Part I                          Writing                    (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled How to Save the Wild Animals? You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below.

1. 野生动物濒临灭绝及其原因

2. 如何采取措施保护野生动物

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How to Save the Wild Animals?

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Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)  (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet 1.

For questions 1 - 7, mark

Y (for YES)            if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;

N (for NO)             if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage ;

NG (for NOT GIVEN)    if the information is not given in the passage.

For questions 8 - 10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.

Stress

Causes of stress

    Three causes of negative stress are lack of control, lack of support from people around you, and lack of meaning in what you are doing. A tot of people try to fill up the emptiness they feel in their lives with more and more work.

    Studies have shown that stress is not dangerous, as long as the affected person has a feeling that he or she is able to change the situation.

Stress reactions

    Stress is the body's reaction to every demand made on it and is therefore something completely necessary and natural. We react differently to these demands. A stress reaction can cause us to feel everything from hopelessness to rage. Feelings of impatience, grief, boredom and frustration can also be part of the stress experience. Outwardly, our reactions are noticeable when we unconsciously tense up our shoulders, draw our brow or bite our teeth together. Or we might get a lump in our throat, a knot in our stomach, a stiff neck or feel pressure over our chest.

Fight or flight

    What happens in the body during these reactions also happened millions of years ago in our human-like ancestors. At that time, these reactions were quite adequate. Survival was dependent upon the ability to swiftly and powerfully react to danger. They prepared the body for battle, or for escape. This was the body's way of producing that extra power necessary for us to be able to choose survival instead of death. Physical stress reactions made us stronger and more flexible in battle, or faster and more resolute in flight.

Our alarm system is on

    Today, most of us are rarely exposed to tangible physical danger. Yet the alarm system is more active than ever before. Our brains cannot tell the difference between real and imagined dangers, The alarm system is activated even by emotional distress, such as when you feel threatened, upset, scared, embarrassed or unloved. A had day at the office, an argument, a job interview, a painful diagnosis, or meeting an angry dog--all produce the same physiological reactions.

Totally drained instead of burned-out

    Burnout is an expression we often hear today. It is a word that is often used carelessly instead of worn-out, stressed, hurried, overworked, strained, tired, depressed, angry, unappreciated or unloved.  A better expression to describe the state is totally drained. Being “totally drained” gives us more of a feeling of hope, of eventually being refilled and healed than being “burned-out”.

Being totally drained, or burned-out, is a serious psychological, physical, and mental state where we collapse, and it takes quite a lot for us to get there. It is not something that just hits us like a virus; it is something we have been working on for a long while. People who are totally drained have given so much, and been refueled so little, for such a long time, that one day the whole system just stops.

Several stages before collapse

    A person who becomes totally drained passes through several stages before the destruction becomes a fact. Life just doesn't suddenly one day overwhelm you. Before that happens there have been plenty of symptoms that have been neglected.

    These symptoms might he headaches, stomach problems, colds that never go away, irritation, moodiness, joylessness or depression. Long-term stress drains us of our inner resources such as creativity, patience, and sense of humour. Only if a person ignores these initial signals will the enormous, chronic, depressing fatigue, where the body collapses from total lack of resources and energy, finally take over.

    What people who have broken down because of stress have in common is that they all have felt a deep fatigue, and at times lost their ability to remember, understand or reason. Other symptoms may be physical, such as increased sensitivity to pain and infection.

Another common result is that the person is less socially active, pulls away from friends, and isolates himself or herself.

Can be cured

    Researchers are still unclear on exactly what sort of connections between mind and body lead to stress-related conditions such as burnout, fibromyalgia (纤维肌痛), posttraumatic (外伤后的) stress, chronic fatigue and depression. But they are in agreement that these conditions can be cured.

Positive stress

    Don’t fool yourself into thinking that a stressless life would be the.mark of happiness, if you do, you will have forgotten the positive side of stress.

