Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
The most famous collections of fairy tales (童话) are the ones by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The Grimms published their first fairy-tale collection in 1812. They didn’t think they were writing for children. They thought they were preserving disappearing German folk culture. Their first edition (版本) was a scholarly book that carefully recorded the oral tales. They were surprised when some of their early readers suggested that the stories might be interesting to children.
But the Grimms needed money. They had made a bad deal with their publisher and received little payment for their first book. At one point Wilhelm complained there wasn’t a chair in his house one could sit on without worrying it would break. So he took the hint and set to work to make a book that would be suitable for children. He selected a few of the tales, made them much longer, and polished up the language. He didn’t add morals, but he did slip in character judgments and moralizing comments wherever he could.
The Grimms’ fairy tales also have one characteristic that would seem to make them unsuitable for children. Many of them include violent incidents. In “Hansel and Gretel” an old woman is burned to death in an oven, and in “Little Red Riding Hood” a child is eaten by a wolf. When he revised the tales for children, Wilhelm Grimm retained the violence. In fact, he sometimes even ramped it up. For example, in the first edition of the tales, Cinderella forgives her sisters at the end. It’s only in the second edition, the one intended for children, that her birds peck (啄) out their eyes.
Why, then, have the Grimms’ fairy tales become classics of children’s literature, so much so that it is hard to imagine a child who doesn’t know Cinderella’s story or Snow White’s?
One answer is that only a few of the tales survived into modem times. The first edition of the Grimms’ fairy tales had 210 tales. By 1825 it was down to 50. And today only a dozen or so of the tales are often reprinted in children’s collections.
(76) But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.
1、Why did Wilhelm Grimm set out to adapt his book for children?
A To deal with readers’ complaints.
B To improve his financial situation.
C At the request of his publisher.
D To preserve the ancient stories in print.
答案解析：
为什么威廉·格林要着手把他的书改编成儿童读物?
2、When revising the fairy tales, Wilhelm did all of the following EXCEPT .
A adding character judgments
B making the tales much longer
C deleting the violent scenes
D polishing up the language
答案解析：
题目:在修改童话时，威廉做了以下所有的事情，除了。
A:添加角色判断
B:让故事变得更长
C:删除暴力场景
D:提高语言水平
3、What does the expression “ramped it up” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A Started.
B Allowed.
C Classified.
D Increased.
4、Which of the following statements about the Grimms’ fairy tales is TRUE according to the passage?
A They were originally intended to be children’s stories.
B Generally speaking, the tales that have endured can help children deal with the challenges life brings to them.
C A large number of the tales made it to the modem age.
D They are less violent than the children’s stories being written today.
5、What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A History of fairy tales.
B Ways to preserve the oral tradition.
C The Grimms’ fairy tales.
D Violence in fairy tales.
答案解析：
题目:这篇文章主要与什么有关?
A:童话的历史。
B:保持口头传统的方法。
C:
D:童话中的暴力。
Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
. As the school year kicks off, parents are once again straggling to cajole (哄编)and, if need be, drag their exhausted teens out of bed. That image may make you laugh, but lack of sleep is no joke. (77) Teenagers who don’t get enough rest have more learning. health~ behavior and mood problems than students who get at least nine hours a night. Long-term lack of sleep is tied to heart disease, overweight, depression and a shortened life span in adults, indicating the importance of establishing good sleep habits early in life. Lack of sleep can be especially deadly for teens; car accidents are the leading cause of death among teenagers, and safety experts believe sleepy driving is a major factor.
Unfortunately, few teenagers get the sleep they need. In a survey of middle- and high-school students, University of Colorado researchers found that 82 percent said they woke up tired and unrefreshed, and more than half had trouble concentrating during the day at least once a week.
Blame multitasking for some of this. Many students are juggling after-school
activities, homework and part-time jobs. Even when they manage to fulfill these obligations by a reasonable hour, television, the Internet, video games, phone calls and text messages to friends often keep them awake deep into the night. Taking soda and energy drinks late in the day and going to late-night parties on weekends add to sleep debt. Biology also works against teenagers’ sleep, The body’s internal clock, which controls when a person starts to feel tired, shifts after puberty (青春期), making it hard for most teens to fall asleep before 11 pm. Class usually begins before 8:15 am, with many high schools starting as early as 7:15 am. To get to school on time, most teens have to get up by 6:30 am, guaranteeing they’ll be sleep-deprived during the week. Teens often sleep much later on weekends to catch up, making it even harder to fall asleep on Sunday night and wake up Monday morning. Playing catch-up on weekends also doesn’t help teens stay refreshed when they need it most: during the week at school.
