单选题You will hear 4 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer—A, B, C, or D. You will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.

单选题Questions 11-13 are based on the following dialogue．

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. Rhythm and blues, or R&B, is a {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}of music that came out of the jazz, blues and gospel music that was being {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}by African Americans {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}the 1930s and 1940s. Over the years, the term has commonly been used to describe {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}popular music this community was played at the time. This more upbeat, exciting type of music caught on {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}a big way, and for the first time, African Americans {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}their own style of commercial music. In the late 1930s, many big bands broke up {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}smaller units and formed "jump blues" bands {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}played loud music with a strong dance beat, quickly {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}popular in the dance halls at the time. Early R&B {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}were those of Count Basle, Louis Jordan and Lionel Hampton. Basie had a hit in 1937 with One O'clock Jump, {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}Jordan bad a string of hits from the late 1930s through the 1940s. By the mid 1940s, R.M. Blues by Roy Milton and The Honeydripper by Joe Liggin each {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}one million copies. The new music style {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}to evolve and was gaining {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}rapidly. In Annapolis, more than 50,000 people {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}up to a concert with seating for 8,000. There was a traffic {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}for seven hours. Rhythm and blues has come a long way {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}American African musicians of the mid 20th century developed their own style of {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}music based on some more conservative styles at the time. R&B had huge success in the 1950s and 1960s before making an even {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}comeback as contemporary R&B {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}the 1980s on.

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单选题Text It's official that married people are healthier, or at least they think they are. An American survey of (26) 100 000 people shows that, despite changing social (27) in society, there is a (28) between being married and being (29) . One reason could be that people (30) physical, mental or emotional problems are less likely to marry in the first (31) , but married people also benefit (32) greater support from family and friends and this (33) their health. Divorce and bereavement increase stress, as well as affecting many people (34) . Married people are less likely than single people to smoke, drink heavily or drive (35) they have been drinking. They are also (36) likely to wear seat belts in a car and more married people (37) safety devices in their homes. All of (38) reduce the chances of disease or injury. Single people, by contrast, (39) to lead less organized lives. They take less care of (40) they eat and when they eat it. (41) it seems that the best advice is get married, but make (42) you find the right partner. (43) you get it wrong, the stress of a divorce (44) mean your health gets worse than (45) you were single.

单选题Whatdoesthewomanmean?

单选题While the male bird was dancing ______.

单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} The Man of Many Secrets—Harry Houdini—was one of the greatest American entert-ainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes—from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his "magic" tricks. Of course, his secret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted. Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch. It was the publicity (宣传) that came from {{U}}this{{/U}} that started Harry Houdini's success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck—and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his. Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wild fame and a name remembered today.

单选题Howmuchistheblackshirt?A.$20.00.B.$21.00.C.$42.00.D.$10.00.

单选题Thierry Daniel Henry (born on 17 August 1977) is a French football striker currently playing for Spanish La Liga club FC Barcelona and the French national team. Henry was born and brought up in the tough neighborhood of Les Ulis, Essonne—a suburb of Paris—where he played for an array of local sides as a youngster and showed great promise as a goal-scorer. He was spotted by AS Monaco in 1990 and signed instantly, making his professional debut in 1994. Good form led to an international call-up in 1998, after which he signed for the Italian defending champions Juventus. He had a disappointing season playing on the wing, before joining Arsenal (兵工厂) for 10.5 million in 1999. It was at Arsenal that Henry made his name as a world-class footballer. Despite initially struggling in the Premiership, he emerged as Arsenal's top goal-scorer for almost every season of his tenure there. Under long-time mentor and coach Arsène Wenger, Henry became a prolific striker and Arsenal's all-time leading scorer with 226 goals in all competitions. The Frenchman won two league titles and three FA Cups with the gunners shoulder to shoulder; he was twice nominated for the FIFA World Player of the Year, was named the PFA Players' Player of the Year twice, and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year three times. Henry spent his final two seasons with Arsenal as club captain, leading them to the UEFA Champions League final in 2006. In June 2007, after eight years with Arsenal, he transferred to FC Barcelona for a fee of 24 million. Henry has enjoyed similar success with the French national squad, having won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 (the Delaunay Cup). In October 2007, he surpassed Michel Platini's record to become France's top goal-scorer of all time. Off the pitch, as a result of his own experience, Henry is an active spokesperson against racism in football. His footballing style and personality have ensured that he is one of the most commercially marketable footballers in the world; he has been featured in advertisements for Nike, Reebok, Renault, Pepsi and Gillette.

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

单选题The passage aims to tell ______.

单选题 You never see him, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you are going, how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book. They're known as the black box. When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine (潜水艇) detected the device's homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed. In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first model for a black box, which became a requirement on all U.S. commercial flights by 1960. Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane—the area least subject to impact—from its original position in the landing wells (起落架舱). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility. Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations, and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments. Placed in an insulated (隔绝的) case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉. When submerged, they're also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft. Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1, 2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to turn up. In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.