期末模拟题答案

听力

Section 2

1.climate

2.widespread

3.constrained

4.predict

5.identified

6.critically

7.track

8.ecological

9.We use life history data, which tells us about how fast a species reproduces（繁殖）

10.they are frequently in conflict with carnivores（食肉动物）for land and food, and they do not

produce many offspring（子女，幼崽）.

11.Our funding is very limited, right? So to be able to have these sorts of guidelines, to be able to

focus in and hone（磨练，训练）our efforts, is really important

Section 3

1. Harvard University is almost universally regarded as our gold standard of higher learning.

/ knowing that no other school could match the old Ivy League（常春藤）institution.

2. A Harvard degree is said to be a sure ticket to a lucrative（获利丰厚的）career.

3. It’s a cheating scandal possibly implicating as many as 125 students in a government class. Dozens of varsity（大学体育校队）athletes have been connected to the cheating episode, involving a take-home test last academic year.

4. the academic community is fearful that Harvard is beginning to mirror the practice at some other schools of cutting corners（走捷径，省力）for prized athletes and admitting some students just because they can throw a football or shoot a basketball.

5. Stressed students are more interested in scoring good grades than with learning. The easy access to information online makes plagiarism and cheating easier than ever. Universities no longer stress ethics. And professors who are immersed in their research often pay less attention to teaching.

四个原因里任意两个

Section 4

Listening and translating

1. Tens of thousands of people have fled the conflict in northern Yemen over the past five months. And, they continue to leave in large numbers. A spokeswoman for the International Committee of

the Red Cross, Dorothea Krimitsas, says freezing temperatures are making the already dire situation of people fleeing their homes even worse.

国际红十字会的女发言人说寒冷的气温/天气使得已经很严重/可怕的人们逃离家园的情况更加糟糕。

2. Oxford and Cambridge are the oldest and most famous universities in Britain, and there has always been a great rivalry between the two institutions. But the most public competition between the two is the annual Boat Race.

这两所大学/机构之间一直存在竞争。但是两者之间最公开的竞争还是一年一次的划船比赛。

3. It's 60 feet long, made of lightweight, fuel-efficient material and can carry eight people out of this world and back. The first commercial spaceship was unveiled by Sir Richard Branson, who hopes to start passenger trips within two years. The price tag: 130,000 pounds.

Richard Branson爵士向公众透露了第一艘商业宇宙飞船的情况，他希望两年后飞船开始载客旅行。价格是十三万英镑。

4. Japan Airline's bankruptcy filing is one of Japan's largest corporate failures in decades. The former state-owned carrier once symbolized the strength of the country's postwar economic boom. But its financial fortunes declined in the last decade with the fallout（余波）from the September 11th attacks, a surge in fuel prices, and the worldwide economic slowdown.

但是它的财务好运气在过去十年里因为911袭击、燃料价格上涨和全球经济放缓的负面影响衰落了。

5. President Obama visited the Northeastern state of New Hampshire on Tuesday, to promote a plan he hopes will help ease the nation's ten percent unemployment rate. Mr. Obama says money repaid by large banks that received government help should be lent to small businesses, where he says most of America's job creation takes place.

奥巴马说偿还给接受过政府帮助的大银行的钱应该借给小企业，他说是这些小企业创造了美国大多数的就业机会。

阅读

Blank Filling

1. B. The low graduation rates of minority students

解析：根据第一段的内容，我们可以猜测作者关心的问题与minority students有关，再根据这句话，

Bowdion has not done quite as well when it comes to actually graduating minorities. While 9 out of 10 black students routinely get their diplomas within six years, only 7 out of 10 black students made it to graduation day in several recent classes. 可知正确答案是B。

2. D. its increased enrollment of minority students