一、词汇选项：
本部分为l5个句子，每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线，要求应试者从每个句子后面所给的4个选项中选择l个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。
1. We almost ran into a Rolls-Royce that pulled out in front of us without signaling.
A. overtook B. hit C. passed D. found
2. He shifted his position a little, in order to alleviate the pain in his leg.
A. control B. ease C. experience D. suffer
3. Our aim was to update the health service, and we succeeded.
A. offer B. provide C. fund D. modernize
4. Every week the magazine presents the profile of a well-known sports personality.
A. description B. success C. evidence D. plan
5. All the flats in the building had the same layout.
A. color B. size C. function D. arrangement
6. Newborn babies can discriminate between a man’s and a woman’s voice.
A. treat B. express C. distinguish D. analyze
7. The weather was crisp and clear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away.
A. hot B. heavy C. fresh D. windy
8. Nothing would induce me to vote for him again.
A. teach B. help C. attract D. discourage
9. When I heard the noise in the next room, I couldn’t resist have a peep.
A. chance B. look C. visit D. try
10. Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.
A. slightly B. partly C. faintly D. completely
11. He was weary of the constant battle between them.
A. fond B. proud C. tired D. afraid
12. She moves from one exotic location to another.
A. unusual B. familiar C. similar D. proper
13. He has been granted asylum in France.
A. protection B. power C. relief D. license
14. The photographs evoked memories of our
A. stored B. blocked C. erased D. refreshed
15. The walls are made of hollow concrete blocks.
A. empty B. big C. long D. new
二、阅读判断
短文后列出7个句子，有的句子提供的是正确信息，有的句子提供的是错误信息，有的句子的信息在短文中并未直接或间接提及。要求应试者根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。
Europa’s watery underworld
Europa, one of Jupiter’s 63 known moons, looks bright and icy on the surface. But appearances can be deceiving: Miles within its cracked, frigid shell, Europa probably hides giant pools of liquid water. Where scientists find liquid water, they hope to find life as well.
Since we can’t go diving into Europa’s depths just yet, scientists instead have to investigate the moon’s surface for clues to what lies beneath. In a new study, scientists investigated one group of strange ice patterns on Europa and concluded that the formations mark the top of an underground pool that holds as much water as the U.S. Great Lakes.
Pictures of Europa, which is slightly smaller than Earth’s moon, clearly show a tangled, icy mishmash of lines and cracks known as “chaos terrains.” These chaotic places cover more than half of Europa. For more than 10 years, scientists have wondered what causes the formations. The new study suggests that they arise from the mixing of vast underground stores of liquid water with icy material near the surface.
For scientists who suspect that Europa also may be hiding life beneath its icy surface, the news about the new lake is exciting.
“It would be great if these lakes harbored life,” Britney Schmidt, a planetary scientist who worked on the study, told Science News. “But even if they didn’t, they say that Europa is doing something interesting and active right now.”
Schmidt, a scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, and her colleagues wanted to know how chaos terrains form. Since they couldn’t rocket to Europa to see for themselves, they searched for similar formations here on Earth. They studied collapsed ice shelves in Antarctica and icy caps on volcanoes in Iceland. Those features on Earth formed when liquid water mixed with ice. The scientists now suspect something similar might be happening on Europa: that as water and ice of different temperatures mingle and shift, the surface fractures. This would explain the jumbled ice sculptures.
“Fracturing catastrophically disrupts the ice in the same way that it causes ice shelves to collapse on Earth,” Schmidt told Science News. She and her team found that the process could be causing chaos terrains to form quickly on Europa.
The new study suggests that on this moon, elements such as oxygen from the surface blend with the deep bodies of water. That mixture may create an environment that supports life.
16. The liquid water of an underground pool of Europa is estimated xxxxx of the US Great lakes.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mention
17. The strange ice patterns on Europa are formed as a result of a xxxxx underground water pool.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mention
18. Europa is the most recently discovered one among Jupiter’s
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mention
19. The size of Europa is a bit larger than that of Earth’s moon.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mention
20. Schmidt and her colleagues are the first group of scientists xxxxx Europa.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mention
21. The formations on Europa’s surface are rather unique in the
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mention
22. The existence of liquid water is a necessity for a life-support
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mention
三、概括大意与完成句子
有2项测试任务：(1)短文后有6个段落小标题，要求应试者根据文章的内容为其中指定的4个段落各选择一个正确的小标题;(2)短文后有4个不完整的句子，要求应试者在所提供的6个选项中选择4个正确选项分别完成每个句子。
Learn about Noble Gases
1 Have you ever ridden on a balloon? Many tourist spots offer balloon rides in order for people to see the beauty of a place from above. A balloon contains a noble gas called helium(氦). Formerly, balloons contained hydrogen but hydrogen is very flammable and dangerous when uncontrolled. Therefore, people shifted to helium, which is safer. Helium is safe because it has the properties of the noble gases.
2 People once believed that noble gases couldn’t chemically react at all. For this reason, they were called inert gases(惰性气体). They were also listed under Group 0 in the old periodic table because scientists believed that the gases have zero valence(价) electrons in their outer shell. This was later proven to be untrue when some noble g
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