Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one
or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked [A ], [ B], [C] and [ D ], and
decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。
11. [A] At the dentist’s.
[B] At a grocery.
[C] At a lawyer’s.
[D] At a psychiatrist’s.
12. [A] Purchase some ingredients.
[B] Give the man a recipe.
[C] Write down the directions to the supermarket.
[D] Check to see if the stew is ready.
13. [A] She doesn’t like to watch basketball.
[B] She would like the man to accompany her to the game.
[C] She doesn’t have a television.
[D] She’ll sell the man her ticket.
14. [A] He failed to finish the experiment that day.
[B] He hasn’t had time to do the experiment.
[C] He did only part of the experiment.
[D] The experiment turned out well.
15. [A] The man is a football fan.
[B] The man needs the woman’s help.
[C] The man didn’t watch TV last night.
[D] The man often has power failure at home.
16. [A] An art museum.
[B] A beautiful park.
[C] A college campus.
[D] An architecture exhibition.
17. [A] Mike should have arrived at 8:00.
[B] Mike will arrive at 8:30.
[C] Mike is usually punctual.
[D] Mike is not very punctual.
18. [A] Airplane.
[B] Bus.
[C] Subway.
[D] Car.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19.
[A] Tobacco advertisement.
[B] Tobacco companies.
[C] Smoking men.
[D] Smoking women.
20.
[A] 14,000.
[B] 15,000.
[C] 140,000.
[D] 1,400,000.
21.
[A] A light cigarette contains low nicotine.
[B] Smoking a light cigarette is different from smoking a regular one.
[C] Women who smoke light cigarettes want to get higher levels of nicotine.
[D] Tobacco companies advertise cigarettes as "light" to obscure smoking risks.
22.
[A] Macho or cool expression.
[B] Social and culture events.
[C] Sports and entertainment.
[D] Social and political issues.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23.
[A] By train and by car.
[B] By plane and by coach.
[C] By train and by bus.
[D] By bus and by plane.
24.
[A] Short hair.
[B] Glasses.
[C] Moustache.
[D] Beard.
25.
[A] In the third room on the right.
[B] In the Common Room.
[C] In a room at this end.
[D] In Room 501.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked [ A], [ B ],[C]and [D ]. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. [A] We have to use first our eyes, then the brain and finally the muscles.
[B] We have to make our eyes, brain and muscles work almost at the same time.
[C] We have to use mainly the arms and legs to hit.
[D] We have to use mainly the muscles so that the ball is met and hit back.
27. [A] What he does out of class.
[B] What he learns in books.
[C] His place in society.
[D] His lessons in school.
28. [A] It is its members.
[B] It is its team work.
[C] It is the football field.
[D] It is the climate.
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. [A] They live in twenty rainforests.
[B] They live in several hundred different varieties of trees.
[C] They live in a forty-degree band of latitude.
[D] They live in areas where the rainforest has been cleared.
30. [A] One acre per minute.
[B] One acre per second.
[C] One hundred acres per minute.
[D] Two hundred acres per hour.
31.
[A] The land will be eroded by the rains.
[B] Many species of plants and animals that depend on the ra inforest will become extinct.
[C] The future of the human species may be changed.
[D] The rainforest will grow, but at a much slower rate.
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32.
[A] To complain about car dealers.
[B] To offer advice to prospective car buyers.
[C] To sell new cars.
[D] To explain how to finance a car.
33.
[A] In December.
[B] In the fall.
[C] On the first day of the month.
[D] At the end of the week.
34. [A] Negotiating a lower price than the one that appears on the sticker.
[B] Not telling the dealer that you have a car to trade in.
[C] Financing the new car at the dealership.
[D] Buying a car that is on the dealer’s lot instead of ordering one.
35.
[A] Negotiating a price for most purchases is not common in the United States.
[B] Car dealers in the United States are not honest.
[C] New cars are very expensive in the United States.
[D] Most shoppers have a car to trade in.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just. heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read.for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分試題在答題卡2上；請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。
Part III Section C
British workers are suffering "email stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
Staffers are left tired, (36) __________ and unproductive as they (37) __________to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
When researchers (38 ) __________ monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing e-mails up to 40 times an hour.
About 33percent said they felt stressed by the (39) __________ " of e-mails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to (40) __________ Just 38 percent of workers were (41) __________enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
Researchers found that many workers felt "(42) __________ " by e-mails interrupting them as they tried to (43) __________ on their work. (44) __________Karen Renaud, a computer scientist at Glasgow University, and Judith Ramsay, a psychologist at Paisley University, surveyed almost 200 workers.
