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Task 4 (51-55) A.—Frequent flight passenger B.—Flight number C.—Boarding time D.—Starting airport E.—Ground service F—Delayed flight G—Ticketing service H—Ticket delivery I—Online ticket booking J—Luggage check-in K—Self check-in service L--Seat selection M—Flight punctuality N—Ticket refund O—Baggage claim P—Baggage compensation Q—First class 51. _______行李托运 _______登机时间 52. _______售票服务 _______常旅客 53. _______始发机场 _______航班延误 54. _______座位选择 _______送票服务 55. _______行李提取 _______航班号

Which of the following is not a reason for reviving college traditions according to the passage?A College traditions reserve the school spirit.B College traditions keep students' lifestyle balanced.C College traditions provide students with a feeling of belonging.D College traditions help students integrate into the life of local people.

About four billion people, or two-thirds of the world’s population, face severe water shortages during at least one month every year, far more than was previously thought, according to Arjen Y. Hoekstra, a professor of water management at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, Dr. Hoekstra and his colleague Mesfin M. Mekonnen designed a computer model to create what they say is a more accurate picture of water scarcity around the world. Severe water scarcity can lead to crop failure and low crop yields, which could cause food price increases as well as famine and widespread starvation.An area experiences severe water shortage when its farms, industries and households consume double the amount of water available in that area.“That means that groundwater levels are falling, lakes are drying up, less water is flowing in rivers, and water supplies for industry and farmers are threatened,” Dr. Hoekstra said in an email.Not everyone would suffer equally. In more affluent countries, severe water scarcity could mean water rations (定量配给) for showering and gardening, while in very poor countries it could lead to shortages of drinking water.Previous studies had estimated that between 1.7 and 3.1 billion people were affected by extreme water shortages. But according to Dr. Hoekstra, those studies either used measurements that were too general in size or used yearly averages that were not as precise as monthly data.“Freshwater scarcity is a major risk to the global economy, affecting four billion people directly,” Dr. Hoekstra said. “But since the remaining people in the world receive part of their food from the affected areas, it involves us all.”1. What does Dr. Hoekstra find in his research?A) About four billion people suffer severe water shortage every day.B) Computer models are more accurate in tracking water shortage.C) Water shortages were far more than was previously thought. D) Severe water shortage could lead to widespread starvation.2. What does severe water shortage mean according to Dr. Hoekstra?A) It means farms and industries cannot operate normally.B) It means household water supplies are threatened.C) It means that the groundwater levels are falling. D) It means that rivers have been dried up.3. How do water shortages affect wealthier countries?A) There will be a lack of supply in drinking water.B) There will be a fixed amount of water for showering. C) There will be harsh penalties for gardening.D) There will be a decrease in biodiversity.4. What does Dr. Hoekstra say about the previous studies on water shortage?A) The monthly averages they used are not precise.B) The measurements they used are too general in size. C) The estimates they made fail to consider freshwater scarcity.D) The number of people affected by water shortage is not accurate.5. Why does Dr. Hoekstra say the water issue in most affected areas involves us all?A) Because each of us is an integral part of the global ecosystem.B) Because the rest of us receive part of our food from these areas. C) Because the situation in these areas is rather critical and serious.D) Because the global economy has linked all countries and people.

