Kuai zhi （脍炙) is a way of cooking meat.

Visitor: Thank you very much for meeting me at the airport. Host: My pleasure.______.

A．Are you well?

B．Have you got anything to declare?

C．How was your flight?

D．May I order you a drink?

听力原文：M: Hi, Lynn. I saw you at registration yesterday. I sailed right through, but you were standing in a long line.

W: Yeah. I waited for an hour to sign up for a distance-learning course.

M: Distance learning? Never heard of it.

W: Well, It's new this semester. It's only open to psychology majors. But I bet it'll catch on elsewhere. Yesterday, over a hundred students signed up.

M: Well, what is it?

W: It's an experimental course. I registered for child psychology. All I have got to do is watch a twelve-week series of televised lessons. The department shows them seven different times a day and in seven different locations.

M: Don't you ever have to meet with the professor?

W: Yeah. After each part of the series I have to talk to her and the other students on the phone, you know, about our ideas. Then we'll meet on campus three times for reviews and exams.

M: It sounds pretty non-traditional to me. But I guess it makes sense, considering how many students have jobs. It must really help with their schedules, not to mention how it will cut down on traffic.

W: You know, last year my department did a survey and found out that 80 percent of all psychology majors were employed. That's why they came up with the program.

M: The only thing is: doesn't it seem impersonal though? I mean, I miss having class discussions and hearing what other people think.

W: Well, I guess that's why phone contact's important. Anyway, it's an experiment. Maybe I'll end up hating it.

M: Maybe. But I'll be curious to see how it works up.

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

23. How is the distance-learning course different from traditional courses?

24. What is the major advantage of the distance-learning course according to the man?

25. What is the disadvantage of distance learning?

(20)

A．Students receive credit for work experience.

B．The professor videotapes class lectures for review.

C．Classes are held at various locations throughout the area.

D．Students are not required to attend regular class lectures.

A young man named John received a parrot (鹦鹉) as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of this bird’s mouth was rude. John tried every method to change the bird’s attitude by constantly saying polite words, playing soft music, and anything he could think of to set a good example. Nothing worked. Finally, John got fed up and he shouted at the parrot. And the bird shouted back. John shook the parrot, and the bird got angrier and ruder. Finally, in a moment of desperation, John put the bird in the refrigerator freezer. For a few minutes, John heard the bird scream and kick. Then suddenly there was silence. Not a sound for over a minute. Fearing he’s hurt the bird, John quickly opened the door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out and said, “I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I am truly sorry, and I will do everything I can to correct my poor behavior.” John was greatly surprised at the bird’s change of attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what had caused such a sudden change in his behavior, the bird continued, “May I ask why you put the chickens there and what they did wrong?” 6. What was true of the parrot in the beginning

A、He was named John.

B、He received a gift from the young man.

C、He used rude language.

D、He talked politely.

听力原文：Woman: I saw the ad for your award ceremony at the Park Hotel and I want to book a place. I don't want to book one of those tables with ten places. I just want a seat for one, if that's possible. That's only ￡125, I hope! I believe that there is someone else from my company booking a table for the senior managers here. Please don't confuse us--I can't afford to pay ￡1,120! Anyway, my name is Kari Mahmood and I'm the Marketing Manager of Apollo. We are on your mailing list so you'll have the rest of my details. Can you let me know if this is OK?

&8226;Look at the form. below.

&8226;You will hear a woman making a booking for an awards ceremony.

The Marketing Week Awards

celebrating 20 years of excellence, will take place on March 3,1998 at the

(9)______ Hotel

Please reserve a table for (10)______ @ ￡ 1,120.00

or

Please reserve an individual place @ (11)______

Please send me a Dinner Booking Form

Name:Kari Mahmood Job Title: (12)______

Company: Apollo Address:23 Mercer Street,

Covent Garden, WC2H 9QB

Tel: 0171 674 2233 Fax: 0171 603 7884

The most notable surface fact about " The Waste Land" is of course its extreme disconnection. I do not know just how many parts the poem is supposed to have, but to me there are something like fifty parts which offer no bridges the one to the other and which are quite distinct in time, place, action, persons, tone and nearly all the unities to which art is accustomed. This discreteness reaches also to the inside of the parts, where it is indicated by a frequent want of grammatical joints and marks of punctuation; as if it were the function of art to break down the usual singleness of the artistic image, and then to attack the integrity of the individual fragments. I presume that poetry has rarely gone further in this direction. It is a species of the same error which modern writers of fiction practice when they laboriously disconnect the stream of consciousness and present items which do not enter into wholes. Evidently they think with Hume that reality is facts and pluralism, not compounds and systems. But Mr. Eliot is more enterprising than they, because almost in so many words he assails the philosophical or cosmical principles under which we form. the usual images of reality, naming the whole phantasmagoria Waste Land almost as plainly as if he were naming cosmos Chaos. His intention is evidently to present a wilderness in which both he and the reader may be bewildered, in which one is never to see the wood for the trees.

B:It ()be him. He went to U.S.A. yesterday.

A. mustn't

B. can't

C. shouldn't