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C) It was frequented by newly-weds.
D) It was built above the sea-water
6.
Part I Writing （30 minutes）
A) Expand his business on the beach.
Directions：Suppose your school is organizing an orientation program to help the freshmen adapt
B) Replace the restaurant's wooden deck.
to the new environment and academic studies. You are now to write a proposal，which may include
C) Post a picture of his restaurant online.
its aim, duration, participants and activities. You will have 30 minutes to write the proposal. You
D) Celebrate his silver wedding anniversary.
7.
should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
A) She sold it for two thousand dollars.
B) She took it to the restaurant manager.
Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)
C) She posted its picture on Facebook.
Section A
D) She returned it to its owner right away
Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you
Section B
will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once.
Directions: In this section, vou will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation,
After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B),
you wil hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After
C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the
vou hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and
centre.
D). Then mark the corresponuding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) It found a pet dog on board a plane to a city in Texas.
8. A) The number of ducks has declined sharply in recent years.
B) It had one of its cargo planes land at a wrong airport.
B) Climate change has little effect on the lives of wild ducks.
C) It sent two dogs to the wrong destinations.
C) Duck meat is not eaten in Australia. Canada and the U.S.
D) It had two of its domestic flights mixed up.
D) Duck hunting remains legal in many parts of the world.
2. A) Correct their mistake as soon as possible.
9. A) Droughts. B) Bushfires.
B) Give the two pets a physical checkup.
C) Farming. D) Hunting.
C) Hire a charter jet to bring the pets back
10. A) They are not easy to domesticate.
D) Send another plane to continue the flight.
B) Their meat is not that popular.
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
C) It is not environmentally friendly.
3. A) She weighs 130 kilograms. B) She has had babies before.
D) It is not considered cost-effective.
C) She was brought from Africa. D) She has a big family of six.
11. A) They hunted ducks as a traditional sport.
4. A) It took 22 hours.
B) They killed wild ducks and geese for food.
B) It had some complications.
C) They raised ducks and geese for their eggs.
C) It was smooth.
D) They poisoned wild ducks in large numbers.
D) It was monitored by Dr. Sue Tygielski.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A) Have her house repainted.
Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.B) Replace some of her old furniture.
C) Move into a newly-painted house.
D) Calculate the cost of the paint job.
13. A) How long the work will take.
B) How much the work will cost.
C) How the paint job is to be done.
D) How many workers are needed.
14. A) Cover up her furniture. B) Ask some friends for help.
C) Stay somewhere else. D) Oversee the work herself.
15. A) She could have asked a friend for help with the paint iob.
B) Painting a house involves more trouble than she thought.
C) She should have repainted her house much earlier.
D) Moving her furniture is harder than the paint iob.
Section C
Directions: In this section, wou will hear three pussages. At the end of each pasyage, wou will hear
three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear
a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked 4), B), C) and D). Then
mark the corresrondine letter on Answer Sheet1 with a single line through the centre.
Ouestions 16 to 18 are hased on the nassage vou have iust heard.
16. A) To cultivate good habits.
B) To prepare for secondary school.
C) To review what is learned in class.
D) To stimulate interest in learning.
17. A) Discuss their academic achievements with them.
B) Create an ideal study environment for them.
C) Allow them to learn independently.
D) Check their homework promptly.
18. A) Finish them before they get tired.
B) Tackle the most difficult task first.
C) Start with something they enjoy.
D) Focus on the most important ones.
Questinns 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A）Workers who meet its body weight standards.
B）Workers who can lose 30 pounds in a year.C）Workers who try the hardest to lose weight.
D）Workers who are in the top 10% of the slimmest.
20. A）Impractical. B）Inconsistent.
C）Unmanageable. D）Unfair
21. A）Offer them much fatter bonuses.
B）Improve working environment.
C）Encourage healthy behaviors.
D）Provide free lunch and snacks.
Ouestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22. A）It has not done enough to help left-handed children.
B）It has treated left-handed children as being disabled.
C）It has not built facilities specially for the left-handed.
D）It has ignored campaigns on behalf of the left-handed.
23. A）They are as intelligent as other children.
B）They have a distinctive style of handwriting.
C）They sometimes have psychological problems.
D）They tend to have more difficulties in learning
24. A）Punish teachers discriminating against left-handed students.
B）Lay more emphasis on improving children's mental health.
C）Encourage students to develop various professional skills.
D）Keep track of left-handed children's school performance.
25. A）How they can be reduced in number.
B）Why their numbers are so high.
C）What percentage they account for.
D）If their percentage keeps increasing.
Part II Reading Comprehension （40 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 pasage.Read the passage
throueh carefully before makine wur choices.Fach choice in the hank is identified bv a letter，Please
mark the correspondine letter for each iten 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.
