单选题听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

单选题What do you think the four women were all talking about?

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单选题We often feel ____ when our efforts do not achieve what we hoped they would.

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单选题What is the woman most likely to be?

单选题How did the speaker and his wife find their seats?

单选题It ______ for two hours and the ground is too wet to play on, so the match has been put off.[A] has been raining[B] was raining[C] had been raining[D] has rained

单选题I really don't understand how Jim could have made______.

单选题When I was your age, I dared to go out alone at night, ______ I?

单选题Years ago, a young man named Jason married a beautiful woman. They lived with the man's extended family, that is, his parents, his brothers, as well as their wives and children. In their house an elephant was raised, in which the woman soon showed great interest. She fed fruit and food to it each day. However, just three months later, after having a fight with her husband, the young woman returned to her own parents' home. It was quite surprising that the elephant began to refuse to work or even to eat food. It seemed that it was sick and heart-broken. Finally, one morning after several weeks, it disappeared ! It went to the woman's house to see her. As soon as it saw her, the elephant touched her softly with its nose. So moved was the woman that she went back to her husband's house. This story illustrates that animals are as emotional as human beings. They could do the things you have ever done for them, especially the good aspects. Remember to be kind to them, for we are friends.

单选题What does the author advise us to do?

单选题Every year landslides (滑坡) cause 25 to 50 deaths and $1.5 billion in damage in the United States. They account for 15 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in Europe. And in December, a single event killed more than 200 people in the Philippines. Sending workers to stabilize mountainsides using steel bars and cement (水泥) can help prevent disaster, but it introduces new difficulties. Shaking drills produce harmful dust and loosen heavy, dangerous debris (岩屑). "It's quite a risky job, "says Giorgio Pezzuto of D'Appolonia, an engineering company in Italy. D'Appolonia, working with eight other companies, may have an answer: a three-ton robot called Roboclimber. "The idea is to operate a machine far away that can drill without a human being on board," says Pezzuto, the manager for the project, which is supported by the European Commission. Engineers claim that the machine will be faster and cheaper than manual labor. The robot, a large radio-controlled four-legged mechanical spider, has cost at least $2 million so far. The final product should be able to climb unstable mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement, and collect data on the stability. Testing should begin in May.

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单选题In ______ 1980s great changes have taken place in Chin