What's the common picture of Hongkong in your mind？

听力原文：M: What's the charge of a single room with a bathroom in your hotel?

W: ＄25.50, including breakfast.

M: That's with a bathroom, isn't it?

W: Yes, and all the rooms have color television and complimentary fruit, but you have to order a morning paper, I'm afraid.

Which of the following is not included in the hotel services?

A．Color television.

B．A private bathroom.

C．A morning paper.

D．Complimentary fruit.

A、-- Our company is a private enterprise.

B、-- Our company is very large.

C、-- Our company was established in 1983.

D、-- Our company had two factories throughout South China.

Although there is no cure for the common cold, doctors believe that vitamins can help prevent them. Many doctors recommend vitamin C to prevent colds, and some doctors suggest that you take large amounts when you begin to get colds symptoms. Yet it is not really known whether vitamin C is truly helpful.

When you have a cold, you should also try to protect other people. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Put all your used tissues in a paper bag, and throw away the bag yourself so that no one else will have to touch it. Wash all objects that you touch with very hot water before anyone else uses them.

What advice do doctors give about vitamin C?

Doctors recommend vitamin C to ______.

Trees are so common arid quiet that we pay them little mind. What, for instance, should we answer when asked to name the biggest living thing Earth has ever seen? Dinosaurs? Blue whales? No, the largest sequoias in northern California weigh more than six blue whales. The tallest redwoods and Australian eucalyptus trees tower more than 300 feet high, three times the length of the greatest dinosaur.【71】Some bristlecone pine trees in the American West are more than 4, 000 years old, seedlings at the time the Egyptians were building the Pyramids. Trees sustain our lives and our planet in a thousand practical ways. This morning at breakfast—in your wood-framed house, on your wooden kitchen table—you might have enjoyed orange juice or a grapefruit. Both come to use from trees. Over your French toast you may have sprinkled cinnamon and nutmeg, the powdered bark and nuts of tropical trees. That quart of maple syrup on your table was boiled down from roughly 10 gallons of sap from a sugar-maple tree.【72】Do you like chocolate, almonds, cola beverages.'? Cocoa beans, almonds and kola nuts are tree products. Frees do more than mule life pleasant; they make life possible. Trees get water through their roots and, primarily through their leaves, they draw carbon dioxide from the air. Then, with the action of sunlight on cells containing chlorophyll and other materials, chemical reactions occur, and oxygen is released.【73】Photosynthesis also produces glucose, a type of sugar. Trees convert some of the glucose to starch, which they use for energy storage. The cellulose fiber we call wood is made of thousands of glucose molecules linked into giant chains that no longer taste sweet.【74】The ancient Greeks, for example, treated pain with a tea made by boiling willow leaves and bark, a tea modern scientists now know contains silicon, a precursor of acetylsalicylic acid—aspirin.【75】More recently, researchers isolated and synthesized the chemical ginkgolide from the tree for use in treating asthma, toxic shock and other ills.

A. For centuries, the Chinese have derived medicines from the ginkgo tree.

B. Through photosynthesis, an acre of trees produces enough oxygen to sustain three humans.

C. As scientists unlock the secrets of trees, they uncover surprising tacts.

D. Trees have always been green machines, producing substances that humans learned to use.

E. You think, at 150 or more years, giant tortoises can live a long time?

F. And the morning newspaper was printed on the processed wood pulp we call paper.

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The Importance of Just Being There

"What's the most important thing you've done in your life?" The question was put to me during a presentation I gave to a group of young lawyers.

The answer came to mc in an instant. It's not the one I gave, because the setting wasn't right. As a lawyer in the entertainment industry, I knew the audience wanted to hear some amusing stories about my work with well-known persons. But here's the true answer, the one that leapt from the bottom of my memory.

My real experience

The most important thing I've ever done occurred on October 8, 1990. It was my mother's 65th birthday, and I was back home for a family celebration. I began the day playing tennis with a secondary-school friend I hadn't seen for a while. During the breaks, we talked about what had been happening in each other' s lives. He and his wife had just had a baby boy, who was keeping them up at night.

What happened to the baby boy of my friend's?

While we were playing, a car came screaming up the road toward the courts. It was my friend's father, who shouted to my friend that his baby had stopped breathing and was being rushed to the hospital. In a flash 'my friend was in the car and gone, disappearing in a cloud of dust. Why did I hesitate?

For a moment I just stood there, too shocked to think of anything to do. Then I tried to figure out what I should do. Follow my friend to the hospital? There was nothing I could accomplish there, I convinced myself. My friend' s son was in the care of doctors and nurses, and nothing I could do or say would affect the outcome. Be there for moral support? Well, maybe. But my friend and his wife both had large families, and I knew they'd be surrounded by relatives who would provide more than enough comfort and support, whatever happened. All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was to get in the way. Also, I had planned a full day with my family, who were waiting for me to get home. So I decided to head back to my parents' house and check in with my friend later.

