The speaker mainly discusses________.

A、 cultural issues
B、 the learning process of a child
C、 behavior as a cultural construction
D、 how to educate a child

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：一般段落首句是中心句，点明全段的主要内容，因此注意听中心句的主干部分的内容，可迅速判断本段的主旨大意。

单选题 What are tides caused by?

A、 The sun's gravity alone.
B、 The moon's gravity alone.
C、 The moon and the sun's gravity.
D、 The earth.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】解析：1)根据题干中关键词判断听的重点。本题中的关键词是tides和caused by，由此可迅速排除第一句和最后一句；2)绝对化的表达一般是错误的，如A和B中alone的使用，使全句过于绝对化，因此是错误的。

单选题 According to the speaker, what mistakes do many drivers make?

A、 They drive full time.
B、 They do not concentrate on their window-shopping.
C、 They cannot see the hood of their car.
D、 They drive while tired or worried.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：1)有关汽车驾驶的常识有助于正确解题；2)根据各个选项中关键词定位到原文相关处，可帮助听者做出迅速判断。

单选题 What is remarkable about the cowbird?

A、 The cowbird builds its nest.
B、 The cowbird sits on the cow.
C、 The cowbird has its own chicks.
D、 The cowbird builds no nest.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：能够正确找到题干中关键词在原文中的同义替换，有助于迅速定位原文相关句。本题中原文unusual与题干中remarkable是同义替换。

单选题 The speaker indicates that the dramatic critic is________.

A、 inclined to be objective
B、 conditioned by certain requirements of his column
C、 happy to oblige the backers of plays
D、 suspicious of criticism directed against him

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：能够从某些词语的内涵中探察作者的观点态度。

单选题 According to the speaker, the area of greatest expenditure of investment funds occurred in________.

A、 public sector
B、 business premises
C、 industrial sector
D、 trade and services

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：把握与数字有关的短语表达是解题的关键。本题中30％是听到的最高投资增长额度，但注意该数目前的including短语的使用，说明该数是被包含在16-17％之中的。因此B项不是正确答案。

单选题 Which of the following is true?

A、 Male insects are always smaller than females.
B、 In a given species nature provides differences between sexes to secure successful production.
C、 Size and strength protect females from other females.
D、 Longevity is characteristic of the Dynastes and Megasoma.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：能够利用信号词判断段落的脉络主线，可以有效帮助识别正确答案。如本题中原文第一句点明了全段中心There are exceptions to the rule of male insects being smaller than the females，即谈论雄性昆虫比雌性昆虫个头小这一规律有特例。然后根据某些短语如in these cases…There are，however，other beetles…But in some of the other cases…等发出的信号，可判断文章基本结构是以三种昆虫的例子来说明中心，这样可迅速排除与原文中心意思不符的A和并非本文谈论中心的B和C。

单选题 One global trend in business is to________.

A、 develop overseas market
B、 attract more foreign investment
C、 give the consumers more benefits
D、 merge with each other and become more competitive

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：正确识别段落的中心句。一般首句点明全段中心，结尾句概括段落主要内容。

单选题 The predictions about the future made by many writers, in the speaker's opinion, are

A、 pessimistic
B、 optimistic
C、 pleasing
D、 reasonable

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：1)通过表示转折关系的信号词，如本题原文中的yet可判断作者的观点态度；2)能够把握某些短语隐含的意义，如本题中dark vision传递出的一种对未来的悲观态度。

单选题 We learn that Bill Clinton's father________.

A、 died before Bill Clinton was born
B、 died when Bill Clinton was a few months old
C、 left his wife after Bill Clinton was born
D、 was his mother's second husband

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】解析：根据题干中关键词定位到原文中相关信息处。