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Listen to the following passage.Altogether the passage will be read to you four times.During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning.For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds.The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work.You will then be given ONE minute to check through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE．
In this section you will hear a talk.You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY.While listening, you may look at the task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.
Now listen to the talk.When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your work.
In this section you will hear two conversations.At the end of each conversation, five questions will be asked about what was said.Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY.After each question there will be a ten-second pause.During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices.
Now, listen to the conversations.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.
1．A.One.
B．Two.
C．Three.
D．Four.
2．A.The job in Detroit.
B．The job in Atlanta City.
C．The job in New York City.
D．The job in Los Angeles.
3．A.It is the best for career progression.
B．It can save a lot on traffic fares.
C．It is easy to come back to New York City.
D．It has many holidays besides regular ones.
4．A.Because it is the most interesting.
B．Because it is the closest to New York.
C．Because she can ski there in winter.
D．Because living there is much easier.
5．A.Go swimming.
B．Go skiing.
C．Climb mountains.
D．Watch films.
Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.
6．A.Price.
B．Location.
C．Type.
D．Size.
7．A.In the downtown.
B．In the countryside.
C．Close to the office.
D．Close to a city.
8．A.They are far more expensive than those in cities.
B．They are better built than those in cities.
C．They are not convenient for children to attend school.
D．They are conveniently located for commuting to work or for shopping.
9．A.Detached houses.
B．Semi-detached houses.
C．Town houses.
D．Apartment.
10．A.They are not joined by another building.
B．They are joined together to save space.
C．They are very expensive houses.
D．They are usually built in city suburbs.
There are twenty sentences in this section.Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D.Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
11．In the 21st century, the Internet enables us to get to know things almost at the exact moment______.
A．which they are happening
B．they are happening
C．which they happen
D．they have happened
12．Nancy could be a very charming girl but she______ to her clothes.
A．pays no attention
B．was paying no attention
C．paid no attention
D．had paid no attention
13．A series of car accidents______ recently.
A．has been reported
B．has reported
C．have been reported
D．have reported
14．Great efforts to increase common people's income must be made if great complains about high prices______ avoided.
A．would be
B．can be
C．are to be
D．were to be
15．I believe surfing the Internet is______ watching TV.
A．so good or better than
B．like good or better than
C．as good as or better than
D．as better as or better than
16．She is going to have______ X-ray examination this morning.
A．a
B．an
C．the
D．some
17．—The teachers thought the composition was generally poor.
—I didn't find______.
A．it
B．it so
C．it to be too
D．it was too
18．It is said that her mother______ for several years.
A．had died
B．has been dead
C．died
D．has dead
19．______ is often the case with a new project, many preliminary activities produce lots of concrete proposals.
A．As
B．That
C．Which
D．What
20．I'd rather that they______ during the bad weather now, but they insist that they should return home today.
A．don't leave
B．didn't leave
C．shouldn't leave
D．not leave
21．In his endeavor to further his knowledge of the universe, man has now begun to explore space.The underlined part means______.
A．try
B．expedition
C．trail
D．chase
22．In between parts of a lecture, there is often an interval .The underlined part means______.
A．interruption
B．break
C．gap
D．breach
23．I'm in no______ now to go shopping with you.
A．mood
B．intention
C．emotion
D．sense
24．The substance of the book is that all human beings should love each other.The underlined part means______.
A．brain
B．question
C．essence
D．reality
25．The heavy burden of emotional life made her revert to the old way of mental disorder.The underlined part means______.
A．revel in
B．relate to
C．return to
D．revive in
26．The present had many associations with her former school days.The underlined part means______.
A．conjunctions
B．connections
C．links
D．chains
27．If my father______ here last night，he______ me from going.
A．had been; would have prevented
B．had been; would prevent
C．were; would
D．were; would have prevented
28．The main idea of the story is that a person's destiny is closely______ that of his motherland.
A．linked up with
B．dealt with
C．taken as
D．tied up with
29．Doctors were dedicated to caring for the sick in Africa.The underlined part means______.
A．attributed to
B．devoted to
C．seen to
D．attached to
30．I______ with the Smiths during my stay in Moscow.
