[单项选择]At the conference, the speaker tried to (express) his feelings concerning the urgency of favorable decisions.
A. convey
B. affect
C. impose on
D. summon

[单项选择]At the conference, the speaker tried to (express) his feelings concerning the urgency of favorable decisions.
A. convey
B. affect
C. impose on
D. summon

[单项选择]What was the theme of the conference the speaker was to attend（　）.
A. The role of immigrants in the construction of American society.
B. The importance of offering diverse courses in European history.
C. The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum.
D. The historic landing of Europeans on the Virginia shore.

[多项选择]For a keynote speaker at a conference on wilderness conservation, Pavan Sukhdev possessed astrange job title: banker. Sukhdev, a high-ranking executive of Deutsche Bank who helped build India’s modern financial markets, had a fiscal message to deliver. The loss of forests is costing the global economy between $ 2.5 trillion and $ 4.5 trillion a year, he said. Many trillions more in costs arise from the loss of vegetation to filter water, bees to pollinate crops, microbes to breakdown toxins, and dozens of other "ecosystem services. "
For centuries, economies have risen and collapsed based on the market value of the products extracted from nature-timber, coal, metals, game. And yet the value of much of what nature supplies hasn’t been reflected in the numbers. A new movement now seeks to put this right by attaching an economic value to the services nature provides. The idea is predicated on the notion that since a paper mill, say, needs water as well as trees, there should be some

[单项选择]Speaker A: Excuse me...
Speaker B: Yes
Speaker A: Could you tell me how far it is to the Railway Station
Speaker B: Yes. It’s （　） from here.
A. only ten-minutes walk
B. only a ten-minutes walk
C. only ten-minute walk
D. only a ten-minute walk

[单项选择]Speaker A: （　）
Speaker B: I’m a student.
Speaker A: What are you studying
Speaker B: Medicine.
A. Are you a student
B. What are you doing
C. How do you do
D. What do you do

[多项选择]Conference programme

[填空题]The Press Conference The press conference has certain advantages. The first advantage lies with the (1)______ nature of (1)______ the event itself; public officials are supposed to submit to scrutiny by responding to various questions at a press conference. Secondly, statements previously made at a press conference can be used as a (2)______in judging following statements or policies. (2)______ Moreover, in case of important events, press confer ences are an effective way to break the news to groups of reporters. However, from the point of view of (3)______, the (3)______ press conference possesses some disadvantages, mainly in its (4)_____and news source. The provider (4)______ virtually determines the manner in which a press conference proceeds. This, sometimes, puts news reporters at a(n) (5)______, as can be seen on live (5)______ broadcasts of news conferences. Factors in getting valuable information —preparation:

[单项选择]According to the speaker, how can a speaker indicate that the topic is about to change


A. By raising pitch.
B. By lowering register.
C. By pointing to a chart.
D. By pausin