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SECTION B INTERVIEW
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now listen to the interview.
听力原文:Nancy: Good evening. I'm Nancy Johnson: The guest on our radio talk this evening is Professor Wang Gongwu. Hello, Professor Wang.
Wang: Hello.
Nancy: Professor Wang. You are now professor emeritus of Australian National University, and in your long academic career, you've worn many hats as tutor, lecturer, department head, dean, professor and vice chancellor. However, as I know, you are still very fond of your university days as a student.
Wang: That's right. That was in 1949. The university I went to was a brand new university then and the only one in the country at that time. When I look back, it was an amazingly small university, and we knew everybody.
Nancy: How did the students like you, for example, study then?
Wang: We did not study very hard, because we did not have to. We didn't have all this fantastic competition that you have today.
Nancy: Emm.
Wang: We were always made to feel that getting a first degree in the arts faculty was not preparation for a profession. It was a general education. We were not under any pressure to decide on our careers. And we had such a good time. We were left very much on our own. And we were encouraged to make things happen.
Nancy: What do you see is the most striking difference in the present day education since then?
Wang: University education has changed dramatically since those days. Things are very specialized today.
Nancy: Yes, definitely so. And in your subsequent career experience as an educator, and later administrator in various institutions of higher education in Asia and elsewhere, Professor Wang, you have repeatedly noted that one has to look at the development of education in one particular country in the broad cont ext. What do you mean by that?
Wang: Well, the whole world has moved away from elite education in universities to meet the needs of mass education. And entering universities is no longer a privilege for the few. And universities today are more concerned with providing jobs for their graduates in a way that universities in our time never had to be bothered about. Therefore, the emphasis of university pro grams today is now on the practical and the utilitarian lather than on a general education or on personal development.
Nancy: Do you think that is a welcome development?
Wang: Well, I personally regret this development, but the basic bachelor's education now has to cater to people who really need a piece of paper to find a decent job.
Nancy: So you are concerned about this development.
Wang: Yes, I'm very concerned. With technical changes, many of the things that you learn are technical skills which don't require you to become very well educated. Yet if you can master those skills, you can get very good jobs. So the technical institutions are going to be increasingly popular at these expensive traditional universities.
Nancy: Professor Wang, let's look at a different issue. How do you comment on the current phenomenon that more and more universities admit students because the fees they pay?
Wang: Well, once you accept students on financial grounds, one wonders whether you have to pass them as well. But this is the development in education that we have to contend with. Yet, if we are concerned about maintaining standards, what we can do is to concentrate on improving the quality of education.
Nancy: Yes, you are right. A university is judged by the quality of education it offers. Professor Wang, let's turn to the future. What type of graduates, in your view, the universities of the future need to produce if they

A. Students worked very hard.
B. Students felt they needed a second degree.
C. Education was not career-oriented.
D. There were many specialized subjects.

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Q:What do we learn from the man's answer?
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A. He dislikes the style. of these shoes.
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C. He never buys shoes by himself.
D. He dislikes either of the two.

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A. To have a good company.
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SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
听力原文: The U.S. government has released new information about Jose Padilla, one of 2 American citizens being held as so-called "enemy combatants" in the war on terrorism. We have a report from national correspondent Jim Malone.
The Justice Department says Jose Padilla received terrorist training at a camp in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001. Deputy Attorney General James Comey told a Washington news conference that Mr. Padilla also met in 2001 with senior Al- Qaeda leaders who helped him with a plot to use natural gas to blow up apartment buildings in the United States. "He learned how to seal an apartment to trap the natural gas and to prepare an explosion using that gas that would have maximum yield and destroy an apartment building." Mr. Comey says the information was revealed by Mr. Padilla through interrogations and has been released to the public because of a request from Congress. He says Mr. Padilla planned to hit apartment buildings in New York City but the targets in Washington and Florida were also discussed. Jose Padilla was arrested in May of 2002 when he arrived in Chicago from the Middle East. Jim Malone, VOA news, Washington.
According to the news, Jose Padilla ______.

A. is an American
B. kidnapped two U.S. citizens
C. was born in Afghanistan
D. received terrorist training from the Afghan government

A.Because they are trying to find better jobs.B.Because they want to meet new friends

A. Because they are trying to find better jobs.
Because they want to meet new friends there.
C. Because they want to keep themselves busy.
D. Because they want to educate their children.

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