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In this section you will hear 10 statement.At the end of each statement, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following 10 questions. You will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Now listen to the statements.

Question 1

What does the speaker think of conventional schools?

A. They will be replaced by on-line education

B. They will attract fewer kids as on-line education expands

C. They will continue to exist along with on-line education

D. They will limit their teaching to certain subjects only

Question 2

What does the speaker imply?

A. The weatherman is usually accurate in his forecast

B. The weatherman is always inaccurate in his forecast

C. The storm is coming soon

D. It will be sunny all day

Question 3

What time did Susan leave home?

A.5:15

B.5:10.

C.4:30

D.5:00

Question 4

What was the weather like during the speakers holiday?

A. The weather was cooler than expected

B. The weather was a little bit cold.

C. The weather was better.

D. The weather was a little bit warm

Question 5

What does the speaker say about the bicycle?

A. The speaker used to have one like it

B. The speaker would like to have one

C. The speaker didn't think it right

D. The speaker couldn’t ride it

Question 6

What do we learn from the statement?

A. Both the brother and sister did poorly in school

B. Jane got better grades than her brother Peter

C. Jane’s performance was not so good as Peter's

D. Peter did better in school than Jane.

Question 7

When is the train leaving?

A.At10:30

B.At10:25

C.At10:45

D.At10:40

Question 8

What does the speaker mean?

A. Both editions are the same price now

B. It has two editions with the same cover

C. The paperback edition is on sale

D. The hard cover edition is more expensive

Question 9

What did Jane do

A. She bought the dress because she had enough money

B. She borrowed some money to buy the dress

C. She didn't buy the dress

D She borrowed the dress from the salesgirl

Question 10

Which of the following is true about Betty?

A. Betty doesn't go to work if it rains

B. Betty drives to work if it rains

C. Betty rides the bus to work if it rains

D. Betty walks to work if it rains.

In this section you will hear five short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer two questions. You will hear everything ONCE ONLY.

Questions 11 and 12 are based on conversation one.

Question 11

Why does the woman know so much about Albuquerque?

A. Her sister lives there

B. She attended college there.

C. She lives thirty minutes from there

D. She visited there last year.

Question 12

According to the woman, what may cause the man the most problems in the Albuquerque?

A. The low humidity

B. The changing climate

C. The high altitude

D. The extreme temperatures

Questions 13 and 14 are based on conversation two

Question 13

What are the speakers mainly discussing?

A. The effect of the atmosphere on rainfall

B. How conditions on the Earth support life

C. How water originated on the Earth

D. A new estimate of the age of the Earth

Question 14

What did recent photographs from a space satellite indicate?

A. The surface of the ocean is expanding

B. Volcanic activity is increasing

C. The surface of the Earth contains tons of cosmic dust

D. Thousands of comets are colliding with the Earth's atmosphere

Questions 15 and 16 are based on conversation three.

Question 15

Why can't Karen concentrate on the book?

A. She,'s worried about the seminar

B. The man keeps interrupting her.

C. She finds it too hard

D. She lacks interest in it.

Question 16

Why is Karen starting to like the course less and less?

A. The lecturers are boring

B. The course is poorly designed

C. She prefers philosophy to English

D. The course is perfectly designed

Questions 17 and 18 are based on conversation four. Now listen to it.

Question 17

What does the woman think of the roommate's music?

A. She cant bear it.

B. She doesn’t mind it.

C. She thinks it is too repetitive

D. She enjoys it but it disturbs her.

Question 18

What is mike's real trouble?

A. His room is quite noisy.

B. Sherry is angry with him

C. The man who lives with him seems to lack courtesy.

D. His roommate is always taking Sherry’s parking space

Questions 19 and 20 are based on conversation five

Question 19

Why is Phil Worried?

A. He failed his last test

B. He can't find his watch

C. He's taking examinations soon

D. He missed his medical checkup

Question 20

Why does Phil turn to Sally for advice?

A. She is older than he is

B. She has been through a similar experience.

C. She is a medical student

D. She has a sense of humor.

In this section you will hear five items of news. At the end of each item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. You will hear everything TWICE.

Questions 21 through 22 are based on news item one.

Question 21

Who wants to reduce the notice given to schools?

A. The teachers of schools

B. The inspector of schools

C. The minister of education

D. The principals of schools

Question 22

What's the cause for the change?

A. It will give a more accurate picture of what is going on in schools

B. It will be less stressful for teachers

C. It will save a lot of money.

D. Both A and B.

Questions 23 through 24 are based on news item two

Question 23

Why is Mr Tenet criticized by congressional democrats?

