听力部分

　　内容概述：酒店预定的咨询，包括酒店的设施和活动。词汇和考察点仍旧常规，考生应尽量全对。

　　1.screen

　　2.manager

　　3.cooking

　　4.forest

　　5.June

　　6.rose

　　7.singer

　　8.band

　　9.arts

　　10.Friday

　　内容概述：对于一个主题公园的介绍。题型搭配很常规，考生需要注意考试策略，保证看完题目。

　　参考答案：

　　选择题：

　　11.C 10:00 am

　　12.B The family fast track line costs $95 if booked on line.

　　13.B Go to the water ride in the park in summer

　　14.A The rollercoaster bike is made by some special materials

　　15.C Take some food and go for a picnic

　　16.C Stay and see fireworks

　　匹配题：

　　17.cowboy show ride - not wait at a long queue line

　　18.driving school ride - only for small child

　　19.rollercoaster - the most frightening one

　　20.magic show ride - some surprise at the end

　　内容概述：两位老师讨论自己上过的实验课，大部分内容都是关于各种不同的实验主要内容和难度。据考生反应这部分难度稍大，对考生的听力能力要求较高，建议平时也要加强对图表题目的练习，提高审题能力。

　　参考答案：

　　匹配题：

　　21.course of steam engine - B too difficult

　　22.breakfast cereal - E cheap

　　23.bounce balls - C easy to understand

　　24.paper making - A very boring

　　25.tie water experiment - H take longer than usual to do

　　26.extract glue from milk – F immediate result

　　地图题：

　　27.metal container - F

　　28.integral refiner – D

　　29.drip tip – B

　　30.pottery container - C

　　内容概述：关于一个著名摄影师的讲座，包括这个摄影师的作品特征，早年经历等。此部分的话题相对比较日常，考生的熟悉度应该较高，没什么大的难度。

　　参考答案：

　　31.expensive

　　32.painting

　　33.realistic

　　34.enlargement

　　35.times

　　36.outside the studio

　　37.glass

　　38.new material

　　39.light

　　40.approaches

　　阅读部分

　　文章概要：主要关于乌尔城的历史起源，文化发展以及它的文化图和得以保留。

　　参考答案：

　　判断题：

　　1.NOT GIVEN

　　2.FALSE

　　3.TRUE

　　4.FALSE

　　5.TRUE

　　6.FALSE

　　填空题：

　　7.待补充

　　8.pyramid

　　9.待补充

　　10.storeroom

　　11.banks

　　12.clay

　　13.fires

　　参考文章：

　　City of Ur

　　Located near the modern town of Nasiriya in far southern Iraq, on a now-abandoned channel of the Euphrates river, Ur covered about 25 hectares (60 acres), surrounded by a city wall. When British archaeologist Charles Leonard Woolley excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, the city was a tell, a great artificial hill over seven meters (23 feet) high composed of centuries of building and rebuilding mud brick structures, one stacked on top of another.

　　Southern Mesopotamian Chronology

　　The chronology of Southern Mesopotamia is simplified somewhat from that suggested by the School of American Research Advanced Seminar in 2001, based primarily on pottery and other artifact styles and reported in Ur 2010.

　　The earliest known occupations at Ur city date to the Ubaid period of the late 6th millennium BC. By about 3000 BC, Ur covered a total area of 15 ha (37 ac) including early temple sites. Ur reached its maximum size of 22 ha (54 ac) during the Early Dynastic Period of the early 3rd millennium BC when Ur was one of the most important capitals of the Sumerian civilization.

　　Ur continued as a minor capital for Sumer and succeeding civilizations, but during the 4th century BC, the Euphrates changed course, and the city was abandoned.

　　Living in Sumerian Ur

　　During Ur's heyday in the Early Dynastic period, four main residential areas of the city included homes made of baked mud brick foundations arranged along long, narrow, winding streets and alleyways.

