Vocabulary1. drubbing 痛打get/take a drabbing 遭人痛打2. flip-flop=great change suddenly 游说，3. 突然改变，4. 突然反方向。人字拖鞋，5. 趾拖鞋6. hold out 维持，7. 保持
Passage Two (Europe’s Gypsies, Are They a Nation?)The striving of countries in Central Europe to enter the European Union may offer an unprecedented chance to the continent’s Gypsies (or Roman) to
Vocabulary1. albeit 尽管，2. 虽然3. outnumber 数字上超过4. ethnic 少数民族的成员，5. 种族集团的成员6. Hindi 印地语7. misty 模糊不8. 清的，9. 朦胧的10. derivative
Passage Three (Method of Scientific Inquiry)Why the inductive and mathematical sciences, after their first rapid development at the culmination of Greek civilization, advanced so slowly for two thousa
Vocabulary1. inductive 归纳法induction n.归纳法2. deductive 演绎法deduction n。演绎法3. culmination 到达顶/极点4. conversant (with) 熟悉的，5. 精通的6. exercise 运用，7.
Passage Five (Women’s Positions in the 17th Century)Social circumstances in Early Modern England mostly served to repress women’s voices. Patriarchal culture and institutions constructed them as c
Vocabulary1. repress 压制，2. 镇压，3. 约束4. patriarchy 族长制，5. 家长制6. chaste 贞洁的，7. 高雅的8. hierarchy 等级制9. monarch 君主，10. 最高统治11. image 象征
Section I: Listening ComprehensionThis section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that acc
Part C You will hear a talk given by a university lecturer. As you listen, you must answer Questions 1 -10 by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words in the space provided on the right. You will hear the tal
Part BIn the following article some paragraphs have been removed. For Questions 1 - 5, choose the most suitable paragraph from the list A - F to fit into each of the numbered gaps. There is one paragr