[00:02.69]1. A: What do you think of his experiment?
[00:07.94]B: He has done well considering he has no experience.
[00:12.98]Q: Why does he think he has done well?
[00:18.21]2. M:Did you enjoy the dinner party?
[00:22.75]W: No,and if we're ever invited there again,
[00:27.30]I shall refuse to sit next to Jim Smith.
[00:32.26]Q: Why didn't the woman enjoy the dinner party?
[00:38.40]3. W: What's the matter with Mary.
[00:42.87]Why did she leave the examination half-way?
[00:47.52]M: She said she had not been well prepared.
[00:52.17]Q: Why did she fail in the examination?
[00:57.52]4. W: Why don't you give up smoking.
[01:02.07]It's such a bad example for the children.
[01:06.61]M: It's one of the real pleasure in my life. That's why.
[01:11.68]Q: Why does the woman want the man to give up smoking?
[01:18.03]5. M: Are you going to the cinema with me this afternoon?
[01:23.49]W: No.I'm afraid I can't.
[01:27.22]I have to go to the library and get some reference books about American history.
[01:33.99]Q: Why can't the woman go to the cinema?
[01:39.94]6. W: Would you like to go to the concert with me on Thursday evening?
[01:46.40]M: I would enjoy that very much if I didn't have to take an exam on Friday.
[01:53.24]Q: Why didn't the man accept the invitation?
[01:58.78]7. M: Well,I thought you were working for a large business machine company.
[02:05.81]W: I did for a few months.
[02:09.44]but I decided that accounting wasn't what I liked best.
[02:14.50]Q: Why did she want to change her job?
[02:20.54]8: W: Did you remember to bring the pen which I lent you?
[02:26.29]M: I'm sorry. It completely slipped my mind.
[02:30.94]I promise I'll bring it at the same time tomorrow.
[02:36.19]Q: Why did the man apologize to the woman?
[02:41.54]9. M: Why don't you want to dance tonight?
[02:46.58]W: I'd love to,but I got my leg hurt while high jumping.
[02:52.04]Q: Why doesn't the woman want to dance?
[02:57.68]10. M: Have you decided where you are going to live when you get married?
[03:04.35]W: I would like to live in the city.
[03:08.00]but my boyfriend wants a house in the suburb.
[03:12.86]which means a long way from my office.
[03:17.41]Q: Why does the woman want to live in the city?
[03:23.44]Section B Passage One
[03:27.88]Some of the notebooks George Washington kept as a young man are still in existence.
[03:34.62]They show that he was learning Latin.
[03:38.75]was very interested in the basics of good behavior in society
[03:44.78]and was reading English literature.
[03:48.94]At school,he seemed only to have been interested in mathematic.
[03:54.50]In fact his formal education was surprisingly brief for a gentlemen and incomplete.
[04:02.16]For unlike other young Virginian gentleman of that day.
[04:07.80]he did not go to the College of William and Mary in the Virginian capital of Williamsburg.
[04:15.74]In terms of formal training them
[04:19.87]Washington contrasts sharply
[04:23.73]with some other early American Presidents such as John Adam
[04:30.08]Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
[04:34.52]In later years,Washington probably regretted his lack of intellectual training.
[04:41.55]He never felt comfortable in a debate in Congress
[04:45.99]or on any subject that had not to do with everyday practical matter
[04:53.15]And because he never learned French
[04:57.20]and could not speak directly to the French leaders
[05:01.74]he did not visit the country he admired so much.
[05:06.99]Thus,unlike Jefferson and Adams,he never reached Europe.
[05:13.26]11. What reason does the author give for Washington not going to college?
[05:20.21]12. Why did Washington feel uncomportable in Congress debates?
[05:27.05]13. What is the reason why Washington didn't visit France?
[05:33.71]Passage Two
[05:36.67]The dog,called Prince,was an intelligent animal and a slave to William.
[05:43.30]From morning till night, when Williams was at home.
[05:47.74]Prince never left his sight practically ignoring all other members of the family.
[05:55.08]The dog had a number of clearly defined duties
[06:00.05]for which Williams had patiently trained him
[06:04.30]and,like the good pupil he was.
[06:08.54]Prince lived for the chance to demonstrate his abilities
[06:13.47]When williams wanted to put on his boot,
[06:17.73]he would murmur "boots," and within seconds,
[06:22.28]the dog would drop them at his feet.
