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SECTION B PASSAGES
Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文： India is the land of festivals. Diwali is the Festival of Light and is celebrated with fervour and gaiety throughout the country to ward off the darkness and welcome light into everyone's lives. A four-day celebration marks the festival, the first day of which, "Naraka Chaturdasi" commemorates the vanquishing of the immensely powerful demon Naraka by Lord Krishna and his wife Satyabhama. The second day is "Amavasya" when prayers are offered to the goddess of prosperity, Lakshmi, for it is believed that on this day Lakshmi is in her most benevolent mood and is ready to fulfill the wishes of her devotees. Indians queue up for hours to pay homage at the Lakshmi temples on Amavasya. The third day is "Kartika Shudda Padyami" but is of comparatively minor relevance. The fourth day is referred to as "Yama Dvitiya" and on this day brothers are invited to their sisters' homes. In north India it is also celebrated as the return of Rama from 14 years in exile after killing the wicked King Ravan. To commemorate his return to his homeland, Ayodhya, his subjects illuminated the kingdom & burst crackers. The city streets are festooned with tinsel and fairy lights, and excitement fills the air.
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Offices, shops, and factories are discovering the greater【C3】______ of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all【C4】______ of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output.【C5】______ , the "typical" Frenchman produces more, earns more and buys more【C6】______ goods than his【C7】______ of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and【C8】______ of life. What he loses【C9】______ is his sense of personal【C10】______ , or individuality.
Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world【C11】______ of the technological society and its commercial products. Since the late 1950s life in France has indeed 【C12】______ qualities of rush, tension and the【C13】______ of material gain. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is【C15】______ by the triumph of this competitive, good-oriented culture. 【C14】______ , they have reacted【C16】______ the trend with considerable violence.
【C17】______ the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to 【C18】______ France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more【C19】______ , convenience and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is【C20】______ to the old.
【C1】
听力原文：M: Yes, I'd like to report a theft.
W: Okay. Can you tell me exactly what happened？
M: Well, I was walking through the park yesterday when this woman knocked me right off my feet, grabbed my stuff, and ran off through the trees.
W: Yeah. Can you describe the woman for me？
M: Yeah. He was about a hundred and ninety centimetres tall...
W: Wait. You said a woman robbed you.
M: Well, I'm not really sure. The person was wearing a white and black polka dot dress, a light red sweater over it.
W: Humm. What else can you tell me？
M: Well, the person ... had a beard.
W: Ah! What was, uh, taken ... exactly？
M: Well, just my left shoe. Bizzare, isn't it？
W: Ah. The "bearded woman" has struck again!
M: The "bearded woman"？
W: Yeah. It's this man who dresses up like a woman and, for some unknown reason, removes the left shoe from his victims. He's really quite harmless, though, and he usually returns the shoe to the crime scene a couple of days later.
M: Hey, he can keep my shoe, and I'll just take off my left shoe every time I walk through the park.
Where did the conversation most probably take place？
【C17】
Which statement is NOT true about the combined entity？
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