填空题Questions 14-18 ·Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18, with a word or phrase from the list below. ·For each sentence (14-18), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet. ·Do not mark any letter twice. 14. According to Dr. Score, lightning is caused by hail falling through ______. 15. The refrigerated rod served the same functions as ______. 16. Ice particles bouncing off hail falling through a cloud acquire ______. 17. In the paragraph four the word "duplicated" means ______. 18. According to S.E. Regnolds, there could be no lightning without ______.A. copyB. a positive chargeC. a negative chargeD. super cooled cloudsE. falling hail cloudsF. hail and super cooled cloudsG. moisture particles

填空题Read the article below and choose the best sentence from the list on the next page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap(1-8)mark one letter(A-H)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. Have life insurance? Is it enough or maybe too much? Most parents know that they need life insurance. But many would rather have a root canal than shop for the best life insurance policy. "People don't think about, 'What will my family do if I am gone and not earning a living? '" says Peter Katt, a fee-only life insurance adviser. "The whole point of this kind of planning is to provide the family with maximum flexibility so they're not stuck." 【R1】______Too often, parents make a quick decision, ignoring important considerations. Among their mistakes, one is that they do not buy enough life insurance.【R2】______"They don't think that the person who is not bringing in an income needs life insurance," says Greg Daugherty, executive editor of Consumers Union. But if that person dies, the other parent can't stop working and usually has to pay someone to help care for the family. 【R3】______Katt recommended that one young couple should buy $3 million for the husband who earns $100,000 a year and $1 million for the stay-at-home wife. At the same time, many families rely on employer-provided life insurance, but employer-provided coverage is rarely sufficient to support your family.【R4】______Some employers provide a year's salary, but that may also fall well short of the amount your family would need to maintain its standard of living. Some employers let workers buy group life insurance through payroll deductions. That may be a good deal for workers who have health problems that would disqualify them for an individual policy. 【R5】______ Another drawback is that if you leave your job, you may not be able to take your insurance. "Given the job market, most of us are not absolutely certain that our jobs are secure," Daugherty says. 【R6】______ On the other hand, some families buy too much insurance. Not everyone needs life insurance. Some people buy life insurance for babies, which is unnecessary, unless the baby is a child model who is supporting the family, Daugherty says:【R7】______Single people and those who have no children to care for usually don't need life insurance. Katt says a man with substantial savings in stocks and bonds and other sources of income recently asked him how much life insurance he needs. "I said none," Katt says. 【R8】______A. Many employer-provided policies provide a death benefit of $10,000 to $25,000 — barely enough to cover your funeral expenses.B. Families don't always insure a parent who is staying home to care for the children.C. "There are people who don't need life insurance but have it and many more people who need it but are woefully uninsured."D. The purpose of insurance is to replace the income that a family has been relying on.E. "Even if you have a lot of insurance at work, it makes sense to have some more insurance on your own."F. To make insurance more affordable, you may not need to buy the same amount of insurance for both parents.G. Planning for your death is not a cheerful topic.H. But if you're young and healthy, you may be able to get a better rate on your own.

填空题CONVERSATION1(Questions1-4)Afirestartedabout(1)o'clockinthemorning.Itwasbelievedthefirewasstartedbysomeone(2)inbed.M:Evenmoreseriousistheharmtotheapartment's(3).M:Thebestthingtoprotectoneselfistohaveasmokealarmandafire(4).

