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否则就听不成啦!Part 1 Understanding Short Conversations(每小题： 分)Directions: In this section you'll hear some short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the questions you hear.Questions 1 to 1 are based on the following passage or dialog.1.A. The woman has an angel.B. The woman is a new mother.C. The woman is perfect.D. The woman is like a baby. Questions 2 to 2 are based on the following passage or dialog.2.A. The baby has to worry a lot about little accidents.B. The man has baby-proofed his home.C. An unsafe home is good for a baby.D. The woman is more worried about her baby.3.A. People are more similar than different.B. Chinese people seem different to Americans.C. Chinese people are very different from Americans.D. People all around the world try to be honest. Questions 4 to 4 are based on the following passage or dialog.4.A. Leaving school early to go to college.B. A parent not being supportive about going to college.C. Leaving home with a young son.D. A child leaving the home at a young age.Questions 5 to 5 are based on the following passage or dialog.5.A. The man has taken tours of Europe.B. The woman is better than normal.C. Mozart was a genius.D. Mozart was better than all others.Questions 6 to 6 are based on the following passage or dialog.B D A DC BD A1.A. The piano.B. Mozart.C. Parents.D. Child geniuses.2.A. The man doesn't think geniuses play the piano.B. The man doesn't think Mozart was a genius.C. The man doesn't expect the child to be a genius.D. The man doesn't think he is a genius.3.A. Being positive.B. Mozart.C. Being a genius.D. High expectation.4.A. The speakers both think that the child playing the piano isa genius.B. The speakers have different opinions about theintelligence of the child.C. The speakers are among the few geniuses that exist in theworld.D. The speakers are given a lot of trouble by others who aregeniuses.5.A. Husband and wife.B. Brother and sister.C. Mother and son.D. Father and daughter.Questions 6 to 9 are based on the following passage or dialog.6.A. Having a baby.B. Gaining weight.C. Smoking.D. Eating lunch.7.A. He's gaining weight.B. He's having a baby.C. He's eating lunch.D. He's working.D D C B A B A ACB. Cloned animals are healthier.C. The science of genetics is improving.D. Gene targeting was first done on sheep.3.A. Be used as organ banks.B. Produce milk for humans.C. Produce milk with a certain human protein.D. Introduce DNA changes.4.A. Introduce changes into a person by inserting sheep DNA.B. Make clones that carry the genes altered in clone'sparents.C. Produce a cloned animal from a human protein.D. Produce a cloned animal with only a specific part of DNA.5.A. Scientists can change DNA so that animals taste better.B. Milk from cloned animals is undrinkable.C. Animals with altered genes are more healthy.D. Cloned meat and milk are more delicious.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage or6.A. Television advertisements.B. A product Americans will use in the future.C. A new type of rice.D. A Swiss scientist, Ingo Potrykus.7.A. They show children playing somewhere in Asia.B. They show a product that will help prevent blindness.C. They are advertising a product people don't like.D. They are advertising a product that Americans may neveruse.8.A. Vitamin A deficiency.B. White rice.C. Infections in children.D. Golden rice.9.A. Introduced a flower gene into rice.C C B B A CD A ADpercent of the vote, allows the city to issue $100 million in revenuebonds (债券) to create active-solar facilities for city agencies,without imposing new taxes on its citizens. It opens the potentialfor San Francisco to nearly double its capacity of powergeneration. Proposition H allows the city to carry out futureclean-energy projects without a citywide vote each time.How did they manage this?"First off," says Casper, "the five organizers were fresh out ofschool and full of energy. Second, we focused on city districts weknew would turn out to vote in favor if informed." They alsotargeted religious groups, which, in recent years, have increasinglyshown a sense of responsibility for protecting the Earth, she says. Third, they just worked hard. They planned the campaign over breakfast at 7:00 a.m. and then worked until 10 P.M., distributing 300,000 leaflets (小册子), posting 1,500 signs, calling 50,000 voters, and gaining new support. In the end, more than 200 volunteers got involved.They impressed more than San Francisco's voters. Casper saysofficials of other cities, including Boulder, Colorado, havehope to get San Diego to be the next solar city in California," shesays.1."This probably meant to Casper, who is a Greenpeaceclean-energy organizer, that they were lacking the supportthey'd need to pass." (Para.1) Here, "they" refer to ________.A. San Francisco votersB. Greenpeace clean-energy organizersC. two solar power propositionsD. students from Green Corps2.To Casper's mind, California was ________.A. not fit for the solar power projectB. deeply involved in energy crisisC. ready for the solar power projectD. crippled by the financial problems3.Proposition B ________.A. allowed the city to carry out each clean-energy projectwithout a voteB. allowed San Francisco to impose new taxes on its citizensC. doubled the entire country's capacity of power generationD. eased the city's financial burden in the form of $100million revenue bonds4.Casper's group focused their efforts on ________.A. city districts they thought would be most likely to vote infavor if informedB. the five energetic organizers fresh out of schoolC. religious groups showing great responsibility forenvironmentD. leaflets distribution and telephone calls5.Which city is in line to be the next solar city in California?A. Boulder.B. San Diego.C. Colorado.D. San Francisco.