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Part I Writing (25minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to a foreign friend who wants to study. Please recommend a university to him. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

【参考范文】

Dear，

I am delighted to hear that you are going to study in a Chinese university. Since you have

asked for my advice about choosing which university I will try to give you some useful suggestions here

It is well known that Peking University is a great place to lean. There are several factors

accounting for this choice and the following are the most typical ones. First and foremost,

Peking University is one of the top universities in China and the birthplace of many great minds. Therefore, it can provide high-quality teaching resources, which is essential for a foreign learner. In addition, Beijing is the capital of China and there are

various historic buildings. They provide foreign students to know Chinese culture and history

I hope you will find these suggestions helpful and wish you all the best！

Yours，

Li Ming 【参考译文】

亲爱的露丝:

得知你要来中国的大学学习,我很高兴。既然你针对大学的选择问题询问了我的看法,

我将在这里给你提供一些有用的建议。

众所周知,北京大学是学习的好地方。做出这种选择有多种原因,但以下是最典型的

首先,北京大学是中国最顶尖的大学之一,这里也培养出了许多栋梁之才。因此,它可以提

供高质量的教学资源,这对于外国学习者来说是最根本的。此外,北京是中国的首都,这里

有各种各样的历史建筑。这些建筑能为外国学生提供了了解中国文化和历史的好机会。

希望以上建议对你有帮助,祝一切顺利！

诚挚的,

李明Part ⅡListening 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 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 I and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.

1 A) Many facilities were destroyed by a wandering cow

B) A wandering cow knocked down one of its fences

C) Some tourists were injured by a wandering cow.

D)A wandering cow was captured by the police

2. A) It was shot to death by a police officer.

B) It found its way back to the park's zoo

C)It became a great attraction for tourists

D) It was sent to the animal control department.

Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard

3. A) It is the largest of its kind

B) It is going to be expanded.

C) It is displaying more fossil specimens

D) It is staring an online exhibition.

4. A ) A collection of bird fossils from Australia.

B) Photographs of certain rare fossil exhibits

C) Some ancient wall paintings from Australia

D) Pictures by winners of a wildlife photo contest.

Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard 5A) Pick up trash

B) Amuse visitors

C) Deliver messages

D) Play with children

6. A) They are especially intelligent

B)They are children‘s favorite

D)They are clean and pretty

7. A) Children may be harmed by the rooks

B) Children may be tempted to drop litter.

C) Children may contract bird diseases

D)Children may overfeed the rooks

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). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard

8. A) It will be produced at Harvard University

B) It will be hosted by famous professors

C)It will cover different areas of science

D) It will focus on recent scientific discoveries

9. A) It will be more futuristic

B) It will be more systematic

C) It will be more entertaining

D) It will be easier to understand.

10. A) People interested in science.

B) Youngsters eager to explore

C) Children in their early teens

11. A) Offer professional advice

B) Provide financial support.

C) Help promote it on the Internet.

D) Make episodes for its first season.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12. A) Unsure

B) Helpless.

C) Concerned

D) Dissatisfied.

13. A) He is too concerned with being perfect.

B) He loses heart when faced with setbacks

C)He is too ambitious in achieving goals

D)He takes on projects beyond his ability

14.A) Embarrassed

B) Unconcerned

C) Miserable

D)Resentful

15.A) Try to be optimistic whatever happens

B) Compare his present with his past on

C) Always learn from others' achievements

D) Treat others the way he would be treated

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) They have a stronger sense of social responsibility

B) They are more likely to succeed in the humanities.

C) They are more likely to become

D)They have greater potential to be leaders

17. A) Praise girls who like to speak up frequently

B) Encourage girls to solve problems on their own

C)Insist that boys and girls work together more

D) Respond more positively to boys‘comments.

18. A) Offer personalized teaching materials.

B) Provide a variety of optional courses

Place great emphasis on test scores

D) Pay extra attention to top students

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19. A) It often rains cats and dogs

B) It seldom rains in summer time

C) It does not rain as much as people think.

D) It is one of the most rainy cities in the US

20. A) They drive most of the time

B) The rain is usually very light.

C)They have got used to the rain

D)The rain comes mostly at night.

21. A ) It has a lot of places for entertainment.

B) It has never seen thunder and lighting

C)It has fewer cloudy days than any other coastal city.

D)It has mild weather both in summer and in winter.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

22. A) It occurs when people are doing a repetitive activity

B) It results from exerting one's muscles continuously

C) It happens when people engage in an uncommon activity.

