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A.useless
B.invaluable
C.valueless
D.worthy
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A.useless
B.invaluable
C.valueless
D.worthy
听力原文： A famous writer who was visiting Japan was invited to give a lecture at a university to a large group of students. As most of them could not understand spoken English, he had to have an interpreter.
During his lecture he told an amusing story which went on for rather a long time. At last he stopped to allow the interpreter to translate it into Japanese, and was very surprised when the man did this in a few seconds, after which all the students laughed loudly.
After the lecture, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work and then said to him, "Now please tell me how you translated that long story of mine into such a short Japanese one."
"I didn't tell the story at all," the interpreter answered with a smile. "I just said, 'The honorable lecturer has just told a funny story. You will all laugh, please. '"
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A．To tell a story to a group of students.
B．To translate some books.
C．To act as an interpreter.
D．To give a lecture at a university.
M: Nana is the most popular comic series because Japanese people can sympathize with this love story. Why Japanese people love comics is probably because riley do not show much of what they think or feel. So, they project their thoughts and feelings in comics.
W: Which part of Japan is the most famous？ And why？
M: The most famous part in Japan is Tokyo, the center of modern culture in Japan and all Japanese trends are born there.
W: What is the most important festival in Japan and why does it become so significant for the Japanese？
M: In Japan, the most important festival is the New Year's Holidays. Japanese people visit a shrine on New Year's day to pray for health and good future. Also, family gets together and many children receive money. Also, people clean the house before the New Year and eat toshikoshi soba for long life. And on New Year's day people eat osechi ryori, which is very special and delicious. I like New Year very much.
W: If I want to skiing, where should I go？
M: I think Nagano(长野) is the best place to ski in Japan. The reason is because the Winter Olympics were held in Nagano in 1998. The snow there is very soft and beautiful.
W: What kind of food do you like besides Japanese food？ Like American food, Chinese food？
M: Recently, young Japanese people eat with their friends at fast food restaurants like McDonalds or Yoshinoya. There are not many university students eating meals at home. I think that I am the same as those students. Also, Japanese like Italian, Chinese, and Korean food. But I like Japanese food the best because foreign food is too strong for me.
W: What do you think about Junlehiro Koizumi？ Is he handsome or look old？
M: I think Prime Minister Koizumi is a progressive person rather than a traditional one. He is active and has made good diplomacy, but his idea of tax increase is not good. I think capitalism is going to do big damage to poor people. Koizmni's capitalism is just like that of President George Bush. Is Koizumi handsome？ Well, I think he looks not all that bad.
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A．Nana is the most popular comic series in Japan because it's a love story.
B．Nana is the most popular comic series in Japan because its plot is attractive.
C．Japanese people do not like to express their thoughts and feelings before others.
D．Japanese people love comics because they are very funny and interesting.
W: I think the most popular prints are those of Cookie Monster, Hello Kitty, and animal characters. And Japanese don't wear bright clothes. Usually they wear dark ones, like black or brown.
M: Who is the most well-known Thai singer in Japan？
W: Tata Young is the most famous Thai singer in Japan. She held a live tour in Tokyo and it was a big success. Her debut album for Japan recorded great sales all over Asia. Her music is played on the Japanese dance scene. Tata Young is so famous, not only in Japan, but also around the world.
M: What is still the tradition nowadays and what is the main reason for the making tea ceremony？
W: In Japan, we send New Years cards to our relatives and friends at the beginning of the year. By making tea ceremony, we regain our composure and we can enjoy drinking tea more.
M: What is "samurai"？
W: Samurai were people who had a special position in traditional Japanese society. Their hairstyle. was called chonmage. They carried an edged tool, called nihonto. There are not any more samurai in Japan now.
M: What do you usually do in nightlife？
W: I usually listen to the radio, play die guitar and the piano at home in the night time. I think many other university students go out to dinner at an Izakaya and drink beer with their friends.
M: What's the population of your country and where do most people live？
W: Most people live in Tokyo: The population of Tokyo is 12 million. And the second largest population is that of Osaka, which is 8.8 million. In Kynto, there are only 1.5 million people.
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A．About some aspects of social life in Thailand.
B．About some aspects of social life in Japan.
C．About what prints are popular among teenagers in Thailand.
D．About what prints are popular among teenagers in Japan.
A、Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine tells the story of two Peking Opera actors' fortunes, from childhoodonwards, as they are kicked back and forth by warlords, Japanese invaders and other events, but it is actually about Chinese history, about the passage of time, about glory and decay, about love and hatred.
B、The extraordinary movie, Farewell My Concubine, is directed by the famous director, Chen Kaige who produced a lot of brilliant movies. Farewell My Concubine is about the story of two Peking Opera actors from 1925 to 1977. It helps the audience to understand Chinese history and arouses their attention to people’s fortune. It is undoubtedly a great movie loved by so many people in the world.
