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总论：考试难度：大学6级以上 对词汇量的要求：大学4，6级 口试： 10分钟

一、口试

考试情况介绍：

整个口语过程时间不长，7-8分钟，共有11个考场，每个考场两位老师，一男一女，虽然考场很多，考生更多，很多学生等待了将近一个小时才进入考场。

1. 自我介绍

不一定要很全面的介绍自己，但是一定要很吸引考官

介绍一些关于自己的梦想，不一定要很大，很震撼，但是要触动考官的心。

2. Passage Reading Passage 1

There was once a physical therapist who traveled all the way from America to Africa to do a census about mountain gorillas. These gorillas are a main attraction to tourists from all over the world; this put them severely under threat of poaching and being put into the zoo. She went there out of curiosity, but what she saw strengthened her determination to devote her whole life to fighting for those beautiful creatures. She witnessed a scene, a scene taking us to a place we never imaged we’ve ever been, where in the very depth of the African rainforest, surrounded by trees, flowers, and butterflies, the mother gorillas cuddled their babies.

Passage 2

There once was a bunch of tiny frogs ... who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the

tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants...

The race began... No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower. You heard statements such as: \"Oh, WAY too difficult!!\" \"They will NEVER make it to the top.\" The tiny frogs began collapsing. The crowd continued to yell, \"It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!\" More tiny frogs got tired and gave up... ...But ONE continued higher and higher and higher... This one wouldn't give up! He was the only one who reached the top! All of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it? A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal?

It turned out that the winner was DEAF!!!!

3. Topic discussion

1. 给一小段中文“人生给予人一些感悟，你认为理想的大学应该给予学生怎样的条件”

After reading, explain your idea

2. 三条有哲理的话，用英文给出，然后让学生表述自己的观点，3选1 “ the aim of education is to use open thoughts to replace empty minds” “ Life value lies not in success, but in self-worth”

“ a song sang by one person can never beat that of an Orchestra”

二、笔试

1. 词汇题 （20道）

后面3道题难度达到了专业四级

41. Grey whales have long been ________ in the north Atlantic and hunting was

an important cause for that. A) extinct B) extinguished C) detained D) deprived

42. He was given major responsibility for operating the remote manipulator to ________ the newly launched satellite. A) retreat B) retrieve C) embody D) embrace

43. Foreign students are facing unprecedented delays, as visa applications receive closer ________ than ever. A) appraisal B) scanning C) retention D) scrutiny

44. If you are late for the appointment, you might ________ the interviewer and lose your chance of being accepted. A) irrigate B) intrigue C) irritate D) intimidate

45. Children’s idea of a magic kingdom is often dancers in animal ________ as they have often seen in Disneyland. A) cushions B) costumes C) skeletons D) ornaments

46. Ever since the first nuclear power stations were built, doubts have ________

about their safety. A) preserved B) survived C) suspended D) lingered

47. This clearly shows that crops and weeds have quite a number of ________ in common. A) traits B) traces C) tracks D) trails

48. From science to Shakespeare, excellent television and video programs are available ________ to teacher. A) in stock B) in store C) in operation D) in abundance

49. When the Italian poet Dante was ________ from his home in Florence, he decided to walk from Italy to Paris to search for the real meaning of life. A) exerted B) expired C) exiled D) exempted

50. Habits acquired in youth-notably smoking and drinking-may increase the risk of ________ diseases in a person’s later life. A) consecutive B) chronic C) critical D) cyclical

51. F. W. Woolworth was the first businessman to erect a true skyscraper to

________ himself, and in 1929, A1 Smith, a former governor of New York, sought to outreach him. A) portray B) proclaim C) exaggerate D) commemorate

52. To label their produce as organic, farmers have to obtain a certificate showing that no ________ chemicals have been used to kill pests on the farm for two years. A) toxic B) tragic C) nominal D) notorious

53. Ancient Greek gymnastics training programs were considered to be an ________ part of the children’s education. A) intact B) integral C) inclusive D) infinite

. Researchers have found that happiness doesn’t appear to be anyone’s; the capacity for joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself. A) disposal B) domain C) heritage D) hostage

55. We want out children to have more than job skills; we want their lives to be ________ and their perspectives to be broadened. A) envisaged B) excelled C) exceeded D) enriched

