單項選擇題
1、 Passage Two
Questionsare based on the following passage．
The Wall Street Journal quoted sources close to thecompany as saying a run of 4．000 devices will be manufacturednext month．The tablet will have two rear-facing camerasand advanced imaging software——and will be shown off at the firm’s forthcomingdevelopers’ conference．Google has said it will not commenton “rumor and speculation”．But in March，Google showed off Project Tango，all effortto bring 3D technology to its handheld devices．Aprototype smart phone had been given out to 200 developers to try out．
The technology makes use of infrared sensors tomeasure depth of surroundings．While the ability to create 3Dimages with small devices is by no means a new technological feat，Google’s strategy will be to harness the hardware to contribute to，among other things，its mapping effort．For instance，the devices could be used tocreate quickly a 3D map of indoor environments．Accordingto the Wall Street Journal，the 3D tablet will be shownof fat Google’s annual developers’ conference at the end of June．
As it did with the Google Glass eyewear product．itis expected the firm will A．low a select number ofdevelopers and engineers to experiment with the technology before a consumerlaunch is planned．although still a relatively minorindustry，the race to create the “killer app” forbuilding and viewing virtual reality environments is building a pace．In March，Facebook swooped in on a$2bn（￡1．2bn） deal for OculusVR，a company making a virtual reality headset．
A mini-site for Project Tango has highlighted a fewof the firm’s plans in the area．“Project Tango is an attempt tocreate a mobile device unlike like any other，”the siteexplains．“A mobile device that shares our sense ofspace and movement，that understands and perceives theworld the same way we do．”
In the past few years，devices able to view andcreate 3D images have made it to market，but suffered heavilyfrom a lack of consumer interest，said Jack Kent，an analyst at IHS．“If Google really pushesit，that might change也e dynamicsof the market。”he told the BBC．
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
What is the feature of the newtablet？
A．It will have two pre-facing camerasand advanced imaging software．
B．It will have one rear-facingcamera and advanced imaging hardware．
C．It will have two rear-facing camerasand advanced imaging software．
D．It will have one pre-facingcamera and advanced imaging hardware．


2、Questionsare based on the following passage
One thing about Huawei is easy to understand：its（36）__________．In Parison May 7th the Chinese telecoms company showed off the Ascend P7，a sleek smart phone（37）__________with the speedy fourth-generation mobile-phone networksbeing built in many countries．
Huawei started pushing its own brand of smartphones only in 201 1，but by 2013 it was the world’s third-biggestvendor．（38）__________it isstill far behind the leaders，Apple and Samsung：it hopes that phones like the P7 will help it（39）__________the gap．In 2013 this part of its operations brought in about 70%of its revenueof 239 billion yuan．
Huawei’s（40）__________and management are less well understood．Some American politicians and competitors regard the company aslittle better than a front for the Chinese state，partlybecause Ren Zhengfei，its chief（41）__________，was an engineer in the People’sLiberation Army before he founded Huawei in l 987．Itsnetwork equipment has in effect been（42）__________out of the American market．However，Huawei has A．ways denied being under thestate’s thumb．
Unlike Alibaba and other Chinese technologycompanies that have sought stock market listings，Huawei has no such plans．Huawei’s system，he believes，fosters a（43）__________viewthat will help it overtake listed competitors．Nor doeshe think that going public would（44）__________Huawei’s difficulties in America．“Itmight take ten or 20 years for the United States to know that Huawei is acompany with（45）__________，”he said．Meanwhile，Huaweiwill put its energy into more welcoming markets．
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A．shut
B．ambition
C．integrity
D．short-term
E．compatible
F．honesty
G．ownership
H．enlarge
I．bridge
J．decrease
K．long-term
L．however
M．executive
N．alleviate
O．Though
第36題應填________


3、根據以下資料，回答題：
Quesaons 56 to60 are based on thefollowingpassage．
When it comes to noise cancelling headphones，sometimes the best offense is a good defense．While there are plenty of active noise cancelling headphones that use a complex(and pricey)method to block distracting sounds，there are simpler ways．How about headphones with a snug fit that simply plug up your ear canals?
This process is called passive isolation．It’s not uncommon for a consumer faced with the choice between the descriptors“passive”and“active”to choose the stronger-sounding technology,but great passive isolation can be just as effective and cost a lot less．
The AKG K323 XS headphones($59 MSRP)are just such a pair．Sleek and portable，they produce a huge sound marked with prominent bass，supportive mids，and very healthy highs．They’re also the best passive isolators that we’ve tested in a long time．Like most in-ears，the XS headphones are quite small and simply designed，available in white，blue，orange．yellow,green—the list goes on．The Android version packs a one-button universal remote，and there’s also a three．button version for iOS．The XS’s teeny form factor,featherweight frame，and smalI carry case are additional on．the．go perks(特權享受)．
The cable is simple，but of decent quality,It’s shorter than most cords—just 3．5 feet—which may or may not be desirable depending on how you use them．
Ears come in all different shapes．and so do the speaker covers．AKG includes four different options：extra small，small，medium，and large．
In the audio test labs．these AKGs proved to be a straight．A student．Thanks to moderate bass notes and very prominent middle and high notes，music sounds both full and balanced．From classical，to jazz，to hip hop，every genre benefits from this even-handed sound quality．Listeners will enjoy big，thumping bass that doesn’t obscure subtler insmunents like violin and piano．These tiny in．ears aced distortion tests，to—you won’t find one drop of unwanted or distorted sound．
The K323 XS really shines．even in a crowded market．It’s hard to pick which glowing attribute to praise first：The massive，well．balanced sound stage?The distortion．free listening experience?The$59 price tag?The monster isolation?The tiny,portable design?These AKGs are simply aces()，and online sale prices of around$40 kick everything up another notch(等級)．
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
What can you learn from the first two paragraphs?
A．All active isolators are technically complex．
B．Consumers are more likely to choose active isolators．
C．Passive isolation isn’t as effective as the active one．
D．Consumers prefer those low-priced passive isolators．