D) It comes from staining one's muscles in an unusual way

23. A) Blood flow and body heat increase in the affected area.

B) Body movements in the affected area become difficult.

C) They begin to make repairs immediately

D)They gradually become fragmented

24. A) About one week.

B) About two days

C)About ten days

D)About four weeks

25. A) Apply muscle creams.

B) Drink plenty of water

C) Have a hot shower

D) Take pain-killers

【参考答案】

1-5 A D C B C

6-10 B D A B D

11-15 A D B D A

16-20 C C D C A

21-25 B D D A B

PartⅢReading comprehension (40minutes) 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 the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Finally, some good news about airplane travel. If you are on a plane with a sick passenger. You are unlikely to get sick. That is the 26 of a new study that looked at how respiratory （呼吸道）viruses 27 on airplanes. Researchers found that only people who were seated in individual had a high risk of catching the illness. All other passengers had only a very 28 chance of getting sick according to the findings. Media reports have not necessarily presented. 29 information about the risk of getting infected on an airplane in the past. Therefore, these new findings should help airplane passengers to feel less 30 to catching respiratory infections while traveling by air. Prior to the new study. litter was known about the risks of getting 31 infected by common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the researchers said. So, to 32 the risks of infection, the study team flew on 10 different 33 in the Us. 34 side of a person infected with flu, as well as those sitting one roe in font of or behind this individual, had about an 80 person chance of getting sick. But other passengers were 35 safe from infection.

They had a less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.

A) accurate B) conclusion C) directly D)either

E) evaluate F) explorations G) flights H) largely

I）Nearby J) respond K）Slim L) spread

N) vividly O) vulnerable

【参考答案】

26-30 B L K A O

31-35 C E G D H

Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. 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

A South Korean city designed for the future takes on a life of its own

A) Getting around a city is one thing -and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another One vision of the perfect city of the future: a place that offers easy access to air travel. In 2011, a University of North Carolina business professor named

John Kasarda published a book called Aerotropolis: The Way Well Live Next. Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports. The idea, as he has put it, is to offer businesses "rapid long-distance connectivity on a massive scale.

B)"The 18th century really was a waterbome （水运的)century, the 19th century a rail century. the 20th century a highway, car, truck century and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air, Kasarda says Songdo, a city built from scratch in South Korea, is one of Kasarda's prime examples. It has existed for just few years. From the get-go, it was designed on the basis of connectivity and competitiveness，“says Kasada. The government built the bridge directly from the airport to Songdo international business district. And the surface infrastructure was built in tandem with the new airport.”

C) Songdo is a stone's throw from South Koreas Incheon Airport, its main international hub(枢纽). But it takes a lot more than a nearby airport to be a city of the future. Just building a place as an "international business district doesn‘t mean it will become one. Park Yeon Soo conceived (构想) this city of the future back in 1986. He considers Songdo his baby. " I am a visionary, " he says. Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park's baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.000 people living in the business district and 90,000 residents in greater Songdo. It's about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, There s a coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university .

D) Chances are you' ve actually seen this place. Songdo appears in the most famous music video ever to come out of South Korea. Gangnam Style" refers to the fashionable Gangnam district in Seoul. But some of the video was filmed in Songdo. I don‘t know if you remember, there was a scene in a subway station. That was not Gangnam. That was actually Songdo, says Jung Won Son, a professor of urban development at London ‘s Bartlett School of Planning, " Part of the reason to shoot there is that it's new and nice .

E) The city was supposed to be a hub for global companies, with employees from all over the world. But hat's not how it has turned out. Songdo s reputation is as a futuristic ghost town. But the reality is more complicated. A bridge with big, light-blue loops leads into the business district. In the center of the main road there's a long line of flags of the world. On the comer, there‘s a Starbucks and a 7-Eleven--all of the international brands that you see all over the world nowadays.

F) The city is not empty. There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers even in the middle of the day. when it's 90 degrees out. Byun Young-Jin chairs the Songdo real estate association and started selling property here when the first phase of the city opened in 2005. He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years. Most of his clients are Korean. In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans. Young families move here because the schools are great. And that's the problem: Songdo has become a popular Korean city more popular as a

residential area than a business one It's not yet the futuristic international business hub that planners imagined. It's a great place to live. And it's becoming a great place to work, says Scott Summers, the vice president of Gale International, the developer of the city. The floor-to-ceiling windows of his company's offices overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats. Shimmering(闪烁的)glass towers line the canal's edge.

