[00:06.34]1.
[00:08.79]M: How well are you prepared for your presentation?
[00:12.08]Your turn comes next Wednesday.
[00:14.33]W: I spent a whole week searching on the Net,
[00:17.20]but came up with nothing valuable.
[00:20.15]Q: What does the woman say about her presentation?
[00:27.93]2.
[00:29.66]W: Good morning, Jack. Late again?
[00:32.60]What is the excuse this time?
[00:34.53]M: I'm awfully sorry.
[00:35.16]I must have turned the alarm off and gone back to sleep again.
[00:40.24]Q:. What so we learn from the conversation?
[00:47.12]3.
[00:49.14]W: Excuse me. But could you tell me where I can change American dollars into British pounds?
[00:55.41]M: There's a bank round the corner.
[00:57.64]But I'm afraid it s already past it's closing time.
[01:01.23]Why don't you try the one near the railway station?
[01:04.68]Q: What dose the man mean?
[01:10.71]4.
[01:13.14]M: Could I speak to Dr. Chen?
[01:15.44]She told me to call her today.
[01:17.56]W: She s not available right now.
[01:20.00]Would you like to try around three?
[01:23.15]Q: What does the woman tell the man to do?
[01:29.84]5.
[01:31.99]W: Oh, dear. I'm afraid I fail again in the national test.
[01:36.62]It's thethird time I took it.
[01:39.14]M: Don't be too upset. I have the same fate.
[01:42.05][01:41.27]Let's try the fourth time.
[01:44.87]Q: What does the man mean?
[01:51.13]6.
[01:53.62]W: Professor Smith, I really need the credits to graduate this summer.
[01:58.17]M: Here in this school the credits are earned, not given.
[02:02.17]Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
[02:09.00]7.
[02:11.35]M: How did you go to Canada, Jane? Did you fly?
[02:14.92]W: I was planning to, because of sucha long trip by bus or by train.
[02:19.54]But Fred decided to drive me to join him.
[02:23.20]It took us two days and a night.
[02:25.41]Q: What can we infer from the conversation?
[02:32.66]8.
[02:35.25]M: How do you like the way I've arranged the furniture in my living room?
[02:39.26]W: Fine, but I think the walls could do with a few paintings.
[02:43.34]Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
[02:50.68]9.
[02:52.83]W:I don't imagine you have any interest in attending that lectureon drawing,do you?
[02:57.82]M: 0h, yes, I do, now that you remind me of it.
[03:01.47]Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
[03:08.19]10.
[03:11.10]M: You are my campaign manager.
[03:13.59]What do you think we should do to win the election?
[03:16.53]I'm convinced I'm the best candidate for the chairman ofthe student union.
[03:21.30]W: We won't be able to win unless we get the majority votes from the women students.
[03:26.69]Q: What is the man doing?
[03:33.19]Section B
[03:35.69]Passage one
[03:37.52]There are some serious problems in the Biramichy River.
[03:40.62]The local Chamber of Commerce,which represents the industries in the area,
[03:45.93]hired me as a consultant, to do a one-year study onfishing in the Biramichy River,
[03:50.86]and write a report for them.
[03:53.84]This is my report:
[03:55.92]One of the major problems in the Biramichy River,
[03:59.23]is that the level of oxygen in the water is too low.
[04:02.66]Several chemicals had displaced the oxygen.
[04:06.58]This chemical-pollution has two sources;the factories,
[04:11.24]which dump polluted water directly into the river,
[04:14.45]and the local community, which dumps untreated human wastes into the river.
[04:19.62]The local town-government,has already spent two million dollars on waste-water treatment projects,
[04:26.84]but it would cost another twenty-seven million to complete the projects.
[04:30.84]It will take at least fifteen years for the town to collect enough revenue,
[04:35.11]from taxes, to completethese projects.
[04:38.58]The factories here employ 17,000 people,
[04:41.97]in an area where there is very little alternative employment.
[04:45.83]It is not economically practical to close or relocate the factories.
[04:50.89]Also, thefactories cannot aford to finance chemical-treatment plants by themselves.
[04:57.29]Another problem is that the members of the Biramichy Fishing Co-operative are over-fishing.
[05:03.32]Fishes are caught when they are on their way upstream to lay eggs.
