Section 1

Version

Topic

V11134

打电话给某个ENTERTAINMENT公司，咨询相关节目的时间安排

Questions 1-4

1. Dance performance – D

2. Jazz group – E

3. Question 3 – G

4. Question 4 – A

Questions 5-10 

No more than TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER.

5. Address of performance: New Opera

6. Ticket price: ￡30

7. XXX (应该是一个什么表演，问在哪里举行): Theater

8. Show (Millennium) – location: Library

9. Concert – location: Town Hall

10. Music – location: Studio

Section 2

Version

Topic

V17134

买房子

Questions 11-16

11. What kind of ‘Closing Cost’ is involved when buying a house?

A. inspection fee

B. survey fee

C. title fee

12. What has to be bought each month? (这道题不确定问题是什么了) 

B. insurance cost

13. Which group of people would buy the house in Bella Street?

A. A larger budget

B. a small budget

C. no budget

14. What is Archadelle Street suitable for?

A. families

B. children

C. walking

15. Chardeville Street has characteristics of

A. many walking parks

B. many supermarkets

C. very clean

16. The characteristics of Block 3 (记不太清楚什么路了) is

A. older place

B. New place

C. Place with good views

Questions 17-20

17-18. What are the TWO disadvantages of the apartment? 

A. too noisy

B. too far

C. too small

D. too crowded

E. too XXX

19-20. What are the Two advantages of Condo?

A. Most affordable

B. cost less

C. no property tax

D. no bank charges

E. Most desirable

Section 3

Version

Topic

V30090

关于考古学module course

Questions 21-30

21. The course could not be selected with classical history

22. The course has three compulsory modules

Course 1

23. title: Objective matters

24. content: classification

25. others: course work

Course 2

26. title: Towns and Cities

27. content: origins

28. others: oral examination

Course 3

29. field trip location

30. have 50% lab work and 50% seminars

Section 4

Version

Topic

V10111

极限运动

Past period:

31.Extreme sports is a kind of lifestyle

32. should have safe equipment

19^th century

33. company workers

34. golf

35. People didn’t like traditional sports.

36.restricted regulations

37. regular training

38. fear

Future

39. entertainment

40. sense of community

Passage 1

Topic

蝴蝶农场

Content Review

Butterfly farm: valuable resources or insect spot?

P1: beautiful butterfly farm in tropics, e.g. Ghana

P2: bring butterflies to UK farms, in which Britons breed and even export them

P3: tourist attraction and business from butterflies

P4: benefits and risks associated with butterfly farms

P5: butterfly farms develop rapidly.

P6: some entrepreneur underestimate the cost if starting a butterfly farm

P7: different situations needed for different butterfly species

P8: professor Collin suggests posting pupae butterfly

P9: lamb suggests posting sleeping butterfly

P10: Collin suggests butterfly farm need improvement in health issues

Questions & Answers

Questions 1-6

1. Butterfly farm are popular in tropics. TURE（文中说到 it’s a typical scenery in tropics）

2. The number of butterfly farms are stop falling. NOT GIVEN (文中提到UK有40个butterfly farm，人们可以去参观，但并未提及数量是否在停止减少)

3. Rare butterflies are more difficult to raise than common ones. NOT GIVEN (文中并未提及rare butterfly)

4. Some entrepreneur miscalculate the cost of doing a butterfly farm business.TRUE (miscalculate=文中underestimate)

5. In general, butterfly is kept in glasshouse has a reduced life span. FALSE (文中many other species are kept in jungle有利于生活)

6. Butterfly farm are not restricted by law. FALSE (文中是建议建议在未来有相关的法律来规范这个行业)

Questions 7-9 多选题

A professor say the butterfly farm failed because the following reasons   

A. no educational purpose

B. lack of expertise (文中明确说有相关的专家)

C. too few species in display（财政状况不佳使得import很多蝴蝶，但是display很少）

D. unsuitable butterfly species

E. poor breeding environment

F. restricted by law

Questions 10-13 单选题

10. Warren claim that butterfly farm  

A. has no place in society

B. should be operated by a federation

C. should have educational purpose

D. have too many risk （有risk，但并没有说很多）

11. Collin is against  

A. posting a pupae

B. posting an adult butterfly

C. export butterfly

D. export papered butterfly

12. lamb suggests  

A. importing sleeping butterflies

B. importing a butterfly overseas

C. post adult butterfly

D. post young butterfly

13. Collin suggest   

A. most farms are best （文中刚好相反）

B. big butterfly farms are best（文中说small business 比较好）

C. occasionally butterfly close farms

D. butterfly cause health problems （是和健康相关的issue）

Passage 2

Topic

社区重建

Content Review

The Reconstruction of Community in Talbot Park, Auckland

The Talbot Park in Auckland, New Zealand was once described as a state housing ghetto, rife with crimes, vandalism and other social problems. But today it has undergone an urban renewal makeover.