What can be learned from the last paragraph? [A] Immigration issues are usually decided by Congress. [B] Justices intended to check the power of the Administration. [C] Justices wanted to strengthen its coordination with Congress. [D] The Administration is dominant over immigration issues.Part B Directions: In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)The social sciences are flourishing. As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia. According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.Yet this enormous resource in not contributing enough to today’s global challenges including climate change, security, sustainable development and health.(41)______Humanity has the necessary agro-technological tools to eradicate hunger, from genetically engineered crops to artificial fertilizers . Here, too, the problems are social: the organization and distribution of food, wealth and prosperity.(42)____This is a shame—the community should be grasping the opportunity to raise its influence in the real world. To paraphrase the great social scientist Joseph Schumpeter: there is no radical innovation without creative destruction. Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.Analyses reveal that the number of papers including the keywords “environmental changed” or “climate change” have increased rapidly since 2004,(43)____When social scientists do tackle practical issues ,their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium for example .And whether the community’s work contributes much to an overall accumulation of knowledge is doubtful.The problem is not necessarily the amount of available funding (44)____this is an adequate amount so long as it is aimed in the right direction. Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.The trick is to direct these funds better. The European Union Framework funding programs have long had a category specifically targeted at social scientists. This year, it was proposed that system be changed: Horizon 2020,a new program to be enacted in 2014,would not have such a category ,This has resulted in protests from social scientists. But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite. (45)____That should create more collaborative endeavors and help to develop projects aimed directly at solving global problems.2013年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语一 Section I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)People are, on the whole, poor at considering background information when making individual decisions. At first glance this might seem like a strength that 1 the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by 2 factors. But Dr. Uri Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big 3 was leading decision-makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with. 4 , he theorised that a judge 5 of appearing too soft 6 crime might be more likely to send someone to prison 7 he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day.To 8 this idea, he turned to the university-admissions process. In theory, the 9 of an applicant should not depend on the few others 10 randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr. Simonsohn suspected the truth was 11 . He studied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews 12 by 31 admissions officers. The interviewers had 13 applicants on a scale of one to five. This scale 14 numerous factors into consideration. The scores were 15 used in conjunction with an applicant’s score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardized exam which is 16 out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.[A] It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.[B] However, the numbers are still small: in 2010, about 1,600 of the 100,000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these Keywords.[C] the idea is to force social to integrate their work with other categories, including health and demographic change food security, marine research and the bio-economy, clear, efficient energy; and inclusive, innovative and secure societies.[D] the solution is to change the mindset of the academic community, and what it considers to be its main goal. Global challenges and social innovation ought to receive much more attention from scientists, especially the young ones.[E] These issues all have root causes in human behavior. All require behavioral change and social innovations, as well as technological development. Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.[F] Despite these factors, many social scientists seem reluctant to tackle such problems. And in Europe, some are up in arms over a proposal to drop a specific funding category for social-science research and to integrate it within cross-cutting topics of sustainable development.[G]During the late 1990s , national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate -varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations , it is about 15%.Section III Translation 46. Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)It is speculated that gardens arise from a basic need in the individuals who made them: the need for creative expression. There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; (46) Yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot. (47)A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need. This distinction is so much so that where the latter is lacking, as it is for these unlikely gardens, the former becomes all the more urgent. Composure is a state of mind made possible by the structuring of one’s relation to one’s environment. (48) The gardens of the homeless which are in effect homeless gardens introduce from into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such. In so doing they give composure to a segment of the inarticulate environment in which they take their stand.Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us. When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, (49) most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic. In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals. On display here are various fantasy elements whose reference, at some basic level, seems to be the natural world. (50)It is this implicit or explicit reference to nature that fully justifies the use of word garden though in a “liberated” sense, to describe these synthetic constructions. In them we can see biophilia- a yearning for contact with nonhuman life-assuming uncanny representational forms.Section IV Writing Part A 51. Directions: Write an e-mail of about 100 words to a foreign teacher in your college, inviting him/her to be a judge for the upcoming English speech contest. You should include the details you think necessary. You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the e-mail, Use "Li Ming" instead. Do not write the address. (10 points)Part B 52. Directions: Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay you should 1) describe the drawing briefly 2) explain its intended meaning, and 3) give your comments You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)

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A post F consent K insistsB hence G afforded L lobby C consists H awarding M resent D omitted I criticism N compassE evil J however O rewarding The animal rights movement is a social movement which seeks an end to using animals in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries, 1 being called animal liberation. It advocates the idea that the most basic interests of non-human creatures should be 2 the same consideration us those of human beings. Advocates 3 animal rights from different aspects, ranging from the focus on animal suffering in laboratories to the argument that 4 on not casting animals as properties of human beings. Despite the different approaches, advocates broadly 5 to the opinion that animals should be viewed as non-human members of the moral community and should be 6 from being food, clothing, entertainment, or research subjects. The idea of 7 rights to animals wins the support of several prominent scholars. However some critics argue that animals are unable to enter into a social contract or moral 8 and for that reason cannot be granted rights. Only humans have duties and, therefore, only humans have rights. There is nothing wrong or 9 about using animals as resources so long as there is no unnecessary suffering. From within the animal rights movement itself, there has also been 10 of certain forms of animal rights activism, in particular the destruction of fur farms and animal laboratories.

