[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Do you want to live forever By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish — providing you are willing to leave your biological body and take up residence in silicon circuits. But long before then, perhaps as early as 2005, less radical measures will begin offering as semblance (外表) of immortality.
Researchers are confident that technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life. Whatever you see and hear, plus all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and automatically indexed, and added to your personal chronicles (历代记 ). By the 2030s, it may be possible to capture your nervous system’s electrical activities, which would also preserve your thoughts and emotions. Researchers at the Laboratories of British Telecommunications have defined this concept as Soul Catcher.
Small electronic equipment will pave the way for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps
A. a new machine on which radical research measures have already made
B. a new invention in order to capture and preserve human thoughts
C. made by British scientists to offer a semblance of immortality
D. made of silicon circuits which can index people’s nervous activity

[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

[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.
How many artists created the works of art
A. 3,300.
B. 1,200.
C. 10.
D. 1,000.

[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.
We can learn from the passage that ______
A. the solar water heaters are very difficult to build
B. the system has been widely used
C. the system is based on a design developed in Arabia
D. the solar water heater consists of three parts

[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.
What’s the response of the assistant director of Alcohol Concern Association toward the findings of the study
A. To her the result is unexpected.
B. She feels sorry for the findings.
C. It is not a surprise.
D. It is exciting and inspiring.

[单项选择]Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
The better defined your hiring process is, the more easily it will be adhered to. I suggest that you use a multi-stage interviewing process by which the candidate meets with multiple people to provide different opinions and input on the hiring-decision. Again, keep all notes taken during the interview. These notes should be factual and should detail observations made by the people conducting the interview as well as quotations of the candidate’s responses to questions. There should be no inferences made about a candidate in any notes, and no notes should betaken on a, resume (简历).
Pre-determine three to six questions that will help you uncover the capability of each applicant and ask those same questions to each person that is interviewed. These initial questions will serve as a departure point to base other follow-up questions on. By using the same question in different ways and you will also
A. it’s boring for a candidate to wait more than 72 hours to know the result of an interview
B. it’s too long to keep a candidate waiting over 72 hours to know the result of the interview
C. it’s necessary for a candidate to wait 72 more hours because it takes time to make decisions
D. it’s outdated to inform the candidates the result of the interview after more than 72 hours

[填空题] Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
The partnership between humans and animals dates back to the first domestication of animals in the Stone Age, as long as 9,000 years ago. But never have animals provided such (47) and particular help to humans as they do today in the form of trained (48) to people with disabilities. These animals, usually dogs, help people (49) tasks that would otherwise be difficult or even impossible. Service animals are not (50) but working animals doing a job; thus, (51) such as the Americans with Disabilities Act(1990) in the United States and the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) in the United Kingdom make service animals exempt from rules that (52) animals from public places and business.
The most familiar service animals are guide dogs whose job is to help people with (53) weakness or disability move about safely. Systematic training of

[单项选择] Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
The most pressing nuclear energy issue is the disposal of nuclear waste. Even if all the reactors in existence were completely safe to operate, there would still be unsolved issue of what to do with the waste from generating electricity by means of nuclear energy. Those who claim that they feel comfortable with nuclear energy are, none the less, concerned about waste disposal methods. Seven states, including California, have put the building of nuclear plants on hold until legislators are convinced that there is a safe way to dispose of the radioactive waste from the plants.
In the meantime, pools of liquid waste and piles of solid waste from private industry and governmental bomb production grow. Since 1962, the volume of radioactive waste produced by the nuclear power industry has amounted to about 4,300 cubic meters. By the end of the twentieth century, if production continues at the same rate, there wil
A. effects of high-level radiation
B. operation of nuclear power plants
C. fallout from the explosion of nuclear weapons
D. various sources of radioactive wastes

[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 can we know about the Department of Education in Britain
A. It exercises direct control on the universities.
B. It takes responsibility for the whole expenditure of the universities.
C. It scarcely takes the advice of the University Grants Committee.
D. It has little influence on new developments of the university.