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作文题：Suppose a foreign friend of yours is going to visit your hometown/your campus/China（多题多卷的三个不同）, what is the most interesting place you would like to take him/her to see and why?

                                                 The most interesting place

Dear Pacival,

I am thrilled to know that you are going to visit my hometown and I can’t wait to see you again. I miss everything that happened when I was in your city, and your parents and you were so kind to me that I will try my best this time to make your stay an enjoyable and memorable one.

My home town，Changsha, is the capital of Hunan province and best known as the star city for its well developed entertainment industry and tourism. There are numerous places and attrACTions worth recommending, and Yuelu Mountain is the first one that I’d like to introduce to you. Firstly, at the foot of Yuelu Mountain is the prominent Yuelu Academy. It has an exceedingly long history and its architecture is charACTeristic of Song Dynasty. Then, after a half hour tour, we will reach the Bird Forest. There are various rare birds there, and they can sing, perform, and interACT with us. After about an hour, we will arrive at the peak, Baiyun Summit. The scenery there is spectacular and we can have a wonderful panorama of the whole city.

I bet you must be very excited about all these ACTivities, and the Yuelu Mountain is waiting for us to explore. All you need is to pack up and go, and I assure you that this trip will be a GREat fun.

Should you have any question and suggestion, please let me know.

I am looking forward to your arrival.

Yours sincerely,

Romeo

这篇文章在01年和04年都考过类似的题材（介绍家乡），所以虽然对于满心期待考图画作文的亲可能有些措手不及，但是难度毕竟不大，应该不会有太多问题。

你可以把它当成信来写，也可以把它当做一片介绍性的文章来写（把信的格式去掉即可）。

由于每个人的家乡、校园和想带去的地方不一样，所以范文是没有太多参考价值的。只要注意：1.明确提出了你要带他去的地方；2.说出关于这个地方的两三个值得去的点或者你曾有过的经历。

这里就给出你的家乡，校园和中国道理一样。

吐槽：四六级出题越来越懒了，，，，，，

翻译

翻译一：

为了促进教育公平，中国已经投入360亿元，用于改善农村地区教育设施和加强中西部地区农村义务教育。这些资金用于改善教学设施、购买书籍，使16万多所中小学收益。资金还用于购置音乐和绘画器材。现在农村和山区的儿童可以与沿海城市的儿童一样上音乐和绘画课。一些为接受更好教育而转往城市上学的学生如今又回到了本地农村学校就读。

In order to promote the equality of education, China has invested 36 billion yuan for the improvement of the educational facilities in rural areas and the enhancement of the rural compulsory education in the midwest. The fund is used to modify teaching facilities  and to purchase books, benefiting more than 160 thousand primary schools and  middle schools. Meanwhile, the fund is used to supplement musical instruments and painting supplies. Nowadays, like the children in coastal cities, those living in rural and mountain areas  also have music and painting lessons. As a result, some students, once transferring to other cities for better education, come back to  local schools now.

第一句话：目的状语+完成时；第二句，被动语态+分词做结果；第三句：单词；第四句：like的句型，放句首更容易对；四五句之间，注意衔接和逻辑。

详解：

这篇翻译主题突破了以往的中国传统节日，习俗等，考了目前比较热门的教育平等问题。文章难度适中，但是出现了较多重复的汉语，需要同义词的替换，对词汇提出了更高要求。

第一句话，主干为中国已经投入360亿元，需要注意时态为现在完成时。

其他部分都是目的状语, 可以用不定式或短语in order to 或者用介词for来表达。用词方面，“加强”，“改善”，等在2013年12月四级真题以及样题中都已经考过，所以想到improve和enhance并不困难。

第二句话由两个简单句构成，且两句主语一致，所以后半句可以考虑用非谓语，词汇方面，benefit可直接用作及物动词。

第三句话和第二句很相似，无难度。

第四句话，考察”像。。。一样”，like的用法。

第五句话，注意非谓语作定语的使用（transferring to)。

翻译二：

中国应该进一步发展核能，因为核电目前只占其总发电数的2%。该比例在所有核电国家中居第30位，几乎是最低的。

2011年3月日本人核电站事故后，中国的核能开发停了下来，中止审批新的核电站，并开展全国性的核电安全检查。到2012年10月，审批才又谨慎的恢复。 随着技术和安全措施的改进，发生核事故的可能性完全可以降到最低程度。换句话说，核能是可以安全开发和利用的。

China should further develop nuclear energy because currently，nuclear power accounts for only 2% of its total generating capacity . Such proportion ranks the thirtieth in all the countries possessing nuclear power, which is almost the last.

