听力原文:The expansion of trade hasn't fully closed the gap between those of us who live on the cutting edge of the global economy and the billions around the world who live on the knife's edge of survival.
Despite the development of international trade and economic globalization, there is still gap between the rich and the poor.
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The slender woman who lay on the freeway shoulder
A. is dead.
B. was the driver of the van.
C. was killed in an accident.
D. was a poor driver.
How does the bite vary?
A. It depends on the age.
B. h depends on the big or small of the bite.
C. It does not mention.
D. It depends on the bodyweight of the person.
Part B
Directions: You will hear four 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:W: Dr. Jolly, I like to know the purpose of today's discussion?
M: I want the parents to know a great deal about bringing up children.
W: How will this be achieved? By encouraging parents to watch their children and how they respond day by day?
M: So often a mother is liable to feel "He's playing quietly on his own. I can get on with my work," and so she's not with her child. The result is that the child very quickly becomes bored, playing on his own. Mothers need to know that, although they shouldn't necessarily be doing anything, they need to be with their child because this encourages him whether he's painting or whether he's making things or whatever it may be. If a mother is, say, working in the kitchen, her child wants her and just quietly calls to Mummy, but she doesn't respond until he shouts. So in effect, she's said to him "Unless you shout at me, I won't come." And then she comes to me and says "I've got a child who's always shouting." You find that in effect she's trained him to shout.
What's the topic of the discussion?
A. Bringing up children.
B. Helping children with their problems.
C. Training children to be calm.
D. Training children to speak up.
Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened 【21】______ . As was discussed before, it was not 【22】______ the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic 【23】______ ,following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 【24】______ of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution 【25】______ up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading 【26】______ through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 【27】______ the 20th-century world of the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in 【28】______ . It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, 【29】______ , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, 【30】______ by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s,radically changed the process, 【31】______ its impact on the media was not immediately 【32】______ . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became" personal" too , as well as 【33】______ ,with display becoming sharper and storage 【34】______ increasing. They were thought of, like people, 【35】______ generations, with the distance between generations much 【36】______ .
It was within the computer age that the term" information society" began to be widely used to describe the 【37】______ within which we now live. The communications revolution has 【38】______ 1both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 【39】______ views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed 【40】______ "harmful" outcomes; And generalizations have proved difficult.
【21】
A. between
B. before
C. since
D. later