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Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear twolong conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear fourquestions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the fourchoices marked A)，B)，C) and D). Then mark the correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversationyou have just heard.
1. A) A six- month-long negotiation. B) Preparations for the party.
C) A project with a troublesome client. D) Gift wrapping for the colleagues.
2. A) Take wedding photos. B) Advertise her company.
C) Start a small business. D) Throw a celebration party.
3. A) Hesitant. B) Nervous.
C) Flattered. D) Surprised.
4. A) Start her own bakery. B) Improve her baking skill.
C) Share her cooking experience. D) Prepare for the wedding.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the recording youhave just heard.
5. A) They have to spend more time studying. B) They have to participate in clubactivities.
C) They have to be more responsible for whatthey do.
D) They have to choose a specific academicdiscipline.
6. A) Get ready for a career. B) Make a lot of friends.
C) Set a long-term goal. D) Behave like adults.
7. A) Those who share her academic interests. B) Those who respect her student commitments.
C) Those who can help her when she is in need. D) Those who go to the same clubs as shedoes.
8. A) Those helpful for tapping theirpotential. B)Those conducive toimproving their social skills.
C)Those helpful for cultivating individualinterests. D)Those conducive to their academic studies.
Section B
Directions:In this section, you will hear twopassages. 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 aquestion, 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 linethrough the centre.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage youhave just heard.
9.A) They break away from traditional ways ofthinking.
B) They are prepared to work harder than anyoneelse.
C) They are good at refining old formulas.
D) They bring their potential into full play.
10. A) They contributed to the popularity ofskiing worldwide.
B) They resulted in a brandnew style of skiingtechniques.
C) They promoted the scientific use of skiingpoles.
D) They made explosive news in the sportsworld.
11. A) He was recognized as a genius in theworld of sports.
B)He competed in all major skiing events in theworld.
C)He won three gold medals in one WinterOlympics.
D)He broke three world skiing records in threeyears.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage youhave just heard.
12. A) They appear restless. B) They lose consciousness.
C) They become upset. D) They die almost instantly.
13. A) It has an instant effect on your bodychemistry. B)It keeps returning to youevery now and then.
C)It leaves you with a long lasting impression. D)It contributes to the shaping of you mind.
14. A) To succeed while feeling irritated. B) To feel happy without good health.
C) To be free from frustration and failure. D) To enjoy good health while in darkmoods.
15. A) They are closely connected. B) They function in a similar way.
C) They are too complex to understand. D) They reinforce each other constantly.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hearthree recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. Therecordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choosethe best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recordingyou have just heard.
16. A) They differ in their appreciation ofmusic. B) They focus their attentionon different things.
C) They finger the piano keys in differentways. D) They choose different piecesof music to play.
17. A) They manage to cooperate well with theirteammates.
B) They use effective tactics to defeat theircompes.
C) They try hard to meet the spectators’expectations.
D) They attach great importance to highperformance.
18. A) It marks a breakthrough in behavioralscience. B) It adopts a conventionalapproach to research.
C) It supports a piece of conventional wisdom. D) It gives rise to controversy amongexperts.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recordingyou have just heard.
19. A) People’s envy of slim models. B) People’s craze for good health.
C) The increasing range of fancy products. D) The great variety of slimming products.
20. A) They appear vigorous. B) They appear strange.
C)They look charming. D) They look unhealthy.
21.A) Culture and upbringing. B) Wealth and social status.
C)Peer pressure. D) Media influence.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recordingyou have just heard.
22. A) The relation between hair and skin. B) The growing interest in skin studies.
C)The color of human skin. D) The need of skinprotection.
23. A) The necessity to save energy. B) Adaptation to the hot environment.
C)The need to breathe with ease. D)Dramatic climate changes on earth.
24. A) Leaves and grass. B) Man-made shelter.
C)Their skin coloring. D) Hair on their skin.
25.A) Their genetic makeup began to change. B)Their communities began to grow steadily.