After Japan’s nuclear power accident in March 2011, nuclear power development in China  was suspended, so was the approval of new nuclear power plants. Also, the national safety check for the nuclear power was carried out. IT was not until October 2012 that the approval   was prudently resumed.

With the improvement of technology and safety measures, there is little possibility for nuclear accidents to happen. In other words, there won’t be any trouble to develop and exploit  the nuclear power.

这篇略难，恭喜人品。第一二句，注意逻辑；第三句，注意“排”这个字要用主动；

第二段主要注意时态：过去时。

最后一段，伴随状语和句子间的逻辑。

详解：

第一句，考察词汇 进一步，占据，以及句子逻辑关系的判断。

第二句注意使用非限制性定语从句。

第三句话是全文最长的一句话，注意几个简单句的合并（so was B以及用逻辑词）；考察词汇 停止，开展。

第四句，考察“直到。。。才”（not until)句型。

第五句，简单句，无难度，考察with表伴随。

最后一句，简单句，考察短语换句话说, 以及词汇开发利用。

翻译三：

中国的教育工作者早就认识到读书对于国家的意义。有些教育工作者2003年就建议设立全民读书日。他们强调，人们应当读好书，尤其是经典著作。通过阅读，人们能更好的学会感恩、有责任心和与人合作，而教育的目的正是要培养这些基本素质。阅读对于中小学生尤为重要，假如他们没有在这个关键时期培养阅读的兴趣，以后要培养成阅读的习惯就跟难了。

Chinese education workers realized the significance of reading for a nation long time ago. In 2003，some workers suggested that we have a national reading day. They emphasized that people ought to read good books especially the classic ones. Through reading, people can learn better how to be grateful, responsible and cooperative, and the goal of education is to cultivate these basic personalities. Reading is especially important for middle and primary school students；Therefore,  if they don't nurture the interest of reading at that key period, it will be harder for them to develop a habit to read in the future.

解析：第一句话，注意时态（早就，应该是过去式）；第二句话，注意suggest后的虚拟语气，should do，should经常被省略；第三句话，词汇（重视）、应该的多元性写法（不要只用should）、经典（classic而不是classical）；第四句话，注意介词和两句话之间的逻辑性；第五句话无难度，要注意和第六句话之间的衔接；最后一句话，条件句的主将从现。

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听力

A. 短对话

1. 参考原文：

W: I can’t seem to reach the tea at the back of the cupboard.

　　M: Oh… Why don’t you use the ladder? You might strain your shoulder.

Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?

点评：本题考点：计划或者建议。考点在第二个男士的提议。答案选B：Use a ladder to help her reach the tea. strain v.表示拉伸，扭伤 strain your shoulder 拉伤肩膀。

2. 参考原文：

W: Since it’s raining so hard, let’s go and see the new exhibits.

　　M: That’s a good idea. Mary Johnson is one of my favorite painters.

Q: Where does the converSATion most probably take place?

   点评：本题考点：对话场景题。通过女士提到的“new exhibits”和男士提到的“favorite painters”可推出答案为D：Outside an art gallery.

3. 参考原文：

M: I hear the students gave the new teacher an unfair evaluation.

　　W: It depends on which student you are talking about.

Q: What does the woman imply?

点评：本题考查语义推断。考点在第二个女士的回应，面对男士的说法，她并没有表示认同，而是婉转表达了质疑。对应选项B. She does not quite aGREe with what the man said. “unfair evaluation”意思是“不公平的评价”。

4. 参考原文：

W: It must have taken you a long time to fix up all these book shelves.

　　M: It wasn’t too bad. I got Doris to do some of them.

Q: What does the man mean?

点评：本题考查事实细节。考点在第二个男士的话。对应选项C. Doris fixed up some of the book shelves.原文中男士说的 “do some of them”指的就是修理书架。

5. 参考原文：

W: Rod, I hear you’ll be leaving at the end of this month. Is it true?

