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　　SectionⅠ Use of English
　　Directions: Read the following text. Choosethe best word（s） for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET1. （10 points）
　　Peopleare, on the whole, poor at considering background information when makingindividual decisions. At first glance this might seem like a strength that 1 the ability to make judgments which areunbiased by 2 factors.But Dr. Uri Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big 3 was leading decision-makers to be biased bythe daily samples of information they were working with. 4 , he theorised that a judge 5 of appearing too soft 6 crime might be more likely to send someone to prison 7 he had already sentenced five or six otherdefendants only to probation on that day。
　　To 8 this idea, he turned to theuniversity-admissions process. In theory, the 9 ofan applicant should not depend on the few others 10 randomly for interview during the same day,but Dr Simonsohn suspected the truth was 11 。
　　Hestudied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews, 12 by31 admissions officers. The interviewers had 13 applicantson a scale of one to five. This scale 14 numerous factors into consideration. Thescores were 15 used in conjunction with an applicant'sscore on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised examwhich is 16 out of 800 points, tomake a decision on whether to accept him or her。
　　Dr Simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series ofinterviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one 17 that, then the score for the nextapplicant would 18 by an average of 0.075 points. This mightsound small, but to 19 theeffects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points thanwould otherwise have been 20 。
　　1.[A] grant 　　[B] submits [C]transmits [D] delivers
　　2.[A] minor [B]objective [C]crucial [D] external
　　3.[A] issue [B] vision [C]picture [D] moment
　　4.[A] For example [B] On average [C] Inprinciple[D] Above all
　　5.[A] fond [B]fearful 　　[C] capable [D]thoughtless
　　6.[A] in 　　[B] on [C]to [D]for
　　7.[A] if 　　[B]until [C] though [D] unless
　　8.[A] promote [B]emphasize [C] share [D] test
　　9.[A] decision [B] quality [C]status [D] success
　　10.[A] chosen [B]stupid [C]found　　[D] identified
　　11.[A] exceptional [B] defensible [C]replaceable [D] otherwise
　　12.[A] inspired [B]expressed [C]conducted [D] secured
　　13.[A] assigned [B]rated [C]matched [D] arranged
　　14.[A] put [B]got [C]gave [D]took
　　15.[A]instead [B]then [C]ever [D] rather
　　16.[A]selected [B]passed 　　[C] marked [D] introduced
　　17.[A]before [B] after [C]above [D] below
　　18.[A] jump [B] float [C]drop [D] fluctuate
　　19.[A]achieve [B]undo　　[C] maintain [D]disregard
　　20. [A] promising [B] possible [C]necessary [D] helpful
　　Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
　　Part A
　　Directions：Read the following fourtexts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark youranswers on ANSWER SHEET 1. （40 points）
　　Text 1
　　
　　Inthe 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestly, played byMeryl Streep, scold her unattractive assistant for imagining that high fashiondoesn’t affect her. Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant’ssweater descended over the years from fashion shows to department stores and tothe bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment。
　　Thistop-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or atodds with feverish world described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-yearindictment of “fast fashion”。 In the last decades or so, advances in technologyhave allowed mass-market labels such as Zara, H&M, and Uniqlo to react totrends more quickly and anticipate demand more precisely. Quckier turnroundsmean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit. Thoselabels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposal—— meant to last only a wash or two, although they don’t advertisethat——and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks. Byoffering on-trend items at dirt-cheap prices, Cline argues, these brands havehijacked fashion cycles, shaking all industry long accustomed to a seasonalpace.
