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Part II
Listening Comprehension
(30 minutes)
Section A
Directions ：
In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you
will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.
After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked
A) , B) , C) and D ). Then mark the corresponding letter on A n sw er S h e e t 1 with a
single line through the centre.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) Reply to the man's last proposal within a short time.
B) Sign the agreement if one small change is made to it.
C) Make a sponsorship deal for her client at the meeting.
D) Give the man some good news regarding the contract.
2. A) They are becoming impatient.
B) They are afraid time is running out.
C) They are used to making alterations.
D) They are concerned about the details.
3. A) To prevent geographical discrimination.
B) To tap the food and beverage market.
C) To avoid any conflict of interest.
D) To reduce unfair competition.
4. A) It is a potential market for food and beverage.
B) It is very attractive for real estate developers.
C) It is a negligible market for his company.
D) It is very different from other markets.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) They are thrilled by a rare astronomic phenomenon.
B) They are celebrating a big event on mountain tops.
C) They are enthusiastic about big science-related stories.
D) They are joined by astronomers all across North America.
6. A) It will be the most formidable of its kind in over a century.
B) It will come closest to Earth in more than one hundred years.
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C) It will eclipse many other such events in human history.
D) It will be seen most clearly from Denver5s mountain tops.
7. A) A blur.
B) Stars.
C) The edge of our galaxy.
D) An ordinary flying object.
8. A) Use professional eqxiipment.
B) Climb to the nearby heights.
C) Fix their eyes due north.
D) Make use of phone apps.
Section B
Directions ：
In this section, -you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you 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 A) , B ) ,
C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on A nsw er S heet 1 with a single line
through the centre.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) Whether consumers should be warned against ultra-processed foods.
B) Whether there is sufficient scientific consensus on dietary guidelines.
C) Whether guidelines can form the basis for nutrition advice to consumers.
D) Whether food scientists will agree on the concept of ultra-processed foods.
10. A) By the labor cost for the final products.
B) By the degree of industrial processing.
C) By the extent of chemical alteration.
D) By the convention of classification.
11. A) Increased consumers5 expenses.
B) Greater risk of chronic diseases.
C) People's misunderstanding of nutrition.
D) Children's dislike for unprocessed foods.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) They begin to think of the benefits of constraints.
B) They try to seek solutions from creative people.
C) They try hard to maximize their mental energy.
D) They begin to see the world in a different way.
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13. A) It is characteristic of all creative people.
B) It is essential to pushing society forward.
C) It is a creative person's response to limitation.
D) It is an impetus to socio-economic development.
14. A) Scarcity or abundance of resources has little impact on people's creativity.
B) Innovative people are not constrained in connecting unrelated concepts.
C) People have no incentive to use available resources in new ways.
D) Creative people tend to consume more available resources.
15. A) It is key to a company5s survival.
B) It shapes and focuses problems.
C) It is essential to meeting challenges.
D) It thrives best when constrained.
Section C
Directions ：
In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks fallowed by three or four
questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must
choose the best answer from the four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D ). Then mark the
corresponding letter on A nsw er S h eet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) Because they are learned.
B) Because they come naturally.
C) Because they have to be properly personalized.
D) Because there can be more effective strategies.
17. A) The extent of difference and of similarity between the two sides.
B) The knowledge of the specific expectation the other side holds.
C) The importance of one's goals and of the relationship.
D) The approaches one adopts to conflict management.
18. A) The fbx.
C) The shark.
B) The owl.
D) The turtle.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. A) Help save species from extinction and boost human health.
B) Understand how plants and animals perished over the past.
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C) Help gather information publicly available to researchers.
D) Find out the cause of extinction of Britain's 66,000 species.
20. A) It was once dominated by dinosaurs.
B) It has entered the sixth mass extinction.
C) Its prospects depend on future human behaviour.
D) Its climate change is aggravated by humans.
21. A) It dwarfs all other efforts to conserve, protect and restore biodiversity on earth.
B) It is costly to get started and requires the joint efforts of thousands of scientists.
C) It can help to bring back the large numbers of plants and animals that have gone extinct.
D) It is the most exciting, most relevant, most timely and most internationally inspirational.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
22. A) Cultural identity.
C) The Copernican revolution.
B) Social evolution.
D) Human individuality.
23. A) It is a delusion to be disposed of.
B) It is prevalent even among academics.
C) It is a myth spread by John Donne's poem.
D) It is rooted in the mindset of the 17th century.
24. A) He believes in Copernican philosophical doctrines about the universe.
B) He has gained ample scientific evidence at the University of Reading.
C) He has found that our imer self and material self are interconnected.
D) He contends most of our body cells can only live a few days or weeks.
25. A) By coming to see how disruptive such problems have got to be.
B) By realising that we all can do our own bit in such endeavours.
C) By becoming aware that we are part of a bigger world.
D) By making joint efforts resolutely and persistently.
Part in
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 passage. Read the
passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified
by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on A nsw er 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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Ifs quite remarkable how different genres of music can spark unique feelings, emotions, and
memories. Studies have shown that music can reduce stress and anxiety before surgeries and we are
all attracted toward our own unique life soundtrack.
If you're looking to
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stress, you might want to give classical music a try.
The sounds of classical music produce a calming effect letting
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pleasure-inducing
dopamine (多 巴胺)in the brain that helps control attention, learning and emotional responses. It can
also turn down the body's stress response, resulting in an overall happier mood. It turns out a pleasant
mood can lead to
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in a person's thinking.
Although there are many great
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of classical music like Bach, Beethoven and Handel, none
of these artists5 music seems to have the same health effects as Mozarfs does. According to
researchers, listening to Mozart can increase brain wave activity and improve
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function.
Another study found that the distinctive features of Mozarfs music trigger parts of the brain that are
responsible for high-level mental functions. Even maternity
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use Mozart to help newborn
babies adapt to life outside of the mother's belly.
It has been found that listening to classical music
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reduces a person's blood pressure.
Researchers believe that the calming sounds of classical music may help your heart
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from
stress. Classical music can also be a great tool to help people who have trouble sleeping. One study
found that students who had trouble sleeping slept better while they were listening to classical music.
Whether classical music is something that you listen to on a regular basis or not, it wouldn't
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to take time out of your day to listen to music that you find
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. You will be surprised at
how good it makes you feel and the potentially positive change in your health.
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alleviate
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loose
B)
clarity
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majestic
C)
cognitive
K)
mandatory
D)
composers
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recover
E)
hurt
M) significantly
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inhibiting
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soothing
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interrogation
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wards
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intrinsically
Section B
Directions ：
In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each
statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from
which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each
paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter
on A nsw er S h eet 2.
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The Curious Case of the Tree That Owns Itself
A) In the city of Athens, Georgia, there exists a rather curious local landmark—a large white oak that
is almost universally stated to own itself. Because of this, it is considered one of the most famous
trees in the world. So how did this tree come to own itself and the land around it?
B) Sometime in the 19th century a Georgian called Colonel William Jackson reportedly took a liking
to the said tree and endeavored to protect it from any danger. As to why he loved it so, the earliest
documented account of this story is an anonymously written front page article in the Athens Weekly
Banner published on August 12, 1890. It states, Col. Jackson had watched the tree grow from his
childhood, and grew to love it almost as he would a human. Its luxuriant leaves and sturdy limbs
had often protected him from the heavy rains, and out of its highest branches he had many a time
gotten the eggs of the feathered singers. He watched its growth, and when reaching a ripe old age
he saw the tree standing in its magnificent proportions, he was pained to think that after his death
it would fall into the hands of those who might destroy it.”
C) Towards this end, Jackson transferred by means of a deed ownership of the tree and a little land
around it to the tree itself. The deed read, "W. H. Jackson for and in consideration of the great
affection which he bears the said tree, and his great desire to see it protected has conveyed unto
the said oak tree entire possession of itself and of all land within eight feet of it on all sides.”
D) In time, the tree came to be something of a tourist attraction, known as The Tree That Owns Itself.
However, in the early 20th century, the tree started showing signs of its slow death, with little that
could be done about it. Father time comes for us all eventually, even our often long lived, tall and
leafy fellow custodians (
) of Earth. Finally, on October 9, 1942, the over 30 meter tall and
200-400 year old tree fell, rumor has it, as a result of a severe windstorm and/or via having
previously died and its roots rotted.
E) About four years later, members of the Junior Ladies Garden Club (who'd tended to the tree before
its unfortunate death) tracked down a small tree grown from a nut taken from the original tree.
And so it was that on October 9, 1946, under the direction of Professor Roy Bowden of the
College of Agriculture at the University of Georgia, this litde tree was transplanted to the location
of its ancestor. A couple months later, an official ceremony was held featuring none other than the
Mayor of Athens, Robert L McWhorter, to commemorate the occasion.
F) This new tree became known as The Son of the Tree That Owns Itself and it was assumed that, as
the original tree's heir, it naturally inherited the land it stood on. Of course, there are many dozens
of other trees known to exist descending from the original, as people taking a nut from it to grow
elsewhere was a certainty. That said, to date, none of the original tree's other children have
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petitioned the courts for their share of the land, so it seems all good. In any event, The Son of the
Tree That Owns Itself still stands today, though often referred to simply as The Tree That Owns
Itself.
G) This all brings us around to whether Jackson ever actually gave legal ownership of the tree to
itself in the first place and whether such a deed is legally binding.
H) Well, to begin with, it turns out Jackson only spent about three years of his life in Athens, starting
at the age of 43 from 1829 to 1832, sort of dismissing the idea that he loved the tree from
spending time under it as a child and watching it grow, and then worrying about what would
happen to it after he died. Further, an extensive search of land ownership records in Athens does
not seem to indicate Jackson ever owned the land the tree sits on.
I) He did live on a lot of land directly next to it for those three years, but whether he owned that land
or not isn't clear. Whatever the case, in 1832 a four acre parcel, which included the land the tree
was on and the neighboring land Jackson lived on, among others, was sold to University professor
Malthus A Ward. In the transaction, Ward was required to pay Jackson a sum of $ 1,200 (about
$31,000 today), either for the property itself or simply in compensation for improvements
Jackson had made on the lot. In the end, whether he ever owned the neighboring lot or was
simply allowed to use it while he allegedly worked at the University, he definitely never owned
the lot the tree grew on, which is the most important bit for the topic at hand.
J) After Professor Ward purchased the land, Jackson and his family pxirchased a 655 acre parcel a few
miles away and moved there. Ten years later, in 1844, Jackson seemed to have come into financial
difficulties and had his little plantation seized by the Clarke County Sheriffs office and auctioned
off to settle the mortgage. Thus, had he owned some land in Athens itself including the land the
tree sat on, presumably he would have sold it to raise funds or otherwise had it taken as well.
K) And whatever the case there, Jackson would have known property taxes needed to be paid on the
deeded land for the tree to be truly secure in its future. Yet no account or record indicates any
trust or the like was set up to facilitate this.
L) On top of all this, there is no hard evidence such a deed ever existed, despite the fact that deed
records in Athens go back many decades before Jackson's death in 1876 and that it was supposed
to have existed in 1890 in the archives according to the original anonymous news reporter who
claims to have seen it.
M) As you might imagine from all of this, few give credit to this side of the story. So how did all of
this come about then?
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N) It is speculated to have been invented by the imagination of the said anonymous author at the
Athens Weekly Banner in the aforementioned 1890 front page article titled u Deeded to Itselfv ,
which by the way contained several elements that are much more easily proved to be false. As to
why the author would do this, ifs speculated perhaps it was a 19th century version of a click-bait
thought exercise on whether it would be legal for someone to deed such a non-conscious living
thing to itself or not.
O) Whatever the case, the next known instance of the Tree That Owns Itself being mentioned wasn't
until 1901 in the Centennial Edition of that same paper, the Athens Weekly Barmer. This featured
another account very clearly just copying the original article published about a decade before, only
slightly reworded. The next account was in 1906, again in the Athens Weekly Banner, again very
clearly copying the original account, only slightly reworded, the 19th century equivalent of
re-posts when the audience has forgotten about the original.
36. Jackson was said to have transferred his ownership of the oak tree to itself in order to protect it
from being destroyed.
37. No proof has been found from an extensive search that Jackson had ever owned the land where
the oak tree grew.
38. When it was raining heavily, Jackson often took shelter under a big tree that is said to own itself.
39. There is no evidence that Jackson had made arrangements to pay property taxes for the land on
which the oak tree sat.
40. Professor Ward paid Jackson over one thousand dollars when purchasing a piece of land
from him.
41. It is said the tree that owned itself fell in a heavy windstorm.
42. The story of the oak tree is suspected to have been invented as a thought exercise.
43. Jackson's litde plantation was auctioned off to setde his debt in the mid-19th century.
44. An official ceremony was held to celebrate the transplanting of a small tree to where its ancestor
had stood.
45. The story of the Tree That Owns Itself appeared in the local paper several times, with slight
alterations in wording.
