Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension
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Part Ⅱ Vocabulary & Structure
Directions: This part is to test your ability to use words and phrases correctly to construct meaningful and grammatically correct sentences. There are 20 incomplete statements here. You are required to complete each statement by choosing the appropriate answer from the 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
1、I will never tell you another secret if you let this one ______.
A．in B．up
C．out D．off
2、______ five minutes earlier, you could have seen them off.
A．If you should arrive B．If you arrived
C．Had you arrived D．Should you arrive
3、The teacher is anxious about ______.
A．whether we can succeed B．if can we succeed
C．do you succeed D．that we can succeed
4、In no case ______ to tell lies to her friends.
A．she is allowed B．is she allowed
C．she will allow D．will she allow
5、The theory that the earth was spherical, and not flat, was scoffed at when it was first ______.
A．put forward B．put off
C．put in D．put down
6、Bob has gone to California, but I don't know when he ______.
A．has left B．left
C．is leaving D．would leaving
7、Tom is the only one of the students who ______ going to swim this afternoon.
A．were B．was
C．are D．is
8、I took my driving license with me on holiday, ______ I wanted to hire a car.
A．in case B．even if
C．ever since D．if only
9、This ship measures ______ that one.
A．as twice as long B．twice as long as
C．as twice long as D．twice long as
10、It was in her primary school ______ she read most of the books ______ by Jane Austen.
A．that; written B．which; written
C．where; is writing D．that; writing
11、She likes swimming ______ movie.
A．more than to watch B．more than watching
C．than watch D．rather than to watch
12、______ with the heavy computer, iPad is more portable.
A．When comparing B．Compares
C．When compared D．Comparing
13、He was wandering in the park, ______ his time watching the children playing.
A．saving B．costing
C．sparing D．killing
14、______, she always believes in her son.
A．No matter people think B．What people think
C．Whatever people think D．It doesn't matter people think
15、Mr. Baker suggested a good way ______ prices from ______.
A．of stopping; being risen B．to stop; raising
C．stopped; being raised D．to stop; rising
16、Could you lend me the book ______ the other day?
A．about which you talked B．which you talked
C．about that you talked D．that you talked
17、It is important that ______.
A．we shall close the window before we leave
B．we will close the window before we leave
C．we must close the window before we leave
D．we close the window before we leave
18、He ______ for her for one hour by the time she arrived there.
A．has been waiting B．has waited
C．had been waiting D．had been waited
19、The lost car of Mr.Smith's was found ______ in the woods off the highway.
A．disappeared B．abandoned
C．scattered D．rejected
20、The policeman stopped the young man when he was driving home and ______ him of speeding.
A．charged B．accused
C．blamed D．deprived
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
Directions: This part is to test your reading ability. There are 4 tasks for you to fulfill. You should read the materials carefully and do the tasks as you are instructed.
Task 1
Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements numbered 36 to 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
It seems obvious that you don't give away your product for free but this is exactly what indie rock group The Crimea did earlier this year. The band's reasoning goes like this: more people will download the free album than would pay for it. Therefore, more people will hear The Crimea's music. These people will then pay money for concerts by the band and perhaps buy a T-shirt or other merchandise. If the band plays regular concerts to crowds of 200 or 300 people, they can make more money than they would from sales of a CD. There will always be some people who want something they can hold in their hands, so they will also release the CD into the shops, but making money through sales of their music isn't the top priority.
The story illustrates the creative thinking going on in the music business in response to dramatic changes over the last few years in the way that people buy music. Sales of music digitally -- to computer, phones and MP3 players rose to $2 billion in 2006 — an increase of a most 100 percent on the previous year, yet overall record company sales are down. People are simply not buying CDs in record shops in anything like the numbers they used to.
This trend looks set to continue, so the big question for the music industry is whether they can successfully manage the move to being primarily a digital industry without profits falling to unacceptable levels.
There are both positive and negative signs. On the plus side, more and more people are buying music on mobile phones, which allows people to make impulse purchases — they can buy a song as soon as they hear it. Research by the UK Mobile operator Three suggested that 75 percent of 16-to 24-year-olds wanted to buy a track they liked as soon as they heard it. With so much competition for people's disposable income, a product that you can sell immediately is a big advantage.
The bad news for record companies, however, is the amount of music that is downloaded illegally. Piracy, usually in the form of cheaply copied CD, has long been an issue for the music business but the Internet means music can be copied and distributed freely through file-sharing sites on a large scale than ever before.
