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Part Ⅰ Writing
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Good habits result from resisting temptation .” You can cite examples to illustrate your point You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end ofeach conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read thefour choices marked A)，B)，C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
1.A) Why his phone had been disconnected. C) Why he didn ’t leave her a message.
B) Why she could not get through to him. D) Why he refused to answer her call.
2.A) The houses within his price range are sold out.
B) Most people in this city want to own a home.
C) He has difficulty finding affordable housing.
D) The woman should rent a nicer apartment.
3.A) The woman would like the man to take care of her mail.
B) The woman has put the number into everyone^ mailbox.
C) The new copy machine can meet everyone ’s needs.
D) A code number is necessary to run the copy machine.
4.A) He will stop work to take care of the baby. C) His wife is going to give birth to a baby.
B) He will find a job near his home next year. D) His wife will leave her work soon.
5.A) The shopping centre is flooded with people. C) Parking in this city is a horrible
nightmare.
B) They will come to the mall some other day. D) She will wait for the man at the south gate.
6.A) He will be back in a minute to repair the computers.
B) It will take longer to reconnect the computers to the Net.
D) A lot of cool stuff will be available online tomorrow.
7.A) She forgot to call her mother. C) She did see Prof Smith on TV.
B) Prof Smith gives lectures regularly on TV. D) Her mother is a friend of Prof Smith ’s.
8.A) The man has to wait to get his medicine.
B) The store doesn ’t have the prescribed medicine.
C) The man has to go to see his doctor again.
D) The prescription is not written clearly enough.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9.A) It is advertising electronic products. C) It is sponsoring a TV programme.
B) It is planning to tour East Asia. D) It is giving performances in town.
10. A) A lot of good publicity. C) Long-term investments.
B) Talented artists to work for it. D) A decrease in production costs.
11. A) Promise long-term cooperation with the Company.
B) Explain frankly their own current financial situation.
C) Pay for the printing of the performance programme.
D) Bear the cost of publicising the Company ’s performance.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) He has been seeing doctors and counselors. C) He was caught abusing drugs.
B) He has found a new way to train his voice. D) He might give up concert tours.
Part Ⅱ Section A
13. A) Singers may become addicted to it.
B)It helps singers warm themselves up.
14.A)They are eager to become famous.
B)Many lack professional training.
15.A)Harm to singers done by smoky atmospheres.C)Singers use it to stay away from colds.
D)It can do harm to singers’vocal chords.
C)Few will become successful.
D)They live a glamorous life.
B)Side effects of some common drugs.
C)Voice problems among pop singers.
D)Hardships experienced by many young singers.
Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear3short passages.At the end ofeach passage,you will hear some
questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom thefour choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions16to19are based on the passage you have just heard.
16.A) It has not been very successful. C) It has met with strong resistance.
B)It has long become a new trend. D) It has attracted a lot of users.
17.A) It saves time. C) It ensures drivers’ safety.
B) It increases parking capacity. D) It reduces car damage.
18.A)Collect money and help new users.C)Stay alert to any emergency.
B)Maintain the automated system.D)Walk around and guard against car theft.
19.A)They will vary with the size of vehicles.
B)They will be discountable to regular customers.
C)They will be lower than conventional parking.
D)They will be reduced ifpaid in cash.
Passage Two
Questions20to22are based on the passage you have just heard.
20.A)Half of the methane in the atmosphere is from animals.
B)Methane has become the chief source of greenhouse gas.
C)Consumer behaviour may be influenced by the environment.
D)Meat consumption has an adverse effect on the environment.
21.A)It takes time for the human body to get used to it.
B)It lacks the vitamins and minerals essential for health.
C)It enhances immunity to certain diseases.
D)It helps people to live a much longer life.
22. A) Produce green food. C) Quit eating meats.
B) Waste no food. D) Grow vegetables.
Passage Three
Questions23to25are based on the passage you have just heard.
23.A) They do not know any solution.C) They do not behave in public places.
B)They do not give up drunk driving.D)They do not admit being alcohol addicts.
24.A)To stop them from fighting back.C)To teach them the European lifestyle.
B)To thank them for their hospitality.D)To relieve their pains and sufferings.
25.A)Without intervention they will be a headache to the nation.
B)With support they can be brought back to a normal life.
C)They readily respond to medical treatment.
D)They pose a serious threat to social stability.
Section C
Directions:In this section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is readfor thefirst time,you should listen carefullyfor its general idea.When the passage is readfor the second time, you are required tofill in the blanks with the exact words you havejust heard.Finally,when the passage is readfor the third time,you should check what you have written.