G) "What's happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here, he says. There needs to be strong economic incentives. "The city is still unfinished, and it feels a bit like a theme park. It doesn’t feel all that futuristic. There's a high-tech underground trash disposal system. Buildings are environmentally friendly. Everybody's television set is connected to a system that streams personalized language or exercise classes.

H) But Star Trek this is not. And to some of the residents, Songdo feels hollow. " I'm, like: in

prison for weekdays. That's what we call it in the workplace“says a woman in her 20s. She

doesn't want to use her name for fear of being fired from her job. She goes back to Seoul every

weekend. MI say I'm prison-breaking on Friday nights." But she has to make the prison break in

her own car. There's no high-speed train connecting Songdo to SeouL just over 20 miles away.

I) The man who first imagined Songdo feels frustrated，too. Park says he built South Korea a

luxury vehicle, "like Mercedes or BMW. It's a good car now. But we're waiting for a good driver

to accelerate-" But there are lots of other good cars out there, too. The world is dotted with

futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies .

J) Songdo?s backers contend that it's still early, and business space is filling up—about 70

percent of finished offices are now occupied. Brent Ryan: who teaches urban design at \UT, says

Songdo proves a universal principle. "There have been a lot of utopian (乌托井的)cities in history.

And the reason we don't know about a lot of them is that a lot of them have vanished entirely." In other words, when it comes to cities―r anything else—it is hard to predict the future.

36. Songdo's popularity lies more in its quality of life than its business attraction.

37. The man who conceives Songdo feels disappointed because it has fallen short of his

expectations.

38. A scene in a popular South Korean music video was shot m Songdo.

39. Songdo still lacks the financial stimulus for businesses to set up shop there.

40. Airplanes will increasingly become the chief means of transportation, according to a

professor.

41. Songdo has ended up different from the city it was supposed to be.

42. Some of the people who work in Songdo complain about boredom in the workplace.

43. A business professor says that a future city should have easy access to international transportation.

44. According to an urban design professor, it is difficult for city designers to foresee what

happen m the future.

45. Park Yeon So. Who envisioned Songdo, feels a parental connection with the city. 【参考答案】

36-40 F I D G B

41-45 E H A J C

Section C

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre..

Passage One

Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.

The fifth largest city in the US passed a significant soda tax proposal that will levy (征税)1.5 cents per liquid ounce on distributors.

Philadelphia's new measure was approved by a 13 to 4 city council vote. It sets a new bar for similar initiatives across the county. It is proof that taxes on sugary drinks can win substantial support outside super-liberal areas. Until now, the only city to successfully pass and implement a soda tax was Berkeley, Califomia, in 2014.

The tax will apply to regular and diet sodas, as well as other drinks with added sugar, such as Gatorade and iced teas. It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.

While the city council vote was met with applause inside the council room, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in court.

“The tax passed today unfairly singles out beverages-including low- and no-calorie choices”, said Lauren Kane, spokeswoman for the American Beverage Association. “But most importantly, it is against the law. So we will side with the majority of the people of Philadelphia who oppose this tax and take legal action to stop it. “

An industry backed anti- tax campaign has spent at least S4 million on advertisements. The ads criticized the measure. characterizing it as a “grocery tax.”Public health groups applauded the approved tax as a step toward fixing certain lasting health issues that plague Americans. “The move to recapture a small part of the profits from an industry that pushes a product that contributes to diabetes, obesity and heart disease in poorer communities in order to reinvest in those communities will sure be inspirational to many other places”, said Jim Krieger, executive director of Healthy Food America. Indeed, we are already hearing from some of them. “It's not just Berkeley anymore.”

Similar measures in California's Albany, Oakland, San Francisco and Colorado's boulder are becoming hot-button issues Health advocacy groups have hinted that even more might be coming

46. What does the passage say about the newly-approved soda tax in Philadelphia?

A) It will change the lifestyle of many consumers

B) It may encourage other US cities to follow suit.

C) It will cut soda consumption among low-income communities

D) It may influence the marketing strategies of the soda business

47. What will the opponents probably do to respond to the soda tax proposal?

A) Bargain with the city council.

B) Refuse to pay additional tax.

C) Take legal action against it

D) Try to win public support.

48. What did the industry-backed anti-tax campaign do about the soda tax proposal

A) It tried to arouse hostile feelings among consumers

B) It tried to win grocers support against the measure

C) It kept sending letters of protest to the media

D) It criticized the measure through advertising

49. What did public health groups think the soda tax would do?

A) Alert people to the risk of sugar-induced diseases.

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