2014年12月英语六级真题及答案(完整版 共三套)

2014年12月英语六级考试真题试卷附答案(第1套) Part I Writing(30minutes)

Directions:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to write an essay based on the picturebelow.You should start your essay with a brief description of t he picture and then discusswhether there is a shortcut to learning.You should give sound arguments to support yourviews and write at least150words but no more than200words.

Part II Listening Comprehension(30minutes)

Section A

Directions:In this section,you will hear8short conversations and2long 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 marked A),B),C)and D),and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.

1.A)The man's tennis racket is good enough.

B)The man should get a pair of new shoes.

C)She can wait for the man for a little while.

D)Physical exercise helps her stay in shape.

2.A)The woman will skip Dr.Smith's lecture to help the man.

B)Kathy is very pleased to attend the lecture by Dr.Smith.

C)The woman is good at doing lab demonstrations.

D)The man will do all he can do assist the woman.

3.A)The woman asked the man to accompany her to the party.

B)Steve became rich soon after graduation from college.

C)Steve invited his classmates to visit his big cottage.

D)The speakers and Steve used to be classmates.

4.A)In a bus.B)In a clinic.C)In a boat.D)In a plane.

5.A)10:10.B)9:50.C)9:40.D)9:10.

6.A)She does not like John at all.

B)John has got many admirers.

C)She does not think John is handsome.

D)John has just got a bachelor's degree.

7.A)He has been bumping along for hours.

B)He has got a sharp pain in the neck.

C)He is involved in a serious accident.

D)He is trapped in a terrible traffic jam.

8.A)She is good at repairing things.

B)She is a professional mechanic.

C)She should improve her physical condition.

D)She cannot go without a washing machine.

Questions9to11are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9.A)Some witnesses failed to appear in court.

B)The case caused debate among the public.

C)The accused was found guilty of stealing.

D)The accused refused to plead guilty in court.

10.A)He was out of his mind.

B)He was unemployed.

C)His wife deserted him.

D)His children were sick.

11.A)He had been in jail before.

B)He was unworthy of sympathy.

C)He was unlikely to get employed.

D)He had committed the same sort of crime.

Questions12to15are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12.A)Irresponsible.B)Unsatisfactory.C)Aggressive.D)Conservative.

13.A)Internal communication.

B)Distribution of brochures.

C)Public relations.

D)Product design.

14.A)Placing advertisements in the trade press.

B)Drawing sketches for advertisements.

C)Advertising in the national press.

D)Making television commercials.

15.A)She has the motivation to do the job.

B)She is not so easy to get along with.

C)She knows the tricks of advertising.

D)She is not suitable for the position.

Section B

Directions:In this section,you will hear3short passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear some questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions16to18are based on the conversation you have just heard.

16.A)The cozy communal life.

B)Innovative academic programs.

C)The cultural diversity.

D)Impressive school buildings.

17.A)It is very beneficial to their academic progress.

B)It helps them soak up the surrounding culture.

C)It is as important as their learning experience.

D)It ensures their physical and mental health.

18.A)It offers the most challenging academic programs.

B)It has the world's best-known military academies.

C)It provides numerous options for students.

D)It draws faculty from all around the world.

Passage Two

Questions19to21are based on the passage you have just heard.

19.A)They try to give students opportunities for experimentation.

B)They are responsible merely to their Ministry of Education.

C)They strive to develop every student's academic potential.

D)They ensure that all students get roughly equal attention.

20.A)It will arrive at Boulogne at half past two.

B)It crosses the English Channel twice a day.

C)It is now about half way to the French coast.

D)It is leaving Folkestone in about five minutes

21.A)Opposite the ship's office.

B)At the rear of B deck.

C)Next to the duty-free shop.

D)In the front of A deck.

Passage Three

Questions22to25are based on the passage you have just heard.

22.A)It is the sole use of passengers travelling with cars.

B)It is much more spacious than the lounge on C deck.

C)It is for the use of passengers travelling with children.

D)It is for senior passengers and people with VIP cards.

23.A)It was named after its location.

B)It was named after a cave art expert.

C)It was named after its discoverer.

D)It was named after one of its painters.

24.A)Animal painting was part of the spiritual life of the time.

B)Deer were worshiped by the ancient Cro-Magnon people.

C)Cro-Magnon people painted animals they hunted and ate.