Since the 1990s, middle and high schools in more than two dozen states have experimented with later school start times. (78) The results have been encouraging.’ more sleep, increased attendance, better grades and fewer driving accidents. But most schools still start early, meaning teens have their work cut out for them if they want to get enough sleep.
6、According to the passage, poor sleep can be linked to all of the following EXCEPT
A heart disease
B car accidents
C skin problems
D poor concentration
答案解析：
题目:根据这篇文章，睡眠不好可能与以下所有因素有关，除了
A:心脏病
B:车祸
C:皮肤问题
D:注意力不集中
7、The main idea of Paragraph 3 is
A how sleep deprivation (缺乏) can be treated
B what causes sleep deprivation
C who is most at risk for sleep deprivation
D why sleep deprivation is a serious concern
答案解析：
第3段的主要观点是
8、What does the word “juggling” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A Dealing with at the same time.
B Striking a balance between.
C Applying for.
D Having difficulty in.
9、Which of the following is NOT to blame for teenagers’ lack of sleep?
A Multitasking.
B Biological clock. :
C Weekend catch-up sleep.
D Healthy diet.
10、According to the passage, what have some schools done to help their students get enough sleep?
A Educating their students about the importance of sleep.
B Monitoring their students’ late-night activities.
C Delaying school start times.
D Setting strict rules.
答案解析：
题目:根据这篇文章，一些学校做了什么来帮助他们的学生获得足够的睡眠?
A:教育学生睡眠的重要性。
B:
C:推迟上学时间。
D:设置严格的规定。
Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
As any middle-class parent knows, unpaid work experience can give youngsters a valuable introduction to a secure job. The government has recognized it too, abandoning rules in 2011 that had formerly stopped 16- to 24-year-o!ds from doing unpaid work while claiming unemployment benefit. But moving from that to forcing them to work without pay in order to collect these benefits has proved a big step.
(79) More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed, the highest number since the mid-1980s. Keen both to cut the welfare bill and to avoid the depressed future wages that may result from early unemployment, the government has introduced an ambitious program of reform to get youngsters off welfare and into work. A key part of it is ensuring that no one gets benefit from the government for long; ministers are keen to avoid what happened after the early- 1980s recession (~/l/), when unemployment continued in some parts of the country for a long time after the economy began to improve.
To help young people into work, ministers had persuaded lots of employers, including bakery chains, bookshops, and supermarkets, to take on unemployed youths, who receive work experience but no pay, with the prospect of a proper job for those who shine. (80) Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.
The idea of getting young adults used to showing up for work is popular with voters: according to a survey published in February, about 60% of people support the program. Equally attractive was the option of compelling them to work: Under the existing arrangements youngsters could choose whether or not to accept a place, but if they dropped out after the end of the first week, they stood to lose up to two weeks’ benefits.
Yet the scheme has also polarized (两极分化的) opinion: a third of people are consistently opposed. Following a noisy “Right to Work” campaign that accused employers of co-operating secretly with the government in “forced labor”, several firms dropped out of the program. To prevent this from getting worse, Chris Grayling, an employment minister, admitted that young people could leave their work experience at any time without being punished for doing so. This not only halted the flight of employers (for now, at least) but also enabled him to announce that new firms have agreed to take part in the program.
11、According to the passage, young people in Britain .
A are used to showing up for work
B value unpaid work very much
C are always opposed to unpaid work
D could learn something about job security through unpaid work
答案解析：
题目:根据这篇文章，英国的年轻人。
A:习惯上班吗
B:非常重视无薪工作
C:总是反对无薪工作吗
D:通过无薪工作能学到一些关于工作保障的知识吗
12、According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A Most voters support the government’s effort to help young people to find work.
B Some people protest against the government’s attempt to force young people to work.
C There are more than one million young people who took part in the program.
D There are more than one million young people who are jobless.
答案解析：
根据短文，下列哪个选项是不正确的?
13、According to the author, the British government is trying to.
A punish young people if they are not cooperating with it
B reform the unemployed youngsters
C avoid the economic slowdown
D reduce welfare spending
答案解析：
题目:据作者说，英国政府正在努力。
A:如果年轻人不配合，就惩罚他们
B:改革失业青少年
C:避免经济放缓
D:减少福利支出
14、The word “shine” in Paragraph 3 means “ “.
A do well
B reflect light
C look happy
D produce light
15、Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage?
