Section A 1.M:Congratulation
You certainly did quite well and I must say you deserve that grade.
W: Well,I really studied hard for that exam.
Ive been prepared for it for more than a month.
Now I can relax for a while.
Q: Why is the woman so happy?
2.M:Its hard to believe that Susan has already finished her homework.
W: Well,she copied Jacks homework and made a few changes.
Q: What does the woman say about Susan?
3. W: Mr.Johnson,have you heard the morning news report.
Regan resigned his post as Prime Minister.
M: I didnt turn on the radio this morning
but I did see the headlines
If you remember he threatened to the office at the last cabinet meeting.
Q: How did Mr.Johnson learn that the Prime Minister had resigned.
4. M:If you are in a hurry, you can take a subway.
If you want to go sightseeing, take a bus.
W: Actually I dont have to be at the conference before noon.
Q: What will the woman probably do?
5. W: How did your interview go?
M: I couldnt feel better about it.
The questions were very fair and I seemed to find the answers for all of them.
Q: How does the man feel about the interview?
6. W:Im very impressed by all the work youve done on your house,Mr.Miller.
How long have you been working on it?
M:I first became interested in doing things myself several years ago.
I have been doing something on it every now and then for almost a year now.
You know I couldnt afford to pay workmen to do it.
Q: What do you learn about Mr.Miller?
7.W:I just made a jar of jam this morning and now I cant find it anywhere.
Do you know what happened to it?
M: Do you hear a crash.
That was it.I am just as clumsy as ever.
Q: What is the problem?
8. M:I read in a newspaper that the novel youre reading is excellent.
W: Ive also read some negative reviews.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
9. W:John told me he had bought a second hand car.
Do you know how much he paid for it?
M: Well,he said he paid $ 800 for it.
I think he got a real bargain.
Q: What does the man think of the price of the car?
10. M Hello.This is Doctor Marita from the emergency department.
I have a 70-year-old patient with an heart attack.
W: O.K.Send him to Ward 3.
Q: What are they talking about on the phone?
Section B Passage One
Packaging is an important form of advertising.
A package can sometimes motivate someone to buy a product.
For example,a small child might ask for a breakfast food
that comes in a box with a picture of a TV character.
The child is more interested in the picture than in breasfast food.
Pictures for children to colour or cut out.
games printed on a package or small gifts inside a box
also motivate many children to buy products--or to ask their parents for them.
Some packages suggest that a buyer will get something for nothing.
Food products sold in reusable containers are examples of this.
Although a similar product in a plain container might cost less
people often prefer to buy the product in a reusable glass or dish
because they believe the container is free.
However,the cost of the container if added to the cost of the product.
The size of a package also motivates a buyer.
Maybe the package has Economy Size or Family Size printed on it.
This suggests that the large size has the most product for the least money.
but that is not always true. To find out,
a buyer has to know how the product is sold and the price of the basic unit.
The information on the package should provide some answers.
But the important thing for any buyer to remember
is that a package is often an advertisement.
The words and pictures do not tell the whole story.
Only the product inside can do that.
11. What does motivate mean according to this passage?
12.What does A buyer will get something for nothing most probably mean?
13. Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage?
14. What suggestion does the author give in the passage?
Passage Two
Artificial flowers are used for scientific as well as for decorative purposes.
They are made from a variety of materials.
Such as wax and glass
so skillfully that they can scarcely be distinguished from natural flowers
In making such models painstaking skill artistry are called for
as well as thorough knowledge of plant structural.
The collection of glass flowers in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University
is the most famous in North America
and is widely known throughout the scientific world.
In all, there are several thousand models in colored glass
the work of two artist--naturalists
Leopold Blaschka and his sone Rudolph.
The intention was to have the collection represent
as least one member of each flower family native to the United States
Although it was never completed
it contains more than seven hundred species
representing 164 families of flowering plant
a group of fruits showing the effect of fungus disease
and thousands of flower parts and exaggerated detail
Every detail of these is accurately reproduced in color and structure
The models are kept in locked cases
as they are too valuable and fragile for classroom use.
15.Which of the following statements about Leopole and Rudolph Blashchka is true?
16.What was the goal of Leopole and Rudolph Blaschka?
17.Which of the following is not included
in the display at the Botanical Museum of Harvard University?
Passage Three Cheating:
The income-tax deadline approaches and some tax-payersthoughts turn to it.
Test time approaches and some students thoughts turn to it.
You want something you cant get by behaving within the rules
and you want it badly enough youll do it regardless of any guilt or deep regreet
and youre willing to run the risk of being caught
Thats how Ladd Wheele
psychology professor at the University of Rochester in New York defines cheating.
Many experts believe cheating is on the rise.
Were suffering a moral breakdown, Pindard says.
Were seeing more of the kind of person
who regards the world as a series of thing to be dealt with.
Whether to cheat depends on whether its in the persons interest.
He does,however,see less cheating among the youngest students.
Richard Dienstbier,psychology professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln,
believes that societys attitudes account for much of the increasing in cheating.
Twenty years ago if a person cheated in college. society said:
That is extremely serious.
you will be dropped for a semester if not kicked out permanently, he says.
Nowadays,at the University of Nebraska,for example,
it is the stated policy of the College of Arts and Sciences
that if a student cheats on an exam
the student must receive an on what he cheated of.
Thats nothing
If youre going to fall in the examination anyway, why not cheat?
Cheating is mostly in situation where the vital interests are high
and the chances of getting caught are low