江西历年学位英语考试真题

江西历年学位英语考试真题
Part1 Reading Comprehension (40%)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four
choices marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice
and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line
through the center.
Passage One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
After reading so much, you may wonder how to make a book. It’s time for you to have a try!
Have you ever wondered how a book is made? It takes a lot of people to make a book. It can take months, or even years, for a book to go from an idea to a finished product.
A book begins when an author comes up with an idea for a book. Authors get ideas in different ways. They may get ideas from their own lives, from watching the world around them, or
from reading.
Next, an author may plan the book by making an outline ( 提纲 ). Sometimes authors do research to gather information. They may read books or articles. They may interview people or
visit places.
Then, the author begins to write. Authors may write for months or years to finish a manuscript. A manuscript is the text an author produces for publication.
Finally, the author sends the completed manuscript to a publisher. If the publisher decides to
publish the book, the author works with an editor. An editor reads the manuscript. Then he or she
recommends changes to improve the book. A copy editor reads the manuscript to correct any
grammatical mistake.
After an author makes the suggested changes, a designer may decide how the book will look.
The designer may choose the size, shape, and type styles for the book. Some picture book authors
create their own illustrations（插图）. If not, an illustrator is chosen to create pictures for the book.
The illustrator makes sketches of pictures that will go on each page. The sketches are sent to
the publishing company. The editor makes sure the pictures clearly tell the story. The designer
checks how the words and pictures will fit together on the pages.
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After the design changes are made, the illustrator begins creating the final pictures. He or she
may change the colours, the perspective, or the composition of pictures. It may take months to
create all the pictures.
The finished art is then sent to the publisher. The designer adjusts（调整）how the pictures
and words fit together on the pages. The completed pages are sent to the printer. Many books are
still made into books with paper pages.
The printer uses huge printing presses to make the pages. The pages are fixed together. The
book cover is added. The finished books are then sent to the publisher’s warehouse. They are
stored there until they are bought by libraries and bookstores.
E-readers have changed how some books are made. Some authors do not use a publisher
at
all. Instead of sending a manuscript to a publisher, some authors turn their manuscripts into
eBooks themselves. Finally, an author’s eBook is uploaded（上传）to virtual bookstores on the
Internet. Customers can buy and download eBooks from these websites.
1. According to the passage, the designer’s job is to ________. [单选题] *
A. create pictures for the book.
B. make an outline of the book.
C. decide how the book will look.(正确答案)
D. correct grammatical mistakes in the book.
2. Your first book will be published soon. What will first happen to it after the illustrator has
created the final pictures? [单选题] *
A. B.
C.(正确答案)
D.
3. The writer uses the LAST paragraph to ________. [单选题] *
A. introduce the history of eBooks.
B. describe the disadvantages of eBooks.
C. show the development of making a book.(正确答案)
D. ask customers to support authors in making a book.
4. The writer explains how to make a book by ________. [单选题] *
A. giving causes
B. showing steps(正确答案)
C. providing examples
D. expressing opinions
5. What is the best title for the passage? *
A. From Idea to Book(正确答案)
B. Different Kinds of Books
C. Workers in the Publishing House
D. Between Publishers and Customers
Passage Two
Grown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced ever since. A man who has not had a chance to go swimming for
years can still swim as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after
many years and still ride away. He can play catch and hit a ball as well as his son. A mother who
has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins "Twinkle,
twinkle, little star" or remember the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
One explanation is the law of overlearning , which can be stated as follows: Once we have
learned something, additional learning trials(尝试) increase the length of time we will remember
it.
In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, bicycle riding, and playing baseball long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of
words such as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks.
We not only learn but overlearn.
The multiplication tables(乘法口诀表) are an exception to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we
overlearn in childhood.
The law of overlearning explains why cramming(突击学习) for an examination, though it
may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course. By cramming, a
student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to
forget almost everything he learned. A little overlearning, on the other hand, is really necessary for
one's future development.
