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 Questions 11 — 14 are based on the following conversation. You now have 20 seconds to read the questions 11 — 14.

单选题The success of Classical 96.3 FM lies in the fact that ______.

单选题According to scientists, people sneeze because________

单选题 {{B}} Text{{/B}} Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they represent. Concepts of reading have changed {{U}}(26) {{/U}} over the centuries. During the 1950s and 1960s especially, increased attention has been devoted to {{U}}(27) {{/U}} the reading process. {{U}}(28) {{/U}} specialists agree that reading {{U}}(29) {{/U}} a complex organization of higher mental {{U}}(30) {{/U}}, they disagree{{U}} (31) {{/U}} the exact nature of the process. Some experts, who regard language primarily as a code using symbols to represent sounds, {{U}}(32) {{/U}} reading as simply the decoding of symbols into the sounds they stand {{U}}(33) {{/U}}. These authorities {{U}}(34) {{/U}} that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process. Others maintain that reading is {{U}}(35) {{/U}} related to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without {{U}}(36) {{/U}} their meaning is not truly reading. The reader, {{U}}(37) {{/U}} some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who {{U}}(38) {{/U}} reads. Many adults, although they have the ability to read, have never read a book in its {{U}}(39) {{/U}}. By some expert they would not be {{U}}(40) {{/U}} as readers. Clearly, the philosophy, objectives, methods and materials of reading will depend on the definition one use. By the most {{U}}(41) {{/U}} and satisfactory definition, reading is the ability to {{U}}(42) {{/U}} the sound-symbols code of the language, to interpret meaning for various {{U}}(43) {{/U}}, at various rates, and at various levels of difficulty, and to do {{U}}(44) {{/U}} widely and enthusiastically. {{U}}(45) {{/U}}, reading is the interpretation of ideas through the use of symbols representing sounds and ideas.

单选题 {{I}}Questions 22-25 are based on a passage about London taxi drivers.{{/I}}

单选题Mrs. Sue Pearson: We don''t want to be here, but what can we do? You see, last year my husband found out that he had cancer. Doctors advised us to leave Darling. We planned to buy a farm 50 miles away. But before we could save enough money for the deposit, he lost his job. Now I can''t see how we''ll ever be able to get away from him. I don''t know what to do. George Clark: I certainly do not accept that my company is responsible. We can''t be responsible. It is an absolutely ridiculous opposition. If people choose to work here or live nearby, they must accept the risks. We did not bring the company to the town. The town grew up round the chemical factory. And part of the reason the town is such a thriving community today, is because of my company. Of course, there is a little pollution. There is always pollution in the chemical industry. It can''t be helped because this country needs chemicals — without this company 3,000 people would be jobless. Richard Carr: I think the Darling Chemical Company should be held fully responsible for the trouble and the suffering they have brought to the local people. We are suing for over a million pounds in compensation, and we are also asking for a court order to close the factory. I''m confident that we shall win. What worries me is that it''s impossible to stop this kind of thing until it''s too late. I think the government should have introduced strict pollution controls long ago. Linda Jackson: I think pollution is a crime against society and must be punished. Already many towns are worse than Darling. If we don''t act soon, this country will be uninhabitable. I propose to fix strict limits for discharge of pollution. All companies which exceed these limits negligently will pay heavy fines. All companies which exceed the limits deliberately will be closed and their managers will go to prison. Graham Paterson: Pollution from the factories is not the only problem. Motor vehicles and aircraft pollute the air. Oil tankers pollute the sea. Many city governments discharge sewage into their rivers and leave mountains of garbage in the countryside. Pollution occurs everywhere and it is getting worse and worse. However, all of this could be avoided. There are engines which do not cause air pollution. Garbage can be recycled and sewage can be converted to energy. Private companies won''t make the necessary investments. This money really does have to come from the government. Now match each of the persons to the appropriate statement. Note: There are two extra statements. Statements A. I think pollution is a crime against society and must be punished. B. I strongly demand that the chemical factory be closed by legal means, and that the government be criticized for not introducing strict pollution controls. C. The coming pollution of the environment is one of the biggest problems we are facing now. D. I think the Darling Chemical Company should be responsible for my husband''s illness. E. I think that pollution is a widespread problem but that it could be avoided if the government makes the necessary investments. F. I do not accept that my company is responsible for anything, and people in Darling should be grateful to his company for providing 3 ,000 jobs. G. It is generally believed that environmental pollution has adverse effects on human health.

