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听力原文：Hello, my name is Tom Kim and I am a manager of Sales at the brand-new automobile
听力原文： Hello, my name is Tom Kim and I am a manager of Sales at the brand-new automobile dealership in Jackson. We are the first dealership in this area and our customer service is unsurpassed by any other luxury brand. To celebrate the opening of the initial automobile dealership, we are offering discounts on all models as well as competitive financing opportunities for one month. Also, every new model comes with a class-leading warranty of 80,000 kilometers over 4 years with 3 years of paid scheduled-maintenance. So please visit us and see the new model line up and experience the thrill of our brand-new premium models.
What is being advertised？
A．A car dealership
B．A repair shop
C．A rental car agency
D．A financial service
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听力原文：Professor Lawrence is going to retire, but she is still going to lead a graduate seminar each semester.
What's tree about Professor Lawrence？
A．She has found a new job at another university.
B．She has become the head of the graduate school.
C．She will continue to work part-time.
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听力原文：M: We're going to have a party at our house on the weekend. Would you like to join us？
W: I'd like to, and it sounds like a lot of fun. But I need to check my schedule first.
Q: What does the woman mean？
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A．She's not interested in the party.
B．She might have something else to do.
C．She'd rather come some other time.
D．She'll ask for the permission of her mom.
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听力原文：W: I'm going to the bank, then to the jewelry store, and after that, I have to prepare a presentation for my linguistics seminar.
M: I'd say you have a pretty busy afternoon, Ann.
Q: What does the man mean？
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A．Ann can go with him this afternoon.
B．Ann's almost as busy as he is.
C．Ann has a lot to do today.
D．Ann might be finished by noon.
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听力原文：The first train to Greenwood leaves at 7:38. There is a train every hour on the hour and every 38 minutes past the hour.
When does the next train leave？
A．7:58.
B．8:00.
C．8:18.
D．8:38.
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听力原文：M: Miss, can you give me change for a dollar so that I can make a phone call at the call box？
W: I'm sorry, sir. I'm not allowed to give change without a purchase. If you go across the hall, you'll find a change machine in front of the jewelry store.
Q: Where does the woman suggest that the man get change？
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A．At the call box.
B．At the jewelry store.
C．From a machine.
D．From the purchaser.
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听力原文：M: I am sorry to inform. you that you have been replaced by a computer at the office.
W: I see. So a machine can be more capable than a man.
What do we learn from the conversation？
A．The woman will work together with a machine.
B．The machine has been replaced by a man.
C．The woman lost her job.
D．The woman was happy to work with a capable computer.
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听力原文：M: Hi, Margaret, where were you at dinner-time？ I was saving a seat for you in the coffee shop.
W: Oh, sorry to miss you. But my thirst for knowledge was greater than my pains of hunger.
M: So where were you？
W: My physical science class ran overtime. Actually, what happens is that some of us hang around for a while after class to talk with our professor and ask him questions.
M: Who is this 21st century's Newton？
W: Professor Greg, have you heard of him？
M: Yes. He does have a good reputation in the Physical Science Department.
W: And a well deserved one. The same students who Pall asleep in discussion group fight for front-row seats in his lectures.
M: Oh, on. I hope this isn't amazing.
W: You can joke. But it's great to have a professor who's not only interesting but prepares to give up time to students.
M: I know it is really rare. Maybe I should sit in his class some time. Do you think he'd care？
W: Not at all. Lots of students bring their friends. He says he feels flattered.
M: Well, just to be safe, I think I'll bring my dinner along as well.
W: I'll make a good student of you yet.
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A．In the coffee shop.
B．Discussing physical problem in the classroom.
C．Working on a science problem at home.
D．Reading 20th century literature in the hbrary.
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听力原文：Because of the decreasing sales of the products at the end of the year, the sales manager put a salesman on the spot.
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A．The manager put a salesman in the spotlight.
B．The salesman had a difficult time due to his bad performance.
C．Many products have been sold at the end of the year.
D．A salesman bought fewer products than he used to do.
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听力原文：Not until somewhat recently （that is, in terms of human history) did people find
听力原文： Not until somewhat recently (that is, in terms of human history) did people find a need for knowing the time of day. As best we know, 5000 to 6000 years ago great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa initiated clock-making. With their bureaucracies and formal religions, these cultures found a need to organize their time more efficiently.