D)They were believed to keep evils away from cave dwellers.

25.A)They know little about why the paintings were created.

B)They have difficulty telling when the paintings were done.

C)They are unable to draw such interesting and fine paintings.

D)They have misinterpreted the meaning of the cave paints.

Section C

Direction:In the section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard.Finally,when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.

If you are attending a local college,especially one without residence halls,you'll probably live at home and commute to classes.This arrangement has a lot of __26__.It's cheaper.It provides a comfortable and familiar setting,and it means you'll get the kind of home cooking you're used to instead of the monotony(单调)that__27__even the best institutional food.

However,commuting students need to__28__to become involved in the life of their college and to take special steps to meet their fellow students.Often,this means a certain amount of initiative on your part in__29__and talking to people in your classes whom you think you might like.

One problem that commuting students sometimes face is their parents' unwillingness to recognize that they're adults.The__30__from high school to college is a big one,and if you live at home you need to develop the same kind of independence you'd have if you were living away.Home rules that might have been__31__when you were in high school don't apply.If your parents are __32__to renegotiate,you can speed the process along by letting your behavior show that you have the responsibility that goes with maturity.Parents are more willing to__33__their children as adults when they behave like adults. If,however,there's so much friction at home that it__34__your academic work,

you might want to consider sharing an apartment with one or more friends. Sometimes this is a happy solution when family__35__make https://www.wendangku.net/doc/6612568698.html,.

Part III Reading Comprehension(40minutes)

Section A

Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions36to45are based on the following passage.

Children are natural-born scientists.They have__36__minds,and they aren't afraid to admit they don't know something.Most of them,__37__.lose this as they got older.They become self-conscious and don't want to appear stupid. Instead of finding things out for themselves they make__38__that often turn to be wrong.

So it's not a case of getting kids interested in science.You just have to avoid killing the__39__for learning that they were born with.It's no coincidence that kids start deserting science once it becomes formalised.Children naturally have a blurred approach to__40__knowledge.They see learning about science or biology or cooking as all part of the same act—it's all learning.It's only because of the practicalities of education that you have to start breaking down the curriculum into specialist subjects.You need to have specialist teachers who __41__what they know.Thus once they enter school,children begin to define subjects and erect boundaries that needn't other-wise exist.

Dividing subjects into science,maths,English,etc.is something we do for

__42__.In the end it's all learning,but many children today__43__themselves from a scientific education.They think science is for scientists,not for them. Of course we need to specialise__44__.Each of us has only so much time on Earth,so we can't study everything.At5years old,our field of knowledge and __45__is broad,covering anything from learning to walk to learning to count. Gradually it narrows down so that by the time we are45,it might be one tiny

little comer within science.

A)accidentally

B)acquiring

C)assumptions

D)convenience

E)eventually

F)exclude

G)exertion

H)exploration

I)formu1as

J)ignite

K)impart

L)inquiring

M)passion

N)provoking

O)unfortunately

Section B

Directions:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2.

Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness

[A]For at least the last decade,the happiness craze has been building.In the last three months alone,over1,000books on happiness were released on Amazon,including Happy Money,Happy-People-Pills tor All,and,for those just starting out,Happiness for Beginners.

[B]One of the consistent claims of books like these is that happiness is associated with all sorts of good life outcomes,including-most promisingly-good health.Many studies have noted the connection between a happy mind and a healthy body-the happier you are,the better health outcomes we seem to have.In an overview of150studies on this topic,researchers put it like this:

"Inductions of well-being lead to healthy functioning,and inductions of ill-being lead to compromised health."

[C]But a new study,just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS)challenges the rosy picture.Happiness may not be as good for the body as researchers thought.It might even be bad.

[D]Of course,it's important to first define happiness.A few months ago,T wrote a piece called"There's More to Life Than Being Happy"about a psychology study that dug into what happiness really means to people It specifically explored the difference between a meaningful life and a happy life.

[E]It seems strange that there would be a difference at all.But the researchers, who looked at a large sample of people over a month-long period,found that happiness is associated with selfish"taking"behavior and that having a sense of meaning in life is associated with selfless"giving"behavior. [F]"Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow,

self-absorbed or even selfish life,in which things go well,needs and desire are easily satisfied,and complicated relationships are avoided,"the authors of the study wrote."If anything,pure happiness is linked to not helping others in need."While being happy is about feeling good,meaning is derived from contributing to others or to society in a bigger way.As Roy Baumeister,one of the researchers,told me,"Partly what we do as human beings is to take care of others and contribute to others.This makes life meaningful but it does not necessarily make us happy."

