1、SECTION 1： LISTENING TEST（30 minutes）Part A： Spot DictationDirections： In this part of the test， you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the world or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your AN
2、SWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.Play is very important for humans from birth to death. Play is not meant to be just for children. It is a form of _ （1） that can tap into your creativity， and can allow you the chance to find your inner child and the inner child of others. I
3、 have collected the _ （2） of play here.Play can stimulate you _ （3）。 It can go against all the rules， and change the same _ （4）。 Walt Disney was devoted to play， and his willingness to _ （5） changed the world of entertainment. The next time you are stuck in a _ （6） way of life， pull out a box of col
4、or pencils， modeling clay， glue and scissors， and _ （7） and break free. You will be amazed at the way your thinking _ （8）。Playing can bring greater joy into your life. What do you think the world would be like-if _ （9） each day in play？ I bet just asking you this question has _ （10）。 Play creates la
5、ughter， joy， entertainment， _ （11）。 Starting today， try to get 30 minutes each day to engage in some form of play， and _ （12） rise！Play is known _ （ 13）。 Studies show that， as humans， play is part of our nature. We have the need to play because it is instinctive and _ （14）。With regular play， our pro
6、blem-solving and _ （15） will be in much better shape to handle this complex world， and we are much more likely to choose _ （16） as they arise. It creates laughter and freedom that can instantly reduce stress and _ （17） to our daily living.Play can _ （18）， curiosity， and creativity. Research shows th
7、at play is both a hands-on and minds-on learning process. It produces a deeper， _ （19） of the world and its possibilities. We begin giving meaning to life through story making， and playing out _ （20）。Part B： Listening ComprehensionDirections： In this part of the test there will be some short talks a
8、nd conversations. After each one， you will be asked some questions. The talks， conversations and questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your
9、ANSWER BOOKLET.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.1. （A） in Cherry Blossoms Village ninety of the residents are over 85 years old.（B） In the United States， there are twice as many centenarians as there were ten years ago.（C） All the people studied by these scientists from Georg
10、ia live in institutions for the elderly.（D） Almost all the residents in Cherry Blossoms Village have unusual hobbies.2. （A） Whether the centenarians can live independently in small apartments.（B） Whether it is feasible to establish a village for the “oldest old” people.（C） What percentage of the pop
11、ulation are centenarians in the state of Georgia.（D） What the real secrets are to becoming an active and healthy 100-year-old.3. （A） Diet， optimism， activity or mobility， and genetics.（B） Optimism， commitment to interesting things， activity or mobility， and adaptability to loss.（C） The strength to a
12、dapt to loss， diet， exercise， and genetics.（D） Diet， exercise， commitment to something they were interested in， and genetics.4. （A） The centenarians had a high calorie and fat intake.（B） The centenarians basically eat something different.（C） The centenarians eat a low-fat and low-calorie， unprocesse
13、d food diet.（D） The centenarians eat spicy food， drink whiskey， and have sweet pork every day.5. （A） Work hard.（B） Stay busy.（C） Stick to a balanced diet.（D） Always find something to laugh about.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.6. （A） Global temperatures rose by 3 degrees in the 20t
14、h century.（B） Global warming may spread disease that could kill a lot of people in Africa.（C） Developed countries no longer depend on fossil fuels for transport and power.（D） The impact of the global warming will be radically reduced by 2050.7. （A） Taking bribes.（B） Creating a leadership vacuum at t
15、he countrys top car maker.（C） Misusing company funds for personal spending.（D） Offering cash for political favors.8. （A） The nation has raised alert status to the highest level and thousands of people have moved to safety.（B） The eruption of Mount Merapi has been the worst in Indonesia over the past
16、 two decades.（C） All residents in the region ten kilometers from the base of the mountain have evacuated.（D） The eruption process was a sudden burst and has caused extensive damage and heavy casualty.9. （A） 6 to 7.（B） 8 to 10.（C） 11 to 16.（D） 17 to 25.10. （A） Curbing high-level corruption.（B） Fighti
17、ng organized crime.（C） Investigating convictions of criminals.（D） Surveying the threats to national security.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview.11. （A） A wine taster.（B） A master water taster.（C） The host of the show.（D） The engineer who works on the water treatment plant.12. （A
18、） Berkeley Springs.（B） Santa Barbara.（C） Atlantic City.（D） Sacramento.13. （A） Being saucy and piquant.（B） Tasting sweet.（C） A certain amount of minerals.（D） An absence of taste.14. （A） Lookingsmellingtasting.（B） Tastingsmellinglooking.（C） Smellinglookingtasting.（D） Tastinglookingsmelling.15. （A） Bat
19、hing.（B） Boiling pasta in.（C） Swimming.（D） Making tea.Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk.16. （A） Enhance reading and math skills.（B） Increase the students appreciation of nature.（C） Improve math， but not reading skills.（D） Develop reading， but not math skills.17. （A） To help the stud
20、ents appreciate the arts.（B） To make the students education more well-rounded.（C） To investigate the impact of arts training.（D） To enhance the students math skills.18. （A） Once weekly.（B） Twice weekly.（C） Once a month.（D） Twice a month.19. （A） Six months.（B） Seven months.（C） Eight months.（D） Nine m
21、onths.20. （A） The childrens attitude.（B） The childrens test scores.（C） Both the childrens attitude and test scores.（D） Both the teachers and the childrens attitude.SECTION 2： READING TEST（30 minutes）Directions： In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by several questions
22、 about it. You are to choose ONE best answer，（A）， （B ）， （C） or （D ），to each question. Answer all the questions following each passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.Questio
23、ns 15Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts， most keep on trying， determined to m
24、aster their amazing new skill. It is only several years later， around the start of middle or junior high school， many psychologists and teachers agree， that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the parents of such kids，
25、 whose own ambition is often inextricably tied to their childrens success， it can be a bewildering， painful experience. So its no wonder some parents find themselves hoping that， just maybe， ambition can be taught like any other subject at school.Its not quite that simple. “Kids can be given the opp
