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听力原文: Finance Ministers from 18 Asian nations are considering proposals to pay for developing roads, airports and water supplies during the next 10 years. The Ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Group say they need many thousands of millions of dollars for such development. The organization is holding its yearly meeting through Sunday in Serbul, the Philippines.
Large sums of money are needed for the development of all the following EXCEPT ______

A. housing
B. airports
C. water supplies
D. roads

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Directions: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文:Man: Hew! This rowing is hard work. Let's have the boat toward the old light house now.
Woman: Good idea. We can rest there a while and eat our lunch. Then we can climb to the top platform. where the light is before we visit the museum at the base of the light house tower.
Man: Whenever I come out here, I think about the family who used to live on the little island and take care of the light every night. What a lonely life that must have been.
Woman: Yeah. To help ships find their way along shoreline at night, they had to constantly make sure that the windows up around the light were clean and free of ice and snow.
Man: Dirty soot must have been a problem. Didn't they bum candles up there?
Woman: No they use electricity, I think.
Man: I understand the United States Coast Guard takes care of the most modem lighthouses.
Woman: Yeah, but the lights are automatic nowadays. The lighthouse is still a friendly sight at night though.
Man: Here we are. This lighthouse is the friendliest sight I have seen today. I am exhausted.
What are the two speakers doing while having this conversation ?

A. They are visiting a lighthouse.
B. They are rowing a boat.
C. They are lightening a candle.
D. They are having lunch.

In our society, we must communicate with people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-to- person【C1】______ by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, we are likely to have conversations【C2】______ we give information or opinions, and sometimes have our views【C3】______ by other members of society.
Face-to-face contact is by no means the【C4】______ form. of communication and during the last two hundred years the【C5】______ of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporary society. Two things,【C6】______ others, have caused the enormous growth of the communication 【C7】______ . Firstly, inventiveness has led to【C8】______ in printing, photography and so on. Secondly, speed has revolutionized the【C9】______ and reception of communications so that local news often takes a back【C10】______ to national news.
No longer is the possession of information【C11】______ to a privileged minority. Forty years ago people used to【C12】______ to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program that is being channeled to millions of homes.
Communication is no longer merely concerned【C13】______ the transmission of information. The modern communications industry influences the way people live in society and【C14】______ their horizons by allowing【C15】______ to information, education and entertainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all【C16】______ with informing, educating and entertaining.
【C17】______ a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very【C18】______ to the individual and to the society of which he is a part, the vast modern network of communications is 【C19】______ to abuse. However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning【C20】______ .
【C1】

A. basis
B. base
C. foundation
D. ground

The world cup football match will be televised _________ to people all over the world this

A. lively
B. live
C. living
D. alive

听力原文: The world's smartest adolescence in mathematics and science are in Singapore, according to a global survey of educational achievement. In the 3rd International Mathematics and Science Study, 13-year-olds from Singapore achieved the best scores in standardized tests of maths and science that were administered to 287,896 students in 41 countries in 1994 and 1995. The survey suggests that science and maths education is especially strong in the Far East. While well behind those top scores, students from Australia earned higher marks in maths than their counterparts in England, who in turn did better than American students. The study collected information on the students' teachers and homes. Not surprisingly, the highest-scoring students had well-educated parents or came from homes containing study-aids such as computers, dictionaries or even such elemental facilities as desks. The study shows that boys generally did better than girls in science, but there was little difference between them in maths. Boys scored better than girls in physics and chemistry. There were no sex differences in the life and environmental sciences. In addition to being tested, students in the project were asked how proficient they thought they were in maths and science. Students in some countries, such as Columbia and Kuwait, had an overly optimistic view of their skills. Meanwhile, some of the best students from Japan and Korea, for example, were needlessly pessimistic even though they did far better in maths than almost all of other students.
Of the four groups of students, who scored the lowest in maths according to the survey?

A. Students from America.
B. Students from England.
C. Students from Australia.
D. Students from Japan.

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