1. Listening Comprehension (25%)Section A Short ConversationsDirections: In Section A, you win hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. 5:55. B. 6:15.C. 6:45.D. 6:30.2. A. At a convenience store. B. At a cinema.C. At a railway station.D. At a hospital.3. A. She watched a TV show until midnight. B. She was trying a new diet.C. She did too much physical exercise.D. She was having a fever.4. A. He left his cellphone at home.B. He was late for the meeting.C. He was in a hurry to go back home.D. He didn’t read the message while running.5. A. Ticket seller and audience. B. Manager and secretary.C. Librarian and reader.D. Receptionist and customer.6. A. The boy’s examination score.B. The boy’s life goals in the future.C. The boy’s performance in a basketball game.D. Parents’ expectation on child’s academic performance.7. A. The man had supposed the woman to be late.B. Stacy didn’t take the traffic into consideration.C. Stacy didn’t admit being late for the appointment.D. The woman was a little bit late for the appointment.8. A. From the newspaper. B. From the Internet.C. From wildlife protection groups.D. From the government officials.9. A. The woman has no interest in reading novels.B. The woman is in low mood and nothing interests her.C. Historical novel is the woman’s favorite kind of novels.D. The woman likes romantic novels more than any other novels.10. A. Tom’s father is good at playing football.B. Tom has to finish his homework within an hour.C. Tom’s father used to object to Tom’s playing football.D. Tom is excited that his father allows him to play football.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and passage(s) will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. He was punished to be working in an animal shelter.B. He was fined a lot of money and lost his job as a butcher.C. He was forbidden from living in his apartment for three years.D. He was heavily fined and not allowed to keep animals for ten years.12. A. He was scratched by the cat he raised at home.B. His cat was captured and nearly killed by the tiger.C. He was attacked by the tiger and was bit in the arm.D. His tiger was seriously ill after eating the raw meat.13. A. Ming ca n’t live without jazz and hip-hop.B. Ming is not accustomed to the country life.C. Ming doesn’t like the food in the animal shelter.D. He can’t fall asleep without Ming，s smell and noise.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.l4. A. The call to prayer happens too frequent and should be reduced.B. The loudspeakers announcing prayer time damage people’s life.C. The first call to prayer is too early and should be after sunrise.D. Arabs make too much noise during the prayer time in mosques (清真寺).15. A. He thinks Israel is a country of Judaism (犹太教).B. He is a racist and his aim is to reduce Arab population.C. He intends to create an atmosphere of freedom and equality.D. He believes the country should protect citizens from the noise.16. A. The bill destroys the harmony between Jews and Arabs.B. The bill doesn’t respect the right of the Arabs.C. The bill shows the hatred against the Arabs.D. The loudspeaker hurts all of the society.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. She is a chef. B. She is a nurse assistant.C. She is a medical transcriptionist.D. She is a housewife.18. A. Listening to the conversation between the doctor and patients.B. Writing down the medical report on the computer.C. Finding the problems in the medical treatment.D. Helping the doctor to take care of patients.19. A. She gets paid every two weeks.B. She can explain it to her son.C. She can learn from different medical cases.D. She can balance work with domestic duties.20. A. He regards the job meaningless and looks down upon it.B. He insists that it should be done by the doctor himself.C. He is proud of his mother and understands her choice.D. He feels sorry that it is not paid as well as his father’s job.II. Grammar and Vocabulary(20%)Section A (10%)Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Remember that doll you had as a kid—the one (21) eyes open when it is upright and close when it’s laid down? Or maybe you were the kid that went around popping limbs off Barbies and teddy bears.Either way, it turns out these broken toys needn’t worry—because Sydney’s Original Doll Hospital exists. And this year, it celebrates 100 years of fixing up dolls, teddy bears, rocking horses, umbrellas, and more.The doll hospital (22) (found) by Harold Chapman Sr. as part of his general store (杂货店), thanks to a shipping error. His brother was in the business of importing celluloid (合成树脂) dolls from Japan but the rubber bands (23) held them together would often break and the dolls would be damaged. It was Mr. Chapman Sr. (24) came up with a way to repair them. And then from such a small beginning (25) (grow) quite a successful business as demand for doll repairs increased.The business was taken over in the 1930s by Harold’s son, Harold Chapman Jr., who relocated the Doll Hospital and expanded the business to include repairs (26) other toys, leather goods, umbrellas, etc.The