56. Online schools, which ________ the needs of different people, have emerged as an increasingly popular education alternative. A) stir up B) switch on C) cater to D) consent to

57. This kind of songbird sleeps much less during its annual ________,but that doesn’t seem to affect its flying. A) migration B) emigration C) conveyance D) transference

58. The developing nations want rich countries to help shoulder the cost of ________ forests. A) updating B) upgrading C) conserving D) constructing

59. In the study, researchers succeeded in determining how coffee ________ different areas of the brain in 15 volunteers. A) integrated B) motivated C) illuminated D) activated

60. They are trying to ________ the risk as much as they can by making a more thorough investigation of the market. A) minimize B) harmonize C) summarize D) jeopardize

41. A 42. B 43. D 44. C 45. B 46. D 47. A 48. D 49. C 50. B 51. D 52. A 53. B . C 55. D 56. C 57. A 58. C 59. D 60. A

2. 完型 20 道

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A,B,C,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 answer sheet 2 with a single line through the centre

playing organized sports is such a common experience in the United States that many children and teenagers that them for granted. This is especially true 1__children from families and communities that have the resources needed to organize and 2__ sports programs and make sure that there is easy 3__ to participation opportunities. Children in low-income families and poor communities are 4__ likely to take organized youth sports for granted because they often 5__ the resources needed to pay for participation 6__, equipment, and transportation to practices and games 7__ their communities do not have resources to build and 8__ sports fields and facilities.

Organized youth sports 9__ appeared during the early 20th century in the United States and other wealthy nations. They were originally developed 10__ some educators and developmental experts 11__ that the behavior and character of children were 12__ influenced by their social surrounding and everyday experiences. This 13__ many people to believe that if you could organize the experiences of children in 14__ ways, you could influence the kinds of adults that those children would become.

This belief that the social 15__ influenced a person’s overall development was very 16__ to people interested in progress and reform in the United States 17__ the beginning of the 20th century. It caused them to think about 18__ they might control

the experiences of children to 19__ responsible and productive adults. They believed strongly that democracy depended on responsibility and that a 20__ capitalist economy depended on the productivity of worker.

1. A. among B. within C. on D. towards 2. A. spread B. speed C. spur D. sponsor 3. A. access B. entrance C. chance D. route 4 A. little B. less C. more D. much 5. A. shrink B. tighten C. limit D. lack 6. A. bill B accounts C. fees D. fare 7. A. so B. as C. and D. but

8. A. maintain B. sustain C. contain D. entertain 9.A. last B. first C. later D. finally 10.A. before B. while C. until D. when

11.A. realized B. recalled C. expected D. exhibited 12.A. specifically B. excessively C. strongly D. exactly 13. A. moved B. conducted C. put D. led 14. A. precise B. precious C. particular D. peculiar 15.A. engagement B. environment C.s tate D. status

16.A. encouraging B. disappointing C. upsetting D. surprising 17.A. for B. with C. over D. at

18.A. what B. how C. whatever D. however 19.A. multiply B. manufacture C. produce D. provide

20.A. growing B. breeding C. raising D. flying

ADABD CCABD ACDCB ADBCA

3. 阅读：6级 3篇，每篇5题

Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.

Each summer, no matter how pressing my work schedule, I take off one day exclusively for my son. We call it dad-son day. This year our third stop was the amusement park, where be discovered that he was tall enough to ride one of the fastest roller coasters (过山车) in the world. We blasted through face-stretching turns and loops for ninety seconds. Then, as we stepped off the ride, be shrugged and, in a distressingly calm voice, remarked that it was not as exciting as other rides he’d been on. As I listened, I began to sense something seriously out of balance.

Throughout the season, I noticed similar events all around me. Parents seemed hard pressed to find new thrills for indifferent kids. Surrounded by ever-greater stimulation, their young faces were looking disappointed and bored.

Facing their children’s complaints of “nothing to do“, parents were shelling out large numbers of dollars for various forms of entertainment. In many cases the money seemed to do little more than buy transient relief from the terrible moans of their bored children. This set me pondering the obvious question:“ How can it be so hard for kids to find something to do when there’s never been such a range of stimulating entertainment available to them?”

