需要注意的地方:
1.本试题分为两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。
2.应考者需要按考试试题顺序在答卷卡 指定地方上作答,答在试题上无效。
3.涂写部分、画图部分需要用2B铅笔，书写部分需要用黑色字迹签字笔。
4.全部题目用英文作答。
I. Each of the following sentences is given four choices of words or expressions. Choosethe right one to complete the sentence and write the corresponding letter on yourAnswer Sheet.
1. The lighting of the Olympic torch peace and friendship among the nations of the world.
A. symbolizes
B. epitomizes
C. synchronizes
D. characterizes
2. There is some in the office about who the new director will be.
A. comprehension
B. disappointment
C. apprehension
D. estrangement
3. We were soon bored as we had to listen to the details of his operation.
A. tentative
B. tenacious
C. tedious
D. tenuous
4. Womens voices only on a few subjects such as beauty contests, sex workers, and all to do with the home.
A. contract
B. resume
C. supervise
D. predominate
5. When cleaning your hands, remember to all surfaces, including the backs of your hands, wrists, between your fingers, and under your fingernails.
A. sweep
B. scrub
C. purify
D. groom
6. Generally speaking, large paintings can help the feeling of space in small rooms.
A. raise
B. enhance
C. deepen
D. increase
7. Alice did not look after him, but slowly wound along the country road down to the south.
A. distorted
B. twined
C. deformed
D. crooked
8. The rejection of such initiatives is indicating that voters are unconcerned about the environment.
A. in the means of
B. by means of
C. beyond your means
D. by no means
9. The worrying trend of youth smoking has to be halted. Otherwise, many children will it.
A. fall victim to
B. be credited with
C. take advantage of
D. be exhausted from
10. By closing the infected farms were hoping to the disease to the north of the region.
A. limit
B. localize
C. confine
D. encircle
11. John is a very private person-for most of the time, he, himself.
A. keeps to
B. keeps from
C. keeps up with
D. keeps down to
12. Smith carefully the loose hairs from the shoulders of his jacket.
A. plucked
B. flicked
C. wrested
D. dragged
13. The newly published book bears some striking to last years bestseller.
A. identity
B. superiority
C. similarity
D. uniformity
14. If any of these symptoms while you are taking the medicine, consult your doctor immediately.
A. occur
B. happen
C. concur
D. heighten
15. The car comes in a of colors, which is not good news for customers who have difficulties in making decisions.
A. pyramid
B. pygmy
C. mystique
D. myriad
Read the following passage carefully and complete the succeeding three items II, II, IV.
The confidence people place in science is frequently based not on what it really is, but on what people would like it to be. When I asked students at the beginning of the year how they would define science, many of them replied that it is an objective way of discovering certainties about the world. But science cannot provide certainties. For example, a majority of Americans trust science as long as it does not challenge their existing beliefs. To the question “When science disagrees with the teachings of your religion, which one do you believe?, 58 percent of North Americans favor religion; 33 percent science; and 6 percent say“it depends.
But doubt in science is a feature, not a bug. Indeed, the paradox is that science, when properly functioning, questions accepted facts and yields both new knowledge and new questions-not certainty. Doubt does not create trust, nor does it help public understanding. So why should people trust a process that seems to require a troublesome. state of uncertainty without always providing solid solutions?
As a historian of science, I would argue that its the responsibility of scientists and historians of science to show that the real power of science lies precisely in what is often perceived as its weakness: its drive to question and challenge a hypothesis. Indeed, the scientific approach requires changing our understanding of the natural world whenever new evidence emerges from either experimentation or observation. Scientific findings are hypotheses that encompass the state of knowledge at a given moment. In the long run, many of them are challenged and even overturned. Doubt might be troubling, but it impels us towards a better understanding; certainties, as reassuring as they may seem, in fact undermine the scientific process.
Scientists understand this, but in the dynamic between the public and science, there are two significant pitfalls.
