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PART C
Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.
听力原文: It's all very well to blame traffic jams, the cost of petrol and the quick pace of modern life ,but manners on the roads are becoming horrible. Everybody knows that the nicest men become monsters behind the wheel. It is all very well, again, to have a tiger in the tank, but to have one in the driver's seat is another matter altogether. Perhaps the situation calls for a Be Kind to Other Drivers campaign, otherwise it may get completely out of hand.
Road politeness is not only good manners, but good sense too. It takes the most coolheaded and good-tempered of drivers to resist the temptation to revenge when subjected to uncivilized behavior. On the other hand, a little politeness gees a long way towards relieving the tensions of motoring. A friendly nod or a wave of acknowledgement in response to an act of politeness helps to create an atmosphere of goodwill and tolerance so necessary in modern traffic conditions. But such acknowledgements of politeness are all too rare today. Many drivers nowadays don't even seem able to recognize politeness when they see it.
The speakers mentioned the following except _______.

A. traffic jams
B. the cost of petrol
C. the quick pace of modem life
D. detailed traffic rules

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A. suggest that the purpose of science is not simply to make discoveries but to influence the way humans regard the world
B. illustrate the dangers of rejecting a mechanistic view of the world
C. investigate the predictive efficacy of a scientific methodology that eschews certain types of experiments
D. provide an argument for why scientists should not be amateurs
E. demonstrate how easily a variation in scientific methodology can arouse controversy among scientists

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