We（）50% more for express service, but it only takes 3 hours.

A.pay

B.charge

C.have

D.cost

It only takes ten minutes, but reading your baby a bedtime story could yield benefits for years to come, scientists said today. Research shows that children who are【C1】______to a lot are faster at understanding words. This【C2】______processing helps them do better at school— and could【C3】______help them get a good job, have a happy【C4】______and keep on the right side of the law. Psychologist Anne Fernald said that the effects are so【C5】______that talking to children should be【C6】______as importantly as feeding them. And it is never too【C7】______to start. Dr Fernald said: "【C8】______you want your kid to do well in school, talk to them【C9】______a baby. If you bring a child into the world, we【C10】______the responsibility for feeding them, keeping them clean and keeping them safe. I think we now have enough scientific evidence to add something else to that list—and that is【C11】______learning from infancy on. Long before your baby is speaking, it is【C12】______information about language." In a series of studies on babies, Dr Fernald showed that there are big differences in how quickly children process words. Speedy processing is important【C13】______it frees up the brain to think about the next word—or the world【C14】______. Dr Fernald said: "You are building a mind that can conceptualize and【C15】______and think about the past and think about the future." She also showed that children who are【C16】______at understanding words tend to hear more words at home. In her studies, some【C17】______had as few as 600 words a day directly talked to them. To put this in【C18】______, the average adult speaks around 200 words a minute. Other children heard more than 12,000 words. Dr Fernald has also shown that children who can quickly process words at the age of two do better at school at the age of eight. Other research has shown that children who do well in【C19】______school are more likely to go onto higher education, get a good job, re-mam married and stay out of【C20】______.

【C1】

A．listened

B．spoken

C．replied

D．responded

even also similarly for example but in conclusion much as Many Americans have turned into driving or walking billboards. ___1___ we all claim to hate commercials on television, we don’t seem to have any doubts about turning ourselves into commercials. Our car bumpers (保险杠), ___2____, advertise lake resorts, underground caverns (大洞穴), and amusement parks. ___3___, we wear clothes marked with other people’s initials and slogans. Our fascination with the names of designers shows up on the backs of our sneakers and the pockets of our shirts and blue jeans. ___4___, we wear T-shirts filled with all kinds of advertising messages. For instance, people are willing to wear shirts that read “Dillon Construction,” “Nike,” or ___5___ “I Got Crabs at Ed’s Seafood Palace.” These messages belong on highway billboards. ____6____, we say we hate commercials, ___7___ we actually pay people for the right to advertise their products. （答案不加序号，每个空的答案用，隔开，注意区分大小写，如：A，B，C）

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

听力原文： We use all sort of services without thinking how we get them. But such services cost money. We pay them through taxes. What would happen if everyone in a city stopped paying taxes? The street might not be cleaned. There would be no police force to protect people and property. The chief duty of every government is to protect people and property. More than three-fourths of the money spent by our government is used for this purpose. The next largest amount of public money goes to teach and train our citizens. Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries. Public money is used to pay the teachers and other public officials. Years ago the government made money from the sale of public lands. But most of the best public lands has now been sold. The money raised was used to help pay the cost of government. There are still some public lands that contain oil, coal, gas, and other natural resources. They could be sold, but we want to save them for future years. So we all must pay our share for the services that make our lives comfortable.

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A．To protect people and property.

B．To collect taxes.

C．To teach and train citizens.

D．To save natural resources for future use.