The first is a form of blind scientism- that is, a belief in the capacity of science to solve all problems. The popular narrative of science is linear, embodied by heroic researchers who work selflessly for the good of humanity. Indeed, some scientists promote this attractive public image of their work. But this narrative ignores the ubiquity of controversy, conflict and error at the very heart of the scientific world. Such an idealized representation tends to turm science into an unquestionable set of beliefs. In fact, however, the power of science lies precisely in its capacity to generate discussion and even discord.
The second pifall is a form of relativism borne out of a lack of confidence in the very existence of truth. It develops when science is divorced from method and viewed as just another claim in the marketplace of ideas. A Pew Research study shows that 35 percent of Americans think the scientific method can be used to produce “any result a researcher wants. once the scientific approach has been delegitimized, then all hypotheses, including the most outlandish and irrational ones, can be taken as credible. So, hidden in this conceit of a democratic “marketplace of ideas is a particularly virulent form of relativism that approaches nihilism.
Such examples of relativism about issues including climate change and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic-have significantly contributed to the proliferation of fake news and conspiracy theories. The diffusion of fake news is facilitated by the difficulty of a large majority of Americans in distinguishing between fact and opinion. Factual news can be proved or disproved by objective evidence, while opinion is an expression of the beliefs and values of the speaker.
In an effort to combat misinformation, scientists may overcompensate by accelerating their research. or publicizing their findings prematurely. This can spur dialogue about science, but with serious side effects. The scientific process itself has been called into question during the pandemic in cases where the very institutions and peer review process that were supposed to check scientific results failed to detect scams.
So how to regain public trust in science when the public is looking for certainties and when those who are supposed to impersonate doubt seem to be fickle or dogmatic? A more realistic understanding of how science works can contribute to a better comprehension of the decisive role of doubt and skepticism in the scientific process. Indeed, science is not a linear path leading from one success to another, but rather a constant revaluation of hypotheses. Failures are part of the scientific process and should be taught along with successes.
It is, therefore, not so much the content of scientific discoveries that should be highlighted, but the understanding of the scientific process itself that must be enhanced. No one expects the public at large to fully understand all discoveries or to. be able to arbitrate between possible treatments. But what must be reaffirmed is that in science, doubt is not a vulnerability but a strength. The scientific approach often leads to dead ends, but sometimes it leads to fundamental discoveries that no other approach has ever achieved.
II. In this section, there are ten incomplete statements or questions, followed by fourchoces marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and write the correspondingletter on your Answer Sheet.
16. Most Americans believe in science when
A. it tells them the truths of the world
B. it gives them the confidence they need
C. it is consistent with their existing beliefs
D. it confirms their certainties about the world
17. What can be learned from Paragraph 3?
A. Historians are to find the weakness of science.
B. Scientific findings are infrequently challenged.
C. Uncertainties prevent science from progressing.
D. Doubt fosters a better understanding of the world.
18. In Paragraph 5, the word“ubiquity means
A. being present everywhere
B. the distinct character
C. being the specific one
D. the inherent quality
19. According to Paragraph 5, the author tends to agree that
A. researchers are usually selfless heroes
B. we should not hold firm belief in science
C. there should be no error in scientific work
D. science needs discussion and disagreement
20. In Paragraph 6, the word“divorced means.
A. derived
B. prevented
C. separated
D. generated
21. The study mentioned in Paragraph 6 shows that some Americans believe that
A. many seemingly outlandish hypotheses are actually credible
B. the so-called nihilism is practically a varied form of relativism
C. scholars can manipulate the scientific method to yield desired results
D. a democratic marketplace of ideas is usually hidden behind relativism
22. In Paragraph 9, the word“fickle”means
A. sensitive
B. changing frequently
C. innovative
D. not caring about others
23. In which of the following might this passage most likely appear?
A. A journal.
B. A circular.
C. An anthology.
D. A brochure.
24. What is the author s tone in writing this passage?
A. Sarcastic.
B. Objective.
C. Passionate.
D. Humorous.
25. Which of the following might be the best title for this passage?
A. What Blind Scientism Is
B. The importance of Science
C. Science Versus Religion
D. Doubt Is Essential to Science
III. Translate the following sentences into Chinese and write the translation on your Answer Sheet.
26. So why should people trust a process that seems to require a troublesome state of uncertainty without always providing solid solutions?