6. What is the main idea of paragraph 1? [单选题] *
A. People remember well what they learned in childhood.(正确答案)
B. Children have a better memory than grown-ups.
C. Poem reading is a good way to learn words.
D. Stories for children arc easy to remember.
7. The author explains the law of overlearning by_________. [单选题] *
A. presenting research findings
B. selling down general rules
C. making a comparison
D. using examples(正确答案)
8. According to the author, being able to use multiplication tables is_______.
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A. a result of overlearning(正确答案)
B. a special case of cramming
C. a skill to deal with math problems
D. a basic step towards advanced studies
9. What does the word "they" in Paragraph 4 refer to? [单选题] *
A. Commonly accepted rules.
B. The multiplication tables.(正确答案)
C. Things easily forgotten.
D. School subjects.
10. What is the author's opinion on cramming? [单选题] *
A. It leads to failure in college exams.
B. It's helpful only in a limited way.(正确答案)
C. It's possible to result in poor memory.
D. It increases students' learning interest.
Passage Three
Questions1 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Not so long ago, most people didn’t know who Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was going to become. She was just an average high school athlete. There was every indication that she was just
another Jamaican teenager without much of a future. However, one person wanted to change this.
Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly-Ann at a track meet and was convinced
that he had seen the beginnings of true greatness. Her times were not exactly impressive, but even
so, he sensed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked
when they had assessed her and found her lacking. He decided to offer Shelly-Ann a place in his
very strict training sessions. Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few years later at
Jamaica's Olympic trials in early 2008, Shelly-Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the
world, beat Jamaica's unchallenged queen of the sprint (短跑).
“Where did she come from?” asked an astonished sprinting world, before concluding that she must be one of those one-hit wonders that spring up from time to time, only to disappear again
without signs. But Shelly-Ann was to prove that she was anything but a one-hit wonder. At the
Beijing Olympics she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold. She did it again one
year on at the World Championships in Berlin, becoming world champion with a time of 10.73 —
the fourth fastest time ever.
Shelly-Ann is a little woman with a big smile. She has a mental toughness that did not come
about by chance. Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but
smooth and effortless. She grew up in one of Jamaica's toughest inner-city communities known as
Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and
two brothers. Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in Jamaica, is a really violent and
overpopulated place. Several of Shelly-Ann's friends and family were caught up in the killings;
one of her cousins was shot dead only a few streets away from where she lived. Sometimes her
family didn't have enough to eat. She ran at the school championships barefooted because she
couldn't afford shoes. Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself
as a young girl, but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby.
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Maxime's early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to
ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout of poverty. One of the first
things Maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to
sacrifice everything.
It didn't take long for Shelly-Ann to realize that sports could be her way out of Waterhouse.
On a summer evening in Beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment
finally bore fruit. The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty,
surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports. But Shelly-Ann's victory was far greater than that. The night she won Olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped.
The dark cloud above one of the world's toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disappeared for
a few days. “I have so much fire burning for my country,” Shelly said. She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse. She
hopes to inspire the Jamaicans to lay down their weapons. She intends to fight to make it a
woman's as well as a man's world.
As Muhammad Ali puts it, “Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision.” One of the things Shelly-Anncan be proud of is her understanding of this truth.
11. Why did Stephen Francis decide to coach Shelly-Ann? [单选题] *
A. He had a strong desire to free her family from trouble.
B. He sensed a great potential in her despite her weaknesses.(正确答案)
C. She had big problems maintaining her performance.
D. She suffered a lot of defeats at the previous track meets.
12. What did the sprinting world think of Shelly-Ann before the 2008 Olympic Games? [单选题] *
A. She would become a promising star.
B. She badly needed to set higher goals.
C. Her sprinting career would not last long.(正确答案)
D. Her talent for sprinting was known to all.
13. What made Maxime decide to train her daughter on the track? [单选题] *
A. Her success and lessons in her career.
B. Her interest in Shelly-Ann’s quick profit.
C. Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty.
