单选题{{I}}Questions 18-21 are based on the following dialogue.{{/I}}

单选题{{B}} Directions:{{/B}} You are going to hear three conversations. Before listening to each conversation ,you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which company it. After listening, you will have time to answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. You will hear each conversation ONLY ONCE. Mark your answers in your test booklet. {{B}} Questions 11 ～ 15 are based on the following passage.{{/B}}

单选题 Text If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or (26) in you work would depend, to (27) great extent, (28) your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. (29) the utmost importance is your attitude. A person (30) begins a job convinced that he isn't going to like it or is (31) that he is going to ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other hand, a person who is secure in (32) belief that he is probably as capable of (33) the work as anyone else and who is willing to (34) a cheerful attempt at it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well. (35) the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness. A bookkeeper who can't add or a carpenter who can't cut a straight line with a saw (36) hopeless cases. This book has been designed to help you capitalize (37) the strength and overcome the (38) that you bring to the job of learning. But in groups to measure your development, you (39) first take stock of where you stand now. (40) we get further along in the book, we'll be (41) in some detail with specific processes for developing and strengthening (42) skills. (43) , to begin with, you should pause to examine your present strengths and weaknesses in (44) areas that are critical to your success or failure in school: your (45) , your reading and communication skills, and your study habits.

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单选题 {{I}}Questions 11～13 are based on the following interview between a reporter and a sportswoman.{{/I}}

单选题There are at least two causes of anxiety: conflict and stress. As an example of the former, we can rarely predict the precise consequences of what we do, but we are awarded (oz cursed) with the intellectual capacity to anticipate the advantages and disadvantages which may arise for any action we may be contemplating. Very commonly we axe faced with a choice between several courses of action, all of which we have reasons for or against. This state of affairs -- in psychological jargon, multiple approach-avoidance conflict -- accounts for a great deal of our worrying: worrying, that is, about what to do. The other major source of worry is the dreadful things which may happen or have happened to us or to those we care for. Among the most stressful of these are death, illness, loss of work, money problems, marital problems and retirement. Such worries have a rational basis, but we are curiously irrational in the way we pursue them. For example, fear of death is as strong among young adults as among the elderly and it does not seem to be reduced by any sort of religious faith, including the belief that there is life after death. It is equally surprising that objective measures of anxiety suggest that we are as worried the hour before having a tooth filled as when we face a major medical operation. How do we deal with worries? Psychiatrists point to a number of defensive devices we can use to turn them aside. We can avoid the situations which induce them, one of the example being that some people refuse to fly in airplanes. We can deny that we have the worry at all, which may be risky if the worry is well-founded. Alternatively, we may repress it. These are hazardous; the former may lead to free-floating, clinical anxiety, while the latter is a way of saying that many physical troubles seem to be primarily emotional in origin. Temporary relief from anxiety can be obtained through engaging in a variety of coping behaviors. These include many of the commonest items of our behavioral repertoire. Smoking, drinking, sleeping, eating, taking physical exercise, daydreaming: all can be used to reduce anxiety when the occasion demands it. It is when they fail that worrying or anxiety threatens to become a clinical problem. Of course, some people worry more than others, whatever the circumstances. So far I have been discus- sing the state of anxiety, which is largely the product of the amount of stress an individual experiences. But anxiety is also a personality trait, closely related to Eysenck's neuroticism dimension, and the genes we inherit may make us likely become worriers. The importance of constitutional factors is underlined by the fact that people rarely have breakdowns for the first time later in life, despite the fact that stress-inducing events become more frequent as we get older.

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单选题The ostrich, the largest bird in the world at present, lives in the drier regions of Africa outside the actual deserts．Because of its very long，powerful legs and the floating effect of its extended wings，it is able to run at great speed over considerable distances． The female ostrich normally produces about twenty eggs every rainy season． When the female ostrich begins to lay her eggs, however, she does not begin in her own nest．Instead she goes off in search of the nests of neighboring females and laystwo or three eggs in each of them．By the time she has laid eight or nine eggs，she returns and lays the rest in her own nest． Because of the size of the eggs, the female ostrich cannot lay more than one every two days，so it takes her three weeks to finish laying in her own nest．During that period, she spends a lot of time away from her nest looking for food．And while she is off her nest, other females visit it to lay their eggs amongst hers．By the time she is ready to sit on the eggs to hatch them, there could be up to thirty eggs in her nest, over half of which are not her own． The female ostrich can comfortably cover only about twenty eggs when she is sitting on the nest, so before settling down she pushes the surplus ten or so eggs out of the nest．The rejected eggs, however, never include any of her own．Each female is remarkably consistent in the size and shape of the eggs she produces, so it is not difficult for her to distinguish her own from those of strangers． Of all the eggs laid by a colony of ostriches, only a very small number hatch into young birds．There are times when nests are left unprotected, for there are too few males to sit on all the nests at night．Thus there are ample opportunities for their natural enemies to raid the nests and eat the eggs．In fact，nearly 80% of the nests are destroyed．But even if a particular female's nest suffers this fate, there is a good chance that one or two of her eggs will be hatched in the nest of one of her neighbors．

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单选题In common with many countries, Britain has serious environmental problems. In 1952, more than 4,000 people died in London because of the smog. The government (26) new laws to stop smog from coal fires and factories and the (27) improved a lot. Today, London is much cleaner (28) there is a new problem: smog from cars. In December 1991, there was very (29) wind in London and pollution (30) a lot, which led to 160 deaths in just four days. (31) of the problem is the new "out of town" shopping centers. In the past, people often (32) to shops near their home or went by bus. Today, many people drive to the new shopping centers. (33) , the small shops have (34) and more people have to go a long way to (35) their shopping. Critics say that Britain needs better and cheaper public (36) . Many people are trying to (37) the use of cars in Britain. Some cities now have special bicycle (38) and many people ride to work. Some people also (39) to work together in one car to reduce the pollution and the (40) . Sometimes people take "direct (41) ." In 1995, for example, many people wanted to (42) a new road near Newbury. They built houses (43) trees and lived there for many months. It (44) a long time to force the people out of the trees (45) work on the road could continue.

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单选题Trees should only be trimmed when there is a good and clear reason for doing so and, fortunately ,the number of such reasons is small. Trimming involves the cutting away of overgrown and unwanted branches, and the inexperienced gardener can be encouraged by the thought that more damage results from doing it unnecessarily than from leaving the tree to grow in its own way. First, trimming may be done to make sure that trees have a desired shape or size. Tile object may be to get a tree of the right height. And at the same time to help the growth of small side branches which will thickens its appearance or give it a special shape. Secondly, trimming may be done to make the tree healthier. You may cut out diseased or dead wood ,or branches that are rubbing against each other and thus causing wounds. The health of a tree may be encouraged by removing branches that are blocking up the center and so preventing the free movement of air. One result of trimming is that an open wound is left on the tree and this provides an easy entry for disease, but it's a wound that will heal. Often there is a race between the healing and the disease as to whether the tree will live or die. So that there is a period when the tree is at risk. It should be the aim of every gardener to reduce the risk of death as far as possible. It is essential to make the area which has been trimmed smooth and clean ,for healing will be slowed down by roughness. You should allow the cut surface to dry for a few hours and then paint it with one of the substances available from the garden shops produced especially for this purpose. Trimming is usually done in winter, for you can see the shape of the tree clearly without interference front the leaves and it is, too, very unlikely that the cuts you make will bleed. If this does happen, it is ,of course, impossible to paint them properly.

单选题Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

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