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If you study medicine at university, chances are you’ll become a doctor. For music students, it’s less ____51____ what job you’ll end up with… but it could be really fulfilling. The idea that options are ____52____ and jobs are few for music graduates needs to ____53____.

It’s wrongly assumed that when it comes to jobs, music students are ____54____ their field of study. ____55____, music graduates go on to do a wide range of jobs in a variety of different industries.

Alumni surveys from the University of Nottingham show that music graduates are employed across a varied range of ____56____. As you might expect, a large proportion (50%) work in the creative industry, but the roles performed by graduates ____57____ greatly.

Some music grads work with professional ensembles (歌舞团), but not all are performing as ____58____: — Music grads work in publishing, editing, media production, broadcasting, and marketing. And many work in management roles. Less anticipated but no less common is the employment of music graduates in finance and banking, legal and consultancy.

Dr. Robert Adlington, an associate professor of music at the University of Nottingham, ____59____ these successful and varied outcomes to the highly desirable ____60____ developed by music students during their studies.

In 2011, the Confederate of British Industry outlined the seven skills that ____61____ employability: self-management, team work, business and customer awareness, problem solving, communication, numeracy, and IT skills. Adlington says that music students develop all seven of these. By this measure, music graduates are among the most ____62____ of all.

While some of these skills are obtained by students of all subjects — for example, team work, good communication, self-management — Adlington points out that music students have a(n) ____63____. The experience of organising, hosting, and performing in events that are open to the public provides them with skills beyond those on other degree programmes. Few degrees require knowledge of customer awareness, or interaction with the public, for example.

Music graduates’ success is a(n) ____64____ of how changes in the music industry allow artists to produce and publicise themselves. The internet means artists can publish, distribute, and promote their own work. These methods are nothing new, but if ____65____ professional knowledge and experience, it can be a winning, name-making recipe.

51. A. important B. urgent C. obvious D. satisfactory 52. A. tight B. narrow C. hollow D. strict 53. A. change B. liberate C. reflect D. function 54. A. contributed to B. related to C. lost to D. restricted to 55. A. In addition B. In turn C. In contrast D. In reality 56. A. contracts B. fields C. subjects D. majors 57. A. vary B. improve C. reverse D. multiply 58. A. musicians B. managers C. amateurs D. customers 59. A. devotes B. owes C. alerts D. adapts 60. A. options B. intervals C. characters D. skills 61. A. isolate B. regulate C. offer D. define 62. A. comfortable B. honorable C. reliable D. employable 63. A. benefit B. advantage C. chance D. resolution 64. A. reflection B. command C. potential D. knowledge 65. A. related to B. charged with C. exposed to D. combined with

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Section B

Directions: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

After hours sitting inside Deep Worker, it feels good to get back. While you’re stretching on the deck, others on the ship are at work studying the data you have collected.

The rock samples you collected are taken to a laboratory on board the ship. Tests performed on ocean rocks can show the age of the seafloor. Many people will study the videotapes of the swordfish. There is nothing like a video to show others exactly what you saw and experienced

in the deep. Videos capture details of how animals move and behave — details that a person sitting inside Deep Worker could easily miss. Those details can help scientists better understand the role each kind of animal plays in its deep-sea community.

While you were below, Deep Worker’s exact location was being tracked. Thus, detailed maps of the seafloor, showing underwater canyons and mountains far beneath the surface can be made with the help of this information. Dive by dive, Sylvia Earle and her fellow scientists are piecing together remarkable pictures of the deep sea — a world that until recently was as unknown as a distant planet.

Since Sylvia first began exploring the waters around Florida, she’s seen changes — trash on the seafloor, fewer fish, polluted water. These ocean problems in Florida and in many other parts of the world make people like Sylvia anxious. They want to know how to protect the ocean, and how to restore it to good health where damage has been done.

Sylvia and other scientists are learning more about the ocean, especially the deep sea, than ever before. The more we know about a place, the better we understand it. As Sylvia says, “With knowing comes caring. If people care about something, they will work to protect it.”

66. What does the bold-typed phrase “this information” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. The location of underwater canyons and mountains. B. Remarkable pictures of the deep sea. C. These ocean problems. D. The track of Deep Worker.

