TIME LIMIT: 130 MIN [10 MIN] 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, except the first sentence, will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of fifteen 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 your work once more. Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE. The first sentence of the passage is already provided. Now, listen to the passage.
标题The Meaning of Home
首句The original meaning of the word home in English was of a safe dwelling place, a village, even a world.
听力原文（听写全文）
The original meaning of the word home in English was of a safe dwelling place, a village, even a world. Now, home has implied meanings of a feeling of belonging and affection, a place where you can find refuge and rest. It means something intimate and private. It even has the sense of destination, for example, homeward bound, and also the sense of a nation, such as home and foreign policy.
Part II 听力理解 Listening Comprehension 客观题 1-10 · 每题1分
🎧 听力音频
Section A · Talk（填空 1-10，主观）
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.
参考答案
(1) rankings
(2) goals and atmospheres
(3) Location
(4) exciting but expensive
(5) tighter social bonding
(6) seeing in person
(7) school officials
(8) Facilities and housing
(9) dorms and apartments
(10) generals and specialists
听力原文（Talk）
Good morning, everyone. I guess some of you may have already started thinking about further study overseas after graduation. But few people would thoroughly consider all of the aspects of a graduate school before application. The criteria I am going to talk about today can help spur your thinking about choosing a proper school. Of course, the most important criteria will depend upon your specific needs. But, there are also several general criteria to follow.
First guideline is reputation. Is the graduate school considered one of the best graduate schools in the country? Is it highly regarded in your chosen specialty? In most cases, people would like to observe the various school rankings, but my suggestion is that the school rankings should not be considered definitely. (1) Rankings are useful as a very rough guide to the reputation and quality of different programs. Most people take them, um, far too seriously when considering where to apply. (2) But you will have to bear in mind that the schools differ a lot in their programs, goals and atmospheres. Even with almost the same ranking, one school will offer more related courses than another one.
(3) The second, the second criterion lies in location of the school. OK. Why do we need to consider location of the school? Let me give you some reasons. Which part of the country you would prefer to be in for three years determines the cost of your study. (4) Living in a big city is exciting with a lot of varieties, but it should also be expensive. A medium-sized city located in a scenic spot can be charming but not exciting. So do not ignore the fact that you are about to spend two or three years of your life in the graduate school you choose. Try to spend it somewhere you will appreciate. And the location of a school helps determine its social environment. (5) Schools in large cities tend not to foster the degree of social bonding among classmates that schools in small towns do, largely due to the lack of other entertainment options in the latter.
The third thing to consider is safety. Related to a location issue is the question of safety. Be sure that the school environment is and feels safe. (6) In assessing safety, make sure you see the school and its environment where students spend their time and do not assume, uh, that would appear safe at noon will also be safe at midnight. (7) Discuss the matter with school officials and also discuss your concerns with students who are already studying there, most like you.
(8) Now the next factor to consider is school facilities and housing. Check to be sure that the library and computer facilities are top notch. In particular, note whether they are comfortable for long-hour work efforts. Housing can be a major concern, especially in your first year. (9) Look at the school dorms and apartments, but also examine the price and availability of off-campus housing. Note what transportation options you will have and also their safety implications.
Finally, mission is a major factor as well. Schools vary in the extent to which they wish to educate their graduate students. (10) There might be differences between programs that require students to be generalists and those that train specialists. These differences can have a major effect upon your fit with the program and the students who have chosen to attend it.
Okay. Today we have discussed some general principles on how to choose a graduate school. I hope the information will be useful to you when you apply for graduate schools.
Section B · Conversations · Questions 1-10
Conversation One · Questions 1-5
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A. Never. B. Just a few. C. Quite a few. D. Few
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A. They both enjoy interviews. B. They like being asked questions. C. They dislike some panel members. D. They have negative feelings
3.
A. Dancer in a night club. B. Children's entertainer. C. Electronics engineer. D. Shop assistant
4.
