听力原文:Mary: Mark. I don't want to listen to any more of your rubbish. I had enough of you. Don't try to call me again. I'll pull out the wire.
Lucy: Hello, Mary. It's me, Lucy. Don't hang up.
Mary: Oh, is that you, Lucy? Where did you spring out? I thought you were in Canada.
Lucy: I returned yesterday. The first thing I wanted to do after I went back was to get in contact with my old friends. I had been trying to get you on the phone all morning, but your line kept busy. Just now, when I finally got through to you when the phone went dead on me. Did you slam it down? What's going on between you and Mark? A War?
Mary: More than a war. A divorce.
Lucy: You are joking, aren't you? You used to love each other So much.
Mary: It's all over now. I don't want to talk about it any more on the phone.
Lucy: Are you free tomorrow? Let's have a talk.
Mary: Fine. Would you please come over here at 8 o'clock at night?
Lucy: Ok. I'll call you tomorrow.
What is the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Sisters.
B. Friends.
C. Student and teacher.
Daughter and mother.
Part A
Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Both Mercy Warren and Abigail Adams admired Catherine Macaulay; the radical author of A History of England, who supported the cause of the American patriots. Under Macaulay's influence Mercy Warren conceived her plan 'to write a history of the American Revolution, living to complete it in 1805. Abigail Adams rejected literary ambitions for her- self and never lost her sense of inferiority about her poor spelling and ignorance of Latin. Yet her letters, rather than Warren's plays and verse, have become the greater source in documenting signs of a dawning feminist consciousness.
Abigail Adams welcomed every advance for women and foresaw more than could be realized in her lie time. She urged her husband, the second President of United States, to "remember the ladies in the new code of laws, and to give married women protection from tyrannical husbands. As she pointed out, the terrible deficiencies in education for women were felt at all levels, she finally made the significant request to her husband, that the new constitution "be distinguished from Learning and Virtue, " and suggested that "if we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. "This awareness of education's value, rooted in the Enlightenment faith in human potentiality, had feminist implications before there was a feminist idol.
A younger contemporary of similar background gave the reading public an explicit feminist argument for the education of women. The views of Judith Sargeant Murray (1775— 1820)reflected both personal and family experience. Murray's Gleaner essays published in the 1790's transcended the boundaries of her world in recognizing the need for training women to earn their own living. Although, like Mercy Warren and Abigail Adams, she was brought up with the values of gentility, she knew through personal hardship that even women of her class might be forced to be self-supporting; education could provide independence for women in need, whether they were unmarried women or widows or wives.
The main topic of the passage is ______.
Abigail Adams life
B. women historians
C. 3early sources of feminist thinking
D. literary ambitions of Judith Sargeant Murray