填空题You will hear two telephone conversations. Write down one word or number in the numbered spaces on the forms below.CONVERSATION 1(Questions 1-4)The name of the little boy:【L1】______. Swallowed money: a【L2】______. Appointment with the doctor:Time:【L3】______p.m.Date:【L4】______.

填空题1. American comedian Kin Hubbard would say, "Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change, nine out of ten people wouldn't be able to start a conversation. " He has a point. After all, how many of us can say that we have never had to mention how hot, cold, or wet it is just to get out of an embarrassing silence? 2. Of course, the weather is not the only thing we chat about when we make small talks in the office or in public. The shocking state of public transport, last night's TV, even David Beckham's latest hairdo are all favorite topics for passing the time with workmates. Still, although it is easy to laugh at small talks for being trite and pointless. In fact, it is more important than you think, according to the experts. 3. Many people find small talks painful, but their absence can be equally unsettling. Amy Leonard discovered this when she took a summer job as a temporary receptionist at a swimming pool. "One of the people I had to work with hardly ever said anything," she explains. "She wasn't shy, she just didn't speak. I used to try and start conversations but she wouldn't talk back. In the end, the two of us used to sit there in silence. She didn't seem to notice anything that was wrong but for me it was awful. " 4. Colleagues who don't chat can come across as arrogant, says Lesley Everett, a consultant who advises people on how to behave in their personal and professional lives. "In some ways, it's worse if a woman doesn't make small talks. We expect men to find it more difficult," she says. "But small talks are very important. They're about creating a good first impression and building relationships." 5. For those who find small talks difficult, Lesley says a smile and lots of eye contact are a good way to get other people to speak to you first. "People like talking about themselves, so if you can remember anything about someone from the last time you met — where they went on holiday or whatever — bring it up," she says. It's also important to read the papers. You can always talk about something you read that day. Steer clear of politics or racism. You don't know if you'll offend the other person. Questions 1-5 Directions: For questions 1-5, choose the best title for each paragraph from below. For each numbered paragraph(1-5), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. The lack of small talks is embarrassing B. Small talks are important for building relationship C. Weather is the usual topic for small talks D. Small talks waste time and is useless E. Many other things to chat for small talks F. Most people like small talks G. Some good ways to initiate small talks

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-6)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. the best way is to provide them with constructive experiences B. children shouldn't be influenced by their teachers' personal prejudice C. they are respected by children D. policemen are invited to classroom E. one's experiences influence his attitude greatly F. children can form their own attitudes G. the teacher shouldn't scold children

填空题Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-10 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. are of much use in our lifeB. can be used in many waysC. about 5 000 years ago in EgyptD. helping to hunt these animalsE. write in a simple wayF. the Greek alphabetG. Egypt alphabet

填空题Questions 9-13 ·You will hear five different opinions about friendship. ·For questions 9-13, choose from the list A-F what friendships mean to them. ·Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use. A. A real friend can share your happiness, accept and forgive faults. B. Sometimes your best friend is yourself. C. Family is more important than friends in his mind. D. Friendship is more important than love. E. A friend is someone who can understand you. F. His best friend is his wife, because she knows what kind of mood he is in.Questions 9-13 ·You will hear five different opinions about friendship. ·For questions 9-13, choose from the list A-F what friendships mean to them. ·Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use. A. A real friend can share your happiness, accept and forgive faults. B. Sometimes your best friend is yourself. C. Family is more important than friends in his mind. D. Friendship is more important than love. E. A friend is someone who can understand you. F. His best friend is his wife, because she knows what kind of mood he is in.

