1、满分: 150 分 时间:120 分钟第 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 75 分)听下面 5 段时话，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，并标在试卷的相应的位置。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。1. How does the man go to school?A. On foot. B. By car. C. By bus. 2. What are the two speakers talking about?A. A big fire.
2、 B. A matchbox. C. A heavy rain. 3. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In a bank. B. in a cinema. C. In a restaurant. 4. What is probably the man?A. A cook. B. A dentist. C. A cleaner. 5. What will the woman do h is afternoon?A. Go to the movies. B. Shop for some clothes. C. Buy
3、 a new pair of glasses. 第二节(共 15 小题，每小题 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，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中先出最佳选项，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，每段对话或独自读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至 7 题。6. What does the man think of the living room of the house?A. Very bright. B. Very small. C. V
4、ery big. 7. What will the speakers do at last?A. Rent this house. B. See another apartment. C. Return to the last apartment. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. How many rooms does the man need?A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. 9. Why does the man ask for two cars?A. They have a lot of luggage. B. They are too many of t
5、hem. C. They will arrive at different times. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What color is the dress?A. Blue. B. Black. C. Green. 11. What did the man do during the womans shopping?A. He read some books. B. He cleaned the room. C. He w rote some letters. 12. Why did the man want to see Martin?A. To lend
6、Martin some money. B. To borrow some money from Martin. C. To ask Martin to pay back his money. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Why does the man feel down?A. Because his girlfriend left him. B. Because he did badly in his career. C. Because his car broke down on the way. 14. What does the man want to do?
7、A. To build a family. B. To move to another city. C. To look for a better-paid job. 15. How long did his relation with his girlfriend last?A. Four years. B. Five years. C. Ten years. 16. What did Jane want to do?A. To settle down. B. To go to college. C. To pursue her career.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
8、17. Where did Mr. Scott live?A. In a room above his shop. B. In his shop. C. Near the police station.18. How much money did he have that day?A. About $1,000. B. About $10,000. C. About $100,000. 19. Where did he put the money that night?A. Under the bed. B. In the safe box. C. In the pocket of his c
9、oat.20. How did Mr. Scott feel when he heard the doorbell?A. Frightened. B. Angry. C. Excited. 第二部分: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)阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A，B，C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AShellharbour City Library provides a range of Library Special Needs Services for people who are una
10、ble to access our library service in the usual way. As long as you live in Shellharbour City, well provide a full range of library services and resources including: Large printed and ordinary printed books Talking books on tape and CD DVDs and music CDs Magazines Reference and information requestsYo
11、u will be asked to complete a “Statement of Need” application form which must be signed by a medical professional.Home delivery serviceLet us know what you like to read and we will choose the resources for you. Our staff will deliver the resources to your home for free. We also provide a service whe
12、re we can choose the resources for you or someone instead of you choosing the things from the library. You can also choose the resources you need personally.Talking books and captioned videosThe library can provide talking books for people w ho are unable to use printed books because of eye diseases
13、. You dont have to miss out on reading any more when you can borrow talking books from the library. If you have limited hearing which prevents you from enjoying movies, we can provide captioned videos for you at no charge. Language besides EnglishWe can provide books in a range of languages besides
14、English. If possible, we will request these items from the State Library of NSW. Australia. How to joinContact the Library Special Needs Coordinator to register or discuss if you are eligible (合适的) for any of the services we provide9 am to 5 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Call 4297-2522 for
15、more information. 21. Library Special Needs Services are provided for .A. those who are fond of readingB. only those who have walking disabilitiesC. people living in Shellharbour City with an illness or disabilityD. those who cant get medical help in Shellharbour City22. If people with eye diseases
16、want to learn about history, they can choose .A. talking booksB. captioned videosC. magazinesD. large printed books23. What can we learn from the passage?A. Few entertaining resources are offered here.B. Books with different languages are available. C. people with limited hearing have to pay for cap
