Section 1

Version

Topic

V12139

Sailing Club課程的介紹

Questions 1-10

1. Open till late night on Thursday till 11 pm

2. The key to the side gate is available until the payment for a deposit      

3. Children aged under 16 cost 138 pounds     

4. Parking place is in Lossely Road

Club facilities:

5. cafe on the first floor

6. Call the secretary on 073076552 before the day

Section 2

Version

Topic

V14119

女孩去斯里蘭卡援助的故事

Questions 11-15

Activities

A. teach others

B. learn new skills

C. do conversation jobs

Companies

11. Explorer International   B

12. Work Exchange        A

13. Track Abroad           C

14. Go! Adventure         C

15. Global Trotter          A

Questions 16-20

Elephant Orphanage

16. What did Leila enjoy doing at Elephant Orphanage in Australia?

A. helping the vet   B. washing the elephant   C. riding the elephant

17. What’s Leila’s problem at first?

A. She was homesick   B. She was bored   C. She was ill

18. What did Leila and her friends do on weekends?

A. pay guide to take them to interesting places

B. take coach tours to the areas

C. go to beach

19. Why Leila like the people working with her

A. They share the same interests

B. They are of same age

C. They are from similar background

20. How did Leila feel about leaving?

A. Excited going home

B. Proud of what she had achieved

C. Confident that she would return soon

Section 3

Version

Topic

V13121

兩個學生討論鞋子研究的問題

Questions 21-26

21. What did they get on the website?

A. advice from others

B. ideas to fulfil the project requirement

C. relevant information about the case

22. What did they use as an example？

A. a new pair of shoes   B. design diagram of shoes   C. take part of old shoes

23. What else should be considered while designing shoes？

A. foot shape   B. foot movement   C. raw materials

24. How many parts of the essay is the girl going to do？

A. Three parts   B. almost all   C. every part

25. What should they do next?

A. carry out a plan   B. do some face-to-face interview   C. answer the questions

26. What help can they get for the supervisor？

A. borrow equipment   B. get some advice   C. have a tutorial

Questions 27-30

A. need to be revised

B. write in the beginning

C. write in the second part

D. result in simple language

E. write in other part

F. write in the last part

27. Summary: F

28. Discussion: E

29. Conclusion: D

30. Layout: A

Section 4

Version

Topic

V18120

聽力修復

Questions 31-40

31. function

32. trumpet

33. receiver

34. magnet

35. conversation

36. telephone

37. directions

38. instruments

39. training

40. technology

Passage 1

Topic

英國北極科考船

Content Review

Franklin's lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845. A Royal Navy officer and experienced explorer, Franklin had served on three previous Arctic expeditions, the latter two as commanding officer. His fourth and last, undertaken when he was 59, was meant to traverse the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage. After a few early fatalities, the two ships became icebound in Victoria Strait near King William Island in the Canadian Arctic. The entire expedition, 129 men including Franklin, was lost.

One of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic nearly 170 years ago during a search for the fabled Northwest Passage has been found, Canada's prime minister announced Tuesday in a discovery that could unlock one of history's biggest mysteries and swell Canadian pride.

In an August 24, 2014 photo, a crew member of the HMCS Kingston loads a remote underwater vehicle part of the Victoria Strait Expedition, west of Pond Inlet on the Eclipse Sound. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014 that one of the two lost ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition that disappeared in the Arctic more 160 years has been found. The HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were last seen in the late 1840s. Harper, speaking in Ottawa, said it remains unclear which ship has been found, but images show there's enough information to confirm it's one of the pair. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld)The Associated Press

Last seen in the 1840s while under the command of Rear Adm. Sir John Franklin, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror have long been among the most sought-after prizes in marine archaeology and the subject of songs, poems and novels.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office said the well-preserved wreck of one of the vessels was found Sunday with the help of a remotely operated underwater vehicle. It was 11 meters (yards) below the surface, near King William Island, about 1,200 miles northwest of Toronto.

Harper said that it is unclear which ship it is, but that sonar images yielded enough information to confirm it was one of Franklin's.