D. Her early entrance into the sprinting world.(正确答案)
D. Her early entrance into the sprinting world.
14. What can we infer from Shelly-Ann’s statement underlined in Paragraph 5? [单选题] *
A. She was highly rewarded for her efforts.
B. She was eager to do more for her country.(正确答案)
C. She became an athletic star in her country.
D. She was the envy of the whole community.
15. By mentioning Muhammad Ali’s words, the author intends to tell us
that______________. [单选题] *
A. players should be highly inspired by coaches
B. great athletes need to concentrate on patience
C. hard work is necessary in one’s achievements
D. motivation allows great athletes to be on the top(正确答案)
Passage Four
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:
One evening in February 2007, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a
remote road in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path .That’s when she
heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. Her Renault Clio was parked across a railway
line. Seconds later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks.
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Ceely’s near miss made the news because she blamed it on he GPS (导航仪). She had never
driven the route before. It was dark and raining heavily. Ceely was relying on her GPS, but it
made no mention of the crossing. “I put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into
the path of a speeding train,” she told the BBC.
Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely’s story in his book When Machines
Fail Us, points the finger at the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he
says, but our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems.
And it’s not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless keyboards.
The problem with his argument in the book is that it’s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. A map-maker might
have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention.
Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor singalling system. Or maybe someone has
studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the
GPS equipment. But Stevenson doesn’t say.
It’s a problem that runs through the book. In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of
the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat computer-based locking systems for cars. He
offers two independent sets of figures on car theft; both show a small rise in some parts of the
country. He says that once again not all new locks have proved reliable. Perhaps, but maybe it’s
also due to the shortage of policemen on the streets. Or changing social circumstances. Or some
combination of these factors.
The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and complex. It is shaped by
economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there
may be a way for a wiser use of technology.
If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortcomings of
our machines. After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. They have probably beenfooling us for just as long.
16.What did Paula Ceely think was the cause of her accident？ [单选题] *
A. She was not familiar with the road.
B. It was dark and raining heavily then.
C. The railway workers failed to give the signal.
D. Her GPS device didn’t tell her about the crossing.(正确答案)
17.The phrase “near miss” (Paragraph 2) can best be replaced by______. [单选题] *
A. close hit
B. heavy loss
C. narrow escape(正确答案)
D. big mistake
18. Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably agree with? [单选题] *
A. Modern technology is what we can’t live without.
B. Digital technology often falls short of our expectation.(正确答案)
C. Digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.
D. GPS error is not the only cause for Ceely’s accident.
19. In the writer’s opinion, Stevenson’s argume nt is _______. [单选题] *
A. one-sided(正确答案)
B. reasonable
C. puzzling
D. well-based
20. What is the real concern of the writer of this article? [单选题] *
A. The major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.
B. The relationship between human and technology.(正确答案)
C. The shortcomings of digital devices we use.
D. The human unawareness of technical problems.
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (20%)
Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there
are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the one answer that
best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter on the Answer
Sheet with a single line through the center.
21.__________got in the wheat than it began to rain heavily. [单选题] *
A) No sooner had they(正确答案)
B) No sooner have they
C) No sooner they
D) No sooner they had
22. He bought her what she wanted,_____________the fact that they were costly. [单选题] *
A) even if
B) as though
C) only if
D) regardless of(正确答案)
23. We have produced twice as much steel this year___________4 years ago. [单选题] *
A) than we did
B) as we did(正确答案)
C) than we have produced
D) as we have produced
24. Her hair and coat were wet because it______________. [单选题] *
A) would be raining
B) had been raining(正确答案)
C) would have been raining
D) had rained
25.I became a teacher because I preferred books and people_________politics. [单选题] *
A) than
B) to(正确答案)
C) rather
D)against
26.The farmers, _________ houses had been destroyed by the serious flood, were given help by
the government. [单选题] *
A) who
B) what
C)which
D) whose(正确答案)
27.The experience _________________in the war will be of great value to us. [单选题] *
A) to gain
B) gaining
C) gained(正确答案)
D) gain
28. In our company, everybody is well taken care of, ____________position he is in. [单选题] *
A) as long as
B) even if
C)now that
D) no matter what(正确答案)
29.Under no circumstances_____________leave his post. [单选题] *
A)a soldier mustn't
B) a solider must
C) mustn't a soldier
D) must a solider(正确答案)
30.As a biologist and ecologist, he is___________all forms of hunting. [单选题] *
A) against(正确答案)
B) down
C) back
D) off
31.It is often the case______anything is possible for those who hang on to hope. [单选题] *
A) why
B) what
C) as
D) that(正确答案)
32.More efforts, as reported, ______in the years ahead to accelerate the supply-side structural
reform. [单选题] *
A) are made
B) will be made(正确答案)
C) are being made
D) have been made
33.Many young people, most______were well-educated, headed for remote regions to chase their
dreams. [单选题] *
A) of which
B) of them
C) of whom(正确答案)
D) of those
34. —Can you tell us your________for happiness and a long life?