The Egyptians were the next to formally divide their day into parts something like our hours. Obelisks (slender, tapering, four-sided monuments) were built as early as 3500 B. C. Their moving shadows formed a kind of sundial, enabling citizens to partition the day into two parts by indicating noon. They also showed the year's longest and shortest days when the shadow at noon was the shortest or longest of the year. Later, markers added around the base of the monument would indicate further time subdivisions.
Another Egyptian shadow clock or sundial, possibly the first portable timepiece, came into use around 1500 B.C. to measure the passage of "hours". This device divided a sunlit day into 10 parts plus two "twilight hours" in the morning and evening. When the long stem with 5 variably spaced marks was oriented east and west in the morning, an elevated crossbar on the east end cast a moving shadow over the marks. At noon, the device was turned in the opposite direction to measure the afternoon "hours".
In the quest for more year-round accuracy, sundials evolved from flat horizontal or vertical plates to more elaborate forms. One version was the hemispherical dial, a bowl shaped depression cut into a block of stone, carrying a central vertical gnomon (pointer) and scribed with sets of hour lines for different seasons. The hemicycle, said to have been invented about 300 B. C. , removed the useless half of the hemisphere to give an appearance of a half bowl cut into the edge of a squared block.
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A．4000 - 5000.
B．50 - 60,000.
C．500 - 600.
D．5000 - 6000.
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听力原文：W: Have you heard about the plane crash yesterday？ It caused a hundred and twenty deaths. I'm never at ease when taking a flight.
M: Though we often hear about air crashes and serious casual deeds, flying is one of the safest ways to travel.
Q: What do we learn from this conversation？
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A．The woman never travels by plane.
B．Both speakers feel nervous when flying.
C．The man thinks traveling by air is quite safe.
D．The speakers feel sad about the serious loss of life.
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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：M: The rate on a personal loan is fixed according to the base rate at the time when the loan is made.
W: But it is always higher than the base rate, isn't it？
Q: What is determined when a personal loan is made？
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A．Rate on the personal loan.
B．Base rate of the bank.
C．The amount of payment.
D．Personal loan's time period.
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听力原文：We have met the enemy, and he is ours. We bought him at a pet shop. When monkey-p
听力原文： We have met the enemy, and he is ours. We bought him at a pet shop. When monkey-pox, a disease usually found in the African rain forest, suddenly turns up in children in the American Midwest, it's hard not to wonder if the disease that comes from foreign animals is homing in on human beings. "Most of the infections we think of as human infections started in other animals," says Stephen Morse, director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness at Columbia University.
It's not just that we're going to where the animals are; we're also bringing them closer to us. Popular foreign pets have brought a whole new disease to this country. A strange illness killed Isaksen's pets, and she now thinks that keeping foreign pets is a bad idea. "I don't think it's fair to have them as pets when we have such a limited knowledge of them," says Isaksen.
"Laws allowing these animals to be brought in from deep forest areas without stricter control need changing," says Peter Schantz. Monkey-pox may be the wake-up call. Researchers believe infected animals may infect their owners. We know very little about these new diseases. A new bug may be kind at first. But some strains may become harmful. Monkey-pox doesn't look like a major infectious disease. But it is not impossible to pass the disease from person to person.
33．What do we learn about the pet sold at the shop？
34.Why did Isaksen advise people not to have foreign pets？
35.What does the passage suggest we may have to do in the future？
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A．It may come from Columbia.
B．It may suffer from monkey-pox.
C．It may enjoy being with children.
D．It may prevent us from being infected.
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听力原文：W: Tom, get up, please! I have to clean it up. Our friends will be here at any time and this house is a mess.
M: So what？ Theirs is even worse.
Q: What does the man mean？
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A．He doesn't like messy people.
B．He doesn't know where their house is.
C．He sees no need to clean the house.
D．He can think of no worse time for their friends to come.
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听力原文：Man: Some of us can remember the days when a visit to the supermarket was no fun. If you needed information, there was never an assistant in sight. And when you did find one, they knew less than you. Well, that time is long past, and the seminar I watched recently at our award- winning supermarket was a revelation. It endeavoured to keep sa[es assistants up-to-date with information about food technology, how to access product information on the store intranet, and so on. And that's what gave this supermarket its edge.
