单选题In the writer's opinion, fairy stories ______.

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 {{B}} Text 2{{/B}} Nearly all "speed reading" courses have a "pacing" element--some timing device which lets the student know how many words a minutes he is reading. You can do this simply by looking at your watch every 5 or 10 minutes and noting down the page number you have reached. Check the average number of words per page for the particular book you are reading. How do you know when 5 minutes has passed on your watch if you are busy reading the book? Well, this is difficult at first. A friend can help by timing you over a set period, or you can read within hearing distance of a public clock which strikes the quarter hours. Pace yourself every three or four days, always with the same kind of easy, general interest books. You should soon notice your accustomed w. p.m. rate creeping up. Obviously there is little point in increasing your w. p.m. rate if you do not understand what you are reading. When you are consciously trying to increase your reading speed, stop after every chapter (if you are reading a novel) or every section or group of ten or twelve pages(if it is a text book) and ask yourself a few questions about what you have been reading. If you find you have lost the thread of the story, or you cannot remember clearly the details of what was said, reread the section or chapter. You can also try "lightning speed" exercise from time to time. Take four or five pages of the general interest book you happen to be reading and read them as fast as you possibly can. Do not bother about whether you understand or not. Now go back and read them at what you feel to be your "normal" w. p. m. rate, the rate at which you can comfortably understand. After a 'lightning speed' reading through (probably 600 w. p. m.) you will usually find that you "normal" speed has increased—perhaps by as much as 50—100 w. p. m. This is the technique sportsmen use when they usually run further in training than they will hive to on the day of the big race.

单选题Whatdowelearnfromtheman'sreply?

单选题How do Americans treat their visitors at home?

单选题You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. Questions 11～13 are based on the following conversation.

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单选题The human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it. This helps us adjust to the outside world. Without our nerves and our brain, which is a system of nerves, we couldn"t know what"s happening. But we pay for our sensitivity. We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body. The history of torture (折磨) is based on the human body being open to pain. But there is a way to handle pain. Look at the Indian fakir (苦行僧) who sits on a bed of nails. Fakirs can put a needle fight through an arm, and feel no pain. This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain. The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude toward it. ff the dentist says, "This will hurt a little," it helps us to accept the pain. By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation (感觉), we can handle the pain without falling apart. After all, although pain is an unpleasantsensation, it is still a sensation, and sensations are the stuff of life.

单选题Among the more colorful characters of Leadville"s golden age were H. A. W. Tabor and his second wife, Elizabeth McCourt, best known as "Baby Doe". Their history is fast becoming one of the legends of the Old West. Horace Austin Warner Tabor was a school teacher in Vermont. With his first wife and two children he left Vermont by covered wagon in 1855 to homestead in Kansas. Perhaps he did not find farming to his liking, or perhaps he was lured by rumors of fortunes to be made in Colorado mines. At any rate, a few years later he moved west to the small Colorado mining camp known as California Gulch, which he later renamed Leadville when he became its leading citizen. "Great deposits of lead are sure to be found here." he said. As it turned out, it was silver, not lead, that was to make Leadvill"s fortune and wealth. Tabor knew little about mining himself, so he opened a general store, which sold everything from boots to salt, flour, and tobacco. It was his custom to "grubstake" prospective miners, in other words, to supply them with food and supplies, or "grub", while they looked for ore, in return for which he would get a share in the mine if one was discovered. He did this for a number of years, but no one that he aided ever found anything of value. Finally one day in the year 1878, so the story goes, two miners came in and asked for "grub". Tabor had decided to quit supplying it because he had lost too much money that way. These were persistent, however, and Tabor was too busy to argue with them. "Oh, help yourself. One more time won"t make any difference," He said and went on selling shoes and hats to other customers, the two miners took $17 worth of supplies, in return for which they gave Tabor a one-third interest in their findings. They picked a barren place on the mountainside and began to dig. After nine days they struck a rich vein of silver. Tabor bought the other shares of the two men, and so the mine belonged to him alone. This mine, known as the "Pittsburgh Mine," made $ 1,300,000 for Tabor in return for his $ 17 investment. Later Tabor bought the Matchless Mine on another barren hillside just outside the town for $ 17,000. This turned out to be even more fabulous than the Pittsburgh, yielding $35,000 worth of silver per day at one time. Leadville grew. Tabor became its first mayor, and later became lieutenant governor of the state.

单选题Whatisthewoman'smeaning?A.Themanwasabletotakeashirtofadifferentcolor.B.ThesizeoftheshirtisOKfortheman.C.Thenewarrivalwillbethefashionableone.D.Themanshouldn'tcomehereagain.

单选题 Questions 15～18 are based on the following passage.

单选题Wheredoesthisdialoguetakeplace?

单选题 IQuestions 14-17 are based on the following dialogue./I

单选题 Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century. {{U}}(26) {{/U}} in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in the heart of a town. This street was {{U}}(27) {{/U}} on both sides with many{{U}} (28) {{/U}}businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. {{U}}(29) {{/U}}, some shops offered {{U}}(30) {{/U}}. These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops, {{U}}(31) {{/U}}in the 1950s, a change began to {{U}}(32) {{/U}}. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street{{U}} (33) {{/U}} too few parking places were {{U}}(34) {{/U}}shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces {{U}}(35) {{/U}}the city limits. Open space is what their car-driving customers needed. And open space is what they got{{U}} (36) {{/U}}the first shopping center was built. Shopping centers, or rather malls, {{U}}(37) {{/U}}as a collection of small new stores {{U}}(38) {{/U}}crowded city centers. {{U}}(39) {{/U}}by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from {{U}}(40) {{/U}}areas to outlying malls. And the growing {{U}}(41) {{/U}} of shopping centers led {{U}}(42) {{/U}}to the building of bigger and better-stocked stores. {{U}}(43) {{/U}}the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the {{U}}(44) {{/U}} of one-stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, {{U}}(45) {{/U}} benches, fountains, and out door entertainment.

单选题Dear Han Mei, I'm in London now. My sister wants to be your friend. Now I'm writing to you about her. Her name is Joan. She works in a big school here. She teaches Chinese. She wants to go to China soon and see the Women's Football Team of China. My sister likes football very much. She doesn't stay in bed in the morning but runs to the school to play football. Please give my love to your family. Love from, Linda

单选题What do we learn from the conversation?

单选题Whatcanbeinferredfromtheman'sresponse?A.Heconsiderstheweekendatimetothink.B.Heknowsthebeachisalongwayfromhere.C.He'ssurprisedshe'sthinkingofgoingaway.D.Hesuggestsgoingtotheseashore.

单选题Whendidthemangraduate?