听力原文:W: Sir, I waited ten minutes at the table before the waiter served me.
M: Sorry, Ma'am. It has been very busy tonight.
Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?
(14)
A. In a bank.
B. In an office.
C. In the hospital.
D. In the restaurant.
Part A
Directions: You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer ― A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.
听力原文:W: This red shirt is $ 20.00, and the blue one is a dollar more.
M: The black one is twice as much as the blue one.
How much is the black shirt?
A. $20.00.
B. $21.00.
C. $42.00.
D. $10.00.
数字推理
给你一个数列,但其中缺少一项,要求你仔细观察数列的排列规律,然后从四个供选择的选项中选择你认为最合理的一项,来填补空缺项,使之符合原数列的排列规律。
-2,-4,0,16,()
A. 25
B. 32
C. 50
D. 64
Man is the only animal that laughs. Why is this true? What makes us respond as we【C1】______ to pleasurable experiences? What is the history of this "happy convulsion" as someone once【C2】______ it. and just what is its function?
We are not short【C3】______ theories to explain the mystery, for centuries, biologists, psychologists, and medical men have【C4】______ a definitive explanation of laughter. One writer theoried that its function is to intimidate others or to gain stature【C5】______ them by humiliating them. Another took the opposite view that we laugh in order not to cry. A psychologist offered the explanation that laughter functions as a remedy【C6】______ painful experiences, and that it serves to defend a person【C7】______ what the psychologist termed "the many minor pains【C8】______ which man is exposed", that the seventeenth century, a writer set【C9】______ the theory that we laugh when we compare ourselves with others and' find ourselves superior; in effect, we laugh at the infirmities of others.
【C10】______ every theory has been concerned with either the structure or the function of laughter,【C11】______ relatively few have been devoted【C12】______ the question. of its origin. I propose to offer a theory which, so far as I am 【C13】______ , has not previously been set forth: that only those animals capable of speech are capable of laughter, and that therefore man, being the only animal that【C14】______ , is the only animal that laughs.
Those of us who have observed Chimpanzees closely feel quite confident that the chimpanzee occasionally【C15】______ behavior. that looks very much like a primitive precursor of human laughter. This behavior, however, has been observed only in a human【C16】______ ; whether or not it occurs under natural【C17】______ is dubious; but the【C18】______ fact that under any condition an ape is capable of such behavior. is【C19】______ more than passing【C20】______ for does it not indicate that early man had the rudiments of laughter?
【C1】
A. are
B. did
C. do
D. would