1、 * iU!).2021 6Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the graph low. Youshould start your essay with a brief description of the graph and comment on Chinas achie vemen ts inurbanization. You should write at least 150 words but no more
2、 than200 words.Degree of urba nization in China from 1980 to 201970%60%.J 50%40%1J30%0%980 985 9 995 2 25 0 20 202 203 204 205 6 207 208 209Part Listening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section ADirections : In this section, you will hear two long con versations. At the end of each con versation, you will
3、hear four questions. Both the con versation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear aquestion, you must choose the best nswer from the four choices marked A) , B), C) and D). Then markthe corres ponding letter on Answer Shee t 1 with a single line through the centre.Ques tions 1 t
4、o 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) He is going to leave his present job.B) He is going to attend a job interview.C) He will meet his new manager in two week s.D) He will tell the management how he really feels.2. A) It should be carefully analyzed .B) It should be kept priva
5、te .C) It can be quite useful to senior managers.D) It can improve interviewees job prospects.3. A) It may do harm to his fellow employees.B) It may displease his immediate .superiors .C) It may adversely affect his future career prospects.D) It may leave a negative impression on the interviewer./ 2
6、021 6 A14. A) Pour out his frustrations on a rate-your-employer website.B) Network with his close friends to find a better employer .C) Do some practice for the exit interview.D) Prepare a comprehensive exit report.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) Her career a
7、s a botanist.C) Her month-long expedition.B) Her latest documentary.D) Her unsuccessful journey.C) She suffered from water shortage.D) She had to endure many hardships.C) A flood was approaching.D) A hurricane was coming.C) It was fruitful.6. A) She was caught in a hurricane.B) She had to live like
8、a vegetarian.7. A) They could no longer bear the humidity.B) They had no more food in the canoe.8. A) It was memorable.B) It was unbearable.D) It was uneventful.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of eac h passage , you will hear three orfour questions . Both
9、 the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question , youmust choose the best A annssw weer r S frh oem et 1 the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark thecorresponding letter onwith a single line through the centre.Que stions 9 to 11 are based on the pass ag
10、e you have ju st heard .9. A) It ensures the accuracy of their arguments.B) It diminishes laymen s interest in science.10. A) They will see the complexity of science.B) They feel great respect towards scientists.11. A) Explain all the jargon terms.C) It hurts laymens dignity and self-esteem .D) It m
11、akes their expressions more explicit.C) They tend to disbelieve the actual science.D) ey can learn to communicate with scientists.C) Find appropriate topics.B) Do away with jargon terms.D) Stimulate their interest.Quest ions 12 to 15 are based on the pas sage you have just heard.12. A) There were oi
12、l deposits below a local gassy hill.B) The erupting gas might endanger local children.C) There was oiHeakage-along the Gulf Coas t.D) The local gassy hill might start a huge fire.13. A) The massive gas underground.C) Their lack of suitable tools.B) Their lack of the needed skill.D) The sand under th
13、e hill.14. A) It was not as effective as he claimed.B) It rendered many oil workers jobless.C) It gave birth to the oil drilling industry.D) It was not popularized until years later.15. A) It ruined the states cotton and beef industries. C) It resulted in an oil surplus all over the world.B) It tota
14、lly destroyed the states rural landscape. D) It radically transformed the states economy .Section CDirections : In this section , you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or fourquestions . The recordings will be played only once . After you hear a question , you must ch
15、oose tA hensb weesr tS a nhsew eter1 fw r oi t m h tahsei n f o g u l er lcihn eo itche rs o m u g a h r ktehdeA c e) n ,trB e. ), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter onQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard .16. A) Insufficient motivation.B) Tough regulations.C)
