&8226;You are going to be out of the office.&a...

&8226;You are going to be out of the office.

&8226;Write an E-mail to customers:

Reminding them that you are out of the office

Saying when you will be back in the office

Suggesting who should be contacted for urgent questions.

&8226;Write 30-40 words.

&8226;Write on your Answer Sheet.

听力原文：M: Hey，neighbor，can you do me a favor?My wife and I are going out of town this weekend,and I was wondering if you could take care of some of our animals while we're gone. You know our dog，Jaws，don't you?

W: Yeah. My leg still hurts from the 1ast incident.

M: Hey，he's just a playful little beast. He likes to bark a little，and his bark is worse than his bite. Just feed him a can of dog food a day，and make sure he has plenty of water in his dish.

[Oh]And then，take him for a walk around the block.

W: Well，how about if I just throw a Frisbee over the fence to give him some exercise?Wouldn't that work?

M: Ah，and then，he likes to watch the 3:00 soap opera on Channel 4[What?]…and brush his teeth after you give him some doggie treats around 4:00. And，then brush his fur for about twenty minutes. He tends to shed this time of year.

[Ah，what?]And then scratch him around the ears. Otherwise，he feels neglected.

W: Man，you really pamper your dog. Is that it?

M: Well，and then there's Claws.

W: Claws?Who's Claws?

M: Oh，he's the cat we adopted from the animal shelter，but he's a little temperamental.

W: What do you mean“temperamental”?

M: Well，he has mood swings[Mood swings?]，but he's been doing better since he's been going to the animal therapist. So，be sure to feed him a half cup of cat food two times a day[What?A therapist…]，and don't forget to put on some soft classical music during his nap time at 2:40 P. m. But don't let him out of the house because he might run away and chase the neighbor's dog.

W: You have some high-maintenance animals.

M: Not really. And，don't forget to change the cat 1itter daily，or he might have an accident on the carpet.

[Oh，great. ]And finally，there's Buttercup.

W: Buttercup?Who's Buttercup…?I'm afraid to ask.

M: Ah，she's a sweetie[What?]…if you know how to handle her right.

[Oh，great. ]Wait. Let me get her for you. Here you are.

W: That's…That's a snake…[Hold her. ]That's a big snake with big fangs. Does the snake go to a therapist，too?

M: Of course not…just an anger-management class.

W: Oh!What?

M: I'm joking. Buttercup is a very docile creature，and she never bites anyone she likes. If she doesn't. you'll know because she starts hissing and staring at you…. kind like what she's doing now.

W: Well，I'm leaving. You must be going out of your mind to think I'm going to watch a zoo full of misunderstood animals. You'd better hire some professional help'cause I wouldn't watch them even if you paid me a million dollars.

(26)

A．It can be somewhat aggressive.

B．It eats too much food at one time.

C．The dog might mess on his carpet.

D．It barks too loudly.

Part B (10 points)

You are going to read a text about the situation of the blacks in America, followed by a list of examples and explanations. Choose the best example or explanation from the list for each numbered subheading. There is one extra example which you do not need to use.

Although no longer slavers after the Civil War, American blacks took no significant part in the life of white America except as servants or laborers. Many thousands of them emigrated from the war-ravaged South to the North from 1865 to 1915 in the hope of finding work in the big industrial cities. Whole communities of blacks crowded together into ghettos in New York City, Chicago and Detroit, where once the poor white immigrants had lived. These ghettos, neglected by the city authorities, became slums. The schools to which black children went were hopelessly inadequate. Unemployment in black ghettos remained consistently higher than in white communities.

(41) Serious problems with black ghettos.

Stable family life was difficult to maintain.

(42) The extreme poverty of the blacks.

In the late 1970s, nearly a third of all blacks still belonged to the so-called "underclass", they are so "under-privileged" and poor that they cannot seize the opportunity for advancement.

(43) Efforts to put an end to racial discrimination.

Race relations in the USA continue to be a thorny problem,

(44) Improvements in Ives of the blacks.

Despite some setbacks, race relations are improving.

(45) Prevailing violence in solving racial problems.

It is said that television had an enormous influence on frustrated and hitter blacks, for it showed them bow much better whites on the whole lived than blacks. At the end of the 1960s, there were serious riots in many cities.

