What did the court think of the EPA's excuses for its inaction?
A. The court denied the EPA's excuses as sufficient for its inaction.
B. It remained undecided whether the court accepted the excuses.
C. The court thought the excuses were similar to that of coal-fired power plants.
D. The court would examine the EPA's excuses further.
听力原文:M: Morning. Happy to meet you here. How are you and how is your whole family?
W: Good morning, sir. Fine, thank you for your care.
M: Er, did you put that advertisement in yesterday, and did you see it?
W: Yes. I have seen it and also have a try.
M: (22)The junior sales manager. They want someone that could help them to manage the company.
W: Yes, it went into the Standard and the Evening News. That sounds good.
M: Jolly good. And congratulations to you!
W: Erm, what sort of a young man had you got in mind?
M: Oh, you know, a good education, er, (23)what I don't want is one of these young cocks, you know who just walk out of university with, exaggerated ideas of his own importance.
W: And how much he's going to earn, frankly. And only according to your conditions and your wants, we could find and look for more proper people, you know, so many people came here, and I don't want to waste their time. And what we want is just the right one.
M: I mean, (24)I'm not prepared to give him a very big salary to start with. I mean the increases he gets in his salary are going to be dependent on how effective he is. That's hard to say and hard to make so concrete criterion. Nowadays, you know, it's very difficult to find such a good person that can be suited this job. (24)And most of the time, they ask so many salary and, the most important one is that, they really have no ability to do it.
(23)
A. Junior Sales Manager Wanted.
B. Personnel Manager Wanted.
C. Secretary Wanted.
D. Managing Director Wanted.
听力原文:W: Hello? May I speak to Bill Johns?
M: Hi, Amy. This is Bill.
W: Oh, hi, Bill. You weren't in engineering class today, were you?
M: No, I wasn't. (20)I have a flu. I was wondering if you could tell me what went on.
W: I'm sorry that you are ill. Actually we had an interesting class. (19)Dr. Collin talked about a new type of fuel.
M: Oh, yeah? Tell me more about it.
W: Uh-hum. It's called DME.
M: Oh, I remember reading something about DME. It's mostly used in spray cans, right?
W: Right. DME doesn't destroy the ozone, so it's been environmentally friendly.
M: But doesn't DME pollute the air if it's burned in an engine?
W: Dr. Collin says something about its exhausts being clear, that it doesn't release as much pollutants as diesel fuel. He mentioned something about DME being more efficient than other alternative fuels.
M: When will it replace diesel fuel?
W: Not for a while. It's not economical to mass-produce. But it may happen in the future. After all, time will tell.
M: Well, thanks for the information. (21)I guess I won't need to borrow your notes.
W: (21) Well, maybe you should look at them. We are having a test next week. You have to prepare for it.
M: Okay, could you give them to Mike Andrews? I think he is in your psychology class. He is my roommate.
W: Sure. I hope you're feeling better soon.
M: Thanks. Me too. Bye!
(20)
A more economical diesel fuel.
B. Characteristics of a new type of fuel.
C. Where a new energy source is located.
D. How to develop alternative energy sources.
听力原文: People are always talking about "the problem of youth". If there is one—which I take leave to doubt—then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings—people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one. (33) the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid past behind him; and maybe that is where the rub (摩擦) is.
When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain—that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. (34) For one thinly, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.
I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they don't have a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if they were, m some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect of elders as if mere age were a reason for respect. (35) I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.
(30)
A. Old people think of the young as "a problem".
B. Old people create this "problem" of age difference.
C. Old people have a past; young people have a future.
D. Old people and young people forget they are all human beings.