They concluded, "Email has become an indispensable tool in business. (45) __________and that many computer users experience stress as a result of email-related pressure. "
Renaud said, "(46 ) __________
11．A綜合推斷題。通過(guò)對(duì)話中提到的Open your mouth及injection，我們可推知對(duì)話的場(chǎng)景應(yīng)該是在牙醫(yī)診所。
*考點(diǎn)
●牙醫(yī)與病人常用的詞匯：toothache，decayed tooth，needle，cavity，appetite，dentist，pain—killer，give an injection等。
12．B綜合推斷題。女士說(shuō)所有的配料都能在超市里買(mǎi)到，并索要筆和紙。由此可知，女士打算把配料的名稱寫(xiě)出來(lái)，選項(xiàng)B中的recipe有“食譜，配方”之意，所以B正確。
13．D綜合推斷題。女士說(shuō)她有一張票，但是身體不適不想去，男士可以用她買(mǎi)票的價(jià)錢(qián)得到這張票，言外之意，女士打算把這張票賣(mài)給男士，選項(xiàng)D與之相符。
14．D綜合推斷題。女士說(shuō)那個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)應(yīng)該難不倒男士，男士回答說(shuō)的確是不難，但沒(méi)想到做那個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)花了自己那么長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間，言外之意是實(shí)驗(yàn)完成得還可以。選項(xiàng)A和B與之意義相反，選項(xiàng)C并未提及，故選D。
*考點(diǎn)
●expect的常見(jiàn)用法：
①“預(yù)料，預(yù)計(jì)”，如：I expect I will be back on Sunday．(我預(yù)計(jì)星期日回來(lái)。)
②“盼望，期望”，如：I expect to take the linguistics course．(我希望學(xué)語(yǔ)言學(xué)課程。)③“認(rèn)為，猜想”，如：I expect it was Tom who has eaten all the cake．(我猜想是湯姆把蛋糕都吃完了。)
15．A綜合推斷題。女士問(wèn)男士為什么不高興，男士說(shuō)他家昨晚停電了，他錯(cuò)過(guò)了大半場(chǎng)足球比賽，由此可知，男士是位足球迷，所以A正確。
*考點(diǎn)
●smart是口語(yǔ)中常用到的一個(gè)小詞，詞性及意思較多，常用作形容詞，其常見(jiàn)的用法有：
①“漂亮的，瀟灑的”，如：Tina always swears smart clothes．(蒂娜總穿漂亮的衣服。)
②“精明的，聰明的”，如：Tom is a smart businessman．(湯姆是個(gè)精明的商人。)
16．C綜合推斷題。女士一開(kāi)始就說(shuō)非常喜歡這個(gè)校園，然后說(shuō)喜歡里面的大樹(shù)、草坪和老建筑，男士解釋說(shuō)這些建筑是希臘風(fēng)格的，在18世紀(jì)特別流行，由此可知，他們?cè)谡務(wù)摯髮W(xué)校園，所以C正確。
17．D綜合推斷題。女士問(wèn)邁克什么時(shí)候到，男士說(shuō)邁克說(shuō)自己6點(diǎn)半到，但是如果你了解他，就會(huì)知道他至少8點(diǎn)才能到，由此可知，邁克不守時(shí)，所以D正確。
18．D信息明示題。由對(duì)話中的pick up和if the traffic isn’t too heavy可知，他們應(yīng)該是開(kāi)車(chē)去紐約，正確答案為D。
*考點(diǎn)
●與“交通工具”相關(guān)的詞匯：car，bus，train，plane，subway，taxi，coach，bicycle，flight，airway，airport，board，fly，take off, land，park，check in，gate number等。
Conversation One
19．D主旨題。男士先提到每年有大量的女性由于吸煙而死亡，然后又指出女性選擇的低焦油含量的煙草和普通煙草一樣有害，接下來(lái)又提到煙草商為了吸引人們購(gòu)買(mǎi)而采用的廣告策略，由此可知，對(duì)話是關(guān)于女性吸煙的內(nèi)容，所以D正確。
20．C信息明示題。男士提到，每年有超過(guò)140，000的女性因?yàn)槲鼰煻劳?，所以C正確。
21．D信息明示題。男士指出，那些煙草商宣傳的低焦油含量的香煙只是一種廣告策略，模糊了吸煙的危害，其實(shí)那些香煙的危害和其他普通香煙的危害是一樣的，所以D正確。
22．D信息明示題。男士提到，煙草商非常聰明，針對(duì)男性的煙草廣告強(qiáng)調(diào)男人味和勁酷感，而針對(duì)女性的煙草廣告則側(cè)重社交和政治方面，所以D正確。
Conversation Two
23．C信息明示題。男士說(shuō)他哥哥把他送到火車(chē)站，后他又乘坐公共汽車(chē)，由此可知，男士是乘坐火車(chē)和公共汽車(chē)到達(dá)這里的，所以C正確。
24．B綜合推斷題。女士說(shuō)男士和照片上相比變化很大，胡子的樣子發(fā)生了變化，而且也沒(méi)有戴眼鏡，由此可知，男士過(guò)去不戴眼鏡，故選B。
25．B信息明示題。對(duì)話后女士提到，5點(diǎn)半在一層走廊另一端的Common Room開(kāi)會(huì)，選項(xiàng)中的Room 501
和the room on the fight都是指男士的宿舍，所以B正確。
Section B
Passage One
文章精要
文章指出，體育運(yùn)動(dòng)和比賽能使我們的身體更加強(qiáng)壯，使我們保持健康，不會(huì)發(fā)胖。但是，體育運(yùn)動(dòng)的作用不僅在于此，它還能幫助我們鍛煉眼睛、大腦和肌肉的協(xié)調(diào)性。此外，體育運(yùn)動(dòng)還對(duì)我們的性格塑造有很大幫助。
26．B信息明示題。文章第一段第三句指出，體育運(yùn)動(dòng)是可以使眼睛、大腦和肌肉協(xié)調(diào)工作的重要練習(xí)。第一段倒數(shù)第二句指出，所有這些(網(wǎng)球)動(dòng)作都必須非常迅速地完成，并且只有經(jīng)過(guò)大量訓(xùn)練的人才能夠成功地完成這一連串動(dòng)作，由此可知，在打網(wǎng)球時(shí)，眼睛、大腦和肌肉必須同時(shí)工作，所以B正確。
27．A綜合推斷題。文章第二段第二句指出，與從書(shū)本上學(xué)到的知識(shí)相比，親身體驗(yàn)對(duì)孩子性格的影響更大，由此可知，孩子受課外活動(dòng)的影響更大，所以A正確。
28．B綜合推斷題。文章后一句指出，如果他們每個(gè)人都能學(xué)會(huì)在足球場(chǎng)上為自己的隊(duì)伍而不是為自己努力，那么以后他就會(huì)自然而然地為自己的國(guó)家而不是僅僅為了自己的利益而工作，由此可知，這里講的是團(tuán)隊(duì)協(xié)作精神，也就是說(shuō)對(duì)于足球隊(duì)來(lái)說(shuō)重要的就是團(tuán)隊(duì)協(xié)作，所以B正確。
Passage Two
文章精要
文章指出，熱帶雨林生長(zhǎng)在赤道南北緯20度之間，地球上超過(guò)一半的物種生活在那里。然而，目前已經(jīng)有一半的熱帶雨林遭到了破壞，科學(xué)家估計(jì)，每年有大約五千萬(wàn)畝熱帶雨林被破壞，由此造成的惡果就是，雨水不斷侵蝕土地。地表土層越來(lái)越薄，植物無(wú)法生長(zhǎng)，地區(qū)的生態(tài)遭到永久性的破壞。
29．C綜合推斷題。文章第一段指出，熱帶雨林生長(zhǎng)在赤道南北緯20度之間，是地球上超過(guò)一半物種的棲息地。所以C項(xiàng)“地球上超過(guò)一半的物種生活在40度的緯度帶”是正確的。
30．C信息明示題。文章第二段提到，每60秒就有100畝熱帶雨林被破壞，所以C正確。
31．D信息明示題。文章第二段提到，持續(xù)的降雨會(huì)侵蝕土地，所以排除A；第二段還提到，成千上萬(wàn)個(gè)物種會(huì)滅絕，所以排除B；第二段后提到，地區(qū)的生態(tài)會(huì)遭到永久性的破壞，可見(jiàn)，作者認(rèn)為人類(lèi)的未來(lái)也可能會(huì)因受到影響而改變，所以排除C；只有D項(xiàng)文章中沒(méi)有提到，所以選D。
Passage Three
文章精要
文章指出，決定好購(gòu)買(mǎi)的車(chē)型和預(yù)算后，要多跑幾個(gè)商家。在美國(guó)，買(mǎi)汽車(chē)是可以講價(jià)的。為了節(jié)省更多的錢(qián)，首先，在談妥價(jià)格之前不要讓商家知道你已經(jīng)有了一輛車(chē)并打算折價(jià)購(gòu)物；其次，買(mǎi)商家已有的車(chē)，而不要訂購(gòu)；再次，在年底的時(shí)候買(mǎi)車(chē)，如果不能等到年底，至少也要等到月末；后，交易結(jié)束前不要提是打算現(xiàn)金支付還是銀行轉(zhuǎn)賬。
32．B主旨題。文章第一段就指出，在美國(guó)，買(mǎi)車(chē)是可以講價(jià)的，因此要多去幾個(gè)商家；第二段就怎樣省錢(qián)給出了幾個(gè)建議，由此可知，文章主要是為打算買(mǎi)車(chē)的人提供一些建議，所以B正確。
