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Section A
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) In a food store.
B) In a restaurant.
C) In a kitchen.
D) In a supermarket.
2. A) She eats meat occasionally.
B) She enjoys cheeseburgers.
C) She is a partial vegetarian.
D) She is allergic to seafood.
3. A) Changing one’s eating habit.
B) Dealing with one’s colleagues.
C) Following the same diet for years.
D) Keeping awake at morning meetings.
4. A) They are both animal lovers.
B) They enjoy perfect health.
C) They only eat organic food.
D) They are cutting back on coffee.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) The man had an attitude problem.
B) The man made little contribution to the company.
C) The man paid attention to trivial things.
D) The man got a poor evaluation from his colleagues.
6. A) They reject employees’ reasonable arguments for work efficiency.
B) They make unhelpful decisions for solving problems.
C) They favor some employees’ suggestions over others’.
D) They use manipulative language to mask their irrational choices.
7. A) It is a good quality in the workplace.
B) It is more important now than ever.
C) It is a must for rational judgment.
D) It is more of a sin than a virtue.
8. A) Making rational and productive decisions.
B) Focusing on employees’ career growth.
C) Preserving their power and prestige.
D) Smoothing relationships in the workplace.
Section B
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) They bring great honor to their country.
B) They create very high commercial value.
C) They accomplish feats many of us cannot.
D) They show genius which defies description.
10. A) They try to be positive role models to children.
B) They work in spare time to teach children sports.
C) They take part in kids’ extra-curricular activities.
D) They serve as spokespersons for luxury goods.
11. A) Being super sports stars without appearing arrogant.
B) Keeping athletes away from drug or alcohol problems.
C) Preventing certain athletes from getting in trouble with the law.
D) Separating an athlete’s professional life from their personal life.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) They are dreams coming true to the brides.
B) They should be paid up by the attendees.
C) They are joyous and exciting occasions.
D) They always cost more than expected.
13. A) It was canceled.
B) It had eight guests only.
C) It cost $60,000.
D) It was held in Las Vegas.
14. A) Ask her friends for help.
B) Postpone her wedding.
C) Keep to her budget.
D) Invite more guests.
15. A) She called it romantic.
B) She rejected it flatly.
C) She said she would think about it.
D) She welcomed it with open arms.
Section C
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) It determines people’s moods.
B) It can impact people’s well-being.
C) It can influence people’s personalities.
D) It is closely related to people’s emotions.
17. A) They make people more reproductive.
B) They tend to produce positive feelings.
C) They increase people’s life expectancy.
D) They may alter people’s genes gradually.
18. A) The Americans are apparently more outgoing than the Chinese.
B) People in the same geographical area may differ in personality.
C) People share many personality traits despite their nationalities.
D) The link between temperature and personality is fairly weak.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. A) A growing number of US seniors face the risk of early mortality.
B) Correlations have been found between loneliness and ill health.
C) Chronic loneliness does harm to senior citizens in particular.
D) The number of older Americans living alone is on the rise.
20. A) Loneliness is probably reversible.
B) Being busy helps fight loneliness.
C) Loneliness rarely results from living alone.
D) Medication is available for treating loneliness.
21. A) Living with one’s children.
B) Meaningful social contact.
C) Meeting social expectations.
D) Timely medical intervention.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
22. A) She had a successful career in finance.
B) She wrote stories about women travelers.
C) She invested in several private companies.
D) She made regular trips to Asian countries.
23. A) Travel round the world.
B) Set up a travel agency.
C) Buy a ranch.
D) Start a blog.
24. A) Create something unique to enter the industry.
B) Gain support from travel advertising companies.
C) Try to find a full-time job in the travel business.
D) Work hard to attract attention from publishers.
25. A) Refraining from promoting similar products.
B) Avoiding too much advertising early on.
C) Creating an exotic corporate culture.
D) Attracting sufficient investment.
