C

[听力原文]
   M: Since it's the rush hour, let's take the subway.
   W: OK. It's not as direct as the bus, but it's faster and there will be less chance of a traffic jam.
   Q: Why do the man and the woman decide to take the subway?

A

[听力原文]
   W: The biology class next Monday has been replaced by a chemistry class.
   M: Awful. I haven't prepared for that.
   Q: For which class hasn't the man prepared?

C

[听力原文]
   M: Miss Green, I told Dr. Smith that I would call him in the Paris office at 11 o'clock their time. Please find out the time difference for me so that I'll know when to place the call.
   W: It's 4 hours earlier in Paris, sir.
   Q: When should the man place his call to Paris?

D

[听力原文]
   M: There's no use going to the store now.
   W: You are right. It's after 5:30 already.
   Q: When does the store probably close?

C

[听力原文]
   W: I'm worried about Anna. She's really been depressed lately. All she does is staying in her room all day.
   M: That sounds serious! She'd better see a psychiatrist at the counseling center.
   Q: What does the man suggest Anna do?

A

[听力原文]
   M: I could hardly recognize Sam after he got that new job! He's always in a suit and tie now.
   W: Yeah. He was never liked that in college. Back then, he went around in old T-shirts and jeans.
   Q: What do the speakers say about Sam?

C

[听力原文]
   W: You know, the Browns have invested all their money in stocks.
   M: They may think that's a wise move, but that's the last thing I'd do.
   Q: What's the man's opinion about the Browns' investment?

A

[听力原文]
   M: What is Mr. Peterson going to do with his old house on London Road? Rent it or sell it?
   W: I heard he is thinking of turning it into a restaurant, which isn't a bad idea, because it's still a solid building.
   Q: What will Mr. Peterson do with his old house?

C

[听力原文]
   W: Huh, Dick. You are wearing a black jacket, but yellow trousers. It's the strangest combination I've ever seen.
   M: I know. I got up late and dressed in a hurry. I didn't realize my mistake until I entered the office.
   Q: What does the woman think of the way Dick dressed?

A

[听力原文]
   M: Excuse me, but has anyone turned in a brown leather wallet? I've lost my wallet. It contains my driver's license and also some family pictures that are pretty important to me.
   W: Oh, yes, we had a wallet brought in this morning. Wait here just a minute, please.
   Q: What will the woman probably do?

C

[听力原文]
   M: Math Department. Doctor Webster speaking.
   W: Hello, Prof. Webster. This is Janet Hill calling. I live two doors down from your teaching assistant, Don Williams. Don asked me to call you because he has lost his voice and can't talk to you himself.
   M: Oh, what a shame! Is there anything I can do for him?
   W: Well, he has a class this afternoon from 2:30 to 4:00 and he won't be able to teach it. But he doesn't want to cancel it either.
   M: Does he want me to try to find somebody else to teach the class?
   W: No, not exactly. What he wants to do is to get someone to just to pass back the mid-term exams. He's already marked them and they are on the desk in his office.
   M: His class is at 2:30? Well, I'm free at that time and I am going to be on campus anyway, so I can do it for him. What room is his class in?
   W: Hall A, Room 214. Will you need his office key to get the exams? He's given it to me and I could bring it to you.
   M: Actually, we have a master key in the math department. So I can get into his office if necessary.
   W: Thank you very much. Oh I almost forgot. Could you put the next assignment on the board, too? It's all the problems on Page 45.
   M: OK. Tell Don not to worry about anything.

   What's Den's problem?

B

[听力原文]
   What does the woman offer to do?

C

[听力原文]
   What did Janet almost forget to ask Professor Webster to do?

