1、 Test 1 LISTENING SECTION 1 Questions 1-10 Questions 1-4 Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Notes on sports club Example Answer Name of club: Kingswell Facilities available: Golf 1. 2. Classes available: Kick-boxing 3. Additional facility: 4. (restaurant openin
2、g soon) Questions 5-8 Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO NUMBERS for each answer. MEMBERSHIP SCHEMES Type Use of facilities Cost of classes Times Joining fee Annual subscription fee GOLD All Free Anytime 250 5 SILVER All 6 from.7 to. 225 300 BRONZE Restricted 3 from 10.30 to 3.30 weekd
3、ays only 50 8 Questions 9 and 10 Complete the sentences below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer. 9 To join the centre, you need to book an instructors . . 10 To book a trial session, speak to David(0458 95311). SECTION 2 Questions 11-20 Questions 11-16 What change has been made to each part of th
4、e theatre? Choose SIX answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-G, next to questions 11-16. RIVENDEN CITY THEATRE A doubled in number B given separate entrance C reduced in number D increased in size E replaced F strengthened G temporarily closed Part of the theatre 11 box office 12 shop
5、13 ordinary seats 14 seats for wheelchair users 15 lifts 16 dressing rooms Questions 17-20 Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. Play Dates Starting time Tickets available Price Royal Hunt of the Sun October 13th to 17 18 pm for 19 and. 20. SECTION 3
6、 Questions 21-30 Question 21 Choose the correct letter, A, B or C. 21 What is Brian going to do before the course starts? A attend a class B write a report C read a book Questions 22-25 Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. College Facility Information Refectory inf
7、orm them 22 about special dietary requirements 23 long waiting list，apply now Careers advice drop-in centre for information Fitness centre reduced 24 for students Library includes books ，journals ，equipment room containing audio-visual materials Computers ask your 25 to arrange a password with the t
8、echnical support team Questions 26-30 Complete the summary below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Business Centre The Business Resource Centre contains materials such as books and manuals to be used for training. It is possible to hire 26. and 27. .There are materials for working on st
9、udy skills (e.g. 28. ) and other subjects include finance and 29. 30. membership costs 50 per year. SECTION 4 Questions 31-40 Questions 31-37 Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Social history of the East End of London Period Situation 1st-4th centuries Produce fr
10、om the area was used to 31 the people of London. 5th-10th centuries New technology allowed the production of goods made of 32 and . 11th century Lack of 33 in the East End encouraged the growth of businesses. 16th century Construction of facilities for the building of 34 stimulated international tra
11、de. Agricultural workers came from other parts of 35 to look for work. 17th century Marshes were drained to provide land that could be 36 on. 19th century Inhabitants lived in conditions of great 37 with very poor sanitation. Questions 38-40 Choose THREE letters, A-G. Which THREE of the following pr
12、oblems are mentioned in connection with 20th century housing in the East End? A unsympathetic landlords B unclean water C heating problems D high rents E overcrowding F poor standards of building G houses catching fire READING READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, wh
13、ich are based on Reading Passage 1 below. AUSTRALIAS SPORTING SUCCESS A They play hard, they play often, and they play to win. Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with seeming ease. How do they do it? A big part of the secret is an extensive and expen
14、sive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine. At the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), hundreds of youngsters and pros live and train under the eyes of coaches. Another body, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), finances programmes of excellence in a total of 96 sport
15、s for thousands of sportsmen and women. Both provide intensive coaching, training facilities and nutritional advice. B Inside the academies, science takes centre stage. The AIS employs more than 100 sports scientists and doctors, and collaborates with scores of others in universities and research ce
16、ntres. AIS scientists work across a number of sports, applying skills learned in one - such as building muscle strength in golfers - to others, such as swimming and squash. They are backed up by technicians who design instruments to collect data from athletes. They all focus on one aim: winning. We
17、cant waste our time looking at ethereal scientific questions that dont help the coach work with an athlete and improve performance, says Peter Fricker, chief of science at AIS. C A lot of their work comes down to measurement - everything from the exact angle of a swimmers dive to the second-by-secon
