[单项选择] Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.

What does the speaker say about doctors and lawyers
A. They should prevent their clients’ personal information from being known by others.
B. They are not entitled to getting any personal information about their clients.
C. Although they hold the rights of learning personal situations of the clients, they are not imposed to keep confidentiality.
D. They are not allowed to publicize the clients’ personal situation without legal permission of the party.

[单项选择]Questions 15 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.


If nuclear bombs are dropped on an area the survivors will ______.
A. hide in their houses
B. store more food
C. be very sick
D. grow more crops

[填空题] Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Global warming refers to an increase in global surface temperature resulting from an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and certain other trace gases in the atmosphere. These gases are (47) known as greenhouse gases because they (48) to the warming of the earth’s surface and lower atmosphere, a phenomenon called the greenhouse effect. Partly because the (49) of carbon dioxide is related to the essential use of the carbon based energy sources, the (50) of global warming incorporates a broad, scientific and political debate about its significance and consequences.
Today, as the results of the efforts of thousands of scientists over several decades who have studied climate and its (51) with the global land-ocean-atmosphere system, the scientific understanding of global warming is both more clear and complex. Scientists have obtained strong

[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.
According to the passage, which statement is INCORRECT
A. The umbrella was first invented as protection against the sun.
B. The first to use the umbrella were probably the Chinese in the 11th centuryB.
C. C. Women’s umbrellas began to be made in the 1900s.
D. The Greeks were the first to use the umbrella against the rain in Europ

[单项选择]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will he given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.
Compared with English in Shakespeare’s time, there are about ______ more words in the modern one.
A. 600,000
B. 800,000
C. 1,000,000
D. 1,200,000

[单项选择]Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
What was now the attitude of the department store in this legal case
A. They refused to apologize for having followed her through the town.
B. They regretted having wrongly accused her of stealing.
C. They still suspected that she was a thief.
D. They agreed to pay her $3000 damages.

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
In the United States elementary education begins at the age of six. At this stage nearly all the teachers are women, mostly married. (80) The atmosphere is usually very friendly, and the teachers have now accepted the idea that the important thing is to make the chil-dren happy and interested. The old authoritarian (要绝对服从的) methods of education were discredited (不被认可) rather a long time ago-so much so that many people now think that they have gone too far in the direction of trying to make children happy and interestedrather than giving them actual instruction.
The social education of young children tries to make them accept the idea that human beings in a society need to work together for their common good. So the emphasis is on co- operation rather than competition throughout most of this process. This may seem curious, in view of the fact that American society is highly competitive; however, the need
A. favorable
B. negative
C. tolerant
D. unfriendly

[单项选择]Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
Students can get the course reader______.
A. from the office
B. from the speaker
C. on the way back home
D. from the university bookstore

[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Cambridge University closed down in the summer of 1665 when the plague broke out. New ton, a student there, went home to Lincolnshire. He stayed home for two years while the disease ran its course in the area around London. The 23-year-old Newton spent that time studying and laying the foundations for his greatest work, the Principia. One day he sat thinking in his garden, when an apple fell. Then he realized that the direction the apple fell, along with every other object on this round earth, was always toward Earth’s center. It wasn’t just that the apple fell, but that it tried to go to Earth’s center. That was Newton’s eureka moment. He realized that Earth had drawn the apple to it. He realized that every object in the universe draws every other object— probably in proportion to its mass. Newton didn’t publish his Principia until 20 years later. But he formulated the Law of Universal Gravitation (LUG) there in his
A. one of Leibnitz’s followers
B. a fictional figure in Voltaire’s book
C. the penname of Leibnitz
D. Voltaire’s enemy