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Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
听力原文：W: What time do you want people to come？
M: Six. And tell them not to wear anything fancy. It's only a casual affair.
Q: Which of the following is not true？
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听力原文：W: You don't look too happy. What's the problem？
M: Well, I've got to write a composition for my English class, and I just can't come up with any idea, and it's due tomorrow.
Q: What is the man's problem？
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听力原文：W: Good morning.
M: Morning, can I help you？
W: Yes, I'd like to join the library. We're new to the district you see.
M: Certainly. Well all we need is some sort of identification with your name and address on it.
W: Oh . We just moved, you see, and everything has my old address.
M: A driving license, perhaps？
W: No, I don't drive.
M: Your husband's would do.
W: Yes, but on his license is still the old address.
M: Perhaps you have a letter addressed to you at your new house？
W: No, I'm afraid not. We've only been there a few days you see and no one's written to us yet.
M: What about your bank book？
W: That's just the same. Oh dear, and 1 did want to get some books out this weekend. We're going on holiday to relax after the move, you see, and I want to take something with me to read.
M: Well, I'm sorry, but we can't possibly issue tickets without some form. of identification. What about your passport？
W: What？ Oh yes, how silly of me. I've just got a new one and it does have our new address. I've just been to book our tickets so I have it on me. Just a minute. Here you are.
M: Thank you. Well, that's all right. Now if you'd like to go and choose your books your tickets will be ready for you when you come back to the desk to have them stamped out.
W: Oh, thank you.
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Hear the Music, Avoid the Mosh Pit
Artists Find Their Audience Online
Musician Suzanne Vega got her start in the New York folk scene, but now the 1980s star has found a following in cyberspace. With the help of some programmers, Vega created a 3D animated image of herself, called an avatar (化身), and she recently performed inside a world accessible only through a web site, where other people represented by avatars attended the concert, streamed live to computers all over the globe.
As Vega strummed (弹奏) her guitar inside a real studio, about 100 lucky fans sat at their computers and guided their avatars into the online scene of an outdoor amphitheater, where Vega's avatar youthful - looking with short hair and bangs—appeared on stage. When the real -world artist played and sang, her online alter ego(另一个我) did the same—though the avatar's lips did not move. Fans heard the concert on their computer speakers and commanded their avatars to smile or move to the music.
Later, Vega answered audience questions, sent as instant messages visible to everyone in attendance.
The Aug. 3 event, organized by a public: radio program, was one of the first attempts by a major artist to interact with fans in a completely computer- fabricated world.
"The response was terrific ! ! I am still hearing from people who were in the ' room,' friends of friends and people all over the world who were 'there,' "Vega said in an e -mail, noting that she took an active role in picking out the maroon blouse, black cardigan and white tennis shoes her avatar wore.
Marketing and record label executives say web sites that put users into video - game - like virtual worlds are a unique way to reach out to audiences, who are increasingly spending their time and money on the computer instead of at concerts and music stores. Although still experimental, such sites offer fans more ways to interact with one another and band members directly.
The 1980s band Duran Duran has reunited and plans to perform. a live concert later this month on Second Life, the world where Vega performed, on its own virtual island. A few months ago, singer and pianist Regina Spektor built four virtual Manhattan lofts where fans could walk around, hang out and listen to streaming music from her new album a month before it was released. Even fans are taking part: A group of friends created avatars of the band U2 and has put on several virtual concerts, using music from the band's real shows and mimicking every detail, down to lead singer Bono's hairstyle, sunglasses and clothing.
Other, lesser - known bands and musicians who typically have used social networking site MySpace. com to build a following are also turning up on Second Life and other virtual worlds, such as There. com, to showcase their music.
"A virtual world brings something to the table that a Web site doesn't it' s building a more immersive experience. .... You kind of lose yourself in it," said Ethan Kaplan, director of technology for Warner Bros. Records, who said he has played around with Second Life for years. "It' s really cool and a lot more fun and creative than just putting a MySpace page up.
Musicians are increasingly using the virtual world to hold live concerts, at specific times and dates, or listening lounges where their music plays when an avatar pays a visit. The virtual world provides a rich and colorful environment similar to computer- animated films like "Toy Story," only a notch less sophisticated.
Users control their avatars by clicking on arrows or moving the mouse, but the movement and appearance seem a bit slow at times. Unlike the real world, though, avatars can fly around or beam (发射) themselves instantly from beach to urban environm
Reebok executives do not like to hear their stylish athletic shoes called "footwear for yuppies". They contend that Reebok shoes appeal to diverse market segments, especially now that the company offers basketball and children' s shoes for the under-18 set and walking shoes for older customers not interest ed in aerobics or running. The executives also point out that through recent acquisitions they have added hiking boots, dress and casual shoes, and high-performance athletic footwear to their product lines, all of which should attract new and varied groups of customers.
Still, despite its emphasis on new markets, Reebok plans few changes in the upmarket (高档消费人群的 ) retailing network that helped push sales to $ 1 billion annually, ahead of all other sports shoe marketers. Reebok shoes, which are priced from $ 27 to $ 85, will continue to be sold only in better specialty, sporting goods, and department stores, in accordance with the company ' s view that consumers judge the quality of the brand by the quality of its distribution.
In the past few years, the Massachusetts - based company has imposed limits on the number of its distributors (and the number of shoes supplied to stores), partly out of necessity. At times the unexpected demand for Reebok's exceeded supply, and the company could barely keep up with orders from the dealers it already had. These fulfillment problems seem to be under control now, but the company is still selective about its distributors. At present, Reebok shoes arc available in about five thousand retail stores in the United States.
Reebok has already anticipated that walking shoes will be the next fitness - related craze, replacing aerobics shoes the same way its brightly colored, sot~ leather exercise footwear replaced conventional running shoes. Through product diversification and careful market research, Reebok hopes to avoid the distribution problems Nike came across 'several years ago, when Nike misjudged the strength of the aerobics shoe craze and was forced to unload huge inventories of running shoes through discount stores.
One reason why Reebok's managerial personnel don't like their shoes to be called "footwear for yuppies" is that ______.
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