67. Sylvia Earle is probably a scientist who ________________.

A. specializes in making maps B. cares about the ocean

C. works on an unknown ship

D. performs experiments in a laboratory

68. According to Paragraph 4, which statement about Sylvia is TRUE? Sylvia ______________.

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has seen fewer fish and polluted water is concerned about the ocean problems

has explored the waters and protected the ocean has restored good health after her injury

69. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A. Working below in Deep Worker B. Ocean Exploration and Ocean Maps C. Deep Worker Saving the World

D. Ocean familiarity and Ocean Preservation

(B)

Walking, cycling or hopping on to public transport are the best ways to travel with a clean conscience. Yet cars remain an important option for many families because of its convenience. For people in rural areas, or with mobility problems, a car can be an essential lifeline.

Drive with style

No matter what kind of car you run, the least reliable part will be you: your driving style has a massive impact on the fuel needed, with acceleration, gear-changing and braking all playing a significant role.

Inching along at the pace of a child’s tricycle might feel frugal but won’t magically yield peak economy. In most modern cars, accelerate normally, changing up at 2,000rpm in a diesel, or 2,500rpm in a petrol-powered car. Once at a sensible steady speed, choose the highest gear that will let the engine run without labouring.

A number of eco-driving apps are available for smartphones, to help you improve your smoothness. The A Glass of Water iPhone app offers tips to help you avoid spilling a drop. The free RAC Traffic app is also a great way to avoid wasting fuel in traffic jams.

It’s also important to:

● Check tyre pressures once a month.

● Leave junk at home. Carrying extra weight in the boot wastes excess fuel.

● Leave in good time and don’t speed. An extra 10mph on the motorway will add 10% to your fuel bill. Power plays

It may be decades before alternative fuels such as hydrogen become commonplace, but hybrid cars that use battery power to boost a petrol or diesel engine are already available in every category. It means many families might find an electric vehicle ideal as a second car. Sell your wheels, still travel by car

If you need a car for short periods, such as shopping, and live in a city, then consider a short-term car-hire service such as Zipcar instead of owning a car. If you’re travelling longer distances, pay your share of the fuel costs to someone who’s already driving there.

70. What can you infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?

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A. Choosing a fuel-saving car matters more than your driving style. B. Your driving style matters most to the fuel needed. C. You should rely on yourself to drive a car.

D. Whether a car saves fuel depends largely on the car you choose.

71. What does the underlined word in Paragraph 3 most probably mean?

A. ecological B. convenient C. economical D. beneficial

72. Which of the following is NOT a suggested way of saving fuel according to the writer?

A. Driving along at a very low speed. B. Checking tyre pressures regularly. C. Putting the extra weight off the boot.

D. Applying the eco-driving apps on smartphones.

73. Which may be the best choice for a visiting scholar who frequently gives lectures at colleges

in a neighboring town? A. Walking. B. Owning an electric vehicle. C. Renting a car. D. Buying a stylish car.

(C)

The death of languages is not a new phenomenon. Languages usually have a relatively short life span as well as a very high death rate. Only a few, including Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Latin, have lasted more than 2,000 years.

What is new, however, is the speed at which they are dying out. Europe’s colonial conquests caused a sharp decline in linguistic diversity, eliminating at least 15 percent of all languages spoken at the time. Over the last 300 years, Europe has lost a dozen, and Australia has only 20 left of the 250 spoken at the end of the 18th century.

The rise of nation-states has also been decisive in selecting and consolidating national languages and sidelining others. By making great efforts to establish an official language in education, the media and the civil service, national governments have deliberately tried to eliminate minority languages.

This process of linguistic standardization has been boosted by industrialization and scientific progress, which have imposed new methods of communication that are swift, straightforward and practical. Language diversity came to be seen as an obstacle to trade and the spread of knowledge. Monolingualism became an ideal.

More recently, the internationalization of financial markets, the spread of information by electronic media and other aspects of globalization have intensified the threat to “small” languages. A language not on the Internet is a language that “no longer exists” in the modern world. It is out of the game.

The serious effects of the death of languages are evident. First of all, it is possible that if we all ended up speaking the same language, our brains would lose some of their natural capacity for linguistic inventiveness. We would never be able to figure out the origins of human language or resolve the mystery of “the first language”. As each language dies, a chapter of human history closes.

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