Section A
[00:01.25]1. M: You see,a marine biologist is now appearing on the screen.
[00:06.84]Yeah.We are now being taken on a tour familiarizing with life in the salty depth
[00:14.13]It's an interesting tele teaching lesson.
[00:17.08]Q:What are the man and woman doing?
[00:20.09]2. M: Alice is in bad mood today
[00:23.54]What's wrong with her?
[00:25.08]W:She failed the examination which she prepared for a long time.
[00:29.75]Q: What can you conclude from this conversation?
[00:33.44]3. W:The biology class next Monday has been replaced by a chemistry class.
[00:34.80]M: Awful.I haven't prepared for that.
[00:38.02]Q: For which class hasn't the man prepared?
[00:38.23]4. M:Since it's the rush hour,let's take the subway.
[00:42.44]W: OK.It's not as direct as the bus
[00:45.08]but it's faster and there will be less chance of a traffic jam.
[00:49.00]Q: Why do the man and the woman decide to take the subway?
[00:52.63]5. W: If I were you,I would take a bus instead of a plane.
[00:56.89]Flying makes me nervous.
[00:58.82]M: But it will take me forever to get there by bus.
[01:02.21]Q: What does the man prefer to do?
[01:05.43]6. W: Could you tell me the least expensive way to get to London?
[01:10.83]M: If you go by bus it's only 20 pounds.
[01:13.47]But if you go by train,it's a almost twice that much.
[01:16.79]Q: What does this man explain to the woman?
[01:20.00]7.Miss Green.I told Dr.Smith that I would call him in the Paris office at 11 o'clock their time.
[01:27.76]Please find out the time difference for me so that I'll know when to place the call.
[01:32.02]W: It's 4 hours earlier in Paris,sir.
[01:35.55]Q: When should the man place his call to Paris?
[01:39.46]8. M: There's no use going to the store now.
[01:42.68]W: You are right. It's after 5:30 already.
[01:46.10]Q: When does the store probably close?
[01:49.78]9. M: Jane told me you were on a die.
[01:53.02]How much weight have you lost?
[01:55.16]W: Well, to start with, I weighed 150 pounds.
[01:58.61]The first two weeks I took off 10 pounds,
[02:01.67]but then I gained back 5 pounds over the holiday.
[02:05.20]Q: How much does the woman weight now?
[02:08.64]10. W: Was the movie as good as you expected?
[02:12.14]M: It was a waste of time and money!
[02:14.81]Q: How does the man feel about the movie?
[02:18.52]Section B
[02:19.77]Passage One
[02:21.03]And now for the Monday Morning weather report.
[02:23.98]Right now the skies over the Chicago area are sunny and clear.
[02:28.44]We are expecting warm dry weather to continue throughout the day
[02:32.62]with temperatures in the middle to upper 80's.
[02:36.33]Winds will continue to be slightly variable as high as ten miles per hour.
[02:40.75]We are going to have fair weather continuing over the next couple of days so that means clear and somewhat cooler weather tonight.
[02:49.97]Tomorrow will be sunny again and quite warm.
[02:53.23]No precipitation is expected for at least three or four days.
[02:57.44]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[03:02.04]11. Who is the speaker?
[03:04.81]12. What will the daytime weather probably be like on Tuesday morning?
[03:10.32]13. What's the long range forecast for the next few days?
[03:14.84]Passage Two
[03:16.33]There is a strange area in the Atlantic Ocean called the Bermuda Triangle.
[03:21.13]People have been fascinated by the Bermuda Triangle for years
[03:25.21]because of the mysterious disappearance of many ships and planes in the area.
[03:29.88]There is hardly any agreement about the cause of these disappearances
[03:28.88]in fact it is difficult to find any agreement about the boundaries of the area.
[03:34.00]Whereas most people argue that the triangle's northern most point is Bermuda
[03:38.99]its western most point is Florida
[03:41.53]and its eastern point is the coast of Africa
[03:44.48]a few researchers prefer the northern point to be in the Boston area.
[03:49.34]Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[03:53.73]14. On what do most people agree?
[03:57.18]15. What did the speaker say have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle?
[04:01.90]16. Where is the Bermuda Triangle?
[04:05.40]Passage Three
[04:06.66]Two bombs exploded in Algeria Tuesday,
[04:10.13]as a European Union team met with government leaders to discuss the wave of civilian massacre.
[04:16.40]One bomb went off at a bus center in the center of the capital of Algiers
[04:21.47]killing one person,and an hour later,
[04:24.21]another bomb blew up in the coastal town of Annaba, killing 3 others.
[04:30.85]The Algerians agreed to allow European Union depute
[04:34.84]foreign ministers into discuss the situation
[04:37.95]but again turned down any UN investigation.
[04:41.95]Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[04:46.00]17. What happened in Algeria on Tuesday?
[04:50.18]18. Where did the first bomb go off?
[04:53.89]19. How many people were killed in the two bombings?
[04:58.41]20. What did the Algerians reject |