When Fitzgerald proposed to Zelda, she accepted but later broke it off. Why？

听力原文：M: When does the plane take off?

F: It has been arranged to take off at four fifteen but it's delayed thirty minutes.

•For questions 1-8 you will hear eight short recordings.

•For each question mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.

When does the plane take off?

A．

B．

C．

听力原文：M: When does the plane take off?

F: It has been arranged to take off at four fifteen but it's delayed thirty minutes.

For questions 1--8 you will hear 8 short recordings.

For each question, mark (A, B or C) for the correct answer.

When does the plane take off?

A．4:25

B．4:35

C．4:45

The wood was so rotten that, when we pulled, it ______ into fragments.

A．broke off

B．broke away

C．broke through

D．broke up

When Tom came in, Mary ______ her talk with Jane and talked to Peter.

A．broke off

B．broke down

C．broke away

D．broke in

In Zurich,a leading canton in the Swiss Confederation,it has been proposed to teach one foreign language—English—in primary schools.This would represent a change【C1】______Zurichs elementary school kids now study English and French.Voters will decide whether French will be【C2】______. Some educators believe that two foreign languages are too much for kids.Supporters of one foreign language believe that kids fail to reach strong【C3】______in German, the mother tongue for schoolchildren in Zurich. In fact, Zurich kids speak Swiss German, which is【C4】______an oral language.In school they have to learn standard German, which in some ways is a foreign language.【C5】______you add them all together Zurich kids are learning four languages. All of Switzerland will watch what Zurich voters decide because Zurich is an influential canton and others may【C6】______.Yet some German-speaking cantons have already decided to reject plans to reduce the number of foreign languages. Regardless of what happens, Swiss kids will be fluent in more than one language which is a definite asset in todays【C7】______economy.It is also a definite asset in learning other subjects.Studies【C8】______in American universities have found that kids who study in dual-language schools outperform. their【C9】______who are taught in English only.Apparently, kids educated in two languages develop a mental agility that monolingual kids lack.Perhaps four languages are too many in elementary school,but two is not【C10】______at all.

【C1】

A．which

B．since

C．even if

D．now that

Water, water everywhere. It lasted almost two months, but in August it ended. It left 45 people dead and $10 billion worth of damage in nine states of USA. It was quite a big Mississippi flood ever recorded.

In St. Louis, Missouri, 9,000 people were forced to leave their homes while the city was in danger. St. Louis is just downriver from the points where the Missouri and Illinois Rivers flow into the Mississippi. All three rivers were flooding. But the city escaped the worst when levees (堤) broke upriver. A levee is built of fiver sand and clay (粘土).

Eleven miles of flood walls were built in the late 1960's. The walls are 18 inches thick and 5 to 22 feet high. They were designed to protect against a 52-foot flood. In St. Louis, water almost reached the top of flood wails. It measured 49.4 feet.

The flood referred to in the passage ______.

A．was the heaviest one in the history

B．happened in Missouri and Illinois states

C．happened in less than twenty percent of the states of USA

D．was recorded several times

TEXT B

When former President Ronald Reagan fell and broke his hip two weeks ago, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who fracture their hips each year. At 89 and suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease, Reagan is in one of the highest-risk groups for this type of accident. The incidence of hip fractures not only increases after age 50 but doubles every five to six years as the risk of falling increases. Slipping and tumbling are not the only causes of hip fractures; weakened bones sometimes break spontaneously. But falling is the major cause, representing 90% of all hip fractures. These... ...

17. The following are all specific measures to guard against injuries with the EXCEPTION of

A. removal of throw rugs.

B. easy access to devices

C. installation of grab bars

D. re-arrangement of furniture

Water, water everywhere.

It lasted almost two months, but in August it ended. It left 45 people dead and $10 billion worth of damage in nine states of the US@[A]@It was quite a big Mississippi flood ever recorded.

In St. Louis, Missouri, 9,000 people were forced to leave their homes while the city was in danger. St. Louis is just downriver from the points where the Missouri and Illinois Rivers flow into the Mississippi. All the three rivers were flooding. But the city escaped the worst when levees broke upriver. A levee is built of river sand and clay.

Eleven miles of flood walls were built in the late 1960s. The walls are 18 inches thick and 5 to 22 feet high. They were designed to protect against a 52-foot flood. In St. Louis, water almost reached the top of flood walls. It measured 49.4 feet.

The flood referred to in the passage ______.

A．was the heaviest one in the history

B．happened in Missouri and Illinois states

C．happened in less than 20 percent of the states of the USA

D．was recorded several times