【正文】 sters in the daily newspaper?【解析】選[B]。選項中的They，not news，aren’t pleasant，difficult to understand等表明，本題可能考查某人不喜歡閱讀某類新聞的原因。對話中女士提到newspapers would be more pleasant to read if they had a large society section and more ic strips，根據(jù)男士提到的since you don’t like to read unhappy news可知，女士不喜歡災(zāi)難新聞是因為它們讀起來不愉快，故答案為[B]。Conversation Two【聽前預(yù)測】選項中的school，university，course，projects，different countries等表明，對話可能與上大學(xué)有關(guān)。(Knock, knock…)M: Come in.W: Good morning, Mr. Brown.M: Oh, e in, Mary. I’ve been expecting you. Take a seat.W: Thanks.M: And what can I do for you?W: Well, I was thinking about taking a year off after we finish school this summer, and I wanted some advice.M: I see. You mean putting off going to university for a year?W: That’s right. I’ve been offered a place at London University, but what I’d really like to do is take a year out first — do something different, maybe go abroad.M: So were you thinking of getting some sort of job, or traveling around? I mean, is your main aim to earn some money, or to do something else? Or do you want to do a bit of both?W: I’d really like to travel — but I don’t have any money. But I’ve heard of an organization called Peterson International — and that’s what I want to ask you about. Do you know anything about it?M: Sure. It’s a charity and it’s aimed very much at young people like you, and what they do is to get teams of young people to work together on various projects all over the world — environment projects, munity projects, that sort of thing.W: Mum, it sounds great. Is it just English people on the projects?M: No, they’re international teams. You’d be working with quite a variety of people.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. When does Mary want to take a year off?【解析】選[D]。選項中的Before/ After/ During/Between等表明，本題考查時間，問題以When開頭。對話中女士提到…I was thinking about taking a year off after we finish school this summer，男士問You mean putting off going to university for a year，女士的肯定回答That’s right表明，女士想請假一年，推遲一年進(jìn)入大學(xué)，故答案為[D]?！军c(diǎn)睛】[D]在對話中沒有直接體現(xiàn)，而是根據(jù)雙方就請假一事的討論推斷出來的。24. What project does Peterson International carry out?【解析】選[B]。選項中重復(fù)出現(xiàn)的projects表明，本題與某種項目有關(guān)。對話雙方在談?wù)揚(yáng)eterson International 時，男士提到It’s a charity…and what they do is to get…people to work together on various projects all over the world — environment projects, munity projects, that sort of thing，由此可知，此項目是關(guān)注環(huán)境和社會，故答案為[B]。【點(diǎn)睛】在…and what they do is to get terms of young people to…中，what引導(dǎo)主語從句，在從句中作do的賓語，is后的to…是動詞不定式作表語。25. Where do the people in the Peterson International teams e from?【解析】選[C]。由男士提到的they’re international teams可知，Peterson International的成員來自不同的國家，故答案為[C]。Section BPassage One【聽前預(yù)測】選項中的hunting，hunters，animals，hunt for food/money等表明，短文可能與捕獵有關(guān)，涉及捕獵的原因等。The days of the hunter are almost over in India. This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tigershooting, to protect those animals which still survive.Some people say that Man is a natural hunter. I disagree with this view. Surely our earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meateating animals.I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and to risk death by design。 these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself.The greatest biggame hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives. One of them wrote “You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animal’s own territory. You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day. It is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, halfalive, by other animals. Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing — not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people.”I can understand such beliefs, and can pare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears and bravely caught them by the tail. But this is very different from many tigershoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used. The socalled hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants. Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. Why is there no more hunting in India now?【解析】選[D]。選項中的Partly because及選項內(nèi)容表明，本題考查獵人不再捕獵的原因之一。短文開頭提到The days of the hunter are almost over in India，接著給出兩方面原因：partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken…to protect those animals…，[D]中的few animals left to hunt與practically nothing left to kill對應(yīng)，故答案為[D]。【點(diǎn)睛】[C]中的原因狀語從句的主語是hunters，與短文中的banning不符，是干擾項。27. What is the main purpose of modern hunters’ killing?【解析】選[B]。選項均以To + do開頭表明，本題考查行為目的。短文中提到the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that…people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals，即現(xiàn)代人獵殺動物的原因是想通過征服危險的動物得到人們的贊賞，故答案為[B]?！军c(diǎn)睛】短文中的…that he thinks people will admire his courage是表語從句。28. What do we learn about the biggame hunters?【解析】選[A]。短文中間引用大型動物獵殺者在他們的日記中寫的話，理解了其中提到的Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing…not if you kill to feed your people即可選出答案[A]。【點(diǎn)睛】本題考查對not if“如果……就不……”的理解。29. What is the speaker’s view on the tigershoo