— Congratulations! You won second prize in the singing competition. — _________________

听力原文：I won the first prize in the speech contest．

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A．Congratulations.

B．Thank you.

C．Certainly.

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

A: Did you hear that I won first prize in the talent show? B: ______.

A．Never heard of it.

B．What talent have you got?

C．So you did enter. Congratulations!

D．I didn't show up.

One of the most popular persons in Hong Kong and Taiwan is Li Ming, a star of singing, films and TV plays. He is best known for the songs "Meeting You in the Rain", "Close to You", "Will You Come Tonight" and "My Feeling". The TV series "On the Edge", in which he plays the hero, turned his name into a house-hold one in China not long ago.

Li Ming was born in Beijing in 1966 and settled down in Hong Kong with his family in 1970. He once studied in England. Soon after he came back to Hong Kong, he began his singing career(生涯). Li Ming has been successful in the field of singing. He won the prize of the Best New Singers in Hong Kong and has toured Asia and America including Singapore, Malaysia, USA, and Canada. He is called one of the four "God Appointed Stars" in Hong Kong. Apart from singing, he has played in films and TV plays.

Which of the following made Li Ming become a house-hold star in China? ______.

A．Meeting You in the Rain

B．On the Edge

C．Will You Come Tonight

D．Close to You

—You wont believe what Jake did last night! He moved his bed by himself. —You are kidding. He______that. He could have broken his back.

A．wouldn"t have done

B．mustn"t have done

C．needn"t have done

D．shouldn"t have done

I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice, It is, of course, very exciting to have such an important【C1】______of my work. but the real pleasure was in the work itself.

Scientific research is like an exploraion of a voyage of discovery. You are【C2】______trying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead【C3】______and you have to try something different, but sometimes an experment does【C4】______and tells you something new and that it is really exciting,【C5】______small the new finding may be. it is great to think “I am the only person who knows this” and then you will have the fun of thinking what this finding will【C6】______and of deciding what will be the【C7】______experiment.

One of the best things about scientific research is that you are always doing something different and it is, never【C8】______.There are good times when things go well and bad times when they【C9】______ . Some people get discouraged at the difficult times. but when I have a failure my policy has always been not to worry but to start planning the next experiment,【C10】______is always fun.

【C1】

A．recognition

B．acknowledgement

C．realization

D．assessment

I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice, It is, of course, very exciting to have such an important【C1】______of my work. but the real pleasure was in the work itself.

Scientific research is like an exploraion of a voyage of discovery. You are【C2】______trying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead【C3】______and you have to try something different, but sometimes an experment does【C4】______and tells you something new and that it is really exciting,【C5】______small the new finding may be. it is great to think “I am the only person who knows this” and then you will have the fun of thinking what this finding will【C6】______and of deciding what will be the【C7】______experiment.

One of the best things about scientific research is that you are always doing something different and it is, never【C8】______.There are good times when things go well and bad times when they【C9】______ . Some people get discouraged at the difficult times. but when I have a failure my policy has always been not to worry but to start planning the next experiment,【C10】______is always fun.

【C1】

A．recognition

B．acknowledgement

C．realization

D．assessment

听力原文：W: Do you know that Michel Owen had won the France Football Golden Ball Prize?

M: No surprise, he had twenty goals in this season.

What are the two speakers talking about?

A．A football player.

B．A football team.

C．A football match.

The sentence that "your money was so old" in the second paragraph means______

A．you have an old pound note

B．your money was useless

C．you have a lot of money

D．you inherited a fortune from your ancestors______

A．to me

B．in them

C．for you

D．about us

In the second paragraph, "excitement will make it beat a little faster" here "it" refers to

[ A] this beautiful sight

[ B ] you

[C]your heart

[D]New York City