單項(xiàng)選擇題
1、Questions are based on the following paassage.
        Virtually unknown a decade ago, big online teacher education program snow dwarf their traditional competitors, outstripping (超過) even the largeststate university teachers' colleges.
        A USA Today analysis of newly released U. S. Department of Education data finds that four big universities, operating mostly online, have quickly become the largest education schools in the USA. Last year the four--three of which are for-profit--awarded one in 16 bachelor' sdegrees and post-graduate awards and nearly one in 11 advanced education awards, including master' sdegrees and doctorates.
        A decade ago, in 2001, the for-profit University of Phoenix awarded 72 education degrees to teachers, administrators and other school personnel through its online program, according to federal data. Last year, it awarded nearly 6,000 degrees, more than any other university.
        Traditional colleges still produce most of the bachelor's degrees in teaching. But online schools such as Phoenix and Walden University awarded thousands more master's degrees than even the top traditional schools, all of which are pushing to offer online coursework.
        "We shouldn't be surprised because the whole industry is moving in that direction," said Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education. "The thing I would be interested in knowing is the degree to which they are simply pushing these things out in order to generate dollars or whether there's some real innovation in there. "
        For-profit universities have been the subject of intense examining in Congress. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, last week released findings from a two-year investigation showing that they cost more than comparable not-for-profit schools and have higher dropout rates. For-profits, the investigation found, enroll about 10% of U. S. college students butaccount for nearly 50% of student loan defaults.
        Online education schools, many of which have open-enrollment policies similar to community colleges, say their offerings are high quality.
        Meredith Curley, dean of the University of Phoenix College of Education, said many students are returning to complete their education after starting families and changing careers. Their average age is 33, she said, and many work while they attend classes. Becky Lodewyck, Phoenix's associate dean, said teaching candidates must complete at least 100 hours of field experience. She said online classes are "incredibly dynamic" and have the potential to hold students more accountable than face-to-face classes.
        "You can't hide," she said. "Everyone participates--everyone has to be fully engaged in the work. "
It can be learned from the second paragraph that four big universities______.
A．have become the largest online schools in the US
B．a(chǎn)re the biggest for-profit schools in the US
C．occupy important position in education in the US
D．focus on developing advanced education in the US


2、根據(jù)以下資料，回答題：
        New evidence of a sick, deprived population working under harshconditions contradicts earlier images of wealth and abundance from the artrecords of the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna, a study has found．Tell el-Amarna was the capital of ancient Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh (法老) Akhenaten, who abandoned most of Egypt's old gods in favor of the Aten sun disk andbrought in a new and more expressive style of art．Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt between 1379 and 1362BC, built and lived in Tell el-Amarna in central Egypt for 15 years．The city was largely abandoned shortlyafter his death and the ascendance of the famous boy king Tutankhamun to the throne．Studies on the remains of ordinary ancient Egyptians in a cemetery in Tell el-Amarna showed thatmany of them suffered from anem/a (貧血癥 ), fractured bones, stunted growth and high juvenilemortality rates, according to professors Barry Kemp and Jerome Rose, who led the research．Rose, a professor of anthropology (人類學(xué)) in the University of Arkansas in the United States, saidadults buried in the cemetery were probably brought there from other parts of Egypt．"This means that wehave a period of deprivation in Egypt prior to the Amarna phase．So maybe things were not so good for theaverage Egyptian and maybe Akhenaten said we have to change to make things better," he said．Kemp, director of the Amarna Project which seeks in part to increase public knowledge of Tell el-Amarna and surrounding region, said little attention has been given to the cemeteries of ordinary ancient Egyptians．Rose displayed pictures showing spinal (脊柱) injuries among teenagers, probably because of accidents during construction work to build the city．The study showed that anemia ran at 74 percent among children and teenagers, and at 44 percentamong adults, Rose said．The average height of men was 159 cm (5 feet 2 inches) and 153 cm among women．"Adult heights are used as an indicator for overall standard of living," he said．"Short statures(身長(zhǎng)) reflect a diet deficient in protein．．．People were not growing to their full potential．"

What is the findings of the study mentioned in the passage?
A．The ancient Tell el-Amarna was famous for its art records．
B．The artistic exhibition of ancient Tell el-Amarna was trustworthy．
C．The art records of Tell el-Amarna showed ancient Egyptians' real life．
D．Life was really tough for average Egyptians in ancient Tell el-Amarna．


