單項(xiàng)選擇題
1、Questions are based on the following passage．
Once the hard decisions have been made about how to treat a patient’s cancer，doctors face aul even more difficult question：how do you help patients deal with the side effects of treatment?
The issue is a challenge for physicians because，unlike with cancer therapies，there are few scientific studies on the most effective ways to handle the side effects  including common symptoms such as poor sleep or fatigue．But addressing these seemingly coluinon complications（并發(fā)癥）is crucial for helping patients maintain their regular lifestyle，which in turn may even encourage the success of their cancer treatment．
That’s why Dr．Karen Mustian of the University of Rochester Medical Center decided to put a favorite practice of cancer survivors yoga--to the test．In a paper she will present at the American Society of Clinical Oncology（腫瘤學(xué)）（Asco）annual meeting in June，Mustian designed a standardized program based on hatha yoga—a slow-moving form of the discipline-and tested its effect on improving：the quality of life for cancer survivors．
Called YOCAS，the four-week program involved sessi。ons of hatha yoga twice a week for 75 minutes each，in combination with breathing exercises and meditation（冥想）．Among the 410 participants，who were divided into yoga and traditional follow-up care groups，those practicing yoga recorded nearly double the improvement in sleep quality and reduction of fatigue compared to those not practicing yoga．They also reported better quality of life overall，Mnstian says．
For cancer physicians．the findings will be a welcome addition to their discussions with patients．“Many patients ask about complementary（互補(bǔ)的）therapies，whether they are exercise or meditation or yoga，”says Dr,Douglas Blayney，medical director of the comprehensive cancer center at University of Michigan and president of ASCO．“I often don’t know what to tell them because there isn't a lot of science on these complementary therapies．Here is a scientific study showing benefit，so at least we can have some assurance in telling women that here is a yoga program，here are its characteristics and it has been shown to have beneficial effects on sleep and quality of life．’’
What bothers the cancer physicians after determining the treatment plan?
A．How to prevent the side effects from appearing．
B．How to handle the side effects effectively．
C．How to persuade the patient to accept the therapy．
D．How to prove effectiveness of the treatment．


2、聽錄音,回答題

A．The majority of them find it interestin9．
B．The majority of them think it less important than computers．‘
C．Many of them consider it boring and old-fashioned．
D．Few of them read more than ten books a year．


3、聽錄音,回答題

A． To look for a job as a salesperson． 
B． To have a talk with Miss Thompson．
C． To place an order for some products．
D． To complain about a faulty appliance．10． 


4、Questions are based on the following passage.
When we talk about Americans barely into adulthood who are saddled with unbearable levels of debt, the conversation is almost always about student loan debt．But there's a growing body of evidence suggesting that today's young adults are als0 drowning in credit-card debt--and that many of them will take this debt to their graves.
More than 20% overspent their income by more than $100 every single month．Since they .haven't built up their credit histories yet, it's a safe bet that these young adults are paying relatively high interest rates on the resulting credit card debt.
Although many young people blame "socializing" as a barrier to saving money, most of them aren't knocking back $20 drinks in trendy (時(shí)尚的)lounges．They're struggling with much more daily financial demands.
To a disturbingly large extent, the young and the broke are relying on credit cards to make it until their next payday．This obviously isn't sustainable in the long run, and it's going to put a huge drag on their spending power even after they reach their peak earning years, because they'll still be paying interest on that bottle of orange juice or box of spaghetti (意式面條)they bought a decade earlier.
A new study out of Ohio State University found that young adults are accumulating credit card debt at a more rapid rate than other age groups, and that they're slower at paying it off． "If what we found continues to hold true, we may have more elderly people with substantial financial problems in the future," warns Lucia Dunn, professor of economics at Ohio State． "If our findings persist, we may be faced with a financial crisis among elderly people who can't pay off their credit cards."
Dunn says a lot of these young people are never going to get out from under their credit card debt."Many people are borrowing on credit cards so heavily that payoff rates at these levels are not sufficient to recover their credit card debt by the end of their life, which could have loss implications for the credit card issuing banks."
What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A．Many young Americans will never be able to pay off their debts.
B．Credit cards play .an increasingly important role in college life.
C．Credit cards are doing more haxm than student loans.
D．The American credit card system is under criticism.


5、聽錄音，回答題

A．She stopped being a homemaker.
B．She became a famous educator.
C．She became a public figure.
D．She quit driving altogether.


