1、英语试卷共 9 页。满分 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟。注意事项：1.答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。2. 答选择题时，必须使用 2B 铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。3.答非选择题时，必须使用 0.5 毫米黑色中性签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。4.所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试卷上答题无效。第 I 卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 30 分）第一节 （共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分）听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标
2、在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。例：How much is he shirt?A. $19.15 B. $9.15C. $9.18 答案是 B1. Who has received a report?A. Tom.B. Alice.C. Bob.2. Where have forest fires now broken out?A. In New South Wales.B. In Victoria.C. In Tasmania.3. What does the woman ask the man to do?A. Re
3、start his computer.B. Read the instruction book.C. Ask a technician for help.4. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A. A magazine.B. The mans job.C. A neighbor.5. Why is the man talking to Sonia?A. To ask her address.B. To invite her to a party.C. To refuse her invitation.第二节 （共 15 小题；每小题
4、 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中做给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. Where are the speakers?A. On a farm.B. In a restaurant.C. At a store.7. What is the man dissatisfied with?A. The products.B. The price.
5、C. The service.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8. What does the man think of Becky?A. Easy-going.B. Impatient.C. Quiet.9. What happened to Becky?A. She quarreled with the woman.B. She lost an important file.C. She misunderstood the woman a lot.10. How will the man help the woman?A. By bringing Becky a file.B.
6、 By reminding her of a file.C. By having a talk with Becky.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11. When will the girl start her afternoon class next Thursday?A. At 2:30 p.m.B. At 2:00 p.m.C. At 1:30 p.m.12. Where will Jane Winter give the talk?A. In the classroom.B. In the ball.C. In the library.13. What does th
7、e man ask the girl to do?A. Write a story about Jane Winter.B. Invite Jane Winter to her class.C. Show Jan Winter her story.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。14. What has the woman found a place for?A. A birthday party.B. A dinner party.C. A graduation party.15. Why didnt the woman say about the Garden House?A
8、. It is too old.B. It will be closed then.C. It has no free rooms.16. What does the woman choose Browns Cafe?A. It is quite far. B. It is not big enough.C. It is rather expensive.17. Where did the man go last week?A. To the Opera Cafe.B. To the Rivers Hotel.C. To the University Hotel.听第 10 段材料，回答第 1
9、8 至 20 题。18. When did the speaker leave school?A. At the age of 14.B. At the age of 18.C. At the age of 32.19. How does the speaker feel about her job as a secretary?A. Bored.B. Happy.C. Tired.20. What does the speaker like to do in her spare time?A. Attend parties.B. Watch movies.C. Read books.第二部分
10、 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThough the political field is still ruled by men, we can still see another splendid scenethose women with high heels and makeup are playing an active role on the political stage.Theresa Maythe Iron Lady who
11、 cleans up the messShe is the second female Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader after Margaret Thatcher. The mess ldft by men is finally for women to clean up. After the worldwide-shocking “Brexit”, Cameron has successfully thrown Theresa into trouble. A remain campaigner as she was, Theres
12、a insists that “Brexit means Brexit”. Since taking office, she has already shown her calmness, humbleness, efficiency and powerful leadership.Merkelthe unquestioned “Big Sister”From a PhD in physics to a role on the political stage, she is Merkel, the first female chancellor(总理) in German history. F
13、acing the European migrant crisis, she advocated the policy of “Open the Door” and put forward the slogan “We are able to manage it”. However, the coming of refugees not only caused serious social security problems but also brought terrorism and political tsunami.Hillarya womans presidential dreamBo
14、rn in a wealthy business family and graduating from Law School of Yale University, Hillary struggled for thirty years on the US political stage and was once the First Lady, Federal Senator and Secretary of State. She is an outstanding but controversial woman in this day and age, since she is rich in
15、 not only political experience but also scandals. Hillary, early 70 years old now, ran for the US presidents twice, only ending up with a broken dream.Park Geun-hyea woman who married the countryIn December, 2012, the 60-year-old Park Geun-hye was elected the first female president of South Korea. S
16、he once pledged: “I dont have parents, nor do I have a husband and children, and the country is the only one I wish to serve.” Yet the “confidante(红颜知己)scandal” was undoubtedly a political earthquake for her, ending her presidency and forcing her out of office in March, 2017.21. What does Theresa Ma