33．A信息明示題。文章第二段指出，買(mǎi)新車(chē)好在年末，在來(lái)年新車(chē)型上市之前，經(jīng)銷(xiāo)商愿意給新車(chē)騰出空間，言外之意，此時(shí)比較容易以更低的價(jià)格買(mǎi)到車(chē)，所以A正確。
34．C信息明示題。文章第二段提到，首先，在談妥價(jià)格之前不要讓商家知道你已經(jīng)有了一輛車(chē)并打算折價(jià)購(gòu)物；其次，買(mǎi)商家已有的車(chē)，而不要訂購(gòu)；再次，在年底的時(shí)候買(mǎi)車(chē)，如果不能等到年底，那好也要等到月末；后，交易結(jié)束前不要提是打算現(xiàn)金支付還是銀行轉(zhuǎn)賬，但是文中并沒(méi)有提到為買(mǎi)新車(chē)而籌款，故選C。
35．A綜合推斷題。文章第一段指出，在美國(guó)，買(mǎi)汽車(chē)是少數(shù)幾個(gè)可以議價(jià)的買(mǎi)賣(mài)之一，由此可知，在美國(guó)買(mǎi)東西講價(jià)是很少見(jiàn)的，所以A正確。其他選項(xiàng)文章中并沒(méi)有提及。
Section C
文章精要
本文主要講的是英國(guó)職員正飽受“電子郵件之苦”，因?yàn)樗麄兘?jīng)常有大量郵件需要快速回復(fù)，他們需要不時(shí)地檢查郵箱，因而無(wú)法專(zhuān)心工作。對(duì)于這一現(xiàn)象，計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)家表示，電子郵件是種不可思議的工作工具，但現(xiàn)在卻給人們的工作帶來(lái)了巨大問(wèn)題，它已經(jīng)無(wú)法控制。
36．frustrated37．struggle38．fitted39．volume
40．respond 41．relaxed 42．invaded 43．concentrate
44．They felt pressured to switch applications to see whether the e—mails were urgent
45．However, there is evidence that e-mail can exert a powerful hold over its users
46．E-mail is the thing that now causes US the most problems in our working lives．It’s an amazing tool, but it’s got out of hand
Section A
11．W：Come along now．Open your mouth．I can’t give you the injection with your mouth closed, can I?
M：I…I…I don’t want an injection．I hate needles．
Q：Where is the conversation most probably taking place?
12．M：This stew is delicious．I’d love to be able to make it myself．
W：Why not? You can get all the ingredients at any supermarket．Here, let me get a pencil and paper．
Q：What will the woman probably do next?
13．M：The basketball team is in the play-offs and I don’t have a ticket．I guess I’ll just watch it on TV．Do you want to come over?
W：Actually I have a ticket．but I’m not feeling welt．You can have it for what it cost me．
Q：What does the woman mean?
14．W：Have you finished the assignment given by Professor Smith? I don’t think you have much difficulty doing that experiment?
M：NO．but I didn’t expect it would take me most of the day．
Q：What does the man mean?
15．W：You don’t look smart this morning．I can see you’re not happy．Come on．what happened?
M：I had never expected this would have happened to me．We had a power failure at home last night and I missed most of the football match．
Q：What can we infer from the conversation?
16．W：Well，I do like this campus，all the big trees，the green lawns，and the old buildings with tall columns．It’s really beautiful．
M：It sure is．The architecture of these buildings is in the Greek style．It was popular in the 18th century here．
Q：What are the speakers talking about?
17．W：When is Mike coming?
M：Well，he said he’d be here at half past six，but if you know him，it will be at least eight O’clock．
Q：What do we know about Mike?
18．M：Can we travel to New York together?
W：Certainly．I’ll pick you up at 2：00 and we should arrive in New York by 5：00 if the traffic isn’t too heavy．
Q：What means of transportation are the man and the woman using?
Now you’ll hear two long conversations．
Conversation One
M：Yael, what’s that in your hand?
W：Come on, Don. Haven’t you seen a cigarette before? Every day in the United States，about 1,500 girls begin smoking, and I figured, why not do my share?
M：But Yael, don’t you know that tobacco kills more than 140,000 women each year, and that half of those women are between the ages of thirty-five and sixty-nine?
W：Yeah．but that’s why I smoke a brand with low nicotine and tar content．
M：Although tobacco companies advertise some cigarettes as "light", this is just an advertising ploy to obscure the risks associated with smoking-smoking a light cigarette is just as risky as smoking a regular one．In fact，research shows that people who smoke light cigarettes actually smoke differently in order to get higher levels of nicotine．
W：I didn’t know that．
M：The one thing you can say about tobacco companies is that they are really savvy about marketin9．While tobacco ads that target men focus on cigarettes as macho or cool，tobacco ads that target women focus on social and political themes important to women． For example，ads will say that you’ve come a long way，or that you’ve found your voice，or encourage you to just be yourself, as if smoking has anything to do with progress and self-expression．Young women are especially vulnerable to these ads because addiction，disease，and premature death seem so remote to them．And the thing is，people who have smoked as few as one hundred cigarettes report having difficulty quitting．
W：S0．Don．can you pass me that ashtray?
