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Mark is unhappy because of
[A] his Chemistry homework.
[B] a girl in his class.
[C] Linda's words.
[D] Friday night's party,

2 单选题Which of the following is CORRECT?

3 单选题Did Mark eventually take Linda's advice?

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About the scratch on the product, the shop assistant thinks that
[A] the customer made it himself. 
[B] there was definitely not one then.
[C] the customer should have checked. 
[D] the customer was making trouble.

5 单选题The customer was when told he might not have worn the headphones properly.

6 单选题How many complaints did the customer make about the product altogether?

7 单选题The shop could exchange the product if the customer

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Joe Smith telephoned Victoria for
[A] the menu. 
[B] the place.
[C] the reception. 
[D] the campaign.

9 单选题When will the lunch be held?

10 单选题All the following information is new to Victoria EXCEPT

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People choose London for post-Christmas shopping because
[A] shops open early in the morning. 
[B] shops stay open for longer hours.
[C] they can buy really cheap things. 
[D] they can shop with their friends.

12 单选题We learn from the passage that

13 单选题Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

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Ballroom dancing used to be associated with
[A] TV shows.
[B] old people.
[C] celebrities. 
[D] professional dancers.

15 单选题According to the passage, recent popularity of ballroom dancing is the result of

16 单选题Which of the following is NOT mentioned about the TV show?

17 单选题According to the passage, the TV show has the greatest impact on

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According to New Zealand's rules about naming children, which of the following names .is NOT acceptable?
[A] Spiderman. 
[B] Gandalf. 
[C] 2win. 
[D] Arsenal.

19 单选题According to the passage, unusual names come from

20 单选题All of the following countries have strict rules about naming children EXCEPT

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Why were the fishing crew stranded on Oct.10th?
[A] They went to a remote area. 
[B] Their fishing boats collided.
[C] They tried to repair their boats. 
[D] They decided to stay in the boats.

22 单选题How did they survive during those three months?

23 单选题How were the crew rescued eventually?

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Juan Carlos has been King of Spain
[A] since 1981. 
[B] for 32 years.
[C] for 70 years. 
[D] for 17 years.

25 单选题What is the news item mainly about?

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The three suicide bombings occurred in
[A] November and December. 
[B] October and November.
[C] November. 
[D] December.

27 单选题Did people die in the bombings?

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What is the purpose of the national survey?
[A] To collect data on sources of pollution. 
[B] To identify pollution in rivers and lakes.
[C] To help control environmental pollution. 
[D] To help control industrial wastes.

29 单选题According to the news item, efforts of environmental protection are especially affected by

30 单选题Which of the following details is CORRECT according to the news item?

31 单选题根据下列文字，回答题。Scientists around the world are racing to learn how to rapidly diagnose, treat and stop the spread of a new, deadly disease. SARS--Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome--was (31) __________for the first time in February 2003 in Hanoi, (32) __________ since then has infected more than 1,600 people in 15 countries, killing 63. At this (33) __________ , there are more questions than answers surrounding the disease.
Symptoms start (34) __ a fever over 100.4 degrees F, chills, headache or body (35) within a week, the patient has a dry cough, which might (36) __ to shortness of breath. In 10% to 20% of cases, patients require (37) __________ ventilation to breathe. About 3.5% die from the disease Symptoms (38) __ begin in two to seven days, but some reports suggest it (39)__________ take as long as 10 days. Scientists are close to (40) __________ a lab test to diagnose SARS. In the meantime, it is diagnosed by its symptoms. There is no evidence (41)__________ antibiotics, or anti-viral medicines help, (42) __________ doctors can offer only supportive care. Patients with SARS are kept in isolation to reduce the risk of (43)
Scientists aren't sure yet, but some researchers think it's a (44) __________discovered coronavirus, the family of viruses that cause some common colds.
Most cases appear to have been passed (45) __droplets expelled when infected patients cough or sneeze. Family members of infected people and medical workers who care (46) __ them have been most likely to (47) __________ the illness. But recent developments in Hong Kong suggest that the (48) __ might spread through air, or that the virus might (49) ___________ for two to three hours on doorknobs or other (50) ___________. Health experts say it is unlikely, though, that sharing an elevator briefly with an infected person would be enough to pass the rims.回答第31空。

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51 单选题What a nice day! How about the three of us __________ a walk in the park nearby?

52 单选题If there were no subjunctive mood, English __________ much easier to learn.

53 单选题She __________ fifty or so when I first met her at a conference.

54 单选题__________ the boss says, it is unreasonable to ask me to work overtime without pay.

55 单选题A new laptop costs about __________ of a second-hand one.

56 单选题I was very interested in __________ she told me.

57 单选题We consider __________ should have left without telling anyone beforehand.

58 单选题It is going to be fine tomorrow. __________

59 单选题Little __________ about her own safety, though she herself was in great danger.

