听力原文: A farmer who lived in a small village suffered from the severe pain in his stomach. The doctor in the village had tried a number of treatments but been unable to cure him. The farmer decided to see a doctor in the nearest town. As he loved' money badly and spent as little as possible, he thought he would find out what he would have to pay this doctor. He was told that his patient had to pay three pounds for the first visit and one pound for the second visit. The farmer thought about this for a long time. As he came into the doctor's room, he said, "Good morning, doctor. Here I am again. The doctor was a little surprised. Then he asked the farmer a few questions, examined his chest and took the pound which the farmer insisted on giving him. The doctor said with a smile. "Well, sir. There is nothing new. Please continue to take the same medicine I gave you the first time you came to see me."
For what reason did the farmer go to see a doctor in the town?
A. He wanted to pay less money.
B. The town was not far from his home.
C. The doctor in the village failed to cure him.
D. The doctor in the village refused to treat him again.
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听力原文:M: Jane, let' s go swimming over at the student center.
W: I'd like to, Tom, but I have a paper due on Friday, and I haven' t even started it yet.
M: Just an hour. I've got a test tomorrow, so I won' t be able to stay very long.
W: I need the exercise , but I just can't spare the time.
M: Okay, How about dinner at the Grill.'? You have to eat sometime, and it' s right by the library. I'll go over there with you after dinner, and you can do your research while I study for my test.
W: Well.
M: Come on. You'll probably want to stay late, and you shouldn't walk home after dark. I'll stay until you're ready to go.
W: That would be nice, but...
M: Look, we really wouldn't be wasting any time. We'd just be doing everything we need to do, but we'd be doing it together. I just want to spend time with you.
W: Me, too. Okay. I need to go home first, then I'll meet you at the Grill about six. Is that all right?
M: That's great. We'll get everything done. You'll see.
What do Tom and Jane mainly discuss?
A. Tom's test.
B. Jane' s research paper.
C. Go swimming over at the student center.
D. Plans for the evening.
For the millions of Web sites without a well-known domain name, those rankings can mean the difference between success or failure because Google's search engine drives so much of the Internet's traffic, With so much at stake, low-ranked Web sites spend' much time and money trying to elevate their standing, even if they must resort to deception. The tactics include "keyword stuffing"--filling a Web page with phrases associated with a specific topic such as "laptop computers" in hopes of duping the search engine;
It's a risky strategy because Google and other search engines penalize Web sites that get caught unnecessarily repeating the same word. In the worst cases, the offending Web sites are deleted from the index so they don't show up in search results at all.
Sometimes webmasters act secretly to populated their sites with a large number of incoming links from other sites. This approach makes a site appear more authoritative and popular than it really is and thus rise in rankings.
Such dirty tricks pollute the search results with Web sites that have little to do with a user's request, frustrating consumers, diminishing Google's credibility and threatening to undermine the company's profits by driving users to its rivals.
Not surprisingly, Google works hard to prevent the mischief makers, who sometimes are branded as "Black Hats" because of their dishonest practice, from filling the websites with useless contents. However, Google knows it can't entirely avoid Black Hats. So, webmasters searching for secrets are better off looking elsewhere. Everything you ever wanted to know from Google is right there on the forums that the webmasters run. There is a lot of truth in there, but there's also a lot of crazy stuff. You just can't tell them which is which.
The word "dupe" in the last sentence of the second paragraph is the closest in meaning to
A. copy
B. cheat
C. develop
D. decide
How much should the farmer have paid the doctor?
A. Three pounds.
B. One pound.
C. Two pounds.
D. Nothing.
Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135,000 demonstrators confronted police on the construction site of a 1,000-mega- watt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide power to most of southern New Hampshire. organizers of the huge demonstration said, the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrator had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area, would create thermal pollution in the bay, and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wastes. The demonstrations would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system Would collapse.
Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconisderation of the power project and no delay in its construction set for completion in three years. "This project will be gin on time and the people of this state will begin to receive its benefits on schedule. Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law," he said. And police called in reinforcements from all over the state to handle the disturbances.
The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand demonstrators broke through police lines around the cordoned-off construction site. They carried placards that read "No Nukes is Good Nukes," "Sunpower , Not Nuclear Power," and "Stop Private Profits from Public Peril." They defied police Order to move from the area. Tear gas canisters fired by police failed to dislodge the protestors' who had come prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths. Finally gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one. The protestors did not resist police, but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be charged with unlawful assembly, trespassing, and disturbing the peace.
What were the demonstrators protesting about?
A. Private profits.
B. Nuclear PowerStation.
C. The project of nuclear power construction.
D. Public peril.