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Part
I
Writing
(30
minutes)
请根据上面给出
的内容，来回答下面的简答题（共
1
题）
。
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the
topic
“
Education: Examination-Oriented or Quality-Oriented
”
. You should write at
least 120 words following the
outline given below in Chinese:
1.
应试教育现状及其原因
;
2.
素质教育的优点
;
3.
你的观点。
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本题
0
分
)
请填写答案：
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly.
For questions 1-7, choose the best
answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)
and D). For questions 8-10, complete
the sentences with the information given in the
passage.
Selling Expertise on the Internet for Extra Cash
Teresa
Estes,
a
licensed
mental-health
counselor,
watched
as
business
at
her
private practice decreased last year.
Then the single mother turned to her keyboard to
boost her income.
Ms. Estes applied to become an
“
expert
”
on LivePerson Inc., a Web site where
clients pay for online chat time with
professionals and advisers of all fields. For
$$1.89
a minute
—
a rate she set
—
the 39-year- old from Marianna, Fla., dispenses advice
to clients around the globe. She spends
about four hours a day online, often at night,
when her daughter has gone to bed.
“
It was the economy,
”
she says of her move to take her skills online.
“
Live
Person
is
more
profitable
than
my
private
practice.
”
Ms.
Estes
had
charged
her
private clients up to $$75 an hour.
As the recession deepens, a small but growing number of people are taking their
skills
online,
offering
expertise
or
performing
specified
tasks
for
a
fee.
Labor-at-the-keyboard sites are gaining
popularity as people increasingly turn to the
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Web
in
search
of
work.
Internet
job-search
sites
saw
a
51%
rise
in
traffic
from
January 2008 to January 2009, according
to comScore Media Metrix, to 26.7 million
unique visitors.
Among
the
many
fee-for-service
Web
sites
out
there,
at
least
three
are
attracting
a
significant
number
of
users
—
though
consumers
should
exercise
a
healthy
degree of skepticism when
consulting
any of these sites.
Live
Person seeks
out
experts on a slew of topics, including mental
health, financial services, shopping
and
fashion,
as
well
as
psychics
and
spiritual
advisers.
Mechanical
Turk,
a
Web
service run by Inc., pays workers to
perform tasks, such as cataloging
products
online.
Associated
Content
pays
contributors
to
write
articles
on
a
wide
range of subjects, from organic flower
gardening to how to apply for financial aid.
Live Person went public in 2001, and the current version of the site was launched
in
late
2007.
Today,
the
site
has
30,000
registered
experts,
attracting
an
average
of
100,000 people
a year who pay for the offered services, says
Chief Executive Officer
Robert
LoCascio.
Roughly
3,500
people
have
made
contributing
to
the
site
their
full-time job,
he says.
Live Person says it vets contributors
’
qualifications, such as medical licenses or
financial
certification,
through
a
third
party,
and
relies
heavily
on
its
community
reviews. Some 200
people a day apply to be Live Person experts, up
from 120 a year
ago,
says
Mr.
LoCascio.
Once
cleared,
advisers
work
with
clients
on
a
cost-per-minute basis set by the
adviser. The site takes a commission of between
30%
and 35%.
Associated Content, by contrast, reviews submissions in house and then decides
how much to pay for them. The site,
which specializes in how-to pieces and feature
stories on news topics, had 237,000
registered contributors and more than one million
content pieces as of February, both
about double from the same month a year ago.
After posting the content, the site sells advertisements against it and distributes it
to
other
companies,
such
as
online
shoe
retailer
Zappos,
which
use
the
content
on
their
own
Web
sites.
If
Associated
Content
accepts
a
submission
(it
says
it
rejects
about 25% of them), the
author gets between $$5 and $$30, plus $$1.50 for
each 1,000
page views. An ability to
write
“
search-engine- optimized
”
content, an industry term
for generating good
Google results, helps, says site founder Luke
Beatty.
People are not
only looking
for payment but
also
establishing their
credentials
“
as somebody with experience
”
, he says. Writing about a specific profession, such
as law or
real estate, helps raise a person
’
s profile online, enhancing his job searches,
says Mr. Beatty.
