听力原文:M: When does the plane take off?
F: It has been arranged to take off at four fifteen but it's delayed thirty minutes.
•For questions 1-8 you will hear eight short recordings.
•For each question mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.
When does the plane take off?
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【C2】
A. as
B. if
C. despite
D. even though
听力原文:Interviewer: What made you take off to the country in the first place, Tom?
Tom: Well, I suppose anyone who moves to the country wants their life to be different in some way. I mean, if you have always lived in a city, something must happen to make you want to move. In my case, (4[B])I just couldn't face going back into an office again when it came to looking for a new job.
Interviewer: So you began thinking about the country?
Tom: No, at first I just thought about getting a different kind of work, social work with kids or old people.
Interviewer: And what happened? Why didn't you?
Tom: I haven't got any right diplomas, and it would have taken me two years to be qualified. I was not going back to formal education again.
Interviewer: So where did you decide to move?
Tom: I went right to Shropshire. (6[C]) The first problem though was how I could make a living — there are fewer jobs in the country, so I decided to start up on my own.
Interviewer: That's ambitious. How did you start, had you got any skills?
Tom: (7[D])I'd always had a garden and grown some vegetables and flowers, (5[B]) so I thought
of a small holding, a kind of farm. But when I looked at the price, I changed my mind.
Interviewer: Ok, a farm's out, so what next?
Tom: I settled on a nursery and bought my way into a partnership...
Interviewer: Well, ladies and gentlemen, don't go away — we are coming back to Tom's story after the advertisements.
Why did Tom go to live in the country?
A. Because he liked working with children.
Because he lost his job.
C. Because he hated the city.
D. Because he wanted to be a farmer.
When will Mr Janson arrive in Singapore?
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In its print and television ad campaigns, the Canon PowerShot dangles from a clothes hanger. "Stain- less steel goes with everything, "the copy reads. Casio, the maker of the Exilim, has taken a similar style. Its print ads show a photo of a fashionable young woman in jeans, her compact digital protruding from her hip pocket over the slogan "No visible cameralines". Now that digital technology is no longer a novelty, Sony is also seeking a new group of consumers, mostly women in their 20's and early 30's. And the latest of Sony's print ads features a shapely blonde sheathed in a clingy black dress, an ATM-car-size CyberShot U suspended like a necklace. "It looks like cool jewelry, and that's the point," Jim Malcolm, Sony's senior marketing manager for digital cameras, said.
What is Canon Digital PowerShot S230 camera's size?
A. Similar to a credit card.
B. Similar to a necklace.
C. Similar to a cigarette box.
D. Similar to a dressing case.