Part A
Directions: You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer ― A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.
听力原文:W: Movies and restaurants are good places to enjoy on Friday and Saturday nights.
M: That's very expensive. I'd rather go to a music bar with my friends.
What does the man prefer to do on weekend nights?
A. Stay at home.
B. Listen to music at a bar.
C. See movies with friends.
D. Go to restaurants.
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"If you aren't not 'too late, Larry says, "you climb out onto the cold steel and try to talk to the poor guy, and pull him anyhow back to safety. For many suicide attempts are made on the spur of the moment, and lives can be saved. But if you fail if the person jumps into the bottomless pool, there is no describing how helpless you feel. Following are some tricks that have worked: 'if you're going to jump, at least give me your mom's phone number so I can call and tell her ,'or' That's a nice watch. If you are going to jump, can I have it?' sometimes, all it takes is the voice of the human being who cares."
Larry estimates he has rescued about thirty people in these ten years of service.
What is Larry's job?
A professional driver.
B. A telephone operator.
C. A rescuer on the Golden Gate Bridge.
D. A guard on the Golden Gate Bridge.
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their【C1】______. A good book often【C2】______as a match to【C3】______the dormant power within us. There is explosive material【C4】______in most of us if we can only reach it. A good book or a good friend often excites【C5】______in great writers, even【C6】______entirely different subjects. We often find in books【C7】______we thought and felt, could we not have expressed ourselves. Indeed, we get【C8】______With ourselves in books. We【C9】______one feature in Emerson, another lineament in Shakespeare, an expression in Homer, a glimpse of ore, elves in Dante, and so on【C10】______we spell out our whole【C11】______. True, we get many pleasing【C12】______of ourselves from friends, many mirrored deformities from our enemies, and a characteristic here and there from the world; but in calm and【C13】______way we find the most of ourselves, our strength, our weakness, our limitations, our opinions, our tastes, our harmonies and【C14】______, our poetic
【C15】______qualities, in books. We【C16】______many of our opinions from our favorite books. The author【C17】______we prefer is our most potent teacher, we look at the world through his eyes. If we【C18】______read books that are elevating in tone, pure in style, sound in reasoning, and【C19】______in insight, our minds develop the same characteristics. The best books are those which stir us up most and make us the most【C20】______to do something and be something ourselves.
【C1】
A. words
B. lines
C. suggestion
D. suggestiveness
听力原文:M: That red shirt is nice, but it's very expensive. I am not going to spend $40 on a shirt.
W: Do you like the green one? It's a little cheaper.
M: It's good but still more than I want to spend.
What does the man think of the green shirt?
A. He thinks it is cheap.
B. He doesn't like it at all.
C. He thinks it is too expensive.
D. He doesn't like the color.
M: I would be glad to be of help. But I am afraid that mine wouldn't be of any use to you anyway. They allow only ten books for one card, and my card is already full.
W: Then I have to borrow one from someone else.
What do we learn from the man's reply?
A. He will not lend his card to anybody.
B. The woman cannot borrow books with his card right now.
C. Using another person's card is against the rules of the library.
D. His library card is no longer valid.