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听力原文：W: Everyone that joins this trip across the Rockies has to contribute towards the cost of supplies.
M: Are you kidding？ I almost went broke over all the equipment I had to buy, and now I can't get funding.
Q: What does the man mean？
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A．His equipment is broken.
B．He can't find his equipment.
C．He feels he is not being treated fairly.
D．He is satisfied with the funding.
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听力原文： The World Health Organization says extraordinary progress has been made since the global campaign to eradicate polio was launched in 1988.
At that time, it says, 350 thousand children a year were paralyzed from this crippling disease. It says this figure dropped to 35 hundred last year.
W-H-O Coordinator for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Bruce Aylward, says last year a record 550 million children under age five were immunized in 82 countries against polio. Although this is an important achievement, he says the job is not yet over.
"The major challenge right now is to stop polio transmission everywhere within the next 24 months so that we can certify the world polio free on time in 2005. The greatest challenge to doing that will be making sure we access every child in the big remaining, heavily endemic or heavily infected polio areas."
The World Health Organization says the polio virus is now present in no more than 20 countries. This is down from 125 in 1988. But, it notes immunizing children in these few remaining countries will not be easy.
W-H-O says major difficulties lie in war-torn countries such as Afghanistan, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, and Sudan. But, it says problems also exist in polio-endemic countries such as Nigeria, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Northern India.
W-H-O vaccine export, Bjorn Melgaard says the goal is to be able to eventually stop immunizing children against polio.
"Once we are absolutely certain that the virus is not spreading; that epidemics can no longer occur, that the containment has been achieved, then we can stop vaccination."
Dr. Melgaard adds that the benefits from eradicating polio will be enormous. Besides ending the human suffering, he says countries will save about one-and-haft billion dollars a year in immunization costs.
But the World Health Organization warns against complacency. It says the whole world is at risk of polio until the last polio virus is eradicated. This means everyone will have to remain vigilant and committed to achieving this major public health goal.
Questions:
23.According to WHO coordinator, how soon shall we stop polio transmission everywhere so as to make the world polio free on time in 2005？
24.How many countries did they haste the polio virus in 1988？
25.What are the war-torn countries that WHO says major difficulties lie in？
26.What is the goal of this campaign？
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A．One year.
B．Two years.
C．Three years.
D．Four years.
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听力原文：A newspaper reports Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah has canceled a visit to
听力原文： A newspaper reports Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah has canceled a visit to Canada over criticism for the alleged mistreatment of a Canadian citizen detained in a Saudi prison.
Saudi Arabia’s A1-Riyadb newspaper quotes Saudi officials as saying the trip has been called off because of what they call "unacceptable interference" by Canadian officials and some of Canada's newspapers.
The dispute is over 43-year-old William Sampson, who is being held in Saudi Arabia in connection with two bomb explosions in November. The blasts killed a British citizen and injured several other people in the capital, Riyadh. Mr. Sampson could face the death penalty if found guilty of murder.
Canada’s National Post newspaper recently quoted a close friend of the prisoner as saying Mr. Sampson had been taken to a hospital on May 17 with a crushed vertebra, foot injuries and scratched wrists. Saudi officials have said the injuries were the result of a suicide attempt.
The Canadian government rejected the torture allegations after receiving a report from its ambassador who visited Mr. Sampson with a European doctor in a hospital on Monday.
What crime is William Sampson charged with？
A．Bombing.
B．Arson.
C．Rape.
D．Burglary.
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听力原文：M: I'll leave as soon as the meeting is over. The day has dragged. It was too much work.
W: I agree. I also want to get this meeting over with, rush home, and get a good night's sleep.
M: You are lucky, anyway, I will still have to look for a place to cat. Do you know any good restaurants around？
W: There are plenty of them on the main street. But if you don't want to go that far, there is a fine Italian restaurant right across the street.
M: That's good for today. Anything interesting downtown？ I am here for the whole week; I can try various restaurants.
W: Yes, there is an excellent French restaurant on Rainbow Avenue by your hotel. If you like spicy food, there are some really good Asian restaurants on the main street and there's also a very good Mexican restaurant just two blocks from here.
M: That's enough for a week. You seem to know all of them by heart.
W: Well, food is my favorite subject.
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A．The meeting is boring.
B．They've had a long day.
C．There are many good restaurants in the downtown area.
D．Food is an interesting subject.
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听力原文：A little airplane has given new meaning to the term "going hyper".The Hyper-X rec
听力原文： A little airplane has given new meaning to the term "going hyper".