A．put in
B．put down
C．put on
D．put up
Decide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blank.The words can be used ONCE ONLY.Mark the letter for each word on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
A．afford B.counterparts C.discussions D.enemies E.however F.indirect G.insist H.involves I.on J.refers K.sensitive L.studies M.that N.wealthy O.which
The increase in international business and in foreign investment has created a need for executives with knowledge of foreign languages and skills in cross-cultural communication.Americans, (31)______, have not been well trained in either area and, consequently, have not enjoyed the same level of success in negotiation in an international arena as have their foreign (32)______.
Negotiating is the process of communicating back and forth for the purpose of reaching an agreement.It (33)______ persuasion and compromise, but in order to participate in either one, the negotiators must understand the ways in (34)______ people are persuaded and how compromise is reached within the culture of the negotiation.
In many international business negotiations abroad, Americans are perceived as (35)______ and impersonal.It often appears to the foreign negotiator that the American represents a large multi-million-dollar corporation that can (36)______ to pay the price without bargaining further.The American negotiator's role becomes that of an impersonal purveyor of information and cash.
In (37)______ of American negotiators abroad, several traits have been identified that may serve to confirm this stereotypical perception, while undermining the negotiator's position.Two traits in particular that cause cross-cultural misunderstanding are directness and impatience (38)______ the part of the American negotiator.Furthermore, American negotiators often (39)______ on realizing short-term goals.Foreign negotiators, on the other hand, may value the relationship established between negotiators and may be willing to invest time in it for long-term benefits.In order to solidify the relationship, they may opt for (40)______ interactions without regard for the time involved in getting to know the other negotiator.
In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple choice questions.For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D.Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
(1) A doctor who sees a child with an odd appearance might write “FLK” in his notes.Short for “funny-looking kid”, it is meant not as an insult，but as a reminder to watch for slow growth and mental retardation（迟滞），which can accompany physical abnormalities.Later he may add “FLD”: funny-looking dads tend to have funny looking offspring.But such frankness may become a thing of the past as more hospitals and clinics make doctors' notes available to patients and their guardians.
(2) The pioneers see open notes as a way to engage patients in their treatment, and to keep their other carers informed.A study in 2012 in the Annals of Internal Medicine of 105 American doctors who shared their notes with 20,000 patients backs this position.Over four-fifths of the patients who visited their doctors in the following year had looked at their notes.In a survey, about three-quarters said they felt more in control of their care.Few said the notes were confusing, offensive or worrisome; nearly all wanted access to continue.
(3) The doctors who took part reported little change in their behaviour and little extra work, though some did alter the way they wrote about charged topics such as cancer, mental health, substance abuse and obesity.As for FLK and other medics' slang, Tom Delbanco, one of the study's authors, says: “Good doctors don't label things; good doctors describe things.”
(4) Some 3 million American patients now have easy access to their doctors' notes, including those at leading institutions such as the Cleveland and Mayo clinics, and 1 million of those are cared for by the Department of Veterans Affairs.This is good business as well as good medicine.Patients with Kaiser Permanente Northwest must register on its website in order to read their doctors' notes, which makes their care easier to manage and lowers the chance that they will switch to a competitor.
(5) Health administrators elsewhere are watching with interest.Some British doctors have already opened their notes and more are likely to follow suit if the National Health Service keeps its promise to give all patients online access to their records by next year.The next step, says Dr.Delbanco, is getting patients to contribute to their records.
(6) Funny-looking doctors take note．
41．Why does a doctor write “FLK” in a kid's notes?
A．The doctor ridicules the kid.
B．The kid may grow slowly in body and mind.
C．The kid is good-looking.
D．The doctor dislikes the kid.
42．What can we know from the studies according to the passage?
A．Few patients are interested in looking at their notes.
B．Open notes are popular with most of the patients.
C．The doctors involved changed a lot in taking notes.
D．Many patients said they felt more confused after reading the notes.
43．What's the attitude of health administrators overseas towards opening doctors' notes?
A．Concerned.
B．Resistant.
C．Radical.
D．Doubtful.
(1) In the North Star tattoo parlour in downtown Manhattan, Brittany shows off her ink: a Banksy-inspired tattoo covering both feet.Now a student at New York University, she hopes to be a lawyer one day.“That's why I got the tattoo on my feet,” she says.“It's easy to hide.”
(2) Once the preserve of prisoners, sailors and circus freaks, tattoos have become a rite of passage for many Americans.One in five adults has one, and two in five thirty-somethings.These days women with tattoos outnumber men.But what happens when these people look for work? Alas, not everyone is as savvy as Brittany.