M：With pleasure, Yael, as long as you put it out．
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19. What are the speakers talking about?
20. How many women die of smoking each year?
21. Which statement is true about a light cigarette?
22. What themes are the most popular among women in tobacco advertisements?
Conversation Two
M: Hello.
W: Oh, hello. You must be a new student. Did you find it OK?
M: Well, I got a bit lost because I asked a stranger. But I got it eventually.
W: Oh. Dear, Have you come far today?
M: Only from Brighton. I was staying with my brother.
W: Oh. Good, How did you get here?
M: My brother took me to the railway station. And I got on a bus at this end.
W: Aha. Well, you’d better tell me your name so I can find your form.
M: It’s Mark Bum.
W: Burn, Bum. Ah, yes. Oh, you’ve changed since this photo. What happened to your beard and moustache? And not wearing glasses, either.
M: No, I thought I’d better look smarter.
W: Here is the key to your room. It’s 501.
M: Thanks. How do I get there?
W: Go to the end of this corridor, turn left and it’s the third door on the right.
M: Thank you. Oh, here’s a meeting for new students. What time is that?
W: Half past five in the Common Room on the ground floor at the other end of the corridor.
M: Thanks a lot. Goodbye.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. How did Mark get there?
24. Which of the following does Mark NOT used to wear?
25. Where is the meeting for new students to be held?
Section B
Passage One
Sports and games make our bodies strong, prevent us from getting too fat, and keep us healthy. But they are not their only use. They give us valuable practice in making eyes, brain and muscles work together. In tennis, our eyes see the ball coming, judge its speed and direction and pass this information on to the brain. The brain then has to decide what to do, and to send its orders to the muscles of the arms, legs, and so on, so that the ball is met and hit back where it ought to go. All this must happen with very great speed, and only those who have had a lot of practice at tennis can carry out this complicated chain of events successfully. For those who work with their brains most of the day, the practice of such skills is especially useful.
Sports and games are also very useful for character training. In their lessons at school, boys and girls may learn about such virtues as unselfishness, courage, discipline and love of one’s country; but what is learned in books cannot have the same deep effect on a child’s character as what is learned by experience. The ordinary day school cannot give much practical training in living, because most of the pupils’ time is spent in classes, studying lessons. So it is what the pupils do in their spare time that really prepares them to take their place in society as citizens when they grow up. If each of them learns to work for his team and not for himself on the football field, he will later find it natural to work for the good of his country instead of only for his own benefit.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What do we have to do when we play tennis?
27. Which of the following can a child’s character be most deeply influenced by?
28. What is of the greatest importance to a football team?
Passage Two
Rainforests circle the globe for twenty degrees of latitude on both sides of the equator. In that relatively narrow band of the planet, more than half of all the species of plants and animals in the world make their home. Several hundred different varieties of trees may grow in a single acre, and just one of those trees may be the habitat for more than ten thousand kinds of spiders, ants, and other insects. More species of amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles live in rainforests than anywhere else on Earth.
Unfortunately, half of the world’s rainforests have already been destroyed, and at the current rate, another 25 percent will be lost by the year 2010. Scientists estimate that as many as fifty million acres are destroyed annually. In other words, every sixty seconds one hundred acres of rainforest is being cleared. By the time you finish listening to this passage, two hundred acres will have been destroyed! When this happens, constant rains erode the former forest floor, the thin layer of soil no longer supports plant life, and the ecology of the region is altered forever. Thousands of species of plants and animals are condemned to extinction and, since we aren’t able to predict the ramifications of this loss to a delicate global ecology, we don’t know what we may be doing to the future of the human species as well
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. Where do more than half of all the species of plants and animals live?
30. What is the current rate of destruction?
31. What will NOT happen if the rainforest continues to be cleared?
Passage Three
After you decide what kind of car you want, which options you need, and how much you can afford to spend, you should shop at several dealerships. Buying a car is one of the few purchases that you will make in the United States that allows for negotiation. In the case of cars, new and used, the sticker price posted on the window is not fixed, and the car dealer will expect you to bargain. It has been estimated that fewer than 20 percent of all new car buyers end up paying an amount even close to the list price.
To save the most money, use the following strategies when you negotiate. In the first place, don’t mention that you have a car to trade in until you have agreed on a price for the car you want to buy. If the salespersons know in advance, they may quote you a high price for the trade-in, but the price of the new car may be adjusted to include the added amount. In addition, buy a car that is already on the dealers lot instead of ordering a car. The dealer has to pay insurance and finance charges for every car in the inventory and is usually willing to sell one for less money in order to reduce the overhead expenses. Furthermore, try to buy your new car at the end of the year, just before the next year’s models arrive in the fall. Dealers are usually glad to move these cars off their lots to make room for the new models. If you can’t wait until fall to buy your car, at least wait until the end of the month, when the dealer is trying to reach a set sales quota in order to earn a bonus from the manufacturer. Finally, don’t mention to the car dealer that you intend to pay cash or use a bank for financing until the deal is closed. Some dealers will offer a lower price if they believe that they will have the opportunity to arrange the financing and collect a commission.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?
33. According to the author, when should a buyer purchase a new car?
34. Which of the following is NOT recommended for getting the best price on a new car?
35. What can be inferred from the passage?
Section C
British workers are suffering "email stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
Staffers are left tired, (36) frustrated and unproductive as they (37) struggle to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
When researchers (38) fitted monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing emails up to 40 times an hour.
About 33 percent said they felt stressed by the (39) volume of emails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to (40) respond.
Just 38 percent of workers were (4l) relaxed enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
Researchers found that many workers felt "(42 ) invaded" by emails interrupting them as they tried to (43) concentrate on their work. (44) They felt pressured to switch applications to see whether the emails were urgent.
Karen Renaud, a computer scientist at Glasgow University, and Judith Ramsay, a psychologist at Paisley University, surveyed almost 200 workers.
They concluded, "Email has become an indispensable tool in business. (45) However, there is evidence that email can exert a powerful hold over its users and that many computer users experience stress as a result of email-related pressure."
Renaud said, "(46) Email is the thing that now causes us the most problems in our working lives. It’s an amazing tool, but it’s got out of hand. "
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one
or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked [A ], [ B], [C] and [ D ], and
decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。
11. [A] At the dentist’s.
