1、C) The coach will probably arrive at 9:15D) The coach may arrive today, but the woman is not sure.From the dialogue we know that the coach is delayed two hours after 7:15 .The best answer, then, is C) “The coach will probably arrive at 9:15.” Therefore, you should choose answer C) on the Answer Shee
2、t and mark it with a single line through the center. Sample Answer ABCD1.A) She has to post a letter instead. C) Shes not sure if the computer is fixed. C) She cant send the message right now. D) She has to turn down the mans request.2. A) He didnt get the book he needed. C) He had no idea where the
3、 book was. B) The library is closed on weekends. D) He was not allowed to check out the book. 3. A) Start a car. C) Repair a typewriter. B) Take a picture. D) Play a tape recorder. 4. A) The woman rejected the mans apology. C) The man had hurt the womans feelings. B) The man had forgotten the whole
4、thing. D) The woman appreciated the mans offer. 5. A) The man is seeing the woman off. B) They are discussing their plan for Christmas. C) The woman is meeting the man at the airport. D) They are complaining about the poor airport service. 6. A) She will drop out of school. B) She will take a part-t
5、ime job. C) She plans to go to graduate school. D) She will stop working and concentrate on her studies. 7. A) He needs another job as research assistant. C) He asked Professor Williams for assistance. B) He is doing research with Professor Williams. D) He assists Professor Williams with his teachin
6、g. 8. A) The show was planned a long time ago. B) The audience were deeply impressed by the show. C) She thought there were no tickets left for the show. D) She thought the seats on the left side were fully occupied. 9. A) Mr. Longs briefing was unnecessarily long. B) The woman should have been more
7、 attentive. C) The woman neednt have attended the briefing. D) Mr. Longs briefing was not relevant to the mission. 10. A) In a school. C) In a bank. B) In a barbershop. D) In a clothing store. Section B Passage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. A) Because the bi
8、rd screamed all day long. B) Because the bird uttered the wrong word. C) Because the bird failed to say the name of the town. D) Because the bird couldnt repeat his masters name. 12. A) The pet bird. C) The fourth chicken. B) The cruel master, D) The man in the kitchen. 13. A) The bird managed to es
9、cape from the chicken house. B) The bird was living peacefully with the chickens. C) The bird had learned to scream back at him. D) The bird had finally understood his threat. Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14. A) They are a small portion of the prison po
10、pulation. B) They are ordered to do cooking and cleaning. C) They are allowed out of the prison grounds. D) They are kept in open prisons. 15. A) Most of their prisoners are expected to work. B) Their prisoners are allowed freedom to visit their families. C) Their prisoners are often sent to special
11、 centers for skill training. D) Some of their prisoners are allowed to study or work outside prisons. 16. A) Most of them get paid for their work. B) They have to cook their own meals. C) They can choose to do community work. D) They are encouraged to do maintenance for the training center. Passage
12、ThreeQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.17. A) Because the traffic system of the city is not very complex. B) Because the traffic conditions in London are good. C) Because they have received special training. D) Because they have a driving license. 18. A) About three wee
13、ks. C) At least half a year. B) Two years or more. D) Two to four months. 19. A) Government officers are hard to please. B) The driving test usually lasts two months. C) The learner has to go through several tough tests. D) The learner usually fails several times before he passes it. 20. A) They loo
14、k forward to further promotion. B) They want to earn money from both jobs. C) The dont want their present bosses to know what theyre doing. D) They cannot earn money as taxi drivers yet. Part IIReading Comprehension(30 Points) In this section there are four passages. Each of them is followed by five
15、 questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding litter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Questions 21-25 are based on the following passage.Why is it that the most connec
16、ted we get, the more disconnected we felt? Every advance in communications technology is a setback (挫折) to the intimacy of human interaction. With e-mail and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire
17、conversations without ever reading any If my mother has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.As almost every contact between human beings gets automated (自动的), the more people feel they are strangers to each other. You cant even call a person to get the phone number of another person a
18、nywhere. Telephone assistance is almost always fully automated.Buying gasoline at the station? Why say good-morning to the attendant when you can pay with your credit card and save yourself the bother of human contact?Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to a clerk who might live in the neighborho
19、od when you can just insert your credit card into the automatic machine?Pretty soon you wont have the burden of making eye contact at the food store. Some chain stores are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those cold clerks who look at you and ask how you are doing.21. The
20、 first sentence of the passage shows shows that today_ . A) people do not stay in one place all the time B) people do not like to be familiar with others C) people feel much more lonely than before D) people have less time to enjoy themselves22. The word “intimacy” in line 2, paragraph 1. most proba
21、bly means_. A) closeness B) tendency C) curiosity D) happiness23. If you ask somebody to give the telephone number of another person, you_. A) can easily have it correctly B) may fail to get the answer C) are likely to be laughed at D) have to send him an email24. This passage seems to tell us that_
22、. A) buying things in a chain store is pleasant B) most chain stores will not have clerks C) chain stores are more convenient than other shops D) clerks in chain stores are not friendly25. From this passage we can see that the writer_. A) thinks that we should be familiar with modem technology B) ho
23、lds a negative attitude towards todays communications technology C) believes that people are more concerned with themselves mow D) welcomes the influence of modern communications on our livesQuestions 26-30 are based on the following passageAmerica put more people in prison in the 1990s than in any
24、decade in its history. That started a debate over the wisdom of spending billions of dollars to keep nearly 2 million people locked up According to statistics, the United States ends 1999 with 1.983.084 men and women in prisons That shows an increase of nearly 840.000 prisoners during the 1990s and
25、makes the United States the country with the highest prisoner population in the world. With the cost of housing a prisoner a abort $20.000 a year. The cost in 1999 for keeping all these prisoners behind bars is about $39 billion.Some experts argue that the money is well spent, saying the cost of kee
26、ping prisoners behind bars doesnt seem much in comparison to the cost of crime to society. They also point out that the rise in the prisoner population in the 1990s coincided with (与相一致) a steady drop in the US crime rates. It is reported that serious crime has decreased for seven years continuously
27、. “There are a noticeable number of people who dont do crimes because they dont want to go to prison.” They say.26. There is a heated debate among American experts because_. A) America has put 2 million people in prison B) the cost for housing a prisoner keeps rising C) billions of dollars has been spent on prisoners D) the prisoner population is the largest in the world27. From the first paragraph. We learn that_. A) the number of prisoners in America is increasing
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