What is the benefit of using the computer chips?
A. Tracking the grizzly bears' course without interfering them.
Being very light.
C. Being handy.
D. Tracking the grizzly bears easily.
What are some of the main features of advertisements mentioned in this passage?
A. Toothpaste, shampoo and washing powder.
B. Different brands of the same product.
C. Performance, price, value for money, quality & reliability.
D. Freedom of choice for the producer.
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
A smart man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a policeman, I have some urgent things to say to good people.
Days after days my men and I struggle to stop a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A principle ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability.
Accountability isn't hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences.
Of the many values that hold civilization together—honesty, kindness, and so on—accountability may be the most important of ail. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law—and, ultimately, no society.
My job as a policeman is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people's behavior. are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
Luckily there are still communities—smaller towns, usually—where schools keep discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: "In this family certain things are not tolerated—they are simply not done!"
Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you make him very angry.
The main cause of this breakdown is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it's the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn't teach him to read, by the church that failed to teach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn't provide a stable home.
I don't believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything.
We desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.
What the wise man said suggests that ______.
A. it's unnecessary for good people to do anything in face of evil
B. it's certain that evil will prevail if good men do nothing about it
C. it's only natural for virtue to defeat evil
D. it's desirable for good men to keep away from evil
PART C
Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.
听力原文:Elina: What's the matter with you, then? It seems that you axe hostile and miserable.
Johnson: Not me. It's us, to be frank.
Elina: What do you mean by "us"?
Johnson: Well, I remember that we enjoyed talking to each other before we got married.
Elina: What do you mean? Aren't we talking now?
Johnson: Oh, yes, but we used to do so much together. We went for a walk every morning. We enjoyed reading magazines together.
Elina: But we still watch television together, don't we?
Johnson: But we used to go to the cinema together. I still remember you cried a lot when watching some sentimental films.
Elina: That's silly. You are being totally ridiculous thinking of these things.
Johnson: And we used to go to parks on Sundays and feed birds and fish there. You were so wonderful at that time.
Elina: But we never used to argue. Don't you remember? (sound of the door opening).
Johnson: Where are you going?
Elina: Back to live with my parents. That's something else we used to do before our marriage. Remember?
What is the possible relationship between the speakers?
A. Mother and son.
B. Father and daughter.
C. Teacher and student.
D. Husband and wife.