[B] At a grocery.
[C] At a lawyer’s.
[D] At a psychiatrist’s.
12. [A] Purchase some ingredients.
[B] Give the man a recipe.
[C] Write down the directions to the supermarket.
[D] Check to see if the stew is ready.
13. [A] She doesn’t like to watch basketball.
[B] She would like the man to accompany her to the game.
[C] She doesn’t have a television.
[D] She’ll sell the man her ticket.
14. [A] He failed to finish the experiment that day.
[B] He hasn’t had time to do the experiment.
[C] He did only part of the experiment.
[D] The experiment turned out well.
15. [A] The man is a football fan.
[B] The man needs the woman’s help.
[C] The man didn’t watch TV last night.
[D] The man often has power failure at home.
16. [A] An art museum.
[B] A beautiful park.
[C] A college campus.
[D] An architecture exhibition.
17. [A] Mike should have arrived at 8:00.
[B] Mike will arrive at 8:30.
[C] Mike is usually punctual.
[D] Mike is not very punctual.
18. [A] Airplane.
[B] Bus.
[C] Subway.
[D] Car.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19.
[A] Tobacco advertisement.
[B] Tobacco companies.
[C] Smoking men.
[D] Smoking women.
20.
[A] 14,000.
[B] 15,000.
[C] 140,000.
[D] 1,400,000.
21.
[A] A light cigarette contains low nicotine.
[B] Smoking a light cigarette is different from smoking a regular one.
[C] Women who smoke light cigarettes want to get higher levels of nicotine.
[D] Tobacco companies advertise cigarettes as "light" to obscure smoking risks.
22.
[A] Macho or cool expression.
[B] Social and culture events.
[C] Sports and entertainment.
[D] Social and political issues.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23.
[A] By train and by car.
[B] By plane and by coach.
[C] By train and by bus.
[D] By bus and by plane.
24.
[A] Short hair.
[B] Glasses.
[C] Moustache.
[D] Beard.
25.
[A] In the third room on the right.
[B] In the Common Room.
[C] In a room at this end.
[D] In Room 501.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked [ A], [ B ],[C]and [D ]. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. [A] We have to use first our eyes, then the brain and finally the muscles.
[B] We have to make our eyes, brain and muscles work almost at the same time.
[C] We have to use mainly the arms and legs to hit.
[D] We have to use mainly the muscles so that the ball is met and hit back.
27. [A] What he does out of class.
[B] What he learns in books.
[C] His place in society.
[D] His lessons in school.
28. [A] It is its members.
[B] It is its team work.
[C] It is the football field.
[D] It is the climate.
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. [A] They live in twenty rainforests.
[B] They live in several hundred different varieties of trees.
[C] They live in a forty-degree band of latitude.
[D] They live in areas where the rainforest has been cleared.
30. [A] One acre per minute.
[B] One acre per second.
[C] One hundred acres per minute.
[D] Two hundred acres per hour.
31.
[A] The land will be eroded by the rains.
[B] Many species of plants and animals that depend on the ra inforest will become extinct.
[C] The future of the human species may be changed.
[D] The rainforest will grow, but at a much slower rate.
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32.
[A] To complain about car dealers.
[B] To offer advice to prospective car buyers.
[C] To sell new cars.
[D] To explain how to finance a car.
33.
[A] In December.
[B] In the fall.
[C] On the first day of the month.
[D] At the end of the week.
34. [A] Negotiating a lower price than the one that appears on the sticker.
[B] Not telling the dealer that you have a car to trade in.
[C] Financing the new car at the dealership.
[D] Buying a car that is on the dealer’s lot instead of ordering one.
35.
[A] Negotiating a price for most purchases is not common in the United States.
[B] Car dealers in the United States are not honest.
[C] New cars are very expensive in the United States.
[D] Most shoppers have a car to trade in.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just. heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read.for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意：此部分試題在答題卡2上；請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。
Part III Section C
British workers are suffering "email stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
Staffers are left tired, (36) __________ and unproductive as they (37) __________to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
When researchers (38 ) __________ monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing e-mails up to 40 times an hour.
About 33percent said they felt stressed by the (39) __________ " of e-mails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to (40) __________ Just 38 percent of workers were (41) __________enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
Researchers found that many workers felt "(42) __________ " by e-mails interrupting them as they tried to (43) __________ on their work. (44) __________Karen Renaud, a computer scientist at Glasgow University, and Judith Ramsay, a psychologist at Paisley University, surveyed almost 200 workers.
