听力原文:W: You promised me you wouldn't buy any more. Maybe you don't care about your health, but I do. You might think of our children.
M: All right. I'll throw the pack away.
Q: What did the man probably just buy?
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A. Toys.
B. Pie.
C. Books.
D. Cigarettes.
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What is the purpose of para. 2?
A. Criticizing the Farm Credit System.
B. Informing readers of the history of the Farm Credit.
C. Describing the size of the system.
D. Clarifying the confusion over the system.
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: Poe was born in Boston in 1809. He attended the University of Virginia, where he was a distinguished student and developed his lifelong taste for liquor. Afterward, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and rose to the rank of sergeant major. He was expelled from West Point after a year, loosing his hopes of becoming a career officer.
Poe started publishing his poetry and stories in the early 1830s and pursued a career in journalism to ensure some sort of financial security. In 1843, he published several works, including The Tell-Tale Heart and The Gold Bug which won a $100 prize in a contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. The story made Poe famous with the fiction reading public. His poem "The Raven" which appeared in the New York Evening Mirror in January 1845, was a critical and commercial success. Along with "To Helen" and "Annabel Lee", "The Raven' is considered one of Poe's finest poems. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Murders in the Rue Morgue are arguably two of his best short stories. But both Poe and his wile Virginia's poor health kept the pair in financial and emotional distress. Poe died in 1849.
When did Poe start publishing his poetry and stories and pursue a career in journalism?
A. In the early 1810s.
B. In the early 1820s.
C. In the early 1830s.
D. In the early 1840s.
Why didn't Miss Smith continue her study after she finished school?
A. She did not like to study.
B. She had to work to support her family.
C. A friend of his father's offered her a job.
D. Her father did not like her to study art.
听力原文: Japanese people, who never miss a chance to be photographed, were lining up to get their picture on a postage stamp. Vanity stamps that feature personal photographs went on sale for the first time in Japan as part of an international postage stamp exhibition. The customer's photo is taken with a digital camera and then printed on stamp sheets, a process that takes about five minutes. Sold in a sheet of 10 stamps for $8.80, little more than the cost of lunch in Tokyo, each stamp features a different scene from traditional Tokyo -- along with the photo. The stamps can be used normally to mail a letter, and postal officials hope they will help promote interest in letter writing in the Internet age. "Certainly E-mail is a useful method of communication, but letters are fun in a different way," said an official in the Posts Ministry. "We want to show young people that letters can be fun too." While similar stamp sheets debuted in Australia in 1999 and are now sold in some 12 nations and territories l Japan's fondness for commemorative photos is likely to make them especially popular here. Indeed, officials had prepared 1,000 sheets but they were sold out in less than 30 minutes. Although the stamps are currently only available as a special service during the exhibition, postal officials said they might start selling them on a regular basis in the future.
What does each vanity stamp cost?
A. $8.80.
B. $0.88.
C. $10.
D. $5.