Part I Listening Comprehension(20 minutes) 
Section A 
1. C) Dr. Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.  
2. D) They’ll keep in touch during the summer vacation  
3. C) Peaches are not at their best now.  
4. B) They work on the assignment together.  
5. D) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness 
6. A) He liked writing when he was a child  
7. B) He does not study hard enough  
8. D) It will be very difficult for them to find John  
9. B) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world  
10. C) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments 
Section B  
Passage One 
11. A) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum 
12. A) He believed the speaker was a foreigner 
13. D) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only 
Passage Two 
14. C) By making laws  
15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand  
16. C) It should be carried high up in the air  
17. A) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed  
Passage Three  
18. B) Truancy  
19. D) Students with good attendance records  
20. D) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction  
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) 
Passage one  
21. C) People can fully enjoy individual freedom. 
22. D) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns 
23. B) became wealthy after starting life very poor 
24. A) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life 
25. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.  

Passage two  
26. C) the globalization of economy  
28. A) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution 
29. B) can eliminate an entire business segment  
30. D) businesses have to meet individual customers’ specific needs in order to succeed  
Passage Three 
31．A) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren. 
32. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause 
33. D) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents 
34. B) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child 
35. C) It is troublesome but rewarding.  
Passage four 
36. D) The reduction of public expenditure. 
37. B) obtain funding from the government  
38. C) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge. 
39. D) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned 
40. C) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.