A. Because they don't think he reported accurate intelligence on Iraqi weapons

B. Because they think he has close relationship with Iraq

C. Because they think he should send more agents to Iraq

D. Because they don't think he should visit Iraq

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Mr. Tenet is CIA chief.

B. Mr. Tenet made a speech in congress

C. Mr. Tenet defended his agency's work in his speech

D. Mr. Tenet criticized congressional democrats

Questions 25 through 26 are based on news item three

Question 25

How many people have died of Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone?

A. About 470

B. About 70

C. No one

D. More than 230

Question 26

What, according to Mohamed Silah, is the major challenge facing Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia?

A. People' s fear for the disease

B. The high death rate of the disease

C. The poor health infrastructure in the countries

D. The lack of aid from other countries

Questions 27 through 28 are based on news item four

Question 27

What has happened to Microsoft?

A. The source code of its Windows operating system has been leaked onto the internet

B. Its chief died and the DNA has been stolen

C. Its customers don' t want to use its software any more

D. Hackers have attacked the computers of millions of its customers around the world

Question 28

Which of the following is NOT true?

A. More than ninety percent of the worlds PCs run windows

B. Only the most sophisticated hackers can understand such massive programmes as Windows

C. Rival software firms could copy parts of the source code and use it in similar programmes

D. Hackers have infiltrated millions of computers worldwide by using the source code

Questions 29 through 30 are based on news item five.

Question 29

What has British Airways decided to do?

A. To cancel flights on Sundays

B. To dismiss two high officials

C. To cancel two upcoming international flights.

D. To cancel all flights to America

Question 30

Which of the following is true?

A. The cancelled flights are bound for the United States

B. One of the cancelled flights is bound for Saudi Arabia

C. The cause for canceling the fights is still unknown

D. The British government ordered it to cancel the flights

In this section you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will be given 50 seconds to answer the questions. You will hear everything TWICE.

Questions 31 through 35 are based on passage one.

Question 31

Which of the following best states the goal of American education?

A. To teach every learner some practical skills

B. To provide every learner with rich knowledge

C. To give every student the opportunity to fully develop his/her ability

D. To train every student to be a responsible citizen

Question 32

Which of the following is implied in the passage?

A. All high-school students take the same courses

B. Every high-school student must take some practical ability training courses

C. Every public school offers the same academic subjects

D. The subjects every student takes may vary

Question 33

Which of the following do American schools place great emphasis on?

A. Enrichment of knowledge

B. Accumulation of facts

C. Acquisition of the ability to be creative

D. Acquisition of the ability to work with his hands

Question 34

According to the passage, American education meets the needs of all the following EXCEPT

A. the brightest students

B. the slow students

C. the students from foreign countries

D. the immigrants

Question 35

Which of the following best states the feature of American education that makes it different from education in other countries?

A. The large number of its schools

B. The variety of the courses offered in its schools

C. Its special consideration given to immigrants

D. Its underlying goal to develop every child' s abilities to the fullest extent

Questions 36 through 40 are based on passage two

Question 36

What is the passage mainly about?

A. A new regulation for all airlines

B. The defects of electronic devices.

C. A possible cause of aircraft crashes

D. Effective safety measures for air flight

Question 37

What is said about the over 100 aircraft incidents in the past 15 years?

A. They may have been caused by the damage to the radio system

B. They may have taken place during takeoff and landing

C. They were proved to have been caused by the passengers portable computers

D. They were suspected to have resulted from electromagnetic interference

Question 38

Why do few airlines want to impose a total ban on their passengers using electronic devices?

A. Because they don't believe there is such a danger as radio interference

B. Because the harmful effect of electromagnetic interference is yet to be proved

C. Because most passengers refuse to take a plane which bans the use of radio and cassette players.

D. Because they have other effective safety measures to fall back on

Question 39

Why is it difficult to predict the possible effects of electromagnetic fields on an airplane's computers?

A. Because it is extremely dangerous to conduct such research on an airplane

B. Because it remains a mystery what wavelengths are liable to be interfered with

C. Because research scientists have not been able to produce the same effects in labs

D. Because experts lack adequate equipment to do such research

Question 40

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. The author is in favor of prohibiting passengers'use of electronic devices completely

B. The author has overestimated the danger of electromagnetic interference

C. The author hasn't formed his own opinion on this problem

D. The author regards it as unreasonable to exercise a total ban during flight