31. A. familiar 32. A. while 34. A. form 35. A. hating 36. A. doubts 37. A. absorbed 38. A. miss 39. A. strongly
B. serious B. when B. reaped B. adoring
C. bored C. though C. brought C. centre C. mistakes C. recall
D. happy D. unless D. cheated D. end D. envying D. hopes D. abused D. treasure D. unexpectedly D. academically D. purposes D. intended D. left D. regret D. ignores D. everything D. prefer D. sorrow D. avoiding D. tired
33. A. appreciated
B. distance B. sufferings B. abandoned B. spend
B. anxiously B. spiritually B. resources B. surprised B. bothered B. love B. steals B. plan
C. assisting C. abolished C. suddenly C. physically C. positions C. controlled C. affected C. guilty C. anything C. learn C. shame
C. deserves
40. A. temporarily 41. A. requirements 42. A. forced 44. A. hatred 45. A. rejects 46. A. nothing 47. A. refuse
43. A. accompanied
B. something B. confusion B. attending B. proud
48. A. disappointment 49. A. attacking 50. A. sure
C. attracting C. confident
第三部分：阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
ChinaESL is a professional employment and visa agency for foreigners based in Beijing, the capital of China. As China opens up to the world the demand for English in curriculums all across China has risen drastically, and ChinaESL has been at the forefront of helping to meet this demand for over nine years. During that time, we always kept good relationships with foreigners as well as
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with the schools. We have placed more than 6,000 foreigners for hundreds of schools and companies all over China, such as Volvo China, Olympus China, China Construction Bank, China Petrol, China Telecom, FESC, Lenovo, AVC, Degussa, Darwin Property, Peking University, Beijing No. 171 Middle School, and Beijing No. 2 Middle School. We have a very good reputation in this circle. Searching ChinaESL online, you will find many good comments about our company. Right now we have a new job as below.
1. Location: Shunyi District, Beijing.
2. Position: A foreign administrator in an international kindergarten. 3. Working time: From Monday to Friday.
4. Salary: 14,000 yuan/month working, free accommodation. After accomplishing one year’s contract, 6,000 yuan as travel expenses will be provided. After finishing two years’, another 8,000 yuan as travel expenses will be provided.
5. Visa: Visa provided. All schools arranged by ChinaESL have the certificate to hire foreign teachers and have authority to give foreign teachers a valid working visa. Therefore (depending upon the school), ChinaESL may ask that participants arrive in China with a tourist visa — which will eventually go converted (转变) to a working visa by participants’ respective schools.
6. Passport: A valid passport is required to enter China. China does not allow entrance if the holder’s passport expires (满期) in less than six months, so we suggest you check your passport before coming to China.
7. Requirement: A native English speaker who has at least more than three years’ administrating-related experience and who can start working as soon as possible. Please send your resume and picture to us. Contact us
Headquater Address: Room 507 Xin Long Ren He Xie Zi Lou, Xicheng, Beijing, China Post code: 100035
Tel: +86-10-65702931, +86-10-65751363 Fax: +86-10-66561721
Mobile: +86-13366631890, +86-13910918482
American Branch: 4633 N. Western Ave., Suite 207 Chicago, Illinois 60625 Phone: (847) 496-7919 Fax: (847) 934-0758 Email: chinaesl@126.com
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51. What’s the purpose of this advertisement? A. To introduce ChinaESL to foreigners. B. To improve ChinaESL’s good reputation. C. To find a foreign administrator for a kindergarten. D. To tell foreigners how to get a valid working visa. 52. Which of the following is true according to the advertisement? A. Those who have three years’ teaching experience are welcomed. B. Before coming to China, a foreigner must get a valid working visa. C. Besides salary, a foreigner can get travel expenses for extra per month.
D. If a foreigner comes to China, his passport expires should be more than 6 months.
B
Does your brain work like a dictionary? A mathematical analysis of the connections among definitions of English words has uncovered hidden structures that may resemble the way words and their meanings are represented in our minds.
“We want to know how the mental vocabulary is represented in the brain,” says Stevan Harnad of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada.
As every word in a dictionary is defined (下定义) in terms of others, the knowledge needed to understand the entire vocabulary is there. Harnad’s team reasoned that finding this smallest set of words and pinning down its structure might help research on how human brains put language together. The team changed each of four different English dictionaries into a mathematical structure of linked nodes (节点) known as a graph. Each node in this graph represents a word, which is linked to the other words used to define it — so “banana” might be connected to “long”, “bendy”, “yellow”, and “fruit”.
But even this tiny set is not the smallest number of words you need to produce the whole dictionary, as many of these words can in turn be fully defined by others in the kernel (核心). What’s more, the kernel has a deeper structure.
So what, if anything, can this tell us about how our brains represent words and concepts? To find out the answer, Harnad’s team looked at data on how children acquire words and found a pattern: as you move in from the full dictionary towards the kernel, words which have been acquired at a younger age tend to be used more often, and refer to more concrete concepts.
But the connection does suggest that our brains may structure language somewhat similarly to a dictionary.
Phil Blunsom, at University of Oxford isn’t convinced that word meanings can be reduced to a chain of definitions. “It’s treating words in such a symbolic fashion that they are going to lose a lot of the meaning.” But Mark Pagel of the University of Reading, UK, expects the approach to new insights. “This will be most useful in giving us a sense of how our minds structure meaning.” he says.
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53. The first paragraph serves as a(n) ______ in the passage. A. comparison between human brains and a dictionary
B. introduction to the question whether your brain works like a dictionary C. conclusion that your brain is just like a dictionary D. contradiction between definitions of English words
54. What does the underlined phrase “pinning down” in Paragraph 3 mean here? A. making clearly
B. fixing firmly
C. explaining simply D. putting formally
55. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A. Children acquire words and form patterns more easily than adults. B. Our brains may structure language exactly similarly to a dictionary. C. Harnad’s findings may explain how human brains put language together. D Many of the words can in turn be fully defined by using its similar words..
C
What if one day Facebook, Twitter and Instant Messenger just weren’t there?
Provost Eric Darr of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania tells NPR’s (National Public Radio) Guy Raz that he wanted his students to not only think about this question, but live it. “Often there are behaviors, habits, ways we use technology that we may ourselves not even be able to express clearly because we’re not aware of them,” Darr says.
So this week, Darr will enforce (强制执行) a campus-wide social media cutoff — no Facebook, no Twitter, no instant messaging — nothing. Social Media Exile
Access to these popular social media tools will be blocked from campus computers through the week. This is not a disciplinary (纪律上的) exercise, Darr says, but an academic one. At the end of the week, students will write reflective essays about their time without social media.
Three Harrisburg University students, Ashley Harris, Gio Acosta and Oluyemi Afuape, volunteered to discuss the experiment, and it turns out they have mixed feelings.
Afuape isn’t a big fan of Facebook, and says he doesn’t expect to be challenged by the cutoff. But Harris is going to have a hard time not posting her whereabouts to friends.
“My biggest problem is not being able to find people,” Harris says, “because I use Facebook and Twitter to find people at school, to see where they’re at.”
Even before hearing about the cutoff, Acosta found it necessary to cut himself off the constant social media chatter.
“I had my phone set to receive Facebook, texts, tweets — and ring — so I had to turn that off between 3 and 6 in the morning so I can actually sleep during that time” Acosta says. “If you don’t set the limits, it’s a 24-hour thing.”
Hope From The “Post-Facebook Generation”
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