Part Ⅰ Writing

1、Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the challenges of living in a big city. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

Questions 1 ……此处隐藏84532个字…… bsp;4．第3句“经常”除了翻译成often外，还可以用tend to表示某种习惯、趋势。“而不”用rather than连接两个并列成分，表示主观上的选择，即to read...rather than buy...。

    5．第4句的主干为“开发使人们能够……”。“开发”译为development，注意这里的development不是取其常见的义项“发展”，而是指“(新产品)的研制，开发”。“使人们能够”应译为enable sb. to do sth. 或make it possible for sb. to do sth. 。

    6．最后一句的转折关系既可以用although引导让步状语从句，即although the smartphone reading market grows steadily，又可以用“despite/in spite of+名词结构”，即despite/in spite of the steady growth of the smartphone reading market。主句是“超半数成年人仍喜欢读纸质书”，其中“喜欢”隐含“相较于手机阅读而言”的意思，故翻译为prefer。