單項選擇題
1、閱讀下文，回答題
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Food waste has been a chronic problem for restaurants and grocery stores--with millions of tons lost along the way as crops are hauled hundreds of miles，stored for weeks in refrigerators and prepared on busy restaurant assembly lines. But the historically high price of products is making it an even bigger dragon the bottom line.
Restaurants，colleges，hospitals and other institutions are compensating for the rising costs of waste in novel ways. Some are tracking their trash with software systems，making food in smaller packages or trying to compost（將……制成堆肥）and cut down on trash-hauling costs.
“We have all come to work with this big elephant in the middle of the kitchen，and the elephant is this It’s okay to waste’ belief system，”said Andrew Shackman, president of Lean Path，a company that helps restaurants cut back food waste.
The interest level in cutting food waste “has just skyrocketed in the last six to nine months.” he said.
Roughly 30 percent of food in the United States goes to waste，costing some$48 billion annually，according to a Stockholm International Water Institute study. A University of Arizona study estimated that 40 to 50 percent of food in the United States is wasted. Wholesale food costs have risen more than 8percent this year, the biggest jump in decades，according the National Restaurant Association.
Freshman students at Virginia Tech were surprised this year when they entered two of the campus’s biggest dining halls to find there were no trays.
“You have to go back and get your dishware and your drink，but it’s not that different，”said Caitlin Mewborn, a freshman “It’s not a big trouble. You take less food. and you don’t eat more than you should.”
Getting rid of trays has cut food waste by 38 percent at the dining halls，said Denny Cochrane，manager of Virginia Tech’s sustainability program. Before the program began，students often grabbed whatever looked good at the buffet（自助餐），only to find at the table that their eyes were bigger than their stomachs，he said.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。

High price of products makes the problem of food waste __________.
A．less serious
B．more urgent
C．less noticeable
D．more unsolvable


2、聽音頻：
根據(jù)材料，回答問題。
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 markedA．,B．, C． and D．, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

A．He got off the bus at the wrong stop.
B．He has a good reason to be angry.
C．He isn't careful with his belongings.
D．He doesn't have an extra umbrella.


3、根據(jù)材料，回答問題。
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

A．Speed limits were the same in all areas.
B．She had told him what his speed was.
C．There were signs along the road.
D．He had just received his driving license.


4、根據(jù)材料，回答問題。
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

A．They took objective tests.
B．They specialized in one subject.
C．They spoke instead of writing.
D．They were timed by electric clocks.


簡答題
5、中國戲曲是中國戲劇和音樂劇的結合。其起源可追溯到3世紀。中國戲曲有很多地方劇分支。京劇是其中有名的一個。京劇出現(xiàn)于18世紀末，并于19世紀中期得到充分發(fā)展和認可。京劇在清朝宮廷（the Qing Dynasty court）特別受歡迎，并已被視為中國的文化珍品之一。中國戲曲會用到面具。面具的每種顏色代表不同的含義，用來表現(xiàn)人物角色，說明他們的情感狀態(tài)和大致性格。

6、 剪紙(paper cutting)是中國為流行的傳統(tǒng)民間藝術形式之一。中國剪紙有一千五百多年的歷史，在明朝和清朝時期(the Ming and OingDynasties)特別流行。人們常用剪紙美化居家環(huán)境。特別是在春節(jié)和婚慶期間，剪紙被用來裝飾門窗和房間，以增加喜慶的氣氛。剪紙常用的顏色是紅色，象征健康和興旺。中國剪紙在世界各地很受歡迎，經(jīng)常被用作饋贈外國友人的禮物。
 
 


7、去年冬季以來，中國不少城市霧霾天氣頻頻出現(xiàn)。特別是作為首都的北京，嚴重的霧霾天氣更是引起了人們的關注。霧霾天氣嚴重地影響了人們的出行和身體健康。在北京城市道路上，很多車輛因為能見度過低，只能在路上堵著。人們行走在路上都要戴著口罩。很多媒體報道稱口罩已經(jīng)賣脫銷。大氣污染現(xiàn)象已經(jīng)成為困擾北京的難題，人們急需要解決這些問題，從而為該地區(qū)的人們帶來更好的生活保障。


8、每年農(nóng)歷的正月十五日，春節(jié)剛過，迎來的就是中國的傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日——元宵節(jié)(Lantern Festi vaI)。按中國民間的傳統(tǒng)，在這天皓月高懸的夜晚，人們要點起彩燈萬盞，以示慶賀。民間過元宵節(jié)還有吃元宵的習俗。元宵由糯米制成，或實心，或帶餡。元宵也被稱作湯圓(G| utinous Rice Ba||s，or Gatheri ng Rice Ba||s)，象征全家人團團圓圓，和睦幸福，人們也以此懷念離別的親人，寄托了對未來生活的美好愿望。


9、 談起我國的吉祥藝術。不得不提鼻煙壺(Snuff bottIe)。盡管它的歷史不長，卻濃縮了歷史悠久的中國傳統(tǒng)文化；盡管鼻煙是舶來品，但鼻煙壺經(jīng)過中國能工巧匠的精心打造，很快便成為一個獨立的、嶄新的工藝術美術品種；盡管它很袖珍，但集多種工藝之大成，被廣大收藏愛好者視為珍貴文玩。鼻煙壺所蘊含的吉祥文化，不僅在裝飾中表現(xiàn)得淋漓盡致，而且還表現(xiàn)在材質、造型等方面。


10、You shouM write a letter to a company declining ajob offer．
寫作導航
1．回應對方來信，并表達感謝；
2．委婉拒方邀請，并且說明原因；
3．再次表達感謝，并且展望未來；
4．按照書信格式落款。