單項選擇題
1、 Perforene won’t come into the market before it can be manufactured at a very low cost．


2、 IPCC’s new report has removed some of the predictions that appeared in the former one released in2007．


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根據(jù)以下內(nèi)容回答題
Is College a Worthy Investment?
A．Why are we spending so much money on college? Andwhy are we so unhappy about it? We all seem to  agree that a college education is wonderful, and yet strangely we worry when we see families investing   so much in this supposedly essential good. Maybe it's time to ask a question that seems almost sacrilegious (大不敬) : is all this investment in college education really worth it?
B． The answer. I fear, is no. For an increasing number of kids, the extra time and money spent pursuing a college diploma will leave them worse off than they were before they set foot on campus.
C．For my entire adult life, a good education has been the most important thing for middle-class households. My parents spent more educating my sister and me than they spent on their house, and  they're not the only ones.., and, of course, for an increasing number of families, most of the cost of  their house is actually the cost of living in a good school district. Questioning the value of a college    education seems a bit like questioning the value of happiness, or tim.
D．The average price of all goods and services has risen about 50 percent. But the price of a college    education has nearly doubled in that time. Is the education that today's students are getting twice as  good? Are new workers twice as smart? Have they become somehow massively more expensive to educate?
E ．Perhaps a bit. Richard Vedder, an Ohio University economics professor, says, "I look at the data, and   I see college costs rising faster than inflation up to the mid-1980s by 1 percent a year. Now I see them  rising 3to 4 percent a year over inflation. What has happened? The federal government has started  dropping money out of airplanes. " Aid has increased, subsidized (補貼的) loans have become    available, and "the universities have gotten the money. " Economist Bryan Caplan, who is writing a  book about education, agrees: "It's a giant waste of resources that will continue as long as the    subsidies continue. "
F．Promotional literature for colleges and student loans often speaks of debt as an "investment in   yourself. " But an investment is supposed to generate income to pay off the loans. More than haft of all recent graduates are tmemployed or in jobs that do not require a degree, and the amount of student- loan debt carried by households has increased more than five times since 1999. These graduates were    told that a diploma was all they needed to succeed, but it won't even get them out of the spare  bedroom at Mom and Dad's. For many, the most visible result of their four years is the loan payments, which now average hundreds of dollars a month on loan balances in the tens of thousands.
G．It's true about the money--sort of. College graduates now make 80 percent more than people who have only a high-school diploma, and though there are no precise estimates, the wage premium (高出的部分) for an outstanding school seems to be even higher. But that's not true of every student. It's very  easy to spend four years majoring in English literature and come out no more employable than you    were before you went in. Conversely, chemical engineers straight out of school can easily make almost four times the wages of an entry-level high-sch0ol graduate.
H． James Heckman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, has examined how the returns on education  break down for individuals with different backgrounds and levels of ability. "Even with these high  prices, you're still finding a high return for individuals who are bright and motivated," he says. On the  other hand, "if you're not college ready, then the answer is no, it's not worth it. " Experts tend to    agree that for the average student, college is still worth it today, but they also agree that the rapid  increase in price is eating up more and more of the potential return. For borderline students,  tuition ( 學(xué)費) rise can push those returns into negative territory.
I． Everyone seems to agree that the government, and parents, should be rethinking how we invest in  higher education-and that employers need to rethink the increasing use of college degrees as crude screening tools for jobs that don't really require college skills, "Employers seeing a surplus of college  graduates and looking to fill jobs are just adding that requirement," says Vedder. "In fact, a college    degree becomes a job requirement for becoming a bar-tender. "
J． We have started to see some change on the fmance side. A law passed in 2007 allows many students to  cap their loan payment at 10 percent of their income and forgives any balance after 25 years. Bnt of course, that doesn't control the cost of education; it just shifts it to taxpayers. It also encourages  gradimtes to choose lower-paying careers, which reduces the financial return to education still further. "You're subsidizing people to become priests and poets and so forth," says Heckman. "You may think that's a good thing, or you may not. " Either way it will be expensive for the government.
K． What might be a lot cheaper is putting more kids to work. Caplan notes that work also btfilds valuable skills--probably more valuable for kids who don't naturally love sitting in a classroom. Heckman agrees wholeheartedly:" People are different, and those abilities can be shaped. That's what we've learned, and public policy should recognize that. "
L． Heckman would like to see more apprenticeship-style (學(xué)徒式) programs, where kids can learn in the  workplace  learn not just specific job skills, but the kind of "soft skills," like getting to work on time  and getting along with a team, that are crucial for career success, "It's about having mentors (指導(dǎo)者) and having workplace-based education," he says. "Time  and again I've seen examples of this kind of program working. "
M． Ah, but how do we get there from here? With better public policy, hopefully, but also by making  better individual decisions. "Historically markets have been able to handle these things," says Vedder, "and I think eventually markets will handle this one. ff it doesn't improve soon, people are going to wake up and ask, 'Why am I going to college?'"