　　Typical houses included an open central courtyard with two or more main living rooms in which the families resided. Each house had a domestic chapel where cult structures and the family burial vault was kept. Kitchens, stairways, workrooms, lavatories were all part of the household structures.

　　The houses were packed in very tightly together, with exterior walls of one household immediately abutting the next one. Although the cities appear very closed off, the interior courtyards and wide streets provided light, and the close-set houses protected the exposure of the exterior walls to heating especially during the hot summers.

　　Royal Cemetery

　　Between 1926 and 1931, Woolley's investigations at Ur focused on the Royal Cemetery, where he eventually excavated approximately 2,100 graves, within an area of 70x55 m (230x180 ft): Woolley estimated there were up to three times as many burials originally. Of those, 660 were determined to be dated to the Early Dynastic IIIA (2600-2450 BC)period, and Woolley designated 16 of those as "royal tombs". These tombs had a stone-built chamber with multiple rooms, where the principal royal burial was placed. Retainers--people who presumably served the royal personage and were buried with him or her--were found in a pit outside of the chamber or adjacent to it.

　　The largest of these pits, called "death pits" by Woolley, held the remains of 74 people. Woolley came to the conclusion that the attendants had willingly drunk some drug and then lay down in rows to go with their master or mistress.

　　The most spectacular royal graves in Ur's Royal Cemetery were those of Private Grave 800, belonging to a richly adorned queen identified as Puabi or Pu-abum, approximately 40 years old; and PG 1054 with an unidentified female. The largest death pits were PG 789, called the King's Grave, and PG 1237, the Great Death Pit. the tomb chamber of 789 had been robbed in antiquity, but its death pit contained the bodies of 63 retainers. PG 1237 held 74 retainers, most of which were four rows of elaborately dressed women arranged around a set of musical instruments.

　　Recent analysis (Baadsgaard and colleagues) of a sample of skulls from several pits at Ur suggests that, rather than being poisoned, the retainers were killed by blunt force trauma, as ritual sacrifices.

　　After they were killed, an attempt was made to preserve the bodies, using a combination of heat-treatment and the application of mercury; and then the bodies were dressed in their finery and laid in rows in the pits.

　　Archaeology at the City of Ur

　　Archaeologists associated with Ur included J.E. Taylor, H.C. Rawlinson, Reginald Campbell Thompson, and, most importantly, C. Leonard Woolley. Woolley's investigations of Ur lasted 12 years from 1922 and 1934, including five years focusing on the Royal Cemetery of Ur, including the graves of Queen Puabi and King Meskalamdug. One of his primary assistants was Max Mallowan, then married to mystery writer Agatha Christie, who visited Ur and based her Hercule Poirot novel Murder in Mesopotamia on the excavations there.

　　Important discoveries at Ur included the Royal Cemetery, where rich Early Dynastic burials were found by Woolley in the 1920s; and thousands of clay tablets impressed with cuneiform writing which describe in detail the lives and thoughts of Ur's inhabitants.

　　内容概述：文章介绍债券的历史起源，对政府的作用，不同的债券市场类型以及债券的影响。

　　参考答案：

　　小标题配对题：

　　14. vi

　　15. vii

　　16. ii

　　17. iv

　　18. i

　　19. vii

　　20. iii

　　选择题

　　21.A

　　22.D

　　填空题：

　　23.salt monopoly

　　24.secondary market

　　25.interest rate

　　26.quantitative easing

　　内容概述：文章主要是关于多任务处理以及对此项目的研究。

　　参考答案：

　　选择题：

　　27.C

　　28.D

　　29.C

　　30.D

　　31.B

　　32.C

　　句子结尾配对题:

　　33.C

　　34.E

　　35.D

　　36.B

　　判断题:

　　37.NOT GIVEN

　　38.YES

　　39.NOT GIVEN

　　40.NO

　　41.fluid

　　写作部分

　　(此次地图题较复杂，类似2015年10月8日的Task1. 图案仅供参考。)

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