填空题Read the article below. Choose the best sentence from the list on the next page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap(1-8)mark one letter(A~H)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. Google's New Music Service Google outstripped its arch-rival, Apple, with the launch of a subscription music streaming service on Wednesday while simultaneously mounting a threat to other providers such as Spotify. The service, labouring under the full name of Google Play Music All Access, was unveiled at Google I/O, the tech giant's annual developer conference in San Francisco. 【R1】______ Revealing the music service, Chris Yerga, Google's engineering director, said users would be able to stream from a vast library on any device, using the Android operating system. "This is radio without rules. It's as 'leanback' as you want to, or as interactive as you want to," said Yerga. 【R2】______A "listen now" feature will create a mix of favourite artists or genres based on previously listened-to songs. In the US, All Access will cost $9.99 a month after a 30-day free trial. Spotify Premium, a similar service, costs $9.99.【R3】______There was no immediate announcement of pricing in other territories. Google has signed licensing deals with music companies including, Sony, Universal and Warner, and millions of songs will be available for the service, which will go live from Wednesday. 【R4】______The tech giants have become increasingly interested in subscription services thanks to the popularity of Spotify, which has more than six million paying subscribers and more than 24 million active users in 28 countries. Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the UK-based BPI, which represents record labels, welcomed the announcement by Google. "【R5】______There are more than a million paying subscribers and millions more enjoying free and ad-supported music." he said. The entry of a player with the reach of Google will persuade many more consumers to experience having millions of songs to play instantly on their phone, tablet or PC." Google's announcement was greeted with loud applause by developers in San Francisco.【R6】______Larry Page, the Google CEO, who has been suffering from a vocal-cords defect, made an unexpectedly long appearance at the conference, where he bemoaned the "negativity" which he believes is holding back the technology industry. The company revealed that more than 900 million devices using Android had now been activated, up from 400 million a year ago.【R7】______The 900m figure does not include tens of millions of smartphones in China which also use Android's basic software - called "Android Open Source Platform" - but do not connect to Google's services, and so cannot contact its "activation" servers. Google unveiled new tools for developers including the ability to track people's physical activity when they are carrying an Android device, a move that will usher in a new generation of fitness applications. Brian McClendon, Google's head of maps, said its mapping service had been rebuilt "from the ground up". Google Maps will pay greater attention to each individual's personal use of the maps, highlighting places they frequently visit and making suggestions for other venues. The maps will change as they are used. Clicking on a museum will highlight other museums in the area, and users' photos will also be displayed in the maps. 【R8】______A Users who sign up by 30 June will get a reduced price of $7.99 per month.B The announcement comes as Apple considers its own music service.C And delegates also heard about significant updates to its mapping services.D They began lining up to attend the sold-out Google I/O at 5 a.m.E Users will be able to search for an artist and add tracks to their library.F The new functions will be rolled out in the coming months.G Hugo Barra, vice-president of Android product management, said 48 billion Android apps had now been installed worldwide.H Streaming is the fastest growing part of the ￡330m digital music sector in Britain.

填空题Are you looking after yourself? 1. Running is an excellent exercise. Before you start running, you should warm up first, using slow movements that make all your muscles work. But be careful! If you stretch when your muscles are cold, you might do yourself an injury. Always wear comfortable clothing and make sure your trainers comfortable and in good shape. If you wear shoes that give good support to your whole feet, you will put less pressure on your knees. You should start exercising slowly, at a pace you can keep up for about 15-20 minutes. Try to exercise on soft ground as this will protect your knees and hips from too much stress. 2. It's OK if you go to bed late occasionally but if you regularly cut down on your sleep, it will soon start to have a bad effect on your skin. If you get a good night's rest, it will do your appearance the world of good. It is not called beauty sleep for nothing! Lack of sleep can cause acne or dry skin. Make sure you get a good night's sleep by going to bed and getting up at regular times: don't burn the candle at both ends. During the day, keep active: if you don't get enough exercise during the day, you may end up sleepless all night. 3. Did you know that standing, sitting and walking badly can make you look heavier than you really are? If we watched the way we sat and stood, it would improve our appearance a great deal. Stand in front of the mirror with your feet apart and your legs straight. Pull in your tummy, check that your ears, shoulders, hips, knees and ankles are in line with each other. You should be feeling and looking better already. 4. Most of us live in large polluted cities. If we got more fresh air, we would look healthier and more attractive. A brisk walk is one of the best things you can do for your circulation and appearance. Walking slowly is useful but a quick pace gets more oxygen into your lungs. So don't just go for a pleasant stroll, try and find an area that doesn't have much pollution, and get moving! 5. Many young people feel guilty about eating too much chocolate, and some even say they are addicted to it, though there is no evidence to support this. Chocolate does contain a lot of fat, and therefore any addicts out there would do better to eat less. However, if your diet is balanced, you needn't feel guilty: eating chocolate in moderation is free — but don't eat it instead of a proper meal! A. A good night's rest B. More leisure time C. Good posture D. Drug addiction E. More fresh air F. Balanced diet G. Tips for a run