—Living every day to the full, definitely. [单选题] *
A) recipe(正确答案)
B) record
C) range
D) receipt
35.He did not ________easily, but was willing to accept any constructive advice for a worthy
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cause. [单选题] *
A) approach
B) wrestle
C) compromise(正确答案)
D) communicate
36.______some people are motivated by a need for success, others are motivated by a fear of
failure. [单选题] *
A) Because
B) If
C) Unless
D) While(正确答案)
37.If it______for his invitation the other day, I should not be here now. [单选题] *
A) had not been(正确答案)
B) should not be
C) were not to be
D) should not have been
38. In art criticism, you must assume the artist has a secret message________within the work. [单选题] *
A) to hide
B) hidden(正确答案)
C) hiding
D) being hidden
39.Dashan, who_______crosstalk, the Chinese comedic tradition, for decades, wants to mix it up
with the Western stand-up tradition. [单选题] *
A) will be learning
B) is learning
C) had been learning
D) has been learning(正确答案)
40.Many businesses started up by college students have_________thanks to the comfortable
climate for business creation. [单选题] *
A) fallen off
B) taken off(正确答案)
C) turned off
D) left off
41. The result is not very important to us, but if we do win, then so much___________ . [单选题] *
A) the best
B) best
C) better
D) the better(正确答案)
42. Mary is really good at taking notes in class. She can___________almost every word her
teacher says. [单选题] *
A) put out
B) put down(正确答案)
C) put away
D) put together
43. The party will be held in the garden, weather______________. [单选题] *
A)permitting(正确答案)
B) to permit
C) permitted
D) permit
44. This restaurant wasn’t____________ that other restaurant we went to. [单选题] *
A) half as good as(正确答案)
B) as half good as
C) as good as half
D) good as half as
45. I____________use a clock to wake me up because at six o’clock each morning the train comes
by my house. [单选题] *
A) couldn’t
B) mustn’t
C) shouldn’t
D) needn’t(正确答案)
46. Larry asks Bill and Peter to go on a picnic with him, but_________of them wants to, because
they have work to do. [单选题] *
A) either
B) any
C) neither(正确答案)
D) none
47. Film has a much shorter history, especially when____________such art forms as music and
painting. [单选题] *
A) having compared to
B) comparing to
C) compare to
D) compared to(正确答案)
48. I had been working on math for the whole afternoon and the numbers_______before my eyes. [单选题] *
A) swim
B) swum
C) swam(正确答案)
D) had swum
49. You have to move out of the way, __________the truck cannot get past you. [单选题] *
A) so
B) or(正确答案)
C) and
D) but
50. If she doesn’t want to go, nothing you can say will _________ her. [单选题] *
A) persuade(正确答案)
B) promise
C) invite
D) support
51. In such a big country like China the agricultural development will and must______ economic
development in the coming years. [单选题] *
A) precede(正确答案)