    Positive stress is vital and increases your power. It can be very intense, but is usually short-lived, such as meeting a deadline, catching a bus, or making a speech. You work best when you feel stimulated and excited, not when you are bored, or feel limited. Positive stress is the answer to demands that feel inspiring, manageable and challenging, demands that don't feel like they have been forced on you. Positive stress makes you creative and constructive.

Negative stress

    Negative stress, on the contrary, is paralyzing and destructive. 'Negative stress is what you feel when you are unable to fill the demands that come from inside yourself and/ or the demands and expectations your environment makes on you. It is easy to feel insufficient or threatened both physically and mentally. If this is repeated often, you will eventually be affected by it negatively.

    Remember that stress is not dangerous, as long as the affected person feels that he or she has a certain amount of control over what is happening. Actually, both confidence and creativity are improved by challenges we have control over.

Your attitude causes stress

    The ability to tell the difference between what you can control and what you cannot, and act accordingly is fundamental to stress management. Even more basic to stress management is the insight that stress is not caused by the problems in themselves. It is your attitude, your interpretation of the problem that causes stress.

    Understanding that the real cause of stress is not disappointment, fear, negative expectations, or the people around you but your own attitude toward these things makes it easier to control your reaction to the perceived stress.

    You need to either actively work toward changing the situation or decide to change your attitude toward it. It is when we feel "I choose my life" that we are the drivers on the journey through life.

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1. Stress is not dangerous, as long as the affected people try to fill up the emptiness they feel in their lives with more and more work.

2. Stress is something completely necessary and natural in that it is the body's reaction to every demand made on it.

3. Millions of years ago, our ancestors depended on their ability of swift reaction to danger for survival.

4. We need to install an alarm system in our body to guard against stress or tangible physical danger.

5. “Being totally drained” is a more proper term to describe the state of being worn-out, stressed, strained, tired, depressed, angry, or unloved etc.

6. One common initial symptom of final break-down is that they feel a deep fatigue, and sometimes not quick at remembering, understanding or reasoning.

7. Researchers have determined what sort of connections between mind and body lead to the stress-related conditions.

8. You work best not when you are bored, or feel limited, but when ________________________.

9. If negative stress is repeated often, you will finally be _________________________________.

10. According to the author, the real cause of stress is your own attitude toward things like ____________________________________________________________________.

Part Ill                 Listening Comprehension            (35 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A ), B), C) and D ), and decide which is the best answer. Then marked the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

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11. A) She's been extremely successful.

   B) She's less successful now than she was last year.

   C) Her success is hard to understand.

   D) She owes some of her success to her personality.

12. A) That the man will not be able to sleep.

   B) That someone will enter the back door while the man is sleeping

   C) That the lock on the door will break.

   D) That the man will not be able to come back.

13. A) That Mary is going to Hawaii.

   B) That Mary has traveled all over the world.

   C) That Mary likes postcards.

   D) That Mary is going on vacation

14. A) Substitute for Laura at work.

   B) Accept a full-time job.

   C) Meet Laura at the restaurant.

   D) Go out of town with Laura.

15. A) That it looks exactly like Susan.

   B) That it makes Susan look younger than she really is.

   C) That it makes Susan look older than she really is.

   D) That it makes Susan look better than she looks in person.

16. A) He is sick.            B) He is worried.

   C) He is confident.       D) He is angry.

17. A) At Sun Valley.         B) At the health center.

     C) At home.         D) At work.

18. A) Where Professor Stevens came from.

   B) When the economies course supposed to meet.

   C) What the economics professor's name was?

   D) How recently Professor Stevens began teaching there.

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

19. A) Two weeks.         B) One month.

   C) One week.          D) Eleven days.

20. A) It's too expensive.                 B) It would take too long.

   C) There's nothing worth seeing.        D) He's been there before.

21. A) There're lots of pretty girls.          B) Everybody speaks English.

  C) They arrange everything for you.     D) It has the lowest price.

22. A) Portugal.                      B) Miami.

   C) Arizona or New Mexico.         D) Spain.