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Section C
Directions ：
There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is fallowed 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 A nsw er
S h eet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
It is irrefutable that employees know the difference between right and wrong. So why don't more
employees intervene when they see someone exhibiting at-risk behavior in the workplace?
There are a number of factors that influence whether people intervene. First, they need to be able
to see a risky situation beginning to unfold. Second, the company's culture needs to make them feel
safe to speak up. And third, they need to have the communication skills to say something effectively.
This is not strictly a workplace problem; it's a growing problem off the job too. Every day
people witness things on the street and choose to stand idly by. This is known as the bystander
effect—the more people who witness an event, the less likely anyone in that group is to help the
victim. The psychology behind this is called diffusion of responsibility. Basically, the larger the
crowd, the more people assume that someone else will take care of it—meaning no one effectively
intervenes or acts in a moment of need.
This crowd mentality is strong enough for people to evade their known responsibilities. But it's
not only frontline workers who don't make safety interventions in the workplace. There are also
instances where supervisors do not intervene either.
When a group of employees sees unsafe behavior not being addressed at a leadership level it
creates the precedent that this is how these situations should be addressed, thus defining the safety
culture for everyone.
Despite the fact that workers are encouraged to intervene when they observe unsafe operations,
this happens less than half of the time. Fear is the ultimate factor in not intervening. There is a fear of
penalty, a fear that they'll have to do more work if they intervene. Unsuccessful attempts in the past
are another strong contributing factor to why people don't intervene- they tend to prefer to defer that
action to someone else for all future situations.
On many worksites, competent workers must be appointed. Part of their job is to intervene when
workers perform a task without the proper equipment or if the conditions are unsafe. Competent
workers are also required to stop work from continuing when there5s a danger.
Supervisors also play a critical role. Even if a competent person isn't required, supervisors need a
broad set of skills to not only identify and alleviate workplace hazards but also build a safety climate
within their team that supports intervening and open communication among them.
Beyond competent workers and supervisors, ifs important to educate everyone within the
organization that they are obliged to intervene if they witness a possible unsafe act, whether you're a
designated competent person, a supervisor or a frontline worker.
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46. What is one of the factors contributing to failure of intervention in face of risky behavior in the
workplace?
A) Slack supervision style.
B) Unfavorable workplace culture.
C) Unforeseeable risk.
D) Blocked communication.
47. What does the author mean by u diffusion of responsibility” (Line 4, Para. 3)?
A) The more people are around, the more they need to worry about their personal safety.
B) The more people who witness an event, the less likely anyone will venture to participate.
C) The more people idling around on the street, the more likely they need taking care of.
D) The more people are around, the less chance someone will step forward to intervene.
48. What happens when unsafe behavior at the workplace is not addressed by the leaders?
A) No one will intervene when they see similar behaviors.
B) Everyone will see it as the easiest way to deal with crisis.
C) Workers have to take extra caution executing their duties.
D) Workers are left to take care of the emergency themselves.
49. What is the ultimate reason workers won5t act when they see unsafe operations?
A) Preference of deferring the action to others.
B) Anticipation of leadership intervention.
C) Fear of being isolated by coworkers.
D) Fear of having to do more work.
50. What is critical to ensxiring workplace safety?
A) Workers be trained to operate their equipment properly.
B) Workers exhibiting at-risk behavior be strictly disciplined.
C) Supervisors create a safety environment for timely intervention.
D) Supervisors conduct effective communication with frontline workers.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
The term “environmentalist” can mean different things. It used to refer to people trying to
protect wildlife and natural ecosystems. In the 21st century, the term has evolved to capture the need
to combat human-made climate change.
The distinction between these two strands of environmentalism is the cause of a split within the
scientific community about nuclear energy.
On one side are purists who believe nuclear power isn't worth the risk and the exclusive solution
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to the climate crisis is renewable energy. The opposing side agrees that renewables are crucial, but
says society needs an amount of power available to meet consumers5 basic demands when the sun
isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. Nuclear energy, being far cleaner than oil, gas and coal, is a
natural option, especially where hydroelectric capacity is limited.
Leon Clarke, who helped author reports for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, isn5t an uncritical supporter of nuclear energy, but says it's a valuable option to have if we're
serious about reaching carbon neutrality.
“ Core to all of this is the degree to which you think we can actually meet climate goals with
100% renewables/* he said. "If you don't believe we can do it, and you care about the climate, you
are forced to think about something like nuclear.n
The achievability of universal 100% renewability is similarly contentious. Cities such as
Burlington, Vermont, have been “ 100% renew ablefor years. But these cities often have small
populations, occasionally still rely on fossil fuel energy and have significant renewable resources at
their immediate disposal. Meanwhile, countries that manage to run off renewables typically do so
thanks to extraordinary hydroelectric capabilities.
Germany stands as the best case study for a large, industrialized country pushing into green
energy. Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2011 announced Energiewende, an energy transition that would
phase out nuclear and coal while phasing in renewables. Wind and solar power generation has
increased over 400% since 2010, and renewables provided 46% of the country's electricity in 2019.
But progress has halted in recent years. The instability of renewables doesn?t just mean energy is
often not produced at night, but also that solar and wind can overwhelm the grid during the day,
forcing utilities to pay customers to use their electricity. Lagging grid infrastructure struggles to
transport this overabundance of green energy from Germany's north to its industrial south, meaning
many factories still run on coal and gas. The political limit has also been reached in some places, with
citizens meeting the construction of new wind turbines with loud protests.
The result is that Germany's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by around 11.5% since
2010—slower than the EU average of 13.5%.
51. What accounts for the divide within the scientific community about nuclear energy?
A) Attention to combating human-made climate change.
B) Emphasis on protecting wildlife and natural ecosystems.
C) Evolution of the term “green energy” over the last century.
D) Adherence to different interpretations of environmentalism.
52. What is the solution to energy shortage proposed by purists5 opponents?
A) Relying on renewables firmly and exclusively.
B) Using fossil fuel and green energy alternately.
C) Opting for nuclear energy when necessary.
D) Limiting people's non-basic consumption.
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53. What point does the author want to make with cities like Burlington as an example?
A) It is controversial whether the goal of the whole world5s exclusive dependence on renewables
is attainable.
B) It is contentious whether cities with large popxilations have renewable resources at their
immediate disposal.
C) It is arguable whether cities that manage to run off renewables have sustainable hydroelectric
capabilities.
D) It is debatable whether traditional fossil fuel energy can be done away with entirely throughout
the world.
54. What do we learn about Germany regarding renewable energy?
A) It has increased its wind and solar power generation four times over the last two decades.
B) It represents a good example of a major industrialized country promoting green energy.
C) It relies on renewable energy to generate more than half of its electricity.
D) It has succeeded in reaching the goal of energy transition set by Merkel.
55. What may be one of the reasons for Germany5s progress having halted in recent years?
A) Its grid infrastructure^ capacity has fallen behind its development of green energy.
B) Its overabundance of green energy has forced power plants to suspend operation during
daytime.
C) Its industrial south is used to running factories on conventional energy supplies.
D) Its renewable energy supplies are unstable both at night and during the day.
Part IV
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 A nsw er S h eet 2.
中国的传统婚礼习俗历史悠久，从周朝开始就逐渐形成了一套完整的婚礼仪式，有些一直
沿用至今。如今的中式婚礼习俗已有很大变化，但婚礼庆典仍然十分隆重。婚礼场地经过精心
装饰,以象征融(jubilance)的红色为主色调,摆放着许多祝愿新人幸福的物件。在婚礼上，新
人要拜天地(bow to Heaven and Earth)、拜父母和相互对拜，然后设宴招待宾客，并向宾客敬酒致
谢。今天,许多年轻人依然钟情于传统的中式婚礼，体验独特而美好的中国式浪漫。
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Part I
Writing
(30 minutes)
(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试)
Directions：
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the
sentence
Nowadays, cultivating independent learning ability is becoming
increasingly crucial for personal development.M You can make comments, cite
examples or use your personal experiences to develop your essay. You should write at
least J50 words but no more than 200 words.
You should copy the sentence given in quotes at the beginning ef your essay.
请用黑色签字笔在答题卡1 指定区域内作答作文题，在试题册上的作答无效!
请认真填写以下信息:
准考证号：I l l i ——
姓
名:________________________________
错填、未填以上信息，按违规处理！
Part II
Listening Comprehension
(30 minutes)
Section A
Directions ：
In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you
will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.
After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked
A) , B) , C) and D ). Then mark the corresponding letter on A n sw er S h e e t 1 with a
single line through the centre.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) Read numerous comments users put online.
B) Blended all his food without using a machine.
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C) Searched for the state-of-the-art models of blenders.
D) Did thorough research on the price of kitchen appliances.
2. A) Eating any blended food.
C) Using machines to do her cooking.
B) Buying a blender herself.
D) Making soups and juices for herself.
3. A) Cooking every meal creatively in the kitchen.
B) Paying due attention to his personal hygiene.
C) Eating breakfast punctually every morning.
D) Making his own fresh fruit juice regularly.
4. A) One-tenth of it is sugar.
B) It looks healthy and attractive.
C) One's fancy may be tickled by it.
D) It contains an assortment of nutrients.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) How he has made himself popular as the mayor of Berkton.
B) How the residents will turn Berkton into a tourist attraction.
C) How charming he himself considers the village of Berkton to be.
D) How he has led people of Berkton to change the village radically.
6. A) It was developed only to a limited extent.
B) It was totally isolated as a sleepy village.
C) It was relatively unknown to the outside.
D) It was endowed with rare natural resources.
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7. A) All the properties in Berkton were designed by the same architect.
B) The majority of residents lived in harmony with their neighbors.
C) The majority of residents enjoyed cosy housing conditions.
D) All the houses in Berkton looked aesthetically similar.
8. A) They have helped boost the local economy.
B) They have made the residents unusually proud.
C) They have contributed considerably to its popularity.
D) They have brought happiness to everyone in the village.
Section B
Directions ：
In this section, yow will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you 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 A) , B ) ,
C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on A nsw er Sheer 1 with a single line
through the centre.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) They have created the smallest remote-controlled walking robot in the world.
B) They are going to publish their research findings in the journal Science Robotics.
C) They are the first to build a robot that can bend, crawl, walk, turn and even jump.
D) They are engaged in research on a remote-controlled robot which uses special power.
10. A) It changes its shape by complex hardware.
B) It is operated by a special type of tiny motor.
C) It moves from one place to another by memory.
D) It is powered by the elastic property of its body.
11. A) Replace humans in exploratory tasks.
B) Perform tasks in tightly confined spaces.
C) Explore the structure of clogged arteries.
D) Assist surgeons in highly complex surgery.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) She threw up in the bathroom.
B) She slept during the entire ride.
C) She dozed off for a few minutes.
D) She boasted of her marathon race.
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13. A) They are mostly immune to cognitive impairment.
B) They can sleep soundly during a rough ride at sea.
C) They are genetically determined to need less sleep.
D) They constitute about 13 percent of the popxilation.
14. A) Whether there is a way to reach elite status.
B) Whether it is possible to modify one's genes.
C) Whether having a baby impacts one5s passion.
D) Whether one can train themselves to sleep less.
15. A) It is in fact quite possible to nurture a passion for sleep.
B) Babies can severely disrupt their parents5 sleep patterns.
C) Being forced to rise early differs from being an early bird.
D) New parents are forced to jump out of bed at the crack of dawn.
Section C
Directions ：
In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four
questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must
choose the best answer from the four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D ). Then mark the
corresponding letter on A nsw er S h eet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) We have poor awareness of how many controversial issues are being debated.
B) No one knows better than yourself what you are thinking about at the moment.
C) No one can change your opinions more than those who speak in a convincing tone.
D) We are likely to underestimate how much we can be swayed by a convincing article.
17. A) Their belief about physical punishment changed.
B) Their memory pushed them toward a current belief.
C) The memory of their initial belief came back to them.
D) Their experiences of physical punishment haunted them.
18. A) They apparently have little to do with moderate beliefs.
B) They don't reflect the change of view on physical punishment.
C) They may not apply to changes to extreme or deeply held beliefs.
D) They are unlikely to alter people's position without more evidence.
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Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. A) American moms have been increasingly inclined to live alone.
B) The American population has been on the rise in the past 25 years.
C) American motherhood has actually been on the decline.
D) The fertility rates in America have in fact been falling sharply.
20. A) More new mothers tend to take greater care of their children.
B) More new mothers are economically able to raise children.
C) A larger proportion of women take pride in their children.
D) A larger proportion of women really enjoy motherhood.
21. A) The meaning of motherhood has changed considerably.
B) More and more mothers go shopping to treat themselves.
C) More mothers have adult children celebrating the holiday.
D) The number of American mothers has been growing steadily.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
22. A) Add to indoor toxic pollutants.
B) Absorb poisonous chemicals.
C) Beautify the home environment.
D) Soak up surrounding moisture.
23. A) NASA did experiments in sealed containers resembling the super insulated offices of 1970s.
B) It was based on experiments under conditions unlike those in most homes or offices.
