Task 5Directions: The following is part of an intr...

Task 5

Directions: The following is part of an introduction to life insurance. After reading it, you should give brief answers to the 5 questions (No.56 to No.60) that follow. The answers (in no more than 3 words) should be written after the corresponding numbers on the Answer Sheet.

When you buy life insurance，you want a policy that fits your needs at reasonable cost. Your first step is to determine how much life insurance you need. Next，you need to decide how much money you can afford to pay. Finally，you must policy that meets your coverage(保险类别) goals and fits into your financial plan. Once you have completed these steps，you will be able to move ahead and contact several life insurance companies through an agent who will show the fight type of policy for you.

There are many reasons for purchasing life insurance，among which are the following：

Insurance to provide family protection and financial security to surviving family members upon the death of the insured person.

Insurance to cover a particular need upon the insured’s death such as paying off a mortgage or other debts.

56. What should you take into consideration when choosing a life insurance policy?

Both your needs and the ______________________.

Task 4

Directions: The following is part of an index (索引). After reading it, you are required to find the items equivalent to (与…等同) those given in Chinese in the table below. Then you should put the corresponding letters in the brackets on the Answer Sheet, numbered 16 through 20.

A—breeze

B—calm sea

C—clear up

D—dry

E—fog

F—heavy snow

G—high seas

H—light rain

I—partly cloudy

J—shower

K—southeast wind

L—storm

M—the highs

N—the lows

O—typhoon

P—wet

Q—windy

Examples：(A) 微风 (O)台风

( )天气放晴( )大雪

Task 3

Directions: The following is a is part of an instruction. After reading it, you are required to complete the outline below it (No.46 to No.50). You should write your answers briefly (in no more than three words) on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.

NUROFEN RECOVERY(纽洛芬去痛片)

Please carefully before you take this medicine.

Nurofen Recovery dissolves(溶解) quickly on the tongue without the need to use water. It delivers effect .

You should not take Nurofen Recovery if：

—you have had an allergic(过敏的) reaction to aspirin(阿司匹林)

—you have had a worsening of asthma(哮喘) when taking aspirin or similar medicines

—you are under 12 years of age

Administration：

Place a tablet on the tongue，allow it to dissolve and then swallow—now water is required。

Adults, the elderly and children of 12 years and older：

Take 2 tablets，then if necessary，take 1 or 2 tablets every 4 hours. Do not exceed 6 tablets in 24 hours. Not suitable for children under 12 years.

Warnings：

If you take too many tablets by mistake，contact your doctor as soon as possible.

If symptoms persist or if new symptoms occur，consult your doctor.

Possible side effects：

Stomach discomfort or pain，worsening of asthma 01"shortness of breath. If you experience any of these, stop taking the tablets and see your doctor.

NUROFEN RECOVERY

Function：delivering -46_____ from headaches

Feature：dissolving quickly on -47____

People not intended for：1) patients with an allergic reaction to aspirin

2) patients having asthma when taking aspirin

3) children under the age of -48____

Dosage：1) Starting Dose：2 tablets

2) If necessary：take l or 2 tablets -49_____

3) Maximum daily intake：6 tablets

Possible side effects:1) stomach discomfort

2) worsening of asthma

3) -50______

46._____

Task 1

Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.

People all over the world today are beginning to hear and learn more and more about the problem of pollution. Pollution is caused either by man's release of completely new and often artificial (人造) substances into the environment, or by releasing greatly increased amounts of a natural substance (物质), such as oil from oil tankers into the sea.

Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution caused could be controlled if only companies, individuals and governments would make more efforts.In the home there is an obvious need to control litter and waste. Food comes wrapped up three or four times in packages that all have to be disposed of; drinks are increasingly sold in bottles or tins which cannot be reused. This not only causes a litter problem, but also is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, metal and paper. Advertising has helped this process by persuading many of us not only to buy thing we neither want nor need, but also to throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste combine to be a problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying, excess use and careless disposal of the products we use in our daily lives.

The main cause of pollution is______。

A．the release of artificial or natural substances into the environment

B．the production of new industrial goods

C．increased amounts of a natural substance

D．our ever-increasing population

Task 1

Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.

Recently, the events of bomb exploding were often happened in the areas of the world. Meanwhile, two bombs exploded in Algeria Tuesday as a European Union team met with government leaders to discuss the wave of civilian massacres.

One bomb went off at a bus center in the center of the capital of Algiers, killing one person, and an hour later, another bomb blew up in the coastal town of Annaba, killing 3 others. The Algerians agreed to allow EU deputy foreign ministers in to discuss the situation but again, turned down any UN investigation.

What happened in Algeria Tuesday?

A．A bomb explosion.

B．Murder.

C．Massacres.

D．A civil war.

