单选题 {{I}} Questions 7 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.{{/I}}

单选题{{B}}TEXT C{{/B}} No one can be a great thinker who docs not realize that as a thinker it is her first duty to follow her intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who with due study and preparation thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. Note that it is solely, of chiefly, to form great thinkers that freedom of thinking is required. On the contrary, it is as much or even more indispensable to enable average human beings to attain the mental stature which they are capable of. There have been and many again be great individual thinkers in a general atmosphere of mental slavery. But there never has been, nor ever will be, in that atmosphere an intellectually active people. Where any of heterodox speculation was for a time suspended, where there is a tacit convention that principles are not to be disputed: where the discussion of the greatest questions which can occupy humanity is considered to be closed, we cannot hope to find that generally high scale of mental activity which has made some periods of history so remarkable. Never when controversy avoided the subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm was the mind of a people stirred up fro9m its foundation and the impulse given which raised even persons of the most ordinary intellect to something of the dignity of thinking beings. She who knows only her own side of the case knows little of that. Her reasons may be food, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if she s equally unable to refute the reasons of the opposite side; if she does not so much as know what they are, she has no ground for preferring either opinion. The rational position for her would be suspension of judgment, and unless she contents herself with that, she is either led by authority, or adopts, like the generality of the world the side to which she feels the most inclination. Nor is it enough that she should heat the arguments of adversaries from her own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied hy what they offer as refutations, That is not the way to do justice to the arguments, or bring them into real contact with her own mind. She must be able to hear them form persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. She must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; she must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and d! spose of; else she will never really possess herself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty, Ninety-nine in a hundred of what are called educated persons are in this condition; even of those who can argue fluently for their opinions. Their conclusion may be true, but it might be false for anything they know; they have never thrown themselves into the mental position of those who think differently form them and considered what such persons may have to say; and consequently they do not, in any proper sense of the word, know the doctrines which they themselves profess.

单选题Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.

单选题badly off work off well off desirous of badly off (1) having little money We were so badly off that we couldn't afford a bus ticket. Thanks to the money my uncle left me, I'm not badly off. (2) in bad condition I felt unwell, but I wasn't so badly off that I had Io stay home from work. work off (1) to pay (a debt) by working She worked off her loan. His parents are making him work off the cost of the bike he ruined. (2) to lose or get rid of (something) by physical activity He walks every day to work the extra weight off. Jogging is a great way to work off stress. well off (1) wealthy Her family is extremely well off. (2) in a good position or situation You might be better off in a different career. desirous of wanting or wishing for something very much, feeling desire for something Parents are desirous of a better way to educate their children.The earthquake refugees are ______ for food and blankets. A. desirous B. badly off C. working off D. ambitious

单选题Questions 4 to 6 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.

单选题In order to make myself ~ in English, I am studying hard.

单选题Which of the following italicized phrases indicates CAUSE? A. Why don't you do it for the sake of your friends? B. I wish I could write as well as you. C. For all his efforts, he didn't get an A. D. Her eyes were red from excessive reading.

单选题 Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage ,you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the passage.

单选题What can be inferred from the last paragraph of the passage?

单选题Why did the student come to see Mr. Green?

单选题The loss of the rain forests would upset the climates of tropical countries, bringing droughts and floods and ______ soil. A. fertile B. sterile C. hostile D. serial

单选题A new laptop costs about ______ of a second-hand one.A. the price of three timesB. three times the priceC. as much as the three times priceD. three times more than the price

单选题What is the final offer of a raise the man makes Miss Barnes?

单选题I tried to be pleasant to her but she gave me the cold ______.

单选题We have a high regard for Prof. Joseph because he always ______ his principles.

单选题{{B}} {{I}}Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the passage.{{/I}}{{/B}}

单选题In the past ten years skyscrapers have developed ______ in Chicago and New York City. A. homogeneously B. simultaneously C. spontaneously D. harmoniously

单选题 {{I}}Questions 27 to 29 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.{{/I}}