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snooltv cinirgc udmresatmanst,i”awl. hIitc'sh a lne fetn hdeurr fineegl irnegsp uonnrseisbtieldit yw bhaesne dsh oen w thoek es oucpi.a“lAizfetde rg e In dbeerc aromlee oa ff iwrsotm- en.H) Like Ms. Li, many women try to manage the added stress to reach what Dr. Jovce said was an
unattainable ideal. "Some professional women aim to do it all. They want to reach the top of
the corporate ladder and fly like supermom,"she said. When women don't reach this ideal, they
feel guilty; and even more stressed. After her own struggle with this, Ms, Li took a step back
and used her experience to build Sanity & Self, a self-care app and platform for overworked
women. "The realizations I had in that process helped me gain insights and ultimately got me
ready to integrate self-care into my daily life."she said.
I) The stress problem extends beyond mental health when vou consider the link between stress,
anxiety and heart health. Worse, most of what we know about heart disease comes from studies
involving men. However, "there are many reasons to think that it's different in women,"Harvard
Medical School reported. For example, women are more likely to experience disturbed sleep,
anxiety and unusual fatigue before a heart attack. Stress is so normalized that it is easy for
women to shrug off those symptoms as simply the consequences of stress. Many women also
do not experience chest pain before a heart attack the way men do, which leads to fewer women
discovering problematic heart issues. Harvard reports that women are "much more likely than
men to die within a year of having a heart attack"and "many women say their physicians
sometimes don't even recognize the symptoms."
J) The good news is, women are more likely than men to take charge of their stress and manage
it, the American Psychological Association reports. The concept of self-care, at its core, is quite
simple. "The basics of adequate sleep, healthy diet and exercise are a good place to start,"Dr.
Joyce said. "Support from trusted relationships is vital. This includes professional support from
various health and wellness providers if stress is becoming increasingly overwhelming. "
K) Disconnecting from work and home responsibilities is also obviously important. But it's much
easier said than done. It is important to understand what causes your stress in the first place.
"Get really specific with what's stressing you out."Ms. Li said. "We often chalk up our stress to
broad experiences like work. But work stress can take many different forms. Is a colleague
being disrespectful of your time? Is a boss undermining your day-to-day control over decision
making? These are different causes of stress and can benefit from different kinds of self-care.
L) Ideally, your spouse or partner will be supportive, rather than dismissive, of your stress. It is
important to talk through these issues before they come to a head. "Women working outside of
the home should make an effort to have a conscious conversation with their partners about more
equitable sharing of household and family responsibilities,"Dr. Joyce said.
36. Some career women who aim high tend to feel guilty if they fail to achieve their goals.
37. The unpaid housework done by women is triple that done by men.38. It is reported that women consistently suffer more from severe stress than men.
39. Women are advised to identify the specific causes of their stress so that steps can be taken to
deal with it.
40. One study showed that women managers often expressed positive emotions that they didn't
really feel.
41. Women tend to mistake signs of heart attacks for symptoms of stress.
42. For a time an app developer in America was so busy attending to work and family that she
suffered from sleeplessness
43. The emotional labor women do is noticed only when it is not done.
44. Dr. Joyce suggests that apart from self-care, women should seek professional support if they
experience severe stress
45. Some people believe that there may not exist a stress gap between men and women.
Section C
Directions：There are 2 passages 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 thabest choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a sinele
line through the centre.
Passage One
Ouestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
As many office workers adapt to remote work，cities may undergo fundamental change if
offices remain under-utilized.Who will benefit if working from home becomes the norm？
Employers argue they make considerable savings on real estate when workers shift from office
to home work. However，these savings result from passing costs on to workers.
Unless employees are fully compensated，this could become a variant of parasitic（寄生的）
capitalism，whereby corporate profits increasingly rely on extracting value from the public-and now
personal-realm，rather than on generating new value.
Though employers are backed by a chorus of remote work advocates，others note the
loneliness，reduced productivity and inefficiencies of extended remote work.
If working from home becomes permanent, employees will have to dedicate part of their
private space to work. This requires purchasing desks, chairs and office equipment.
It also means having private space dedicated to work：the space must be heated，cleaned，
maintained and paid for. That depends on many things, but for purposes of illustration, I have run
some estimates for Montréal. The exercise is simple but important，since it brings these costs out
of the realm of speculation into the realm of meaningful discussion.Rough calculations show that the savings made by employers when their staff works from
home are of similar value to the compensation workers should receive for setting up offices at home.