The Hyper-X recently broke the record for air-breathing jet planes when it traveled at a hypersonic speed of seven times the speed of sound. That's about 5,000 miles per hour. At this speed, you'd get around the world-- flying along the equator-- in less than five hours.
The Hyper-X is an unmanned, experimental aircraft just 12 feet long. It achieves hypersonic speed using a special sort of engine. Actually, engineers have been experimenting with such an engine since the 1960s.
For an engine to bum fuel and produce energy, it needs oxygen. A jet engine, like those on passenger airplanes, gets oxygen from the air. A rocket engine typically goes faster but has to carry its own supply of oxygen. This special engine goes as fast as a rocket, but it doesn't have to carry its own oxygen supply.
Its design allows it to extract oxygen from the air that flows through the engine. And it does so without letting the fast-moving air put out the combustion flames.
A booster rocket carried the Hyper-X to an altitude of about 100,000 feet for its test flight. The aircraft's record-beating flight lasted just 11 seconds.
In the future, engineers predict, airplanes equipped with such engines could transport cargo quickly and cheaply to the edge of space. Hypersonic airliners could carry passengers anywhere in the world in just a few hours.
(36)
A．How to develop a new airplane technology.
B．Features and possible usages of a special engine.
C．How to do experiment with dangerous engines.
D．How to do experiment with unmanned airplanes.
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听力原文：M: Don't you think it's marvelous that Mary has won the first prize of the English Speech Contest？
W: She deserves it.
Q: What does the woman mean？
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A．Mary earned the prize.
B．Mary has granted the prize..
C．Mary fails in the speech contest.
D．Mary shouldn't earn the prize.
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听力原文：W: Well, Jack, I would offer you another drink but I have guests coming and I haven't even begun to prepare the dinner. Thanks for stopping by.
M: Thanks for the drink. It has been nice seeing you too.
Q: Why did the woman mention her dinner guests？
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A．To invite the man to join them.
B．To suggest politely that he leave.
C．To offer to let him help cook.
D．To encourage him to have another drink.
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听力原文：A world-champion body builder has no more muscles than does a 90-pound weakling.
听力原文： A world-champion body builder has no more muscles than does a 90-pound weakling. So what makes him so strong？ What other qualities does be need？
Muscles are made of thousands of stringy fibers—a number that is fixed during childhood—which contract when doing work. Strength does not depend on the number of fibers but on the function of their thickness and how many of them contract simultaneously.
Exercise actually damages the muscles. During the recovery stage, the muscle fibers increase in size. Exercise also trains more muscle fibers to work at one time. If a muscle is weak or untrained, for example, only about 10 percent of its fibers will contract, whereas up to 90 percent of the fibers in a weight lifter's bulky biceps will contract.
Aside from strength, two other ingredients go into making an athlete: fitness and endurance. Fitness is related to the condition of the heart. During exercises, there is an increase in the amount of blood returning to the heart from the muscles. A typical volume for a runner at rest is about 5 quarts a minutes, compared with 30 quarts during a vigorous trial. This greater volume means more work for the heart a muscular balloon that expands and contracts to take in blood and squeeze it out. Like any other muscle, the heart enlarges and gets stronger with routine exercise.
Endurance, or the length of time muscles can work, depends in part on how much fuel—in this case sugar—the muscles can store. A muscle that is continually exercised until it is exhausted of sugar tends to store more when it refuels at the next meal. And more sugar can translate into greater endurance the next time the muscle is put to the test.
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A．Because the fibers of his muscles are very thick.
B．Because he has more muscles.
C．Because his muscles are made of more stringy fibers.
D．Because the number of his muscles was fixed during his childhood.
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听力原文：The need to learn a new language may excite one person and frighten another.
According to the speaker, the need to learn a new language is
A．exciting.
B．frightening.
C．necessary.
D．debatable.
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听力原文：Typical foreign exchange transactions involve trades of one currency for another in the spot or cash market, or forward transactions.
(3)
A．Forward transactions is not of typical foreign exchange transactions.
B．Typical foreign exchange transactions occur in the spot or cash market.
C．Forward transactions don't occur in the spot or cash market.
D．Typical foreign exchange transactions occur only in the spot market.
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听力原文：A：You should go to see the new movie. They want to hold it over for another two weeks.
B：Mm, normally I wouldn't, but I should as you recommend it so strongly.
The woman's usual attitude towards films is______.
A．mixed.
B．fascinated.
C．enthusiastic.
D．disinterested.
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听力原文：W: Listen to me, Tom. The exam has been the thing in the past．Just forget about it.
