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1. |
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M: How well are you prepared for your presentation? |
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Your turn comes next Wednesday. |
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W: I spent a whole week searching on the Net, |
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but came up with nothing valuable. |
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Q: What does the woman say about her presentation? |
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2. |
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W: Good morning, Jack. Late again? |
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What is the excuse this time? |
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M: I'm awfully sorry. |
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I must have turned the alarm off and gone back to sleep again. |
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Q:. What so we learn from the conversation? |
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3. |
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W: Excuse me. But could you tell me where I can change American dollars into British pounds? |
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M: There's a bank round the corner. |
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But I'm afraid it s already past it's closing time. |
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Why don't you try the one near the railway station? |
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Q: What dose the man mean? |
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4. |
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M: Could I speak to Dr. Chen? |
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She told me to call her today. |
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W: She s not available right now. |
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Would you like to try around three? |
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Q: What does the woman tell the man to do? |
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5. |
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W: Oh, dear. I'm afraid I fail again in the national test. |
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It's thethird time I took it. |
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M: Don't be too upset. I have the same fate. |
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Let's try the fourth time. |
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Q: What does the man mean? |
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6. |
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W: Professor Smith, I really need the credits to graduate this summer. |
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M: Here in this school the credits are earned, not given. |
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Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
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7. |
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M: How did you go to Canada, Jane? Did you fly? |
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W: I was planning to, because of sucha long trip by bus or by train. |
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But Fred decided to drive me to join him. |
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It took us two days and a night. |
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Q: What can we infer from the conversation? |
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8. |
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M: How do you like the way I've arranged the furniture in my living room? |
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W: Fine, but I think the walls could do with a few paintings. |
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Q: What does the woman suggest the man do? |
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9. |
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W:I don't imagine you have any interest in attending that lectureon drawing,do you? |
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M: 0h, yes, I do, now that you remind me of it. |
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Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation? |
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10. |
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M: You are my campaign manager. |
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What do you think we should do to win the election? |
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I'm convinced I'm the best candidate for the chairman ofthe student union. |
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W: We won't be able to win unless we get the majority votes from the women students. |
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Q: What is the man doing? |
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Section B |
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Passage one |
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There are some serious problems in the Biramichy River. |
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The local Chamber of Commerce,which represents the industries in the area, |
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hired me as a consultant, to do a one-year study onfishing in the Biramichy River, |
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and write a report for them. |
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This is my report: |
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One of the major problems in the Biramichy River, |
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is that the level of oxygen in the water is too low. |
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Several chemicals had displaced the oxygen. |
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This chemical-pollution has two sources;the factories, |
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which dump polluted water directly into the river, |
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and the local community, which dumps untreated human wastes into the river. |
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The local town-government,has already spent two million dollars on waste-water treatment projects, |
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but it would cost another twenty-seven million to complete the projects. |
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It will take at least fifteen years for the town to collect enough revenue, |
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from taxes, to completethese projects. |
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The factories here employ 17,000 people, |
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in an area where there is very little alternative employment. |
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It is not economically practical to close or relocate the factories. |
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Also, thefactories cannot aford to finance chemical-treatment plants by themselves. |
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Another problem is that the members of the Biramichy Fishing Co-operative are over-fishing. |
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Fishes are caught when they are on their way upstream to lay eggs. |
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Consequently, not enough fish are left to reproduce in large numbers. |
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The members of the Co-operative say they have already reduced their annual catch by 50%. |
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However, my studies indicate that they took fewer fish |
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because there were fewer fish to catch-not because they were trying to Preserve fishes. |
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Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Qll. What was the speaker assigned to do in the past year? |
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Q12. What is one of the problems in the Birramitchy River? |
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Q13. What does the passage tell us about the factories along the river? |
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Q14. Why was the anmual catch of fish in the Biramichy River reduced,according to the speaker? |
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Passage two |
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Everybody has to die some day, but nobody likes to think about it. |
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Even so, at sometime intheir lives, most people manage to think about the question of how to make a will. |
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If you have already made yours, |
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it's probably just a few pages of writing stating that you wish to leave everything to your family. |
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That's the kind Of will that the majority of people make. |
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However, there are plenty of ways to make your will more interesting, if you want to. |
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To begin with, you don't have to write it on paper. |
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One man wrote his will on an envelope; another on a door, and a third on an egg. |
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For some people, the most important part of their will is the part that says how they want to be buried. |
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Mrs.Sandra West,a rich widow from Texas,decided that she wanted to be buried with her favorite car. |
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In 1973, Mr. Green, a dentist from England, left most of his money to the nurse who worked for him, |
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if, in five years, she wouldn't wear any kind of make-up or jewelry, or go out with men. |
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Finally, let's hope that your will is not like that of Doctor Wagner, |
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who lived in America one hundred years ago. |
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His family, who had no been to see him for years, |
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suddenly began to visit him when he became ill. |
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What was worse, each person suggested to Doctor Wagner |
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that they would like something to remember him by when he died. |
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Greatly annoyed with them, Doctor Wagner wrote a will that would do this. |
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To each of his four brothers, he left one of his legs or arms. |
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His nephew got his nose, and his two nieces each go an ear. |
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His teeth went to his cousins. |
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Then he set aside one thousand dollare to pay for cutting up his body, |
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and the rest of his money he left to the poor. |
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Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Q15 . What kind of will do most people leave behind, according to the passage? |
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Q16. What did the nurse have to do, before getting the money left by the English dentist? |
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Q17. Why did Doctor Wagner make an unusual wll? |
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Passage three |
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In recent years, there has been an unusually large number of divorces in the United States. |
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In the past, when two people married each other, they intended to stay together for life, |
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while today many people marry believing that they can always get a divorce if the marriage does not work out. |
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In the past, a large majority of Americans frowned at the idea of divorce. |
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Furthermore, man people believed that getting a divorce was a luxury that only the rich could afford. |
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Indeed, gettinga divorce was very expensive. |
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However, since so many people have begun to take a more casualview of marriage, |
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it is interesting to note that the costs of getting a divorce are lower. |
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In fact,wherever you go in the United States today, |
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it is no unusual to see newspaper ads that provideinformation on how and where to get a cheap divorce. |
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Hollywood has always been known as the, divorce capital of the world.' |
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The divorce atamong the movie stars is so high that it is dificult to know who is married to whom. |
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Today, manymovie stars change husbands and wives as though they were changing clothes. |
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Until marriageagain becomes a serious and important part of people's lives, |
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we will probably continue to see ahigh rate of divorce. |
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Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you've just heard. |
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Q18. What did many Americans think of divorce in the past? |
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Q19. What is the attitude of man Americans to marriage today? |
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Q20. In the speaker's view, when will the high rate of divorce be brought down? |