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Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions：Suppose your university student union is planning to hold a speech contest. You are now to write a proposal for organizing the contest. The proposal may include the topic, aim, procedure and selection of contestants. You will have 30 minutes to write the proposal. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Part II Listening Comprehension 听力原文及题目答案从 24 页开始 Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter: Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage The sheets are damp with sweat. You"re cold, but your heart is racing as if a killer just chased you down a dark street. It was just a nightmare, you tell yourself: there"s nothing to be afraid of. But you’re still filled with 26 . Given how unsettling and haunting nightmares can be, is there a way for dreamers to 27 , or even turn off, these bad dreams as they happen? Research is 28 , but some studies suggest that people who can master lucid dreaming that is, the ability to be 29 that a nightmare is happening and possibly even control it without waking up-may hold the 30 . Nightmares are part of the human experience, especially for kids. Doctors 31 don"t consider occasional nightmares a problem. They can just be symptoms of a sleep disorder that can 32 from an unpleasant experience, stress, or certain drugs. To treat the disorder, there are a number of medicines and therapies that are backed by 33 research, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine which analyzed the available research on the treatment of nightmare disorder in a recent 34 published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. However, nightmares are complicated, and researchers are still struggling to understand them. Said Dr. Rachel Salas, an expert on sleep disorders and an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. What we do know is that people 35 to have different kinds of nightmares at different points during the sleep cycle. A.
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answer G. fear L. rigorous C. avoid H. limited M. tend D. aware E. depart I. mechanical J. result N. timidity O. typically Directions：In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs Identify the
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paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter ：Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. Why it matters that teens are reading less A) Most of us spend much more with digital media than we did a decade ago. But today"s teens have grown up with smartphones. Compared with teens a couple of decades ago, the way they, interact with traditional media like books and movies is fundamentally different. B) Analysis of surveys of over one million teens in the United States collected since 1976 reveals a major shift in how teens are spending their leisure time. Paper books are being ignored, in favor of screens. Digital devices are changing other behaviors, too. More and more, young people choose spending time on their electronic devices over engaging in other activities, regardless of the type. Indeed, by 2016, the average American high school senior said they spent six hours a day writing text messages, on social media, and online during their free time. And that covers just three activities, and if other digital media activities were included, that estimate would no doubt rise. C) Teens did not always spend that much time with digital media. Online time has doubled since 2006, and social media use has moved from a periodic activity to a daily one in the same period. By 2016, nearly nine out of ten young women in the 12th grade said they visited social media sites every day. Meanwhile, time spent playing video games rose from under an hour a day to an hour and a half on average, One out of ten American 8th grace students in 2016 spent 40 hours a week or more playing video games. Let me emphasize that this is equal to the time most adults spend per week at work. D) If teens are spending so much time using electronic devices, does that mean they have to give up some other activities? Maybe not. Over the years, many scholars have insisted that time online does not necessarily take away time spent engaging with, traditional media or on other activities. Some people, they argue, are just more interested in certain kinds of media and entertainment. Thus, using more of one type of media does not necessarily mean less of the other. E) That may be true, but that still does not tell us much about what happens across a whole generation of people when time spent on digital media grows. Large surveys conducted over the course of many years tell us that American youth are not going to the cinema nearly as often as they did in the past. While 70 percent of 8 th and 10 th grade students used to go to the movies once a month or more, now only about half do this. More and more, watching a movie is something teens choose to do on their electronic devices. Why is this a problem? One reason is that going to the cinema is generally a social activity. Now, watching movies is something that most teens do alone. This fits a larger pattern. In another analysis, researchers found that today"s teens go out with their friends much less often than previous generations did. F) But the trends related to movies are less disturbing compared with the change in how teens spend their time. Research has revealed an enormous decline in reading. In 1980, about 60 percent of senior high school students said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every
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day that was not assigned for school. By 2016, only 16 percent did. This is a huge drop and it is important to note that this was not merely a decline in reading paper books, newspapers or magazines. The survey allowed for reading materials on a digital device. G) Indeed, the number of senior high school students who said they had not read any books for pleasure in the last year was one out of three by 2016. That is triple the number from two decades ago. For today"s youth, books newspapers and magazines have less and less of a presence in their daily lives. Of course, teens are still reading. But they are generally reading short texts. Most of them are not reading long articles or books that explore deep themes and require critical thinking and reflection. Perhaps not accidentally, in 2016 reading scores were the lowest they have ever been since 1972. H) This might present problems for young people later on. When high school students go on to college, their past and current reading habits will influence their academic performance. Imagine going from reading texts as short as one or two sentences to trying to read entire books written in complex language and containing sophisticated ideas. Reading and comprehending longer books and chapters takes practice, and American teens are no longer getting that practice. I) So how can this problem be solved? Should parents and teachers take away teens" smartphones and replace them with paper books? Probably not. Research has shown that smartphones are currently American teens main form of social communication. This means that, without a smartphone, teens are likely to feel isolated from their peers. However, that does not mean teens need to use electronic devices as often as they do now. Data connecting excessive digital media time to mental health issues suggests a limit of two hours a day of free time spent with screens, a restriction that will also allow time for other activities-like going to the movies with friends or reading longer, more complicated texts. J) The latter is especially important. I would argue that of all the changes brought about by the widespread use of digital devices, the huge decline in reading is likely to have the biggest negative impact on today"s teens because reading books and longer articles is one of the best says to learn critical thinking. It helps people to understand complex issues and to separate fact from fiction. Thus, deep reading is crucial for being a good citizen, a successful college student and a productive employee. If serious reading dies, a lot will go with it. 36. Many years" surveys reveal that young people in America are going to the cinema much less often than they used to. 37. Survey analysis shows American teens now spend their leisure time on digital devices rather than reading printed books. 38. The number of senior high schoolers not reading books for pleasure in a year increased three times over 20 years. 39. Many scholars claim that spending time on electronic devices doesn"t necessarily mean a decrease of time for other activities. 40. Most people spend much more time interacting with digital media than they did ten years ago. 41. The author claims that it will be a great loss if we no longer read books and longer articles. 42. Over a decade or so, American teens" social media use shifted from an occasional activity to a
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routine one. 43. A more disturbing trend in America today is that teens are spending far less time reading than around four decades ago. 44. Some five years ago, high school seniors in America generally spent more than six hours a day on electronic devices. 45. It was found that American youngsters today don"t socialize nearly as much as the e...
