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M: Hello, Susan, come in and take a seat.
W: Thank you.
M: The reason I want to see you is I’m worried about your grades. Last year you were a straight-A student, but over the last semester you hardly even get any B’s. I know that you’re a very bright student, so I wondered if you had any problem.
W: Thank you for your concern, Dr. Brown. I know I could be doing better, but my husband is working full-time now, so he can’t look after the kids so much. I always end up writing my assignments with two kids running round the room.
M: There is a kindergarten in the downtown campus. Why don’t you drop your kids in the kindergarten and then go and do your assignments in the library
W: Thank you. Maybe I’ll try that.

What does the man suggest （）
A. He suggests Susan put her children in a day care center in the downtown school.
B. He suggests Susan put her children in a kindergarten.
C. He suggests Susan put her children in a downtown school.
D. He suggests Susan take her children to a park downtown.

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M: Hello, Susan, come in and take a seat.
W: Thank you.
M: The reason I want to see you is I’m worried about your grades. Last year you were a straight-A student, but over the last semester you hardly even get any B’s. I know that you’re a very bright student, so I wondered if you had any problem.
W: Thank you for your concern, Dr. Brown. I know I could be doing better, but my husband is working full-time now, so he can’t look after the kids so much. I always end up writing my assignments with two kids running round the room.
M: There is a kindergarten in the downtown campus. Why don’t you drop your kids in the kindergarten and then go and do your assignments in the library
W: Thank you. Maybe I’ll try that.

Why are Susan’s grades poor （）
A. Her children disturb her when she is writing her homework.
B. Her husband can’t take care of the dogs.
C. The children are unhappy when she writes her homework.
D. Her children are sick.

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M: Hello, Susan. What’s worth watching this evening
W: Well, Tom, let me see. And it’s a very good night on all channels. After the news at 7:00 on BTV 1. I think my first recommendation would be. the Life program at 8:30 under the title Good Husband Contest. It’s an amazing program. Some forty top candidates have been elected from 3,600 husbands registered for the contest.
M: Well, it sounds well worth watching.
W: Now, after that and still on BTV 1 at 9: 05 there’s a documentary special. It’s called Chinese Mothers.
M: Really It sounds interesting.
W: Over on Channel BTV 2 at 7:40 there is an eight-part series called There Is Sea over the Mountain and...
M: Now, anything for music7
W: Yes. China Music after that series at 9:20 and on BTV 3 at 8:18 there is a live telecast of the May Day Party featuring famous songs from 1950s and 1960s. Veteran singers Guo Song, Ma Yutao, Li Shuangjiang and Li

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It doesn’t take an Einstein to recognize that Albert Einstein’s brain was very different from yours and mine. The gray matter housed inside that shaggy head managed to revolutionize our concepts of time, space, motion — the very foundations of physical reality — not just once but several times during his astonishing career. Yet while there clearly had to be something remarkable about Einstein’s brain, the pathologist who removed it from the great physicist’s skull after his death reported that the organ was, to all appearances, well within the normal range — no bigger or heavier than anyone else’s.
But a new analysis of Einstein’s brain by Canadian scientists reveals that it has some distinctive physical characteristics after all. A portion of the brain that governs mathematical ability and spatial reasoning — two key ingredients to the sort of thinking Einstein did best — was significantly larger than aver
A. provided
B. founded
C. stored
D. placed

[填空题]There are also people who’ve come to take such courses as Chinese (tradition)
（）medicine, painting, calligraphy and photography.

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M: Hello! Can I speak to Susan, please
W: Speaking. Is that you, Tom
M: Yes, it is. I am going to New Zealand in two weeks’ time, and my wife is going with me.
W: Oh, how lucky you are! How long are you going for .....
M: For a couple of months, maybe half a year. My boss wants me to help set up a branch company there. Well, Susan, you have been to New Zealand several times. Can you give us some suggestions or just tell us something about that country
W: I’d love to. We can have a talk sometime.
M: Why not come over to dinner in my house this weekend. My wife wants to meet you as well.
W: All right. What about Saturday
M: OK. See you at 6:00 p. m. , this coming Saturday. Goodbye!

When is Tom going to New Zealand（　）.
A. In two weeks.
B. In a couple of months.
C. In half a year.