[05:08.44]Consequently, not enough fish are left to reproduce in large numbers.
[05:13.64]The members of the Co-operative say they have already reduced their annual catch by 50%.
[05:19.92]However, my studies indicate that they took fewer fish
[05:24.27]because there were fewer fish to catch-not because they were trying to Preserve fishes.
[05:31.55]Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[05:36.85]Qll. What was the speaker assigned to do in the past year?
[05:47.14]Q12. What is one of the problems in the Birramitchy River?
[05:57.16]Q13. What does the passage tell us about the factories along the river?
[06:07.83]Q14. Why was the anmual catch of fish in the Biramichy River reduced,according to the speaker?
[06:21.42]Passage two
[06:23.46]Everybody has to die some day, but nobody likes to think about it.
[06:28.80]Even so, at sometime intheir lives, most people manage to think about the question of how to make a will.
[06:36.96]If you have already made yours,
[06:39.24]it's probably just a few pages of writing stating that you wish to leave everything to your family.
[06:45.68]That's the kind Of will that the majority of people make.
[06:49.98]However, there are plenty of ways to make your will more interesting, if you want to.
[06:56.03]To begin with, you don't have to write it on paper.
[07:00.26]One man wrote his will on an envelope; another on a door, and a third on an egg.
[07:06.82]For some people, the most important part of their will is the part that says how they want to be buried.
[07:14.22]Mrs.Sandra West,a rich widow from Texas,decided that she wanted to be buried with her favorite car.
[07:21.95]In 1973, Mr. Green, a dentist from England, left most of his money to the nurse who worked for him,
[07:29.47]if, in five years, she wouldn't wear any kind of make-up or jewelry, or go out with men.
[07:35.65]Finally, let's hope that your will is not like that of Doctor Wagner,
[07:41.24]who lived in America one hundred years ago.
[07:44.62]His family, who had no been to see him for years,
[07:47.85]suddenly began to visit him when he became ill.
[07:50.93]What was worse, each person suggested to Doctor Wagner
[07:55.04]that they would like something to remember him by when he died.
[08:00.17]Greatly annoyed with them, Doctor Wagner wrote a will that would do this.
[08:05.12]To each of his four brothers, he left one of his legs or arms.
[08:09.63]His nephew got his nose, and his two nieces each go an ear.
[08:14.05]His teeth went to his cousins.
[08:16.73]Then he set aside one thousand dollare to pay for cutting up his body,
[08:21.77]and the rest of his money he left to the poor.
[08:25.54]Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[08:31.83]Q15 . What kind of will do most people leave behind, according to the passage?
[08:42.00]Q16. What did the nurse have to do, before getting the money left by the English dentist?
[08:53.39]Q17. Why did Doctor Wagner make an unusual wll?
[09:03.77]Passage three
[09:05.36]In recent years, there has been an unusually large number of divorces in the United States.
[09:11.53]In the past, when two people married each other, they intended to stay together for life,
[09:17.59]while today many people marry believing that they can always get a divorce if the marriage does not work out.
[09:24.46]In the past, a large majority of Americans frowned at the idea of divorce.
[09:29.85]Furthermore, man people believed that getting a divorce was a luxury that only the rich could afford.
[09:36.48]Indeed, gettinga divorce was very expensive.
[09:40.56]However, since so many people have begun to take a more casualview of marriage,
[09:45.80]it is interesting to note that the costs of getting a divorce are lower.
[09:50.32]In fact,wherever you go in the United States today,
[09:53.98]it is no unusual to see newspaper ads that provideinformation on how and where to get a cheap divorce.
[10:01.73]Hollywood has always been known as the, divorce capital of the world.'
[10:06.59] The divorce atamong the movie stars is so high that it is dificult to know who is married to whom.
[10:13.05]Today, manymovie stars change husbands and wives as though they were changing clothes.
[10:19.29]Until marriageagain becomes a serious and important part of people's lives,
[10:23.83]we will probably continue to see ahigh rate of divorce.
[10:29.04]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you've just heard.
[10:35.55]Q18. What did many Americans think of divorce in the past?
[10:44.89]Q19. What is the attitude of man Americans to marriage today?
[10:56.49]Q20. In the speaker's view, when will the high rate of divorce be brought down?