單項選擇題
1、根據以下資料，回答題：
        New evidence of a sick, deprived population working under harshconditions contradicts earlier images of wealth and abundance from the artrecords of the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna, a study has found．Tell el-Amarna was the capital of ancient Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh (法老) Akhenaten, who abandoned most of Egypt's old gods in favor of the Aten sun disk andbrought in a new and more expressive style of art．Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt between 1379 and 1362BC, built and lived in Tell el-Amarna in central Egypt for 15 years．The city was largely abandoned shortlyafter his death and the ascendance of the famous boy king Tutankhamun to the throne．Studies on the remains of ordinary ancient Egyptians in a cemetery in Tell el-Amarna showed thatmany of them suffered from anem/a (貧血癥 ), fractured bones, stunted growth and high juvenilemortality rates, according to professors Barry Kemp and Jerome Rose, who led the research．Rose, a professor of anthropology (人類學) in the University of Arkansas in the United States, saidadults buried in the cemetery were probably brought there from other parts of Egypt．"This means that wehave a period of deprivation in Egypt prior to the Amarna phase．So maybe things were not so good for theaverage Egyptian and maybe Akhenaten said we have to change to make things better," he said．Kemp, director of the Amarna Project which seeks in part to increase public knowledge of Tell el-Amarna and surrounding region, said little attention has been given to the cemeteries of ordinary ancient Egyptians．Rose displayed pictures showing spinal (脊柱) injuries among teenagers, probably because of accidents during construction work to build the city．The study showed that anemia ran at 74 percent among children and teenagers, and at 44 percentamong adults, Rose said．The average height of men was 159 cm (5 feet 2 inches) and 153 cm among women．"Adult heights are used as an indicator for overall standard of living," he said．"Short statures(身長) reflect a diet deficient in protein．．．People were not growing to their full potential．"

What is the findings of the study mentioned in the passage?
A．The ancient Tell el-Amarna was famous for its art records．
B．The artistic exhibition of ancient Tell el-Amarna was trustworthy．
C．The art records of Tell el-Amarna showed ancient Egyptians' real life．
D．Life was really tough for average Egyptians in ancient Tell el-Amarna．


2、        Questions are based on the following passage.
         In his first term. Mayor Michael Bloomberg mapped out a fair plan to get rid of 11,000 tons of New York City garbage every day. The complex proposal was designed to make each district take care of its own trash. It was also supposed to help limit noisy garbage trucks going long distances through, the city to reach marine barges (駁船), railways or out-of-state trash facilities.
        Nobody wanted these new garbage transfer stations in their neighborhood, even with promises of new high-tech, low-smell facilities. There are already stations in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, most of them in lower-income commtmities. Only one area of the city--the Upper East Side of
Manhattan--has refused to accept a trash facility. The city should not give in to local resistance.
        It is time for residents in that neighborhood to accept a share of the city's garbage problem. The city should build a modern, environmentally sound facility at 91st Street to transfer trash from Manhattan to barges on the East River. That trash, estimated at up to 1,800 tons a day, would then go by barge to other states.
Deputy Mayor Cas Hoiloway said last week that the city has had to fight off "lawsuit after lawsuit" with "every useless argument under the sun" from those opposing the 91st Street facility. Those delays have helped push the cost for building the station from $125 million in 2006 to about $ 226 million now.
        An earlier trash station at that site, which was closed in 1999, was badly designed so that trucks idled along York Avenue. The new facility, Mr. Holloway said, has been designed to reduce the congestion problem with longer ramps (匝道) leading to the facility, which sits on the eastern side of Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. The plans also call for higher noise-blocking walls along the ramps.
        This terminal is an essential part of the city's 20-year waste management plan. John Doherty, the sanitation (環境衛生) commissioner, told critics at a hearing last week, "We will not entertain any changes to what is a fair and thoughtful, district-based approach that was founded on the principles of environmental equity for all New Yorkers."
Environmental equity, in this case, means that the Upper East Side of Manhattan has to do its part.
The plan worked out by Mayor Michael Bloomberg will______.
A．make garbage trucks no longer necessary
B．need more out-of-state trash facilities
C．reduce the amount of trash in the city
D．make each district deal with its own trash


3、根據材料，回答問題。
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices markedA．,B．, C． and D．. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, when children learn to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle--compare those performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his own mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can't find the way to get the right answer. Let's end this nonsense of grades, exams,marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one's life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, "But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get in the world?" Don't worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.
What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things?
A．By imitating what other people do.
B．By making mistakes and having them corrected.
C．By listening to explanations from skilled people.
D．By asking a great many questions.


