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Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay

on the importance of writing ability and how to develop it. You should write at

least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of

each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report

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 Sheet 1 with a single line

through the centre.

Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.

1. A) Annoyed.

B) Scared.

C) Confused.

D) Offended.

2. A) It crawled over the woman's hands.

B) It wound up on the steering wheel.

C) It was killed by the police on the spot.

D) It was covered with large scales.

Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.

3. A) A study of the fast-food service.

B) Fast food customer satisfaction.

C) McDonald's new business strategies.

D) Competition in the fast-food industry.

4. A) Customers' higher demands.

B) The inefficiency of employees.

C) Increased variety of products.

D) The rising number of customers.

Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.

5. A) International treaties regarding space travel programs.

B) Legal issues involved in commercial space exploration.

C) U.S. government's approval of private space missions.

D) Competition among public and private space companies.

6. A) Deliver scientific equipment to the moon.

B) Approve a new mission to travel into outer space.

C) Work with federal agencies on space programs.

D) Launch a manned spacecraft to Mars.

7. A) It is significant.

B) It is promising.

C) It is unpredictable.

D) It is unprofitable.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end

of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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 Sheet 1 with a single line through

the centre.

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

8. A) Visiting her family in Thailand.

B) Showing friends around Phuket.

C) Swimming around a Thai island.

D) Lying in the sun on a Thai beach.

9. A) She visited a Thai orphanage.

B) She met a Thai girl's parents.

C) She learned some Thai words.

D) She sunbathed on a Thai beach.

10. A) His class will start in a minute.

B) He has got an incoming phone call.

C) Someone is knocking at his door.

D) His phone is running out of power.

11. A) He is interested in Thai artworks.

B) He is going to open a souvenir shop.

C) He collects things from different countries.

D) He wants to know more about Thai culture.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just

heard.

12. A) Buying some fitness equipment for the new gym.

B) Opening a gym and becoming personal trainers.

C) Signing up for a weight-loss course.

D) Trying out a new gym in town.

13. A) Professional personal training.

B) Free exercise for the first week.

C) A discount for a half-year membership.

D) Additional benefits for young couples.

14. A) The safety of weight-lifting.

B) The high membership fee.

C) The renewal of his membership.

D) The operation of fitness equipment.

15. A) She wants her invitation renewed.

B) She used to do 200 sit-ups every day.

C) She knows the basics of weight-lifting.

D) She used to be the gym's personal trainer.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each

passage, you will hear three or four 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 Sheet 1 with a single line through

the centre.

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) They tend to be nervous during interviews.

B) They often apply for a number of positions.

C) They worry about the results of their applications.

D) They search extensively for employers' information.

17. A) Get better organized.

B) Edit their references.

C) Find better-paid jobs.

D) Analyze the searching process.

18. A) Provide their data in detail.

B) Personalize each application.

C) Make use of better search engines.

D) Apply for more promising positions.

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19. A) If kids did not like school, real learning would not take place.

B) If not forced to go to school, kids would be out in the streets.

C) If schools stayed the way they are, parents were sure to protest.

D) If teaching failed to improve, kids would stay away from school.

20. A) Allow them to play interesting games in class.

B) Try to stir up their interest in lab experiments.

C) Let them stay home and learn from their parents.

D) Design activities they now enjoy doing on holidays.

21. A) Allow kids to learn at their own pace.

B) Encourage kids to learn from each other.

C) Organize kids into various interest groups.

D) Take kids out of school to learn at first hand.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

22. A) It is especially popular in Florida and Alaska.

B) It is a major social activity among the young.

C) It is seen almost anywhere and on any occasion.

D) It is even more expressive than the written word.

23. A) It is located in a big city in Iowa.

B) It is really marvelous to look at.

C) It offers free dance classes to seniors.

D) It offers people a chance to socialize.

24. A) Their state of mind improved.

B) They became better dancers.

C) They enjoyed better health.

D) Their relationship strengthened.

25. A) It is fun.

B) It is life.

C) It is exhausting.

D) It is rhythmical.

Part Ⅲ

Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

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 for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single

line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more

than once.

Since the 1940s, southern California has had a reputation for smog. Things

are not as bad as they once were but, according to the American Lung

Association, Los Angeles is still the worst city in the United States for levels

of 26 . Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the

Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred

by the haze (

霾

). Nor is the state's bad air 27 to its south. Fresno, in the

central valley, comes top of the list in America for year-round pollution.

Residents' hearts and lungs are affected as a 28 . All of which, combined with

California's reputation as the home of technological 29 , makes the place ideal

for developing and testing systems designed to monitor pollution in 30 . And

that is just what Aclima, a new firm in San Francisco, has been doing over the

past few months. It has been trying out monitoring stations that are 31 to

yield minute-to-minute maps of 32 air pollution. Such stations will also be

able to keep an eye on what is happening inside buildings, including offices.

To this end, Aclima has been 33 with Google's Street View system. Davida

Herzl, Aclima's boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when

San Francisco's transit workers went on strike and the city's 34 were forced

to use their cars. Conversely, "cycle to work" days have done their job

by 35 pollution lows.

