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.{{/I}}

单选题Text Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened 26 . As was discussed before, it was not (27) the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic (28) , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (29) of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution (30) up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading (31) through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures (32) the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in (33) . It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, (34) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, (35) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, (36) its impact on the media was not immediately (37) As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal", too, as well as (38) , with display becoming sharper and storage (39) increasing. They were thought of, like people, (40) generations, with the distance .between generations much (41) . It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the (42) within which we now live. The communications revolution has (43) both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been (44) views about 'its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed (45) "harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.

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单选题{{I}} Questions 22 ～ 25 are based on the following monologue about woman tennis star Althea Gibson.{{/I}}

单选题WhatisTRUEabouttheMusicBox?A.It'salittlejazzbar.B.It'swheremusiciansplaymusicatnight.C.It'sthewoman'sfavoriteplace.D.It'swhereyoumeetinterestingpeople.

单选题 Questions 18～21 are based on the following dialogue between a customer and a shop assistant,

单选题Which of the following is true of the astonishing experiment?

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} Between the eighth and eleventh centuries A. D., the Byzantine Empire staged an almost unparalleled economic and cultural revival, a revival that is all the more striking because it followed a long period of severe internal decline. By the early eighth century, the empire had lost roughly 2/3 of the territory it had possessed in the year 600, and its remaining area was being raided by Arabs and Bulgarians, who at times threatened to take Constantinople and extinguish the empire altogether. The wealth of the state and its subjects was greatly diminished, and artistic and literary production had virtually ceased. By the early eleventh century, however, the empire had regained almost half of its lost possessions, its new frontiers were secure, and its influence extended far beyond its borders. The economy had recovered. The treasury was full. And art and scholarship had advanced. To consider the Byzantine military, cultural and economic advances as differentiated aspects of a single phenomenon is reasonable. After all, these three forms or progress have gone together in a number of states and civilizations. Rome under Augustus and fifth-century Athens provide the most obvious examples in antiquity. Moreover, an examination of the apparent sequential connections among military, economic, and cultural forms of progress might help explain the dynamics of historical change. The common explanation of these apparent connections in the case of Byzantium would run like this: when the empire had turned back enemy raids on its own territory and had begun to raid and conquer enemy territory, Byzantine resources naturally expanded and more money became available to patronize art and literature. Therefore, Byzantine military achievements led to economic advances, which in turn led to cultural revival. No doubt this hypothetical pattern did apply at times during the course of the recovery. Yet it is not clear that military advances invariably came first, economic advances second, and intellectual advances third. In the 860's the Byzantine Empire began to recover from Arab incursions so that by 862 the military balance with the Abbasid Caliphate had been permanently altered in the empire's favor. The beginning of the empire's economic revival however can be placed between 810 and 830. Finally the Byzantine revival of learning appears to have begun even earlier. A number of notable scholars and writers appeared by 788 and by last decade of the eighth century a cultural revival was in full bloom, a revival that last until the fall of Constinople in 1453. Thus the commonly expected order of military revival followed by economic and then by cultural recovery was reversed in Byzantium. In fact the revival of Byzantine learning may itself have influenced the subsequent economic and military expansion.

单选题One possible mason why women have better memories than men is that______ .

单选题{{I}}Questions 11～14 are based on the talk you 've just heard.{{/I}}

单选题Below is about the life of Ernest Hemingway (海明威) 1899 Born in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. 1913 Goes to Oak Park and River Forest High School, where he wants to be a writer. 1917 Takes job in the Kansas City Star in October. 1918 On May 23 goes to Europe to work as a driver. 1922 In Paris meets writer Ezra Pound—"He's teaching me to write," Hemingway reported. 1925 In Our Time published (出版), with several stories set in Michigan. 1927 Publishes Men without Women, in which there are stories Hills Like White Elephants and The Killers. 1929 A Farewell to Arms—a book of love and war (战争)—published in September. 1932 Brings out his book Death in the Afternoon. 1933 Publishes Winner Take Nothing. 1937 Writes To Have and Hare Not. 1940 Publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls, his best-selling story. 1950 Publishes Across the River and into the Trees. 1952 The Old Man and the Sea, is published. 1953 Given the Nobel Prize (诺贝尔奖). 1961 On July 2, kills himself with a gun.

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单选题What is the response of many educators to external rewards for their students?