3、

Questions are based on the following passage.
To get a sense of how women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a storied place, the 36 of some of the most important discoveries in modern science--starting with Ernest Lawrence's invention of the cyclotron (回旋加速器．in1931. A generation ago, female faces were 37 and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits 38 the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 39 all of them white males.
But climb up to the third floor and you'll see a 40 display. There, among the photos of current faculty members and students, are portraits of the 41 head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro, and four other women whose research 42 everything from the mechanics of the universe to the smallest particles of matter. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago. Although they're still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real 43 may be in the smaller photos to the right: graduate and undergraduate students, about 20 percent of them female. Every year Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the country's top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic, but also 44 "I believe things are getting better," she says, "but they're not getting better as 45 as I would like.
A．circumstance
B．confidence
C．covers
D．current
E．deals
F．different
G．exposing
H．fast
I．honoring
J．hope
K．presently
L．rare
M．realistic
N．site
O．virtually
第36題應(yīng)填____


4、根據(jù)材料回答題
A．Amazon，by far the largest bookseller in the country,reported on May 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and．ink format．That is remarkable，considering that the Kindle has only been around for four years．E-books now account for 14 percent of All book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales．E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year,while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8percent．
B．Does this spell the doom of the physical book?Certainly not immediately,and perhaps not at all What it does mean is that the book business will go through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen since Gutenberg introduced printing from moveaB．e type in the 1450s．
C． PhysicA． books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace．Mass market paperbacks，which have been declining for years anyway,will probably disappear,as will hardbacks for mysteries，thrillers，“romance fiction．”etc．Such books，which only rarely end up in permanent collections，either private or
public．will probably only be available as e-books within a few years．Hardback and trade paperbacks for“serious”nonfiction and fiction will surely last longer．Perhaps it will become the mark of an author to reckon with that he or she is still puB．ished in hard copy．
D． As for children’s books，who knows?Children’s books are like dog food in that the purchasers are not the consumers，so the market(and the marketing)is inherently strange．
E．For clues to the book’s future，let’s look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the old technology．
F． One technology replaces another only because the new technology is better,cheaper,or both．The greater the difference，the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old．Printing with moveaB．e type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum，which comes from sheepskin．A Bible-to be sure,a long
Book required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor．Before printing arrived,a BiB．e cost more than a middle-class house．There were perhaps 50．000 books in all of Europe in 1450．By l500there were 10 million．
G．But while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out，handwriting lingered on(繼續(xù)存在) well into the l 6th century．Very speciA． books are still occasionA．ly produced on vellum．but they are one—of-a-kind show pieces．
H． Sometimes a new technology doesn’t drive the old one out，but only parts of it while forcing the rest to evolve．The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace，but they didn’t，because theater turned out to have quA．ities movies could not reproduce．Equally,TV was supposed to replace movies but，again，did not．
I．Movies did，however,fatally impact some parts of live theater．And while TV didn’t kill movies，it did kill second-rate pictures，shorts，and cartoons．
J． Nor did TV kill radio．Comedy and drama shows(“Jack Benny,”“Amos and Andy,” “The Shadow”)all migrated to television．But because you can’t drive a cal ”and watch television at the same time，rushhour became radio’s prime，while music，talk，and news radio greatly enlarged their audiences．Radio is today a very different business than in the late 1940s and a much larger one．
K．Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power．Mounted cavalry(騎兵) replaced the chariot(二輪戰(zhàn)車)on the battlefield around 1 000 BC．But chariots maintained their place in parades and triumphs right up until the end of the Roman Empire 1,500 years later．The Sword hasn’t had a military function for a hundred years,but is still part of an officer’s full．dress nniforill，precisely because a sword A．ways symbolized“an ofificer and a gentleman．”
L．Sometimes new technology is a little cranky(不穩(wěn)定的)at first．Television repairman was a common occupation in the 1950s．for instance．And so the old technology remains as a backup．Steamships captured the North Atlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of its much greater
speed．But steamships didn’t lose their sails until the 1880s,because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down．Until ships became large enough(and engines small enough)to mount two engines side by side．they needed to keep sails．(The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world’s ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century．)
M．Then there is the fireplace．Central heating was present in every．upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 1 9th century．But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful selling point in a house or aDartment．I suspect the reason is a deep．rooted love of the fire．Fire was one of the earliest major technological advances for humankind，providing heat，protection，and cooked food(which is much easier to eat and digest)．Human control of fire goes back far enough(over a million years)that evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life．
N． Books-especially books the average person could afford-haven’t been around long enough to produce evolutionary change in humans．But they have a powerful hold on many people nonetheless，a hold extending far beyond their literary content．At their best，they are works of art and there is a tactile(觸覺的)pleasure in books necessarily lost in e-book versions．The ability to quickly thumb through pages is  also lost．And a room with books in it induces，at least in some，a feeling not dissimilar to that of a fire in the fireplace on a cold winter’s night．
0． For these reasons I think physical books will have a longer existence as a commercial product than some currently predict．Like swords，books have symbolic power．Like fireplaces，they induce a sense of comfort and warmth．And，perhaps，similar to sails，they make a usefurback-up for when the lights goout．
注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。
Authors still puB．ished in printed versions will be considered important ones．


