My father （read) ______ your thesis all the afternoon.

Section A Dialogue Completion

Directions: In this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

Speaker A: I need to make a hotel reservation for my father. Speaker B:______

A．Why does your father want to stay in a hotel？

B．Is your father going abroad？

C．But do you know how to make a reservation？

D．How about calling the travel agency？

Part B

Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.

听力原文：W: First, I'd like you to tell me a bit about your experience.

M: Well, I left school after I'd done my A level.

W: What subjects did you take？

M: French, German and Art.

W: Art？

M: Well, I really wanted to study Art. But a friend of my father's provided me a job-he's an accountant in the city.

W: I see. In your application, you say that you only spent nine months with this firm of accountants. Why was that？

M: Well, honestly, I didn't like it. So I got a place at the Art College a year ago.

W: Did your father mind？

M: Well, he was rather disappointed at first. He's an accountant too, you see.

W: Have you any brothers or sisters？

M: Two brothers, both at school. One's eleven, the other's fifteen—taking his O-levels this year.

W: Right. What do you do in your spare time？

M: I like jazz and folk music; I go to the theater occasionally and act a bit myself. I read quite a lot, and I've done a bit of photography. Also, I've traveled a lot-all over Europe.

W: Very interesting, Mr. Brown. I think that's all I wanted to ask about your background.

Why didn't Mr. Brown continue his study after he finished school？

A．He did not like to study.

B．He had to work to support his family.

C．A friend of his father offered him a job.

D．His father did not like him to study Art.

Read the sentences and choose the correct ones. Brenda has just moved to a new school and has made a new friend, Paula. They are sitting in a snack bar after school talking. Paula asks Brenda," Tell me about your family." Brenda: "My family is a rather small one, with only three people, my father, my mother and me. My father is a doctor. My mother is a teacher. My mother is very patient and understanding while my father is not very patient. He is often quite loud and wants things to happen at once. We love each other very much. Although sometimes we might fight about things we feel strongly about, very soon we will change the subject and discuss something else. We're a happy family. How about you？ Paula: "I have a big family with seven people, my grandparents, parents, two older brothers and me. We all live together in a big house. It is often very noisy in our house, especially at dinner time. Grandfather has a loud voice. But it is nice having my grandparents living with us. That means that when I come home from school there is always somebody there for me. We take care of one another, share housework, and often communicate all together. My brothers help me with problems I have with homework and I help them with problems they have with girls."

A、Brenda's father is patient.

B、Brenda is patient.

C、Brenda's mother is a patient.

D、Brenda's mother is patient.

Part B

Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.

听力原文：W: First, I'd like you to tell me a bit about your experience.

M: Well, I left school after I'd done my A-level.

W: What subjects did you take？

M: French, German and Art.

W: Art？

M: Well, I really wanted to study Art. But a friend of my father's provided me a job — he's an accountant in the city.

W: I see. In your application, you say that you only spent nine months with this firm of accountants. Why was that？

M: Well, honestly, I didn't like it — so I got a place at the Art College a year ago.

W: Did your father mind？

M: Well, he was rather disappointed at first. He's an accountant too, you see.

W: Have you any brothers or sisters？

M: Two brothers, both at school. One's eleven, the other's fifteen — taking his O-levels this year.

W: Right. What do you do in your spare time？

M: I like jazz and folk music; I go to the theater occasionally and act a bit myself. I read quite a lot, and I've done a bit of photography. Also, I've travelled a lot — all over Europe.

W: Very interesting, Mr. Brown. I think that's all I wanted to ask about your background.

Why didn't Mr. Brown continue his study after he finished school？

A．He did not like to study.

B．He had to work to support his family.

C．A friend of his father' s offered him a job.

D．His father did not like him to study Art.

SECTION A CONVERSATIONS

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

听力原文：Daniel: You mentioned your mother as Momma. I' ve read that your mom was a very strong influence？

Marianne: Yes, my mother was the total influence.

Daniel: What about your father then？ What kind of a man is he？

Marianne: My father was fine, but he had another line. He was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

Daniel: Your mother must have been a strong woman？

Marianne: That's right. That's what it was in those days. Momma would wash his feet and do things like that. He was great in his own right, just not much of a family man. People have their reasons for doing things, it hurt not having a father at home, but I didn’t know it at the time.

Daniel: Your mother raised you on her own.

Marianne: My mother was like the pope. My mother was a great influence on me. Any talent that I have -- anything that I have -- comes straight from her. She was just loving to all people. Not only me. I remember when she was in the hospital and quite sick she had every medal imaginable on her. She’s say, "I don’t want to take any chances. "She was an amazing influence on me.

Daniel: Can one get over the death of a parent then.."

Marianne: I call them pathfinders because they lead the path for you. Death can’t be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

What does the woman mean by say that her mother was like the pope？

A．Her mother was condescending to him.

