It's __________ in Montreal. [图]...

Information black holes can be annoying because .

A) it's not easy to foretell their visits on the net

B) it usually dominates the net page as long as over two hours

C) it steals the users' account number for email box

D) it prevents the users from visiting the websites they like

听力原文：WB Where is everybody today? It's really quiet in here.

MA Fridays in July and August tend to be like this. Lots of people taking vacation days or half-days to get out of the heat of the city. On top of that, there's some kind of promotional event being hosted by one of our vendors in the cafeteria.

WB Right. Marge and Henry just told me that they were on their way over there. But still, it's almost too quiet. In a way it helps you concentrate on your work, but at the same time, it's so quiet it feels odd — like being here on a Saturday—and that doesn't help me concentrate!

MA I know what you mean. Why don't we stop by the cafeteria ourselves to see what's going on?

What does the woman comment on?

A．How hot the city is

B．How loud the office is

C．How tired the man looks

D．How empty the office is

By saying that "It's an image that will boggle the mind for years to come", (Paragraph 3) the author means that the debate in Seattle proves to be ______.

A．dubiously-oriented.

B．quite transient.

C．self-contradictory.

D．fairly consequential.

听力原文：M: Look at that dark cloud. I am afraid it's going to rain.

W: I don't think so. The weather report says it will be fine today.

What does the woman mean?

A．She does not believe the weather report.

B．She does not think it is going to rain.

C．She agrees with the man.

听力原文：M: It's going to rain, we'd better stay at home.

W: Right. And we can watch TV or do some reading.

Q: Why do they like to stay at home?

(7)

A．The weather is not good.

B．They like watching TV.

C．They want to read some books.

D．They aren't allowed to go out.

听力原文： Conversations are really kind of interesting. I guess it's a kind of hobby of mine to listen to conversations that I can hear in public. It's amazing how different the style. or the tone or the content of different conversations can be and to listen to the differences in the language that people use when they speak to different people.

If you are ever in a bookstore or a department store, it's interesting to hear how the same salesperson talks to different people. There're other interesting places to listen to conversations too, I think, and one place that I've found is on bus trips. People often talk to each other as if no one else were there. I guess they think people can't hear their conversations.

Recently I was on a bus, and I was listening to a conversation of two people behind me. I can't really say I was listening. I guess it would have been hard not to hear it. It was amusing to listen to the two people, though, because they were playing a kind of language, uh, word game about states and state capitals. One person would say the name of the state, and the other person would say the name of the capital.

It sounds like a kind of simple game that doesn't involve much language, and you wouldn't think that it would involve very much conversation, but actually this wasn't the case because as they were playing the game, they continued to compliment one another and to talk about how much they knew about history and how many of the other things they could or couldn't remember about those places from their trips or from their reading.

It was really kind of fun to listen to them.

(33)

A．Listening to different styles of conversations.

B．Listening to the content of different conversations.

C．Listening to how salesmen talk to different people.

D．Listening to conversations in public.

听力原文：Conversations are really kind of interesting. I guess it's a kind of hobby of mine to listen to conversations that I can hear in public. It is amazing how different the style, or the tone or the content of different conversations can be and to listen to the differences in the language that people use when they speak to different people.

If you're ever in a bookstore or department store, it's interesting to hear how the same salesperson talks to different people. There're other interesting places to listen to conversations too. I think, and one place that I've found is on bus trips. People often talk to each other as if no one else were there. I guess they think people can't hear their conversations.

Recently I was on a bus, and I was listening to a conversation of two people behind me. I can't really say I was listening. I guess it would have been hard not to hear it. it was amusing to listen to the two people, though, because they were playing a kind of language, uh, word game about states and state capitals. One person would say the name of the state, and the other person would say the name of the capital.

It sounds like a kind of simple game that doesn't involve much language, and you wouldn't think that it would involve very much conversation, but actually this wasn't the case because they were playing this game. They continued to compliment one another and talk about how much they knew about history and how many of the other things that they could or couldn't remember about those places from their trips or from their reading. It was really kind of fun to listen to them.

(30)

A．Criticizing others on bus.

B．Amusing people in pubic.

C．Enjoying talking to people.

D．Listening to people's in public.

A.prediction

B.indication

C.provision

D.forecast

It's too late to go out,______, it's going to rain.

A．otherwise

B．besides

C．however

D．therefore