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 don't enjoy the TV program Would you please turn it off for me please?
W:Certainly. Would you like to listen to some music instead?
Q:What do we learn from the conversation?
(1)
A. The woman enjoyed this TV program.
B. The man didn't like the TV program.
C. The woman didn't want to listen to music.
D. The man wanted to listen to some music.
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Task 2
Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.
I was raised speaking English, but I also spoke Spanish at home. When I went to school for the first time, I was enrolled in ESL classes—classes for English as a Second Language. I was also put into the Limited English Proficiency Program. In all these classes, I always got the highest grades. I was the best reader and speaker. There was no reason for me to be in any of those classes.
When my parents discovered that I was ha those classes instead of in regular classes with other English-speaking students, they went to the school administration to complain about the discrimination. The school had nothing to say. My parents tried to get me out of the ESI classes, but the school fought very hard to keep me there. And then we found out why—for every student the school had in the ESI. and the Limited English Proficiency Program, they would receive $ 400. This was pretty devastating (令人震惊的). The school's only excuse for keeping me there was that I lived in a Spanish-speaking household, and that I 'was influenced by the way my parents spoke. My parents were outraged, but I remained in the ESL and the Limited English Proficiency Program until I was in the fifth grade.
Then my parents transferred me to another school where they had friends. The new school gave me an English proficiency test. I aced (考得好,写得好) it. So I didn't have to attend those programs for non-native English speakers. I was finally on the right track and back at the head of the class. The first school I had attended would have never let me out of those programs or even let me take the test. I was too "Spanish" for them.
The author thought he should attend______.
A. an ESL class
B. regular English classes
C. the Limited English Proficiency Program
D. the class for non-native English speakers
What was the author's feeling when he described his first school?
A. He remembered a sympathetic school administration.
B. He was made to feel welcome because he spoke Spanish.
C. He felt that the school cared more about money than about pupils' welfare.
D. He was grateful that the school took such a keen interest in his progress.
Contributing to the attention on adolescent literacy is the Bush legislation and the funding being provided from private sources.
A. Y
B. N
C. NG
Phonemic awareness is one of the five topics which were rated as "hot" last year and have
A. Y
B. N
C. NG