[单项选择]Tom: Employers complain that people graduating from high school too often lack the vocational skills required for full-time employment. Therefore, since these skills are best acquired on the job, we should require high school students to work at part-time jobs so that they acquire the skills needed for today’s job market.
Mary: There are already too few part-time jobs for students who want to work, and simply requiring students to work will not create jobs for them.
Which one of the following most accurately describes how Mary’s response is related to Tom’s argument
A. It analyzes an undesirable result of undertaking the course of action that Tom recommends.
B. It argues that Tom has mistaken an unavoidable trend for an avoidable one.
C. It provides information that is inconsistent with an explicitly stated premise in Tom’s argument.
D. It presents a consideration that undercuts an assumption on which Tom’s argument depends.
E. (E) It defends an alternative solution to the problem that Tom describes.

[填空题]Sometimes young people complain of being unable to ______(与父母沟通).

[单项选择]The first people to inhabit North America came from Asia. Scientists had hypothesized that these people traveled across a now-submerged landmass that connected the two continents until 14,000 years ago, depending for food only on the land animals they hunted as they traveled. Recent discoveries have led to the new hypothesis that the first people came by boat along the southern shore of the landmass, eating fish and sea mammals.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the new hypothesis by casting doubt on the earlier hypothesis
A. The landmass connecting North America and Asia extended very far to the north.
B. In Europe, maritime cultures primarily dependent on the sea for food developed no earlier than 10,000 years ago.
C. People living in Asia at the time the two continents were connected hunted land animals for food.
D. The landmass was so bitterly cold that its vegetation would have been too sparse to support land animals.
E. (E) Sophisticated and mature North American and Asian cultures that display great similarities to each other existed as far back as 8,000 years ago.

[单项选择]Millions of people in the United States suffer from （）back pain that comes from sitting too long at a desk.
A. chronic
B. casual
C. catastrophic
D. elastic

[填空题]Some people complain about the imprecise use of language.
If human language won’t suffice for code information in the future (1)
due to information density and speed and of course due to misunderstandings
( ambiguity) then the analogue language we have now might make away (2)
for a digital language. Nowadays, everything is becoming digital.
Why not human language Of course, I don’t mean to changing human (3)
language by prescription but by convention. Once human language
is digitized or replaced a digital language whether prescribed or (4)
agreed on, not only ambiguity ends but also beauty and mysticism and
culture of human heritage. This means there will definite be (5)
advantages of density, speed and clarity so I am afraid a lot of (6)
d

[简答题]Many people complain that work nowadays is more stressful and less leisurely than in the past. There is a discussion on the newspaper inviting public comment on this problem.
Write an essay to the editor of the paper.
(1) analyzing the causes of the social problems
(2) illustrating its influences on people’s daily life
You should write 160-200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

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