C) NASA conducted tests in outer space whose environment is different from ours.
D) It drew its conclusion without any contrastive data from other experiments.
24. A) Natural ventilation proves much more efficient for cleaning the air than houseplants.
B) Houseplants disperse chemical compounds more quickly with people moving around.
C) Natural ventilation turns out to be most effective with doors and windows wide open.
D) Houseplants in a normal environment rarely have any adverse impact on the air.
25. A) The root cause fbr misinterpretations of scientific findings.
B) The difficulty in understanding whafs actually happening.
C) The steps to be taken in arriving at any conclusion with certainty.
D) The necessity of continually reexamining and challenging findings.
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Part HI
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 passage. Read the
passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified
by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on A nsw er Sheet 2 with a
single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
The Sun Is Also a Star is a truly lovely story of love, romance, fate, and destiny.
Natasha is a Jamaican-born immigrant living
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in America, not by choice exactly. Her
parents brought her over and created the situation she
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to be out of.
Daniel is an American bom of Korean immigrants. He believes in true love, fate, and all that
other nonsense that Natasha
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through scientific reasoning.
Daniel and Natasha meet by
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on the streets of New York on the day that she is to be
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. She doesn't tell him that but does allow him to keep her company while he tries to get her to
fall in love with him over the course of the day.
Natasha is me. I found her so similar to myself. She's scientifically-minded, practical, somewhat
cynical, and always
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Her obsession with the universe through a scientific lens is infectious
and I
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Daniel seeing that too.
Daniel is charming and passionate and has a way with words that even
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Natasha's tough
outer shell. By the end of the book I fell in love with both of them.
I used to find romance stories to always be cheap or laughable. I think now I can see the value
in escaping into a story of pure optimism. I got
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in The Sun Is Also a Star and finished it cover
to cover in a weekend. I couldn't wait to get to what I hoped would be a happy ending.
It5s nice every once in a while to give in to magic. It doesn't have to be a hard fantasy novel
with actual spells, it can be the magic found between two people who just have that special
something. That
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that causes them to react and spark when they're near each other.
A) adore
B) appraise
C) assaults
D) chemistry
E) coincidence
F) cracks
G) deported
H) dismisses
I) illegally
J) lost
K) perpetually
L) prescribed
M) shrewd
N) skeptical
O) strives
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Section B
Directions ：
In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each
statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from
which the information is derived. You Tnay choose a paragraph more than once. Each
paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter
on A nsw er S h eet 2.
These are the habits to avoid if you want to make a behavior change
A) According to recent research, behavioral change involves physical changes in the brain. In the past
decade, researchers have shown that when it comes to the duration of making a new behavior a
deep-rooted habit there is not a simple answer. Even for the most productive and disciplined
among us, undoing something that has become an automatic part of who we are takes more than
an overnight effort. Once we've successfully made that change, we then have to make other
adjustments to our lives to ensure that we continue to maintain it, which is often a whole other
challenge in itself.
B) At its core, success in changing and maintaining a behavior rarely occurs without the introduction
of some sort of system. When there isn't the right framework in place, we face a greater likelihood
of derailing our hard-earned progress. To ensure success in changing and maintaining a behavior,
we should stay away from some detrimental habits.
C) The first one to avoid is relying on willpower. Think about the last time you vowed to resist a
temptation. Perhaps you didn't want to check your phone every 15 minutes, or you were
determined not to reach for a chocolate bar at 3 p.m. Think about how difficult it must have been
not to glance at your phone when it was within reach, or not to walk to the vending machine
when your afternoon slump hit.
D) The research on whether we have finite or infinite willpower is inconclusive, but experts do
generally agree that you can't change and sustain a habit if you rely on your willpower alone. The
old military saying “You never rise to the occasion, you only sink to the level of trainingn also
applies to behavior change. The idea is simple—you repeat something so many times that it
becomes automatic.
E) Think about what else you can change about your surrounding that makes it easier for you to
perform this change on a daily basis. This is called your "cue." Basically, ifs a trigger to perform
that particular habit. If you don't want to reach for a sugary treat at 3 p.m., have a box of herbal
tea ready at your desk. When 3 p.m. comes around, thafs your cue to pour yourself a cup of hot
water and drink that tea, instead of walking to the vending machine.
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F) The second one to avoid is focusing on negative goals. Sometimes, ifs not your process that lets
you down, but the habit that you want to change in the first place. For starters, not eating
chocolate to beat your afternoon slump is a harder goal than swapping chocolate for herbal tea
when you reach the designated time. Your brain wants to find routines that have succeeded in the
past and allow you to repeat those actions again in the future without having to think about them
explicitly. However, this habit-learning system isn't so efiective when it comes to learning not to
do something. Thafs why rather than giving up something, think about introducing something in
its place. Focus on actions you are going to take that will ultimately conflict with the behaviors
you want to stop. When your attention is on doing something new, you give your habit system a
chance to operate.
G) The third one to avoid is using the same strategies in different circumstances. Because we are
creatures of habit, ifs natural to assume that when we do manage to adopt and sustain a desirable
behavior, that same strategy will work when we want to make another behavior change. But thafs
not always the case. Sometimes, the system that got you to change one behavior might not work
for another.
H) Sometimes we become accustomed to relying on our guts when it comes to decision-making. This
serves us well in certain situations, but can hinder us in others especially when we need to
consider metrics and data, rather than letting our instinct override everything. For example, if you
want to stop checking your email first thing in the morning, you might decide to substitute another
activity in its place. But if you want to stop indulging in video games, simply deciding you will
go for a run might not be as effective. You might need to introduce another reinforcement, such as
meeting a friend and booking an exercise class together.
I) The fourth one to avoid is not forgiving ourselves for slipping up. Of course, even the best-laid
plans fail sometimes. You might have stuck to your screen-free nighttime routine for five days, and
then a big project landed on your desk and you found yourself in bed with your laptop before you
went to sleep. Or you prepared meals on Sunday and stuck to eating healthy dimers at home, but
by Friday you found yourself so exhausted and opted to order greasy takeout. Life happens and
even if your behavior change is small, every single day can prove pretty inflexible, and at some
point your luck may run out, even if just for a day. The perfectionist in you might be screaming to
abandon your goals altogether, but try to see it in the bigger picture. Just because you might have
temporarily strayed ofF course doesn't mean you can't start afresh the next day.
J) The final one to avoid is discounting small progress. There's a habit that many perfectionists tend
to fall into when they try to establish a behavior change. They focus too much on the big goal and
don't take the time to celebrate the small progress they make in the process. Your brain responds to
rewards. The basal ganglia, the brain region linked to our performance of habits, is most active at
the beginning of a behavior, when the habit is cued, and at the end, when ifs rewarded. Say your
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goal is to run five miles three times a week, and this week you ran one mile on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday. Rather than focusing on how far you've gone toward your goal, think
about how you can reward yourself for the progress you've made. It doesn't have to be big or
expensive; it can be something as simple as making your favorite fruit juice after your run.
Whatever your reward, it has to be more than just the activity itself to get you going.
K) Initiating a new behavior usually seems like the hardest part of the process of change. However,
people often fail to adequately prepare for maintaining it. One of the reasons for this is because
we mistakenly believe the strategies we used to initiate the change will be equally effective in
helping us continue the change. But they won't. Where changing a strongly deep-rooted habit
requires changing our belief about that habit that penetrates deeply into our lives, continually
manifesting that wisdom requires that we maintain a positive outlook. If our mood is low, the
wisdom to behave differently seems to disappear and we go back to eating more and exercising
less. The key, then, to maintaining new behaviors is to be happy! Which is why ifs so hard to
maintain new behaviors.
L) Remember, overcoming the behavioral inertia that prevents us from implementing new changes,
like eating a healthy diet or exercising, can benefit us in the long run and can improve our
physical and mental health. No one was bom with habits. They were all learned, and can all,
therefore, be unlearned. The question is: how badly do you really want to change?
36. There is general consensus among experts that willpower alone cannot guarantee one's success in
changing and maintaining a habit.
37. One need not abandon their goals completely just because they missed their target temporarily;
they can start anew.
38. Research shows it is quite another challenge to maintain a behavioral change after you have
initiated it.
39. It is wrong to assume the strategies we use to start a change of behavior will work equally well in
helping maintain it.
40. Sometimes, it may not be successful to simply substitute one activity with another to effect a
change of habit; you may need extra reinforcement.
41. One should introduce something new to replace an old habit instead of simply kicking it.
42. Perfectionists focus too much on their big target and neglect celebrating the small gains they make
in the process.
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43. It is of great benefit to us in the long term to conquer the inertia that stops us from making
behavioral changes.
44. The strategy that successfiilly changed one of your behaviors may not work for some other
behavior of yours.
45. Without a happy mood, it seems that our wisdom to adopt a different behavior vanishes.
Section C
Directions ：
There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is fallowed 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 A nsw er
S h eet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
The “ American Dream^^ promises that in the Land of Opportunity, any individual can climb the
economic ladder and prosper through hard work and ambition alone. And yet, young Americans
today are struggling to earn more than their parents did at the same age, and upward mobility in the
US actually compares unfavourably to that of other industrialised nations.
So why does the idea of the American Dream persist? A new study in the American Journal of
Political Science identifies one factor that has been overlooked: the influence of reality TV.
Reality shows have come to dominate US television over the past 20 years, notes Eunji Kim
from Widerbilt University. And the overwhelming majority of these have a “ rags-to-riches ”
storyline: they feature ordinary Americans who work hard to achieve great economic success. And
while these programmes are regularly among the most-watched shows, news broadcasts—which paint
a more realistic view of the economic hardship faced by millions of Americans- get a much smaller
proportion of the viewership.
Rags-to-riches stories are ubiquitous (无处不在的)on TV—but does watching these programmes
actually convince people that economic mobility is easily attainable? Ib find out, Kim's team had
participants watch a 5-minute clip from a reality show with a rags-to-riches storyline. Control participants
watched a clip from a reality show that didn't have a rags-to-riches story. After watching the shows,
participants rated how much they agreed with four statements relating to the American Dream.
The results showed that those who'd watched a rags-to-riches clip did indeed have a significantly
greater belief in the American Dream. Interestingly, when participants were separated by party
affiliation, this effect was significant among Republicans but not Democrats, suggesting that the kind
of messages implicit in these TV shows may play into people's existing socioeconomic beliefs.
Kim also conducted a survey of 3,000 US residents. They also rated the extent to which they
believed success in life is related to various internal factors (such as ambition) and external factors
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(such as family wealth). Finally, they read a list of TV programmes and indicated which they
regularly watched.
Participants who were heavy viewers of rags-to-riches programmes or frequent viewers had a
stronger belief in the American Dream than those who never watched such shows.
Kim concludes that “ rags-to-riches entertainment media are an important cultural force that
promotes and perpetuates beliefs in upward mobility” . And here's the problem: if people mistakenly
believe that hard work is all that is needed for individuals to make a better life for themselves, they
may be less supportive of policies that could actually combat inequality.
“In this era of choice, entertainment media is what captures hearts and minds,“ Kim writes. u Its
political consequences are anything but triviaT.
46. What do we learn from the passage about young Americans of today?
A) They have greater ambitions than their parents.
B) They find it difficult to achieve upward mobility.
C) They have overtaken their parents in terms of earnings.
D) They envy the opportunities in other industrialised nations.
47. What does Kim's team find about reality TV shows in America?
A) They reinterpret the essence of the popular rags-to-riches culture.
B) They urge people to achieve economic success through hard work.
C) They help strengthen people's conviction in the American Dream.
D) They feature ordinary Americans striving for social recognition.
48. What does the author say about news broadcasts in America?
A) They attract far fewer viewers than reality TV.
B) They are bent on reporting the dark side of life.
C) They stand in striking contrast with reality TV.
D) They focus on Americans' economic hardships.
49. What can we infer from the passage about Republicans in general?
A) They believe strongly in the American Dream.
B) They strive to climb the socio-economic ladder.
C) They have a very strong affiliation with their party.
D) They tend to watch more rags-to-riches TV shows.
50. What is stated about people who believe in upward mobility?
A) They are likely to blame the government for their plight.
B) They regard political consequences as anything but trivial.
C) They respect individuals striving to climb the social ladder.
D) They are less likely to approve of policies to fight inequality.
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Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
When someone asks us ' what do you do?' we nearly always reply with our occupation. Work,
for many of us, is much more than a job. It is the defining aspect of our identity. For many of us it is
through our job that we can define ourselves.
Without my job I don't know who I am,“ is a sentence that has been uttered on more than a
handfUl of occasions from my office chair. Indeed, it can be one of the most challenging aspects I
work on with clients who have lost or been forced into changing their jobs. This loss provokes an
identity crisis much greater than the loss of the job itself.
One of the things I have come to understand, however, is that our identity is much more
complex than we recognise at first glance. If we take the time to reflect we might recognise that as
well as our work we can also identify as a friend, a spouse, a son or daughter, a parent, a member of
a sports team or religious community. We may recognise that we feel and act difierently in these roles
and relationships than we do at work. The passive daughter becomes an assertive leader at work.