C)Their children began to mix with each other. D)Their pace of evolution began to quicken.
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In thissection, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select oneword for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following thepassage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Eachchoice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the correspondingletter 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.
Questions 26 to 35are based on the following passage.
Pasta is no longeroff the menu, after a new review of studies suggested that the carbohydrate canform part of a healthy diet, and even help people lose weight. For years,nutritionists have recommended that pasta be kept to a 26 , to cut calories,prevent fat build-up and stop blood sugar 27 up.
The low-carbohydratefood movement gave birth to such diets as the Atkins, Paleo and Keto, whichadvised swapping foods like bread, pasta and potatoes for vegetables, fish andmeat. More recently the trend of swapping spaghetti for vegetables has been 28by clean-eating experts.
But now a 29 reviewand analysis of 30 studies by Canadian researchers found that not only doespasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop morethan half a kilogram over four months. The reviewers found that pasta had beenunfairly demonized (妖魔化)because it had been 30 in with other, more ft-promoting carbohydrates.
“Thestudy found that pasta didn’t 3 to weight gain orincrease in body fat,” said lead author Dr JohnSievenpiper. “In 32 the evidence, we can now say withsome confidence that pasta does not have an 33 effect on body weigh outcomeswhen it is consumed as part of a healthy dietary pattern.” In fact, analysis actually showed a small weigh loss 34 toconcerns. perhaps pasta can be part of a healthy diet
Those involved in the35 trials on average ate 3.3 servings of pasta a week instead of othercarbohydrates, one serving equaling around half a cup. They lost around half akilogram over an average follow-up of 12 weeks.
A) adverse B) championed C clinical D) contrary E) contribute F) intimate
G) lumped H) magnified D) minimum J) radiating K) ration L) shooting
M) subscribe N) systematic O) weighing
Section B
Directions: In thissection, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identifythe paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraphmore than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions bymarking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
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A) Retail profits arefalling sharply. Stores are closing. Malls are emptying. The depressing storiesjust keep coming. Reading the earnings announcements of large retail storeslike Macy’s,Nordstrom, and Target is about as uplifting as a tour of an intensive careunit. The interact is apparently taking down yet another industry. Brick andmortar stores (实体店) seem to be going the way of theyellow pages. Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing thatonline retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 andthe first quarter of 2016.
B) But before youdump all of your retail stocks, there are more facts you should consider.Looking only at that 15.2 percent "surge" would be misleading. It wasan increase that was on a small base of 6.9 percent. Even when a tiny numbergrows by a large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.
C) More than 20 yearsafter the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us thatbrick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the firstquarter of 2016. Their data show that only 0.8 percent of retail sales shiftedfrom offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016.
D) So, despite allthe talk about drone (无人机)deliveries to your doorstep, all the retail executives expressing anxiety overconsumers going online, and even a Presidential candidate exclaiming thatAmazon has a "huge antitrust problem," the Census data suggest thatphysical retail is thriving. Of course, the closed stores, depressedexecutives, and sinking stocks suggest otherwise. What's the real story?
E) Many firmsoperating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. The retail industry isgetting reinvented, as we describe in our new book Matchmakers. It's standingin the Path of what Schumpeter called a gale (大风) of creative destruction. That storm hasbeen brewing for some time, and as it has reached gale force, most largeretailers are searching for a response. As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “We’re frankly scratching our heads.”
F) But it’s not happening asexperts predicted. In the peak of the dot. com bubble, brick and mortar retailwas one of those industries the internet was going to kill-and quickly. The
dot.corn bustdiscredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed,onventional retailers’confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak onlinesales. And then the gale hit.
G) It is becomingincreasingly clear that retail reinvention isn’t a simple battle to the death betweenbricks and clicks. It is about devising retail models that work for people whoare making increasing use of a growing array of internet-connected tools tochange how they search, shop, and buy. Creative retailers are using the newtechnologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managinginventory, to marketing, to getting paid.