A

[听力原文]
   W: Mr. White. I've learned that you need to fix up the old library. I am planning to write an editorial that I think will help you.
   M: OK, Miss Maxwell. Thank you for trying to help.
   W: First, what do you need most of all?
   M: People power. Men and women, young and old, to give us their time.
   W: To do what?
   M: To help scrub the building interior clean so that we can repair it.
   W: And you also need people to do repairing?
   M: That's right. And we'll also need some ladders and some brushes and some paint.
   W: When do you need the volunteers, and where do they report?
   M: I've got the council to agree to open the building for us on the next four weekends.
   W: How about furnishing? Are there any special requirements that I should list in the paper?
   M: Yes. Here is a copy of all the things we need to start with.
   W: Let me see. Four desks. Eight straight-back chairs. Thirty folding chairs. Six table lamps. Three end tables. One piano. This is a good start. These items shouldn't be difficult to come by once.
   M: I agree, Miss Maxwell.
   W: What you are saying is, in order for this center to succeed, we need to put together volunteers from the various generations of future users.
   M: That's right. And without their energy and stamina, there is no way we can complete this project.
   W: I've got it. Now give me some information about how you see the building being used.

C

B

B

[听力原文]
   M: Hello. How can I help you today?
   W: Hello. I'd like some information on the telephone banking services offered at by your bank.
   M: Certainly. What would you like to know?
   W: How do I sign up?
   M: Just let me know, I'll sign you up immediately.
   W: Can you tell me how the telephone banking services work?
   M: You can do all your day-to-day banking over the telephone, 24 hours a day.
   W: That's great. How do I access my account?
   M: Just call the bank, key in your PIN number and listen to the menu of options available.
   W: How do I choose which option I want?
   M: Just press the number for the service stated by the recording.
   W: What kind of things can I do?
   M: You can check your balance, pay bills, order a statement or even transfer money to another bank.
   W: That's fantastic! Can I trade stocks and bonds?
   M: I'm afraid you will have to have a special account for that.
   W: What about getting help if I have any problems?
   M: There's an automated answering machine and staff are available 9 to 5 seven days a week.
   W: It all sounds very good to me. I'd like to sign up.
   M: Alright, can you answer a few questions please?
   W: Certainly.

   What are the speakers talking about?

C

[听力原文]
   What kind of services are NOT offered here?

B

[听力原文]
   According to the dialogue, which of the following is true?

B

[听力原文]
   Where does the conversation probably happen?

C

[听力原文]
   The standardized educational or psychological tests are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting students, employees, and military personnel. They have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in Congress. The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent users. The tests themselves are merely tools, with characteristics that can be measured with reasonable precision under specified conditions. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the tool itself but largely upon the user. All informed predictions of future performance are based upon some knowledge of relevant past performance. How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount, reliability, and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted. Anyone who keeps careful score knows that the information available is always incomplete and that the predictions are always subject to error. Standardized tests should be considered in this context. They prove to be a quick, objective method of getting some kinds of information about what a person has learned, the skills he has developed, or the kind of person he is.

B

C

B

[听力原文]
   The problem of an aging population is far from being restricted to Europe. The Japanese, who have the longest life expectancy in the world at 77 years, have similar worries. Their birth rate is down to 1.7 and falling fast. A study produced by the Population Research Institute at Nihon University says that the country's aging population will cause an eightfold increase in the cost of health care between 1978 and 2010 and a thirteen fold rise in the pension benefits by 2025. China is still working to bring down its birth rate, but in the next century, it too will be facing the problems of aging. The country has a fifth of the world's population. Its drive to restrict each family, first to two children and now to one child, has been the dominant cause of the slowdown in growth in the world's population in the past decade. A range of financial incentives and penalties, coupled with China's strong social organization, has already cut the annual growth in numbers of people from 2.2 percent to 1.2 percent, an effort which has been applauded by the United Nations. However, the sharp drop in birth will cause a surge in the percentage of people over 6 in a country still not fully equipped to cope with them. The old made up just 4 percent of China's population a decade ago. By 2025, they could account for 16 percent. By the middle of the next century, China could have more than 150 million people over the age of 75.

C

A

D

[听力原文]
   Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do—especially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. He will eliminate the candidates who don't bother to spell the company's name correctly. He believes that if they don't take care in these details, he can't trust them with a job, either. Can we pay too much attention to details? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, says that to keep from losing the forest for the trees, we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture. If they don't, we should drop them and move on to something else. Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo Ⅱ moon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time, but a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary. Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake." Success is rarely mysterious. We see that by doing little things within our grasp, well, large rewards follow.

