Conductor：Good afternoon, Sir. I’ll have a look at the time-table for you.__1__.

Passenger ： Are there tickets for Saturday then?

Conductor： Yes, there are. How do you want to go, first class or coach?

Passenger：___2 _.

What’s the fare?

Conductor： It is 260 dollars.

Passenger： ___3__.

Conductor： The flight will get you there at six Sunday morning.

Passenger：___4__.

What ’s the flight number?

Conductor： The flight number is 301 at Gate Two.

A. I’ ll need a coach open return

B. OK, I’ll take three

C. What time will the flight put me there

D. I’m sorry but there aren’t any direct flights available

Dialogue Two

Burney：There were two men, I think. No, three. They ran into the bank and the one with the gun,

the tall one, he runs up to the window, and starts shouting something, I don't know, “Give me all

your money” and the other one.

Police officer：___1__.

Burney： No, there were two men and a girl.___2_.

the one carrying the suitcase, well, he goes up to the other guy.

Police officer： The one with the gun?

Burney： Yes, and he opens the suitcase and the cashier, well, she well, all the other people behind

the window they hand over piles of money and two men put it into the suitcase and they run out. It was 1：35

___3__.

A. They had been in there for 5 minutes.

B. It’s the other man I’m talking about,

C. I thought you said there were three men?

D. Are there any witnesses on the spot?

Dialogue Three

L： Hello. This is Lily. Is Mary in, please?

M： ___1__. Who is that?

L： This is Lily here. Have you watched the wonderful performance on CCTV-1?

M： ___2__.

L： I haven’t either. But it’s said this is a very great performance.

M： Really? ___3___?

L： It’s about some stories moved our Chinese people. It was given by Bai Yansong. There are ten people evaluated by moving millions of people.

A. I really want to have a chance to watch it.

B. What is the performance about?

C. Yes, this is Mary speaking.

D. No, I haven’t.

Passage One

One of the most dangerous drugs for pregnant women to consume is alcohol. Because alcohol is delivered quickly into the blood and passes quickly into the tissues and membranes , the human fetus(胎儿)is particularly vulnerable to its effects. In fact, the negative effects on a fetus are so pronounced that babies born after exposure to alcohol are said to be suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome.

As a pregnant woman drinks alcohol, the alcohol is passed into her

bloodstream almost simultaneously. Moreover, because the bloodstream of a fetus is inextricably tied to that of the mother, the alcohol passes directly into the bloodstream of the fetus as well.

And, what is more, the concentration of alcohol in the fetus is exactly the same as in the mother. For the mother, this concentration is not a problem because her liver can remove one ounce of alcohol from her system per hour. However, the fetus’s liver is not completely developed.

The rate at which it is able to eliminate the alcohol from the blood of the fetus is much slower.

Eventually, the alcohol will be returned to the mother’s system by passing across the placenta (胎盘), but this process is slow. By the time this takes place, major neurological damage may have already occurred. Research has shown that little as one drink of alcohol can produce significant, irreversible damage to the fetus.

Babies born after exposure to alcohol generally exhibit facial distortion, inability to concentrate and difficulty in remembering. Simply speaking, it is imperative that pregnant women avoid alcohol.

What is the main topic of this reading? ( )

A.Women and drugs

B.The dangers of pregnant

C.The fetus and alcohol

D.Drinking and the human body

How much time can it be inferred that it takes alcohol to enter a woman’s bloodstream after she takes a drink? ( )

A.About one hour

B.A few seconds

C.Several minutes

D.At least 24 hours

A.unexplained

B.formerly

C.forcefully

D.inseparably

According to the passage, how does the concentration of alcohol in a fetus compare to that in the mother? ( )

A.The concentration is more

B.The concentration is less

C.The concentration is the same

D.The concentration cannot be measured

According to the passage, how is alcohol finally returned to the mother’s system? ( )

A.It is carried through the bloodstream

B.It is transferred across the placenta

C.It is expelled by the fetus’s liver

D.It is not completely returned

Passage Two

Banks are not ordinarily prepared to pay out all accounts; they relied on depositors(储户) not to demand payment all at the same time. If depositors should come to fear that a bank is not sound, that it cannot pay off all its depositors, then that fear might cause all the depositors to appear on the same day. If they did, the bank could not pay all accounts. However, if they did not all appear at once, then there would always be funds to pay those who wanted their money when they wanted it. Mrs. Elsie Vaught has told us of a terrifying bank run that she experienced.

One day in December of 1925, several banks failed to open in a city where Mrs.Vaught lived. The other banks anticipated a run the next day, and so the officers of the bank in which Mrs. Vaught worked as a teller had enough funds on hand to pay off as many depositors as might apply. The officers simply instructed the tellers to pay on demand. Next morning a crowd gathered in the bank and on the sidewalk outside. The length of the line convinced many that the bank could not pay off everyone. People began to push and then to fight for places near the tellers’ windows. Clothing was torn and limbs broken, but the jam continued for hours.

The power of the panic atmosphere is evident in the fact that two tellers, though they knew that the bank was sound and could pay out all depositors, nevertheless withdrew the funds in their own accounts. Mrs.Vaught says that she had difficulty restraining herself from doing the same.

A. a bank is closed for one or more days

B. Too many depositors attempt to draw out their money at one time

C. there is not enough money to pay all of its depositors at one time

D. employees of a bank take out their own funds from the bank

What happened to some of the customers of Mrs.Vaught’s bank? ( )

A. They were injured

B. They lost their money

C. They had to leave part of their money in the bank

D. They were forced to put their money into other banks

A. explain why they could not pay out all depositors

B. pay out deposits as requested

C. assure customers that the bank was sound

D. pay out money as slowly as possible

A.loss of confidence

B.lack of sufficient funds

C.crowds of people

D.inefficient tellers

According to the passage, the actions of the customers of Mrs.Vaught’s bank were influenced chiefly by( )

A.the ease with which they could obtain their money

B. the confidence demonstrated by other customers of the bank

C. the confidence that MrsVaught demonstrated

D.the failure of several other banks to open