atlantic Ocean.
(4) The drive took us back past Casablanca, with its smoking chimneys and thicket of apartment buildings, and then to E1 Jadida, a whitewashed resort town on a flat spread of pinkish beach, where we stayed the night. Thursday morning was warm and clear, the light pouring over wide fields of corn and wheat. In several fields, donkeys and mules were already at work, pulling irrigation machines and plows, leaning into their harnesses. Carts hurtled alongside us on the shoulder of the road. loaded with entire families and nearly toppling loads of bulging burlap bags, boxes, and miscellany, heading in the direction of the souk, the donkey or mule or horse moving snappily as if the sound of the car traffic was egging them on. By the time we arrived, just after 7 a. m., the fairground was already mobbed. We had no trouble parking, because there were only a
handful of cars and another handful of trucks, but the rest of the parking area was cluttered with wagons and carts and scores of donkeys and mules—a few hundred of them at least, dozing, nibbling on the scraps of grass, swaying in place, hobbled by a bit of plastic twine tired around their ankles. These weren‟t for sale—they were transportation, and they were parked while their owners were shopping.
A roar floated over the fairground; it was the combined chatter of hundreds of buyers and sellers haggling, and the smack and thump of boxes being opened and sacks being slapped down to be filled, and vendors hollering for attention and a blast of Moroccan music playing out of an unattended laptop computer that was hooked to man-sized, speakers, beneath a tent of fabric cut from a Nokia cell-phone billboard. We walked in through a section of the souk where vendors sat behind mountains of dried beans in baskets four feet wide, and past stalls selling fried fish and kebabs, the greasy smoky air trapped in the tents, and then we arrived at the donkey area. At the entrance were rows and rows of vendors selling donkey and mule supplies. A young man, deep furrows in his face was selling bits made of rusty iron—his inventory, hundreds of bits, was in a stack three feet high. Beside him, a family sat on a blanket surrounded by harnesses made of tan and orange and white nylon webbing, and every member of the family, including the children, was stitching new harnesses while they waited to sell the ones they had already made. The next row had a dozen stalls, all offering donkey saddles—V-shaped wooden forms that sit on the animal‟s back and support the cart shafts. The saddles were made out of old chair legs and scrap lumber, the corners nailed together with squares cut from old tin cans; they were rough-looking but sturdy, and they had thick padding where they would rest on the animal‟s skin. 16. It can be assumed that the donkey in Casablanca serves as ______. A. draught animal and means of transportation. B. pet and plaything.
C. human companion and soul comforter. D. symbol for hard work.
17. There are more unused parking spaces for ______. A. cars and trucks. B. donkeys and mules. C. motor cars and bikes.
D. police cars and patrol cars.
18. The market place at the time described by the article is ______. A. quiet and peaceful. B. noisy and packed. C. festive and attractive. D. repulsing and unwelcome
19. In the phrase “V-shaped wooden forms that sit on the animal‟s back”, the word “animal” refers to ______.
A. all kinds of living creatures as a noun. B. a particular donkey as to avoid repetition. C. the donkey in general as elegant variation D. some pet we like as a vivid description.
20. It can be an educated from the context that the word souk most probably means ______. A. fairground festival
B. parking space. C. family gathering. D. market.
V. Translation from English to Chinese (20 points)
Directions: Translate the following two passages into Chinese and write your Chinese versions on the ANSWER SHEET.
„If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head. If talk to him in his own language that goes to his heart.‟ —Nelson Mandela.
Becoming bilingual opens up a whole new world—a world of different people, of different cultures, of different emotions. Learning a second language has many cognitive benefits. For example, learning a new language has been shown to delay Alzheimer‟s boost brainpower, reduce cognitive biases, and even increase concentration and the ability to tune out distraction. Your ability to build better habits will improve by learning a new language.
But, more so than cognitive effects, the ability to speak a second language has a ton of social benefits which won‟t be discussed here. The coolest thing about learning your second language is that it makes learning a third, fourth, or fifth language much easier. Once you know the techniques, you‟ll be able to apply the same grammatical patterns and language techniques in every new language you learn.