Furthermore, our identities at work are not static. They change over time. I myself have been a shop
assistant, a waitress, a student, a graduate, and a clinical psychologist. At each stage my ability to
adapt to and develop my career identity has been crucial to my wellbeing. Whilst we like to eliminate
uncertainty in our lives at some level we have to manage uncertainty, especially in today's volatile and
ever-shifting job market.
How we see ourselves is central to the issue of our identity. When we tell ourselves "I'm good at
starting projects but not so great at seeing them through” it can become part of our belief system. But
if you have the unfortunate experience of an enforced job change you will need to examine those
beliefs to see how grounded in reality they are. You will be required to ask yourself how helpful these
beliefs are and consider personal change. We can change our beliefs, behaviours and emotional
experience at any time through experimentation, practice and conscious self-discipline. In an age
where career progression may lead us into new sectors it is ever more important to challenge our
sense of self and explore whether you can create a new experience of your identity by changing the
beliefs you hold about yourself in order to expand your career options. Ultimately it is you who
define who you are. You are only your job if you let it be so.
51. What do we learn from the passage about one5s loss of a job?
A) It compels them to visit a clinical psychologist.
B) It offers them a chance to play different roles.
C) It renders them puzzled about who they are.
D) It forces them to redefine their life5s goals.
52. What has the author come to understand about our identity?
A) It is crucial to our emotional wellbeing.
B) It plays a big role in many facets of life.
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C) It reflects our changing status in society.
D) It is more complicated than it appears.
53. What does the passage say about our identities at work?
A) They are essential to our self-esteem.
B) They evolve with the passage of time.
C) They overrule all other self-perceptions.
D) They are key to understanding ourselves.
54. What do we have to do in today's ever-changing job market?
A) Strive to develop our social identity.
B) Prepare for different career paths.
C) Try to be assertive at all times.
D) Learn to manage uncertainty.
55. What should we do to expand our career options?
A) Alter our perceptions of ourselves.
B) Compare various job opportunities.
C) Look into newly emerging sectors.
D) Exercise self-discipline consciously.
Part IV
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 A nsw er S heet 2.
中国盛产竹子，是最早开发利用竹资源的国家。竹子在中国分布广泛，品种丰富。竹子实
用性强，用于生产和生活的许多方面,如筷子、桌椅的制作和桥梁、房屋的建造。中国人爱竹，自
古以来就有无数文人以竹为主题，创作了绚丽多彩的文学和绘画作品。竹子班(stem)笔直，象
征正直的品格。竹子具有强大的生命力和适应能力,无论环境多么恶劣，都能够顽强生存，因而
寓意坚韧不拔的精神。几千年来，竹子一直被视为中华民族品格的象征。
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Part I
Writing
(30 minutes)
(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试)
Directions：
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the
sentence Nowadays more and more college students have come to realize social
practice and academic learning are equally important.n You can make comments,
cite examples or use your personal experiences to develop your essay. You should write at
least J50 words but no more than 200 words.
You should copy the sentence given in quotes at the beginning ef your essay.
请用黑色签字笔在答题卡1 指定区域内作答作文题，在试题册上的作答无效!
请认真填写以下信息:
准考证号：I l l i ——
姓
名:________________________________
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Listening Comprehension
(30 minutes)
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Part HI
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 fallowing the passage. Read the
passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified
by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on A nsw er Sheet 2 with a
single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
A rainbow is a multi-colored, arc-shaped phenomenon that can appear in the sky. The colors of a
rainbow are produced by the reflection and
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of light through water droplets ( 小滴)present in
the atmosphere. An observer may
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a rainbow to be located either near or far away, but this
phenomenon is not actually located at any specific spot. Instead, the appearance of a rainbow depends
entirely upon the position of the observer in
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to the direction of light. In essence, a rainbow is
an
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illusion.
Rainbows present a
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made up of seven colors in a specific order. In fact, school children
in many English-speaking countries are taught to remember the name "Roy G. Biv“ as an aid for
remembering the colors of a rainbow and their order. "Roy G. Biv"
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for: red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, indigo, and violet. The outer edge of the rainbow arc is red, while the inner edge is
violet.
A rainbow is formed when light (generally sunlight) passes through water droplets
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in the
atmosphere. The light waves change direction as they pass through the water droplets, resulting in two
processes: reflection and refraction ( 折射). When light reflects off a water droplet, it simply
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back in the opposite direction from where it
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. When light refracts, it takes a different direction.
Some individuals refer to refracted light as “bent light waves." A rainbow is formed because white
light enters the water droplet, where it bends in several different directions. When these bent light
waves reach the other side of the water droplet, they reflect back out of the droplet instead of
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passing through the water. Since the white light is separated inside of the water, the refracted light
appears as sq)arate colors to the human eye.
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A)
bounces
I)
permeates
B)
completely
J)
ponder
C)
dispersion
K)
preceding
D)
eccentric
L)
recklessly
E)
hanging
M) relation
F)
optical
N)
spectrum
G)
originates
0)
stands
H)
perceive
Section B
Directions ：
In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each
statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from
which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each
paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter
on A nsw er S h eet 2.
Blame your worthless workdays on meeting recovery syndrome
A) Phyllis Hartman knows what ifs like to make one5s way through the depths of office meeting hell.
Managers at one of her former human resources jobs arranged so many meetings that attendees
would fall asleep at the table or intentionally arrive late. With hours of her day blocked up with
unnecessary meetings, she was often forced to make up her work during overtime. UI was actually
working more hours than I probably would have needed to get the work done,“ says Hartman,
who is founder and president of PGHR Consulting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
B) She isn't alone in her frustration. Between 11 million and 55 million meetings are held each day in
the United States, costing most organisations between 7% and 15% of their personnel budgets.
Every week, employees spend about six hours in meetings, while the average manager meets for a
staggering 23 hours.
C) And though experts agree that traditional meetings are essential for making certain decisions and
developing strategy, some employees view them as one of the most unnecessary parts of the
workday. The result is not only hundreds of billions of wasted dollars, but an annoyance of what
organisational psychologists call u meeting recovery syndrome (MRS)” : time spent cooling off and
regaining focus after a useless meeting. If you run to the office kitchen to get some relief with
colleagues after a frustrating meeting, you're likely experiencing meeting recovery syndrome.
D) Meeting recovery syndrome is a concept that should be familiar to almost anyone who has held a
formal job. It isn't ground-breaking to say workers feel fatigued after a meeting, but only in recent
decades have scientists deemed the condition worthy of further investigation. With its links to
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organisational efficiency and employee wellbeing, MRS has attracted the attention of psychologists
aware of the need to understand its precise causes and cures.
E) Today, in so far as researchers can hypothesise, MRS is most easily understood as a slow renewal
of finite mental and physical resources. When an employee sits through an ineflective meeting
their brain power is essentially being drained away. Meetings drain vitality if they last too long,
fail to engage employees or turn into one-sided lectures. The conservation of resources theory,
originally proposed in 1989 by Dr Stevan Hobfbll, states that psychological stress occurs when a
person's resources are threatened or lost. When resources are low, a person will shift into defence
to conserve their remaining supply. In the case of office meetings, where some of employees, most
valuable resources are their focus, alertness and motivation, this can mean an abrupt halt in
productivity as they take time to recover.
F) As humans, when we transition from one task to another on the job—say from sitting in a meeting
to doing normal work- it takes an effortful cognitive switch. We must detach ourselves from the
previous task and expend significant mental energy to move on. If we are already drained to
dangerous levels, then making the mental switch to the next thing is extra tough. Ifs common to
see people cyber-loafing after a frustrating meeting, going and getting coffee, interrupting a
colleague and telling them about the meeting, and so on.
G) Each person's ability to recover from horrible meetings is different. Some can bounce back
quickly, while others carry their fatigue until the end of the workday. Yet while no formal MRS
studies are currently underway, one can loosely speculate on the length of an average employee's
lag time. Switching tasks in a non-MRS condition takes about 10 to 15 minutes. With MRS, it
may take as long as 45 minutes on average. Ifs even worse when a worker has several meetings
that are separated by 30 minutes. "Not enough time to transition in a non-MRS situation to get
anything done, and in an MRS situation, not quite enough time to recover for the next meeting,“
says researcher Joseph Allen. "Then, add the compounding of back-to-back bad meetings and we
may have an epidemic on our hands.”
H) In an effort to combat the side effects of MRS, Allen, along with researcher Joseph Mroz and
colleagues at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, published a study detailing the best ways to
avoid common traps, including a concise checklist of do's and don'ts applicable to any workplace.
Drawing from around 200 papers to compile their comprehensive list, Mroz and his team may
now hold a remedy to the largely undefined problem of MRS.
I) Mroz says a good place to start is asking ourselves if our meetings are even necessary in the first
place. If all thafs on the agenda is a quick catch-up, or some non-urgent infbnnation sharing, it
may better suit the group to send around an email instead. " The second thing I would always
recommend is keep the meeting as small as possible,“ says Mroz. "If they don't actually have
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some kind of immediate input, then they can follow up later. They don5t need to be sitting in this
hour-long meeting." Less time in meetings would ultimately lead to more employee engagement
in the meetings they do attend, which experts agree is a proven remedy for MRS.
J) Employees also feel taxed when they are invited together to meetings that don't inspire
participation, says ClifF Scott, professor of organisational science. It takes precious time for them
to vent their emotions, complain and try to regain focus after a pointless meeting—one of the
main traps of MRS. Over time as employees find themselves tied up in more and more
unnecessary meetings- and thus dealing with increasing lag times from MRS- the waste of
workday hours can feel insulting.
K) Despite the relative scarcity of research behind the subject, Hartman has taught herself many of the
same tricks suggested in Mroz's study, and has come a long way since her days of being stuck
with unnecessary meetings. The people she invites to meetings today include not just the essential
employees, but also representatives from every department that might have a stake in the issue at
hand. Managers like her, who seek input even from non-experts to shape their decisions, can find
greater support and cooperation from their workforce, she says.
L) If an organisation were to apply all 22 suggestions from Mroz and Allen's findings, the most
noticeable difference would be a stark decrease in the total number of meetings on the schedule,
Mroz says. Less time in meetings would ultimately lead to increased productivity, which is the
ultimate objective of convening a meeting. While none of the counter-MRS ideas have been tested
empirically yet, Allen says one trick with promise is for employees to identify things that quickly
change their mood from negative to positive. As simple as it sounds, finding a personal happy
place, going there and then coming straight back to work might be key to facilitating recovery.
M) Leaders should see also themselves as stewards of everyone else5s valuable time"，adds Steven
Rogelberg, author of The Surprising Science of Meetings. Having the skills to foresee potential traps
and treat employees* endurance with care allows leaders to provide effective short-term deterrents
to MRS.
N) Most important, however, is for organisations to awaken to the concept of meetings being flexible,
says Allen. By reshaping the way they prioritise employees' time, companies can eliminate the
very sources of MRS in their tracks.
36. Although employees are said to be fatigued by meetings, the condition has not been considered
worthy of further research until recently.
37. Mroz and his team compiled a list of what to do and what not to do to remedy the problem
of MRS.
38. Companies can get rid of the root cause of MRS if they give priority to workers' time.
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39. If workers are exhausted to a dangerous degree, it is extremely hard for them to transition to the
next task.
40. Employees in America spend a lot of time attending meetings while the number of hours
managers meet is several times more.
41. Phyllis Hartman has learned by herself many of the ways Mroz suggested in his study and made
remarkable success in freeing herself from unnecessary meetings.
42. When meetings continue too long or don5t engage employees, they deplete vitality.
43. When the time of meetings is reduced, employees will be more engaged in the meetings they do
participate in.
44. Some employees consider meetings one of the most dispensable parts of the workday.
45. According to Mroz, if all his suggestions were applied, a very obvious change would be a steep
decrease in the number of meetings scheduled.
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 the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on A nsw er
S h eet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Sarcasm and jazz have something surprisingly in common: You know them when you hear them.
Sarcasm is mostly understood through tone of voice, which is used to portray the opposite of the
literal words. For example, when someone says, “Well, that's exactly what I need right now," their
tone can tell you ifs not what they need at all.
Most frequently, sarcasm highlights an irritation or is, quite simply, mean.
If you want to be happier and improve your relationships, cut out sarcasm. Why? Because
sarcasm is actually hostility disguised as humor.
Despite smiling outwardly, many people who receive sarcastic comments feel put down and
often think the sarcastic person is rude, or contemptible. Indeed, ifs not surprising that the origin of
the word sarcasm derives from the Greek word “sarkazein” which literally means “to tear or strip the
flesh off." Hence, ifs no wonder that sarcasm is often preceded by the word “ cutting“ and that it
hurts.