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听力原文：A recent survey shows that nearly 16~ of internet users have some sort of addiction to the medium causing relationship with their family members suffering.
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听力原文： Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, on a heavily guarded surprise trip to Iraq on Sunday, urged patience for the country' s fragile new government and said Iraqis have made remarkable political progress that can overcome a recent surge of violence.
The one-day trip was Rice's first visit to Iraq as the nation's top diplomat. Rice was a chief architect of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as White House national security adviser during President Bush's first term and she accompanied Bush on his own surprise visit to Iraq on Thanksgiving Day 2003.
Rice told reporters that she wanted to discuss the new government' s upcoming tasks including writing a constitution, as well as addressing the country's security and infrastructure needs.
From the news item, we are sure this was at least Rice's ______ trip to Iraq.
A．first
B．second
C．third
D．fourth
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听力原文：Recently a five-year study was conducted by the Center for Childhood Development
听力原文： Recently a five-year study was conducted by the Center for Childhood Development in Los Angeles, California regarding the way babies react to different types of people. The findings of the study suggest that infant children seem to be more comfortable around other babies than they are with strange adults.
The result confirm the ideas of Dr. Richard Perelman, a well-know pediatrician, who has written many books about raising children. Dr. Richard Perelman supports the findings of the study and adds that it is a sounder idea to keep children with other children, as in a day care center, than it is to have children cared for by a baby-sitter.
According to the results of the study, infants benefit from being in the company of other babies on a daily basis. Whereas some babies seem to show fear of strange adults. They are likely to reach out to try to touch an unfamiliar baby. The study even suggests that children as young as one year old can form. friendships
According to the study, what is the way the babies react to different people？
A．They seem to be more comfortable around other babies than with strange adults.
B．They seem to be more nervous around other babies than with strange adults.
C．They seem to be as comfortable around other babies as with strange adults.
D．They have no special interest.
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听力原文：M: I bought a few books in the new bookstore. Would you like to have a look at them？
W: A few？ It looks like you bought out the bookstore.
Q: What does the woman mean？
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A．She didn't like the books the man bought.
B．There wasn't a large selection at the bookstore.
C．The man bought a lot of books.
D．She wanted to see what the man bought.
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听力原文：W: Doctor White, we recently learned that a large piece of the Larsen lee shelf in Western Antarctica broke off in early January. Could you please tell us exactly what happened？
M: I'd be happy to. The piece that broke off was over a thousand square miles in area. More recently and quite alarming to scientists is that a forty-mile crack, some 30 feet wide in places has torn through the ice shelf.
W: I understand that the scientific community is quite concerned. What is the significance of these events？
M: Well, some scientists believe that this is a clear sign of global warming. Back in 1978, some American researchers predicted that Antarctica would show early signs of global warming due to the green house effect.
W: But couldn't crumbling ice shelves also be a result of the unusual weather Antarctica itself has experienced lately？
M: That's certainly possible, but you'll have to remember that over the past thousands of years, ice shelves have been through a lot of weather changes without breaking up.
W: I think most people know that if the ice cap over Antarctica melts, the level of the oceans will rise. What sort of impact will this have？
M: Well, the ice shelves currently insulate the Antarctic continent from wind, which slows down the melting. If the winds cause even a tenth of the continent's ice to melt, the world's oceans could rise as much as 30 feet.
What are the speakers mainly discussing？
A．An experiment in Antarctica.
B．Part of the Larsen Ice Shelf broke off.
C．The formation of the Larsen Ice Shelf.
D．An expedition in Antarctica.
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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.
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听力原文：W: Oh, Professor Jackson, I was wondering well, Oh,...well, if uh...if you have a chance yet to look at my thesis proposal．
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听力原文：W: How is your job at the supermarket M: Well, it’s rather hard work. The hours a听力原文：W: How is your job at the supermarket M: Well, it’s rather hard work. The hours are pretty long. I already feel difficult to keep up with my classmates. What is the man worried about （）
A．He does not earn as much money as his classmates．
B．He does not work as well as his classmates．
C．He does not get enough pay for his ’hard work．
D．He does not have enough time for his study．
