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Part I Reading Comprehension

Directions: There are three passages in this part. 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 blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Passage 1

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage : The reflective towers of New York City，which is on the Atlantic migrating (迁徙的)route，can be deadly for birds.“We live in an age of”glass, said Ms. Laurel，an architect.(76) “It can be a perfect mirror in certain lights, and the larger the glass, the more dangerous it is.”

About 90, 000 birds are killed by f1ying into building in the city each year. Often, they strike the lower levels of glass towers after searching for food in nearbyparks.

Such crashes are the second- leading cause of death for migrating birds, after habitat (栖息地)1oss，with an estimated number of death ranging up to a billion a year.(77)As glass office and apartment towers have increased in the last decade, so, too，have calls to make them less deadly to birds. San Francisco adopted bird-safety standard for new building in July.

The United States Green Building Council, a nonprofit industry group that encourages the creation of environmentally conscious buildings，will introduce a bird-safety credit this as part of its environmental certification process.

There are no easy fixes, however. A few rese archers are exp1oring glass designs that use ultraviolet (紫外线的)signals, but they are still in their infancy. Covers, dot patterns, shades and net are the main options available.

Often, only one section of a building needs to be changed. .” You don’t necessarily have to treat every window, Ms. Laurel said. It would be too expensive to do the whole building.” The Jacob Convention Center, which has been undergoing alterations, is the most recent building to voluntarily correct the problem of bird crashes. The architects used less reflective glass and dot patterns.

1. What is the main idea of the passage?C

A New York is a city of glass towers

B. Glass tower are dangerous for migrating birds

C. New York adopted new safety standards for buildings

D. Glass towers are a new trend in the United States

2. What is the number one cause of death for migrating birds?B

A. C1imate change

B. Habitat loss

C. Lack of food

D. Crashing into buildings

3. What does the word “fixes in the third paragraph probably mean?C

A. Choices

B. Explanations

C. Solutions

D. Developments

4.___ are used in the alteration of the Jacob K. Jarvits Convention Center.A

A. Dot patterns

B. Shades

C. Nets

D. Covers

Passage 2

Question 6 to 10 are based on the fowling passage:

Today s students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F.D. R. ,and they live in a world where amazing innovations (革新) are common. The current 18- -year-olds，after all， were 8 when Google was founded by two students at Stanford. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was Harvard and they were entering high school. Having grown up digital 数字的)，they are impatient to get on with life.

The easiest way to find kids like these is to check in on .entrepreneur ship (企业家才能)education, in which colleges and universities try to prepare their students to recognize opportunities and seize them .

A report published last year by the Kauffman Foundation, which finances programs to promote innovation on campuses, noted that more than 50, 000 entrepreneurship programs are offered on two- and four-year campuses- up from just 250 courses in 1985. Lisa Mitchell ，a Kauffman vice president, says that the foundation is extending the reach of its academic influence, which used to be found only in business schools. Now, the concept of entrepreneurship is blooming in engineering programs and medical school, and even in the liberal arts.“ Our interest is the programs, ”she says.“ We need to spread out from the business school. ”

Either as class projects or on their own, students in a variety of majors are coming up with ideas, writing business plans and seeing them through to prototype and, often， market. In their spare time， students in agricultural economics at Purdue invent new uses for beano industrial design majors at Syracuse，in special laboratory, create wearable technologies.

(78) The entrepreneurship movement has its critics， especially among those who see college as a time for extensive academic exploration. “I just don’ t think that entrepreneurship ranks so high in terms of national need, says Daniel S. Greenberg，author of Science for sale: The perils， Rewards and Delusions of Campus Capitalism.

Leonard A Schlesinger，Babson College s president, says that the question of whether innovation can really be taught is an age-old argument.

6. When Google and Facebook were established， the founders wereA

A. in high school

B. in the army

C. in primary school

D. at college

7. According to the passage, what is the main purpose of entrepreneur ship education?B

A. To prepare students for future academic life

B. To prepare students to find opportunities and seize them

C. To prepare students for overseas career.

D. To prepare student to develop interpersonal skills.

8. The word “ prototype ” in the fourth paragraph is most likely to mean？A

A model

B. strategy

C. method

D. stage

9. What does Daniel S. Greenberg think of entrepreneur ship education?D

A. Entrepreneurship， or at least certain elements of it，can be taught

B. An entrepreneurship program can help students find what they really like and entrepreneurship isn’t all about business

C. Entrepreneurship should be spread across different fields

D. Colleges shouldn’t put too much emphases is on entrepreneurship programs ..

Passage 3

Question 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

Regret is as common an emotion as love or fear, and it can be nearly as powerful. So， in a new paper, two researchers set about trying to find out what the typical American regrets most. In telephone surveys, Neal Rose, a psychologist and professor of marketing at the School of Management at Northwestern University, and Mike Morrison, a doctoral candidate in psychology at University of Illinois， asked 370 Americans，aged 19 to 103, to talk about their most notable regret .Participants were asked what the regret was，when it happened, whether it was a result of something they did or didn't do，and whether it was something that could still be fixed.

