[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.
Why were Thorpe’s medals taken away from him
A. Because someone found out that Thorpe had been using drugs.
B. Because it was found out that Thorpe had once been an amateur athlete.
C. Because Thorpe’s fame began to decline after the Olympic Games.
D. Because it was found out that at one time Thorpe had been a professional athlet

[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Do you want to live forever By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish — providing you are willing to leave your biological body and take up residence in silicon circuits. But long before then, perhaps as early as 2005, less radical measures will begin offering as semblance (外表) of immortality.
Researchers are confident that technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life. Whatever you see and hear, plus all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and automatically indexed, and added to your personal chronicles (历代记 ). By the 2030s, it may be possible to capture your nervous system’s electrical activities, which would also preserve your thoughts and emotions. Researchers at the Laboratories of British Telecommunications have defined this concept as Soul Catcher.
Small electronic equipment will pave the way for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps
A. a new machine on which radical research measures have already made
B. a new invention in order to capture and preserve human thoughts
C. made by British scientists to offer a semblance of immortality
D. made of silicon circuits which can index people’s nervous activity

[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical setting is to efficiency and comfort in our work. College classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical thinking.
We have entered the twenty-first century, but step into almost any college classroom and you step back in time at least a hundred years. Desks are normally in straight rows, so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates. The assumption behind such an arrangement is obvious. Everything of importance comes from the teacher.
With a little imagination and effort, unless desks are fixed to the floor, the teacher can correct this situation and create space that encourages interchange among students. In small or standard-size classes, chairs, desks and tables can be arranged in a variety of ways. The primary goal should be for everyo
A. the teacher saves the trouble in doing that
B. learning is made comfortable in this way
C. the teacher can easily remember students’ names and faces
D. brighter students can help slower ones

[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 the score after the first 45 minutes of the final
A. Argentina 2-1 Uruguay
B. Argentina 1-2 Uruguay
C. Argentina 4-2 Uruguay
D. Argentina 2-4 Uruguay

[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.

Why are visitors to Britain always complaining about English food
A. Because they don’t eat in an English home.
B. Because the restaurants they go to serve foreign food.
C. Because they don’t know what they eat is not real English food.
D. Because people in large towns are too busy to provide them with English foo

[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.
______ is the thing which is done by the least women.
A. Playing team and individual sports
B. Getting an annual physical
C. Visiting a spiritual or religious leader
D. Going to a hypnotist

[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 is mainly talked about in the passage
A. How to distinguish people’s faces.
B. How to describe people’s personality.
C. How to distinguish people both inward and outward.
D. How to differ good persons from bad persons.

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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.

When did the first award ceremony take place（　）.
A. In 1895.
B. In 1901.
C. In 1962.
D. In 1968.

[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.
What made people choose the movie over the theater
A. The World War Ⅰ.
B. The fact that films were less expensive.
C. The fact that fihns were silent.
D. The fact that films were shorter.