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Section A （5 marks）
In this section, you will hear five short conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. At the end of each conversation, there will be a fifteen-second pause. During the pause, read the question and the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
1 What does the woman say about the hotel the man will stay at?
A. It offers free meals and beverages.
B. It provides free airport pick-ups.
C. It is a newly restored country villa.
D. It is located near the city center.
【答案】 C
【解析】 对话中女士说到“an old country villa that has been restored and refurbished”，是一幢翻新的旧乡间别墅。因此C选项为正确答案。
【录音原文】
W: This package includes round-trip flights to Denver and a free airport pick-up.
M: Sounds good! What is the hotel that we will be staying at like?
W: Your hotel is actually an old country villa that has been restored and refurbished. Included in the price is three meals a day, excluding beverages.
M: Wow! This sounds like something my wife would really enjoy!
2 What’s the man’s attitude toward advertising?
A. Neutral.
B. Positive.
C. Negative.
D. Indifferent.
【答案】 A
【解析】 录音中女士对于广告的态度是消极的，男士说到“as easily be positive as negative”，意为可以是积极的也可以是消极的，因此他的态度是中立的。故A选项为正确答案。
【录音原文】
W: Obviously children today are exposed to too much advertising. It should be restricted in children’s programs.
M: But understanding the role of marketing is essential to children’s growing up.
W: That’s nonsense! Advertising can only tempt children to eat junk food.
M: Food advertising certainly has an effect on children’s preferences, buying behavior and consumption, but the effect could just as easily be positive as negative.
3 Why can’t the man request a loan?
A. He isn’t the bank’s regular customer.
B. He hasn’t got a full-time job.
C. He has provided false information.
D. He has a terrible credit score.
【答案】 D
【解析】 录音中男士说到自己有一个“terrible credit score”，女士说到这是个严重的问题，银行在批准贷款前会评估包括个人信用在内的一系列信息。因此D选项为正确答案。
【录音原文】
M: I would like some information for requesting a loan.
W: Very well, here are the general terms of our loan policies. We pride ourselves in having the lowest interest rate for personal loans.
M: It sounds good, but there’s just one problem. I have a terrible credit score.
W: That’s a very serious problem, you see, the bank must assess your personal information, past loans, assets and other relevant information such as your credit score in order to approve your loan.
M: You know what? I don’t really need the money. Thanks anyway!
4 What are tourists supposed to do during an eco-tour?
A. Exploit the resources as fully as possible.
B. Help protect the local environment.
C. Have exactly the same meals with those of the local people.
D. Make donations to preserve the scenery.
【答案】 B
【解析】 对话中女士问到什么是生态旅游，男士说到“sustainable”“respect local environments”等词。因此B选项为正确答案。
【录音原文】
W: Why is eco-tourism rapidly developing?
M: The holiday and leisure industry now too often is about exploiting our resources, and we’ve all seen the damage it can do to the local environment. In the end, the very things that attracted the tourists may be lost.
W: So what is eco-tourism?
M: Eco-tourism is sustainable tourism. It’s about preserving these assets for future generations. Tourists have to respect local environments and adapt to the local lifestyle rather than vice-versa.
5 Why does the man want to quit his job?
A. He isn’t satisfied with the pay.
B. He can’t adjust to the fast pace of city life.
C. He has found a new job in his hometown.
D. He misses his family too much.
【答案】 B
【解析】 录音中男士说到的“hustle and bustle”意为“熙熙攘攘”，可见是城市的快节奏让他想要辞职。因此B选项为正确答案。
【录音原文】
M: I’m planning to quit this job and go back to work in my hometown after the Spring Festival.
W: Why is that?
M: Well, the hustle and bustle of the city is really difficult to handle.
W: I understand your position. Perhaps you’ll feel much better with your family around.
Section B （10 marks）
In this section, you will hear two long conversations. Each conversation will be read only once. At the end of each conversation, there will be a one-minute pause, during the pause, read the questions and make your answers on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
Conversation One
Listen to the conversation, and mark each statement as either true （T） or false （F） according to your listening.
6 The woman went through two interviews to become a flight attendant.
7 The woman spent five weeks doing safety training.
8 The woman experienced jet lag each time she got off the plane.
9 Wearing seat belts will prevent passengers from being thrown all over the cabin when there’s sudden and severe turbulence.
10 If a fire starts on a plane, passengers should wait for flight attendants to lead them to the nearest emergency exit.
【答案与解析】
6 T 录音中女士说到自己先参加了“group interview”，然后参加了“one-on-one interview”，因此是两次面试。陈述正确。
7 F 录音中女士说自己参加了“four weeks’ safety training”。因此陈述不正确。
8 F 录音中没有提到“jet lag”。因此陈述不正确。
9 T 录音中女士说到“you could be thrown all over the cabin if you aren’t wearing your seat belt”。因此陈述正确。
10 F 录音中男士问道人们是否应该听安全信息，女士回答当然了，尤其是关于紧急出口的信息，弄清楚离自己最近的安全出口可能会救自己的命。由此可知，当发生火灾时，乘客们应该自己去最近的安全出口。因此陈述不正确。
【录音原文】
M: How did you become a flight attendant?
W: I had a group interview first and I was singled out. Then I passed a one-on-one interview, and finally went on to my training.
M: What kind of training did you have?
W: First week was all about customer service and relations, and then during four weeks’ safety training, I got to know how to deal with fires, evacuations, water landing, and passengers’ first-aid.
M: Tell me, what do you think are the good and bad sides of the job?
W: Good sides, obviously I get to see the world pretty much for free. Bad sides, it’s really grueling on your social life. It’s more like a way of living than a job.
M: Passengers often think that fastening seat belts on board is really unnecessary. Is that true?
W: Not at all. When the plane is taxiing on the runway and the pilot suddenly puts the brakes on, passengers can be thrown out of their seats. And during the flight if there’s sudden and severe turbulence, you could be thrown all over the cabin if you aren’t wearing your seat belt.
M: Should we really listen to the safety information?
W: Definitely, especially about emergency exits. If there’s a fire on a plane, it may be dark and the plane will be full of smoke and fumes. Working out which one is the nearest exit to you might save your life.
Conversation Two
Listen to the conversation, and mark each question as A, B, C or D according to your listening.
