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第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)

第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5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. What do we know about the woman?

A. She is clever.  B. She is busy.  C. She is careless.

2. What’s the matter with the woman’s daughter?

A. She drank too much.

B. She drank some ink.

C. She had a fever.

3. How much will the woman have to pay for the apples?

A. 32 dollars.  B. 38 dollars.     C. 36 dollars.

4. How will the man go to the post office?

A. By bus.      B. On foot.    C. By taxi.

5. Why is the woman worried?

A. She can't take part in tomorrow’s party.

B. It’s too early for her to leave the party.

C. She doesn’t know how to get home after tomorrow's party.

第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)

听下面5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。听完每段对话或独白前，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秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Husband and wife.

B. Doctor and patient.

C. Boss and secretary.

7. Why does the man have to change his diet?

A. Because his blood pressure is very high.

B. Because he eats too much meat every day.

C. Because he has got a heart attack.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What are the two tickets for?

A. A pop concert. B. A football match.  C. An opera.

9. Why doesn’t the man accept the invitation at first?

A. Because he has attended such concerts before.

B. Because he is not interested in it at all.

C. Because he is busy with his work at home.

10. What can we infer from the dialogue?

A. They will go to the concert together.

B. The man will watch the football match tonight.

C. The woman will stay at home alone tonight.

听 第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. When did the woman get to London?

A. Last spring. B. A few hours ago. C. Last month.

12. Why did the woman go to London?

A. Because she wanted to visit some relatives.

B. Because she wanted to visit some tourist attractions.

C. Because she was on an educational programme.

13. What’s the meaning of moonlighting?

A. A second job.  B. A kind of toy. C. A kind of tool for lighting.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. What is the woman going to do?

A. Attend a party.  B. Take a holiday. C. Go on a business trip.

15. When does the woman plan to arrive at the seaside town?

A. Late Friday.

B. Saturday morning.

C. Saturday night.

16. What is the weather probably like in the town during the day?

A. Cold.           B. Dry.            C. Hot.

17. What is the woman going to take?

A. Sports shoes.    B. Shorts.  C. Seafood.

听第10段材料，回答第18至第20 小题。

18. What was small compared with its modern forms?

A. The  radio.     B. The television.  C. The phone.

19. What did people have to do when they were photographed with the early cameras?

A. They had to stand close to the machine.

B. They had to wear bright clothes.

C. They had to stand still for a long time.

20. When did the television come to ordinary homes?

A. In the 1930s.   B. In the 1920s. C. In the 1950s.

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall is filled with a festive mood, featuring large-scale equipment, knit works and various activities, under the theme "kiss".

"Kissing is seldom taken as the theme of artworks because in oriental (东方的) culture, people restrain themselves from expressing their emotions," says Jiang Shan, who is in charge of the exhibition.

"Through the exhibition, we hope to encourage people to be confident and brave in expressing their love."

Inside the mall, which covers a large area from Zizhong Lu (Road) to Fuxingnan Lu (Road), dozens of colorful decorations, including balloons, lollipops and lip-shaped decorations are hung on the walls and from the ceiling.

Among the decorations, a bright-colored wool artwork attracts most eyeballs and brings about a feeling of warmth.

The designer, Gu Yeli, says the art piece, Kiss Forest, was inspired by US artist Andy Warhol’s 1963 experimental film Kiss, which featured various couples kissing for three and a half minutes each. Gu also organizes a small workshop to teach knitting (编织) to children.

Artist Wang Xuejun sets up a stainless-steel mirror at the mall's gate leading to Zizhong Lu. Visitors, including men, are invited to put on lipstick and kiss the mirror, thus kissing themselves.

The Beast Floral Shop, a flower shop in Shanghai, contributes two walls of flowers that are made into the shape of a book, named Kiss Book. Artifacts (手工艺品) of bees and butterflies are fixed among the blossoms, kissing the flowers. The work represents love and harmony in nature.

Architect Ma Ke creates a Kiss Bridge with transparent (透明的) acrylic boards and ceramic(陶瓷的)fishbowls. Bridges are often spots for dating lovers in traditional Chinese folk stories and the goldfish in the bowls are witnesses of the lovers' kisses.

In the south plaza, an 18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment encourages people to kiss. Each kiss turns a certain light on, reminding audiences of their sweet childhood memories of kisses.

