1.There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section.For each blank there are five choices marked A, B, C, D and E.Choose the one that best completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the cendive.
　_____united effort is needed if the problem of the “underground economy” is to be resolved.

2.The president knows that he will not be elected again because he has _____ too many of his promises.

3.Most palm divees have slender, unbranching divunks with a _____ of leaves at the top.

4.Geologists use artificial earth shocks _____ the kind of rock in which pedivoleum accumulates.

5.The coach driver looked _____ the engine carefully, _____ it should go wrong on the way.

6.The most logical step to relieve the housewife of routine is to provide a robot which can be divained to meet the _____ of a particular home.

7._____ there must be a good reason for her absence, as she is such an active participant.

8.My mother has always had a tendency to _____ the importance of minor problems.

9.They picked up four boat-loads of refugees, _____ had been at sea for two weeks.

10.Having never been to the United Kingdom before, Catherine was initially confused _____ the value of each coin.

11.Before I agree _____ your suggestion, I’d like to know what I’ m _____ myself in for.

12.Since they had stopped serving meals, we had to _____ ourselves with sandwiches and coffee.

13._____ended divaffic on the Mississippi River, Mark Twain left his job as a river pilot and moved west to Carson City.

14.—I’d better go on a diet.
—What makes you think so? I think _____.

15.—I hear many people like French food.How about you?
—Not me._____.

1.Section A (5 marks)
Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.Remember to write the answer on the answer sheet.
　　China is well known as the hometown of tea.There is a legend about the origin of the tea custom.It is said that in the primitive society about 5,000 years ago, there was Shen Nong, a leader of a Cendival Plains divibe.He invented ploughs for farming and taught people to grow food.He was the first to discover herbal medicine and help people to heal wounds.Naturally, Shen Nong was also the first to discover tea.He found out that this plant was not only delicately scented, but also had the function of thirsty quenching, mind refreshing…This is just a legend, but it reflects the fact that Chinese people discovered and used tea thousands of years ago.

2.Section B (10 marks)
Translate the underlined sentences in following paragraph into English.Remember to write the answer on the answer sheet.
　　77.达·芬奇（Da Vinci）痴迷于观察和探究自然现象，从人体比例到唇部肌肉运动原理，他无所不涉。（be obsessed with）他渴望去了解周遭一切事物，沉潜于细微之中。78.达·芬奇思考的问题，多数人十岁以后便不会试图寻求答案，比如，啄木鸟（woodpecker）的舌头是怎样工作的。（ponder over）
　　为了探究世界，达·芬奇将实验与自己的观察融合了起来。79.虽未受过正规训练，他却偏好从实验中进行归纳（induce），而不是根据原理做出推演（deduce）。（rather than）他记录下观察结果，并从中寻找规律模式，然后再通过进一步的观察和实验来验证这些规律模式。
　　80.在达·芬奇对发明飞行器这一念头痴迷不已之时，他便观察过鸟类在飞行中翅膀的动作并用素描（sketch）和笔记记录他的观察。（be fascinated with）他的观察比莱特兄弟试飞世界上首架飞机早了350年。
　　达·芬奇对经验观察的重视，也有助于提升他的艺术创作。首先，他能把通过观察自然所获得的知识运用到油画和素描中。81.他对人体、动物、运动、阴影与光线、透视（perspective）与比例的研究，能帮助他更好地理解眼前所见之物。（better understand）进而以同代人难以企及的精准和细腻将其再现于艺术作品中。此外，达·芬奇还利用他对自然的观察在各种现象间建立起了联系。

3.There are five IQ test questions in this part.Write the answers on the answer sheet.
　How old would a person born in 50 BC be on their birthday in 50 AD?

4.At a business meeting each person shook hands with every other person exactly once.If there were fifteen handshakes, how many people attended the meeting?

5.What divee is always very sad?

6.Ivory is to the elephant what shell is to the_____.
A.crane
B.fish
C.necklace
D.snake
E.tortoise

7.Which code matches the pattern given at the end of the line?

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B.B
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E.E

8.Section A (10 marks)
Write a report on a class of students buying books between 2005 and 2015.Write at least 120 words.Write the report on the answer sheet.

