Nick went to Greece with his aunt and uncle for a visit.

Which of the following statements about Greece is INCORRECT？

A．It gets an almost $400 billion"s debt.

B．It has already got more than $50 billion"s bailout.

C．Greek workers protest against some of the cutting spending plans.

D．It was not the only country whose investment ratings went down.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the text？

A．Schjerfbeck started to learn painting when she was 10.

B．Schjerfbeck presented "The Wounded Warrior in the Snow" to the school.

C．Schjerfbeck went to many countries, including Greece, on her travel grant.

D．Schjerfbeck stayed in France for a year.

Which of the following statements is true？

A．West European cities established their own urban traditions.

B．West European cities grew directly out of those in the Middle East.

C．Cities appeared earlier in the Middle East than in Greece and Rome.

D．West European and Middle East cities went through the same phases.

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

Directions: In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

听力原文： A Cypriot plane full of vacationers slammed into a mountainside north of Athens on Sunday after at least one pilot lost consciousness from lack of oxygen, killing all 121 people aboard, more than one third of them children. The cause of Greece's deadliest plane crash appeared to be technical failure resulting in high-altitude decompression and not terrorism, authorities said. A transport official said the 115 passengers and six crew may have been dead when the plane went down.

What was the cause of the plane crash？

A．Foggy weather.

B．Lack of fuel.

C．Technical failure.

D．Terrorism.

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： Our friend, Nick, whose English gets better and better, declared solemnly the other day that he thought that the British climate was wonderful, but the British weather was terrible. He went on to explain by pointing out that the British climate was a temperate one. "This meant," he said, "that you could always be certain that the weather would never be extreme, at any rate not for any length of time, never very hot and never very cold." He quite rightly pointed out that the rainfall in Britain, according to the statistics, was not very heavy. "Why then," he asked, "has the British climate such a bad reputation？" He answered by saying it was because of the extraordinary, unreliable weather. There was no part of the year at which you could be certain that the weather would be dry or wet , clear or dull, hot or cold. A bad day in July could be as cold as a mild day in January. Indeed you could feel cold at almost any time of the year. Nick blamed drafty British houses for this, but agreed you could also blame the small amount of sunshine and a great amount of dampness. He advised every student coming to Britain to bring an umbrella and to understand the meaning of that splendid word "drizzle".

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A．An English professor.

B．A foreign student.

C．An English student.

D．An English weatherman.

听力原文：W Have you decided where you're going for vacation this year？

M I haven't thought about it much. But Gloria definitely wants to go back to Spain.

W Sounds great. I visited Spain 5 years ago and it was wonderful. I enjoyed it more than Italy or Greece and I've always wanted to go back. So when were you last there？

M We've gone the last two summers. Two years ago we went to Madrid and last year we toured the south. This year Gloria wants to go see the northern part of the country.

What are the speakers mainly discussing？

A．The woman's recent trip

B．The best places to travel

C．The man's vacation plans

D．The best time of year to travel

Inventor of LED

When Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was unrealistic. Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to airports. Dozens of his students have continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology.

On April 23, 2004, Holonyak received the $ 500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize at a ceremony in Washington. This marks the 10th year that the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has given the award to prominent inventors. "Anytime you get an award, big or little, it's always a surprise. " Holonyak said.

Holonyak, 75, was a student of John Bardeen, an inventor of the transistor, in the early 1950s. After graduate school, Holonyak worked at Bell Labs. He later went to General Electric, where he invented a switch now widely used in house dimmer switches. Later, Holonyak started looking into how semiconductors could be used to generate light. But while his colleagues were looking at how to generate invisible light, he wanted to generate visible light. The LEDs he invented in 1962 now last about 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs, and are more environmentally friendly and cost effective.

Holonyak, now a professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, said he suspected that LEDs would become as commonplace as they are today, but didn't realize how many uses they would have.

"You don't know in the beginning. You think you're doing something important, you think it's worth doing, but you really can't tell what the big payoff is going to be, and when, and how. You just don't know. " he said.

The Lemelson-MIT Program also recognized Edith Flanigen, 75, with the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on a new generation of "molecular sieves," that can separate molecules by size.

Holonyak's colleagues thought he would fail in his research on LEDs at the time when he started it.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

ascinating birds and animals that they pay to see in the zoo. One of the questions that is always asked of me is【56】I became an animal collector in the first【57】. The answer is that I have always been interested in animals and zoos. According to my parents, the first word I was able to say with any【58】was not the conventional" mamma" or "daddy" ,【59】the word "zoo" , which I would【60】over and over again with a shrill【61】until someone, in group to【62】me up, would take me to the zoo. When I【63】a little older, we lived in Greece and I had a great【64】of pets, ranging from owls to seahorses, and I spent all my spare time【65】the countryside in search of fresh specimens to【66】to my collection of pets【67】on I went for a year to the City Zoo, as a student【68】, to get experience of the large animals, such as lions, bears, bison and ostriches,【69】were not easy to keep at home. When I left, I【70】had enough money of my own to be able to【71】my first trip and I have been going【72】ever since then. Though a collector's job is not an easy one and is full of【73】, it is certainly a job which will appeal【74】all those who love animals and【75】.

