单选题 Questions 14-17 are based on a conversation you are going to hear.

单选题What's the probable relationship between the two speakers?

单选题WhatisHelen'smajor?A.Children'sLiterature.B.AmericanLiterature.C.Medicine.D.ElementaryEducation.

单选题The main idea of the last paragraph is that people have______.

单选题According to the passage, what sort of person do you think Rodney King is?

单选题 Text Music is an important way of expressing people's feelings and emotions. The (26) , for instance, from 1960 to 1969 will be (27) by many people as a period of social and political unrest in America. (28) this time, many people despaired (29) the music favored by the American teenagers. (30) , we must now admit that the music they loved was (31) a sign of the period and a (32) of the tensions and changes that were (33) American society. In the early sixties, (34) about social justice and equality were (35) by the song "Blowing in the Wind" which (36) the civil rights song "We Shall Overcome". The conflict concerning military (37) in Vietnam was sung about in 1965 in the (38) song "Eve of Destruction" and in the song "Ballad of the Green Beret". A few years (39) , a gradual shift in mood became (40) in one of the most popular songs which suggested calmer questions and possible answers even as some pop stars protested loudly (41) the draft. Finally, music as a (42) of the political and social process in America was highlighted at Woodstock, New York, where half of a million young people came (43) in 1969 to spend three days listening to songs that spanned the decade. This event was a symbol of the desire for (44) within a time of unrest. Woodstock was a (45) of hope in days of rage.

单选题Suppose you are a Spanish and live in Madrid. One day when you're walking along the street, thinking about your own business, all of a sudden a stranger walked towards you with a smile on his face. After stopping you, he takes out a small electronic device from his pocket, holds it close to his mouth and speaks slowly into it, saying in English: "Excuse me, where is the restaurant?" Then what would you do after hearing that? I believe there would be three different kinds of response—some would run away quickly; some would call the police for help; and others would listen carefully to the sound from the device which said in Spanish, "Por favor? donde eatáel restaurante?" The most properly response may be the last one because the person standing in front of you is probably only a tourist trying to amuse himself. It is said that the device is the world's first portable transistor—a hand-held microcomputer that can converts one spoken language into another simultaneously. The four-pound product is called the Voice, which is battery-operated, and it was invented by Advanced Products and Technologies—a well-known American electronics company. When the Voice was first introduced in the United States in late April at a price of over $ 1,000, it could convert spoken English into four other languages involving Italian, French, German and Spanish. The product includes separate cartridges (盒式储存器) for each of the four languages, which can be changed in an interactive way whenever the users need. The item will be seen on European market soon after the U. S. The Voice uses a microchip (微型集成块) and artificial intelligence to translate various languages. It is started by voice command and outputs voices through a built-in speaker. Then the user can make a statement or ask a question, the Voice repeats immediately what has been said in another specified language.

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单选题Questions 23-25 are based on the following monologue:

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单选题To be successful in our training programs, we must understand the difference between______.

单选题Questions 14 ～ 17 are based on the following dialogue about a part-time job.

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} I'd been living with my wife for eight years and one night "mom" says, "I guess you guys are never gonna get married. I mean, you've been through jail together, you're living together, but... oh, forget it." "Oh, well," I said, "put it like that and I'll marry your daughter tomorrow." Actually, I don't know what we were waiting for, except that for a guy it's never the right time to get married. I'm also suspicious of any two people who don't struggle with that decision. Part of my problem was that I was still lusting in my heart after other ladies. But somehow I knew that I wasn't going to find another woman remotely as great as my soon-to-be wife. It's a good thing my mother-in-law finally spoke up. I finally gathered my courage one day when we were having a picnic, and popped the question. I also gave my wife a big tourist pamphlet about Switzerland. I wasn't taking any chances. She said no. It killed me. I felt sick to my stomach. I lost my appetite. Our dog just stared at me, thinking, "If you're not going to eat your lunch, I will." Finally, I said, "But the Switzerland trip is yours if you say yes. "Switzerland," she said, "is filled with precise, humorless people." "Maybe I should have suggested Paris?" For a minute it seemed as if my change in travel plans would rate a solid "maybe". But she said no again. When we woke up the next morning, she told me that she'd slept on my proposal. "I guess I was a little rude to you last night," she explained. Meanwhile, I'm figuring I'm off the hook for this marriage thing for at least another eight years. I could afford to be generous. "I asked, you said no. It's okay," I said. I might have looked a little too relieved because later that day she gave me a little box. Inside was a gold watch. On the back was inscribed. "Yes. I've reconsidered." I liked the watch, so I did the right thing.

单选题Do you find it very difficult and painful to get up in the morning? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle. During the hours when your labor through your work you may say that you"re "hot". That"s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as: "Get up, Peter! You"ll be late for work again!" The possible explanation to the trouble is that Peter is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has. You can"t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit if better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you"re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning, but you have an important to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won"t change your cycle, but you"ll get up steam and work better at your low point. Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

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单选题An embarrassing experience It was the small hours of the morning when we reached London Airport. I had cabled London from Amsterdam, and there was a hired car to meet, but there was one more unfortunate happening before I reached my flat. In all my travels I have never, but for that once, been required by the British customs to open a single bag or to do more than state that I carried no goods liable to duty. It was, of course, my fault; the extreme tiredness and nervous tension of the journey had destroyed my diplomacy. I was, for whichever reason, so tired that I could hardly stand, and to the question, "have you read this?" I replied with extreme foolishness,"Yes, hundreds of times. " "And you have nothing to declare?" "Nothing. " "How long have you been out of this country?" "About three months. " "And during that time you have acquired nothing?" "Nothing but what is on the list I have given you. " He seemed momentarily at a loss, but then he attacked. The attack, when it came, was utterly unexpected. "Where did you get that watch?" I could have kicked myself. Two days before, when playing water games with a friend in the bath, I had forgotten to take off my ROLEX OYSTER, and it had, not unnaturally, stopped. I had gone into the market and bought, for twelve shillings and six pence, an ugly time piece that made a strange noise. It had stopped twice, without any reason, during the journey. I explained, but I had already lost face. I produced my own watch from a pocket, and added that I should be grateful if he would confiscate the replacement. "It is not a question of confiscation," he said, "there is a fine for failing to declare dutiable goods. And now may I please examine that Rolex?" It took another quarter of an hour to persuade him that the Rolex was not contraband; then he began to search my luggage.