11 How much has the public college tuition increased?
A. By 1.7%.
B. By 9%.
C. Several hundred dollars.
D. Almost a hundred dollars.
12 Why does the cost of college education rise faster than the economy as a whole?
A. Colleges have to spend more hiring professors to teach.
B. Facilities for college education are getting more expensive.
C. College education has been greatly affected by technology.
D. Parents attach too much importance to college education.
13 In which area can students most easily find seats in colleges?
A. In the Southeast.
B. In the West.
C. In the South.
D. In the Mid-Atlantic.
14 Which is mentioned as a way for colleges to reduce students’ financial pressure?
A. Providing part-time jobs.
B. Offering scholarships.
C. Offering online courses.
D. Providing short-term loans.
15 Which student below may finish college in less than four years in the future?
A. Julia, who will have the fourth year studying abroad.
B. Mark, who can earn his tuition by himself.
C. Jasmine, who has got straight A’s for all college courses.
D. Lila, who will finish her last year’s courses via the Internet.
【答案与解析】
11 C 录音中女士说到学费上涨了“2.9 percent”，男士说到上涨了“several hundred dollars”。因此C选项正确。
12 A 对话中男士提到虽然科技减少了人员使用，但是依然需要像以前一样一个老师教20个学生，而且高中的毕业率一直增加，因此大学需要花更多钱雇老师。因此A选项正确。
13 D 对话中男士提到“Mid-Atlantic and Northeast”由于人口原因导致毕业率降低，由此可见进入大学的人也减少。因此D选项正确。
14 C 对话中男士提到大学即将寻求新的上课方式，即“through technology and other ways”，还有提供“contingent loan”，学生们可以在毕业后偿还贷款，即长期贷款。因此C选项正确。
15 C 对话中男士提到将来会有“competency-based education”，也就是以学生能力作为标准，而不是是否在学校度过了四年。因此C选项正确。
【录音原文】
W: Costs at four-year public schools posted the smallest increase in more than 30 years, up 2.9 percent. It just got more expensive to go to public college and university in the United States more slowly, right?
M: Exactly. This is the smallest increase we’ve seen in a couple of decades, but that’s on a larger base. We’re still talking about several hundred dollars on the average public college tuition.
W: Prices in the economy went up 1.7 percent last year. College went up 2.9 percent. What’s been driving the much faster increases in the cost of buying a college education?
M: Well, unlike most other pieces of the economy, where technology has reduced the number of people you need, you still need one professor to teach 20 students, just like you did in 1980.
W: The high school graduation rates are going up. This is a pretty big generational cohort. There’re still a lot of kids looking for seats in colleges, aren’t there?
M: There’re still a lot. But it depends where you live. And there’re a lot of colleges in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast where high school graduation rates are actually falling because of demographics. And there’re not as many colleges in the West and the South, where those rates are increasing.
W: Are we opening up a national conversation to look at radically different ways of paying for school, reducing some of the pressure on parents?
M: Well, I think we definitely are. We’re going to look at new ways of delivering college courses through technology and other ways. On the other side, you’re going to see income-based contingent loans, where students can pay a piece of their income after college toward their loans.
W: There’re even some suggestions that it not be four years anymore, aren’t there?
M: There are. And there’re ways of doing this. We base learning on how much time somebody spends in a seat. There’s nothing magical about four years of college and 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree. And so there’s a move now towards competency-based education and in some cases, you can finish college in less than four years.
Section C （5 marks）
In this section, you will hear five short news items. Each item will be read only once: After each item, there will be a fifteen-second pause. During the pause, read the question and the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
16 How many awards did the previous record-setting movies win in the history of Golden Globe Awards?
A. 5.
B. 6.
C. 7.
D. 8.
【答案】 B
【解析】 新闻最后提到在星期天之前，金球奖中单个影片获奖记录是六项。因此B选项正确。
【录音原文】
On Sunday night, romantic musical comedy “ La La Land ” swept the 74th Golden Globe Awards. The movie, which stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, set a record by winning seven awards in every category it was nominated in, including best motion picture—musical or comedy and the best director award for Damien Chazelle. The film also took home the awards for best screenplay, best score and respective acting awards for Gosling and Stone. Prior to Sunday, the record for most Golden Globes for a single movie was six, shared by 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and 1978’s Midnight Express .
17 Who is Wilbur Ross according to the news?
A. A steel billionaire.
B. Former US Commerce Secretary.
C. A mineral dealer.
D. CEO of a US business company.
【答案】 A
【解析】 新闻最后提到Wilbur Ross是“a steel billionaire”，也是特朗普眼中商务部长的第一人选。因此A选项正确。
【录音原文】
As president-elect Trump continues to flesh out his administration he’s sending strong signals to China in the process. According to Reuters, Trump has packed his trade team with veterans of the US steel wars with China. This could potentially signal a more aggressive relationship between the two countries. Trump often complained about China while on the campaign trail and promised to take a stronger stance than previous presidents when trading with the communist country. Trump’s potential trade team is led by Wilbur Ross, a steel billionaire and Trump’s top pick for commerce secretary. China has already warned that new tariffs would result in retaliation against US companies.
18 What was the building destroyed by the car bomb?
A. A local hospital.
B. A security office.
C. A government office.
D. A military training center.
【答案】 B
【解析】 新闻中提到被袭击建筑被用于“security office”。因此B选项正确。
【录音原文】
A car bomb killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens more near the Turkish border. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights added the bomb targeted a building used by a rebel group in the northern Syrian town of Azaz. The building was being used as a security office. A political officer with the group who controls the building, stated the death toll is higher, indicating that 13 of the dead were fighters with the group. Yasser al-Yousef added a total of 25 people died from the bombing. Azaz is under the control of multiple rebel groups, which have been in fighting among each other in recent months.
19 What made “powerball” the top trending term on Google in January 2016?
A. A corruption scandal.
B. A prince’s passing.
C. The jackpot game.
D. The US presidential election.
【答案】 C
【解析】 新闻开始提到一月份“jackpot”达到超过10亿时，出现了对“powerball”的搜索。因此C选项正确。
【录音原文】
In 2016, “powerball” was the top trending term on Google and “Prince” came in second. The surge in “powerball” searches happened in January when the jackpot reached more than $1 billion. “Prince” was searched for the most in April when he passed away unexpectedly. On Google News, “Olympics” and “Elections” were the most searched-for terms, with eight of the top 10 people searches being either Olympic athletes or presidential candidates. Google is the most used search engine in the world, so it gives a pretty good idea of what people are looking at.
20 What is said about smoking?
A. Its cost is almost equivalent to the global revenue from tobacco taxes.
B. Another 9 billion people will die from smoking by 2030.
C. It costs the global economy almost 1 billion dollars a year.
D. Most tobacco-related deaths will occur in low and middle income countries.
【答案】 D
【解析】 新闻最后提到在吸烟致死的人中，80%出现在“low and middle income countries”。因此D选项正确。
【录音原文】
According to a new study by the World Health Organization, smoking already costs the global economy more than 1 trillion dollars a year. By 2030, it will also kill one third more people than it does now. The cost of smoking “far outweighs global revenue from tobacco taxes”, which is estimated to be about 269 billion dollars from 2013 to 2014. The study determined that tobacco-related deaths will increase from 6 million to 8 million by 2030. More than 80 percent of those deaths will occur in low and middle income countries.