M: It's easier said than done.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation？
(2)
A．The exam was easier.
B．Tom is sure that he will do better.
C．The exam is easier than last one.
D．Tom is afraid of failing the exam.
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听力原文：M Excuse me, I got this shirt for my birthday and it seems to be missing several buttons. Could I exchange it for another one？
W Yes, of course. Give me the shirt and go choose another one. Do you have the receipt with you？
M No, I don't. As I already told you it was a gift from a friend. He gave it to me last weekend.
W Oh, well then I'm sorry but we cannot exchange your shirt without a receipt.
What does the man want to do？
A．To exchange an item
B．To get a refund
C．To have an item tailored
D．To buy a birthday gift
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听力原文： Under growing international pressure, U.S. authorities Tuesday seized a Cuban exile accused by Fidel Castro's government of masterminding a 1976 airliner bombing that killed 73 people. He had been seeking asylum in the United States.
Luis Posada Carriles, a 77-year-old former CIA operative and Venezuelan security official, was taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities, the Homeland Security Department said in a statement.
The department did not say what it planned to do with Posada. Venezuela has asked for his extradition, and Cuba has asked that he be sent to Venezuela for retrial in the bombing or go before an international tribunal.
Generally, the U.S. government does not return people to countries acting on Cuba's behalf, the department said. It has 48 hours to determine his immigration status.
Luis Posada Carriles was detained______
A．because he had killed 73 Cuban 'civilians in 1976
B．because he had planned an airliner bombing in 1976
C．because he had worked as a spy on Cuba' s behalf
D．because of his illegal immigration status
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听力原文： The Atlantic Seaboard and the Gulf Coast could be in for another bad hurricane season, one of the goveminent' s top forecasters said Monday.
Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr., head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, predicted 12 to 15 tropical storms, seven to nine of them becoming hurricanes, and three to five of those major hurricanes, with winds of at least 111 mph.
On average, the United States is hit by two major hurricanes every three years. Last year, them were 15 tropical storms, with nine of them hurricanes---six of them major.
The hurricane season begins June I and runs through Nov. 30.
______ major hurricanes were predicted by the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A．3 to 5
B．7 to 9
C．9 to 15
D．12 to 15
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听力原文：A passenger train has slammed into a double-decker bus at a rail crossing in rura
听力原文： A passenger train has slammed into a double-decker bus at a rail crossing in rural Argentina, killing eighteen people and leaving almost fifty injured. The train was traveling fiom the capital Buenos Aires to the South Atlantic beach resort of Mar del Plata (7) when the collision occurred before dawn on Sunday near Dolores, about 200 kilometers south of the capital. (8) The bus was canwing 61 passengers and 2 dryers. One of the bus passengers said the bus had tried to beat the train to the crossing, despite the train sounding its horn repeatedly as it approached. The train's drivers also told investigators that the crossing barriers were down when the bus unexpectedly tried to cross the tracks in front of the train.
Where did this accident happen？
A．In the capital Buenos Aires.
B．Near the beach resort of Mar del Plata.
C．Near Dolores.
D．Not mentioned.
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听力原文： Most industrialized nations have gone through two major energy transitions. By energy transition we mean a change from one major source of energy to another.
The first major energy transition was from wood to coal. For many centuries people used wood as a primary source of energy. By burning wood people were able to heat their homes, cook their food, and produce basic items. Most early societies grew up near a sufficient supply of wood. The main advantage of wood was that it was easy to get and easy to bum.
During the early 1800's, some towns and villages began to make a transition from wood to coal as a basic source of energy, because they found that coal generally burns longer and at a higher temperature than wood, and a long-burning and hot-burning fuel was badly needed for the machines that were being used at that time. Another advantage of coal was that there was a lot of it and it was also easy to get. Besides, it could be easily shipped to faraway places.
As a result of the transition from wood to coal, industry developed very rapidly. People were able to get more things and their standard of living went up.
The second major energy transition was from coal to oil. We'll discuss it next week.
Why did most early societies grow up near a sufficient supply of wood？
A．Because wood was safer than coal.
B．Because wood burned longer than coal.
C．Because there was more wood than coal.
D．Because they used wood as primary source energy.
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听力原文： Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza face the prospect of another fuel crisis.
Israel suspended fuel supplies to those areas in the wake of the suicide bombing that killed 20 Israelis a week ago. The government lifted the ban on Wednesday. Now, the Israeli company that is the sole supplier of fuel to the Palestinians says it may be forced to stop pumping oil to those areas because of Israel's refusal to pay for the fuel with tax money collected on behalf of the Palestinians under the interim peace deals.