Section A
Conversation One
1. B) In a restaurant.
2. C) She is a partial vegetarian.
3. A) Changing one’s eating habit.
4. B) They enjoy perfect health.
Conversation Two
5. A) The man had an attitude problem.
6. D) They use manipulative language to mask their irrational choices.
7. D) It is more of a sin than a virtue.
8. C) Preserving their power and prestige.
Section B
Passage One
9. C) They accomplish feats many of us cannot.
10. A) They try to be positive role models to children.
11. D) Separating an athlete’s professional life from their personal life.
Passage Two
12. D) They always cost more than expected.
13. A) It was canceled.
14. C) Keep to her budget.
15. B) She rejected it flatly.
Section C
Recording One
16. C) It can influence people’s personalities.
17. B) They tend to produce positive feelings.
18. D) The link between temperature and personality is fairly weak.
Recording Two
19. C) Chronic loneliness does harm to senior citizens in particular.
20. A) Loneliness is probably reversible.
21. B) Meaningful social contact.
Recording Three
22. A) She had a successful career in finance.
23. D) Start a blog.
24. A) Create something unique to enter the industry.
25. B) Avoiding too much advertising early on.
Conversation One
M: Thanks for inviting me out tonight. I’ve been wanting to try this place for weeks. I usually pass it on my way home from work but never seem to have time to stop.
W: (1) I’ve been dying to come here as well. I was worried that the menu might not be accommodating. But one of my close friends ate here last week. She’s a vegetarian. She told me that there were a lot of options for her, and they offered alternative dishes.
M: But you’re not vegetarian, are you?
W: Well, not entirely. (2) I don’t eat meat at all, but I don’t have a problem eating fish, seafood, or eggs.
M: Isn’t that very difficult? I can’t imagine giving up a premium juicy steak or bacon cheeseburgers.
W: I wouldn’t know. My parents followed the same diet. Even when I was younger, we never had meat during meals, and I never really had a craving to try it. (3) I bet it would be hard though, giving up something you’re accustomed to eating. I tried cutting back on coffee in the morning, and it was awful. Come to think of it, it was probably even worse for my colleagues that had to deal with me at morning meetings.
M: That’s even harder to imagine—you, without coffee. So you say your parents also followed a partially vegetarian diet? Why did they decide to do that?
W: That’s an interesting question. I never thought to ask them though. My best guess is for health reasons. They’re not terribly active or knowledgeable about animal preservation efforts, but they’re serious about their health. Both are in their 70s now, but eat organic as often as possible and take part in regular physical exercise. (4) Neither of them has any health problems, and they hardly ever get sick.
M: In that case, I might give it a try someday.
W: Now back to the menu. What are you going to have?
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Q1. Where does the conversation most probably take place? 答案: B)
Q2. What do we learn about the woman? 答案: C)
Q3. What would be a difficult thing to do according to the woman? 答案: A)
Q4. What does the woman say about her parents? 答案: B)
Conversation Two
W: (5-1) How did your annual performance evaluation meeting with your manager go? Did you get much in the way of praise?
M: (5-2) Next to zero. When we came to the part about discussing my areas for growth, he bluntly told me that I had an attitude problem, but he wouldn’t really expand on that description. He said it’s the little things I do and say.
W: Did you ask him for a specific example?
M: I did ask him a few more questions to try and narrow it down. He said my constant questioning of him and his decisions was the most obvious example he could give, then our conversation was swiftly brought to a close.
W: I had a similar experience once. My manager told me I was too honest. In most cases, I thought my honesty was helpful, as did my colleagues, but my manager thought otherwise. (6) Some managers really adopt manipulative language to disguise the unreasonable choices they have made. They don’t use the rational power of arguments to resolve issues of conflict or complaints about unfairness.
M: Right. Some employ their persuasive vocabulary and influential communication style to win workplace arguments by compelling people to perform the intended action.
W: Exactly. (7) Too honest? Isn’t that a good thing? I thought that’s surely something we should have covered earlier in the section discussing strengths and talents, but no. Honesty was deemed to be more of a sin than a virtue since it made people feel uncomfortable, or at least it made the most powerful folks feel uncomfortable.
M: Indeed. Rhetoric is viewed by many philosophers as the method through which the powerful accumulate more power. By virtue of having the loudest voice, they’re able to command greater attention and to further assert their dominance, even when what they’re saying doesn’t really make much sense.
W: (8) And retaining their power and prestige is their priority.
M: It’s what makes the most sense to a lot of them.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Q5. What was the manager’s reason for giving little praise for the man’s performance? 答案: A)
Q6. What does the woman say about some managers? 答案: D)
Q7. According to the woman, what do some managers think of honesty? 答案: D)
Q8. What does the woman think is the priority of many managers 答案: C)
Passage One
(9) Athletes are seen as heroes because they can do things that most of us can’t do. They can hit fast balls coming at them at nearly 100 miles an hour, and leap and hang in the air, seemingly defying gravity. They get paid millions of dollars for their efforts, and their names and faces appear on everything from running shoes to advertising boards.