Section D （10 marks）
In this section, you will hear two short passages. The passages will be read only once. After each passage, there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause, write the answers on the answer sheet.
Dictation
Listen to the passage. For questions 21—25, fill in the blanks with the exact words or phrases you hear.
Chemicals are added to a huge variety of products to give them certain properties. Many of these common chemicals are toxic to mammals and other animals. For example, one class of chemicals, called alkylphenols, can （21） _______ hormone systems and growth. Alkylphenols are often found in shampoo. Not only are these chemicals toxic, but they do not （22） _______biodegrade. In other words, they will be on our planet for a very, very long time. Chemicals with a combination of these properties are commonly known as “Persistent Organic Pollutants,” or POPs. The combined effect of POPs on our health and on the environment is increasingly being studied and recognized. Some work has been done to control the use of POPs, but only （23） ________ chemicals fall under current government controls. Additionally, companies don’t label their products with their chemical components, so consumers must do （24） ________ to learn about them. Contrary to popular belief, POPs don’t stay locked away inside of the materials where they are used. These chemicals can escape and enter the soil during （25）_______. In fact, it now seems that no part of the planet is free of chemicals.
【答案】
21 interfere with
22 readily
23 a handful of
24 extensive research
25 manufacture and disposal
【录音原文】
Chemicals are added to a huge variety of products to give them certain properties. Many of these common chemicals are toxic to mammals and other animals. For example, one class of chemicals, called alkylphenols, can interfere with hormone systems and growth. Alkylphenols are often found in shampoo. Not only are these chemicals toxic, but they do not readily biodegrade. In other words, they will be on our planet for a very, very long time. Chemicals with a combination of these properties are commonly known as “Persistent Organic Pollutants,” or POPs. The combined effect of POPs on our health and on the environment is increasingly being studied and recognized. Some work has been done to control the use of POPs, but only a handful of chemicals fall under current government controls. Additionally, companies don’t label their products with their chemical components, so consumers must do extensive research to learn about them. Contrary to popular belief, POPs don’t stay locked away inside of the materials where they are used. These chemicals can escape and enter the soil during manufacture and disposal . In fact, it now seems that no part of the planet is free of chemicals.
Summary
Listen to the passage. For questions 26—30, complete the notes using no more than three words for each blank.
Intellectual property, the product of a person or a company’s （26）_______, is protected through patents, namely, copyrights and trademarks. Copyrights protect original works of （27）_______, including books, （28）_____ paintings, movies and architecture. Copyright has a time limit and after a period of time, the works can be copied or used （29）______. Trademarks, different from copyrights, protect product （30）______ forever.
【答案与解析】
26 originality and creativity
（录音中提到知识产权被定义为“the product of a person or company’s originality and creativity”，即个人或公司创新与创造的产品。因此该空应填originally and creativity。）
27 authorship
（录音中提到著作权保护“original works of authorship”，即原作者的原创作品。因此该空应填authorship。）
28 musical compositions
（录音中提到著作权保护books, musical compositions, paintings, movies and architecture等原创作品。因此该空应填musical compositions。）
29 without permission
（录音中提到当作品超过著作权保护年限时，任何人都可以“copy or use them without permission”。因此该空应填without permission。）
30 designs and slogans
（录音中提到商标与著作权不同，“protect product designs and slogans”，而且一旦被一个公司使用，其他公司便不能私自使用。因此该空应填designs and slogans。）
【录音原文】
Patents are sometimes used to help inventors, owners, artists, etc. protect a special type of property known as “intellectual property”. Intellectual property is defined as “the product of a person or company’s originality and creativity”. There are, however, additional ways to protect different kinds of intellectual property. Two of these ways are copyrights and trademarks. Copyrights protect “original works of authorship”. This would include something creative that is written down or presented visually. Such things as books, musical compositions, paintings, and even movies and architecture can all be protected by copyrights. While typical patents may only last a short time and then need to be re-registered, for most written works, the copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 50 years. After this time has passed, the works are no longer protected by the copyright. They are then classified as part of the “public domain”, and anyone can copy or use them without permission. Trademarks, on the other hand, protect product designs and slogans that a business uses to distinguish its product from other companies’ products. Once a trademark is used by a company, no other company can use it again for its own purposes.
There are 15 incomplete sentences in this part. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that, best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
31 Some people argue that the solution _______ the drug problem is education, and while I accept that education has _______ part to play, I don’t agree that it provides the whole answer.
A. to; a
B. for; a
C. to; the
D. for; the
【答案】 A
【解析】 句意：有些人认为解决毒品问题的方法是教育，然而我认为教育在其中起一部分作用，而不是可以完全解决。solution to为固定搭配，意为“……的解决方法”。play a part 意为“在……中起一部分作用”。故选A。
32 Generally, British independent schools provide a broader curriculum than _______ required by law.
A. it
B. that
C. which
D. what
【答案】 B
【解析】 句意：一般来说，英国私立学校提供的课程范围比法律要求的广。that是代词，代替的是前面提到的“curriculum”。因此B选项正确。
33 They felt such heat in the jungle ______ they had never felt before in other places in their life.
A. as
B. how
C. when
D. where
【答案】 A
【解析】 句意：他们在丛林中感到如此之热，这种热是他们在其他地方从未感受到的。such…as…固定搭配。as在这里引导定语从句，先行词为heat。故选A。
34 The US government has the right to regulate ______ to animals—cock fighting, bear and bull baiting, and dog fighting were all outlawed in the 19th century.
A. cruel
B. cruelly
C. cruelty
D. cruelties
【答案】 C
【解析】 句意：美国政府有权管制虐待动物的行为。早在19世纪，斗鸡、斗熊、斗牛和斗狗都已经是违法行为。cruelty to animals意为“虐待动物”，为固定搭配。因此选C。
35 South Korea’s largest mobile phone operator is to offer users a new service that it says will repel mosquitoes and subscribers can download a sound wave that is ______to human ears but annoys mosquitoes within a range of about a metre.
A. audibility
B. inaudibility
C. audible
D. inaudible
【答案】 D
【解析】 句意：韩国最大的手机经营商即将向消费者提供一项新的服务——驱除蚊子，订阅者可以下载一种声波，这种声波人类听不到但是可以驱逐附近一米范围内的蚊子。inaudible是形容词，意为“听不见的”，符合句意。因此D选项正确。
36 President Xi Jinping will today become the first Chinese leader to _______ the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos.
A. lecture
B. report
C. present
D. address
【答案】 D
【解析】 句意：今天，习近平即将成为第一位在年度世界经济论坛发表演讲的中国领导人，此论坛在瑞士度假胜地达沃斯举行。address意为“向……演讲”。因此D选项正确。
37 DINK is an ______for couples with dual income and no children and thus DINKs always have more disposable income than the average family.
