第1部分：词汇选项
下面共有l5个句子，每个句子中均有1个词或短语有底横线，请从每个句子后面所给的4个选项中选择l个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
1、 Heblendedthese color together to paint the wall.
A.mixedB.made
C.cooked
D.eaten
2、 They finallymodifytheir research plan.
A.clarify
B.change
C.define
D.develop
3、 The economy continued toexhibit tendency of decline in September.
A.play
B.send
C.show
D.tell
4、 Aremarkablyshort man plays basketball with his children every Saturday.
A.practically
B.considerably
C.wonderfully
D.completely
5、 The dentist hasdecidedto extract her bad tooth.
A.take out
B.take in
C.take off
D.take up
6、 It isabsurdto predict that the sun will not rise tomorrow.
A.ridiculous
B.funny
C.odd
D.foolish
7、 A lot of people could fall ill after drinkingcontaminatedwater.
A.muddied
B.polluted
C.mixed
D.troubled
8、 The room isgloomybut tidy.
A.tiny
B.pleasant
C.dark
D.agreeable
9、 The index is the government's chiefgaugeof future economic activity
A.measure
B.opinion
C.evaluation
D.decision
10、 It's prudent to start any exercise programgraduallyat first.
A.workable
B.sensible
C.possible
D.feasible
11、 He isrenowned for his perfect performace in the movie.
A.remembered
B.praised
C.recommended
D.well-known
12、 You have to be patient if you want tosustainyour position.
A.maintain
B.establish
C.acquire
D.support
13、 Shestaredat his son and shaked with anger.
A.jumped
B.cried
C.swayed
D.trembled
14、 Medical facilities are beingupgraded.
A.renewed
B.repaired
C.improved
D.increased
15、 we are sotiredafter one work on this program.
A.gloomy
B.ugly
C.silly
D.exhausted
第2部分：阅读判断
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息，请在答题卡上把A涂黑;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请在答题卡上把B涂黑;如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请在答题卡上把c涂黑
根据短文内容，对16-23做出判断
Taking Pictures of the World
Meet Annie Griffiths Belt, a National Geographic photographer. Belt has worked for National Geographic since 1978, and has taken pictures on almost every continent in the world. In fact, Antarctica is the only continent Belt hasn't seen yet.
Belt's photographs are well known for their beauty and high quality. They also reflect very different cultures and regions of the world.. Belt has photographed the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, as well as the green landscapes of the Lake District in England. Recently, her pictures appeared in a book about undeveloped natural places in North America.
Everywhere that Belt goes, she takes pictures of people. Belt has found ways to connect with people of all ages and nationalities even when she does not speak their language. "The greatest privilege of my job is being allowed into people's lives," she has said. "The camera is like a passport, and I am often overwhelmed by how quickly people welcome me!"
Knowing how to break the ice has helped to make Belt a successful photographer, but experts say that anyone can learn to connect with new people. When people speak the same language, greeting and small talk can make strangers feel more comfortable with each other. When people don't speak the same language, a smile is very helpful. Having something in common can also help break the ice. For example, Belt has traveled with her two children, so when she takes pictures of children or their parents, they all have that family connection in common. Even bad weather can help people to connect when they are experiencing it together.
Belt has some advice if you are thinking about a career in photography. You can volunteer to take pictures for a local organization that can't afford to hire a professional photographer. You can also take a good, honest look at your best photographs. If you're a real photographer, your photos are good because of your personal and technical skills. Belt also recommends studying and learning from photos taken by professional photographers.
Remember, the next time you look as a beautiful photograph, you might be looking at the work of Annie Griffiths Belt. And the next time you meet a new person, don't be afraid to break the ice, the connection you make could be very rewarding.
16、Belt has never traveled to England.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
17、 Belt has won a lot of awards for her wonderful photographs.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
18、 Petra is a very old city in Jordan.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
19、 Belt has worked for a number of magazines.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
20、 Belt can only connect with English-speakers.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
21、 People can connect with each other in bad weather.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
22、 Volunteering is one way to begin a photography career.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
第3部分：概括大意
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23—26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2，3，5和6段每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27—30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
Stanford University
1. Stanford University, famous as one of northern California's several institutions of higher learning, is sometimes called "the Harvard of the West". The closeness of Stanford to San Francisco, a city thirty-two miles to the north, gives the university a decidedly cosmopolitan(世界性的) flavor.
2. The students are enrolled mainly from the western United States. But most of the fifty states send students to Stanford, and many foreign students study here, as well. And standards for admission remain high. Young men and women are selected to enter the university from the upper fifteen percent of their high school classes.