填空题Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18 with an expression from the list below. For each sentence(14 -18), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. give a friend a ride B. adopt a new hobby C. feel less out of control D. learn a new set of skills E. need each other to survive F. take some time to exercise G. weigh down hard on one's family life

填空题Part 4 Questions 26-45 ·Read the following passage and choose the best word for each space. Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any (26) know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid of goods at reasonable prices, (27) establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide (28) export at competitive prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it (29) an increasing need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: (30) advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 percent more. And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy (31) the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live (32) the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little (33) through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good (34) not to buy the inferior article more than once. If you see an article (35) advertised, it is the surest proof. I know that the article does what is (36) for it, and that it represents good value. Advertising does more for the (37) benefit of the community than any other force I can think of. There is one more point I feel I ought to (38) on. Recently I heard a well-known television personality (39) that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was drawing (40) fine distinctions. Of course advertising (41) to persuade. If its message were (42) merely to information—and that in itself (43) difficult if not impossible to achieve, (44) even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasive — advertising would be so boring (45) no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that is what the well-known television personality wants.

填空题TELEPHONE CONVERSATION ( Questions 5-8)

填空题Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.1. When one of your car tires goes flat, there are two things you can do. Groan and change or, if you don't have a spare, stand helplessly behind the road and hope someone to your rescue. Now comes a third alternative, called Quickwheel. It is designed to get disabled motorists rolling again as quickly as possible.2. Quickwheel is essentially a tiny trailer — complete with three tough little wheels of it's own — that support the flat tire and enable the motorist to drive to the service station without losing much time or expending much energy. The product is manufactured in the Netherlands but is owned and marketed by a US company. Quickwheel inc. of Greenwich, Connecticut. According to the firm's president, Robert Bockweg, the product meets each of the major concerns that consumers associate with flat tires: safety lost time and physical exertion.3. To use it, motorists simply unfold the product to its fully extended position, set it in front of the disabled tire, drive the car on to the Quickwheel's ramp and attach a special safety strap over the tire. The tire is then locked, or cradled, in Quickwheel's metal frame. The device's three wheels do the rest of work.4. According to Quckwheel Inc., its product can be driven "four miles" at speeds of up to 45 miles per hour without any noticeable change in the vehicle's breaking or steer operation. The company also claims that it can be used on just any type of car, jeep, mini-van or trailer.5. Bockweg says that Quickwheel will be sold in the US, at a price of $150. Distribution agreements now being negotiated should make the product available in Japan, Canada and West Europe in the future. 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. The future marketing of Quickwheel.B. The advantages of the Quickwheel.C. How does Quickwheel work?D. The ways of dealing with flat tires.E. Quickwheel can get disabled motorists rolling again.F. An introduction of Quickwheel.G. Why is the Quickwheel invented?

填空题Part 1 ·Read the.following passages, eight sentences have been removed from the article. ·Choose from the sentences A-H the one whichfits each gap. ·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet. ·Do not mark any letter twice. In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television. (1) But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey show. Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of"trash talk". (2) For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. (3) Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. (4) Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your workweek, to getting to know your neighbors. Compared with Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends ever with a "final word". (5) Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable. Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. (6) Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with life's tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an association with the young adults of society. (7) They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the show's exploitation. While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now. (8) Ironically, both could also be considered pioneers in the talk show world.A. He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show.B. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individual's quality of life.C. The show's main target audience are middle-class Americans.D. Each one caters to a different audience while both have a strong following from large groups of fans.E. The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be.F. These are 18-to 20-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love relationship, sex, money and peers.G. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies in style and format.H. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of society's moral catastrophe, yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments of other people's lives.

填空题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. (1) The technique presumably works because it helps control gravity sensors in the abdomen-a lesser-known input to our fine-tuned balance system. (2) 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. (3) 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. (4) 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. (5) The natural tendency was for volunteers to inhale on every backward tilt, in rhythm with the rocking. (6) 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. (7) 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. (8) 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CONVERSATION 1 (Questions 1-4) Miss Jones: responsible for marketing (1) UK hotels. Miss Jones: responsible for markets in (2) and Japan. Miss Jones has had a lot of contact with Japan because (3) have become very popular with the Japanese. Miss Jones traveled across China by train about (4) years ago.

填空题CONVERSATION 1 About the test: Lasting (1) hours. Time to know the result: (2) Relationship of the two people: (3) and (4) .