　　Thevictims of this revolution, of course, are not limited to designers. ForH&M to offer a 5.95 knit miniskirt in all its 2300-plus stores around theworld, it must rely on low-wage, overseas labor, order in volumes that strainnatural resources, and use massive amount of harmful chemicals。
　　Overdressedis the fashion world’s answer to consumer activist bestsellers like MichaelPollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Mass-produced clothing, like fast food, fillsa hunger and need, yet is non-durable, and wasteful,” Cline argues, Americans,she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year——about 64items per person——and no matter how much they giveaway, this excess leads to waste。
　　Towardsthe end of Overdressed, Cline introduced her ideal, a Brooklyn woman named SKB,who, since 2008 has make all of her own clothes——andbeautifully. But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; herexample, can’t be knocked off。
　　Thoughseveral fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on laborand the environment——including H&M, withits green Conscious Collection Line——Cline believeslasting-change can only be effected by the customer. She exhibits the idealismcommon to many advocates of sustainability, be it in food or in energy. Vanityis a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’tafford to it.
　　Text 2
　　
　　An old saying has it that half ofall advertising budgets are wasted-the trouble is, no one knows which half . Inthe internet age, at least in theory ,this fraction can be much reduced . Bywatching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim “behavioural” ads at those most likely to buy。
　　In the past couple of weeks aquarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grainedinformation: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked andsent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?
　　In December 2010 America'sFederal Trade Cornmission （FTC） proposed adding a "do not track"（DNT） option to internet browsers ,so that users could tell adwertisersthat they did not want to be followed .Microsoft's Internet Explorer andApple's Safari both offer DNT ;Google's Chrome is due to do so this year. InFebruary the FTC and Digltal Adwertising Alliance （DAA） agreed that theindustry would get cracking on responging to DNT requests.
　　On May 31st Microsoft Set off therow: It said that Internet Explorer 10,the version due to appear windows 8,would have DNT as a default.
　　It is not yet clear howadvertisers will respond. Geting a DNT signal does not oblige anyone to stoptracking, although some companies have promised to do so. Unable to tellwhether someone really objects to behavioural ads or whether they are stickingwith Microsoft’s default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press onanyway.
　　Also unclear is why Microsoft hasgone it alone. Atter all, it has an ad business too, which it says will complywith DNT requests, though it is still working out how. If it is trying to upsetGoogle, which relies almost wholly on default will become the norm. DNT doesnot seem an obviously huge selling point for windows 8-though the firm hascompared some of its other products favourably with Google's on that countbefore. Brendon Lynch, Microsoft's chief privacy officer, bloggde:"webelieve consumers should have more control." Could it really be thatsimple?
　　26. It is suggested in paragraph 1 that “behavioural” ads help advertisers to:
　　[A] ease competition among themselves
　　[B] lower their operational costs
　　[C] avoid complaints from consumers
　　[D]provide better online services
　　27. “The industry” （Line 6,Para.3）refers to:
　　[A] online advertisers
　　[B] e-commerce conductors
　　[C] digital information analysis
　　[D]internet browser developers
　　28. Bob Liodice holds that setting DNT as a default
　　[A] many cut the number of junk ads
　　[B] fails to affect the ad industry
　　[C] will not benefit consumers
　　[D]goes against human nature
　　29. which of the following is ture according to Paragraph.6?
　　[A] DNT may not serve its intended purpose
　　[B] Advertisers are willing to implement DNT
　　[C] DNT is losing its popularity among consumers
　　[D] Advertisers are obliged to offer behavioural ads
　　30. The author's attitude towards what Brendon Lynch said in his blog isone of:
　　[A] indulgence　　[B] understanding
　　[C] appreciaction　　[D] skepticism
　　Text 3
　　
　　Up until a few decades ago, ourvisions of the future were largely - though by no means uniformly - glowinglypositive. Science and technology would cure all the ills of humanity, leadingto lives of fulfillment and opportunity for all.
　　Now utopia has grown unfashionable, as we havegained a deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from asteroidstrike to epidemic flu and to climate change. You might even be tempted toassume that humanity has little future to look forward to.
　　But such gloominess is misplaced. The fossilrecord shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so whyshouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and itbecomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if nothundreds, of thousands of years . Look up Homo sapiens in the "RedList" of threatened species of the International Union for theConversation of Nature （IUCN） ,and you will read: "Listed as Least Concernas the species is very widely distributed, adap

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