Answer the interview questions mentioned in the video clip "Interview Rehearsal".

SECTION B INTERVIEW

Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

听力原文：Interviewer: Today with Professor MeKay on our morning talk show. Good morning, Professor McKay.

Professor McKay: Good morning.

Interviewer: I've heard that you and your team have just completed a report on old age.

Professor McKay: That's right.

Interviewer: Could you tell me what your report is about?

Professor McKay' Well, the report basically looks into the very beliefs that people hold about old age and try to verify them. Interviewer: And what do you think your report can achieve?

Professor McKay: We hope that it would somehow help people to change their feelings about old age, the problem is that far too many of us believe that most old people are poor, lonely and unhappy. As a result we tend to rind old people as a group unattractive, and this is very dangerous for our society.

Interviewer: But surely we cannot escape the fact that many old people are lonely and many are sick.

Professor McKay: No, we can't. But we must also remember that the proportion of such people is no greater among the 60 to 70 age group than among the 50 to 60 age group.

Interviewer: In other words, there's no more mental illness, for example, among the 60s to 70s than among the 50s to 60s.

Professor McKay: Right, and why should there be? Why should we expect people to suddenly change when they reach their 60th or 65th birthday any more than they did when they reached their 21st?

Interviewer: But one would expect there'd be more physical illness among old people, surely.

Professor McKay: Why should one expect this? After all, those people who reach the age of 65 or 70 are the strongest among us. The weakest are mainly in childhood, then in their forties or riffles. Furthermore, by the time people reach 60 or 65, they have learned how to look after themselves. They keep warm, sleep regular hours and eat sensibly. Of course, some old people do suffer from physical illnesses, but these do not suddenly develop on their 656 birthday. People who are healthy in middle age tend to be healthy in old age, just as one would expect.

Interviewer: Do you find that young people these days are not as concerned about their parents as their parents were about theirs?

Professor McKay: We have found nothing that suggests that family feeling is either dying or dead. There does not appear to be large numbers of young people who are trying, for example, to have their dear old mother locked up in a mental hospital.

Interviewer: But don't many parents live apart from their married children than used to be the case?

Professor McKay: True, but this is because many more young families cannot afford to own their own homes these days than ever before. In other words, parents find their married children usually live in separate household because they prefer it that way, not because their children refuse to have their mum and dad living with them.

Interviewer: Is this a good thing, do you think?

Professor McKay: I think it's an excellent arrangement. We all like to keep our lives private, even from those we love dearly. I certainly don't think that it's fine to increase loneliness in old age.

Interviewer: Are people's mental abilities affected by old age?

Professor McKay: Certain changes do take place as we grow older, but this happens throughout life. These changes are very gradual, and happen at different time with different people. But in general, if you know a person well in his little age, and have seen how he deals with events and problems, you would easily recognize him in old age.

Interviewer: So that someone who enjoys new experiences--travel, education, and so on in

A．To look into the mental health of old people.

B．To explain why people have negative views on old age.

C．To help correct some false beliefs about old age.

D．To identify the various problems of old age.

SECTION B INTERVIEW

Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

听力原文：W: John, do you realize that Christmas is only a month away? We've got to think of Christmas presents.

M: Well, and what a lot of relations we have to think about!

W: Well, it's no good leaving the shopping till the last week before Christmas Day, is it? Shall we decide what to send them all now?

M: All right. Let's make a list of names and then decide what to give them all.

W: The children first, I think. What about Anne?

M: She's getting too grown-up for toys. Let's give her a book. Would she like one of the volumes of that new encyclopedia? The Oxford Junior Encyclopedia, I think it's called.

W: I think she would. But which volume? There are twelve, I think.

M: We can let Anne choose, can't we? She might like the volume called Natural History, or perhaps Great Lives.

W: Very well, we'll ask Anne to choose. Now what about Dick? He thinks about nothing but space travel nowadays.

