Passage two
In a small laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Vladimir Mironov has been working for a decade to grow meat. A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering 'cultured' meat.
It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.
“Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands”, Mironov told Reuters in an interview, “but in the United States, it is science in search of funding and demand.”
The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture won't fund it, the National Institutes of Health won't fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said.
"It's classic disruptive technology," Mironov said. "Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion. We don't even have $1 million."
Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering, or growing, of human organs.
"There's an unpleasant factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab. They don't like to associate technology with food," said Nicholas Genovese, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology.
"But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner," Genovese said.
30. What does Dr. Mironov think of bioengineering cultured meat?
31. What does Dr. Mironov say about the funding for their research?
32. What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today?
答案：
30, A. It will help solve the global food crisis.
31, D. It is still far from being sufficient.
32, D. They are not as natural as we believed.
【解析】
這是路透社2011年初的一篇報道，題目為“South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab”。本文為食品科技類題材。大意為生物工程技術(shù)應(yīng)用在實驗室生產(chǎn)肉，可改變傳統(tǒng)肉類獲得方式，解決將來的食物危機，不過還需資金支持，同時人們還難以完全接受這種方式。
Passage three
　Bernard Jackson is a free man today, but he has many bitter memories. Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women. At Jackson's trial, although two witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in another location at the times of the crimes, he was convicted anyway. Why? The jury believed the testimony of the two victims, who positively identified Jackson as the man who has attacked them. The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the man who had really committed the crimes. Jackson was similar in appearance to the guilty man. The two women has made a mistake in identity. As a result, Jackson has lost five years of his life.
　The two women in this case were eyewitnesses. They clearly saw the man who attacked them, yet they mistakenly identified an innocent person. Similar incidents have occurred before. Eyewitnesses to other crimes have identified the wrong person in a police lineup or in photographs.
　Many factors influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. For instance, witnesses sometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the person they saw in a lineup of people. They can become confused by seeing many photographs or similar faces. The number of people in the lineup, and whether it is a live lineup or a photograph, may also affect a witness's decision. People sometimes have difficulty identifying people of other races. The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them.
Question 33: What do we learn about Bernard Jackson?
Question 34: What led directly to Jackson’s sentence?
Question 35: What lesson do we learn from Jackson’s case?
答案：
33, A. He was wrongly imprisoned
34, A. The two victims’ identification
35, B. Many factors influence the accuracy of witness testimony.
【解析】
本篇文章講述了Jackson因為被目擊證人誤認而被判刑，雖然最后洗清了罪名，但是卻留下了慘痛的記憶。文章接著論述了為什么會出現(xiàn)這樣的問題。可能是因為被害者對犯罪嫌疑人產(chǎn)生的混淆的記憶，或者在指認犯罪嫌疑人的過程中出現(xiàn)了不確定的情況。
雖然總體來說這篇文章難度不大，但是因為涉及專業(yè)知識，有一些詞匯可能會成為考生的障礙。例如：testimony: 證人證言；witness: 目擊證人；jury: 陪審團；sentence :刑期。如果考生平時能對這些單詞有所接觸，這篇文章在理解上就不會出現(xiàn)太大的問題。
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
答案：
36. slight
37. official
38. shrinking
39. plunge
40. decline
41. primary
42. heads
43. Poverty
44. Hampered by higher taxes and weak demand for its exports, Mexico's economy is seen only partially recovering this year.
45. Mexico has historically had high drop-out rates as poor families pull kids out of school to help put food on the table，
46. The nation's drop-out problem is just the latest bad news for the long-term competitiveness of the Mexican economy.
【解析】本篇文章談?wù)摰氖悄鞲缡W率問題。文章先開篇闡述了墨西哥失學情況的現(xiàn)狀，然后談到這一現(xiàn)狀的原因和所造成的嚴重后果。文中國家有關(guān)的Mexico、Mexican、Chile等部分考生可能不熟悉，而造成聽力困擾，但這些實際并非考點，切記死盯部分詞匯不放，而影響全篇理解。
最后，文中生詞不多，實際內(nèi)容對于喜歡閱讀報刊雜志、關(guān)心時事熱點的考生而言，能夠根據(jù)日常經(jīng)驗有所預(yù)判。這就提醒考生，聽力同樣也需要平時多多進行報刊閱讀。
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.