60 单选题The couple had no sooner got to the station __________ the coach left.

61 单选题Aren't you tired? I __________ you had done enough for today.

62 单选题"It seems that she was there at the conference." The sentence means that

63 单选题Which of the following adverbs can NOT be used to complete "__________ everybody came"?

64 单选题In "How much do you think he earns?" how much is __________ of the sentence.

65 单选题"The man preparing the documents is the firm's lawyer" has all the following possible meanings EXCEPT

66 单选题During the TV interview, the singer announced that he was going to __________ his new album soon.

67 单选题After working for the firm for ten years, he finally __________ the rank of deputy director.

68 单选题Winter is the __________season at most hotels in this seaside town, because very few tourists come to stay.

69 单选题Come on, Jack, tell me the story. Don't keep me in __________

70 单选题The football match was __________ because of the heavy rain.

71 单选题We had a good time there, and the food was plentiful and __________

72 单选题It was strange that she would __________ such an absurd idea.

73 单选题The scientists have made an __________ study of the viruses that cause the disease.

74 单选题Do you own your apartment or are you a __________ ?

75 单选题Representatives from the companies indicated that they should go on working together in __________

76 单选题We all know that Mary has had a strict __________

77 单选题The drink was packaged in champagne bottles and was being __________ as the real stuff.

78 单选题Last Sunday she came to visit us out of the blue. The italicized phrase means __________

79 单选题The person he interviewed was __________ his former schoolmate.

80 单选题The young employee has a(n) __________ quality--he is totally honest.

81 单选题根据下列文字，回答题。Do you realize that every time you take a step, the bones in your hip are subjected to forces between four and five times your body weight? When you are running, this force is increased further still. What happens if through disease a hip-joint ceases to be able to resist such forces? For many years hip-joints and other body joints have been replaceable either partially or completely. It is after all a simple ball and socket joint; it has certain loads imposed on it; it needs reliability over a defined life; it must contain materials suitable for the working environment. Any engineer will recognize these as characteristic of a typical engineering problem, which doctors and engineers have worked together to solve, in order to bring a fresh lease of life to people who would otherwise be disabled.
This typifies the way in which engineers work to help people and create a better quality of life. The fact that this country has the most efficient agricultural industry in the world is another good example. Mechanical engineers have worked with farmers and biologists to produce fertilizers, machinery and harvesting systems. This team effort has now produced crops uniformly waist high or less so that they are better suited to mechanical harvesting. Similar advances with other crops have released people from hard and boring jobs for more creative work, whilst machines harvest crops more efficiently with less waste. Providing more food for the rapidly increasing population is yet another role for the mechanical engineer.According to the passage, when would most weight be imposed on hip-joints?

82 单选题Engineers regard the replacement of hip-joints as a(n) __________ problem.

83 单选题According to the passage, how do engineers contribute to increasing efficiency of the agricultural industry?

84 单选题According to the context, "This team effort" in Paragraph Two refers to

85 单选题根据下列文字，回答题。Nowadays, a cellphone service is available to everyone, everywhere. Probably thousands of people have already been using it, but I just discovered it, so I'm going to claim it and also name it: Fake Foning.
The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are infinite applications. Virtually in any public space.
Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members buzzing about. Now, say you need to use the restroom. The trip down the hall will take approximately one hour, because a person can't walk into those talky people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of gossip, a new read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.
So, a cellphone. Any cellphone. Just pick it up. Don't dial. Just hold that phone to your face and start talking. Walk confidently down the hall engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to evade.
For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake business:
"Yes, I'm glad you called, because we really need to hammer out the details. What's that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4, I think you can see the problem begins right there."
Be animated. Be engaged in your fake forte conversation. Make eye contact with the people passing, nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.
Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching (用手捏) unripe peaches. Without your phone at your face, you'd be in for a 20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.
One important caution about fake foning. The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention. I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished. I was trying to buy myself some time, so I continued fake foning with my doctor. "So I don't need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news."
And then: Brrrrrrg! Brrrrrrg! Brrrrrrng! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face. My colleague looked at me, and I at him, and naturally I gasped. "What is the matter with this thing?" I said, pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to my ear.
"Hello? Are you still there?"Oops.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

86 单选题What is fake foning?

87 单选题In the author's opinion, in order to make fake foning look real one has to

88 单选题What does the last example show?

89 单选题After his phone suddenly began ringing, the author

90 单选题What is the tone of the passage?

