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Passage two

Questions 22 to25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

22. A. A mountain resort. B. A seaside resort.

C. A desert. D. The outback of Australia.

23.. A. Fellow teachers. B. Freshmen of a university.

C. Second-year students. D. Either seniors or juniors.

24. A. There are mountains nearby.

B. He’s been there once.

C. He wants to be away from the hustle and bustle.

D. He heard it would be fun to be there.

25.A. Finish their course work.

B. Plan out their holiday in detail.

C. Head for Sydney.

D. Buy some necessities for their trip.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each conversation, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. A) She was found stealing in a bookstore.

B) She caught someone in the art of stealing.

C) She admitted having stolen something.

D) She said she was wrongly accused of stealing.

27. A) A book. B) $ 3,000.

C) A handbag. D) A Christmas card.

28. A) She was questioned by the police.

B) She was shut in a small room for 20 minutes.

C) She was insulted by the shopper around her.

D) She was body searched by the store manager.

29. A) They refused to apologize for having followed her though the town.

B) They regretted having wrongly accused her of stealing.

C) They still suspected that she was a thief.

D) They agreed to pay her $ 3,000 damages.

Passage Two

Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

30. A) His friend gave him the wrong key.

B) He didn’t know where the back door was.

C) He couldn’t find the key to his mailbox.

D) It was too dark to put the key in the lock.

31. A) It was getting dark.

B) He was afraid of being blamed by his friend.

C) The birds might have flown away.

D) His friend would arrive any time.

32. A) He looked silly with only one leg inside the window.

B) He knew the policeman wouldn’t believe him.

C) The torch light made him look very foolish.

D) He realized that he had made a mistake.

Passage Three

Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

33. A) The threat of poisonous desert animals and plants.

B) The exhaustion of energy resources.

C) The destruction of energy resources.

D) The spread of the black powder from the fires.

34. A) The underground oil resources have not been affected.

B) Most of the desert animals and plants have managed to survive.

C) The oil lakes soon dried up and stooped evaporating.

D) The underground water resources have not of oil wells.

35. A) To restore the normal production of the oil wells.

B) To estimate the losses caused by the fire.

C) To remove the oil left in the desert.

D) To use the oil left in the oil lakes.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

These days people who do manual work often 36 ______ far more money than people who work in offices. People who work in offices are 37_______referred to as “white-collar workers” for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work. Such is human 38 ________, that a great many people are often willing to 39 ________ higher pay for the 40 _________ of becoming white-collar workers. This can give rise to 41 _______ situations, as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation.

When he got 42 _________, Alf was too embarrassed to say anything to his wife about his job. He simply told her that he worked for the Corporation. Every morning, he left home 43 in a smart black suit. 44 __________________________________________ Before returning home at night, he took a shower and changed back into his suit.45______________________________________ Alf’s wife has never discovered that she married a dustman and she never will for Alf has just found another job. He will soon be working in an office. He will be earning only half as much as he used to, 46_____________________________________________________ From now on, he will wear a suit all day and others will call him “Mr.Bloggs”, not “Alf”.

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making you choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

As the plane circled over the airport, everyone sensed that something was wrong. The plane was moving unsteadily through the air, and 47 the passengers had fastened their seat belts, they were suddenly 48 forward. At that moment, the air-hostess 49 .She looked very pale, but was quite 50 .Speaking quickly but almost in a whisper, she 51 everyone that the pilot had 52 and asked if any of the passengers knew anything about machines or at 53 how to drive a car. After a moment 54 , a man got up and followed the hostess into the pilot's cabin. Moving the pilot 55 , the man took his seat and listened carefully to the 56 instructions that were being sent by radio from the airport below. The plane was now dangerously close to ground, but to everyone's relief, it soon began to climb.

A. although          B. anxious

C. thrown            D. shifted

E. appeared         F. urgent

G. presented        H. aside

I. even                 J. informed

K. calm                 L. least

M. fainted            N. length

O. hesitation

Section B

Direction: There are 2 passage in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

In the early days of the internet, many people worried that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left stranded on the wrong side of a “digital divide.” Yet the debate over the digital divide is founded on a myth — hat plugging poor countries into the internet will help them to become rich rapidly.

This is highly unlikely, because the digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security. So even if it were possible to wave a magic wand and cause a computer to appear in every household on earth, it would not achieve very much: a computer is not useful if you have no food or electricity and cannot read. Yet such Wand-waving — through the construction of specific local infrastructure projects such as rural telecenters — is just the sort of thing for which the UN's new fund is intended.

This sort of thing is the wrong way to go about addressing the inequality in access to digital technologies: it is treating the symptoms, rather than the underlying causes. The benefits of building rural computing centers, for example, are unclear. Rather than trying to close the divide for the sake of it, the more sensible goal is to determine how best to use technology to promote bottom-up development. And the answer to that question turns out to be remarkably clear: by promoting the spread not of PCs and the Internet, but of mobile phones.

57. What is the main idea of this passage?

A) Plugging poor countries into the Internet will help them to become rich rapidly.

B) Poor countries should be given more basic devices other than advanced ones.

C) Rich countries should help poor ones becoming rich.

D) People in poor countries cannot afford devices such as computer.

58. What did the author mean by referring "digital divide." (Line 3, Para. 1)?

A) Digital technology will make the gap between rich world and poor world wider.

B) Digital technology will divide people into rich and poor world.

C) People can be divided digitally.

D) To divide people in digital world is wrong.

59. We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that.

A) people in poor countries cannot use computer because of illiteracy.

B) poor people cannot use computers.

C) there would be no magic to cause a computer to appear in every household on earth.

D) people in poor countries need more basic living conditions than computers.

60. Considering the following sentences, which one would the author most agree?

A) Digital technology is useless.

B) Digital divide will help poor countries becoming rich.

C) Poor people need more immediate concerns, such as food, health care and security.

D) Mobile phones should be promoted firstly.

61. The following passage will probably be:

A) How to promote using of mobile phones.

B) How to use technology to promote bottom-up development.

C) The benefits of building rural computing centers.

D) How to meet the need of food, health and security in poor countries.