單項選擇題
1、Questionsare based on the following passage.
Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”，the film has never been，in the full sense of the word，silent．From the very beginning，music was regarded as an 36 accompaniment；when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896，they were 37 by piano improvisations（即興創(chuàng)作）on popular tunes．At first，the music played 38 no special relationship to the films；an accompaniment of any kind was 39 ．Within a very short time，however，the incongruity（不協(xié)調）of playing lively music to a 40 film became apparent，and film pianists began to take some care in4l their pieces to the mood of the film.
As movie theaters grew in number and importance，a violinist，and perhaps a cellist，would be added to the pianist in certain 42 , and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed．For a number of years the selection of music for each film program 43 entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal 44 for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces．Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown, the musical arrangement was 45 improvised in the greatest hurry.
A．sufficient
B．incredible
C．accompanied
D．comparatively
E．matching
F．rested
G．normally
H．occasions
I．bore.
J．qualification
K．solemn
L．indispensable
M．severe
N．according
O．cases
第(36)題應填__________

2、Questions are based on the passage you have just heard.

A．Scientists.
B．Art graduates.
C．Children.
D．Women.


3、聽錄音,回答題

A．He owned a small retail business in Michigan years ago．
B．He worked at the Brownstone Company for several years．
C．He has been working part-time in a school near Detroit．
D．He has taught Spanish for a couple of years at a local school．


4、Questions  are based on the following passage.
For decades, Americans have taken for granted the United States' leadership position in the development of new technologies. The innovations (創(chuàng)新) that resulted from research and development during World War Ⅱ and afterwards were36to the prosperity of the nation in the second half of the 20th century. Those innovations, upon which virtually all aspects of37society now depend,were possible because the United States then38the world in mathematics and science education.
Today, however, despite increasing demand for workers with strong skills in mathematics and science,the39of degrees awarded in science, math, and engineering are decreasing.
The decline in degree production in what are called the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math) seems to be40related to the comparatively weak performance by U.S.schoolchildren on international assessments of math and science. Many students entering college have weak skills in mathematics. According to the 2005 report of the Business-Higher Education Forum,22percent of college freshmen must take remedial (補習的) math41, and less than half of the students who plan to major in science or engineering42complete a major in those fields.
The result has been a decrease in the number of American college graduates who have the skills,43in mathematics, to power a workforce that can keep the country at the forefront (前沿)of innovation and maintain its standard of living. With the44performance of American students in math and science has come increased competition from students from other countries that have strongly supported education in these areas. Many more students earn45in the STEM disciplines in developing countries than in the United States. 
A． accelerating
B． actually 
C． closely 
D． contemporary 
E． courses 
F． critical
G． declining
H． degrees
I． especially 
J． future 
K． led
L． met
M． procedures
N． proportions
O． spheres
第(36)題應填__________


5、Questions are based on the following passage．
It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10 th and ll th centuries．As a wife，the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry(嫁妝)．Admittedly，the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of desertion，but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important．The dowry was the wifesright to receive a tenth of all her husband’s property．The wife had the right to withhold consent，in all transactions the husband would make，and more than just a right；the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision，equal to that of her husband．In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife．
The wife shared in the management of her husbands personal property，but the opposite was not always true．Women seemed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance against husbands who tried to exceed their rights，and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit．A case in point is that of Maria Vivas．Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited，for the needs of the household，she insisted on compensation．None being offered，she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Mir0’s personal inheritance．The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree，as the contract says，“for the sake of peace”．Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered，the wife knew how to win herself，with the context of the family，a powerful economic position．
Originally，the purpose of a dowry is to——．
A．give a woman the right to receive all her husband’s property
B．help a woman to enjoy a higher position in the family
C．protect a woman against the risk of desertion
D． both A and C