They concluded, "Email has become an indispensable tool in business. (45) __________and that many computer users experience stress as a result of email-related pressure. "
Renaud said, "(46 ) __________
11．A綜合推斷題。通過(guò)對(duì)話中提到的Open your mouth及injection，我們可推知對(duì)話的場(chǎng)景應(yīng)該是在牙醫(yī)診所。
*考點(diǎn)
●牙醫(yī)與病人常用的詞匯：toothache，decayed tooth，needle，cavity，appetite，dentist，pain—killer，give an injection等。
12．B綜合推斷題。女士說(shuō)所有的配料都能在超市里買(mǎi)到，并索要筆和紙。由此可知，女士打算把配料的名稱寫(xiě)出來(lái)，選項(xiàng)B中的recipe有“食譜，配方”之意，所以B正確。
13．D綜合推斷題。女士說(shuō)她有一張票，但是身體不適不想去，男士可以用她買(mǎi)票的價(jià)錢(qián)得到這張票，言外之意，女士打算把這張票賣(mài)給男士，選項(xiàng)D與之相符。
14．D綜合推斷題。女士說(shuō)那個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)應(yīng)該難不倒男士，男士回答說(shuō)的確是不難，但沒(méi)想到做那個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)花了自己那么長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間，言外之意是實(shí)驗(yàn)完成得還可以。選項(xiàng)A和B與之意義相反，選項(xiàng)C并未提及，故選D。
*考點(diǎn)
●expect的常見(jiàn)用法：
①“預(yù)料，預(yù)計(jì)”，如：I expect I will be back on Sunday．(我預(yù)計(jì)星期日回來(lái)。)
②“盼望，期望”，如：I expect to take the linguistics course．(我希望學(xué)語(yǔ)言學(xué)課程。)③“認(rèn)為，猜想”，如：I expect it was Tom who has eaten all the cake．(我猜想是湯姆把蛋糕都吃完了。)
15．A綜合推斷題。女士問(wèn)男士為什么不高興，男士說(shuō)他家昨晚停電了，他錯(cuò)過(guò)了大半場(chǎng)足球比賽，由此可知，男士是位足球迷，所以A正確。
*考點(diǎn)
●smart是口語(yǔ)中常用到的一個(gè)小詞，詞性及意思較多，常用作形容詞，其常見(jiàn)的用法有：
①“漂亮的，瀟灑的”，如：Tina always swears smart clothes．(蒂娜總穿漂亮的衣服。)
②“精明的，聰明的”，如：Tom is a smart businessman．(湯姆是個(gè)精明的商人。)
16．C綜合推斷題。女士一開(kāi)始就說(shuō)非常喜歡這個(gè)校園，然后說(shuō)喜歡里面的大樹(shù)、草坪和老建筑，男士解釋說(shuō)這些建筑是希臘風(fēng)格的，在18世紀(jì)特別流行，由此可知，他們?cè)谡務(wù)摯髮W(xué)校園，所以C正確。
17．D綜合推斷題。女士問(wèn)邁克什么時(shí)候到，男士說(shuō)邁克說(shuō)自己6點(diǎn)半到，但是如果你了解他，就會(huì)知道他至少8點(diǎn)才能到，由此可知，邁克不守時(shí)，所以D正確。
18．D信息明示題。由對(duì)話中的pick up和if the traffic isn’t too heavy可知，他們應(yīng)該是開(kāi)車(chē)去紐約，正確答案為D。
*考點(diǎn)
●與“交通工具”相關(guān)的詞匯：car，bus，train，plane，subway，taxi，coach，bicycle，flight，airway，airport，board，fly，take off, land，park，check in，gate number等。
Conversation One
19．D主旨題。男士先提到每年有大量的女性由于吸煙而死亡，然后又指出女性選擇的低焦油含量的煙草和普通煙草一樣有害，接下來(lái)又提到煙草商為了吸引人們購(gòu)買(mǎi)而采用的廣告策略，由此可知，對(duì)話是關(guān)于女性吸煙的內(nèi)容，所以D正確。
20．C信息明示題。男士提到，每年有超過(guò)140，000的女性因?yàn)槲鼰煻劳?，所以C正確。
21．D信息明示題。男士指出，那些煙草商宣傳的低焦油含量的香煙只是一種廣告策略，模糊了吸煙的危害，其實(shí)那些香煙的危害和其他普通香煙的危害是一樣的，所以D正確。
22．D信息明示題。男士提到，煙草商非常聰明，針對(duì)男性的煙草廣告強(qiáng)調(diào)男人味和勁酷感，而針對(duì)女性的煙草廣告則側(cè)重社交和政治方面，所以D正確。
Conversation Two
23．C信息明示題。男士說(shuō)他哥哥把他送到火車(chē)站，后他又乘坐公共汽車(chē)，由此可知，男士是乘坐火車(chē)和公共汽車(chē)到達(dá)這里的，所以C正確。
24．B綜合推斷題。女士說(shuō)男士和照片上相比變化很大，胡子的樣子發(fā)生了變化，而且也沒(méi)有戴眼鏡，由此可知，男士過(guò)去不戴眼鏡，故選B。
25．B信息明示題。對(duì)話后女士提到，5點(diǎn)半在一層走廊另一端的Common Room開(kāi)會(huì)，選項(xiàng)中的Room 501
和the room on the fight都是指男士的宿舍，所以B正確。
Section B
Passage One
文章精要
文章指出，體育運(yùn)動(dòng)和比賽能使我們的身體更加強(qiáng)壯，使我們保持健康，不會(huì)發(fā)胖。但是，體育運(yùn)動(dòng)的作用不僅在于此，它還能幫助我們鍛煉眼睛、大腦和肌肉的協(xié)調(diào)性。此外，體育運(yùn)動(dòng)還對(duì)我們的性格塑造有很大幫助。
26．B信息明示題。文章第一段第三句指出，體育運(yùn)動(dòng)是可以使眼睛、大腦和肌肉協(xié)調(diào)工作的重要練習(xí)。第一段倒數(shù)第二句指出，所有這些(網(wǎng)球)動(dòng)作都必須非常迅速地完成，并且只有經(jīng)過(guò)大量訓(xùn)練的人才能夠成功地完成這一連串動(dòng)作，由此可知，在打網(wǎng)球時(shí)，眼睛、大腦和肌肉必須同時(shí)工作，所以B正確。
27．A綜合推斷題。文章第二段第二句指出，與從書(shū)本上學(xué)到的知識(shí)相比，親身體驗(yàn)對(duì)孩子性格的影響更大，由此可知，孩子受課外活動(dòng)的影響更大，所以A正確。
28．B綜合推斷題。文章后一句指出，如果他們每個(gè)人都能學(xué)會(huì)在足球場(chǎng)上為自己的隊(duì)伍而不是為自己努力，那么以后他就會(huì)自然而然地為自己的國(guó)家而不是僅僅為了自己的利益而工作，由此可知，這里講的是團(tuán)隊(duì)協(xié)作精神，也就是說(shuō)對(duì)于足球隊(duì)來(lái)說(shuō)重要的就是團(tuán)隊(duì)協(xié)作，所以B正確。
Passage Two
文章精要
文章指出，熱帶雨林生長(zhǎng)在赤道南北緯20度之間，地球上超過(guò)一半的物種生活在那里。然而，目前已經(jīng)有一半的熱帶雨林遭到了破壞，科學(xué)家估計(jì)，每年有大約五千萬(wàn)畝熱帶雨林被破壞，由此造成的惡果就是，雨水不斷侵蝕土地。地表土層越來(lái)越薄，植物無(wú)法生長(zhǎng)，地區(qū)的生態(tài)遭到永久性的破壞。
29．C綜合推斷題。文章第一段指出，熱帶雨林生長(zhǎng)在赤道南北緯20度之間，是地球上超過(guò)一半物種的棲息地。所以C項(xiàng)“地球上超過(guò)一半的物種生活在40度的緯度帶”是正確的。
30．C信息明示題。文章第二段提到，每60秒就有100畝熱帶雨林被破壞，所以C正確。
31．D信息明示題。文章第二段提到，持續(xù)的降雨會(huì)侵蝕土地，所以排除A；第二段還提到，成千上萬(wàn)個(gè)物種會(huì)滅絕，所以排除B；第二段后提到，地區(qū)的生態(tài)會(huì)遭到永久性的破壞，可見(jiàn)，作者認(rèn)為人類(lèi)的未來(lái)也可能會(huì)因受到影響而改變，所以排除C；只有D項(xiàng)文章中沒(méi)有提到，所以選D。
Passage Three
文章精要
文章指出，決定好購(gòu)買(mǎi)的車(chē)型和預(yù)算后，要多跑幾個(gè)商家。在美國(guó)，買(mǎi)汽車(chē)是可以講價(jià)的。為了節(jié)省更多的錢(qián)，首先，在談妥價(jià)格之前不要讓商家知道你已經(jīng)有了一輛車(chē)并打算折價(jià)購(gòu)物；其次，買(mǎi)商家已有的車(chē)，而不要訂購(gòu)；再次，在年底的時(shí)候買(mǎi)車(chē)，如果不能等到年底，至少也要等到月末；后，交易結(jié)束前不要提是打算現(xiàn)金支付還是銀行轉(zhuǎn)賬。
32．B主旨題。文章第一段就指出，在美國(guó)，買(mǎi)車(chē)是可以講價(jià)的，因此要多去幾個(gè)商家；第二段就怎樣省錢(qián)給出了幾個(gè)建議，由此可知，文章主要是為打算買(mǎi)車(chē)的人提供一些建議，所以B正確。