Whafs more, since actions strongly determine thoughts and feelings, when a person consistently
acts sarcastically it may only serve to heighten their underlying hostility and insecurity. After all,
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when you come right down to it, sarcasm can be used as a subtle form of bullying—and most bullies
are angry, insecure, or cowardly.
Alternatively, when a person stops voicing negative comments, especially sarcastic ones, they
may soon start to feel happier and more self-confident. Also, other people in their life benefit even
more because they no longer have to hear the emotionally hurtful language of sarcasm.
Now, Pm not saying all sarcasm is bad. It may just be better used sparingly—like a potent spice
in cooking. Too much of the spice, and the dish will be overwhelmed by it. Similarly, an occasional
dash of sarcastic wit can spice up a chat and add an element of humor to it. But a big or steady
serving of sarcasm will overwhelm the emotional flavor of any conversation and can taste very bitter
to its recipient.
So, tone down the sarcasm and work on clever wit instead, which is usually without any hostility
and thus more appreciated by those you're communicating with. In essence, sarcasm is easy while
true, harmless wit takes talent.
Thus, the main difference between wit and sarcasm is that, as already stated, sarcasm is often
hostility disguised as humor. It can be intended to hurt and is often bitter and biting. Witty statements
are usually in response to someone's unhelpful remarks or behaviors, and the intent is to untangle and
clarify the issue by emphasizing its absurdities. Sarcastic statements are expressed in a cutting manner;
witty remarks are delivered with undisguised and harmless humor.
46. Why does the author say sarcasm and jazz have something surprisingly in common?
A) Both are recognized when heard.
B) Both have exactly the same tone.
C) Both mean the opposite of what they appear to.
D) Both have hidden in them an evident irritation.
47. How do many people feel when they hear sarcastic comments?
A) They feel hostile towards the sarcastic person.
B) They feel belittled and disrespected.
C) They feel a strong urge to retaliate.
D) They feel incapable of disguising their irritation.
48. What happens when a person consistently acts sarcastically?
A) They feel their dignity greatly heightened.
B) They feel increasingly insecure and hostile.
C) They endure hostility under the disguise of humor.
D) They taste bitterness even in pleasant interactions.
49. What does the author say about people quitting sarcastic comments?
A) It makes others happier and more self-confident.
B) It restrains them from being irritating and bullying.
C) It benefits not only themselves but also those around them.
D) It shields them from negative comments and outright hostility.
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50. What is the chief difference between a speaker's wit and sarcasm?
A) Their clarity.
C) Their emphasis.
B) Their appreciation.
D) Their intention.
Passage Two
Question 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
Variability is crucially important for learning new skills. Consider learning how to serve in
tennis. Should you always practise serving from the exactly same location on the court, aiming at the
same spot? Although practising in more variable conditions will be slower at first, it will likely make
you a better tennis player in the end. This is because variability leads to better generalisation of what
is learned.
This principle is found in many domains, including speech perception and learning categories.
For instance, infants will struggle to learn the category “ dog ” if they are only exposed to
Chihuahuas, instead of many different kinds of dogs.
“There are over ten different names for this basic principle,“ says Limor Raviv, the senior
investigator of a recent study. " Learning from less variable input is often fast, but may fail to
generalise to new stimuli.”
To identify key patterns and understand the underlying principles of variability effects, Raviv and
her colleagues reviewed over 150 studies on variability and generalisation across fields, including
computer science, linguistics, categorisation, visual perception and formal education.
The researchers discovered that, across studies, the term variability can refer to at least four
different kinds of variability, such as set size and scheduling. "These four kinds of variability have
never been directly compared- which means that we currently don't know which is most effective for
learning,M says Raviv.
The impact of variability depends on whether it is relevant to the task or not. But according to
the ' Mr. Miyagi principle', practising seemingly unrelated skills may actually benefit learning of
other skills.
But why does variability impact learning and generalisation? One theory is that more variable
input can highlight which aspects of a task are relevant and which are not.
Another theory is that greater variability leads to broader generalisations. This is because
variability will represent the real world better, including atypical (非典型的)examples.
A third reason has to do with the way memory works: when training is variable, learners are
forced to actively reconstruct their memories.
Understanding the impact of variability is important for literally every aspect of our daily life.
Beyond affecting the way we learn language, motor skills, and categories, it even has an impact on
our social lives,“ explains Raviv. "For example, face recognition is affected by whether people grew
up in a small community or in a larger community. Exposure to fewer faces during childhood is
associated with diminished face memory.w
“We hope this work will spark people's curiosity and generate more work on the topic/*
concludes Raviv. "Our paper raises a lot of open questions. Can we find similar effects of variability
beyond the brain, for instance, in the immune system?”
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51. What does the passage say about infants learning the category “ dog ” if they are exposed to
Chihuahuas only?
A) They will encounter some degree of difficulty.
B) They will try to categorise other objects first.
C) They will prefer Chihuahuas to other dog species.
D) They will imagine Chihuahuas in various conditions.
52. What does Raviv say about the four different kinds of variability?
A) Which of them is most relevant to the task at hand is to be confirmed.
B) Why they have an impact on learning is far from being understood.
C) Why they have never been directly compared remains a mystery.
D) Which of them is most conducive to learning is yet to be identified.
53. How does one of the theories explain the importance of variability for learning new skills?
A) Learners regard variable training as typical of what happens in the real world.
B) Learners receiving variable training are compelled to reorganise their memories.
C) Learners pay attention to the relevant aspects of a task and ignore those irrelevant.
D) Learners focus on related skills instead of wasting time and effort on unrelated ones.
54. What does the passage say about face recognition?
A) People growing up in a small community may find it easy to remember familiar feces.
B) Face recognition has a significant impact on literally every aspect of our social lives.
C) People growing up in a large community can readily recognise any individual faces.
D) The size of the community people grow up in impacts their face recognition ability.
55. What does Raviv hope to do with their research work?
A) Highlight which aspects of a task are relevant and which are not to learning a skill.
B) Use the principle of variability in teaching seemingly unrelated skills in education.
C) Arouse people's interest in variability and stimulate more research on the topic.
D) Apply the principle of variability to such fields of study as the immune system.
Part IV
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 A n s w e r S h e e t 2.
扇子自古以来就深受中国人喜爱，但现在已不只是消暑纳凉的工具，而更多地作为艺术品
供人欣赏。许多扇子造型优美、做工精良，并绘有山水、花鸟、人物等精美图案，具有很高的艺术
价值。中国许多著名画家和书法家喜欢在扇子上作诗绘画，展示其艺术品味。扇子常作为礼物
赠予他人，表达美好的祝福和真挚的情感。如今,扇子的实用功能已大为减弱，但作为一种文化
符号和艺术形式，扇子仍然在中国传统文化中扮演着重要角色。
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Part I
Writing
(30 minutes)
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Directions：
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the
sentence a There is a growing awareness of the importance of digital literacy and
skills in today's world.n You can make comments, cite examples or use your personal
experiences to develop your essay. You should write at least 150 words but no more than
200 words.
You should copy the sentence given in quotes at the beginning ef your essay.
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Part I
Writing
(30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the sentence “As
requirements for job applications are getting increasingly higher, college students ought to be better
prepared for their future career.95 You can make comments, cite examples or use your personal experiences to
develop your essay. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
You should copy the sentence given in quotes at the beginning of your essay.
Part II
Listening Comprehension
(30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear
four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you
must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter
on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) Met the computer technician.
C) Called the man's company.
B) Told the man about her trouble.
D) Visited Alpha Maintenance.
2. A) Consulted someone in charge.
C) Informed the central office at once.
B) Came as soon as possible.
D) Designated an engineer to the case.
3. A) Frustration.
C) Desperation.
B) Intimidation.
D) Indignation.
4. A) Whether the contents have been backed up.
B) Whether they can find help somewhere else.
C) Whether all data stored on the hard drive has got lost.
D) Whether they need to wipe the system directories clean.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) Ifs boring.
C) Ifs a beautiful thing.
B) It's challenging.
D) It's unlike most jobs.
6. A) Arbitrating between disagreeing solicitors.
C) Buying and selling property.
B) Preventing disputes from escalating.
D) Mediating land disputes.
7. A) Courts are intended for fixing major legal disputes.
B) Courts are getting too bureaucratic to function.
C) Courts can be frustrating and expensive.
D) Courts can be frightening and arbitrary.
8. A) The ability to make arguments in a unique way.
B) The skill of preventing conflicts between parties concerned.
C) The skill of foreseeing any potential stakes in their work.
D) The ability to express themselves clearly and forcefully.
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Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you 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 A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) They looked into the relationship between one's prior knowledge and creativity.
B) They offered novel ways to help older adults to keep their memories from aging.
C) They proposed an explanation for old people's difficulty in retrieving memories.
D) They advanced a new model concerning human information storage and retrieval.
10. A) Young adults rely on memory while older adults keep notes as a reminder.
B) Older adults often retrieve irrelevant memories along with what they want.
C) Young adults accumulate knowledge much more quickly than older adults.
D) Older adults generally perform cognitive tasks much slower than young adults.
11. A) They show preserved, and sometimes enhanced, creativity.
B) They frequently suffer from disorderly crowded memories.
C) They can rely on their accumulated wisdom in an emergency.
D) They may well be served by forgetting their prior knowledge.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) They are actually proud of the goods and services they produce.
B) They are worried about being alienated from the outside world.
C) They are rarely in control of many things related to their work.
D) They are longing to share the profits made from their work.
13. A) The steady decrease in productivity.
C) The feeling of being time poor.
B) The adverse effect on physical health.
D) The rising economic inequality.
14. A) It alters the structure of work.
B) It puts jobs and wages at risk.
C) It liberates people from tedious and laborious work.
D) It creates new work opportunities in the IT industry.
15. A) Finding meaning in work.
C) Improving relationships in the community.
B) Prioritizing life over work.
D) Realizing one's social value in the workplace.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions.
The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the
four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 1 with a single line
though the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) Affect our attitude to novel tasks.
B) Distinguish us in the social world.
17. A) By pressing a hidden button.
B) By pushing a big button on top.
C) Outweigh IQ in importance.
D) Impact academic achievements.
C) By pressing two buttons at the same time.
D) By helping the babies push the right button.
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18. A) Perform difficult tasks successfully just by observing how adults acted.
B) Make generalizable inferences about persistence from a few examples.
C) Adapt themselves to different social contexts.
D) Work hard to interact with experimenters.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. A) Offering advice on overcoming habitual lateness.
B) Exemplifying various recreational opportunities.
20. A) Make the breakfast simpler.
B) Take the alarms seriously.
21. A) Finish the prior task 30 minutes earlier.
B) Keep ourselves from hitting a bump.
C) Scrutinizing individuals5 defining traits.
D) Suggesting ways fbr setting priorities.
C) Ready yourself in the early dawn.
D) Get prepared the night before.
C) Leave time in between activities.
D) Try to avoid possible hold-ups.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
22. A) Their lifestyles vary.
B) Their traits vary.
23. A) They are not as willing to help strangers.
B) They are not as patient with one another.
24. A) It was practiced by Boston's founding fathers.
B) It is not deemed exotic by Proper Bostonians.
C) They have different customs.
D) They have different feels.
C) They violate traffic rules more frequently.
D) They become more easily irritated in public.
C) It was adopted by Boston's upper class.
D) It is not part of Boston's local culture.
25. A) Stick to its own way of showing courtesy to strangers.
B) Follow the examples set by Paris and New York City.
C) Learn from the world's major cities in promoting tourism.
D) Take pride in its history and adhere to its cultural tradition.
Part ID
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 o f choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before
making your 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.
In her second year, Charlene Duong learned of the use of poisonous, synthetic pesticides on her college campus.
Shocked but not surprised, she knew she had to do something. Along with a couple of classmates, Charlene did a quick
web search and discovered a small but growing movement led by the organization, Herbicide-Free Campus (HFC), to
rid college campuses of artificial herbicides (灭草剂).They were
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Like many, Charlene experiences climate anxiety- a
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fear of a climate catastrophe- and was, at the time,
looking for an
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. When she discovered the HFC movement, she said she felt she “had found a specific area to
focus on that still fit into the larger picture of fighting for a healthier, safer, cleaner
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Toxic herbicide use in university land care is not unique. Most institutions of higher education rely on synthetic
pesticides and fertilizers to achieve
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goals. Having a ubeautifuF, campus means green and perfectly maintained
lawns along with flower beds and paved sidewalks. But these
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managed campuses can come at a cost: increased
cancer risk,
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Pesticide use on college campuses also contributes to our global climate crisis. The use of chemicals to get rid of
insects or unwanted plant life can increase indirect
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use also decreases the life in soil,
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the ability of soils to absorb carbon or retain water and thus reducing
campuses, ability to recover quickly from climate-related extreme weather events like droughts and floods.
Instead of using toxic chemicals, students working with HFC help out with
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the campus grounds.
“This work reminds me to be in the present moment as I play my role in reducing herbicide use and keeping my
campus safe and healthy,says Charlene.