填空题It makes me sleepy to listen to such a ______ conversation. (bore)

填空题Read the following article and answer questions 9-18 on the next page. Happiness Secrets for Tough Times1. You don't need an expert to tell you that relationships are critical to happiness. Not being the bread-winner anymore or not being able to fulfill your kid's needs can weigh down hard on your family life. But the trick is to stop feeling guilty and focus on nurturing your loved ones. "I was at a psychology conference where an expert was talking about the effects of this economy on families and how parents can't afford to buy their kids luxuries like toys anymore," says Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. "But what they don't realize is that kids don't care about toys - what they care about is parents being grumpy and taking it out on them."2. Now more than ever we need each other to survive. Lyubomirsky found that doing good things for friends, family, or strangers can make you happier. Think of practical, everyday gestures that can make someone's life a little bit easier. For example, Lyubomirsky says, "Maybe now many of us can't afford to take a cab to the airport, so offer to give a friend a ride."3. "You could spend a lot of time ruminating," says Lyubomirsky. "But that just makes you feel even more pessimistic, more out of control, and affects your self esteem. Your relationships will suffer and your job performance will suffer." Get rid of pessimism. One of the most effective ways to cope when things are difficult is to adopt a positive thinking strategy. "What can I learn from this? Times are tough, I've been furloughed at work, but I can spend more time with the kids, adopt a new hobby, or learn a new set of skills."4. "if you find a happy person you will find a project," says Lyubomirsky. "Happy people all have goals they care about." Commit yourself to a project — whether it is a business you want to start or a dance you want to learn. But it's also important to remember to be flexible in these times. Don't get frustrated if circumstances are stopping you from meeting your goals. Adopt and change! "If your spouse has lost their job you might have to change your goal," says Lyubomirsky. "Or you might have to learn a whole new skill for a new job."5. When times are tough, it's easy to get skip your regular workouts in favor of moping in front of the TV and eating a bag of chips. Your thinking is "I have more important things to worry about right now than looking good." But carve out a small part of your day to give your body some TLC.It will go a long way in boosting your happiness. "Even if you can't afford to go to the gym," Lyubomirsky says, "take time out to exercise at home or meditate."Questions 9-13(10 marks) For questions 9-13, choose from the list A-G which best summarizes each part of the article. For each numbered paragraph(1-5), mark one letter(A~G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice.A. Have a goal and be flexibleB. Find a new friendC. Avoid over-thinkingD. Do some physical exerciseE. Help othersF. Focus on your relationshipsG. Try to fulfill vour kid's needs

填空题Many readers like to bury their heads in an old-fashioned ______ story with a predictable ending. (detect)

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 the Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. Happy Customers: Matter of Honor among Japanese In an age when personal service as a significant aspect of merchandising is dying out in the Untied States, Japan clings tenaciously to it. Service is viewed by people in Japan not as a luxury, but as an essential ingredient for the success of individual companies and the Japanese economy as a whole. Americans who move to Japan never get used to the range of services and courtesies taken for granted here. 【R1】______ Supermarket check-out counters have two or three people ringing up and bagging groceries. Some stores deliver, with each bag arriving neatly stapled closed. 【R2】______ Television shops normally send a technician to install and fine-tune a newly purchased set.【R3】______Car salespeople are known to bring new models around to customers' homes for test drives and loaners are available for people whose cars are in for repairs. There are no limits to what is home-delivered — video movies, dry cleaning, health foods, rented tailcoats(this last one requires tow visits from the sales staff, first for a fitting, second for delivery of the altered and freshly pressed garment). 【R4】______ Japanese barbers often give back massages as part of an ordinary haircut. 【R5】______ Department stores seem to have twice, if not three times the floor staff of American ones.【R6】______Upscale customers don't have to come in at all — the goods are taken to their homes for display and selection. Perhaps the darkest spot on personal service in Japan is how remarkably impersonal it can be. Everyone is treated exactly alike.【R7】______After a month's stay in a hotel, guests may find the staff still has no idea who they are. Still, the Japanese view service as the glue that holds commercial relationships together. If the correct personal contact and follow-up come with the first sale, a second is sure to come. Market share and loyal customers are the first goal, not short-term profit. 【R8】______ A. The technician will rush back if anything goes wrong. B. If they remove a customer's eyeglasses, they may polish the lenses before returning them. C. Employee's cheery greetings and directions, in fact, are often memorized from a company manual. D. Many stores wrap everything they sell. E. Service may cost but it helps ensure these more important objectives. F. Dry ice is inserted alongside the frozen foods to ensure that they don't spoil on the way. G. Office deliveries are common, too, especially of lunch. H. To those old enough to remember how things used to be at home, life can bring on twinges of nostalgia.