Sabah
Karimi,
a
26-year-old
from
Orlando,
Fla.,
left
a
career
in
marketing
to
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become a full-time freelance writer and
now spends between 8 and 10 hours a week
writing for Associated Content. She has
been at it for about three years and says she
earns roughly $$1,000 a month from her
past and current submissions.
Ms. Karimi cautions newcomers to Associated Content that it takes time to build
up earnings. She says she
learned how to write articles that would bring
traffic and
often looks for newsy ideas
that will attract readers.
Mechanical Turk, by contrast, is based on
“
crowd sourcing
”
, or breaking
a
task
into
lots
of
tiny
pieces
and
giving
it
to
a
big
group
of
people
to
complete
quickly. Most of these
jobs
—
which the site calls HITs, for human intelligence tasks
—
pay just a few cents. Efficient MTurkers, as they call themselves, can make more
than $$100 a week doing things
such as finding someone
’
s email address or labeling
images of a
particular animal in a photograph.
Amazon says that MTurk now has 200,000 workers from 100 different countries,
but it doesn
’
t keep track of past figures.
The site
—
named for an 18th-century stunt involving a turbaned chess-playing
“
machine
”
with an actual chess master hidden within
—
began as a way to help
Amazon
manage
its
product
database,
says
Sharon
Chiarella,
vice
president
of
Amazon
Mechanical
Turk.
Amazon
uses
the
site
to
help
sort
images
and
content,
paying people a few
cents a task. Mechanical Turk also serves a
variety of companies
who
need
Web
tasks
performed,
especially
those
that
require
a
human
element.
Test-prep startup
Knewton Inc., for example, uses it extensively for
focus-group-type
tasks, as well as
enlisting people to take its practice tests.
Keri Knutson, a mother of five from Independence, La., discovered Mechanical
Turk
when
her
eldest
son
was
headed
for
college.
Ms.
Knutson,
now
45,
needed
money for his tuition and
fees. She took on all kinds of low-paying but easy
tasks at
the beginning, from finding a
place to purchase a specific item to identifying
the name
of a street in a photograph.
People looking to make money online as fee-for-service experts should read the
fine print.
Live Person has one of the more formal payment
systems, requiring users
to
sign
up
for
an
account
before
talking
with
an
expert.
Some
sites,
including
Associated Content and
Mechanical Turk, reserve the right to refuse
payment if a task
is not completed
satisfactorily.
Most sites have a robust community of workers who regularly offer one another
tips
on
which
tasks
pay
the
best.
Mechanical
Turk
users
have
an
independent
site
called
Turker
Nation
(),
which
reviews
the
companies
that
solicit (
索求
) and pay for tasks so that workers can check a company
’
s record before
taking on a task.
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Consumers who use these sites also need to exercise caution. Relying on legal or
medical advice from an unknown
online source has obvious drawbacks, and the Web
sites
acknowledge
that
some
users
have
registered
complaints
about
the
advice
offered on the
sites. LivePerson warns consumers to offer their
financial and personal
details with
care.
For the workers on these sites, even incremental sources of income are helpful
these
days. Ms. Knutson now spends the majority of her
time transcribing Web audio
and video
for clients, earning about $$250 a week for 30
hours of work. She says she
has seen
more competition lately but is determined to keep
up her weekly pace.
“
If I didn
’
t have this money,
”
she says,
“
we
’
d be struggling to find what
to eat every
week.
”
请根据上面给
出的内容，
来回答下面的单项选择题
（下列每小题备选答案中，
只
有一个符合题意的正确答案。
每小题
0
分 ，
共
7
题。
）
1. What is the passage mainly
talking about?
A
：
The economic recession will last a few years.
B
：
More people are taking their skills online to make money.
C
：
Asking for advice through the Internet is a good way to solve your problems.
D
：
People shouldn
’
t release their financial and personal details online.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:2. Live Person Inc. is a Web site where ___________.
A
：
people chat with each other and make friends freely
B
：
professionals and advisers help others for free
C
：
people pay money for applying to become an expert
D
：
clients pay for online chat time with professionals and advisers
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:3. Why are labor-at-the-keyboard sites gaining popularity?
A
：
Because people love to work on the Internet.
B
：
Because more people are finding jobs on the Internet.
C
：
Because people are being asked to work on the Internet.
D
：
Because working on the Internet is easier than other ways of working.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:4.
How
much
will
an
expert
get
through
Live
Person
if
a
client pays $$10?
