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Section B （每小题1分）
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. Please blacken the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.(10 marks)
A good deal of fascinating research has been done about the reading patterns of young people, and it is surprising to discover at what an early age children start expressing preferences for particular kind of books. A recent report, which 26 in detail the reading habits of primary-school children, showed that even seven-year-old boys and girls have 27 views about what they want to read. Girls, in general, read more, and 28 more girls than boys preferred reading stories. Boys were showing a 29 for the more instant appeal of picture stories, or else books about their hobbies.
These tastes continue 30 until the children are teenagers. Apparently girls read more in general, but more fiction in particular. You could say that there are more 31 for girls to read fiction: magazines 32 the fiction habit in girls in their early teens, and by their late teens they have probably moved on to the adult women?s magazines. Teenage boys 33 to buy magazines about their hobbies: motorcycles, heavy transport and so on.
Adult reading tastes are also the 34 of research. Again the number of women who read for pleasure is 35 higher than the number of men. It seems that the majority of women still want love stories. There has also been some analysis of what men actually read. Apparently only 38 per cent of men read anything, but 50 per cent of what they read is fiction in the form of action-packed stories of space or gunmen. A. cautiously F. far B. examined G. taste C. discovered D. considerably E. unchanged H. claim I. tend J. clear K. encourage L. circumstances M. subject N. opportunities O. equivalent 英语试题 第9页(共14页)
Part II Integrated Testing (30 marks, 30minutes) Section A Cloze （每小题1分）
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet.(20 marks)
It?s lunch time at a popular restaurant in Hong Kong and the place is quite buzzing. The 36 from the 50 or more diners makes 37 hard to have a conversation. When customers are asked if they find it noisy, the most 38 response is “Sorry, what did you say?”
And it?s 39 wonder. Five minutes inside the restaurant is 40 eating in a factory and 41 dining at a live rock concert—a noise level that can cause permanent harm 42 less than ten minutes.
“OK, yes, it?s noisy,” says a waitress, who has to lean in close to hear us ask 43 she can work in this noisy place eight hours each day, “but I?m so 44 to it I don?t even notice it any more.”
From restaurants to public transport, shopping malls to schoolyards, we all live, work and play 45 by noise loud enough to cause hearing loss. 46 like the restaurant waitress, most of us are not 47 about the harm noise pollution is doing to us 48 . So to raise the 49 about just how loud it is out there, we 50 the noise level with a certified sound level meter in various public spaces. 51 we found was deafening. Everywhere the noise was well above what the World Health Organization considers the 52 limit of 70 decibels—and some places were loud enough to cause severe hearing and 53 health problems after just a few minutes.
54 the noise around you seems less bothersome, it?s 55 because you are slowly losing your hearing. 36. A. speech 37. A. that 38. A. doubtful 39. A. no 40. A. as
B. scream B. it B. regular B. any B. like
C. noise C. those C. exceptional C. a C. beyond
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D. talk D. them D. common D. so D. between
41. A. already 42. A. on 43. A. how 44. A. related 45. A. replaced 46. A. Thus 47. A. prepared 48. A. all 49. A. level 50. A. obtain 51. A. Where 52. A. expected 53. A. further 54. A. If 55. A. hardly
B. always B. for B. that B. alert B. reserved B. And B. touched B. altogether B. suspicion B. measure B. When B. safe B. little B. Until B. simply
C. at once C. in C. whether C. used C. modified C. But C. concerned C. at least C. point C. discover C. What C. required C. other C. Though C. carefully
D. at times D. from D. who D. prone D. surrounded D. Otherwise D. obliged D. as well D. alarm D. control D. Which D. proper D. another D. Unless D. unconsciously
非选择题部分
注意事项：
用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。
Section B Short Answer Questions （每小题2分）
Directions: In this part there is a short passage followed by five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements with no more than 10 words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet.(10 marks)
Lifestyle is the way a person lives; it includes work, leisure time, hobbies, other interests, and personal philosophy. One person?s lifestyle may be dominated by work with few social activities. Another?s may involve hobbies, recreational activities or personal philosophy.
There is little doubt that lifestyles are changing and that these changes will have an impact on the way business operates in the years ahead. Several cases are causing lifestyle changes in some developed countries.
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First, there is more leisure time than ever before. The workweek is now less than forty hours, as compared with seventy hours a century ago. Some experts believe it will be twenty-five hours or less in a few decades. Several firms have adopted four-day workweeks with more hours per day. Others have cut down on the number of working hours each week. Reduced work schedules mean increased leisure time.
Second, families have fewer children than before—and young couples are postponing childbirth instead of having children early in the marriage. This trend has forced many businesses to modify their competitive strategies. Gerber Products Company used to advertise “babies are our business—our only business”. Now Gerber products include infant and toddler clothing, stuffed animals and accessories such as bottles, baby powder and so on.
Third, people are better educated and more prosperous now than they were earlier. These advantages bring with them the freedom to question current lifestyles and examine new ones. Inquiries of this nature have sometimes led to personal lifestyle changes. Today’s youth, for example, are not only better educated but more independent and individualistic（我行我素的） than past generations.
The business world is only beginning to realize how people?s lifestyles can influence their behavior as employees, consumers and members of society.
56. How many hours did people work a century ago according to the passage?
57. Why have some businesses dealing with baby items changed their promotion strategies? 58. Why are the people in some developed countries more critical about their lifestyles? 59. What does the writer say about today?s young people?
60. Why is it important for the business world to realize the changes in people?s lifestyles?
Part III Translation (30 marks, 30 minutes) （每小题3分） Section A From Chinese to English
Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in the brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet.(15 marks)
61. While people may refer to the Internet for up-to-the-minute news, _______ （网络完全替代报纸是不可能的）.
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