It is this situation that leads bands to start giving away their music for free and promises to make the next few years a very interesting time in the music business.
21、What is unusual about The Crimea's business plan? ______
A．Their business was given away free on the Internet.
B．They give CDs away free in shops.
C．They played free concerts.
D．They charged more for their CDs.
22、The Crimea hopes to make money ______.
A．through CD sales
B．by giving concerts and selling T-shirts and other merchandise
C．by selling merchandise on the Internet
D．through sales of merchandise in shops
23、The Crimea also released CDs for sale in shops because ______.
A．people who attend their concerts need them
B．they want to make extra money
C．there are still people who prefer CDs to other formats
D．people who fail to attend their concerts need them
24、What is true about sales of music over the last year? ______
A．Overall, sales are up on last year.
B．Overall, sales are down on last year.
C．There is no change compared to previous sales.
D．It is not mentioned in the passage.
25、What effect has the Internet had on music piracy? ______
A．It has made it easier to fight piracy.
B．It has increased the number of pirate CDs available.
C．It has made it easier to illegally copy music.
D．It has reduced the number of pirate CDs available.
Task 2
Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 to 45.
The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). After immigrating from England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871. In those days, it was nicknamed "the Garden City", almost certainly the source of Howard's name for his later building plan of towns. Returning to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were popular at the time, but creating a unique combination of designs.
The nineteenth-century poor city was in many ways a terrible place, dirty and crowded; but it offered economic and social opportunities. At the same time, the British countryside was in fact equally unattractive: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression (萧条) and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor much social life. Howard's idea was to combine the best of town and country in a new kind of settlement, the garden city. Howard's idea was that a group of people should set up a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the depressed countryside; far enough from existing cities to make sure that the land was bought at the bottom price.
Garden cities would provide a central public open space, radial avenues and connecting industries. They would be surrounded by a much larger area of green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms but also some industrial institutions. As more and more people moved in, the garden city would reach its planned limit — Howard suggested 32,000 people; then, another would be started a short distance away. Thus, over time, there would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each garden city would offer a wide range of jobs and services, but each would also be connected to the others by a rapid transportation system, thus giving all the economic and social opportunities of a big city.
26、How did Howard get the name for his building plan of garden cities? ______
A．Through his observation of the country life.
B．Through the combination of different ideas.
C．By taking other people's advice.
D．By using the nickname of the reconstructed Chicago.
27、The underlined phrase "drawing on" in Paragraph 1 probably means ______.
A．making use of B．making comments on
C．giving an explanation of D．giving a description of
28、According to Howard, garden cities should be built ______.
A．as far as possible from existing cities
B．in the countryside where the land was cheap
C．in the countryside where agriculture was developed
D．near cities where employment opportunities already existed
29、What can we learn about garden cities from the last paragraph? ______
A．Their number would continue to rise.
B．Each one would continue to become larger.
C．People would live and work in the same place.
D．Each one would contain a certain type of business.
30、What could be the best title for the passage? ______
A．City and Countryside B．The Invention of the Garden City
C．A New City in Chicago D．A Famous Garden City in England
Task 3
Directions: The following is a brief introduction of CSC. After reading it, you should complete the information by filling in the blanks marked 46 through 50 in the table below. You should write your answers in no more than 3 words on the corresponding Answer Sheet.
"CSC" (Country Style Cooking) was established in Chongqing on November 23rd, 1996, along with the introduction of operation model of American CSC International Management Corporation. CSC is going to open more than 100 restaurants under its own control in municipalities and provincial cities throughout China in 3 years with its market expansion from early Chongqing to Shanghai, Chengdu, and Xi'an etc. and it ushers into the third generation of CSC standardized operation Model.
As the leader in China's healthy quick-service restaurant industry, CSC has adopted such operation measures as direct operation by CSC itself, centralized production and standardized product to continuously keep the food quality, and try to establish a product quality guarantee system which consists of three licenses, QS, ISO, and HACCP, so as to supply fresh and delicious healthy food, which will be the top choice for those who were pursuing healthy life and fashion. CSC is striving for being the number one brand for its prompt and convenient service in China's quick-service restaurant industry.
CSC has created the best record that it provided service for more than 2800 customers in a rush day. Its professional restaurant management team and kitchen management team stick to the principles about L (location), Q (quality), S (service), C (circumstances), P (promotion), V (value) in order to become such kind of brand as "customer's home kitchen". As a result, CSC has been the quick-service restaurant brand with the largest market share in southwestern areas of China.
Some Information of the Introduction
31、In Chongqing, CSC runs with ______ of American CSC International Management Corporation.