听力原文： Coffee is part of an international industry Research shows that as many as one-third of the people in the world drink coffee. But not everyone may know the story of coffee and how it is produced. One popular story about the discovery of coffee long ago is about Kaldi, (29)a keeper of goats. Kaldi was taking care of his goats in the highlands of Ethiopia where coffee trees had grown for centuries. (29)He noticed that his goats became very excited and active after eating small fruits from a tree. Kaldi reported this discovery to a group of religious workers. When they made a drink out of the fruit, the religious workers realized they could stay awake for long hours of prayer. Coffee trees can grow up to nine meters high, but they are cut short for production. The plant produces a fruit that is called a coffee cherry. When the coffee cherries are ripe and ready to be, picked, they are bright, red and firm. (30)Inside the fruits are the green coffee beans. After these beans are roasted at high temperatures they are ready to be made into a drink.There may only be two main kinds of coffee plants. (31) But geography and climate differences have a big effect on the many different ways coffee can taste. For example, coffee grown in Ethiopia is known for its lively, sharp taste and its flowery smell. Coffee from the island of Sumatra has a full body with an earthy and intense taste.

(30)

A．A hunter.

B．An old woman.

C．A religious worker.

D．A keeper of goats.

根据以下资料，回答下列各题： Directions: The following is a passage about environment．After reading it, you are required to complete the outline below it ( No．46 to No．50 ). You should write your answers briefly ( in no more than three words ) on the Answer Sheet correspondingly. Environment is everything that surrounds us: plants, animals, buildings, country, air, water--in fact eve- rything that can affect us in any way．And environment differs in different parts of the world. Ecology is the science of how living creatures and plants exist together and depend on each other on the local environment Where an environment is undisturbed, the ecology of an area is in balance．But if a creature dies out or an alien (相异的)species is introduced, then the ecology of this area will be upset. Man is a part of the environment and has done more to upset the ecology during his short span on earth than any other living creature．He has poisoned the atmosphere and polluted both land and water．He has wasted the earth' s natural resources with no thought for the future．He has killed a lot of precious animals for his delicacies(精美食品)on the table and for his elegant overcoats. Since man has done so much damage, it is up to man to try to put matters right．And the sooner he does something about it, the better. 46______________ is everything that surrounds us.

Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET I. ( 10 points)

Digital photography is still new enough that most of us have yet to form. an opinion about it, (1) develop a point of view. But this bash' t stopped many film and computer fans from agreeing (2) the early conventional wisdom about digital cameras—they' re neat (3) for you? But they're not suitable for everyday picture taking.

The fans are wrong: Moro than anything else, digital cameras are radically (4) what photography means and what it can be. The venerable medium of photography (5) we know it is beginning to seem out of (6) with the way we live. In our computer and camcorder (7) saving pictures as digital (8) and watching them on TV is no less practical—and in many ways more (9) than fumbling with rolls of film that must be sent off to be (10)

Paper is also terribly (11) . Pictures that are incorrectly framed, (12) ,or lighted are nonetheless committed to film and ultimately processed into prints.

The digital medium changes the (13) . Still images that are (14) digitally can immediately be shown on a computer (15) , a TV screen, or a small liquid - crystal display (LCD) built fight into the camera. And since the points of light that (16) an image are saved as a series of digital bits in electronic memory, (17) being permanently etched onto film, they can be erased, retouched, and transmitted (18) .

What's it like to (19) with one of these digital cameras? It's a little like a first date--exciting, confusing and fraught with (20) .

1. A) rather than

B) let alone

C) much less

D) so as to

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

This is an exciting moment, where the torch and torch relay route will be presented to the world. The Olympic flame carried by the torch and passed around the world from the torch bearer to torch bearer will stimulate the excitement in the peoples across the globe and foucus on the attention at the coming Beijing Games.

By traveling along the historical "Silk Road", a symbol of ancient trade links between China and the rest of the world, crossing the five continents and going to new places, the Beijing 2008 Torch Relay will, as its theme says, be a "journey of harmony", bringing friendship and respect to people of different nationalities, races and creeds.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

There is No Way but Ahead

Yes, science has helped create problems, too—serious ones. And we must labor to solve them—in the only way history tells us problems have been solved: by science. If we were to turn away now, if a noble young generation abandoned the materialism of an industry, what would happen? Without the machinery of that industry, we would inevitably drift back to slavery.

No fundamental technological advance has ever been given up willingly by any society. There has been no way to do it.

About 8,000 B. C. mankind invented agriculture. Again it made possible an increase in numbers. People had never eaten so well, but it meant they had to give up the free, nomadic life and remain bound to the soil. It meant hard labor. It meant banding together to fight off surrounding tribes who, still food gathering, might help themselves to your crops. It also meant the risk of crop failure.

Why not, then go back to the wilder, freer ways of hunting and food gathering.'? Wouldn't that mean less work and worry, less wars, less plagues?