Section 1:
1. cash
2. 4 days
3. caravan
4. sailing
5. museum
6. White Mountain
7. snow boarding
8. cakes
9. car
10. map
Section 2:
11. 134
12. annual report
13. trade journals
14. a bkkoshop
15. 1.95 pounds
16. 4 weeks
17. 12
18. 6
19. Electric Card
20. Tuesday Friday
Section 3:
21. B. the selective course will be full very soon
22. C. the mathematics
23. A. useful
24. A. to consult of the students about the teaching quality
25. C. variable
26. A. how they have to register the course
27. E
28. D
29. A
30. C
Section 4:
31. C. surprising
32. C. they do not provide real language
33. B. lack of reasoning ability and don’t know the next idea
34. A. thinking based on experience
35. A. smell
36. land marks
37. human
38. good eyesight
39. machines or robots
40. they do well
大陆卷阅读
P1：新型超市
The Innovation of Grocery Stores
A At the beginning of the 20th century,grocery stores in the United States were full-service.A customer would ask a clerk behind the counter for specific itemand the clerk would package the items, which werelimited to dry goods. If they want to save some time, they have to ask adelivery boy or by themselves to send the note of what they want to buy to the grocery story first and then goto pay for the goods later. Thesegrocery stores usually carried only one brand of each good. There were earlychain stores, such as the AP Stores, but these were all entirelyfull-service and very time-consuming.
B In 1885, a Virginia boy named Clarence Saunders began working part-time as aclerk in a grocery store when he was 14 years old, and quit school when theshopkeeper offered him Ml time work with room and board. Later he worked in anAlabama coke plant and in a Tennessee sawmill before he returned to the grocerybusiness. By 1900, when he was nineteen years old, he was earning $30 a monthas a salesman for a wholesale grocer. During his years working in the grocery stores, he found that it was very inconvenient and inefficient forpeople to buy things because more than a century ago, long before there werecomputers, shopping was done quite differently than it is today. Entering astore, the customer would approach the counter (or wait for a clerk to becomeavailable) and place an order, either verbally or, as was often the case forboys running errands, in the form of a note or list. While the customer waited,the clerk would move behind the counter and throughout the store, select theitems
on the list—some form shelves so high that long-handledgrasping device
had to be used—and bring them back to the counter to be tallied and baggedor boxed. The process might beexpedited by the customer calling or sending
in the order beforehand, or by the order being handled by a delivery boy on abike, but otherwise it did not vary greatly. Saunders, a flamboyant andinnovative man, noticed that this method resulted in wasted time and expense,so he came up with an unheard-of solution that would revolutionize the entiregrocery industry: he developed a way for shoppers to serve themselves.
C So in 1902 he moved to Memphis where he developed his concept to form agrocery wholesale cooperative and a full-service grocery store. For his new“cafeteria grocery”, Saunders divided his grocery into three distinct areas:
1) A front “lobby” forming an entrance and exit and checkouts at the front.
2) A sales department, which was specially designed to allow customers to roamthe aisles and select their own groceries. Removing unnecessary clerks,creating elaborate aisle displays, and rearranging the store to force customersto view all of the merchandise and over the shelving and cabinets units ofsales department were “galleries” where supervisors were allowed to keep an eyeon the customers while not disturbing them. 3) And another section of his storeis the room only allowed for the clerks which was called the “stockroom” or“storage room” where large refrigerators were situated to keep fresh productsfrom being perishable. The new format allowed multiple customers to shop at thesame time, and led to the previously unknown phenomenon of impulse shopping.Though this format of grocery market was drastically different from itscompetitors, the style became the standard for the modern grocery store andlater supermarket.
D On September 6, 1916,Saunders launched the self-service revolution in theUSA by opening the first self-servicePiggly Wiggly store, at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis,Tennessee, with its characteristic turnstile at the entrance. Customers paidcash and selected their own goods from the shelves. It was unlike any othergrocery store of that time. Inside a Piggly Wiggly, shoppers were not at themercy of shop clerks. They were free to roam the store, check out themerchandise and get what they needed with their own two hands and feet. Priceson items at Piggly Wiggly were clearly marked. No one pressured customers tobuy milk or pickles. Andthe biggest benefit atthe Piggly Wiggly wasthat shoppers saved money. Self-service was a positive all around. “It’s goodfor both the consumer and retailer because it cuts costs,” noted George T.Haley, a professor at the University of New Haven and director of the Centerfor International Industry Competitiveness. “If you looked at the way grocerystores were run previous to Piggly Wiggly and Alpha Beta, what you find is thatthere was atremendous amount of labor involved,and labor is a major expense.” Piggly Wiggly cut the fat.
E Piggly Wiggly and the self-service concept took off. Saunders opened ninestores in the Memphis area within the first year of business. Consumersembraced the efficiency, the simplicity and most of all the lower food prices.Saunders soonpatented his self-service concept, and began franchising Piggly Wigglystores. Thanks to the benefits of self-service and franchising, PigglyWigglyballooned to nearly 1,300 stores by 1923. Piggly Wiggly sold $100million—worth $1.3 billion today—in groceries, making it the third-biggest grocery retailer in thenation. The company’s stock was even listed on the New York Stock Exchange,doubling from late 1922 to March 1923. Saunders had his hands all over PigglyWiggly. He was instrumental in the design and layout of his stores. He eveninvented the turnstile.