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簡(jiǎn)答題
6、Directions：For this part，you are A．lowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture below．
You should start your essay with a brief account of college students offering aid Education and then illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of this phenomenon．You should write at least 120 words and no more than 180 words．


7、題目一：
Directions：For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English．
You shoud write your answer on Answer Sheet 2．
中國(guó)教育工作者早就認(rèn)識(shí)到讀書對(duì)于國(guó)家的重要意義。有些教育工作者2003年就建議設(shè)立全民讀書日。他們強(qiáng)調(diào)，人們應(yīng)當(dāng)讀好書，尤其是經(jīng)典著作，通過閱讀，人們能更好地學(xué)會(huì)感恩、有責(zé)任心和與人合作，而教育的目的正是要培養(yǎng)這些基本素質(zhì)。閱讀對(duì)于中小學(xué)生尤為重要，假如他們沒有在這個(gè)關(guān)鍵時(shí)期培養(yǎng)閱讀的興趣，以后要養(yǎng)成閱讀的習(xí)慣就很難了。
題目二：
Directions：For this part,you are A．lowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English．You shouM write your answer on Answer Sheet 2．
為了促進(jìn)教育公平，中國(guó)已經(jīng)投入360億元，用于改善農(nóng)村地區(qū)教育設(shè)施和加強(qiáng)中西部地區(qū)農(nóng)村義務(wù)教育。這些資金用于改善教學(xué)設(shè)施、購(gòu)買書籍，使16萬多所中小學(xué)受益。資金還用于購(gòu)置音樂和繪畫器材?，F(xiàn)在農(nóng)村和山區(qū)的兒童可以與沿海城市的兒童一樣上音樂和繪畫課。一些為接受更好教育而轉(zhuǎn)往城市上學(xué)的學(xué)生如今又回到了本地農(nóng)村學(xué)校就讀。
題目三：
Directions：For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English．You shouM write your answer on Answer Sheet 2．
中國(guó)應(yīng)進(jìn)一步發(fā)展核能，因?yàn)楹穗娔壳爸徽计淇偘l(fā)電量的2％，該比例在所有核國(guó)家中居第30位，幾乎是的。2011年3月日本核電站事故后，中國(guó)的核能開發(fā)停了下來，終止審批新的核電站，并開展全國(guó)性的核安全檢查。到2012年lo月，審批才又謹(jǐn)慎地恢復(fù)。隨著技術(shù)和安全措施的改進(jìn)，發(fā)生核事故的可能性完全可以降低到程度。換句話說，核能是可以安全開發(fā)和利用的。
注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。



8、舞獅子(Lion dance)，是我國(guó)的民間藝術(shù)。每逢元宵佳節(jié)或集會(huì)慶典，民間都以獅舞前來助興。這一習(xí)俗起源于三國(guó)時(shí)期，南北朝時(shí)開始流行，至今已有一千多年的歷史。獅子為百獸之尊，形象雄偉俊武，給人以威嚴(yán)、勇猛之感。古人將它當(dāng)作勇敢和力量的象征。認(rèn)為它能驅(qū)邪鎮(zhèn)妖、保佑人畜平安。所以人們逐漸形成了在元宵節(jié)時(shí)及其他重大活動(dòng)里舞獅子的習(xí)俗，以祈望生活吉祥如意，事事平安。


9、You should start your essay with a briefdescription of the picture and then express your views on the problem oftrust crisis． 

寫作導(dǎo)航 
1．簡(jiǎn)要描述圖片，指出人們之問缺少信任是一種不良社會(huì)現(xiàn)象，會(huì)產(chǎn)生嚴(yán)重后果； 
2．從政府、社會(huì)機(jī)構(gòu)(媒體和學(xué)校)和個(gè)人三個(gè)層面出發(fā)闡述了解決辦法;
3．進(jìn)行總結(jié)，建議人們從個(gè)人做起，謹(jǐn)小慎微，提高誠(chéng)信意識(shí)。 


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