A) assisted B) collaborating C) consequence D) consumers E) creating F)

detail G) domestic H) frequently I) inhabitants J) innovation K) intended L)

outdoor M) pollutants N) restricted O) sum

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 Sheet 2.

As Tourists Crowd Out Locals, Venice Faces 'Endangered' List

A) On a recent fall morning, a large crowd blocked the steps at one of

Venice's main tourist sites, the Rialto Bridge. The Rialto Bridge is one of the

four bridges spanning the Grand Canal. It is the oldest bridge across the

canal, and was the dividing line between the districts of San Marco and San

Polo. But on this day, there was a twist: it was filled with Venetians, not

tourists.

B) "People are cheering and holding their carts in the air," says Giovanni

Giorgio, who helped organize the march with a grass-roots organization called

Generazione '90. The carts he refers to are small shopping carts—the symbol

of a true Venetian. "It started as a joke," he says with a laugh. "The idea was

to put blades on the wheels! You know? Like Ben Hur. Precisely like that, you

just go around and run people down."

C) Venice is one of the hottest tourist destinations in the world. But that's a

problem. Up to 90,000 tourists crowd its streets and canals every day—far

outnumbering the 55,000 permanent residents. The tourist increase is one

key reason the city's population is down from 175,000 in the 1950s. The

outnumbered Venetians have been steadily fleeing. And those who stick

around are tired of living in a place where they can't even get to the market

without swimming through a sea of picture-snapping tourists. Imagine,

navigating through 50,000 people while on the way to school or to work.

D) Laura Chigi, a grandmother at the march, says the local and national

governments have failed to do anything about the crowds for decades,

because they're only interested in tourism—the primary industry in Venice,

worth more than $3 billion in 2015. "Venice is a cash cow," she says, "and

everyone wants a piece."

E) Just beyond St. Mark's Square, a cruise ship passes, one of hundreds

every year that appear over their medieval (

中世纪的

) surroundings. Their

massive wake creates waves at the bottom of the sea, weakening the

foundations of the centuries-old buildings themselves. "Every time I see a

cruise ship, I feel sad," Chigi says. "You see the mud it drags; the destruction

it leaves in its wake? That hurts the ancient wooden poles holding up the city

underwater. One day we'll see Venice break down."

F) For a time, UNESCO, the cultural wing of the United Nations, seemed to

agree. Two years ago, it put Italy on notice, saying the government was not

protecting Venice. UNESCO considers the entire city a World Heritage Site, a

great honor that means Venice, at the cultural level, belongs to all of the

world's people. In 2014, UNESCO gave Italy two years to manage Venice's

flourishing tourism or the city would be placed on another list—World

Heritage In Danger, joining such sites as Aleppo and Palmyra, destroyed by

the war in Syria.

G) Venice's deadline passed with barely a murmur (

嘟哝

) this summer, just as

UNESCO was meeting in Istanbul. Only one representative, Jad Tabet from

Lebanon, tried to raise the issue. "For several years, the situation of heritage

in Venice has been worsening, and it has now reached a dramatic situation,"

Tabet told UNESCO. "We have to act quickly—there is not a moment to

waste."

H) But UNESCO didn't even hold a vote. "It's been postponed until 2017,"

says Anna Somers, the founder and CEO of The Art Newspaper and the

former head of Venice in Peril, a group devoted to restoring Venetian art. She

says the main reason the U.N. cultural organization didn't vote to declare

Venice a World Heritage Site In Danger is because UNESCO has become

"intensely politicized. There would have been some back-room negotiations."

I) Italy boasts more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country in

the world, granting it considerable power and influence within the

organization. The former head of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, which

oversees heritage sites, is Francesco Bandarin, a Venetian who now serves as

UNESCO's assistant director-general for culture.

J) Earlier this year, Italy signed an accord with UNESCO to establish a task

force of police art detectives and archaeologists (

考古学家

) to protect cultural

heritage from natural disasters and terror groups, such as ISIS. The accord

underlined Italy's global reputation as a good steward of art and culture.

K) But adding Venice to the UNESCO endangered list—which is dominated by

sites in developing and conflict-ridden countries—would be an international

embarrassment, and could even hurt Italy's profitable tourism industry. The

Italian Culture Ministry says it is unaware of any government efforts to

pressure UNESCO. As for the organization itself, it declined a request for an

interview.

L) The city's current mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has ridiculed UNESCO and told it

to mind its own business, while continuing to support the cruise ship industry,

which employs 5,000 Venice residents.

M) As for Venetians, they're beyond frustrated and hoping for a solution soon.

"It's a nightmare for me. Some situations are really difficult with tourists

around," says Giorgio as he navigates around a swelling crowd at the Rialto

Bridge. "There are just so many of them. They never know where they are

going, and do not walk in an orderly manner. Navigating the streets can be

exhausting."

N) Then it hits him: This crowd isn't made up of tourists. They're Venetians.

Giorgio says he's never experienced the Rialto Bridge this way in all his 22

years. "For once, we are the ones who are blocking the traffic," he says

delightedly. "It feels unreal. It feels like we're some form of endangered

species. It's just nice. The feeling is just pure." But, he worries, if tourism

isn't managed and his fellow locals continue to move to the mainland, his