　　M: Yeah. I’ve been offered a much better position with another firm. I’d be a fool to turn it down.

Q: Why is the man quitting his job?

点评：本题考查因果关系。考点在第二个男士所解释的原因。对应D. He has found a better position. “position”即“职位”， “firm”即“公司”。 “quit”即“放弃，辞职”的意思。

6. 参考原文：

W: I honestly don’t want to continue the gardening tomorrow, Tony?

　　M: Neither do I. But I think we should get it over within this weekend.

Q: What does the man mean?

点评：本题考查转折关系。考点在第二个男士语义转折之后的内容。对应选项A. They should finish the work as soon as possible. 选项 “finish”同义替换原文中的 “get it over”，而 “as soon as possible”则改写了 “within this weekend”.

7. 参考原文：

W: You’ve already furnished your apartment?

　　M: I found some used furniture that was dirt cheap.

Q: What do we learn from the converSATion?

点评：本题考查事实细节。考点在第二个男士所说的话，习惯用语 “dirt cheap”就是“很便宜，白菜价”的意思。对应答案D. The furniture the man bought is inexpensive. 其中 “inexpensive”同义改写了“dirt cheap”。

8. 参考原文：

W: Has the mechanic called the bus repairers?

　　M: Not yet .I’ll let you know when he calls.

Q: What do we learn from the converSATion?

点评：本题考查语义推断。考点要结合女士的提问和男士的回答。对应B. The woman is waiting for a call. “mechanic”指“机械工”，“bus repairers”指“公车修理师”。

【短对话综合点评】：

本套短对话规律性很强，8道题几乎全部针对第二个人进行提问，大大降低了试题难度。但2道语义推断题较为棘手，具有一定区分度。整体难度较往年持平。

B.长对话和短文

ConverSATion one:

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the converSATion you have just heard.

9. Why couldn’t the woman’s roommate attend the Shakespearean English class that afternoon?

10. What favor is the woman going to do for her roommate?

11. What does the woman want to know at the end of the converSATion?

答案：

9. 点评：前2句都是礼节性问答，第3句开始出现新人物 “Janet Holmes”, 即考点预警信号。关键信息就是女士接下来的回答：“It’s just that she submitted a job application yesterday and the company asked her in for an interview today”.对应A选项：She had a job interview to attend.

10. 点评：前文刚刚提到“Janet Holmes”所遇到的问题（因面试不能上课交作业），接着就提到了解决这一问题的方法，关键听取原文中“I’m calling to see whether it would be OK if I gave you her essay.”对应选项C：Submit her roommate’s assignment.

11. 点评：从四个选项都以特殊疑问词开头的特征可以预判，本题考点是某人的疑问。关键信息是女士在最后所提到的问题：“And Dr. Ellis, one more thing, could you tell me where your office is?”对应选项A. Where Dr. Ellis’s office is located.

【综合点评】：本题完全符合长对话 “问答结构”的惯有出题套路，分别针对problem和solution进行提问，而且并没有出现逆序出题现象为难考生，整体难度一般。

ConverSATion 2:

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the converSATion you have just heard.

　　

12. What does the man say about his job?

　　

13. Which train does the man take to work every day?

　　

14. How does the man feel about commuting to work every day now?

　　

15. How does the man spend his time on the morning train?

答案：

12.点评：第一题完全符合“前3句出考点”的套路，考点信息出现在明显的信号词 “But”之后：“But it’s bearable now that I’ m used to it”。 bearable 表示可以忍受的，be used to 表示为习惯做某事。对应选项C：He can handle it quite well.

13. 点评：本题考查时间细节，所听即所选。关键信息是“It was terrible at first, especially getting up before dawn to catch that 6:30 train” 对应选项B：The 6:30 train.

14. 点评：本题考点再次出现在明显信号词But之后：“But now I quite enjoy it.”对应选项C：The time on the train is enjoyable

15. 点评：长对话最后一题往往对应整个对话的结尾部分。女士最后问男士在车上如何消磨时光，男士的回答则是考点信息：“In the morning, I just sit in comfort and read the papers to catch up with the news.” 对应选项A：Reading newspapers.