3. Not only because of the high caliber (素质) of its students but also because of the desirable location and climate, Stanford has attracted to its faculty some of the world's most respected scholars. The university staff has included many Nobel prize winners such as Dr. Felix Bloch, Dr. Robert Hofstadter, and Dr. William Shockley in physics, Dr. Author Kornberg and Dr. Joshua Lederberg in medicine, and Dr. Paul J. Flory and Dr. Linus Pauling in chemistry. The Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenistsyn has been in residence. Stanford's undergraduate school of engineering and its graduate schools of business, law, and medicine are especially well-regarded.
4. What is student life like on "The Farm"? Culturally, the campus is a magnet for both students and citizens of nearby communities. Plays, concerts, and operas are performed in the university's several auditoriums and in its outdoor theater, where graduations are also held. Several film series are presented during the school year. Guest lecturers from public and academic life frequently appear on campus. In the evenings, many students gather to socialize in the Student Union's coffee house; here the beverages (饮料) and the atmosphere both have a decidedly European flavor. For the sports-minded, the Stanford campus offers highly developed athletic facilities. Team spots, swimming, and track and field activity are all very much part of the Stanford picture. So are bicycling and jogging.
5. In addition to financial support from alumni (校友), Stanford receives grants from the government and from private philanthropic (慈善的) foundations.In recent years, government grants have made possible advanced studies in the fields of history, psychology, education, and atomic energy. At present Stanford is carrying out an ambitious building program, financed in part by the Ford Foundation's 25 million grant. Recently added to the campus are a new physics building, new school of business, new graduate school of law, new student union, and undergraduate library.
23、Paragraph 2____
A.Colorful Life on Campus
B.Intelligent Student Body
C.School Administration
D.Distinguished Faculty
E.Substantial Financial Support
F.he Harvard Of the West
24、 Paragraph 3____
A.Colorful Life on Campus
B.Intelligent Student Body
C.School Administration
D.Distinguished Faculty
E.Substantial Financial Support
F.he Harvard Of the West
25、 Paragraph 4____
A.Colorful Life on Campus
B.Intelligent Student Body
C.School Administration
D.Distinguished Faculty
E.Substantial Financial Support
F.he Harvard Of the West
26、 Paragraph 5____
A.Colorful Life on Campus
B.Intelligent Student Body
C.School Administration
D.Distinguished Faculty
E.Substantial Financial Support
F.he Harvard Of the West
27、 Those high school graduates who can enter Stanford University____
A.they can find the best students
B.the university’s academic advancement and physical extension
C.some of the most distinguished scholars
D.where a sports meet iS held every year
E.must have been the top student’s in their classes
F.must be hardworking
28、 Many professors like to teach in this university partly because here____
A.they can find the best students
B.the university’s academic advancement and physical extension
C.some of the most distinguished scholars
D.where a sports meet iS held every year
E.must have been the top student’s in their classes
F.must be hardworking
29、 On the faculty of the university there are____
A.they can find the best students
B.the university’s academic advancement and physical extension
C.some of the most distinguished scholars
D.where a sports meet iS held every year
E.must have been the top student’s in their classes
F.must be hardworking
30、Financial support from both private organizations and the government has made possible____
A.they can find the best students
B.the university’s academic advancement and physical extension
C.some of the most distinguished scholars
D.where a sports meet iS held every year
E.must have been the top student’s in their classes
F.must be hardworking
第4部分：阅读理解
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。请根据文章的内容，从每题所给的4个选项中选择个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
根据材料，回答31-36问题
第一篇
When our Eyes Serve our Stomach
Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the word; they're affected by what's going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who've just eaten.
Psychologists have known for decades that what's going on, inside our head affects our senses. For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter, Remi Radel of University of Nice Sopbia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happens. Does it happen right away as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little later as the brain's high-level thinking processes get involved?
Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index. On the day of his or her rest, each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were told to come back in 10 minutes; others were given an hour to get lunch first. So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just eaten.
For the experiment, the participant looked at a computer screen. One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen for about 1/300th of a second each. They flashed at so small a size that the students could only consciously perceive. A quarter of the words were food-related. After each word, each person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they'd seena food-related word like cake or a neutral word like boat. Each word appeared too briefly for the participant to really read it.
Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at identifying food-related words. Because the word appeared too quickly for them to be reliably seen, this means that the difference is in perception not in thinking processes, Adel says.
"This is something great to me, Humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive for. From the experiment, I know that our brain can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs," Radel says.
31、What does the new study mentioned in Paragraph 1 find____?
A.Hungry people see every word more clearly than ordinary people.
