第二节  听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题,选出最佳选项。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面一段对话,回答第6至7题。

6. Why didn’t the teacher believe Jack?

A. Because Jack seldom handed in his homework on time.    

B. Because Jack often forgot to bring his books with him.

C. Because the teacher didn’t like Jack.

7. What was Ms Smith going to do?

A. She was going to visit Jack’s parents.    

B. She didn’t know what she could do.                  

C. She was going to make a phone call to Jack’s parents.

听下面一段对话,回答第8至10题。

8. What are they talking about?

A. How to make speech in English.   

B. How to learn spoken English well.      

C. How to make few mistakes.

9. When does the conversation take place?

A. At the end of the term.   B. During supper time.   C. At the beginning of the term.

10. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Teacher and student.        B. Classmates.           C. Father and daughter.

听下面一段对话,回答第11至13题。

11. What are the two speakers discussing?

A. The final exam.          B. A small test.   C. The mid-term exam.

12. How was the exam?

A. It’s as easy as the last one but shorter.  

B. It’s more difficult but shorter than the last one.          

C. It’s more difficult and longer than the last one.

13. What are they going to do tonight?

A. Have another exam.     B. Watch a football match.  C. See a movie.

听下面一段对话,回答第14至16题。

14. What was True about the exam?

A. It had fifteen true-false questions.    

B. It was sixty minutes long. 

C. The true-false questions are much easier.

15. How did the man feel about the true-false questions?

A. He likes them less than the essays. 

B. He didn’t think they were too bad.                          

C. He didn't know the answer to them.

16. How did the woman do on the essay questions?

A. She was rushed when she wrote them.    

B. She didn’t know the answers.

C. She wrote her answers clearly.

听下面一段对话,回答第17至20题。

17. What questions do the students of English always ask?

A. Can I question Americans?  

B. Can I communicate with Americans?                 

C. Can I speak to Americans?

18. Who says “in the hospital”?

A. Americans.            B. British.             C. Germans.

19. What does the speaker of the passage probably agree to?

A. There are too many differences between American and British English.    

B. British and American English are two different languages.   

C. American and British speakers share the same language.

20. How many differences are there between the British and American English?

A. 5.                    B. 2.                 

20090402
 
C. 3.

70. What was mentioned to cope with the situation?

A.Some towns shut down.  B.Some dams were open.

C.People all left their homes.  D.Some temporary houses were built.

PART FOUR  WRITING (45 marks)

SECTION A (10 marks)

Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information from the passage. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

You want a smart phone, but just how smart do you want it? How about one that can read your mind? Well, that phone may well be on its way...

Justin Rattner, chief researcher at Intel, says that technology has developed to the point that “context-aware computing (情景感知计算)”, an idea that’s been around for twenty years, is becoming more of a reality.

That could lead to a phone that acts as a mind reader in your pocket. But rather than simply collect secrets about you, the device could do things with that information, such as predict what you might do next and make suggestions.

Rattner gave a few examples during his speech at Intel’s developer conference in San Francisco recently.

Among them is a software that Intel worked on with Fodor’s Travel, a traveling website. It learns what types of foods you like to eat and what types of places you like to visit, based on searches you type into the phone or places you searched using GPS (全球定位系统). The software makes similar recommendations when you visit a new city.

Tech companies are already working to predict what people want. Search engine Google, movie-rental service Netflix, and online radio service Pandora try to guess what people want even before they know they want it.

Putting those types of functions together with the other information that phones collect about people could pave the way for even more helpful mobile phones, Rattner said.

A challenge is training computers to look at data from “hard sensors (传感器)” (which measure place, movement, temperature and the like) and combining those findings with data from “soft sensors” (such as calendar appointments and Web browsing history).

For example, your phone could tell that you have just left school and seem to be on your way home-a location it might know from your address book. It could then tell you the best route around traffic.

Rattner added that researchers are even making steps toward the final goal-a computer understanding of thoughts.

SECTION B (10 marks)

Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage.

Scientists have discovered that living to the age of 100 may have nothing to do with the lifestyle you lead and everything to do with the type of genes you have.

For the lucky carriers of “Methuselah” genes, worries over smoking, eating unhealthily and not getting enough exercise may not be as necessary as to those of us without the special gene pattern.  The “Methuselah” genes could give extra protection against the diseases of old age such as cancer and heart disease. They could also protect people against the effects of the unhealthy lifestyles that we believe will lead us to an early death, scientists say. However, the genes are very rare.

The genes include ADIPOQ, which is found in about 10 percent of young people but in nearly 30 percent of people living past 100. They also include the CETP and the ApoC3 genes, which are found in 10 percent of young people, but in about 20 percent of people over 100 years old.

Some of those genes were discovered by a research group at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, led by Professor Nir Barzilai. The team studied the genes of over 500 people over 100 years old, and their children.

The studies show that tiny mutations (变异) in the make-up of some genes can greatly increase a person’s lifespan. Barzilai told a Royal Society conference that the discovery of such genes gave scientists clear targets for developing drugs that could prevent age-related diseases, allow people to live longer and stay healthy.

David Gems, a researcher at University College London, believes that drugs to slow ageing will become widespread.

“If we know which genes control longevity (长寿) then we can... target them with drugs. That makes it possible to slow down ageing,” he told The Times.

“Much of the pain and suffering in the world are caused by ageing. If we can find a way to reduce that, then we are obliged to take it.”

 0  322641  322649  322655  322659  322665  322667  322671  322677  322679  322685  322691  322695  322697  322701  322707  322709  322715  322719  322721  322725  322727  322731  322733  322735  322736  322737  322739  322740  322741  322743  322745  322749  322751  322755  322757  322761  322767  322769  322775  322779  322781  322785  322791  322797  322799  322805  322809  322811  322817  322821  322827  322835  447348 

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网