[单项选择] Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
No one should be forced to wear a uniform under any circumstances. Uniforms are demanding to the human spirit and totally unnecessary in a democratic society. Uniforms tell the world that the person who wears one has no value as an individual but only lives to function as a part of a whole. The individual in a uniform loses all self-worth.
There are those who say that wearing a uniform gives a person a sense of identification with a larger, more important concept. What could be more important than the individual himself If an organization is so weak that it must rely on cloth and buttons to inspire its members, that organization has no right to continue its existence. Others say that the practice of making persons wear uniforms, say in a school, eliminates all envy and competition in the matter of dress, such that a poor person who cannot afford good-quality clothing is not to be belittled by a wealthy per
A. efforts
B. motivation
C. skills
D. attempts

[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 should students bring with them to the office
A. A job listing.
B. A resume.
C. A permission slip.
D. Their salary requirements.

[填空题]Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Last year, our nation’s capital passed the murder-a-day mark, and the number of homicides is now up some 50 percent from that level. More than half of these killings are drug-related. In 1988 New York City had its most violent year ever, with 1896 homicides. Many of these in volved drugs. Such homicides are also a problem in Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Phoenix and scores of other cities where drug gangs war against one another and use violence to spread their deadly trade. In Bankhead Courts, and Atlanta housing project, drug-related crime has reached the point where mail carriers have had to depend on increased police patrols at delivery, time. What is happening around us unfolds a vivid picture that the links between drug use and crime are clearly established. According to authoritative governmental study, around three-quarters of crack and heroin users claim they commit crime to feed their habit. I

[单项选择]Questions 19 to 22 are based on the following passage．
Last summer 1 went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer(扫盲志愿者)．the training I received，though excellent，did not tell me how it was to work with a real student，however。When I began to discover what other people’s lives were like because they could not read，I realized the true importance of reading．
My first student Jane was a 44-year-old single mother of three．In the first lesson，I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn’t know which bus to take．When I told her 1 would get her a bus schedule。she told me it would not help because she could not read it．She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket because she couldn’t always remember what she needed. Since she did not know words，she could not write out a shopping list．Also，she could only recognize items by their labels．As a result，if the product had a different label，she
A. she didn’t know which bus went there
B. she liked to walk to the supermarket
C. she lived far away from the bus stop
D. she couldn’t afford the bus ticket

[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 speaker, what is one of the duties of specially trained staff members
A. To build fires.
B. To conduct scientific studies.
C. To train other staff members.
D. To guide nature walks.

[单项选择]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the passage.

The speaker compares the Internet to______.
A. a map
B. cities
C. towns
D. roads

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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.


John Williams likes to ______.
A. live away from human society
B. find a peaceful place to read books
C. make things by himself
D. have a chqt with his friends in his cabin

[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
For many people in the U.S., sports are not just for fun. They are almost a religion. Thousands of sports fans buy expensive tickets to watch their favorite teams and athletes play in (47) . Other fans watch the games at home, not leaving their TV sets a minute. The most (48) sports fans never miss a game. Many a wife becomes a " sports widow" during her husband’s favorite season. America’s devotion to athletics has created a new class of (49) people: professional athletes. Sports stars often receive million-dollar salaries. Some even make big money appearing in (50) for soft drinks, shoes and so on.
Not all Americans (51) sports, but athletics are an important part of their culture. Throughout their school life, Americans learn to play many sports. All students take physical education classes in school. Athletic events at universities attract many

[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.
Which type of recording is the talk most probably
A. A TV weather program on seasonal changes.
B. An informal discussion between friends.
C. An academic presentation at school.
D. An advertisement for a city tour.

[单项选择]Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Millions of Americans are entering their 60s and are more concerned than ever about retirement. They know they need to save, but how much And what exactly are they saving for to spend more time ___36___ the grandkids, go traveling, or start another career It turns out that husbands and wives max have ___37___ different ideas about the subject. The deepest divide is in the way spouses envisage their lifestyle in their later years. Fidelity Investments Inc. found 41 percent of the 500 couples it surveyed ___38___ on whether both or at least one spouse will work in retirement. Wives are generally right regarding their husbands’ retirement age, but men ___39___ the age their wives will be when they stop working. And husbands are slightly more ___40___ about their standard of living than wives are. Busy juggling（穷于应对）careers and families, most couples don’t take time to sit down , ___ 41___ together, and think about

[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Many of us still tend to regard emotions as interfering with rational thought, and sometimes landing us in trouble. But in recent years psychologists have taken quite a different view. Keith Oatley, Professor of psychology at Glasgow University, is involved in the research which shows the fundamental importance of emotions. He believes we are very ambivalent about them: we think of our emotions as being irrational, but we also consider them as essential to being human.
For example, Mr. Spock, a character in the television series Startrek is super-intelligent, and he has no emotions at all! However, he is never made captain of the spaceship. Maybe, this is because Mr. Spock is not the kind of person you can identify with a person who shows his emotions. As Professor Oatley points out, our emotions have very important functions, for example, fear. If we cross the road and a car approaches, we usually freeze

[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.


"One rotten apple spoils the barrel" means ______.
A. rotten apples can bring disorder to people’s health
B. it is hard to choose bad persons from good ones
C. one bad person in a group can influence others
D. Rotten apples should be quickly thrown away