17、y mean by saying Brexit means Brexit?A. She will cary on Brexit.B. She will postpone Brexit.C. She will oppose Brexit.D. She will think twice about Brexit.22. Who ran for presidency twice but in vain?A. MerkelB. Theresa MayC. HillaryD. Park Geun-hye23. What can we infer about the four women?A. There
18、sa May is better than the former Prime Minister.B. Merkel is doubtful about her policy towards the refugees.C. Hillary is the most successful First Lady.D. Park Geun-hye was in office for not more than five years.BA city childs summer is spent in the street in front of his home, and all through the
19、long summer vacations I sat on the edge of the street and watched enviously the other boys on the block play baseball. I was never asked to take part even when one team had a member missingnot out of special cruelty, but because they took it for granted I would be no good at it. They were right, of
20、course.I would never forget the wonderful evening when something changed. The baseball ended about eight or eight thirty when it grew dark. Then it was the custom of the boys to retire to a little stoop(门廊) that stuck out from the candy store on the corner and that somehow had become theirs. No grow
21、nup ever sat there or attempted to. There the boys would sit, mostly talking about the games played during the day and of the game to be played during the day. Then long silences would fall and the boys would wander off one by one. It was just after one of those long silences that my life as an outs
22、ider changed. I can no longer remember which boy it was that summer evening who broke the silence with a question, but whoever he was, I nod to him gratefully now. “Whats in those books youre always reading?” he asked casually. “Stories,” I answered. “What kind?” asked somebody else without much int
23、erest. Instead of answering his question, I told them for two hours the story I was reading at the moment. They listened attentively. I must have told it well.The next night and many nights thereafter, a kind of unspoken ritual (仪式) took place. As it grew dark, I would take my place in the center of
24、 the stoop and begin the evening s tale. Some nights, in order to taste my victory more completely, I cheated. I would stop at the most exciting part of a story and without warning tell them that that was as far as I had gone in the book and it would have to be continued the following evening. It wa
25、s not true, of course; but I had to make certain of my new-found power and position. Other words of mine have been listened to by larger and more fashionable audiences. But for that tough and athletic one that sat close on the stoop outside the candy store, I have an unreasoning love that will last
26、forever.24. Watching the boys playing baseball, the writer must have felt _.A. lonely and left out B. special and differentC. worried and nervousD. disturbed and annoyed25. The writer feels grateful even now to the boy who asked the question because the boy _.A. liked the book that he was readingB.
27、invited him to join in their game C. offered him an opportunity that changed his lifeD. broke the long silence of that summer evening26. Sometimes the writer stopped at the most exciting part of a story to _.A. play a foolish trick on the boys B. add his own imagination to the story C. experience mo
28、re joy of achievementD. help the boys understand the story better27. What can be a suitable title for this text?A. Lonely Summer VacationsB. Memory of Childhood FriendsC. Books Appeal to meD. My First AudienceCFor most city people, the elevator is an unremarkable machine that inspires none of the en
29、thusiasm or interest that Americans afford trains, jets, and even bicycles. Dr. Christopher Wilk is a member of a small group of elevator experts who consider this a misunderstanding. Without the elevator, they point out, there could be no downtown skyscrapers or tall buildings, and city life as we
30、know it would be impossible. In that sense, they argue, the elevators role in American history has been no less significant than that of cars. In fact, according to Wilk, the car and the elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century, with cars making it possible for people to spread
31、 horizontally, and elevators pushing them toward life in close groups of towering vertical columns.If we tend to ignore the significance of elevators, it might be because riding in them tends to be such a brief, boring, and even awkward experienceone that can involve unexpectedly meeting people with
32、 whom we have nothing in common, and an unpleasant awareness of the fact that were hanging from a cable in a long passage.In a new book, Lifted, German journalist and cultural studies professor Andreas Bernard directed all his attention to this experience, studying the origins of elevator and its re
33、lationship to humankind and finding that riding in an elevator has never been a totally comfortable experience. “After 150 years, we are still not used to it,” Bernard said. “We still have not exactly learned to cope with the mixture of closeness and displeasure.” That mixture, according to Bernard,