【综合点评】：本题完全符合顺序出题原则，有2道题的答案更是直接出现在信号词But之后，答案直来直往基本不需要进行推断，出题思路中规中矩，整体难度一般。

Passage One

16. What should American college students do to cope with their heavy reading assignments?

17. What suggestion does the speaker give about marking a textbook?

18. How should students prepare for an exam according to the speaker?

答案：

16. 点评：根据短文理解“前3句出考点”原则，如果本文前1、2句的因果关系没有成为考点，考点则顺延到第3句和第4句，关键信息为“They need to extrACT as much information as possible from the first or second reading.”extrACT表示提取、选取， 对应选项D：Get key information by reading just once or twice.

17. 点评：从第二段开始，marking skill被反复提到，无疑是重要考点。就做标记的技巧，作者一共提了3个建议，其中 “Third, decide on your own system for marking”几乎完整地被选项A照搬下来：Choose one's own system of marking.根据所听基本即所选原则，答案就是A。

18. 点评：最后一题考察了转折结构，考点信息出现在明显的信号词 ‘Instead”之后：“Instead, you just need to review your marks and you can save a lot of time.”对应选项B：By reviewing only the marked parts.

Passage Two

19. What is taken for granted by most people?

20. What do doctors think of Al Herpin's case?

21. What could have accounted for Al Herpin's sleeplessness?

答案：

19. 点评：答案出现在明显的信号词 “But”之后，即：“But everyone needs some rest to stay alive.”对应选项D：Everybody needs some sleep for survival.

20. 点评：答案出现在明显的信号词 “But”之后，即：“But a man named Al Herpin turned out to be a rare exception”对应选项C：It is a rare exception. rare表示稀有的，少见的。

21. 点评：根据顺序出题原则，本题对应文章结尾部分。文章最后提到医生对Al Herpin不用睡觉感到困惑，紧接着就解释了原因。 “clue”（表示线索）是本题的考点信号词，随后就是考点信息:“He remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he had been born.” 对应选项B：His mother's injury just before his birth.

22. What do we learn about Hetty GREen as a child?

　　

23. How did Hetty GREen become rich overnight?

　　

24. Why was Hetty GREen much hated?

　　

25. What do we learn about Hetty's daughter?

答案：

22. 点评：本题略有难度。考点即没有出现在前3句话，也没有出现在明显的信号词之后，但是只要提前划记好了本题关键词，根据“所听基本即所选”原则还是可以找到答案C：She developed a strong interest in finance.该选项对应原文信息 “At the age of six she started reading the daily financial newspapers and opened her own bank account.”

23. 点评：本题略有难度。考点紧跟在上一题考点句之后，即 “Her father died when she was 21 and she inherited 7.5 million dollars.”对应选项D. She inherited a big fortune from her father.

24. 点评：本题难度较大。错误选项中的细节有较强干扰性，但如果考生对最后一段的整体结构有所把握，就会发现在第一句提到了Hetty的 “meanness”（吝啬，小气） 之后，后文 “always argued about prices” “buy broken biscuits” “refused to pay for a doctor”这些细节都属于次要信息，是对 “meanness”的例证。对应选项A. She was extremely mean with her money.

25. 点评：本题考点就是本文最后一句话 “her daughter built a hospital with her money”对应选项B. She built a hospital with her mother's money.

【短文理解综合点评】：前2篇文章难度较小，考点规律性强；第3篇文章难度骤升，具有较强区分度，考生的实际听力能力高下立现。

选词填空

题目一：

本文选自2006年5月16日的经济学人

http://www.economist.com/node/5636369

参考原文

A nation of non-readers: A strange and costly disregard for books

MANY Brazilians cannot read. In 2000, a quarter of those aged 15 and older were functionally illiterate. Many simply do not want to. Only one literate adult in three reads books. The average Brazilian reads 1.8 non-academic books a year—less than half the figure in Europe and the United States. In a recent survey of reading habits, Brazilians came 27th out of 30 countries, spending 5.2 hours a week with a book. Argentines, their neighbours, ranked 18th.

In rare accord, government, businesses and NGOs are all striving in different ways to change this. On March 13th the government launched a National Plan for Books and Reading. This seeks to boost reading, by founding libraries and financing publishers among other things. The Brazil Reader Institute, an NGO, brings books to people: it has installed lending libraries in two São Paulo metro stations, and is planning one in a Carnival samba school. It is starting to be common to see charACTers in television soap operas shown reading. Cynics note that Globo, the biggest broadcaster, is also a big publisher of books, newspapers and magazines.