4、根據材料回答題
A．Amazon，by far the largest bookseller in the country,reported on May 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and．ink format．That is remarkable，considering that the Kindle has only been around for four years．E-books now account for 14 percent of All book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales．E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year,while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8percent．
B．Does this spell the doom of the physical book?Certainly not immediately,and perhaps not at all What it does mean is that the book business will go through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen since Gutenberg introduced printing from moveaB．e type in the 1450s．
C． PhysicA． books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace．Mass market paperbacks，which have been declining for years anyway,will probably disappear,as will hardbacks for mysteries，thrillers，“romance fiction．”etc．Such books，which only rarely end up in permanent collections，either private or
public．will probably only be available as e-books within a few years．Hardback and trade paperbacks for“serious”nonfiction and fiction will surely last longer．Perhaps it will become the mark of an author to reckon with that he or she is still puB．ished in hard copy．
D． As for children’s books，who knows?Children’s books are like dog food in that the purchasers are not the consumers，so the market(and the marketing)is inherently strange．
E．For clues to the book’s future，let’s look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the old technology．
F． One technology replaces another only because the new technology is better,cheaper,or both．The greater the difference，the sooner and more thoroughly the new technology replaces the old．Printing with moveaB．e type on paper dramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with the old-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum，which comes from sheepskin．A Bible-to be sure,a long
Book required vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countless man-hours of labor．Before printing arrived,a BiB．e cost more than a middle-class house．There were perhaps 50．000 books in all of Europe in 1450．By l500there were 10 million．
G．But while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out，handwriting lingered on(繼續存在) well into the l 6th century．Very speciA． books are still occasionA．ly produced on vellum．but they are one—of-a-kind show pieces．
H． Sometimes a new technology doesn’t drive the old one out，but only parts of it while forcing the rest to evolve．The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace，but they didn’t，because theater turned out to have quA．ities movies could not reproduce．Equally,TV was supposed to replace movies but，again，did not．
I．Movies did，however,fatally impact some parts of live theater．And while TV didn’t kill movies，it did kill second-rate pictures，shorts，and cartoons．
J． Nor did TV kill radio．Comedy and drama shows(“Jack Benny,”“Amos and Andy,” “The Shadow”)all migrated to television．But because you can’t drive a cal ”and watch television at the same time，rushhour became radio’s prime，while music，talk，and news radio greatly enlarged their audiences．Radio is today a very different business than in the late 1940s and a much larger one．
K．Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power．Mounted cavalry(騎兵) replaced the chariot(二輪戰車)on the battlefield around 1 000 BC．But chariots maintained their place in parades and triumphs right up until the end of the Roman Empire 1,500 years later．The Sword hasn’t had a military function for a hundred years,but is still part of an officer’s full．dress nniforill，precisely because a sword A．ways symbolized“an ofificer and a gentleman．”
L．Sometimes new technology is a little cranky(不穩定的)at first．Television repairman was a common occupation in the 1950s．for instance．And so the old technology remains as a backup．Steamships captured the North Atlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of its much greater
speed．But steamships didn’t lose their sails until the 1880s,because early marine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down．Until ships became large enough(and engines small enough)to mount two engines side by side．they needed to keep sails．(The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world’s ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century．)
M．Then there is the fireplace．Central heating was present in every．upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 1 9th century．But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful selling point in a house or aDartment．I suspect the reason is a deep．rooted love of the fire．Fire was one of the earliest major technological advances for humankind，providing heat，protection，and cooked food(which is much easier to eat and digest)．Human control of fire goes back far enough(over a million years)that evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life．
N． Books-especially books the average person could afford-haven’t been around long enough to produce evolutionary change in humans．But they have a powerful hold on many people nonetheless，a hold extending far beyond their literary content．At their best，they are works of art and there is a tactile(觸覺的)pleasure in books necessarily lost in e-book versions．The ability to quickly thumb through pages is  also lost．And a room with books in it induces，at least in some，a feeling not dissimilar to that of a fire in the fireplace on a cold winter’s night．
0． For these reasons I think physical books will have a longer existence as a commercial product than some currently predict．Like swords，books have symbolic power．Like fireplaces，they induce a sense of comfort and warmth．And，perhaps，similar to sails，they make a usefurback-up for when the lights goout．
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Authors still puB．ished in printed versions will be considered important ones．