A) aesthetic
B) chronic
C) contaminated
D) conventionally
I) infringement
J) intrigued
K) juvenile
L) outlet
E) emissions
M) rotating
F) environment
N) vibrations
G) hampering
0) weeding
H) incidentally
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement
contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is
derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the
questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Why Your Library Is the Most Important Place in Town
A) Librarians know the value of their community services, and their patrons appreciate their importance as well.
But in an increasingly digital world, we see the role of libraries as community and cultural centers at times
undervalued. When shrinking municipal budgets combine with the nonstop technological revolution, public
library services that fbcus on building communities face-to-face, inspiring and educating patrons about art,
literature, and music, and helping patrons engage in civil discourse can seem old-fashioned. But it is precisely
those shrinking budgets and the assault of technologically mediated life that make public libraries? cultural
and community offerings more important than ever.
B) Many people point out the value public libraries bring to their communities. More than just books and banks
of computers, libraries are still places where individuals gather to explore, interact, and imagine. Some of the
specific ways in which libraries add value to our communities and serve as cultural centers for our patrons are
community builders, centers fbr the arts, and champions of youth. Libraries serve in these capacities and are
more than just about information.
C) As community builders libraries are engaged in incredible work. From tiny public libraries to huge
city institutions with multiple branches, libraries across the United States are building community and
supporting local culture in exciting ways. These are inspiring and hopefully will encourage librarians
interested in community services and cultural outreach to make connections with each other, share ideas,
and build partnerships. Supporters of libraries as community builders claim that unless you are out there
changing neighborhoods, you are not completing the work you are to do. Strengthening neighborhoods and
championing the cultural lives of communities are big responsibilities.
D) Place-based economic development stresses the importance of offering attractive, functional, and community-
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based places, such as libraries, in town squares and depressed neighborhoods. Like a major department store
in a mall, libraries attract large numbers of people, creating economic opportunities for numerous businesses
and organizations in the surrounding area. Large cities, medium-sized ones, and even small towns have
successfully transformed their libraries into the hubs (才区纽)of vibrant neighborhoods.
E) As key municipal agencies, and focal points fbr community education, libraries are major players in creating
livable, environmentally friendly cities and towns. The Urban Libraries Council released a report detailing
the unique ways in which libraries can further sustainability at the local level. Beyond ensuring that library
construction projects consider environmental impact, libraries can take a lead in supporting local foods and
craftsmen, like the Peabody Institute Library's partnering with local businesses to pioneer a farmers5 market
in their courtyard, or the Richmond Public Library's seed lending library which "'nurtures locally-adapted
plant varieties, and fosters community resilience (韧'性),self-reliance and a culture of sharing.^^
F) Archives preserve historic artifacts, oral histories, digital history projects, and scholarly writings relevant
to the community, including minority groups. Communities lucky enough to have archivists have a great
advantage when it comes to organizing historical records and artifacts. An organized archive is a place
where people can research their ancestry and immigration history, do environmental research, and more.
An archivist is an advocate fbr preservation who, among other things, coordinates the restoration of maps
and paintings, the digitization of vital records, and the creation of oral history projects. With projects like
the Massachussets Memories Road Show and the Veterans History Project, evidence of the importance of
archives is everywhere.
G) In the words of Robert Putnam, “People may go to the library looking mainly fbr information, but they
find each other there.^^ New moms connect at baby story-times; elderly people, often facing difficult life
transitions, attend events and find that they make new friends; teenagers meet up in libraries, teen spaces
after school; and readers discuss current events in the periodicals room. In libraries, community-building
connections are happening all the time.
H) As Keith Richards said, “The public library is the great equalizer.^^ Despite the rising costs of concert and
theater tickets, public library events (including concerts, author visits, and gallery displays) are often offered
free of charge, enabling people of any income level to attend. In addition, library book groups allow people to
explore and discuss the literary arts, and the Great Stories Club introduces at-risk youth to literature. The best
part: it's all free and open to the public.
I) In a time when education is increasingly expensive, public libraries provide information and educational
opportunities free fbr all people, regardless of their socio-economic status. Offered by libraries across the
country, American Library Association's Lefs Talk about It programs are wonderful examples of scholar-
facilitated learning opportunities in libraries. In addition, many libraries present classes and discussion
programs, and some even provide online continuing education courses such as the Universal Class database.
J) Librarians know that patrons aren't just information consumers, they're information producers. Patrons use
the library to gain knowledge in order to create their own new and independent works. Increasing numbers of
libraries provide spaces and services that meet the needs of people who want to learn how to edit Wikipedia,
set up blogs or podcasts, create their own magazines, and so much more. Many libraries offer art or writing
workshops and groups, and some provide music practice rooms fbr patrons. Programs like ImaginOn in
Charlotte, North Carolina, provide exciting models that take community partnership, creativity, and creation
to a new level.
K) The decline of civil discourse stems in part from the fact that it is so easy fbr people to watch news about, buy
products from, and engage- in both the virtual and real worlds- only with those of similar backgrounds and
ideologies. Public libraries, through such programs as The Human Library and Socrates Cafe, can help build
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small communities of difference that encourage people to interact with and learn from each other through
dialogue. By both actively promoting civil discourse through these programs, and modeling and upholding
the principles of free inquiry and expression for all, libraries help individuals rediscover the importance of
and increased need for civil discourse in American life.
L) Free tutoring, homework help programs, and summer reading programs for kids and teens help bridge the
economic divide that impacts students5 academic performance. The cost of hiring a private tutor is well
beyond what many library patrons can afford, so libraries offer homework help and tutoring online, by phone,
in person, and even through social media and homework apps. Annual summer reading programs also have a
positive impact on student performance and, according to a 2010 study conducted by Dominican University's
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, students5 reading skills get a boost from these popular
nationwide events.
M) Through library collections, programs, and physical spaces, children learn to share, to be engaged in their
communities, to participate in the arts, and to explore their immediate world and the world at large. There
are surely endless examples of innovative library services fbr children, including the Middle Country Public
Library's Nature Explorium, which engages children in learning about the natural world.
N) These examples are just a few of the many amazing things that public libraries around the United States (and
the world) are doing to build and maintain strong community connections. We encourage you to try some of
these ideas in your own libraries, and we hope that these ideas will help you be better able to convince your
community leaders of the important role that public libraries play in communities large and small.
36. People going to the library in search of information can build connections with each other there.
37. According to advocates of libraries as community builders, librarians are not doing their job well if they do
not change their communities.
38. With the costs of education continually rising, public libraries remain places where all people can have access
to education.
39. Libraries draw large crowds, thus creating lots of business opportunities in neighboring areas.
40. With the world more and more digitalized, people sometimes underestimate the role of libraries as community
and cultural centers.
41. Various programs organized by public libraries fbr children and adolescents help narrow the gap between
students from varying economic backgrounds.
42. In an organized archive, people can do research on their family history and find out how their ancestors came
to settle in the new land.
43. Public libraries organize cultural events, often allowing people of different income levels to attend free of
charge.
44. Besides being an information provider, the library performs many other important services for the
community.
45. Public libraries can help build small communities of people with different backgrounds and ideologies.
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 the best
choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
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Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Nationally, one in six children miss 15 or more days of school in a year. Education officials have deplored
all this missed instruction.
These chronically absent students suffer academically because of all the classroom instruction they miss out
on. In 2015, the U.S. secretary of education responded to this crisis, urging communities to support every student
to attend every day and be successful in school. His open letter stated that missing 10% of school days in a year
fbr any reason- excused or unexcused- is a primary cause of low academic achievement.
Worrying about whether children attend school makes sense. After all, if students don't show up, teachers
can't teach them.
But what if America's attendance crisis is about much more than students missing class? What if, instead,
it is a reflection of family and community crises these students face- such as being ejected from the family
apartment, fearing fbr their safety in their neighborhood or suffering an illness?
As social scientists we investigated how excused and unexcused absences relate to children's academic
achievement.
We find that absences excused by a parent do little to harm children's learning. In fact, children with
no unexcused absences- but 15 to 18 excused absences- have test scores equal to their peers who have no
absences.
Meanwhile, the average child with even just one unexcused absence does much worse academically than
peers with none.
We believe unexcused absence is a strong signal of the many challenges children and families face,
including economic and medical hardships. Unexcused absences can be a powerful signal of how those out-of
school challenges affect children's academic progress.
Our evidence suggests unexcused absences are problematic, but fbr a different reason than people often
think. Absence from school, and especially unexcused absence, matters mainly as a signal of many crises
children and their families may be facing. It matters less as a cause of lower student achievement due to missed
instruction.
How we choose to think of school absences matters for educational policy. School attendance policies
typically hold schools and families accountable for the days children miss, regardless of whether they were
excused or unexcused absences.
These policies assume that missing school for any reason harms children academically because they are
missing classroom instruction. They also assume that schools will be able to effectively intervene by reducing
student absences. We find neither to be the case.
As a result, these attendance policies end up disproportionately punishing families dealing with out-of
school crises in their lives and pressuring schools who serve them to get students to school more often.
We instead suggest using unexcused absence from school as a signal to channel resources to the children and
families who need them most.
46. What does the U.S. secretary of education say in his open letter?
A) It is of vital importance to respond promptly to the school absence crisis.
B) The academic performance of chronically absent students is deplorable.
C) Low academic achievement is mainly attributed to school absences.
D) The effect of school absences on American education is worrisome.
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47. What do the authors find about school absences?
A) Excused school absences have little impact on children's learning.
B) There is little difference between unexcused and excused absences.
C) Excused absences lead to comparatively better school performance.
D) Unexcused absences are a big challenge to both schools and families.
48. What do the authors believe concerning unexcused school absences?
A) They are likely to cause a decrease in students5 academic achievements due to missed instruction.
B) They point directly to many of the out-of-school challenges confronting children and their families.
C) They are matters the American government typically ignores when formulating educational policies.
D) They give a clear signal to children and their families of the crises they are likely to face in the future.
49. What is the assumption underlying education policies in the U.S.?
A) Children's academic performance depends on reducing the number of absences.
B) Schools can boost children's academic performance by effective intervention.
C) Schools as well as families should be held responsible for out-of-school crises.
D) Children's academic performance is closely related to the quality of instruction.
50. What do the authors suggest doing regarding school absences?
A) Identifying their underlying causes.
C) Directing resources to helping needy children.
B) Refraining school attendance policies.
D) Pressuring schools to reduce unexcused ones.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
After earning a bachelor's degree, I was determined to do what I love. I headed straight to graduate school to
investigate the social problems that fascinated me.
For almost a decade, I told everyone I encountered that they should do the same. ""Follow your passion," I
counseled. 4"You can figure out the employment stuff later.^^
It wasn't until I began to research this widely accepted career advice that I understood how problematic it
really was.
As a sociologist, I interviewed college students and professional workers to learn what it really meant to
pursue their dreams, which I will refer to here as the passion principle. I was stunned by what I found out about
this principle in the research for my new book.
Surveys show the American public has long held the passion principle in high regard as a career decision
making priority. And its popularity is even stronger among those facing job instability.
Advocates of the passion principle found it compelling because they believed that following one's passion
can provide workers with both the motivation necessary to work hard and a place to find fulfillment.
Yet, what I found is that following one's passion does not necessarily lead to fulfillment, but is one of the
most powerful cultural forces perpetuating overwork. I also found that promoting the pursuit of one's passion
helps perpetuate social inequalities due to the fact that not everyone has the same economic resources to allow
them to pursue their passion with ease.
While the passion principle is broadly popular, not everyone has the necessary resources to turn their passion
into a stable, good-paying job. Passion-seekers from wealthy families are better able to wait until a job they
are passionate about comes along without worrying about student loans in the meantime. They are also better
situated to take unpaid internships to get their foot in the door while their parents pay their rent. And they often
have access to parents5 social networks to help them find jobs. Surveys revealed that working-class and first-
generation college graduates, regardless of their career field, are more likely than their wealthier peers to end up
in low-paying unskilled jobs when they pursue their passion.
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Colleges, workplaces and career counselors who promote the “follow your passion^^ path for everyone,
without leveling the playing field, help perpetuate socioeconomic inequalities among career aspirants.
Ifs not just well-off passion-seekers who benefit from the passion principle. Employers of passionate
workers do, too. Potential employers showed greater interest in passionate applicants in part because they
believed the applicants would work hard at their jobs without expecting an increase in pay. They even sacrifice a
good salaryjob stability and leisure time to work in a job they love.
51. What did the author advise people do for almost a decade?
A) Figure out what is the most fascinating job.
C) Pursue their careers with passion.
B) Follow widely accepted career counsel.
D) Do whatever they are zealous for.
52. How did the author feel about the passion principle through his research?
A) He was astonished by its consequences.
C) He was actually right to follow it through.
B) He was further convinced of its soundness.
D) He was struck by its broad popularity.
53. What is important to turning one's passion into a stable, good-paying job?
A) Willingness to take unpaid internships and low-paying jobs.
B) Full academic preparedness and sound career counseling.