A. aphorism
B. acronym
C. analogy
D. analogue
【答案】 B
【解析】 句意：DINK是双收入和无孩子的夫妻的首字母缩略词，因此DINK总是比一般家庭有更多的可支配收入。acronym首字母缩略词。aphorism格言；警句。analogy类比；类推。analogue 类似物。因此选B。
38 A three-year search for the missing Malaysia Airline’s flight MH370 has been called off, _______one of the great aviation mysteries _______.
A. left; unsolved
B. leaving; solved
C. left; solved
D. leaving; unsolved
【答案】 D
【解析】 句意：对于马来西亚航空公司MH370飞机长达三年的搜索已经叫停，留下了一大航空未解之谜。现在分词作结果状语，所表示的是谓语动词的直接结果。这个秘密并没有解开，因此unsolved符合句意。故选D。
39 The objectives of the Pearl Harbor Incident were the total destruction of the Axis powers and the establishment of a world order after unconditional victory _______ American ideals and interest.
A. in accord with
B. linking with
C. connected with
D. approximate to
【答案】 A
【解析】 句意：珍珠港事件的目标是全面破坏轴心国的力量，并在无条件胜利后建立与美国的理想和利益一致的世界秩序。in accord with同……相符合；与……一致。link with与……有关；与……相连接。connect with连接；与……联系。approximate to近于；与……接近。因此A选项正确。
40 Researchers say pizza-eaters are less _______certain cancers according to a study showing that those who ate at least one pizza a week were 59% less likely to contract cancer of the oesophagus, and they _______tomato sauce.
A. open to; believe
B. prone to; credit
C. infected with; rely
D. concerned about; depend
【答案】 B
【解析】 句意：研究表明，常吃比萨的人患某些癌症的几率更低，每周至少吃一个披萨的人患食管癌的可能性降低了59%，研究人员将这一现象归功于番茄酱。prone to有……倾向的。infect with 感染（有传染性的疾病）。credit归因于；归功于。因此B选项正确。
41 In the late 15th century, Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator, sailed across the vast ocean and reached some small islands in the West Indies, but he thought he ______Asia and didn’t know he _______a new continent.
A. reached; discovered
B. reached; had discovered
C. had reached; discovered
D. had reached; had discovered
【答案】 D
【解析】 句意：十五世纪末，意大利航海家克里斯托弗·哥伦布（Christopher Columbus）横渡辽阔的海洋，到达了西印度群岛。但他认为自己到了亚洲而不知道他已经发现了一个新的大陆。过去完成时表示在过去某一时间或动作之前已经发生或完成的动作。哥伦布到达西印度群岛和认为自己发现了新大陆均在谓语动作之前，因此用过去完成时。D项正确。
42 I’m sorry but you need find another parking space, because if any vehicle _______on these premises, it shall be towed away.
A. is found parking
B. be found parked
C. will be found to be parked
D. had been found parking
【答案】 B
【解析】 句意：很抱歉你必须另找一个地方停车，因为如果发现任何车辆停在这里，车辆将会被拖走。本题考查的是if虚拟语气的用法。本题中的虚拟部分与将来事实相反，主句谓语动词应该是“＋动词原形”的形式，而车又是被发现停在那里，因此应该用被动形式，省略了“should/ would/ could/ might”。因此B选项正确。
43 —I can’t open this email attachment our Paris office has sent me.
— Are you sure you’re using the right program?
—Well, yes, it’s definitely the same program but I might have the wrong version. Their system is newer than ours.
—That’s why you can’t open it. ______
A. You’d better change a program and try it again.
B. Why not just print it and read it on paper?
C. You’ll have to upgrade before you can read the file.
D. We really need replace our computers with new ones.
【答案】 C
【解析】 句意：“绝对是同一个程序但可能版本不对。他们的系统比我们的新。”“这就是你打不开的原因”。根据句意，打不开文件的原因是版本过低，因此应该“在读文件之前进行升级”。因此C选项正确。
44 —We’ve managed to reduce the energy consumption in our factory by about 15 percent in the last two years.
—That’s excellent. How have you managed that?
—Mainly because we’ve invested in a heat recovery system. We use the exhaust gases from our printing presses to provide energy to heat our dryers.
—_______
—Most of our power comes from hydro-electric plants. We’re hoping to use even more energy from alternative sources in the future—perhaps even wind power.
A. What other sources of energy do you use?
B. Why don’t you use fossil fuels?
C. What does that mean exactly?
D. How do you do that?
【答案】 A
【解析】 句意：“你们还用什么能源？”“我们的大部分能量来自水力发电厂。我们希望未来能够从可替代能源中获得更多的能量，甚至是风力发电。”根据句意，选项后面的回答涉及到除了热能以外其他种类的能源。因此A选项符合句意。
45 —Good evening, Mrs. Adams. I’m sorry to barge in on you like this but I’d like a word with you about your son, Brian.
— _______ We’ve only just sat down to dinner.
—I can’t help that. I’m afraid it’s something I’ve got to get off my chest. I’ve weighed up all the pros and cons and decided that I have to have it out with you.
— Oh, all right. I suppose you’d better come in.
A. Please come in and join us.
B. Well, it’s a bit inconvenient.
C. Long time no see.
D. That’s none of your business!
【答案】 B
【解析】 句意：“有点儿不方便，我们刚坐下吃晚餐。”“我等不了了，怕是有些东西要从我的胸膛中涌出。我权衡了所有利弊，最终决定一定要跟您谈一下。”根据选项后面的“我们刚坐下吃晚餐”，可以得知当时的情况不大方便。因此B选项正确。
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letter（s） of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
The Troodos area of Cyprus is only an hour’s drive from the coast, so why not consider a day trip up into the mountains as a refreshing change from the beach? It will also be a wonderful （46） op______ to get away from the traffic and noise of the city and to breathe in some clean, pine -scented air while enjoying stunning views.
There are many important churches and monasteries in the mountains, including nine Byzantine painted churches, which are UNESCO World （47） Her______ listed sites. The best-known monastery is the Monastery of Kykko, home to a very important icon, reputedly painted by Saint Luke. The tomb of Archbishop Makarios Ⅲ, the first president of Cyprus, is nearby, looking towards the village of Panayia, （48） _______ he was born.
The rustic charm of the mountain villages must be experienced and, if you go at the right time of the year, you will be able to buy cherries, plums, apples, grapes and pears, which are all at their （49）______ （fresh） and best in the mountains. Each mountain village has its own special charm; perhaps you will try to fit in a number of these, and save others for your next visit. The village of Agros is famous for its aromatic rosewater, an important （50） ing______ in the mouth-watering local cuisine. Kakopetria, at the head of the Solea valley, is well known for its excellent restaurants and beautifully （51） _______ （renovate） village houses. Lania is known as the village of artists, while Platres is a hillside resort with a friendly atmosphere, and numerous hotels and shops. Nearby are the perennial Caledonian Falls, Phoini, a village 4 km west of Platres, is famous for its pottery and trout farm.