A Enjoy Work Without Pay
B Can Work, Won’t Work
C Should Work, Shouldn’t Play
D Hate Work or Love Work
答案解析：
题目:下面哪个是适合这篇文章的标题?
A:享受无偿工作
B:
C:
D:讨厌工作还是热爱工作
Part Ⅱ Vocabulary and Structure (30%)
16、Please give Jim the schedule for tomorrow's conference when he ___ back. He is to chair the conference.
A will come
B come
C comes
D came
答案解析：
题目:当吉姆回来时，请把明天会议的时间表给他。他将主持会议。
A:会来
B:来
C:来了
D:来了
17、___ five minutes earlier, you would not have missed the last train for Shanghai, but you were late.
A Had you come
B Do you come
C Did you come
D Should you come
答案解析：
题目:要是你早来五分钟，你就不会错过最后一班去上海的火车了，但是你已经晚了。
A:如果你来了
B:你是
C:你来
D:你应该来
18、After he worked out the solution, ______ appeared a smile on his face.
A it
B here
C what
D there
答案解析：
题目:他想出了解决办法后，脸上露出了笑容。
A:它
B:在这里
C:什么
D:在那里
19、the former president’s supporters went out in streets to express their anger and dissatisfaction.
A A small amount of
B A large number of
C A little bit of
D A great deal of
20、To be honest, today's dinner was just so-so. It wasn't such a good one ____ promised by the boss.
A that
B which
C as
D what
答案解析：
题目:老实地说，今天的晚餐不过如此。并不像老板承诺的那样好。
A:那
B:哪一个
C:作为
D:什么
21、So many people ___ the meeting had to be put off.
A being absent
B to be absent
C were absent
D had been absent
答案解析：
题目:这么多人缺席，会议只好推迟。
A:缺席
B:要缺席
C:缺席
D:一直没有
22、We often advise him not to drink more ____ is good for his health.
A as
B that
C than
D but
答案解析：
题目:我们经常建议他不要过量饮酒，这对他的健康有好处。
A:作为
B:那
C:比
D:但
23、—Did Charles vote in the last election? —No, he wasn't ____.
A enough old then
B then enough old
C old then enough
D old enough then
答案解析：
——Charles 上次选举投票了吗？ ——没有，他当时年龄不够大。
24、By no means look down on those who are less lucky in life than we are.
A we should
B should we
C we should not
D should we not
答案解析：
题目:决不要看不起那些生活中不如我们幸运的人。
A:我们应该
B:我们应该
C:我们不应该
D:我们应该不
25、He didn't feel like ___ that day so he stayed indoors reading.
A working
B works
C to work
D worked
答案解析：
题目:那天他不想工作，所以呆在家里看书。
A:工作
B:作品
C:工作
D:工作
26、No sooner had we started on the road ____ it began to rain.
A when
B than
C then
D whenever
答案解析：
题目:我们刚上路，天就开始下雨了。
A:当
B:比
C:然后
D:每当
27、He decided to go for a sailing holiday ___ the fact that he was usually seasick (晕船).
A because of
B in spite of
C in case of
D as a result of
答案解析：
题目:他决定航海度假，尽管事情况他经常晕船。
A:因为，由于
B:尽管，虽然
C:以免，以防
D:作为.....的结果
28、What you do in your spare time is your own _____. However it should not be harmful to others.
A business
B purchase
C bargain
D sale
答案解析：
题目:你在业余时间做什么是你自己的事。但是不应该有害于他人。
A:事务，事情
B:购买
C:讨价还价
D:出售
29、As a gardener, Jim has to water the flowers and ___ the grass in the garden every morning.
A trim
B improve
C refine
D repair
答案解析：
题目:作为一个园丁，吉姆每天早上必须给花园里的花和草浇水。
A:修剪
B:改善
C:完善
D:修复
30、The firemen are still ______ the small fires started by the plane crash.
A taking off
B setting aside
C getting along with
D putting out
答案解析：
题目:消防队员仍在扑灭飞机失事引起的小火灾。
A:起飞
B:留出
C:与相处
D:扑灭
31、He didn't live up to ___ had been expected of him.
A that
B what
C which
D all
答案解析：
题目:他没有达到人们对他的期望。
A:那
B:什么
C:哪一个
D:所有
32、The old couple decided to ___ a boy and a girl though they had three of their own.
A adapt
B bring
C receive
D adopt
答案解析：
题目:虽然这对老夫妇有三个孩子，但他们还是决定要一个男孩和一个女孩。
A:适应
B:带来
C:收到
D:收养
33、The relationship between employers and employees has been studied ___ .