B.Hungry people are always thinking of food-related words.
C.Hungry people are more sensitive to food-related words than stomach-fullpeople.
D.Hungry people do not have lower-level of thinking process.
32、What have psychologists known for a long time____ ?
A.Poorer children think coins are larger than they are.
B.Hungry people think pictures of food are brighter.
C.Hungry people see food-related words more clearly.
D.What we think inside our head affects what we sense.
33、Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment____?
A.Because hungry people needed time to fill their stomach.
B.Because Radel wanted to create two groups of testees, hungry and non-hungry.
C.Because noon was not the right time for any experiment.
D.Because Radel needed time to select participants in terms of body mass index.
34、What did the results of the experiment indicate____?
A.80 words flashed on the screen too fast for the participant to intentionally perceive.
B.Hungry people were better at identifying neutral words.
C.People who had just eaten were better at identifying food-related words.
D.The participants could barely perceive what they needed or what they strived for.
35、What does the writer want to tell us____?
A.Human's senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the world.
B.What's perceived by our senses affects onr way of thinking.
C.Human brains can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs.
D.Thinking processes guarantee the normal functions of our senses.
根据材料，回答36-41问题
第二篇
Musical Robot Companion Enhances Listener Experience
Shimi, a musical companion developed by Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology, recommends songs, dances to the beat and keeps the music pumping based on listener feedback.The smartphone-enabled (智能手机支持的), one-foot-tall robot is billed as an interactive"musical friend".
"Shimi is designed to change the way that people enjoy and think about their music," said Professor Gil Weinberg, the robot's creator. He will unveil the robot at the June 27th Google I/O conference in San Francisco. A band of three Shimi robots will perform for guests, dancing in sync with music created in the lab and composed according to its movements.
Shimi is essentially a docking station with a "brain" powered by an Android phone. Once docked the robot gains the sensing and musical generation capabilities of the user's mobile device. In other words, if there's an "app" for that, Shimi is ready. For instance, by using the phone's camera and face-detecting software, Shimi can follow a listener around the room and position its "ears", or speakers, for optimal sound. Another recognition feature is based on rhythm and tempo. If the user taps a beat, Shimi analyzes it, scans the phone's musical library and immediately plays the song that best matches the suggestions. Once the music starts, Shimi dances to the rhythm.
"Many people think that robots are limited by their programming instructions," said Music Technology Ph.
D. candidate Mason Bretan, "Shimi shows us that robots can be creative andinteractive. " Future apps in the works will allow the user to shake their head in disagreement or wave a hand in the air to alert Shimi to skip to the next song or increase/decrease the volume. The robot will also have the capability to recommend new music based on the user's songchoices and provide feedback on the music play list.
Weinberg hopes other developers will be inspired to create more apps to expand Shimi's creactive and interactive capabilities. "I believe that our center is ahead of a revolution that will see more robots in homes. " Weinberg said.
Weinberg is in the process of commercializing Shimi through an exclusive licensing agreement with Georgia Tech. Weinberg hopes to make the robot available to consumers by the 2013 holiday season. "If robots are going to arrive in homes, we think that they will be this kind of machines -- small, entertaining and fun," Weinberg said. "They will enhance your life and pave the way for more intelligent service robots in our lives.
36、Which of the following is NOT true according to the first three paragraphs____?
A.Shimi is a one-foot tall robot.
B.Shimi is the creator of the musical companion.
C.Shimi is a docking station (对接站) with a "brain" powered by an Androidphone.
D.Shimi can gain the sensing and musical generation capabilities of the user‘s mobile device.
37、What does Shimi do if the user taps a beat____?
A.It stores the beat in the musical library.
B.It transmits the beat to the docking station.
C.It positions its speakers for optimal sound.
D.It selects a perfectly-matched song.
38、Compared with those robber limited the programming, Shimi is____
A.same
B.similar
C.identical
D.different,
39、What is the prediction of Weinberg about Shimi____?
A.Shimi can be applied to all types of smart phones.
B.Shimi will bring more fun to the human lives.
C.himi will be appreciated by all users.
D.Shimi will be commercialized by the end of 2012.
40、What can we infer from the last paragraph____?
A.The research center is developing a stronger and more versatile Shimi.
B.Georgia Tech. will develop more apps for Shimi.
C.Shimi is not yet technologically ready for commercialization.
D.Robots such as Shimi are created for large corporations rather than homes.