F However Saunders was forced into bankruptcy in 1923 after a dramatic spatwith the New York Stock Exchange and he went on to create the “ClarenceSaunders sole-owner-of-my-name” chain, which went into bankruptcy.
G Until the time of his death in October 1953, Saunders was developing plansfor another automatic store system called the Foodelectric. But the store,which was to be located two blocks from the firstPiggly Wiggly store, never opened.But his name was well-remembered along with the name Piggly Wiggly.
Questions 1-5
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The reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-G.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter A-G, in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once.
1 How Clarence Saunders’ new idea had been carried out.
2 Introducing the modes and patterns of groceries before his age.
3 Clarence Saunders declared bankruptcy a few years later .
4 Descriptions of Clarence Saunders’ new conception.
5 The booming development of his business.
Questions 6-10
...............................................................................
Answer the questions below.
Write ONLY ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBERfrom the passage for each answer.
6 When Clarence Saunders was an adolescent, he took a job as a in a
grocery store.
7 In the new innovation of grocery store, most of the clerks’ work before was
done by
8 In Saunders’ new grocery store, the section where customers finish the
payment was called
9 Another area in his store which behind the public area was called the ,
where only internal staff could access.
10 At where customers were under surveillance.
Questions 11-13
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Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write your answers in boxes 11-13 on your answer sheet.
11 Why did Clarence Saunders want to propel the innovation of grocery stores athis
age?
A Because he was an enthusiastic and creative man.
B Because his boss wanted to reform the grocery industry.
C Because he wanted to develop its efficiency and make great profit as well.
D Because he worried about the future competition from the industry.
12 What happened to ClarenceSaunders’ firststore of Piggly Wiggly?
A Customers complained about its impracticality and inconvenience.
B It enjoyed a great business and was updated in the first twelve months.
C It expanded to more than a thousand franchised stores during the first year.
D Saunders were required to have his new idea patented and open morestores.
13 What left to Clarence Saunders after his death in 1953?
A A fully automatic store system opened soon near his first store.
B The name of his store the Piggly Wiggly was very popular at that time.
C His name was usually connected with his famous shop the Piggly Wiggly in
the following several years.
D His name was painted together with the name of his famous store.
答案：
1 .D
2.A
3.F
4.C
5.E
6. clerk 原文 B 段首句
7. customers/shoppers 原文 D 段第 5 行开始(之前由店员 clerk 满商
场跑，取货物的活 B 段有讲，现在顾客自己干了。shopper were not
at the mercy of clerks 顾客完全不依赖店员)
8. lobby原文 C 段第 4 行
9. stockroom 原文 C 段第 12 行(题目要求 ONLY ONEWORD，所以不
选 storge room)
10. galleries 原文 C 段第 9 行
11. C 原文 B 段倒数三行开始
12. B 原文 E段第一行开始
13. C 原文 G 段最后一行
P2：
1. TRUE
2. NOT GIVEN
3. FALSE
4. FLASE
5. TRUE
6. NOT GIVEN
Summary: sheets, cables, melting, 2.5%, tank, rolls, floating, carrying
P3为新题，答案暂无
大陆卷写作
A类小作文柱图
大作文In modern society, ambition is more and more important. How important is ambition for being successful in life ? Is ambition a positive or negative characteristic?
大作文7分范文
In contemporary settings, people attach overwhelming significance to ambition and aspiration because it could stimulate their potential and help them win success. the importance of ambition can not be doubted but it generates both positive and negative influences.
it is irrefutable that ambition is of great importance for young peoples further development. to be more specific, with ambition can be source of motivation to stimulate young learners to explore their potential and overcome difficulties on their way to success. a classical example is some leaders or scientists , who make contribution to the world due to the ambition they have when they are young. By contrast, young adults without ambition tend to easily abandon their study or work because of unpredicted difficulties. because there is no enough motivation to stimulate them to study hard.
In terms of its influence, ambition is beneficial to explore young adults initiative and potential to learn New knowledge and skills. they can make full use of every opportunity to enhance their employabiliy and interpersonal skills with the inspiration of their inner ambition.However, sometimes those who fail to realize their ambition tend to generate negative emotional response because their efforts and talents can not be recognized. these negative emotion response does damage to their confidence and psychological wellbeing.
In conclusion, it is undeniable that ambition is of boundless benefits to a teenagers growth, but young adults should learn to adjust their expectations and ensure their wellbeing and growth can not be negatively influenced.
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亚太卷听力
Section 1，回忆暂无
Section 2，回忆暂无
Section 3:
21. cities
22. commercial
23. engine
24. safety
25. higher seats
26. dangerous/harmful
27. weight
28. roll over
29. farmers
30. insurance
Section4:
31. high absent rate
32. Students felt hard to recall
33. lecturer do not want change
34. need a long time to adapt a new system
35. B. survey done on a regular basis
36. B. 34%
37. A. use real-experience
38. B. sentence completion
39. C. more pause without activities
40. under different subjects
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亚太卷：
P1回忆暂无
P2：London Swaying Footbridge
14. A
15. D
16. E
17. G
18. winds
19. pedestrians
20. horizontal forces
21. vibration
22. motion
23. Imperial College
24. normal forward vibration
25. Arup engineers
26. design assumptions
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