填空题Trade is central to human health, prosperity and social welfare.【R1】______Examples of trade in daily life are so abundant they sometimes go unnoticed: people drive to work in a car made in Japan which runs on fuel imported from the Middle East.【R2】______A computer might have come from India and may run on software from the United States and a morning cup of coffee was most likely imported from Kenya, Colombia, Tanzania or Ecuador. Trade enriches our lives through greater choice and opens our minds to new ideas and cultures.【R3】______It is a key engine of economic growth. The prosperity trade brings people the opportunity to buy the things they value most: an education, access to health care, proper housing and food for their families. It is the job of the World Trade Organization to establish the rules and preserve and nurture this web of commercial activity. But trade is not entirely a natural phenomenon. It depends on political will.【R4】______When crisis set in during the 1930s, the knee-jerk reaction was economic nationalism. As one country raised its tariff barriers, so too did others in retaliation. Trade plummeted, unemployment became entrenched, cooperation between nations broke down and guns, soldiers and tanks took over. The human and economic costs were catastrophic. In stark contrast, when the Asian economies experienced a financial crisis in the late 1990s, markets were kept open and sensible but tough economic policy and regulatory decisions were taken.【R5】______Within a relatively short period of time, these countries were on the road to recovery and fears of worldwide recession were proven unfounded. Restoring international economic growth and stability through the promotion of trade was crucial to securing a lasting peace after World War II.【R6】______At first this was a provisional agreement between 23 countries called the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(the GATT). 【R7】______Its membership today includes 142 Members, each at its own level of economic development and with its own set of economic priorities. Since Seattle(November 1999), seven countries joined the WTO — Albania, Croatia, Georgia, Jordan, Lithuania, Moldova and Oman. With China poised to enter the organization, another 1.3 billion people will benefit from the rules-based trading system. Another 30 or so countries — from the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine to Vietnam and Yemen — are in the process of negotiating their accession to the WTO.【R8】______. A. In 1995, the GATT became the WTO, a fully-fledged international organization with stronger and broader authority. B. Many of the goods we buy, the services we use and the foods we eat depend on foreign trade. C. Others ride bicycles made in China with tires from Malaysia. D. This helped contain the crisis and it allowed the Asian nations to export their way out of difficulty. E. It binds people together in a dynamic and complex network of mutually beneficial commercial relations. F. Compare, for example, the starkly different policy responses to two of the most major economic and financial disasters of this century. G. It was this vision that led to the creation of the multilateral trading system in 1948. H. Even though the trading system has changed greatly over the years, the underlying goals of the system embodied in the WTO have remained constant: to promote openness, fairness and predictability in international trade for the benefit of humanity.

填空题Read the article below and choose the best sentence from the list on the next page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap(1-8)mark one letter(A~H)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. Seasick? Try Controlling Your Breathing If you get seasick easily, you may prepare for boat rides with pressure-point bracelets, ginger, or a prescription skin patch.【R1】______The technique presumably works because it helps control gravity sensors in the abdomen - a lesser-known input to our fine-tuned balance system. 【R2】______The inner ears sense motions of the head; the eyes see where the head is; and tiny sensory organs in muscles and tendons sense where the rest of the body is. More recently, researchers have realized that sensors in many other parts of the body also play a role: in the abdomen, the lower organs, and even blood vessels.【R3】______But if one or two don't match up, the brain gets confused and we become nauseated. Scientists knew the most sickening motions closely match the rate of natural breathing; they also knew that people naturally tend to breathe in time with a motion. 【R4】______ Researchers from Imperial College London enlisted 26 volunteers to sit in a tilting, rocking flight simulator and coordinate their breathing in various ways with the motion.【R5】______The natural tendency was for volunteers to inhale on every backward tilt, in rhythm with the rocking.【R6】______They felt even better if they breathed slightly faster or slower than the cyclic heaving of the chair; using that technique, the time until onset of nausea was 50% longer than during normal breathing. 【R7】______Abdominal sensors are known to send motion signals to the brain more slowly than those in the inner ear because they're farther away from the brain and because abdominal organs have more mass, which means they resist movement a tiny bit longer.【R8】______But if the diaphragm opposes gravity-induced stomach motions with controlled breaths, there is less sensory conflict and less nausea. "This technique is very good for mild everyday challenges," says medical research scientist Michael Gresty, a member of the study team. "It's completely safe, and it's not a drug."A. But if the subjects exhaled on every backward tilt, they didn't get sick as quickly.B. As long as all of these sensors send matching signals to the brain, we feel oriented.C. Now there's one more remedy: timing your breathing to counteract the nauseating motion.D. So why do these tactics work?E. The brain is traditionally thought to sense body position in three ways.F. The time lag between the two types of sensors creates a mismatch that builds up in the brain and makes us gradually sicker, the researchers say.G. The tests lasted up to 30 minutes, or until subjects felt moderately sick.H. But no one had ever tested whether breathing out of time with a motion could prevent nausea.

