阅读下列材料, 从所给的六个选项(A、B、C、D、E、和F) 中,选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余选项。
________1. Jack just moved to a new place in Nelson. He wants to buy a house, but he hasn’t much money and his job is not well paid. So he needs a house whose price is about£50,000 and at least has two bedrooms.
________2. Lucy is now 65 years old. She is not very healthy and it is difficult for her to move. So she now wants to find a bungalow (平房) in Earby so that she can easily go out of the house to enjoy the sun in winter and fresh air outside in summer.
________3 Alice was very poor before, but recently she got a highly paid job and wanted to change her house into a better one. But the house should at least have four bedrooms and two reception rooms. What’s more, it should look like the house in the countryside.
________4. Peter now lives in Nelson. He dreams of having a house with at least three bedrooms. Besides, he doesn’t like high buildings.
________ 5 Lynne has lived in Newchurch for many years and now she wants to buy a house for a change. She wants the house to be semi-detached (半独立式) or detached. She also wants a separate garage.
A. Top Barn Lane, Newchurch, Lancashire, £49,950, flat on 30th floor.2 bathrooms with 3-piece suite in white, 1 reception room, 1 large lounge, 1 fully fitted kitchen,2 double bedrooms.
B. Queensway, Newchurch, Lancashire, £109,500, semi-detached house. 2 countryside view fronts, 2 double bedrooms, 1 modern fitted dining room, 1 detached garage opposite.
C. White Leys Close, Earby, Barnoldswick, £129,950, bungalow. 2 bathrooms, 1 reception room, 1 living room split into sitting and dining areas, doors to garden, a kitchen with a range of fitted bases. Outside of the front is a road for two cars and a garden area.
D. Birch Hall Lane, Earby, Barnoldswick, £180,000. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 reception rooms. Traditional stone built houses next to some cottages on one side. There is a small cycle store and a long, beautiful wildlife garden.
E. Craven View, Nelson, Lancashire, £185,000. Bungalow, 3 bedrooms with fitted wardrobe, 2 bathrooms, 1 reception room, 1 L-shaped living room with sitting and dining areas, fireplace around, French windows to back gardens, 1 kitchen with bright lighting.
F. Farrer Street, Nelson, Lancashire, £ 45,000. A stone built house. Although requiring a degree of refurbishment (刷新), this two bedroomed house does still offer a good deal. It includes 1 dining kitchen, two bedrooms, three-piece bathroom, gas fired central heating and the yard to the back.
第二节信息匹配 (共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
阅读下列应用文及相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
The Blue Mercury Hotel has a varieties of different hotel rooms for different kinds of people. Book 7 days in advance and you will pay at special rates. The categories are as follows.
Ruby No 1: with a balcony. One single bed and a computer , Internet accessible
Max: One person
Price: Regular Rate — $ 490 ( per person / per night) With no special rate all year around
Sapphire No 2: With a balcony. Two double beds ( all standard rooms)
Max : Four people
Price : Regular rate — $ 220 ( per person / per night)
Special rate — $ 190 ( per person / per night)
Emerald No 1: With a balcony. Two double beds or one king-size bed ( all standard room)
Max: Four people
Price : Regular rate — $290 ( per person / per night)
Special rate — $ 220 ( per person / per night)
Ruby No 2: With a balcony. One bed room suite with one king—size bed
Max : two people
Price : regular rate — $ 580 ( per person / per night)
Special rate — $400 ( per person / per night)
Emerald No 3: With a balcony. Two –bed room suite on the top floor of the oceanarium with two king-size beds
Max: Four people
Price: Regular rate — $900 ( per person / per night)
Special Rate — $760 ( per person / per night)
Sapphire No 1: With no balcony . Two double beds ( smaller space)
Max : Two people
Price : Regular Rate — $120 ( per person / per night)
Special Rate — 90 ( per person / per night)
请阅读以下游客的信息,然后匹配游客和他/她在 The Mercury Hotel 居住的房间:
56. Jane and Jessica, college students on holiday excursion, book the room of the Blue Mercury Hotel a fortnight ahead of time; plan to live in a room with the minimum pay.
57. Jim and his newly married bride, arriving tomorrow morning , choose to have a suite with a king-size bed, for which they budget to pay at most $ 1200 for two of them for one night.
58. Two couples on a trip stop at Blue Mercury Hotel. They like the place so much that they agree to stay in the hotel for two nights. Their budget is between $ 900-700 for each family.
59. For Dave and his wife, they would rather book a suite where they can enjoy the ocean view, concerned less about the price of the room.