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听力原文： Once a source of high-pitched business activity, Japan's Karaoke industry has slowed down. Japanese have less to think about their sustained economic problems. Karaoke phones are now striving to develop new ideas to attract cost-conscious karaoke singers. These include a new high-tech machine that allows people to sing like famous singers and sing-rooms and some of the ancient cartoon figures targeted at the younger crowds. The new Karaoke machine bas been developed by a professor from the U. S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The machine uses a technology called see sound that automatically adjusts the speed and tone of any sound being played to match the tempo and speed the singer is using. The tempo can be adjusted manually on conventional karaoke machines, but the new product is the first machine to do it automatically.
What is NOT a feature of the new karaoke machine？
A．It is featured by high technology.
B．It allows you to imitate famous singers.
C．It can automatically alter the tempo and tone of a song.
D．It can be placed in specially designed theme rooms.
Following the end of World War Ⅱ, substantial changes were undertaken in Japan to liberate the individual from authoritarian restraints. The new democratic value system was accepted by many teachers, students, intellectuals, and old liberals, but it was not immediately embraced by the society as a whole. Japanese traditions were dominated by group values, and notions of personal freedom and individual rights were unfamiliar.
Today, democratic processes are clearly evident in the widespread participation of the Japanese people in social and political life. School textbooks emphasize equality over hierarchy and rationalism over tradition; hut in practice these values are often misinterpreted and distorted, particularly by the youth who translate the individualistic and humanistic goals of democracy into egoistic and materialistic ones.
Most Japanese people have consciously rejected Confucianism, but leftovers of the old order remain. An important feature of relationship in many institutions, including political parties and universities is the "oyabun-kobun" or parent-child relation. The corresponding loyalty of the individual to his patron reinforces his allegiance to the group to which they both belong. A willingness to cooperate with other members of the group and to support without qualification the interests of the group in all its external relations is still a widely respected virtue. The "oyabun-kobun" creates ladders of mobility which an individual can ascend, rising as far as abilities permit, so long as he maintains successful personal ties with a superior in the vertical channel, the latter requirement usually taking precedence over a need for exceptional competence. As a consequence, there is little horizontal relationship between people even with the same profession.
The spokesman of Japan's "Enlightenment" thinks that
A．the traditional culture should be replaced by western civilization.
B．Japanese ought to forsake the Confucian civilization of the East.
C．the Confucian civilization in Japan should be revived.
D．Japan should introduce western civilization.
SECTION A CONVERSATIONS
Directions: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文：M: Good morning, Cathy.
F: Good morning, Professor. What is our topic today？
M: Last time, we were talking about the Continental school system, and you have shown great interest. So today, we'll continue with the same topic and talk about the British educational systems.
F: I know there are many famous public schools and institutions like Eton, oxford and Cambridge. They play an important role in the whole educational system.
M: You're right. But do you know exactly how many students are there in these famous school or institutions？
F: No, what I know is what everyone knows.
M: Oxford and Cambridge are universities each having about 12,000 students out of a total 250,000 students at all British universities.
F: Wow, that's quite a large number. What about the public schools？ Do they have as many students？
M: You have made a mistake here. Do you think these public schools are public so they must have a large number of students？ However, in spite of their names, they are not really public at all, but independent and private secondary schools taking boys from the age of thirteen to eighteen years.
What was the topic of their conversation last time？
A．The US school system.
B．The Continental school system.
C．The Japanese school system.
D．The Indian school system.
What's so bad about that？ There was a time when the 35-hour workweek was the envy of the world, and especially of Americans, who used to travel to France just so they could watch the French relax. Some people even moved to France, bought farmhouses, adjusted their own internal clocks and wrote admiring, best-selling books about the leisurely and sensual French lifestyle.
But no more. The future, we are told, belongs to the modem-day Stakhanovites, who, like the famous Stalinist-era coal miner, are eager to exceed their quotas: to the people in India, say, who according to Thomas L. Friedman are eager to work a 35-hour day, not a 35-hour week. Even the Japanese, once thought to be workaholics, are mere sluggards compared with people in Hong Kong, where 70 percent of the work force now puts in more than 50 hours a week. In Japan the percentage is just 63 percent, though the Japanese have started what may become the next big global trend by putting the elderly to work. According to figures recently published in The Wall Street Journal, 71 percent of Japanese men between the ages of 60 and 64 still work, compared with 57 percent of American men the same age. In France, needless to say, the number is much lower. By the time they reach 60, only 17 percent of Frenchmen, fewer than one in five, are still punching the clock. The rest are presumably sitting in the cafe, fretting over the Turks, Bulgarians and Romanians, who, if they were admitted to the European Union, would come flooding over the French border and work day and night for next to nothing.
How could the futurologists be so wrong？ George Jetson, we should recall—the person many of us cartoon-watchers assumed we would someday become—worked a three-hour day, standard in the interplanetary era. Back in 1970, Alvin Toffler predicted that by 2000 we would have so much free time that we wouldn't know how to spend it.
Who does the word "Stakhanovites" refers to according to the passage？
A．Those that are of Russian origin.
B．Those Russian workers.
C．Those exceedingly hardworking ones.
D．Those socialists.
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