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SectionA

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to selecte on word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

   When it comes to a life partner, discomfort between you and your partner can bring about unhappiness ____1____. To feel at home with a partner, a few things need to be in place:

Trust and security. Secrets are poison to a relationship, because they lead to an invisible ___2____ inside the relationship, leaving both people somewhat alone in the world. On the other side of secrets will often be distrust, which is a(n)____3_____ factor going against a good relationship.

Natural chemistry. The _____4_____ between you should be easy and natural, energy exerted should be at the same level, and you should both feel _____5_____. If you put uneven(不均衡的) energy into the relationship, the relationship will ____6____ failure someday.

Acceptance of weaknesses. You’re not perfect, and so is your current or future life-partner. ____7____ of weaknesses is helpful to a relationship. And one of the worst fates would be to spend most of your life ____8____ by criticisms for your weaknesses and have to ____9____ them. This isn’t to say people shouldn’t work on self-improvement, but when it comes to a life partnership, the healthy attitude is, “Every person comes with a set of weaknesses, these are my partner’s, and they’re part of the package I knowingly chose to spend my life with.”This is the attitude you should hold in order to have the relationship ____10_____.

A) undergo                         I) invasion B) exhausting                     J) hardship C) constantly                      K) realization D) correspondence              L) separation E) endure                            M) enjoyment F) overwhelmed                  N) impressive G) bloom                            O) permanent H) exchange

 

SectionB

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.

A) What is love? Some people think it’s lifelong devotion. Others think it’s temporary madness. No matter what, not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stores, they listen to hundreds of songs about love—yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love.

 B) This particular attitude is based on several premises（前提）which either singly or collectively tend to give rise to it. Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of “being loved”, rather than that of “loving”, of one’s capacity to love. In order to be loved, to be lovable, men try to get as rich, successful and powerful as their social positions permit; women are busily involved in making themselves attractive by working on their bodies, dresses, etc. Both men and women also develop pleasant manners, interesting conversation, to be helpful, modest and inoffensive（不冒犯人的）. 

C) A second premise behind the attitude that there is nothing to be learned about love is the assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an “object”, not the problem of a “capacity”. People think that to “love” is simple, but that to find the right object to love—or to be loved by—is difficult. There are several reasons behind it. One reason is the changed view of a “love object”. Love no longer develops only after marriage is concluded as in traditional cultures. Romantic love, the personal experience of love, has become universal in modern culture. Freedom in love has greatly lifted the importance of the “object.”

D) Closely related to this reason is another characteristic of modern culture. Our culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually(双方) favorable exchange. Modern man’s happiness lies in the excitement of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford. He (or she) looks at people in a similar way. “Attractive” is what men and women are after. It’s a package of qualities which are popular and wanted on the personality market. Two people fall in love when they have found the best object on the market.

E) The third error leading to the attitude that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion (混淆) between the initial experience of “falling” in love, and the permanent state of “being” in love. If two people who have been strangers suddenly let the wall between them break down; they feel close, feel one, this moment of oneness is one of the most exciting and wonderful experiences in life. However, this type of love is by its very nature not lasting. The two persons become well acquainted (熟悉的) , and their intimacy is losing its magic until their mutual boredom(厌烦) kills whatever is left of the initial excitement.

F) This attitude—that nothing is easier than to love—has continued to be spreading in our society. If any other activity, which is started with such huge hopes and expectations, and yet, fails so regularly, as love, people would be eager to know the reasons for the failure, to learn how to do better, or they would give up the activity. Since the latter is impossible in the case of love, there seems to be only one way to overcome the failure of love—to examine the reasons for this failure, and to proceed to study the meaning of love.

G) To learn about love is to learn about an art. That involves the mastery of the theory and the mastery of the practice. If I want to learn the art of medicine, I must first know the facts about the human body and various diseases. When I have all this theoretical knowledge, I am by no means competent in the art of medicine. Only after I have a great deal of practice, when my theoretical knowledge and my practice are blended into one—my intuition, shallI become a master. Besides, there is a third factor necessary to becoming a master in any art—the mastery of the art must be a matter of ultimate concern. This holds true for music, for medicine, for sports ---and for love.

11. It’s impossible for people to give up love and thus it’s necessary to find ways to overcome the failure of love.

12. People think love is important, but few people become aware that love is something that needs to be learned.

13. To master the art of love, people should learn what makes love and practice them until the two blended into one—the intuition.

14. There is little reason to be surprised that human love relations follow the same pattern of exchange which governs the commodity(商品) and the labor market.

15. Their being crazy about each other in the beginning proves both the intensity of their love and the degree of their preceding loneliness.

16. Many of the ways men and women use to make themselves lovable are the ways used to make themselves successful, to win friends and influence people.

17. In many traditional cultures, love was mostly not a spontaneous（自发的） personal experience which then might lead to marriage, but was supposed to develop once the marriage had been concluded.

 

SectionC

Directions: There are two passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice.