60. Doctor King is having a conference at the Blue Mercury Hotel. He has to write his research paper. He wants to stay in a hotel room which has the suitable facilities
第二节信息匹配(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
首先请阅读下列深圳书城的畅销书的封面及基本信息:
A.Foreword |
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The Antidepressant Survival Guide: Beat the Side Effects of Your Medication by Robert J. Hedaya, M.D, Robert J. Hedaya, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital's Department of Psychiatry. Motto: Live well. |
B.How Fear Limits Us |
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On Becoming Fearless... in Love, Work, and Life by Arianna Huffington Arianna Huffington was raised in Greece by her fearless mother. She has written this book for her two daughters in the hope that they will lead fearless lives. Motto: Overcome the obstacle, get over the next hill. |
C.Determination: How to Set Goals and Go After Them |
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Fight Your Fear and Win by Don Greene, Ph.D. Don Greene, Ph.D., was a nationally ranked high school diver. He was the sports psychologist for the U.S. Olympic Diving Team. Motto: Determination is drive. |
D.The Anger Business |
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Anger : The Misunderstood Emotion by Carol Tavris, Ph.D. Carol Tavris, Ph.D., was senior editor. she now teaches from time to time in the department of psychology at UCLA Motto: Reduce Stress! |
E.In the Presence of Danger |
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The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker Davin de Becker, America’s leading expert on violence, is the bestselling author of the Gift of Fear: Survival Signals. Motto: Trust and act on our straight instincts. |
F.Moving from Fear to Freedom |
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Transforming Anxiety, Transcending Shame by Rex Briggs, M.S.W. REX BRIGGS, M.S.W., has been a selected speaker at the National Anxiety Disorders Association of America’s conferences since 1986. Motto: Weaken anxiety |
下面是这些书的简要内容,请匹配相关的书名。
56.This useful, popular book shows that if you are gone broke and lose love, please hold yourself back. If you look fat, just face it calmly. If you are in survival thinking, the most important is that you get rid of all the difficulties in front of us, life will be safe, perfect. If your daughters are to take their rightful place in society, they must become fearless.
57.In this book, the author calls the nation’s leading experts on violent behavior, and shows you how to spot even tiny signs of danger before it’s too late. Most violent acts are unpredictable. It points out that true fear is often a signal that can save your life. Believe the threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves by straight judgment.
58.This book based on his years of clinical experience. It says about twenty-five million Americans take medicine to avoid depression. Despite the advances in the treatment of depression in recent years, many patients, even with the best medical care, feel that they are not living rich and fulfilling lives. This book will direct you how to survive well.
59.This interesting book tells us that annoyance is as much a political matter as a biological one. And anger is a definite message: Pay attention to me. I don’t like what you are doing. Restore my pride. You’re in my way. Give me justice. This book suggests that when you’re angry, just let it right out.
60.This valuable book states that nervousness has become a constant factor in today’s society like a sign of the times, but it is sometimes difficult to recognize the effects of anxiety on our mental health. The only way to feel better about ourselves is to go out and do it.
第二节信息匹配 (共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
下面是一些电影的相关信息,请阅读下文,并按照要求匹配信息。首先,请阅读下列的应用文:
Hello Kitty
The famous cartoon character known as Hello Kitty was created by Japanese company Sanrio in 1974 and quickly becameapopculturalphenomenon through a series of animated television shows. This collection of the Hello Kitty series includes five volumes for a total of 25 episodes, such as Hello Kitty Tells Fairy Tales, Hello Kitty Plays Pretend.
Jimmy Neutron
This is a funny, silly, and colorfully animated children’s film featuring Jimmy Neutron. Jimmy has created all kinds of interesting things to make his life easier, including a robotic dog, Goddard, who follows him everywhere. Jimmy and his friend, Carl, use a homemade spaceship to launch a satellite.
Sesame Street
Elmo runs across a Magic Cookbook and sets free a Genie that lives inside. Together, Elmo and the Genie explore the fun world of cooking and making food, with the help from Emeril Lagasse and Heather Headley, who show tips on making pizzas and pocket foods.
Sing and Dance With Barney
Barney has planned a very special sing-along party and invited many of his friends, old
and new. The group enjoys singing their all-time favorites, while being transported to magical places. It has over 55 minutes of singing and dancing.
Blue’s Clues
Steve and Blue explore the worlds of math and reading as they help each other with familiar activities. Viewers are invited to join in the counting, reading, adding and subtracting.
Adventures of Willy Fog
Eerie lakes, bottomless pits, dinosaurs, and volcanic eruptions are just a few of the places laying in wait for Willy Fog and his friends in this exciting journey. Trying to get to the centre of the earth proves a lot more difficult than they originally thought.
请阅读以下有关学生的信息,然后为他们选择要看的电影:
61. Robert studies in an art school. Not only does he like singing, but he is good at dancing.
This weekend he is going to see a film about singing and dancing.
62. Turner is a brave boy who likes adventure. Everyone knows that he has rich imagination. Turner wishes he could travel to the centre of the earth. 63. Lena is a lovely girl who is only ten years old. In her spare time she likes watching cartoon. Among all the cartoon characters she likes cats best.
64. Philip, a clever student, likes science very much. He is especially interested in computer and robot. He wishes he could be an astronaut in the future.
65. Nancy shows special interest in cooking. At home she often watches her mother cooking
in the kitchen room. Besides, Nancy loves seeing films about fairy tales.
第二节: Alan等5个语言学习者都想借助于计算机辅助学习来提高语言水平。下面是六个最新开发的语言辅助学习软件。请阅读不同学习者的特点与要求和六个学习软件的相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。注意,其中有一项是多余的。
61. Alan is an English teacher in a high school. He intends to develop his career by improving his languages skills, especially his oral English. Besides, he wants to learn some other languages so that he will have less difficulty in communicating with local people when he travels in Europe this summer.