26、ortunities to become passionate about a subject or activity， but they cant be forced，” says Jacquelynne Eccles， a psychology professor at the University of Michigan， who led a landmark， 25-year study examining what motivated first-and seventh-grades in three school districts. Even so， a growing numb
27、er of educators and psychologists do believe it is possible to unearth ambition in students who dont seem to have much. They say that by instilling confidence， encouraging some risk taking， being accepting of failure and expanding the areas in which children may be successful， both parents and teach
28、ers can reignite that innate desire to achieve.Figuring out why the fire went out is the first step. Assuming that a kid doesnt suffer from an emotional or learning disability， or isnt involved in some family crisis at home， many educators attribute a sudden lack of motivation to a fear of failure o
29、r peer pressure that conveys the message that doing well academically somehow isnt cool. “Kids get so caught up in the moment-to-moment issue of will they look smart or dumb， and it blocks them from thinking about the long term，” says Carol Dweck， a psychology professor at Stanford. “You have to tea
30、ch them that they are in charge of their intellectual growth.” Over the past couple of years， Dweck has helped run an experimental workshop with New York City public school seventh-graders to do just that. Dubbed Brainology， the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain
31、 works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. “The message is that everything is within the kids control， that their intelligence is malleable，” says Lisa Blackwell， a research scientist at Columbia University who has worked with Dweck to develop and run the program， which has helped in
32、crease the students interest in school and turned around their declining math grades. More than any teacher or workshop， Blackwell says， “parents can play a critical role in conveying this message to their children by praising their effort， strategy and progress rather than emphasizing their smartne
33、ss or praising high performance alone. Most of all， parents should let their kids know that mistakes are a part of learning.”Some experts say our education system， with its strong emphasis on testing and rigid separation of students into different levels of ability， also bears blame for the disappea
34、rance of drive in some kids. “These programs shut down the motivation of all kids who arent considered gifted and talented. They destroy their confidence，” says Jeff Howard， a social psychologist and president of the Efficacy Institute， a Boston-area organization that works with teachers and parents
35、 in school districts around the country to help improve childrens academic performance. Howard and other educators say its important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests， through volunteer work， sports， hobbies and other extracurricular activities. “The crux of the issue is that many
36、students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions，” says Michael Nakkual， a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF （Inventing the Future）， which works to get low-income underachievers in touch with their aspirations. The key
37、 to getting kids to aim higher at school is to disabuse them of the notion that classwork is irrelevant， to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. Like any ambitious toddler， they need to understand that you have to learn to walk before you can run.
38、1. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the first paragraph？（A） Children are born with a kind of healthy ambition.（B） How a baby learns to walk and talk.（C） Ambition can be taught like other subjects at school.（D） Some teenage children lose their drive to succeed.2. According to so
39、me educators and psychologists， all of the following would be helpful to cultivate students ambition to succeed EXCEPT _.（A） stimulating them to build up self-confidence（B） cultivating the attitude of risk taking（C） enlarging the areas for children to succeed（D） making them understand their family c
40、risis3. What is the message that peer pressure conveys to children？（A） A sudden lack of motivation is attributed to the students failure.（B） Book knowledge is not as important as practical experience.（C） Looking smart is more important for young people at school.（D） To achieve academic excellence sh
41、ould not be treated as the top priority.4. The word “malleable” in the clause “that their intelligence is malleable，” （para.3） most probably means capable of being _.（A） altered and developed（B） blocked and impaired（C） sharpened and advanced（D） replaced and transplanted5. The expression “to disabuse
42、 them of the notion” （para.4） can be paraphrased as _.（A） to free them of the idea（B） to help them understand the idea（C） to imbue them with the notion（D） to inform them of the conceptQuestions 610Civil-liberties advocates reeling from the recent revelations on surveillance had something else to wor
43、ry about last week： the privacy of the billions of search queries made on sites like Google， AOL， Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a long-running court case， the government has asked those companies to turn over information on its users search behavior. All but Google have handed over data， and now t
44、he Department of Justice has moved to compel the search giant to turn over the goods.What makes this case different is that the intended use of the information is not related to national security， but the governments continuing attempt to police Internet pornography. In 1998， Congress passed the Chi
45、ld Online Protection Act （COPA）， but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal， the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon pore. In order to conduct a controlled experimentto be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statisticsthe
46、 DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its own searches， employing the different kinds of filters each search engine offers， in an attempt to quantify how often “material that is harmful to minors” might appear.
47、Google contends that since it is not a party to the case， the government has not right to demand its proprietary information to perform its test. “We intend to resist their motion vigorously，” said Google attorney Nicole Wong.DOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting onl
48、y the actual search terms， and not anything that would link the queries to those who made them. （The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched.） Originally， the government asked for a treasure trove of al
49、l searches made in June and July 2005; the request has been scaled back to one weeks worth of search queries.One oddity about the DOJs strategy is that the experiment could conceivably sink its own case. If the built-in filters that each search engine provides are effective in blocking porn sites， the government will have wound up p