C) Hard work and sacrifice of leisure time.
D) Financial backing and social connections.
54. What happens when everyone is encouraged to follow their passion?
A) Many more career aspirants end up unemployed.
B) People are less concerned with socioeconomic inequality.
C) Socioeconomic inequality is likely to persist.
D) Career counselors are going to lose credibility.
55. What does the author say about employers of passionate workers?
A) They provide these workers with job stability and a good salary.
B) They exploit these workers5 passion to benefit themselves.
C) They level the playing field for these workers to reach their goals.
D) They encourage these workers to realize their aspirations.
Part IV
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.
天宫空间站(Tiangong Space Station ) 是中国首个太空实验室，拥有110多立方米使用空间，可
驻留三名宇航员，在距地球表面400-450公里的轨道上运行。天宫空间站已实施180多个科学研究与
应用项目，涉及空间生命科学、太空医学、空间材料科学等领域。天宫空间站的研究成果在我国得到
了广泛应用，产生了显著的经济效益。例如，太空育种创造的直接经济效益高达数千亿元。这不仅标
志中国在航天技术上取得了巨大进步，也表明中国为全球的太空研究和应用做出了重大贡献。
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Part I
Writing
(30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the sentence “As social
media is used more and more extensively, there is a growing awareness of the importance of using it
properly and responsibly." You can make comments, cite examples or use your personal experiences to develop
your essay. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
You should copy the sentence giypn in quotes at the beginning of your essay.
Part II
Listening Comprehension
(30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear
four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you
must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter
on Answer sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) They have to make a choice by the end of the day.
B) Both candidates are very keen on getting the job.
C) They hold different views on the procedure.
D) Both candidates are quite competitive.
2. A) Both Rachel and Peter came across as respectful and professional.
B) Rachel scored moderately higher grades than Peter at school.
C) Both Rachel and Peter excelled in their academic pursuit.
D) Peter appeared slightly stronger than Rachel physically.
3. A) His use of body language.
C) His unusual state of mind.
B) His accumulation of experience.
D) His knowledge about the company.
4. A) Compare the candidates side by side again.
C) Find a way to break the tie next time.
B) Ask the board to cast the deciding vote.
D) Let John make the final decision.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) The private label "L'Orange”.
B) The woman's latest collection.
6. A) Something reflecting the social norms.
B) Something meeting public expectations.
C) This season's new fashion.
D) The head designer's role.
C) Something slightly absurd.
D) Something a bit ambiguous.
7. A) Merge styles often at opposite ends of the fashion spectrum.
B) Learn from the designs of the Asian rural mountain villagers.
C) Make velvet capes look both majestic and masculine.
D) Draw intricate patterns onto a traditional power suit.
8. A) Obtaining the woman's signature.
B) Seeing the woman's new creations.
C) Incorporating indigenous aspects into his work.
D) Sharing more ideas with the woman next time.
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Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you 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 A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) They could readily recognize their owner simply by looking.
B) They could understand the implications of human commands.
C) They could be domesticated to act as our companions.
D) They could follow pointing gestures without training.
10. A) Cultivating them to be intelligent creatures.
B) Training them to behave like domesticated dogs.
C) Understanding how humans impact their behavior.
D) Taking measures to reduce their numbers.
11. A) Tame them through repeated training.
C) Make them responsive to our commands.
B) Treat them with sensitivity and respect.
D) Watch their behavior and try to improve it.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) The temperature inside it varies from place to place.
B) Proper placement facilitates access to food products.
C) Its different shelves are designed for different purposes.
D) The space in an average fridge changes from top to bottom.
13. A) To slow the rising of temperature in it.
B) To provide a big box of evenly cold air.
14. A) On the top shelf.
B) In the middle section.
15. A) They will be extra-chilly.
B) They will be hard to defrost.
C) To prevent germs from growing quickly.
D) To keep the food cold as long as possible.
C) On the inside of its doors.
D) At the back of its bottom shelf.
C) They will be contaminated.
D) They will be ruined.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions.
The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the
four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 1 with a single line
though the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) Chronic depression.
B) Growing feebleness.
17. A) It feels real and relevant.
B) It contributes to psychology.
18. A) By bringing together experts old and young.
B) By counting on advanced modem technology.
C) Hip fracture.
D) Fatal infections.
C) It outcompetes lots of academics5 research.
D) It wins recognition outside of Birmingham.
C) By making full use of her expertise.
D) By combining multiple perspectives.
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Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. A) They don't teach basic organization.
B) They don't focus on teaching techniques.
20. A) It's unique to celebrity chefs.
B) It's a way of transformation.
21. A) Respect others so as to be respected.
B) Use time and resources in a wise way.
C) They attach little importance to recipes.
D) They hire very few distinguished chefs.
C) Ifs too demanding for them.
D) It's a way of life to them.
C) Cultivate a habit of self-discipline.
D) Learn from philosophers earnestly.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
22. A) The motive for hard work.
C) The basis for self-improvement.
B) The reason for stagnation.
D) The justification fbr self-confidence.
23. A) Feel confidence, happiness and satisfaction.
C) Use a key tool for setting ambitious goals.
B) Believe they have achieved their life goals.
D) Stop imagining further progress in life.
24. A) We feel we are always falling behind others.
B) We have to adapt to the ever-changing goal.
C) There are various misconceptions about goal setting.
D) There are always problems with the goal originally set.
25. A) A noticeable change in the number of goals to achieve.
B) Measuring always against the gap rather than the gain.
C) Measuring where we've come from instead of measuring against the goal.
D) A proper conception of what we fail to notice in trying to achieve our goals.
Part ID
Reading Comprehension
(40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word far each blank
from a list o f choices given in a word bank fallowing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before
making your 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.
No beast on Earth is tougher than the tiny tardigrade (缓步类动物).It can
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being frozen at -272°
Celsius, being exposed to the vacuum of outer space and even being
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with 500 times the dose of X-rays
that would kill a human. In other words, the creature can endure conditions that don't even exist on Earth. And
researchers are looking to the microscopic animals to learn how to prepare humans and crops to handle the
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of
space travel.
The tardigrade^ indestructibility stems from its
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to its environment- which may seem surprising,
since it lives in
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comfortable places, like the cool, wet patches of moss (青苔)that dot a garden wall.
But it turns out that a tardigrade5s damp, mossy home can dry out many times each year. Drying is
pretty
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for most living things. It does damage to cells in some of the same ways that freezing, vacuum and
radiation do. Tardigrades, however, have
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special strategies for dealing with these kinds of damage.
As a tardigrade dries out, its cells produce several strange proteins that are unlike anything found in other animals.
In water, the proteins are shapeless. But as water disappears, the proteins self^assemble into long fibers that
fill the celfs
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. The fibers support the cell's membranes (细胞膜)and proteins, preventing them from
breaking or
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Emulating tardigrades could one day help humans colonize outer space. Food crops could be engineered to
produce tardigrade proteins, allowing these organisms to grow more efficiently on spacecraft where levels of radiation
are elevated compared with on Earth.
So if humans ever succeed in reaching the stars, they may accomplish this
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, in part, by standing on the
shoulders of the tiny eight-legged endurance specialists in your backyard.
A) adaptations
I) rigors
B) blasted
J) seemingly
C) catastrophic
K) survive
D) evolved
L) tempt
E) feat
M) thrill
F) interior
N) unanimously
G) probing
O) unfolding
H) recurrence
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement
contains information given in one o f the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is
derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the
questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate
A) As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action.
Advocates for the protection of the natural environment from destruction or pollution urge the public to eat
less meat. Some activists have even called for taxing meat to reduce consumption of it.
B) A key claim underlying these arguments holds that globally, meat production generates more greenhouse
gases than the entire transportation sector. However, this claim is demonstrably wrong, as I will show. And its
persistence has led to false assumptions about the linkage between meat and climate change.
C) My recent research focuses on ways in which animal agriculture affects air quality and climate change. In my
view, there are many reasons for either choosing animal protein or opting for a vegetarian selection. However,
abandoning meat and meat products is not the environmental panacea (万灵药)many would have us believe.
And if taken to an extreme, it also could have harmful nutritional consequences.
D) A healthy portion of meafs negative reputation centers on the assertion that livestock is the largest source
of greenhouse gases worldwide. For example, an analysis published in 2009 by the World Watch Institute
based in Washington, D.C. asserted that 51 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from rearing
and processing livestock. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the largest sources of U.S.
greenhouse gas emissions in 2016 were electricity production (28 percent of total emissions), transportation
(28 percent) and industry (22 percent). All of agriculture accounted for a total of 9 percent, but all of
animal agriculture contributes less than half of this amount, representing 3.9 percent of the total greenhouse
emission in the U.S. That is very different from claiming that livestock represents as much as or more than
transportation.
E) Why is there such a misconception? In 2006 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
published a study titled “Livestock's Long Shadow,“ which received widespread international attention. It
stated that livestock produced a staggering 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The agency
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drew a startling conclusion that livestock was doing more to harm the climate than all modes of transportation
combined. This latter claim was wrong, and has since been corrected by Henning Stenfeld, the reporfs senior
author.
F) The problem was that analysts from the FAO used a comprehensive life-cycle assessment to study the climate
impact of livestock, but a different method when they analyzed transportation. For livestock, they considered
every factor associated with producing meat. This included emissions from fertilizer production, converting
land from forests to pastures, growing feed, and direct emissions from animals (manure as well as expelling
of gas from the stomach) from birth to death.
G) However, when they looked at transportation's carbon footprint, they ignored impacts on the climate from
manufacturing vehicle materials and parts, assembling vehicles and maintaining roads, bridges and airports.
Instead, they only considered the exhaust smoke emitted by finished cars, trucks, trains and planes. As a
result, the FAO's comparison of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock to those from transportation was
greatly distorted.
H) I pointed out this flaw during a speech to fellow scientists in San Francisco on March 22, 2010, which led to a
flood of media coverage. To its credit, the FAO immediately owned up to its error. Unfortunately, the agency's
initial claim that livestock was responsible fbr the lion's share of world greenhouse gas emissions had already
received wide coverage. To this day, we struggle to “unring“ the bell. In its most recent assessment report,
the FAO estimated that livestock produces 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from human
activities. There is no comparable full life-cycle assessment fbr transportation. However, as Stenfeld has
pointed out, direct emissions from transportation versus livestock can be compared and amount to 14 versus 5
percent, respectively.
I) Many people continue to think that avoiding meat as infrequently as once a week will make a significant
difference to the climate. But according to one recent study, even if Americans eliminated all animal protein
from their diets, they would reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by only 2.6 percent. According to our
research at the University of California, Davis, if the practice of Meatless Monday were to be adopted by all
Americans, we'd see a reduction of only 0.5 percent.
J) Moreover, technological, genetic and management changes that have taken place in U.S. agriculture over the
past 70 years have made livestock production more efficient and less greenhouse gas-intensive. According
to the FAO's statistical database, total direct greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. livestock have declined by
11.3 percent since 1961, while production of livestock meat has more than doubled.
K) Demand fbr meat is rising in developing and emerging economies, especially in the Middle East, North
Africa and Southeast Asia. For example, raising livestock such as goats in Kenya is an important source of
food and income fbr many small-scale farmers and herders. But meat consumption per person in these regions
still lags that of developed countries. In 2015, average annual meat consumption per person in developed
countries was 92 kilograms, compared to 24 kilograms in the Middle East and North Africa and 18 kilograms
in Southeast Asia. Still, given projected population growth in the developing world, there will certainly be an
opportunity fbr countries such as the United States to bring their sustainable livestock rearing practices to the
table.
L) Removing animals from U.S. agriculture would lower national greenhouse gas emissions to a small degree,
but it would also make it harder to meet people's nutritional requirements. Many critics of animal agriculture
are quick to point out that if farmers raised only plants, they could produce more pounds of food and more
calories per person. But humans also need many essential micro- and macro-nutrients fbr good health. It's
hard to make a compelling argument that the United States has a calorie deficit, given its high national rates
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of adult and child obesity. Moreover, not all plant parts are edible or desirable. Raising livestock is a way to
add nutritional and economic value to plant agriculture.
M) As one example, the energy in plants that livestock consume is most often contained in cellulose (纤维素),
which is indigestible fbr humans and many other mammals. But cows, sheep and other ruminant (反刍的)
animals can break cellulose down and release the solar energy contained in this vast resource. According
to the FAO, as much as 70 percent of all agricultural land globally is range land that can only be utilized as
grazing land fbr ruminant livestock.
N) The world population is currently projected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. Feeding this many people will raise
immense challenges. Meat is more calorie-dense per serving than vegetarian options, and ruminant animals
largely thrive on feed that is not suitable fbr humans. Raising livestock also offers much-needed income fbr
small-scale farmers in developing nations. Worldwide, livestock provides a livelihood fbr 1 billion people.
O) Climate change demands urgent attention, and the livestock industry has a large overall environmental
footprint that affects air, water and land. These, combined with a rapidly rising world population, give us
plenty of compelling reasons to continue to work fbr greater efficiencies in animal agriculture. I believe the
place to start is with science-based facts.