答案：
47.capturing and storing CO2或者capture and storage of CO2
48. capture and storage
49. put it to new use
50. increase their yield of fruits and vegetables
51. the scale of CO2 emissions
【解析】
這是一篇科技文。文章就降低碳排放這個話題，討論了捕捉并儲存二氧化碳的可能性。主題雖然是碳排放，但是文章科技術(shù)語很少，也比較貼近生活，所以難度并不高。題目都是事實細節(jié)題，不需要推論，考生只要根據(jù)題干的關(guān)鍵詞，定位信息，在原文中找到答案，謄抄下來就可以了。此題閱卷的原則就是盡量用原文的話來回答問題，所以注意，盡量少修改原文信息。
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
52. D. Its negative effects have long been neglected.
53. A. Goals with financial rewards have strong motivational power.
54. B. They resorted to unethical practice to meet their sales quota.
55. B. Its conclusion is not based on solid scientific evidence.
56. A. Studying goal-setting can throw more light on successful business practices.
【解析】
本文出自http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/4056，原文題目為The dark side of goal-setting。 這篇文章有一定難度，尤其是作者的態(tài)度一定要把握好。作者并未全盤否定目標制定，而是說一定要制定切合實際的目標，以保證建設(shè)性推進計劃，避免不道德行為傷害到計劃的實施，因此這方面的研究值得繼續(xù)推進下去，給大家更好的指導(dǎo)。
Passage two
57. D) Free market plus government intervention.
58. B) Government regulation hinders economic development.
59. B) Effective measures adopted by the government.
60. D) They give up the idea of smaller government and less regulation.
61. D) Excessive borrowing.
【解析】
文章改編自新聞網(wǎng)站The Daily Beast的文章Asian Wisdom，主題是“那些過度負債、經(jīng)濟增長緩慢的西方國家能從經(jīng)濟繁榮的亞洲學到什么東西”。作者認為美國和歐洲都受制于自己的意識形態(tài)，并指出一些明智的聯(lián)邦政府措施就可以使美國重新走上正確的道路；歐洲的問題在于不斷增加的債務(wù)，必須從根本上尋找解決之道。
Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
答案：
62. B）notion
63. C）before
64. B）on
65. A）proposed
66. D）evidence
67. B）original
68. A）however
69. C）effort
70. C）opposed
71. D）once
72. D）techniques
73. C）inside
74. C）lessons
75. D）enhance
76. A）convince
77. A）trouble
78. C）diligent
79. C）process
80. B）concentrate
81. D）or
【解析】
本文出自2010年11月Scientific American Magazine. 文章主要闡述傾聽音樂對于大腦有好處，可以提高人的學習能力。因而作者呼吁，學校不應(yīng)取消音樂課。
雖然文章為科技文，且開頭出現(xiàn)了許多專業(yè)術(shù)語，但內(nèi)容并不生僻。所以，同學們千萬不要被開頭一長串的專業(yè)術(shù)語嚇倒，保持良好心態(tài)，不要放棄。完形填空考查重點還在于對上下文的理解；動詞與介詞的搭配；形似詞、同義詞詞義、用法的辨析，如62題中考查note, notice, notion, notification 之間的差異，詞形相似，但意思截然不同。同學在平時背誦單詞時，一定要多加總結(jié)歸納。
Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet 2.
82. I think that the meal is well worth $80 without a discount (沒有折扣的情況下值80美元).
【點評】well worth，“值”，后跟動名詞或名詞；discount 折扣。
83. Facing the fierce competition from other companies (面對來自其他公司的激烈競爭), the automobile manufacturer is considering launching a promotion campaign.
【點評】橫線處要填的是一個非謂語從句，根據(jù)句意可知前后主語都是the automobile manufacturer，因此用現(xiàn)在分詞形式。
84. As far as hobbies are concerned, Jane and her sister nearly have nothing in common / hardly have anything in common (幾乎沒有什么共同之處).
【點評】have something in common有共同點，注意表示否定時副詞的使用。
85. Only after many failures have I realized that I cannot succeed with luck merely (我才認識到僅憑運氣是不能成功的).
【點評】本題考查only位于句首的倒裝。這里強調(diào)的是過去的事情對現(xiàn)在造成的影響“不能成功”，因此應(yīng)用現(xiàn)在完成時態(tài)。
86. But for the survival instinct which nearly all creatures have, more species would have been extinct from the earth (更多的物種就可能已經(jīng)在地球上滅絕了).
【點評】but for，“要不是，如果沒有”，這里考查虛擬語氣，后面應(yīng)該用would + have done的形式，強調(diào)這種非真實的虛擬對將來可能發(fā)生的情況的影響。