33．A信息明示題。文章第二段指出，買(mǎi)新車(chē)好在年末，在來(lái)年新車(chē)型上市之前，經(jīng)銷(xiāo)商愿意給新車(chē)騰出空間，言外之意，此時(shí)比較容易以更低的價(jià)格買(mǎi)到車(chē)，所以A正確。
34．C信息明示題。文章第二段提到，首先，在談妥價(jià)格之前不要讓商家知道你已經(jīng)有了一輛車(chē)并打算折價(jià)購(gòu)物；其次，買(mǎi)商家已有的車(chē)，而不要訂購(gòu)；再次，在年底的時(shí)候買(mǎi)車(chē)，如果不能等到年底，那好也要等到月末；后，交易結(jié)束前不要提是打算現(xiàn)金支付還是銀行轉(zhuǎn)賬，但是文中并沒(méi)有提到為買(mǎi)新車(chē)而籌款，故選C。
35．A綜合推斷題。文章第一段指出，在美國(guó)，買(mǎi)汽車(chē)是少數(shù)幾個(gè)可以議價(jià)的買(mǎi)賣(mài)之一，由此可知，在美國(guó)買(mǎi)東西講價(jià)是很少見(jiàn)的，所以A正確。其他選項(xiàng)文章中并沒(méi)有提及。
Section C
文章精要
本文主要講的是英國(guó)職員正飽受“電子郵件之苦”，因?yàn)樗麄兘?jīng)常有大量郵件需要快速回復(fù)，他們需要不時(shí)地檢查郵箱，因而無(wú)法專(zhuān)心工作。對(duì)于這一現(xiàn)象，計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)家表示，電子郵件是種不可思議的工作工具，但現(xiàn)在卻給人們的工作帶來(lái)了巨大問(wèn)題，它已經(jīng)無(wú)法控制。
36．frustrated37．struggle38．fitted39．volume
40．respond 41．relaxed 42．invaded 43．concentrate
44．They felt pressured to switch applications to see whether the e—mails were urgent
45．However, there is evidence that e-mail can exert a powerful hold over its users
46．E-mail is the thing that now causes US the most problems in our working lives．It’s an amazing tool, but it’s got out of hand
Section A
11．W：Come along now．Open your mouth．I can’t give you the injection with your mouth closed, can I?
M：I…I…I don’t want an injection．I hate needles．
Q：Where is the conversation most probably taking place?
12．M：This stew is delicious．I’d love to be able to make it myself．
W：Why not? You can get all the ingredients at any supermarket．Here, let me get a pencil and paper．
Q：What will the woman probably do next?
13．M：The basketball team is in the play-offs and I don’t have a ticket．I guess I’ll just watch it on TV．Do you want to come over?
W：Actually I have a ticket．but I’m not feeling welt．You can have it for what it cost me．
Q：What does the woman mean?
14．W：Have you finished the assignment given by Professor Smith? I don’t think you have much difficulty doing that experiment?
M：NO．but I didn’t expect it would take me most of the day．
Q：What does the man mean?
15．W：You don’t look smart this morning．I can see you’re not happy．Come on．what happened?
M：I had never expected this would have happened to me．We had a power failure at home last night and I missed most of the football match．
Q：What can we infer from the conversation?
16．W：Well，I do like this campus，all the big trees，the green lawns，and the old buildings with tall columns．It’s really beautiful．
M：It sure is．The architecture of these buildings is in the Greek style．It was popular in the 18th century here．
Q：What are the speakers talking about?
17．W：When is Mike coming?
M：Well，he said he’d be here at half past six，but if you know him，it will be at least eight O’clock．
Q：What do we know about Mike?
18．M：Can we travel to New York together?
W：Certainly．I’ll pick you up at 2：00 and we should arrive in New York by 5：00 if the traffic isn’t too heavy．
Q：What means of transportation are the man and the woman using?
Now you’ll hear two long conversations．
Conversation One
M：Yael, what’s that in your hand?
W：Come on, Don. Haven’t you seen a cigarette before? Every day in the United States，about 1,500 girls begin smoking, and I figured, why not do my share?
M：But Yael, don’t you know that tobacco kills more than 140,000 women each year, and that half of those women are between the ages of thirty-five and sixty-nine?
W：Yeah．but that’s why I smoke a brand with low nicotine and tar content．
M：Although tobacco companies advertise some cigarettes as "light", this is just an advertising ploy to obscure the risks associated with smoking-smoking a light cigarette is just as risky as smoking a regular one．In fact，research shows that people who smoke light cigarettes actually smoke differently in order to get higher levels of nicotine．
W：I didn’t know that．
M：The one thing you can say about tobacco companies is that they are really savvy about marketin9．While tobacco ads that target men focus on cigarettes as macho or cool，tobacco ads that target women focus on social and political themes important to women． For example，ads will say that you’ve come a long way，or that you’ve found your voice，or encourage you to just be yourself, as if smoking has anything to do with progress and self-expression．Young women are especially vulnerable to these ads because addiction，disease，and premature death seem so remote to them．And the thing is，people who have smoked as few as one hundred cigarettes report having difficulty quitting．
W：S0．Don．can you pass me that ashtray?
