写作 北京新东方学校 王兆飞

Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled My View on University Ranking. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.

1.  目前高校排名相当盛行

2.  对这种做法人们看法不一

3.  我认为……

 

My View on University Ranking

There is no denying the fact that it has become a prevailing trend for some individuals or organizations to rank universities. Taking a look around, we can find examples too many to list. To this phenomenon people’s attitudes differ sharply.

Some hold the positive view. They claim that ranking universities can help high school graduates or their parents to make a sound choice when enrolling in a university or college. Besides, this practice can help promote the level of higher education as a whole in that many universities will exert efforts to elevate their position.

Others, however, hold the opposite view. They point out that the result of ranking is not always credible, for many individuals or institutions do it merely for the purpose of colleting money. Furthermore, some universities overemphasize the result of ranking and waste large amounts of resources.

Personally, I believe that we should not go to extremes. On the one hand, it must be admitted that ranking is an effective means to encourage universities or colleges to compete with each other and improve their work. On the other hand, it should not be conducted and used in the wrong way.

 

快速阅读 北京新东方学校 屠皓民 张一鑫

文章出处：

Into the unknown

The world has never seen population ageing before. Can it cope?

A survey of ageing populations Jun 25th 2009

http://www.economist.com/node/13888061

 

参考答案 

1. A）not be sustained in the long term

2. B）Intergenerational conflicts will intensify

3. D）politicians are afraid of losing votes in the next election

4. A）allow people to work longer

5. D）younger workers are readily available

6. B）large numbers of immigrants from overseas

7. B）They find it hard to balance career and family

8. take risks

9. have families

10. military service

 

听力部分（北京新东方 王双林）
Listening Comprehension
Section A
11. A The man is the manager of the apartment building

12. B How the pictures will turn out.
13. C The suitcase can be fixed in time.
14. B He needs a vehicle to be used in harsh weather.
15. A She has made up her mind to resign.

16. D Replace the shirt with one of some other material.
17. D At a “Lost and Found”
18. C Convert in into a hotel
19. D Careful plotting and clueing.
20. D To be entirely alone.
21. C They look at the world in a detached manner.
22. B Like it or not, you have to use them.
23. D The monopoly of British Railways.
24. B Competition from other modes of transport.
25. D They lose a lot of money.

Section B
Passage One

26. C Many coastal cities will be covered with water.

27. B How unstable the West Antarctic ice sheet is.

28. A It collapsed at least once during the past 1.3 million years.
29. A The West Antarctic region was once a open ocean.

Passage Two
30 B Whether a deleted photo is immediately removed from the web.
31 B The way they store data.
32 C When the URL is reused.

Passage Three
33. A
34. B
35. C

Section C
36. diverse
37. tragic
38. commit
39. outcome
40. scale
41. colleagues
42. accurate
43. averages
45. Students with high hope set themselves higher goals and know how to work to attain them,
46. went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right.
47. Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be.

 

简答题 北京新东方学校 张一鑫

47. feminine and weak

48. lose composure

49. stress-related disorders

50. their emotional inexpressiveness

51. aggressive

 

传统阅读 北京新东方学校 张一鑫 党哲

文章出处：

Half a Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

http://www.newsweek.com/2009/11/13/half-a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste.html

 

52. A）solve virtually all existing problems

53. D）They realized science and technology alone were no guarantee for a better world

54. B）Some Asian countries have overtaken America in basic scienes

55. A）Insufficient funding

56. C）Humanistic thinking helps define our culture and values

 

文章出处：

Scientists debate wait on the next Einstein

By Joseph B. Verrengia, Associated Press

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2005-04-26-next-einstein_x.htm

 

57. D）It will be some time before a new Einstein emerges

58. B）His independent and abstract thinking

59. D）They often go into fields yielding greater financial benefits

60. C）Papers like Einstein’s would unlikely get published today

61. B）was little known in academic circles

 

 

完形填空 北京新东方学校 冯莉

文章出处：

New York Times to charge readers for online content

Andrew Clark 20 January 2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/20/new-york-times-charging-content-online

 

62. B) set out

63. D) abandoning

64. A) with

65. B) intends

66. A) exceeded

67. A) on

68. D) charge

69. C) such as

70. B) free

71. C) acknowledged

72. C) bet

73. C) circulation

74. A) behind

75. B) While

76. D) claim

77. C) maintains

78. A) like

79. C) rough

80. C) suffered

81. D) loan

 

翻译答案 北京新东方学校 王兆飞

82. cannot be too careful (结构)

83. did I realize that reading could not be neglected （倒装与时态）

84. to the researchers’ surprise（搭配）

85. I must have left it somewhere（情态动词）

86. would rather join you to work as volunteers（结构与搭配）