"This is truly a historic moment for Canada," said Harper, who was beaming, uncharacteristically. "This has been a great Canadian story and mystery and the subject of scientists, historians, writers and singers, so I think we really have an important day in mapping the history of our country."

Harper said the discovery would shed light on what happened to Franklin's crew.

Franklin and 128 hand-picked officers and men disappeared after setting out in 1845 for the Northwest Passage, the long-sought shortcut to Asia that supposedly ran from the Atlantic to the Pacific by way of the harsh, ice-choked Arctic.

Historians believe the ships were lost in 1848 after they became locked in the ice near King William Island and the crews abandoned them in a hopeless bid to reach safety. Inuit lore tells of "white men who were starving" as late as the winter of 1850 on the Royal Geographical Society Island.

For many years afterward, Franklin was celebrated as a Victorian-era hero.

Dozens of searches by the British and Americans in the 1800s failed to locate the wrecks, and some of those expeditions ended in tragedy, too. But they opened up parts of the Canadian Arctic to discovery and ultimately spied a Northwest Passage, though it proved inhospitable to shipping because of ice and treacherous weather.

Canada announced in 2008 that it would look for the ships, and Harper's government has poured millions into the venture, with the prime minister himself taking part in the search.

Harper's government made the project a top priority as it looked to assert Canada's sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, where melting Arctic ice in recent years has unlocked the very shipping route Franklin was after.

Canada says it owns the passage. The U.S. and others say it is international territory.

Ryan Harris, an underwater archaeologist helping to lead the Parks Canada search, said a sonar image shows some of the ship's deck structures, including the main mast, which was sheared off by the ice when the vessel sank. He said the contents of the ship are most likely in the same good condition.

The next step is to send divers to explore the ship and any artifacts. There is no current plan to raise it. Divers will see what kind of condition the hull is in. The exact location of the wreck was not disclosed for fear of looters.

The discovery came shortly after a coast guard helicopter pilot spotted a dark, U-shaped object in the Arctic snow. The orange-brown hunk of metal bore the markings of the Royal Navy. It was a davit — part of a lifting mechanism, likely for a lifeboat, for one of the two lost Franklin ships, the search team said.

In 1854, explorer John Rae, while surveying near the Canadian Arctic coast southeast of King William Island, acquired relics of and stories about the Franklin party from the Inuit. A search led by Francis Leopold McClintock in 1859 discovered a note left on King William Island with details about the expedition's fate. Searches continued through much of the 19^th century. Finally, in 2014, a Canadian search team located HMS Erebus west of O'Reilly Island, in the eastern portion of Queen Maud Gulf, in the waters of the Arctic archipelago.

In 1981, a team of scientists led by Owen Beattie, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, began a series of scientific studies of the graves, bodies, and other physical evidence left by Franklin's men on Beechey Island and King William Island. Seeking information about the Franklin crew's health and diet, he sent bone samples to the Alberta Soil and Feed Testing Laboratory for trace element analysis and assembled another team to visit King William Island. They concluded that the men whose graves had been found on Beechey Island most likely died of pneumonia and perhaps tuberculosis and that lead poisoning may have worsened their health, owing to badly soldered cans held in the ships' food stores. However, it was later suggested that the source of this lead may not have been tinned food, but the distilled water systems fitted to the expedition’s ships. Cut marks on human bones found on King William Island were seen as signs of cannibalism. The combined evidence of all studies suggested that hypothermia, starvation, lead poisoning and disease including scurvy, along with general exposure to a hostile environment whilst lacking adequate clothing and nutrition, killed everyone on the expedition in the years following its last sighting by Europeans in 1845.

Andrew Campbell, a vice president at Parks Canada, said a combination of previous Inuit testimony, past modelling of ice patterns by the Canadian Ice Service, and the measurements of the two lost vessels -- they are so similar they can't yet be told apart -- convinced the searchers that this was a Franklin ship.

