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Part B
Directions: You will hear four 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: In the next few decades, people are going to travel very differently from the way they do today. Everyone is going to drive electrically-powered cars, so in the few years, people won't worry about running out of gas. Some of the large automobile companies are really moving ahead with this new technology. F&C Motors, a major auto company, for example, is going to hold a press conference next week. After the press conference, the company will present its new electronically-operated models. Transportation in the future won't be limited to the ground; many people predict that traffic will quickly move to the sky. In the coming years, instead of radio reports about read conditions and highway traffic, news reports will talk about traffic jams in the sky. But the sky isn't the limit. In the future, you will probably even be able to take a trip to the moon. Instead of listening to regular airplane announcements, you will hear someone say: the spacecraft to the moon leaves in 10 minutes. Please check your equipment. And remember no more than 10 ounces of carry-on baggage are allowed.
What will be used to power cars in the next few decades?

A. Gas.
B. Electricity.
C. Solar energy.
D. Alcohol.

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How much cheaper is an unfurnished apartment than an furnished one?

A. 300 dollars cheaper.
B. Nearly lO0 dollars cheaper.
C. Exactly 100 dollars cheaper.
D. More than 100 dollars cheaper.

听力原文:W: That'll be 8 dollars, not 7dollars.
M: Sorry. I thought the fare to New York was 7 dollars.
W: There is an additional charge of 1 dollar if you buy your tickets on the train when the ticket office is open.
How much more does the man have to pay?

A. $8.
B. $7.
C. $15.
D. $1.00

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A. /
B. off
C. in touch with
D. away from

Despite extensive construction programs, the problem of housing for the most underprivileged population groups has not been solved. According to the so-called Petrequin Report, between 2 and 3 million families had serious difficulties meeting their housing costs and were living in precarious and uncomfortable conditions.
Policies designed to address the housing problem have shifted over the past few decades from a macroeconomic approach promoting construction to housing subsidies. The reasons for this shift agree with the determination to limit public spending and to avoid some of the perverse effects of macroeconomic policies. The State has to some extent ceased to finance housing, especially the construction of new projects, with the result that the cost is now chiefly and directly borne by the family budget. Many underprivileged families, which were excluded from low-rent housing for various reasons (selection of tenants, saturation of existing capacity, insolvency), had no alternative but to purchase their own home and were encouraged to do so without restraint by the easy terms of housing loans. The housing sector thus contributed to the development of the "economy of indebtedness". It should indeed be emphasized that "widespread home ownership through resource to borrowing could only be to the detriment of low-income families".
In Belgium, the quality of housing, considered the prime indicator of housing deprivation, heaves much to be desired. Low-rent housing projects have been cut back as part of the austerity policy pursued by the national and regional governments, and low-income households are finding it increasingly difficult to find somewhere to live. The number of homeless has also taken on alarming proportions. An estimated 3,000 persons spend the night in refuges, but the figure is probably much higher. Moreover, the number of homeless women and young persons is increasing.
In the author's opinions, housing is _________.

A. a problem solved only by the society and not by individuals
B. invariable and unchangeable
C. not determined by the society
D. socially determinant and changeable

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