A．To carry information that would help determine elevation.B．To provide accurate weath

A．To indicate how climbers communicated.

B．To show that climbers enjoyed many comforts.

C．To show that modern telephones work at high altitudes.

D．To emphasize how small some equipment had become.

A．People can't sleepwalk.

B．Your body becomes very relaxed.

C．You can still be awakened' without difficulty.

D．If you are awakened, you might feel very confused.

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： One of my main goals in this survey course of American painting and architecture is to train you to see. I want you to in crease your stock of visual experiences by using the slide library at least five hours a week. The library, which is maintained by the Art History Department, is located in the basement of the Art Center, and is open seven days a week.

By the end of this course, I expect you to be able to identify two thousand slides of various American works of art. Slide identification questions will appear on the weekly exam and the final. During each of the ten weeks of this course, I will show a set of two hundred slides during, my lectures. You should plan on looking at each set twice in the slide library, once before the week's lectures and one after. This pattern of three exposures will improve your visual memory. Please do not remove the slides from the slide library. Doing so is a cause for dismissal from the course.

Although becoming familiar with two thousand slides may sound difficult, experience has shown me that this is the best way to increase the visual abilities of students such as your selves, who have never taken an art history course before.

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A．The material to be tested that day.

B．The history of the slide library.

C．The use of slides in the course.

D．The outline of the course.

A．Right now.

B．This evening.

C．This afternoon.

D．Tomorrow morning.

Cities Guide—Shanghai

Business hours

Business hours in Shanghai are very much those you would find in the West. Office hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5/6 p.m.(some close for an hour at lunchtime). Some offices also maintain limited Saturday hours. Banks follow similar hours.

Department stores typically open every day, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Chinese restaurants tend to open and close early(11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m.), and international restaurants stay open latch Note that dinner in China is usually eaten early, from 5:30 p.m.

Eating and drinking

Most business entertaining is done over lunch, though a high-profile business deal may be celebrated by a large evening meal in a private room of a restaurant. Unless specifically invited, spouses typically stay at home. The Western custom of after-work drinks is rare, though there is a growing trend for business colleagues to meet for coffee.

Try to master chopsticks before you arrive in Shanghai. Chinese food is eaten informally, with everyone serving them selves from several main dishes on a central turntable.

In all but the swankiest(漂亮，时髦的) restaurants, messiness is perfectly acceptable. People will happily slurp their soup, toss chicken bones around their plates and spill soy sauce everywhere.

Frequent toasts are not unusual. Mao Tai, a fiery 60-70 proof liquor distilled from sorghum, is what you'll typically drink. If you can't keep up, join in the toast with beer or else a soft drink.

Drinking a lot(and even drunkenness) may earn you respect or trust, since many Chinese believe that alcohol causes harriers to come down and true intentions to be revealed.

You may be invited to eat at someone's home. Always bring a gift(fruit or flowers), and remember to take your shoes off at the threshold.

Getting around

Public transport

If you plan to be in Shanghai for more than a few days, buy a Shanghai Public Transport Card(jiao tong ka), available in any metro station for 30 yuan(refundable when you return it at any metro station). Once you have one, you can put funds on it to use for taxis, the metro, light rail buses and the passenger ferry across the river.

Buses

Buses are crowded, smelly, hard to understand if you don't read Chinese characters, but extraordinarily cheap. Most inner-city buses charge 1-2 yuan, no matter how far you're traveling within the city. Tickets on long-distance buses range between 1-6 yuan.

Taxis

Taxis in Shanghai axe good value. You will pay 10 yuan for the first two kin, and then 2 yuan per km. The city has about 50,000 taxis. The only time you'll have trouble finding one is when it's raining. Most taxi drivers do not speak English, so have someone jot down your destination in Chinese characters and take a business card from your hotel with you so that you can find your way back.

Tipping is not customary. Try to avoid hailing a cab at 9:30 a.m. or 4:30 p.m., when drivers swap shifts.

