A、pass the exam
B、earn more money
C、contact more clients
D、do favors to the office manager
A、pass the exam
B、earn more money
C、contact more clients
D、do favors to the office manager
The total length for the writing exam is 1 hour. How many minutes should you spend on the essay, the Writing Task 2?
A.20
B.30
C.40
D.60
A、stay on task in the exam
B、organize your ideas clearly
C、manage your time more efficiently
D、improve your score on Task Response
E、improve your score on Coherence and Cohesion
Task 1
Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.
I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn't understand.
The story took place (发生) exactly ______.
A.in the teacher% office
B.in an exam room
C.in the school
D.in the language lab
Discussion—about 5 minutes
In this part of the test you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an exam pie of which is below, and then about 3 minutes to discuss the topic with your partner, After that the examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic.
1. For two candidates
Compromise on price
IBM, one of your company's clients in the USA, is considering building a factory in Shanghai.
Discuss the situation together, and decide:
?where to build the factory.
?what the company needs to know about
work practices.
For three candidates
Compromise on price
IBM, one of your company's clients in the USA, is considering building a factory in Shanghai.
Discuss the situation together, and decide:
?where to build the factory
?what the company needs to know about work practices.
?the local government's invest regulations.
Interlocutor:
?Now this part of the test you are going to discuss together.
[Interlocutor points to the card showing the task while giving the instructions below.]
interlocutor:
?You have 30 seconds to read the task carefully, and then 3 minutes to discuss and decide about it together. You should give reasons for your decisions and opinions. You don't need to write any thing. Is that clear?
根据下面材料,回答题。
What Should We Do before We Have a Test
Before a big exam, a sound night&39;s sleep will do you more good than poring over textbooks.
That, at least, is the folk wisdom. And science, in the form. of behavioral psychology, supports that wisdom. But such behavioral studies cannot distinguish between two competing theories of why sleep is good for the memory. One says that sleep is when permanent memories form. The other says that they are actually formed during the day, but then "edited" at night, to flush away what is superfluous.
To tell the difference, it is necessary to look into the brain of a sleeping person, and that is hard. But after a decade of painstaking work, a team led by Pierre Maquet at Liege University in Belgium has managed to do it. The particular stage of sleep in which the Belgian group is interested in is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, when brain and body are active, heart rate and blood pressure increase, the eyes move back and forth behind the eyelids as if watching a movie,and brainwave traces resemble those of wakefulness. It is during this period of sleep that people are
most likely to relive events of the previous day in dreams.
Dr. Maquet used an electronic device called PET to study the brains of people as they practiced a task during the day, and as they slept during the following night. The task required them to press a button as fast as possible, in response to a light coming on in one of six positions. As they learnt how to do this, their response times got faster. What they did not know was that the appearance of the lights sometimes followed a pattern--what is referred to as "artificial grammar". Yet the reductions in response time showed that they learnt faster when the pattern was present than when there was not.
What is more, those with more to learn (ie., the "grammar", as well as the mechanical task of pushing the button) have more active brains. The "editing" theory would not predict that, since the number of irrelevant stimuli would be the same in each case. And to eliminate any doubts that the experimental subjects were learning as opposed to unlearning, their response times when they woke up were even quicker than when they went to sleep.
The team, therefore, concluded that the nerve connections involved in memory are reinforced through reactivation during REM sleep, particularly if the brain detects an inherent structure in the material being learnt. So now, on the eve of that crucial test, maths students can sleep soundly in the knowledge that what they will remember the next day are the basic rules of algebra and not the incoherent talk from the radio next door.
Researchers in behavioral psychology are divided with regard to__________. 查看材料
A.how dreams are modified in their courses
B.the difference between sleep and wakefulness
C.why sleep is of great benefit to memory
D.the functions of a good nights sleep
Task 1
Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.
In many countries, such as France, Greece, and Japan, it is often more difficult for students to pass the college entrance exams than to do the course work when they are actually in college, and students who don't have much money are at a disadvantage. Students prepare for these tests for years in advance. Often,stu-dents attend a private school at night to get ready for them. These private schools are usually expensive. If their families don't have much money, students can't attend, and they might not pass the entrance exams without this extra preparation.
In contrast, students can easily get into an American or Canadian college at least more easily than in other countries. American students take an entrance exam called the S.A.T. (the Scholastic Aptitude Test (学习能力测试)). However, colleges do not consider only S. A. T. Scores. They also consider a student's grades and activities throughout high school. A student who has done well in high school will probably get into college.
What happens when a student finally enters a college or university? Students in China, Korea, or Japan might find their college studies easier than high school work. On the other hand, when American or Canadian students begin college, many of them discover that they need to work very hard and study seriously for the first time in their lives especially if they plan to go to graduate school.
In France and Greece, students find that ______.
A.they have to do extra preparation to pass the entrance exams
B.private schools are inexpensive
C.course work in college is more difficult
D.college entrance exams are more difficult
根据短文回答 31~35 题。
Sleep Necessary for Memories
Burning the midnight oil before an exam or interview does harm to the performance according to a recent research which found that sleep is necessary for memories to be taken back into the brain.A good night's sleep within 30 hours of trying to remember a new task is a required condition of having good recall in the weeks ahead。scientists}lave found.