The most commonly mentioned regret involved romance (浪漫的事) (18%) ---- lost loves or unfulfilled relationships. Family regrets came in second (16%)， whit people still feeling badly about being unkind to their brothers or sisters in childhood. 0ther frequently reported regrets involved career (13%)，education(12%)，money(10%) and parenting(9 %).

Rose and Morrison’s study, which is to be published in social psychological and personality science, is significant in that it surveyed a wide range of the American public, including people of all ages and socio-economic and educational backgrounds. Previous studies on regret have focused largely on college students, who predictably tend to have education-focused regrets, like wishing they had studied harder or a different major. The new survey shows that in the larger population, a person' s major. The new survey shows that in the larger population, a person’s“life circumstances-accomplishments,，shortcomings , situation in life- inject considerable fuel into the fires of regret,” the authors write.

(79)People with less education for instance were more likely to report education regret. People with higher levels of education had the most career regrets. And those with no romantic partner tended to hold regrets regarding love. Broken down(分解、细分)by sex, more women(44%) than men (19%) had regrets about love and family-- not surprising， since women“ value social relationships more than men, ”the authors write. In contrast , men (34%) were more likely than women (27%) to mention work related regrets, wishing they' d chosen a different career path, for instance ,or followed their passion (80)Many participants a1so reported wishing they had worked less to spend more time with their children .

There was an even split between regrets about inaction (not doing something) and action (do something you wish you didn't) . But, like previous studies, the current research found that some regrets are more likely than others to persist over time: people tend to hang on longer to the regret of inaction. Meanwhile, regrets of action tend to be more recent.

11. In the second paragraph, the author shows A

A the researchers’ findings

B. the importance of family

C. the importance of money

D. the importance of career

12. According to the passage ，college student participants mainly had regrets about their? B

A. family and childhood

B. study and major

C. career and job

D. romance and fear

13. The word “notable” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to ? D

A. common

B. capable

C. wonderful

D. remarkable

14. Which of the following statements is TRUE? C

A The less education he or she has，the more regrets she or he would have

B. The more education he or she has， the less regrets she or he would have

C. More women than men had regrets about love and family

D. The regret of action seems to last longer than that of inaction

Passage 4

Question 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

Sixteen-year-old Maria was waiting in line at the airport in Santo Domingo. She was leaving her native country to join her sister in the United States. She spoke English very well. Though she was very happy she could go abroad, she was feeling sad at leaving her family and fiends. As she was thinking all about this, she suddenly heard the airline employee asking her to pick up her luggage and put it on the scales (称) . Maria pulled and pulled. The bag was too heavy and she just couldn't lift it up. The man behind her got very impatient. He, too, was waiting to check in his luggage.

“What's wrong with this girl?" He said, “Why doesn't she hurry up?" He moved forward and placed his bag on the counter, hoping to check in fist. He was in a hurry to get a good seat.

Maria was very angry, but she was very polite. And in her best English she said, “Why are you s0 upset? There are enough seats for everyone on the plane. If you are in such a hurry, why can't you give me a hand with my luggage?"

The man was surprised to hear Maria speak English. He quickly picked up her luggage and stepped back. Everyone was looking at him with disapproval.

16. Maria's story happened____? D

A when she was leaving America

B. on her way back to Santo Domingo

C. before she left the USA

D. when she arrived at the airport

17. You believer that the work of the airline employee mentioned in the story is to____at the airport. C

A. help carry people's luggage

B. ask people to pick up the luggage

C. check people's luggage

D. take care of people's luggage

18.“Why are you so upset?" Maria said to the man. She wanted to tell him that he should not be___. C

A surprised

B. sad

C. unhappy

D. sory

19.“Everyone was looking at him with disapproval." This sentence means that the people around felt____. D

A worried about Maria

B. worried about the man

C. sorry for Maria's manners

D. sorry for the man's manners

Part IIVocabulary and Structure

Directions: In this part there are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B， C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentences. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

21. Mr. Smith is coming to visit us soon. We’d better get everything ready before he?

A. arrives

B. arrive

C. will arrive

D. arrived

22.________yesterday, you would have met Professor Jones. But now he has left for London.

