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interest兴趣? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??? stimulate/satisfyone's curiosity 激发/满足某人的好 奇心 innovate创新 explore探索? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? immenseintellectual curiosity强烈的求知欲 cultivate培养? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? Curiositykilled the cat. 好奇害死猫 enthusiasm热情? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? intrigue激起 的兴趣
Part II? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? Listening??Comprehension Section A 1.W: A clever man hides his virtues within himself. Afool keeps them on his tongue. M..You mean I'm saying my own raises. In that case, I'm a fool, a thoroughfool. Q:What do we learn from the conversation? C)【精析】语义理解题。女士认为智者美不外现，而愚蠢的人才四处炫耀，言语中暗示男士属于后者。男士回答“你是说我往自己脸上贴金。这样的话，我就是十足的傻瓜‘。”从男士的语气上可以听出他的不悦，男士说的是反语。 2.W: What does the paper say about the horrible incident that happened this morning on Flight 870 to Hong Kong? M:??It ended with the arrest of the three??hijackers. They had forced the plane tofly??to Japan, but all the passengersand crew??members landed safely. O..What do we learn from the conversation? C)【精析】综合理解题。女士问男士报纸上是怎样报??道飞往香港的870次航班上的可怕事件的，男士说一共抓捕了三个劫机犯，他们试图迫使飞机飞往日本，不过最后乘客和机组人员都安全着陆。由此可知，乘客没有受到伤害。 3.M.. I'd like to transfer mone from??checkin account to my savingsaccount. W..OK. Give me the numbers of both accounts and some identification, please. Q:Where does the conversation most probably take place? D)【精析】场景推断题。男士要将支票账户的钱转存到存款账户，女士是银行职员，索要男士的账号和身份证件，因此对话最有可能发生在银行。 4.W: I'm not going to trust the restaurant critic from that magazine again. The food here??doesn't taste anything like what we had inChinatown. M..It definitely wasn't worth the wait. Q:What do we learn from the conversation? D)【精析】综合理解题。对话中女士说她再也不会相??信那本杂志里的餐馆评论员了，这家餐馆的食物根??本比不上他们在唐人街吃到的食物，而男士对此表??示赞同．并说根本就不值得排队等候。由此可见这家餐馆没有达到讲话者的期望。B)选项的干扰性较大．但是对话中并没有直接指出评论员高度评价这家中餐馆．因此排除． 5.W: I can't believe Prof. Laurence is going to retire. M:He's still to lead agraduate seminar each semester, though.? ? Q:What does the man mean? A)【精析】推理判断题。女士表示她无法相信Laurence教授要退休了，男士表示Laurence教授??退休以后每个学期还会组织一个研究生研讨会，也??就是说退休后仍积极参加学术活动。 6.W: Bob, I really_think we should meet to fig out what to do about replacingLeon. We have to find someone soon. M:I can't come right now. I've got a meeting with Rodney. It might take all day.Can wemeet tomorrow? ? ?Q: What does the woman want to discuss withthe ? ?? ???man? B)【精析】事实细节题。本题询问女士想和男士讨论??的内容，对话中女士明确表示她想与男士讨论找人??顶替Leon的职位，关于Rodney的内容都是干扰??选项。 7. W: Helen won't be coming to work tomorrow.??She's finally going to the photographyexhibition.? ? M:Oh, so she managed a ticket after all.?? O:What do we learn from the conversation? D【精析】综台理解题。女士指出Helen为了看摄影展都不来上班了．男士听到这个消息才知道Helen??已经买到票了。看来Helen一直都在期待着能够买到票去看展览。 8.W: Steve has listed a few ways of motivating the employees, but these are outof touch of the??real world. M..You just took the words out of my mouth. Let's try to persuade him to seethings our way. Q..What do we learn from the conversation? A)【精析】语义理解题。女士表示Steve列出的员工??激励措施脱离实际，男士表示“你抢了我的台词”，??即他们想到一块儿去了。 