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A．Because there is no water there.B．Because there is no air there.C．Because there is n
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听力原文：W: I need a car to use this weekend.
M: You could always rent one.
Q: What does the man mean？
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A．Water.B．Hills.C．Flat land.D．Tall buildings.
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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.
Time is a gentle deity (神), said Sophocles. Perhaps it was, for him. These days it cracks the whip. We humans have chosen speed, and we thrive on it-more than we generally admit. Our ability to work and play fast gives power. It thrills us.
Not so long ago, for most people, listening to the radio was a single-task activity. Now it is rare for a person to listen to the radio and do nothing else. Even TV has lost its command of our foreground. In so many households the TV just stays on, like a noisy light bulb, while the life of the family passes back and forth in its shimmering (闪烁) glow.
Our culture views time as a thing to hoard and protect. Time saving is the subject of scores of books with tines like Streamlining Your Life, Take Your Time, More Hours in My Day. Marketers anticipate our desire to save time, and respond with fast ovens, quick playback, quick freezing and fast credit.
We have all these ways to "save time", but what does that concept really mean？ Does time saving mean getting more done？ If so, does talking on a cellular phone at the beach save time or waste it？ If you can choose between a 30-minute train ride, during which you can read, and a 20minute drive, during which you cannot, does the drive save ten minutes？ Does it make sense to say that driving saves ten minutes from your travel budget while removing ten minutes from your reading budget？
These questions have no answer. They depend on a concept that is ill formed: the very idea of time saving. Some of us say we want to save time when really we just want to do more and faster. It might be simplest to recognize that there is time and we make choices about how to spend it, how to spare it, how to use it and how to fill it.
Time is not a thing we have lost. It is not a thing we ever had. It is what we live in.
The sentence "These days it cracks the whip" in the first paragraph indicates that______.
听力原文：M: Hi, I heard you're looking tbr a different apartment.
W: Yeah, the place I'm in now is a real down.
M: It was OK when I was there.
W: Oh, the boiler keeps breaking and when it does, we loose the heat for several days at the time.
M: Why doesn't the owner replace it？
W: Well, she said it's cheaper to keep fixing it. She's a nice enough person, just the sort of stingy'. In any case, I'm sick of being cold.
M: Can you get your deposit back if you move？
W: If I give two-month notice, I can get the whole thing back.
M: So what kind of place are you looking for？
W: I think I'll try to get into one of those high-rises near the university there's nothing really special but at least they are new and functional.
M: I heard of those buildings are pretty noisy. The walls are thin and you can hear everything that's going on in the other apartment.
W: Oh, that will never do.. I need some place quiet to finish my thesis. I guess I'H have to look some more ads. Maybe new isn't necessarily better.
M: Why don't you try some of those apartment in Winsor？ They're supposed to be nice.
W: Oh, aren't they awfully' expensive？
M: Not really:, you'll be surprised at how reasonable some of them are. The problem would be out there is that the bus doesn't run that way.
W: That'll definitely be a problem. I can't afford a car fight now. I guess I'd better check a few of the places here in the city before I make a decision.
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