4、根據下面文章，回答題。
Public colleges must be stewards(管家)of the public’s trust and of students’ and taxpayers’dollars．They should be(36)__________for containing costs and for spending on what matters most：prepanng students to be active learners，career-ready and engaged citizens．Public colleges are using myriad strategies to cut costs and keep college(37)__________．These include(38)__________administrative expenses；eliminating low-enrollment programs and student support services；and achieving cost savings in energy management and employee health care．
Fast-rising tuition increases may make it seem that institutional spendiiIg is out of(39)__________．However,public colleges’collective(40)__________per fulltime student has actually been flat in recent years．
The primary reason for escalating(逐步上升)tuition prices has been the state-to-student cost shift that has taken place in who pays for a public higher education．States have gradually(41)__________from their public higher education systems．with families picking up more of me tab through tuition increases．Institutions have first turned to reducing spending，only raising tuition prices to(42)__________academic quality．
The best way to mitigate future tuition increases is for state leaders to reinvest in public higher education．With the Great Recession finally behind us—during which states dramatically reduced(43)__________for public colleges and universities— state leaders started reinvesting in public higher education this year,providing a nearly 6% increase in funding．
Maintaining(44)__________to afrordable public colleges is paramount to our nailon’s economic security, social equity and civic vibrancy．It is(45)__________
upon state government，together with public colleges and universities，to ensure this happens．
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
A．raise
B．disinvested
C．fair
D．reducing
E．reinvest
F．affordable
G．tuition
H．accountable
I．afford
J．funding
K．incumbent
L．maintain
M．access
N．control
O．spending
第36題應填__________


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簡答題
6、Directions：For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English．
潑水節（Water Splashing Festival）是傣族富民族特色的節日。人們互相潑水，表示洗去身上一年的污垢和晦氣，在新的一年里會更加平安和幸福。潑水節這一天人們要拜佛（worship Budda）姑娘們用漂著鮮花的清水為佛洗塵，然后彼此潑水嬉戲，相互祝愿。被人潑的水越多，說明受到的祝福越多。潑水節期間，還要舉行賽龍船、放飛燈等傳統娛樂活動和各種歌舞晚會。

7、        沒有人知道中國的汽車市場終會有多大。對中國汽車年銷售量的估計從2 500萬輛變化到了7 500萬輛，是前面數據的三倍。但如果日益嚴重的交通堵塞超過了中國正在積極地進行公路建設的速度，中國汽車市場的需求可能將受到嚴重制約(be restrained)。此外，不斷上漲的進口油價格可能會迫使中國政府進一步限制公眾自駕汽車出行。

8、宣紙是一種中外聞名的名貴紙張。由于這種紙的出產地在安徽的宣城附近，所以被人們稱為“宣紙”。宣紙的生產已經有一千五百多年的歷史了。這種紙潔白、細密(fi Fie-grained)、均勻、柔軟，能表現出中國書法和繪畫的特點。由于宣紙不容易破碎、變色，所以，很多中國古代的字畫經過了幾百年、上千年，仍然保存得完好無缺。


9、中國被譽為陶瓷之國，景德鎮被稱為陶瓷之都(the City of ceramics)。瓷器早出現于商代中晚期。距今已有八千多年的悠久歷史。隨著時代的發展，瓷器的用途越來越多，既可以用來盛放東西，也可以作裝飾之用。多姿多彩的瓷器是中國古代的偉大發明之一。  “瓷器”與“中國”在英文中同為一詞。充分說明中國瓷器的精美絕倫完全可以作為中國的代表。


10、舞獅子(Lion dance)，是我國的民間藝術。每逢元宵佳節或集會慶典，民間都以獅舞前來助興。這一習俗起源于三國時期，南北朝時開始流行，至今已有一千多年的歷史。獅子為百獸之尊，形象雄偉俊武，給人以威嚴、勇猛之感。古人將它當作勇敢和力量的象征。認為它能驅邪鎮妖、保佑人畜平安。所以人們逐漸形成了在元宵節時及其他重大活動里舞獅子的習俗，以祈望生活吉祥如意，事事平安。