real boom came with World War II. Restrictions on manufacturing and importing goods to Australia meant that children and collectors (27) make do with their old dolls instead of buying new ones and more repairs were needed. At one point during the war, the hospital had 70 “nurses” working in six different repair rooms. By its 95th birthday, the hospital (28) (carry out) a staggering 2.5 million repairs.Now, the hospital has been passed onto the third generation of the Chapman family, (29) Harold Jr.’s son, G eoff, now in charge. Despite changing technology, which means that many modem children are (30) (interested) in the latest gadgets or computer games, the business is still going strong, with dolls sent from all over Australia and even across the sea from New Zealand for repair.Section B(10%)Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.When the Hong Kong school year began in September, tutor Tony Chow arranged to have his face painted on the sides of double-decker buses to raise his (31) For many of Chow’s students, the advertisements may be the closest they’ll ever get to him.The 30-year-old teaches English grammar to thousands of secondary school students, who attend his after-school lessons or watch video replays of them at Modem E ducation’s 14 branches.Chow is a (32) tutor in Hong Kong, where there’s big money to be made offering extracurricular lessons to parents desperately (33) an edge for their children preparing for the city’s intense public entrance exam for univ ersity.Recent global student rankings (34) the city’s cut-throat academic atmosphere. Hong Kong teens, along with their counterparts in Shanghai, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, dominated a list compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD,经济合作与发展组织).Hong Kong has taken extracurricular lessons to a new level in recent years, with the majority of students (35) the city’s nearly 1,000 tutorial centers. These centers use flashy marketing, dressing their tutors in miniskirts and high heels or leather jackets to make them look like pop stars. Advertisements for these “tutor kings” and “tutor queens” are (36)on giant roadside billboards, on the sides of shopping malls and on newspaper front pages.Facebook profiles, YouTube videos and other social media are also part of the (37) marketing strategies. “Every night after they finish their classes I will send them messages through WeChat,” said Chow. After all, he said, “the most powerful (38)is word of mouth among students.”Many of these tutors (39) students they can help them ace the entrance exam. Chow and others promise, for example, that they will help students learn keywords that many believe examiners award points for when used in written answers.Hong Kong’s tutorial industry is worth $ 260 a year, according to a report by research firm Synovate. The industry has made some tutors extremely (40) . Modern Education’s highest paid tutor earns at least 16 million Hong Kong dollars a year, according to Synovate’s report.III. Reading Comprehension (45%)Section ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A，B，C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Over the last 15 years, digital communication has brought in more changes than the printing press did in 1570. And those most likely to use them in this world are teenagers, whose brains appear to have an extraordinary volume to adapt to the world around them, according to Dr Jay Giedd, a(n) 41 brain expert.We are now discovering that, as a species, our brains during the teenage years are still flexible and capable of 42 . Having a more flexible brain, 43 , means that certain parts of it, such as desire control and the ability to make long-term decisions, haven’t developed yet, which may also explain why we spend a(n) 44 period living under the protection of our parents rather than leaving home at the age of 12 or 13. This also means that the teenage brain can adapt to new technology, enabling teenagers to 45 the increasing pace of digital technology and giving them an advantage when it comes to multitasking.In the USA, on average teenagers spend 8.5 hours a day using computers, mobiles, and other devices to learn, interact, and play. This increases to 11.5 hours if you include all of the 46 that goes on, such as talking on the phone while watching TV. As they stare at these screens, they’re taking in and sorting through an incredible amount of information.There are 47 about how social media is affecting the way the brain learns to 48 , as one of the most important skills that we learn as children is how to make friends and interact with people around us. Geidd says that a lot of what goes on inside our brains is social. Social interactions are now being 49 by technology —you could have hundreds of friends, all of whom are real people that you interact with and scientists aren’t sure whether we’ll be able to develop the same 50 using social media.There is a(n) 51 of the growing digital trend: YouTube shows the teenagers all over the world are watching the same videos and laughing at the same jokes, indicating that they are more 52 than teenagers in the past. They may be keen on 53 their friends and posting updates on social media sites, but teenagers today are probably going to have access to technology and 54 social and educational opportunities that anyone with a less flexible brain may have trouble imagining. Nevertheless, there is a cut-off point, and by the age of 30, ourbrains in their ways, making it more 55 for us to adapt and cope with new technologies. 