單項選擇題
1、 QuesUonsare based on the following paassage
When we talk about Americans barely into adulthood who are saddled with uttbearable levels of debt, the conversation is almost always about student loan debt. But there's a growing body of evidence suggesting that today's young adults are also drowning in credit-card debt-and that many of them will take this debt to their graves.
More than 20% overspent their income by more than $100 every single month. Since they haven't built up their credit histories yet, it's a safe bet that theae young adults are paying relatively high interest rates on the resulting credit card debt.
Although many young people blame "Socializing" a~ a barrier to saving money, most of them aren't knocking back $ 20 drinks in trendy ( 時尚的) lounges. They're struggling with much more daily financial demands.
To a disturbingly large extent, the young and the broke are relying on credit cards to make it until their next payday. This obviously isn't sustainable in the long run, and it's going -to put a huge drag on, their spending power even after they reach their peak earning years, becattse they'll sttll be paying interest
on that bottle Of orange juice or box of spaghetti (意式面條) they bOUght a decade earlier.
A new study out of Ohio State University found that young adults are accumulating credit card debt at a more rapid rate than other age groups, and that they're slower at paying it off, "If what we found continues to hold true, we may have more elderly people with substantial financial problems in the future," warns Lucia Duma, professor of economics at Ohio State, "If our   persist, we may be
faced with a financial crisis among elderly ,people who can't pay off their credit cards, "
Dunn says a lot of these young people are never going to get out from under their credit card debt."Many people are borrowing on credit cards so heavily that payoff rates at these levels are not sufficient to recover their credit card debt by the end of their life, which could have loss implications for the credit card issuing banks. "
 
Wilt is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A．Many young Americans will never be able to pay off their debts.
B．Credit cards play an increasingly important role in college life.
C．Credit cards are doing more harm than student loans.
D．The American credit card system is under criticism.