34、 sets the elevator ride apart from other life experiences.Today, as the worlds urban population explodes, and cities become more crowded, taller, and more crowded, Americas total number of elevators900,000 at last count, according to Elevator World magazines “2012 Vertical Transportation Industry”ar
35、e a force thats becoming more important than ever. It seems like high time that we looked seriously at just what kind of force they are.28. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 1 refer to?A. The general view of elevators.B. The particular interests of experts.C. The desire for a remarka
36、ble machine.D. The enthusiasm for transport vehicles.29. The authors purpose in mentioning cars is _.A. to contrast their functions with elevatorsB. to stress the importance of elevatorsC. to point out their secret war against elevatorsD. to explain peoples preference for elevators30. According to P
37、rof. Bernard, what has made the elevator ride different from other life experiences?A. Vertical direction.B. Fast speed.C. Little physical space.D. Lack of communication.31. The author urges readers to consider _.A. the exact number of elevator loversB. the serious future situation of elevatorsC. th
38、e important role of elevators in city developmentD. the relationship between cars and elevatorsDBetween the last application season and the current one, Swarthmore College, a school nationally knowned for its academic rigidness, changed the requirements for students who vied for admission into its n
39、ext freshman class. It made filling out the proper forms easier.Swarthmore is hardly alone in its desire to eliminate impediments to a bounty of applicants. Over the last decade, many elite colleges have adjusted their applications in ways that remove disincentives and maximize the chances that the
40、number of students contesting to get in grows larger.In one sense, thats a sensible attempt to be sure that no qualified candidate is missed. But theres often a less pure motive in play. In our society, a schools reputation is improved by a low acceptance rate, which can even influence how U.S. News
41、 & World Report ranks it. And unless a school is cutting down the size of its student body, the only way to bring its acceptance rate down is to get its number of applicants up. So, many colleges methodically generate interest only to frustrate it. They encourage applicants for the purpose of turnin
42、g them down.And there can be other reasons for what looks like a loosening of application demands. Smith and several other similarly great colleges no longer require the SAT or ACT, and McCartney said: “That does not aim at attracting more applicants. Its a recognition that top scores on those tests
43、 are related to high family income and may say more about an applicants economic advantages including private SAT tutoring than about academic potential.”But will Swarthmores applicants this year give quite as much thought to its suitability for them, to whether its the right home? Im betting not.Wh
44、en its easy for a student to apply to yet one more college, theres inadequate thought to a tailored match, which is what the admissions process should aim at. Its what the measure of success should be.32. Which of the following can best replace the underlined word in paragraph 1?A. competedB. madeC.
45、 stoodD. catered33. In paragraph 3, the author suggests that .A. It is not sensible for colleges to make these changesB. The role played by colleges is never pure in the societyC. Colleges tend to downsize their student body to keep their reputationD. Colleges increase the number of applicants to im
46、prove their rankings.34. Kathleen McCartney holds that the results of SAT or ACT .A. reflect testees academic potential to a large extentB. should be considered an essential measure of successC. are closely related to testees family income levelD. play a vital role in applying for famous colleges35.
47、 According to the author, the success of admissions process lies in .A. accepting as many genuine students as possibleB. making suitable match both for applicants and the schoolC. improving the schools reputation nationwideD. increasing overall number of applicants for the school第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满
48、分 10 分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。The Danger of SharentingBabies, like cats, are everywhere on web. The vast majority of two-year-oldsmore than 90 percent of themalready have online presence. 36 It is typical for adults to mention a childs name and birthdate in birth announcements and
49、other posts on sites like Facebook. 37 That is because someone may download images and information of another persons kids and claims them to be their own. In addition, some parents even publish real-time information about their childrens whereabouts, potentially risking their safety.Even posting baby phones to a private group is not without risk. 38 Parents dont
