[单项选择] Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.


What did the American government do when the country’s airline industry was in trouble
A. It took steps to restructure the industry.
B. It went out to boost the competition of the industry.
C. It helped the industry by offering tax preference.
D. It provided the industry with cash and loan guarantees.

[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Motorways are no doubt the safest roads in the country. Mile for mile, vehicle for vehicle you are much less likely to be killed or seriously injured than on an ordinary, road. On the other hand, motorways have a far better accident record than any other part of our national road system because of the speed and volume of traffic. If you do have a serious accident on a motorway, fatalities are much more likely to occur than in a comparable accident elsewhere on the roads. It is reported that motorway accidents account for some 10% of all injuries out side urban areas.
Motorways have no sharp, bends, no roundabouts or traffic lights and thus speeds are much greater than on other roads. Though the 70 m.p.h, limit is still in force, it is often treated with the contempt that most drivers have for the 30 m.p.h, limit applied in built-up areas in Britain. Added to this is the fact that motorway drivers seem to like t

[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Proper arrangement of classroom space is important to encouraging interaction. Most of us have noticed how important physical setting is to efficiency and comfort in our work. College classroom space should be designed to encourage the activity of critical thinking.
We have entered the twenty-first century, but step into almost any college classroom and you step back in time at least a hundred years. Desks are normally in straight rows, so students can clearly see the teacher but not all their classmates. The assumption behind such an arrangement is obvious. Everything of importance comes from the teacher.
With a little imagination and effort, unless desks are fixed to the floor, the teacher can correct this situation and create space that encourages interchange among students. In small or standard-size classes, chairs, desks and tables can be arranged in a variety of ways. The primary goal should be for everyo
A. new kinds of desks and chairs should be made
B. it is feasible for teachers to let students turn around and form groups of four to six even in large lecture halls
C. classroom interaction between students is essential to the training of critical thinking
D. a comfortable environment leads to higher working efficiency

[单项选择]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.

Why would Henning put "weather, whether, wither, and wetter" together in the test
A. Because the four words have the same initial "w".
B. Because the four words have the same ending "er".
C. Because the four words have the similar pronunciation.
D. Because the four words have the similar number of the letters.

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.
Why did Rosy study until very late at night
A. She wanted to pass the exams.
B. She had not worked very much.
C. She wanted her sister to worry about her.
D. All the students were working har

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.
What is mainly talked about in the passage
A. How to distinguish people’s faces.
B. How to describe people’s personality.
C. How to distinguish people both inward and outward.
D. How to differ good persons from bad persons.

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Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

What is the main topic of the passage（　）.
A. Energy conservation.
B. Transportation of the future.
C. Strip cities.
D. Advantages of air transportation over railroads.

[单项选择]Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
What is the professor talking about
A. Greek and Roman Civilizations.
B. Humanism.
C. Renaissance philosophers.
D. Italy.

[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Good jobs are scarce these days, with roughly 15 million Americans out of work and a national unemployment rate of 10 percent. President Obama tried to address the jobs crisis in his State of the Union by proposing a $ 33 billion tax credit for small businesses to hire new workers and by calling unemployment the most pressing item on his schedule.
Apart from the federal government’s response to the jobs crisis, economists predict that certain industries such as health care, green technology, education and government, will grow in the coming years. Each week we search several job board--including Indeed, Vault and Yahoo to help us track the best job listings with salaries of $100 000 or more. For this week’s picks, we’ve presented jobs in new emerging fields:
The first one is Wind Energy Sales Director. Are you fascinated by the sight of wind power generator, or simply committed to conserving energy SKP USA, a Pennsy
A. Wind Energy Sales Director
B. Sustainability Director
C. Response Management Specialist
D. Government Contract Manager

[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Genetically Modified (转基因的) crops are everywhere. It seems even in Europe, strict laws designed to
keep the European Union free of GM crops and products are not working, instead are posing problems for the EU: Farmers’ representatives say that supplies of animal feed for poultry and pigs are being refused entry at European ports when found to contain even trace amounts of GM material.
Under Europe’s "zero-tolerance" laws on GM, introduced in 2007, the presence of even a few seeds of GM material will rule out an entire shipment. The animal feed industry says that the laws are unworkable because GM material is almost unavoidable, given today’s global supply chain. "Though we understand the consumer concern in Europe, we don’t understand zero tolerance because it closes down trade," says Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of Copa-Cogeca, a federation of groups representing 15 million EU farmers in total. He claims that E
A. manage to function
B. bring troubles to farmers
C. help farmers to get safe animal feed
D. allow food with insignificant amount of GM