What caused my final decision?

As I started my rental car, I realized that my friend had left his truck and keys at the courts. I now faced another problem. I couldn't leave the keys in the truck. But if I locked the truck and took the keys, what would I do with them? I could leave them at his house, but with no paper on me to leave a note, how would he know I had done that? Reluctantly I decided to drive by the hospital and give him the keys.

What was the unexpected effect?

When I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting. As I had thought, the room was filled with family members silently watching my friend comfort his wife. t slipped in and stood by the door, trying to decide what to do next. Soon a doctor appeared. He approached my friend and his wife, and in a quiet voice told them that their son had died, the victim of sudden infant death syndrome (综合症).

For what seemed an eternity the two held each other and cried, unaware of the rest of us standing around in pained, astonished silence. After they had calmed themselves, the doctor suggested they might want to spend a few moments with their son.

My friend and his wife stood up and walked numbly (麻木地) past their family. When they reached the door, my friend' s wife saw me standing in the corner. She came over and hugged me and started to cry. My friend hugged mc, too, and mid, "Thanks for being here."

For the rest of that morning, I sat in the emergency room of that hospital and watched my friend and his wife hold the body of their infant son, and say good-bye.

An unintentional deed, instructive lessons

It's the most important thing I have ever done.

The experience taught me three lessons.

First: The most important thing I've ever done ha

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The Importance of Just Being There

"What's the most important thing you've done in your life.'?" The question was put to me during a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers.

The answer came to me in an instant. It's not the one I gave, because the setting wasn't right. As a lawyer in the entertainment industry, I knew the audience wanted to hear some amusing stories about my work with well known persons. But here's the true answer, the one that leapt from the recesses of memory.

The most important thing I've ever done occurred on October 8, 1990. It was my mother's 65th birthday, and I was back home for a family celebration. I began the day playing tennis with a secondary -school friend I hadn't seen for a while. Between points we talked about what had been happening in each other's lives. He and his wife had just had a baby boy, who was keeping them up at night.

While we were playing, a car came screaming up the road toward the courts. It was my friend's father, who shouted to my buddy that his baby had stopped breathing and was being rushed to the hospital. In a flash my friend was in the car and gone, disappearing in a cloud of dust.

For a moment I just stood there, paralyzed. Then I tried to figure out what I should do. Follow my friend to the hospital? There was nothing I could accomplish there, I convinced myself. My friend's son was in the care of doctors and nurses, and nothing I could do or say would affect tile outcome. Be there for moral support? Well, maybe. But my friend and his wife both }tad large families, and I knew they'd be surrounded by relatives who would provide more than enough comfort and support, whatever happened. All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was get in the way. Also, I had planned a full day with my family, who were waiting for me to get home. So I decided to head back to my folks' house and check in with my friend later.

As I started my rental car, I realized that my friend had left his truck and keys at the courts. I now faced another problem. I couldn't leave the keys in the truck. But if I locked the truck and took the keys, what would I do with them? I could leave them at his house, but with no paper on me to leave a note, how would he know I bad done that? Reluctantly I decided to swing by the hospital and give him the keys.

When I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting. As I had thought, the room was filled with family members silently watching my friend comfort his wife. I slipped in and stood by the door, trying to decide what to do next. Soon a doctor appeared. He approached my friend and his wife, and in a quiet voice told them that their son had died, the victim of sudden infant death syndrome.

For what seemed an eternity the two held each other and cried, unaware of the rest of us standing around in pained, stunned silence. After they had calmed themselves, the doctor suggested they might want to spend a few moments with their son.

My friend and his wife stood up and walked numbly past their family. When they reached the door, my friend's wife saw my standing in the corner. She came over and hugged me and started to cry. My friend hugged me, too, and said, "Thanks for being here. '

For the rest of that morning, I sat in the emergency room of that hospital and watched my friend and his wife hold the body of their infant son, and say good - bye.

It's the most important thing I have ever done.

The experience taught me three lessons.

First: The most important thing I've ever done happened when I was completely helpless. None of the things I had learned in university, in three years of law school or in six years of legal practice were of any use in that situation. Something terrible was happening to people I cared about, and I was powerless to chang

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B．N

C．NG

听力原文：W: What's the first thing you are going to do, Charles, when you take over your father's business?

M: Pay more attention to market research--find out who needs our goods and why, and then advertise what we can offer.

Q: According to the conversation, which of the following statements is true?

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A．The woman expects the man to make an important decision.

B．The man's father is a very successful banker.

C．They are both making a future plan.

D．The man is not going to succeed in his father's business.