ConversationOne M:I'd like to go to the States, but if I took the job there, I won't get a verygood salary. W:Really? I thought salaries were high there, but there would be some fringebenefits presumably~ M:Oh, yes. (9)It would be stimulating and it has some advantages. W:What else do you have in mind7 M: Well, this position in Portugal. W: How doesit compare? M:It offers greatest security, because it will be on a home-base contract. W: Andsalary? M:Much better. I get an overseas allowance plus free accommodation from the firm.W: Presumably you will be given moving expenses for the Portugal job? M:(10)Yes, but just to complicate matters, this? ?ssibilit offers a? ?st in Sao Paulo. W: (10)That's Brazil, isn't it? M:Yes. (10)I'll a promotion if I took a post there. W:I'd love to go to Brazil. M:But there are some disadvantages. (ll)I'd have to do a five-year term there. W:That's not a problem, surely? M:Well, not at the moment. But if there were a change in family circumstances,I'd be a long way from home. W:But if you are worried about distance, isn't that the same problem with theStates? M:Yes, but in the States I will be on an annual contract, so I can leave fairlyquickly if I needed to. W:In Portugal7 M:Well, that's almost next door, isn't it? I can visit home every a few months ifnecessary. W:I can see you've got a difficult choice to make. M:(12)Well, fortunatelv_I don't have to make upmy mind about an~ of them yet.In fact, I haven't even been called for an interview. ；答案详解 9.What does the man say about the job in the States? B)【精析】细节辨认题。对话中男士指出在美国的工作??工资低，但是这份工作很有新意，而且有一些优点。hat benefit will the man get if he took the post??~ i~ S~o Paulo? 细节辨认题：对话中男士指出选择圣保罗的工作可以为他带来升职：安家费和免费住宿是葡萄牙工作的好处，属于干扰选项。 11.What does the man say is the disadvantage of working in Brazil? D)【精析】细节推断题。对话中男士指出在巴西工作需要签5年的合约，离家太远，一旦家里有事发生，无法兼顾。 12.What do we learn from the end of the conversation? C)【精析】推理判断题。对话结尾女士表示她理解男士很难选择，男士却回答，幸运的是，他不需要做出决定，因为他还没有被叫去面试。由此推测，男士现在在找工作的过程当中。 ConversationTwo w:Good morning, High Mountain Savings and Loan. How may we help you? M:(13)Well, I'm looking for the high sible on a short-term certificate todeposit an account. W:Well, Let's see what we can do for. you. High Mountain is currently offering arate of 6.4% on the??thirteen-weekaccount for the minimum deposit of only 12 000 dollars, 6.55% on the minimumdeposit of? ? 25 000 dollars and 6.7% ona deposit Of 50 000 dollars. Those will have yields of 6.55%, 6.71% and? ? 6.87% respectively. M:Rate and yield? I'm afraid I don't understand the difference. W:Well, sir. The rate is the percentage of symbol interest paid on your money,and the yield is the total? ? percentageyou will receive on your account if you leave your money with us, frankly tosay here, as the? ???same interest rate. M:Oh, well.., um... (14)But I'm not interested in long-term investing andthree months sounds iust fine. W:Then perhaps you would like to open one of our high finance money marketchecking accounts. With the? ?minimumbalance of only 50 000 dollars, you'll get interest of 6.1% on any amount overthat, for a yearly??yield of 6.27%. Ofcourse, there is no penalty for early withdraw. M:No, thank you. I... W:(15)Or, could we ou to save with us if we offer ou a dining coupon book thatwill et you??a 25% discount at man of thearea's leading restaurants and cost 12 dollars and 95 cents? M:Look, I think I'll just call around for more information. Thank you for yourtime.