62. Jennifer, a little school girl, finds English words difficult to remember. She is good at drawing as well as dancing. She is fond of listening to stories and telling stories. Her parents are trying to find all interesting ways to aid her English study.
63. Bob has a girlfriend teaching English at a language center. He always finds they have had little time to be together because his girlfriend is always occupied with her work. He is determined to find all effective teaching tools to lighten her burden from her work.
64. Jack, a businessman, usually writes e-mails to his business partners around the world. But he is often confused when choosing the proper words in his writing. He needs a dictionary to be installed into the computer so that it can be convenient for him to find the exact meaning of a word. He also hopes to enlarge his vocabulary by doing exercises in the computer when he is free.
65. Tom, a school boy, lost his interest in English because he wastes too much time playing computer games and reading science fiction. His teacher finds vocabulary is a big problem to him. So his parents are wondering how they can help improve his English as well as develop his interest in the subject.
Oxford phrasebuilder Genie
The phrasebuilder Genie sits on top of your word processor while you are writing or on top of a webpage you are reading. When you come across a word you are not sure of, you click on it and the meanings will appear in the Genie, taken from the Advanced Learner’s dictionary. There’s a lot more too; there is a massive exercise bank of over 4,000 exercises drawn from the Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, which is excellent for vocabulary development. The program also includes study pages which can be printed out and photocopied.
Word Invaders
In this version, the aliens (外星人) are in the form of words, which come down towards you in groups of four, in a line. Three of them are similar, one is either different, or incorrect English. If you choose correctly, you gain points; if you choose incorrectly, you lose them. There are six levels, from Beginner to Advanced, and five different sections to overcome. The program has a word store of 2,400 different vocabulary items.
Vocabulary Builder
Using Vocabulary Builder is a fun way for young children to learn basic vocabulary. The program combines pictures, text and sound to make an interactive flash card system which teachers can use to help in basic language teaching. Students can choose whether to learn vocabulary, play vocabulary games or record their own story using the vocabulary they’ve learned.
Beat the Clock
The name says it all! This is a game designed to boost students’ vocabulary levels by giving a definition (定义) of a word, which they must type in the box. However, they don’t have time to sit and think forever about the word, because they are playing against the clock. They will get a high score only if they can guess the word quickly. The program is divided into six levels, from beginner to advanced, and tests all parts of English vocabulary.
Exercise Generator
The generator is for busy teachers who want to produce really professional-looking, paper-based reading and vocabulary activities, tests, homework and exam practice material for their students. It enables you to do it in minutes! It’s also an extremely fast and economical way of building a resource for a library or self access centre.
Tell Me More Pro
Tell Me More Pro, covers key areas of English and a range of other languages including Spanish and German. The program involves oral and written expressions, comprehension, pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. From the menu, students can choose the lesson in which they want to work and then pick them from a variety of activities.
第二节:Allan, James,Brown, Della and Edward 正在查找网站来帮助他们解决问题。阅读第61至65题中的各人情况说明和A至F六家网站的介绍,并从所给的(A、 B、 C、 D、 E、 F)中选出符合各人情况的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
61. Allan: The weather report said that a hurricane would hit the city. Tom wants to find information on how to protect his family from being destroyed during the hurricane.
62. James: Before learning about a butterfly, James was asked by his biology teacher to learn more about a butterfly in the process of doing research and then write a letter to humankind.
63. Brown: Thousands of animals around the world face extinction. Many more are threatened each year. Brown focuses on the situation of endangered animals and tried to understand how all living things are connected.
64. Della: Modern technology makes fishing easier. Yet overfishing has caused a lot of problems. China has taken some measures to solve the problem. Della wants to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of overfishing on some threatened species and tried to find out effective solutions.
65. Edward: Great leaders changed our lives. Edward, who studies politics, wants to find out detailed information about some famous political leaders of foreign countries.
A. http://www.net.org/marine/csb/
This site is devoted to saving the Chilean sea bass, or Patagonian toothfish, from extinction. It suggests actions people can take to protect the fish, and it offers the flash movie “Please Don’t Eat Me!”
B. http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/entyouth/
This site, created by the University of Kentucky Entomology(昆虫学) Department, provides photographs and facts about various insects we live with. You will find what you want to know about insects here.
C. http://www.mountvernon,org/learn /index.cfm/
This is the definitive(最完整可靠的) site for thoroughly researched historical data on President George Washington. The educational resources include biographical information, a feature(专题节目) on George Washington and slavery, electronic trading cards, and an online quiz.
D. http://www,artlex.com/
Here you will find definitions of more than 3,200 terms used in discussing visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and cross-references.
E. http://www.fema.gov/kids/
This visually appealing government site teaches kids how to be prepared for disasters and prevent disaster damage. The site also tells teachers and parents what to do to help children after a disaster. It is appropriate for all ages.
F. http://www.nwf.org/
Find information on wildlife protection programs and wild animals through the articles, photos, quizzes, and games at this site. Learn how you can help protect wildlife which has close relationship to human beings.