【答案解析】
1.【解析】C)。细节题。选项表明听音重点是付款方式。从对话划线处得知，女士很可能用刷信用卡(the credit card)的方式购买外套，故答案为C）。
2.【解析】D)。细节题。选项表明的都是负面方面的影响，听音重点是男士的话。从对话划线处得知，教授的讲座很枯燥，让我们都睡着了，即讲座很差劲，故答案为D）。put sb. to sleep 意思是“使某人入睡”。
3.【解析】A)。细节题。选项都是现在分词开头，表明与行为动作有关。从对话划线处得知，男士在给女士拍照(taking a photo)，故答案为A）。
4.【解析】A)。细节题。选项表明对话可能与某人的年龄有关。从对话划线处得知，男士的长相要比自己的实际年龄显得年轻，故答案为A）。
5.【解析】D)。推理题。根据意思相反的两个选项中有一个可能是答案的命题规律，将答案锁定在A)和D)之间。从对话划线处得知女士不喜欢听属于流行音乐(popular music)的摇滚乐(rock and roll music),故答案为D）。
6.【解析】C)。细节题。本题选项都是有关某个男士的完整句子，听音重点是与他有关的事实情况。从对话划线处得知，男士与他新交的女朋友分手了(breaking up with Cathy)，故答案为C）。
7.【解析】C)。本题选项是四个形容词，表明对话与情感态度有关。从对话划线处得知，男士对布朗先生表示尊敬，故答案为C）。take one's hat off to sb.意思是“向某人表示敬佩”。
8.【解析】D)。细节题。选项都与男士购买西装有关，听音重点是男士的对话。从对话划线处得知，男士现在没有足够的钱(tight finances)买西装，故答案为D）。
9.【解析】C)。场景题。本题听音考查对话中事件发生的地点。从对话划线处得知，他们在书店买书，故答案为C）。
10.【解析】B)。细节题。本题选项都是名词，可能考查书的类型。对话问的是男士发现了哪种书，根据对话内容得知他要买Mystery这本书，故答案为B）。
11.【解析】D)。细节题。本题考查原因。根据对话内容得知，女士提到莎士比亚是为了说明名人在旧书上的签名很值钱，故答案为D）。
12.【解析】A)。细节题。本题考查某人接下来的行为动作，根据对话内容得知女士想买poetry这本书，希望书上的签名能使她发点小财，所以她要对书上的签名做一番调查，故答案为A）。
13.【解析】B)。细节题。本题考查男士正在进行的活动，根据对话内容得知男士正在写三篇不同的论文（working on three different papers），故答案为B）。
14.【解析】A)。建议题。本题考查女士给男士的建议，根据对话内容得知女士的建议是同一话题的三个方面（write your paper on three aspects of one topic），故答案为A）。
15.【解析】D)。细节题。本题考查不能帮忙的原因，根据对话内容得知男士从未学过化学，所以不能帮助女士，故答案为D）。
Section B
Passage 1【听力原文】
Runners in a relay race pass a stick in one direction. However, merchants passed silk, gold, fruit, and glass along the Silk Road in more than one direction. They earned their living by traveling the famous Silk Road.
The Silk Road was not a simple trading network. It passed through thousands of cities and towns. It started from eastern China, across Central Asia and the Middle East, and ended in the Mediterranean Sea. [17]It was used from about 200 B.C. to about A.D.1300, when sea travel offered new routes. It was sometimes called the world’s longest highway. [16]However, the Silk Road was made up of many routes, not one smooth path. They passed through what are now 18 countries. The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun, deep snow and even battles. Only experienced traders could return safe.
The Silk Road got its name from its most prized product. Silk could be used like money to pay taxes or buy goods. But the traders carried more than just silk. Gold, silver, and glass from Europe were much found in the Middle East and Asia. Horses traded from other areas changed farming practices in China. Indian merchants traded salt and other valuable goods. Chinese merchants traded paper, which produced an immediate effect on the West. Apples traveled from central Asia to Rome. The Chinese had learned to graft (to join a part of a plant or tree onto another plant or tree) different trees together to make new kinds of fruit. [18]They passed this science on to others, including the Romans. The Romans used grafting to grow the apple. Trading along the Silk Road led to worldwide business 2,000 years before the World Wide Web.
The people along the Silk Road did not share just goods. They also shared their beliefs. The Silk Road provided pathways for learning, diplomacy, and religion.