Caplan suggests that kids who don't love school go to work,


4、Questionsare based on the following passage.
　　Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it's painful? This might be called laziness,but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.
　　During the hours when you labour through your work you may say that you're "hot". That's true.The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as: "Get up, John! You'll be late for work again!" The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what the seenergy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.
　　You can't change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you're sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late any way.Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning, but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour.This won't change your cycle, but you'll get up steam and work better at your low point.
　　Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiting more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.
If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably _____ .
A．he is a lazy person
B．he refuses to follow his own energy cycle
C．he is not sure when his energy is low
D．he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening


5、聽音頻：

根據(jù)聽力，回答題：

A．Go fishing．
B．Entertain at home．
C．Work at home．
D．Have a lest．


簡答題
6、詩歌是早的文學(xué)體裁，它以抒情的方式，高度集中地反映社會生活。在文字出現(xiàn)以前，詩歌就已經(jīng)存在了，因為詩歌源于勞動。詩歌是有節(jié)奏、有韻律并富有感情色彩的一種語言藝術(shù)形式，也是世界上古老、基本的文學(xué)形式?！对娊?jīng)》(Book of C | ass i c Poetry)是我國早的一部詩歌總集，它收集了自西周初年至春秋時期大約五百多年的三百零五篇詩歌，在中國文學(xué)發(fā)展史上占有突出的地位。


7、太極拳(Ta i ch i Chuan)是我國一項傳統(tǒng)的健身運動項目。自古以來中國人就有練習(xí)太極拳的習(xí)慣，以此來達(dá)到強身健體的目的。隨著群眾體育運動的普及，越來越多的人喜歡上了打太極拳。太極拳是現(xiàn)在很多中老年人鍛煉的主要項目。早上要是去公園溜達(dá)，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)有很多老人在打太極拳。對于老年人而言，打太極拳是一項古老也是有效的養(yǎng)生方式。


8、在全球變暖的大背景下，低碳經(jīng)濟(jì)(| ow-carbon economy)受到越來越多國家的關(guān)注。低碳經(jīng)濟(jì)是以減少溫室氣體排放為目標(biāo)，以低能耗、低污染為基礎(chǔ)的經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展方式。近些年來，科學(xué)界以及各國政府已基本達(dá)成一致，推行低碳經(jīng)濟(jì)是避免氣候發(fā)生災(zāi)難性變化、保持人類可持續(xù)發(fā)展的有效方法之一。以公眾的消費選擇引導(dǎo)和鼓勵企業(yè)開發(fā)低碳產(chǎn)品技術(shù)，向低碳生產(chǎn)模式轉(zhuǎn)變，終達(dá)到減少全球溫室氣體的效果。


9、故宮(Forb i dden o i ty)是世界上規(guī)模、保存完整的帝王宮殿建筑群。它位于北京的中心，是明清兩朝的皇宮。明朝的十四個皇帝和清朝的十個皇帝曾在這里居住，他們統(tǒng)治中國的時間長達(dá)491年。故宮始建于明朝永樂四年，歷經(jīng)15年方才建成，迄今已有570多年的歷史。它占地72萬多平方米，四周有各類宮殿房屋9900余間。故宮的建筑集中地體現(xiàn)了中國古代建筑藝術(shù)的精湛水平和民族特色。


10、餃子(Chinese dumplings)是中國的傳統(tǒng)食品。按照中國的傳統(tǒng)風(fēng)俗習(xí)慣，全家人都要在除夕那天聚在一起包餃子。他們會在其中一個餃子里藏個硬幣，誰能吃到藏硬幣的餃子就代表那個人在新的一年里會有好運氣。此外，餃子的形狀頗像中國古代的金元寶(gold ingots)，因而象征著財富。因此，餃子是中國人民必不可少的食物，也是多數(shù)人鐘愛的食物。
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。