A.The back of his dictionary fell apart when he dropped it.B.He had read the novel wit
A. The back of his dictionary fell apart when he dropped it.
B. He had read the novel without help in the fall.
C. He needed to look up some words to comprehend the novel.
D. His French teacher helped him with the vocabulary.
听力原文: When you see a clever advertisement in a newspaper, do you say to yourself, "Ah, that's good. I'd like to have one of those"? Or do you say, "What lies are they telling this time? It can't be very good or they wouldn't have to advertise it so cleverly"? Both of these people exist; the first are optimists; the second, pessimists and realists.
Advertisements can be extremely useful if they are honest; if, let us say, you have broken your pen and you want to buy another, the first thing to do is to look at as many advertisements for pens as you can find. That will help you to choose the model, color and price that suit you. Advertisements save a lot of time and trouble by putting sellers in touch with buyers in a quick and simple way. If the advertisements are true and accurate, the customers will be satisfied and will probably buy from the same firm next time and advise their friends and acquaintances to do the same.
The really dishonest advertiser hopes to sell his goods quickly and to make a large profit on them before the customer's reactions begin. He knows that no customers will buy from him a second time, and that none will recommend his products to their friends. But there are also semi-dishonest advertisers. They make claims for their products which they know perfectly well to be incapable of verification, like advertising that a certain toothpaste contains a particular substance—which it in fact does—knowing that this substance is in fact neither beneficial nor harmful to the teeth. Such advertisements do not tell downright lies, but their advertising is deliberately misleading.
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A. Trust all advertisements and make purchases accordingly.
B. Get suitable colors and prices from advertisements.
C. Doubt the truthfulness of advertisements.
D. Admire the clever ways advertisements are made.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: Our electric car is the way of the future. Automobile manufactures are under the pressure to develop cars that do not pollute. One powerful motive is a California law requiring that by the Year 2010, 30% of the new car sales of the state be so-called zero emission vehicles. These cars must put no pollutants whatsoever into the atmosphere. California is a huge market for the automobile companies. So they are working hard to meet this standard. So fax the electric car seems to be the best alternative. The biggest advantage of electric cars is that they don't pollute. However, they will be in competition with gas powered cars. That's where the witnesses come out. The big problem is that the batteries in electric cars weigh a lot relative to the amount of power they deliver. For instance in one electric car the batteries weigh four hundred kilograms and they provide enough energy to go 250 km before recharging, which takes 8 hours. Compare that to a moderately fuel efficient conventional car; it can go 400-700 km on a tank of gas. And refilling takes just minutes. If there are other drains on an electric car's batteries besides a motor, headlights, air-conditioning or a heater, its already limited range would be significantly reduced. So automobile engineers are trying to make more powerful batteries that would increase the car's range and make them more attractive to buyers.
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Automobile safety.
B. Increasing fuel efficiency.
California's pollution laws.
D. Electric-powered cars.
A.He should bring his cousin to the picnic.B.The picnic is going to be very crowded.C.
A. He should bring his cousin to the picnic.
B. The picnic is going to be very crowded.
C. She's sorry the man can't come' to the picnic.
D. Her cousin is coming to the picnic too.