16、 Unsuitable jobs.D) Bad managers.17. A) Ineffective training.B) Toxic company culture.C) Overburdening of managers.D) Lack of regular evaluation. 2021 6 218. A) It was based only on the perspective of employees.B) IItt provided meaningful clues to solving the problem.C) was conducted from frontline
17、managers point of view.D) It collected feedback from both employers and employees.Ques tions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) II tt is exp anding at an accelerating speed.B) It is bringing prosperi ty to the region.20. A) It creates a lot of new jobs.C) I It t is yieldi
18、ng an unprecedented profit.D) is seeing an automation revolution.B) It exhausts resrces sooner.C) It causes conflicts between employers and employees .D) calls for the retraining of unskilled mining workers.21. A) They will wait to see its effect.B) They welcome it with open arms.C) They accept it w
19、ith reservations.D) They are strongly opposed to it.Ques tions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard .22. A) They have experienced a gradual decline since the year of 2017.B) Their annual death rate is about twice that of the global average.C) They kill more people than any infecti
20、ous disease.D) Their cost to the nations economy is incalculable.23. A) They are not as reliable as claimed.B) They rise and fall from year to year.C) They dont reflect the changes in individual countries.D) They show a difference betwe en rich and poor nations.24. A) Many of them are investing heav
21、ily in infrastructure.B) Many of them have seen a decline in road-death rates.C) Many of them are following the example set by Thailand.D) Many of them have increasing numbers of cars on the road.25. A) Foster better driving behavi or.C) Provide better training for drivers.B) Abolish all outdated tr
22、affic rules.D) Impose heavie r penalties on speeding.Part Reading Comprehension( 40 minutes)Sec tion ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for eachblank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage
23、 through caref ullybefore making your choices . Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the correspond ingletter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre . You may not use any of thewords in the bank more than once .A new study has drawn a bleak pi
24、cture of cultural inclusiveness reflected in the childrens literatureavailable in Australia. Dr. Helen Adam fromEdith Cowan University s School of Education 26 thecultural diversity of childrens books . She examined the books 27 in the kindergarten rooms of fourdaycare centers in Western Australia.
25、Just 18 percen t of 2,413 books in the total collection contained any28 of nonwhite people. Minority cultures were often featured in stereotypical or tokenistic ways , forexample , by 29 Asian culture with chopstic ks and traditional dress. Characters that did represent aminority culture usually had
26、 30 roles in the books. The main characters were mostly Caucasian. Thiscauses concern as it can lead to an impression that whiteness is of greater value.Dr. Adam said children formed impressions about difference and identity from a very young age.Evidence has shown they develop own-race . 31 from as
27、 young as three months of age. The books we/ 20216 3share with young children can be a valuable opportunity to deve lop childrens understa ndng of themselvesand others. Books can also allow children to see divers ity. They discover both similarities and dfferencesbetween themselves and others . This
28、 can help develop understanding, acceptance and of divers ity.Cens us data has show n Australians come from more than 200 countries. They speak over 300languages at home . Additiona lly, Australians belong to more than 100 different relgous groups. Theyalso work in more than 1, OOO different occu pa
29、tions. Australia is a multicultural society . The current promoton of white middle-c lass ideas and lifestyles risks children from minorty groups .Ths can give white middle-class children a sense of 35 or privilege , Dr. Ada said .A) alienatingB) appreciationC) biasD) frau dE) housedF) invest igated
30、G) overwhelmingH) portrayingI) representat ion J) sa feg uardedK) secondar yL) superiorityM) tempera mentN) tentative0) thresho ldSection BDirections: In this ecion, you are g o read p wih ten sttement tta hed to it. tatment coin information ive in oe of h ah nt he pargrph from whih heimion i eived.
