A.Stand up, say “thank you” and take a sip of your drink.
B.Stand up and give a short speech.
C.Stand up and return the favor by giving the toaster his or her own toast.
D.Smile,but do nothing mor
E.
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
听力原文:W: Will you take these books to the library during your lunch hour, Jack? And here is a list of books I want to read. Ask the girl for two books from the list.
M: Certainly, mother. You've got about 20 titles here. What kind of books would you like?
Q: What is Jack going to do during his lunch hour?
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A.Return and borrow books in the library.
B.Go to work in the library.
C.Return books to the library and buy two books for his mother.
D.Write down the list of books his mother wants to read.
?You will hear five short recordings. Five people are talking about a problem that occurred.
?For each recording. decide what each speaker is talking about.
?Write one letter (A-H) next to the number of the recording.
?Do not use any letter more than once. There are some extra letters which you do not need to use.
?You will hear the five recordings twice.
A.A wrong hotel
B.A stolen wallet
C.A delayed flight
D.A computer crash
E.A missing luggage
F.A wrong credit card
G.A misplaced presentation
H.A cultural misunderstanding
In a period characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old-fashioned in her insistence on the essentially mimetic quality of her fiction. Hers is a world of violence, insanity, fractured love, and hopeless loneliness. Although some of it appears to come from her own observations, her dreams, and her fears. Much more is clearly form. the experience of others. Her first novel, With Shuddering Fall (1964), dealt with stock car racing, though she had never seen a race. In Them (1969) she focused on Detroit from the Depression through the riots of 1967, drawing much of her material from the Depression made on her by the problems of one of her students. Whatever the source and however shocking the events or the motivations, however, her fictive world remains strikingly akin to that real one reflected in the daily newspapers, the television news and talk shows, and the popular magazines of our day.
Which of the following does the passage indicate about Joyce Carol Oates' first publication?
A.It was part of her MA thesis.
B.It was a volume of short fiction.
C.It was not successful.
D.It was about an English instructor in Detroit.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: The earliest time when anything like badminton was played was some two thousand years ago when people in China played a game kicking a kind of shuttlecock around. Much later, in the nineteenth century, a game called "Battledore and shuttlecock" was played indoors in English country homes. Then, in 1873, some army officers who were playing at Badminton House, a large country house in the country near Avon in England, named the game "Badminton". When they returned to their duties in India, they continued to played badminton and produced the first set of rules for the game, which they played out of doors. Soon, in 1875, an officers' badminton club was stated in Folkestone, on the south coast of England. By 1893, fourteen badminton clubs had been established and together they formed the Badminton Association of England and agreed on a set of Laws of the Game.
Between 1900 and 1934, the game developed rapidly across Europe, Asia and the USA. Probably, the most influential figure in the sport at that time was a man called George Thomas. He won 21 All-England titles and over eighty international titles.
The importance of badminton as a world sport was recognized first by the introduction of the World Championships, which were first held in Malmo, Sweden in 1977 and then by its inclusion in the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992.
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A.It was named by the Chinese.
B.It was named after a country house in England.
C.It was named by a famous sports player.
D.It was named by Indian army officers.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of How to books are useful. In fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the word how to earn more money, another may tell you how to save or spend it, and another may explain how to give your money away.
Many how to books give advice on careers. They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed in it. If you fail, however, you can buy a book called How to Turn Failure into Success. If you would like to become rich, you can buy the book How to Make a Millionaire. If you never make any money at all, you may need a book called How to Live on Nothing.
One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love life, you can read How to Succeed in Love Every Minute of Your Life. If you are tired of books on happiness, you may prefer a book called How to Make Yourself Miserable.
Many of these hooks help people use their time better. Some people want hooks which will give them useful information about sports, hobbies and travel. Other people use their free time to make repairs and improvements on their homes. They prefer books which give step by step instructions on how to repair things, or how to redecorate or charge a house.
Why have how to books become so popular? Probably because life has become so complex. Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. How to books help people deal with modem life.
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A.How to earn more money.
B.How to save money.
C.How to give your money away.
D.How to spend money.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories, By The North Gate, in 1963, two years after she had received her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin and become an instructor of English at the University of Detroit. Her productivity since then has been prodigious, accumulating in less than two decades to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short stories and verses, plays, and literary criticism. In the meantime, she has continued to teach, moving in 1967 from the University of Detroit to the University of verses, in Ontario, and, in 1978, to Princeton University. Reviewers have admired her enormous energy, but find a productivity of such magnitude difficult to assess.
In a period characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old fashioned in her insistence on the essentially mimetic quality of her fiction. Hers is a world of violence, insanity, fractured love, and hopeless loneliness. Although some of it appears to come from her own direct observations, her dreams, and her fears, much more is clearly from the experiences of others. Her first novel, With Shuddering FaU(1964), dealt with stock car racing, though she had never seen a race. In Them (1969) she focused on Detroit from the Depression through the riots of 1967, drawing much of her material from the deep impression made on her by the problems of one of her students. Whatever the source and however shocking the events or the motivations, however, her fictive world remains strikingly akin to that real one reflected in the daily newspapers, the television, news, and talk shows, and the popular magazines of our day.
What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To review Oates's By the North Gate.
B.To compare some modern writers.
C.To describe Oates's childhood.
D.To outline Oates's career.
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