Nobody is allowed to leave luggage in the aisle as it must not be blocked.

From the passage we can see "phased employment" means______.

A．women are allowed to take leave from their jobs during their childbearing years

B．women stay at home on weekdays and go to work on weekends or holidays

C．a woman should resign her job forever if she has a child

D．two or more women share the same job

听力原文：The James were supposed to leave in the afternoon, but they couldn't get away until evening.

When did the James leave?

A．The James left that afternoon.

B．The James didn't get away until afternoon.

C．The James left in the evening.

D．The James were supposed to leave in the evening.

The banana "tree" is actually not a real tree. This is because there is no wood in the stem(树干) rising above the ground. The stem is made up of leaves growing very close together, one inside the other. The leaves spread out at the top of the stem and rise in the air.

Banana plants need a lot of care and attention. They must be provided with water if the normal rainfall doesn't supply enough. The area around the plants must be kept free of weeds and grass.

About nine or ten months after planting, a flower appears on the banana plant. This flower is at the end of a long stalk(茎), which grows from the base up through the center of the stem and turns downward when it comes out from the top. Small bananas form. on this flower stalk as it grows down- ward. Bananas really grow upside down. As the small bananas form. on the stalk, they point down- ward, but as they grow they mm and point upward.

Bananas are harvested while they are still green. Even when they are to be eaten where they are grown, they are not allowed to ripen on the plant. A banana that turns yellow on the plant loses its taste.

The first paragraph in the text mainly discusses ______.

A．why the banana tree is not a tree

B．how the banana grows on the stem

C．why the stem of the tree is wood

D．how the leaves grow out of the stem

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)

Karim Nasser Miran lives on a bench in the Charles de Gaulle Airport on the outskirts of Paris. He has been living there for 11 years. Amazingly, this little seat by a basement shopping mall, between a pizzeria and a fast-food stand has been the only place he has been allowed to stay for all that time.

His possessions are crammed into an airport trolleys, which is always beside him. He has a sports bag which holds his few clothes, a shopping bag with his washing soap and other bathroom goods, and books and his diaries which he keeps in cardboard boxes.

For years, the 54-year-old Miran has been trying to leave Charles de Gaulle Airport but authorities will not let him out of the air port. This strange set of circumstances has continued for 11 years.

Miran was born in Iran, but is stateless] because he has no documents to prove his citizenry. They have been lost. For this reason he cannot get a passport. Miran says that his mother is Danish or Scottish. His father died when Miran was just over 20 years old, so he left I ran for Britain searching for his mother. He could not find her, and returned to Iran. He lost his citizenship and tried to return to Britain. When the British asked him about relatives who could guarantee him a job, he could not tell the immigration officials their names as he was still searching for,.them.

He tried to enter Germany, Russia and Holland without success. He managed to get into Belgium where he was'given refugee status. Five years later he left for France, but he says the document which gave him refugee status, and the right to travel, was stolen from him. He could not leave the Charles de Gaulle Airport. This;vas in 1988. Eleven years later he was still searching for them.

To start with, friendly airport workers gave him free meals, and let him use the shower and toilets there. They even gave him access to a phone, and called the airport doctor when Miran did not feel well.

Miran became such a permanent fixture of Terminal One that all the workers started to call him Monsieur Alfred. Each day they greeted him, each day Miran wrote in his diary in order to keep trace of his own world, and each day he failed to release himself from his giant, glass-and-concrete prison.

But in 1999, Miran became confident that he might be able to leave the airport terminal and start a new life. Officials told him they finally located a key document, issued in 1981 but lost in 1988, which could be his ticket to freedom.

Even after eleven years in the airport terminal, Miran said he had not lost hope. He did a correspondence course to help to educate himself. Every day the airport post office carefully set aside all the mail addressed to him with his written lessons to be done. Every day he set, all alarm clock to ring at 7 a.m. and after his tea and food he would begin studying. The ambition he built up was to return to Brussels to do a degree.

The Charles de Gaulle Airport is located ______.

A．in the outlying district of Paris

B．in the center of Paris

C．far from Paris

D．near Paris