Section A
[00:01.23]1. W: Excuse me.Did you say that these jackets were fifteen dollars?
[00:07.00]M: No,I said fifty dollars. Here's the price on the tag.
[00:11.70]Q: How much are these jackets?
[00:15.67]2. M: The plane's leaving at 5:30.
[00:18.68]I just called the airline.
[00:20.66]W: 5:30? Are you sure? I thought they said 4:30.
[00:24.74]Q: When will the plane take off?
[00:28.26]3. W: I am leaving at 1:30 p.m..
[00:32.13]But I've got to check in at 12:30 p.m..
[00:36.15]M: What airline and what flight?
[00:38.40]Q: When will the plane probably take off?
[00:43.21]4. M: My grandpa died in 1978.
[00:46.73]I was 18 years old then.
[00:48.72]W: Now it's 1998.That means he would be 76 if he were alive.
[00:54.96]Q: How old was his grandpa when he died?
[00:59.25]5. W: How big is the apartment?
[01:01.73]M: Five rooms
[01:03.53]Three bedrooms,a sitting room and a kitchen.
[01:07.24]Q: How many rooms are there in the apartment?
[01:11.89]6. M: A hundred and fifty
[01:15.02]if you are interested in this flat.
[01:16.96]A hundred and fifty! No,I'm not really interested in this flat.
[01:21.29]If your price is one third of it,maybe I live for only a month.
[01:26.52]Q: What price is reasonable according to the woman?
[01:30.75]7. M: Can I walk there?
[01:33.23]W: No, it is too far for you to talk.
[01:36.26]It might take you three quarters of an hour.
[01:39.27]Q: How far is the place?
[01:42.79]8. W: Take us to the Peak Tram Station.
[01:46.79]Can we get there in about fifteen minutes?
[01:49.82]M: No,it'll take about twenty minutes.
[01:52.51]because the streets are heavy with traffic at five p.m..
[01:55.91]I'll do my best.
[01:57.34]Q: When does this conversation probably take place?
[02:03.45]9. M: How much does it cost?
[02:06.17]W: It's three thirty.
[02:08.18]But the minimum price is two hundred.
[02:11.11]Q: What is the price difference?
[02:14.87]10. M: I want to check these pieces and I'll carry this overnight bag by myself.
[02:20.88]W: Sir,your bags are 30 pounds overweight.
[02:24.40]You are allowed only 44 pounds of baggage.
[02:28.22]Q: How weight is the man's baggage?
[02:32.03]Section B
[02:33.29]Passage One
[02:34.72]A great French writer has said.
[02:36.45]that we should help everyone as we can because we often need help ourselves.
[02:42.04]The small even can help the great.
[02:44.73]About this, he told the following story.
[02:48.31]An ant was drinking at a small river and fell it.
[02:51.99]She tried her best to reach the side.
[02:54.65]but she couldn't move at all.
[02:56.61]The poor ant got too tired but was still doing her best when a bird saw her.
[03:02.33]With pity the bird threw a piece of wood.
[03:05.05]With it she reached the bank again.
[03:07.51]While she was resting and drying herself in the grass she heard a man coming up.
[03:12.65]He was walking without shoes on his feet and carrying a gun in his hand.
[03:18.24]As soon as he saw the bird.
[03:20.23]he wished to kill her, and he would certainly do so.
[03:24.02]but the ant bit him in one of his feet just as he raised his gun to fire.
[03:29.16]He stopped to see what had bit him and at that time the bird flew away at once.
[03:35.67]It was an animal much weaker and smaller than the bird herself that had saved her life.
[03:41.68]11. Why couldn't the ant reach the side when she fell in the river?
[03:47.74]12. What did the ant do when she was too tired?
[03:52.33]13. What does "We often need help ourselves." mean?
[03:57.40]14. Why does the writer tell the story?
[04:01.40]Passage Two
[04:03.20]There is a place on our earth were hot water and steam come from under the ground.
[04:08.22]It is a large island in the Pacific Ocean.
[04:11.43]The island is North Island, in New Zealand.
[04:14.15]The planet on which we live is a ball of very hot rock.
[04:18.12]It is a good thing for us that the outside shell is cold.
[04:22.77]The earth's shell has cracks in it in some place.
[04:26.32]In New Zealand this shell seems to have more cracks than in other places on the earth.
[04:31.20]In some places, hot water goes up into the air from time to time.
[04:35.96]At other points, you can see steam coming from pools of hot water.
[04:40.22]The people who live in these places make use of the heat that comes from inside the earth.
[04:46.15]Some of them cook in the hot pool.
[04:48.21]They put food into a basket and place it in the water.
[04:52.44]Many people bring the hot water from below the earth into their home.
[04:57.01]They do this by putting a pipe a hundred feet or more into the ground.
[05:01.77]in this way they get hot water and steam for cooking and washing.
[05:06.49]and heating their homes.
[05:08.06]For most of us.
[05:09.26]the heat under our feet is too far away to us.
[05:13.05]We must make our heat by burning coal, oil or gas.
[05:17.65]15. Where do we live?
[05:20.76]16. In how many places does the island have heat coming from under the ground?
[05:27.03]17. Which of the following gives the heat to the pools in New Zealand ?
[05:32.49]Passage Three
[05:33.92]About three hundred words in the English language come from the names of people
[05:39.33]Many of these words are technical words.
[05:42.05]When there is a new invention or discover
[05:44.79]a new word may be created after the inventor or scientist.
[05:49.54]It is interesting to observe how many common words have found their way.
[05:53.70]into the language from the names of people.
[05:56.15]Lord Sandwich who lived from 1718--1792
[06:01.06]used to sit at the gambling table eating slices of bread with meat in between.
[06:07.23]As the Lord was the only one among his friends who ate bread in that way
[06:11.59]his friends began to call the bread "sandwich" for fun.
[06:15.72]Later on the word became part of the English language.
[06:19.69]The word "boycott" means to refuse to have anything with somebody or something.
[06:25.02]It comes from a man called capitonboycott. he was a land agent in 1880 and he collected rents and taxes for an English landowner in Ireland.
[06:36.75]But the Captain was a very hard man.
[06:39.60]He treated his poor tenants very badly.
[06:42.76]His tenants decided not to speak to him at all.
[06:46.23]Eventually word got back to the landowner and the Captain was removed.
[06:51.51]The word "boycott" became popular and was used by everyone to meal
[06:55.69]the kind of treatment that was received by Captain Boycott.
[07:00.15]18. What was Lord Sandwich fond of?
[07:03.97]19. What is the word "Sandwich" created by?
[07:07.96]20. When the landowner found out that the tenants were boycotting his land agent,what did he do |