[单项选择] Questions 18-20 based on the following dialogue between friends about their family. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 18-20.When is this lecture given
A. Just before the final exam.
B. During the first week of classes.
C. During the second week of classes.
D. After the second laboratory quiz.

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Questions are based on the following dialogue between a student and a librarian.
Librarian: Can I help you
Student: Yes, I am a bit confused. My sociology class is supposed to read a chapter in a book called Sociology and the Modern Age. According to the course plan, the book is in the library, but I haven’t been able to find it.
Librarian: Do you have your course plan with you May I see it
Student: Yes, uh....I put it in the front of my sociology notebook. Oh, here it is.
Librarian: Let me see. Oh yes. Your professor has placed this book on reserve, That means you cannot find it on the shelves in its usual place.You need to go to a special room called the reserve room. It’s down the hall and to the right.
Student: I’m sorry. I still don’t understand what you mean by on reserve.
Librarian: You see, your professor wants every one in the class to read the chapter. If one student removes the book from th
A. It needs to be preserved until reprints come out.
B. It is the only copy of the kind and must be kept intact.
C. It is the professor’s own book put in the library.
D. It needs to be read by every one of the class.

[单项选择] Questions 18-20 based on the following dialogue between friends about their family. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 18-20.When is this lecture given
A. Just before the final exam.
B. During the first week of classes.
C. During the second week of classes.
D. After the second laboratory quiz.

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Questions are based on the following dialogue between a student and a librarian.
Librarian: Can I help you
Student: Yes, I am a bit confused. My sociology class is supposed to read a chapter in a book called Sociology and the Modern Age. According to the course plan, the book is in the library, but I haven’t been able to find it.
Librarian: Do you have your course plan with you May I see it
Student: Yes, uh....I put it in the front of my sociology notebook. Oh, here it is.
Librarian: Let me see. Oh yes. Your professor has placed this book on reserve, That means you cannot find it on the shelves in its usual place.You need to go to a special room called the reserve room. It’s down the hall and to the right.
Student: I’m sorry. I still don’t understand what you mean by on reserve.
Librarian: You see, your professor wants every one in the class to read the chapter. If one student removes the book fr
A. Sociology and the Modern Art.
B. Sociology and the Modern Age.
C. Sociology and the Modern Asia.
D. Sociology and the Modern America.

[单项选择]Question 11～13 are based on the following dialogue between two strangers who met at the bus stop. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11～13.Why is the woman waiting
A. She is waiting for the man.
B. She is waiting for her mother.
C. She is waiting for a bus.
D. She is waiting for the rain to stop.

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Questions are based on the following conversation on transportation in 21st century.
M: Talking about the 21st Century, as far as transportation is concerned, I think there’re going to be huge changes in the way people use cars.They’ll probably have made laws about what kind of car you can own and when you can use it.
W: And I bet it’ll be impossible for people to use cars whenever they like. There’ll be just too many of them on the roads.The air will be so seriously polluted that nobody will be able to breathe normally.
M: Exactly. People will have to rely on other modes of transportation — especially trains.
W: Why do you say that
M: Well, we won’t be able to use caps, and airports take too much space.With the supply of land for airports shrinking around the world, there are going to be fewer airports and fewer plane flights.That leaves trains.
W: Huh. So do you thinkthere will be more efficient
A. The land for airports will be used for other purposes.
B. There are too many people travelling by car.
C. Many people have a fear for air travel.
D. There will be faster way" of travelling than travelling by air.

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The following two questions are based on the following passage:
An automaker is facing financial difficulties. The vice president of marketing has determined that the root of the company’s problems is low brand loyalty. The vice president proposes, therefore, that the company begin an aggressive advertising campaign focused on children aged from three to eight years. By securing strong brand recognition with this demographic, he argues, the company will have an advantage when these customers reach an age when they can buy cars.

Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for the vice president’s proposal ？（）
A. Federal law prohibits the advertising of alcohol or tobacco on any medium for which the primary audience is under 21 years of age.
B. Children aged three to eight, even if they had the money to purchase a car, will not legally be able to drive one for several years.
C. The cost of advertising on children’s programs is comparable to the cost of advertising on adult special-interest programs.
D. Focus groups have consistently observed that the automaker’s brand is associated with "tradition" and "older" drivers.
E. Studies have shown that lifelong customers of certain products, such as particular brands of toothpaste or peanut butter, frequently credit their brand loyalty to exposure to the product at an early age.

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Questions are based on the following monologue.
International experts are concerned about a growing humanitarian crisis- world hunger. Last year, the World Food Program fed more than seventy- seven-million people in eighty-two countries. Many of the people who received food aid are refugees and people forced to leave their homes because of conflict. This year, the humanitarian organization estimates an additional twenty-five-million people will need food aid.
Several problems have caused the world hunger crisis. These include severe dry weather and conflicts within and between countries. The World Food Program says starvation is a problem in parts of Asia, Central America and the Middle East. However, the hardest hit area is Africa. Officials estimate about forty-million people on that continent alone are threatened with starvation.
A spokesman for the World Food Program says that people in Ethiopia and Eritrea are facing starvation because of dry weather
A. It needs more money to continue its work.
B. It has to support another "hunger belt".
C. It has no aid from international community.
D. It has been halted in Southern Africa.