A. Ashamed. B. Excited. C. Surprised. D. Afraid
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A. To see who gives the lasting impression. B. To select the best among many candidates. C. To find out who has acting potential. D. To see how one reacts when uncomfortable. Conversation Two Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two
Conversation Two · Questions 6-10
6.
A. She failed the course. B. She made much progress. C. Her performance was a bit worrying. D. Her performance was better than expected
7.
A. It is hard for the required length. B. It is a very familiar subject. C. It is difficult to draw conclusions. D. It is irrelevant to the topic
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A. 75%. B.45%. C.30% . D.25%
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A. Russia. B. Saudi Arabia. C. Canada. D. The United States
10.
A. To collect more necessary information. B. To analyze the data she has obtained. C. To propose some possible solutions. D. To keep up her good work this term
Part III 语言知识 Language Usage 20题 · 11-30 · 每题1分
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If we abused by the power of the social rule, we must take steps to defuse its energy.
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A team of engineers has been developing a space cleanup satellite to eliminate man-made orbital debris , broken-down satellites or tossed-away rocket stages.
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Meiling returned from abroad a totally different person. The italicized part functions as a(n) in the sentence.
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Welcome to this special edition of TV Picks, featuring things that must be read to be consumed, let alone : books.
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When you have finished with that novel, don't forget to return it to Tom, ?
16.
Cities have nonprofit associations, usually made up of Fire Department personnel working on their own time to provide ______ inspections.
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There is no means a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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Person A : Where is Tim ? Person B : He might be next door. What is the function of the modal auxiliary verb“might" in the reply?
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“After a confused silence，the speaker attempted a weak reply only to halt midway to confer with his assistant and finally to admit that he had made a mistake. ” The two infinitive phrases after “midway"are used to .
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Which of the following italicized phrases is INCORRECT?
21.
The program includes an of program options for ESL/EFL teachers.
22.
The volcano on Friday, opening up an 800-meter-long crack in its crater.
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As previously suspected, the inhabitants of the region had been hunter-gatherers living relatively lifestyles.
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The governor posted a statement online saying he“misspoke" and tried to his comments.
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The country is making progress on its bailout reform commitments but bad bank loans could a fledgling recovery.
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The parents almost collapsed upon learning that their child had been diagnosed a rare disease.
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Major airlines have banned the transport of hunting trophies from Africa in the of the outrage over the shooting death of a lion in Zimbabwe.
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The cited study suggested that parental involvement in homework can boost a student' s academic performance.
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Salespeople here are paid on a commission basis; however, continued employment is based on their ability to sell service contracts rather than .
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Anthropologists were intrigued to learn that Kennewick Man was different from today's native Americans.
Part IV 完形填空 Cloze 10题 · 每题1分
A ActuallyB culturalC digitizedD grammarE ifF InterventionG obviouslyH pathI thoughJ transitionK TransmissionL unmediatedM virtualN visualO way
There is a curious cliche that says pictures don't lie. It is part of that greater cliche that says seeing is believing. Somehow a thing seen directly- -or through a(n) (31) representation like a painting，photograph, or a film- -brings us closer to some actual reality. Words are too (32) not things themselves; words are made-up sounds, developed throughout the life of a culture, represented by made-up letters, put together in a contrived (33). that everyone in a culture uses to communicate through a decision that the particular words will refer to particular things. Language is clearly(34) and not natural: It is human made and accepted with some variations throughout a particular culture. Every English speaker understands what the word“food” refers to, even(35) the particular kind of food that comes to mind may vary to each individual. But seeing a thing seems to bring us something very close to the thing itself- to “ reality". Things that are seen appear to be and even feel as if they are (36) ; that is, they seem to be conveyed directly to us, not conveyed indirectly. Nothing stands in their (37) .They are true. But, in fact, an image, whether photographed, painted, or (38) is not the thing itself. It is a representation of a mediated (39) ，composed through the camera lens, or a computer, and transferred onto film or through binary code onto the computer screen, appearing to be the thing itself. But even when we acknowledge the (40) of optics, computer science，and the human hand and eye of the photographer in recording and developing the photographic image, we still haven't considered all the mediation that goes on. An image of the thing is not the thing.