填空题1. According to the Wall Street Journal, "More and more shoppers are bypassing household names for the cheaper, no-name products one shelf over. This shows that even the biggest and strongest brands in work are vulnerable. " 2. It has been clear for some time — principally since recession began to be felt in the major economies of the world — that the strength of brands has been under fire. During the second half of the eighties, the Japanese, for example, showed themselves willing to pay a huge premium to buy goods with a smart label and image to match: they were fashion victims par excellence, be it in choosing their luggage or in buying their booze, where a 20-year-old version of a good malt whisky could fetch the equivalent of ￡60 or more. Over the past year or two, that enthusiasm to spend big money on a classy label has lowered markedly. 3. But we may be witnessing the death of the brand. First, every story that now appears about the troubles being experience by makers of luxury goods triggers wise nods and told-you-so frowns. Two days ago, LVMH in France, which owns Moet et Chandon champagne, Louis Vuitton and the Christian Lacroix fashion house, reported lower earnings for the first half of 1993 than it did a year ago. As David Jarvis, in charge of the European operations of Drinks Company Hiram Walker, puts it: "A few years ago, it might have been considered smart to wear a shirt with a designer's logo embroidered on the pocket, frankly, it now seems out of fashion." 4. This conclusion fits with one's instincts. In the straitened nineties, with nearly three million out of work and 425,000 people officially classed as homeless in England alone, conspicuous consumption now seems vulgar rather than chic. But just because flashy, up-market brand shave lost some of their appeal, it does not follow that all brands have done so. Cadbury's Diary Mild is just as much a brand as Carrier watches. Tastes may have shifted down market, but that does not mean that they have shifted from flash-brand to no brand. 5. The second strand of the brand argument is tied intimately with the effects of recession. No one yet knows to what extent the apparent lack of some brands' appeal is merely a temporary phenomenon. It may well be that, deep down, we would still love to own a Louis Vuitton suitcase rather than one from Woolworth's but while we are out of work or fearing that our job is at risk, we are not prepared to express that preference by actually spending the cash. 6. Third, the example of Marlboro is an extreme one. The difference in price between premium brand cigarettes and budget rivals in the US had become huge during the 1980s: a packet of Marlboro or Camel might cost 80 percent more than a budget variety. Few brands in much area of consumer goods could hope to maintain so great a premium indefinitely. Questions 1-5 Directions: For questions 1-5, choose the best title for each paragraph from below. For each numbered paragraph(1-5), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. Some famous brands are facing crisis B. Some good brand products have low quality C. The strength of brand has been decreasing D. People don't buy flashy brands because of lacking of money E. Some flashy brands will disappear completely F. Shoppers tend to buy cheap, unbranded products G. The strand of brands is linked closely with economic recession

