There is a variety of positions （） _______ for you.

听力原文：W: Oh, I'm fed up with my job!

M: Hey, there is a perfect job for you in the paper today. You might be interested.

W: Oh, what is it? What do they want?

M: Wait a minute. Eh, here it is. The European Space Agency. It is recruiting translators.

W: The European Space Agency?

M: Well, that's what it says. They need an English translator to work from French or German.

W: So they need a degree in French or German, I suppose. Well, I've got that. What's more, I have plenty of experience. What else are they asking for?

M: Just that. A university degree and three or four years of experience as a translator in a professional environment. They also say the person should have a lively and inquiring mind, effective communication skills and the ability to work individually or as a part of the team.

W: Well, if I stay at my present job much longer, I won't have any mind or skills left. By the way, what about salary? I just hope it isn't lower than what I get now.

M: It's said to be negotiable. It depends on the applicant's education and experience. In addition to basic salary, there is a list of extra benefits. Have a look yourself.

W: Hm... travel and social security plus relocation expenses are paid. Hey, this isn't bad. I really want the job.

(20)

A．She is thirsty for promotion.

B．She wants a much higher salary.

C．She is tired of her present work.

D．She wants to save travel expenses.

[1] It’s time for you to take step No. 1 and acknowledge that there is a problem that you are powerless to resolve—that the moment you and your date finish ordering dinner you pull out your smartphones and start texting so you don’t have to face the possibility of silence; that you have come to believe that you more-or-less actually have read War and Peace because you read the plot summary on Wikipedia; that you find out what your kid is up to not by talking to her but by monitoring her Facebook page; that at work you simply cannot go more than 10 minutes without surreptitiously checking email no matter how much else you have to do.

[2] But think of the upsides. You can never get lost anymore, you always know how to pack for wherever it is you’re going. You deal with fewer mediocre meals, fewer hotels with lousy service. There are no ticket lines for the movie, no need for pick-up lines at bars or excruciating intro Q-and-As at parties, no risk of boredom as you play Temple Run or check stock prices between subway stops. Gone is the frustration of not being able to identify the song you’re hearing, or the inadequacy of not knowing the meaning of the acronym that the know-it-all in the next office used at yesterday’s staff meeting. Instant expertise on every subject, and all the data you could imagine to back up your own personal convictions about the evils of gluten, delivered to your brain in predigested paragraphs. Camera at the ready for every photo op, voice recorder for whatever idea pops into your head and out of your mouth. So what if your attention span has been fragmented into nanoseconds, if you measure your social life by Facebook friends, your professional worth by Google hits, and the worst words you can imagine are “airplane mode”?

[3] We are all one-marshmallow OCD narcissists, granted by our devices the magic of comprehensive instant gratification, of self-reinforcing world views, of control over the daily minutia of our fates and fortunes. To not be irrevocably addicted to our smartphones would be senseless.

[4] That being said, why is it that the essence of our app-mediated existence seems so eerily reminiscent of some of our most famous and enduring visions of dystopia? In Brave New World, for example, Aldous Huxley invents a society where material consumption, genetically tailored education, good pharmaceuticals, and recreational sex keep everyone happy and in line. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, people are continuously entertained via wall-sized television screens, while books, over time, have become progressively condensed and finally, by popular demand, are burned lest their ideas offend someone. Both novels—and here we can add 1984 to the list—portray the international simplification of complex and ambiguous ideas—dumbing down, in our own dumbed-down parlance—communicated relentlessly through advanced technologies, as central to how societies anesthetize themselves, achieve material satisfaction, and come to be passively dominated by authoritarian regimes.

[5] Of course in our real world the regime is the marketplace, working its inexorable logic through the miracle of technological innovation and the opiate of individualized consumption. It’s barely a metaphor, really—who needs Huxley’s soma when giving everyone what they want is the ultimate drug. And there is no authoritarian big brother to blame, we do this, we tell ourselves, voluntarily and exuberantly through the pursuit of novelty, convenience, entertainment, and approval. We are expressing ourselves. What our dystopian master storytellers did not foresee is that the threat from technology is not a universal and deadening conformity, but quite the opposite, a universal and deadening individuality.

[6] But of course ultimately we find out what our collective identity amounts to. The hundreds of millions of individualized data-generating nodes each known to itself as “me” matter mostly to the logic of our world because they add up to what is quaintly known as “big data,” among whose chief beneficiaries are the companies that use the data to personalize their marketing in a virtuous feedback loop that makes them more money and makes you want to keep on keeping up. And then there is the security state that is increasingly able to isolate, identify, and anticipate aberrant behavioral patterns among potential undesirable, turning you into a predictable particle, but at least you are a safe particle. Old-fashioned civil libertarians and social conservatives may cavil about privacy and agency and responsibility and other abstractions, but screw them, the market is free, and information is free, and we are each made free through well-informed consumer choice. And so our personalized technologies, delivered through the marketplace, reinforce and gratify an obsession with the individual, where we all get to live in our own caul of information and stimulation and positive reinforcement, our own little narcissphere.

[7] Nothing can be worse for civil society than a culture where everyone feels like they can get whatever they want, whenever they want it. If our smartphones aren’t the cause of that, they are certainly resonant co-conspirators, as they compel our continual devoted attention, at once isolating us from one another, while stripping our cognitive landscapes of an appreciation of the necessity and yes, even the virtue, of ambiguity, unpredictability, risk, conflict, and compromise.