6、根據(jù)材料，回答問題。
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Language is, and should be, a living thing, constantly enriched with new words and forms of expression. But there is a vital distinction between good developments, which add to the language, enabling us to say things we could not say before, and bad developments, which subtract from the language by rendering it less precise. A vivacious, colorful use of words is not to be confused with mere slovenliness. The kind of slovenliness in which some professionals deliberately indulge is perhaps akin to the cult (迷信) of the unfinished work, which has eroded most of the arts in our time. And the true answer to it is the same that art is enhanced, not hindered, by discipline. You cannot carve satisfactorily in butter.
The corruption of written English has been accompanied by an even sharper decline in the standard of spoken English. We speak very much less well than was common among educated Englishmen a generation or two ago.
The modem theatre has played a baneful (有害的) part in dimming our appreciation of language. Instead of the immensely articulate dialogue of, for example, Shaw (who was also very insistent on good pronunciation),audiences are now subjected to streams of barely literate trivia, often designed, only too well, to exhibit 'lack of communication', and larded (夾雜) with the obscenities (下流的話) and grammatical errors of the intellectually impoverished. Emily Post once advised her readers: "The theatre is the best possible place to hear correctly-enunciated speech. " Alas, no more. One young actress was recently reported to be taking lessons in how to speak badly, so that she should fit in better.
But the BBC is the worst traitor. After years of very successfully helping to raise the general standard of spoken English, it suddenly went into reverse. As the head of the Pronunciation Unit coyly (含蓄地) put it, "In the 1960s the BBC opened the field to a much wider range of speakers." To hear a BBC disc jockey talking to the latest ape-like pop idol is a truly shocking experience of verbal squalor. And the prospect seems to be of even worse to come. School teachers are actively encouraged to ignore little Johnny's incoherent grammar, atrocious spelling and haphazard punctuation, because worrying about such things might inhibit his creative genius.
The writer relates linguistic slovenliness to tendencies in the arts today in that they both __________.
A．occasionally aim at a certain fluidity
B．a(chǎn)ppear to shun perfection
C．from time to time show regard for the finishing touch
D．make use of economical short cuts