【答案解析】：
根据选项中的trade route, silk trading, trade goods 等词表明，短文与丝绸贸易有关。
16. What was needed for traders along the Silk Road to do? 【C】
细节题。问题询问对于贸易者来说在丝绸之路上需要具备什么。在英语听力中，However转折处为常考点，其后通常为答案所在。短文中However转折指出the Silk Road was made up of many routes, not one smooth path.，后面又提到many dangers, 可见在丝绸之路上有很多困难，[D]中的difficulties是对dangers的同义转述，故答案为C。
17. Why did the Silk Road become less important? 【C】
细节题。问题询问丝绸之路变得没那么重要的原因。短文中提到“It was used from about 200 B.C.to about A.D. 1300, when sea travel offered new routes”，即由于海路的发现使得丝绸之路变得没那么重要了。[C] Because sea travel provided easier routes是由when sea travel offered new routes推断出来的，故答案为C。
18. Why could new technologies travel along the Silk Road? 【D】
细节题。问题询问新技术能够通过丝绸之路传播的原因，短文中提到They passed this science on to others,也就是说人们互相学习新技术，[D]选项中的learned from one another对应短文中的passed this science on to others，故答案为D。
Passage 2【听力原文】
It’s logical to suppose that things like good labor relations, good working conditions, good wages and benefits and job security motivate workers, but one expert, Frederick Herzberg argued that such conditions do not motivate workers. They are merely satisfiers. [19]Motivators, in contrast, include things such as having a challenging and interesting job, recognition and responsibility. [20]However, even with the development of computers and robotics, there’re always plenty of boring, repetitive and mechanical jobs and lots of unskilled people who have to do them. So how do managers motivate people in such jobs? One solution is to give them some responsibilities, not as individuals, but as a team. [21]For example, some supermarkets combine office staff, the people who fill the shelves, and the people who work at the checkout into a team, and let them decide what product lines to stock, how to display them and so on. Many people now talk about the importance of a company’s shared values or culture with which all the staff can identify, for example, being the best hotel chain, or making the best, the most user-friendly or the most reliable products in a particular field. [22]Such values are more likely to motivate workers than financial targets which ultimately only concern a few people. Unfortunately, there are only a limited number of such goals to go around and by definition, not all the competing companies in an industry can seriously play in to be the best.
【答案解析】：根据选项中的 job，labor，work，job security, chances of promotion等词表明，短文与职业发展和职业激励有关。
19. What can actually motivate workers according to Frederick Herzberg? 【B】
细节题。此题问的是,到底什么可以真正激励员工好好工作呢。原文提到“Motivators, in contrast, include things such as having a challenging and interesting job, recognition and responsibility”，意为起到激励作用的东西包括工作的挑战性和趣味性，以及工作中需承担的责任即最终获得的认可，故答案为B。听音时应注意选项中哪一项是原文再现或者同意转换。
20. What does the speaker say about jobs in the computer era? 【A】
细节题。此题问到作者对电脑信息时代总结了什么。原文提到“However, even with the development of computers and robotics, there’re always plenty of boring, repetitive and mechanical jobs and lots of unskilled people who have to do them.”，连接词however后出现了答案。意为尽管电脑和机器人技术不断发展，还是存在无聊的、重复的、机械性的工作，需要人力完成，而A选项中manually的意思即为“手动地”，故答案为A。听音时应注意选项中的同意转换，不能听什么选什么，B为干扰项。
21. What do some supermarkets do to motivate employees? 【D】
推断题。原文中激励超市员工工作是个案，但是问题本身针对的是总结性的答案，即出现在for example前的总结句中：“Give them some responsibilities, not as individuals, but as a part of a team”，but后强调的是team，正确答案为选项D。听音时应注意选项中哪一项是原文再现。
22. Why does the speaker say financial targets are less likely to motivate workers? 【B】
细节题。为什么金钱诱惑刺激不了工作热情，答案出现在结尾前30秒处，即“Such values are more likely to motivate workers than financial targets which automatically only concern a few people”，意为团队精神更能激起工作热情，因为金钱利益最终只会与团队中的个别人相关。选项中a small number of people only是a few people 的同义转换，故答案为B。
Passage 3【听力原文】
[23]Instead of passing notes in class, teens are now sharing information on their Web logs. A study showed that one in five tens in America has a blog, and about twice as many read them.
But some schools try to prohibit teens from keeping online journals. Many teens say journals are a great way to express their creativity and the ban on blogging violates their right to free speech.