Athletes who are champions also show qualities such as perseverance, dedication, and the ability to keep their cool under pressure. Many show those same qualities off the playing field, too. Stories about superstar athletes teach us about working hard and believing in ourselves and then being passionate about what we do.
Although it’s usually bad behavior that gets an athlete a spot on the six o’clock news, (10) many high-profile players work hard to be positive role models to children. They raise money for charities and act as mentors, talking to student groups and volunteering their time to programs that help children keep off drugs and stay in school.
Still, even the greatest champions have flaws. Just because an athlete has the perfect golf swing doesn’t mean he is the perfect parent, friend, or spokesperson. They also make mistakes. (11) Separating an athlete’s professional and personal lives can be tough. When a sports star gets in trouble with the law or does something wrong in their private life, fans are often left disappointed.
Before he died, baseball star Mickey Mantle, who was plagued with alcohol problems, told young ballplayers and the fans who admired him “To play like me; don’t be like me.”
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Q9. Why does the speaker say athletes are often viewed as heroes? 答案: C)
Q10. What does the speaker say many high-profile players do? 答案: A)
Q11. What does the speaker say can be difficult? 答案: D)
Passage Two
(12) We don’t need to tell you that weddings can get expensive. Even with the most meticulous budgeting, a few unexpected costs are bound to occur. While most brides tend to accept this as fact, one Canadian woman, who is only known as “Susan,” attempted to avoid all wedding costs. She did this by asking her friends and family to pay up to attend her wedding. It went about as well as you’d expect.
“Susan” is causing quite the debate online after posting a bizarre Facebook complaint about her now-canceled wedding. (13) Yes, the couple called off the wedding just days before their wedding vows. Since their guests refused to pay the $1,500 attendance fee, the $60,000 dream wedding was put on permanent hold. In her long explanation filled with cursing and swearing, the bride accused her friends and family of ruining her marriage and her life. She stated that each guest would only need to pay $1,500 while she sacrificed everything for the day. (14) Her maid of honor told her to stick to the budget, as she was asking too much from her guests, but Susan ignored her. Not surprisingly, only eight people responded positively to the wedding invitations and money requests.
Realizing they would not be able to afford their dream wedding, Susan’s future husband suggested getting married in Las Vegas. (15) The bride quickly shut down the idea, saying she did not want a wedding of gambling and heavy drinking. It seems her dream wedding has now become a nightmare.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Q12. What does the speaker say about weddings? 答案: D)
Q13. What do we learn about the wedding of the Canadian woman “Susan”? 答案: A)
Q14. What did Susan’s maid of honor advise her to do? 答案: C)
Q15. How did Susan respond to her future husband’s suggestion? 答案: B)
Recording One
It has long been scientifically established that weather changes can affect people’s moods. (16) Now, a new study has provided evidence that temperature can influence people’s personalities.
This study of over 1.6 million people revealed that 22 degrees Celsius is the perfect air temperature to live in. A city with an average annual temperature closer to 22 tends to have a population who are more agreeable, conscientious, emotionally stable and outgoing. It is the least taxing temperature for the body to regulate its own temperature.
The study was observational and didn’t show cause-and-effect. But the scientists behind it theorize that better weather leads people to leave their home more often. This in turn leads to more social interaction, which encourages them to develop a friendlier and socially more acceptable personality.
(17) Warmer climates also make people feel more positive in general. They tend to be more agreeable and conscientious. The findings might help explain why colder and warmer countries tend to produce people with different personalities.
Roughly speaking, about 40% of a person’s personality is determined by their genes, the other 60% by their environment.
It was already well known that personality traits vary across geographic regions. Scientists also knew that these geographic personality traits are associated with a broad range of consequential outcomes. These outcomes include economic activity, for example entrepreneurial start-up rates, and also crime rates, health behaviors and health outcomes. And it is well established that personality traits differ between countries.
The research team speculated the two might be linked. To test this, they gave online personality tests to 5,587 Chinese students and 1.66 million Americans. They then compared the results with the average annual temperature where they grew up.
The tests measured personality along five well-studied characteristics. The five were agreeability, conscientiousness, emotional stability, outgoingness and openness to new experiences.
In both groups, the researchers found the closer a town’s average annual temperature was to 22 degrees, the more its population exhibited those personality characteristics.