One discouragement to reading is that books are expensive. At São Paulo's book fair this week, “O Código Da Vinci” was on sale for 32 reais—more than a tenth of the official minimum monthly wage. Most other books have small print-runs, pushing up their price.

But Brazilians' indifference to books has deeper roots. Centuries of slavery meant the country's leaders long neglected education. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s. Radio was ubiquitous by the 1930s; libraries and bookshops have still not caught up. “The electronic experience came before the written experience,” says Marino Lobello, of the Brazilian Chamber of Books, an industry body.

All this means that Brazil's book market has the biggest growth potential in the western world, reckons Mr Lobello. That notion has attrACTed foreign publishers, such as Spain's Prisa-Santillana, which bought a local house last year. American evangelical publishers are eyeing the market for religious books, which outsell fiction in Brazil.

But reading is a difficult habit to form. Brazilians bought fewer books in 2004—289m, including textbooks distributed by the government—than they did in 1991. Last year the director of Brazil's national library quit after a controversial tenure. He complained that he had half the librarians he needed and termites had eaten much of the collection. Along with crime and high interest rates, that ought to be a cause for national shame.

答案及解析

36. N. simply

本空所在句不缺其它成分，该空应为副词。备选副词J) particularly（专门地、特别地）与N) simply（简单地、仅仅）中，simply符合句意“许多人仅仅是不想学着识字。”

37. A. average

本空修饰名词Brazilian，需要形容词。备选形容词A) average（平均的、普通的）E) expensive（昂贵的）K) potential（潜在的）中，average符合句意“普通的巴西人每年读1.8本非学术书目”。且reads 1.8 non-academic books a year也在提示这里是在描述平均值。

38. M. ranked

本空是该句谓语，缺动词。且与前句并列，而前句用的过去式，因此本空需动词过去式。备选的有C) distributed（分发、散布）、F) launched（发射、发动）、G) named（取名、提名）、H) neglected（忽视）、L) quit（退出、辞职）、M) ranked（排名）和O) treasured（珍惜）。能与空后的18th构成合理搭配的只有ranked，表示“排在第18位”。另外前句描述的也是巴西的排名。

39. F. launched

本空是该句谓语，缺动词。由于描述的是过去的日子，需要过去式。备选的有C) distributed（分发、散布）、F) launched（发射、发动）、G) named（取名、提名）、H) neglected（忽视）、L) quit（退出、辞职）和O) treasured（珍惜）。本空后的专有概念National Plan for Books and Reading明显是个活动或计划之类，能与之构成合理搭配的只有launched，表示“发起了此计划”。

40. E. expensive

本空做表语，主语是books，形容词、动词分词可能性较大。注意到后句提到push up their price，因此这里描述的应该是书的价格，expensive符合话题。

41. H. neglected

本空是所在从句的谓语，且描述的是过去、主句也为过去式，因此这里需要过去式。备选的有C) distributed（分发、散布）、G) named（取名、提名）、H) neglected（忽视）和L) quit（退出、辞职）O) treasured（珍惜）。注意前句引出的话题是巴西对书籍的漠视，本句提到的也是巴西长期奴隶制的影响，因此本空应选择neglected，表示巴西“长期忽视教育”。distributed意思不合理，treasured则与这里想表示的意思相反。

42. K. potential

本空一种可能是副词，但备选副词只剩particularly，而其意思在这里并不合适，这里也没有构成其所表示的递进关系的条件。因此只能考虑本空另一种可能：名词。备选的有B) collection（收集）、D) exhibition（展览）和K) potential（潜力）。potential是唯一意思合理的，表示巴西的图市场“有着最大的增长潜力”。

43. C. distributed

本空位于名词后，应为后置定语，需要动词分词；by提示了这里需要过去分词。备选的有C) distributed（分发、散布）、G) named（取名、提名）和L) quit（退出、辞职）O) treasured（珍惜）。这里意思合理的只有distributed，表示“被政府分发的书籍”。

44. L. quit

本空是该句谓语，其描述的是过去，需要过去式，备选的有G) named（取名、提名）、L) quit（退出、辞职）、和O) treasured（珍惜）。同时该空后无宾语，因此必须是不及物动词，符合此要求的只有quit，表示国家图书馆负责人辞职。