[G]The new PNAS study also sheds light on the difference between meaning and happiness,but on the biological level.Barbara Fredrickson,a psychological researcher at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,and Steve Cole,a genetics and psychiatry(精神病学)researcher at UCLA,examined the

self-reported levels of happiness and meaning in80research subjects.

[H]Happiness was defined,as in the earlier study,by feeling good.The researchers measured happiness by asking subjects questions like"How often did you feel happy?","How often did you feel interested in life?"and"How often did you feel satisfied?"The more strongly people endorsed these measures of "hedonic(享乐主义)well-being,"or pleasure,the higher they scored on happiness.

[I]Meaning was defined as an orientation to something bigger than the self. They measured meaning by asking questions like"How often did you feel that your life has a sense of direction or meaning to it?","How often did you feel that

you had something to contribute to society?"The more people endorsed these measures of"eudaimonic(幸福论的)well-being"—or,simply put,virtue—the more meaning they felt in life.

[J]After noting the sense of meaning and happiness that each subject had, Fredrickson and Cole,with their research colleagues,looked at the ways certain genes expressed themselves in each of the participants.Like neuroscientists who use fMRI(功能磁共振成像)scanning to determine how regions in the brain respond to different stimuli,Cole and Fredrickson are interested in how the body, at the genetic level,responds to feelings of happiness and meaning.

[K]Cole's past work has linked various kinds of chronic adversity to a particular gene expression pattern.When people feel lonely,are grieving the loss of a loved one,or are struggling to make ends meet,their bodies go into threat mode.This triggers the activation of a stress-related gene pattern that has two features:an increase in the activity of pro-inflammatory(促炎症的)genes and a decrease in the activity of genes involved in anti-viral responses.

[L]Cole and Fredrickson found that people who are happy but have little to no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are responding to and enduring chronic adversity.That is,the bodies of these happy people are preparing them for bacterial threats by activating the pro-inflammatory response.Chronic inflammation is,of course, associated with major illnesses like heart disease and various cancers. [M]"Empty positive emotions"-like the kind people experience during manic (狂喜的)episodes or artificially induced euphoria(欣快)from alcohol and drugs-"are about as good for you for as adversity,"says Fredrickson.

[N]It's important to understand that for many people,a sense of meaning and happiness in life overlap;many people score jointly high(or jointly low)on the happiness and meaning measures in the study.But for many others,there is a dissonance(不一致)—they feel that they are low on happiness and high on meaning or that their lives are very high in happiness,but low in meaning.This last group,which has the gene expression pattern associated with adversity, formed a75percent of study participants.Only one quarter of the study participants had what the researchers call"eudaimonic predominance"—that is, their sense of meaning outpaced their feelings of happiness.

[O]This is too bad given the more beneficial gene expression pattern associated with meaningfulness.People whose levels of happiness and meaning line up, and people who have a strong sense of meaning hut are not necessarily happy,

showed a dc-activation of the adversity stress response.Their bodies were not preparing them for the bacterial infections that we get when we are alone or in trouble,but for the viral infections we get when surrounded by a lot of other people.

[P]Fredrickson's past research,described in her two books,Positivity and Love 2.0,has mapped the benefits of positive emotions in individuals.She has found that positive emotions broaden a person's perspective and help protect people against adversity.So it was surprising to her that hedonic well-being,which is associated with positive emotions and pleasure,did so badly in this study compared with eudaimonic well-being.

[Q]"It's not the amount of hedonic happiness that's a problem,"Fredrickson tells me,"It's that it's not matched by eudaimonic well-being.It's great when both are in step.But if you have more hedonic well-being than would be expected,that's when this[gene]pattern that's similar to adversity emerged." [R]The terms hedonism and eudaimonism bring to mind the great philosophical debate,which has shaped Western civilization for over2,000years,about the nature of the good life.Does happiness lie in feeling good,as hedonists think,or in doing and being good,as Aristotle and his intellectual descendants,the virtue ethicists(伦理学家),think?From the evidence of this study,it seems that feeling good is not enough.People need meaning to thrive.In the words of Carl Jung, "The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."Jung's wisdom certainly seems to apply to our bodies,if not also to our hearts and our minds.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

46.The author's recent article examined how a meaningful life is different from

a happy life.

