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Questions 66-70: Choose from the sentences A-G to complete the passage. There are two sentences which you do not need to use.
A. The third sort of lie is more harmful than the other two. B. Can you tell when someone is telling you a lie?
C. Can you imagine going through a whole day without telling a lie? D. This kind of lie can make both sides benefit. E. It’s impossible to find people who never tell lies. F. Lies are not recognized in the first place.
G. Certain types of body language can also indicate that someone is lying.
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Geography Lesson Brian Patten
Our teacher told us one day he would leave And sail across a warm blue sea
To places he’d only known from maps, And all his life had longed to be.
The house he lived in was narrow and gray But in this mind’s eye his could see
Sweet-scented jasmine clambering(茉莉攀爬) up the walls, And green leaves burning on an orange tree. He spoke of the lands he longed to visit, Where it was never drab(单调) or cold. And I couldn’t understand why he never left, And shook off our school’s stranglehold(束缚).
Then halfway through his final term, He took ill and he never returned,
And he never got to that place on the map
Where the green leaves of the orange trees burned.
The maps were pulled down from the classroom wall; His name was forgotten, it faded away. But a lesson he never knew he taught Is with me to this today.
I travel to where the green leaves burn, To where the ocean’s glass-clear and blue,
To all those places my teacher taught me to love— But which he never knew.
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Questions 71-75: Answer the following questions according to the passage. 71. What is the geography teacher’s dream? 72. How is the teacher’s house described? 73. When did the teacher take ill?
74. Who finally reached the places the teacher dreamed of? 75. What’s the poet’s purpose of writing the poem?
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Alternative medicine Is it all in the mind?
One in five people in the UK choose to use alternative medicine.
Alternative medicine may be news, but it’s not new. It’s modern medicine that is new—for example, the first synthetic(人造的) drug, aspirin, only date from 1899. But alternative medicine goes back thousands of years. Acupuncture(针灸), inserting fine needles at selected points in the body, was used in China over 2,000 years ago and keeps moving in popularity.
Herbal(草药的) medicine, treating illness and pain with natural remedies(治疗), is the oldest system of medicine in the world. Herbalists are prepared to spend more time than modern doctors with patients so they can treat them as individuals.
And what’s next? ―A acupuncture-in-a-pill!‖ A company in Singapore expects to identify the gene responsibility for acupuncture healing soon. It plans to make s pill for people who want to avoid having acupuncture because they can’t stand the thought of all those needles.
Arecent TV program on alternative medicine showed a young Chinese woman having open-heart surgery without a general anesthetic(麻药)—but with acupuncture. There seemed to be no doubt that acupuncture stopped the woman from feeling pain. Later the program showed how the needlesappeared to change the brain’s reaction to pain.
Then there’s the ―placebo‖(安慰剂) effect. In a major trail in the USA a group of patients had a normal operation for bad knee pain. Another group of patients with knee pain also believed they had operations. But in fact all the surgeon did was cut the knee open and close it again. Both groups had the same positive results from their ―operation‖. In other words, the effect of real and fake operations was the same.
So what does this experiment tell us about medicine? Simply this: when people expect to get better they often do. Questions 76-80: Complete the summary of the passage with no more than three words for each blank according to the passage. In this passage, the writer is trying to explain alternative medicine to the readers. Alternative medicine can date form (76) ago. For example, acupuncture, used in (77) for a long time, is getting more and more popular in the UK. A TV program about an open-heart surgery with acupuncture shows that acupuncture can reduce people’s (78). A company in Singapore expects to make ―acupuncture-in-a-pill‖ for patients in the future. Herbal medicine refers to treating illness with natural remedies, which is (79) system of medicine. At the end of the passage the writer takes the experiment in the USA as an example to conclude that medicine can have a placebo (80).
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Ⅳ Translation (翻译) (共5小题；每小题2分，计10分)
(A) Please translate the underlined sentences in the following passage into Chinese. (请将短文中的划线句子翻
译成汉语。)（答案写在答题纸上）
Young people and older people don’t always agree. They sometimes have different ideas about life, work and play. But in one special program in New York state, adults and teenagers live together in peace. (81) Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of special work group. Everyone works several hours each day.The aim is not just to keep busy but rather to find meaning and enjoyment in work. Some teenagers work in the woods or on the farms near the village. Some learn to make furniture and to build houses. The adults teach them these skills.
There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photography or painting. Others sit around talking or singing. Each teenager chooses his or her way to spend free time.
When people live together, rules are necessary. (82) In this program the teenagers and adults make rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group.The group members discuss the problem. They ask. ―Why did it happen?‖ and ―What should we do about it?‖
(83) One of the teenagers has this to say about the experience: ―You stop thinking only about yourself. You know how to think about the group.‖
(B) Please translate the following sentences into English by using the hints given in the brackets. (请根据提示，将
下列句子译成英语。)（答案写在答题纸上）
84. 他们这次中国之旅大大加深了他们对这个伟大国家的了解。 85. 他们想知道的是世界上有没有足够的自然资源。（主语从句）
ⅤError Correction (短文改错) (共10处错误；每处错误1分，计10分)
There are altogether 10 errors in the following passage. The errors are about missing words, unnecessary words and wrong words. Please correct them according to the following requirements: for a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with the sign ―∧‖ and write the word you believe to be missing in the line on the answer sheet; for an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with the sign ―﹨‖ and put the word with the sign ―﹨‖in the line on the answer sheet; for a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the line on the answer sheet.
Notes: 1. There is only one word for each error;
2. You only need to correct 10 errors and there will be no points for the eleventh you make.
下文中共有10处错误，错误涉及缺词、多词与错词三个方面。请根据以下要求修改文中出现的错误： 缺词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在答题线上写出该词；
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多词：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉，在答题线上写出该词，并也用斜线（﹨）划掉； 错词：在错词下划一横线，并在答题线上写出改正后的词。 注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只需要修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。（答案写在答题纸上） 例如： One of my favorite writers are Charlotte Bronte. She was born in the early nineteenth century when women had far fewer opportunities∧ they have now. She lived in a small village in Yorkshire and she took great pleasure in walking on the moors where near her home. isthanwhere People collect all kind of things, from beer mates to valuable works of art. For some it’s simply a way killing the time, while others see it as a wise way to spend their money. After all, there are some who they discover that their seemingly humble collections are actually worth a lot of money.
That may be a fascinating collection for one person, through, may be quite dull and uninteresting for one. Visitors to the Hanley museum in Stoke-on Trent might wonder if it’s the interest which led a local millionaire to collect porcelain(瓷器) cows. He donates a large amount of money to museum on condition that the cows would be display alongside pieces of valuable porcelain.
Although others may not always understand a collector passion, these people continue to feel that their hobby is worthwhile and is very satisfied. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95.
ⅥIQ Test (智力测试)（共5小题；每小题1分，计5分）
Answer the following questions. (回答下列问题) 96. What the number should replace the question mark?
97. Replace the dots with a word to make four new words.
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