2、根據下列材料，請回答題：
How to Reinvent College Rankings：Show the Data Students Need Most
A. All rankings are misleading and biased (有偏見的.. But they're also the only way to pick a school. I've heard those exact words dozens of times and inferred their sentiment hundreds more. They undoubtedly were a major contributing factor in the 250.000 applications to the too colleges this past year. With only 14,000 chances available, there will be a lot of disappointed families when decisions are announced in a few days. For 30 years, I've co-authored bestselling books and provocative articles about how to improve one's chances of being accepted at a "top" college.
B. The first edition of our book Getting In! revealed what went on behind the admission committees' closed doors，and introduced the concepts of packaging and positioning to the college-application vocabulary. The newest edition adapts the same principles to the digital age. But the core messagere mains: good colleges are not looking for the well-rounded kid--they're looking to put together thewell-rounded class.
C. What were revelations in 1983 are common knowledge today--at least among college-bound students, parents, and counselors. They also don't have to be told that the odds of getting into a "highly selective" school are ridiculously low. Brown and Dartmouth will each accept about 9 percent of applicants; Cornell, Northwestern, and Georgetown about 16 percent. And Harvard, Yale, and Stanford? Forget about it: less than 7 percent!
D. Wanting to attend a "name" school isn't illogical. And there is nothing illogical in parents wanting a better return on their investment. A college's brand value--whether that school's name will be recognized and open employers' door.
E. Colleges, counselors, and parents talk a lot about finding the right "fit" between a school and a student. In reality, the process is dominated by reputation. The problem is that college reputation shave been controlled by rankings. Far too many "highly ranked" colleges are gaming the rankings and trying to attract more and more applicants--when the particular college is actually a poor "fit" for many of the kids applying. Colleges want to attract and reject more kids because that "selectivity" improves the institution's ranking. College presidents publicly complain there are too many college rankings. Privately, they admit they have to provide the data that feed that maw (大胃口.. They can't afford to be left off a rankings list. The real losers in this system are students and their parents. A bad fit is costly, not just in dollars, but in time, energy, and psychological well-being.
F. The emphasis should be on finding the right fit. But finding the right fit is not east. Subjective guide books like Edward Fiske's--originally titled the New York Times Selective Guide to Colleges--are very useful and consciously do not include rankings. Ted changed his three-category rating system to make it more difficult to simply add "stars" and rank-list colleges. Even families who can afford to visit lots of colleges and endure the backward-walking tours find that carious personalities soon blur in their memory.
G. Thus it is not surprising that anxious, busy parents turn to rankings for shorthand comfort. Unfortunately, the data that U, S. News and other media companies are collecting are largely irrelevant. As a result, the rankings they generate are not meaningless, just misleading. Some examples: U. S. News places a good deal of emphasis on the percentage of faculty who hold a" terminal degree"--typically a Ph. D. Unfortunately, a terminal degree does not correlate (相關的.in any way with whether that professor is a good teacher. It also doesn't improve that professor's accessibility to students. In fact, there is usually such a correlation: the more senior the professor, the less time they have for undergraduates.
H. U.S. News' second most heavily weighted factor--after a college's six-year graduation rate--is a peer assessment of colleges by college presidents and admissions deans. You read that right: administrators are asked to evaluate colleges that are competitive with their own school. If not an complete conflict of interest, this measure is highly suspect.
I. Even some seemingly reasonable "inputs" are often meaningless. U.S. News heavily weights the number of classes with fewer than 20 students. But small classes are like comfort food., it is what high-school kids are familiar with. They have never sat in a large lecture hall with a very interesting speaker. So it is not something they could look forward or value.
J. While most rankings suffer from major problems in criteria(標準. and inputs, the biggest problem is simpler: all the ranking systems use weightings that reflect the editors' personal biases. Very simply，some editors' priorities are undoubtedly going be different from what is important to me. Assuredly preferences are different from my kids', And both will differ markedly from our neighbors' objectives.
K. Colleges say they truly want to attract kids for whom the school will be a good fit. To make good on that promise, colleges need to provide families with insight, not just information； and they need to focus on outputs, not. just inputs. Collecting and sharing four sets of very different data would be a good start； Better insight into the quality of education a student will get on that campus. Colleges need to share the exam scores for all students applying to medical school, law school, business school, and graduate programs. These tests reflect not just the ability of the kids who've gone to that college, but what they've learned in the three-plus years they've attended. Colleges need to assess a campus "happiness" coefficient (系數.. A happy campus is a more productive learning environment; and one that has a lower incidence of alcohol and drug abuse. The full debt that families incur (招致. ; not just student debt. The salaries of graduates one, five, and 10 years after graduation.
L. A fifth useful metric is what employers--both nationally and regionally--think of graduates from particular colleges. Hiring preferences are a useful proxy (代表.for reputation.
M. The last piece in enabling families to find a better fit will come from entrepreneurs. Some smart "kid" will develop an online tool that will allow students and parents to take this new college-reported data and assign weighting factors to the characteristics that are important to them. The tool would then generate a customized ranking of colleges that reflects the family's priorities--not some editor's.
N. Colleges may complain about the rankings, but they are complicit (串通一氣的. in keeping them. It is reminiscent (懷舊的. of the classic Claude Raines line in Casablanca: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" ff colleges really want kids for whom their college is a good fit, they will collect and publish the types of honest data that will give families a better basis for smart decisions.

The rankings generated on the basis of data collected by U.S. News and other media companies are misleading.

3、根據下列材料，請回答題：
Questions 36 to 45 are based Oil the following passage．
The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and slow recoveries. Since technology has such a big 36 for eating up human jobs, this phenomenon will continue to restructure our economy in ways we can't immediately foresee.
When there is exponential (指數的. 37 in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were once thought to be 38 from automation suddenly become threatened. This is a powerful argument, and a scary one. And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says the argument misses the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first palce.
Hagel says we have designed jobs in the U.S. that tend to be tightly scripted and highly 39 ones that leave no room for individual initiative or creativity. In short, these are the types of jobs that machines can 40 much better than human beings. That is how we have put a giant 41 sign on the backs of
American workers.
It's time to 42 the formula for how work is conducted, since we are still relying on a very 20thcentury 43 of work, Hagel says. In our 44 changing economy, we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination to respond to 45 events. That's not something machines are good at. They are designed to perform very predictable activities.

A．appetite
B．calculate
C．competition
D．distinct
E．exceedingly
F．immune
G．improvement
H．norm
I．notion
J．perform
K．rapidly
L．reinvent
M．standardized
N．target
O．unexpected
請回答（36）題__________.


