1、B)He is going to attend a job interview.C)He will meet his new manager in two weeks.D)He will tell the management how he really feels.2.A)It should be carefully analyzed.B)It should be kept private.C)It can be quite useful to senior managers.D)It can improve intervieweesjob prospects.3.A)It may do h
2、arm 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.4.A)Pour out his frustrations on a rate-your-employer website.B)Network with his close friends to find a better emplove
3、r.C)Do some practice for the exit interview.D)Prepare a comprehensive exit repor.ajky66Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)Her career as a botanist.C)Her month-long expeditionB)Her latest documentary.D)Her unsuccessful journey.6.A)She was caught in a hurricane.C)Sh
4、e suffered from water shortage.B)She had to live like a vegetarian.D)She had to endure many hardships.7.A)They could no longer bear the humidity.C)A flood was approaching.B)They had no more food in the canoe.D)A hurricane was coming.8.A)It was memorable.C)It was fruitful.B)It was unbearable.D)It was
5、 uneventful.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose thebest answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D)
6、.Then mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A)It ensures the accuracy of their argumentsB)It diminishes laymens interest in science.C)It hurts laymens dignity and self-esteem.D)It makes th
7、eir expressions more explicit.一210.A)They will see the complexity of science.B)They feel great respect towards scientists.C)They tend to disbelieve the actual science.D)They can learn to communicate with scientists.11.A)Explain all the jargon terms.C)Find appropriate topics.B)Do away with jargon ter
8、ms.D)Stimulate their interest.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A)There were oil deposits below a local gassy hill.B)The erupting gas might endanger local children.C)There was oil leakage along the Gulf Coast.D)The local gassy hill might start a huge fire.13.A)The ma
9、ssive gas underground.C)Their lack of suitable tools.B)Their lack of the needed skill.D)The sand under the hill.14.A)It was not as effective as he claimed.B)It rendered many oil workers joblesso您上岸】D)It was not popularized until years later.15.A)It ruined the states cotton and beef industries.B)It t
10、otally destroyed the states rural landscape.C)It resulted in an oil surplus all over the world.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 four questions.Therecordings will be played only o
11、nce.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the fourchoices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A)Insufficient motivation.C)Unsuitab
12、le jobs.B)Tough regulations.D)Bad managers.17.A)Ineffective training.C)Overburdening of managersB)Toxic company cultureD)Lack of regular evaluation.18.A)It was based only on the perspective of employees.B)It provided meaningful clues to solving the problem.C)It was conducted from frontline managersp
13、oint of view.3D)It collected feedback from both employers and employees.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)It is expanding at an accelerating speed.B)It is bringing prosperity to the region.C)It is yielding an unprecedented profit.D)It is seeing an automation revo
14、lution.20.A)It creates a lot of new jobs.B)It exhausts resources sooner.C)It causes conflicts between employers and employees.D)It calls for the retraining of unskilled mining workers.21.A)They will wait to see its effect.C)They accept it with reservations.B)They welcome it with open arms.D)They are
15、 strongly opposed to it.Questions 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 infectious disease.D)Their cost to the na
16、tions 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 between rich and poor nations.24.A)Many of them are investing heavily in infrastructure.B)Many of them have s
17、een 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 behavior.C)Provide better training for driversB)Abolish all outdated traffic rulesD)Impose heavier penalties on speeding.Pa
18、rtReading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from alist of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before makingyour choices.Each choice in th
19、e bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each4item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bankmore than once.A new study has drawn a bleak picture of cultural inclusiveness reflected in the childrens literature
20、 available inAustralia.Dr.Helen Adam from Edith Cowan Universitys School of Education 26 the cultural diversity of childrensbooks.She examined the books 27 in the kindergarten rooms of four day-care centers in Western Australia.Just 18percent of 2,413 books in the total collection contained any 28 o
21、f non-white people.Minority cultures were oftenfeatured in stereotypical or tokenistic ways,for example,by 29 Asian culture with chopsticks and traditional dress.Characters that did represent a minority culture usually had 30 roles in the books.The main characters were mostlyCaucasian.This causes co
22、ncern as it can lead to an impression that whiteness is of greater value.Dr.Adam said children formed impressions aboutdifferenceand identity from a very young age.Evidence hasshown they develop own-race 31 from as young as three months of age.The books we share with young children canbe a valuable
23、opportunity to develop childrens understanding of themselves and others.Books can also allow children tosee diversity.They discover both similarities and differences between themselves and others.This can help developunderstanding,acceptance and 32 of diversity.Census data has shown Australians come