17、tioned videos. D. people have to choose what they need by themselves. 24. To get home delivery service, you must .A. only choose printed booksB. register ahead of timeC. pay the library ahead of timeD. have others choose the resources for youBIf your dog looks pleased to see youit is probably becaus
18、e it loves the particular way you smell. The scent (气味)of a familiar human apparently lingers like perfumein the animals brainwhere it causes an instinctive emotional response, research reveals.Our scent acts on a part of the canine (犬科的) brain associated with reward and the strongest reactions are
19、produced by humans that pets know best, say scientists in America. Gregory Bern, of Emory University in Atlanta, said, “While we might expect that dogs should be highly tuned to the smell of other dogs, it seems that the reward response is reserved for their humans. When humans smell the perfume of
20、someone they love, they may have an immediate, emotional reaction thats not necessarily cognitive (认识的). So is it in dogs. But since dogs have a more sensitive smell than humans. their responses would likely be even more powerful than the ones we might have. In our experiment, however. the owners of
21、 the dog were not physically present. The canine brain responses were being caused by something distant in space and time. It shows that dogs brains have these mental representations of us that persist when were not there.”The experiment involved 12 dogs of various kinds by brain scans while five di
22、fferent scents were placed in front of them. The scent samples (样本)came from the subject (接受试险者) itself, a dog the subject had never met, a dog living in the subjects household. The familiar human scent samples were taken from someone else from the house other than the handlers during the experiment
23、, so that none of the scent donors were physically present. The results showed all five scents gained a similar response in parts of the dogs brains involved in detecting smells. Responses were significantly stronger for the scent of familiar humans, followed by that of familiar dogs. The findings s
24、howed dogs reacted strongest to the scent of familiar humans even when they were not there. Pets trained ashelp or therapy dogs show ed greater brain activity than the other dogs in the test. Researchers say the findings could improve the way to select animals helping wounded old soldiers or disable
25、d people. 25. Whats the main idea of the passage?A. The scent of the dogs. B. The emotions of animals influenced by the scent. C. The differences between animals and humans in scent. D. The sensitive scent. 26. According to the experiment. a dog will be most interested in .A. familiar dogsB. a human
26、 the dog had never metC. a dog the dog had never metD. familiar humans27. What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. Animals can cure wounded old soldiers. B. Animals can help disabled people. C. The experiment is complex. D. The experiment is very valuable. 28. In which column of a newspaper can
27、we read this passage?A. Science. B. Education. C. Culture. D. Entertainment. CAustralian electronics and homewares retailers are preparing for the invasion (涌入) of American giant Amazon, but some have decided to take the fight up to the online-based store when it comes to local shores.Last week, Ama
28、zon confirmed its rapid Australia expansion by announcing that it was searching for a site to build its “fulfillment center”a large warehouse(仓库)for storing and shipping goods purchased onlinebut local retailer, including one of Harvey Normans founders Gerry Harvey, have said they will make it hard
29、for Amazon to succeed in Australia. Harvey Norman sells electronics, furniture and beddingall markets in which Amazon hopes to hold a stake, but Harvey has said that he will happily go toe-to-toe with the American behemoth to hold his ground in the Australian market. “In America and other parts of h
30、e world, they have just demolished (彻底打败) other retailers, no question about that, and they send a lot of retailers broke,” Harvey told News Corp on Monday. “There is no question they have one ambition and like Attila the Hun, or Alexander the Great, they just want to demolish everything in front of
31、 them and then at the end of the day claim to be victorious and make their own rules. So this is a company that is extraordinary by any measure and challenges every rule that has ever been written about a business.”Some analysts have said that Amazon could take in as much as 3 billion U. S. dollars
32、in sales in its first five years in Australia (around I percent of the total 225 billion U.S. dollar market), but Harvey has refuted those claims, saying that local retailers would be putting up “one hell of a fight” when Amazon launches is main retail services in Australia. “We will be ou there fig
33、hting them like no American retailer has ever fought them,” he said. “Any price that they put we will beat or equal.”Meanwhile, Harveys thoughts were backed up by the former CEO of supermarket chain Woolworths. Roger Corbett, who said Amazon would struggle to keep its lower wages and claims of light