The Israeli Company, Dor Energy, said the Israeli government had canceled an earlier arrangement to pay the company for fuel out of the taxes collected.
Israel stopped transferring customs and tax funds to the Palestinian Authority shortly after the current conflict began last September in order to keep the Palestinians from using the money to support the uprising against Israel.
What caused the death of 20 Israelis a week ago？
A．Battle between Israel and Palestine.
B．A suicide bombing.
C．A car bombing.
D．A plane crashing accident.
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听力原文：Which of the following has NOT been mentioned as the job that thousands of Ph．Ds are now doing？
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A．High school teachers.
B．Taxi drivers.
C．Waiters.
D．Fruit sellers,
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听力原文：M: Excuse me, waitress, but I think I saw an insect or something in my chicken soup. Could you bring me another bowl？
W: I'm very sorry about that. I'll get you another bowl, and won't charge you for it today.
Q: Why did the man get the attention of the woman？
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A．Because he wanted to order another bowl of soup.
B．Because he doesn't want to pay the bill.
C．Because there was something wrong.
D．Because he didn't get what he wanted.
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听力原文：A bill may be accepted after it has been dishonored by a previous refusal to accept, or by nonpayment.
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A．A bill can not be accepted after it has been dishonored by a previous refusal to accept.
B．If a bill has been dishonored by non-payment, it may not be accepted by another person.
C．If a bill has been dishonored by a previous refusal to accept, it may be accepted by another person.
D．A bill can not be accepted after it has been dishonored by non-payment.
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听力原文：M: Have you heard that in another few years you may be able to buy a car that changes colors every day to match the outfit you are wearing？
W: Oh, please be serious! I suppose they will change shapes as well. If you want a big car to take all your friends camping, I suppose you'll just be able to snap your fingers and make it happen. Or if you want a sporty two-seater, you could just tell the car what you wanted, and it would do the rest. Is that how it will work？
M: No, I am serious. They have found a way to alter the surface of metals so that they can reflect different colors just by passing a small amount of electricity over them.
W: Oh, I see. So anything that touches the outside of the car will get a shock. That sounds lovely.
M: It's only a tiny amount of electricity. It wouldn't be enough to shock anybody.
W: Well, it sounds pretty difficult to believe.
M: Yes, it's quite amazing. The important thing you have to remember is that the color of an object is really just an illusion created by the way light bounces off its surface. Engineers have been able to produce a car that changes colors at the touch of a button by slightly rearranging the position of the particles on the surface of the metal.
W: It sounds so amazing. But I guess it could be possible.
M: It is possible today. The only problem is that it is very expensive. To produce a car with a surface that changed colors would cost almost twice as much as what a regular car costs. For that much money you could just by the car and have it repainted twenty times, so it's not very practical yet.
W: Yes, but in other ways it could be more practical. If you took your car to be painted twenty times, it would use quite a bit of polluting chemicals, and it would take a long time.
M: You're right there, but how many people really get their car repainted that many time？
W: Hmm, I suppose you're right, but I sure would love to have my car match my outfit every day.
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A．She is impressed.
B．She is doubtful.
C．She is shocked.
D．She is surprised.
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听力原文：W: My computer has a problem. It doesn't scroll down any faster whenever I am using a word processor.
M: Well, then have you checked for any viruses recently？ Sometimes, if you don't have it periodically checked and let the viruses build up, the computer slows down or doesn't reboot.
W: Wow! How do you know all those things？ I wish I could do a lot more with my computer and do it faster.
M: Then why don't you visit the computer center？ They will teach you how to deal with any basic problems you might suffer from malfunctioning computers.
What is the conversation mainly about？
A．Some recent cold symptoms.
B．Computer virus protection.
C．Taking college classes.
D．An electronics store.
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听力原文： Britain has finally won a medal at the a...
听力原文： Britain has finally won a medal at the athletics World Championships in Helsinki. The UK team came in third in the men's 4×100 metres relay to take a bronze medal. France came first and Trinidad & Tobago won silver. Britain's Jason Gardener, Marion Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis and Christian Malcolm had been hoping for a gold after the U.S. team crashed out. The defending champions had failed to qualify after Mardy Scales and Leonard Scott made a mess of the first changeover. Britain's failure until now to win a single medal has been a major embarrassment for UK athletics.
Which country won the goal medal in the men's 4×100 metres relay？
A．Britain.
B．France.
C．Trinidad & Tobago.
D．The United States.
