单选题Questions 22-25 are based on the following monologue:

单选题Directions: 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 arc two parts in this section, part A and part B. Now look at Part A in your test paper.{{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Dr. Tichauer started his experiments initially to______.

单选题 {{I}}Questions 22 ～ 25 are based on the following dialogue about driving.{{/I}}

单选题Directions: Read the following text. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It's now a "global village" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of coarse, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly enhanced by foreign language skills. Deeply involved with this new technology is a breed of modem businesspeople who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modem markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts. Overseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being "out of sight and out of mind." He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company's plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to cope back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more prevalent(普遍的). Thanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets. English is still the international language of business. But there is an evergrowing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn't generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal. The employee posted abroad who speaks the country's principal language has an opportunity to fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign clients over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.

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单选题{{B}}Text 3{{/B}} The biggest safety threat facing airlines today may not be a terrorist with a gun, but the man with the portable computer in business class. In the last 15 years, pilots have reported well over 100 incidents that could have been caused by electromagnetic interference. The source of this interference remains unconfirmed, but increasingly, experts are pointing the blame at portable electronic devices such as portable computers, radio and cassette players and mobile telephones. RTCA, an organization which advises the aviation industry, has recommended that all airlines ban such devices from being used during "critical" stages of flight, particularly take-off and landing. Some experts have gone further, calling for a total ban during all flights. Currently, rules on using these devices are left up to individual airlines. And although some airlines prohibit passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant to enforce a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during flights. The difficulty is predicting how electromagnetic fields might affect an aircraft's computers. Experts know that portable devices emit radiation which affects those wavelengths which aircraft use for navigation and communication. But, because they have not been able to reproduce these effects in a laboratory, they have no way of knowing whether the interference might be dangerous or not. The fact that aircraft may be vulnerable to interference raises the risk that terrorists may use radio systems in order to damage navigation equipment. As a result, loud music sound makes the passenger unable to hear the instructions turning off his radio, this is the most worrying things to airlines.

单选题It was ______ of you to join us in our singing group. [A] nice [B] fine [C] glad

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单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in the heart of a town. This street was {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}on both sides with many {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise-clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}, some shops offered {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}. These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops. {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}in the 1950s, a change began to {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}too few parking places were {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}the city limits. Open space is what their car-driving customers needed. And open space is what they got {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centers, or rather malls, {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}as a collection of small new stores {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}crowded city centers. {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}areas to outlying malls. And the growing {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}of shopping centers led {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}to the building of bigger and better stocked stores. {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}of one stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.

单选题You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following dialogue between two friends.

单选题{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} In the earliest stages of man's development he had no more need of money than animals. He was content with very simple forms of shelter, made his own rough tools and weapons and could provide food and clothing for himself and his family from natural materials around him. As he became more civilized, however, he began to want better shelter, more efficient tools and weapons, and more comfortable and more lasting clothing than could be provided by his own neighborhood or by the work of his own unskilled hands. For these things he had to turn to the skilled people Such as smiths, leather workers or carpenters who were springing up everywhere. It was then that the question of payment arose. At first he got what he wanted by a simple process of exchange. The smith who had not the time to look after land or cattle was glad to take meat or grain from the farmer in exchange for an axe or a plough. But as more and more goods which had no fixed exchange value came on the market, exchange became too complicated to be satisfactory. Another problem arose when those who made things wanted to get stocks of wood or leather, or iron, but had nothing to offer in exchange until their finished goods were ready. Thus the difficulties of exchange led by degrees to the invention of money. In some countries, easily handled things like seeds or shells were given a certain value and the farmers, instead of paying the smith for a new axe by giving him some meat or grain, gave him so many shells. If the smith had any shells left when he had bought his food, he could get stocks of the raw materials of his trade. In some countries quite large things such as cows or camels or even big flat stones were used for trade. Later, pieces of metal, bearing values according to the rarity of the metal and the size of the pieces, or coins were used. Money as we know it had arrived.

单选题According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of REM sleep?

单选题{{B}}Part A{{/B}}Directions: Read the following texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET.{{B}}Text 1{{/B}} An enormous variety of relationships between men and women, singly and in groups, meet the definition of marriage. Often the forms of marriage sanctioned by a society are related to the needs of that society. Marriage between two individuals, one male and one female, is known as monogamy. Marriage of three or more individuals is known as polygamy. Polygyny is a form of polygamy in which one male is married to more than one female. Polyandry is a form of polygamy in which one female is married to more than one male. Still another form of polygamy is group marriage, in which two or more males are married to two or more females. In some societies a polyandrous marriage of two men with one woman may become a group marriage through the addition of a second woman. Not uncommonly in these marriages, the co-husbands are brothers and the added woman is the first wife's sister. In general, polygyny presupposes a considerable accumulation of wealth and is therefore rarely practice. A polygynous marriage requires more economic resources than a monogamous marriage because in most societies each wife and her children, unless they are sisters, have their own sleeping quarters and sometimes also have their own cooking facilities. Where polygyny exists, it is practiced largely by the wealthy and the ruling classes, because only these can afford the luxury of having more than one wife. Generally it is the older men, who have lived long enough to acquire capital, who have more than one wife. Younger men have either one wife or none. In some societies where there is an extension of the marriageable ages for women, such as from 13 to 45 years, and a compression of marriageable ages for men, a larger pool of female partners is available, without an overall unbalanced sex ratio. This, too, leads to older men having several wives.

单选题The writer thinks that advertisements are ______.