填空题Directions: Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 6-10, with a word or phrase from the list below. For each sentence(6-10), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. sympathizes the American Indians B. eighteen years C. found the Indians very helpful D. taking a militant stand and appealing to the courts E. notoriously deprived F. ask the Indians to leave their lands G. force Indians to leave

填空题I have an ______ piece of news you may not have heard. (amuse)

填空题Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18, with a word or phrase from the list below. For each sentence(14-18), mark one letter(A~G)on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice.A. best preserved in the wordB. completely ForbiddenC. Palace MuseumD. all over the countryE. 961m longF. 8704m longG. unknown

填空题Questions ·Read the following passage and answer questions. 1. If sustainable competitive advantage depends on work-force skills, American firms have a problem. Human-resource management is not traditionally seen as a central to the competitive survival of the firm of the United States. Skill acquisition is considered an individual responsibility. Labor is simply another factor of production to rent at the lowest possible cost — as much as one buys row materials or equipment. 2. The lack of the importance attached to human-resource management can be seen in the cooperation hierarchy. In an American firm the chief financial officer is almost always second in command. The post of head of human-resource management is usually a specialized job, off at edge of corporate hierarchy. The executive who holds it is never consulted on major strategic decisions and has no chance to move up to Chief Executive Officer. By way of contrast, in Japan the head of human-resource management is central—usually the second most important executive, after the CEO, in the firm's hierarchy. 3. While American firms often talk about the vast amounts spent on training their work forces, in fact they invest less in the skills of their employees than do either Japanese or German firms. The money they do is also more highly concentrated on professional and managerial employees. And the limited investments on modem training workers are much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies. 4. As a result, problems emerge when new breakthrough technologies arrived. If American workers, for example, take much longer to learn how to operate new flexible manufacturing stations than workers in Germany do (as they do), the effective cost of those stations is lower in Germany than it is in United States. More times is required before equipment is up and running at capacity, and the need for extensive retraining generates costs and creates bottlenecks that limit the speed, with which new equipment can be employed. 5. The result is a slower pace of technological changes. And in the end the skills of the bottom half of the population affect the wages of the top half. If the bottom half cannot effectively staff the processes that have to operated, the management and professional jobs that go with these processes will disappear. Questions ·For questions, choose the best title for each paragraph from below. ·For each numbered paragraph, mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet. ·Do not mark any letter twice. A. The bad effect of poor management on new technologies. B. The position of human-resource management in corporation hierarchy. C. The work force — training in American firms. D. Human-resource management is not important for American firms. E. How to make American firms become more completive. F. The importance of worker's skill. G. Problems exit in American's companies.

填空题Part 2 Questions 1-8 ·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18. 1. People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures are painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they want to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found in walls or caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in picture. 2. About 5,000 years ago the Egyptians and other people in the east began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used become a kind of alphabet. 3. The Egyptians used to record information and tell stories by putting picture writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modem comic-strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it. 4. By the year 1000 BC, people who lived in area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the alphabet is now used over the world. 5. These days, we can write down a story, or record the information without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawings, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things easily, and they can make a story much more interesting. Questions 9-13 ·For questions 9-13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below. ·For each numbered paragraph (1-5), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet. ·Do not mark any letter twice.A. Picture used to record information and tell story.B. Pictures used as writing and language.C. The old pictures of Egypt.D. People have been painting pictures since long ago.E. Pictures are much more useful these days.F. Pictures developed to a writing system.G. Roles pictures played nowadays.

