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Passage Two Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

A. He sees his sister very seldom.
B. He sent Mark something on his 19th birthday.
C. He always walked to work.
D. He lives with his sister and her family.

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A. The reform of the retailing system.
B. The worship of consumerism.
C. The dominance of selfishness.
D. A new generation of upper class consumers.

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A. Forgetful.
B. Lazy.
C. Careful.
D. Serious.

[单项选择]　　Passage Two 　　Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. 　　For most of the 20th century, Asia asked itself what it could learn from the modern, innovating West. Now the question must be reversed. What can the West’s overly indebted and sluggish (经济滞长的) nations learn from a flourishing Asia 　　Just a few decades ago, Asia’s two giants were stagnating(停滞不前) under faulty economic ideologies. However, once China began embracing free-market reforms in the 1980s, followed by India in the 1990s, both countries achieved rapid growth. Crucially, as they opened up their markets, they balanced market economy with sensible government direction. As the Indian economist Amartya Sen has wisely said, “The invisible hand of the market has often relied heavily on the visible hand of government.” 　　Contrast this middle path with America and Europe, which have each gone ideologically over-board in their own ways. Since the 1980s, America has been increasingly clinging to the ideology of
A. Copying western-style economic behavior.
B. Heavy reliance on the hand of government.
C. Timely reform of government at all levels.
D. Free market plus government intervention.

[单项选择]　　Passage two 　　Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
A. It will become popular gradually.
B. It will change the concept of food.
C. It has attracted worldwide attention.
D. It can help solve global flood crises.

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Passage Two Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

What did the child's family members argue about in the hospital （）
A. Whether they should take the child home.
B. What Dr. Meyer’s instructions exactly were.
C. Who should take care of the child at home.
D. When the child would completely recover.

[单项选择]Passage Two Questions 36 to 40 arc based on the following passage． Natural gas began with the plant and animal life of the earth’s prehistoric seas．Dead organisms settled on the ocean floor and were covered by layers of mud，silt(淤泥)，and the layers of mud，silt，and sand were compressed into solid rock．As millions of years passed，these rock layers bucked shifted．and accumulation of gas and oil were displaced and became trapped beneath masses of nonporous rock． Primitive man discovered natural gas quite by accident．The temple fires of Baku on the Caspian Sea(里海)were fired by natural gas seeping(渗漏)from rock fissures(裂缝)，and worshipers(礼拜者，崇拜者)of hire journeyed to Baku from ad afar away as India．The mysterious“burning springs”in North America and elsewhere were also evidence of escaping gas，probably ignited by lighting． The first industrial application of natural gas was made by the Chinese．Gas transported by bamboo pipes was burned to evaporate brine and produc
A. medicine
B. religion
C. chemistry
D. geology