The violence quickly died down. Blacks began to use their votes to exert political pressure. Cities like Atlanta (Georgia), Gary (Indiana), and Los Angeles (California) elected black mayors. Integration of schools, despite resistance from white groups, goes on, and the proportion of blacks in American colleges has increased dramatically in the last 20 years. There are reasons to maintain a cautious optimism that progress in race relations will continue.

A. It has been estimated that there are more than 20 million Americans in this category, 10% of the population, including many millions of whites.

B. Blacks are gaining in self-confidence. In more and more areas they are winning control of their communities, and their standard of living is going up faster than that of the poor whites. It is still a hard struggle. There is still prejudice and even some hatred, but in most walks of American life there are now more blacks than ever before.

C. The era of blatant discrimination ended in the 1960s through the courageous actions of thousands of blacks participating in peaceful marches and sit-ins, to force Southern states to implement the Federal desegregation laws in schools and public accommodations. Down came the "whites only" notices in bused, hotels, trains, restaurants, sporting events, restrooms and on park benches that once could be found everywhere throughout the South. Gone were the restrictions that prevented blacks voting. Gone, too, were the hideous lynchings, which since the Civil War had caused the death of thousands of innocent blacks—hanged without trial by white mobs. However, even today, poor, uneducated lacks do not always receive the same degree of justice that the more affluent and better educated can expect.

D. Many blacks chose to keep silent about their unfairness instead of resorting to violence. But their silence was also problem provoking: on the one hand, silence would build up a lot of complaints and hatred in their minds, thus resulting in a negative approach to lif

Part B (10 points)

You are going to read a list of headings and a text about cross-border marriage. Choose the most suitable headings.

A. The golden wedding-ring was put on her finger

B. The foreign groom and the local bride

C. Angels, children escorting the bride

D. Wedding hall

E. Temple and atheistic groom

F. Town hall, a happy bride and groom

Ornamenting the two fingers is only the first step of the "long march". Angel was never as overloaded as today, running from here to there, busy ordering invitation cards and wedding clothes, booking church and restaurant, checking availability of the photographer, the pastor and the official in the town hall, looking for a new home. She was happy and excited. However this long wedding preparation process loaded down with trivial details, gave me a big headache. In France, more and more French cohabit instead of marrying. However, when they decide to marry, they still take their wedding ceremony seriously and usually follow the never changing three traditional chapters.

(41)______.

The third chapter is the wedding breakfast followed by a dance. (The first and the second chapter are the civil wedding and the church wedding). After the church wedding, the newly-weds normally invite their parents and friends to take part in a sumptuous meal and dance in the evening. After champagne flutes are raised all around, the dancing starts. The newly-weds take the lead, dancing lightly and finish the evening by tiredly tripping into their bridal chamber and thus terminate the last chapter of the French marriage.

(42)______.

I grew up in the last seventies and early eighties, the "simple wedding" advocated by the Chinese government had been ingrained in my mind. One day finally I could not help revealing my wish for a simple wedding: "Darling, your wedding plans are far too long and over-elaborate. Let's simplify them and reduce three chapters to only one. It's enough to get married in the town hall!" "No! Marriage is the most important event in my life. I want to make it grand and unforgettable. "Angel refused to concede. However I really wanted to escape the church wedding. "Honey, I wasn't baptized and being an atheist, I am not allowed to go to church. A church wedding is a burden for an atheist like me, and the church wedding for an atheist is also against church rules!" I presented my views vehemently, believing I had the best excuse in the world. "My dear, marriage is a sacred affair; we must go to the church. You are only aware of one aspect of a thing, but ignorant of another. I am a Protestant; there are no strict canons and mumbo-jumbos in Protestantism. If one of the two is Protestant, they are still allowed to marry in a Protestant church." I was rendered speechless.

(43)______.

The sacred moment arrived. The foreign groom and the local bride, surrounded by her family members, arrived at the marriage hall. "Do you take this woman as your wife?" "Yes!" A myriad of thoughts welled up in my mind: "I'd quit my highly coveted job in China and gone through innumerable trials and tribulations to come to Europe to join my Chinese lover, but I was jilted. Now I'd found an oasis of love, but far from my homeland The girl with me today, though from a different cultural background, with a different way of thinking and behaving, is simple, pure and kind-hearted like an angel. I'd suffered from the wandering life in Europe. But after suffering comes happiness. In a few minutes she will proclaim the end of my wandering and homeless life. "Full of deep feeling I gazed at this western beauty, shining with dazzling splendor and held her hand tight in mine.