(18) However, the findings were much stronger for the Chinese group than the Americans studied, which suggests that though temperature plays a role, it does not play a dominant role. The effects are fairly weak. It’s unlikely to lead to many arguments over the temperature studying of the office air conditioner.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
Q16. What has a new study revealed about temperature? 答案: C)
Q17. What does the speaker say about warmer climates? 答案: B)
Q18. What did the online personality tests suggest? 答案: D)
Recording Two
Today we’re talking about Loneliness. Loneliness and social isolation are growing public-health concerns for people of all ages in the United States, from adolescence to the elderly. Public health experts are worried because loneliness seems to be on the rise, and studies have long found correlations between loneliness and an assortment of medical conditions that threaten health and longevity. The problem of loneliness maybe even greater than we thought.
(19-1) A new national poll found that about a third of older Americans are lonely, and almost as many seniors feel isolated.
(19-2) This is a serious problem as research shows that chronic loneliness is particularly harmful to senior citizens. That’s because it can impair older adults’ memory and damage their physical and mental health. Chronic loneliness even impacts the life expectancy of seniors, increasing their risk of early mortality.
Let’s take a closer look at that poll now.
More than a third of seniors in the poll said they felt lonely at least some of the time, and 27% said they sometimes or often felt isolated. This reflects how much time the seniors spent with others. Almost 30% said they socialized with friends, family or neighbors once a week or less.
Women were more likely than men to report loneliness. (20) But there is good news. It looks like loneliness can be reversed, but researchers are still trying to determine the best way to do so.
Why is that?
Resolving the problem of loneliness among seniors often isn’t as simple as getting them together with others or moving them in with their children. In fact, the poll found that seniors who lived with their children were more likely to report feeling lonely than those who didn’t. This may be because loneliness refers to “the discrepancy between actual and desired relationships.” So it’s possible that someone who lives alone doesn’t meet that definition, while someone in a house full of busy people does.
How can we solve the problem?
Well, the researchers assert that it’s important to address each person’s underlying cause of loneliness, whether it’s the death of a spouse, medical problems or social expectations that haven’t been fulfilled.
It’s noteworthy that there is one general recommendation. (21) While finding solutions for loneliness is highly personal, research suggests the best interventions are those that involve meaningful social contact at least once a week. Depending on the person, that could mean volunteering, seeing an old friend or something else.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.
Q19. Why does the speaker say the finding of a new national poll reveals a serious problem? 答案: C)
Q20. What is the good news the speaker talks about? 答案: A)
Q21. What is the key to solving the loneliness problem according to the speaker? 答案: B)
Recording Three
Hello, I am co-founder of the popular female travel community We Are Travel Girls. We collect and publish stories from women traveling all over the world. We promote women’s blogs, we host meetings and events and are getting ready to launch our Travel With Us trips in Bali, Japan and Malawi.
(22) Before I started We Are Travel Girls I had a successful 10-year career in finance in London, where I advised private clients on their investments. Having always had a huge love for travel I finally took the leap and left finance to pursue my dream of starting a travel company.
For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a travel writer, before blogs existed and everything we read was online I would go to travel writing seminars by writers who were published in travel magazines. I was desperate to write for one of those magazines, but didn’t know how to break into that industry. After university I ended up working in finance, but always had a desire to travel and write about it.
(23) In 2015, I was looking at ways to leave finance, and my best friend Vanessa, who grew up on a ranch on the Central Coast of California, suggested starting a blog. But when we started creating it, we realized that was the same thing every girl was doing, so we turned our attention to creating a community among these women. This led us to start We Are Travel Girls, which has now grown into a community of over 200,000 followers.
(24) To anyone thinking about becoming a travel writer, I would suggest they first try and look for a unique way to enter the industry. There are a lot of travel writers now and it can be hard to stand out from the crowd, which is really why we started We Are Travel Girls. Be prepared to work hard if you want to turn it into a full-time business, (25) and try not to rush to selling advertising spaces before you have created a dedicated audience. The size of your audience doesn’t necessarily need to be huge, but you want them to be engaged. If you post too many promotions early on, you will turn many people off.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
Q22. What do we learn about the speaker before she created the community We Are Travel Girls? 答案: A)
Q23. What did the speaker’s friend suggest they do in 2015? 答案: D)
Q24. What does the speaker advise people to do if they want to become travel writers? 答案: A)
Q25. What is the speaker’s advice on winning a loyal audience? 答案: B)
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