A originally
B extremely
C violently
D intensively
答案解析：
题目:雇主和雇员关系已经被密集的研究过。
A:最初地，原始的
B:极其地
C:暴力地
D:集中地，密集地
34、The car ____ halfway for no reason.
A broke off
B broke down
C broke up
D broke out
答案解析：
题目:汽车在半路上无缘无故地抛锚了。
A:断绝了
B:坏了
C:分手了
D:爆发了
35、The police ____ that he committed a series of crimes in the north of the city.
A swelled
B submitted
C surveyed
D suspected
答案解析：
题目:警方怀疑他在城市的北部作了一系列案子
A:使（力量等）增长，使上涨
B:提交
C:调查
D:怀疑，嫌疑
36、The manager lost his ___ just because his secretary was ten minutes late.
A mood
B temper
C mind
D passion
答案解析：
题目:经理发脾气了，因为他的秘书迟到了十分钟。
A:情绪
B:脾气
C:心
D:激情
37、We gave out a cheer when the red roof of the cottage came ___ view.
A from
B in
C before
D into
答案解析：
题目:当那栋别墅的房顶进人视野时，我们爆发出了欢呼声。
A:从
B:在
C:之前
D:成
38、I have kept that portrait ___ I can see it every day, as it always reminds me of my university days in London.
A which
B where
C whether
D when
答案解析：
题目:我把那张照片放在我每天都能看到的地方，因为它总是让我想起我在伦敦上大学的日子。
A:哪一个
B:在哪里
C:是否
D:当
39、The room is in a terrible mess; it cleaned.
A can’t have been
B mustn’t have been
C shouldn’t have been
D wouldn’t have been
答案解析：
题目:房间里乱糟糟的;它清洁。
A:不能一直
B:不能一直
C:
D:不会有
40、You see the lightning ___ it happens, but you hear the thunder later.
A the instant
B for an instant
C on the instant
D in an instant
答案解析：
题目:你看到闪电发生，但稍后你听到雷声。
A:即时
B:一瞬间
C:在即时
D:在瞬间
41、____ it or not, his discovery has created a stir in scientific circles.
A Believe
B To believe
C Believing
D Believed
答案解析：
题目:信不信由你，他的发现在科学界引起了轰动。
A:相信
B:相信
C:相信
D:相信
42、The medicine is on sale everywhere. You can get it at ___ chemist’s.
A other
B some
C certain
D any
答案解析：
题目:这种药到处都在打折。你可以在任何一家药店买到它。
A:其他
B:某些，某个
C:确定的
D:任何
43、Your hair wants ____ . You'd better have it done tomorrow.
A cut
B to cut
C cutting
D being cut
答案解析：
题目:你的头发该剪了。你最好明天把它做完。
A:减少
B:减少
C:剪短
D:被削减
44、I don't think it advisable that Tom ___ to the job since he has no experience.
A be assigned
B will be assigned
C is assigned
D has been assigned
答案解析：
题目:我认为指派汤姆做这项工作是不明智的，因为他没有经验。
A:被分配
B:将被分配
C:被分配
D:已分配的
45、The goals ___ he had fought all his life no longer seemed important to him.
A after which
B with which
C for which
D at which
答案解析：
题目:他一生为之奋斗的目标对他来说好像不再重要了。
A:之后,
B:与
C:的
D:在这
Part Ⅲ Identification (10%)
46、The sun gives off light and warmth, that makes it possible for plants to grow.
正确答案：B
答案解析：
太阳发出光和热，使植物得以生长。
47、Sand painting has also called dry or earth painting and is practiced by several American Indian artists.
正确答案：A
答案解析：
沙画也被称为干画或土画，由一些美国印第安艺术家实践。
48、Humans, like many other animals, are warm-blooded with a fairly constantly body temperature.
正确答案：D
答案解析：
和许多其他动物一样，人类是温血动物，体温相当稳定。
49、Now that the stress of examinations and interviews are over, we can all relax for a while.
正确答案：D
答案解析：
现在考试和面试的压力都过去了，我们都可以放松一下。
50、The tallest of the twins went to search for the missing jewels, the picture of which you saw in today’s newspaper.
正确答案：A
51、They are going to have the serviceman to be installed an electric fan in the office tomorrow.
正确答案：C
答案解析：
明天他们将派人在办公室里安装一台电风扇。
52、Only under special circumstances freshmen are permitted to take make-up tests.
