[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Many private institutions of higher education around the country are in danger. Not all will be saved, and perhaps not all deserved to be saved. There are low-quality schools just as there is low-quality business. We have no obligation to save them simply because they exist.
But many thriving institutions that deserve to continue are threatened. They are doing a fine job educationally, but they are caught in a financial squeeze, with no way to reduce rising costs or increasing revenues significantly. Raising tuition doesn’t bring in more revenues, for each time tuition goes up, the enrollment goes down, or the amount that must be given away in student aid goes up. Schools are businesses, whether public or private, not usually because of mismanagement but because of the nature of the enterprise. They lose money on every customer, and they can go bankrupt either from too few students or too many students. Even a very goo

[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. students attend a school only part-time
B. students never attended a school they listed on their application
C. students purchase false degrees from commercial firms
D. students attended a famous school

[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.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" meant that
A. Americans would lose if they gave way to fear.
B. Americans have no real troubles during the 1930s.
C. D.R. would solve America’s problems because he was not afraid.
D. Americans were in trouble because they hadn’t looked at their troubles with clear heads.

[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.

What happens to the female elephant when it dies
A. The others take a bit of its dead body away.
B. The others eat its dead body.
C. The others bury it near their home.
D. The others leave it soon.

[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.


At first country music was popular mainly in the ______.
A. South
B. Northeast and West
C. factories in Midwest
D. South and Northeast

[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.


Which of the following statements is NOT true
A. The ship described in this article was crossing the Arctic Ocean.
B. The men, women, and children on the boat were very frightened.
C. The hole in the boat opened into the engine room.
D. The captain’s arm was in the icy water for an hour.

[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 is the focus of the passage
A. The reasons for people’s cry.
B. How tears are produced.
C. The function of tears.
D. The findings of Winfred.

[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.
Most of the Olympics ceremonies are to
A. emphasize the justice and peace
B. promote the international friendship and peaceful cooperation
C. promote the ideals of sportsmanship in competition
D. insist on the mutual understanding and international aid

[单项选择] Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too- distant future.
In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.
The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere — space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.
Probably nowhere in the country is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Muse
A. influence
B. conclusion
C. joining
D. expansion

[填空题] Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, than another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more (47) when they are. After that we’re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will (48) be happy when they are out of that stage.
We always tell ourselves that our life will be (49) when our spouse gets his or her act together. When we get a nice car, and are able to go on a nice vocation when we (50) . The truth is that there’s no better time than right now. If not now, when Our life will always be filled with (51) .It’s best to admit this to ourselves and decide to be happy anyway.
One of my favorite (52) comes from Alfred Souza. He said: "for a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some (53