根据材料，回答41-46问题。
第三篇
Researchers Discover Why Humans Began Walking Upright
Most of us walk and carry items in our hands every day. These are seemingly simpleactivities that the majority of us don't question. But an international team of researchers, including Dr. Richmond from GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences have discovered that human walking upright, may have originated millions of years ago as an adaptation to carrying scarce, high-quality resources. The team of researchers from the U. S. , England, Japan and Portugal investigated the behavior of modem-day chimpanzees as they competed for food resources, in an effort to understand what ecological settings would lead a large ape–one that resembles the 6 million-year old ancestor who shared in common with living chimpanzees --to walk on two legs.
"These chimpanzees provide a model of the ecological conditions under which our earliest ancestors might have begun walking on two legs," said Dr. Richmond.
The research findings suggest that chimpanzees switch to moving on two limbs instead of four in situations where they need to monopolize a resource. Standing on two legs allows them to carry much more at one time because it frees up their hands. Over time, intense bursts of bipedal activity may have led to anatomical changes that in turn became the subject of natural selection where competition for food or other resources was strong.
Two studies were conducted by the team in Guinea, The first study was conducted by the team in Kyoto University's " outdoor laboratory" in a natural clearing in Bossou Forest. Researchers allowed the wild chimpanzees access to different combinations of two different types of nut -- the oil palm nut, which is naturally widely available, and the coula nut (可乐果), which is not. The "chimpanzees" behavior was monitored in three situations: (a) when only oil palm nuts were vailable, (b) when a small number of coula nuts were available, and (c)when coula nuts were the majority available resource.
When the rare conla nuts were available only in small numbers, the chimpanzees transported more at one time. Similarly, when coula nuts were the majority resource, the chimpanzees ignored the oil palm nuts altogether. The chimpanzees regarded the coula nuts as a more highly-prized resource and competed for them more intensely.
In such high-competition settings, the frequency of cases in which the chimpanzees started moving on two legs increased by a factor of four. Not only was it obvious that bipedal movement allowed them to carry more of this precious resource, but also that they were actively trying to move as much as they could in one go by using everything available -- even their mouths.
The second study, by Kimberley Hockings of Oxford Brookes University was a 14-month study of Bossou chimpanzees crop-raiding, a situation in which they have to compete for rate and unpredictable resources. Here, 35 percent of the chimpanzees' activity involved some sort of bipedal movement, and once again, this behavior appeared to be linked to a clear attempt to carry as much as possible at one time.
41、Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the first two paragraphs?
A.Many people question the simple human activities of walking and carrying items.
B.Chimpanzee's behaviors may suggest why humans walk on two legs.
C.Human walking upright is viewed as an adaptation to carrying precious resources.
D.Our ancestors have something in common with those modern-day chimpanzees.
42、 Dr. Richmond conducted the experiment with the purpose of finding____
A.when humans began walking on two legs
B.what made our ancestors walk upright
C.what benefits walking upright brought to our ancestors
D.how walking upright helped chimpanzees monopolize resources
43、Kyoto Universitry's study discovered that chimpanzees___
A.regarded both types of nut as priced resources
B.preferred oil palm nuts to coula nuts
C. liked coula nuts better than oil palm nuts
D. ignored both types of nut altogether
44、 Why did the chimpanzees walk on two limbs during Kyoto University's experiment____?
A.Because they imitated the humnan way of walking just for fun.
B.Because they wanted to please the researchers to get more coula nuts fromthem.
C.Because they wanted to get to the nut-rich forest faster-by walking that way.
D.Because they wanted to carry more nuts with two free limbs.
45、What can we infer from the reading passage____?
A.Chimpanzees are in the same process of evolution as our ancestors were.
B.Chimpanzees are similar to humans in many behaviors.
C.Walking on two limbs and walking on four limbs each have their advantages.
D.Human walking on two legs developed as a means of survival
第5部分：补全短文
阅读下面的短文，文章中有5处空白，文章后面有6组文字，请根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其分别放回文章原来位置，以恢复文章原貌。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
根据材料，完成46-51题
Heat Is Killer
Extremely hot weather is common in many parts of the world. Although hot weather just makes most people feel hot, it can cause serious medical problems even death. Floods,storms, volcano eruptions and other natural disasters kill thousands of people every year.____(46)____ Experts say heat may be nature's deadliest killer. Recently, extreme heat was blamed for killing more than one hundred people in India. It is reported that the total heat of a hot day or several days can affect health.____(47)____. Experts say heat waves often become dangerous when the nighttime temperature does not drop much from the highest daytime temperature. This causes great stress on the human body.