 

Passage One

The internet is changing the way society communicates, processes information and knowledge. Some of these developments are exciting and challenging, but in one particular sense the internet creates a fundamental challenge to the way humans interact.

Today, internet dating has become more or less accepted as a way of forming relationships. There has been some criticism, but it has usually been of the functionaland operational（操作上的）kind, regarding membership costs or users providing false pictures or information. There has been little thought or comment on why matchmaking websites by itself might be a bad thing.

Online matchmaking is conditioned on the idea of making rational choices. Internet dating is like shopping at LoveMart. We watch and read the adverts (people's profiles) andwe then, make a rational decision to try the product. The more choices we have, we are told, the better for making the choice.

Furthermore, the way dating websites calculate （计算）matches distorts（扭曲） the very core of interpersonal relations. Online seekers of partners and friends rely on computer calculations of a set of hard questions. The questions that many of these websites use are so terrible ("Are you happy with your life? A. Yes, B. No, C. Most of the time") that it cannot reflect real conversations. THIS is not human interaction; it is a fundamental shift. Interpersonal relationships are being shifted into products that can be (supposedly) objectively measured and objectively chosen, even though such relations represent the exact opposite.

In his book, Alain Badiou noted love—this great irrational driver of humanity— has become an object, which people wish to be fully informed about, choose rationally, and not suffer any unexpected disappointments from. It is, as philosopher SlavojZizek has noted, like caffeine-free coffee.

Some critics have suggested that online dating is taking society back to a pre-modern version of arranged marriages. I would say it is worse. It has taken over the very essence（实质）of what it means to be human.

18. What’s known about online dating?

A) It has become a popular way of forming relationships.

B) It costs no money to become a member online.

C) It provides false pictures and information for users.

D) It is rarely criticized for its own sake (自身缘故).

19. What’s the reason for online dating being introduced?

A) To help users make rational choices.

B) To provide users with many choices.

C) To ask users to do shopping online.

D) To help users to try the product before buying.

20. How does online dating influence human interactions?

A) It measures human interactions objectively.

B) It makes human interactions objective.

C) It can’t reflect the real human interactions.

D) It can correct human interactions.

21. What is “love” according to Alain Badiou?

A) Love is reasonable.

B) Love is irrational.

C) Love is disappointing.

D) Love is surprising.

22. What’s the writer’s attitude towards online dating?

A) Disapproving.   B) Encouraging. 

C) Faithful.    D) Extreme.

Passage Two

Romance in China is often sacrificed to practicality; dating has largely become a commercial transaction. In Beijing parents gather in parks to introduce their children to one another. Singles’ clubs set people up according to requirements—height, income, property. And tens of thousands participate in matchmaking events in cities like Shanghai looking for the perfect mate.

“Marriage in many ways in China is a way of pulling resources,” says Roseann Lake, a Beijing-based journalist researching a book on sheng nu. In one direction, at least, “The idea that a woman, no matter how successful she is professionally, is absolutely nothing until she is married—it still comes down to that.”Yes, China has experienced miraculous growth in the past three decades, but traditions are hard to shake. Confucian ethics stress that marriage must satisfy societal duty over individual desire.

The one-child policy has further reinforced these expectations. With no welfare system in China, the young are expected to provide for the old: whom you marry matters for your entire family.

These concerns aren’t evenly shared, and they expose something of a generation gap. Children of the 1980s and 1990s—who were born in better economic times and fed on pop music and movies—are in less of a hurry to get married than their parents were.

Although China’s changed birth rate means there will be a surplus（过剩）of about 24 million men in China by 2020, the majority of these singles will live in rural areas. In major cities—where the rate of housing costs to income can reach 12:1—finding a good match is a constant worry for educated, ambitious women.

When Chinese Valentine’s Day nears, preparations for dozens of matchmaking events, most aimed at marriage, are picking up. At the Huanleyuan Culture Club, a singles’ club in Beijing—basic requirement: a college degree; annual membership fee: about $560—hundreds will be attending a gala matchmaking event. Ten thousand people are expected at a mass blind date in many cities. They’ll be looking not just for an attractive smile or that spark of chemistry, but also for the promise of money and connections.

23. Which of the following best describes Chinese marriage?

A) It is practiced with romance.

B) It is based on practical aspects.

C) It depends on Chinese economy.

D) It is associated with parents’ introduction.

24. What’s the influence of one-child policy?

A) It puts societal duty before individual desire.

B) It drives people to find partners of good resources.

C) It makes the young generation develop a sense of responsibility.

D) It helps improve the welfare system in China.

25. What’s known about children of the 1980s and 1990s?

A) They are less anxious about marriage.

B) They are from economically good families.

C) They learn a lot about pop music and movies.

D) They follow the tradition of their parents’ marriage.

26. What can be drawn from the passage?

A) More rural women will be singles in the near future.

B) More urban women will be singles in the near future.

C) More urban men will be singles in the near future.

D) More rural men will be singles in the near future.

27. What’s the writer’s attitude towards Chinese marriage?

A) Critical.        B) Positive.  

C) Neutral.         D) Negative.