单选题 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 one question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
单选题
  • 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.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 26-28 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. ' " 26. What was the writer invited to do?
单选题
  • A. The students understood him so well.
  • B. The interpreter translated his long story in just a few seconds and made the students laugh loudly.
  • C. The interpreter couldn't understand his story.
  • D. The interpreter translated his amusing story but nobody laughed.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] What made the writer surprised?
单选题
  • A. He told them a different funny story.
  • B. He said to them that a funny story had been told and asked them to laugh.
  • C. He told them some jokes.
  • D. He made a funny face.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] What did the interpreter do to make the students laugh?