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

23. A) The man.        B) The woman.

C) They pay for their own dinner respectively.

   D) A Dutch friend.

24. A) It serves only a few specialties.

   B) It's too crowded.

   C) It's too costly.

   D) The service is too slow.

25. A) Children do not usually eat at home.

   B) They usually bring lunch with them from home.

   C) They have little time for lunch.

   D) The cities are too big for people to find restaurants.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D ). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

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Passage One

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. A) To have an early detection of possible diseases.

   B) To discover the side effects of thermography.

   C) To find out why a body requires rest.

   D) To improve the analysis of blood and tissue sample.

27. A) It is not painful.

   B) Patients can see the pictures.

   C) The process is very relaxing.

   D) No side effect is involved.

28. A) Thermographic techniques are now widely use.

   B) Scientific research on thermography is still being conducted.

   C) Thermography will not make diagnosis easier for doctors.

   D) Acceptance of thermographic techniques will be enthusiastic.

Passage Two

Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

29. A) Teenage drunk driving and how to prevent it.

   B) D. U. I and its deadly consequences.

   C) A safe families report.

   D) Two teenage driver volunteers.

30. A) A policeman.

   B) A social worker.

   C) A parent of one of the kids.

   D) A teacher from Dade High School.

31. A) To save them from serving in a prison.

   B) To make them lose face as a punishment.

   C) To warn the public of the dangers from these offenders.

   D) To warn other teens of the dangers of drinking and driving.

Passage Three

Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

32. A) How different types of people are affected by breakfast.

   B) How different types of breakfast affect people.

   C) How males and females of all ages react to different kinds of breakfast.

   D) How well the participants' bodies function.

33. A) Various kinds of breakfasts were given to the participants.

   B) A well-balanced meal was eaten.

   C) Breakfast was altogether skipped.

   D) Special tests were introduced.

34. A) They will work efficiently and productively after an adequate breakfast.

   B) Their work efficiency is not affect whether they take breakfast or not.

   C) They have to go without breakfast if they try to lose weight.

   D) They will probably lose more weight by reducing other meals.

35. A) Eating less at meals other than breakfast.

   B) Going on a diet

   C) Skipping breakfast.

   D) Taking less breakfast.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times, when the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blank numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

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    In many English homes four meals are served: they are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. These are the meals that are served in the homes of people who are (36)_________________________. It might be (37) _____________________ to you to know what (38) ______________________of meals English people have and how they (39) _________________ at the table, for the people of one country act rather (40) ___________________________________________ from those of another. An old (41) ______________________ says, “When 'in Rome, do as the Romans do,” and this is good (42) ______________________________________________________.

    Breakfast may be served any time from seven to nine. Lunch comes at about one o'clock. It (43)           _______________________ consists of cold meat, potatoes and salad. Most people drink water or beer instead of strong alcoholic drinks. Afternoon tea, served between four and five, is the most informal meal of the day.

    (44) __________________________________________________________. Many people even wear special clothes for dinner, so if you are asked out to dinner, you must find out whether you are expected to wear a dinner suit. (45) __________________________________________. During the meal, conversation is carried on. You should try to get into conversation with the person on your right or left, (46)___________________________________________ . If you are in unfamiliar surroundings, keep an eye open for what the others are doing.

Part IV     Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth )      (25 minutes)

Section A 

Direction: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.

    A new initiative to combat overweight in U. S. black and Spanish children is ready for launch in 2006, according to sponsors at the American Council for Fitness and Nutrition (ACFN) and the American Dietetic Association Foundation (ADAF).

    Both groups plan to analyze  47   from the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other   48   to assess the need for, and the best methods of, combating overweight among black and Hispanic children. Statistics have long showed these   49   youngsters to be at especially high risk for overweight.

      50   on the information they receive, the two organizations will create separate detailed guides for black and Hispanic community leaders to help create and   51   programs to help families adopt healthier lifestyles. The ACFN and ADAF plan to  52   respected organizations in the black and Hispanic communities to take part in the   53   and distribution of these guides.