填空题Read the article below. Choose the best sentence from the list on the next page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap(1-8)mark one letter(A~H)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. Coca-Cola Classic In May 1985, Coca-Cola chairman Robert Goizueta announced one of the boldest gambles in marketing history: Coca-Cola would make a significant flavor change in Coke, the world's best-selling soft drink.【R1】______The idea, according to one of Coke's leading strategists, "was to take all the positive qualities associated with the current product, its heritage and so on, and transfer that to an improved tasting product."【R2】______Supermarket sales of Coke had slipped behind Pepsi by almost two percentage points, and Pepsi was consistently winning blind taste tests. The advertising campaign for New Coke emphasized improved flavor. Coca-Cola spent nearly $4 million to taste-test its new product on 200,000 consumers.【R3】______When the brands were not identified, the taste tests of 40,000 people done in 30 communities showed that 55 percent chose the new Coke over the old, and 52 percent chose it over Pepsi. Subjects were not told during any of the tests that the product being tested would take the place of the traditional Coke. During the first month of New Coke's introduction, shipments to Coke bottlers set a record, and more people tried the new product than has ever sampled any new product.【R4】______Consumers began to demand the old Coke. Sales were dropping rapidly. There was even talk of a class-action suit by a Seattle-based organization, Old Coke Drinkers of America. Coca-Cola headquarters received thousands of protest letters such as, "Dear Chief Dodo: what ignoramus decided to change the formula of Coke?" Coca-Cola bottlers meeting in Dallas signed a petition demanding that the company restore the traditional formula. 【R5】______On July 10, Coca-Cola announced that it would reintroduce the original formula under the name Coca-Cola Classic. Within hours of the announcement, a national phone survey indicated that 68 percent of the people were aware of that move and 66 percent approved of it. The Coca-Cola Classic package was designed only two days before the announcement. 【R6】______ABC News covered the story on its "World News Tonight" report, again on "Nightline", and on "20/20". ABC-TV also interrupted its "General Hospital" soap opera to tell the public that the old Coke was coming back. 【R7】______Pepsi's first advertising campaign in response to its competitor's move stated that Pepsi's own better taste had forced Coca-Cola's move. The second campaign talked about the confusion of Coke products, emphasizing the split between new Coke and old Coke.【R8】______By September, Coca-Cola decided to change its approach once more by bringing back the kind of traditional soft-drink advertising that it had been trying hard to get away from. The new ads did not address the differences between the new Coke and Coca-Cola Classic but rather, focused on a return to traditional values.A. Coca-Cola introduced "New Coke" to the market in an attempt to win back market share from Pepsi.B. Coke's 99-year-old formula would be modified to make it slightly sweeter and less filling.C. The media had given a lot of coverage to what had been labeled the "new Coke failure".D. PepsiCo, bottlers of Pepsi-Cola, couldn't resist the temptation to poke fun at Coca-Cola's misfortune in its advertising.E. The confusion and controversy between the two cola market leaders grew.F. On July 5, Coca-Cola announced that it would bring back the old formula.G. Some of the taste tests were blind, and others had brand names associated with them. H. However, the entire picture changed suddenly.

填空题Directions: Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 6-10, with a word or phrase from the list below. For each sentence(6-10), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. with the help of physicians B. without difficulty C. The first manned space flight in China D. 6:07 am October 16 E. 7:40 am October 16 F. checking of return capsule and astronaut G. several kilometers from the designed site

填空题Our teacher asked us to complete this ______ before class. (assign)

填空题Management It is strange that the number of British institutions offering MBA courses should have grown by 256 percent during a period when the economy had been sliding into deeper recession. Optimists, or those given to speedy assumptions, might think it marvelous to have such a resource of business school graduates ready for the recovery. (1) What was taken some years ago as a ticket of certain admission to success is now being exposed to the examination of cost-conscious employers who feel that academia has not been sufficiently appreciative of the needs of industry or of the employers' possible contribution. It is curious, given the name of the degree, that there should be no league table for UK business schools; no agreement about what the degree should include; and no agreed system of accreditation. Surely there is something wrong. (2) Perhaps companies that made large investments would have been wiser to invest In already existing managers, perched anxiously on their own internal ladders. The Institute of Management's survey, which revealed that eighty-one percent of managers thought they would be more effective if they received more training, suggests that this might be the case. (3) They need the inherent qualification of character; a degree of self-subjugation; and, above all, the ability to communicate and lead; more so now, when empowerment is a buzzword that is at least generating obedience, if not total conviction. (4) We may therefore, not need to be too concerned about the fall in applications for business school places, or even the doubt about MBAs. (5) If the Management Charter Initiative, now exploring the introduction of a senior management qualification, is successful, there will be a powerful corrective. (6) One hopes there will be some of that in the relationship between management and science within industry, currently causing concern and which is overdue for attention. No one doubts that we need more scientists and innovation to give us an edge in an increasingly competitive world. If scientists feel themselves undervalued and under-used, working in industrial slums, that is not a promising sign for the future. (7) Above all, we have to make sure that management is not itself too proud of its status and that it does not issue mission statements about communication without realizing that the essence of it is a dialogue. (8) A. One wonders where all the tutors for this massive infusion of business expertise came from and why all this mushrooming took place. B. Unfortunately, there is now much doubt about the value of the degree. C. We believe now that management is all about change. D. It seems we have to resolve these misapprehensions between science and industry. E. More empowerment is required—and we should strive to achieve it. F. The surge and subsequent questioning may have been an inevitable evolution. G. There is, too, the fact that training alone does not make successful managers. H. One can easily think of people, some comparatively uneducated, who are now lauded captains of industry.

