[单项选择] Questions 14 to 16 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.
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.

[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Lance Armstrong is thirty-three years old and is one of the best athletes in the world. Scientists say his body operates better than the (47) person. For example, his heart can (48) more than two hundred times a minute. It pumps an extremely large amount of blood and oxygen to his legs.
Edward Coyle, head of the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Texas in Austin, tested Armstrong five times from 1992 until 1995. Each time, the cyclist rode a (49) bike for twenty-five minutes with the work rate increasing every five minutes.
Scientists measured Armstrong’s (50) against the amount of oxygen he breathed. Doctor Coyle discovered an 8% increase in Armstrong’s muscle power. Doctor Coyle (51) Armstrong might have developed more of a certain kind of muscle during his seven years of training.
Doctor Coyle also discovered that A

[单项选择]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.
Now, listen to the passage.

We can learn from the passage that when twisting around,______.
A. people can’t fall asleep
B. people may feel relaxed
C. people’s blood pressure increases
D. people may find a more comfortable position

[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.
How would some Asians start their conversation when they meet for the first time
A. By greeting each other very politely.
B. By exchanging their views on public affairs.
C. By displaying their feelings and emotions.
D. By asking each other some personal questions.

[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 t. he questions.
Now, listen to the passage.


What can we learn from the passage
A. Fear and worry are dangerous.
B. Fear and worry can sometimes help us.
C. Fear and worry will cause damage unless kept under control.
D. No one can control fear and worry.

[单项选择]Questions 15 to 17 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.


Radiation ______.
A. is good for crops
B. can poison food and water
C. is not harmful to man
D. is useful to man

[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Most people think of lions as strictly African beasts, but only because they’ve been killed off almost everywhere else. Ten thousand years ago lions spanned vast sections of the globe. Now lions hold only a small fraction of their former habitat, and Asiatic lions, a subspecies that spit from African lions perhaps 100000 years ago, hang on to an almost impossibly small slice of their former territory.
India is the proud steward of these 300 or so lions, which live primarily in a 560-square-mile sanctuary(保护区). It took me a year and a half to get a permit to explore the entire Gir Forest—and no time at all to see why these lions became symbols of royalty and greatness. A tiger will hide in the forest unseen, but a lion stands its ground, curious and unafraid—lionhearted. Though they told me in subtle ways when I got too close, Gir’s lions allowed me unique glimpses into their lives during
A. have descended from a dozen or so ancestors
B. are smaller than the African lions
C. do not have enough to eat
D. are physically weaker than the African lions

[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
The current emergency in Mexico City that has taken over our lives is nothing. I could ever have imagined for me or my children. We are living in an environmental crisis, an air-pollution emergency of severity. What it really means is that just to breathe here is to play a dangerous game with your health.
As parents, what terrorizes us most are reports that children are at higher risk because they breathe more times per minute. What more can we do to protect them and ourselves Our pediatrician’s(儿科医师的) medical recommendation was simple：abandon the city permanently. We are foreigners and we are among the small minority that can afford to leave. We are here because of my husband’s work. We are fascinated by Mexico—its history and rich culture. We know that for us, this is a temporary danger. However, we cannot stand for much longer the fear we feel for our boys. We cannot stop them from br
A. serious air pollution
B. economic crisis
C. unemployment
D. natural disaster

[单项选择]Questions 14 to 16 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.
Where was Thorpe’s athletic talent discovered
A. At Harvard.
B. At West Point.
C. At the Carlisle Indian School.
D. At the Olympic Games held in Stockholm.

[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.
What is the lowest temperature in the Antarctic
A. -78℃.
B. -98℃.
C. -88℃.
D. -68℃.