[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.
What is the purpose of the animal welfare organizations
A. To make people realize that pets have a right to be treated well.
B. To offer care and adoption services for homeless and abused animals.
C. To buy health insurance for their pets.
D. To bury the pets in a respectable pet cemetery.

[单项选择] Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
A proverb allegedly from ancient China was widely spread in the West: "If you want to be happy for a few hours, go to get drunk; if you want a lifetime happiness, take up gardening." The reason for the last option is this: Gardening is not only useful, but it helps you to identify yourself with nature, and thus brings you new joy each day besides improving your health.
A research of a US university that I’ve read gives a definition of happiness as what makes a person feel comfortably pleased. To put it specifically, happiness is an active state of mind where one thinks one’s life is meaningful, satisfactory and comfortable. This should be something lasting rather than transitory.
Lots of people regard it the happiest to be at leisure. But according to a study, it is not a person with plenty of leisure but one at work that feels happy, especially those busy with work having little time for leisure. H
A. gardening is a profitable business
B. it can strengthen gardener’s ability to remake nature
C. gardener can enjoy very happy marriage
D. gardener can build good relationship with nature

[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
The better defined your hiring process is, the more easily it will be adhered to. I suggest that you use a multi-stage interviewing process by which the candidate meets with multiple people to provide different opinions and input on the hiring-decision. Again, keep all notes taken during the interview. These notes should be factual and should detail observations made by the people conducting the interview as well as quotations of the candidate’s responses to questions. There should be no inferences made about a candidate in any notes, and no notes should betaken on a, resume (简历).
Pre-determine three to six questions that will help you uncover the capability of each applicant and ask those same questions to each person that is interviewed. These initial questions will serve as a departure point to base other follow-up questions on. By using the same question in different ways and you will also
A. how to pre-determine questions in an interview
B. how to respond to candidates after an interview
C. how to arrange the interviewing process properly
D. how to decide the best match during an interview

[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
To call something "marginal" means it is not very good. Farmers have their own way to (47) marginal land: It is the last to be planted under good conditions, and has the (48) to be avoided under poor conditions. Low (49) soil is not the only reason land could be considered marginal. It might be in an area where rainfall is (50) or where a hillside might rise too steeply(陡峭地).
There are uses for marginal land, however. Most often it is used as grassland. Grasses provide excellent (51) for grazing (吃草) animals like cattle, sheep and goats. Grass seed can be bought from a foreign supplier or (52) grasses can be used. However, using marginal land for grazing is not a simple issue. There is a (53) of overgrazing. Cattle can damage the crops by eating down to the roots. Also, the weight of the animals crushes the soft and can make

[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.

How many universities were there in Britain in the year of 1960
A. More than 40.
B. Less than 18.
C. More than 20.
D. Less than 40.

[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.

______ may not be responsible for the ruin of the wine industry in Britain.
A. The decline of the quality of the British wine
B. The English king, Henry Ⅱ
C. The English king, Henry ⅥⅡ
D. The imported wine’s competition and the change of climate

[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.
From the passage, we can learn that ______.
A. the number of Chinese Internet users is the second in the world
B. Chinese Internet penetration is relatively strong per capita
C. China has finished supervising the Internet
D. a series of rules and regulations will be set

[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.
The general tone of the passage is one of
A. annoyance.
B. explanation.
C. deduction.
D. complaint.

[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.
Which of the following is CORRECT
A. His eccentricity had become legendary after he died.
B. He was a mean man because he hardly ever used a large car he had.
C. He was in a bedraggled condition on purpose when buying an expensive coat.
D. He made a joke simply to prove that critics do not always know what they are talking about.