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听力原文： When Mr. Finch retired, he bought a small cottage in a seaside village. (32)The cottage was built in the late sixteenth century, but it was in very good condition. Mr. Finch was looking forward to a quiet life, but in the summer holidays he got a shock. Hundreds of tourists came to the seaside village. (33)Mr. Finch's cottage was the most interesting building in the village and many of the tourists came to see it. From morning till night there were tourists outside the cottage. They kept looking through the windows and many of them even went into Mr. Finch's garden. This was too much for Mr. Finch. (34)He decided to drive the unwelcome visitors away, so he put up a notice in the window. The notice said, "If you want to satisfy your curiosity, come in and look around. Price 5 pounds." Mr. Finch was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. The number of visitors increased and Mr. Finch spent every day showing them round his cottage. "I came here to retire, not to work as a guide," he complained. (35)In the end, he sold the cottage and bought a small, modern house. It is an uninteresting little place and no one wants to see it. But it is certainly quiet and peaceful.
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A. In the 17th century.
B. In the 1Sth century.
C. In the 18th century.
D. In the 16th century.

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A. run the risk to
B. venture to
C. take the chance of
D. take the adventure to

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A．Things far away are easy to be recognized.B．Sounds far away are clearly heard.C．A ra

A. Things far away are easy to be recognized.
B. Sounds far away are clearly heard.
C. A rainbow appears during rainy weather.
D. The air is filled with water.

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Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
An English schoolboy would only ask his friend: "Wassa time, then？" To his teacher he would be much more likely to speak in a more standardized accent and ask: "Excuse me, sir, may I have the correct time please？" People are generally aware that the phrases and expressions they use are different from those of earlier generations; but they concede less that their own behavior. also varies according to the situation in which they find themselves.
Not only this, but in many cases, the way someone speak affects the response of the person to whom he is speaking in such a way that "modeling" is seen to occur. This is what Michael Argyle has called "response matching". Several studies have shown that the more one reveals about oneself in ordinary conversation, and the more intimate these details are, the more personal secrets the other person will let out.
Response matching has, in fact, been noted between two speakers in a number of ways, including how long someone speaks, the length of pauses, speech rate and voice loudness. The correspondence between the length of reporters' questions when interviewing President Bush, and the length of his replies has been shown to increase over the duration of his 2005-2007 news conferences. Argyle says this process may be one of imitation. Two American researchers, Jaffe and Feldstein, prefer to think of it as the speaker's need for balance. Neither of these explanations seems particularly convincing. It may be that response matching can be more profitably considered as an unconscious reflection of speakers' needs for social integration with one another.
This process of modeling the other person's speech in a conversation could also be termed speech convergence (聚合). It may only be one aspect of a much wider speech change. In other situations, speech divergence (分离) may occur when certain factors encourage a person to modify his speech away from the individual he is dealing with. For example, a retried general's wife, renowned for her continuous snobbishness (势力), may return her vehicle to the local garage because of inadequate servicing, voicing her complaint in elaborately phrased, yet mechanically unsophisticated language, with a high soft-pitched voice. These superior airs and graces may simply make the mechanic, reply with a flourish of almost incomprehensible technical terms, and in a louder, more deeply lowered voice than he would have used with a less angry customer.
The example of the English schoolboy was used to show that ______.

A. English schoolboys respect teachers more than they respect their friends
B. young people have different ways to ask time from the previous generations
C. younger generations vary their speeches more than the previous generations
D. even the same person will speak in different ways in different contexts

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According to the author, the correspondence between tile lengths of reporter's questions and Bush's answers increased because speakers ______.

A. are trying to be accepted by others without even knowing it
B. have a strong demand for balance when they are speaking
C. always have an instinct to imitate the people they are talking to
D. themselves want to know each other well

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A. In the 17th century. B. In the 1Sth century. C. In the 18th century. D. In the 16th century.

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A．Things far away are easy to be recognized.B．Sounds far away are clearly heard.C．A ra

According to the author, the correspondence between tile lengths of reporter's questions and Bush's answers increased because speakers ______.

A. In the 17th century.
B. In the 1Sth century.
C. In the 18th century.
D. In the 16th century.