Blog critics say that kids don’t know about online safety and that it’s imperative to place limitations on students. [24]They shouldn’t post private information about themselves and they don’t have the right to post someone else’s secrets.
Millions of people are online at any given time, and predators are plentiful, says Willard. Many students think only their friends read their blogs, but they’re wrong, she points out. “Kids are going to argue that these blogs are part of their private lives. And that’s the point: They aren’t private at all.”
Online bullying of fellow students and threats made to teachers are also serious concerns. “Bullying on the internet contributes to emotional distress for kids. It can be extremely harmful,” says Willard.
[25]Some students say they use blogs to help express unspoken feelings. Others see blogs as places to keep in touch with friends. “I can talk to people I don’t see often, because everyone is so busy,” Apollo High School senior Ashley Boswell says.
Bloggers say that their private writing is an expression of free speech. “If it is not endangering another individual, schools should have no control over it whatever,” wrote a teen on the site.
【答案解析】：根据选项中的 blog，private feeling, private information, quite fashionable等词表明，短文与新的沟通方式blog有关。
23. How do the teenagers share their information besides blogs? 【D】
细节题。4个选项均为由by引导的介词短语，因此在听音时应关注选项中的原音再现。短文第一句就说，“Instead of passing notes in class, teens are now sharing information on their Web logs.”由此可知，青少年分享信息的方式除blog 外还有课上传纸条，故答案D正确。
24. What shouldn’t the students do online, according to the passage? 【C】
推断题。短文提到blog critics 说孩子们不懂网络安全（online safety）认为有必要限制学生上网并表示，“They shouldn’t post private information about themselves and they don’t have the right to post someone else’s secrets.”故答案C正确。听音时应关注选项中的原音再现。
25. Why do students like to use blogs, according to the passage? 【D】
细节题。短文提到：“Some students say they use blogs to help express unspoken feelings. Others see blogs as places to keep in touch with friends.”可见学生喜欢blog主要是为了表达感情和朋友保持联系，D为其一，故为答案。听音时应关注选项中的原音再现。
Section C
【听力原文】
It is impossible to measure the importance of Edison by adding up his specific inventions. Actually, his name is associated with more than that. He did not merely make the lamp and the innumerable devices practicable for general use but demonstrated the power of applied science so concretely, so understandably, so convincingly that he altered the mentality of mankind. Because of Edison, more than of any other man, scientific research has an established place in our society; because of the demonstrations he made, the money of the taxpayers and stockholders has become available for studies, the nature of which they do not often understand, though they appreciate their value and anticipate their ultimate benefits.
In his lifetime, largely because of his successes, there came into widest acceptance that man could by the use of his intelligence invent a new mode of life. No other person played so great a part as Edison in the change of human expectation, and finally, by the effect of his widely distributed inventions plus a combination of the modern publicity technique, he was lifted in the popular imagination to a place where he was looked upon not only as the symbol but as the creator of the new age. Edison also had a peculiar genius for carrying existing discoveries to the point where they could be converted into practicable devices.
【答案解析】
26. 【解析】空格所缺词应为谓语动词。答案是“is associated with” 意为“与…相关”。
27. 【解析】根据前后的词可推断空格所填词应为形容词作前置定语修饰devices。答案是“innumerable” 意为“大量的”。
28. 【解析】空格所缺词属于not merely… but (also) 结构中的谓语动词, 答案是“demonstrated”, 意为“展示”。
29. 【解析】根据前面的so concretely, so understandably空格所缺词应为副词，答案是“convincingly”意为“有说服力地”。
30.【解析】根据前后的词可推断空格所填词应为形容词作前置定语修饰place。答案是“established” 意为“确定的”。
31.【解析】由and可知，空格所缺词应为名词的复数形式与taxpayers（纳税人）并列, 答案是“” 意为“股票持有者”。.
32.【解析】由and可知，空格所缺词应为谓语动词, 与下文的anticipate并列。答案是“appreciate” 意为“欣赏”。
33. 【解析】空格所缺词与life一起作invent的宾语, 答案是 “a new mode of”意为“新的模式”。
34.【解析】空格所缺词在介词plus之后，作介宾，而空格后又是名词，因而所填词名词短语；答案是“a combination of”。
35.【解析】空格所缺词在could情态动词之后，因而所填词应作谓语，答案是“be converted into” 意为“被转换为”。
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