--- Where's Jim？ --- He ______ to England.

听力原文：M: Where's Joan? She said she would be here at 3, and now it's 3:30. She must have missed the train.

W: I think so, but I hope she won't miss the next one; otherwise she'll be late for the opening address at the conference.

Q: What does the woman worry about?

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A．Joan may have taken a wrong train.

B．Joan won't come to the conference.

C．Joan will miss the next conference.

D．Joan may be late for the opening speech.

听力原文：M: Where's Joan? She said she would be here at 3, and now it's 3:30. She must have missed the train.

W: I think so, but I hope she won't miss the next one; otherwise she'll be late for the opening address at the conference.

Q: What does the woman worry about?

(14)

A．Joan may have taken a wrong train.

B．Joan won't come to the conference.

C．Joan will miss the next conference.

D．Joan may be late for the opening speech.

What is implied about Newman's juggling of school and play?

A．He studies hard and spends more time on it than on play.

B．He spends more time running companies than studying.

C．He has no time playing because of school and work.

D．He never minds how much time he spends on study.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages or conversations. At the end of each passage or conversation, you will hear some questions. The passage or the conversation will be read twice. After you hear a passage or a conversation, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

听力原文： James wrote a play for television about a family who came to England from Pakistan. The play was surprisingly successful, and it was bought by an American TV company.

James was invited to go to New York to help with the production. He lived in Dulwich, which is an hour's journey away from Heathrow Airport. The flight was due to leave at 9:30 a.m., so he had to be at the airport at about 7:30 in the morning. He set his alarm for 5:45 a.m. and went to sleep.

Unfortunately he forgot to wind the clock, and it stopped shortly after midnight. As James woke up and turned on the radio he was surprised to discover that it was 9:55 already.

He was so upset but could do nothing now. He was just pouring himself a cup of tea when the clock struck ten. The announcer began to read the news: "Reports are coming in of a crash near Heathrow Airport. A Boeing 707 to New York crashed shortly after taking off this morning. Flight number 2234." James turned pale.

"My flight," he said out loud. "If I hadn't overslept, I'd have been on that plane."

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A．A Pakistani family to England.

B．An English family to Pakistan.

C．An English family to America.

D．An American family to England.

听力原文：(A knock at the door.)

W: Come in, please.

M: Hello, Kate. Where's Jane? I want her to type this letter for me.

W: I'm afraid she can't, Tom, She isn't working today.

M: Oh, why? Is she ill?

W: No. She's studying for an exam.

M: An exam? Is she going to school?

W: Yes, she is. She's learning Japanese in night school.

M: I see. Are you going to night school, too?

W: No, I'm not, not this year. But I'm thinking about taking a course next year.

M: That's a good idea. Is it expensive'?.

W: No, not very. Anyway, it's worth the money.

Where are Kate and Tom?

A．In Kate's office.

B．In Tom's house.

C．In a classroom.

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels anonymously in 17The four-part novel relates ship captain Lemuel Gulliver's voyages to fanciful countries such as Lilliput and Brobdingnag, where he meets both tiny and giant inhabitants.

The work's satirical attacks on English politicians and social practices, as well as its coarse descriptions of bodily functions, provoke much comment and controversy among the reading public. Even the first publisher of the book fears that it is too critical of English society and expurgates the text slightly, over Swift's objections.

Although Swift intends the book for an adult audience, Gulliver's Travels' imaginative storyline and clear writing help make the book a children's classic, generally in abridged editions.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was so critical of English society that the publisher

A．changed some part of the book not with his consent.

B．deleted some part of the book without his consent.

C．took some part out of the book even if he objected.

D．altered some part of the book even with his objection.

  In the' 1920s jazz_____like America. And so it does today

A.sounded

B.felt

C.looked

D.seemed

听力原文：W. What do you find hardest in English?

M: I find listening really hard. Sometimes it's just impossible to understand.

W. Well, you just need lots of practice. The more you listen to English, the easier it becomes.

M: It's easier said than done!

W: Why don't you buy a radio? Then you can listen to Radio Beijing or BBC English programs on the radio.

M. Do you think that would help?

W. Of course. And why not buy some English tapes and some books to go with them? I'm sure you' 11 find them useful.

M: Yes, that's a good idea. But I still have another difficulty. My written English isn't very good, either.

W: Oh! Welt, for that, you'd better find an English pen friend.

M: Thank you for your advice.

What are they talking about? They are talking about ______.

A．How to make pen friends

B．English studies

C．written English

For Tony Blair, home is a messy sort of place, where the prime minister's job is not to uphold eternal values but to force through some unpopular changes that may make the country work a bit better. The area where this is most obvious, and where it matters most, is the public services. Mr. Blair faces a difficulty here which is partly of his own making. By focusing his last election campaign on the need to improve hospitals, schools, transport and policing, he built up expectations. Mr. Blair has said many times that reforms in the way the public services work need to go alongside increases in cash.

Mr. Blair has made his task harder by committing a classic negotiating error. Instead of extracting concessions from the other side before promising his own, he has pledged himself to higher spending on public services without getting a commitment to change from the unions. Why, given that this pledge has been made, should the health unions give ground in return? In a speech on March 20th, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, said that "the something-for-nothing days are over in our public services and there can be no blank cheques". But the government already seems to have given health workers a blank cheque.

Nor are other ministries conveying quite the same message as the treasury. On March 19th, John Hutton, a health minister, announced that cleaners and catering staff in new privately-funded hospitals working for the National Health service will still be government employees, entitled to the same pay and conditions as other health-service workers. Since one of the main ways in which the government hopes to reform. the public sector is by using private providers, and since one of the main ways in which private providers are likely to be able to save money is by cutting labor costs, this move seems to undermine the government's strategy.

Now the government faces its hardest fight. The police need reforming more than any other public service. Half of them, for instance, retire early, at a cost of ￡1 billion ($1.4% billion) a year to the taxpayer. The police have voted 10-1 against proposals from the home secretary, David Blunkett, to reform. their working practices.

This is a fight the government has to win. If the police get away with it, other public service workers will reckon they can too. And, if they all get away it, Mr. Blair's domestic policy—which is what voters are most likely to judge him on a the next election—will be a failure.

In Britain, Tony Blair's chief task is to ______.

A．deal with disorders.

B．see to public services.

C．attend to reforms.

D．live up to expectations.