41. A. digital B. adolescent C. surgical D. artificial42. A. functioning B. noticing C. adjusting D. deciding43. A. however B. therefore C. otherwise D. instead44. A. natural B. glorious C. limited D. extended45. A. keep up with B. come up with C. put up with D. end up with46. A. gossiping B. multitasking C. interacting D. playing47. A. reports B. curiosities C. concerns D. talks48. A. memorize B. sort C. imagine D. socialize49. A. changed B. controlled C. troubled D. interrupted50. A. trends B. attitudes C. societies D. skills51. A. advantage B. distraction C. indication D. history52. A. absent-minded B. global-minded C. quick-minded D. serious-minded53. A. accessing B. texting C. discovering D. watching54. A. on the whole B. as a result C. in other words D. by all means55. A. flexible B. important C. difficult D. incredibleSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions orunfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A，B，C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)Sebastian Faulks has written many novels, including Devil May Care, the latest James Bond book. This cutting comes from a very different kind of novel called Charlotte Gray. The setting is a transit (中转) camp near Paris during the Second World War, where a group of people, including two small children, Andre and Jacob, await transport to take them to a concentration camp outside France. Although these people - the ‘deportees’ of the cutting - are not fully aware of this, they face certain death.The Last NightAndre was lying on the floor when a man came with postcards on which the deportees might write a final message. He advised them to leave them at the station or throw them from the train as camp orders forbade access to the post. Two or three pencils that had survived the camps search were passed round among the people in the room. Some wrote with weeping passion, some with great care, as though their safety, or at least the way in which they were remembered, depended upon their choice of words.A woman came with a sandwich for each child to take on the journey. She also had a bucket of water, round which they gathered, holding out food cans they passed from one to another. One of the older boys hugged her in his gratitude, but the bucket was soon empty. When she was gone, there were only the small hours of the night to go through. Andre was lying on the straw, and Jacob leaned close to him for warmth.Five buses had come in through the main entrance, and now stood trembling in the corner of the yard. At a long table …the commandant of the camp himself sat with a list of names that another policeman was calling out in alphabetical order. Andre heard his name and moved with Jacob towards the bus. From the other side of the courtyard, from windows open on the dawn, a shower of food was thrown towards them by women crying and calling out their names.Andre looked up, and in a chance angle of light he saw a woman’s face in which the eyes were fixed with terrible fierceness on a child beside him. Why did she stare as though she hated him? Then it came to Andre that she was not looking in hatred, but had kept her eyes so intensely open in order to fix the picture of her child in her mind. She was looking to remember, for ever….56. What can we learn from the first part of the passage?A. The background and the situation of World War Ⅱ.B. The transit camp and the transportation in Paris.C. The author, the setting and the main characters.D. The main idea and the names on the list.57. Which of the following is true about the things going on in the transit camp?A. The deportees were eager to leave their final messages.B. A humble breakfast was served to children late that morning.C. Andre happened to witness the deportees’ routine camp life.D. The camp commandant stood by a long table calling the roll.58. The woman stared at her child fiercely probably because .A. she found her child was trembling and crying for foodB. she thought she would never see her child any moreC. she was filled with an attempt to escape from deathD. she was driven mad by the life in the transit camp(B)Learning English Video Project1. Encounters in the UK (17 minutes)Watch | CommentsEncounters in the UK is the first film in this documentary mini-series. It tells the story of four girls from different countries who travel to Cambridge in England to study with local families in what is called a “homestay” arrangement. For the four girls the homestay arrangement is a positive experience. As one of the homestay hosts explains: “It’s going to be a great experience, not only in terms of learning English, but in