If you are near the magnificent Cedar valley, you might also catch （52） ______ glimpse of the Cyprus moufflon, the wild sheep which is endemic to Cyprus and whose male is characterized by large, sickle-shaped horns. The moufflon is an inhabitant of the （53） _______ （mountain） Paphos Forest, which covers 60,000 hectares in the west of the island. It is a protected species and due to its tragic past, when it was hunted almost to （54） _______ （extinct）, some moufflon now live in protected enclosures. Here visitors can admire them （55） w_______ disturbing their peace.
【答案与解析】
46 opportunity
（原句意思为“这也将是一个绝佳的机会，摆脱城市的交通和噪音，呼吸混杂着松木香的干净空气，同时享受壮丽的景色”。依据给出字母，可知该空应填入opportunity。）
47 Heritage
（nine Byzantine painted churches指九座拜占庭绘画教堂，为人文景观。根据句中的UNESCO World Her _______ listed sites，可知指的是联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录所列景点。因此该空应填入Heritage。）
48 where
（此句是地点状语从句，横线处是引导词。因此该空应填入where。）
49 freshest
（横线处与后面的best是并列的关系，best为最高级形式，可知fresh也应该用最高级。因此该空填freshest。）
50 ingredient
（该句指“Agros村庄因其芳香的玫瑰水而闻名，这是当地一种美食的重要原料”。依据给出字母，可知该空应填入ingredient。）
51 renovated
（该句指“位于Solea山谷的Kakopetria以其优质的餐厅和装修精美的村屋而闻名。”根据句意，横线处应该填形容词。因此该空应该填入“renovated”。）
52 a
（该句指“如果您在壮观的雪松山谷附近，您也可以看见塞浦路斯盘羊”。catch a glimpse of 为固定搭配，意为“瞥见”。因此该空应该填入“a”。）
53 mountainous
（该句指“欧洲盘羊栖息于多山的帕福斯森林”。根据横线处后为名词，此处应填mountain的形容词形式。因此该空填入mountainous。）
54 extinction
（该句指“它是一种受保护物种，由于它过去几乎被捕获至灭绝的悲剧，目前有些盘羊生活在保护区内”。依据给出单词，可知该空应填入extinction。）
55 without
（该句指“在这里，游客们可以观赏盘羊而且不打扰它们平静的生活”。根据句意及所给字母，可知该空应填入without。）
Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions. Respond to the questions using information from the passage. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
Section A （5 marks）
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Getting a cold or catching the flu is a common complaint for people every year. In fact, people usually catch between two and five colds each year. No one enjoys the accompanying symptoms: the sore throat, running nose, constant sneezing and headaches. Unsurprisingly, cold medication has become a big business. People spend billions of dollars to combat this recurring problem. We see the number and variety of over-the-counter medicines each time we enter a pharmacy. Is a cure for the common cold possible? The answer seems to be both yes and no.
First of all, the common cold itself is not a single disease. Any of two hundred different viruses could be responsible for the symptoms of a cold. Developing a vaccine for the common cold would literally mean having to develop hundreds of vaccines.
Additionally, some cold viruses have the ability to change their molecular appearance. Thus, even though our body may become immune to a certain cold virus this winter, by next winter our antibodies will probably not recognize it.
However, one family of viruses, the rhinoviruses, seems to account for almost 40% of all colds. Therefore, scientists have been focusing their research on this family of viruses in the hopes that treatments targeting rhinoviruses will result in a drastic decrease in the number of colds people get. In the late 1990s, researches experienced some initial success. Biologists developed a treatment, an anti-viral molecule called BIRR4, which prevented the binding of the virus to cells in the nose. This binding is an essential first step to start a viral infection and, were it preventable, many of the infections would be bypassed. For the next few years, the Pharmaceutical giant Boehringer tried to make this treatment commercially viable. Unfortunately, they found to their dismay that this treatment only worked just prior to getting a cold or in the first stages of infection when most people do not yet realize anything is wrong. As a possible treatment for a cold, it was severely limited and so in 2000, Boehringer dropped the BIRR4 project.
Another difficulty in finding a cure for the common cold is that the cold virus does not actually cause our cold symptoms. Indeed, by the time we start to show cold symptoms, the viral infection is almost over. Most infections result in no symptoms at all. The symptoms that we get from a cold are, in reality, produced by our body’s immune response, not by the virus itself. Thus, some scientists are now suggesting targeting the body’s immune responses rather than the virus itself, as we do when we treat allergies. One medical researcher suggests that in order to find a cure for colds we must weaken our immune system’s response. Through a cocktail of certain drugs-interferon, ibuprofen and chlorpheniramine-cold sufferers would be able to decrease the anti-inflammatory part of the immune response and get rid of their symptoms, while still allowing their body to fight off the remaining viral infection. Ibuprofen and chlorpheniramine are both inexpensive and available over the counter. Unfortunately, however, a single dose of interferon is about $200 and is as yet unavailable in large over-the-counter quantities.
Though at times it seemed that a cure was already tantalizingly close, this process of infection and our body’s response to it is clearly more complicated than previously guessed. Undoubtedly, the search for a cure for the common cold will continue. What form this eventual cure will take, though, is anyone’s guess.
Questions 56 to 60
Complete the table, using no more than three words for each blank.
【答案与解析】
56 Symptoms
（根据后面的“Sore throat, running nose, constant sneezing and headaches”等可知答案在第一段，描述的是感冒的症状。表格中第一列所有单词的首字母都大写。因此该空应填入Symptoms。）
57 a single disease
（根据后半句的“any of two hundred different viruses”，可知答案在第二段。因此该空应填入a single disease。）
58 molecular appearance
（第三段第一句为“Additionally, some cold viruses have the ability to change their molecular appearance”。因此该空应填入molecular appearance。）
59 severe limitation
（该句意思为“虽然鼻病毒占所有感冒病毒的近40%，但旨在研究治疗方法的BIRR4项目由于其严重的限制性而失败”。根据第四段原文“As a possible treatment for a cold, it was severely limited and so in 2000, Boehringer dropped the BIRR4 project”可知，该研究有严重的限制性。因此该空应填入severe limitation。）
60 immune response
（根据横线处上一句可将答案定位在第五段。原文为“The symptoms that we get from a cold are, in reality, produced by our body’s immune responses”。因此该空应填入immune response。）
Section B （10 marks）
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Active learning occurs when a learner takes some responsibility for the development of the activity, emphasizing that a sense of ownership and personal involvement is the key to successful learning.
Unless the work that learners do is seen to be important to them and to have purpose and unless their ideas, contributions and findings are valued, little of benefit is learned.
（61）_________________ It can involve reading, writing, listening, talking or working with tools, equipment and materials, such as paint, wood, chemicals, and so on. In a simple sense, it is learning by doing, by contrast with being told.