(44)______.

"Do you take this man as your husband?" Brimming with tears, choking with sobs, Angel nodded her approval. Being a traditional French girl, she'd never

If you are going out for walk, Ill come along and keep you_____.

A．company

B．companion

C．companionship

D．companies

Part B (10 points)

You are going to read a list of headings and a text about the relationship between women and business. Choose the most suit able heading from the list for each numbered paragraph. The first and last paragraphs of the text are not numbered.

Every year, Fortune magazine celebrates women in the top echelons of corporate America by publishing a list Of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. Their titles are impressive—CEO, chairman, president—and photos portray them as polished and confident. What an inspiration they could be to the young women following them.

(41) But what if those young women don't aspire to a comer office? A week after the Fortune list appeared on newsstands, a major national study of teenagers revealed a surprising finding-while 97 percent of girls polled expect to work to support themselves or their families, only 9 percent want careers in business. Among boys, the figure is 15 percent. "Girls of this generation are quite ambitious, which is exciting," says Fiona Wilson, a professor at Simmons College School of Management and an author of the study, which polled more than 3,000 girls and 1,200 boys in middle school and high school. She finds it encouraging that half the girls prefer professions such as doctors, lawyers, and architects. "We're not going back to the stereotype of their mothers-generation, where women were thinking about being nurses and teachers."

(42) But why do girls shy away from business? The number of women applying to business schools has dropped off. By contrast, women make up half the students in medical and law schools.

(43) Unlike boys in the study, who say they want to earn a lot of money, girls place great importance on helping others and improving society. But they don't see connections between those goals and business, which they equate with finance and numbers. And they're less confident than boys about their business related skills. Teen girls also place a high value on having enough time to spend with family and friends.

(44) In describing business, Professor Wilson says, "they used many images involving stress-images about dads having to make conference calls on vacation, and moms always being tired when they got home, or complaining about their bad bosses."

(45) As it happens, mothers are the primary source of career advice for daughters. But parents goals are often less well defined for girls than for boys. "Mothers express their hope and aspiration for daughters in terms of wanting them to be happy and have a lot of options, but they don't translate that directly into business opportunities," says Connie Duckworth, head of The Committee of 200, a national women's business leadership group that commissioned the study.

Wilson Calls the lack of women at the top "alarming", adding that the study doesn't offer a lot of hope that future generations will swell the ranks of women in leadership positions.

A. Titles of the echelon

B. Images used in describing business

C. Women student in schools

D. Mothers play an important role

E. Why women are not willing to choose business carrier

F. A surprising poll

听力原文：You are going to be free in the afternoon, aren't you?

(A) Yes, do you need any help?

(B) Yes, I'm going to Tokyo tomorrow.

(C) It costs 20 dollars.

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A．

B．

C．

Part B (10 points)

You are going to read a text about different types of friendship, followed by a list of examples. Choose the best example from the list for each numbered subheading.

I was thinking about how everybody can't be everything to each other, but some people can be something to each other, thank God, from the ones whose shoulder you cry on to the ones whose half slips you borrow to the nameless ones you chat with in the grocery line.

(41) Buddies:

They are the workhorses of the friendship world. They are the people out there on the front lines, defending you from loneliness and boredom.

(42) Working Friend:

Then there is that special guy at work. Like all the other people at the job site al first he's just part of the scenery. But gradually he starts to stand out from the crowd.

(43) A Faraway Friend

He/she is someone you grew up with or went to school with or lived in the same town as until one of you moved away.

(44) The Former Friend:

Ah, a sad thing. At best a sad memory, at worst a dangerous enemy who is in possession of many of your deepest secrets.

(45) Friends You Love to Hate:

And lest we forget, there are the friends you love to hate.

A New Friend is a tonic unlike any other. Say you meet her at a party, in your bowling league. At a Japanese conversation class, perhaps. Wherever, whenever, there's that spark of recognition. The first time you talk, you can't believe how much you have in common. Suddenly, your life story is interesting again, your insights fresh, your opinion valued. Your various shortcomings are as yet completely invisible. It's almost like falling in love.

A. They call at inopportune times. They say stupid things. They butt in, they boss you around, they embarrass you in public. They invite themselves over. They take advantage. You've done the best you can, but they need professional help. On top of all this, they love you to death and are convinced they're your best friends on the planet.

