单选题{{I}}Questions 11 to 13 are based on a dialogue between a man and his wife.{{/I}}

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单选题According to the passage, after the average per-minute cost dropped to 11 cents this year from 56 cents in 1995, the phone companies ______.

单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}}{{I}} You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer- A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE. Now look at Question 1.{{/I}}

单选题 {{I}} Questions 5 to 8 are based on the following passage.{{/I}}

单选题 {{I}} Questions 22～25 are based on the following dialogue between an interviewer and an interviewee.{{/I}}

单选题We can conclude from the passage that the author ______.

单选题The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare's time is estimated to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 2600 million people speak it as a native language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, there are a great many regional and social varieties of the language, as well as various levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms. It is virtually impossible to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages. The purposes for which English is learned and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is difficult to define and still more difficult to assess what constitutes an adequate working knowledge for each situation. The main reason for the widespread demand for English is its present - day importance as a world language. Besides serving the infinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of the most important works in science, technology, and other fields are being produced and not always by native speakers. It is widely used for such purposes as meteorological and airport communications, international conferences, and the dissemination of information over the radio and television networks of many nations. It is a language of wider communication for a number of developing countries, especially former British colonies. Many of these countries have multi - lingual populations and, need a language for internal communication in such matters as government, commerce industry, law and education as well as for international communication and for access to the scientific and technological developments in the West.

单选题Howdothehousewiveslearnabouttheofferoffreegroceries?

单选题IQuestions 11～13 are based on a conversation about robots./I

单选题What did the man mean?

单选题A growing interest in sports developed after ______.

单选题We can infer from the passage that when traveling by air, the writer spends most of her time on the way ______.

单选题What can we learn about the ticket?