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听力原文:W: Did you see the memo about the new flexible working hours?
M: Yes. It's going to be great. I always have a struggle dropping my daughter off at day care and then fighting the traffic to get here by 9: 00. Will you find it helpful?
W: It's super. I'd like coming in early. Now I can finish by 3: 00 in the afternoon and have plenty of time for shopping or even hit the beach.
M: I've always thought this is a great company to work for. Now it's just getting better.
Who most likely are the speakers?
A.Company colleagues
B.Business associates
C.Neighbors
D.Close friends
听力原文: We can make progress in the Six-Party Talks if North Korea is ready to return and return seriously to them. Now, sometimes there is a tendency to think that international problems can always be traced back to questions of what America should do. We see this thinking in the current debate about North Korea. There are those who say that North Korea is behaving the way that it is because of something that America either did or did not fro. That misses the point. Over the course of many years and throughout many diplomatic conditions with North Korea, there has been one constant. It is North Korea's leaders, not those in Washington, who have made the fundamental choices, really the tragic choices about the condition of their country. Those choices have led to deprivation and oppression and despair for the North Korean people. And the North Korean people deserve better.
Those miners had been protesting in Huanuni in Bolivia because they wanted to ______.
A.have higher salaries
B.work under better conditions
C.keep independent mining jobs
D.work for shorter hours
What did Jim Cantalupo promise at a Wall Street meeting on April 7?
A.McDonald's will launch a 100-day campaign for a larger market.
B.McDonald's will make adjustments to further improve its qualities.
C.As the world's biggest fast-food chain, McDonald's will make further expansions.
D.McDonald's will open 100 more chain stores in the near future all over the world.
The doctor picked up a piece of burnt wood from the fire. Using the wood, he wrote the name of the medicine on the door of the house. "Get this medicine for him," he said, "and he will soon get better."
Mark's family and friends did not know what to do. They could not read the strange writing. Then the village baker had an idea. He took off the door of the house, put it on his cart and drove to the nearest town. he bought the medicine, and Mark was soon well again. He would not let anyone wash the magic words from the door.
Why did everybody in the village think Mark would die?
A.He was seriously ill.
B.He was badly wounded.
C.Doctors would do nothing for him.
The research identified happy and unhappy spouses, culled(选出) from a national database. Of the unhappy partners who divorced, about half were happy five years later. But unhappy spouses who stuck it out often did better. About two-thirds were happy five years later. Study results contradict what seems to be common sense, says David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values, a think-tank on the family. The institute helped sponsor the research team based at the University of Chicago. Findings will be presented in Arlington, Va., at the "Smart Marriage" conference, sponsored by the Coalition for Marriage, Families and Couples Education.
The study looked at data on 5,232 married adults from the National Survey of Families and Households. It included 645 who were unhappy. The adults in the national sample were analyzed through 13 measures of psychological well-being. Within the five years, 167 of the unhappy were divorced or separated and 478 stayed married.
Divorce didn't reduce symptoms of depression, raise self-esteem or increase a sense of mastery compared with those who stayed married, the report says. Results were controlled for factors including race, age, gender and income. Staying married did not tend to trap unhappy spouses in violent relationships. What helped the unhappy married turn things around? To supplement the formal study data, the research team asked professional firms to recruit focus groups totaling 55 adults who were "marriage survivors". All had moved from unhappy to happy marriages. These 55 once-discontented married felt their unions got better via one of three routes, the report says:
Marital endurance. "With time, job situations improved, children got older or better, or chronic ongoing problems got put into new perspective." Partners did not work on their marriages.
Marital work. Spouses actively worked "to solve problems, change behavior. or improve communication".
Personal change. Partners found "alternative ways to improve their own happiness and build a good and happy life despite a mediocre marriage." In effect, the unhappy partner changed.
According to David Blankenhorn, people commonly believe that ______.
A.divorce is a better solution to an unhappy marriage than staying together
B.divorce is not necessarily the only solution to an unhappy marriage
C.keeping an unhappy marriage needs much courage and endurance
D.to end an unhappy marriage or net is a tough decision for the spouses
Alexander Glassman presented the findings recently during the yearly meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Doctor Glassman is the director of an antismoking center at Columbia University in New York City. His study examined 100 smokers who have a history of depression. People with depression suffer periods of extreme sadness.
The researchers studied people who have succeeded and those who have failed in their efforts to stop smoking. The study found that people who did stop smoking were two times as likely to suffer from depression again within six months as those who continued to smoke.
Doctor Glassman says smokers who are depressed use tobacco to make themselves feel better. But, he says people with depression seem to have a much harder time stopping than non-depressed smokers.
So, drugs to fight depression are now also being used to help people stop smoking. Doctors say the most effective one is called Buproprion.
Buproprion mainly affects the brain chemical dopamine(多巴胺). nicotine(尼古丁) is a substance in tobacco that also affects dopamine. Buproprion helps people stop smoking because it eases the body's desire for nicotine. Doctor Glassman says the drug does not make people stop smoking. But it makes it easier for those who want to stop.
When people with depression tried to stop smoking they are ______.
A.as likely to fail as non-depressed smokers
B.more likely to fail than non-depressed smokers
C.more likely to succeed than non-depressed smokers
D.most likely to succeed among the smokers
According to the article, why did Mr. Bikowski stay at his new job?
A.The salary is better.
B.The new job is less stressful.
C.He has become a supervisor.
D.He prefers working close to home.
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: Many students try to study the whole night and do not sleep before an exam. Two separate studies show this may do more harm than good. The studies found that a good night's sleep may improve memory. The findings of both studies appeared in. the publication Nature.
Scientists at the University of Chicago did one of them. They trained students to listen to unclear speech produced by a machine. Some students listened to the recording after a night of sleep. Others were tested twelve hours after the training, with no sleep. Guess what? The students who slept understood the recording better.
Professor Daniel Margoliash says sleep has at least two effects on learning. One is to strengthen memories and protect them against interference. The second is to recover memories that have been lost.
The other study took place at Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts. Scientists trained one-hundred people to repeat two series of finger movements. The act was similar to playing notes on a piano. People who slept between learning the first series and the second did the best. The study suggested that memories are recorded in three steps. Scientists say the process is similar to the way a computer stems information. In humans, they say, the second step requires sleep.
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A.Many students try to study the whole night before an exam.
B.Sleep may improve memory.
C.Exams may harm memory.
D.Sleep can improve listening ability.
On that day, Eva Temple, 47, was one of【6】people working in Lower Manhattan who【7】the rumbling dust cloud that accompanied【8】of the World Trade Center. And for【9】a few days after, she collected prayer cards【10】the street prophets and doomsday preachers whose advice she would ordinarily【11】. It made her feel better.
Now, because of the war, Ms. Temple is collecting those cards again. She【12】to the war, yes, but【13】, she is frightened, and【14】New York will once again become a target.
Yesterday, as bombs rained on a city 6,000 miles from New York, politicians and law enforcement officials【15】to prevent terrorism at home, much like the【16】they had taken immediately after Sept. 11.
Security officials searching checked baggage at the American Airlines Terminal at La Guardia Airport found a gas mask and white powder in a suitcase belonging to a woman who【17】from Israel, raising concerns that the powder【18】a chemical or biological agent, officials said.
【19】tests on the powder indicated that it contained anthrax spores, but later tests found that it did not, officials said.
In the interim, officials closed part of the terminal near the ticketing area, but the woman【20】a flight for Dallas. When she landed, she was questioned by the F.B.I. and released, officials said.
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