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听力原文：Woman A: This is International Communication. May I help you?

Woman B: Yes, I believe you have a session tomorrow morning. Could you give me some more information about that?

Woman A: Yes, of course. The guest speaker is Daisy Miller from Harvard University, and she'll be lecturing about Improving Interdepartmental Communication.

Woman B: That sounds very interesting. And when does the session begin?

Woman A: At 9:45 and lunch will be served at 12:00.

Woman B: Is there an admission fee?

Woman A: Yes, the lecture and lunch are $ 5 per person.

Woman B: Do you have any idea when it will end?

Woman A: I think about 4:30 p.m. at the latest.

Woman B: Very well. Thank you very much.

&8226;Look at the note below.

&8226;You will hear a woman asking for information.

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION LECTURE

Date: June 6, 2005

Speaker: Pro. Daisy Miller

Topic: Improving (9)______ Communication

Starting at (10)______ finishing at (11)______ Lunch 12:00

(12)______ Fee: $ 5 per person.

ese company didn't exist. They now supply more cheese to the foreign market than any other cheese company their size. Originally, Ty-Ban was a small farm rearing cattle and sheep, but the family realised they would have to diversify or go out of business. They started experimenting with some old recipes for organic cheese, in spite of warnings that the market was saturated, and came up with a winner.

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&8226;Read the article below about video games.

&8226;Choose the best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps.

&8226;For each gap 8-12, mark one letter (A-G) on your Answer Sheet.

&8226;Do not use any letter more than once.

Strong players

Video games let you escape into an alternative reality -- something gaming firms know about at first hand. For as other technology firms face stagnant or shrinking markets, the video-games industry seems to inhabit a parallel universe. It has had a bumper year, maybe the best it ever will. Global sales of games software and hardware will exceed $31 billion this year. This summer, UBS Warburg invested 17% of its model technology portfolio in two games publishers, Electronic Arts and Activision. Gaming, it seems, is recession-proof.

The industry is booming because it has its own cycle, as one generation of hardware succeeds another every few years. (8) Games consoles are flying off the shelves. The current line-up is of Sony's PlayStation2, the market leader by far, plus Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube, which are fighting for a distant second place.

Each gaming boom is bigger than the last. Children who have grown up with games keep on playing, which expands the market. It also increases the players' average age: the average American gamer is 28. (9) This shift is reflected in the rise of "mature"-rated games, which now account for 13% of the American market, up from 6% in 2001.

(10) Many observers are optimistic about the prospects for games sales next year, particularly in America. But the figures suggest that 2002 was the peak of the cycle, and that the market will shrink next year. Other observers expect console sales to grow only slightly next year.

Things will then cool off until the next generation of consoles appears in 2005. The next peak is not expected until 2007. (11) Both are dwarfed by console gaming at the moment, but are the focus of much activity, and could provide recurring revenues to help smooth out the industry's cyclical nature.

Online gaming has got off to a small but promising start in recent weeks with the release of adaptors that link consoles over the Internet. In America, Microsoft sold 150,000 starter kits for its "Xbox Live" service within a week of its launch last month. Sony says it has signed up 175,000 subscribers to its rival online service, launched in August. Both services will launch in Europe next year.

Gaming on mobile phones is also taking small but crucial steps forward. Today's phones mostly have one or two simple games built in. The latest handsets have colour screens and can download software remotely. (12) Games take roughly a minute to download, but adding one to a handset is almost as easy as downloading a new ringing tone or screen logo. It is predicted that mobile-gaming revenues will reach $3.5 billion in the next five years; other estimates are higher.

A Older players tend to have more disposable income to spend on games than do teenagers.

B Their processing power matches that of the arcade-game machines of the 1980s, so classic games run well.

C But how much longer will the good times last?

D That cycle, unrelated to the broader economic cycle, is now at or near its peak.

E But the industry has two new tricks up its sleeve, in the form. of online and mobile gaming.

F They are so wisely designed that they can be connected to any game machines.

G It has had a bumper year, maybe the best it ever will.

(8)

&8226;Read the article below about Hikikomori.

&8226;Choose the best sentence to fill in each of the gaps.

&8226;For each gap 8-12,mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet.

&8226;Do not use any letter more than once.

&8226;There is an example at the beginning(0).

Hikikomori has become a major issue in Japan. Loosely translated as "social withdrawal," Hikikomori refers to the state of anomie into which an increasing number of young Japanese seem to fall these days. Socially withdrawn kids typically lock themselves in their bedrooms and refuse to have any contact with the outside world.

They live in reverse: they sleep all day, wake up in the evening and stay up all night watching television or playing video games.

(8) Their funk can last for months, even years in extreme cases. No official statistics are available, but it is estimated that more than one million young Japanese suffer from the affliction. One such young man was the protagonist of my latest novel, Symbiosis Worm.