7、根據(jù)下面內(nèi)容，回答題。
A．A recent Cambridge University analysisof 76 studies involving more than 650，000 peopleconcluded，“The current evidence does not clearlysupport guidelines that low consumption of total Saturated fats．“Yet the American Heart Association（Arial，in its most recent dietary guidelines，heldfast to the idea that we must A．l eat low．fat diets for optimal  hearthealth．It’s a stance that—at the very best—is controversial，and at worst is dead wrong．As a practicing cardiologist（心臟病學(xué)家）for more than three decades，I agree with the latte—it’s dead wrong．Whydoes the AHA cling to recommendations that fly in the face of scientificevidence？
B．What I discovered was both eye．opening and disturbing．The AHA not only ignored all the other risk factors for heart disease，but it appointed someone with ties to Big Food and bizarrescientific beliefs to lead the guideline-writing panel—just the type of thing that undermines the public’s confidence in the medical community．The AHA guidelines warrant that saturated fat make up no more than 5 to 6 percent of daily calories for adults because this will lower “bad” cholesterol（膽固醇）．And，for those people who need blood pressure control，the guidelines A．so suggest lowering sodium（salt）intake to no more than a teaspoon（2，300 mg）daily．Despite many other known risk factors for heart disease，salt and fat were，astonishingly，the only two considered by the AHA panel writing the guidelines．There are many other recognized risk factors the AHA ignored，including blood sugar level，low “good” cholesterol，insulin（胰島素）levels，and body weight—an of these are influenced by diet．
C．In fact，mostpeople who have heart attacks don’t have elevations in bad cholesterol．They are much  more likely tohave metabolic syndrome（新陳代謝綜合征）—a condition that putsyou at high risk for diabetes and heart disease．Interestinglyenough，blood triglycerides（甘油三脂）do not go up with eating fat—they go up if you eat a diet high inprocessed grains，starches，andsugar．Unfortunately for the proponents ofhigh-carbohydrate（糖類）diets，highblood triglycerides are a major risk factor for heart disease．In addition．low fat／highcarb diets lower protective “good”cholesterol and raiseinsulin．
These diets are involved in the development of diabetes．which is a powerful risk factor for developing heart disease．
Heart Cheek Program’s contribution
D．The writers of the 2013 statinguidelines based their recommendations on studies that looked at the reductionin the risk of events like heart attacks in people treated with statins．compared to people on a placebo（安慰劑）．The AHAdietary guidelines do not cite any diet studies that looked at whether followinga specific diet lowered the risk of developing heart events—yet they are givingdietary advice．Why？There mightbe two plausible reasons．One is the AHA's moneymaking “HeartCheck Program．”The second is the conflict of interestof Robert Eckel—the co-chair of the panel that wrote the guidelines．
E．Forty．fivepercent of these “heart healthy” foods—over 400 of them—are meat：92 are processed meats—which have been shown to have either neutralor negative effects on heart health．Even more problematicare the foods containing added sugar．The AHA recommendsthat women consume less
than 6 teaspoons（100 calories）of sugar a day and less than 9 teaspoons（150caories）for men．Yet there areitems that get the nod of approval．from the HeartCheck program despite being near or at the sugar limit．1ikeBruce’s Yams Candied Sweet Potatoes and Healthy Choice Salisbury Steak．
F．Until this year，Heart Check approved many foods with trans-fats，which raise bad cholesterol and lower good cholesterol，among other harmful effects on health，like increasing inflammation（發(fā)炎）and the laying down of calciumin arteries（動(dòng)脈）．
G．Like the dietary guidelines，the AHA Heart Check Program appears to address only the effect of foods on cholesterol level and blood pressure．Meanwhile，since the 1 970s，our yearly sugarconsumption has increased quickly along with the incidence of diabetes and obesity．This brings us to Dr．Robert
H．Eckel，theco-chair of the Working Group．He is a consultant for Foodminds，which specializes “in food，beverage，nutrition，health and wellness．”Foodminds works with more than 30 leadingfood，beverage，and nutrition tooffer a “one stop shop of…consulting…to guide food and beverage companies innavigating the complexities around the upcoming FDA Nutrition Facts labeloverhaul．”In other words．Foodmindsis a lobbying firm for “Big Food．”
Creationist’s coming
H．And then there is this：Dr．Eckeldescribes himself as “a scientist and professing six．daycreationist and a member of the technical advisory board of the Institute forCreation Research…”Many scientists are religious．This isnot to question Dr．Eckel’s religious beliefs．but to question his ability to think sciemifically．He believes there is scientific proof that the world was created insix days and mat evolution does not exist．This shouldat least raise eyebrows when the co-chair of an influential panel charged withgiving scientifically sound dietary advice has a financial conflict of interestand proselytizes for beliefs that are anti．scientific．
I．The American people should beable to trust that only impartial scientists write guidelines．We should be confident that those experts are not working to advancecorporate interests and that they do not espouse beliefs that are well outsidethe scientific mainstream．An avowed creationist who consults for a food lobby hardly seems an appropriate choice to fulfill these criteria．For the last several decades，the AHA has promoted a low-fat high-carbohydrate diet as acornerstone of heart health．It has taken a very public position that saturated fats are a major driver of heart disease risk and the mounting tide of evidence that this is dead wrong must put it in a very uncomfortable position．And yet a fundamental requirement of science--as opposed to propaganda--is that when evidence that contradicts a hypothesis is replicated over and over again，that hypothesis must be abandoned．
J．The idea that eating high amounts of saturated fat causes hardening of the arteries—the so．Called “diet-heart hypothesis—deserves to be jettisoned along with other discredited belief systems．Creationism comes tomind．Will the AHA step up to the plate？
注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。
It is fun that blood triglycerides won’t rise when you eat fat，but go up with eating other sugar and starches．

簡(jiǎn)答題
8、For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to un ite a short essay entitled Vocational Educationor College Education?following the outline given below.You should write least 120 wordsbut no?nore than 180words.Write your essay on Answer Sheet l.
1.報(bào)考職業(yè)學(xué)院的人數(shù)近年來(lái)有上升的趨勢(shì)
2.有人認(rèn)為職業(yè)教育更有利于就業(yè)，有人認(rèn)為大學(xué)文憑更重要
3.我的看法
Vocational Education or College Education?

9、為了促進(jìn)教育公平，中國(guó)已投入360億元，用于改善農(nóng)村地區(qū)教育設(shè)旋和加強(qiáng)中西部地區(qū)農(nóng)村義務(wù)教育(compulsory education)．這些資金用于改善教學(xué)設(shè)施、購(gòu)買書籍，使l6萬(wàn)多所中小學(xué)受益．資金還用于購(gòu)置音樂和繪畫器材．現(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．


10、 中國(guó)的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)社區(qū)是全世界發(fā)展快的。2010年，中國(guó)約有4．2億網(wǎng)民(netizen)，而且人數(shù)還在迅速增長(zhǎng)?；ヂ?lián)網(wǎng)的日漸流行帶來(lái)了重大的社會(huì)變化，中國(guó)網(wǎng)民往往不同于美國(guó)網(wǎng)民。美國(guó)網(wǎng)民更多的是受實(shí)際需要的驅(qū)使，以互聯(lián)網(wǎng)為工具發(fā)電子郵件、買賣商品、做研究、規(guī)劃旅程或付款。中國(guó)網(wǎng)民更多都是出于社交原因使用互聯(lián)網(wǎng)，因而更廣泛地使用論壇、博客、聊天室等。