单选题{{B}} Directions:{{/B}} You are going to hear four conversations. Before listening to each conversation, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. After listening, you will have time to answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear each conversation ONLY ONCE. Mark your answers in your test booklet. {{B}} Questions 11 ～ 14 are based on the following conversation.{{/B}}

单选题Fox hunting opponents often interfere in the game ______.

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

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it's painful? 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 you labour 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, John] Yon' 11 be late for work again!" The possible explanation to the trouble is that John 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 it 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 job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won' t change your cycle, but you' 11 get upstream 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 tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.

单选题IQuestions 14 to 17 are based on the following dialogue./I

单选题The basic flag of the United States is one of the world's oldest national flags. Only the basic flags of Austria, Denmark, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland are older. During the discovery and settlement of what is now the United States, the flags of various European nations were flown over the land, as symbols of possession. Later, in the Colonial and Revolutionary War periods, flags representing famous persons, places, and events were flown in the American Colonies. The first official flag of the United States was created by Congress on June 14,1777. It consisted of 13 alternate red and white stripes and 13 white stars in a field of blue, representing the 13 colonies that had declared their independence in 1776. Congress adopted a new flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes in 1795, to give representation to the two new states admitted into the Union, Vermont and Kentucky. By 1817, there were 20 states in the Union, and it became apparent that adding one stripe for each new state would destroy the shape of the flag. As a result, Congress in 1818 restored the original design of 13 stripes and provided that each state was to be represented by one star. In 1912 President William H. Taft made the first official provision for the arrangement of the stars. He ordered that there be six even rows of eight stars each. Previously the arrangement of the stars had been left to the flag-maker's fancy. The evolution of the Stars and Stripes reflected the growth of the United States. After the admission of Hawaii into the Union in 1959, the flag was officially changed for the 26th time since its creation. There are many government flags flown in the United States in addition to the national flag. Among them are the president's and vice-president's flags and those of federal departments and some federal agencies. Each state in the Union has an official flag. The United States Navy uses special flags for signaling.

单选题 Text After 20 years of marriage, a husband may still not understand his wife. How is it that she is never at a (26) for words? How can she (27) the names of a couple they met on (28) years ago? Now we know (29) to tell him: It's her brain. Although there are obviously cultural (30) for the differences in emotions and behavior, (31) breakthrough research reveals that the (32) of many puzzling differences between men and women may (33) in the head. Men's and women's brains (34) much in common, but they are definitely not the same (35) size, structure or insight. Broadly speaking, a woman's brain, like her body, is ten to fifteen percent smaller than a man's, (36) the regions dedicated to the language may be more densely (37) with brain cells. Girls generally speak earlier and read faster. The reason may be (38) females use both sides of the brain when they read. In (39) , males rely only on the left side. At every age, women's memories (40) men's. They have a greater ability to (41) names with faces than men do, and they are (42) at recalling list. The events people remember best are those that an emotion is attached to. (43) women use more of their right brains, which (44) emotions, they may do this automatically. While we don't yet know what all these findings imply, one thing is (45) : Male and female brains do the same things, but they do them differently.

单选题According to the passage, a man wants a wife because ______.

单选题What problem does the woman have?

单选题WhatdocsthemanimplyaboutMary?

单选题Imagine, if you will, the average games player. What do you see? A guy who never grew up? Or a nervous 18-year-old pushing buttons on his controller, lost and alone in a violent onscreen world? Sorry, you lose. The average gamer is starting to look pretty much like the average person. For the first time, according to a US poll commissioned by AOL Games, roughly half of those surveyed, ages 12 to 55, are tapping away at some kind of electronic game — whether on a PC, a cell phone or another handheld device — for an average of three hours every week. The games people play say a lot about who they are. Machines like the Xbox and PlayStation 2 are largely the territory of twenty-something men, who prefer to picture themselves as sports stars and racing drivers. Men of 50 and older prefer military games. Teenage girls are much more likely than boys to play games on their phone, while older women make up the majority of people playing card games such as Hearts on line. Is it a good thing, all this time spent on games, or is it as harmful as television, pulling people ever further from reality? The AOL survey suggests some players are in denial about the extent of their habit. One in ten gamers find it impossible to resist games; one in four admits to losing a night's sleep to play games; and another quarter has been too absorbed to have meals. But don't think we're all heading into a world with everyone plugged into, if not totally controlled by, his own game. Quite the contrary: garners appear to be more engaged with reality than other kinds of couch potatoes. According to a comprehensive survey by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA — whose members, of course, want you to think video games are healthy), garners spend an average of 23 hours a week volunteering and going to church, concerts, museums and other cultural events. More enthusiastic garners who play 11 hours a week or more spend ever more time out in the cultural world (34 hours).