24、 from more than 200 countries.They speak over 300 languages at home.Additionally.Australians belong to more than 100 different religious groups.They also work in more than 1,000different occupations.Australia is a multicultural society.The current33 promotion of white middle-class ideasand lifestyle
25、s risks 34 children from minority groups.This can give white middle-class children a sense of 35or privilege,Dr.Adam said.A)alienatingF)investigatedK)secondaryB)appreciationG)overwhelmingL)superiorityC)biasH)portrayingM)temperamentD)fraudI)representationN)tentativeE)housedJ)safeguarded0)thresholdSec
26、tion BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement containsinformation given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.Youmay choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a
27、letter.Answer the questions bymarking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.How Marconi Gave Us the Wireless WorldA)A hundred years before iconic figures like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs permeated our lives,an Irish-Italian inventorlaid the foundation of the communication explosion of the 21st ce
28、ntury.Guglielmo Marconi was arguably the firsttruly global figure in modern communication.Not only was he the first to communicate globally,he was the first tothink globally about communication.Marconi may not have been the greatest inventor of his time,but more thananyone else,he brought about a fu
29、ndamental shift in the way we communicate.B)Todays globally networked media and communication system has its origins in the 19th century,when,for the first5time,messages were sent electronically across great distances.The telegraph,the telephone,and radio were theobvious predecessors of the Internet
30、,iPods,and mobile phones.What made the link from then to now was thedevelopment of wireless communication.Marconi was the first to develop and perfect this system,using the recently-discovered air wavesthat make up the electromagnetic spectrum.C)Between 1896,when he applied for his first patent in E
31、ngland at the age of 22,and his death in Italy in 1937,Marconi was at the center of every major innovation in electronic communication.He was also a skilled andsophisticated organizer,an entrepreneurial innovator,who mastered the use of corporate strategy,media relations,government lobbying,internat
32、ional diplomacy,patents,and prosecution.Marconi was really interested in only onething:the extension of mobile,personal,long-distance communication to the ends of the earth and beyond,if wecan believe some reports).Some like to refer to him as a genius,but if there was any genius to Marconi it was t
33、hisvision.D)In 1901 he succeeded in signaling across the Atlantic,from the west coast of England to Newfoundland in the USA,despite the claims of science that it could not be done.In 1924 he convinced the British government to encircle theworld with a chain of wireless stations using the latest tech
34、nology that he had devised,shortwave radio.There aresome who say Marconi lost his edge when commercial broadeasting came along:he didnt see that radio could orshould be used to frivolous(ends.In one of his last public speeches,a radio broadcast to the United Statesin March 1937,he deplored that broa
35、deasting had become a one-way means of communication and foresaw it movingin another direction.toward communication as a means of exchange.That was visionary genius.E)Marconis career was devoted to making wireless communication happen cheaply,efficiently,smoothly,and with anelegance that would appea
36、r to be intuitive and uncomplicated to the user-user-friendly,if you will.There is a directconnection from Marconi to todays social media,search engines,and program streaming that can best be summed upby an admittedly provocative exclamation:the 20th century did not exist.In a sense,Marconis vision
37、jumped fromhis time to our own.F)Marconi invented the idea of global communication-or,more straightforwardly,globally networked,mobile,wireless communication,Initially,.this was wireless Morse code telegraphy(电报i通讯)，the principalcommunication technology of his day.Marconi was the first to develop a
38、practical method for wireless telegraphyusing radio waves.He borrowed technical details from many sources,but what set him apart was a self-confidentvision of the power of communication technology on the one hand,and,on the other,of the steps that needed to betaken to consolidate his own position as
39、 a player in that field.Tracing Marconis lifeline leads us into the story ofmodern communication itself.There were other important figures,but Marconi towered over them all in reach,power,and influence,as well as in the grip he had on the popular imagination of his time.Marconi was quite simplythe c
40、entral figure in the emergence of a modern understanding of communication.G)In his lifetime,Marconi foresaw the development of television and the fax machine,GPS,radar,and the portablehand-held telephone.Two months before he died,newspapers were reporting that he was working on a death ray,and that
41、he had killed a rat with an intricate device at a distance of three feet.By then,anything Marconi said ordid was newsworthy.Stock prices rose or sank according to his pronouncements.If Marconi said he thought it mightrain,there was likely to be a run on umbrellas.H)Marconis biography is also a story about choices and the motivations behind them.At one level,Marconi could be6