32、According to CSC's plan, it will open ______ restaurants in China in 3 years.
33、CSC is a ______ industry.
34、CSC established a product quality guarantee system to ______.
35、CSC's management team wants to become such kind of brand as ______.
Task 4
Directions: In this part, you are going to read a passage with 5 statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs, identify the one from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph no more than once. The 5 statements are numbered 51 to 55. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. You should mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
A. When home office computers go down, many small businesses grind to a halt. Fortunately, taking steps to recover from disasters and minimize their effects is quite straightforward. Fires, power surges, and floods, they're all facts of life. We read about them in the morning paper and see them on the evening news. We sympathize with the victims and commiserate over their bad luck. We also shake our heads at the digital consequences—melted computers, system failures and destroyed data. Yet, somehow, many of us continue to live by that old mantra of denial: "It won't happen to me." Well, the truth is, at some point you'll probably have to deal with at least one disaster. That's just how it goes, and in most aspects of our lives we do something about it. We buy insurance. We stow away provisions. We even make disaster plans and run drills. But for some reason, computer disaster recovery is a blind spot for many of us. It shouldn't be. Home computers contain some of our most important information, both business and personal, and making certain our data survive a disaster should be a priority. Moreover, even the smallest disaster can be a serious disruption. Personal computers have become an integral part of the smooth-running household. We use them to communicate, shop, and do homework, and they're even more vital to home office users. When home office computers go down, many small businesses grind to a halt. Fortunately, taking steps to recover from disasters and minimize their effects is quite straightforward. With a good offsite storage plan and the right tools, you can bounce back quickly and easily from minor computer disasters. And, should a major calamity strike, you can rest assured your data is safe.
B. House fires and floods are among the most devastating causes of personal computer destruction. That's why a solid offsite backup and recovery plan is essential. Although many home users faithfully backup their hard drives, many would still lose all their data should their house flood or burn. That's because they keep their backups relatively close to their computers. Their backup disks might not be in the same room as their computers — ucked away in a closet or even the garage — but they're not nearly far enough away should a serious disaster strike. So, it's important to back up your system to a removable medium and to store it elsewhere.
C. There are many ways to approach offsite storage. It starts with choice of backup tools and storage medium. Disaster situations are stressful, and your recovery tools shouldn't add to that stress. They must be dependable and intuitive, making it easy to schedule regular backups and to retrieve files in a pinch. They must also be compatible with your choice of backup medium. Depending on your tools, you can back up to a variety of durable disk types from CD's to Jaz drives to remote network servers. Although many of these storage media have high capacity, a backup tool with compression capabilities is a big plus, eliminating the inconvenience of multiple disks or large uploads.
D. Once you select your tools and a suitable medium, you need to find a remote place to store your backups. The options are endless. However, no matter where you choose, be sure the site is secure, easily accessible, and a good distance away from your home. You may also want to consider using an Internet-based backup service. More and more service providers are offering storage space on their servers, and uploading files to a remote location has become an attractive alternative to conventional offsite storage. Of course, before using one of these services, make certain you completely trust these service provider and its security methods. Whatever you do, schedule backups regularly and store them far away from your home.
E. Not all home computer damage results from physical disaster. Many fewer menacing problems can also hobble your PC or destroy your information. Systems crash, kids "rearrange" data, adults inadvertently delete files. Although these events might not seem calamitous, they can have serious implications. So, once again, it's important to be prepared. As with physical disasters, regular backups are essential. However, some of these smaller issues require a response that's more nuanced than wholesale backup and restoration. To deal with less-than-total disaster, your tool set must be both powerful and agile. For example, when a small number of files are compromised, you may want to retrieve those files alone. Meanwhile, if just your settings are affected, you'll want a simple way to roll back to your preferred setup. Yet, should your operating system fail, you'll need a way to boot your computer and perform large-scale recovery. Computer crises come in all shapes and sizes, and your backup and recovery tools must be flexible enough to meet each challenge. Life's disasters, large and small, often catch us by surprise. However, with a little planning and the right tools, you can reduce those disasters to bumps in the road. So, don't wait another day. Buy a good set of disaster recovery tools, set up an automatic backup schedule, and perform a dry run every now and again. Then, rest easy.
36、You can stage a comeback quickly and easily from minor computer disasters with the help of a good offsite storage plan and the right tools.
37、When choosing backup tools and storage medium, you'd better choose one with compression capabilities so as to remove the inconvenience of numerous disks or heavy uploads.