B. They call you up, they listen to your complaints, they celebrate your successes and curse your misfortunes, and you do the same for them in return. They hold out through innumerable crises before concluding that the person you're dating is no good, and even then understand if you ignore their good counsel. They accompany you to a movie with subtitles or to see the diving pig at Aquarena Springs. They feed your cat when you are out of town and pick you up from the air port when you get back.

C. While so many family relationships are tinged with guilt and obligation, a relationship with a Relative Friend is relatively worry-free. You don't even have to hide your vices from this delightful person. When you slip out Aunt Joan's back door for a cigarette, she is already there.

D. Your friendship is cemented by jokes about coworkers and thoughtful favors around the office. Did you see Ryan's hair? "Want half of my bread." Soon you know the names of his turtles, what he did last Friday night, exactly which model CD player he wants for his birthday. His hand writing is as familiar to you as your own.

E. But what was it that drove you apart? A misunderstanding, a betrayed confidence, an un-repaid loan, an ill-conceived flirtation. A poor choice of spouse can do in a friendship just like that. Going into business together can be a serious mistake. Time, money, distance, religions: all noted friendship killers. You quit doing drugs, you're not such good friends with your dealer anymore.

F. Without them, you would never get any mail addressed in handwriting. A Faraway Friend calls late at night, invites you to her wedding, always says she is coming to visit but rarely shows up. An actual visit from a Faraway Friend is a cause for celebration and parties of all kinds. Cigarettes, Ch

Part B (10 points)

You are going to read a list of headings and a text about laughing. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-F for each numbered paragraph (41-45). The first paragraph of the text is not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

[A] What have they found？

[B] Is it true that laughing can make us healthier？

[C] So why do people laugh so much？

[D] What makes you laugh？

[E] How did you come to research it？

[F] So what's it for？

Why are you interested in laughter？

It's a universal phenomenon, and one of the most common things we do. We laugh many times a day, for many different reasons, but rarely think about it, and seldom consciously control it. We know so little about the different kinds and functions of laughter, and my interest really starts there. Why do we do it？ What can laughter teach us about our positive emotions and social behaviour？ There's so much we don't know about how the brain contributes to emotion and I think we can get at understanding this by studying laughter.

41.

Only 10 or 20 per cent of laughing is a response to humour. Most of the time it's a message we send to other people—communicating joyful disposition, a willingness to bond and so on. It occupies a special place in social interaction and is a fascinating feature of our biology, with motor, emotional and cognitive components. Scientists study all kinds of emotions and behaviour, but few focus on this most basic ingredient. Laughter gives us a clue that we have powerful systems in our brain which respond to pleasure, happiness and joy. It's also involved in events such as release of fear.

42.

My professional focus has always been on emotional behaviour. I spent many years investigating the neural basis of fear in rats, and came to laughter via that route. When I was working with rats, I noticed that when they were alone, in an exposed environment, they were scared and quite uncomfortable. Back in a cage with others, they seemed much happier. It looked as if they played with one another—real rough-and-tumble—and I wondered whether they were also laughing. The neurobiologist Jaak Panksepp had shown that juvenile rats make short vocalisations, pitched too high for humans to hear, during rough-and- tumble play. He thinks these are similar to laughter. This made me wonder about the roots of laughter.

43.

Everything humans do has a function, and laughing is no exception. Its function is surely communication. We need to build social structures in order to live well in our society and evolution has selected laughter as a useful device for promoting social communication. In other words, it must have a survival advantage for the species.

44.

The brain scans are usually done while people are responding to humorous material. You see brainwave activity spread from the sensory processing area of the occipital lobe, the bit at the back of the brain that processes Visual signals, to the brain's frontal lobe. It seems that the frontal lobe is involved in recognising things as funny. The left side of the frontal lobe analyses the words and structure of jokes while the right side does the intellectual analyses required to "get" jokes. Finally, activity spreads to the motor areas of the brain controlling the physical task of laughing. We also know about these complex pathways involved in laughter from neurological illness and injury. Sometimes after brain damage, tumours, stroke or brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease, people get "stonefaced syndrome" and can't laugh.

45.

I laugh a lot when I watch amateur videos of children, because they're so natural. I'm sure they're not forcing anything funny to happen. I don't part