听力原文:W: Don't talk to the boss today. He must have got out of bed on the wrong side.
M: No, his arthritis is probably bothering him. It's awfully damp out.
Q: What is wrong with the boss according to the man?
(14)
A. He has been in a bad mood since he got up.
B. The weather affected him.
C. He doesn't like to talk to people.
D. He doesn't ask anyone.
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:M: You should never strike up a conversation with a man on the street. Don't you know how dangerous it is!
W: I usually don't, but I couldn't find the restaurant and he looked very respectable.
Q: Why was the man upset?
(12)
A. The woman always talks to other men.
B. The woman wouldn't find the restaurant.
C. The woman started a conversation with a stranger.
D. The woman finished talking to the men.
Why is there no risk to the customer when a bank prints the customer's name to his cheques?
When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a check in favor of another person. Primarily, the bank-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor who is which depending on whether the customer's account is in credit or overdrawn. But, in addition to that basically simple concept, the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another. Many of these obligations can give rise to problems and complications but a bank customer, unlike, say, a buyer of goods, cannot complain that the law is loaded against him.
The bank must obey its customer's instructions, and not those of anyone else. When, for example, a customer first opens an account, he instructs the bank to debit (把……记入借方) his account only in respect of checks drawn by himself. He gives the bank specimens of his signature, and there is a very firm rule that the bank has no right or authority to pay out a customer's money on a check on which its customer's signature has been forged. It makes no difference that the forgery may have been a very skillful one: the bank must recognize its customer's signature. For this reason there is no risk to the customer in the practice, adopted day banks, of printing the customer's name on his checks, ff this facilitates forgery, it is the bank which will lose, not the customer.
When you have a bank account, you ______. ()
A. must always be in credit
B. can't draw any money if you're overdrawn
C. can draw money without notice
D. can't pay money to anyone else