单选题 It has always been a problem to decide whether "popular music" is music which represents the people or is simply music that the people like. The same problem of{{U}} (26) {{/U}}exists with jazz. So many different{{U}} (27) {{/U}}of music have been called jazz at one time or another that it is hard to say what{{U}} (28) {{/U}}it is. Jazz has always been considered tobe black music{{U}} (29) {{/U}}when I first{{U}} (30) {{/U}}an interest in it twenty years ago, I used to hear white{{U}} (31) {{/U}} playing music that was like Louis Armstrong's in the 1920s. I found out afterwards that they learnt to do this by playing Armstrong's records over and over again until their style was close enough to his{{U}} (32) {{/U}}for them to imitate him. Since then white singers like Bob Dylan have rediscovered{{U}} (33) {{/U}}own folk tradition, instead of{{U}} (34) {{/U}}from black roots. But the main{{U}} (35) {{/U}}since 1960 have been social and technical. One is that young people have more{{U}} (36) {{/U}}to spend on records at an earlier age than they used to, so Tin Pan Alley, the 'pop' music industry, aims at the teenage audience. {{U}}(37) {{/U}}is that electronic equipment has developed to such an{{U}} (38) {{/U}}that technicians are now capable of mixing sound to{{U}} (39) {{/U}}recordings that are quite different from a live{{U}} (40) {{/U}}. But the real{{U}} (41) {{/U}}with 'pop' musis is that Tin Pan Alley has always worked against its being a{{U}} (42) {{/U}}music of the people. It takes everything original and natural out of it and{{U}} (43) {{/U}}it with cheap commercial imitations.{{U}} (44) {{/U}}the American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, said: "They've always{{U}} (45) {{/U}}the second-rate songs. They've never wanted to play the good ones."

单选题What does the woman want to buy?

单选题The ostrich, the largest bird in the world at present, lives in the drier regions of Africa outside the actual deserts．Because of its very long，powerful legs and the floating effect of its extended wings，it is able to run at great speed over considerable distances． The female ostrich normally produces about twenty eggs every rainy season． When the female ostrich begins to lay her eggs, however, she does not begin in her own nest．Instead she goes off in search of the nests of neighboring females and laystwo or three eggs in each of them．By the time she has laid eight or nine eggs，she returns and lays the rest in her own nest． Because of the size of the eggs, the female ostrich cannot lay more than one every two days，so it takes her three weeks to finish laying in her own nest．During that period, she spends a lot of time away from her nest looking for food．And while she is off her nest, other females visit it to lay their eggs amongst hers．By the time she is ready to sit on the eggs to hatch them, there could be up to thirty eggs in her nest, over half of which are not her own． The female ostrich can comfortably cover only about twenty eggs when she is sitting on the nest, so before settling down she pushes the surplus ten or so eggs out of the nest．The rejected eggs, however, never include any of her own．Each female is remarkably consistent in the size and shape of the eggs she produces, so it is not difficult for her to distinguish her own from those of strangers． Of all the eggs laid by a colony of ostriches, only a very small number hatch into young birds．There are times when nests are left unprotected, for there are too few males to sit on all the nests at night．Thus there are ample opportunities for their natural enemies to raid the nests and eat the eggs．In fact，nearly 80% of the nests are destroyed．But even if a particular female's nest suffers this fate, there is a good chance that one or two of her eggs will be hatched in the nest of one of her neighbors．

单选题Questions 19-21 are based on the following talk:

单选题 You are going to hear four conversations. Before listening to each conversation, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. After listening, you will have time to answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. Questions 11-13 are based on the following monologues.