45. B. collection

空前的定冠词提示本空需要名词，备选的有B) collection（收集）和D) exhibition（展览）。这里意思较合理的是collection，它可以表示图书馆的馆藏书籍。意思是“白蚁吃掉了大部分馆藏书籍”。

题目二：

本文节选自Sharon L. Spray, ‎Karen Leah McGlothlin所著Global Climate Change一书。

参考原文

Global warming is what we are worried about, and it is exACTly as it sound — a trend toward warmer conditions around the world. Part of the warming is natural; we have experienced a 20,000-year-long warming as the last ice age ended and the ice melted away. However, we have already reached temperatures that re in line with other interglacial (minimum ice) periods, so continued warming is likely not natural. We are contributing to a predicted worldwide increase in temperatures ranging between 1° and 6 ℃ (2° and 10 ℉) over the next 100 years. The warming will be more dramatic in some areas, less in others, and some places may even cool off. Likewise, the impACT of this warming will be very different depending on where you are — coastal areas must worry about rising sea level, while Siberia and northern Canada my become more habitable and appealingfor humans than these areas are now.

The fACT remains, however, that it will likely get warmer, on average, everywhere. Scientists are in general aGREement that this process has already begun and that the warmer conditions we have been experiencing at the end of the twentieth century are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] 1995). Some scientistsmaintain that the changes we are seeing fall within the range of random variation — some years are cold, others warm, and we have just had an unremarkable string of warm years recently — but that is becoming an increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasing warm conditions.

答案解析

36. I) melted

本空是谓语，需要动词，且空前并列成分谓语用的是过去式ended，因此需要过去式。备选的有melted（融化）和resolved（决心），能与空前ice构成合理意思、且与空后away构成搭配的只有melted，表示“冰川融化”。

37. G) line

本空空前是介词，因此需要名词性成分，且要考虑与空后的with构成搭配。符合要求的只有line（in line with，与……一致）。意思是我们已经接近“与其他最小冰川期时一致的温度”。

38. C) contributing

前句用完成时表示已经达到的状态，本句we are描述的则是正在发生的过程，需要动词的ing形式，且要考虑与空后的介词to构成搭配。备选的有appealing to（呼吁、上诉）、contributing to（促成、导致），ranging后不直接与介词to构成搭配。意思合理的只有contributing，为“我们正促成世界范围内气温的升高”。

39. K) ranging

本空引领的是temperature的后置定语，需要动词分词。备选的有appealing（呼吁、上诉）、ranging（范围在……）和resolved（决心）。空后的between 1℃ and 6 ℃明显是范围区间，因此ranging合乎语义。range between/from A and B为常用搭配。

40. D) dramatic

本空作为表语，且空前有more，提示了本空需要形容词。备选的有appealing（有吸引力的）、dramatic（戏剧性的、突发的）和sensible（明智的）。这里描述的是气候变化的效果，因此dramatic意思更合适，意为“某些地方的气候变化会更加戏剧化”。后半句提到的有些地方可能cool off（变冷）也是暗示气候变化的突发及剧烈。

41. F) impACT

空前的the暗示本空需要名词。备选的有average（平均）、impACT（影响）和shock（震惊）。impACT和shock都能用于与warming构成搭配，但后面提到的different depending on where you are提示了本空应当是一个较为宽泛的概念，故impACT更合适，意为“气候变暖的影响因所在地不同而不同”。

42. A) appealing

空前的and提示了本空与and前的habitable（宜居的）同词性且义相近。因此本空需要形容词，备选的有appealing（有吸引力的）和sensible（明智的）。意思上与habitable更能并列、描述本句所说的Siberia and northern Canada的影视appealing，表示“西伯利亚和加拿大北部可能会变得更宜居、更吸引人”。

43. B) average

空前介词on提示了本空需要名词性成分与之构成搭配。备选的有average（平均）和shock（震惊）。这里意思更合理的是average，且on average是固定搭配“平均地”。

44. H) maintain

本空需要谓语，且前句所用为一般现在时，考虑到本句主语为复数scientists，因此本空需要动词原形。备选的有maintain（维持、坚称）、persist（坚持）和shock（震惊）。但persist为不及物动词，而本空后有宾语从句；shock意思不合适是且一般后面接人。因此只能选maintain。意为“有些科学家坚称……”。