Questions & Answers

Questions 1-7

1. several unsuccessful search for Franklin’s ship---True

2. It’s the first experience for Inuit people to work with scientists---Not Given

3. the main cause of food poisoning was canned food.---False

4. there is a connection in Men’s background---False

5. People didn’t believe Inuit people’s testimony/ ---Not Given

6. Inuit unwilling to share their information---False

7. Cruiner wanted Inuit people to gain something from his research---True

Questions 8-13

Difficulty & solution

Difficulty: has unique 8. geology in Arctic, difficult to find----peculiar geology with strong     signal

Solution: use 9. sonar instead of magnetometer

 Theory---lead poisoning

l    Faulty canned food had been 10. manufactured

l    Historical heritage (background of explorers)

l    11. Water used for 12. engines being used as drinking water

 Evidence

l    source of copper has been found before the ships sunk

l    13. stories has been told by Inuit as their testimony

Passage 2

Topic

法律的重要性

Content Review

待回憶

Questions & Answers

Questions 14-16

待回憶

Questions 17-22

17. ii

18. vii

19. i

20. iv

21. iii

22. 待回憶

Questions 23-26

23. truth

24. nurse

25. dedication

26. drafts

Passage 3

Topic

記憶力

Content Review

如何提高記憶力，以及記憶力對人的重要性。

Questions & Answers

Questions 27-31

27. D. numbers

28. H. precedent

29. C. emotion

30. B. inflection

31. E. time

Questions 32-36

32. T

33. F

34. F

35. T

36. T

Questions 37-38

37. The main topic

選B

38. The reason why human begins memory fail to work

選B

Questions 39-40

選BC

Task 1

Type of questions

線圖

題目

法國人和美國人赴英國出差及旅行的數量變化

Task 2

Topic

社會問題

Type of questions

觀點類

題目

People nowadays are surrounded by all kinds of advertising. Advertising affects what people think is important and sometimes has a negative influence on people’s lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

People & Animal

Friends

Teenagers

Animal/Pet

Events

Daily routine

Meals

Travelling

Outdoor activities

Objects/Things

Boats

Gifts

Dictionary

Places

Hometown

Media

Music

Advertisement

Internet

Newspaper

APPs

Abstract

Work or study

Names

Rainy days

Transportation

Handwriting

Sleeping

People & Animal

Describe someone who is a good parent.好家長

Describe a businessman you admire.敬佩的商人

Describe a successful sportsman.運動員

Events

Describe a (long) car journey you went on.汽車旅行

Describe an experience that you taught a friend or a relative.教他人

Describe something you learned in a place/from a person/out of school.課外學習

Describe an activity with an old people in your family. 與長輩的活動

Describe a special /meaningful meal you had.特殊的一餐

Describe a time you saved money for something.攢錢

Describe an important event that you celebrated.重要事件

Objects/Things

Describe something you bought recently that you were happy with.開心購物

Describe a piece of furniture.家具

Describe an exciting book you have read.令人興奮的書

Describe a toy that you had in your childhood.玩具

Places

Describe a leisure facility (cinema, theatre, sports center) you would like to have in your hometown.休閑設施

Describe an interesting place that few people know.鮮有人知的地方

Describe a dream home you would like to have.理想之家

Describe a rive or a lake in your country.河流湖泊

Media

Describe a TV program you like.喜歡的電視節目

Describe a good photo you had.好照片

Abstract

Describe a (good) decision someone made.一個決定

Describe a subject of science that you learned in secondary/high school.科學課

Describe an achievement that you are proud of.驕傲的成就

Describe a rule at your school that you agree or disagree.校規

Describe your favourite season of the year.喜愛的季節

Describe a way to stay healthy.保持健康

重點話題Sample Answer

Describe your favourite season of the year.

You should say:

When this time is

What the weather is like at this time

What you usually do at this time

Why it is your favourite season of the year.

My favourite season has to be fall, or “autumn “in British English. It’s a pleasant time of the year because of the temperature. In Beijing, Summers are boiling hot and dry. Fall is more moderate. The weather is mild. When fall arrives, the colours of the tree leaves change. They turn yellow and red which is spectacular.

In Chinese philosophy, fall is the period where the crops have been harvested, and this is an occasion for family reunion, represented by the full moon. Poets describe autumn as a season that will make people feel homesick. It’s a period of contrasts because, in autumn, leaves turn red, and red in China represents life. The leaves also represent death as leaves fall and winter will soon kick in.