Part I Writing

The Impact of Social Networking Websites on Reading

As we can see from the picture, a pair of lovers is discussing about reading. To our amusement, the boy says his favorite book is Facebook. While the picture is seemingly humorous and ridiculous, it is thought-provoking on second thought, intending to inform us that the Internet has exerted an important impact on our daily reading.

Opinions vary when it comes to the impact of social networking websites on reading. Some people insist that social networking websites provide large collections of information at great speed and stimulate our reading interest. On the other hand, some people claim that it is a common phenomenon that youngsters spend too much time reading on social networking websites, and it is these websites make teenagers have less opportunities or time to read traditional books.

There is a saying goes like this, “Every coin has two sides”. So there is no surprise that there are different opinions on the impact of social networking websites on reading. However, I, as a college student, am convinced that it is necessary for us to read on social networking websites, but it is also of greater necessity for us to read traditional books, because social networking websites are just tools and a heavy dependence on it will bring more harm than good.

Part II Listening Comprehension

Section A

1. C) The dressing makes the mixed salad very inviting.

2. B) He is running a successful business.

3. C) The man may find the supplies in the cabinet.

4. A) He has to use a magnifying glass to see clearly.

5. A) Redecorating her office.

6. D) Shortage of container ships.

7. B) A colleague.

8. C) Hold the banquet at a different place.

9. B) He often goes back home late for dinner.

10. D) To pass on an important message.

11. D) There is a sharp increase in India’s balance of payment deficit.

12. A) They have unrealistic expectations about the other half.

13. D) He is lucky to be able to do what he loves.

14. C) It is all glamour.

15. B) Amazed.

Section B

16. B) Learn new ways of relating and working together.

17. A) How the team integrates with what it is supposed to serve.

18. D) A team manager should develop a certain set of skills.

19. D) It is a program allowing people to share information on the Web.

20. B) He met with an entrepreneur named Jim Clark.

21. A) They had confidence in his new ideas.

22. C) Word-of-mouth advertising.

23. B) To build up their reputation.

24. A) By using the services of large advertising agencies.

25. D) Pre-test alternative ads or commercials in certain regions.

Section C

26. eternal

27. diminishing

28. absolute

29. succeed

30. on a vast scale

31. As regards

32. used up

33. disposing

34. modification

35. magnitude

Part III Reading Comprehension

Section A

36. E) exception

37.O)worldwide

38. K) shifting

39. L) shrank

40. A) assumed

41. F) fault

42. H) notably

43. I) previous

44. C) desperate

45. D) deterioration

Section B

46. H) “Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness,” Jarrat continued.

47. C) Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.

48. B) What Nijay didn’t realize about his school—Tennessee State University—was its frighteningly low graduation rate a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

49. N) Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

50. A) When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.

51. I) Still, the University of Tennessee deserves credit for being transparent.

52. G)“They underestimate themselves when selecting a university,” said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.

53. O) “Our support structure was more like: ‘You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well,’” he said, hinting at mentors, staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about “belonging” at such a top institution.

54. D) Matt Rubinoff directs I’m First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students. He hopes to distribute this information and help prospective college-goers find the best post-secondary fit.

55. M) She was fortunate, though. Howard, a well-regarded historically black college, had an array of resources for its first-generation students, including matching kids with counselors, connecting first-generation students to one another, and TRIO, a national program that supported 200 students on Howard’s campus.

Section C

56. C) Take costs into account when making treatment decisions.

57. B) Effects of medical treatment.

58. A) The redefining of doctors’ roles.

59. C) They may have to use less effective drugs.

60. C) It results from society’s failure to tackle the problem.

61. A) It is the biggest obstacle to social mobility.

62. B) It is not a reliable indicator of economic mobility.

63. C) offer poor children more chances to climb the social ladder

64. A) Family structure.

65. D) It is better to start from the community to help poor children move up the social ladder.

Part IV Translation

In China, parents always try every means to help their children, and even make important decisions for them. They never care what their children really want, because they believe that it is good for them. As a result, children’s growth and education tend to surrender to the wills of their parents.

If parents decide to sign up for their children to take an extra class to increase their chances of being admitted to a key school, they will stick to their decision, even if their children are not interested.

While in the United States, parents are likely to respect their children’s opinions, and pay more attention to their opinions in making decisions.

It may be worthy of praise for the Chinese parents to attach great importance to education. When it comes to education, however, they should learn how to balance the relationship between parents and their children from American parents.

第二套

Part Ⅰ Writing

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below. You should focus on the difficulty in acquiring useful information in spite of advanced information technology. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.As the picture given depicts, several staff are having a meeting while one of them complained, “We have lots of information technology. We just don't have much useful information.” What the picture presents is that 1. even though equipped with advanced devices and information technology, we can hardly obtain helpful information that we need.

A multitude of reasons can account for the phenomenon. First of all, as we are increasingly dependent on various advanced devices, they have brought us much information. However, faced with so much information, we're actually not competent enough to tell the useful information from the useless one. What's more, the fact that the network management regulations are not perfect cannot be ignored, which makes it difficult to prevent our life being lumbered with useless bits of information.

From my point of view, as we are now in a great new era of information, we cannot say no to the benefits that information technology has brought us. However, it’s high time we transferred our focus from obtaining information merely to discriminating information. Only in this way can we acquire the exact information that we need.