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} We all know that DNA has the ability to identify individuals but, because it is inherited, there are also regions of the DNA strand which can relate an individual to his or her family (immediate and extended), tribal group and even an entire population. Molecular Genealogy (宗谱学) can use this unique identification provided by the genetic markers to link people together into family trees. Pedigrees (家谱) based on such genetic markers can mean a breakthrough for family trees where information is incomplete or missing due to adoption, illegitimacy or lack of records. There are many communities and populations which have lost precious records due to tragic events such as the fire in the Irish courts during Civil War in 1921 or American slaves for whom many records were never kept in the first place. The main objective of the Molecular Genealogy Research Group is to build a database containing over 100,000 DNA samples from individuals all over the world. These individuals will have provided a pedigree chart of at least four generations and a small blood sample. Once the database has enough samples to represent the world genetic make-up, it will eventually help in solving many issues regarding genealogies that could not be done by relying only on traditional written records. Theoretically, any individual will someday be able to trace his or her family origins through this database. In the meantime, as the database is being created, molecular genealogy can already verify possible or suspected relationships between individuals. “For example, if two men sharing the same last name believe that they are related, but no written record proves this relationship, we can verify this possibility by collecting a sample of DNA from both and looking for common markers (in this case we can look primarily at the Y chromosome(染色体)),” explains Ugo A．Perego, a member of the BYU Molecular Genealogy research team.．

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单选题TextMusic is an important way of expressing people's feelings and emotions． The (26) , for instance, from 1960 to 1969 will be (27) by many as a period of social and political un- rest 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 Wood-stock, New York, where half 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IQuestions 14 - 17 are based on the following dialogue./I

单选题Questions 18 to 21 are based on the following passage.

单选题Questions 11-13 are based on a conversation you are going to hear.

单选题Where is ______ key to the door, Jim? [A] a [B] the [C] x

单选题Read the texts from a newspaper article in which five people talk about where they played when they were children. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each people (61 to 65) to one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. Peter: My favorite childhood play area was the back garden. Back in the days when I was growing up on a large housing estate, the ''goals'' would be a pair of garage doors or two jackets laid out in the garden. I would spend hours kicking a ball about with my dad, learning how to control, dribble or kick it. Simon: The playground was quite small. The floor was covered with flat bricks and there were many that were cracked or broken or missing, and a few weeds struggled through. It was totally enclosed on one side by the school and on the other by high brick walls. It was more like a prison yard — on top of the walls was a layer of concrete into which pieces of broken glass had been stuck. After school was finished my friends and I would climb a lamppost outside the school and sit on top of the wall, slowly breaking off the bits of glass. Alan: I come from an area of terraced houses, pavements and streets. There were no gardens. My first school was Prince''s Street Primary and the room in which I received my first lessons had large, folding glass doors that opened onto a small playground that had grass, bushes and flowers. My amazement at seeing these items, which are normal to most of the world, has stayed with me all my life. Nick: I was strictly forbidden from the obvious playground — a long, overgrown ditch running through waste ground, mainly built to take away the rain. It was irresistible to us local schoolchildren. Its charm, compared with the surrounding tennis courts, football pitches and farmland, was purely because it was out of bounds. That area was truly where I grew up, more than in the rest of the little town''s correct and neat suburbia, where my house was. Julie: Until I was twelve I was brought up on airforce camps and each camp had a small playground in the middle of the houses. It was always a great meeting place and I remember sitting with my friends on the swings many evenings until dark. You would often go out and swing for hours until someone else came out. I always liked swinging. Now match each of the people (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement. Note: there are two extra statements. Statements [A] I developed sporting skills there. [B] 1 never went straight home from school. [C] I enjoyed the feeling of flying. [D] My play area was just outside my classroom. [E] I enjoyed both being alone and with friends. [F] I played in a place dangerous in others'' eyes. [G] There were some playground equipment around my play area.

单选题What did all of the additives in bread have in common?

单选题 {{I}}Questions 18-21 are based on the following passage.{{/I}}