【正文】 each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet. Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. The speaker of the lecture series: 17 Smith. Talk after the buffet dinner: On 18 energy. Admission next three weeks only to: 19 students. The place the woman will wait: At the 20 near her place. Compete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer II. Grammar (16%) Directions: Read the following two passages. Fill in each blank with one proper word or the proper form of the given word to make the passage coherent. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct. (A) Many of us love animals. In fact, a trip to the zoo may be among your best memories. So it is not hard to understand (21) ______ the reality show Wonderful Friends has bee so popular. The show, which started airing on Jan 24 on Hunan TV and ended on March 28, (22) ______ (feature) interactions between animals and six celebrities, (23) ______( include) singer Li Yuchun, and Hong Kong singer Myolie Wu (胡杏兒 ). In the show, they work (24) ______ animal keepers in Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou. In an episode which (25) ______ (describe) as “nonsense” by an expert specializing in chimpanzees, celebrities took two small chimpanzees out and peted to buy the best clothes for them. Coco, one of the two chimps suddenly became restless and bit Myolie Wu. Wu was so concerned about Coco (26) ______ she gave up the petition in order to fort her， (27) ______ lasted a long time. It seemed to be a touching scene, but according to an animal protection expert Hu Huijiang, chimps should not be out around people in crowded spaces in the first place. It makes them frightened and they are more likely (28) ______ (infect) if people are carrying viruses. Furthermore, such shows are misleading about the needs and welfare of animals. So, getting to know these animals is the first step to find proper ways to protect them. (B) Admit it or not, many of us see that higher education equals a diploma, which in turns provides us with opportunities for a better life. But is that all college means? “As tuition costs have skyrocketed, it makes sense ( 29) ______ people might try to get some of the benefits of college without paying,” mented the Atlantic. The full tuition at Yale for the 20212021 school year is $63,250. This breaks down to over $7,000 per month, while Dumas ,a 28yearold Canadian, spent only a few hundred dollars at Yale in 2021, couchsurfing (作沙發(fā)客 ) for about a month and (30) ______ (take) classes. However, Ollivier Dyens, deputy provost (院長 ) of student life and learning at Mcgill University, points out that most people go to college mainly to get a diploma. One of the benefits of a college diploma is that (31) ______ can help you earn more money. In 2021, young adults with a high school degree earned an average of $30,000, (32) ______ those with a college degree earned an average of $46,900 in the US. According to Dumas, the best advantage of college is working. “The kind of people I met in Berkeley or in Yale, I don’t know anywhere else in the world where so many smart, cool, openminded, crazy people (33) ______ be concentrated,” he said. Furthermore, a college is (34) ______ you discover what learning is about. “This will be the period whe n you go from teachertaught to masterinspired, after which you must bee a selflearner. The learning skills you acquire will be something you will cherish forever” , (35) ______ (write) to his daughter by KaiFu Lee, one of the most successful Chinese professional managers. So (36)______ do you expect from college? A diploma, likeminded people, or simply a learning experience? III. Reading Comprehension (31%) Section A 15% Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Culture means the total way of life of a people. This simple ___37___ implies that culture refers to the customs, traditions, social habits, values, beliefs, languages, ways of thinking and daily activities of people. It also includes the history of civilization. In the broad ___38___, there are two types of culture, that is, material culture and spiritual culture. Material culture is concrete (具體的 ) and observable, ___39___ spiritual culture is___40___ and implicit (含蓄的 ). Because human language is a direct demonstration of culture, learning a second language ___41___ learning a second culture. For the teacher of a second language, he or she should __42___ to develop the students’ awareness and knowledge of the culture of the target language they are learning. This includes understanding the values of the target culture, acquiring a ___43___ of etiquette (禮儀，規(guī)范 ) of the target culture and understanding the ___44___ between the target culture and the students’ own culture. ___45___ students’ progress through a foreign language program, it is___46___that they will increase their awareness of the ___47___ characteristics of the speakers of the language under study. This broadened cultural knowledge may ___48___ all aspects of culture: the people’ s way of life as well as the geographic, historic, economic, artistic and scientific ___4