(3) Though increasingly mainstream, tattoos still signal a certain rebelliousness that works against jobseekers, says Andrew Timming of the University of St Andrews in Scotland.In a forthcoming study, Mr.Timming and colleagues asked participants to assess job candidates based on their pictures, some of which were altered to add a neck tattoo.Inked candidates consistently ranked lower, despite being equally qualified.In a separate study Mr.Timming found that many service-sector managers were squeamish about conspicuous ink, particularly when filling jobs that involve dealing with customers.
(4) Designs of flowers or butterflies were deemed comparatively acceptable.And some workplaces are more open-minded: a prison-services manager explained that having tattoos made it easier to bond with inmates.Firms with a younger clientele are also more tattoo-friendly.But by and large, the more visible the tattoo, the more “unsavoury” a candidate seemed—even if the boss had one.
(5) Such prejudice may seem anachronistic（过时的），but it is not unfounded.Empirical studies have long linked tattoos with deviant behaviour.People with inked skin are more likely to carry weapons, use illegal drugs and get arrested.The association is stronger for bigger tattoos, or when there are several, says Jerome Koch, a sociologist at Texas Tech University.
(6) This may help explain the army's recent decision to reinstate old grooming standards.These restrict the size and number of tattoos, ban ink from the neck, head and hands, and bar body art that might be seen as racist, sexist or otherwise inappropriate.The change is intended to promote discipline and professionalism.But it is making it harder to recruit to the army, says Major Tyler Stewart，who handles recruitment in Arizona.His battalion（营）is turning away 50 tattooed people a week.
(7) Some aspiring soldiers and other jobseekers are solving the problem by getting their ink removed.Tattoo-removal has surged 440% in the past decade, according to IBISWorld, a market-research firm.At the North Star, where Brittany's friend is getting a question-mark inked on her wrist, the prospect of such buyer's remorse seems remote.“I don't think it will help her job prospects,” observes Brittany, “but hopefully it won't hurt, either.”
44．Which is INCORRECT about the influence of tattoos on jobseekers?
A．Tattoos lead to low marks for the jobseekers with equal qualification.
B．A boss who has tattoos tends to employ the tattooed candidates.
C．It's difficult for inked jobseekers to get a job in service sectors.
D．The tattooed jobseekers may give a fashionable impression on employers.
45．Among the soldiers with tattoos, who will NOT be turned away by the standards?
A．The man with a dragon tattoo along his arm.
B．The man whose neck is covered with tattoos.
C．The woman with flower tattoos on her hand.
D．The woman who tattoos her surname on her shoulder.
(1) Cyber-security is now part of all our lives.“Patches” and other security updates arrive for phones, tablets and PCs.Consultants remind us all not to open unknown files or plug unfamiliar memory sticks into our computers.And yet, as our special report this week points out, digital walls keep on being breached.In 2013 more than 800 million digital records, such as credit-and debit-card details, were pinched or lost, more than three times as many as in 2012．According to a recent estimate by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank，the global cost of online economic cybercrime and online industrial espionage（间谍活动）stands at 445 billion a year—about as much as the GDP of Austria.
(2) Now a new phase in this contest is emerging: “the Internet of things”.This involves embedding miniature computers in objects and connecting them to the Internet using wireless technology.Web-connected cars and smart appliances in homes are becoming more common, as are medical devices that can be monitored by doctors many miles from their patients.Such connectivity offers many advantages, from being able to adjust your house's heating when you are in the office to alerting your doctor that your insulin level has risen.But it also gives malicious hackers an easy way to dig deeper into people's lives.The small, embedded computers at the centre of the Internet of things do not have as much processing power or memory as, say, a smart phone, so security software on them tends to be elementary.There have already been instances of wicked types taking control of webcams, televisions and even a fridge, which was roped into a network of computers pumping out e-mail spam.
(3) For the companies building the Internet of things, its vulnerability could be costly.The tactic of pumping out new software as fast as possible and then issuing patches later to fix flaws in the code may be tolerable if all that is lost is data, but if it involves personal safety, consumers will be less tolerant.In order to avoid horrible headlines about cars crashing, insulin overdoses and houses burning, tech firms will surely have to embrace higher standards.Just as with computers and phones, there will be more passwords and more updates, though that may make the Internet of things less easy to use—a blow for a business based on making life more convenient.For governments, they should make clear safety laws and product-liability regimes to make the wrongdoers punished, but the best prompt for securing the Internet of things is competition, tech firms finding ways to make web-connected gadgets more dependable.