（62） ________________ Experiential learning is also learning by doing but with the additional feature of reflection upon both action and the results of action; only where pupils are “engaged actively and purposively in their own learning is the term experiential appropriate”. Both active learning and experiential learning contribute to meaningful learning.
（63） ________________ As a teacher, they enable you to spend more time with groups or individuals, which allows better-quality formative assessment and feedback to take place. Active learning can also enhance your support for learners with special educational needs. Activity methods encourage autonomous learning and problem-solving skills, important to both academic and vocationally based work. There is, of course, an extra demand on you in the planning and preparation of lessons. The advantages of active learning to pupils include greater, personal satisfaction, more interaction with peers, promotion of shared activity and team work, greater opportunities to work with a range of pupils, and opportunities for all members of the class to contribute and respond. It can encourage mutual respect and appreciation of the viewpoint of others.
（64） ________________ The proverb “Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand” was reformulated by a prominent educationalist as “I do and I am even more confused”. The essential step to learning and understanding is reflection through discussion with others, especially the teachers; such discussions involve “thinking” as well as recalling; that is, experiential learning.
（65） ________________ By promoting activities that engage pupils and require them to participate in the task from the outset, teachers encourage an approach to learning that is both skills-based and attitude-based. Active learning methods promote habits of learning that it is hoped are valuable in the workplace, the home and generally enhance pupils’ capability to cope with everyday life. School can be a place where pupils learn to do things well and in certain ways, thereby developing skills that are used throughout life. For example, pupils learn to consult a dictionary or a thesaurus in book form, as part of a word processing program or online in order to find meanings or to check their spelling and grammar. These skills become habits, capable of reinforcement and development. Reinforcement leads to improved performance. However, unless teachers can engage pupils with their need to know, learning is done under sufferance, leading to problems. Such problems may include poor recall of anything learned or rejection of learning tasks, which in turn may lead to behavior problems.
Questions 61 to 65
Choose from the sentences A—G the one which best fits each gap of 61-65. There are two extra sentences which you do not need to use.
A. Active learning strategies benefit both teachers and pupils.
B. Before we can begin to understand why we should want to encourage active learning we need to think about what learning is.
C. Active learning can also be defined as purposeful, interaction with ideas, concepts and phenomena.
D. It is important to realize that learning by doing, by itself, is not enough to ensure learning.
E. Learning how to learn is a feature of active learning.
F. However, you might also want to develop a more sophisticated model of active learning in relation to your own practice.
G. Active learning may be linked to experiential learning.
【答案与解析】
61 C
横线后文说自主学习包括听说读写、动手操作等方面，通过自己动手操作而不是别人告知来获得。横线处应该包括后文的内容，因此是对自主学习下的定义。所以选C。
62 G
横线后文提到了“experiential learning”相关的内容，因此横线处应该是一个承上启下的句子将“active learning”与“experiential learning”联系起来。所以选G。
63 A
横线后文提到了“teacher”和“pupil”。因此横线处应该是对后文的一个总结句，应该同时包含这两个因素。所以选A。
64 D
横线后文的谚语被一位著名教育家改为“I do and I am even more confused”，最后提到学习与理解的关键一步是“反思”，可知横线处否定了只动手做而不思考的作用。因此选D。
65 E
横线后文说老师们鼓励一种基于技巧和态度的学习方法，并强调了学习方法的重要性，因此学习学习方法也是自主学习的一部分。所以选E。
Section C （10 marks）
Questions 66 to 70 are based on the following passage.
We all have expectations of what a “normal” society looks like, but society can take an infinite number of different forms, as these unusual examples demonstrate.
For almost fifty years, a group of adults and their children—now about 100 in number—have lived together in Twin Oaks Community on two square kilometers of land in rural Virginia, USA, equally sharing their resources. Apart from bedrooms, all the rooms in their seven residential buildings are communal. Seventeen shared cars are at everyone’s disposal, although they mostly rely on the communal bikes at Twin Oaks for local journeys. Even the clothes on their backs are borrowed from the community’s well-stocked clothing library.
There’s no room for freeloaders, however. All adults work forty-two hours per week for the community who are encouraged to choose a variety of tasks to keep boredom at bay, and persistent failure to do so would lead to expulsion. In return for their labour, everyone is provided with housing, food, healthcare and a little personal spending money so that they can splash out on treats. With such an egalitarian distribution of wealth, there have never been any problems with crime, and decisions about the community are made democratically, for the common good.
This way of life is not utopia. Complaints range from other people’s taste in loud music to the fact that unpopular jobs like cleaning tend to be neglected, and majority rule means that people with views few residents share can feel powerless and isolated. But despite its problems, there is a long waiting list of potential new residents, and Twin Oaks members have helped to set up several similar communities elsewhere in the USA. They hope that the Twin Oaks society can serve as a model for the wider world, promoting greater social responsibility and pointing the way to a fairer, more cooperative and more sustainable future for all.
In the Indian state of Meghalaya, it’s the women who wear the trousers. India is a country of extreme ethnic diversity, and minority rights and traditions are strongly defended by the constitution. This allows Meghalaya to maintain a custom unheard of elsewhere in India: property and family names are matrilineal and so pass, not from father to son, but from mother to daughter. The youngest daughter inherits the family wealth, accepting in return a duty to look after her parents in their old age.
Although civic engagement is mostly a male pursuit—only men are eligible for the role of village elder and they make up 93% of state assembly politicians—they have little say in domestic matters. When they marry, they move into the home of their mother-in-law and submit to her rule. Because of the relative importance of women in society, families tend to prioritize the education of girls over boys, to the extent that female university graduates commonly have brothers who never finished high school.
A men’s rights movement emerged about fifty years ago, but lost momentum after hundreds of women turned up at one of their meetings brandishing knives. Recently, activists have renewed the struggle for equal rights and equal opportunities. Sixty-year-old Keith Pariat, leader of the movement, explains that he and his colleagues “do not want to bring women down. We just want to bring the men up to where the women are.” So far, however, the movement has gained little support, despite the superior numbers of men in the political arena. “In most of Meghalaya, people only know the old ways,” says Patricia Mukhim, editor of the local paper, “and they like the old ways just fine.” It appears that, in this hilly corner of India, the woman will be wearing the trousers for some time to come.
Questions 66 to 70
Answer the following questions with the information given in the passage.