Self-image is the picture you have of yourself, the sort of person you believe you are 26 in our
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self-image are the categories in which you place yourself, the roles you play, and other 27 scriptors you use to identify yourself. If you tell an 28 you are a grandfather who recently lost his wife and who does 29 work on weekends, several elements of your self-image are brought to light —the roles of grandparent, widower, and 30 citizen.
But self-image is more than how you picture yourself; it also involves how others see you. Three types of feedback from others 31 how they see us: confirmation, rejection, and disconfirmation. Confirmation occurs when others treat you in a manner consistent with who you believe you are. You believe you have leadership abilities and your boss put you in charge of a new work team. On the other hand, rejection occurs when others treat you in a manner that 32 your self-definition. Pierre Salinger was appointed senator from California but 33 lost his first election. He thought he was a good public official, but the voters obviously thought otherwise —their vote was inconsistent with his 34 . The third type of feedback is disconfirmation, which occurs when others fail to respond to your notion of self by responding neutrally. A student writes what he thinks is an excellent composition, but the teacher writes no encouraging remarks. Rather than 35 how others classify you, consider how you identify yourself. The way in which you identify yourself is the best reflection of your self-image.
PartⅢReading Comprehension
Section A
Directions In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word far ea
ch blankfrom a list ofchoices given in a word bankfollowing the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letterfor each item on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions36to45are based on the following passage.
Proper street behaviour in the United States requires a nice balance of attention and inattention. You are supposed to look at a passerby just enough to show that you are aware of his 36 If you look too little, you appear haughty(目中无人的), too much and you are inquisitive(过分好奇
地) .Usually what happens is that people eye each other until they are about eight feet apart, at which point both cast down their eyes. Sociologist Erving Goffman describes this as “a kind of 37 of lights” .
Much of eye behaviour is so 38 that we react to it only on the intuitive level. The next time you have a conversation with someone who makes you feel liked, notice what he does with his eyes. Chances are he looks at you more often than is usual with 39 a little longer than the normal. You 40 this as a sign — a polite one — that he is interested in you as a person rather than just in the topic
of conversation. Probably you also feel that he is both self-confident and sincere.
All this has been demonstrated in 41 experiments. Subjects sit and talk in the psychologist’s laboratory, 42 of the fact that their eye behaviour is being observed from a one way vision screen. In one fairly typical experiment, subjects were 43 to cheat while performing a task, then were interviewed and observed. It was found that those who had cheated met the interviewer’s eyes less often than was 44 , an indication that “shifty eyes” — to use the mystery writers’ stock phrase —can 45 be a
Section B
Directions:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one ofthe paragraphs.Identify the paragraphfrom which
the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2.
A Nation That ’s Losing Its Toolbox
[A] The scene inside the Home Depot on Weyman Avenue here would give the old-time American
craftsman pause. In Aisle 34 is precut plastic flooring, the glue already in place. In Aisle 26 are prefabricated windows. Stacked near the checkout counters, and as colourful as a Fisher-Price toy, is a not-so-serious-looking power tool: a battery-operated saw-and-drill combination. And ifyou don’t want to do it yourself, head to Aisle 23 or Aisle 35, where a help desk will arrange for an installer.
[B] It’s all very handy stuff, I guess, a convenient way to be a do-it-yourselfer without being all that
good with tools. But at a time when the American factory seems to be a shrinking presence, and when good manufacturing jobs have vanished, perhaps never to return, there is something deeply troubling about this dilution of American craftsmanship.
[C] This isn’t a lament(伤感) — or not merely a lament — for bygone times. It’s a social and
cultural issue, as well as an economic one. The Home Depot approach to craftsmanship —
simplify it, dumb it down, hire a contractor— is one signal that mastering tools and working with one’s hands is receding in America as a hobby, as a valued skill, as a cultural influence that shaped thinking and behaviour in vast sections of the country.
[D] That should be a matter of concern in a presidential election year. Yet neither Barack Obama nor
Mitt Romney promotes himself as tool-savvy(使用工具很在行的) presidential timber, in the mold of a Jimmy Carter, a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. The Obama administration does worry publicly about manufacturing, a first cousin of craftsmanship. When the Ford Motor Company, for example, recently announced that it was bringing some production home, the White House cheered. “When you see things like Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing,” says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.
[E] Ask the administration or the Republicans or most academics why America needs more
manufacturing, and they respond that manufacturing gives birth to innovation, brings down the trade deficit, strengthens the dollar, generates jobs, arms the military and brings about a recovery from recession. But rarely, if ever, do they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that a gr
owing manufacturing sector encourages craftsmanship and that craftsmanship is, if not a birthright, then a vital ingredient of the American self-image as a can-do, inventive, we-can-make-anything people.