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Part V 阅读理解 Reading Comprehension 选择题 41-50 · 每题1分
Section A · Multiple Choice Questions
PASSAGE ONE
(1) AS I write this, I have half an eye on an old James Bond film that is showing on my computer.But this is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page. (2) I suppose I was an avid reader of“literature” between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves. Of course there was room in the schoolboy's imagination for some real historical figures: Scott of the Antarctic, all of the Vikings, and Benjamin Franklin were good friends of mine. (3) Then, in adolescence, I began a long search for strange and radical ideas. I wanted to challenge my elders and betters, and stir up my peers with amazing points of view. Of course, the only place to look was in books. I hunted out the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names，and scoured the library for completely unread books. Then I found one which became my bible for the whole of 1982. It had a title composed of eleven long words and an author whose name I didn't know how to pronounce. It was really thick and looked dead serious. Even better, it put forward a whole world-view that would take days to explain. Perfect. I took it out of the library three times, proud to see the date-stamps lined up on the empty library insert. (4) Later, I went to university. Expecting to spend long evenings in learned discussion with clever people, I started reading philosophy. For some reason I never found the deep-thinking intellectuals I hoped to meet. Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound knowledge of post-structuralism and existentialism. These things are usually explained in rather short books, but they take a long time to get through. They were the end of my youthful reading. (5) Working life was hard to get used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn't seem to be much in books that would actually get things done. To do things you had to answer the telephone and work a computer. You had to travel about and speak to people who weren't at all interested in philosophy. I didn't stop reading; you can't avoid that. I read all day. But no books came my way, only manuals and pamphlets and contracts and documents. Maybe most people satisfy their need for stories and ideas with TV and, to tell the truth, it was all I needed for ten years. In those days I only had a book“on the go”for the duration of plane flights. At first I would come home and watch TV over dinner. Then, I moved the TV so I could watch it from bed. I even rigged up a switch so I could turn it off without getting out of bed. Then, one fateful day, my TV broke and my landlady took it away. (6) My new TV is an extra circuit board inside my computer. It's on a desk in front of a working chair and I can't see it from the bed. I still use it for the weather forecasts and it's nice to have it on while I'm typing this...but what to do last thing at night? Well, have another go with books. (7) Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and I'm reading about six simultaneously. I don't want to BE any of the characters. I don't care if a thousand people have already read them. I don't have to search through libraries. There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that they’ve been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.
41.
We learn from the author' s reading habit in adolescence that he liked .
42.
What was reading like in the author' s working life?
43.
It can be concluded from Para. 7 that the author .
PASSAGE TWO
(1) I was prepared to dislike Max Kelada even before I knew him. The war had just finished and the passenger traffic in the oceangoing liners was heavy. Accommodation was very hard to get and you had to put up with whatever the agents chose to offer you. You could not hope for a cabin to yourself and I was thankful to be given one in which there were only two berths. But when I was told the name of my companion my heart sank. It suggested closed portholes and the night air rigidly excluded. It was bad enough to share a cabin for fourteen days with anyone , but I should have looked upon it with less dismay if my fellow passenger's name had been Smith or Brown. (2) When I went on board I found Mr. Kelada's luggage already below. I did not like the look of it; there were too many labels on the suitcases. And the wardrobe trunk was too big. He had unpacked his toilet things, and I observed that he was a patron of the excellent Monsieur Coty. I did not at all like Mr. Kelada. I made my way into the smoking room. I called for a pack of cards and began to play. I had scarcely started before a man came up to me and asked me if he was night in thinking my name was so and so. (3)“I am Mr. Kelada," he added, with a smile that showed a row of flashing teeth, and sat down. (4)“Oh, yes, we're sharing a cabin, I think.” (5)“Bit of luck, I call it. You never know whom you're going to be put in with. I was jolly glad when I heard you were English. I'm all for us English sticking together when we're abroad, if you understand what I mean.” (6) I blinked. (7)“ Are you English?" I asked, perhaps tactlessly. (8)“Rather. You don't think I look like an American, do you? British to the backbone, that's what I am. (9) To prove it, Mr. Kelada took out of his pocket a passport and airily waved it under my nose. (10) Mr. Kelada was short and of a sturdy build, clean shaven and dark skinned, with a fleshy, hooked nose and very large, lustrous and liquid eyes. His long black hair was sleek and curly. He