66 Why are people at Twin Oaks encouraged to choose a variety of jobs?
67 What is the problem with the majority rule in Twin Oaks?
68 Where do men play a bigger role in Meghalaya?
69 Why has the men’s rights movement gained little support in Meghalaya?
70 What is the author’s purpose in writing this article?
【答案与解析】
66 By doing so, they can keep boredom at bay/will not feel bored.
（根据文章第三段第二句“…who are encouraged to choose a variety of tasks to keep boredom at bay”可知，他们被鼓励选择多种工作的原因是为了防止无聊。因此答案为By doing so, they can keep boredom at bay/will not feel bored。）
67 People with views few residents share can feel powerless and isolated.
（根据文章第四段“despite its problems”可知，前面说的是存在的问题。题干问的“majority rule”存在的问题，因此答案为People with views few residents share can feel powerless and isolated。）
68 In civic engagements/matters.
（由倒数第二段第一句可知，只有男人才有资格充当长老的角色，93%的州议会成员是男人，因此男人在公民参与中扮演了较多的角色。所以答案为In civic engagements/matters。）
69 Most people in Meghalaya only know the old ways and they prefer their old ways of life.
（根据最后一段后半部分“In most of Meghalaya, .people only know the old ways”和“and they like the old ways just fine”可知，男权运动获得支持少的原因是大部分人并不想改变现状。因此答案为Most people in Meghalaya only know the old ways and they prefer their old ways of life。）
70 To show that society can take many different forms.
（根据第一段“but society can take an infinite number of different forms, as these unusual examples demonstrate.”可知，本文是举了一个不同寻常的社会形态的例子。因此答案为To show that society can take many different forms。）
Section D （10 marks）
Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following passage.
In 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, which indicated the end of the American Revolution. The victory the American people achieved enabled them to establish an independent nation, and introduced a new era. From 1789 to 1865, the United States gradually formed its national identity and established its political and legal institution.
When the United States began to develop into an industrial and urban society, the principle of assembly-line mass production was established, and technology began to bring vast material benefits to the industrialized North. The South, however, remained agricultural. With an increasing number of farm laborers leaving the land to work in urban businesses and factories, cities grew bigger and bigger.
With these significant developments, the United States became a new rising nation. The economic boom brought an overwhelming sense of optimism and hope to the people. This mood and spirit, together with the traditional American cultural heritage Puritanism, naturally brought out a romantic feeling. This feeling, as a joint outcome of the national and international factors, developed itself into a national literary movement-Romanticism.
As a European literary movement, Romanticism originated and strengthened in Germany, France and England in the middle of the 18th century. It reached the New World in the first decade of the 19th century when more and more Americans traveled to Europe and brought back with them the influence of European Romanticism. Romanticism was rebellious in spirit. It emphasized freedom and individualism, believing that imagination and emotion were superior to rules and reason. American romantic authors were quite responsive to the stimulus which American experience offered. Their subjects were often the national ideals of individualism and democracy, history, and frontier life of the new nation.
Transcendentalism or Romantic Idealism emerged after 1830 when a book entitled Nature , by Ralph Waldo Emerson, was published in 1836. It pushed American Romanticism into a new stage—American Transcendentalism, the summit of American Romanticism.
Transcendentalists placed emphasis on spirit or the supernatural, and stressed the importance of the individual. Men should trust themselves and rely on themselves. They can make their own laws and live according to their own independent principles. The New World gives each the opportunity to become a completely free and independent individual. So Transcendentalism disregarded external authority, tradition and logical demonstration. Thoreau, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Whitman were all transcendentalists in some form or other.
In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of “sensibility” with its emphasis on women and children, the isolation of the artist or narrator, and respect for nature. Furthermore, several romantic authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural and human psychology. Romanticism tended to regard satire as something unworthy of serious attention, a prejudice still influential today.
The precursors of Romanticism in English poetry go back to the middle of the 18th century, including figures such as Joseph Warton and his brother Thomas Warton, Professor of poetry at Oxford University. Joseph maintained that invention and imagination were the chief qualities of a poet. Thomas Chatterton is generally considered the first Romantic poet in England. The Scottish poet James Macpherson influenced the early development of Romanticism with the international success of his Ossian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young Walter Scott. Both Chatterton and Macpherson’s work involved elements of fraud, as what they claimed was earlier literature that they had discovered or compiled was, in fact, entirely their own work.
In a word, American Transcendentalism and the Romantic Age was one of the most productive literature periods in American history. In this period, American literature became mature and grew into complexity and diversity.
Questions 71 to 75
Complete the summary below with information from the passage, using no more than three words for each blank.
After the US stepped into an industrial and urban society, cities became bigger. The economic boom produced a sense of （71） ______ which together with Puritanism developed into a national literary movement, Romanticism. Early Romanticism was （72） _______ in spirit which emphasized freedom and individualism. After 1830, American Romanticism reached its （73） _______, which is known as Transcendentalism or Romantic Idealism. During this period, spirit or the supernatural and importance of the individual were stressed. In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, regarding satire as something （74） ______ serious attention. Romanticism helped American literature grow into （75） _______.
【答案与解析】
71 optimism and hope
（根据“Puritanism”，可定位到文章第三段。根据“The economic boom brought an overwhelming sense of optimism and hope to the people.”可知，经济繁荣给人们带来了强烈的乐观感和希望。因此填optimism and hope。）
72 rebellious
（根据第四段中间部分“Romanticism was rebellious in spirit.”可知，浪漫主义在精神上是反叛的。因此填rebellious。）
73 summit
（根据第四段最后的“It pushed American Romanticism into a new stage—American Transcendentalism, the summit of American Romanticism”可知，美国浪漫主义达到了顶峰。因此应填summit。）
74 unworthy of
（文章倒数第三段最后一句“Romanticism tended to regard satire as something unworthy of serious attention”指出，浪漫主义倾向于认为讽刺不值得太多注意。因此应填unworthy of。）
75 complexity and diversity
（根据最后一段最后一句“American literature became mature and grew into complexity and diversity”可知，美国文学变得成熟、复杂而又多样。因此该空应填complexity and diversity。）
Section A （5 marks）
Translate the following paragraph into Chinese. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
76
Despite the choking smog, Beijing is still the number one choice for graduate job seekers based on its “soft environment”, according to a report published last Tuesday. The Chinese capital is the preferred choice for finding work owing to its social environment, economic development, infrastructure, consumption habits and internationalized atmosphere. Although metropolises are still top choices for graduates to work in, the past three years have seen more university and college graduates work in prefecture-level cities, or even smaller cities.