Hikikomori is a consequence of the phenomenal growth of the Japanese economy during the latter half of the 20th century and the tremendous technological progress the country made during that time. Japanese youth could not afford to be socially withdrawn if their parents were not affluent enough to provide them a home, meals and extras that have come to be thought of as basics--audio and video equipment, software, mobile phones, computers. (9)

Affluent Japanese do not know what kind of lifestyle. to take up now. (10) "Socially withdrawn" people find it extremely painful to communicate with the outside world, and thus they turn to the tools that bring virtual reality into their closed rooms. (11) The country has to accept that World War II ended long ago--and so did the glory days of national restoration and economic growth. We don't need the state to come up with an alternative national goal. Instead Japan should develop into a society in which each member is able to set his or her own aims. That's not easy, but not impossible. If the culture cannot adjust and drowns in a tsunami of technology. (12)

A Some own computers or mobile phones, but most have few or no friends.

B Socially withdrawn kids typically lock themselves in their bedrooms and refuse to have any contact with the outside world.

C Japan, on the other hand, must face reality itself.

D Great changes in a country's social structure have always caused stresses.

E That uncertainty has pulled people further apart and caused a whole raft of social problems. Hikikomori is naturally one of them.

F Japan will end up sinking even deeper into a labyrinth of confusion.

G And there are plenty of newer technological devices for these youths to pursue.

(8)

How to approach Writing Test Part Two

?Part Two counts for two thirds of the total marks in the Writing Test.

?You should spend about 30 minutes on Part Two.

?You will be asked to write a report, proposal or piece of business correspondence.

?You will be given information, such as a letter, advertisement, or charts and graphs, as the starting point for your answer, and will be told who to write to.

?About five 'handwritten' notes will also be given. You must use all these notes when writing your answer, and will need to invent information in connection with some of them. If you leave out any of the five notes, you will lose marks.

Planning

?Read the instructions carefully so that you know what do, and underline the key words.

?Make an outline plan, putting the five notes into a suitable order.

Writing

?Start your answer by briefly saying why you are writing.

?Express your ideas clearly.

?Try to use a wide range of appropriate vocabulary and grammatical structures.

?For a piece of business correspondence, include suitable openings and closings (e.g. Dear Ms Smith and Yours sincerely with your signature), but no addresses.

?Do not present a report or proposal in the form. of a letter.

?Make the formality of the language suitable for the reader(s).

Checking

?After writing, read what you have written, correct mistakes and make improvements. If you want to add anything, use a sign, e.g. *. Put a line through anything you want to omit. Don't rewrite the whole of your answer.

?Hake sure the examiner will be able to read your answer. Use a pen and your normal handwriting (do not write in capital letters).

?Check that you have written your answer in 120 140 words.

?You work for a small chain of clothing stores. The Managing Director has asked you to write a short report on last month's performance.

?Look at the charts and table below, on which you have already made some handwritten notes.

?Then, using all your handwritten notes, write the report for your Managing Director

?Write 120- 140 words.

ions.

?Look at the statements below and the information on transport on the opposite page.

?Which section (A, B, C, or D) does each statement 1--7 refer to?

?For each statement 1--7, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet.

?You will need to use some of these letters more than once.

A

What is to happen about transport? Evidently there are huge and important changes in prospect. A decade or so from now, there will have been yet another transformation in the way in which people and their goods are moved from place to place. Old techniques are being faced with attenuation or even extinction, sometimes because better methods of traveling have come along but sometimes simply because the old methods have become intolerable.

B

The development of recent decades most obviously likely to be continued is the tendency for alternative methods of traveling to coexist, and so to offer potential travelers a choice. Within large cities, underground transport is usually an alternative to several ways of traveling on the surface. Roads, railways and airlines are in competition, and there are still people who cross the North Atlantic by sea. (Most freight goes that way, of course.)

C

Oil tankers could decisively affect the pattern of petroleum distribution from the major oilfields and at the same time encourage the pipeline, which offers the simplest and often the cheapest means of bulk transport. Then, there is the Boeing 747 aircraft, which is likely to do for people what the huge tankers will do for petroleum trunk be increasingly troublesome. All these changes, promised or merely possible in the pattern of transport, have in common what is, in the broadest sense, and economic stimulus.

D

Fast transport between cities separated by a few hundred miles is becoming urgently necessary in densely populated areas. The United States Government is financing a number of exploratory investigations bearing on specific problems linking the major cities on the Atlantic seaboard. However, it remains to be seen whether the result will really beyond schemes for patching up the existing railway network to some of the more ambitious schemes which are sometimes heard of--monorails, pneumatic tubes with trains inside, and deep bored tunnels intended to enable trains to oscillate from one city to another with no expenditure of energy except for overcoming friction and air resistance.

Several means of travel will be present together, in which each can replace the others.