[单项选择]{{I}}Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the conversation you will be give 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview.{{/I}}What subject is Mr. Pitt good at
A. Art.
B. French.
C. German.
D. Chemistry.

[单项选择]{{I}} Questions I to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the inter view you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview. {{/I}}Employees ill the US are paid for their time. This means that they are supposed to______.
A. work hard while their boss is around
B. come to work when there is work to be done
C. work with initiative and willingness
D. work through their lunch break

[单项选择]Passage 1 Questions I to 5 are based on the following passage. The most famous collections of fairy tales (童话) are the ones by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The Grimms published their first fairy-tale collection in 1812. They didn’t think they were writing for children. They thought they were preserving disappearing German folk culture. Their first edition (版本) was a scholarly book that carefully recorded the oral tales. They were surprised when some of their early readers suggested that the stories might be interesting to children. But the Grimms needed money. They had made a bad deal with their publisher and received little payment for their first book. At one point Wilhelm complained there wasn’t a chair in his house one could sit on without worrying it would break. So he took the hint and set to work to make a book that would be suitable for children. He selected a few of the tales, made them much longer, and polished up the language. He didn’t add morals, but he did slip in characte
A. To deal with readers’ complaints
B. To improve his financial situation.
C. At the request of his publisher
D. To preserve the ancient stories in print.

[单项选择]{{I}}Questions 8 to i0 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation; you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. NOW listen to the conversation.{{/I}}How did the woman learn about the process she describes
A. She was doing research for a paper on it.
B. She read a newspaper article about it.
C. She was told about it by her roommate.
D. She heard about it in class.

[单项选择]{{I}} Questions 8 to i0 are based on the following news from the VOA. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each question. Now listen to the news.{{/I}}EMI is______.
A. the world’s first major music company
B. the world’s third largest record company
C. the world’s largest on-line music provider
D. the world’s largest software company

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Why the amount of rubbish needs to be reduced
A. Because rubbish can be recycled.
B. Because there is not enough space to dump rubbish.
C. Because rubbish can only be collected from our doorstop.
D. Because rubbish needs to be placed at a bottle bank.

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The summit between Putin and Hu will
A. lead to breakthroughs in bilateral cooperation.
B. help to forge a new bilateral relationship.
C. focus on bilateral cooperation in education.
D. last for five days.