36. The FAO concluded that farm animals were producing more greenhouse gases than all modes of
transportation combined.
37. Consumption of meat per person in developing countries is much less than that in countries like the U.S.
38. The FAO was worthy of praise in that it admitted its mistake once it was pointed out.
39. Environmentalists try hard to make people consume less meat to combat climate change.
40. Recent research has shown that even if Americans quit eating meat altogether, the resulting reduction of
greenhouse gases in the U.S. would be slight.
41. More than half of the world's farmland is suitable only for animals like cows to graze on.
42. The allegation that form animals produce the world's largest portion of greenhouse gases is responsible fbr
meafs bad reputation.
43. Raising farm animals makes it easier to meet people's nutritional needs.
44. The author doesn't believe giving up meat and meat products will be a cure-all fbr the environmental
problem.
45. Changes in America's farming technology and management in the past decades have increased efficiency and
reduced greenhouse gas emissions in meat production.
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 the best
choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Why are we so worried about our careers? Partly ifs to do with money, but there's a psychological aspect to
our fears as well.
We worry because we suspect- not wrongly- that the world is full of a frightening sort of person ready to
judge us ruthlessly and swiftly: a person we can call a snob.
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A snob is anyone who takes a relatively small part of us and uses it to come to a rigid conclusion about how
much of their attention we deserve. In the past, that might be your ancestry and royal connections. Nowadays,
the snob cares about one thing only: what you do fbr a living.
This explains why the first question we will be asked in any new social context is 'What do you do?' and
according to how we answer, snobs will either welcome us with broad smiles, or leave us in the cold.
And that is why we are fired up by such a desperate urge to achieve and impress.
Sometimes our behaviour is mistaken fbr greed and vanity, but it is more than this. A lot of our interest
in fancy cars, jobs and houses has nothing to do with materialism. It has to do with a hunger fbr the respect
and esteem that is only available in our societies through the acquisition of material goods. It isn't the goods
themselves we seek, it is the love we stand to gain through our possession of them. The next time we see
someone driving a Ferrari, we shouldn't condemn them fbr their greed, we should pity them fbr the intensity of
their need fbr love from the world.
At the root of snobbery is a lack of imagination and confidence about how to decide who in the world is
valuable. The snobs are brutally misguided and slavish in their beliefs about how the superior individuals can be
identified. For snobs, it is the already acclaimed and already successful who are the only ones worthy of respect.
There is no room in their timid regimented minds to imagine that someone might be clever, kind or good- and
yet somehow have been overlooked entirely by society, their qualities lying hidden beneath an unfamiliar veil,
and having as yet discovered no obvious outlet.
The true answer to snobbery is not to say that there is no such thing as a better or worse person, but to insist
that better or worse exist in constantly unexpected places and carry none of the outward signs of distinction. And
because we are such poor judges of the worth of others, our ultimate duty remains to be kind, good, curious and
imaginative about pretty much everyone who ever crosses our path.
46. What gives rise to our worry about careers apart from money?
A) Fear of being judged in a snobbish manner.
C) The ruthless way employees are often treated.
B) The prospect of facing fault-finding managers.
D) Fright at the difficulty in hunting fbr a job.
47. What do we learn from the passage about today's snobs?
A) They try hard to dig into a person's past.
C) They judge a person by their occupation.
B) They draw a rigid conclusion about people.
D) They tend to place people in a social context.
48. What does the author say about people's interest in material goods?
A) It is the cause fbr condemnation of their greed.
B) It has a lot to do with the comforts they provide.
C) It arouses pity rather than respect from the wealthy.
D) It arises from their craving fbr social recognition.
49. What kind of people do snobs deem worth respect and esteem?
A) Those with fame and fortune.
C) Those with intelligence and imagination.
B) Those with regimented minds.
D) Those with qualities lying hidden in disguise.
50. What does the author imply we should do to avoid being snobbish?
A) Be aware there has never been such a thing as a better or worse person.
B) Be kind to and curious about those who we happen to meet in our lives.
C) Realize that better or worse keeps changing in unexpected ways.
D) Judge people on the basis of their distinctive character traits.
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Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
Women have historically been paid less. But in the US in the 1980s, they began to catch up—fast. During
that decade, the gender pay gap closed by about one percentage point a year. Had that trend continued, the gender
wage gap would have been closed by 2017.
But the trend didn't continue, and the gap remains yawning.
According to a new study from academics at Harvard, the stagnation can be put down, perhaps
counterintuitively, to the introduction of state and federal family leave policies.
The academics argue that during the 1990s, as governments began to introduce leave policies, it was mainly
women who took advantage of them. Though the leave policies might have helped those women to stay in the
workplace- instead of dropping out to have families- those who returned saw their wages had increased at
lower rates than the men.
After family leave was introduced in the US, in fact, the rate of gender wage convergence fell to just 0.03
percentage points per year, and has remained there ever since.
Those monitoring the process towards salary equity at work have long watched as progress slowed in many
countries around the world. In fact, that progress began to reverse during the pandemic (大流行病).
The gender pay gap is one of the most outstanding examples of that lack of parity (平等)，and still exists
just about everywhere. The motherhood penalty has become a shorthand fbr describing why: In many places,
especially rich countries, women earn the same as men until they reach their childbearing years. Women who
have children begin to see their salaries slip behind their male counterparts.
Part of this is because women take on more of the unpaid labor at home, which can eat into time available
fbr work and energy fbr career advancement. But ifs also because mothers are passed over fbr raises and
promotion, and because time out of the workplace sets women back, even if that time is taken voluntarily, and
supported by company or government policy.
What would have happened if leave policies hadn't been introduced? The study doesn't go into that question,
other than to say that if the 1980s trend continued, we would have been at parity by now.
It's possible, however, that the journey towards wage parity would have stalled either way. If women5s gains
in the 1980s were made through the erasure of things like bias, once those less uncontrollable problems had been
addressed, there would still have been an issue with women- who are the ones to bear children and take care of
them in the early weeks because of biological factors like the ability to breastfeed, forcing them to take breaks,
whether or not those breaks were mandated.
51. What do we learn about the gender pay gap in the US during the 1980s?
A) It was being slowly closed.
C) It started to yawn.
B) It was shrinking rapidly.
D) It remained substantial.
52. What happened with the introduction of state and federal family leave policies?
A) The process towards salary equity at work began to reverse.
B) The rate of gender wage convergence started to fall noticeably.
C) The trend of women returning to work after childbirth started.
D) The narrowing of the gender pay gap attracted more attention.
53. What partly accounts fbr the slip in women's salaries?
A) The insufficient motivation women generally have fbr career advancement.
B) The opportunities numerous women give up fbr pay raise and promotion.
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C) The huge amounts of time and energy women spend taking care of the family.
D) The lack of policy support from government and business corporations.
54. What does the new study say about wage parity?
A) It would have stalled if those controllable problems had not been addressed.
B) It would have halted if company and government had not worked together.
C) It would have been achieved with the complete erasure of gender biases.
D) It would have been attained with the continuation of the 1980s trend.
55. What prevents women from achieving parity with men in the final analysis?
A) Ignoring biases against women in the workplace. C) Failing to mandate breaks for childbirth and care.
B) Giving birth to children and taking care of them.
D) Lacking resources to address biological problems.
Part IV
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.
粤港澳大湾区( Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area) 具有得天独厚的地理位置，拥有
完善的交通基础设施和丰富的产业资源。大湾区是中国开放程度最高、经济活力最强的区域之一，在
国家经济发展中具有重要的战略地位。大湾区不仅将建成充满活力的世界级城市群和具有全球影响力
的国际科技创新中心，还将打造成适合工作、购物、旅游的优质生活圈。随着改革开放的不断深入，
大湾区的建设将进一步推动区域经济发展。到2035年，大湾区将实现成为国际一流湾区的目标。
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大学英语六级考试2025年6 月真题( 第三套)
Part I
Writing
(30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the sentence “With the
increasing application of AI technology, there is a growing concern that it may negatively impact human
creativity.You can make comments, cite examples or use your personal experiences to develop your essay. You
should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
You should copy the sentence given in quotes at the beginning of your essay.
Part II
Listening Comprehension
(30 minutes)
特别说明：由于多题多卷，官方第三套真题的听力试题与第一套真题的一致，只是选项顺序不同，因此，
本套试卷不再提供听力部分。
Part in
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 o f choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before
making your 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.
The slow progress of women in elective office is frustrating for some political observers and experts一
including myself. Achieving gender equality in Congress is an important goal. This is because the number of
women involved in legislative decisions has significant
26 for all the policies that governments
27 . Female
legislators are more likely than men to introduce, speak about and work to pass policies that disproportionately
affect women and girls, such as paid family leave, pay
28 and gender-based violence.
Having more women in Congress also fosters a greater sense of connection between female voters and
government. In addition, it
29
women's sense that government cares about their concerns and inspires young
women to become more politically engaged.
While women are underrepresented in governments around the globe, it is a particularly
30
problem
in the United States. Cunently, the U.S. ranks 73rd in the world when it comes to female representation in
government.
But the reason women are so
31
underrepresented in U.S. government is not because they face resistance
from voters or struggle to raise money. On the contrary, decades of research shows that female candidates raise as
much money and win as often as male politicians with similar
32 .
Rather, the slow progress of women in politics is a tale of two political parties.
In the next Congress, there will be 107 female Democratic lawmakers and 42 female Republican lawmakers
in the Senate and House combined.
In order for women to gain half of the seats in Congress, more women need to run,
33
on Republican
tickets. This will require the Republican Party as a whole to
34
recruiting women- and not just for one
election cycle, but in a
35
way.
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A) bolsters
I) formidable
B) consequences
J) impetus
C) credentials
K) lavish
D) dramatically
L) prioritize
E) enact
M) suffices
F) equity
N) sustained
G) especially
H) evasively
0) tenured
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement
contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is
derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the
questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
The Benefits of Solitude
A) I can be a reluctant socialiser. I'm sometimes secretly pleased when social plans are called off. I get restless
a few hours into a hangout. I even once went on a free 10-day silent meditation (冥想)retreat- not for the
meditation, but for the silence.
B) So I can relate to author Anneli Rufus, who wrote in Party of One: The Loners 'Manifesto,. "When parents on TV
shows pxmished their kids by ordering them to go to their rooms, I was confused. I loved my room. Being there
behind a locked door was a treat. To me a punishment was being ordered to play games with my cousin Louis.”
C) Unsocial tendencies like these are often far from ideal. Abundant research shows the harms of social isolation,
considered a serious public health problem in countries that have rapidly ageing populations (though talk of
a 'loneliness epidemic7 may be exaggerated). In the UK, the Royal College of General Practitioners says that
loneliness has the same risk level for premature death as diabetes. Strong social connections are important for
cognitive functioning, motor function and a smoothly running immune system.
D) This is especially clear from cases of extreme social isolation. Examples of people kept in captivity, children
kept isolated in abusive orphanages, and prisoners kept in solitary confinement all show how prolonged
solitude can lead to hallucinations (幻觉)and other forms of mental instability.
E) But these are severe and involuntary cases of aloneness. For those of us who just prefer plenty of alone time,
emerging research suggests some good news: there are upsides to being alone- for both our work lives and
our emotional well-being.
F) Solitude is a time for reflection, for thinking about things more deeply. In a world increasingly focused on
speed and competitiveness, solitude is precious and something to be treasured. And there are benefits in
learning to love your solitude.
G) One key benefit of solitude is improved creativity. Gregory Feist, who focuses on the psychology of
creativity at California^ San Jose State University, has defined creativity as thinking or activity with two key
elements: originality and usefulness. He has found that personality traits commonly associated with creativity
are openness (receptiveness to new thoughts and experiences), self-confidence, and autonomy- which may
include “a lack of concern for social norms^^ and “a preference for being alone”. In fact, Feisfs research
on both artists and scientists shows that one of the most prominent features of creative folks is their lesser
interest in socialising.
H) One reason for this is that such people are likely to spend sustained time alone working on their craft.
Plus, Feist says, many artists “are trying to make sense of their internal world and a lot of internal personal
experiences that they're trying to give expression and meaning to through their art." Solitude allows for the
reflection and observation necessary for that creative process.
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I) A recent justification of these ideas came from University at Buffalo psychologist Julie Bowker, who
researches social withdrawal. Social withdrawal is usually categorised into three types: shyness caused by fear
or anxiety; avoidance, from a dislike of socialising; and unsociability, from a preference for solitude. A paper
by Bowker and her colleagues was the first to show that a type of social withdrawal could have a positive
effect—they found that creativity was linked specifically to unsociability. They also found that unsociability
had no correlation with aggression (shyness and avoidance did). This was significant because while previous
research had suggested that unsociability might be harmless, Bowker and colleagues, paper showed that it
could actually be beneficial. Unsociable people are likely to be “having just enough interaction,Bowker
says.