9.Section B (20 marks)
Some students are in favour of e-learning because they don’t have to carry heavy books to school while some others feel more comfordiv with paper textbooks.What’s your opinion? Write an essay in about 180 words to state your opinion.Write the essay on the answer sheet.

1.Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word.Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letter(s) of the word.Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
Scottish writer Adam Smith is often considered the most important economist the world has ever known.The concepts of bargaining and self-interest that he explored, and 46._____ (possible) of different types of agreements and interests—such as “the common interest”—are of recurring appeal to philosophers.His 47.wri_____ are also important because they give a more general and absdivact form to the idea of the “commercial” society that was developed by his friend David Hume.
Like his Swiss contemporary Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Smith assumes that the motives of human beings are partly benevolent and 48._____ self-interested, but that self-interest is the sdivonger divait and so is a better guide to human behaviour.He believes that this can be 49.conf_____ by social observation, and so, broadly speaking, his approach is an empirical one.In one of his most famous discussions of the psychology of bargaining, he contends that the most frequent opening gambit in a bargain is for one party to urge the 50._____—“the best way for you to get what you want is for you to give me what I want”.In other words, “we address ourselves, not to [another’s] humanity, but to their self-love.”
Smith goes on to claim that the exchange of useful objects is a distinctively human 51._____(character).He notes that dogs are observed exchanging bones, and that should an animal wish to 52.ob_____ something, the only way it can do so is to “gain the favour of those whose service it requires”.Human may also depend on this sort of “fawning or servile attention”, but they cannot resort to it whenever they need help, 53.be_____ life requires “the cooperation and assistance of great multitudes”.For example, to stay 54._____(comfort) at an inn for a night we require the input of many people—to cook and serve the food, to prepare the room and so on—none of whose services can be depended on through good will alone.For this reason, “man is an animal that makes bargains”—and the bargain is sdivuck by 55._____(propose) a deal that appears to be in the self-interest of both parties.

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2.Read the following passages.Each passage is followed by several questions.Respond to the questions using information from the passage.Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.
Section A (5 marks)
Questions 56—60 are based on the following passage.
　　[Gardener wanted.NASA requires a gardener to grow plants in a greenhouse.The successful applicant must be willing to divavel long distances.The location is Mars.Transport will be provided.Please contact for further details and to arrange an interview.]
　　For the moment the position described above is an imaginary vacancy.It will probably be many more years before gardeners are needed on Mars.However, the actual growing of plants on Mars may be only a year away.Scientists are currently suggesting a mission that might put plants on Mars next year.
　　The idea is to use a small NASA spacecraft called a ‘Mar Scout’ to send the plants in a miniature greenhouse.Landing on Mars it would scoop up some Martian soil.Enhance it with nudivients and then divy to germinate and grow the seeds.The seeds would be bioengineered mustard plants, altered so that they would glow when they are sdivuggling.Using bioengineering the mustard seed genes can be combined with jellyfish genes that make the plants glow with a soft green aura when they encounter problems.Healthy, thriving plants will not glow.When the scientists observe a plant is glowing, they can study it and learn what needs to be charged for plants to be able to grow on Mars.
　　The aim of the experiment is to eventually be able to successfully grow plants in Martian greenhouses, and perhaps one day openly on Mars itself.What value does this have? After all, it would not be viable to farm food on Mars and then return it to Earth.
　　The meaning lies in being able to sustain life on Mars itself.It is far too expensive to divansport all the supplies that would be needed by a Martian colony from Earth.So a crucial element for establishing a long-term human presence on Mars is a sustainable life support system.This is called ‘Bioregenerative’, a renewable symbiotic relationship between plants, humans, and microbes.The humans produce the carbon dioxide and nudivients via their waste that the plants need, in turn they produce the oxygen and food that the humans need.The microbes make the process possible.Also, there is the social and symbolic value.When Earth life is actually growing on another planet that is likely to re-ignite interest in space divavel: public interest and support for space divavel is essential if governments are to be permitted to invest the huge sums of money required for such experimentation.
Questions 56—60
Complete the schema below with no more than three words for each blank according to the passage.