H) More than dronesdropping a new supply of underwear on your doorstep, Apple’s massively successfulbrick-and-mortar-and-glass retail stores and Amazon’ssmall steps in the same direction are what should keep old-fashioned retailersawake at night. Not to mention the large number of creative new retailers, likeBonobos, that are blending online and offline experiences in creative ways.
I) Retail reinventionis not a simple process, and it’s also not happening on what used to be called "InternetTime." Some internet-driven changes have happened quickly, of course.Craigslist quickly overtook newspaper classified ads and turned newspapereconomics upside down. But many widely anticipated changes weren’t quick, and some haven’t really started.With the benefit of hindsight (后见之明), it looks like theinteract will transform the economy at something like the pace of other greatinventions like electricity. B2B commerce, for example, didn’t move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor evenby 2016, but that doesn’t mean it won’t do so over the next few decades.
J) But the gale isstill blowing. The sudden decline in foot traffic in recent years, even thoughit hasn’tbeen accompanied by a massive decline in physical sales, is a critical warning.People can shop more efficiently online and therefore don’t need to go to as many stores to find what they want. There’s a surplus of physical shopping space for the crowds, which is onereason why stores are downsizing and closing.
K) The rise of themobile phone has recently added a new level of complexity to the process ofretail reinvention. Even five years ago most people faced a choice. Sit at yourcomputer, probably at home or at the office, search and browse, and buy. Orhead out to the mall, or Main Street, look and shop, and buy. Now, just abouteveryone has a smartphone, connected to the internet almost everywhere almostall the time. Even when a retailer gets a customer to walk in the store, shecan easily see if there’s abetter deal online or at another store nearby.
L) So far, the mainthing many large retailers have done in response to all this is to open onlinestores, so people will come to them directly rather than to Amazon and itssmaller online rivals.Many are having the same problem that newspapers have.Even if they get online traffic, they struggle to make enough money online tocompensate for what they are losing offline.
M) A few seem to bemaking this work.Among large traditional retailers, Walmart recently reportedthe best results, leading its stock price to surge, while Macy’s, Target, and Nordstrom’s dropped. Yet Walmart’s year-over-yearonline sales only grew 7 percent, leading its CEO to lament (哀叹), “Growth here is too slow.”Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filedthe one.click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience isfilled with frictions.A recent study graded more than 600 internet retailers onhow easy it was for consumers to shop, buy, and pay.Almost half of the sitesdidn’t get a passing grade and only 18 percent got an Aor B.
N) The turmoil on theground in physical retail is hard to square with the Census data.Unfortunately, part of the explanation is that the Census retail data areunreliable.Our deep 100k into those data and their preparation revealed seriousproblems.It seems likely that Census simply misclassifies a large chunk ofonline sales.It is certain that the Census procedures, which lump the onlinesales of major traditional retailers like Walmart with“non-storeretailers"1ike food trucks.can mask major changes in individual retailcategories.The bureau could easily present their data in more useful ways.butthey have chosen not to.
O) Despite theturmoil, brick and mortar won’t disappear any time soon.The big questions are which, if any, ofthe large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or twobecause they have successfully reinvented themselves, which new players willoperate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shopping malls, and howthe shopping and buying experience will have changed in each retailcategory.Investors shouldn’t write off brick andmortar.Whether they should bet on the traditional players who run those storesnow is another matter
36.Although onlineretailing has existed for some twenty years, nearly half of the internetretailers still fail to receive satisfactory feedback from consumers, accordingto a recent survey.
37.Innovativeretailers integrate internet technologies with conventional retailing to createnew retail models.
38.Despite what theCensus data suggest, the value of physical retail’s stocks has been dropping.
39.Innovative—driven changes in theretail industry didn’t take place as quickly as widelyanticipated.
