听力原文:W: Cattle raising in the U.S. is a big business, isn't it? It must be very profitable.
M: Uh...not really. At times it's not profitable. It's a supply and demand market, you know. The price is fluctuating all the time, and it can get below production costs sometimes.
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
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A. The price fluctuates all the time because the production costs are high.
B. The production costs will be higher if the market demands more beef.
C. The price will get below production costs if your supply is larger than demand.
D. Cattle raising is a non-profit-making business in the U.S.
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Wal-mart has branches in Mexico.
A. Y
B. N
C. NG
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
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Aches or pains for unknown reasons.
B. Lack of interest in activities.
C. Failing memory.
D. Eating too much.
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A. at the
B. in
C. in
D. for the
The appeal of the world of work is first its freedom. The child is compelled to go to school: he is【21】of authority. As he grows up, he sees what it is to be free of school and to be able to choose his job and change it if he doesn't like it. The boys and girls,【22】he has long observed, revisit school utterly changed and apparently mature. Suddenly teachers seem as out of date as his parents and the authority of school a ridiculous thing. At the moment the adult world may appear【23】the school world that the desire to enter it cannot be satisfied by exercises in school books. This may not be the【24】but it is a necessary part of growing up, for every man and woman must come sooner or later to the point of saying "Really, I've had enough of being taught; I must【25】". Some young people come to this decision sooner than they ought. Yet in a way this is not a bad frame. of mind to be in【26】leaving school. At work, the young man makes one of the first great acceptances of life——he accepts the discipline of the material or the process he is working with. He sees the point of it and in doing so【27】life. The work process constitutes a reality in some sense superior to that of school, and this is why he so often longs to get to grips with it. Nothing done in school imposes its will in【28】the same way; if the maths master is ill one can get on with something else. But even the boy delivering papers,【29】the driver taking out his bus, discovers that one cannot put it off because there is snow on the ground, or the foreman (工头) is easily annoyed, or he himself【30】that morning.
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A. under the thumb
B. below the hands
C. subject to the palm
D. in the fingers