spoke with a fluency in which there was nothing English and his gestures were exuberant. I felt pretty sure that a closer inspection of that British passport would have betrayed the fact that Mr. Kelada was born under a bluer sky than is generally seen in England. (11)“What will you have?" he asked me. (12) I looked at him doubtfully. Prohibition was in force and to all appearance the ship was bone dry. When I am not thirsty I do not know which I dislike more, ginger ale or lemon squash. But Mr. Kelada flashed an oriental smile at me. (13)“Whisky and soda or a dry martini, you have only to say the word.” (14) From each of his hip pockets he fished a flask and laid it on the table before me. I chose the martini, and calling the steward he ordered a tumbler of ice and a couple of glasses. (15)“A very good cocktail," I said. (16)“Well, there are plenty more where that came from, and if you've got any friends on board, you tell them you've got a pal who's got all the liquor in the world. (17) Mr. Kelada was chatty. He talked of New York and of San Francisco. He discussed plays, pictures, and politics. I do not wish to put on airs, but I cannot help feeling that it is seemly in a total， stranger to put mister before my name when he addresses me. Mr. Kelada, doubtless to set me at my ease, used no such formality. I did not like Mr. Kelada. I had put aside the cards when he sat down, but now, thinking that for this first occasion our conversation had lasted long enough, I went on with my game.
44.
We can infer from the passage that Mr. Kelada's attitude towards the author is .
45.
The author did not like Mr. Kelada for the following reasons EXCEPT .
46.
Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
PASSAGE THREE
(1) One of our most firmly entrenched ideas of masculinity is that a real man doesn't cry. Although he might shed a discreet tear at a funeral, he is expected to quickly regain control. Sobbing openly is for girls. (2) This isn't just a social expectation. One study found that women report crying significantly more than men do -five times as often, on average，and almost twice as long per episode. (3) So it's perhaps surprising to learn that the gender gap in crying seems to be a recent development. Historically, men routinely wept, and no one saw it as feminine or shameful. (4) For example, in chronicles of the Middle Ages，we find one ambassador repeatedly bursting into tears when addressing Philip the Good, and the entire audience at a peace congress throwing themselves on the ground, sobbing and groaning as they listen to the speeches. In medieval romances, knights cried purely because they missed their girlfriends. In Chretien de Troyes's Lancelot, or, The Knight of the Cart, no less a hero than Lancelot weeps at a brief separation from Guinevere. At another point, he cries on a lady's shoulder at the thought that he won't get to go to a big tournament because of his captivity.What's more , instead of being disgusted by this sniveling ( 哭诉)，the lady is moved to help. (5) There's no mention of the men in these stories trying to restrain or hide their tears. No one pretends to have something in his eye. No one makes an excuse to leave the room. They cry in a crowded hall with their heads held high. Nor do their companions make fun of this public blubbering (大声哭) ;it's universally regarded as an admirable expression of feeling. (6) So where did all the male tears go? There was no anti-crying movement. No leaders of church or state introduced measures to discourage them. Nevertheless, by the Romantic period ，masculine tears were reserved for poets. From there, it was just a short leap to the poker-faced heroes of Ernest Hemingway，who, despite their poetic leanings, could not express grief by any means but drinking and shooting the occasional buffalo. (7) The most obvious possibility is that this shift is the result of changes that took place as we moved from a feudal agrarian society to one that was urban and industrial. In the Middle Ages ，most people spent their lives among those they had known since birth. A typical village had around 250 to 300 inhabitants , most of them related by blood or marriage. If men cried, they did so with people who would empathize. (8) But from the 18th to 20th centuries , the population became increasingly urbanized, and people were living in the midst of thousands of strangers. Furthermore, changes in the economy required men to work together in factories and offices where emotional expression and even private conversation were discouraged as time wasting. As Tom Lutz writes in Crying : The Natural and Cultural History of Tears,“You don't want emotions interfering with the smooth running of things. ” (9) Yet human beings weren't designed to swallow their emotions，and there's reason to believe that suppressing tears can be hazardous to your well-being. Research from the 1980s has suggested a relationship between stress-related illnesses and inadequate crying. Weeping is also, somewhat counterintuitively, correlated with happiness and wealth. Countries where people cry the most tend to be more democratic and their populations more extroverted. (10) It's time to open the floodgates. Time for men to give up emulating the stone-faced heroes of action movies and be more like the emotive heroes of Homer, like the weeping kings, saints, and statesmen of thousands of years of human history. When misfortune strikes, let us all- men and women-join together and cry until our sleeves are drenched. As the Old Testament has it:“They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.”