40. Statisticsindicate that brick and mortar sales still made up the lion’s share of the retailbusiness.
41. Companies thatsuccessfully combine online and offline business models may prove to be a bigconcern for traditional retailers.
42.Brick and mortarretailers’faith in their business was strengthened when the dot com bubble burst.
43. Despite thetremendous challenges from online retailing, traditional retailing will be hereto stay for quite some time.
44. With the rise ofonline commerce, physical retail stores are likely to suffer the same fate as ithe yellow pages.
45. The wide use ofsmartphones has made it more complex for traditional retailers to reinventtheir business.
Section C
Directions: There are2 passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished 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 correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50are based on the following passage.
Professor StephenHawking has warned that the creation of powerful artifcial intelligence (AI)will be “eitherthe best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity”, and praised the creation of an academic institute dedicated toresearching the future of intelligence as “ crucial tothe future of our civilisation and our species”.
Hawking was speakingat the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence(LCFI) atCambridge University, a multi-disciplinary institute that will attempt totackle some of the open-ended questions raised by the rapid pace of developmentin AI research. “Wespend a great deal of time studyin history,” Hawkingsaid, “which, let’s face it, ismostly the history of stupidity. So it;s a welcome change that people arestudying instead the future of intelligence.”
While theworld-renowned physicist has often been cautious about AI, raising concerns thathumanity could be the architect of its own destruction if it creates asuper-intelligence with a will of its own, he was also quick to highlight thepositives that AI research can bring. “The potential benefits of creatingintelligence are huge,” he said. “We cannot predict what we might achieve when our own minds areamplified by AI. Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution,we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by thelast one-industrialisation. And surely we will aim to finally eradicate diseaseand poverty. And every aspect of our lives will be transformed. In short,success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of ourcivilisation.”
Huw Price, the centre’s academic director andthe Bertrand Russell professor of philosophy at Cambridge University, whereHawking is also an academic, said that the centre came about partially as aresult of the university’s Centre for Existential Risk.That institute examined a wider range of potential problems for humanity, whilethe LCFI has a narrow focus.
AI pioneer MargaretBoden, professor of cognitive science at the University of Sussex, praised theprogress of such discussions. As recently as 2009, she said, the topic wasn’t taken seriously, evenamong AI researchers. “AI is hugely exciting,” she said, “but it has limitations, whichpresent grave dangers given uncritical use.”
The academiccommunity is not alone in warning about the potential dangers of AI as well asthe potential benefits. A number of pioneers from the technology industry, mostfamously the entrepreneur Elon Musk, have also expressed their concerns aboutthe damage that a super-intelligent AI could do to humanity.
46. What did StephenHawking think of artificial intelligence?
A) It would be vitalto the progress of human civilisation.
B) It might be ablessing or a disaster in the making.
C) It might presentchallenges as well as opportunities.
D) It would be asignificant expansion of human intelligence.
47. What did Hawkingsay about the creation of the LCFI?
A) It wouldaccelerate the progress of AI research.
B) It would mark astep forward in the AI industry.
C) It was extremelyimportant to the destiny of humankind.
D) It was anachievement of multi-disciplinary collaboration.
48. What did Hawkingsay was a welcome change in AI research?
A) The shift ofresearch focus from the past to the future.
B) The shift ofresearch from theory to implementation.
C) The greateremphasis on the negative impact of AI.
D) The increasingawareness of mankind’spast stupidity.
49. What concerns didHawking raise about AI?
A) It may exceedhuman intelligence sooner or later.
B) It may ultimatelyover-amplify the human mind.
C) Super-intelligencemay cause its own destruction.
D) Super-intelligencemay eventually ruin mankind.
50. What do we learnabout some entrepreneurs from the technology industry?
A) They are muchinfluenced by the academic community.
B) They are mostlikely to benefit from AI development.
C) They share thesame concerns about AI as academics.
D) They believe theycan keep AI under human control.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55are based on the following passage.