参考答案及解析
I. Choose the one answer that best explains the underlined word or phrase in the sentence. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET (20 points) 1.A 句意：空中没有一点云雾，但是一层梦幻般的悬浮海雾笼罩着海湾。be void of没有…；
缺少……。full完全的，完整的，满的，和句意刚好相反，empty空的；无意义的；无知的；徒劳的。depleted耗尽的；废弃的；贫化的。be free of摆脱…；没有…。
2.C 句意：当我十分钟后达到办公室时，我差点被车撞了好几次了。在这一点上中国和意
大利很像，交通信号灯更多的是起装饰作用。ornamental装饰的，装饰性的。boycott联合抵制；拒绝参加。extraordinary非凡的；特别的。decorative装饰性的；装潢用的。legal法律的；合法的；法定的。 3.D 句意：由于是在使馆区附近，这个区域主要是供外国人和外国公司居住的。in the vicinity
of在……附近。与in the neighborhood of 同义。
4.D 句意：郑渊洁的话激起了人们对于现行课堂制度是否需要改革的大讨论。trigger引发，
引起；触发。ignite点燃；使燃烧；使激动。result结果；导致；产生。enclose围绕；装入；放入封套。invite邀请，招待；招致。invite discussion表示引起讨论，和trigger discussion意思相近。
5.D 句意：2012年中国企业将会面临史无前例的严峻挑战。unprecedented空前的；无前例
的。unparalleled无比的；无双的；空前未有的。与unprecedented 意义接近，exceeding超越的；非常的；过度的。worsening日益恶化的。serious严肃的，严重的；认真的；庄重的；危急的。
6.A 句意：这项政策招致了公众的许多质疑。incur招致，引发；蒙受。与cause意义最接
近，demand要求；需要；查询。eliminate消除；排除。associate联想；使联合；使发生联系。
7.D 句意：任何对中国稍有了解的人都会赞同这样一个观点：随着中国国内需求的持续上
升，中国经济将会实现软着陆。buoyant轻快的；有浮力的；上涨的。thriving繁荣的；蒸蒸日上的；旺盛的。两者意义最接近，dwindling减少，变少。emerging 新兴的；出现的；形成的。flowing流动；起源；上涨。
8.A 句意：苏丹当地反叛军扣押的29名中国华侨日前已被苏丹军队成功解救，并且于当日
安全抵达中国驻肯尼亚大使馆。abduct绑架；诱拐；使外展。seize抓住；夺取；理解；逮捕。与abduct 意义最接近，free释放。exploit开发，开拓；剥削；开采。moderate变缓和，变弱。
9.C 句意：在中国，抗生素通常有另一个名字，消除炎症的药，而这也极大地促进了抗生
素的传播。diminish使减少；使变小。dwindle使缩小，使减少。curtail 缩减；剪短；剥夺…特权等。通常指缩减开支等，level使同等；对准；弄平。shrink使缩小，使收缩。 10.C 句意：在中国由于苹果产品发布得比其他国家晚，所以许多苹果爱好者们就转向走私
商来满足他们的需求。smuggler走私者；走私犯；走私船。contrabandist走私者；买卖禁品者。black-market 黑市；黑市交易。howler大声叫喊者；嚎叫的人或动物；滑稽可笑的错误。dealer经销商；商人。
11.C 句意：总体上，中国和美国既有共同的利益，也由互补的利益。complementarity互补
性；补充；补足。consensus一致；舆论；合意。mismatch 错配；不协调。parts that make a good combination有机组合的一部分。而互补就是将我有你无的东西提供给你，因此是一种good combination。needs of both two parties双方都需要的东西。那就是共性的东西了。
12.A 句意：非常粗糙的文本显示了这其实是一个中介网站。intermediary中间的；媒介的；
中途的。go-between 媒人；中间人；媒介者。information emission信息泄露。express service快递服务。transformation转化；转换；改革；变形。
13.A 句意：现代评论家认为他是一个被疾病困扰而无法连续创作，因而非常失望的一个艺
术家。bout回合；较量；发作；一阵。可用来表示拳击比赛的一个回合，也可用来表示疾病的发作。而attacks 除了表示“攻击”之外，也可表示“疾病的发作。hoarding[贸易] 囤积；贮藏；临时围墙。recovery恢复。vulnerability易损性；弱点。
14.B 句意：许多人声称被自己的家人强行送进社会福利机构去治疗本不存在的精神疾病。