A. Did you come

B. Had you come

C. Should you come

D. Were you to come

23. The man denied ____into the neighbor’s garden and _____his cow.

A. going... stealing

B. going…stole

C. went…stealing

D. went…stole

24. Ted worked like a horse in his youth, ____.contributed to his great success later as a businessman.

A that

B. who

C. what

D. which

25. Mike is better than Peter____ swimming.

A. for

B. at

C. on

D. in

26.____on the New World, he felt like crying

A land

B. Landed

C. To land

D. Having landed

27. Visit our store. Nowhere else___ such good bargains.

A. you find

B. find you

C. do you find

D. you do find

28. After_______ seemed an endless wait; it was his turn to go into the doctor’s office

A, this

B. that

C. which

D. what

29. Ever since the Smiths moved to the lake area a year ago, they ______better health.

A could have enjoyed

B. had enjoyed

C. have been

D. Mood

30. I have been looking forward to____ from my parents.

A. hear

B. being heard

C. be heard

D. hearing

31. I can’ t understand why you regard it as music. It____ me mad!

A puts

B. sets

C. drivers

D. changes

32. Yesterday Mr. Blake was caught in the rain and got wet through.____ he caught a bad cold.

A Consequently

B. Finally

C. Lately

D. Strangely

33. William likes to eat out, but he is not _____about what he eats.

A peculiar

B. unusual

C. particular

D. special

34. Their house stands at a hilltop,_____ the Hudson River down below

A seeing

B. viewing

C. looking at

D. over looking

35. I can’ t understand why my boss is always____ fault with my work.

A finding

B. seeking

C. looking

D. making

36. This is the same knife_____ I lost yesterday.

A which

B. what

C. like

D. as

37. - -- When will you be back?

---I’ll be back ______a couple of days.

A. after

B. for

C. about

D. in

38. We hear that they will ____a new school here.

A set down

B. set up

C. set off

D. set out

39. He will never forget the days____ he spent in Japan.

A when

B. after

C. that

D. how

40. Interestingly enough, the two brothers have noting in___.

A ordinary

B. Common

C. General

D. particular

41. The scientists are trying to find out the facts to _____their theory.

A support

B. carry

C. design

D. raise

42. The performance of the English team was ____They played much worse than expected.

A disappoint

B. disappointing

C. disappointed

D. to disappoint

43. You are welcome to order the goods now. But payment should be made _______.

A. for advance

B. from advance

C. in advance

D. to advance

44. Speak louder so that you can make yourself _____.

A. heard

B. to hear

C. hearing

D. have been heard

45. Now it won’ t be long before we meet again, __?

A will it

B. do we

C. won’t we

D. does it

21-25ABADD

26-30DCBCD

31-35C AADB

36-40DDBAB

41-45 ACCAA

PartIIICloze

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A，B，C，and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Experts suggest using a different password for every website you visit, and changing the password every few months. It takes trouble to keep them in mind, but it’ s well worth the 51.Be 52with your passwords and make it difficult it is for someone to enter your 53. The more 54 you make your password, the more difficult it is for someone else to figure it 55。

Use privacy settings(设置) on social websites to 56 entry into your personal information and limit the 57 of private information you share. Even seemingly innocent information you expose about yourself could be used 58 you. I once read about a burglary(入室盜窃). It 59 that the thieves selected that particular home 60 they discovered the owner was out of t own by 61 a Facebook message.

According to personal safety experts，it isn't a(n) 62 experience. The information you post on websites can 63 criminal activity. You may not think 64 about posting the concert you are going to or your weekend away, but could be a(n) 65 for trouble。

Information on the Internet has made it easier for thieves to steal any information about you. Never 66 your full births date. Never respond to e- mails 67personal or financial information. Do not freely offer personal information to anyone 68 you are certain who you are dealing with. 69 the necessary precautions (预防措施)is the best way to 70 you and your personal information stay protected .

51. A effect B. effort C. labor D. matter

52. A. proud B. true C. honest D. creative

53. A. accounts B. records C. directions D. collections

54. A. complex B. careful C. diligent D. elastic

55. A away B. on C. out D. in

56. A. respond B. resign C. restrict D. resemble

57. A. number B. amount C. pile D. piece

58. A. with B. for C. about D. against

59.A. turned out B. turned in C. picked out D. picked up

60. A which B. while C. because D. although

51-55BDAAC

56-60 CBCAB