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension

Section A

1. C) She is unable to use the new computer program.

2. B) He prefers to stay home for the holiday.

3. B) The location for their new office.

4. A) A number of cell phones were found after the last show.

5. C) The construction schedule may not be met.

6. B) She does not hold on to bitter feelings.

7. D) The man is trying to sell the woman a house.

8. C) They are launching a campaign to attract women voters.

9. A) Touch his heart.

10. C) He can sing any song if he likes it.

11. D) Go to work and wrap himself up in music.

12. D) How he does his job.

13. A) They write the first version of news stories.

14. B) Having little time to read the news before going on the air.

15. D) It serves as a reminder of sad news.

Section B

16. A) It gives pleasure to both adults and children.

17. C) They were small circus figures made of wire.

18. A) In art.

19. B) They attract students from all over the world.

20. D) Everyone has a right to an education appropriate to his potential.

21. A) He likes students with high motivation.

22. D) It equals more than 30 million barrels of oil each day.

23. A) It eventually turns into heat.

24. C) When it operates at near capacity.

25. B) Inefficient use of energy.

Section C

26. illustrate

27. clarifying

28. derived from

29. particularly

30. preview

31. set the stage

32. principal

33. communicating

34. For instance

35. reveals

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension

Section A

36. vulnerable

37. permanent

38. advocates

39. tighten

40. restricted

41. facilities

42. investigating

43. statistical

44. correlation

45. exercise

Section B

46. C) But there are other kinds of momentum as well. After all, we don't speak only of objects or people as having momentum; we speak of entire systems having momentum.

47. I) Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor-pool momentum.

48. E) But the momentum of incandescent lighting does not stop there.

49. K) As Vaclav Smil points out, “All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that their progress could be accelerated in an unprecedented manner.”

50.G) As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, “Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications.”

51. A) Politicians are fond of promising rapid energy transitions.

52.G) As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, “Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications.”

53. J) By far the biggest type of momentum that comes into play when it comes to changing our energy systems is economic momentum.

54.D) One kind of momentum is technological momentum.

55.B) In physics, moving objects have two characteristics relevant to understanding the dynamics of energy systems: inertia and momentum.

Section C

56. A) It is free from racial biases.

57. D) It is politically sensitive.

58. A) Racial biases are widespread in the professional world.

59. C) People’s conception of a person has much to do with the way he or she is labeled.

60. A) All Americans enjoy equal rights.

61. B) It fails to prepare students to face the challenges of modern times.

62. A) The diluted college curriculum.

63. D) They prioritize non-academic activities.

64. B) They can afford to choose easier majors in order to enjoy themselves.

65. C) The current situation in American higher education may not last long.

Part Ⅳ Translation

Recently, the Chinese government decided to upgrade its industry. China is now involved in the construction of high speed trains, ocean ships, robots, and even aircraft. Not long ago, China signed a contract to build a high speed rail in Indonesia. China also signed a contract with Malaysia to provide high-speed trains. These facts prove that people rely on Chinese-made products.

Products made in China are becoming more and more popular. China has paid a price for it, but it does help to eliminate poverty. At the same time, it also provides employment opportunities for people all over the world. This is a good thing to be praised. The next time you go to the store, you may want to take a look at the home of your purchase. Chances are that it is made in China.

第三套

Part I Writing

How to Deal With Misleading Information

As is revealed in the picture, a man is sitting in front of the computer searching information from the Internet, while a woman is standing by the door, holding a cup of coffee. The most striking feature is the caption under the picture, which reads “I just feel unfortunate to live in a world with so much misleading information!”

Simple as it is, what the picture conveys to us is thought-provoking. By no means can we deny that the Internet is playing such an increasingly important role in our information society that we couldn’t be away from it in every way. For instance, we deal with all kinds of data and information everyday by the Internet. Nevertheless, with a large amount of information coming up, the severity of misleading information arises. Unfortunately, if we lack the ability to distinguish the true information from the misleading one, we will finally fall prey to it, because the misleading information may get people into bad habits, even make them commit crimes. Numerous network fraud is a living example.

From what have been discussed above, it is therefore, necessary that some effective measures be taken to prevent ourselves from being misled by junk information. And in my opinion, learning to identify the authenticity of information online is the most practical measure.

Part II Listening Comprehension

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Part III Reading Comprehension

Section A

36. B) caters

37. M) recommended

38. D) debated

39. F) ideal

40. C) chronically

41. G) improvements

42. E) deprivation

43. L) ready

44. H) necessarily

45. O) target

Section B

46. C) This inconsistency largely stems from a feeling of powerlessness.

47. L) Social science can also teach politicians how to avoid our collective capacity for

self-destructive behaviour.

48. G) Few political libraries are without a copy of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health,

Wealth and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.

49. P) The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention

across the political establishment.

50. H) Defaults are certainly part of the solution.

51. D) Part of the fault lies with our inner caveman.

52. J) These norms can take us beyond good intentions.

53. B) Despite mournful polar bears and charts showing carbon emissions soaring, most people find it hard to believe that global warming will affect them personally.

54. F) Not any longer.

55. O) Nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the future of environmental action lies.

Section C

56. D) Part of the fault lies with our inner caveman.

57. A) They have learned to think critically.

58. B) It cultivates students’ ability to make scientific inquiries.

59. A) It allows for failures.

60. C) Make full use of informal learning resources.

61. B) It has a strong negative impact on space tourism.

62. C) It was about ready to start regular business.

63. D) To promote the space tourism industry.

64. D) Suspend Virgin Galactic’s licence to take passengers into space.

65. A) It is worth promoting despite the risks involved.

Part IV Translation

China is playing an increasingly important role in helping the international community to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030.

Since the implementation of the reform and opening up in the late of 1970s, China has helped as many as four hundred million people out of poverty. Over the next five years, China will provide assistance to other developing countries in poverty reduction, education development, agricultural modernization, environmental protection and health care.

China has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty, and has made unremitting efforts to promote economic growth, which will encourage other poor countries to respond to the challenges of their own development. These countries can learn from the experience of China when they seek to develop their own characteristics.

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