institutionalize把 (病人、精神病人、老人等) 收容在社会福利机构；使制度化。与sent to an institution 意义最接近。internalize使…内化。hospitalize就医；送…进医院治疗。ignore忽视。
15.A 句意：在奥巴马与罗姆尼的竞选辩论中，从对如何削减贸易逆差的反复论述到是否应
在中国投资的讨论中，“中国”一词，在第二轮辩论中出现了22次，且总是消极的，在最后一轮辩论中出现了35次。harping反复述说；反复谈论。talking tediously冗长而乏味地谈话。与harping 意义最接近。
16.C 句意：瑞典的诺贝尔评选委员会称赞莫言的魔幻现实主义作品，融合了民间故事、历
史和当代社会，并说他的作品让人们联系到了加西亚马尔克斯以及威廉福克纳的作品。hallucinatory引起幻觉的。phantasmal幻影的；幽灵的；空想的。与此意义最接近。creel鱼篮；捕虾笼；粗纱架；经轴架。sheer 偏航；透明薄织物。homicide杀人；杀人犯。 17.B 句意：当我朝房间走去的时候，一个身材瘦小的女服务员看见了我，并将我引到离座
椅只有10英尺的地方。usher引导，招待；迎接；开辟。escort护送；陪同；为…护航。与usher意义最接近。
18.A 句意：尽管中国观察员建议采用和平解决的原则，但他们也警告日本，如果再采取进
一步的挑衅行为，那么双边关系和可能会失控。spin旋转；纺纱；吐丝；晕眩。spin out of control失控。swirl盘绕；打旋；眩晕；大口喝酒。与spin意义最接近。disperse分
散；使散开；传播。scatter使散射；使散开，使分散；使散播，使撒播。
19.B 句意：改善北京排水系统的举措之一就是逐步升级地下排水管道和设计标准，但这不
可能在短期内完成。drainage排水；排水系统；污水；排水面积。outpouring 流露；流出；倾泄。accelerating促进的，加速的；催化的。storing储存；保管。drawing off 没有这样的短语。
20.C 句意：食人鱼并不是唯一出现在中国的外来物种。alien外国的；相异的，性质不同
的；不相容的。foreign外国的；外交的；异质的；不相关的。vicious恶毒的；恶意的；堕落的；有错误的；品性不端的；剧烈的。invading入侵。ancient古代的。 II. Grammatical Structures (10 points)
1.A 形容词的最高级用法错误，easy的最高级形式就是the easiest, 只有遇到像beautiful，
exciting 等音节较多的形容词时，最高级形式才用the most 加形容词原形形式。
2.D 在美国，联邦和各州都有法律来保护消费者不受虚假广告的侵害。advertise 为动词，
指“通知；为…做广告；使突出”，这里应用其名词形式，advertisement。
3.C 人类学家认为我们生活在热带的祖先有一种抵御太阳的自然保护能力。由前面的
inhabited 可知此为过去时，因此应将C项中的have 改成had。
4.A 管理的一个原则就是要确保每一个行动和决定都要达到预期的效果。manager 表示“经
理；管理者”，而这里指的是管理学或者管理行为，因此应用management。
5.D 这个大学的研究员们正在调查一系列的指示因素，这能够帮助他们预测地震。help
oneself 表示“自取所需，自用”，而这里表示帮助他们，所以应将反称代词themselves 改成them。
6.B 19世纪金子的一个常见用途就是作为货币价值的标准。B项中介词使用有误，应将
with 改成of。
7.D 有多少人意识到农业是我们衣物和住所原材料来源之一。D项中动词不定式使用错误。
前面有介词for，因此这里应用sheltering。 8.A 主要以他的字典出名的诺亚·韦伯斯特，也是美国第一位流行病学家。A项修饰动词
known，因此应改成其相应的副词形式principally。
9.A 窗户、家具、颜色的搭配都对一个房间的整理效果有影响。前面三个名词短语作主语，
而这里combine很明显是动词，因此应改成相应的名词形式combination。
10.C 专利证书使得发明者在一段时间内，对其发明拥有独家占有权。C项这里需要一个形
容词，因此应将fix改成其过去分词形式，表示固定的一段时间。 III. Cloze Test (20 points) Passage 1
1. unfortunately 这篇文章主要讲笔记的重要性以及如何来做笔记。这里前面讲到了做笔记
是一个非常有用的技能，后面又说，但是很多学校都不较学生怎么做笔记，因此这是一件很不幸的事。
2. notes 整篇文章都是讲做笔记的，因此这里自然是take notes。
3. key 记笔记不可能把所有的信息都写下来，因此要选择重要的关键的信息来记。 4. copy 如果有老师在黑板上上写笔记了，那你只需要将它们抄下来就可以了。 5. points 如果老师没有在黑板上写，那就记下最重要最关键的信息点。 6. teacher 这里很明显是历史老师上课才会提到一个内战的具体日期。
