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Part I Listening Comprehension ( 15 minutes ) Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false. 1. A) T B) F

Script: Barbara Carter was very proud of her ancestor’s persistent struggling for freedom. 正确答案： A 2. A) T B) F

Script: Josiah Henson was called an African-American Moses for he helped other blacks escape from the U.S. 正确答案： A 3. A) T B) F

Script: The Underground Railroad is forged by the black people to help the escaping slaves from American South.

正确答案： B 4. A) T B) F

Script: John Parker was a slave and eventually struggled his way to freedom with the help of the Underground Railroad.

正确答案： B 5. A) T B) F

Script: Levi Coffin was once imprisoned for more than 17 years in Kentucky because of aiding those escaping. 正确答案： B 6. A) T B) F

Script: Nearly all the conductors on the Underground Railroad were frequently faced with death threats and all kinds of warnings. 正确答案： A 7.

A) T B) F

Script: Until the 1960s, black people, especially in the American South, couldn’t enjoy the same civil rights as the white people.

正确答案： A 8. A) T B) F

Script: Rosa Parks married a civil rights activist.

正确答案： A 9. A) T B) F

Script: Rosa Parks was the first black person to refuse to give up a seat to the white on the bus. 正确答案： B 10. A) T B) F

Script: Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Junior had been proposing violent protest for equal civil rights.

正确答案： B Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

The central theme of Martin Luther King’s campaign for civil rights was non-violence. It worked better for King in the US than it did for Gandhi in (11)_________________ , where independence was (12)_________________ by terrible fighting between Muslims and Hindus (印度教教徒). There are lots of examples in King’s campaign of non-violent protest working. His campaign brought huge (13)_________________ and because King taught blacks to meet the whites with love, not hate, it made the whites look (14)_________________ and evil in the eyes of the world. For example, when students organized (15)_________________ protests, the world saw white men arresting peaceful blacks because they sat in the wrong seats in a lunch bar in Woolworth’s. When children (16)_________________ in Birmingham, Alabama, the police used water cannon and dogs against them, arrested them and put them in (17)_________________ .

Another important weapon in King’s (18)_________________ was publicity. For many poor blacks, life was simply a struggle to feed their families and keep a place to live. King needed to reach all those people and show them that their lives could be better. He made speeches all over America. He held meetings. When (19)_________________ , news of his arrest was in newspapers around the world. Black African-Americans became radicalized and wanted to fight. Some went further than King wanted, and used violence, as in the Watts Riots (暴动) in 1965 in Los Angeles. But he taught them that they could change things. Publicity then included posters, newspapers, meetings, (20)_________________ , marches, demonstrations, radio, and early

television.

Script: The central theme of Martin Luther King’s campaign for civil rights was non-violence. It worked better for King in the US than it did for Gandhi in India, where independence was accompanied by terrible fighting between Muslims and Hindus (印度教教徒). There are lots of examples in King’s campaign of non-violent protest working. His campaign brought huge publicity and because King taught blacks to meet the whites with love, not hate, it made the whites look silly and evil in the eyes of the world. For example, when students organized lunchtime protests, the world saw white men arresting peaceful blacks because they sat in the wrong seats in a lunch bar in Woolworth’s. When children marched in Birmingham, Alabama, the police used water cannon and dogs against them, arrested them and put them in jail.

Another important weapon in King’s fight against injustice was publicity. For many poor blacks, life was simply a struggle to feed their families and keep a place to live. King needed to reach all those people and show them that their lives could be better. He made speeches all over America. He held meetings. When he was arrested, news of his arrest was in newspapers around the world. Black African-Americans became radicalized and wanted to fight. Some went further than King wanted, and used violence, as in the Watts Riots (暴动) in 1965 in Los Angeles. But he taught them that they could change things. Publicity then included posters, newspapers, meetings, word of mouth, marches, demonstrations, radio, and early television. 正确答案： India

正确答案： accompanied 正确答案： publicity 正确答案： silly

正确答案： lunchtime 正确答案： marched 正确答案： jail

正确答案： fight against injustice 正确答案： he was arrested 正确答案： word of mouth

Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 minutes ) Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

The story of Barack H. Obama is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the 21 that a life so 22 should be lived in service to others.

After working his way through college with the help of 23 and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help 24 communities 25 by the 26 of local steel plants.

He went on to attend law school, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration 27 , teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain 28 in his community.

President Obama's years of public service are based around his 29 belief in the ability to unite

people around a politics of purpose. As a United States Senator, he reached across the aisle to pass groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world's most dangerous weapons, and bring 30 to government by putting federal spending online. A) transparencyB) rebuildC) closureD) unwavering E) personalitiesF) driveG) objectionsH) conviction I) activeJ) devastatedK) scholarshipsL) blessed M) takingN) ideasO) challenged 21.______________________ 正确答案： H

22.______________________ 正确答案： L

23.______________________ 正确答案： K

24.______________________ 正确答案： B

25.______________________ 正确答案： J

26.______________________ 正确答案： C

27.______________________ 正确答案： F

28.______________________ 正确答案： I

29.______________________

正确答案： D

30.______________________ 正确答案： A Section B

Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice. Passage One

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.

In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. Many of us have seen and heard the often recycled topics found on such shows as Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format. But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.

Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of “trash talk”. The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society’s moral catastrophes (灾难), yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments (困境) of other people’s lives.

Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual’s quality of life. Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work weekly, to getting to know your neighbors.

Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends every show with a “final word”. He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.

Clear as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show’s main target audience is middle-class Americans. Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life’s tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society. These are 18- to 21-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love, relationship, sex, money and peers. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show's exploitation.

While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans. Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world. 31.

Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey are _____. A) more family-oriented B) unusually popular C) more profound D) relatively formal 正确答案： B 32.

Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear distasteful, the audience ______. A) remain fascinated by them B) are ready to face up to them C) remain indifferent to them

D) are willing to get involved in them

正确答案： A 33.

Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show? A) A new type of robot. B) Racist hatred.

C) Family budget planning. D) Street violence. 正确答案： C 34.

Despite their different approaches, the two talk shows are both _____________. A) ironical B) sensitive C) instructive D) cynical

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