一. 单选题（共10 题，10.0分）
1. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】Most of the workplace accidents resulted from backward infrastructure, loopholes in management and ______ work safety awareness.
A. lacking of
B. lack in
C. lack of
D. for lack of
我的答案:C 正确答案: C
答案解析：
2. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】The boys discovered that they had much more ______ than their mix-race heritage, including
A. love of basketball, rap music and computers.
A. as the common
B. in common
C. commonly
D. with each other
我的答案:C 正确答案: B
答案解析：
3. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】 It is time we ______.
A. left
B. leave
C. should leave
D. ought to leave
我的答案:A 正确答案: A
答案解析：
4. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】Bill suggested ______ the restaurant but Lucy was against it.
A. to sell
B. selling
C. should sell
D. sell
我的答案:B 正确答案: B
答案解析：
5. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】Since they had no cars, the students could do nothing but ______ a lift.
A. to thumb
B. thumb
C. thumbing
D. must thumb
我的答案:B 正确答案: B
答案解析：
6. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】 With the increasing consciousness of self health care, millions of Chinese people _______ in a variety of daily physical exercises, ranging from the traditional shadow boxing to the modern aerobics.
A. compete
B. participate
C. play
D. share
我的答案:B 正确答案: B
答案解析：
7. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】As a result of a bitter quarrel, they have been set _______ each other ever since.
A. against
B. off
C. out
D. up
我的答案:A 正确答案: A
答案解析：
8. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】Fire insurance and accident insurance companies made efforts to _______ safety rules and to educate the public.
A. dedicate
B. enforce
C. observe
D. regulate
我的答案:B 正确答案: B
答案解析：
9. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】The sky is bright because small particles in the air _______ sunlight.
A. direct
B. guide
C. scatter
D. transport
我的答案:C 正确答案: C
答案解析：
10. (单选题,1.0分) 【单选题】In writing, you should avoid using _______ expressions; clear and straightforward ones can help the readers understand your viewpoint more easily.
A. mystifying
B. puzzling
C. uncertain
D. vague
我的答案:D 正确答案: D
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二. 完型填空（共1 题，30.0分）
11. (完型填空,30.0分) 【完形填空题】A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale at Covent Garden Market and meat is sold wholesale at Smithfield Market. But there are markets for things 1 commodities, in the usual sense. There are 2 estate markets, foreign exchange markets, labor markets, short-term capital markets, and so on; there may be a market for anything which has a price. And there may be no particular place 3 dealings are confined. Buyers and sellers may be 4 over the whole world and instead of actually meeting together in a market-place they may deal with one another 5 telephone, telegram, cable or letter. 6 dealings are 7 to a particular place, the dealers may consist wholly or in part of agents 8 instructions from clients far away. Thus agents buy meat at Smithfield Market 9 retail butchers all over England; and 10 on the London Stock Exchange buy and sell 11 on instructions from clients all over the world. We must therefore define a market 12 any area over which buyers and sellers are 13 such close touch with one another, either directly or 14 dealers, that the prices 15 in one part of the market affect the prices paid in other parts.
(1)
A.rather than
B.other than
C.more than
D.less than
(2)
A.true
B.genuine
C.real
D.actual
(3)
A.for which
B.with which
C.at which
D.to which
(4)
A.scattered
B.separated
C.spread
D.dispelled
(5)
A.from
B.by
C.at
D.on
(6)
A.Though
B.Unless
C.When
D.Even if
(7)
A.fixed
B.determined
C.restricted
D.restrained
(8)
A.acting for
B.acting out
C.acting on
D.acting up
(9)
A.on the occasion of
B.on behalf of
C.on account of
D.on the score of
(10)
A.brokers
B.breakers
C.bribers
D.braziers
(11)
A.security
B.securities
C.safety
D.safeties
(12)
A.like
B.as
C.for
D.to
(13)
A.on
B.to
C.in
D.for
(14)
A.by
B.by means of
C.through
D.in the interest of
(15)
A.obtrusive
B.obstinate
C.obvious
D.obtainable
我的答案：
(1) B(2) C(3) D(4) A(5) B(6) D(7) C(8) C(9) B(10) B(11) B(12) B(13) C(14) C(15) D
正确答案：
(1) B(2) C(3) D(4) A(5) B(6) D(7) C(8) C(9) B(10) A(11) B(12) B(13) C(14) C(15) D
答案解析：
三. 阅读理解（共3 题，60.0分）
12. (阅读理解,20.0分) 【阅读理解题】Fourteen-year-old Richie Hawley had spent five years studying violin at the Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles when he took part in a violin contest. Ninety-two young people were invited to the contest and Hawley came out first.