13.What is the man's purpose in making the phone call? A)【精析】目的原因题。对话中男士想办理一个利率 最高的短期存款，因此打电话向银行询问。 14.What is the man most interested in? B)【精析】细节辨认题。对话中女士男士介绍了不同的理财产品，男士表示他对长期投资不感兴趣，想选择类似三个月的短期存款。 15.What did the woman do to persuade the man to deposit in her bank? C)【精析】细节推断题。对话结尾，在男士说出了??N0，thankyou之后，女士为了说服男士在银行存款，表示可以提供给他当地一流餐厅的优惠券。 SectionB PassageOne ? ???Karen Smith is a buyer for a departmentstore in New York. Department store buyers purchase the goods that their storessell. (16)The not have to know what is fashionable at the moment, but also haveto guess what will become fashionable next season or next year. Most buyerswork for just one department in a store. But the goods that Karen finds may bedisplayed and sold in several different sections of the store. (17)Her jobinvolves buying handicrafts from all over the world. Last year, she made atrip to Morocco and returned with rugs, pots, dishes and pans. The year before,she visited Mexico, and bought back hand-made table cloths, mirrors with framesof tin and paper flowers. The paper flowers are bright and colorful, so theywere used to decorate the whole store. This year Karen is travelling inMalaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Many of the countries that Karen visits havegovernment offices that promote handicrafts. The officials are glad tocooperate with her by showing her the products that are available. Karenespecially likes to visit markets in smalltowns and villages whenever she can arrange for it. She is always looking forinteresting and unusual items. (18)Karen thinks she has the best job shecould find. She loves all the travelling that she has to do, because she oftenvisits markets and small out-of-the-way__places. She sees much more of thecountry she visits than an ordinary tourist would. As soon as she gets back toNew York from one trip, Karen begins to plan another.
16.What is said to make a good department store buyer? D)【精析】细节辨认题。短文开头提到，KarenSmith 是一位百货公司的采购员，作为优秀的采购人员，不仅要了解当时的时尚，还要能够预测将来的时尚趋势： 17.What does Karen's job involve? A)【精析】细节辨认题。短文中提到．KarenSmith1的工作是到世界各地去购买手工艺品。 18.Why does Karen think she has got the best job? C)【精析】目的原因题。短文中明确提到Karen觉得她已经找到了最好的工作，因为她喜欢去世界各地出差，她可以借出差的机会去市场和那些人们不常去的小地方。 PassageTwo ? ???Vaukin de Silva is a Brazilian who livesand works in New York. Brazil's most important product is coffee and coffee isVaukin's business. He works for an international coffee institute. (19)Itrepresents Brazil and several other countries that export coffee. Theinstitute wants more people to drink more coffee. That hasn't been easy to dofor the last few months. (20)A period of freezing_weather destro ed a lare??art of Brazil's coffee cro1~. As aresult, there has been a shorta e~offee throughout the world. The shortagehas caused prices to go very high. Many people are talking about giving upcoffee until the prices come down again. All the countries that are representedin the institute want people to continue drinking coffee. They spend a lot oftime explaining the recent rise in price to newspaper reporters. They want thepublic to understand the reason for the shortage. Among the goal, Vaukin wasput in charge of an advertising campaign. The campaign will try to encouragepeople to keep on drinking coffee. Sometimes, Vaukin misses the beaches andtropical weather in Rio de Janeiro, but he likes the life in New York. (21)Heis only 27years old, and he is a good looking bachelor. There are a lot ofwomen to meet in New York and a lot of places to go with them. When he misseshome, there are several Brazilian restaurants where he can go and speakPortuguese, his native language. (22)The last few weeks, however, he's beentoo busy to think about an thin exce t coffee rices and his advertising campaign.
