M: Everything on that shelf is worth fifty cents.
W: But if this is the signature of someone who is well-known, it might bring a lot more. I hear William Shakespeare's signature is worth about a million dollars.
M: Oh? I can hardly read what that one says. Who wrote it?
W: The title looks like Harold Dobson. Wasn't he a politician or something? I'm going to buy this book and see if I can find a name looks like that in the library.
M: Good luck. Your poetry book may make you rich. But I think my seventy-five-cent story is a better buy.
Where is the conversation taking place?
A. In a second-hand book shop.
B. In a publisher's office.
C. In a library.
第二节
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前,你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题;听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听力原文:M: Did anyone phone today?
W: Yes, Mr Smith phoned.
M: What time?
W: About 2:30, sir.
M: What did he say?
W: He left his phone number: 361-3452.
What time did Mr Smith phone?
About 2:13.
B. About 12: 30.
C. About 2: 30.
某纳税人月薪3000元,该纳税人不适用附加减除费用的规定,其每月应缴纳的个人所得税为()元。
A. 205
B. 455
C. 155
D. 305
Lucien Rudaux, a French artist, was the first to combine his artistic talents with his knowledge of astronomy. His paintings show a mixture of skilled observations, brilliant imagination, and painstaking attention to details. As a result, many of his works have come surprisingly to close to actual conditions on distant planets. His painting of Mars included moonlike craters that were first photographed by the Mariner 4 probe in 1965. His 1930 painting of a dust storm looks remarkably like a photograph of a storm taken by Orbiter 2 in 1976.
The artist-astronomers, including Rudaux, stimulated interest in outer space by painting what eventually turned out to be precise portraits of the planets.
What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The amazing accuracy of space artists.
B. The popular success of Lucien Rudaux.
C. The imaginations of great artists.
D. The similarities of the Moon to Mars.