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A
：
$$3 to $$3.5.
B
：
$$10.
C
：
$$6.5 to $$7.
D
：
$$5.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:5.
Mechanical
Turk
originated
as
a
method
to
_________.
A
：
label images of a particular animal in a photograph
B
：
serve a variety of companies who need Web tasks performed
C
：
help Amazon manage its product database
D
：
find someone
’
s email address
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:6. What does Turker Nation do?
A
：
It reserves the right to refuse payment if a task is not completed satisfactorily.
B
：
It relies on legal or medical advice from an unknown online source.
C
：
It registers complaints about the advice offered on the site.
D
：
It reviews the companies that solicit and pay for tasks.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:7.
What
does Ms.
Knutson spend the majority
of her time
doing?
A
：
Finding a place to purchase a specific item.
B
：
Identifying the name of a street in a photograph.
C
：
Transcribing Web audio and video for clients.
D
：
Struggling to find what to eat every week.
请选择答案：
< p>A:B:C:D:
请根据上面给出的内容，
来回答下面的简答题
（共
3
题）
。
8.
Associated Content pays contributors to write
articles on a wide range of subjects,
from organic flower gardening to how to
______________.
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9. Live Person says it vets contributors
’
qualifications through a third party, and
relies
heavily on its _______.
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请填写答案：
10. Amazon says that MTurk now has 200,000 workers from ______________.
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Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)
请根据上面给出的内容，
来回答下面的单项选 择题
（下列每小题备选答案中，
只
有一个符合题意的正确
答案。每小题
0
分，共
24
题。
） ■
Section A
Directions:
In
this
section,
you
will
hear
8
short
conversations
and
2
long
conversations. At the end of each
conversation, one or more questions will be asked
about
what
was
said.
Both
the
conversation
and
the
questions
will
be
spoken
only
once. After
each question there will be a pause. During the
pause, you must read the
four choices
marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the
best answer.
11.
A
：
It will be better to say nothing to Paul.
B
：
Paul himself will come to talk to them.
C
：
The man should be the one to speak to Paul.
D
：
The man should replace the radio before she talks to Paul.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:12.
A
：
Not give any suggestions to Jack.
B
：
Not see Jack any more.
C
：
Not listen to Jack
’
s words.
D
：
Not save his words on Jack.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:13.
A
：
They should give up talking.
B
：
They should both make a compromise.
C
：
They can meet next time.
D
：
They are both halfway.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:14.
A
：
He likes rings very much.
B
：
He often burns holes in his new coats.
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C
：
He
’
s very extravagant with money.
D
：
He is very poor.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:15.
A
：
She missed the bus.
B
：
She caught the bus.
C
：
She got up five minutes earlier than usual.
D
：
She likes getting up early in the morning.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:16.
A
：
In the library.
B
：
In the college bookstore.
C
：
At a news-stand.
D
：
At a department store.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:17.
A
：
Teacher and student.
B
：
Doctor and patient.
C
：
Manager and office worker.
D
：
Travel agent and customer.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:18.
A
：
Move the washing machine to the basement.
B
：
Turn the basement into a workshop.
C
：
Repair the washing machine.
D
：
Finish her assignment.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have
just heard.
19.
A
：
She will go to see her brother.
B
：
She will go to Hawaii with her family.
C
：
She will stay at home with her family.
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D
：
She will find a part-time job.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:20.
A
：
Very exciting.
B
：
Too bad.
C
：
Very boring.
D
：
Not too bad.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:21.
A
：
A new bicycle.
B
：
A new dictionary.
C
：
A new computer.
D
：
A new cellphone.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have
just heard.
22.
A
：
She has a good chance to study abroad but she doesn
’
t have enough money.
B
：
Her parents don
’
t want her to go too far away from them.
C
：
She won
’
t have as many vacations as she has as a student.
D
：
She wants to study abroad but she has been offered a good job.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:23.
A
：
It is not as good as studying abroad.
B
：
He thinks being a teacher is boring.
C
：
It is a good opportunity.
D
：
He thinks the salary for the job is too low.
请选择答案：
A:B:C:D:24.
A
：
Asking her friends for advice.
B
：
Making the choice by herself.
C
：
Asking her parents for advice.
D
：
Asking her teachers for advice.