At the side of the tree is a counter, in which each kiss is counted and represents a donation to charity organizations.

21. What is the main idea of the article?

A. It tells people how important kisses are to life.

B. It introduces an exhibition under the theme "kiss".

C. It describes what Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall looks like.

D. It introduces various activities in Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall.

22. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. people encourage themselves to express their emotions.

B. people teach themselves to express their emotions.

C. people discourage themselves from expressing their emotions.

D. people learn a lot from expressing their emotions.

23. What can we learn from the article?

A. Most people are interested in Jiang Shan's art piece, which brings about a feeling of warmth.

B. Most visitors will kiss each other in front of the stainless-steel mirror at the gate.

C. All the decorations in the mall are aimed at encouraging lovers to express their love bravely.

D. The 18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment will be on for each kiss.

24. The article above probably is taken from a ____________.

A. textbook     B. science and technology magazine    C. travel leaflet   D. news website

B

Expensive and new gloves allow chatterboxes (话匣子) to take the term "handsfree" to a new level—by talking into them as they make a call. The gloves are known as "Talk to the Hand" and cost £1,000 a pair. They fixed a speaker unit into the thumb and a microphone into the little finger that can be connected to any mobile handset using Bluetooth.

Artist Sean Miles designed the new gloves that double as a phone in part of his project that shows the possibilities of gadget (小玩意) recycling. He uses outdated gloves and com bines them with parts from mobile handsets recycled through O2, which took up the project. Mobile phone users will be able to keep their hands warm while they chat without taking their phones out of their pockets or handbags.

Mr. Miles designed two pairs of the new gloves — one in pink and the other in brown and yellow. They will appear in an exhibition this July and visitors will be able to win the gloves. If demand is high, they will then be produced on a larger scale. O2 Recycle, which backed the project, estimates that there are already 70 million unused mobile handsets in the UK. The service pays up to £260 to those who recycle gadgets including phones, handheld consoles (操纵台), MP3 players and digital cameras.

Designer Sean Miles hopes his work will get people thinking about recycling. The 41-year-old said, "I hope that my 'Talk to the Hand' project will get people to think again about the waste created by not recycling gadgets. If a few more people recycle their gadgets rather than send them to trash, I think this project will have fulfilled its aim."

Bill Eyres, head of O2 Recycle, urges people to recycle their phone responsibly. He said, "There’s a pressing need for all of us to look at outdated handsets, and all the gadgets that we move on from or upgrade each year. Whether they are consoles or cameras, we should think of them as a resource that we need to recycle responsibly rather than throw them away."

25. The underlined word "O2" in Paragraph 2 is probably the name of ______.

A. an artist           B. a mobile     C. a company          D. an exhibition

26. Consumers can buy the "Talk to the Hand" gloves ______.

A. in the exhibition                         B. from Mr. Miles

C. after they recycle the gadgets             D. when they are mass-produced

27. The purpose of the project is to _______.

A. promote the technology of IT            B. enable people to talk to their hands

C. raise peoples awareness of recycling      D. attract visitors’ attention in the exhibition

28. What is the passage mainly about?

A. New mobiles which are fashionable.

B. Outdated handsets which are upgraded.

C. Outdated gadgets which can be used for recycling.

D. New gloves which can be used for making phone calls.

C

Everyone has heard of the San Andreas fault(断层), which constantly threatens California and the West Coast with earthquakes. But how many people know about the equally serious New Madrid fault in Missouri?

Between December of 1811 and February of 1812, three major earthquakes occurred, all centered around the town of New Madrid, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. Property damage was severe. Buildings were almost all destroyed. Whole forests fell at once, and huge cracks(裂缝) opened in the ground.

The Mississippi River completely changed character, developing sudden fast-moving currents. Several times it changed its course, and once it appeared to run backwards. Few people were killed in the New Madrid earthquake, simply because few people lived in this area in 1811; but the severity of the quake is shown by the fact that the shock waves rang bells in church towers in Charleston, South Carolina, on the coast. Buildings shook in New York City, and clocks were stopped in Washington, D.C.

Scientists now know that America’s two major faults are different. The San Andreas fault is a horizontal (水平的) boundary between two major land masses that are slowly moving in opposite directions. California earthquakes result when the movement of these two masses suddenly leans (倾斜) forward.