The contest could have been the perfect setup for fear, worrying about mistakes, and trying to impress the judges. But Hawley says he “did pretty well at staying calm. I couldn't be thinking about how many mistakes I’d make -- it would distract me from playing,” he says. “I don’t even remember trying to impress people while I played. It’s almost as if they weren’t there. I just wanted to make music.”
Hawley is a winner. But he didn’t become a winner by concentrating on winning. He did it by concentrating on playing well.
“The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part,” said the founder of the modem Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin “The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”
New research shows that Coubertin’s philosophy is exactly the path achievers take to win at life’s challenging games.
A characteristic of high performers is their intense, pleasurable concentration on work, rather than on their competitors or future glory or money, says Dr. Charles Garfield, who has studied 1,500 achievers in business, science, sports, the arts, and professions. “They are interested in winning, but they’re most interested in self development, testing their limits.”
One of the most surprising things about top performers is how many losses they’ve had -- and how much they’ve learned from each. “Not one of the 1,500 I studied defined losing as failing.” Garfield says. “They kept calling their losses ‘setbacks.’”
A healthy attitude toward setbacks is essential to winning, experts agree.
“The worst thing you can do if you’ve had a setback is to let yourself get stuck in a prolonged depression. You should analyze carefully what went wrong, identify specific things you did right and give yourself credit for them.” Garfield believes that most people don’t give themselves enough praise. He even suggests keeping a diary of all the positive things you’ve done on the way to a goal.
(1) (填空题 4.0分) Hawley won the contest because ____.
A) he put all his mind to his performance
B) he cared much about the judges’ feelings
C) he tried his best to avoid making mistakes
D) he paid close attention to the people around
我的答案：
(1)
A
正确答案：
(1) A
(2) (填空题 4.0分) What is common among high performers is that they tend to give priority to ____.
A) glory B) work C) pleasure D) wealth
我的答案：
(1)
B
正确答案：
(1) B
(3) (填空题 4.0分) According to the passage, successful people concentrate on ____.
A) avoiding setbacks B) learning from others
C) defeating their opponents D) challenging their own limits
我的答案：
(1)
A
正确答案：
(1) D
(4) (填空题 4.0分) It can be learned from the passage that top performers are not ____.
A) free of losses B) interested in winning
C) accustomed to failures D) concerned about setbacks
我的答案：
(1)
A
正确答案：
(1) A
(5) (填空题 4.0分) The passage tells us that “praise” in times of trouble ____.
A) helps people realize their goals
B) makes people forget their setbacks
C) makes people regret about their past
D) helps people deal with their disappointment
我的答案：
(1)
A
正确答案：
(1) D
答案解析：
13. (阅读理解,20.0分) 【阅读理解题】
Television is often viewed as an anti-intellectual medium. But truly clever people know how to use even the most unpromising material, and that is what Val Curtis and her colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have done. They employed the mass market appeal of TV to test a long held, but unproven, hypothesis(假设): that the emotion of disgust evolved to protect people from disease.
They set up their experiment in October 2007, by publicizing it on a BBC program called "Human Instincts". Viewers were invited to visit a website and, after giving a few biographical(个人介绍的)details, to view a series of 20 pictures and rate each of them for disgustingness on a scale of one to five. They were also asked to choose, from a list of possible candidates, with whom they would least like to share a toothbrush.
The results showed that in all seven pairs, the disease distinct pictures were more disgusting than their counterparts. For things like the apparent depiction of bodily fluids, or of a face that had been "enhanced" with spots, that may come as no surprise. But a crowded railway carriage was more distinguishing than an empty one, and a louse more disgusting than a wasp.
These last results confirmed Dr Curtis's suspicion that disgust is not, as many disgust researchers believe, just a way of avoiding eating disease bearing materials. Rather, it extends to threats that might be contagious(传染性的). Indeed, one result of the study was to show that the young are easier to disgust than the old. Another result was that women are more easily disgusted than men. Both of these make evolutionary sense. The young have more reproductive potential than the old, so should be more careful about what they touch and eat. And women are usually burdened with bringing up the children, so have to be disgusted on their offspring's behalf, as well as their own.
The results of the toothbrush study made similar sense. Strangers are more likely to carry new bacteria than acquaintances. Hence, of the available choices of toothbrush partner, a postman came off worst, and a lover best. A brush notionally belonging to a weatherman was, however, preferred to the boss's. Clearly the British feel more intimacy with the former than the later. Perhaps it might have been instructive to include a famous television personality among the choices?
(1) (单选题 4.0分) In the first paragraph television is mentioned to_______ .
A. prove that what some intellectuals had claimed is wrong
B. show that TV is an essential part of British people's daily life
C. demonstrate that mass media is a very profitable industry
D. introduce the media through which the survey was advertised
我的答案: A 正确答案: D
(2) (单选题 4.0分) The experiment is chiefly done by _______.
