Passage One

　　Job-seeking skills research clearly proves that employers focus on four areas during an interview: 1) attitude, which counts approximately 40 percent; 2) appearance, 25 percent; 3) communication skills (verbal and nonverbal)， 25 percent; and 4) job skill qualifications, 10 percent. Does this surprise you? When you analyze it, it shouldn't。

　　Remember, you are screened into the interview on the basis of your resume, cover letter, and application for employment, which outline your education, work experience, and qualifications for the job. The interview, which usually lasts from 20 to 40 minutes, does not provide adequate time for employers to evaluate this kind of background information. Employers request this data beforehand so that they may have the time necessary to read and review your background as it relates to the job, and to compare it with information submitted by other applicants。

　　The employer's purpose for giving you an interview is to get to know you as a person. This is why your attitude is the most important determinant of your success in the interview. Likewise, your appearance is the very first thing the interviewer will evaluate — and first impressions do make lasting impressions. Of course, job skill qualifications also count during the interview, and it is your responsibility to make certain your qualifications for the job are clearly covered during the interview。

　　Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard。

　　26. What is the most important element that will determine your success in the interview?

　　27. What is the employer's purpose for giving you an interview?

　　28. Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?

　　Passage Two

　　Social Security is one of the great moral achievements of American government. For almost 70 years, it has kept millions of elderly citizens out of poverty and assured young Americans of a secure future. The Social Security system is essential, yet it faces a long-term problem。

　　While benefits for today's seniors are secure, the system is headed towards bankruptcy down the road. Each year there are more retirees taking money out of the system, and not enough additional workers to support them。

　　In the 1950s, there were about 16 workers paying for every Social Security beneficiary. Today, there are about three. And eventually, there will only be two workers per beneficiary. These changes signal a looming danger. In the year 2018, for the first time ever, Social Security will pay out more in benefits than the government collects in payroll taxes. And the gaps will grow larger each year leading to the bankruptcy of the system。

　　Therefore, Social Security is not a personal savings plan. Benefits paid to today's retirees come directly from the taxes paid by today's workers. The crisis in Social Security can be avoided by emphasizing several principles. First, nothing will change for those who are receiving Social Security and for those who are near retirement. Secondly, payroll taxes will not increase, because higher taxes would slow economic growth. More efforts must be made to use the power of compound interest, by giving younger workers the option to save some of their payroll taxes in a personal account, which government cannot take away。

　　Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard。

　　29. When was the Social Security system established in America?

　　30. Why is the Social Security facing a looming danger?

　　31. What can be done to avoid the crisis in Social Security?

　　Passage Three

　　Today, I would like to begin by discussing early European settlement along one of our well-known rivers, the Hudson, which empties into the Atlantic to form New York bay. The Hudson river has a couple of interesting physical features that made it very attractive for settlement by the Europeans. The first is that river extends inland from the Atlantic Ocean for more than 150 miles with no waterfalls or rapids. Its surface is virtually flat for that entire distance, with no obstacles. Second, the whole 150-mile stretch is influenced by tides from the Atlantic Ocean. Roughly every six hours, the river reverses direction, flowing north when the tide is rising and south toward the ocean when the tide is going down. Obviously there were no obstacles to prevent settlers from moving further upstream on the Hudson river and this explains why the Dutch penetrated so far inland. They were the first Europeans to settle in the Hudson valley. Of course, to go upstream, the Dutch settlers needed the right kind of boat, and so to navigate the river, they design a sloop with only one mast but two sails, one rigged in front of the mast and one behind. The mast was very tall, in many cases over 100 feet tall, so that the large sails could catch winds blowing above the shore line hills. Hudson river sloops carried passengers and cargo. The cargo ranging from coal, lumber and hay to fruit, vegetables and livestock. Traveling only ten miles an hour in a good wind, the sloop was not too speedy by modern standards, but it was ideally suited to the Dutch settlement, and in fact when the steam boat eventually was introduced, it couldn't keep up with the sloop。

　　Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard。

　　32. What attracted the Europeans to the Hudson river area?

　　33. What is the characteristic of the first 150 miles inland on the Hudson river?

　　34. How do tides from the Atlantic Ocean influence the Hudson river?

　　35. According to the speaker, why did Hudson river sloops have tall masts?

　　Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written。

　　Today I would like to talk about the early days of movie making in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Before the pioneering films of D. W. Griffith, film makers were limited by several misguided questions of the era. According to one, the camera was always fixed at a viewpoint corresponding to that of the spectator in the theatre, a position now known as the long shot. It was another convention that the position of the camera never changed in the middle of a scene. In last week's films, we saw how Griffith ignored both these limiting conventions and brought the camera closer to the actor。

　　This shot, now known as a full shot, was considered revolutionary at the time. For Love of Gold, was the name of the film in which the first use of the full shot. After progressing from a long shot to the full shot, the next logical step for Griffith was to bring in the camera still closer, in what is now called the close-up. The close-up had been used before though only rarely and merely as a visual stunt, as for example, in Edqaed Asport's The Great Train Robbery, which was made in 1903.

　　But not until 1908 in Griffith's movie called After Many Years was the dramatic potential of the close-up exploited. In the scene from After Many Years that we are about to see, pay special attention to the close-up of Annie Lee's worried face as she awaits her husband's return. In 1908, this close-up shocked everyone in the Biogress Studio. But Griffith had no time for argument. He had another surprise even more radical to offer. Immediately following close-up of Annie, he inserted a picture of the object of her thought--her husband cast sway on a desert aisle. This cutting from one scene to another without finishing either of them brought a torrent of criticism on the experiments。

　　Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth)

　　Section A

　　47.第一段第一句说女性在应聘中、高管理职位的时候成功率比男性高。紧接着作者又补充了“But of course far fewer of them apply for these positions。”，可见应聘中、高管理职位的女性要比男性少。这也是她们成功率高的原因之一。因此，应该填写的答案是“超过”的意思，可以填“exceed”或者“are more than”。

　　48.第二段在分析女性管理职位申请者成功率高的时候，提及“Women tend to research thoroughly before applying for positions or attending interviews。”，可见在应聘或者面试前，女性会做充分而彻底的调研，以对公司和工作有所了解，使自己成为“exceptional candidate”，因此女性比男性准备更充分。所以我们可以概括为“well-prepared”。另外，从第二段第三句“Dr. Marx said that when women apply for positions they tend to be better qualified than their male counterparts but are more selective and conservative in their job search。”可见女性考虑周到、准备充分使自己更为合格。因此，我们电可以填写“better qualified”。

　　49.第四段第一句说欧洲最近经济不景气，公司出现管理结构等级减少的特点。“de-layering”的意思和“layering”相反，是指公司在经济萧条的时候，精减原有的管理机构，使等级变少，人员减少。作者接着补充了“...this has halted progress for women in as much as de-layering has taken place either where women are working or in layers they aspire to。”可见管理机构的精简使女性获得管理职位的希望变小了。因此，答案为“De-layering。”。

　　50.根据第四段最后一句“Sears also noted a positive trend from the recession，which has been the growing number of women who have started up on their own。”可知Sears还注意到在萧条时期的一个积极的趋势：越来越多的女性自己开办企业。因此，正确答案是“increasing”或者含义相似的表达。

　　51.由文章最后一句“Until there is a belief among employers，until they value the difference， nothing will change。”可见要改变态度的是雇主们。因此，答案为“The employers./ Employers。”。

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