7. figure 你可能需要一些实践来分辨哪些信息是有用的。由句意和短语结构可知，这里需
要填figure。
8. Different 不同的老师会有不同的教学方式。
9. board 由前文提到的有些老师会在黑板上写下重要的信息，以及这里的动词write可知这
里是在黑板上写下一些重要的信息。
10. clue 有些老师可能会反复重复一个日期或者信息，这很可能就预示着一个重要的信息。
a clue“一条线索”预示那些内容是重点。
Passage 2
11. levels 这篇文章主要讲的是现在小组讨论的方式为很多公司所采纳以及小组讨论的一
些方法和注意事项。该句的意思是所有级别的公司都开始采用小组讨论的方式。可根据前后句意推测。
12. monthly 有些小组讨论是一周一次，有些是一月一次。有前面的weekly可以推测这里
是monthly。
13. more 小组讨论能让工作场所变得更道德，更公正。此题有一定的难度，只能根据上下
文进行猜测。
14. discussions 小组讨论要想获得成功，有几个因素是要考虑的。此题较容易，整篇文章
都在讲小组讨论，因此很自然地想到这里也是小组讨论。
15. group 首先，分号适当的小组是很重要的，既然是小组讨论，那肯定要分组咯。
16. similar 如果小组成员有着相似的职责，责任和使命时，那么小组讨论能发挥比较好的
效果。此为常识判断题，在文中没有相应的信息提示，需要我们根据常识进行推测。
17. participants 所有的参与者应该认同小组讨论的目的。由句意和首字母可以推测这里是
指所有的参与者。
18. ways 有一些方法能够激发讨论。由上下文可以推测这里讲的是激发讨论的方法。 19. best 由前几段的Groups work best when 结构可知这里是类似的结构，因而要填best。 20. rotate 每次轮换小组讨论的领导者，并让领导者自己选择讨论的材料是一个比较好的方
式。有前面的he same person is not always in charge 可知这里是要轮换，更换领导者，rotate 表示“使旋转；使转动；使轮流。
IV. Reading Comprehension (40 points)
1.B 这篇文章主要讲作者对近视的一些看法。此题是细节题，信息主要集中在第一段，由
于近视的孩子看不清棒球、飞盘等，所以他们更愿意呆在家里，看一些书籍而这是有利于他们智力发展的。
2.C 类比推理题，信息出现在文章第一段。作者这里主要讲近视也对职业选择有着重大的
影响，他的很多眼科医师的同事们大都戴着隐形和常规眼镜。因为疾病让人更加专注与这一领域。由此可以推论大多数产科医生选择这一职业是因为她们是妇女，所以对这一职业更加专注。
3.D 细节题，信息集中在最后一段。由It must be water! Which is to say, the cornea owes its
optical perfection to a tear film whose dissolved salts, lipids, and proteins maintain a flawless wetted surface 可知，水，即泪水对我们的眼睛是非常重要的。没有泪水的眼镜就即将失明了。因此我们要确保角膜经常由泪水滋润。A、B、C项在文中都没有提到。 4.B 句意理解题。这句话的意思是说不论人的眼睛有多漂亮，但它在其他方面的功能远胜
于形体美观的功效。下面几个选项中，A、D项转折语气太强烈；C项用法有误，应该是no matter how beautiful the human eye is。 5.D 细节题，信息主要集中在第二段。由Forty percent of the brain is devoted to vision, which
provides us with more information than our other four senses combined 可知，眼镜为人的大脑提供了40%的信息，这比听觉，感觉，嗅觉，触觉一起提供的信息还要多。
6.C 这是一篇记叙文，作者讲述了一天晚上在阳台上与邻居阳台上的一个中老年妇女交流
以及借洗发水的故事。由第一段末尾那个妇女问道Would you be so kind as to give me a light?以及后面的lit a match 可知，那个妇女也想抽烟，找作者借个火，而作者掏出了一包火柴，match 有“火柴”的意思。
7.D 此题可用排除法来做。作者住的地方连洗发水都没有了，所以肯定不会很贵，很高雅，
在根据作者的阳台和邻居的阳台隔这么近，可知房间的空间也不大。所以只能选择D项。
8.D 细节题，信息主要在第二段。作者向邻居借洗发水是因为洗手间里没有，而作者自己
的也弄丢了，由此可见该旅馆是不提供洗发水的。
9.D 推断题，作者借了之后才发现，邻居把仅有的一点洗发水混合了水来分享给我，因此