填空题Directions : Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 6-10, with a word or phrase from the list below. For each sentence(6-10), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. all the classes of society B. were sponsored C. the most prominent art form D. replaced by "strolling plays" E. acting and theater management F. replaced by "morality" plays G. a part of the church service

填空题You will hear two conversations. Write down one word or number in each of the numbered spaces on the forms below.CONVERSATION 1(Questions 1-4) Message From: Mr. 【L1】______To: Mr. WangMessage: There is a very urgent meeting at【L2】______this afternoon. Please tell him to attend the meeting and prepare the annual【L3】______of last year. For any questions, please call【L4】______.

填空题The place is a lovely meadow surrounded by deep woods on a hilltop overlooking a beautiful lake in the Catskill Mountains 120 miles from New York. It is a quarter past eight in the morning, and you are about to commute to your office in the city. Yet there is no paved highway nearer than fifteen miles, and it is fifty miles to a railroad station. 【R1】______You press the button of a box nearby and a radio signal flashes to the machine. The aircraft, looking oddly like a horizontal electric fan, drones toward you. When the pilot is directly overhead, all forward movement of the machine ceases and it descends vertically until the cabin door is within a foot of the ground. On the machine's gray side is painted Helicopter Express to New York. 【R2】______ Fifty minutes later the helicopter bus hovers over a midtown New York building, descends slowly to alight on a roof space some sixty yards square. You go into the building, take the elevator to the street below, and walk half a block to your office. 【R3】______ 【R4】______If so, I can assure you, as a practical aeronautical engineer, that such a trip is neither fantastic nor impractical. I am convinced that a helicopter bus service is not only practicable but also, in fact, inevitable. In the air age of tomorrow, the manufacture, sale, and upkeep of the direct-lift machine will become a billion-dollar industry just as the automobile industry. There will be many startling changes in our way of life. 【R5】______Millions of acres of hitherto inaccessible land will be developed with small homes for medium-or low-income groups. A cheap, swift helicopter bus service will ferry these people to and from their work. Suburbs will include ten thousand or more square miles. Real estate values will come within the reach of average incomes, and the people will literally return to the good earth. 【R6】______But the short haul of less than 1000 miles is equally the task of the helicopter, which can do it with the greatest efficiency. Express and air mail will be carried from the airports to final destination by helicopter. There will be a direct-lift machine service to take airliner passengers from the airport to the city in a few minutes. There will be special delivery of perishable food to your door. The winter growth of fresh vegetables such as beans and tomatoes, celery and lettuce, in the warm South and the Far West has been hitherto restricted because of cost and time for transportation to market. 【R7】______ Private and bus helicopters will make possible vacations at seashore or mountain for countless thousands. The helicopter will destroy space for millions of people.【R8】______To hover and fill one's eyes with an enchanting vista is to bring joy to the soul. A. Long-distance transportation of passengers and freight over land and sea will definitely remain the job for the large airplane. B. Most important is that hundreds of thousands of people can return to the health and beauty of the countryside. C. Now you hear a low hum, and over the horizon appears a flying machine. D. Nothing is more delightful than touring in a helicopter. E. Does this sound like a fantasy imagined by science fiction writers? F. Not quite an hour has elapsed since you drank your morning coffee in your home. G. The airline and helicopter freight service will speed such healthy foods to the ends of the nation. H. The door opens and you step inside.

填空题You will hear five people talking about their first day at work. For questions 9-13, choose from the list A~F what each speaker says. Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use.A I was locked inside the office all night.B I was late and was mistaken by an older teacher.C I missed the bus because I could not find my keys.D I typed the notes and later was called to see the boss.E I scolded a man and then found out he was the boss. F I made a silly mistake and it enraged the boss.