B) process
C) provide
D) possess
52. My mother is an excellent housewife and she likes to keep everything______.
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A) in place(正确答案)
B) out of place
C) on place
D) at place
53. It is not the right way you______speak with your parents. [单选题] *
A) are going to
B) must
C) are supposed to(正确答案)
D) can
54. To be frank, your project is not______with our company’s long-term aims; we can’t approve
it. [单选题] *
A) competitive
B) comparative
C) convertible
D) compatible(正确答案)
55. I end up getting my heart______. For so many years, I was never expressive with my feelings. [单选题] *
A) hardened(正确答案)
B) hardening
C) hardens
D) being hardened
56. “Marquis,” said the boy,______to the man, his eyes______wide, and his right hand raised. [单选题] *
A) turned…opened
B) turning…opening
C) turning…opened(正确答案)
D) turned…opening
57. He was taken on for a three-month trial period before being accepted as a (an)
_______
member of staff. [单选题] *
A) lasting
B) eternal
C) persistent
D) permanent(正确答案)
58. First reported in 1981, almost 38,000 individuals in the United States had ________ AIDS by
the end of 1986. [单选题] *
A) infected
B) contacted
C) contracted(正确答案)
D) affected
59. If the story did______to be true, though, I think he might be pushing his luck. [单选题] *
A) turn on
B) turn out(正确答案)
C) turn up
D) turn over
60. It is difficult to know what horses have______, and they must find us equally frustrating to [单选题] *
A) over mind
B) to mind
C) up mind
D) in mind(正确答案)
Part III Cloze (10%)
Directions: In this section, there are ten blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my 61 was more manageable , I enjoyed ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs.
62 that was years ago and times have changed. Now I live with my mother on a country farm.Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to 63 my disability pension (残疾抚恤金). As I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited in my 64. I decided that I would consider 65 to singing in restaurants. My family are all musicians, so I was 66 when I went into our local music store. I
explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were
very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of money to get started. And 67 you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can 68 use.10 When I told the owner of the shop about my idea; he gave me a long thoughtful 69“This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.” He led me through the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on
it. He placed h is large hand lovingly on his treasure and said, “I have 800 karaoke songs in here.
You can take your 70 and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”I could have cried. Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose the
ones that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.His kindness still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.
61. [单选题] *
A. loneliness
B. sadness
C. tiredness
D. sickness(正确答案)
62. [单选题] *
A. Gladly
B. Eventually
C. Unfortunately(正确答案)
D. Surprisingly
63. [单选题] *
. A. add up to
B. make up for(正确答案)
C. get rid of
D. take advantage of
64. [单选题] *
A. movement
B. conditio
C. choices(正确答案)
D. positions
65. [单选题] *
A. reaching out
B. living up
C. getting on
D. going back(正确答案)
66. [单选题] *
A. recognized(正确答案)
B. interviewed
C. found
D. invited
67. [单选题] *
A. thus
B. once
C. seldom
D. often(正确答案)
68. [单选题] *
A. actually(正确答案)
B. hardly
C. nearly
D. formerly
69. [单选题] *
.A. face
B. view
C. look(正确答案)
D. sight
70. [单选题] *
A. pick(正确答案)
B. turn
C. role
D. step
Part IV: Translation from English into Chinese, write your answers
on Answer Sheet 1 (15%)
71.People were not fully aware that peace of mind was very important for health [单选题] *
人们过去并未充分了解心灵的宁静对健康极为重要。

(正确答案)
72.Great efforts should be made to inform the public of the terrible consequences of neglecting
environmental protection [单选题] *
应大力向公众宣传忽视环境保护的可怕后果。

(正确答案)
cking further hard evidence of the bombing itself, the police could hardly tell who might be
responsible. [单选题] *
由于对爆炸事件本身缺少进一步的确凿证据，警方无法确定谁有可能是主谋。

(正
确答案)
74.The marketing manager has little confidence in talking the board of directors out of the plan about the launching of a new product. [单选题] *
营销部经理对劝说董事会放弃投放这项新产品的计划几乎没有什么信心(正确答案)
75.As an industry leader, we have a responsibility to actively participate in shaping our current
and future business model. [单选题] *
作为行业领导者，我们有责任积极参与塑造我们当前和未来的商业模式(正确答案)
76.你能打电话给我，真是体贴啊！ [单选题] *
It is considerate of you to make a phone call to me.(正确答案)
77.我还来不及接起电话，他就挂断了。

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He hung up before I could answer the phone(正确答案)
78.你应该就你的所作所为向在场的所有人表示歉意。

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You should apologize to all present for what you have done.(正确答案)
79. 去年 8 月份的时候，他在郊区买了一套房子。

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He bought an apartment in the suburbs in August last year.(正确答案)
80.我公司为此于今年二月正式地多次向贵校表示合作意向。

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For this purpose, my company officially showed intention to cooperate with your school many times in February this year.(正确答案)。