单项选择题
1、Questions are based on thefollowingpassage．
“THINKING is hard，”(36)__________Daniel Dennet，a professor of philosophy at Tufts University．“Thinking about some problems is so hard that it can make your head ache just thinking about thinking about them．”He has spent hA.f a century pondering some of the knottiest problems around：the nature of meaning，the(37)__________of minds and whether freewill is possible．His latest book，Intuition Pumps(直觉泵)and Other Tools for Thinking，is a precis of those 50 years，distilled into 77(38)__________ and mostly bite-sized chapters．
“Intuiuon pumps”are what Mr Dennet calls thought experiments that aim to get at the rub of concepts．But the aim of this book is not(39)__________to show how the pumps work,but to(40)__________them to help readers think through some of the most profound conundrums．
This pump which Mr Dennet calls a“cascade of homunculi(级联侏儒)”，was(41)__________by the field of artificial Intelligence,An programmer begins by taking a problem a computer is meant to solve and breaking it down into smaller tasks，to be dealt with by particular(42)__________．These，in turn，are(43)__________ of sub．subsystems，and so on．In this way,we are in depth of thinking profound problems．
Of course，Mr Dennet’s book is not a(44)__________solution to such mind-benders；it is philosophy in action．Like all good philosophy,it works by getting the reader to examine deeply held but(45)__________ beliefs about some of our most fundamental concems，like personal autonomy．It is really not all easy read．
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
A.consist
B.actually
C.nature
D.concedes
E.inspired
F.definable
G.composed
H.readable
I.substance
J.merely
K.unspoken
L.apply
M.suppose
N.subsystem
O.definitive
第36题应填__________.


2、Questions are based on the following passage.
Child psychologists--and kindergarten teachers--have long known that when children first show up for school，some of them speak a lot more fluently than others．Psychologists also know that children’s socioeconomic status tends to be closely connected with their language facility．The better off and more educated a child’s parents are，the better vocabulary ability that child tends to have by school age—and vocabulary skill is a key predictor for success in school．Children from low-income families，who may often start school knowing significantly fewer words than their better-off peers，will struggle for years to make up that ground.
Previous studies have shown that wealthier，educated parents talk to their young children more，using more complex vocabulary and sentences，than parents of lesser means．And these differences may help explain why richer kids start school with richer vocabularies．But what goes on before children can talk．during that phase--familiar to any parent--when communication takes the form of pointing，waving，grabbing and other kinds of baby sign language? Do well--off parents also gesture more to their kids?
Indeed they do，say psychologists Susan Gold in-Meadow and Meredith Rowe of the University of Chicago．The researchers found that at 14 months of age, babies already showed a wide range of “speaking” ability through gestures, and that those differences were closely linked with their socioeconomic back ground and how frequently their parents used gestures to communicate．High-income，better-educated parents gestured more frequently to their children to convey meaning and new concepts, and in turn，their kids gestured more to them．When researchers tested the same children at 54 months of age, they found that those early gesturers turned out to have better vocabulary ability than other students.
At 14 months of age, researches say, pointing toward an object is the way most kids use gestures．If a parent responds to that gesture by identifying the object in words—by sayin9，  “That’s a doll，”for example--children get a head start on growing their original vocabularies.“That’s a teachable moment．And mothers are teaching the kids the word for an object.” says Gold in-Meadow.
Psychologists have found that children’s language ability largely depends on——.
A．their family’s socioeconomic background
B．their successful performance in school
C．their education background before school
D．their own personality


3、听录音,回答题

A．Arranging the woman's appointment with Mr．Romero．
B．Fixing the time for the designer's latest fashion show．
C．Talking about an important gathering on Tuesday．
D．Preparing for the filming on Monday morning．


