When does the second course begin？A．On July 3.B．On July 20.C．On July 24.D．On August 10.

What is a fee of $27 for?

A．The registration fee.

B．The weekly cost for bed, breakfast and dinner.

C．The fee of the first course.

D．The cost of the tax for the course.

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：R: Good morning. Can I help you?

S: Yes, please. I'd like to have some information about the course at Swan School.

R: Is that a summer course you are interested in? We have a short intensive full time course in summer.

S: Oh? Yes, I'd tike to know the length of one course.

R: Each course lasts for 3 weeks. And it is about 23 hours per week. Usually four and a half days a week.

S: OK. You must have lots of students in the class?

R: We have lots of students in the school, but in the classes only about 12 and 14 students.

S: 12 and 14. Could you give me the dates of the first and second courses?

R: Certainly. The first course begins on July 3 and lasts until July 20 and the second is from July 24 to August 10.

S: What about the fees per course?

R: Each costs $150 plus tax, which is 15% , and a $5 registration fee.

S: Thank you. Do we have to find our accommodation?

R: We can do that for you. We have a lady who arranges it for you with college families.

S: How much does it cost?

R: Well, you can choose to have bed and breakfast only, which is $20 per week, or bed, breakfast and dinner which is about $27 a week.

S: $27 a week. Thanks very much.

R: You are welcome.

What course is the student interested in?

A．A two-month course.

B．A course that lasts for the summer.

C．A course of 23 weeks.

D．A course of four and a half weeks.

In the text we can see that the author bears a/an ______ feeling toward Marilyn Monroe.

A．condemning

B．apathetic

C．sympathetic

D．critical

We can infer from the passage that women who embraced the women's movement had been

A．intellectuals.

B．celebrities.

C．misogynists.

D．underdogs.

The author mentions Norman Mailer's biography in order to

A．point out the nature of biographer's work.

B．indicate a source of male projections.

C．counter Marilyn's view that she was "some kinds of mirror instead of a person".

D．illustrate that Marilyn is extremely popular with biographers.

The author's attitude towards the speculations about Marilyn is

A．understanding.

B．disapproval.

C．support.

D．ambiguity.

t have been doing if (and it is a very big if) she had not met a premature end from an overdose in 1962, at the age of 36. The American writer Joyce Carol Oates, whose recent novel B/on& is a fictionalized version of Marilyn's life, thinks she might have left Hollywood for a successful career in the theatre. The feminist commentator Gloria Steinem, who has also written a book about the actress, imagines her living in the country and running an animal sanctuary. I have to say that these imaginary careers, and many other things that have been suggested about Marilyn in recent years, fall into the category of rescue fantasies. The point about her life is that it went hideously and predictably wrong, with self-destruction always a more likely outcome than a revival of her acting career as an interpreter of Chekhov or an early conversion to the animal rights movement.

This is not to denigrate the woman herself, whose story seems to me genuinely tragic. Hers is a dread/ul catalogue of abandonment, abuse and a desperate re-invention of .the self in terms that successfully courted fame and disaster in just about equal measure. Fragile egos often invited other people's projections and Marilyn came to see herself, in her own words, as "some kind of mirror instead of a person". This is half-perceptive, in that what she actually became in her lifetime was a blank screen on which men could project their fantasies and anyone who wants to understand what kind of fantasies they were has only to look at Norman Mailer's creepy biography, with its drooling images of Marilyn as a vulnerable child, incapable of saying no.

What she is unlikely to have anticipated is that, four decades later, thoughtful women would look at her image and see, perversely, a reflection of themselves. Ms. Steinem has been reported as saying that she thinks Marilyn's experiences might have pushed her into embracing the women's movement. But Marilyn was a male-identified woman, a product of a virulently misogynist culture that was erotically stimulated by the pairing of beauty and brains -- but only as long as women did the beauty while men got to direct movies, write plays and run the country. That Marilyn played this role to perfection, then loathed it and rebelled against its limitations, hardly needs saying.

The author implies at the beginning that

A．Marilyn's tragic death was difficult to avoid.

B．Marilyn could have died earlier than 1962.

C．people are no longer interested in how Marilyn died.

D．Marilyn was to be blamed for her death.

What is the best title for the passage?

A．The Meanings of Different Colors.

B．Colors and Jobs.

C．The Meanings of Black and White.

D．Expressions and Colors.

In the real world there are many gray areas. Here" gray areas" represent

A．one white side and the other black side.

B．one good side and the other bad side.

C．black and white mixture.

D．one right side and the other wrong side.

Black and white has the meaning of ______ in some expressions.

A．good and bad.

B．profit and loss.

C．right and wrong.

D．positive and negative.