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.
听力原文:W: Why didn't you go to the hockey finals last weekend? You missed a great game.
M: Oh, come on. You know how sensitive I am to loud noise.
Q: What can be inferred about the man?
(12)
A. He forgot about the hockey game.
B. He doesn't like to go to hockey games.
C. He missed the hockey game because he was ill.
D. He'll go with the woman to the next hockey game.
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David Vaughan's group found that most of the glaciers along the Peninsula were in retreat.
A. Y
B. N
C. NG
听力原文: A new report says the cost of studies at public colleges in the United States increased fourteen percent this year. This is the biggest increase in tuition in thirty years. But the study also found that the average student pays a lot less than the published costs of a college education, because of grants. And it points out that American students received a record amount of financial aid last year.
Students do not have to repay grants, unlike financial aid .in the form. of loans. About half of American college students receive grants. This means that education costs differ from student to student.
The report is from the College Board. This is a non-profit membership group of schools and other educational organizations. One of its best-known jobs is to administer college entrance tests.
The College Board says tuition at two-year public colleges rose at the same rate as four-year schools.
The College Board says the increases were mainly caused by cuts in state spending on education. But a congressman says colleges have increased their prices in both good and bad economic times. John Boehner of Ohio is chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. He says colleges do not went to talk about their decisions to spend money to build things like rock-climbing walls.
The College Board collected information from four-thousand colleges and universities. It says the average total charge for students who live at a public college in their state is ten-thousand-six-hundred dollars. While tuition rose fourteen percent this year, housing and other costs increased at a lower rate.
At a private college, total charges are almost twenty-seven-thousand dollars. That is an increase of about six percent over last year.
(33)
A. It is a kind of costs the students should pay for studies.
B. It is a form. of financial aid the students don't have to pay back.
C. It is the money that the students get from the colleges.
D. It is a kind of loans the students should repay when they have jobs.
听力原文:W: We should really get Kim to do some more housework. This place is filthy again!
M: Yes, it's always untidy when it's her turn to clean.
Q: What can we find out in this conversation?
(18)
A. Kim is addicted to cleaning.
B. Kim is usually reliable.
C. They all enjoy cleaning.
D. They wish that Kim would be more focused on the housework.
Part C
Directions: Answer questions 71-80 by referring to the following games.
Note: Answer each question by choosing A, B or C and mark it on ANSWER SHEET 1. Some choices may be required more than once.
A = BOOK 1 B = BOOK 2 C = BOOK 3 D = BOOK 4
Which book(s)say(s)that...
the climate affects the future sustainable agricultural development? 71.______
environmental control is related with the national revenues? 72.______
the environmental problems are not caused overnight? 73.______
a variety of species are on the decrease? 74.______
agriculture is also a factor for file degradation of environment? 75.______
pollution can be controlled by increasing the production cost of polluting goods? 76.______
pollution control needs the support of technology and techniques? 77.______
provides lessons for agriculture, trade, land use and tax policy from an economic perspective?
78.______
the degradation of environment causes the change of climate? 79.______
the approaches to research should be adjusted to the changing situation? 80.______
A
BOOK1
The book offers a comprehensive perspective on the consequences and possible policy solutions for climatic change as we move into the twenty-first century. It assesses the impact of potential feature global climate change on agriculture and the need to sustain agricultural growth for the economic development.
The book begins by examining the role of international research institutions in overcoming environmental constraints on sustainable agricultural growth and economic development. The authors then discuss how agricultural research systems may be restructured to respond to global environmental problems such as climate change and loss of genetic diversity. The discussion then extends to consider environmental accounting and indexing, to illustrate how environmental quality c; in be included formally in measures of national income, social welfare and sustainability. The third part of the book focuses on the effects of and policy responses to climate change. Chapters in this part examine the effect of climate change on production, trade, land use patterns and livelihoods. They consider impacts on the distribution of income between developed and developing countries remain a major economic activity. Authors take on an economy-wide perspective to draw lessons for agriculture, trade, land use and tax policy.
B
BOOK 2
The ozone layer is threatened by chemical emissions; the climate is endangered from fossil and deforestation, and global biodiversity is being lost by reason of thousands of years of habitat conversions. Global environmental problems arise out of the accumulated impacts from many years' and many countries' economic development. In order to address these problems the states of the world must cooperate to manage their development processes together—this is what an international environmental agreement must do. But can the world' s countries cooperate successfully to manage global development? How should they manage it? Who should pay for the process, as well as for the underlying problems?
This book presents an examination of both the problem and the process underlying international environmental lawmaking: the recognition of international interdependence, the negotiation of international agreements and the evolution of international resource management. It examines the general problem of global resource management by means of general principles and case studies and by looking at how and why specific negotiations and agreements have failed to achieve their targets.
The book is designed