Metro

Shanghai's metro is swift and cheap(2 -6 yuan), but has only three main lines. The government has plans for eight more by 2010; Until then, you could end having to walk some distance. The metro is a good way to cross the river during rush hour, when traffic clogs the bridges and the tunnel.

When traveling you can just swipe your public transport card over the card-recognition keypads. Otherwise, you will need to tell the assistant at one of the ticketing counters what price zone you are traveling in and he or she will give you a one-trip ticket.

Communications

Telephone codes

Country code: 86

Area code: (0)21

All Chinese area codes begin with a zero, which is dropped when calling China fro

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

【B7】

A．that

B．if

C．what

D．whether

【B5】

A．add

B．keep

C．lose

D．miss

The author admits that a degree of Americanization does exist because ______.

A．it is a long-term historical trend of the world

B．industrial societies are almost exact copies of the United States

C．the Internet and TV promote the spread of American social and cultural habits

D．local cultures are gradually weakened over the course of the 21st century

When anti-globalization protesters took to the streets of Washington last weekend, they blamed globalization for everything from hunger to the destruction of home-grown cultures. And globalization meant the United States. The critics call it Coca-Colonization, and French sheep farmer Jose Bove has become a cult(狂热分子) figure since destroying a McDonald's restaurant in 1999. Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, globalization is neither homogenizing(使…同化) nor Americanizing the cultures of the world.

To understand why not, we have to step back and put the current period in a larger historical perspective. Although they are related, the long-term historical trends of globalization and modernization are not the same. While modernization has produced some common traits, such as large cities, factories and mass communications, local cultures have by no means been erased. The appearance of similar institutions in response to similar problems is not surprising, but it does not lead to homogeneity. In the first half of the 20th century, for example, there were some similarities among the industrial societies of Britain, Germany, America and Japan, but there were even more important differences. When China, India and Brazil complete their current processes of industrialization and modernization, we should not expect them to be exact copies of Japan, Germany or the United States.

Take the current information revolution. The United States is at the forefront of this great movement of change, so the uniform. social and cultural habits produced by television viewing or Internet use, for instance, are often attributed to Americanization. But correlation is not cause. Since the United States does exist and is at the leading edge of the information revolution, there is a degree of Americanization at present, but it is likely to decrease over the course of the 21st century as technology spreads and local cultures modernize in their own ways.

Historical proof that globalization does not necessarily mean hamogenization can be seen in the case of Japan. In the mid-19th century, it became the first Asian country to embrace globalization and to borrow successfully from the world without losing its uniqueness. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japan searched broadly for tools and innovations that would allow it to become a major power rather than a victim of Western imperialism. The lesson that Japan has to teach the rest of the world is that even a century and a half of openness to global trends does not necessarily assure destruction of a country's separate cultural identity.

The author's main purpose in writing this passage is to______.

A．report the progress of some new events

B．criticize extreme and violent actions

C．recall a certain period of American history

D．tell his readers not to be afraid of globalization

听力原文： When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get good scores on certain kinds of tests or even the ability to do well in school. By intelligence we mean a way of living and behaving, especially in a new or upsetting situation. If we want to test intelligence we need to find out how a person acts instead of how much he knows about what to do. For instance, when in a new situation, an intelligent person thinks about the situation, not about himself or what might happen to him. He tries to find out all he can, and then he acts immediately and tries to do something about it. And if he cannot make things work out right, he doesn't feel ashamed that he failed, he just turns to learn from his mistakes. An intelligent person, even if he is very young, has a special way to look at life, a special feeling about life, and how he fits into it. If you look at children, you'll see great differences between what we call "bright" children and "not bright children. They are actually two different kinds of people, not just the same kind with different amounts of intelligence. For example, the bright child really wants to find out about life, he tries to get in touch with everything around him. But the unintelligent child keeps more to himself and his own dream world: he seems to have a wall between him and life in general. This leads us to feel mysterious about how to determine what intelligence is.

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A．It's the ability to get high marks on some tests.

B．it's the ability to do well in school.

C．It's the ability to deal with life.

D．It's the ability to dream.