The market forproducts designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by nextyear, and startups (初创公司)want in on the action. What they sometimes lack is feedback from the people whothey hope will use their products. So Brookdale, the country’s largest owner of retirement communities, has been inviting a fewselect entrepreneurs just to move in for a few days, show off their productsand hear what the residents have to say.
That’s what brought DayleRodriguez, 28, all the way from England to the dining room of Brookdale SouthBay in Torrance, California. Rodriguez is the community and marketing manager fora company called Sentab. The startup’s product,SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers toaccess email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and aremote control.
“It’s nothing new, it’s nothing too complicatedand it’s natural because lots of people have TVremotes,”says Rodriguez.
But none of that isthe topic of conversation in the Brookdale dining room. Instead, Rodriguezsolicits residents’advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend theafternoon. Playing cards was on the agenda, as well as learning to play mahjong(麻将).
Rodriguez says it’s important thatresidents here don’t feel like he’s selling them something. “I’ve had more feedback in a passive approach,”hesays. “Playing pool, playing cards, having dinner,having lunch,”all work better “thangoing through a survey of questions. When they get to know me and to trust me,knowing for sure I’m not selling them something—there’ll be more honest feedback from them.”
Rodriguez is just theseventh entrepreneur to move into one of Brookdale’s 1,100 senior livingcommunities. Other new products in the program have included a kind offull-body blow dryer and specially designed clothing that allows people withdisabilities to dress and undress themselves.
Mary Lou Busch, 93,agreed to try the Sentab system. She tells Rodriguez that it might be good forsomeone, but not for her.
“Ihave the computer and FaceTime, which I talk with my family on,”she explains. She also has an iPad and a smartphone. “So I do pretty much everything I need to do.”
To be fair, ifRodriguez had wanted feedback from some more technophobic (害怕技术的) seniors, he mighthave ended up in the wrong Brookdale community. This one is located in theheart of Southern California’s aerospace corridor. Manyresidents have backgrounds in engineering, business and academic circles.
But Rodriguez sayshe's still learning something important by moving into this Brookdalecommunity: “Peopleare more tech-proficient than we thought.”
And besides, whereelse would he learn to play mahjong?

51. What does thepassage say about the startups?
A) They never losetime in upgrading products for seniors.
B) They want to havea share of the seniors’goods market.
C) They invite seniorsto their companies to try their products.
D) They try to profitfrom promoting digital products to seniors.
52. Someentrepreneurs have been invited to Brookdale to
A) have an interviewwith potential customers
B) conduct a surveyof retirement communities
C) collect residents’ feedback on theirproducts
D) show seniorresidents how to use IT products
53. What do we knowabout SentabTV?
A) It is a TV programcatering to the interest of the elderly.
B) It is a digital TVwhich enjoys popularity among seniors.
C) It is a TVspecially designed for seniors to view programs.
D) It is acommunication system via TV instead of a computer.
54. What doesRodriguez say is important in promoting products?
A) Winning trust fromprospective customers.
B) Knowing the likesand dislikes of customers.
C) Demonstratingtheir superiority on the spot.
D) Respondingpromptly to customer feedback.
55. What do we learnabout the seniors in the Brookdale community?
A) Most of them areinterested in using the Sentab.
B) They are quite atease with high-tech products.
C) They have much incommon with seniors elsewhere.
D) Most of them enjoya longer life than average people.
Part Ⅳ Translation (30minutes)
Directions: For thispart, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese intoEnglish.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
成语(Chineseidioms)是汉语中的一种独特的表达方式，大多由四个汉字组成。它们高度简练且形式固定，但通常能形象地表达深刻的含义。成语大多数来源于古代的文学作品，通常与某些神话、传说或者历史事件有关。如果不知道某个成语的出处，就很难理解其确切含义。因为，学习成语有助于人们更好地理解传统文化。成语在日常会话和文学创作中广泛使用。恰当使用成语可以使一个人的语言更具表现力，交流更有效。