____(48)____Stay out of the sun, if possible. Drink lots of cool water. Wear light colored clothing made of natural materials; avoid wearing synthetic clothing. Make sure the clothing is loose,permitting freedom of movement. And learn the danger signs of the medical problems,such as headache and vomiting, that are linked to heat.____(49)____The pain is a warning that the body is becoming too hot. Doctors say those suffering headache or muscle pain should stop all activity and rest in a cool place and drink cool liquids. Do not return to physical activity for a few hours because more serious conditions could develop.
Doctors say some people face an increased danger from heat stress.____(50)____Hot eather also increases dangers for people who must take medicine for high blood pressure, poorblood flow, nervousness or depression.
A.Such persons have a weak or damaged heart, high blood pressure, or otherproblems of the blood system.
B.Several of these conditions are present at the same time.
C.Most people suffer only muscle pain as a result of heat stress.
D.Several hot days are considered a heat wave.
E.So does extreme heat.
F.Doctors say people can do many things to protect themselves from the dangers of extreme heat.
第6部分：完形填空
阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择l个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
根据材料，完成问题
Less Is More
It sounds all wrong -- drilling holes in a piece of wood to make it more resistant to knocks.But it works because the energy from the blow gets distributed throughout the wood rather than focusing on one weak spot. The discovery should lead to more effective and lighter packaging materials. Carpenters have known____(51)____centuries that some woods are tougher than others. Hickory (山核桃木), for example, was turned into axe handles and cartwheel spokes(轮辐) because it can absorb shocks without breaking. White oak, for example, is much more easily damaged,____(52)____it is almost as dense. Julian Vincent at Bathe University and his team were convinced the wood's internal structure could explain the differences.
Many trees have tubular (管状的) vessels that run____(53____)the trunk and carry water to the leaves. In oak they are large, and arranged in narrow bands, but in hickory they are smaller, and more evenly distributed. The researchers____(54)____this layout might distribute a blow's energy throughout the wood. soaking up a bigger hit. To test the idea, they drilled holes 0. 65 millimetres across into a block of spruce (云杉), a wood with____(55)____vessels, and found that (56)withstood a harder knock. ____( 57 )____when there were more than about 30 holes per square centimetre did the wood's performance drop off.
A uniform substance doesn't cope well with knocks because only a small proportion of the material is actually ____(58)____All the energy from the blow goes towards breaking the material in one or two places, but often the pieces left ____(59)____are pristine (未经破坏的).
But instead of the energy being concentrated in one place, the holes provide many weak spots that all absorb energy as they break, says Vincent. "You are controlling the places____(60)____the wood breaks, and it can then absorb more ____(61)____ , more safely. " The researchers believe the principle could be applied to any material -- ____(62)____example, to manufacture lighter and more protective packaging. It could ____(63)____ be used in car bumpers, crash barriers and armour for military vehicles, says Ulrike Wegst, a ____(64)____ at the Max Plank Institute for Mental Research in Stuttgart. But she emphasizes that you____ (65)____ to design the substance with the direction of force in mind. "The direction of loading is crucial," she says.
请在第__(51)__处填上正确答案。
A.in
B.since
C.for
D.at
52、请在第_(52)_处填上正确答案。
A.or
B.although
C.and
D.despite
53、请在第__(53)__处填上正确答案。
A.down
B.over
C.up
D.into
54、请在第__(54)__处填上正确答案。
A.knew
B.concluded
C.saw
D.thought
55、请在第__(55)__处填上正确答案。
A.no
B.per
C.each
D.every
56、请在第__(56)__处填上正确答案。
A.it
B.the idea
C.they
D.spruce
57、请在第__(57)__处填上正确答案。
A.if
B.Just
C.Only
D.Rarely
58、请在第__(58)__处填上正确答案。
A.knocked
B.beaten
C.slapped
D.affected
59、请在第__(59)__处填上正确答案。
A.behind
B.beyond
C.for
D.in
60、请在第__(60)__处填上正确答案。
A.which
B.there
C.that
D.where
61、请在第__(61)__处填上正确答案。
A.water
B.air
C.energy
D.safety
62、请在第__(62)__处填上正确答案。
A.among
B.in
C.as
D.for
63、请在第__(63)__处填上正确答案。
A.also
B.besides
C.else
D.yet
64、请在第__(64)__处填上正确答案。
A.psychologist
B.physicist
C.biologist
D.pianist
65、请在第__(65)__处填上正确答案。
A.have
B.must
C.should
D.had
参考答案
1-15 ABCBA ABCAB DADAD
16-22 BCACB AA
23-30 BDAEE ACB
31-45 暂无
46-50 EDFCA
51-65 CBCDA ACDAD CDAAA
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