A. watching the TV program called "Human Instincts" and filling out feedback forms
B. visiting different websites and making matches between pictures and numbers
C. rating various photos with numbers and selecting from a choice list
D. filling in biographical details and choosing a toothbrush
我的答案: B 正确答案: C
(3) (单选题 4.0分) Which of the following is true about the result of the experiment?
A. A spotted face is more disgusting than a picture of bodily fluids.
B. A full packed subway is more disgusting than a louse.
C. A bleeding face is the most disgusting one.
D. A wasp makes people feel better than a louse.
我的答案: A 正确答案: D
(4) (单选题 4.0分) The results of the experiment make evolutionary sense in that _______.
A. old people are less likely to produce goods for the society than the young
B. people's emotion of disgust is often related to the safety of their children
C. women are more likely to bring up children independent of men's help
D. old people are more likely to be disgusted than women
我的答案: A 正确答案: C
(5) (单选题 4.0分) The results of the toothbrush experiment show that _______.
A. a boss is normally less clean and healthy than a weatherman
B. a postman is often dirtier than a lover
C. a public figure is often more popular than a boss in Britain
D. a famous television personality is the best toothbrush partner
我的答案: A 正确答案: B
答案解析：
14. (阅读理解,20.0分) 【阅读理解题】
My father's reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York city was immediate and definite: “You won’t catch me putting my money in there!” he declared, “Not in that glass box!”
Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is upsetting, but I am convinced that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money.
In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity(实物) that could be carried, or stolen. Consequently, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money would be safe inside. If a buildings design made it appear impenetrable, the institution was necessarily reliable, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architecture symbol dwelt in the prevailing attitude toward money.
But the attitude toward money has, of course, changed. Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit. A deficit(赤字) economy, accompanied by huge expansion, has led us to think of money as product of the creative imagination. The banker no longer offers us a safe: he offers us a service in which the most valuable element is the creativity for the invention of large numbers. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavy walled bank.
Just as the older bank emphasized its strength, this bank by its architecture boasts of imaginative powers. From this point of view it is hard to say where architecture ends and human assertion(人们的说法) begins.
(1) (单选题 2分) The main idea of this passage is that __________.
A. money is not as valuable as it was in the past
B. changes have taken place in both the appearance and the concept of banks
C. the architectural style of the older bank is superior to that of the modern bank
D. prejudice makes the older generation think that the modern bank is unreliable
我的答案: C 正确答案: B
(2) (单选题 2分) How do the older generation and the younger one think about money?
A. The former thinks more of money than the latter.
B. The younger generation values money more than the older generation.
C. Both generations rely on the imaginative power of bankers to make money.
D. To the former money is a real commodity but to the latter the means of producing more money.
我的答案: D 正确答案: D
(3) (单选题 2分) The word “tangible” (Line 2, Para. 4 )refers to something __________.
A. that is precious
B. that is usable
C. that can be touched
D. that can be reproduced
我的答案: C 正确答案: C
(4) (单选题 2分) According to this passage, a modern banker should be __________.
A. ambitious and friendly
B. reliable and powerful
C. sensible and impenetrable
D. imaginative and creative
我的答案: D 正确答案: D
(5) (单选题 2分) It can be inferred from the passage that the author's attitude towards the new trend in banking is __________.
A. cautious
B. regretful
C. positive
D. hostile
我的答案: C 正确答案: C
(6) (单选题 2分) The passage is chiefly about ____.
A. an effort to protect an endangered marine species
B. the civilian use of a military detection system
C. the exposure of a US Navy top-secret weapon
D. a new way to look into the behavior of blue whales
我的答案: B 正确答案: B
(7) (单选题 2分) The underwater listening system was originally designed ____.
A. to trace and locate enemy vessels
B. to monitor deep-sea volcanic eruptions
C. to study the movement of ocean currents
D. to replace the global radio communication network
我的答案: A 正确答案: A
(8) (单选题 2分) The deep-sea listening system makes use of ____.
A. the sophisticated technology of focusing sounds under water
B. the capability of sound to travel at high speed
C. the unique property of layers of ocean water in transmitting sound
D. low-frequency sounds traveling across different layers of water
我的答案: D 正确答案: C
(9) (单选题 2分) It can be inferred from the passage that ____.
A. new radio devices should be developed for tracking the endangered blue whales
B. blue whales are no longer endangered with the use of the new listening system
C. opinions differ as to whether civilian scientists should be allowed to use military technology
D. military technology has great potential in civilian use
我的答案: A 正确答案: D
(10) (单选题 2分) Which of the following is true about the US Navy underwater listening network?
A. It is now partly accessible to civilian scientists.
B. It has been replaced by a more advanced system.
C. It became useless to the military after the cold war.
D. It is indispensable in protecting endangered species.
我的答案: A 正确答案: A
答案解析：
C