A. The buildings in Talbot Park are eye-catching now and quite different from other state-built ones. “There is no reason why public housing should look cheap in view,” says Design Group architect Neil. The bricks and wood-built houses and apartments are tidy.

B. Talbot Park is a triangle of government-owned land bounded by Apirana Ave, Pilkington Ed and Point England Rd. In the early 1960s it was developed for state housing build around a linear park that ran through the middle. Initially, there was a strong sense of a family-friendly community. Former residents recall how the Talbot Park reserve played a big part in their childhoods - a place where the kids in the block came together to play softball, cricket, leapfrog and bulrush. “It was all just good fun”, says George Thompson. “We had respect for our neighbors and addressed them by the title Mr. and Mrs. so and so,” she recalls.

C. Quite what went wrong with Talbot Park is not clear. The community began to change in the late 1970s as more immigrants such as Pacific Islanders and Europeans moved in. The new arrivals didn’t integrate with the community, a “them and us” mentality developed, and residents interacted with their neighbors less. What was clear was that the buildings were deteriorating and shabbier. The rate of crime was on the rise and the reserve-focus of fond childhoods memories-had become a wasteland and was considered unsafe. But it wasn’t until 2002 that Housing New Zealand decided the properties needed upgrading.

D. Some controversial views arose when the program started and actually, the program made the density of the people greater. As the building in the park included free-standing houses, semi-detached or low-level apartments, the state took the mix and match strategy which involved different architects and prevented the buildings from being the same. And the interiors such as the kitchen and bathroom were made comfortable and not over the budget. The walls in the community were cancelled and showed the people with see-throughopenness.

E. The community is comprised of different races: Pacific islanders, Maoris, New Zealand Europeans. The tenants also include other races from Asia, Ukraine and Iran. The design ofbuildings should be accommodated to the ethic cultures.

F. People who lived in the park are in low socio-economic level. Of the 5000 households there, 55 percent are state houses, 28 percent privately owned (compared to about 65 percent nationally) and 17 percent are private rental. The area has a high concentration of an income in the $ 5000to $15000 and very few with an income over $70000. That’s in sharp contrast to the more affluent suburbs like Kohumarama and St. John’s that surround the area.

G. There’s no doubt that good urban design and good architecture play a significant part in the scheme. But probably more important is a new standard of social control. Housing New Zealand calls it “intensive tenancy management.” Others view it as social engineering.“It is a model that we are looking at going forward,” according to Housing New Zealand’s central Auckland regional manager Graham Bodman. “The focus is on frequent inspections, helping tenants to get to know each other. That includes some strict rules- no loud parties after 10 pm, no dogs, no cats in the apartment, no washing hung over balcony rails and a requirement to mow lawns and keep the property tidy. Housing New Zealand has also been active in organizing morning teas and street barbecues for resident to meet their neighbors. “It’s all based in the intensification,” says Community Renewal project manager Stuart Bracey. “We acknowledge if you are going to put more people living closer together you have to actually help them to live together because it creates tension-especially for people that aren’t used to it.”

Questions & Answers

Questions 14-20

List of Headings

i Some problems arose about the community

ii where the residents have lived when the buildings were under makeover

iii financial hardship of the residents in the park

iv unexpected high standards of the design of the buildings

v a makeup of various ethnic origins should be considered

vi experiences of the a family living in the park nowadays

vii how to coordinate and assist the tenants who lived in the community

viii The need to raise money to fund the makeover

ix close relationship among neighbors in the original site

x the details of the style of the buildings in the park

14. Paragraph A  x

15. Paragraph B  ix

16. Paragraph C  i

17. Paragraph D  iv

18. Paragraph E  iii

19. Paragraph F  v

20. Paragraph G  vii

Questions 21-23 Matching 

Match persons with the correct ideas

21. James Lundy     D

22. Graham Bodman  A

23. Stuart Bracey     C

A. Tenant management involves supervision and regulation

B. Building the houses should be within minimal budget

C. Social activities are organized to help people close to each other

D. Buildings should be adaptive and responsive to racial cultures

E. Complains about the high standards of the building design

F. Opponents hold that regulation may cause resentment of the tenants

Questions 24-26 Summary   

ONE WORD ONLY

The Mix and Match Strategy

Some critics hold that the 24. density of the population may cause the area to return its old situation. To prevent this, a variety of 25. architects are gathered to avoid the case that the buildings are uniform. In addition, to the interiors make the houses comfortable within the 26. budget. And the absence of the wall makes the residents characterized by openness.

