Section A
Directions: This section is to test your ability to understand short dialogues. There are 5 recorded dialogues in it. After each dialogue, there is a recorded question. The dialogues and the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices A , B, C, and D.
听力原文:M:I need 3 stamps and an envelope,please.
W:Sorry,sir.You are at the wrong window.Go to Window 7,please.
Q:Where does this conversation most probably take place?
(1)
A. In a restaurant.
B. In a hospital.
C. At a post office.
D. At a railway station.
查看答案
The Tang Dynasty's prosperity lies in its strict laws.
A. Y
B. N
C. NG
When will this Agreement take effect?
A. February 1st, 2006.
B. February 1st, 2005.
C. May 25th, 2006.
D. May 25th, 2005.
Task 2
Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.
Walt Whitman is often called the poet of American democracy(民主). He lived during the American Civil War, and he admired president Abraham Lincoln very much.
Whitman was the first American poet who wrote about true equality among all other people. In a poem called Song of Myself he compared himself to all other people, and he found no difference. He wrote,
"...every atom belonging to me...belongs to you".
In the same poem Whitman spoke up for women. He wrote,
"The Female equally with the Male I sing".
He also wrote,
"In the faces of men and women I see God".
And "A great city is that which has the greatest men and women".
Whitman understood war and the results of war. He worked in a hospital, taking care of wounded men. In a description of northern soldiers who had returned from prisons in the south he wrote, "The sight is worse than any sight of battle fields or any collection of the wounded, even the bloodiest". In Whitman's words, "The real war will never get in the books."
Whitman was the first important American poet to write about ordinary people with ordinary language.
Through Whitman's lines, we can see ______.
A. he wanted to sing a song for himself
B. he was very proud of himself
C. his strong feeling towards the true equality among all people
D. it is God that created man
What does the "Site" in the first paragraph refer to?
A. It refers to the Internet.
B. It refers to all of the domain and sub-domains of www.eBay.com.
C. It refers to www. ebay. com.
D. It refers to eBay Inc.