A

B

B

Global Economy

[听力原文]
   STUDENT: Good morning. Oh, it just hit twelve. Good morning. Mrs. Potter, may I come in?
   TUTOR: Oh, Jerry, of course. Come in and take a seat please.
   STUDENT: Thank you.
   TUTOR: Well, how about your assignment?
   STUDENT: Do you mean my paper?
   TUTOR: Yes.
   STUDENT: I still think about the draft, but I hope you can give me some help and suggestions.
   TUTOR: Be careful with your references and quotations and do not share other people's work. I mean you should write clearly about reference books and do not forget to acknowledge the original writers. Otherwise, you will be failed for plagiarism,
   STUDENT: OK, I've got it.
   TUTOR: The other point is...
   STUDENT: Deadline?
   TUTOR: No. Deadline is the date of handing in your work. You'd better hand in on time. But if you have a reasonable excuse you can ask for extension.
   STUDENT: Fine. Sorry to interrupt you.
   TUTOR: That's OK. The other point you should pay attention to is your research data. STUDENT: OK. I will write them clearly. Oh, Mrs. Potter, could you recommend to me some good reference books about the topic of my paper?
   TUTOR: Fine. Let's check the reference book list. The first one is Drake Wister's book.
   STUDENT: Right. What's the title?
   TUTOR: Global Economy.
   STUDENT: Is it the one published by Cambridge University Press?
   TUTOR: Right. And I think Victoria Smith's book is a good choice.
   STUDENT: What's that title?
   TUTOR: The Strategy of Marketing.
   STUDENT: And which publisher?
   TUTOR: London Press.
   STUDENT: Fine. How about others?
   TUTOR: The book called The Economics Tendency is a good one for your paper.
   STUDENT: Really? And the writer and the publisher?
   TUTOR: The writer is Hilary Justice and the publisher is Oxford University Press.
   STUDENT: Can I borrow it from the library?
   TUTOR: Of course.
   STUDENT: Great.
   TUTOR: And the last one that is helpful to your work is the book of William Hanna.
   STUDENT: How do you spell his surname?
   TUTOR: H-A-N-N-A.
   STUDENT: OK. And the title of his book?
   TUTOR: Business Management published by Cambridge University Press.
   STUDENT: OK.
   TUTOR: But you cannot borrow the book from library.
   STUDENT: Why?
   TUTOR: Because it belongs to the closed reserve you have to read it in library. STUDENT: OK. Thank you very much.
   TUTOR: You're welcome.

Victoria Smith

Oxford University Press

William Hanna

Business Management

Northern Chile

[听力原文]
   Gabriela Mistral was once an ordinary teacher in a small village school in Northern Chile. Towering mountains separated her village from the world outside. Gabriela Mistral was only fifteen when she began teaching, but she was a good teacher. She helped the minds of her students' scale the mountain walls and reached out to the world beyond. For eighteen years, Gabriela devoted her life to the poor farm children of Chile's Northern valleys. During part of this time, she was director of schools in all of Chile. Before long, many countries recognized her as a great friend of children and the leader in education. In 1922, she was invited to Mexico to help organize the world's school system.
   Two years later, Gabriela Mistral came to the United States where she served as a visiting professor in several colleges. In New York City, a group of teachers helped to finance the publication of her first book of poetry. Some of her books have been translated into six different languages. She gave the income from some of her books to help poor and neglected children.
   Beginning in the 1920s, her interests reached out to broader fields. Statesmen asked her advice on international problems. She tried to break through the national barriers that hindered the exchange of ideas among the Spanish speaking peoples of South America. She tried to develop a better understanding between the United States and countries of Latin America. In 1945, she gained worldwide recognition by winning the Nobel Prize in literature, the first South American to win the prize.

poor farm children

world's school system

finance the publication

the Nobel Prize

B

A

D

C

A

B

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D

D

A

B

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C

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A

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C

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