M:No problem. I had a good evening too. Just across the street from my flat is a new karaoke bar. I went in there with my wife and she sang a few songs. She loves karaoke but I don’t .
W:Well, there’s certainly plenty to do here. I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we all have dinner together here in the hotel this evening ? Bring your wife and we’ll have a really good time.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard,
22. What is Sammy’s nationality ?
23.What did Cindy do after saying “Good night” to Sammy ?
24.According to the passage, Sammy’s wife _______________.
25.Cindy’s idea is that _________________.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some 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 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
According to the best historical records and archaeological findings, it is judged that it took about 800 thousand to 1 million years for the earth’s population to reach the total 250 million which existed at the end of the first century after Christ. For some time after that, illnesses, lack of food and wars kept the population growth down to less than 1 per cent a year so that more than 15 centuries passed before the population reached 500 million. But in the next 250 years, up to 1850, the population of the world shot up to the 1 billion mark, and today it has reached 5 billion. It is said by the United Nations officials that in the next 10 years the population of the world will reach 6 billion by the year 2000.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26.What will the population size be by the year 2000 ?
27.The reasons why the population growth was slow include _________.
28.What is the general tendency of the population growth over the recent centuries ?
Passage Two
The key question for any only child is this: why were you an only chid ? It’s a key question for at least two reasons. If your parents had wanted several children but could have only you, they are most likely to pour into you all the energy and attention that had been intended for several children.I call this the “special jewel” phenomenon. Only children who are special jewels often arrive when their parents are older―usually in their thirties. These special jewels can become very spoilded and self-centered.
On the other hand, you may be an only child because your parents planned for only one and stuck to their plan. Your parents may give you a very strict and well-structured education to make you “a little adult” Many only children grow up feeling unhappy because they always had to be such “little adults”.
Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. Who are likely to treat their only children as “special jewels” ?
30.Why do some only children become “little adults” ?
31.What does the passage mainly discuss ?
32.Why do sme only children feel unhappy ?
Passage Three
When a sleepy driver has trouble with keeping his eyes on the road and gets too close to another car, an alarm sound will warn the driver. If nothing is done, the car will automatically come to a stop and in this way prevent an accident. This is a new device which will soon be tested in an experimental car in Japan. The computer warning system keeps track of a driver’s condition by monitoring his heartbeat with signals transmitted from a band around his wrist. The wrist band records the driver’s pulse which measures the heartbeat. Each pulse rate pulse in the wrist sends a signal to the computer. By analyzing the pulse rate, the computer can determine whether a driver is druck, sleeping or ill. Devices in other parts of the car can also tell the computer if the car is too close to another vehicle or is moving dangerously. The computer will sound the alarm when a problem arises, and will automatically stop the car if the driver ignores the warning.
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33.Why is a computer system installed in an experimental car ?
34.What does the computer system do first when a problem arises ?
35. What is special about the new computer system ?
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times, when the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea .When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information .For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Any man-made (36) vehicle lauched into (37) space will move in (38) accordance with the same laws that (39)govern the motions of the planets about the sun , and the moon about the (40) earth.
Prior to the time of Copernicus, man (41)generally accepted the belief that the earth was the center of the solar system. But efforts to explain the (42)motion of the planets on this assumption failed. Copernicus pointed out that the difficulties in explaining observations of (43)planetary movement disappeared if one assumed that the sun was the center of the solar system, and that the planets revolved about the sun.
Years later, Galileo took up the defense of Copernicus theory. With experiments such as the dropping of two objects of different size and weight from the Learn Tower of Pisa, (44)he started the thinking that led to our current understanding of the laws of motion.
In the early seventeenth century, Johannes Kepler formulated laws that described the motions of the planets about the sun. (45)The most important were: first, each planet revolves about the sun in an orbit that is an ellipse; second, the imaginary line from the center of the sun to the center of a planet (called the radius vector) (46)sweeps over equal areas of the ellipse in equal periods of time.
Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Section A
47.D 此处需要一个动词。本句叙述申请专利的程序：申请人申请专利时需要对发明进行具体描述，然后将描述和样品一同提交政府官员，故填submit一词。
48.O 此处需要填入一个形容词和beneficial并列作表语。此句介绍政府官员签发专利的条件是原创性和有用性，故填original。
49.A 空格前为情态动词could，所以此处需要填入一个动词原形。此处和or后面的use them themselves意义上是对应的。根据常识，申请人获得专利后，专利当然可以自己使用，也可以转让给其他人，故填license“许可，特许”。
50.K 此处需要填入一个动词原形。政府为一项发明签发专利后，当然不能再为同样的创意签发专利，故填issue“签发，发行”。
51.C 空格前为情态动词could，所以此处需要填入一个动词原形和后面的介词of 搭配使用。句子用without 引导条件 ——如果没有支付费并获准使用就擅自使用该专利，因为专利受法律保护，发明人有权对其进行起诉。accuse和charge都有“控告，控诉”的意思，但是用法不同，分别为accuse sb. of sth.和charge sb. with sth. ,故排除charge。
52.F 此处需要填入一个名词作介词for 的宾语。使用专利的人要向专利发明人支付费用，获得使用权后才能取得专利的使用权。故填permission“许可”。
53.I 此处需要一个名词。对于专利，政府一方面实施保护政策，另一方面，为了让大众了解专利的相关知识，政府会出版专利的详细说明，所以填specifications“说明书”。
54.M 此处需要一个形容词，修饰其后的名词knowledge。政府出版专利详细说明的目的是让大众能够了解发明，所以填available“可利用的” 。
55.H 上一段中提到美国政府在专利申诉的14年内进行保护，在这14年申报人拥有专利的所有权，超过14年，任何人都可以免费使用该专利。此处考查固定短语 for fre“免费的”。
56.N 句子主谓结构完整，空格处可以填入一个副词。publicizing ideas和定语从句中的be kept as trade secrets 之间是对比关系，因此需要填入一个表示转折意义的副词 otherwise。otherwise 和 however 都可以表示引导意义的转折，但however常用插入语，其前后需要加逗号，而otherwise 不需要。
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Section B
Passage One
57.D 由题干中说提及到的in the first paragraph 可以将题目答案迅速定位到文章第一段后半部分but―regardless of whether it is or isn’t―we won’t do much about it.根据文章第一句话得知，全球变暖有可能成为21世纪的环境危机，但是无论结果如何，我们都无能为力。D中very little wil be done 与原文we won’t do much about it意义一致。迅速锁定答案为D。A选项所说全球变暖根本不可能引起环境危机，是对文章第一句话的片面理解，故排除。B选项说全球变暖问题需要全世界范围内的努力，作者在文中是提到了这方面的内容，但是作者的意图重在后半句，也就是说国家承诺越多，执行得越不到位，该句为第一句话服务，因此也不是第一段的主旨，故排除。C选项说已经采取了严格的措施来避免或阻止这一问题的发生，在第一段中根本没涉及，故排除。
58.C 由题干中的人名Al Gore 可定位到第二段第一句…as it merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution to relieve global warming. 题目问的是Al Gore 对全球变暖的看法。好像只要意识到它，就可以找到解决这一问题的方法。C与此表述一致。A项它是一个平民和政客们共识的问题，显然是对第一句中as if 引导的句子的错误理解;B项这是一个导致很多不便的现象，是对inconvenient truth 的表面的表面理解，排除; D是作者的看法，不是Al Gore 的看法。
59.A 由题干中的 more than double by 2050 定位到第三段末句With modest growth，energy use and greenhouse emissions more than double by 2050.按照一个较为中等的增长速度来看，能量消耗和温室气体排放到2050年时将是现在的两倍。A项中的economic growth即原文中的growth。B项“能源的浪费”，文章中没有涉及能源浪费问题，排除;C项“贫富之间差距的加大”文章中所涉及的让穷人维持现状，实际上是表明经济的停滞，而非意在表明贫富之间的差距加大，当然也不会有题干的结果;D项科技的突飞猛进，作者在该段第二句中提到if energy use per person and technology remain the same，其实也是在科技的进步会促进经济的发展，因此它不是导致题干结果的直接原因，排除。
60.B 根据题干中的signing of the Kyoto Protocol 定位到原文第四段最后三句。允许缔约国惩罚非缔约国，但它却不能减少排放量，很多签字国也未能采取足够强硬的政策。B中few nations have adopted real tough measures 和本段最后一句中didn’t adopt enough policies意义相符。该段第一句说明任何国家都不想限制经济的发展，同时任何政客都想“有所作为”，他们的“作为”主要体现在经济的发展上，而不是在控制全球气温变化这个问题上，排除A;降低能源的消耗是可以在很大程度上减少对这一问题的加剧，但是这个与《京都议定书》的关系本段没涉及，排除C; D项国际间的合作会有助于这一问题的解决，实际上作者之所以说到《京都议定书》的签订，意在表明，即便是有这样的合作也没有对此问题的解决做出贡献，相反还加剧了，因为CO2 的排放量较之以前增加约25%，排除。
61.B 本题为主旨归纳题，由题干中的convey一词可以定位到文章倒数第二段conclusion一词，此处是作者得出结论之处，也就是撰写本文的意图。作者第一段提出问题：面对全球变暖，我们将无能为力。第二段中作者谈到认识到这一问题并不代表找到解决方案，然后提出论点：and―without major technological breakthroughs―we can’t do much about it(没有大的技术突破，我们仍将无能为力)。第三段讲到全球变暖的原因：人口增长和经济发展，并预测未来发展趋势。第四段认为政府行为收效甚微。第五和第六段重申论点：the only solution is new technology(解决问题的唯一办法就是新技术)。B项是对全文的高度概括，与作者论点相同。A项是对文章最后一段第一句的曲解，排除;作者提到现在我们争论的焦点往往集中在这一问题的解决上，而没有提到这一争论会促进科技的进步，排除C; D项让我们抛弃某些物质的享受而阻止全球气温上升这一问题的发生，文章没涉及。
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