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What did Robert ask Rachel to do？
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Part A
Directions: You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer ― A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.
听力原文：M: Your son seems to have made much progress in playing the piano. Does he attend any piano classes？
W: Yes, he takes twice a week, but from next week on, he will go to the class on Saturday evenings too.
How often will the woman's son have piano lessons from next week on？
听力原文： When Rachel was two years old, she often climbed onto the piano bench and reached for the violin that belonged to her mother, a 38-year-old professional musician.
"Please don't touch, Rachel," her mother scolded. The violin was, after all, worth more than ＄20,000.
But Rachel persisted, she longed to handle the graceful instrument that made beautiful sounds. Finally, on her third birthday, Rachel was handed a package: a tiny violin, about half the normal size.
Almost from the moment Rachel was born, her mother knew she was sensitive to music. For several years mother and daughter practiced together day after day. She was eager to learn. Failure often led to tears, though she never once turned from the instrument. Instead, she persisted until the problem was overcome.
One day Robert, an American musician, heard Rachel playing the violin. He couldn't believe she was just eight years old. "She must make a tape and I will take it to the United States." the American musician said.
A famous American violin teacher heard the tape. He, too, had difficulty believing his ears. The playing was absolutely astonishing. He immediately accepted her as a pupil and recommended her for a full scholarship. In 1982, Rachel and her mother moved to New York City, leaving behind a comfortable life in Japan.
What did Rachel's mother do？
听力原文：M: How about the food I ordered？ I've been waiting for 20 minutes already.
W: I'm sorry, sir. I'll be back with your order in a minute.
What is the woman's job？
Aleta St. James is the latest celebrity to enter the "Are you ever too old to have a baby？" sweepstakes. St. James is a singer and self-described "healer" with lots of Hollywood clients. She is also the sister of Curtis Sliwa, the New York radio personality who founded the crime-fighting group the Guardian Angels.
Tuesday morning, three days shy of her 57th birthday, she gave birth to twins-a boy and a girl-at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. The babies were delivered by Caesarean section. Born three weeks premature, they were taken to the neonatal nursery where both were re- ported to be doing well.
St. James is not married. She used an egg made available by a stranger and sperm reportedly donated by a former boyfriend to achieve the pregnancy. In response to media questions about why she had decided to have children at age 57 she responded, "It is never too late. You are never too old. It is just in your mind."
The doctors to whom she paid more than $ 25,000 for the treatments that resulted in her pregnancy apparently did not think she was too old. And her family, as well as a gaggle of reporters, deemed her upbeat answer (in addition to her healing work, St. James is a motivational speaker) a more-than-sufficient response. Her father, who is well into his '80s, said that he now has two big reasons to want to keep on living.
It is hard to even raise this question without seeming like a moral busybody. What right does anyone have to challenge the reproductive decisions of another person？ But, that line of argument is simply wrong-headed. If decisions as important as when to have children are not open to ethical comment and discussion, then what is worthy of ethical analysis -- decisions about what color to paint the living room？
Let's think for a minute about what it means to have twins at 57. What it means is that when your twins are about to enter' high school, say at the age of 14, you are 71. Now I know that there are many grandparents who have successfully raised kids when the children's own parents could not. But it is one thing for two older people to deal with a difficult situation and make the best of it. It is quite different to deliberately create a situation where a single, 71-year-old parent who has been eligible for Medicare for seven years must deal with twins entering both puberty and high school.
The fact that St. James gave birth to twins aroused a big controversy because _________.
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