[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.

According to the passage, which statement is INCORRECT
A. The umbrella was first invented as protection against the sun.
B. The first to use the umbrella were probably the Chinese in the 11th centuryB.
C. C. Women’s umbrellas began to be made in the 1900s.
D. The Greeks were the first to use the umbrella against the rain in Europ

[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.
According to the passage, banks create online services to
A. compete for customers.
B. reduce tile size of their staff.
C. provide services for distant clients.
D. expand their operations at a lower cost.

[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.

According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT uae
A. Awards vary in monetary value.
B. Ceremonies are held on December 10 to commemorate Nobel’s invention.
C. Politics can play an important role in selecting the winners.
D. A few individuals have won two awards.

[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.

How did bebop band avoid the performance tax
A. They didn’t use singers.
B. They gave free concerts.
C. They performed in small nightclubs.
D. They shortened the length of their performances.

[单项选择] Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
A proverb allegedly from ancient China was widely spread in the West: "If you want to be happy for a few hours, go to get drunk; if you want a lifetime happiness, take up gardening." The reason for the last option is this: Gardening is not only useful, but it helps you to identify yourself with nature, and thus brings you new joy each day besides improving your health.
A research of a US university that I’ve read gives a definition of happiness as what makes a person feel comfortably pleased. To put it specifically, happiness is an active state of mind where one thinks one’s life is meaningful, satisfactory and comfortable. This should be something lasting rather than transitory.
Lots of people regard it the happiest to be at leisure. But according to a study, it is not a person with plenty of leisure but one at work that feels happy, especially those busy with work having little time for leisure. H
A. The one who has self-esteem and has confidence in himself.
B. The one who is ambitious regardless of his actual situation.
C. The one who can take pleasure in communicating with others.
D. The one who always helps others and also accepts help from others.

[单项选择] Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: "Store in the refrigerator."
In my fridge less Fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceased; fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.
The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast way of well-tried techniques already existed-natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling...
What refrigeration did promote was marketing — marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft
A. Inventors.
B. Consumers.
C. Manufacturers.
D. Traveling salesmen.

[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.
When you are driving a few hours north of Portland, you will travel through ______.
A. Maine’s Oxford, Franklin and New York
B. Maine’s Oxford, Franklin and Somerset counties
C. small towns, rivers and cool lakes
D. Maine’s Oxford, France and north of Portland

[填空题] Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
The Olympic games (often referred to simply as The Olympics or The Games) is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The (47) Olympic Games began in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and was celebrated until AD 393. There are many myths and (48) of the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. The most popular one describes that Hercules was the creator of the Olympic Games, and built the Olympic stadium and surrounding buildings to (49) his father Zeus. The date of the Olympic Games’ beginning based on the count years in Olympiads is reconstructed as 776 BC, although scholars’ opinions differ between dates as early as 884 BC and as late as 704 BC. From then on, the games became much more important throughout ancient Greece, (50) their peak in the sixth and seventh century BC.
Interest in (51) the Olympic Games was fir