Trying too hard to succeed increases ______.

using technical terminology you have never heard before. Which of the following expressions do you think is INAPPROPRIATE to help you in the situation？

A、Excuse me, could you explain the technical terms you’ve just used？

B、If I might interrupt for a moment, it’s just that I couldn’t understand the technical terms you’ve used.

C、I’ afraid that would be too late for me to understand you if I don’t know the technical terms.

D、What you are talking about is really difficult for me to understand.

听力原文：M: Well, Larry has certainly made a mess of that paint job.

W: Don't be too hard on him. He was only trying to help.

Q: What does the woman say about Larry？

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A．He was the only. person who helped.

B．He finds it difficult to change jobs.

C．He shouldn't have helped.

D．His intention was good.

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

The thirty-second day out of Bombay began inauspiciously. In the morning a sea smashed one of the galley doors. We dashed in through lots of steam and found the cook very wet and indignant with the ship: "She's getting worse every day. She's trying to drown me in front of my own stove!" He was very angry. We pacified him, and the carpenter, though washed away twice from there, managed to repair the door. Through that accident our dinner was not ready till late, but it didn't matter in the end because Knowles, who went to fetch it, got knocked down by a sea and the dinner went over the side. The ship's captain, looking more hard and thin-lipped than ever, would not notice that the ship, asked to do too much, appeared to lose heart altogether for the first time since we knew her.

Night-shift workers often find it difficult to sleep in the morning because _________.

A．their internal clock will not allow them to

B．they are often disturbed by morning visits

C．they are not trying hard enough to do so

D．they are too tired to go to sleep well

In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a competition she won last yes.

As a writer I know about winning contest, and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip from the publisher. I also know the pressures of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again？ That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and dashed hopes can surface.

What do we learn from the first paragraph？

A) Children do find lots of fun in many mindless activities.

B) Rebecca is much too occupied to enjoy her leisure time.

C) Rebecca draws on a lot of online materials for her writing.

D) A lot of distractions compete for children’s time nowadays.

k. But the problem comes when they go abroad on holidays and find they cannot communicate. How do they ask the way, order a cup of coffee, or ask the price of something？

Keith Chiwick thinks he has the answer to this problem. " I have got a machine which talks in different languages. I feel that I could go to any country in the world and converse with any foreigner," he says. Keith is an inventor. His invention is an electronic machine which produces phrases in four different languages, French, German, Italian and English. Unlike the phrase books, this machine has a voice. It looks like a cassette recorder.

Imagine you want to say, "What time is the next train for Munich？" in German. First, you find the right card for that question. Each card has four strips of tape on it, one for each language. The cards are small, seven by nine centimeters, and each one can store up to two hundred and forty words. You run a pickup head along the tape and— hey presto! —A voice comes out of the amplifier, asking the question. The person at the information desk may get a surprise, but you will get your answer'

Keith hopes that an electronics company will buy his idea and develop it commercially to sell it to tourists. Meanwhile, he' s working on more new ideas. "It' s just a hobby for me. Some people like playing golf or bingo, but I like making new things" , he said.

Why do some people give up trying to learn a foreign language？

A．Because they can use Keith' s machine now.

B．Because it is like hard work.

C．Because they have difficulties to go abroad.

D．Because they cannot communicate with foreigners.

A、He enjoyed trying on more jeans before buying one.

B、He wanted to kill time.

C、It was hard to make a decision because of too many options.

D、He wanted to know more about jeans.

Night-shift workers often find it difficult to sleep in the morning because ______．

A．their internal clock will not allow them to

B．they are often disturbed by morning visits

C．they are not trying hard enough to do so

D．they are too tired to go to sleep well

A．She's on a committee.

B．She's been working late.

C．She exercises too much.

D．She's trying to account for the report.