47.It should be noted that many people feel their life is both happy and meaningful.

48.According to one survey,there is a close relationship between hedonic well-being measures and high scores on happiness.

49.According to one of the author of a new study,what makes life meaningful may not make people happy.

50.Experiments were carried out to determine our body's genetic expression of feelings of happiness and meaning.

51.A new study claims happiness may not contribute to health.

52.According to the researchers,taking makes for happiness while giving adds meaning to life.

53.Evidence from research shows that it takes meaning for people to thrive.

54.With regard to gene expression patterns,happy people with little or no sense of meaning in life are found to be similar to those suffering from chronic adversity.

55.Most books on happiness today assert that happiness is beneficial to health.

Section C

Directions:There are2passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions56to60are based on the following passage.

Nothing succeeds in business books like the study of success.The current business-book boom was launched in1982by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman with In Search of Excellence.The trend has continued with a succession of experts and would-be experts who promise to distil the essence of excellence into three(or five or seven)simple rules.

The Three Rules is a self-conscious contribution to this type of writing;it even includes a bibliography of"success studies".Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed work for a consultancy,Deloitte,that is determined to turn itself into more of a thought-leader and less a corporate repairman.They employ all the tricks of the success books.They insist that their conclusions are"measurable and actionable"—guides to behaviour rather than analysis for its own sake. Success authors usually serve up vivid stories about how exceptional businesspeople stamped their personalities on a company or rescued it from a life-threatening crisis.Messrs Raynor and Ahmed are happier chewing the numbers:they provide detailed appendices on"calculating the elements of advantage"and"detailed analysis".

The authors spent five years studying the behaviour of their344"exceptional companies",only to come up at first with nothing.Every hunch(直觉)led to a blind alley and every hypothesis to a dead end.It was only when they shifted

their attention from how companies behave to how they think that they began to make sense of their voluminous material.

Management is all about making difficult tradeoffs in conditions that are always uncertain and often fast-changing.But exceptional companies approach these tradeoffs with two simple rules in mind,sometimes consciously,sometimes unconsciously.First:better before https://www.wendangku.net/doc/6612568698.html,panies are more likely to succeed in the long run if they compete on quality or performance than on price. Second:revenue before https://www.wendangku.net/doc/6612568698.html,panies have more to gain in the long run from driving up revenue than by driving down costs.

Most success studies suffer from two faults.There is"the halo(光环)effect", whereby good performance leads commentators to attribute all manner of virtues to anything and everything the company does.These virtues then suddenly become vices when the company falters.Messrs Raynor and Ahmed work hard to avoid these mistakes by studying large bodies of data over several decades.But they end up embracing a different error:stating the obvious.Most businesspeople will not be surprised to learn that it is better to find a profitable niche(缝隙市场)and focus on boosting your revenues than to compete on price and cut your way to success.The difficult question is how to find that profitable niche and protect it.There,The Three Rules is less useful.

56.What kind of business books are most likely to sell well?

A)Books on excellence.

B)Guides to management.

C)Books on business rules.

D)Analyses of market trends.

57.What does the author imply about books on success so far?

A)They help businessmen one way or another.

B)They are written by well-recognised experts.

C)They more or less fall into the same stereotype.

D)They are based on analyses of corporate leaders.

58.How does The Three Rules differ from other success books according to the passage?

A)It focuses on the behavior of exceptional businessmen.

B)It bases its detailed analysis on large amounts of data.

C)It offers practicable advice to businessmen.

D)It draws conclusions from vivid examples.

59.What does the passage any contributes to the success of exceptional companies?

A)Focus on quality and revenue.

B)Management and sales promotion.

C)Lower production costs and competitive prices.

D)Emphasis on after-sale service and maintenance.

60.What is the author's comment on The Three Rules?

A)It can help to locate profitable niches.

B)It has little to offer to businesspeople.

C)It is noted for its detailed data analysis.

D)It fails to identify the keys to success.

Passage Two

Questions61to65are based on the following passage.