作者很感动，作者要是知道邻居也马上就没了，肯定不会再向她借的。 10.A 当作者知道邻居把仅有的一点洗发水分享给自己的时候非常感动，因此作者以自己知
道的最热情的方式感谢了她。
11.C 细节推断题，信息主要集中在第一段，第一段说到这个岛的管理者是一个即将退休的
人，他之前也没没有什么大的成就和功绩，他的助手是一个急切，有雄心的年轻人，他们在岛上所做的事都非常简单。由此可知C项正确，可以排除A、D两项。B项在文中未提及。
12.A 细节推断题。Power cut 出现在第一段的最后一句。这一段主要讲的是岛上的两个管
理者，因此削减的应是行政管理权。
13.B 细节推断题。由第二段中But the supposed delights of Western civilization—cars,
elevators, cinemas, none of which the islanders had ever seen before—did not seduce them into staying: two years later all but fourteen went home可知他们更喜欢自己原始的生活。 14.A 细节题，信息主要出现在最后一段。由It stems from a somewhat bizarre British
government decision, taken during World War II, to reclassify some of its more remote island possessions as his ships可知英国政府只是将这些岛当作战舰。 )
15.A 细节推断题。英国政府将这些岛都当做战舰，因此Tristan was transmuted into HMS
Atlantic Isle，而这里提到这些岛巡逻以防止德国U型潜水艇的职能这是他战舰即HMS Atlantic Isle的职能之一。
16.A 细节题，信息主要出现在第一段。由These weren‟t for sale—they were transportation,
and they were parked while their owners were shopping可知这些驴主要是用来运输的，是一种交通工具。 17.A 细节推断题，信息主要在第一段。由there were only a handful of cars and another handful
of trucks, but the rest of the parking area was cluttered with wagons and carts and scores of donkeys and mules可知停放的汽车拖拉机还很少，但其他的地方都挤满了手推车，驴车等。因此没用过的车位中，汽车和拖拉机车位肯定更多。 18.B 总结归纳题，信息主要在文中第二段。由作者的描述“A roar floated over the fairground”
“chatter of hundreds of buyers and sellers haggling”“the smack and thump of boxes being opened and sacks being slapped down to be filled”可知这个露天市场是一个拥挤吵闹的地方，形形色色的商人和顾客都在这里讨价还价。
19.B 这里的animal 就是前面提到的donkey，作者这里用animal是为了避免重复，而这里
的donkey并不是所以的donkey而是那种可以骑的驴子。
20.D 词义猜测题，souk 一词出现在第二段。由We walked in through a section of the souk
where vendors sat behind mountains of dried beans in baskets four feet wide, and past stalls selling fried fish and kebabs可知souk就是市场，在那里商人们可以自由交易。 V. Translation from English to Chinese (20 points)
如果你用一个人听得懂的语言与他交流，他会记在脑子里；如果你用他的母语与他交流，他会记在心里。——纳尔逊·曼德拉
掌握双语能力后，一个崭新的世界便向我们展开了。在这个世界里有不同的种族，不同的文化，不同的情感。学习一门第二外语有很多认知方面的好处。例如，研究已经表明，学习一门新语言能够有效延缓老年痴呆症，减少认知偏见，增强排除干扰和专注的能力。通过学习新的语言，你会养成良好的习惯。
但是，除了认知方面的效果外，学习一门外语还有众多的社交方面的益处，这里我们暂不讨论。学习第二门语言最酷的一件事就是他能使你以后学习第三门、第四、第五门语言时变得更容易。一旦你掌握了语言的技巧，以后在学习没门新的语言时，你都可以运用这些相同的语法规范和语言技巧。
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