18、d power output of a cyclist. This data is used to wring improvements out of athletes. The focus is on individuals, tweaking performances to squeeze an extra hundredth of a second here, an extra millimetre there. No gain is too slight to bother with. Its the tiny, gradual improvements that add up to
19、world-beating results. To demonstrate how the system works, Bruce Mason at AIS shows off the prototype of a 3D analysis tool for studying swimmers. A wire-frame model of a champion swimmer slices through the water, her arms moving in slow motion. Looking side-on, Mason measures the distance between
20、strokes. From above, he analyses how her spine swivels. When fully developed, this system will enable him to build a biomechanical profile for coaches to use to help budding swimmers. Masons contribution to sport also includes the development of the SWAN (SWimming ANalysis)system now used in Austral
21、ian national competitions. It collects images from digital cameras running at 50 frames a second and breaks down each part of a swimmers performance into factors that can be analysed individually - stroke length, stroke frequency, average duration of each stroke, velocity, start, lap and finish time
22、s, and so on. At the end of each race, SWAN spits out data on each swimmer D Take a look, says Mason, pulling out a sheet of data. He points out the data on the swimmers in second and third place, which shows that the one who finished third actually swam faster. So why did he finish 35 hundredths of
23、 a second down? His turn times were 44 hundredths of a second behind the other guy, says Mason. If he can improve on his turns, he can do much better This is the kind of accuracy that AIS scientists research is bringing to a range of sports. With the Cooperative Research Centre for Micro Technology
24、in Melbourne, they are developing unobtrusive sensors that will be embedded in an athletes clothes or running shoes to monitor heart rate, sweating, heat production or any other factor that might have an impact on an athletes ability to run. Theres more to it than simply measuring performance. Frick
25、er gives the example of athletes who may be down with coughs and colds 11 or 12 times a year. After years of experimentation, AlS and the University of Newcastle in New South Wales developed a test that measures how much of the immune-system protein immunoglobulin A is present in athletes saliva. If
26、 IgA levels suddenly fall below a certain level, training is eased or dropped altogether. Soon, IgA levels start rising again, and the danger passes. Since the tests were introduced, AIS athletes in all sports have been remarkably successful at staying healthy. E Using data is a complex business. We
27、ll before a championship, sports scientists and coaches start to prepare the athlete by developing a competition model, based on what they expect will be the winning times. You design the model to make that time, says Mason. A start of this much, each free-swimming period has to be this fast, with a
28、 certain stroke frequency and stroke length, with turns done in these times. All the training is then geared towards making the athlete hit those targets, both overall and for each segment of the race. Techniques like these have transformed Australia into arguably the worlds most successful sporting
29、 nation. F Of course, theres nothing to stop other countries copying-and many have tried. Some years ago, the AIS unveiled coolant-lined jackets for endurance athletes. At the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, these sliced as much as two per cent off cyclists and rowers times. Now everyone uses them. T
30、he same has happened to the altitude tent, developed by AIS to replicate the effect of altitude training at sea level. But Australias success story is about more than easily copied technological fixes, and up to now no nation has replicated its all-encompassing system. Questions 1-7 Reading Passage
31、1 has six paragraphs, A-F. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet. NB You may use any letter more than once. 1 a reference to the exchange of expertise between different sports 2 an explanation of how visual imaging is emp
32、loyed in investigations 3 a reason for narrowing the scope of research activity 4 how some AIS ideas have been reproduced 5 how obstacles to optimum achievement can be investigated 6 an overview of the funded support of athletes 7 how performance requirements are calculated before an event Questions
33、 8-11 Classify the following techniques according to whether the writer states they A are currently exclusively used by Australians B will be used in the future by Australians C are currently used by both Australians and their rivals Write the correct letter, A, B or C, in boxes 8-11 on your answer