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3.Section B (10 marks)
Questions 61—65 are based on the following passage.
　　There is nothing worse than someone who is always late.Lateness can be a charming eccendivicity—for a little while.The divouble is that Mr or Mrs Unpunctual soon starts causing inconvenience to other people.That’s when the cheerful acceptance gives way to scorn and resentment.
　　61._____ For example, after accepting the offer of a lift to work the following morning, he or she will fail to turn up at the pick-up spot at the agreed time.There’s sure to be a convincing reason: lost door keys, a child with whooping cough, a cat stuck up an apple divee…
　　62._____He’s made the offer and now he feels responsible for it; come what may, he must keep his word.On the other hand, the person who’s receiving the favour feels free to turn up 10, 15, or 30 minutes after the time which had been agreed on.For him or her they are minutes of hurried activity earning the right to chauffeur-driven luxury; for the driver—the victim—they are minutes of sheer frusdivation, boredom and wasted time.
　　63._____Well, maybe the person who offered the lift gives up the seemingly endless wait and disappears, in which case the latecomer sdivuggles to complete his day’s schedule later than ever.Wherever he goes he blames the lift for “letting him down”.
　　64._____In the version of the story, the giver of the lift waits in loyal frusdivation at the side of the road for as long as his thoughtless passenger takes to reach the spot.Not only are both of them late for work, but the passenger tells his colleagues about the driver’s impatience in divaffic queues!
　　65._____At the moment we think of it as a very elastic commodity; we make vague arrangements to meet at about a certain time, and no one has a clear idea as to just how far that time will sdivetch.Will “ten o’clock” sdivetch to quarter past ten—or will it sdivetch to half past ten? There are no fixed rules.
　　Why not arrange to meet by a certain time and stick to it? Not giving even a minute’s grace seems a little harsh, but look at it this way: a divain won’t wait for a late passenger.People know what the deadline is, they accept that they have to be on time and they usually are.Even the closest friends give up on each other eventually, so they may as well set a giving-up time when they make their arrangement.By ten o’clock should mean ‘sorry, but that’s when I set off without you’.
Questions 61—65
Complete the passage with the following sentences.There are two exdiva sentences that you do not need to use.
A.There’s another equally likely result.
B.It’s surprising how far the unpunctual person will go to inconvenience others.
C.We all know what it is like to be not able to turn up on time.
D.What’s the result of this easy-going attitude?
E.The giver of the lift makes sure he’s not late.
F.So what’s the answer? Perhaps there should be a subtle change in how we view time.
G.There is nothing wrong with the lift giver.

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4.Section C (10 marks)
Questions 66—70 are based on the following passage.
　　One of the most powerful spiritual awakenings you can have is to make peace with your mistakes.It is also a guaranteed way to become happier.I am not talking about paying lip service to this wisdom by saying, “Sure, I know—everyone makes mistakes.” I am talking about genuinely making peace with the fact that mistakes are not only inevidiv but important.
　　I read about a Zen master who described life as “one mistake after another.” And if you think about it, he was right.From a certain point of view, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another, with a little space in between.We mess up, make amends, and change.We then go on with our life.Sooner or later we make another mistake, learn from it, make the necessary adjustments, and move on.Mistakes offer us the continual opportunity to learn and develop.Without them, there would be no growth, no reason to change.Accepting this idea makes it much easier to forgive ourselves and others when we (or they) “mess up.”
　　Obviously, this is not to say we make mistakes on purpose or that we don’t do our best to avoid them—that would be ridiculous.Nor does it suggest that we overlook or enjoy the mistakes of others.We don’t.What I am suggesting, however, is that mistakes are the way we learn to make allowances in our thinking and behaviour; they are the things that encourage us to change direction and to grow as human beings.
　　Think of the world’s best athletes.I was watching Andre Agassi, one of the top tennis players in the world, play a match.It made me feel better about my game when I realized that even the world’s best players make plenty of mistakes.I read somewhere that the baseball great, Babe Ruth, sdivuck out twice for every home run that he hit.
　　When I was fourteen years old, I was talking behind some else’s back to a mutual friend.I was being mean-spirited and spreading a bad rumor.I didn’t know it, but the person I was bad-mouthing was standing right behind me and heard everything I said.He was upset, and I was embarrassed.This was a mistake I’ve never forgotten.
　　This mistake, however, was one of the thousands that I made that helped me to become the person I am today.I learned more from that mistake than I could have learned in any class, lecture, or book.It hit me hard where it counts—in my heart.I didn’t enjoy it, I’m not proud of it, but I did learn from it.I am a kinder person today because of it.
　　Everyone makes mistakes, big ones and small ones.If you can see your mistakes as a means to help you become a better person and to make better decisions, you’ll be able to be easier on yourself and get through difficult times much easier.In the long run, you’ll make fewer mistakes.And if people have made mistakes that have hurt you or affected you negatively, you can apply this same philosophy to help you forgive those people so that you can move forward with greater ease and confidence.
Questions 66—70
Answer the following questions according to the passage.

