单选题

A、 (A) Thirty percent of the German population can receive college education.
B、 (B) American students enjoy a very high rate of admission to college in the world.
C、 (C) Comparatively speaking, there are more British people than the French attending college.
D、 (D) American college students are envied by 60% of high school graduates around the world.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文] America's universities are the envy of the world with 60% of all U.S. high school graduates attending college, while in Germany, it's 30%; in France, 28%; and in Britain, only 20%.

A、 (A) We should adopt a 4-year term for the directors and chairman.
B、 (B) The term of the directors and chairman will be decided in four years.
C、 (C) The term of the directors and chairman turns out to be 2 years.
D、 (D) It's reasonable to make policies of continuity and stability for the company.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] With regard to the term of the directors and chairmen, a four-year period is better from the perspective of the continuity and stability of a company's policy though two-year is also reasonable.

A、 (A) No government or theory can alone cope with the complexities of the global economy.
B、 (B) No government can understand the theory of the global economy because of its complexities.
C、 (C) World War Ⅱ has made the global economy more complex to be explained in terms of traditional economic theories.
D、 (D) Our government must frame a new theory so as to control the development of the global economy.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] Since World War II, international economy has become too complex for any single theory to explain or for any single government to control.

A、 (A) Children should be responsible for most of the fire deaths in America.
B、 (B) Adults load the houses with too much stuff, which is easy to catch fire.
C、 (C) Nineteen percent of the fires are attributed to children playing with matches.
D、 (D) Adults should exercise more and stricter precautions against fires.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文] In America, only 9 % of all fires are caused by children playing with matches, while the adults always overload house wiring and fail to buy fire extinguishers.

A、 (A) If you are hungry, you'd better go to the nearest supermarket.
B、 (B) Few American consumers would choose to go shopping in Wal-Mart.
C、 (C) In 2006, shopping over the Internet rose by 28 percent.
D、 (D) In 2005, about $14 billion of goods were bought over the Internet.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文] For those time-starved consumers, shopping from e-Bay is more convenient than driving to Wal-Mart. In 2006, U.S. consumers purchased $ 28 billion of goods over the Internet, and it almost doubled the 2005 total.