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage or dialog.One of the chief functions of education is to equip future citizens with all they require to take their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a segregatedschool possibly offer the right sort of preparation for it? Anyonea shock.A co-educational school offers children nothing less than a trueversion of society in miniature (缩影). Boys and girls are given theopportunity to get to know each other, to learn to live togetherfrom their earliest years. They are put in a position where they cancompare themselves with each other in terms of academic ability,athletic achievement and many of the extracurricular (课外的)activities which are part of school life. What a practical advantageit is to be able to put on a school play in which the male parts willbe taken by boys and the female parts by girls!But perhaps the greatest contribution of co-education is thehealthy attitude to life it encourages. Boys don't grow up believingthat women are mysterious creatures—airy (空想的) goddesses,more like book-illustrations to a fairy tale, than human beings.Girls don't grow up imagining that men are romantic heroes. Yearsof living together at school dismiss such illusions. The awkwardstage of adolescence (青春期) brings into sharp focus some of thephysical and emotional problems involved in growing up. Thesecan better be overcome in a co-educational environment. Whenthe time comes for the pupils to leave school, they are fullyalready had years of experience in coping with many of theproblems that face men and women.6.What is the best title for this passage?A. Co-education Can Be in Harmony with Society.B. People Are in Great Need of Co-education.C. Any Form of Education Other Than Co-education Is SimplyUnthinkable.D. Co-education Has Many Features.7.What does co-education offer to children?A. A society.B. A true small model of society.C. A real life.D. True version of social condition.8.What does the word "segregated" (Para. 1) probably mean?A. Closed.B. Separated by race.C. All boys or all girls.D. Isolated.9.According to the passage, what is one of the chief aims ofeducation?A. It is for students to acquire knowledge.B. It is to equip future citizens with the necessary skills to usescientific technology.C. It is to equip future citizens with what is required to relatewell to others in society.D. It is to allow students to perform well academically.10.Why don't boys and girls in co-education have illusionsabout each other?A. They live together and know each other too well.B. Years of living together at school dismiss such illusions.C. Co-education encourages them to have a healthy attitudetowards life.D. They are familiar with each other's problems. Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage or dialog.Planetary (行星的) scientists are set to write the opening chapterof A Tale of Two Comets (彗星) with next Monday's launch ofContour, an unprecedented (空前的) mission that will peer into thecores of two comets over the next four years.For hundreds of years, comets have caught the human imagination. But only recently have they come within reach of science's virtual grasp—first through optical and radio telescopes, then via spacecraft.The Contour will encounter the comets in November 2003 and it promises, with a clearer picture of their structures and locations, to expand understanding of these mysterious comets. Their collisions with a young Earth are thought to have supplied the planet with water and other chemical compounds necessary to give rise to organic life, and to have altered the course of evolution. Armed with Contour's observation facilities, as well as with data from past comet flybys, researchers will be able to explore the diversity of comets arising at different stages of their life cycle. "This is an essential next step in exploring comets," says Joseph Veverka, head of Cornell University's astronomy (天文学)department and Contour's lead investigator.11.What can Contour do?A. To send astronauts to comets.B. To see a glowing ball.C. To spot the cores of two comets.D. To peer into the dust and gas.12.What's true about comets?A. Their diameters are only 12 feet.B. Their cores are hard to pierce and observe.C. They are full of water and other compound chemicals.D. They have altered the course of evolution.13.Why didn't planetary scientists explore the mysteries ofcomets before?A. Because comets are shrouded in dust and gas.B. Because the scientists are not ready to write A Tale of TwoComets.C. Because the scientists did not have a clear picture of theirlocations.D. 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