听力原文: At this moment some 170, 000 young people throughout Britain are suffering what is potentially the most tense and anxious time of their lives. That is the number of students currently preparing to sit for their A-levels -- examinations which will decide whether a student proceeds smoothly on to the next level of the academic ladder or whether six years of work at secondary- school level will end in the bitter disappointment of failure.
In the medical "stress-charts", examinations rank somewhere behind a death in the family, a divorce or even the loss of a job; but the symptoms of anxiety are all the more weakening because they are before the event rather than after it, but many in themselves are enough to bring about the student's worst fears -- failing.
The most crucial point about pre-examination stress is that it is something the student catches from other people. He or she is not, after all, the only person with an interest in the examination result. The pride of parents is risky, and of teachers who may see the results as measure of their own professional worth. The line between well-intentioned encouragement and harmful pressure can be a fine one, and easily crossed.
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A. 117,000.
B. 17,000.
C. 170,000.
D. 1,070.
【C8】
A. whose
B. which
C. who
D. when
A.He has some interest in music.B.He is a double major.C.He is a professional in music
A. He has some interest in music.
B. He is a double major.
C. He is a professional in music.
D. He is crazy about music.
听力原文:W: You have a very good stereo system ... What a fine sound it produces! I feel like I'm sitting in a grand concert hall.
M: It is a good system. It has fine treble, soft bass and perfect surround effects.
W: What did you buy this expensive system for? Do you like music?
M: Very much. I like music so much that the moment I get home I'll turn on my stereo.
W: You are crazy about music.
M: Yes, I am. I can't live without it.
W: What type of music do you like the most?
M: I enjoy listening to almost all categories of music -- classical, jazz, country-western, the heavy metal type of rock ... Yes, my favorite music is new age -- I'm really very fond of it.
W: I'd suggest that you should major in music instead of English.
M: Absolutely. But English is fine. I like English as much as music. I wish I were a double major. Actually I'm more fascinated and delighted with the hardware of music reproduction.
W: The hardware of music reproduction?
M: I mean musical instruments, such as the bone whistles of the Stone Age and the digital Synthesizers of this age.
W: You certainly are an expert on music. May I ask you a question?
M: Sure.
W: I hear people talk about "hi-fi". Is it a sound system or something else?
M: It's popularly known as a stereo system. A more accurate definition is a stereo system that reproduces music very realistically with high fidelity quality. In the early stage, a hi-fi system used compact cassettes containing magnetic tape.
W: A cassette-tape player?
M: Right, but the weakness is that it produces annoying "hiss" noise while playing.
W: This was one of the reasons why I bought a CD player when the cassette player broke down.
M: The CD system' will soon be out of date, replaced by some improved technology.
W: Yes, I Believe it won't take long before the change occurs.
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A. Jazz.
B. Classical.
C. New age.
D. Country western.