4、
The Touch-Screen Generation
On a chilly day last spring, a few dozen developers of children's apps (应用程序) for phones andtablets (平板电脑) gathered at an old beach resort in Monterey, California, to show off their games．The gathering was organized by Warren ．Buckleitner, a longtime reviewer of interactive children'smedia． Buckleitner spent the breaks testing whether his own remote-control helicopter could reachthe hall's ．second story, while various children who had come with their parents looked up in awe(敬畏) and delight． But mostly they looked down, at the iPads and other tablets displayed around thehall like so many open boxes of candy． I walked around and talked with developers, and severalquoted a famous saying of Maria Montessori's, "The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence．"B． What, really, would Maria Montessori have made of this scene? The 30 or so children here were notdown at the shore poking (戳) their fingers in the sand or running them along stones or pickingseashells． Instead they were all inside, alone or in groups of two or three, their faces a few inchesfrom a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine．
C． In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated ．its policy on very young children and media- In1999, the group had discouraged television viewing for children younger than 2, citing research onbrain development that showed this age group's critical need for "direct interactions with parents andother significant care givers．" The updated report began by acknowledging that things had changedsignificantly since then． In 2006, 90% of parents said that their children younger than 2 consumedsome form of electronic media． Nevertheless, the group took largely the same approach it did in1999, uniformly discouraging passive media use, on any type of screen, for these kids． (For olderchildren, the academy noted,"high-quality programs" could have"'educational benefits．") The 2011report nentioned"smart cell phone" and"new screen" technologies, but did not address interactive- apps． Nor did it bring up the possibility that has likely occurred to those 90% of American parentsthat some good might come from those little swiping (在电子产品上刷) fingers．
D． I had come to the developers' conference partly because I hoped that this particular set of parents,enthusiastic as they were about interactive media, might help me out of this problem, that they mightoffer some guiding principle for American parents who are clearly never going to meet the academy'sideals, and at some level do not want to． Perhaps this group would be able to express clearly some
benefits of the new technology that the more cautious doctors weren't ready to address．
E． I fell into conversation with a woman who had helped develop Montessori Letter Sounds, an app thatteaches preschoolers the Montessori methods of spelling． She was a former Montessori teacher and amother of four． I myself have three children Who are all fans of the touch screen． What games didher kids like to play, I asked, hoping for suggestions I could take home．
"They don't play all that much．"Really? Why not?
"Because I don't allow it． We have a rule of no screen time during the week, unless it's clearlyeducational．"
No screen time? None at all? That seems at the outer edge of restrictive, even by the standards ofovercontrolling parents．
"On the weekends, they can play． I give them a limit of half an hour and then stop． Enough．"
F． Her answer so surprised me that I decided to ask some of the other developers who were alsoparents what their domestic ground rules for screen time were． One said only on airplanes and longcar rides． Another said Wednesdays and weekends, for half an hour． The most permissive said halfan hour a day, which was about my rule at home． At one poing I sat with one of the biggestdevelopers of e-book apps for kids, and his family． The small kid was starting to fuss in her highchair, so the morn stuck an iPad in front of her and played a short movie so everyone else couldenjoy their lunch． When she saw me watching, she gave me the universal tense look of mothers whofeel they are being judged． "At home," she assured me, "I only let her watch movies in Spanish．"
G． By their reactions, these parents made me understand the problem of our age: as technology becomesalmost everywhere in our lives, American parents are becoming more, not less, distrustful of what itmight be doing to their children． Technological ability has not, for parents, translated into comfortand ease． On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital s~ream thatthey will have to navigate (航行) all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digitalmedia, too early, will sink them． Parents end up treating tablets as precision surgical (外科的)instruments, devices that might perform miracles for their child's IQ and help him win some greatrobotics competitionbut only if they are used just so． Otherwise, their child could end up one of~ those sad, pale creatures who can't make eye contact and has a girlfriend who lives only in thevirtual world．
H． Norman Rockwell, a 20th-century artist, never painted Boy Swiping Finger on Screen, and our ownvision of a perfect childhood has never been adjusted to accommodate that now-common scene． Addto that our modern fear that every parenting decision may have lasting consequences--that everyminute of enrichment lost or mindless entertainment indulged (放纵的) will add up to somepermanent handicap (障碍) in the futureand you have deep guilt and confusion． To date, no bodyof research has proved that the iPad will make your preschooler smarter or teach her to speakChinese, or alternatively that it will rust her nervous system--the device has been out for only threeyears, not much more than the time it takes some academics to find funding and gather researchsubjects． So what m a parent to do?
The author attended the conference, hoping to find some guiding principles for parenting in the electronic age．


5、听录音,回答题

A． She is designing another website.
B． She couldn't do BBS. 
C． She has no time.
D． She hasn't done any website design before.


6、根据材料，回答问题。
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

A．He drives too fast.
B．His radio wakes her children up.
C．He plays his guitar too loudly.
D．His friends are too noisy.


7、听句子，回答问题。
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have jnst heard.

A．To give background information about Santa Catalina Island.
B．To tell the audience about new books on Santa Catalina.
C．To introduce a training film on baseball.
D．To tell people about the music from the 1930s and 1940s.


8、听音频：
根据以下资料，回答题：

A．Because he iS preparing for a glohal tour．
B．Because he is preparing for a geography class．
C．Because he wants to find the location of China．
D．Because he wants to draw a picture of all the countries．


简答题
9、You shouM write a short essay based on the picture below．You shouM start your essay with a briefaccount ofthe popularity ofmicroblogs，and then explain their effects on people’s life． 

写作导航 
1．指出微博越来越流行； 
2．从表达自我和保持人际联系两方面阐述了微博的好处； 
3．从浪费时间、信息泄露、影响独立思维能力等方面阐述了微博潜在的问题； 
4．进行总结，提出使用微博时要小心谨慎。 


10、You should start your essay with a briefdescription of the picture and then express your views on the problem oftrust crisis． 

写作导航 
1．简要描述图片，指出人们之问缺少信任是一种不良社会现象，会产生严重后果； 
2．从政府、社会机构(媒体和学校)和个人三个层面出发阐述了解决办法;
3．进行总结，建议人们从个人做起，谨小慎微，提高诚信意识。