The New Madrid fault, on the other hand, is a vertical(垂直的)fault; at some point, millions of years ago, rock was pushed up toward the surface, probably by volcanoes under the surface. Suddenly, the volcanoes cooled and the rock collapsed, leaving huge cracks. Even now, the rock continues to settle downwards, and sudden sinking motions start earthquakes in the region. The fault itself, a large crack in this layer of rock, with dozens of other cracks that split off from it, extends from northeast Arkansas through Missouri and into southern Illinois.

Scientists who have studied the New Madrid fault say there have been numerous smaller quakes in the area since 1811; these smaller quakes indicate large ones are probably coming, but the scientists say they have no method of predicting when it will occur.

29. The New Madrid fault is _______.

A. responsible for forming the Mississippi River

B. a fault in the flat position

C. a fault caused by rocks moving directly upward

D. a worse fault than the San Andreas fault

30. Which of the following is NOT true about the New Madrid fault?

A. Not many people were killed in the quakes in 1811.

B. Bells were rung in church towers in Charleston to inform the coming quakes.

C. The quakes stopped the clocks in Washington, D.C.

D. The quakes were caused by sudden sinking motion.

31. It can be concluded from the passage that _______.

A. it is probably as dangerous to live in Missouri as in California.

B. the New Madrid fault will eventually develop a mountain range in Missouri

C. in the future California will become an island

D. California will be broken into small pieces by an eventual earthquakex.k.b.1

32. The author suggests that________.

A. earthquakes occur only around fault areas

B. horizontal faults are more dangerous than vertical ones

C. vertical faults are more dangerous than horizontal ones

D. faults are cracks on the earth’s surface caused by past movements of the earth’s land masses

D

In the famous fairy tale, Snow White eats the Queen’s apple and falls victim to a curse; in Shakespeare’s novel, Romeo drinks the poison and dies; some ancient Chinese emperors took pills that contained mercury, believing that it would make them immortal, but they died afterward.

Poison has long been an important ingredient in literature and history, and it seems to always be associated with evil, danger and death. But how much do you really know about poison?

An exhibition, The Power of Poison, opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, intended to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison. The exhibition will continue until August, reported The New York Times.

The museum tour starts in a rainforest setting, where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars, frogs and spiders. Golden poison frogs, for instance, aren’t much bigger than a coin, but their skin is covered in a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves, and a single frog has enough venom to kill 10 grown humans.

The exhibition also features interactive activities. In an iPad-based ga me, visitors are presented with three puzzling illnesses and asked to identify the poisons based on symptoms. In one case, for example, a pet dog is found sick in a backyard and visitors have to figure out whether it was the toad (蟾蜍), the leaky batteries in the trash or the dirty pond water that did it.

''Poisons can be bad for some things,'' Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the museum, told NBC News. ''Yet they can also be good for others.''

This is what visitors learn from the last part of the exhibition, which displays how poisons can be used favorably by humans, including for medical treatment.

The blood toxins of vampire bats, for example, can prevent blood from clotting (凝结), which may protect against strokes. A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against cancer, which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol. One chem ical in the venom of Gila monsters can lower the blood sugar  o f its victims, so it has been used to treat diabetes.

The benefits from natural poisons are not limited to just medicine. Believe it or not, many substances that we regularly take in – chili, coffee and chocolate, etc. – owe their special flavors or stimulating effects to chemicals that plants make to poison insects.

33. By mentioning Snow White and Romeo at the beginning of the story, the author intends to

________.

A. draw readers’ attention to the topic of the article

B. show that poison  is always linked with evil and death

C. show that poison has long been involved in literature

D. get readers to think of more examples of the use of poison in stories

34. What is the main purpose of the exhibition The Power of Poison?

A. To inform people about which animals are the most poisonous.

B. To teach people how to handle poisonous animals.

C. To give people more in-depth knowledge about poison.

D. To show how poison has been used for medical treatment.

35. Which of the following statements about the exhibition is TRUE according to the article?

A. The exhibition will lead visitors to a real rainforest.

B. Those who visit the exhibition can join in some iPad-based interactive games.

C. Golden poison frogs are the most poisonous animals on dis play.

D. Visitors can listen to lectures on recent studies of poisonous animals.