46．Which function is NOT the focus of the Internet of things?
A．Monitoring the patients' condition.
B．Adjusting the heating of a house.
C．Driving a car.
D．Ordering an appliance.
47．More passwords and updates will make life______.
A．easier
B．more convenient
C．more happy
D．securer
48．Why is competition considered as the best way to secure the Internet of things?
A．It will diversify the web-connected gadgets.
B．It will raise the production standard of net-worked devices.
C．It will make on-line devices more invulnerable.
D．It will force uncompetitive tech firms to be eliminated from the market.
(1) Since Henry Ford turned it into a mass-market product a century ago, the car has delivered many benefits.It has boosted economic growth, increased social mobility and given people a lot of fun.No wonder mankind has taken to the vehicle with such enthusiasm that there are now a billion automobiles on the world's roads.
(2) But the car has also brought many problems.It pollutes the air, creates congestion and kills people.An astonishing 1.24 million people die, and as many as 50 million are hurt, in road accidents each year.Drivers and passengers waste around 90 billion hours in traffic jams each year.In some car-choked cities as much as a third of the petrol used is burned by people looking for a space to park.
(3) Fortunately, an emerging technology promises to make motoring safer, less polluting and less prone to hold-ups.“Connected cars”—which may eventually evolve into driverless cars but for the foreseeable future will still have a human at the wheel—can communicate wirelessly with each other and with traffic-management systems, avoid pedestrians and other vehicles and find open parking spots.
(4) Some parts of the transformation are already in place.Many new cars are already being fitted with equipment that lets them maintain their distance and stay in a motorway lane automatically at a range of speeds, and recognize a parking space and slot into it.They are also getting mobile-telecoms connections: soon, all new cars in Europe will have to be able to alert the emergency services if their on-board sensors detect a crash.Singapore has led the way with using variable tolls to smooth traffic flows during rush-hours; Britain is pioneering “smart motorways”, whose speed limits vary constantly to achieve a similar effect.Combined, these innovations could create a much more efficient system in which cars and their drivers are constantly alerted to hazards and routed around blockages，traffic always flows at the optimum speed and vehicles can join up into “platoons（队列）” on the motorways，travelling closer together, yet with less risk of crashing.
(5) If cars are to connect, new infrastructure will have to be built.Roads and parking spaces will need sensors to monitor them; motorways will need dedicated lanes for platooning.But this will not necessarily be expensive.Upgrading traffic signals so they can be controlled remotely by a central traffic-management system is a lot cheaper than building new roads.
(6) The sooner these changes are made, and cars are plugged into a smart traffic grid, the quicker Singaporean variable pricing—for parking as well as road use—can become the norm.Motorists will then have the incentive, as well as the ability, to avoid the busiest places at the busiest times, and the dreadful toll that roads take in human lives should start falling.
49．With mobile-telecoms connections,______.
A．in Europe, a crash detected, the emergency operating procedures will be set off
B．in Singapore, traffic in rush-hours is controlled by variable lanes
C．in Britain, speed limits vary from one motorway to another
D．all of the three mentioned above pioneer in controlling traffic flows
50．If the smart system is built, how will it benefit cars and drivers?
A．Drivers will not encounter hazards.
B．Drivers can drive at the speed they like.
C．Cars will not crash each other.
D．Cars are not likely to be trapped in blockages.
In this section there are five short answer questions based on the passages in Section A.Answer the questions with NO more than TEN words in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
51．What does the sentence “Funny-looking doctors take note” (Para 6) mean?
52．Why does the author think Brittany smart to tattoo on her feet?
53．What can the job-hunters do if tattoos may cause negative effect on their career according to the passage?
54．For tech firms, what can be done to tackle the vulnerability of computers?
55．What infrastructure has to be set up for connected cars according to the passage?
The popularization of smart phones gives birth to many Apps.In fact, these Apps do have a huge impact on people's life and even change the way people live.
Write on ANSWER SHEET THREE a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:
You are to write in three parts.
In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is.
In the second part, support your opinion with appropriate reasons.
In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks．
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