34、ning fast delivery to rural parts when it opens in Australia. “Amazon will have an impact on the market place, but they are coming into an already very competitive market,” he told News Corp.29. Why did Gerry Harvey react actively to Amazons expansion to Australia?A. To support other national brands
35、.B. To maintain his own share in the market.C. To realize the Australian markets diversity.D. To learn from Amazons immediate success. 30. What is Amazon like according to Gerry Harvey?A. Powerful and creative.B. Aggressive but outdated. C. Ambitious and reliable.D. Promising but adventurous. 31. Wh
36、at message is conveyed in the last paragraph?A. Amazon will take the lead in Australia soon. B. Amazon has no access to the Australian market. C. Amazons service quality needs improving urgently. D. Amazons expansion to Australia will be challenging. DIn the fight to conserve tropical rainforests, h
37、eres a tool you dont often hear about:orange peels. Specifically, 12,000 tons of them, dumped (倾倒) on the land. “You dont usually associate waste treatment with biodiversity benefits, something thats good for the environment. Tim Treuer is an ecologist at Princeton University. and hes talking about
38、a unique conservation story. It started in the early 1990s, when an orange juice producer cal led Del Oro set up a company near the Guanacaste Conservation Area in Costa Rica, a region that contains several national parks and a widlife protection zone. Del Oro needed somewhere to dump the orange pee
39、ls, and the company also owned forested land next to the parkland that it had no intention of growing crops on. So a deal was struck: if Del Oro donated its forested land, it could dump orange peel waste on degraded(退化的 ) land within the conservation area. Then a thousand dump trucks worth of orange
40、 peels were lying on the land in 1998. “And within about six months the orange peels had been turned from orange peels into this thick black rich soil.”“I couldnt even find the site the fist time I saw it.” He couldnt find it because, over 16 years, the orange peel waste had sent the land on a journ
41、ey to become a vine-choked jungle, with three times the diversity of tree species of the neighboring control plot, richer soil and a much thicker covering. In other words, the experiment was a success. The results appear in the journal Restoration Ecology. Treuer says perhaps this lesson could be ap
42、plied elsewhere. “Its a shame that we live in a world with nutrient-limited degraded ecosystems and also nutrient-rich waste streams. Wed like to see those things come together a little bit. Thats not license for any agricultural company to just start dumping their waste products on protected areas,
43、 but it does mean that land managers, people involved with industrial-scale agricultural operations should start thinking about ways to do thoughtful experimentation to see if in their particular system they can have similar win-win-win results.” 32. What does the underlined word “It” in Paragraph 2
44、 refer to?A. Waste treatment. B. A conservation story. C. An orange juice company. D. The biodiversity benefit. 33. What does the author say about orange peels?A. They are particularly hard to break down. B. They can change the color of the land soil. C. They are beneficial to biological diversity.
45、D. They can gradually destroy the surface soil. 34. What do Treuers words in the last paragraph suggest?A. Waste can be used for environmental protection. B. No waste can be thrown randomly on the protected areas. C. Large-scale agricultural operations start with experiments. D. Land managers must b
46、e ready to take on their responsibility35. What might be the best title for the passage?A. How to Deal with Orange PeelsB. How to Improve the Degraded LandC. A Fruitful Experiment in Land ConservationD. Ways to Protect Tropical Forests Effectively第二节: (共 5 小题; 每小题 2 分，满分 10 分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处
47、的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余项。Lavender essential oil (熏衣草精油) is obtained mostly from the flowers of he lavender plant. It has not only been used in making perfumes for many years but also has various health benefits. 36 Lavender essential oil is known as an excellent treatment for various types of pains includin
48、g those caused by sore and tense muscles, muscular aches, backache, and So on. A study on postoperative pain relief showed that combining lavender essential oil vapor with the oxygen significantly reduced the amount of pain experienced. Induce (引起) sleep. Frequent studies on elderly patients have sh
49、own an increase in their sleep regularity when their normal sleep medication is replaced with some lavender essential oil being placed on their pillows. 37 Therefore, it often replaces modern medicines for sleep issues. Reduce mental stress and anxiety. Lavender essential oil has a calming scent which makes it an excellent treatment for the nerve and anxiety issues. The refreshing aroma removes nervous exhaustion and restlessness while also increasing mental activity. 38Provide hair care. 39 A Scottish study repo
