mined life.”

33. More and more young Europeans remain single because           .
A. they are driven by an overwhelming sense of individualism
B. they have entered the workforce at a much earlier age
C. they have embraced a business culture of stability
D. they are pessimistic about their economic future
34. What is said about European society in the passage?
A. It has fostered the trend towards small families.
B. It is getting closer to American-style capitalism.
C. It has limited consumer choice despite a free market.
D. It is being threatened by irresistible privatization.
35. According to Paragraph 3, the newest group of singles are            .
A. warm and lighthearted                  B. on either side of marriage
C. negative and gloomy                    D. healthy and wealthy
36. The author quotes Eppendorf to show that            .
A. some modern women prefer a life of individual freedom
B. the family is no longer the basic unit of society in present-day Europe
C. some professional people have too much work to do to feel lonely
D. most Europeans conceive living a single life as unacceptable
37. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To review the impact of women becoming high earners.
B. To contemplate the philosophy underlying individualism.
C. To examine the trend of young people living alone.
D. To stress the rebuilding of personal relationships.
 
（二）
It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior.
So biologists were delighted early this year when with the help of the Navy they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans. Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies.
Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption for the first time and that they plan similar studies. Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures. The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second-slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds focusing them in the same way a stethoscope does when it carries faint noises from a patient’s chest to a doctor’s ear. This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean especially low-frequency ones can often travel thousands of miles.


38. The passage is chiefly about ______. 　　
A an effort to protect an endangered marine species.
B the civilian use of a military detection system.
C the exposure of a U.S. Navy top-secret weapon.
D a new way to look into the behavior of blue whales.
39. The underwater listening system was originally designed ______. 　　
A to trace and locate enemy vessels 　　
B to monitor deep-sea volcanic eruptions 　　
C to study the movement of ocean currents 　　
D to replace the global radio communications network 　
40. The deep-sea listening system makes use of ____ . 　　
A the sophisticated technology of focusing sounds under water 　　
B the capability of sound to travel at high speed 　　
C the unique property of layers of ocean water in transmitting sound 　　
D low-frequency sounds travelling across different layers of water 　
41. It can be inferred from the passage that____. 　　
A new radio devices should be developed for tracking the endangered blue whales 　　
B blue whales are no longer endangered with the use of the new listening system 　　
C opinions differ as to whether civilian scientists should be allowed to use military           technology 　
D military technology has great potential in civilian use 　
42. Which of the following is true about the U.S. Navy underwater listening network?
A It is now partly accessible to civilian scientists. 　　
B It has been replaced by a more advanced system. 　　
C It became useless to the military after the cold war. 　　
D It is indispensable in protecting endangered species.
第四节：写作：（1题；满分10分）
43．以On Aging of the population为题，写一篇长为120－150词的小作文。
 
第三部分：英语课程与教学理论知识
说明：本部分测试考生对英语课程与教学理论知识掌握情况，本部分共14小题，共30分，分为四节。第一节：单项选择填空；第二节：填空题；第三节：简答题；第四节：论述题。
第一节：单项选择填空（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）。
44、英语课程标准规定了小学阶段二级的语音知识具体目标。英语语音知识涵盖语音的认读、音节的识别、词汇的辨认、_______、句子的理解，也涵盖语调、节奏、音重和语流运作的规律。
    A、语篇结构的感知   B、语法的认知  C、目标的获取     D、语义的判断
45、一般而言，中小学英语单元教材可以分为三大系统，它们主次分明，_______是源，作业系统和图表系统是流，三者相辅相成。
    A、非文本系统   B、主题系统    C、知识结构系统     D、文本符号系统
46. 英语与汉语不尽相同，英语是_______。就英语阅读过程而言，阅读首先是个体把文字符号转换为语音码的过程；其次，英语语音与字母或字母组合有着相对的对应关系 ，其语音操作由语义潜势；其三，语音是短时工作记忆的载体。
    A、语言符号系统  B、音节文字系统  C、拼音文字系统