Until recently,the University of Kent prided itself on its friendly image.Not any more.Over the past few months it has been working hard,with the help of media consultants,to play down its cosy reputation in favour of something more academic and serious.

Kent is not alone in considering an image revamp(翻新).Changes to next year's funding regime are forcing universities to justify charging students up to

￡9,000in fees.

Nowadays universities are putting much more of a focus on their brands and what their value propositions are.While in the past universities have often focused on student social life and attractions of the university town in recruitment campaigns,they are now concentrating on more tangible(实在的) attractions,such as employment prospects,engagement with industry,and lecturer contact hours,making clear exactly what students are going to get for their money.

The problem for universities is that if those benefits fail to materialise,students notice.That worries Rob Behrens,who deals with student complaints. "Universities need to be extremely careful in describing what's going to happen

to students,"he says."As competition is going to get greater for attracting gifted students,there is a danger that universities will go the extra mile."

One university told prospective engineering students they would be able to design a car and race it at Brands Hatch,which never happened,he says.Others have promised use of sophisticated equipment that turned out to be broken or unavailable."If universities spent as much money on handling complaints and appeals appropriately as they spend on marketing,they would do better at keeping students,and in the National Student Survey returns."he says. Ongoing research tracking prospective2012students suggests that they are not only becoming more sophisticated in thinking about what they want from a university,but are also spending more time researching evidence to back up institutional claims.

Hence the growing importance of the student survey.From next September,all institutions will also be expected to publish on their websites key information sets,allowing easier comparison between institutions,between promises and reality,and the types of jobs and salaries graduates go on to.

As a result,it is hardly surprising that universities are beginning to change the way they market themselves.While the best form of marketing for institutions is to be good at what they do,they also need to be clear about how they are different from others.

And it is vital that once an institution claims to be particularly good at something, it must live up to it.The moment you position yourself,you become exposed, and if you fail in that you are in trouble.

61.What was the University of Kent famous for?

A)Its comfortable campus life.

B)Its up-to-date course offerings.

C)Its distinguished teaching staff.

D)Its diverse academic programmes.

62.What arc universities trying to do to attract students?

A)Improve their learning environment.

B)Offer more scholarships to the gifted.

C)Upgrade their campus facilities.

D)Present a better academic images.

63.What does Rod Behrens suggest universities do in marketing themselves?

A)Publicise the achievements of their graduates.

B)Go to extra lengths cater to students'needs.

C)Refrain from making promises they cannot honour.

D)Survey the expectations of their prospective students.

64.What is students'chief consideration in choosing a university?

A)Whether it promises the best job prospects.

B)Whether it is able to deliver what they want.

C)Whether it ranks high among similar institutions.

D)Whether it offers opportunities for practical training.

65.What must universities show to win recruitment campaigns?

A)They are positioned to meet the future needs of society.

B)They are responsible to students for their growth.

C)They are ever ready to improve themselves.

D)They are unique one way or another.

PartⅣTranslation(30minutes)

Directions:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet2.

中国将努力确保到2015年就业者接受过平均13.3年的教育。如果这一目标得以实现，今后大部分进入劳动力市场的人都需获得大学文凭。

在未来几年，中国将着力增加职业学院的招生人数：除了关注高等教育外，还将寻找新的突破以确保教育制度更加公平。中国正在努力最佳地利用教育资源，这样农村和欠发达地区将获得更多的支持。

教育部还决定改善欠发达地区学生的营养，并为外来务工人员的子女提供在城市接受教育的同等机会。

2014年12月六级部分真题参考答案(完整版)

PartⅠWriting

On Diploma Discrimination in Job Interview

As is vividly shown in the cartoon,an applicant with a master's degree was rejected in a job interview by an interviewer because all the other applicants

are Ph.D.s.The applicant seemsquite helpless and embarrassed.

Simple as the cartoon may seem,it conveys a thought-provoking message that people areexaggerating the significance of educational degrees excessi vely,which inevitably exerts a negative influence in society.What factors m ight contribute to diploma discrimination?Answers to this question may in volve many aspects,and here are a few guesses:on the onehand,quite a fe w employers hold that the higher degree people have,the more competent t hey will be.Of course this is not necessarily a logical viewpoint,because cert ificates cannotprove one's capability.On the other hand,due to increase of enrollment,too many studentsgraduate from universities and colleges year af ter year,and the number is still growing;however,society fails to provide ade quate posts,which results in the companies'too pickyattitude on diploma sin ce they don't worry about lacking candidates.