What does this mean for offices in cities？One of two things may happen：Employers pass
these costs onto employees.This would be a form of expropriation（侵占）， with employees
absorbing production costs that have traditionally been paid by the employer. This represents a
considerable transfer of value from employees to employers.
When employees are properly compensated，employers' real estate savings will be modest. If
savings are modest，then the many advantages of working in offices —such as lively atmosphere，
rapidity of communication，team-building and acclimatization（适应环境）of new employees-will
encourage employers to shelve the idea of remote work and，like Yahoo in 2013，encourage
employees to work most of the time from corporate office space.
46. What does the author say about working from home？
A）It will become the norm sooner or later.
B）It requires employees to adapt promptly.
C）It benefits employers at the expense of employees.
D）It will force cities to transform their infrastructure
47. Why do some people oppose working from home？
A）It discourages team spirit.
B）It invades employces'privacy.
C）It undermines traditional values.
D）It negatively impacts productivity.
48. Why did the author run the estimates for Montréal？
A）To provide convincing data for serious discussion.
B）To illustrate the ongoing change in working patterns.
C）To show the impact of remote working on productivity.
D）To exemplify how remote working affects the economy.
49. What can we conclude from the author's calculations？
A）There is no point in transferring office work to working from home.
B）Employees can benefit as much from remote working as their employers.
C）Employers'gain from remote working should go to cmployees as compensation.
D）Effective measures should be taken to motivate employees to set up offices at home.
50. What is the author's opinion on working from home？
A）It should be avoided if possible.
B）It is only a temporary measure.C）It can reduce companies' real estate costs.
D）It may affect employees' corporate loyalty.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
The human thirst for knowledge is the driving force behind our successful development as a
species. But curiosity can also be dangerous，leading to setbacks or even downfalls. Given
curiosity's complexity，scientists have found it hard to define.
While pinning down a definition has proven tricky，the general consensus is it's some means
of information gathering. Psychologists also agree curiosity is intrinsically（内在地）motivated.
Curiosity covers such a large set of behaviors that there probably isn't any single "curiosity
gene" that makes humans wonder about and explore their environment. That said, curiosity does
have a genetic component. Genes and the environment interact in many complex ways to shape
individuals and guide their behavior，including their curiosity.
Regardless of their genetic makeup，infants have to learn an incredible amount of information
in a short time，and curiosity is one of the tools humans have found to accomplish that gigantic task.
Hundreds of studies show that infants prefer novelty. It's what motivates non-human animals,
human infants and probably human adults to explore and seek out new things before growing less
interested in them after continued exposure.
But curiosity often comes with a cost.
In some situations, the stakes are low and failure is a healthy part of growth. For instance,
many babies are perfectly proficient crawlers, but they decide to try walking because there's more
to see and do when they stand upright. But this milestone comes at a small cost. A study of 12-to
19-month-olds learning how to walk documented that these children fell down a lot. Seventeen
times per hour, to be exact. But walking is faster than crawling, so this motivates expert crawlers to
transition to walking.
Sometimes, however, testing out a new idea can lead to disaster. For instance, the Inuit people
of the Arctic regions have created incredible modes to deal with the challenges of living in northern
climates, but what we forget about are the tens of thousands of people that tried and failed to make
it in those challenging landscapes.
51. What does the author say about curiosity?
A) It is too complex for non-scientists to understand.
B) It is the force that pushes human society forward.
C) It is a unique trait specific to the human race.
D) It is often the major cause for human failures.52. What is the general understanding of curiosity?
A) It motivates people to scek information.
B) It is destined to transform human genes.
C) It does people more good than harm.
D) It underlies all human behaviors.
53. What do we learn about how genes shape people's behavior?
A) They determine people's way of thinking.
B) They account for age differences in learning.
C) They enable people to undertake massive tasks.
D) They work in conjunction with the environment.
54. What do numerous studies show about infants?
A) They are far more curious than adults.
B) They prefer to go after all that is novel.
C) They have different interests than adults.
D) They show non-human animal behaviors.
55. What does the example of the Inuit people of the Arctic regions illustrate?
A) The cost of humans' curiosity to explore.
B) The incredible harshness of cold weather.
C) The innovative ideas stemming from curiosity.
D) The importance of learning from past failures.
PartⅣ Translation （30 minutes）
Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into
English.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
大运河（Grand Canal）是世界上最长的人工河，北起北京，南至杭州。它是中国历史
上最宏伟的工程之一。大运河始建于公元前4世纪，公元13世纪末建成。修建之初是为了运
输粮食，后来也用于运输其他商品。大远河沿线区域逐渐发展成为中国的工商业中心。长久
以来，大运河对中国的经济发展发挥了重要作用，有力地促进了南北地区之间的人员往来和
文化交流。