Complete the passage with suitable words from the word bank . You may not use any of the words more than once .entrepreneur business partner incredibly glaringly continue offer customer marketing opportunity better trade currently focusing attending Many students put their dreams of becoming a ( n ) （1 ) _ to one side until after they have achieved their degree . But I would say that universally could be the perfect place to start a ( n ) （2 ) _ . Inspiring Imagery was set up after my business （3 ) _ fellow student and best friend , Graham Fisher s photography hobby led us to discover a niche in the market for affordable , high - quality printing solutions . It has been a stressful yet enjoyable task to set up our business while still at university . Although the benefits outweigh the challenges , it hasn t been easy . We have had to work （4 ) _ hard . For the past nine months our time has been spent （5 ) _ lectures during the day , working part - time in the evening and（ 6 ) _ on Inspiring Imagery at any spare moment we had . Since we started , inspiring Imagery has continued to go from strength to strength . We now（ 7 ) _ a wide range of large format printing solutions and our customer base is growing all the time thanks to online and offline （8 ) _ and word of mouth . We （9 ) _ do most of our trade through our website but our strategy for the future is to take inspiring Imagery to the high street and open a chain of small shops . Students tend to be less tied down , so I don't feel there will ever be a ( n ) 10 ) _ time than when you are a student to start your own business.

More than 10 million Chinese cultural relics（遗物）have been lost overseas，most of which were stolen and illegally shipped out of China during the times of war before 1949.About 1.67 million pieces are housed in more than 200 museums in 47 countries，which account for 10 percent of all lost Chinese cultural relics，and the rest are in the hands of private collectors. Most of these treasures are owned by museums or private collectors in the United States，Japan，some European countries and Southeast Asian countries.There are more than 23，000 pieces in the British Museum，most of which were stolen or bought for pennies more than 100 years ago. The major method of recovering these national treasures is to buy them back.In some cases，private collectors donated the relics to the government.Also the government can turn to official channels（渠道）to demand the return of the relics. In 2003，a priceless bronze pig head dating from the Qing Dynasty was returned to its home in Beijing after it was removed by the Anglo-French Allied Forces over 140 years ago.Stanley Ho donated 6 million yuan to buy it back from a US art collector and then donated it to the Poly Art Museum in Beijing. Although buying-back is the most feasible way to recover the lost treasures，limited funding is always a big headache. In recent years， the Chinese government has put more effort into recovering the precious cultural relics lost overseas. It has started a national project on the recovery of the treasures and has set up a database collecting relevant information. It has signed several international agreements with many countries on this matter，and is also looking for international cooperation to recover the relics by working closely with several international organizations.（1）What is the passage mainly about？ ____ A. How to recover cultural relics.B. The efforts to recover Chinese cultural relics.C. Stanley Ho donated a bronze pig head to a museum in Beijing.D. Chinese cultural relics were stolen by the Anglo-French Allied Forces.（2）Most of lost Chinese cultural relics ____ .A. have been recovered by the Chinese governmentB. were bought by foreignersC. are owned by private collectorsD. are housed in foreign museums（3）What can be learned about the bronze pig head？ ____ A. It was bought back by the Chinese government.B. It was donated by the French government to China.C. It was given to Stanley Ho by an American art collector.D. It was taken away by the Anglo-French Allied Forces more than 140 years ago.（4）Which of the following can replace the underlined word "feasible" in Paragraph 5？ ____ A. Workable.B. Difficult.C. Popular.D. Careful.