45. L) recently

本空所在句不缺其它成分，本空需要副词。备选的又frequently（频繁地）和recently（最近）。空前提到科学家认为气候变化无规律，有些年冷、有些年热（some years are cold, others warm）。本空所在的we have just had an unremarkable string of warm years应当是顺着科学家的观点而来，解释我们现在所处的正好是偏热的年份期。因此本空用recently强调当下更佳。若选frequently表示“我们频繁处在偏热的年份”，则与科学家所持的气温冷热无规律交替的观点不相符合。

题目三：

本文选自2005年9月及10月TIME杂志上Chevron（雪佛龙，美国第二大能源公司）公司的广告。

The fACT is, the world has been finding less oil than it’s been using for 20 years now. Not only has demand been soaring, but the oil we’ve been finding is coming from places that are tough to reach. At the same time, more of this newly discovered oil is of the type that requires a GREater investment torefine. And because demand for this precious resource will grow, according to some, by over 40% by 2025, fuelling the world’s growing economic prosperity will take a lot more energy from every possible source.

The energy industry needs to get more from existing fields while continuing to search for newreserves. Automakers must continue to improve fuel efficiency and perfect hybrid vehicles. Technological improvements are needed so that wind, solar and hydrogen can be more viable parts of the energy equation. Governments need to create energy policies that promote economically and environmentally sound development. Consumers must demand, and be willing to pay for, some of these solutions, while prACTising conservation efforts of their own.

InACTion is not an option. But if everyone works together, we can balance this equation. We’re taking some of the steps needed to get started, but we need your help to get the rest of the way.

答案解析

36. N) soaring

本空所在句式在用进行时表示目前石油需求的变化，该空需要动词ing形式。备选的有declining（下降）和soaring（猛增）。注意前句提到世界上找到的石油越来越少，可推知本文探讨的应该是石油供应不足的现象，那么石油的需求应当是上升的。因此选soaring。

37. E) difficult

本空是表语，且是在描述石油的来源地的特征，应当需要形容词。考虑到前句已经提到石油供应不足，那么这里应当描述的也是消极的现状，即石油来源地也很难接近，difficult无论词性还是意思上都很满足。

38. F) discovered

本空是形容词在形容石油，空前的newly提示了这里所描述的石油应当是和前文提到的已经找到（find）的石油相对比。因此这里提到的应当是新找到的石油，discovered分词作为形容词使用，意思上也很合理。

39. L) refine

本空位于不定式中，因此需要动词原形。备选的有cultivate（培养）和refine（提炼）。注意到本不定式是在描述新开发的石油所需要进行的工序，能构成合理意思的只有refine。refine the oil意为“炼油”。

40. J) growth

本空被形容词economic修饰，需要名词。备选的有exception（例外）、growth（增长）、option（选择）reserves（储备）和steps（步骤）。能与economic构成合理搭配的只有growth，这里表示“世界经济的增长”。

41. M) reserves

本空被形容词new修饰，且在介词for后，需要名词。备选的有exception（例外）、option（选择）reserves（储备）和steps（步骤）。注意本句提到的是能源行业需要持续搜索的东西，能构成合理意思的只有reserves，意为需要只需寻找“新的能源储备”。

42. I) feasible

本空修饰名词parts，且空前有more，因此需要形容词。备选的还有declining（下降的）和feasible（可行的）。本句描述的是风能、太阳能、氢能等，根据文章话题，明显是希望这些新能源发挥更大作用，因此这里不可能选declining。feasible在这里构成的意思是“能源方程中更合理的部分”，即更合理的解决方案。

43. G) economically

本空与空后的environmentally用and构成了并列，可知需要副词。备选的有consequently（因此）与economically（经济上）。其中能与environmentally（环境上）含义上构成并列的只有economically。

44. K) option

空前的an提示本空需要名词，且必须是可数名词单数。备选的有exception（例外）和option（选择）。句首的inACTion意为“不作为”，因此能构成合理意思的只有option。本句意思是“无所作为不是一个选择”，即我们决不能不采取行动。

45. O) steps

空前的the提示本空需要名词，且some提示本空需要名词复数。符合条件的只有steps（步骤）。take steps意为“采取措施“。