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The examples in Para.4 are cited to .
48.
Which of the following is the most likely reason for the disappearance of male tears?
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Which of the following benefits of crying is the author LESS sure about?
50.
What is the author's main message in the passage?
Section B · Short Answer Questions（主观）
51.
What does the author mean by saying
参考答案
A book that was the best for the author then.
52.
Give a title for the passage.
参考答案
My relationships with books throughout my life.
53.
What does the italicized part imply according to the context (Para. 1)?
参考答案
The author dislikes the companion's name.
54.
What does the author mean by the italicized part (Para. 10)?
参考答案
It's questionable whether Mr. Kelada was born in England.
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What does the italicized part in Para. 2 suggest?
参考答案
In reality, men cry less than women.
Part VI 写作 Writing 主观题 · 20%
题目
[45 MIN] Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 WORDS,in which you should: 1) summarize the study results, and then 2) comment on the relationship between loneliness and wisdom. You can support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your response on ANSWER SHEET THREE. Loneliness and Wisdom: Are They Related? Rising rates of loneliness may not be news, but the three periods when it peaks may come as a surprise: More people reported feeling moderate to severe loneliness during their late 20s, their mid-50s and their late 80s than in other life periods, according to the research published in the journal International Psychogeriatrics. The general sense of isolation was also more prevalent than the researchers had expected. A full three-quarters of the study participants reported moderate to high levels of loneliness, said Dr. Philip Jeste, senior author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. “ One thing to remember is that loneliness is subjective. Loneliness does not mean being alone;loneliness does not mean not having friends," said Dr. Jeste, who is also director at the UC San Diego's Center for Healthy Aging,“Loneliness is defined as ‘subjective distress’.”It is the discrepancy between the social relationships you want and the social relationships you have, he said. Within the dark clouds, Dr. Jeste also found a silver lining: An inverse relationship exists between loneliness and wisdom.“In other words, people who have high levels of wisdom didn't feel lonely, and vice versa," he said.
参考范文
Overcoming Loneliness with Wisdom
A study published in International Psychogeriatrics found that there was a certain relationship between loneliness and age, and many people were more likely to feel lonely in their late twenties, mid-fifties and late eighties. But what's noteworthy is that there was an optimistic finding: The wiser a participant was, the less likely he was to feel the kind of oppressive loneliness that can be so detrimental to one's health. From my perspective, I fully agree with this finding.
To begin with, as the study points out, loneliness is subjective, so different people may feel lonely for different reasons. A man of wisdom tends to have a strong ability of emotional management, including self-regulation and self-comfort to overcome loneliness. Moreover, bad interpersonal relationships can also make people feel lonely. Wise individuals are good at generating feelings of happiness, belonging, and intimacy in their interaction with others, and they don't feel so lonely. Besides, the feeling of loneliness is frequently associated with a lack of purpose in life. People who have high levels of wisdom always have a clear plan for their lives, so they are less likely to suffer from loneliness.
In conclusion, wisdom is a complex human trait with specific components like emotional regulation. Therefore, if we learn to regulate our emotions, live in harmony with others, and have a clear goal in life, we might just find our lives become less lonely.