单选题{{B}}{{I}}Questions 11～13 are based on the following dialogue.{{/I}}{{/B}}

单选题Paragraph 2 mainly implies that ______.

单选题Howdidthespeaker'sfriendsrespondtohischangeofinterest?A.Theywantedtofollowhisexample.B.Theyfullysupportedhisundertaking.C.Theywerepuzzledbyhisdecision.D.Theywereafraidhewasn'tfullyprepared.

单选题Where did Winston Churchill deliver his "Iron Curtain" speech?

单选题American society reports many negative messages about bicycling in traffic. Bicycling in traffic is considered by many to be reckless, foolhardy, and sometimes rude. The most common advice given to cyclists is to avoid busy roads that provide convenient access to important places; presumably cyclists should only go to unpopular destinations on undesirable and inconvenient roads. Another popular idea is that cyclists should stay as close to the edge of the road as possible in order to stay out of the way of cars. Getting in the way of cars is supposedly an invitation to certain death, because car drivers are often expected to run into anything that is slower or more vulnerable. The rules of the road that apply to bicyclists are considered to be of no use because they involve mixed with motor traffic, which is thought to be suicide. Roads are believed to be designed for cars and not for bicycles, which are tolerated at the pleasure of motorists, who really own the roads. Inferior bicyclists may have an obsolete legal right to use the road, but they had better stay out of the way of superior users or they will be "dead right". As a result of these "common-sense" beliefs, American bike-safety programs developed by motoring organizations and "pedestrian-style" bicyclists during the twentieth century attempted to teach cyclists to provide a clear path to motorists at all times by hugging the edge of the road, riding on sidewalks where present, and even riding facing traffic so cyclists can see when to get out of the way. Some towns and states tried to prohibit bicyclists from operating on important roads or roads without shoulders. Engineering projects designed for "bicycle safety" have usually involved construction of mandatory side paths to get cyclists off of roads and mandatory bike lanes to keep cyclists out of the way of motorists. The publicized benefit of these efforts is to protect cyclists from collisions from behind, which are widely believed to be the greatest danger to cyclists and caused by cyclists' failure to keep up with the desired speed of motor traffic. This is the taboo that afflicts American bicycle transportation policy: that bicyclists must be kept out of the paths of motorists or they will surely be killed.

单选题According to Marina, a woman wishing to be a general builder

单选题{{B}} Directions:{{/B}} This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are two parts in this section, Part A and Part B. Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 3 minutes to transfer your answers from your test booklet onto your ANSWER SHEET 1. If you have any questions, you may raise your hand. Now as you will not be allowed to speak once the test is started. Now look at Part A in your test booklet. {{B}}Part A{{/B}} 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

单选题Whatistherelationshipofthetwopeople?

单选题Thackeray has been born into a comfortably secure upper-middle-class family, and reared to expect the leisured life of a gentleman. However, partly through bad luck and bad financial advice, partly through his own profligacy in early youth-he was at Cambridge and for some years afterwards a compulsive gambler —he had been left with nothing to rely on but his brains and energy. He dreamed of writing a great novel; but he was well aware that while he dreamed and dawdled, writers whom he despised, such as Bulwer-Lytton, were writing best-sellers. Writing had not been his first choice of profession. To please his mother he spent some tedious months studying law, but his earliest ambition was to be a painter. He studied art in London and Paris before deciding that his talent was too small for him to be anything but an amateur painter, though he continued to draw professionally, and illustrated most of his own novels. He then turned to journalism. In 1836, while he was still struggling to make his way, he married a penniless girl of eighteen, in the face of her mother's fierce opposition. With considerable courage, Thackeray began to make a living for his growing family from miscellaneous contributions to any newspapers and periodicals that would take his work. Often he did not know where the next five pounds was coming from. Isabella Thackeray gave birth to three daughters, the second of whom died in infancy, but after the birth of the third, in 1840, she became incurably insane, and had to be cared for away from her family for the rest of her long life—she outlived her husband by over thirty years. This tragedy deeply affected Thackeray. It was, too, an additional financial burden, and for some years he was forced to part with his daughters, who were brought up by his mother in France, while he struggled to make a living in London, still chiefly by journalism. His chances as a novelist seemed poor: his short novel Barry Lyndon, published serially in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, made so little impression on the public that it was not published in book form until twelve years later.

单选题Who says honesty is dead? Last Tuesday morning Alan Reed, a student at Claremont College here, was getting (41) money out of the bank. He wanted to have 50 dollars and the teller (银行出纳员) (42) him five twenties instead of five tens. For a few seconds, as Alan tells it, he wondered (43) to do. Should he give the extra money back? Keep it? (44) he kept it, he could buy several new CDs, or he could take his friend Simon to a big dinner. (45) no one would ever notice (注意). But then he (46) the teller. She was a middle-aged woman with a sweet face, and she reminded him of his mother. She had been nice to him. Then he thought that there were probably exact (精确的) (47) kept of how much money was paid out, and the (48) would probably get in trouble. (49) of all, Alan felt he would probably feel (50) about keeping the extra money. Alan gave back the money.

单选题 {{I}} Questions 11～13 are based on the following dialogue about post service.{{/I}}

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单选题 Questions 22～25 are based on a conversation at the airport.