34、sheet. 8 cameras 9 sensors 10 protein tests 11 altitude tents Questions 12 and 13 Answer the questions below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 12 and 13 on your answer sheet. 12 What is produced to help an athlete plan thei
35、r performance in an event? 13 By how much did some cyclists performance improve at the 1996 Olympic Games? READING PASSAGE 2 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage 2 below. DELIVERING THE GOODS The vast expansion in international trade owes much to a
36、 revolution in the business of moving freight A International trade is growing at a startling pace. While the global economy has been expanding at a bit over 3% a year, the volume of trade has been rising at a compound annual rate of about twice that. Foreign products, from meat to machinery, play a
37、 more important role in almost every economy in the world, and foreign markets now tempt businesses that never much worried about sales beyond their nations borders. B What lies behind this explosion in international commerce? The general worldwide decline in trade barriers, such as customs duties a
38、nd import quotas, is surely one explanation. The economic opening of countries that have traditionally been minor players is another. But one force behind the import-export boom has passed all but unnoticed: the rapidly falling cost of getting goods to market. Theoretically, in the world of trade, s
39、hipping costs do not matter. Goods, once they have been made, are assumed to move instantly and at no cost from place to place. The real world, however, is full of frictions. Cheap labour may make Chinese clothing competitive in America, but if delays in shipment tie up working capital and cause win
40、ter coats to arrive in spring, trade may lose its advantages. C At the turn of the 20th century, agriculture and manufacturing were the two most important sectors almost everywhere, accounting for about 70% of total output in Germany, Italy and France, and 40-50% in America, Britain and Japan. Inter
41、national commerce was therefore dominated by raw materials, such as wheat, wood and iron ore, or processed commodities, such as meat and steel. But these sorts of products are heavy and bulky and the cost of transporting them relatively high. D Countries still trade disproportionately with their geo
42、graphic neighbours. Over time, however, world output has shifted into goods whose worth is unrelated to their size and weight. Today, it is finished manufactured products that dominate the flow of trade, and, thanks to technological advances such as lightweight components, manufactured goods themsel
43、ves have tended to become lighter and less bulky. As a result, less transportation is required for every dollars worth of imports or exports. E To see how this influences trade, consider the business of making disk drives for computers. Most of the worlds disk-drive manufacturing is concentrated in
44、South-east Asia. This is possible only because disk drives, while valuable, are small and light and so cost little to ship. Computer manufacturers in Japan or Texas will not face hugely bigger freight bills if they import drives from Singapore rather than purchasing them on the domestic market. Dist
45、ance therefore poses no obstacle to the globalisation of the disk-drive industry. F This is even more true of the fast-growing information industries. Films and compact discs cost little to transport, even by aeroplane. Computer software can be exported without ever loading it onto a ship, simply by
46、 transmitting it over telephone lines from one country to another, so freight rates and cargo-handling schedules become insignificant factors in deciding where to make the product. Businesses can locate based on other considerations, such as the availability of labour, while worrying less about the
47、cost of delivering their output. G In many countries deregulation has helped to drive the process along. But, behind the scenes, a series of technological innovations known broadly as containerisation and intermodal transportation has led to swift productivity improvements in cargo-handling. Forty y
48、ears ago, the process of exporting or importing involved a great many stages of handling, which risked portions of the shipment being damaged or stolen along the way. The invention of the container crane made it possible to load and unload containers without capsizing the ship and the adoption of st
49、andard container sizes allowed almost any box to be transported on any ship. By 1967, dual-purpose ships, carrying loose cargo in the hold* and containers on the deck, were giving way to all-container vessels that moved thousands of boxes at a time. H The shipping container transformed ocean shipping into a highly efficient, intensely competitive business. But getting the cargo to and from the dock was a different story. National governments, by and large, kept a much firmer hand on truck and railroad tar