What really worries me is the intensity of the stimulation. I watch my little daughter’s face as she absorbs the powerful onslaught (冲击) of arousing visuals and bloody

special effects in movies.

Why do children immersed in this much excitement seem starved for more? That was, I realized, the point. I discovered during my own reckless adolescence that what creates excitement is not going fast, but going faster. Thrills have less to do with speed than changes in speed.

I’m concerned about the cumulative effect of years at these levels of feverish activity. It is no mystery to me why many teenagers appear apathetic (麻木的) and burned out, with a “been there, done that” air of indifference toward much of life. As increasing numbers of friends’ children are prescribed medications-stimulants to deal with inattentiveness at school or anti-depressants to help with the loss of interest and joy in their lives-I question the role of kids’ boredom in some of the diagnoses.

My own work is focused on the chemical imbalances and biological factors related to behavioral and emotional disorders. These are complex problems. Yet I’ve been reflecting more and more on how the pace of life and the intensity of stimulation may be contributing to the rising rates of psychiatric problems among children and adolescents in our society.

21. The author tell surprised in the amusement park at fact that ________. A) his son was not as thrilled by the roller coasters ride as expected B) his son blasted through the turns and loops with his face stretched C) his son appeared distressed but calm while riding the roller coasters D) his son could keep his balance so well on the fast moving roller coasters 22. According to the author, children are bored ________. A) unless their parents can find new thrills for them B) when they don’t have any access to stimulating fun games C) when they are left alone at weekends by their working parents D) even if they are exposed to more and more kinds of entertainment

23. From his own experience, the author came to the conclusion that children seem to expect ________.

A) a much wider variety of sports facilities B) activities that require sophisticated skills

C) ever-changing thrilling forms of recreation D) physical exercises that are more challenging

24. In Para 6 the author expresses his doubt about the effectiveness of trying to change children’s indifference toward much of life by ________. A) diverting their interest from electronic visual games B) prescribing medications for their temporary relief C) creating more stimulating activities for them D) spending more money on their entertainment

25. In order to alleviate children’s boredom, the author would probably suggest ________.

A) adjusting the pace of life and intensity of stimulation B) promoting the practice of dad-son days C) consulting a specialist in child psychology

D) balancing school work with extracurricular activities

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

It used to be that people were proud to work for the same company for the whole of their working lives. They’d get a gold watch at the end of their productive years and a dinner featuring speeches by their bosses praising their loyalty. But today’s rich capitalists have regressed (倒退) to the “survival of the fittest” ideas and their loyalty extends not to their workers or even to their stockholders but only to themselves. Instead of giving out gold watches worth a hundred or so dollars for forty or so years

of word, they grab tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars as they sell for their own profit the company they may have been with for only a few years.

The new rich selfishly act on their own to unfairly grab the wealth that the country as a whole has produced. The top 1 percent of the population now has wealth equal to the whole bottom 95 percent and they want more. Their selfishness is most shamelessly expressed in downsizing and outsourcing (将产品包给分公司做) because these business maneuvers don’t act to created new jobs as the founder of new industries used to do, but only out jobs while keeping the money value of what those jobs produced for themselves.

To keep the money machine working smoothly the rich have bought all the politicians from the top down. The president himself is constantly leaving Washington and the business at the nation because he is summoned to “fundraising dinners” where fat cats pay a thousand or so dollars a plate to worm their way into government not through service but through donations of vast amounts of money. Once on the inside they have both political parties busily tearing up all the regulations that protect the rest of us from the greed of the rich.

The middle class used to be loyal to the free enterprise system. In the past, the people of the middle class mostly thought they’d be rich themselves someday or have a good shot at becoming rich. But nowadays income is being distributed more and more unevenly and corporate loyalty is a thing of the past. The middle class may also wake up to forget its loyalty to the so-called free enterprise system altogether and the government which governs only the rest of us while letting the corporations do what they please with our jobs. As things stand, if somebody doesn’t wake up, the middle class is on a path to being downsized all the way to the bottom of society.

26. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that people used to place a high value on ________. A) job security B) bosses’ praise C) corporate loyalty D) retirement benefits

27. The author is strongly critical of today’s rich capitalists for ________. A) not giving necessary assistance to laid-off workers B) maximizing their profits at the expense of workers C) not setting up long-term goals for their companies D) rewarding only those who are considered the fittest

28. The immediate consequence of the new capitalists’ practice is ________. A) loss of corporate reputation B) lower pay for the employees C) a higher rate of unemployment D) a decline in business transactions

29. The rich try to sway the policy of the government by ________. A) occupying important positions in both political parties B) making monetary contributions to decision-makers C) pleasing the public with generous donations D) constantly hosting fundraising dinners

30. What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?

A) to call on the middle class to remain loyal to the free enterprise system B) to warn the government of the shrinking of the American middle class C) to persuade the government to change its current economic policies D) to urge the middle class to wake up and protect their own interests

Passage Three

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Intel chairman Andy Grove has decided to cut the Gordian knot of controversy surrounding stem cell research by simply writing a check.

The check, which he pledged last week, could be for as much as 55 million, depending on how many donors make gifts of between 550,000 and 5,500,000, which he has promised to match. It will be made out to the University of California-San

Francisco (UCSF).

Thanks in part to such private donations, university research into uses for human stem cells—the cells at the earliest stages of development that can form any body part—will continue in California. With private financial support, the state will be less likely to lose talented scientists who would be tempted to leave the field or even leave the country as research dependent on federal money slows to glacial (极其缓慢的) pace.

Hindered by limits President Bush placed on stem cell research a year age, scientists are turning to laboratories that can carry out work without using federal money. This is awkward for universities, which must spend extra money building separate labs and keeping rigor cots records proving no federal funds were involved. Grove’s donation, a first step toward a $20 million target at UCSF, will ease the burden.

The president’s decision a year ago to allow research on already existing stem cell lines was portrayed as a reasonable compromise between scientists’ needs for cells to work with, and concerns that this kind of research could lead to wholesale creation and destruction of human embryos (胚胎), cloned infants and a general contempt for human life.

But Bush’s effort to please both sides ended up pleasing neither. And it certainly didn’t provide the basis for cutting edge research. Of the 78 existing stem cell lines which Bush said are all that science would ever need, only one is in this country (at the University of Wisconsin) and only five are ready for distribution to researchers. All were grown in conjunction with mouse cells, making future therapeutic (治疗的) uses unlikely.

The Bush administration seems bent on satisfying the small but vocal group of Americans who oppose stem cell research under any conditions. Fortunately, Grove and others are more interested in advancing scientific research that could benefit the large number of Americans who suffer from Parkinson’s disease, nerve injuries, heart diseases and many other problems.

31. When Andy Grove decided to cut the Gordian knot, he meat to ________. A) put an end to stem cell research

B) end Intel’s relations with Gordian

C) settle the dispute on stem cell research quickly D) expel Gordian from stem cell research for good

32. For UCSF to carry on stem cell research, new funds have to come from ________.

A) interested businesses and individuals B) the United States federal government C) a foundation set up by the Intel Company D) executives of leading American companies

33. As a result of the limit Bust placed on stem cell research. American universities will ________.

A) conduct the research in laboratories overseas B) abandon the research altogether in the near future C) have to carry out the research secretly D) have to raise money to build separate labs

34. We may infer from the passage that future therapeutic uses of stem cells will be unlikely unless ________.

A) human stem cells are used in the research B) a lot more private donations can be secured C) more federal money is used for the research D) talented scientists are involved in the research

35. The reason lying behind President Bush’s placing limits on stem cell research is that ________.

A) his administration is financially pinched B) he did not want to offend its opponents C) it amounts to a contempt for human life D) it did not promise any therapeutic value

21. A 22. D 23. C 24. B 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. C 29. B 30. D

31. C 32. A 33. D 34. A 35. B 4. 翻译

英翻中：翻译一小段话，难度比较大，专业四级

Hills and mountains are often regarded as the epitome of permanence, successfully resisting the destructive forces of nature, but in fact they tend to be relatively short-lived in geological terms. As a general rule, the higher a mountain is, the more recently it was formed; for example, the high mountains of the Himalayas are only about 50 million years old. Lower mountains tend to be older, and are often the eroded relics of much higher mountain chains. 5. 写作

大学4级，难度不大

Topic: Hardly any people today would like to reading, how do you think of this phenomenon? Is there anything you can do to solve this problem ?