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Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
To get a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived, the cellophane (玻璃纸) wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed, the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this overuse of wrapping is not confined to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in beautiful wrapping.
The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up scarce energy and resources and messing up the environment.
Recycling is already happening with milk bottles which are returned to the dairies, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic packs.
Tile trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environ mentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs.
It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and reuse of various materials and into the cost of colleting and recycling containers as opposed to producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and make things look better so more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly. What is needed now is a more advanced approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.
"... this overuse of wrapping is not confined to luxuries" (Sentence 2, Paragraph 1) means ______.

A. more wrapping is needed for ordinary products
B. more wrapping is used for luxuries than for ordinary products
C. too much wrapping is used for both luxury and ordinary products
D. the wrapping used for luxury products is unnecessary

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A.He will see his parentsB.He will see a doctorC.He will see Professor BrownD.He will

A. He will see his parents
B. He will see a doctor
C. He will see Professor Brown
D. He will see Dean Williams

听力原文:M: What happened to you? You are so late.
W: My car broke down on the highway, and I had to walk.
Q: Why did the woman have to walk?
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A. Something happened to her car.
B. She was broken and couldn't afford the bus.
C. She got up too late to catch the bus.
D. Her car got stuck in the driveway.

听力原文:M: May I see Dean Williams, please?
W: Dean Williams won' t be in the office this afternoon. I'm an assistant dean. Perhaps I can help you.
M: I need an extension for a paper. And my professor said I would have to get special permission from the Dean's office.
W: For what course?
M: Economics, Professor Brown' s course.
W: Is this the term paper, or a paper written instead of a final exam?
M: It's to take the place of the final exam.
W: So, it would be due on the last day of exam period, which is this Friday. That's two days away. Don't you think you could have the paper finished by then?
M: I haven't even started yet. You see, I've been sick since last Saturday with tonsillitis. I just checked out of infirmary this morning.
W: So you were in the infirmary for 4 days?
M: Yes, from Saturday until today, Wednesday.
W: Generally for an illness like this, we can postpone an exam or the due day of a paper that takes the place of an exam by the number of days the student has been ill, in your case, by 4 days.
M: That means I'll be able to hand in the paper next Tuesday instead of this Friday.
W: That's right, But first you have to fill out this form, giving the name of the course, your reasons for needing the extension and so on, then take the request to the infirmary to have it signed by the doctor, then bring it back to me today. And I'll have a copy sent to Professor Brown.
M: Thank you very much. I'll see you late this afternoon with the completed form.
W: I'm glad you're feeling better.
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A. Dean Williams
B. Professor Brown
C. an assistant dean
D. a student

A.He feels medical treatment is still unproven for his condition.B.He is worried about

A. He feels medical treatment is still unproven for his condition.
B. He is worried about the side effects of the drugs.
C. He thinks the treatment is too expensive.
D. Ha doesn't believe drugs are effective.

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