27. Scientists understand this, but in the dynamic between the public and science, there are two significant pitfalls.
28. The diffusion of fake news is faciltated by the dificulty of a large majority of Americans in distinguishing between fact and opinion.
29. In an effort to combat misinformation, scientists may overcompensate by accelerating their research, or publicizing their findings prematurely.
30. No one expects the public at large to fully understand all discoveries or to be able to arbitrate between possible treatments.
IV. Answer the following essay question in English within 80-100 words. Write your answer on your Answer Sheet.
31. How does science influence your life?
V. The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words orexpressions marked A to Y. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentencesand write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. One word or expressionfor each blank only.
She appealed to me because she was like people I had met personally. Like women in English novels who walked the moorswith their dogs racing at a respectful distance. Like the women who sat in front of fireplaces, drinking tea from silver trays full of scones and crumpets. Women who walked over the“heath and read morocco-bound books and had two last names by a hyphen.
To share a bedroom with one of these fellows is to lose ones in human nature, for, even after the most day, there is no comparing notes them, no midnight confidence, no casting up the balance of the days pleasure and pain.
They ， at once, into stupid, heavy slumber, leaving you to your own mental devices. And they all snore !
The senior partner studied the resume for the time and again found nothing he about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper. He had the brains, the ambition, the good looks. And he was hungry; with his background, he had to be. He was married, and that was . The fim also frowned on divorce, as well as and drinking.
At the very TOP, of course, are those people, mostly young and without , towhom the company is not an institution of any sacred merit but still onlya place to work， and who their present association with it as something I put these people at the TOP because if you asked any one of them if he would choose to spend the rest of his life working for the company, he would give you a No!, regardless of what inducements were offered.
There is a difference_ 52 my schooling and the wisdom of the street I know the life of a black man in Watts is_ 54 than a federal poverty program. If there is no future for the black ghetto, the future of all Negroes is What affects it, affects me, for I am a child of the ghetto. When they do it to Watts,they do it to me, too. Ill never escape from the ghetto. I have my all on its future. Watts is my home.
A. with
B. dependents
C. diminished
D. eventful
E. resounding
F. incessantly
G. heavily
H. between
I. never
J. hundredth
K. abominably
L. yet
M. faith
N. corner
O. divided
P. regard
Q. loyal
R. disliked
S. womanizing
T. larger
U. staked
V. mandatory W. sink
X. temporary
Y. roaring
VI. Translate the following sentences into English and write the translation on yourAnswer Sheet.
57.它注定是失败的，每一本书都是失败的，但我确实了解地了解我想写哪种书。
58.多年来，我一直搞不了解蔬菜到底出了那些问题。我当然了解，大部分蔬菜要想享用它们最鲜美的味道，需要新鲜采摘并且立即烹调。
59.对于这类商品领先者来讲，角逐并不是有关商品价格或顾客服务，而是有关商品性能。
60.晚年日常获得满足乃至收获的潜能是真实存在而未被充分开发的。大体上，老年人都是在一个冷漠的世界里挣扎着存活。
61.你杀去世了你的敌人，而当他去世了，你的职业便不复存在，你从胜利中获得的满足感也会非常快消退。其次，建设的工作一旦完成，会想起来就愉悦，而且从来不会由于彻底完成而没更进一步去做的空间。
62.当这个富裕国家没孩子饿着肚子上床睡觉时，我可能筹备回去教书。当每一个孩子都有一所好学校时，我可能就筹备好了。当大家不再把财富花在杀人的硬件上，当大家不再容忍对少数族裔的偏见，当反对不公平住房和不公平就业行为的法律得以推行而不是被逃避时，那样在政治上我可能就没更多可做的了。