     “ACFN and the ADA Foundation are   54   partners to address a need that goes beyond putting great nutrition and physical activity  55   into the hands of community leaders. We intend to show how to achieve support in communities--the key to getting more families and children   56  ,” registered dietitian Cecilia Pozo Fileti, a member of the ACFN advisory board, the ADA, and head of the Latinos and Hispanics in Dietetics and Nutrition, said in a prepared statement.

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Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or

unfinished statements. For each of them are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

    New mothers are calmer under 'pressure and deal with difficulty better, suggests a new study at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The study, conducted by Professor Tracey Shors and his graduate student Benedetta Leuner, found that female rats during the postpartum(产后的) period are less anxious and more resistant to stress than females without offspring.

    “Our results demonstrated that postpartum female rats show very different and unique responses to stress compared to females without reproductive and maternal experience,” Shors says. In virgin rats, exposure to stress severely impaired new learning and increased anxiety. In contrast, stressful events did not affect learning or anxiety behavior in rats with new offspring. The researchers theorize that some cognitive (认知的) and emotional responses to stressful experiences may be suppressed during the postpartum period.

    These findings are the first to show that learning is maintained in new mothers, even in the face of stressful life events. “It is.probably good for new mothers to be able to learn effectively regardless of life stresses, especially when it comes to taking care of their young,” says Shors. “Our results show that the female response to stressful experience is dynamic and can change dramatically during different stages of reproductive life.”

    Shors and Leuner believe that these data in rats may relate to mental illness in humans. Women are moreliable than men to mental disorders associated with stress and stressful life events such as depression, generalized anxiety and disorder. By examining the impact of stress on cognitive and emotional function during various stages of reproductive life, such as the postpartum period, scientists may begin to understand the reasons for the high incidence of mental illness in females, especially postpartum depression and mental disorders.

    In their next studies, the researchers will be addressing the age-old question: Is it nurture or nature? Is the stress response suppressed because of behaviors that occur during motherhood, such as those directly involving nurture and care for their young, or is it modified by the very different hormonal (荷尔蒙的) environment within the postpartum female?

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57. According to the passage, we can infer that Shors and Leuner's study mainly focuses on ______.

   A) the differences between human mothers and rat mothers

   B) cognitive and anxiety behavior in mother rats

   C) the differences between mother rats and rats without babies

   D) new mothers' learning and emotional reactions to stress

58. The word impaired as used in the 2nd paragraph means most likely ___________________.

     A) improved       B) weakened       C) balanced        D) strengthened

59. The result of the study revealed for the first time that ___________________________.

   A) the female response to stress tends to change at different stages of reproductive life

   B) learning ability is hardly affected in new mother even under stress

  C) stress and stressful life cause more mental disorders in women than in men

   D) new mothers are able to learn more effectively when subject life stresses

60. The purpose of Shors and Leuner's research of female rats is to __________________

   A) get some idea of the more frequent mental disorders in women than in men

   B) inform postpartum mother of their improved learning ability after baby birth

   C) find and study the differences between new mother rats and virgin rats

   D) prove scientifically the many similarities between human beings and other mammals

61. In the present research, Shors and Leuner ______________________.

   A) concluded that the new mother's improved stress response resulted from behavior needs

   B) concluded that the new mother's inner body environment improved her stress response

   C) dealt with the historical question of the influence of nurture and nature on human behavior

   D) did not reach the conclusion as to the impact of nurture and nature on the new mother

Passage Two

Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.

    Numerous sightings of massive fireballs in the skies over Germany this week have led to a boom in reports of UFOs, but astranomers believe the cause could be an unusual annual meteor explosion.

    According to the Web site of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) , such fireballs have been reported elsewhere in the world and may also be due to the fact that the Earth is now orbiting through a swarm of space debris.

    “Many people in Germany have noticed the fireballs", said Werner Walter, an amateur astronomer in Mannheim who runs a Web site on unexplained astronomical phenomena and a hotline for reports on unidentified flying objects(UFO).

