20、听录音，回答以下问题：
A. People quit their mother tongue but speak in other languages.
B. Kids don't learn the local language of their parents any more.
C. People stop talking to each other but writing it down.
D. A unified language is widely used all over the world.
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A. The more powerful a culture is, the less minority languages it has.
B. Culture spreads out through the form of language.
C. Language and culture of the ethnic minorities will be vanished.
D. Languages come into being when culture becomes stronger.
22、
A. Many languages are in danger of dying off.
B. Most of the world's languages are not represented on the Internet.
C. Languages are closely related with the natural world.
D. Languages contain precious local information and are culture-related.
23、听录音，回答以下问题：
A. Send their children to public colleges and universities.
B. Make investment in private investment companies.
C. Begin college savings plan at children's younger age.
D. Put money into stocks, bonds or other investments.
24、
A. They were named after the state tax law in 1996.
B. They are governed by different rules in every state.
C. They are free of taxes in fifty states.
D. They will be revised by the end of 2016.
25、
A. It makes college education paid in advance.
B. It is good for public and private universities
C. It will be carried out in the family with a child.
D. It makes an account shared by two children.
26、
A. They can transfer the money to another family with a college student.
B. They can shift the money for the education of their another family member.
C. They can take back the money with the earnings in taxes.
D. They can turn to financial advisers for family financial plans.
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.
27、根据下列材料，请回答27-36题：
While it's easy enough to brush off a few sleepless nights with a pot of coffee and the occasional desk nap, you may be doing more harm than you realise. According to a new study from Surrey University, having less than six hours of sleep per night can actually shut down genes that play a key role in the body's 36 of self-repair.
We rely on our genes to constantly produce the proteins needed to 37 the wear on our bodies'tissue that we suffer throughout the day. But when scientists divided 26 volunteers into two groups—one of which slept for less than 6 hours per night for an entire week and the other for 10 hours per night—some of the sleep-deprived group's genes actually stopped working.
The functions of 711 genes in total were altered in some way, 38 ones involved in metabolism ( 新陈代谢), inflammation (炎症), immunity and stress. There is some good news though: a week of normal sleep was enough to 39 the malfunctioning genes back to peak condition, but should the40 sleep patterns continue, health problems that aren't, quite so easily reversible, like obesity (肥胖)and heart disease, have a 41 chance of cropping up. And this study only scratches the 42.
according to Professor Colin Smith, one of the scientists 43 in the study: This is only a week of sleep 44 and it is only five and a haft or six hours a night. Many people have that amount of sleep for weeks, months and maybe even years so we have no idea how much 45 it might be.
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Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
37、根据下列材料，请回答37-46题：
Gas price warning as cold March leads to short supplies
A.The cold snap in March could lead to Britain's gas supplies running out next month, forcing the nation to pay higher prices for fuel from elsewhere, as the demand increased quickly during the coldest March in 50 years. Forecasts suggest that gas supplies in the UK will be exhausted by 8 April. requiring Britain to turn to imports from Norway and Russia. The warning came on the day Scott is hand Southern Energy, one of the UK's biggest power suppliers, warned that there could be electricity blackouts in the country within three years. A lack of gas storage facilities, arid rapid reduction at the UK's North Sea gas fields, has led to the UK having as little as two days' supply of the fuel in reserve.
B.Though experts have warned of the problem for years, and the government has championed a "dash for gas" that would see a massive rise in demand for the fuel, little has been done to increase storage facilities.
C.Ian Marchant, chief executive of SSE(Scottish and Southern Energy said there was a“very real risk of the lights going out” within the next three years.SSE intends shutting down power plants，enough to have supplied 2 million homes’ lights going out.as the stations are either uneconomic or coming to the end of their fives.Other firms are also planning to take power stations out of service，including the UK’ S fleet of ageing nuclear reactors.increasing the risk that demand for electricity will exceed the available supply.Marchant said：“It appears the government is significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity chinch(危急情况.facing the UK in the next three years and there is a very real risk of the lights going out as a result.”
D.His comments follow warnin98 by Alistair Buchanan，the departing chief of gem(Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets.，that power shortages will be many times more likely in the next five years.Government estimates suggest that energy bills could rise by S l00 a year this winter.The warnings are particular blow to George Osborne，the chancellor(大臣.，who has championed a new “dash for gas” in the UK.that would see gas take over as the dominant fuel in the UK’ S power generation market.Much of the generating capacity that SSE plans to retire consists of gas — fired power stations.though the recent budget has given tax breaks for shale gas(页 岩气.extraction in the UK and indicated what could be the biggest expansion of UK gas—fired power in a generation.
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