Passage 3

Topic

智力创造力

Content Review

Looking for Inspirations

P1: People have speculated their creativity for centuries. Initially they link creative activities have a connection with intelligence. This has lured many research studies.

P2: In the early 1970s, creativity was still seen as a type of intelligence. But when more subtle tests of IQ and creativity skills were developed in the 1970s, particularly by the father of creativity testing, Paul Torrance, it became clear that the link was not so simple. Creative people are intelligent, in terms of IQ tests at least, but only averagely or just above. While it depends on the discipline, in general beyond a certain level IQ does not help boost creativity.

P3: Because of the difficulty of studying the actual process, most early attempts to study creativity concentrated on personality. According to creativity specialist Mark Runco, the‘creative personality’ tends to place a high value on aesthetic qualities and to have broad interests, providing lots of resources to draw on and knowledge to recombine into novel solutions, Creative people have an attraction to complexity and an ability to handle conflict. They are also usually highly self-motivated, perhaps even a little obsessive, when it comes to chase after their ambitions.

P4: But there may be a price to pay for having a creative personality. A link has been made between creativity and mental illness. Psychiatrist Kay Redfield, who herself has suffered from bipolar disorder, found that established artists are significantly more likely to have mood disorders. But she suggests that a change of mood state might be the key to triggering a creative event, rather than the negative mood itself.

P5: Jordan Peterson, a psychologist at the University of Toronto, says that the brains of creative people seem more open to incoming stimuli than less creative types.

P6: One of the first studies of the creative brain at work was by Colin Martindale, Back in 1978, he used a network of scalp electrodes to record the pattern of brain waves when people made up stories. Creativity has two stages: inspiration and elaboration, eachcharacterized by very different states of mind. He founds that while people were dreaming up their stories, their brains were surprisingly quiet. The dominant activity was alpha waves, indicating a very low level of cortical arousal: a relaxed state, as though the conscious mind was quiet while the brain was making connections behind the scenes. It’s the same sort of brain activity as in some stages of sleep, dreaming or rest, which could explain why sleep and relaxation can help people be creative. However, in the story-telling stage, the alpha wave dropped off and the brain became busier, revealing increased cortical arousal. Strikingly, it was the people who showed the biggest difference in brain activity between the inspiration and development stages who produced the most creative storyline.

P7: Guy Claxton said ‘it is like a less creative person cannot shift gear, creativity requires different kinds of thinking. Very creative people move between these states intuitively.’ Creativity is about mental flexibility: perhaps not a two-step process, but a toggling between two states.

P8: Creativity also has a clear link with social interaction. Vera John-Steiner says that to be really creative you need strong social networks and trusting relationships, not just active neural networks. One vital characteristic of highly creative person is that they have at least one other person in their life that doesn’t think they are completely nuts.

Questions & Answers

Questions 27-32 Match the name with the opinions

List of People

A. Paul Torrance

B. Mark Runco

C. Kay Redfield

D. Jordan Peterson

E. Guy Claxton

F. Vera John-Steiner

27. Creative people have the ability to work with numerous data at the same time. D （第五段说有创造力的人可以同时接受很多数据）

28. Creative people have the ability to let their different brain parts to work together. E （第七段说有创造力的人可以同时调动大脑的两个states）

29. Creative people may suffer from mental disorder. C （第四段这个人就有暴躁症，后面也提到艺术家通常有精神不正常的症状。）

30. Creative peoples’ IQ ability is on average or above. A （第二段通过测试判断有创造力的人的IQ测试只在平均或以上水平）

31. Creative people participate in social interaction. F （最后一段这个人提到了有创造力的人是有朋友的）

32. Creative people persist to achieve their dreams. B （第三段中提到有创造力的人对他们的理想通常都比较执着）

Questions 33-36 Choose No More than Two Words for each answer

But what of the creative act itself? In 1978, Colin Martindale made records of the pattern of brain waves as people made up stories by applying a system constituted of many 33.scalp electrodes. The two phases of creativity, such as 34. inspiration andelaboration were found. However, experiment proved the signal of 35. alpha wave activity went down and the brain became busier revealing increased cortical arousal, when these people who were in the laidback state were required to produce their stories. Strikingly, it was found that person who was perceived to have the greatest 36. difference in brain activity between the 2 stages, produced storylines with highest level of creativity.

