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Section A |
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Q1. |
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W: Carol told us on the phone not to worry about her.Her left leg doesn't hurt as much as it did yesterday. |
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M: She'd better have it examined by a doctor anyway. And I will call her about it this evening. |
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Q: What does the man think Carol should do? |
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Q2. |
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M: There is a non-stop train for Washington and it leaves at 2:30. |
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W: It's faster than the 2 o'clock train. Besides, we can have something to eat before getting on the train. |
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Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
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Q3. |
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M: Hi, Melissa, how's your project going? Have you thought about going to graduate school? |
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Perhaps you can get into Harvard. |
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W: Everything is coming along really well. I have been thinking about graduate school. |
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But I'll talk to my tutor Dr. Garcia first and see what she thinks. |
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Q: What do you learn about the woman from the conversation? |
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Q4. |
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W: Did you attend Alice's presentation last night? It was the first time for her to give a speech to a large audience. |
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M: How she could be so calm in front of so many people is really beyond me! |
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Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
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Q5. |
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W: You've been doing weather reports for nearly 30 years. Has the weather got any worse in all these years? |
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M: Well, not necessarily worse. But we are seeing more swings. |
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Q: What does the man say about the weather? |
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Q6. |
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M: Excuse me, I am looking for the textbook by a Professor Jordon for the marketing course. |
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W: I am afraid it's out of stock. You'll have to order it. |
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And it will take the publisher 3 weeks to send it to us. |
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Q: Where did this conversation most probably take place? |
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Q7. |
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M: I am going to New York next week, but the hotel I booked is really expensive. |
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W: Why book a hotel? My brother has 2 spare rooms in his apartment. |
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Q: What does the woman mean? |
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Q8. |
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W: In my opinion, watching the news on TV is a good way to learn English. What do you think? |
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M: It would be better if you could check the same information in English newspapers afterwards. |
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Q: What does the man say about learning English? |
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Q9. |
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M: I hear a newly-invented drug can make people tell the truth and it may prove useful in questioning terrorists. |
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Isn't it incredible? |
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W: Simple solutions to complex problems rarely succeed. |
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As far as I know, no such drugs are ever known to work. |
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Q: What does the woman think of the new drug? |
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Q10. |
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M: You know the electronics company is coming to our campus to recruit graduate students next week. |
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W: Really? What day? I'd like to talk to them and hand in my résumé. |
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Q: What does the woman want to do? |
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Section B |
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Passage one |
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A new study reports the common drug aspirin greatly reduces life threatening problems |
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after an operation to replace blocked blood vessels to the heart. |
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More than 800,000 people around the world have this heart surgery each year. |
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The doctors who carried out the study say giving aspirin to patients soon |
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after the operation could save thousands of lives. |
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People usually take aspirin to control pain and reduce high body temperature. |
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Doctors also advise some people to take aspirin to help prevent heart attacks. |
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About 10-15 percent of these heart operations end in death or damage to the heart or other organs. |
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The new study shows that even a small amount of aspirin reduced such threats. |
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The doctors said the chance of death for patients who took aspirin would fall by 67%. |
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They claimed this was true if the aspirin was given within 48 hours of the operation. |
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The doctors believe aspirin helps heart surgery patients |
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because it can prevent blood from thickening and blood vessels from being blocked. |
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However, the doctors warned that people who have stomach bleeding |
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or other bad reactions from aspirin should not take it after heart surgery. |
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Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Q11. What is the finding of the new study of aspirin? |
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Q12. In what way can aspirin help heart surgery patients according to the doctors? |
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Q13. What warning did the doctors give about the use of aspirin? |
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Passage Two |
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Were you the first or the last child in you family? Or were you a middle or an only child? |
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Some people think it matters where you were born in you family. |
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But there are different ideas about what birth order means. |
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Some people say that oldest children are smart and strong-willed. |
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They are very likely to be successful. The reason for this is simple. |
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Parents have a lot of time for their first child, they give him or her a lot of attention. |
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So this child is very likely to do well. An only child will succeed for the same reason. |
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What happens to the other children in the family? |
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Middle children don't get so much attention, so they don't feel that important. |
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If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. |
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The youngest child, though, often gets special treatment. He or she is the baby. |
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Often this child grows up to be funny and charming. Do you believe these ideas of birth order too? |
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A recent study saw things quite differently. The study found that first children believed in family rules. |
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They didn't take many chances in their lives. They usually followed orders. |
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Rules didn't mean as much to later children in the family. |
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They went out and followed their own ideas. They took chances and they often did better in life. |
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Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Q14. According to common belief, in what way are the first child and the only child alike? |
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Q15. What do people usually say about middle children? |
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Q16. what do we learn about later children in a family from a recent study of birth order? |
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Passage Three |
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When my interest shifted from space to the sea, I never expected it would cause such confusion among my friends, |
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yet I can understand their feelings. |
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As I have been writing and talking about space flight for the best part of 20 years, |
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a sudden switch of interest to the depth of the sea doer seem peculiar. |
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To explain, I'd like to share my reasons behind this unusual change of mind. |
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The first excuse I give is an economic one. Underwater exploration is so much cheaper than space flight. |
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The first round-trip ticket to the moon is going to cost at least 10 billion dollars if you include research and development. |
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By the end of this century, the cost will be down to a few million. |
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On the other hand, the diving suit and a set of basic tools needed for skin-diving can be bought for 20 dollars. |
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My second argument is more philosophical. The ocean, surprisingly enough, has many things in common with space. |
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In their different ways, both sea and space are equally hostile. |
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If we wish to survive in either for any length of time, we need to have mechanical aids. |
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The diving suit helped the design of the space suit. |
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The feelings and the emotions of a man beneath the sea will be much like those of a man beyond the atmosphere. |
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Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Q17. How did the speaker's friends respond to his change of interest? |
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Q18. What is one of the reasons for the speaker to switch his interest to underwater exploration? |
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Q19. In what way does the speaker think diving is similar to space travel? |
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Q20. What is the speaker's purpose in giving this talk? |