19.What does the passage say about the international? ? coffee institute? C)【精析】推理判断题。短文开头提到，Vaukin在一家国际性的咖啡机构工作，这一机构代表着巴西以及其他一些出口咖啡的国家。 20.Whatcaused the recent shortage of coffee throughout the world? A.细节推断题．短文中提到巴西遭遇了严寒 天气．使得大片咖啡树受损．因此全世界出现了咖啡短缺的情况。 21.What do we learn about Vaukin de Silva? B)【精析】细节辨认题。短文中提到，Vaukin是个27岁的年轻小伙子，长得不错，而且单身。 22.What has occupied Vaukin's mind for the last few weeks? B)【精析】细节辨认题。短文结尾处提到，Vaukin??最近满脑子都是咖啡价格和咖啡推广活动的??事情。Passage Three ? ?? ?Last summer, my wife and I had saved fora year to be able to take a romantic cruise to several Carib~2, islands.Because the train was scheduled to arrive in Miami, Florida several hoursbefore the sailing, we didn'-= think we'd have any reason to worry aboutgetting to the dock on time. We should've known that long distan~ trains areoften many hours late. (23)We should've taken an earlier one to allow extratime. We should have. but we didn't and we missed the boat. Because therewouldn't to be a refund of our cruise fare, if we returned home, we had to payfor a hotel room and meals in the city and an air fare to fly to the firstisland on the shipped route two days later. We missed half the cruise. Thisyear, we decided to let an experienced travel agent do our vacation planningfor us. We had to pay the full price in advance for an escorted tour.(24)We should that relaxing well-plannedtrip right now. How could we have known there would be a strike against ourairline? And why hadn't anyone advised us that the travel agency can'trefund your money unless the tour operator can get the passengers' fees backfrom the reserved hotels, the tour boat's company and so on? To avoid troublelike this, we ought to get more travel experience, but to tell you the truth,we don't want to go anywhere. (25)We're planning to spend our vacations athome for a long time to come. ? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? : 23.Why did the couple fail to get to the cruise in time9 D)【精析】目的原因题。短文中提到，在去年的旅行中，由于男士和妻子乘坐的长途火车晚点，导致他们没有赶上游船之旅。 24.What does the speaker say about their trip this year? A)【精析】细节辨认题。短文中提到，夫妻二人今年的旅行依然没有如愿，因为他们所乘坐班机的航空公司罢工。 25.What will the speaker do in the future for a vacation? B)【精析】推理判断题。短文中提到鉴于以往的失败??旅游经历，讲话者只想待在家里过假期。 SectionC 26．puzzled??【精析】句意推断题。此空后面是名词somepeople，前面是has，因此has应该是助动词，此空需要填入一个动词(词组)的过去分词，与has构成现在完成时。??结合录音填入puzzled，意为“使……迷惑”。 27．suicide【精析】固定搭配题。此空前面有commit一词 而前文中提到动物的自杀行为，故联想到固定搭??配commit suicide，为“自杀”之意。结合录音填入??suicide。 28．creatures【精析】修饰关系题。此空前面的The small是 “定冠词+形容词”的形式，因此空格处要填入一个名词作句子的主语；主语后面接定语从句，从旬??中的动词inhabit没有使用第三人称单数形式，因此确定这个名词主语是复数。结合录音填人??creatures，意为“生物”。 29．sufficiently【精析】修饰关系题。此空位于系动词is之后，形 容词large之前，故应填人副词用来修饰后面的形??容词。结合录音填入sufficiently，意为“足够地”。30．migration【精析】句意推断题。此空的前面是“冠词+形容??词”的形式，因此空格处需要填入一个名词；后面??是第三人称单数形式的动词commences，“开始”??之意，进而确定此空的名词为单数。结合录音填??入migration，意为“迁徙”。 31．destructive【精析】修饰关系题。此空与前面的their和后面 的march一起作continuin9的宾语，march此处 是名词，为“行军，前进”之意；此空与their共同作??march的定语，故猜测应该填入一个形容词。结??合录音填入destructive，意为“毁灭性的”。 32??float Oil water【精析】语义推断题：此空前面是Most，后面没有??动词．而是直接出现了名词a short time，由此确定??．Most为名词．指。大部分旅鼠”，作句子的主语，空 格处赠填入谓语部分。结合录音填入floatOil??’vater．意为。在水上漂浮”。 33．a huge body of【精析】修饰关系题。此空前面是such，后面是不??可数名词water，故猜测此空可以填入形容词来修??饰water。此处答案并不是单个的形容词，而是一??个量词词组，结合录音填入a huge body of water，意为“大面积的水域”。 34．assulne【精析】句意推断题。此空位于情态动词may之??后，故应填人动词(词组)原形。结合录音填入??assume意为“假定，认为”。 35．obstacle【精析】句意推断题。此空的前面为another such??swimmable，“另一个能够游泳的”，说明此空需要??填入一个名词，而且是单数名词。结合录音填入??obstacle，意为“障碍(物)”。 | 
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