1. 互联网给我们带来的便利
2. 互联网的消极影响
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In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
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In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
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In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
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In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item in the blanks. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
It's not unusual, but it's wrong. While people think that the problem is in their airways, it is often their heart, Helmut Gohlke of the German Association says.
The , known as angina (心绞痛), reveals itself as pain behind the breastbone. It's an illness where the blood to the heart muscle is restricted. If not and treated in a timely manner, it can lead to a heart attack and death.
The pain behind the breastbone radiates mostly to the throat, the upper abdomen and the left arm. It is described as a dull, wearing feeling of compression, says Christian Hamm of the German Heart Association. Women often about lack of air. All those suffering say the pain comes suddenly and in but does not last for days on end.
Steady forms of angina are by exertion (努力，费力), like physical work or stress. "The pain usually disappears with rest," Hamm says.
Things are reversed in the more , unstable form of the disease. The pain appears out of nowhere, meaning there is a danger of a coming heart attack due to the complete blockage (堵塞) of a blood vessel. Both forms require a(n) trip to the doctor.
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In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by writing down the corresponding letter for each paragraph in the blanks.
A) We know that Facebook can make everything from networking to sharing photos easier. But Facebook can do more harm than good. Take Prince Sagala, who found her biological children on Facebook—children she claims were kidnapped (绑架) more than a decade ago by her ex-husband. The mom and kids are now reunited. The only problem: the kids grew up with their dad and don't want anything to do with the parent who now has custody (监护权).
B) Creditors use Facebook as a way to both track the movements of debtors and keep their eyes on any potential assets that could be seized to cover those debts. At first, lenders may use Facebook to determine whether you're a worthy candidate for a loan. But should you come to owe a creditor money, the company can track you down and discover your assets by monitoring your Facebook feed.
C) Remember the woman who was receiving workers' compensation for depression, only to be "outed" by Facebook pictures of her smiling? Her insurance benefits were cut off, with insurers saying that her photos showed she was ready to return to work. That's left attorneys who argue for disability benefits concerned. Many now advise against giving away too much on Facebook.
D) Facebook is a popular tool for divorce attorneys, who comb pages of their clients' spouses for evidence of neglect, unfaithfulness, or deception. (One study suggests that Facebook comes up in one out of five new divorce requests). Mashable says a woman lost custody of her children after her ex proved she was spending time tending her crops on Farmville instead of spending quality time with her kids, while divorce lawyers have given multiple interviews praising the site's virtues as a way to air damaging dirty laundry.
E) Researchers from Stony Brook University in New York found that teenage girls who spend the most time discussing their lives with friends were more likely to be depressed. Apparently, spending too much time being anxious about your problems and others' comments can make you feel worse, not better. The researchers didn't study Facebook in particular, but they indicated that social-networking sites such as Facebook made it easier for people to be in constant contact with friends and continue the unhealthy discussions.
F) A British survey of employers found that half of those polled had turned down job candidates once something offensive about that candidate surfaced on Facebook. (Examples include tales of drunkenness, photos of illegal activity, and bad grammar.) In the US, 20 percent of employers admit to scoping out the Facebook pages of potential job candidates, while nine percent say they're going to start soon.
G) Let's be honest: if there weren't Facebook, abusers would find another cause to set off their rage. But Facebook has made it easier for these people to watch attentively on their victims and respond to their movements, even after the victim has tried to sever ties. In one particularly sad case, a woman who changed her Facebook status to "single" was killed by her husband, from whom she had separated. After seeing her status, he broke into her house and knifed her repeatedly.
H) Even if you're extremely careful on Facebook, your loose-lipped friends might not be and could post comments on your wall that betray your secrets. But there are also more dangerous practices going on: MIT students designed a program that successfully identified gay users by analyzing how many of their friends were gay.
I) There are already several cases of libel (诽谤罪) suits over content posted on Facebook. In Britain, where libel is easier to prove than in the US, a businessman won ￡22,000 when a former classmate created a fake profile full of defamatory (诽谤的) information. Within the State, an Ohio-area band charged a Facebook "hate group," and a Michigan company charged a student who created a Facebook page claiming that the company drags legally parked cars. (The company says those claims are false.) So far, the law appears to be on the poster's side. But it's still a trouble.
J) After a teenage girl in England was murdered by a sex offender who posed as a teenager on Facebook, the British version of the site added a "panic button" that allows teens to report any unwanted attention—including virtual-frightening—directly to the authorities. But the button is not yet on US or other international versions of Facebook, and it's unclear whether the company plans to add it.
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There are two passages in this section. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
As children grow older, they can also develop a sense of shame about their family history. Rappaport recalls being interviewed for medical school and stumbling around for an appropriate answer when asked about her mother. "I said I didn't want to talk about it. When the subject came up, I instantly felt exposed, like people were judging me, trying to determine how stable I was. I felt for a long time like I had a scarlet (红色印记) on my forehead," she says.
Her experience taught her that the lack of information and reassurance (安慰) can leave kids with a lingering fear that suicide is infectious, that the same thing is likely to happen to them. "The truth is that children of parents who die of suicide are five times more likely to die of suicide themselves than a child not exposed to this kind of loss," Rappaport says. "But that's a dangerous statistic, because the truth is, that child is still more likely to die of a heart attack. This is not a prophetic (预言性的) death sentence. This does not usually happen like a bolt of lightning. The truth is, it takes a lot of damage to lose the will to live. The real lesson is to understand that you may be more vulnerable to mental-health issues. So parents should watch these kids like hawks and help them learn to take care of themselves so they have positive outcomes."
Researchers are working to develop formal guidelines about how to talk to children about a parent's suicide, but overall, Rappaport says, it's important for the surviving adults to provide stability, to reassure children that someone will always be there to care for them, and to signal that it's OK to ask questions.
There have been lightning strikes across virtually every sector of the economy, with rubbish not collected and government ministries blocked by their own workers. Government departments, businesses, offices and stores are all expected to be shut, with small business owners and shopkeepers taking part in strike action for the first time. Air traffic controllers will stage a 12-hour walk-out. Trains, buses, taxis and lorries will not be operating.
Law-makers are voting on two bills on Wednesday and Thursday that include cuts to the pay and pensions of public sector workers, higher taxes and the suspension (暂停) of collective labor agreements. Greece finds itself with rising unemployment and a stalled economy, with a government debt that is 162% of its gross domestic product. The long-term bond markets have shut Greece out over fears that it can no longer meet its debt obligations.
The EU and the IMF have stepped in with two rescue packages but the second has not been finalised. Meanwhile, Greece says it needs further help in installment from the first package of assisting loans agreed last year or it will run out of money to pay its bills in November. With fears the problems besetting (包围，困扰) Athens might spread to other eurozone countries with heavy debts such as Spain and Italy, EU leaders meeting this weekend are struggling to forge a plan that will protect the region from a Greek default. Measures could include propping up banks exposed to Greek debt and enlarging the eurozone's rescue fund.
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For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English.
北京最辉煌的古代建筑是紫禁城。自15世纪以来，先后有24位君王在这里行使权威。这个地方曾是中国近五百年明清王朝的权力中心，也是目前世界上保存最完好、面积最大的皇家宫殿。它的建筑艺术举世称奇，它有数不尽的收藏，它所包含的历史内涵，使得无数人为之流连忘返，使人们深深感受到这个国家的岁月沧桑。
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