    “The last reported sighting was yesterday at 7:30 p. m. (18: 30 GMT) in a corridor near the border of the Netherlands,” he told Reuters in a telephone interview. “And this week we have had at least 15 emails and phone calls from people reporting these fireballs,” be added. “Some people said it looks like something out of a science fiction horror film.”

    In addition to a possible meteor streak, Walter said amateur and professional astronomers were considering the possibility that the explosion was the result of a “failing satellite or UFOs.” “It is possible that they are UFOs, which are after all things which we cannot explain,” he said.

    NASA's science Web site (http://science, nasa.gov) mentions reports of recent fireball sightings in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, North Ireland and Japan. It includes images of the fireballs, which one man likened to a spotlight. Walter described them as "super-large, colored fireballs that shoot with the speed of lightning through the sky.”

    However, the NAsA Web site quotes meteor expert David Asher from the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland as saying that people “are probably seeing the Taurid meteor shower.” Taurids are meteors that shoot out of the constellation (星座)Taurus, which peaks at the end of October and early November.

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62. Scientists attribute the increase in UFO reports to ________________.

A) the popularity and efficiency of the Internet

   B) the large quantity of space waste

   C) the meteor explosions that happen every year

   D) numerous sightings of big fireballs in the skies over Germany this week

63. The Web site of the U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration suggests that ________.

   A) UFO sightings have been reported in many parts of the world

   B) the earth is in danger of being hit by the numerous space debris

   C) the fireballs are among the unexplained astronomical phenomena

   D) the fireballs are probably just broken pieces of some heavenly body

64. Wemer Walter did not rule out the possibility of UFOs, because he thought _________________.

A) UFO might sometimes exploded in space

   B) UFOs were something that were still challenging explanation

   C) failing satellites might sometimes collided with UFOs

   D) many sighting were reported of UFOS around the world

65. Besides the reports of recent fireball sightings in many countries, NASA's science Web site also carries _______________________.

   A) photos of the fireballs recently sighted

   B) images of the UFOs people sighted

   C) Walter's descriptions of the sightings

   D) The latest reported sighting of yesterday

66. According to a meteor expert from the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland, ____________.

   A) what people saw might just the explosion of a meteor shower

   B) meteors always shoot out of a constellation of the same name

   C) most sightings of UFOs were reported between the end of October and early November

   D) the NASA Web site is the official site of the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland

Part V                          Cloze                     (15 minutes)

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A ), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

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A little boy invited his mother to attend his schoo1’s first teacher-parent conference. To the little boy’s  67  ，she said she would go. He was embarrassed by her  68  .Although she was a beautiful woman，there was a  69   scar (疤)that covered nearly the  70    right side of her face. The boy never wanted to talk about why or how she got the scar. At the conference, people were  71  by the

kindness and natural beauty of his mother   72  the scar，but the little boy was still embarrassed and  73  himself from everyone. He did,  74  , get within earshot of a  75   between his mother and his teacher.

“How   76    you got that scar on your face?” the teacher asked. “When my son was a baby, he was in a room that  77  on fire. Everyone was too afraid to go in because the fire was out of   78  , so I went in．As I was running toward his crib, I saw the  79    corning down and I placed myself over him trying to  80  him. I was knocked  81  but  fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She  82  the burned side of her face. “This scar will be  83  , but to this day, I never  84  doing what I did.” At this   85  , the “the boy came running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He hugged her and felt an   86  sense of the sacrifice that his mother had made for him.

67. A)amusement     B)distress                  C)relief               D)shock

68. A)appearance     B)meeting                 C)complaint           D)account

69. A)heavy         B)pretty                    C)clear               D)severe

70. A)total           B)complete                C)entire               D)full

71. A)affected        B)impressed              C)surprised             D) frightened

72. A)except         B)besides                  C)despite              D)through

73. A)hid            B)protected               C)disappeared          D)prevented

74. A)therefore&nb