正确答案：C
答案解析：
只有在特殊情况下，新生才允许补考。
53、It’s already 5 o’clock now. Don’t you think it’s about time we are going home?
正确答案：D
54、Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the three-hours’ movie could not hold our attention.
正确答案：C
55、People appreciate to have worked with him because he has a good sense of humor.
正确答案：A
答案解析：
人们喜欢和他一起工作，因为他很有幽默感。
Part IV Cloze (10%)
Partly Cloze (10%)
By the time I finished high school, my interest in animals had grown, and I enrolled at a university to study biology. I learned soon enough that studying animals 56 this level was not in the animals’ best 57. I remember one midterm exam in 58 each student was handed a large, freshly-killed frog and 59 to dissect (解剖)and mark a set of body parts. I looked at the 60 frog in front of me and was saddened that her life was 61 away for such a slight 62.
A year later, in the same lab 63 I dissected the frog, I performed a small act of animal 64. We were 65 on fruit flies, and it was time to record the distribution of characteristics in their next generation. Flies were 66 in small plastic bottles. Counting the number of flies with white or red eyes required first exposing them to ether (乙醚) 67 they could not move. The flies were then spread onto a piece of white paper 68 and counted. When the data collection was 69 , the flies had no further use, and our instructions were to 70 them into a small glass dish of oil at the center of each desk, which was to be their final resting 71.
Once my little pile of flies had been counted, I pushed them off the edge of the paper. As we recorded our data, I kept one eye 72 them. Within minutes the pile was humming (嗡嗡叫) as tiny legs and wings beat their way out of the ether fog. I was extremely excited as they 73 flight. That was my first 74 in refusing to conduct scientific research that treated nonhuman life in a(n) 75 way.
56、( 56 )
A at
B with
C for
D off
57、( 57 )
A duties
B interests
C rates
D hobbies
58、( 58 )
A what
B that
C where
D which
59、( 59 )
A dismissed
B drawn
C instructed
D mended
60、( 60 )
A alive
B dead ~
C living
D wounded
61、( 61 )
A made
B brought
C taken
D passed
62、( 62 )
A reason
B spirit
C space
D system
63、( 63 )
A that
B which
C what
D where
64、( 64 )
A operation
B liberation
C tendency
D wealth
65、( 65 )
A experimenting
B strengthening
C stimulating
D substituting
66、( 66 )
A solved
B soaked
C recovered
D kept
67、( 67 )
A while
B because
C in case
D so that
68、( 68 )
A being examined
B to be examined
C being operated
D to be operated
69、( 69 )
A preliminary
B progressive
C complete
D curious
70、( 70 )
A put
B raise
C rouse
D spoil
71、( 71 )
A shade
B shadow
C place
D stuff
72、( 72 )
A for
B with
C at
D on
73、( 73 )
A stood
B took
C sent
D rode
74、( 74 )
A step
B review
C glance
D gesture
75、( 75 )
A kind
B generous
C cruel
D effective
Part Ⅴ Translation (20%)
76、But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help children deal with the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.
答案解析：但更深层的答案是，那些流传下来的故事是神奇的冒险，帮助孩子们应对日常生活中的挣扎和恐惧。
77、Teenagers who don’t get enough rest have more learning, health, behavior and mood problems than students who get at least nine hours a night.
正确答案：没有得到足够休息的青少年比每晚至少休息9小时的学生有更多的学习、健康、行为和情绪问题。
78、The results have been encouraging: more sleep, increased attendance, better grades and fewer driving accidents.
答案解析：研究结果令人鼓舞:睡眠增加，出勤率提高，成绩提高，驾驶事故减少。
79、More than one million young people in Britain are unemployed, the highest number since the mid-1980s.
答案解析：英国有100多万年轻人失业，这是自上世纪80年代中期以来的最高数字。
80、Some 35,000 youngsters participated last year; half found paid work soon after finishing the scheme.
答案解析：去年约有35,000名青少年参与;其中一半人在完成该计划后不久就找到了有薪工作。
81、昨天，我坐在办公室写报告时，小明从英国打电话过来了。
正确答案：Yesterday, while I was sitting in the office writing a report, Xiao Ming called from the UK.
82、想去图书馆的人必须在这里签名。
正确答案：People who want to go to the library must sign here.
83、他专心致志地看书，所以没有听到电话响。
正确答案：He was absorbed in reading, so he didn't hear the phone ring.
84、去年，我在伦敦过的暑假。
正确答案：Last year, I spent my summer vacation in London.
85、我学习英语大概有十年了。
正确答案：I have been studying English for about ten years.
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