[F] Traditional vocational training in public high schools is gradually declining, stranding thousands
of young people who seek training for a craft without going to college. Colleges, for their part, have since 1985 graduated fewer chemical, mechanical, industrial and metallurgical(冶金的) engineers, partly in response to the reduced role of manufacturing, a big employer of them. The decline started in the 1950s, when manufacturing generated a sturdy 28% of the national income, or gross domestic product, and employed one-third of the workforce. Today, factory output generates just 12% of GDP and employs barely 9% of the nation’s workers.
[G] Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years,
and they still occasionally do. But the damage to skill and craftsmanship — what’s needed to build a complex airliner or a tractor, or for a worker to move up from assembler to machinist to supervisor — went largely unnoticed.
[H] “In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our
connection to the machinery we depend on,” says Michael Hout, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley. “People who work with their hands,” he went on, “are doing things today that we call service jobs, in restaurants and laundries, or in medical technology and the like.”
[I] That’s one explanation for the decline in traditional craftsmanship. Lack of interest is another. The
big money is in fields like finance. Starting in the 1980s, skill in finance grew in importance, and, as depicted in the news media and the movies, became a more appealing source of income. By last year, Wall Street traders, bankers and those who deal in real estate generated 21% of the
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national income, double their share in the 1950s. And Warren Buffett, the good-natured
financier, became a homespun folk hero, without the tools and overalls(工作服).
[J]“Young people grow up without developing the skills to fix things around the house,”says Richard Curtin,director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
“They know about computers,of course,but they don’t know how to build them.”
[K] Manufacturing’s shrinking presence undoubtedly helps explain the decline in craftsmanship, if only because many of the nation’s assembly line workers were skilled in craft work, ifnot on the job then in their spare time. In a late 1990s study of blue-collar employees at a General Motors plant (now closed) in Linden, NJ, the sociologist Ruth Milkman of City University ofNew York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work. “I have often thought,” Ms Milkman says, “that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.”
[L] Craft work has higher status in nations like Germany, which invests in apprenticeship(学徒) programmes for high school students. “Corporations in Germany realised that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labour force at home;
we never had that ethos(风气) ,”says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.
[M] The damage to American craftsmanship seems to parallel the steep slide in manufacturing employment. Though the decline started in the 1970s, it became much steeper beginning in 2000. Since then, some 5.3 million jobs, or one-third of the workforce in manufacturing, have been lost. A stat
ed goal of the Obama administration is to restore a big chunk of this employment, along with the multitude of skills that many of the jobs required.
[N] As for craftsmanship itself, the issue is how to preserve it as a valued skill in the general population. Ms Milkman, the sociologist, argues that American craftsmanship isn’t disappearing as quickly as some would argue — that it has instead shifted to immigrants. “Pride in craft, it is alive in the immigrant world,” she says.
[O] Sol Axelrod, 37, the manager of the Home Depot here, fittingly learned to fix his own car as a teenager, even changing the brakes. Now he finds immigrant craftsmen. gathered in abundance outside his store in the early morning, waiting for it to open so they can buy supplies for the day’s work as contractors. Skilled day laborers, also mostly immigrants, wait quietly in hopes of being hired by the contractors. Mr Axelrod also says the recession and persistently high unemployment have forced many people to try to save money by doing more themselves, and Home Depot in response offers classes in fixing water taps and other simple repairs. The teachers are store employees, many of them older and semi-retired from a skilled trade, or laid off. “Our customers may not be building cabinets or outdoor decks; we try to do that for them,’’Mr Axelrod says, “but some are trying to build up skill so they can do more for themselves in these hard times.”
46.Mastering tools and working with one’s hands shapes people’s thinking and behaviour.
47.The factor that people can earn more money in fields other than manufacturing contributes to the
decline in traditional craftsmanship.
48.According to the author,manufacturing encourages craftsmanship.
49.According to Ruth Milkman,American craftsmanship,instead of disappearing,is being taken up by immigrants.
50.The White House welcomed Ford’s announcement to bring some production back to America.
51.According to Mr Axelrod of Home Depot,people are trying to ride out the recession by doing
more themselves.
52.America’s manufacturing in the 1950s constituted 28%of the gross domestic product.
53.In Ruth Milkman’s opinion,many assembly line workers did home renovation and other skilled work in their off-hours in order to regain their dignity.
54.The author felt troubled about the weakening of American craftsmanship.
55.Compared with that in America,the status of craft work in Germany is higher.
Section C
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