4、聽音頻：
根據所聽到的內容，回題。

A．Read the warning tag on it to the woman.
B．Refuse to refund the sweater.
C．Wash the sweater in cool water.
D．Teach the woman how to wash it properly.

5、Passage One
Questionsare based on the following passage．
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in the US found higher levels of protein S1PR2(磷酸鞘氨醇受體蛋白)in tests on the brains of female mice and dead women with MS than in male equivalents．Four times more women than men are currently diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis(多發性硬化癥)．
Experts said the finding was “really interesting”．MS affects the nerves in the brain and spinal cord，which causes problems with muscle movement，balance and vision．It is a major cause of disability, and affects about 1 00，000 people in the UK．Abnormal immune cells a Rack nerve cells in the central Nervous system in MS patients．There is currently no cure，A．though there are treatments that can help in the early stages of the disease．
Researchers in Missouri looked at relapsing remitting(復發緩解型)MS，where people have distinct attacks of symptoms that then fade away either partially or completely．About 85% of all people with MS have this type．Scientists studied the blood vessels and brains of healthy mice，mice with MS，and mice without the gene for SlPR2，a blood vessel receptor protein，to see how it affected MS severity．They A．so 100ked at the brain tissue samples of 20 people after they had died．They found high levels of S1PR2 in the areas of the brain typically damaged by MS in both mice and people．The activity of the gene coding for S1 PR2 was positively correlated with the severity of the disease in mice．the study said．．
Scientists said S l PR2 could work by helping to make the blood-brain barrier,in charge of stopping potentially harmful substances from entering the brain and spial fluid．more permeable．A more permeable barrier could let attacking cells，which cause MS，into the central nervous system，the study said．This link[between MS and S lPR2] is completely new一it has never been found before．
Dr Emma Gray,of the MS Society, said：”We don’t yet fully understand why MS affects more women than men, and it’s an area that’s intrigued scientists，and people with MS，for many years．She said understanding the causes of MS was a“priority”for the MS Society in the UK．and could be“crucial”in finding new treatments．
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
What can we infer from the last sentence in Para．1 ?
A．Women are more likely to be diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis．
B．Men are more likely to be diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis．
C．Male mice are more likely to be diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis．
D．Female mice are more likely to be diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis．


簡答題
6、在中國歷史文明中，慶祝春節的習俗很多，至今在民間保存廣的習俗之一則是貼春聯(Spr i ng Fest j va | coup | ets)。春聯以工整、對偶、簡潔、精巧的文字描繪時代背景，抒發美好愿望，是我國特有的文學形式。每逢春節，無論城市還是農村，家家戶戶都要精選一幅大紅春聯貼于門上，為節日增加喜慶氣氛。這一習俗起于宋代，在明代開始盛行，到了清代，春聯的思想性和藝術性都有了很大的提高。


7、中國高速客運鐵路。常被簡稱為“中國高鐵”。它作為現代社會的一種新的運輸方式。有著運載能力大、運輸效率高、運行速度快、節能環保等特點。在運載能力和效率上，一趟列車可以運送1000多人，每隔5分鐘就可以開出一趟列車；在運行速度上，目前設計時速可達350公里；在節能環保上，高速鐵路是綠色交通工具，非常適應節能減排(energy-say i ng and em i ss i on-reduct；on)的要求。


8、You shouM write a short essay entitled Limiting the Use ofDisposable Plastic Bags．
寫作導航
1．一次性塑料袋曾被廣泛使用；
2．使用一次性塑料袋帶來的問題；
3．限制使用一次性塑料袋的意義


9、 You should write a short essay entitled Spring Festival Gala on CCTE．
寫作導航
1．許多人喜歡在除夕夜看春節晚會；
2．但有些人提出取消春節晚會；
3．提出自己的看法：不同意取消春晚。


10、餃子(Chinese dumplings)是中國的傳統食品。按照中國的傳統風俗習慣，全家人都要在除夕那天聚在一起包餃子。他們會在其中一個餃子里藏個硬幣，誰能吃到藏硬幣的餃子就代表那個人在新的一年里會有好運氣。此外，餃子的形狀頗像中國古代的金元寶(gold ingots)，因而象征著財富。因此，餃子是中國人民必不可少的食物，也是多數人鐘愛的食物。
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。