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A．how

B．where

C．when

D．whether

SECTION B INTERVIEW

Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

听力原文：W: This month we are speaking to Nick Bailey about his time in Hong Kong. Nick, why did you go to Hong Kong？

M: After I had finished university, I thought that it would be a good chance to go traveling. I'd also heard that there were some good acting opportunities for people who wanted to get into cinema or adverts or films, so I thought that would be a good chance to go and try it out in Hong Kong.

W: What were your first impressions of Hong Kong？

M: Well, as soon as you get off the plane you really, you notice the heat, it's like opening an oven door. It's really humid in Hong Kong. And then later you go to the city and it's quite amazing in the harbour and with all the tall buildings and it reminded me of the pictures I've seen of Sao Paolo, in Brazil.

W: And what were the best things about your stay there？

M: Well, the food is fantastic, you can go to these restaurants called Dim Sum restaurants, and it's like you're in this restaurant and it's massive, and there's lots of people there, and these old ladies pulling these trolleys around and they've got lots of little plates of Dim Sum. Dim Sum is basically little dumplings filled with mincemeat, or filled with chicken, or filled, or vegetables. They're really delicious, and you can have soy sauce as well, that's really great.

W: So the food is wonderful there. Anything else？

M: Also, there's lots of really interesting people there, in Hong Kong, you can get everything from Vietnam Vets to prostitutes to, to business men escaping from bad debts back home, it's quite interesting you get to meet a lot of different types of people, you know.

W: Did you come across anything undesired？ Or what was your worst experience？

M: I was living on an island. It had a mountain and it was obviously surrounded by the city. There were no cars, and all were riding bicycles. But the worst thing about living there was that we were on a flat and there were lots of mosquitoes. I suppose they must have come from a pond or something. So at night I got bitten a lot.

W: So you did not live downtown？ You lived on an island, not the main island I suppose？ That must have given you a lot of inconvenience？

M: That's true, more or less. As I lived on an island, I had to get to the ferry in the morning, which meant I had to get up at 5:40 in the morning. Because the ferry is about 40 minutes. So that was too bad having to get up early.

W: Would you go back？ Do you have a kind of plan to go there and find a more permanent job there？

M: I'd really like to go back. Since I left, it's come back to China. It went back in 1997. So I'd like really to see how it has changed, I’ve heard that it has changed a lot.

W: And what was the funniest thing that happened to you？

M: Well, lots of funny things happened really, but there was one funny incident in a post office. On the island where I lived, there was one post office. I went in there and all the blinds were pulled down. I went up to one of the windows and knocked on the window. After about a minute the blind went up and a little guy said, "yes, what do you want'？" And I said I'd got this letter and he was about to give me the stamp for England and then ! said that I needed to send it registered, and so he said, "oh, next counter" So, anyway he pulled the blind down there, and I went to the next counter and then a few seconds later the blind went up and it was the same guy there. I thought that was quite funny.

W: Did you have any problem with the language？

M: Yes. Although, you know, it was an English colony, a lot of people do speak English, taxi drivers don't

A．the amazing harbour

B．the fantastic food

C．the heat

D．the tall buildings

ascinating birds and animals that they pay to see in the zoo. One of the questions that is always asked of me is【C1】______I became an animal collector in the first【C2】______. The answer is that I have always been interested in animals and zoos. According to my parents, the first word I was able to say with any【C3】______was not the conventional "mamma" or "daddy",【C4】______the word "zoo", which I would【C5】______over and over again with a shrill【C6】______until someone, in order to【C7】______me up, would take me to the zoo. When I grow a little older, we lived in Greece and I had a great【C8】______of pets,【C9】______from owls to seahorses, and I spent all my spare time【C10】______the countryside in search of fresh specimens to【C11】______to my collection of pets.【C12】______on I went for a year to the City Zoo, as a student【C13】______, to get experience of the large animals, such as lions, bears and ostriches,【C14】______were not easy to keep at home. When I left, I【C15】______had enough money of my own to be able to【C16】______my First trip and I have been going【C17】______ever since then. Though a collector' s job is not an easy one and is full of【C18】______, it is certainly a job which will appeal【C19】______all those who love animals and【C20】______.

【C1】

A．how

B．where

C．when

D．whether