填空题Read the following magazine article and answer questions 9-18 on the next page. The Burden of Thirst0. AylitoBinayo's feet know the mountain. Even at four in the morning, she can rundown the rocks to the river by starlight alone and climb the steep mountain back up to her village with a container of water on her back. She has made this journey three times a day since she was a small child. So has every other woman in her village of Foro, in the Konso district of south-western Ethiopia in Africa.1. In developed parts of the world, people turn on a tap and out pours abundant, clean water. Yet nearly 900 million people in the world have no access to clean water. Furthermore, 2.5 billion people have no safe way to get rid of human waste. Polluted water and lack of proper hygiene cause disease and kill 3.3 million people around the world annually, most of them children.2. Bringing clean water close to villagers' homes is the key to the problem. Communities where clean water becomes accessible and plentiful are transformed. All the hours previously spent hauling water can be used to cultivate more crops, raise more animals or even start a business. Families spend less time sick or caring for family members who are unwell. Most important, not having to collect water means girls can go to school and get jobs. The need to fetch water for the family, or to take care of younger siblings while their mother goes, usually prevents them ever having this experience.3. But the challenges of bringing water to remote villages like those in Konso are overwhelming. Locating water underground and then reaching it by means of deep wells requires geological expertise and expensive, heavy machines. Abandoned wells and water projects litter the villages of Konso. In similar villages around the developing world, the biggest problem with water schemes is that about half of them break down soon after the groups that built them move on. Sometimes technology is used that can't be repaired locally, or spare parts are available only in the capital.4. Today, a UK-based international non-profit organisation called Water Aid is tackling the job of bringing water to the most remote villages of Konso. Their approach combines technologies proven to last - such as building a sand dam to capture and filter rainwater that would otherwise drain away. But the real innovation is that Water Aid believes technology is only part of the solution. Just as important is involving the local community in designing, building and maintaining new water projects.5. The people of Konso, who grow their crops on terraces they have dug into the sides of mountains, are famous for hard work. In the village of Orbesho, residents even constructed a road themselves so that drilling machinery could come in. Last summer, their pump, installed by the river, was being motorised to push its water to a newly built reservoir on top of a nearby mountain. From there, gravity will carry it down in pipes to villages on the other side of the mountain. Residents of those villages have each given some money to help fund the project. They have made concrete and collected stones for the structures. Now they are digging trenches to lay pipes. If all goes well, AylitoBinayo will have a tap with safe water just a three-minute walk from her front door.Questions 9-13(10 marks) For questions 9-13, choose from the list A~G which best summarizes each part of the article. For each numbered paragraph(1~5), mark one letter(A~G)on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice.A. Failure of some projectsB. A possible successC. Anew management styleD. Some relevant statisticsE. A regular trip for some peopleF. Treatment for diseaseG. Water in people's lives

填空题Today's career assumptions are you can get a lot of development, challenge and job satisfaction and not necessarily be in a management role. A new malady is running rampantly in corporate America: management phobia. 【R1】______ "I hated all the meetings," says a 10-year award-winning manager, And I found the more you did for people who worked for you, the more they expected. 【R2】______ With technology changing in a wink, you can never slack off these days if you're on the technical side. 【R3】______ In addition, the Dilbert factor is at work. With Scott Adams's popular cartoon character—as well as many television sitcoms — routinely portraying managers as morons or enemies, they just don't get much respect anymore. Supervising others was always a tough task, but in the past that stress was offset by hopes for career mobility and financial rewards. 【R4】______ But in today's global, more competitive arena, a manager sits on an insecure perch.【R5】______There are far fewer rungs on the corporate ladder for managers to climb. In addition, managerial jobs demand more hours and headaches than ever before but offer slim, if any, financial paybacks and perks. Furthermore, managers now must supervise many people who are spread over different locations, even over different continents. 【R6】______ In an age of entrepreneurship, when the most praised people in business are those launching something new, management seems like an invisible, thankless role. 【R7】______ Management layoffs have done much to erode interest in managerial jobs, of course. 【R8】______ A. Many people don't want to be a manager — and many people who are managers are, frankly, itching to jump off the management track — or have already. B. It's a rare person who can manage to keep up on the technical side and handle a management job, too. C. Restructuring have eliminated layer after layer of management as companies came to view their organizations as collections of competencies rather than hierarchies. D. They must manage across functions with, say, design, finance, marketing and technical people reporting to them. E. I was a counselor, motivator, financial adviser and psychologist. F. Employers are looking for people who can do things, not for people who make other people do things. G. American Management Association surveys say three middle managers are laid off for every one being hired. H. Along with a sizable pay raise, people chosen as managers would begin a nearly automatic climb up the career ladder to lucrative executive perks: stock options, company cars, club memberships, plus the key to the executive washroom.