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1、Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the importance of speaking ability and how to develop it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) (同前二套)Part Reading Comprehe
2、nsion (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 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
3、identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Neon (霓虹) is to Hong Kong as red phone booths are to London and fog is to San Francisco. When night falls, r
4、ed and blue and other colors 26 a hazy (雾蒙蒙旳) glow over a city lit up by tens of thousands of neon signs. But many of them are going dark, 27 by more practical, but less romantic, LEDs (发光二极管).Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have b
5、usinesses embracing LEDs, which are energy 28 , but still carry great cost. To me, neon represents memories of the past, says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the citys famous signs. Looking at the signs now I get a feeling of amazement, mixed with sadness.Building
6、a neon sign is an art practiced by 29 trained on the job to mold glass tubes into 30 shapes and letters. They fill these tubes with gases that glow when 31 . Neon makes orange, while other gases make yellow or blue. It takes many hours to craft a single sign.Blance spent a week in Hong Kong and 32 m
7、ore than 60 signs; 22 of them appear in the series that capture the signs lighting up lonely streetsan 33 that makes it easy to admire their colors and craftsmanship. I love the beautiful, handcrafted, old-fashioned 34 of neon, says Blance. The signs do nothing more than 35 a restaurant, theater, or
8、 other business, but do so in the most striking way possible.A) alternative D) challenging G) electrified J) professionals M) stimulateB) approach E) decorative H) identify K) quality N) symbolizesC) cast F) efficient I) photographed L) replaced O) volunteersSection BDirections: In this section, you
9、 are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions b
10、y marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on StudentsBaring an Ethnic DivideA) This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, New Jersey, sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he sa
11、id, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too many demands. In the previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were recommended for mental health assessments and 40 were hospitalized. And on a survey administered by
12、the district, students wrote things like, I hate going to school, and Coming out of 12 years in this district, I have learned one thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued over anything else.B) With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School Distric
13、t into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a whole child approach to schooling that respects social-emotional development and deep and meaningful learning ove
14、r academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.C) But instead of bringing families together, Aderholds letter
15、revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side are white parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her daughters middle school, who has come to see the districts increasi
16、ngly pressured atmosphere as opposed to learning. My son was in fourth grade and told me, Im not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my resume, she said. On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the d
17、istrict in the past decade, who said Aderholds reforms would amount to a dumbing down of his childrens education. What is happening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for the future, Jia said.D) About 10 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half f
18、rom New York City, West Windsor and Plainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology entrepreneurs, researchers and engineers, drawn in large part by the public schools. From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT. It produces Science Olympiad winners, cl
19、assically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores.E) The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and Korea. This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in 2023. Many of them are the first in their famili
20、es born in the United States. They have had a growing influence on the district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive instrumental music program. They have been huge supporters of the districts advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but wi
21、ll now start in the sixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the participating students are Asian-American, is one of Aderholds reforms.F) Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credi
22、t, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that Aderhold is limiting this school year. With many Asian-American children attending supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elem
23、entary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them.G) Both Asian-American and white families say the tension between the two groups has grown steadily over the past few years, as the number of Asian families has risen. But the division has become more obvious in recent months as Aderhold
24、has made changes, including no-homework nights, an end to high school midterms and finals, and an initiative that made it easier to participate in the music program.H) Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of the Asian American Achievement Parado
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