In my opinion,the public should realize that real ability speaks much louder t han a piece ofpaper.Only in this way can China's economy keep booming.

PartⅡListening Comprehension

01-08：BADCBADA

09-11：CBA

12-15：BCDD

16-18：ACC

19-21：BDD

22-25：ABCA

26.advantages

27.characterizes

28.go out of

29.seeking

30.transition

31.appropriate

32.reluctant

33.acknowledge

34.interferes

35.tensions

Part III Reading Comprehension

36-45：LOCMB KDFEH

46-55：DNHFJ CERLB

56-65：ACBAD AACBD

Part IV Translation

China will strive to ensure that by2015employees receive an average of13. 3years ofeducation.If this goal can be achieved,the majority of those who enter the labor market will berequired to obtain a college degree in the futur e.

In the next few years,China will endeavor to increase the enrollment in voca tional colleges.Apart from focusing on higher education,China will find a new breakthrough point to ensurethe justice of education.China is making effor ts to optimize the use of educational resourcesso that rural and underdevelo ped areas can receive more support.

The Ministry of Education has also decided to improve student nutrition in un derdevelopedregions,and to offer equal education opportunities for children o f migrant workers in cities.

2014年12月英语六级考试真题试卷附答案(第2套) Part I Writing(30minutes)

Directions:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to write an essay based on the picturebelow.You should start your essay with a brief description of t he picture and then discusswhether technology is indispensable in education. You should give sound arguments tosupport your views and write at least150 words but no more than200words.

Part II Listening Comprehension(30minutes)

Section A

Directions:In this section,you will hear8shortconversations and2long conv ersations.At the end of each conversation,one or morequestions will be ask ed about what was said.Both the conversation and the questions will bespo ken only once.After each question there will be a pause.During the pause,y ou must readthe four choices marked A),B),C)and D),and decide which is t he best answer.Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.

1.A)In a parking lot.

B)At a grocery.

C)At a fast food restaurant.

D)In a car showroom.

2.A)Change her position now and then.

B)Stretch her legs before standing up.

C)Have a little nap after lunch.

D)Get up and take a short walk.

3.A)The students should practice long-distance running.

B)The students'physical condition is not desirable.

C)He doesn't quite believe what the woman says.

D)He thinks the race is too hard for the students.

4.A)They will get their degrees in two years.

B)They are both pursuing graduate studies.

C)They cannot afford to get married right now.

D)They do not want to have a baby at present.

5.A)He must have been mistaken for Jack.

B)Twins usually have a lot in common.

C)Jack is certainly not as healthy as he is.

D)He has not seen Jack for quite a few days.

6.A)The woman will attend the opening of the museum.

B)The woman is asking the way at the crossroads.

C)The man knows where the museum is located.

D)The man will take the woman to the museum.

7.A)They cannot ask the guy to leave.

B)The guy has been coming in for years.

C)The guy must be feeling extremely lonely.

D)They should not look down upon the guy.

8.A)Collect timepieces.

B)Become time-conscious.

C)Learn to mend clocks.

D)Keep track of his daily activities.

Questions9to11are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9.A)It is eating into its banks.

B)It winds its way to the sea.

C)It is wide and deep.

D)It is quickly rising.

10.A)Try to speed up the operation by any means.

B)Take the equipment apart before being ferried.

C)Reduce the transport cost as much as possible.

D)Get the trucks over to the other side of the river.

11.A)Find as many boats as possible.

B)Cut trees and build rowing boats.

C)Halt the operation until further orders.

D)Ask the commander to send a helicopter.

Questions12to15are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12.A)Talk about his climbing experiences.

B)Help him join an Indian expedition.

C)Give up mountain climbing altogether.

D)Save money to buy climbing equipment.

13.A)He was the first to conquer Mt.Qomolangma.

B)He had an unusual religious background.

C)He climbed mountains to earn a living.

D)He was very strict with his children.

14.A)They are to be conquered.

B)They are to be protected.

C)They are sacred places.

D)They are like humans.

15.A)It was his father's training that pulled him through.

B)It was a milestone in his mountain climbing career.

C)It helped him understand the Sherpa view of mountains.

D)It was his father who gave him the strength to succeed.

Section B

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