
children want to buy their products. Children never stand the chance. It’s really not fair.
M:(7-2)You are so right. (8)When we were children,we barely had any junk food available, and we turned out just fine.
W:Yes.My parents don’t understand any of it. Both TV commercials and the supermarkets are alien to them. Their worlds
were so different back to when they are young.
M:I don’t know what will happen to the next generation.
W:The world is going crazy.
M:You bet.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
未听先知:预览四道题各选项,由 vitamins、taste、foods 和ingredients 等词可以初步推测,对话与食品有关;再结
合too many additives、garbage、TV commercials、sweet foods 和children 等词可以进一步推测,对话内容与儿童类
食品有关,并且涉及垃圾食品和电视广告之间的关系。
5:What do the speakers say about the food their children like?
答案:D
详解:当男士看到女士买了很多健康食品时,他十分感慨,说自己的孩子不喜欢这些健康食品,就喜欢吃垃圾食
品,而女士说她特别理解男士的感受,她的孩子也是这样。也就是说,对话中两人的孩子都喜欢吃垃圾食品,答案
为D。
6:According to the speakers, what affects children’s choice of food most?
答案:B
详解:对话中女士说,她认为孩子们对食品的选择都是受到了电视广告的影响,男士也表示赞同,说孩子们看到
电视上有什么就立马想要什么。由此可知,对话中的两人认为是电视广告影响了孩子们对食物的选择,答案为 B。
7:What do the speakers believe big food corporations are doing?
答案:C
详解:对话中女士说,大型食品公司会花很多钱设计一些聪明的策略,就是为了让孩子们想要去购买他们的产品,
男士也同意这一观点。也就是说,对话中的两人都认为大型食品公司在努力诱惑孩子们购买他们的产品,答案为 C。
8:What do we know about the speakers when they were children?
答案:B
详解:对话中男士说,他们还是孩子的时候几乎接触不到垃圾食品,结果长得也挺好。也就是说,他们小时候很
少吃垃圾食品,答案为 B。
Section B
Passage One
At some 2,300 miles in length, the Mississippi is the longest river in the United States. At some 1,000 miles, the
Mackenzie is the longest river in Canada. But these waterways seem mute in comparison to the world’s two longest rivers
—— the Nile and the Amazon.
The Nile, which begins in central Africa and flows over 4,100 miles north into the Mediterranean, hosted one of the
world’s great ancient civilizations along its shores. Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually,
thereby creating, irrigating and caring new topsoil to the nearby farmland on which ancient Egypt depended for a livelihood.
As a means of transportation, the river carried various vessels up and down its length. (9)A journey through the
unobstructed part of this waterway today would pass by the splendid Valley of the Kings, where the tombs of many of these
ancient monarchs have stood for over 3,000 years.
(10)Great civilizations and intensive settlements are hardly associated with the Amazon, (11)yet this 4,000-mile-long
South American river carries about 20 percent of the world’s fresh water —more than the Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze
combined. Other statistics are equally astonishing. The Amazon is so wide at some points that from its center neither shore
can be seen. Each second, the Amazon pours some 55 million gallons of water into the Atlantic; there, at its mouth, stands
one island larger than Switzerland. Most important of all, the Amazon irrigates the largest tropical rainforest on Earth.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
未听先知:预览三道题各选项,由选项中的 floods、water、fresh water 和banks 等词可以初步推测,短文与河流有