Questions 37-40 True of False or Not Given

37. High IQ guarantees better creative ability in one person that who achieves an average score in an IQ test. False （第二段说有创造力的人的IQ测试只是平均或者以上的水平，但是创造力高的跟IQ没有关系，跟displine有关系）

38. Creative people have disadvantages. True （第四段说有创造力的人会有mental disorder）

39. A creative person does not necessarily suffer more mental illness. True （第四段说有的人可以把不同的精神状态转化为触发创造力的动力）

40. The current society put more emphasis on individuals’’ language proficiency. Not Given

Task 1

Type of questions

地图

题目

The diagrams show a museum and its surroundings in 1990 and 2010.

People & Animal

Teachers

Celebrity

Neighbours

Events

Indoor Games

Housework

History

Objects/Things

Mirror

Shoes

Robots

Jewellery

Vegetables and fruits

Places

Hometown

Media

Music//Musical Instruments

Advertisement

Emails and Letters

Abstract

Work or study

Dream

Forget things

Politeness

Sunshine

People & Animal

Describe an interesting neighbor.有趣的邻居

Describe a famous person that you are interested in.名人

Describe a family member made you proud.让你骄傲的家人

Describe the politest person you know.最礼貌的人

Events

Describe a new/exciting activity that you want to try for the first time.次体验/兴奋的活动

Describe an experience you spend your time with a child.和小孩共度时光

Describe an interesting talk or speech.有趣的演讲

Describe an event in history in your country.历史事件

Describe a decision made by others that you disagreed with.不同意的决定

Describe an occasion that you received a good service from a restaurant or shop.优质服务

Describe a recent change of you.近期改变

Describe something you want to do for a long time but you haven’t done yet.想做的事

Describe an English lesson you had.英语课

Describe a time you saw lots of people were smiling.好笑的场合

Objects/Things

Describe a book you want to read again.重读的书

Describe a kind of foreign food you have had.外国食品

Describe a time that you had a free gift.免费礼物

Describe your favourite piece of clothing.喜欢的衣服

Describe a piece of art (like statue, painting).艺术品

Places

Describe a small business you would like to have.小公司

Describe a shop that just opened in your hometown.商店

Describe a quiet place.安静的地方

Describe a cafe which you have been to.去过的咖啡馆

Describe a popular place where people like to go swimming.游泳胜地

Describe an important place like (stadium, swimming pool) in your city.重要的场所

Describe a big company or organization you know.大公司

Describe a city you’ve been to.去过的城镇

Media

Describe a TV series or drama you enjoy watching.电视节目

Describe a piece of good news you heard from others.

Abstract

Describe a plan in your life (that is not related to work or study).一个计划

Describe a well-paid job that you will have in the future.高薪工作

重点话题Sample Answer

Sunshine

1. Do you like sunshine?

Honestly, I haven’t ever thought about this question. But since cloudy days tend to make people gloomy and emotional, it won’t be bad to have some sunshine for us to get rid of such negative sentiments. Besides, the bad air qualities in major cities of China lead to heavy smog in winter, when sunshine becomes a true luxury. Everybody loves luxury. Isn’t that right?

2. Do you like a place with more sunshine or less sunshine?

Of course I like a place with more sunshine.

If that place is a room, sunshine makes it bright and cozy to stay in. You can lower your electricity bill if so. And if that place is outdoor, sunshine will make it positive and supportive for some sports like football or basketball and so on. In case of a beach, a sun bath is always welcome.

3. What do you think of when we mention the word sunshine?

I have got two things in my head on hearing this word.

First one is that I am standing in a savanna, open and free. Green and long grass wiggles along the wind. A heard of wilder breasts take their first walk in the morning and zebras stand by and watch me. A sudden turmoil shows up and all herbivores have their ears up. They all gaze at one direction and I turn my eyes towards that direction too. A lion, big and strong and glowing, walks towards the herd. Sunshine bounces off its golden mane and glamor rises from its paws of death. When the eyes of the wilder beasts get blind due to the sunshine, the lions makes its pounce.

Second thing I have in my mind at this word is love. I remember from somewhere I cameacross this sentence or the like, however dark my world might be, a smile from you will bring sunshine and make it bright.

4. Do you like sun bath?

Not really. In my opinion, old people enjoy that, sitting in the sun and talking with neighbors or friends. I mean, they have the time for that and don’t have the bodies for some intense activities like ball games. I am still young and strong so it is not my first choice to bathe in the sun.

5. What technologies do you have concerning the sun?

Well, I am not an expert about technology, but I know we have that solar panels, which absorb power from sun rays and avert it to electricity. Now many lights, e-appliances and cars are using such power. It is called clean energy.