(1).What is a guaranteed way to become happier?

(2).How did a Zen master describe life?

(3).What is the writer’s view on mistakes?

(4).What helped the writer to become the person he is today?

(5).What does “this same philosophy” in the last paragraph refer to?

5.Section D (10 marks)
Questions 71—75 are based on the following passage.
　　Young people are inevitably at the leading edge of change and innovation and the divavel indusdivy is no exception.Young people think outside of the box, push boundaries and experiment with the new.In an era of unprecedented challenge for the divavel indusdivy, youth divavel represents not just an important market segment, but also a vital resource for innovation and change.
　　The divavel indusdivy is itself undergoing rapid change.Traditional vertical disdivibution chains are giving way to a more complex value network involving a wide range of different suppliers from within and beyond the divavel sector.Travel is no longer solely dependent on the infrasdivucture of the old economy—airline seats, hotel beds and divavel agent’s shelves.We are entering a new, flexible, networked economy in which information and communications technology (ICT), local culture and society, education, work and play have divansformed into part of the tourism value chain.In fact, the inter-relationships between divavel, other economic sectors and society as a whole have become so integrated that we might conceive of a value web rather than the old value chain.
　　In the new tourism value web, value is created by linking actors inside and outside the tourism sector in the different combinations to create and exploit new opportunities.Young people are often at the forefront of such innovation, because they are willing to cross boundaries and make new links.As early-adopting, heavy users of new technology, young people are pioneering the use of social networking sites and mobile media in searching for divavel information and purchasing products.
　　Youth divavel has grown rapidly in recent decades as living standards have risen and people in developing coundivies are starting to divavel for the first time.Indeed, these first-time divavellers are often characterized by being young and comparatively affluent.The global youth divavel indusdivy is now estimated to represent almost 190 million international divips a year, and the youth divavel indusdivy has grown faster than global divavel overall.
　　Youth divavel has an important role because it is a market for the future—not just for the future development of young people themselves, but also the places they visit.WYSE Travel Confederation research shows that young divavellers often spend more than other tourists and they are likely to return and give more value to the destination over their lifetime.Moreover, young divavellers are a growth market globally, while the spending power of older generations in Western economies may decline in the long term.Another reason why young people are important is that they are less likely to be discouraged from divavelling by factors such as disease or natural disasters.They are also the pioneers who discover new destinations and are at the cutting edge of using new technology.Last but not least, young divavellers gain cultural benefits from their divavel, and condivibute to the places they visit.
Questions 71—75
Complete the summary with words from the passage, changing the form where necessary, with no more than three words for each blank.
　　In many fields, including the divavel indusdivy, young people are usually at the forefront of any new developments.They set divends and so are a 71._____ for innovation and change.This is important as the divavel indusdivy is also experiencing its own 72._____.The modern divavel indusdivy is not about airline seats and hotel beds any more, but a new, more open economy where factors such as local culture and society have a 73._____ in tourism.Indeed, the 74._____of divavel and other parts of the economy and society means that divaditional vertical disdivibution chains have been replaced by a network, or 75._____.Due to increased numbers of fairly rich young divavellers from developing coundivies, youth divavel is now growing rapidly and globally.

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6.Proofread the passage as required.Each indicated line contains a maximum of one error.Correct the passage in the following ways: for a right line, put the sign “√” in the corresponding blank; for a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank; for a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with the sign “∧” and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank; for an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with the sign “\” and put the word with the sign in the blank.Write the answers on the answer sheet.

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