6、Questions  are based on the following passage.
 Many people are convinced today that the birth of the web is making us stupid. That the web is only
superficial. That only dense books can contain and spread real knowledge.
 I am coming to the conclusion that the opposite is true. That books make us stupid and that the web,
like the campfire and for the same reasons as for the campfire is what makes us clever.
 All our foundational knowledge was discovered around the campfire. The fire elicited a social dance of interaction and community. Something like this happened about 100,000~60,000 years ago. For sud- denly our tool development, art and technology took off. All the foundations of our world today were dis- covered in a 10,000 year period. Tools had been the same for a million years. Within a 1,000 years they were completely different. We invented pottery. We invented metallurgy. The wheel. Everything we de- pend on was discovered then.
 My bet is that it happened because of the social process created by the campfire and by our hunter gatherer culture of equality. Such an environment extracts order from chaos. Design from intuition. It is ideal for the exploration of implicit knowledge. It is ideal for discovering things that we don't know ex- ist. It is ideal for taking half baked ideas and refining them.
 But with the book comes authority. With the advent of the book, much of knowledge development stopped. Only the in group was allowed to play. What mattered was not observation. Not trial and error. Not experiment. Not sharing. But authority. Most of the accepted authority were texts that had no basis in observation or trial and error. Worse because of the "Book" people who did observe or test were killed or persecuted. Only papers written and approved inside the authority system counted as being right. Peo- ple outside the authority system were discounted.
 Knowledge was seen as an explicit thing--an object. The Book was its metaphor.
 But now with the web, we have a global campfire. Once again, we can play with ideas, with obser- vations and experiments. Once again we can share with equals who will not knock us down. Even better, this time the group around the fire is not 35 people but all of us
 According to the author, the similarity between the web and the campfire is that ________ 
A． neither of them is superficial
B． both of them can be around by many people
C． neither of them has a certain shape
D． both of them can provide an ideal environment for people to become knowledgeable


7、Passage One
Questionsare based on the following passage．
Arctic Ocean ice may hold trillions of small piecesof plastic and other synthetic trash，and they are beingreleased into the world’s oceans as global warming melts the polar cap，researchers say，Though the finding is surprisingand worrying，the possible harm to marine life is so farunknown，the authors concluded．calledmicro plastics，the pollutants come mostly from debristhat has broken apart，as well as from cosmetics andfibers released from washing clothes，according to theStudy，which was published in the journal Earth’s Futureand first reported by Science magazine．
At current melting trends more than l trillion pieces 5 millimeters or smaller could wind up in the oceans during the coming decade．the authors estimate．The concentration of plastic debris is 1，000 times greater than that floating in the so．called Great Pacific Garbage Patch．The researchers based theirfindings on core samples of ice taken during polar expeditions in 2005 and 2010．
Rayon was the most common synthetic material discovered—54%．Though rayon is not a plastic（it’s made from wood），the authors included it “because it is a man made semi．synthetic that makes up a significant proportion of syntheticmicroparticles found in the marine environment．”Rayon is used in cigarette filters，clothing and personal hygieneproducts．Polyester（聚酯）was the next most common pollutant found in the ice（21%），followed by nylon（16%），polypropylene（聚丙烯）（3%）and polystyrene，acrylic and polyethylene （2%each）．
The authors called the ice trap “a major historicglobal sink of man．made particulates．”andsaid their findings “go some way to help clarify one of the most puzzlingaspects of current understanding on the quantities of plastic debris reportedin the oceans．”As Science points out，288 million tons of plastics were produced in 2012．
Micro plastics garbage has also been found on the shores of southernmost Chile，so the authors said it’s time toinvestigate the planet’s other polar region．“Whilemultiyear sea ice makes up a smaller proportion of annual sea ice cover in theSouthern Ocean．and perennial sea ice cover aroundAntarctica is following different trends，our findingindicate the importance of sampling ice from the Antarctic to see if it too containsmicro plastics，”they write．
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
According to the passage．what are mainly called “micro plastics”？
A．The pollutants come mostly fromdebris．
B．The pollutants come mostly fromfibers．
C．The pollutants come mostly fromcosmetics．
D．The pollutants come mostly fromdaily supplies．


簡答題
8、 美國人強調效率、競爭和獨創(chuàng)性而中國人則將嚴謹規(guī)劃放在首位，鼓勵團隊成員之間的密切合作和無私奉獻。在美國學校，討論享有至高無上的地位；而中國教師喜歡講課，喜歡考試，編寫千篇一律的標準教案，培養(yǎng)整齊劃一的高才生。現(xiàn)在，中美聯(lián)系比以往更加緊密。中國人學英語、玩保齡球、吃肯德基，美國人學漢語、練功夫、吃北京烤鴨。


9、 中國教育工作者早就認識到讀書對于國家的重要意義。有些教育工作者2003年就建議設立全民讀書日。他們強調，人們應當讀好書，尤其是經典著作。通過閱讀，人們能更好地學
會感恩、有責任心和與人合作，而教育的目的正是要培養(yǎng)這些基本素質。-閱讀對于中小學生尤為重要，假如他們沒有在這個關鍵時期培養(yǎng)閱讀的興趣，以后要養(yǎng)成閱讀的習慣就很難了。


10、You should write a composition on the topic Turn off Your Mobile Phone．
寫作導航
1．移動電話給我們的生活帶來了便利；
2．移動電話有時也會影響別人；
3．提出自己的想法。