5、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．
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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__________


6、 回答題
    When companies consider their benefits mix．coverage for medical care is often top．of-mind．Yet there may be another,even more powerful concern driving employee coverage preferences：vision care．Roughly 75%of adults in the United States require some type of vision correction．and 84 percent of adults believe that vision benefits are somewhat or very important to them．As a result．vision assistance is moving higher and higher on the list of sought．after employee benefits．
    What’s driving the trend?One factor is the increasing power of eye examinations to detect systemic illness．In addition to identifying nearsightedness，farsightedness and astigmatism，routine eye exanls now play a role in diagnosing conditions such as diabetes，brain aneurysms(腦動脈瘤)，liver disease and stroke risk．
    Early identification，in turn，translates into markedly lower expenditures for employers．In 2014，eye problems will cost companies an estimated$8 billion in reduced productivity．Making sure employees get the right eye care helps employers reduce these losses．At the same time，it boosts their ability to retain loyal workers．
    So what’s the best way to get patients into the exam chair?One way is to provide a vision plan that lowers out-of-pocket(自已付費的)expenses．Indeed，research shows that out-of-pocket expense--not premiums--is the number-one factor employees consider when choosing a-vision plan．“And that’s just smart．”says independent insurance broker Shannon Enders．“Premiums make up only about 30 percent of total out．of-pocket expenses．So it pays to100k beyond the premium and see the real cost of a plan．”
    A study conducted by Service Excellence Group Inc．，a leading market research company,shows how the right vision insurance plan can result in across—the-board(全面的)savings for employees．The study compared the prices customers with different insurance plans paid for the same popular pair of eyeglasses at independent doctors and retail chains．It found that customers with insurance plans that were most successful at keeping out-of-pocket expenses low saved hundreds of dollars．
    With eyeglasses becoming as much of a fashion accessory(裝飾品)as a vision aid，forward-thinking companies are beginning to take note．Enders says more of his clients are saying yes to vision care plans．“Employees care about their eyes，”he says．“And offering benefits packages with the features employees care most about will become an even more important corporate strategy going forward．”

What is the meaning of the last sentence of paragraph one?
A．Vision assistance is listed on the list of popular worker interests．
B．Vision assistance is becoming more and more popular among employees。
C．Vision assistance is considered as one of the employee benefits．
D．Vision assistance is the top concern of the employees．


簡答題
7、北京市交通發達。交通工具多樣化。公交車是普通老百姓出門的主要交通工具。每輛大型公共汽車的前、后門各有一位售票員招呼乘客，票價一律1元起價。空調公共汽車的票價為2元至11元。學生票可以打四折(60％d i scount)。北京的出租車也很發達，出租車隨處可見，非常方便。在機場、火車站和旅游地，都有出租車晝夜服務。北京地鐵是新中國條地鐵，三十多年來，累計運送乘客近60億人次。


8、微博，即微型博客(micro bIog)，一般長度不超過140字，可以通過電腦或手機更新內容或查看頁面。通過電腦，當然，更多地是通過手機，在等車、散步或者發呆的時候，人們即可完成與他人的溝通。有網友留言說，在微博上，每個人都是記錄者和關注者。任何人都可以用網絡或者手機，在短的時間內，發布任何想說的話。微博的流行彌補了被快節奏的現代生活所撕裂的人際關系。


9、潑水節(Water-Spri nk|ing Festi va|)是傣族隆重的節日，也可以稱之為傣族的“新年”。潑水節已有700多年的歷史，一般在每年的4月13日舉行，持續3至7天。大家用純凈的清水相互潑灑，祈求洗去過去一年的不順，新的一年帶著美好的愿望再次出發。人們把第三天視為美好吉祥的日子。在這天，人們觀看龍舟競賽，跳孔雀舞。活動內容豐富，場面極為熱鬧。除了我國傣族，亞洲其他國家，如泰國，也有慶祝潑水節的習俗。


10、賽龍舟(Dragon Boat Race)是端午節的主要習俗，這一傳統早出現于戰國時代(Warring
States Period．。相傳古時楚國人因為不合得賢臣屈原投江而死，許多人劃船追趕去救他，但依然不見其蹤跡。此后每年農歷五月五日，人們都賽龍舟來紀念他。人們覺得劃龍舟可以驅散江中的魚兒，以避免它們吃掉屈原的尸體。現在，賽龍舟除了紀念屈原，還成為了一種比賽項目。1980年，賽龍舟被列入中國國家體育比賽項目。