31、 u my hoo prg raph moe tha oe. h h is mrked wih letter . Answer the que tions by m king te corresponding leter on Answ er Shee t 2 .How Marconi Gave Us the Wireless WorldA) A hundred years before iconc figures like Bll Gate s and Steve Jobs permeated our lives an IrishItalian inventor laid the found
32、atio n of the comm uncat ion exp losio n of the 21st century. GuglielmoMarconi was arguabl y the first truly global fgure in modern communication. Not only was he the firstto communicate globa lly, he was the first to think global ly abo ut co munication . Marconi may nothave been the greatest inven
33、tor of hs time, but more than anyone else , he brought abo ut afunda menta l shift n the way we commu nicate .B) Today s globa lly networked media and counicaton s ystem has its origins in the 19th century, whenfor the first time, messages were sent electron ically across great distances . The teleg
34、rap h the-telephone , and radio were the obvious predecess ors of the-Internet, P and-mobile phones. Whata de the link from then to now was the deve lopment of wireless commu ncatio n. Marco ni was the firstto deve lop and perfect this system, using the recent ly-discovere d air waves that make up t
35、heelectromagnet ic spectr um.C) Between 1896 when he app lied for his first patent in England at the age of 22, and his death in Italyin 1937 , Marcon i was at the center of every major innovaton in electron ic comm unication. He wasalso a skilled and sophst icated organzer , an entreprene urial inn
36、ovator , who mastered the use ofcorporate strateg y, meda relatons government lobbying , nternational dplomacy, patents , andprosec ution. Marcon i was really nterested in only one thing: the extenson of mobile, persona l longdistance com munication to the ends of the earth (and beyond , if we can b
37、elieve some reports) . Somelike to refer to him as a gen ius, but if there was any geni us to Marco ni t was this vision.D) In 1901 he succeeded n signa ling across the Atlantic, from the west coast of England to Newfoundlandin the US A, despite the clas of science that it cou ld not be done . In 19
38、24 he convinced the Britishgovern ment to enc ircle the world with a chain of wreless stations using the latest technology that hehad dev ised shortwave radio. There are so me who sa y Marconi lost his edge when commercia lbroadcast ing came along; he didnt see that radio could or sho uld be used to
39、 frivolous () ends .In one of his last public speeches, a radio broadcast to the United S tates in March 1937 , he deploredthat broadcasting had become a one-way means of communcaton and foresa w it moving in another 2021 6 4direction, toward communication as a means of exchange. That was visionary
40、genius.E) Marconis career was devoted to making wireless communication happen cheaply, efficiently,smoothly, and with an elegance that would appear to be intuitive and uncomplicated to the user-userfriendly, if you will. There is a direct connection from Marconi to todays social media, searchengines
41、, and program streaming that can best be summed up by an admittedly provocativeexclamation: the 20th century did not exist. In a sense, Marconis vision jumped from his time to ourown.F) Marconi invented the idea of global communication - or, more straightforwardly, globally networked,mobile, wireles
42、s communication . Initially, this was wireless Morse code telegraphy ( B U , theprincipal communication technology of his day . Marconi was the first to develop a practical method forwireless telegraphy using radio waves . He borrowed technical deta ils from many sources, but what sethim apart was a
43、 self -confident vision of the power of communic ation technology on the one hand, and,on the other, of the steps that needed to be taken to consolidate his own position as a player in thatfield. Tracing Marconis lifeline leads us into the story of modern communication itself. There wereother import
44、ant figures, but Marconi towered overthem all in reach, power, and influence, as well asin the grip he had on the popular imagination of his time. Marconi was quite simply the central figurein the emergence of a modern understanding of communication .G) In his lifetime, Marconi foresaw the developme
45、nt of television and the fax machine, GPS, ra dar, andthe portable hand -held telephone. Two months before he died, newsp apers were reporting that he wasworking on a death ray, and that he had killed a rat with an intricate device at a distance of threefeet. By then, anything Marconi said or did wa
46、s newsworthy. Stock prices rose or sank according tohis pronouncements. If Marconi sai d he thoug ht it might rain, there was likely to be a run onumbrellas.H) Marconis biography is also a story about choices and the motivations behind them. At one level,Marconi could be fiercely autonomous and inde
47、pendent of the constraints of his own social class. Onanother scale, he was a perpetual outsider. Wherever he went, he was never of the group; he.wasalways the other, considered foreign in Britain, British in Italy, and not American in the UnitedStates. At the same time, he also suffered tremendousl
48、y from a nee d for acceptance that drove, andsometimes stained, every one of his relationships.I) Marconi placed a permanent stamp on the way we live. He was the first pers on to imagine a practicalapplication for the wireless spe ctrum, and to develop it successfully into a global communicationsyst
49、em - in both terms of the word; that is, worldwide and all-inclusive. He was able to do this beca useof a com bination of factors - most important, timing and opportunity- but the single -mindedness anddetermination with which he carried out his self-impose d mission was fundamentally character -bas
50、e d;millions of Marconi s contemporaries had the same class, gender, race, and colonial privilege as he,but only a handful did anything with it. Marconi nee ded to achieve the goal that was set in his mind asan adole scent; by the time he reached adulthoo d, he understood, in tuitively, that in orde