M: Oh, that makes it easy. Shall we give him one of those space travel suits the toyshops have? You know what I mean; there is a big round plastic thing that goes over the head.

W: That's an excellent idea. He'll be awfully excited.

M: Well, we must think of the old people as well as the children. What about your father?

W: He's fond of music. Perhaps some tapes.

M: Isn't he getting rather deaf?

W: He's just got a hearing aid, and he can hear quite well with it. He's very amusing. When mother turns the radio on to a programme father doesn't want to listen to, he takes his hearing aid out and reads his book in peace and quiet. Then, when there's something he likes, a concert of good music, he puts his aid in and listens.

M: And I suppose he takes it out when the conversation is uninteresting, too! Well, what do you think about giving him discs?

W: Yes, let's do that. He's very fond of Italian opera.

M: Do you know if his machine is still in good condition?

W: Yet, it is.

M: Then I'll get him some discs. There are plenty of Italian operas to choose from.

W: And now your father. What would he like?

M: Not discs! He never goes to a concert. He's been sleeping very badly the last few months. He does a lot of reading in bed. Perhaps a book?

W: Why not a bedside reading lamp? That would be useful.

M: Good idea! Then he can read without keeping mother awake. What shall we give mother?

W: A pair of gloves?

M: Yes, gloves will make a nice present. Will you buy them? A good pair of soft leather gloves with a nice warm lining.

W: Well, that's five names on the list.

M: We mustn't forget your mother. What would she like?

W: She still plays golf, you know, even though she's over sixty. What about one of those baskets on wheels, with a handle, for pushing golf clubs round? Are they expensive?

M: Find out when you're in town tomorrow. Put it on the list with a question mark. And your brother?

W: A box of cigars. But you choose them, please. I know nothing about cigars.

M: Very well, I'll see to it.

W: Nephews and nieces next. Your sister Kater has two boys. How old is Jim now?

M: Twelve. He likes games.

W: We might give him a football.

M: Yes. I hope he doesn't take it into the garden on Christmas morning and start kicking it about. He might kick it through the dining-room window! We shouldn't be very popular then, if they had to eat Christmas dinner with a cold wind blowing through a broken window.

W: Well. We'll warn Jim not to kick the ball about in the garden. We'll advise him to take it into the park. How old is Tom?

M: He's two years younger than Jim. He'd probably like a gun.

W: An air-gun? Can you do any da

A．Twenty days before Christmas Day.

B．Twenty-three days before Christmas Day.

C．A month before Christmas Day.

D．Two months before Christmas Day.

A、Vocalizing

B、Sub-vocalization

C、Reading everything at the same speed

D、Regression

E、Narrow Reading

A、Amazon magnate Jeff Bezos

B、Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson

C、Tesla titan Elon Musk

A、It is a pin that puts on your clothes

B、It is a piece of headwear clipping on your head

C、It is a decoration for your body

D、It is a plastic flower

A、He is honestly showing people something on social media.

B、He is putting in front of people who he is on social medias.

C、He is putting in front of people who he wants people to think who he is.

D、He is comfortable with what he has shown on social media.

A、Topic sentence at the end

B、Main idea in more than one sentence

C、Topic sentence in the middle

D、Topic sentence at the beginning

Directions: In this part, there are two statements related to the video you have just watched. To each statement there are four choices. Choose the best one（） to each question. Which of the following statements are true?

A．In American culture friendship means a strong life-long bond between two peopl

E．Friendships develop slowly, since they are built to last.

B．I n C hina there are few limits on what you can ask or expect of a frien

D．You can feel free to tell your friend what he or she can or should do to help you.

C．In China,friendships are based on common interests. When the shared activity ends, the friendship may fade

D．Americans expect their friends to be independent , so they do not feel comfortable in a relationship in which one person is giving more and the other person is dependent on what is being given.

A、A hospital.

B、A railway station.

C、A museum.

D、A supermarket.