learning about life.” Watch with: subtitles | transcript | no subtitles | Comments2. Stories from Morocco (16 minutes)Watch | CommentsSet in Casablanca, Morocco, this film features footage and interviews focusing on key questions such as “Why are people learning English?” and “What tips and advice carlearners offer?” Staff and learners discuss the advantages and challenges of English language learning in Morocco. Interviewees touch on a variety of topics including Britishvs American accents, multi-level classrooms, and the similarities of English to French and Spanish.Watch with Subtitles | Watch without Subtitles | Comments3. Thoughts from Brazil (17 minutes)Watch | CommentsLike Insights from China, Thoughts from Brazil also looks at modern trends in learning English, especially for children and teens, it will be of particular interest to all those wholong for a learning experience that is more interactive and communicative. Teens andyoung adults will find new ideas for combining personal interests such as music, gamingand social media with self-study. As Daniel Emmerson talks to learners and teachers of English in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he discovers that many of them have found for themselvesthe principle of learning by doing and have readily adapted it to the Internet era.Watch with Subtitles | Watch without Subtitles | Comments59. From the pas sage we can conclude that “Learning English Video Project” is most probably .A. an online language learning courseB. audio documents on language learningC. a series of short video programsD. a set of films on English-speaking countries60. If someone is interested in the comparison between English and other languages, he might be interested to watch .A. Encounters in the UKB. Stories from MoroccoC. Thoughts from BrazilD. Insights from China61. What can we know about English learning in Sao Paulo, Brazil?A. Classroom teaching is more interactive and communicative.B. Homestay arrangement provides positive experience for learners.C. The Internet and games plays a major role in language learning.D. The principle of learning by doing is widely accepted by learners.(C)Lindsay Renwick, the mayor of Deniliquin, a country town in New South Wales, misses the constant whir (嗡嗡声) of the rice mill whose giant fans dried the rice. The Deniliquin mill, the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere (南半球), once processed enough grain to meet the needs of 20 million people globally. But six years of drought have had a destructive effect, reducing Australia’s rice crop by 98 percent and leading to the mothballing of the mill last December.Drought affects every agriculture industry based in Australia, not just rice —from sheep farming, the country’s other backbone, to the cultivation of grapes for wine, the fastest-growing crop there, with that expansion often coming at the ex pense of rice. The drought’s effect on rice has produced the greatest impact on the rest of the world, so far. It is one factor contributing to skyrocketing prices, and many scientists believe it is among the earliest signs that a warming planet is starting to affect food production.Researchers are looking for solutions to global rice shortages —for example, rice that blooms earlier in the day, when it is cooler, to fight against global warming. Rice plants that happen to bloom on hot days are less likely to produce grains of rice, a difficulty that is already starting to emerge in inland areas of China and other Asian countries as temperatures begin to climb. “There will be problems very soon unless we have new varieties of rice in place,” said Reiner Wassmann, climate change director at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). The recent reports on climate change carried a warning that could make the news even worse: that existing models for the effects of climate change on agriculture did not yet include newer findings that global warming could reduce rainfall and make it more variable.Yet the effects of climate change are not uniformly bad for rice. Rising concentrations (浓度) of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, can actually help rice - although the effect reduces or disappears if the plants face unnecessary heat, inadequate water, severe pollution or other stresses. Still, the flexibility of farmers here has persuaded some climate experts that, particularly in developed countries, the effects of climate change may be relieved, if not completely avoided. “I’m not as negative as most people,” said Will Steffen, director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University. “Farmers are learning how to dothings differently.”Meanwhile, changes like the use of water to grow wine grapes instead of rice carry their own costs, as the developing world is discovering. “Rice is an essential food，” said Graeme Haley, the general manager of the town of Deniliquin. “Wine is not.”62. By “the mothballing of the mill” (in Paragraph 1) the author most probably means the mill is .A. kept unprocessedB. left unusedC. being entirely restoredD. being pushed round63. To find the ways to cope with the global rice shortage, researchers are .A. seeking new types of rice which could bloom at a lower temperatureB. building greenhouses which could provide more heat for rice to growC. studying climate changes in China which may affect rice growing in AsiaD. looking for alternative agriculture industries which may take the place of rice64. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?A. Rice plants are fond of higher temperature in the process of growing.B. Global warming has shown few signs of influence on agriculture.C. Rice prices are rising steadily owing to the crop failure in Australia.D. Global warming may contribute to more complicated weather conditions.65. It can be inferred from the passage that .A, Australia is the largest rice producing country around the worldB. most people look on the bright side of the flexibility of farmersC. climate changes have simply brought negative effects to people’s livesD. wine grape cultivation has threatened the rice production in Australia66. Which of the following best serves as the title of the passage?A. Rice shortage and wine boomB. Drought, the enemy of rice productionC. Rice crisis and its solutionD. Rice issue, a focus of the public attentionSection C (8%)Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box.Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.Bike-Sharing Schemes Test Shanghai’ EthicsShared bikes’ convenience and relativ ely low fees—after users pay a deposit, every ride within 30 minutes costs just 1 yuan—has proven an attractive proposition. Most shared bike rides in Shanghai start from smartphone apps, which have users scan QR codes with their phones.67Some of the shared bike users aren’t always willing to share their bikes. For example, Mobike has had some of its bicycles stolen. 68 In addition, some of the bikes’ QR codes have been defaced (损伤外观) on purpose, making it impossible for anyone to use them. “ We’ve foreseen that such problems will emerge. So, Mobike has introduced a credit point system that punishes rule breakers with higher fares,” said Ma Xiaoran, Mobike’s public relations manager.Some users have also complained about the weight of the Mobikes and their non-adjustable seats, so a competitor called ofo, lighter and cheaper, has penetrated into the market. Ofo initially targeted university campuses and is available to the general public now.Similarly, ofo has also had trouble keeping its bikes from disappearing. 69 After scanning a bike’s QR code, ofo’s app will give the user a code with which to unlock the bike. However, the locks are flimsy (脆弱的), and a bit of rattling will show the user which buttons to press, foregoing the need to pay. Also, since the bicycles aren’t equipped with GPS, the company cannot easily track the ones that have been stolen.Posinda, a company from neighboring Jiangsu province, started operating in Yangpu District in late 2014, its only service area of the city. Unlike its competitors, Posinda’s 300 bikes need to be returned to certain locations. “Different from the Mobike model, we have designated stations where our bikes are parked,” Posinda’s general manager, Zhu Minjian, said. “70 ” Thecompany, active in 11 cities, is subsidized by local governments, and its bikes can be used for free if returned within one hour. But users need to pay a deposit of 500 yuan to get a card required to unlock the bikes.IV. Summary Writing 71 (10%)Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.A good story encourages us to turn the next page and read more. We want to find out what happens next and what the main characters do and what they say to each other. We may feel excited, sad, afraid, angry or really happy. This is because the experience of reading or listening to a story is much more likely to make us ‘feel’ that we are part of the story, too. Just like in our ‘real’ lives, we might love or hate different characters in the story. Perhaps we recognize ourselves or others in some of them. Perhaps we have similar problems.Because of this natural sympathy for the characters, our brains process the reading of stories differently from the way we read factual information. Our brains don’t always recognize the difference between an imagined situation and a real one so the characters become ‘alive’ to us. What they say and do is therefore more meaningful. This is why the words and structures that relate a story’s events, descriptions and conversations are processed in this deeper way.In fact, cultures all around the world have always used storytelling to pass knowledge from one generation to another. Our ancestors understood very well that this was the best way to make sure our histories and information about how to relate to others and to our world was not only understood, but remembered too. (Notice that the word ‘history’ contains the word ‘story’ — this is not a coincidence!)Encouraging your child to read or listen to stories should therefore help them to learn a second language in a way that is not only fun, but memorable.V. Translation (15%) (3+3+4+ +5)72.由于缺乏足够的资金和劳动力，这家工厂倒闭了。