【参考译文】
根据上周二发布的一项报告，尽管雾霾严重，但是北京仍凭借其“软环境”成为毕业生找工作的首选之地。中国首都/北京因其社会环境、经济发展、基础设施、消费习惯及国际化氛围，仍是求职者的首选。尽管大都市仍是求职者的首选，不过在过去的三年里，已经有越来越多的大学毕业生在地级市甚至更小的城市工作。
Section B （10 marks）
Translate the underlined sentences into English by using the hints given in brackets. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
在后英国退欧时代，英国能出售什么产品和服务呢? 77. 幸运的是，英国还有一个世界领先的出口产业 —— 高等教育 （leading）。英国的院校分为两大类。一类是顶尖研究型院校，如牛津、剑桥等。另一类过去称为理工学院，但在1992年以后，这些院校也被允许自称为大学。尽管这些院校有一些低于平均水平的课程，但它们也有自身的优势。78. 这些院校确保最杰出的教师承担他们应该承担的教学工作，并为经济困难的学生提供广泛的支持 （fair share）。外国学生对这些院校非常重要：它们10%的本科生和29%的研究生来自英国以外的国家。79. 如果特里莎 · 梅 （Theresa May） 首相热心于让每一个人都有机会成为他们想成为的人，她就应该照顾那些为提升个人做得最多的院校 （lift…up）。让这些学生更难获得签证会危及它们的许多课程，以及教职工的工作岗位。为什么政府对把这些学生拒之门外造成的损失浑不在意?80. 因为政府坚持把这些学生看作移民，而其正努力减少移民 （count…as）。如果英国不再想要这些学生，还有其他国家会要接纳他们。81. 这些国家之前一定担心，疲弱的英镑将提高英国教育的竞争力 （give...a boost）。毫无疑问，英国政府的自毁长城将成为他们多年来听到的最好的消息。
【答案与解析】
77 Fortunately, Britain still has a world-leading export industry—higher education.
（“世界领先的”可译为“world-leading”。export industry出口产业。higher education 高等教育。）
78 These institutions ensure that the most outstanding faculty members do their fair share of teaching and provide extensive support for financially poor students.
（“that”引导宾语从句，表示院校“ensure”的内容。institutions 高等院校。faculty members 大学教学人员。fair share 公平分配。）
79 If Prime Minister Theresa May is keen on every single person having the chance to be all they want to be, she should look after the institutions that do most to lift people up.
（“having”表示现在分词作后置定语，修饰“every single person”。Prime Minister 首相。be keen on热衷于。lift…up提升。）
80 Because the government insists on counting these students as immigrants and is trying to cut the number of immigrants.
（“坚持做某事”译为“insist on doing”。count…as 把……看作。cut the number of 减少……的数量。）
81 These countries must have feared that the weak pound would give UK’s education a competitive boost.
（“must have done”表示对过去事情的肯定推测，表示“一定做过某事”。give...a boost推动，提升。）
Proofread the passage as required. Each indicated line contains a maximum of one error. Correct the passage in the following ways: for a right line, put the sign “√” in the corresponding blank; for a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank; for a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with the sign “∧” and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank; for an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with the sign “\”and put the word with the sign in the blank. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
【答案与解析】
82 but→and
（句意：他们增长我们的知识，改变我们关于世界的想法和在其中的作用。“increased our knowledge”和“changed our ideas”之间没有转折关系。因此将but改为and。）
83 for→in
（句意：他们增长我们的知识，改变我们关于世界的想法和在其中的作用。role in作用，在其中的作用。因此将for改为in。）
84 删除the
（most在这里是“大部分的，多数的”的意思，并不是最高级。因此应将most前的the去掉。）
85 √
86 industry→industrial
（revolution为名词，应用形容词修饰。因此应将industry改为industrial。）
87 anything→everything
（句意：爱因斯坦解释说，在其他时期当中，每个事物都来自于同一能量，而且我们都是同一个整体的一部分。根据句意，应是每个事物而不是任一事物。因此将anything改为everything。）
88 opened∧new→a
（era 时代，为可数名词。a/an…era一个……的时代。因此应该在new前面增加a。）
89 knowledges→knowledge
（knowledge为不可数名词，没有复数形式。因此将knowledges改为knowledge。）
90 inherently→inherent
（be inherent in天生…；固有…。be动词后应用形容词。因此将inherently改为inherent。）
91 experience→experiencing
（句意：此刻，我们正在体验快速发展。由此可知应该用现在进行时，experience是动词。因此应将experience改为experiencing。）
There are five IQ Test questions in this part. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
92 SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY
What day comes three days after the day which comes two days after the day which comes immediately after the day which comes two days after Monday?
【答案】 Tuesday
【解析】 从后往前进行推理即可得出答案。
93 In the two numerical sequences below, one number that appears in the top sequence should appear in the bottom sequence and vice versa. Which two numbers should be changed round?
16, 39, 63, 90, 120
18, 36, 60, 88, 120
【答案】 16,18
【解析】 16和18调换顺序后，第一组数组依次为＋21，＋24，＋27，＋30得来的；第二组数字为＋20，＋24，＋28，＋32得来的。
94 Identify two words （one from each set of brackets） that form a connection （analogy）, thereby relating to the words in capitals in the same way.
PAINT（brush, colour, dry, pigment）
CONCRETE （solid, set, sand, road）
【答案】 dry, set
【解析】 paint dries, concrete sets.颜料变干；水泥凝固。
95 Rearrange the following letters to make a single word which is a state of America.
AADEELRW
【答案】 Delaware
【解析】 重新排列组合后，只能组成一个美国的州，即德拉华州。
96 Choose the next shape or pattern given at the end.
【答案】 C
【解析】 将前两个图形的相同位置叠加，如果颜色一样则第三个图形的相同位置为白色，如果颜色不同，则为黑色。
Look at the charts below. The pie charts show the electricity generated in Germany and France from all sources and renewables in the year 2009. Summarize the information and report the main features, and make comparisons where necessary.
Write at least 100 words on the answer sheet.
【参考范文】
In Germany, the total volume of generated electricity is 560 billion kWh. Among all the generating ways, conventional thermal accounts for about 60%, while nuclear makes up for more than one fifth. And the rest is renewables, in which biomass and wind respectively account for about 37%, hydroelectric makes up about 18% and about 6% is solar.
In France, the total volume of generated electricity is 510 billion kWh. Among all the generating ways, nuclear accounts for 76% and conventional thermal makes up for about 10%, while renewables account for about 13.7%. In renewables, four fifths is hydroelectric and 10% is wind. Biomass accounts for about 8%.
Therefore, Germany pays more attention to conventional thermal while France relies more on nuclear. Both countries have no Geothermal generation.
Write on the following topic.
One member from 2017 NPC （The National People’s Congress） & CPPCC （The Chinese People’s political Consultative Conference） suggested that English should be cancelled at the college entrance examination, because too much time is spend in learning English for middle school students.
Read the above sentences. How do you understand this phenomenon? Write an essay of no less than 160 words on the answer sheet to express your personal views on the issue.
【参考范文】
In my opinion, middle school education should pay more attention to English learning and English should not be cancelled.
The first reason is that middle school students are in their critical learning period. They need more exposure to different cultures and knowledge. This could give the very first inspiration of what they want to do in the future. They need to lay a solid foundation for their future study and career.
The second reason is that China has more and more connection with foreign countries. Our country needs a large amount of language talents. College entrance examination pushes students to work hard.
English test at the college entrance examination is beneficial for both students and our country, so it should not be cancelled.