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第I卷(共75分)

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分15分)

做题时，请先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节(共5小题;每小题1分，满分5分)

听下面5段对话, 每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置;听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. Where are the two speakers?

A. In a plane.           B. At the airport.          C. At the railway station.

2. How many chairs are needed?

A. 13.                 B. 14.                   C. 15.

3. Where is the man now?

A. In Washington.        B. In New York.          C. In Boston.

4. Where does this dialogue most probably take place?

A. In a concert.          B. In a museum.          C. In a restaurant.

5. What does the man mean?

A. He doesn’t like Japanese food.

B. He doesn’t want to eat out.

C. He wants to pay.

第二节(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

听下面4段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. Where did the man find his school bag?

A. Under a tree.            B. In the language lab.        C. In a park.

7. What is the price of the bag?

A. $69.50.                 B. $69.15.                    C. $59.60.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Where is the bank?

A. Beside the supermarket.

B. Opposite the supermarket.

C. Next to the bookstore.

9. Which does the man choose to take?

A. Bus No. 104.           B. Street car B-102.            C. Street car B-201.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where is the man’s mother now?

A. In the hospital.         B. At home.                    C. In the office.

11. Why does the man ask a week off?

A. Because he has to see a doctor.

B. Because he needs to look after his mother.

C. Because he hasn’t hired anyone to help him yet.

12. Why does the woman admire the man?

A. Because he is a good son.

B. Because he is helpful.

C. Because he is a successful man.

听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。

13. Why did the woman decide to leave the college in her second term?

A. She didn’t like the big lecture classes.

B. She couldn’t afford further education.

C. She was not interested in education.

14. What does she think of her work experiences?

A. They were personally rewarding.

B. They should be part of school life.

C. They gave her a chance to learn German.

15. Where is the university she decides to go to in the end?

A. In South Carolina.      B. In Florida.             C. In Ohio.

第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分30分)

第一节(共10小题;每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并写在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

He met her at a party. She was outstanding while he was so normal. After the party, he invited her for coffee. She was surprised but being polite, she agreed.

As they sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything and she felt uncomfortable. Suddenly, he asked the waiter, “Could you please give me some salt? I’d like to put it in my coffee. ” Everyone stared at him. He turned red, but when the salt came, he put it in his coffee and drank. Curious, she asked, “Why salt with coffee? ” He explained, “ When I was a little boy, I lived near the sea. I liked playing on the sea. I could feel the taste of sea, just like this salty coffee. ”

That was a really nice talk, also a good beginning of their story. They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who met all her demands. Then the story was just like every beautiful love story: they got married and lived a happy life.

After 40 years, he passed away and left her a letter which said: My dearest, please forgive my life-long lie. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous that I asked for salt instead of sugar. It was hard for me to ask for a change, so I just went ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our conversation. I tried to tell you the truth, but I was afraid that it would ruin everything. I don’t like the salty coffee. But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life just because I love you!

Her tears made the letter totally wet. Someday, someone asked her, “What’s the taste of salty coffee?” She replied, “It’s sweet.”

16. She accepted his invitation after the party because ________.

A. she was pretty                 B. he met all her demands

C. he was humorous               D. she was well-mannered

17. How do you understand the last paragraph?

A. The taste of salty coffee is special.

B. Her husband’s love to her is sweet.

C. Her memory about her life is great.

D. She is used to the taste of the salty coffee.

18. The best title for this passage is ________.

A. The Great Love              B. The Salty Coffee

C. A Special Dating             D. A Lifelong Lie

B

Not only fashion and music are making a return—houses built in 1970s have proven to be better at cutting energy waste than those built today. The “tea cosy (茶壶套)” design, created in the mid-1970s and built in the early 1980s for low-income people, could provide a blueprint for meeting the Government aims of producing less CO2 from homes.

The 200 houses were designed to provide low-energy housing, and depend on an inner concrete (水泥) structure that holds in heat, protected by highly insulated (隔热的) setting which produces a “tea cosy” effect. The ordinary-looking houses also depend on more windows on south-facing sides, with northerly facing doors protected by porches (门廊).

A study found the houses are 50 percent more energy efficient than the average home and use a quarter of the average energy for space heating. According to researchers, they use less than two-thirds of the power of homes built to meet 2010 building demands. And they will still be 25 percent more efficient than houses built to even more strict proposed demands for 2013. The design is one of the few that will be able to meet 2016 demands for zero-carbon homes.

They were in the beginning fixed with just one or two gas heaters per home, although most now have central heating, depending on the heat from the sun and high insulation to keep steady temperatures inside the house. To be comfortable, they only need to use heating for three to four months a year, compared with seven months for UK home on average, and can be lived with no heating at all.

With many house builders at present worrying that new homes are going to be much more expensive to build in order to meet the Government’s ambitious targets, the“tea cosy”model meets this need perfectly.

19. The underlined word“blueprint”is closest in meaning to _________.

A. photo        B. model      C. service      D. map

20. The writer develops Paragraph 3 mainly by_________.

A. analyzing data

B. giving examples

C. presenting reasons

D. making comparisons