M：With pleasure, Yael, as long as you put it out．
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19. What are the speakers talking about?
20. How many women die of smoking each year?
21. Which statement is true about a light cigarette?
22. What themes are the most popular among women in tobacco advertisements?
Conversation Two
M: Hello.
W: Oh, hello. You must be a new student. Did you find it OK?
M: Well, I got a bit lost because I asked a stranger. But I got it eventually.
W: Oh. Dear, Have you come far today?
M: Only from Brighton. I was staying with my brother.
W: Oh. Good, How did you get here?
M: My brother took me to the railway station. And I got on a bus at this end.
W: Aha. Well, you’d better tell me your name so I can find your form.
M: It’s Mark Bum.
W: Burn, Bum. Ah, yes. Oh, you’ve changed since this photo. What happened to your beard and moustache? And not wearing glasses, either.
M: No, I thought I’d better look smarter.
W: Here is the key to your room. It’s 501.
M: Thanks. How do I get there?
W: Go to the end of this corridor, turn left and it’s the third door on the right.
M: Thank you. Oh, here’s a meeting for new students. What time is that?
W: Half past five in the Common Room on the ground floor at the other end of the corridor.
M: Thanks a lot. Goodbye.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. How did Mark get there?
24. Which of the following does Mark NOT used to wear?
25. Where is the meeting for new students to be held?
Section B
Passage One
Sports and games make our bodies strong, prevent us from getting too fat, and keep us healthy. But they are not their only use. They give us valuable practice in making eyes, brain and muscles work together. In tennis, our eyes see the ball coming, judge its speed and direction and pass this information on to the brain. The brain then has to decide what to do, and to send its orders to the muscles of the arms, legs, and so on, so that the ball is met and hit back where it ought to go. All this must happen with very great speed, and only those who have had a lot of practice at tennis can carry out this complicated chain of events successfully. For those who work with their brains most of the day, the practice of such skills is especially useful.
Sports and games are also very useful for character training. In their lessons at school, boys and girls may learn about such virtues as unselfishness, courage, discipline and love of one’s country; but what is learned in books cannot have the same deep effect on a child’s character as what is learned by experience. The ordinary day school cannot give much practical training in living, because most of the pupils’ time is spent in classes, studying lessons. So it is what the pupils do in their spare time that really prepares them to take their place in society as citizens when they grow up. If each of them learns to work for his team and not for himself on the football field, he will later find it natural to work for the good of his country instead of only for his own benefit.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What do we have to do when we play tennis?
27. Which of the following can a child’s character be most deeply influenced by?
28. What is of the greatest importance to a football team?
Passage Two
Rainforests circle the globe for twenty degrees of latitude on both sides of the equator. In that relatively narrow band of the planet, more than half of all the species of plants and animals in the world make their home. Several hundred different varieties of trees may grow in a single acre, and just one of those trees may be the habitat for more than ten thousand kinds of spiders, ants, and other insects. More species of amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles live in rainforests than anywhere else on Earth.
Unfortunately, half of the world’s rainforests have already been destroyed, and at the current rate, another 25 percent will be lost by the year 2010. Scientists estimate that as many as fifty million acres are destroyed annually. In other words, every sixty seconds one hundred acres of rainforest is being cleared. By the time you finish listening to this passage, two hundred acres will have been destroyed! When this happens, constant rains erode the former forest floor, the thin layer of soil no longer supports plant life, and the ecology of the region is altered forever. Thousands of species of plants and animals are condemned to extinction and, since we aren’t able to predict the ramifications of this loss to a delicate global ecology, we don’t know what we may be doing to the future of the human species as well
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. Where do more than half of all the species of plants and animals live?
30. What is the current rate of destruction?
31. What will NOT happen if the rainforest continues to be cleared?
Passage Three
After you decide what kind of car you want, which options you need, and how much you can afford to spend, you should shop at several dealerships. Buying a car is one of the few purchases that you will make in the United States that allows for negotiation. In the case of cars, new and used, the sticker price posted on the window is not fixed, and the car dealer will expect you to bargain. It has been estimated that fewer than 20 percent of all new car buyers end up paying an amount even close to the list price.
To save the most money, use the following strategies when you negotiate. In the first place, don’t mention that you have a car to trade in until you have agreed on a price for the car you want to buy. If the salespersons know in advance, they may quote you a high price for the trade-in, but the price of the new car may be adjusted to include the added amount. In addition, buy a car that is already on the dealers lot instead of ordering a car. The dealer has to pay insurance and finance charges for every car in the inventory and is usually willing to sell one for less money in order to reduce the overhead expenses. Furthermore, try to buy your new car at the end of the year, just before the next year’s models arrive in the fall. Dealers are usually glad to move these cars off their lots to make room for the new models. If you can’t wait until fall to buy your car, at least wait until the end of the month, when the dealer is trying to reach a set sales quota in order to earn a bonus from the manufacturer. Finally, don’t mention to the car dealer that you intend to pay cash or use a bank for financing until the deal is closed. Some dealers will offer a lower price if they believe that they will have the opportunity to arrange the financing and collect a commission.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?
33. According to the author, when should a buyer purchase a new car?
34. Which of the following is NOT recommended for getting the best price on a new car?
35. What can be inferred from the passage?
Section C
British workers are suffering "email stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
Staffers are left tired, (36) frustrated and unproductive as they (37) struggle to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
When researchers (38) fitted monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing emails up to 40 times an hour.
About 33 percent said they felt stressed by the (39) volume of emails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to (40) respond.
Just 38 percent of workers were (4l) relaxed enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
Researchers found that many workers felt "(42 ) invaded" by emails interrupting them as they tried to (43) concentrate on their work. (44) They felt pressured to switch applications to see whether the emails were urgent.
Karen Renaud, a computer scientist at Glasgow University, and Judith Ramsay, a psychologist at Paisley University, surveyed almost 200 workers.
They concluded, "Email has become an indispensable tool in business. (45) However, there is evidence that email can exert a powerful hold over its users and that many computer users experience stress as a result of email-related pressure."
Renaud said, "(46) Email is the thing that now causes us the most problems in our working lives. It’s an amazing tool, but it’s got out of hand. "