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According to Debbie, when he shows films in class, the kids always seem to ______.

A．miss the really important points

B．catch the really important points

C．understand the really important points

D．take in the detailed information

听力原文：His speech was really hitting the main points, wasn't it？

(A) So was his last one.

(B) Yes, he was appointed.

(C) I'm honored to speak to you.

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A．

B．

C．

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W: Really？ I didn't catch them. I must have dozed off for a minute.

Q: What does the woman mean？

(15)

A．She left the lecture for a few minutes.

B．She was reading during the lecture.

C．She may have fallen asleep.

D．She misunderstood the speaker's last points.

e________ says the boys are good, Robert doesn’t think he wants to become a _____________ football player. 3 Mr. Lessing points out that they could________ a lot of money being professional footballers. 4 Robert says that would only happen if they are really, really _________. 5 Tim says he is ________ going to become a professional footballer. 6 Mr Lessing says that a lot of companies need__________.

e the rest of the agenda until our next meeting, shall we？

M: I agree. There's nothing really urgent that we need to tackle today.

Q: What can we infer from the conversation？

(15)

A．The man and woman spent more time than expected on certain points on the agenda.

B．The man and woman have a lot of other things to do.

C．The woman has many meeting today.

D．Nothing on the agenda was important.

A、The speaker firmly stated the objective of becoming a teaching assistant at the beginning of his pitch.

B、The speaker strongly supported his writing ability with achievements that other students may seldom attain.

C、The speaker tactfully used his writing works on his personal homepage as a hook to grab the audience’s attention.

D、The speaker clearly addressed the plans that he would implement if he successfully became the teaching assistant.

Section A (30 points, 2 points each)

Directions: This part is to test your reading ability.There are 3 tasks for you to fulfill. You should read the materials carefully and do the tasks as you are instructed.

Few Americans remain in one position or one place for a lifetime. We move from town to city to suburb, from high school to college in a different state, from a job in one region to a better job elsewhere, from the home where we raise our children to the home where we plan to live in retirement. With each move we are forever making new friends, who become part of our new life at that time.

For many of us summer is a special time for forming new friendships. Today millions of Americans vacation abroad, and they go not only to see new sights but also with the hope of meeting new people. No one really expects a vacation trip to produce a close friend, but the beginning of a friendship is possible.

The word "friend" can be applied to a wide range of relationships — to someone one has known for a few weeks in a new place, to a fellow worker, to a childhood playmate, to a man or woman, to a trusted confidant (知己) .

The reasons why many Americans move from place to place are as follows except ______.

A．saving money

B．getting a better job

C．going to college

D．finding a place to spend the rest of the life

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

Directions: In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

听力原文： Negotiators from China are due to meet their US counterparts in Washington later for talks aimed at ending a dispute over the textiles trade. US manufacturers are concerned the rapid flow of cheap Chinese products into America could drive them out of business. I'm joined now by Tanya B. from New York. Tanya, first of all, what went wrong the last time we had talks between the US and China on textiles？ What are the main sticking points？

Well, the problem really is that the two sides are getting fairly angry with each other. On the one hand China says that you can't do this. This is not in the spirit of free trade globally. On the other hand the US is saying well the quota is expired at the beginning of the year and since then we have seen a surge of Chinese imports and that is disruptive to our markets. So the sticking points are really that the US would like to stick with an agreement to limit the growth of Chinese textile imports.

According to the news, what is the US manufacturers' concern about the Chinese textile imports？

A．Chinese products are better than American's.

B．Chinese products are cheaper than American's.

C．China does not obey the spirit of free trade.

D．Chinese products are more competitive than American's.

. This does not mean that we can sit down today and outline the future course of the universe with anything like certainty. There are still too many things we do not know about the way the universe is put together. But we do know exactly what information we need to fill in our knowledge, and we have a pretty good idea of how to go about getting it.

Perhaps the best way to think of our present situation is to imagine a train coming into a switch yard(调车场). All of the switches are set before the train arrives, so that its path is completely determined. Some Switches we can see, others we cannot. There is no ambiguity (不明确) if we can see the setting of a switch; we can say with confidence that some possible futures will not materialize (实现) and others will. At the unseen switches, however, there is no such certainty. We know the train will take one of the tracks leading out, but we have no idea which one. The unseen switches are the true decision points in the future, and what happens when we arrive at them determines the en tire subsequent course of events.

When we think about the future of the universe, we can see our "track" many billions of years into the future, but after that there are decision points to be dealt with and possible fates to consider. The goal of science is to reduce the ambiguity at the decision points and find the true road that will be followed.

According to the passage, it is difficult to be certain about the distant future of the universe because we ______.

A．have too many conflicting theories

B．do not have enough funding to continue our research

C．are not sure how the universe is put together

D．have focused our investigations on the moon and planets