38、The backup and recovery tools must be flexible enough to deal with various computer crises.
39、You should find a distant place to store your backups after you have selected your tools and a suitable medium.
40、People may lost all their data easily in their house flood or burn because they are used to keeping their backups close to their computers.
Part Ⅳ Translation
Directions: This part, numbered 56 to 66, is to test your ability to translate Chinese into English or English into Chinese. Each often sentences (No.56 to No.65) is followed by four choices of suggested translation marked A, B, C and D. Make the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Write your translation of the paragraph (No.66) in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.
41、20世纪40年代以来中国发生了翻天覆地的变化。
A．China has happened great changes in the 1940s.
B．Great changes have taken place in China since the 1940s.
C．Great changes have taken place in China since 2040.
D．Great changes have been taken place in China since the 1940s.
42、人们可以从互联网上了解到世界的最新信息，从而可以与时俱进。
A．People can acquire the latest information from the world, and they can keep up with times.
B．People learned from the latest information in the world, so they can catch up with times.
C．The Internet keeps people informed of the latest information in the world, so they can keep pace with times.
D．People can get the world's latest information on the Internet, therefore they can put up with times.
43、直到高中毕业，他才认识到广泛阅读的重要性。
A．He not realized the importance of extensive reading that he graduated from high school.
B．He not until realized the importance of extensive reading that he graduated from high school.
C．He didn't realize the importance of extensive reading until he graduated from high school.
D．He didn't realize the importance of extensive reading when he graduated from high school.
44、再过几年，普通家庭也能买得起电脑了。
A．In few years, average families can afford buying computers.
B．Few years later, normal families could afford to buy computers.
C．After little years, the average families can pay for the computers.
D．In a few years, the computers will be within the reach of the average family.
45、我已经了解清楚，他的结论是以事实为依据的。
A．I have made clear that his conclusion according to facts.
B．I have made it clear that his conclusion was based on facts.
C．I have made it clearly that his conclusion rely on facts.
D．I have made clear that his conclusion based on facts.
46、比起在喧闹的城市，Mary更愿意住在宁静的乡村。
A．Mary prefers to live in the peaceful countryside rather than live in the noisy city.
B．Mary prefers to living in the peaceful countryside rather than live in the noisy city.
C．Comparing with living in the noisy city, Mary likes living in the peaceful countryside.
D．Compared with living in the noisy city, Mary likes living in the countryside.
47、当我第一次在晚会上听到她唱歌时，我被她的歌声深深地打动了。
A．When I first heard her sing at a party, I was deeply moved.
B．When have heard her singing at a party, I was deeply moved.
C．When first heard her sing at a party, I was deeply moved.
D．When to hear her sing at a party, I was deep moved.
48、在做最后决定之前，我先看一遍你的报价。
A．Before making up my mind, let me see your price.
B．Let me go over your offer before a final decision.
C．Let me have a look at your offer because I will make a decision.
D．I am going to look at your price when I decided at last.
49、由于我工作的出色表现，老板给我涨了工资。
A．I had my salary raised because of I did work well in my job.
B．My boss offers me a raise owing to my excellent job performance.
C．Because I did well in my job so my boss finally raised my salary.
D．I worked so hard that my boss decided to offer me a raise.
50、每天锻炼身体使他看起来年轻而不显老。
A．Taking exercise everyday makes him look younger instead of older.
B．He looks very young not old because he taking exercise often.
C．He takes exercise every day and that is why he looks younger and younger.
D．He does sports every day since he wants to stay young.
51、As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis and judgment. Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the times the information age, and an infallible warrant of success in times of uncertainty.
Part Ⅴ Applied Writing
52、Directions: This part is to test your ability to do practical writing. You are required to write a letter of inquiry according to the information given in Chinese below. You should write your letter (no less than 100 words) on the Answer Sheet.
说明：假定你是王玲，你的好友Mary来信告知你她将来重庆工作，她打算租一套房子。 碰巧你看到一则租房广告，适合她们一家三口居住。请写一封电子邮件给Mary，介绍该租房 广告的内容。
内容：
(1)该房有一间客厅、一间餐厅、两间卧室、一间厨房和一间浴室。
(2)位于市中心，交通十分便利。生活设施齐全，新建的停车场位于公寓前面。
(3)有一个大草坪，上面种了许多树，空气清新。租金每月1500元。
(4)邮件日期：2020年12月18日，注意邮件格式。
Words for reference:
设施；设备 facility 草坪 lawn 停车场 parking lot 房租 house rent
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