參考作文：
On Excessive Packaging
Nowadays the phenomena of excessive packaging of goods are prevailing in our society: clothes swathed in tissue paper, placed in cardboard box and finally wrapped in well-designed plastic bags, imported bottles of grape wine packed in wooden boxes, fruits put in hand-woven baskets, to name but a few.
There are several causes of excessive packaging. The first reason is that a large number of companies believe that they can attract customers’ attention and stimulate their purchasing desire by over-packaging their goods, thus gaining more profits. On the other hand, quite a number of consumers mistakenly hold that the more delicate the package is, the better the quality will be, thus encouraging excessive packaging.
In my point of view, excessive packaging has disastrous consequences, including the loss of precious resources, excessive consumption of water and energy, and unnecessary extraction of scarce land for landfill.
To solve the problem, it’s necessary to take the following measures. First, laws and regulations must be made to restrict excessive packaging of companies. In addition, we need to raise consumer’s awareness that excessive packaging doesn’t equal to high quality and advocate packaging recycling.
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1. D) providing good education for baby boomers.
2. D) Students’ performance declined.
3. D) They are mostly small in size.
4. D) Some large schools have split up into smaller ones.
5. C) their college-level test participation.
6. B) Their school performance was getting worse.
7. A) maintain closer relationships with their teachers.
8. Simplicity
9. different measures
10. tough subjects
聽力：
11.D) Discussing a housing plan.
12.D) She is tired of the food in the canteen.
13.C) Listening to some loud music.
14.C) The man can dress casually for the occasion.
15.B) Grey pants made from pure cotton.
16.C) Its location.
17.C) Travel overseas.
18.A) It is a good bargain.
19. D
20. A
21. B
22. A
23. B
24. C
25. C
26: B. They had known each other since childhood
27: B. At Joe’s house
28: A. Social divisions will break down if people get to know each other.
29: A. In his building’s parking lot
30: A. It had been stolen by someone
31: B. In the city garage
32: D. The mysteriousness of creativity
33: A. It is the source of all artistic work
34: D. Creative imagination
35: A. It is part of everyday life
36. calculators
37. handle
38. items
39. Responding
40. emergencies
41. rarely
42. occur
43. murders
44. there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property
45. Things get stolen when it is easy to steal them because they are left lying around unwatched
46. A better way to solve this problem might be for all of us to be more careful with our things
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47. E. domestic
48. C. communities
49. O. survive
50. H. gather
51. M. serves
52. N. surroundings
53. J. recession
54. K. reported
55. I. households
56. F. financially
57. bring about a drop in the divorce rate
58. living separately would be too costly
59. Falling housing prices.
60. It will irreparably damage their relationship.
61. The economic recovery will see a higher divorce rate.
62 B The way they store data.63 C When the URL is reused.
64 A solve virtually existing all problem
65 D They realized that science and technology alone were no guarantee for a better world.
66 C America is lagging behind in the STEMS disciplines.
完形填空：
67. C avoid
68. B however
69. D failing
70. C stages
71. A on
72. A predicts
73. A through
74. B and
75. B sensitive
76. D experience
77. B as well as
78. C emotions
79. D to
80. A inevitable
81. D receive
82. A with
83. D quality
84. B positive
85. A memories
86. B increased
翻譯：
87. Those flowers looked as if they hadn't been watered for a long time(好長時間沒有澆水了).
【點評】they即flowers做主語，用被動語態(tài)。一段時間應用完成時，looked過去式相比，后面應該過去完成時。
88. Fred bought a car last week. It is ￡1,000 cheaper than mine(比我的車便宜一千英鎊).
【點評】簡單的比較級，cheaper than。不需要重復car，直接用mine代替my car.
89. This TV program is quite boring. We might as well listen to the music(不妨聽聽音樂).
【點評】might as well“不妨”，原句中有might。listen to the music，聽音樂。
90. He left his office in a hurry, with lights on and doors open(燈亮著，門開著).
【點評】with短語做伴隨狀語，邏輯主語和表語之間的系動詞省略。
91.The famous novel is said to have been translated into multiple languages(已經被譯成多種語言).
【點評】be said to后面跟動詞原型，“已經被譯”，用完成時被動語態(tài)have been translated，介詞用into。