56、What is the main idea of the first paragraph?()

A.It seems that people today cannot live without their smartphones.

B.As soon people finish ordering dinner they pull out their smartphones.

C.People today read the novels on Wkipedia.

D.Parents today monitor their children’s Facebook pages.

57、What is the topic sentence of the second paragraph?()

A.The last sentence.

B.The first sentence.

C.The second sentence.

D.The third sentence.

58、All of the following novels belong to novels of dystopia except __________.

A.1984

B.Brave New World

C.War and Peace

D.Fahrenheit 451

59、Smartphones have the following upsides except __________.

A.You can never get lost anymore.

B.You deal with fewer mediocre meals, fewer hotels with lousy service.

C.There are not ticket lines for the movie.

D.You are not able to identify the song you are hearing.

60、According to the fifth paragraph, what is the regime in our real world?()

A.The marketplace.

B.The technology.

C.The smartphone.

D.The Internet.

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 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

The comparatively treeless plains of North Africa have suffered a progressive drying up, both

【S1】______and man-made, but the region was【S2】______so rich in fertile soil that the district we now know as the Libyan Desert was, in the old days, part of the granary(粮仓)of the Roman Empire, and the centre of the Sahara【S3】______a busy trading population for a long period. That was when there were【S4】______. in plenty and the fields were the traditional "fields of the woods" -- clearings in the forest -- and therefore always tree【S5】______

It is the trees that lift the water and send【S6】______into the air so that it may fall as dew or rain further on. Trees reduce the speed of the wind, and provide shelter and shade; the roots【S7】______minerals in the soil and these are carried to the leaves which, when they have fulfilled their function, return to the earth, giving the soil the combination of minerals that plants require.

But through the ages Africa has been【S8】______. Successive invaders have felled the forest to provide grazing lands for their flocks and herds. With the removal of the essential tree cover, the water【S9】______was broken, the earth became feverish and sick, and in course of time was unable to support those who had broken the【S10】______of life by removing the earth's green mantle -- the trees.

A)moisture I)fed

B)cycle J)exploited

C)water K)social

D)rhythm L)natural

E)contain M)forest

F)trap N)usually

G)once O)trees

H)surrounded

【S1】

There is always ______ for improvement no matter how much you have already done.

A、place

B、area

C、room

D、space

There is a business letter below. After reading it, you should give brief answers to the 5 questions (No.41 through No.45) that follow. The answevs (in not more than 3 words) should be written after the corresponding numbers on the Answer Sheet.

Gmail(Google Email)Notice

Subject： Your Gmail account has bean inactive for a long time

From “The Gmail Team”gmail-noreply@gmail,com

Time2008-06-26 14：12：15

To wanghaiyan@163.com

Hi there，

We’ve noticed that you haven’t used your Gmail account，wanghaiyan@ gmail.com，for quite some time.In order to make Gmail better for our users，we’ve added a lot of things in the last few months and we hope you’ll want to start using your account again.

Stop worrying about storage(存储量).Your account now has 5000 megabytes(兆字节)of free storage and our plan is to continue growing your storage by giving you more space as we are able.

The Gmail interface(界面)is now available in 12 languages.If you don’t see the language you want on this list.Look for it in the future because we’re going to keep adding more.

We’re still working hard every day to build for you the best email service around.But to keep Gmail great for our users.we may have to close inactive accounts after 9 months.So，we hope you’11 give us another chance.To log in(登录)to your Gmail account，just visit：http：//gmail,google,com.

Thanks.

The Gmail Team

41.Why does the Gmail Team write to the Gmail user?

Because the user hasn’t used his/her Gmail_______for quite some time.

42.What kind of storage the user’s account now has?

It now has 5，000 megabytes of_________________________storage.

43.How many languages are available in the Gmail interface now?

__________________________________________________________.

44.What may happen to the user’s account if it is inactive for 9 months?

The Gmail team may have to_______________the user’s account.

45.What is the purpose of the Gmail team in sending this email?

They hope the user will______________the account.

All of the information that you need to apply for your visa is available，free of charge，from WorldBridge’s website，our commercial partner．

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B．你申请签证时不要忘了向我们的贸易网站WorldBridge提供全部所需要的个人信息。

C．你申请签证所需要的全部免费材料都可以从我们的商业网站WorldBridge随时索取。

D．你申请签证所需要的全部信息可从我们商业合作伙伴WorldBridge的网站上免费获取。

What do we mean by a perfect English pronunciation? In one 56there are as many different kinds of English as there are speakers of it.57 two speakers speak in exactly the same 58 We can always hear differences 59 them, and the pronunciation of English 60 a great deal in different geographical 61. How do we decide what sort of English to use as a 62 ? This is not a question that can be 63in the same way for all foreign learners of English.64you live in a part of the world 65India or West Africa, where there is a long 66 of speaking English for general communication purpose, you should 67 to acquire a good variety of the pronunciation of this area．It would be 68 in these circumstances to use as a model BBC English or 69of the sort. On the other hand, if you live in a country 70 there is no traditional use of English, you must take 71your model some form. of 72English pronunciation. It does not 73very much which form. you choose. The most 74way is to take as your model the sort of English you can 75 most often.

根据以上内容，回答题。

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A.meaning

B.sense

C.case

D.situation