[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 does the professor mean when he says this "So, baby Mary died at birth, and then another baby Mary came along who survived. Both go into the record books"
A. Two people referred to the record book.
B. Even names are not as reliable.
C. Two copies of the record book were made.
D. Two names were recorded in the record book.

[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.

Who is most likely to want a higher speed limit
A. Drivers with turbo-charged vehicles.
B. Professional truck drivers.
C. Older people.
D. People from the Southern US.

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 13 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 talk, which of the following is not correct
A. Sleep and dreams affect the way people feel.
B. Dreams have a strong effect on the moods of people.
C. The moods of people affect their performance.
D. The more sleepy people are, the better they perform.

[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Picasso’s art was not just a pleasant distraction. The artist believed that art helps to penetrate further into the world and into men for understanding. With his unusually acute senses, with his intense, black eyes, Picasso saw every subject as no one else did. He tried to express the essence of his subject. He showed people how to grasp a new concept of beauty. He made them realize that beauty can have a diversity of forms. "Now is the time in this period of change and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before." That was Picasso’s idea. Believing it is the artist’s function to discover new forms of expression, he liberated art and made our feelings about it more acute.
Picasso keeps all of art alive. His work encompasses ’all of the past and foretells the future of art. His early paintings were sober and sensible, in the academic style. But Picasso was among the first
A. Cezanne.
B. Picasso.
C. Michelangelo.
D. An unknown artist.

[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.
Dr. Sheeler was a little ______ when Mr. Nelson insisted that he come.
A. fussy
B. angry
C. anxious
D. crazy

[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
I am a foot taller than Napoleon and twice the weight of Twiggy; on my only visit to a beautician (美容师), the woman said she found my face a challenge. Yet despite these social disadvantages I feel cheerful, happy, confident and secure.
I work for a daily newspaper and so get to a lot of places I would otherwise never see. This year I went to Ascot to write about the people there. I saw something there that made me realize the stupidity of trying to conform, of trying to be better than anyone else. There was a small, plump woman, all dressed up—huge hat, dress with pink butterflies, long white gloves. She also had a shooting stick. But because she was so plump, when she sat on the stick it went deep into the ground and she couldn’t pull it out. She tugged and tugged, tears of rage in her eyes. When the final tug brought it out, she crashed with it to the ground.
I saw her walk away. Her day had bee

[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.
Where did the first Japanese immigrants settle during World War II
A. In California only.
B. In hastily established camps.
C. At Pearl Harbor.
D. In California and other Pacific states.

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 14 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 the campers who have asthma
A. They shouldn’t come to the camp.
B. They must limit their activities.
C. They will be seen by a doctor every day.
D. They bring their medicine to camp.

[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
A Census Bureau (人口调查局) survey released Thursday shows a college graduate can expect to earn $2.1 million working full-time between 25 and 54, which demographers (人口学家) call a typical work-life period. A master’s degree-holder is projected to earn 2.5 million, while someone with a professional degree, such as a doctor or lawyer, could make even more-- $4.4 million. In contrast, a high school graduate can expect to make $1.2 million during the working years, according to the bureau report that tracked the influence of education on lifetime earnings.
Not all students look at college as an Investment," but I am sure parents do," said Jacqueline King, policy analyst with the American Education Council, a higher education advocacy (拥护) group. "The college is to convince those high school students on the margins that it is really worth their time to go to college. " Kevin Malecek, a graduate student in Am
A. students who actually regard higher education as an investment
B. students who can’t afford the money to go to college or university
C. students who can’t go to college because they have failed in the college entrance examination
D. students who don’t know whether higher education can have great influence on their earnings

[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually completed a coup e of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University Mort and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms
A. employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B. lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C. college degrees can now be purchased easily
D. employers are no longer interested in college degrees

[单项选择]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Before refrigerators, homes usually had ice boxes. But (47) way to keep food cool without the need for electricity is to use an evaporative cooler. This is easy to make and does not even use (48) .
A. Cold (54) in a freezer, however, can keep foods in good condition fox months after the (55) season. Yet foods can be damaged if they are kept too cold The British development group Practical Action says the best way to prepare foods for storage is at (56) time while still in the field. Use a sharp knife to avoid damage.

• stayI) covered
• B) storageJ) under
• C) harvest
  B. K) water
• other
  C. L) cold
• growing
  D. M) air
• another
  E. N) preparation
• ice
  F. O) take
• cool