[06:28.83]At nice every morning
[06:32.28]Prince ran off to the general store in the village
[06:36.93]returning shortly not only with Williams' daily paper
[06:42.39]but with a half-ounce packet of Williams' favourite tobacco.
[06:47.85] John rhiney's Mixed. A gun-dog by breech.
[06:53.28]Prince possessed a large soft mouth specially evolved for the saft carrying of hunted creature
[07:00.73]so the paper and the tobacco came to no har
[07:05.17]never even showing a tooth mark.
[07:09.11]Williams was a railway man,an engine driver,
[07:13.76]and he wore a blue uniform which smelled of oil fuel.
[07:18.80]He had to work at odd times-"days" "late days" or "nights"
[07:25.26]Over the years,
[07:28.21]Prince got to know these periods of work and rest and knew when his master would leave the house and return.
[07:36.25]and the dog did not waste this knowledge.
[07:40.51]If Williams overslept as he often die
[07:45.27] Prince barked at the bedroom door until he woke
[07:49.92]much to the annoyance of the family.
[07:53.97]Oh his return,Williams' slippers were brought to him,
[07:58.93]the paper and tobacco too if previously undelivered.
[08:04.39]A curious thing happened to Williams during the snow and ice of last winter.
[08:10.32]One evening
[08:13.17]he slipped and fell on the ice pavement somewhere between the village and his home.
[08:19.80]He was so badly shaken that he stayed in bed for three days
[08:25.65]and not until he got up and dressed again
[08:30.22]did he discover that he had lost his wallet containing over fifty pound
[08:36.47]The house was turned upside down in the search
[08:40.91]but the wallet was not found
[08:44.64]However,two days later - that was five days after the fade
[08:50.21]pince dropped into williams' hand the wallet:very muddy,stained and wet,
[08:57.34]though the little case still contained fifty-three pound
[09:02.77]Williams' driving license and a few other paper
[09:08.23]Where the dog had found it no one could tell
[09:12.78]but found that he had recognized it probably by the faint oily smell on the worn leather.
[09:20.04]14. What does the passage tell us about gun-dogs?
[09:26.78]15. Which of the following is true?
[09:31.64]16. Why did the dog think it was Williams' wallet?
[09:37.99]Passage Three
[09:40.94]Brenda Linson never goes anywhere without an empty spectacles casa .
[09:47.21]It is as vital to her as her purse. Yet,she doesn't wear glasses.
[09:54.05]The reason she can't do without it is that she can't read and she can't write.
[10:00.89]If ever she gets into any situation
[10:05.86]where she might be expected to do either of these things
[10:11.00]she fishes around in her bag for the spectacles casa
[10:16.46]finds it's empty and asks the person concerned to do the reading for her.
[10:23.20]Until a few months ago hardly anybody knew about her problem.
[10:29.13]Her husband didn't know and her children didn't know.
[10:34.38]The children still don't.
[10:38.15]She had any number of tactics for hiding her difficulty for example
[10:44.39]never lingering near a phone at work.
[10:48.54]in case she had to answer it and might be required to write something down.
[10:54.71]It has never occurred to the children that their mother cannot read.
[11:00.45]She doesn't read them stories
[11:03.90]but then their father doesn't either
[11:07.87]so they find nothing surprising in the fact.
[11:12.00] Similarly they just accept that Dad is the one who writes the sick notes and reads the school report
[11:20.15]Now that the elder boy Tom is quite a proficient reader.
[11:25.69]Brenda can skillfully get him to read any notes brought home form school simply by asking
[11:33.55]"What's that all about, then?"
[11:36.89]Brenda's husband never guessed the truth in ten years of marriage.
[11:42.46]For one thing
[11:45.20]he insists on handling all domestic correspondence and bills himself.
[11:51.97]A salesman for a large company
[11:56.02]he travels a great deal and so is not around so much to spot the truth.
[12:02.55]While he's away,Brenda copes with any situations by explaining that she can't do anything
[12:10.28]until she's discussed it with her husband.
[12:14.15]Brenda was very successful in her job until recently.
[12:19.29]For the last five years
[12:22.74]she had worked as a waitress at an expensive restaurant
[12:27.81]and had eventually been promoted to head waitress.
[12:32.85]She kept the thing a secret there too
[12:37.00]and got over the practical difficulties somehow |