The research,published in the December issue of Nature Neuroscience.Showed that it was the act of sleep.rather than the simple passage of time,that was critical for long-term memory formation.
"We think that getting that first night's sleep starts the process of minify consolidation(巩固),"said Robert Stick gold,a sleep researcher at Hayward Medical! School who conducted the latest study.
"It seems that memories normally wash out of the brain unless some process nails them down.My suspicion is that sleep is one of those things that does the nailing down,Professor Stick gold said.
With about one in five people claiming that they are so chronically short of sleep that it affects their daily activities.the latest work emphasizes the less well-understood side effect—serious memory impairment(损害).
Volunteers in an experiment found it easier to remember a memory task if they were allowed to sleep that night.But for those kept awake ,no amount of subsequent sleep made up for the initial loss.
Professor Stick gold's team trained 24 people to identify the direction of three diagonal(斜线形的)bars flashed for a sixtieth of a second on a computer screen full of horizontal(水平的)stripes.
Half of the subjects were kept awake that night。while the others slept.Both groups were allowed to sleep for the second and third nights to make up for any differences in tiredness between the volunteers.
Those who slept the first night were significantly and consistently better at remembering the task while the second group showed no improvement despite enjoying two nights of catch.up sleep.
第 31 题 The research published in Nature Neuroscience showed that what was essential to the formation of long—term memory was()
A.intelligence.
B.time.
C.food.
D.sleep.
根据短文回答 31~35 题。
Sleep Necessary for Memories
Burning the midnight oil before an exam or interview does harm to the performance according to a recent research which found that sleep is necessary for memories to be taken back into the brain.A good night's sleep within 30 hours of trying to remember.A new task is a required condition of having good recall in the weeks ahead,scientists have found.
The research,published in the December issue of Nature Neuroscience,showed that it was the act of sleep,rather than the simple passage of time,that was critical for long-term memory formation.
"We think that getting that first night's sleep starts the process of memory consolidation(巩固),"said Robert Stick gold,a sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School who conducted the latest study.
"It seems that memories normally wash out of the brain unless some process nails them down.My suspicion is that sleep is one of those things that does the nailing down,"Professor Stick gold said.
With about one in five people claiming that they are so chronically short of sleep that it affects their daily activities,the latest work emphasizes the less well-understood side effect-serious memory impairment(损害).
Volunteers in an' experiment found it easier to remember a memory task if they were;allowed to sleep that night.But for those kept awake,no amount of subsequent sleep made up for the initial loss.
Professor Stick gold's team trained 24 people to identify the direction of three
diagonal(斜线形的)bars flashed for a sixtieth of a second on a computer screen full of horizontal(水平的)stripes.
Half of the subjects were、kept awake that night,while the others slept.Both groups were allowed to sleep for the second and third nights to make up for any differences in tiredness between the volunteers.
Those who slept the first night were significantly and consistently better at remembering the task while the second group showed no improvement despite enjoying two nights of catch-up sleep.
第 31 题 The research published in nature Neuroscience showed that what was essential to the formation of long-term memory was()
A.intelligence.
B.time.
C.food.
D.sleep.
To tell the difference, it is necessary to look into the brain of a sleeping person, and that is hard. But after a decade of painstaking work, a team led by Pierre Maquet at Liege University in Belgium has managed to do it. The particular stage of sleep in which the Belgian group is interested is rapid eye movement(REM)sleep, when brain and body are active, heart rate and blood pressure increase, the eyes move back and forth behind the eyelids as if watching a movie, and brainwave traces resemble those of wakefulness. It is during this period of sleep that people are most likely to relive events of the previous day in dreams.
Dr. Maquet used an electronic device called PET to study the brains of people as they practiced a task during the day, and as they slept during the following night. The task required them to press a button as fast as possible, in response to a light coming on in one of six positions. As they learnt how to do this, their response times got faster. What they did not know was that the appearance of the lights sometimes followed a pattern—what is referred to as “artificial grammar”. Yet the reductions in response time showed that they learnt faster when the pattern was present than when there was not.
What is more, those with more to learn(i. e. the“grammar”, as well as the mechanical task of pushing the button)have more active brains. The“editing”theory would not predict that, since the number of irrelevant stimuli would be the same in each case. And to eliminate any doubts that the experimental subjects were learning as opposed to unlearning, their response times when they woke up were even quicker than when they went to sleep.
The team, therefore, concluded that the nerve connections involved in memory are reinforced through reactivation during REM sleep, particularly if the brain detects an inherent structure in the material being learnt. So now, on the eve of that crucial test, maths students can sleep soundly in the knowledge that what they will remember the next day are the basic rules of algebra and not the incoherent talk from the radio next door.
Researchers in behavioral psychology are divided with regard to______.
A.how dreams are modified in their courses
B.the difference between sleep and wakefulness
C.why sleep is of great benefit to memory
D.the functions of a good night's sleep
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