Question 11 Gourmet and Company has the following information: Current market value = $250

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

听力原文： A lot of people in the United States are coffee drinkers. Over the last few years, a trend has been developing to introduce premium, specially blended coffees--known as "gourmet coffees"--into the American market.

Boston seems to have been the birthplace of this trend. In fact, major gourmet coffee merchants from other cities like Seattle and San Francisco came to Boston, where today they' re engaged in a kind of "coffee war" with Boston' s merchants. They are all competing for a significant share of the gourmet coffee market.

Surprisingly, the competition among these leading gourmet coffee businesses will not hurt any of them. Experts predict that the gourmet coffee market in the United States is growing and will continue to grow, to the point that gourmet coffee will soon capture half of what is now a 1.5-million-dollar market and will be an 8-millinn-dollar market. Studies have shown that coffee drinkers who convert to gourmet coffee seldom go back to the regular brands found in supermarkets. As a result, these brands will be the real losers in the gourmet coffee competition.

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A．The coffee market in Boston.

B．The role of supermarkets in the coffee business.

C．A new trend in the United States.

D．The advertising of a new product.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

听力原文： A lot of people in the United States are coffee drinkers. Over the last few years, a trend has been developing to introduce premium specially blended coffees known as gourmet coffees into the America market. Boston seems to have been the birthplace of this trend. In fact major gourmet coffee merchants from other cities like Seattle, San Francisco, came to Boston where today they are engaged in a kind of coffee war with Boston's merchants. They are all competing for a significant share of the gourmet coffee market. Surprisingly the competition among these leading gourmet coffee businesses will not hurt any of them. Experts predict that the gourmet coffee market in the United States is growing and will continue to grow to the point that gourmet coffee will soon capture a half of what is now a 1.5 million-dollar market and will be an eight million dollar market soon. Studies have shown that coffee drinkers who convert to gourmet coffee seldom go back to the regular brands found in supermarkets. As a result these brands will be the real losers in the gourmet coffee competition.

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A．The coffee market in Boston.

B．The role of supermarkets in the coffee business.

C．A new trend in the United Stales.

D．The advertising of a new product.

A.不过

B.却

C.反而

D.倒是

A．Lung cancer

B．High blood pressure

C．IDS

D．High fever

A、Stay in the house and wait for help.

B、Turn off all the lights in the house.

C、Shout for help from the window.

D、Go out and inform the gas station.

A．Watch a comedy

B．Go and see the dance

C．ook the tickets online

D．See a film with the man

A grammar question for you [Yeah!]. Think back on the Jon Stewart speech from the previous session (6.1). There are quite some "they"’s and "their"’s in the following part of the speech. Whom do the red "they" and "their" refer to？

A、9/11 first responders

B、Congressmen

C、/

D、/

A.00

B.01

C.10

D.11