B．Her mother was a great authority to him.

C．Her mother’s influence was overwhelming to him.

D．Her mother cared so much about his father.

Part B

Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.

听力原文：W: First, I'd like you to tell me a bit about your experience.

M: Well, I left school after I'd done my A level.

W: What subjects did you take？

M: French, German and Art.

W: Art？

M: Well, I really wanted to study Art. But a Mend of my father's provided me a job-he's an accountant in the city.

W: I see. In your application, you say that you only spent nine months with this firm of accountants. Why was that？

M: Well, honestly, I didn't like it. So I got a place at the Art College a year ago.

W: Did your father mind？

M: Well, he was rather disappointed at first. He's an accountant too, you see.

W: Have you any brothers or sisters？

M: Two brothers, both at school. One's eleven, the other's fifteen—taking his O-levels this year.

W: Right. What do you do in your spare time？

M: I like jazz and folk music; I go to the theater occasionally and act a bit myself. I read quite a lot, and I've done a bit of photography. Also, I've traveled a lot-all over Europe.

W: Very interesting, Mr. Brown. I think that's all I wanted to ask about your background.

Why didn't Mr. Brown continue his study after he finished school？

A．He did not like to study.

B．He had to work to support his family.

C．A friend of his father offered him a job.

D．His father did not like him to study Art.

W: Well, when I was twenty, still at college, I was asked to write a weekly column for a local paper. The paper had wanted me to write about famous people, you know, their wonderful lifestyles, the sort of thing people like to read about. Instead, what I did was to concentrate on people who the general public didn't know, but who had something original to say.

M: And you got away with it! Now at that early stage, your family was important. How far did they influence your career choice？

W: My father was a film producer, and my childhood was spent around international actors and directors, so with such influences, I should have become an actress—something my father would have loved. But no, I chose to be a journalist in spite of the wishes of my family. I think the biggest influence was my school, not so much the people but the materials it gave me access to… the hours and hours spent in the library.

M: From being a journalist, you then went on to become an editor. I understand the first magazine you edited, Female Focus, wasn't much of a success？

W: Well, I was the editor for a year, and then I resigned, mainly because of disagreements with the owners. They were reluctant to change things, because they had faith it would eventually make a profit. But when you think of it, the magazine had been losing millions of pounds a year before I became its editor. When I left, it was still losing money but nothing like as much as previously. Also, when I took over, it was selling around 650,000 copies. That soon increased to 800,000, so it was certainly an improvement.

M: And now you are editing Woman's World, and you've made it the best selling women's magazine ever. How do you make people want to read it？

W: For some of my competitors, the most important point is what you put on the cover of your magazine. But they forget faithful readers look beyond that. The real challenge is, how do you encourage a reader to read a serious piece？ How are we going to make it an article that people want to read？ You have to get their attention. And nothing does that better than a very lively, even shocking, opening line.

M: It is said that you work very hard because you don't trust your employees.

W: That was the case five years ago, when I was appointed. It almost drove me mad. I knew I had the right idea, for example, but I wasn't able to get it done because I didn't have the brilliant writers I have now, or the right staff to read all the material when it came in. I had to read everything about six times, and that was awful! It took me four years to put together the team I wanted, and it would be very unfair to say I don't trust them.

M: Do you sometimes worry that you might lose your fame and wealth？

W: Yes, when you work as an editor, you are praised today and criticized tomorrow. Of course it would be difficult to live without all the… well… material comforts Vm used to, but a smaller income is something I think I could cope with. It wouldn't be the end of the world. Much more serious it would be if the people I work with no longer admired my work, and most of all I want it to stay that way.

M: Tina, thank you very much for joining us today.

Questions:

11. What was Tina asked to do at college？

12.What did Tina's father do？

13.What did Tina choose to be at first？

14.Why did Tina resign when she edited her first magazine, Female Focus？

15.Which statement is NOT true about Tina five years ago？

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A．To concentrate on people who the general public didn't know.

B．To focus on people who had something original to say.

C．To write about the lifestyles of local people.

D．To write a weekly column for a local paper.

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.

听力原文：M: How did your parents like the performance they attended at the Opera House the day before yesterday？

W: My mother was moved to tears, but my father thought the actress who played Madame Butterfly really needs to improve her acting skills.

Q: What did the woman's parents think about the performance？

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A．Neither of her parents liked it.

B．Both her parents liked it.

C．One of them liked it, but the other didn't.

D．The mother didn't like it because it wasn't in Chinese.

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.

听力原文：W: I suppose you have bought some gifts for your family.

M: Well, I have bought a pair of shoes for my father, and a coat for my mother. But I haven't decided what to buy for my brother. Probably a basketball.

Q: What did the man buy for his brother？

(1)

A．Basketball.

B．A pair of shoes.

C．A coat.

D．He hadn't decided yet.