91 单选题根据下列文字，回答题。
It was late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it, but my cursor had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked (用力猛拉) the battery out.
Unfortunately, Windows had been in the midst of a delicate and crucial undertaking. The next morning, when I turned my computer back on, it informed me that a file had been corrupted and Windows would not load. Then, it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD.
I opened the special drawer where I keep CDs. But no Windows CD in there. I was forced to call the computer company's Global Support Centre. My call was answered by a woman in some unnamed, far-off land. I find it annoying to make small talk with someone when I don't know what continent they're standing on. Suppose I were to comment on the beautiful weather we've been having when there was a monsoon at the other end of the phone? So I got right to the point.
"My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants to fix itself, but I don't have the Windows Setup CD."
"So you're having a problem with your Windows Setup CD." She has apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was attempting to cover for her inattention.
It quickly became clear that the woman was not a computer technician. Her job was to serve as a gatekeeper, a human shield for the technicians. Her sole duty, as far as I could tell, was to raise global stress levels.
To make me disappear, the woman gave me the phone number for Windows' creator, Microsoft. This is like giving someone the phone number for, I don't know, North America. Besides, the CD worked; I just didn't have it. No matter how many times I repeated my story, we came back to the same place. She was calm and resolutely polite.
When my voice hit a certain decibel (分贝), I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician.
"You don't have the Windows Setup CD, ma'am, because you don't need it," he explained cheerfully. "Windows came preinstalled on your computer!"
"But I do need it."
"Yes, but you don't have it." We went on like this for a while. Finally, he offered to walk me through the use of a different CD, one that would erase my entire system. "Of course, you'd lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos." It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. "You might be able to recover them, but it would be expensive." He sounded delighted. "And it's not covered by the warranty (产品保证书)!"The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full.
I hung up the phone and drove my computer to a small, friendly repair place I'd heard about. A smart, helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldn't be a problem. An hour later, he called to let me know it was ready. I thanked him, and we chatted about the weath

92 单选题Which of the following is the author's opinion about the woman at the Global Support Centre?

93 单选题According to the passage, the solution offered by the technician was

94 单选题"It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache" in the last but one paragraph means that

95 单选题It can be inferred from the passage that the differences between the Global Support Centre and the local repair shop lie in all the following EXCEPT

96 单选题根据下列文字，回答题。
Not long ago, a mysterious Christmas card dropped through our mail slot. The envelope was addressed to a man named Raoul, who, I was relatively certain, did not live with us. The envelope wasn't sealed, so I opened it. The inside of the card was blank. Ed, my husband, explained that the card was both from and to the newspaper deliveryman. His name was apparently Raoul, and Raoul wanted a holiday tip. We were meant to put a check inside the card and then drop the envelope in the mail. When your services are rendered at 4 a.m., you can't simply hang around, like a hotel bellboy expecting a tip. You have to be direct.
So I wrote a nice holiday greeting to this man who, in my imagination, fires The New York Times from his bike aimed at our front door, causing more noise with mere newsprint than most people manage with sophisticated black market fireworks.
With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past. I honestly hadn't realized I was supposed to. This was the first time he'd used the card tactic. So I got out my checkbook. Somewhere along the line,
holiday tipping went from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafia-style protection racket (收取保护费的黑社会组织).
Several days later, I was bringing our garbage bins back from the curb when I noticed an envelope taped to one of the lids. The outside of the envelope said MICKEY. It had to be another tip request, this time from our garbage collector. Unlike Raoul, Mickey hadn't enclosed his own Christmas card from me. In a way, I appreciated the directness. "I know you don't care how merry my Christmas is, and that's fine," the gesture said. "I want $30, or I'll 'forget' to empty your garbage bin some hot summer day."
I put a check in the envelope and taped it back to the bin. The next morning, Ed noticed that the envelope was gone, though the trash hadn't yet been picked up: "Someone stole Mickey's tip!" Ed was quite certain. He made me call the bank and cancel the check.
But Ed had been wrong. Two weeks later, Mickey left a letter from the bank on our steps. The letter informed Mickey that the check, which he had tried to cash, had been cancelled. The following Tuesday morning, when Ed saw a truck outside, he ran out with his wallet. "Are you Mickey?"
The man looked at him with scorn. "Mickey is the garbageman. I am the recycling." Not only had Ed insulted this man by hinting that he was a garbageman, but he had obviously neglected to tip him. Ed ran back inside for more funds. Then he noticed that the driver of the truck had been watching the whole transaction. He peeled off another twenty and looked around, waving bills in the air. "Anyone else?"
Had we consulted the website of the Emily Post Institute, this embarrassing breach of etiquette (礼节) could have been avoided. Under "trash/recycling collectors"

97 单选题From the passage, we learn that the author

98 单选题According to the passage, the author felt __________ to give Raoul a holiday tip.

99 单选题Which of the following is CORRECT about Mickey, the garbage collector?

100 单选题Ed's encounter with the recycling team shows that

101 简答题Will Tourism Bring Harm to the Environment?
You are to write in three parts.
In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is.
In the second part, provide one or two reasons to support your opinion.
In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.

102 简答题Lily, your roommate, is looking for a part-time job in the coming summer vacation. You saw an ad for a private English tutor for a schoolboy. Write her a note, telling her what the job is and strongly recommending it to her.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.