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W: There’re a lot more people than usual in the departure hall.
M: The plane was to take off at 9:30 a.m., but half an hour before boarding, the passengers heard the announcement that their flight would be delayed until 10:50 a.m. due to stormy weather.

How long was the plane to be delayed （）
A. 30 minutes.
B. 50 minutes.
C. 70 minutes.
D. 80 minutes.

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[填空题]Happy people tend to talk more than unhappy people, but when they do, it tends to be less small talk and more substance. A group of (36) from the University of Arizona and Washington University in St. Louis set out to find whether happy and unhappy people (37) in the types of conversations they tend to have. For their study, volunteers wore an (38) recording device called the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) over four days. The device (39) records pieces of sounds as participants go about their lives. The EAR (40) 30 seconds of sounds every 12.5 minutes (41) a total of more than 20, 000 recordings. Researchers then listened to the recordings and (42) the conversations as small talk discussions. In addition, the volunteers completed (43) and well-being assessments.
Here’s what the researchers found: The happiest participants spent 25 percent less time alone and 70 percent more time talk

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W: Advertising on TV will cost a lot of money than on newspaper.
M: But for a new product, such expenses are absolutely necessary.

What does the man think of advertising on TV（）
A. It’s necessary.
B. It’s quick.
C. It’s cheap.
D. It’s wide spread.

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W: What are the historical trends with respect to marriage and family
M: The "traditional nuclear family", consisting of a breadwinner-husband and a homemaker-wife raising children, was the norm for most households in the United States in the 1950s. In these traditional families, married couples were usually of the same religion, the same race, and the same socio-economic class, and they were supposed to live together for the rest of their lives even if the relationship was abusive or dysfunctional. Times have changed. Today, the "Ozzie and Harriet" family constitutes only about 10 percent of all families (1). Family diversity is now the norm, with 25% of households consisting of adults living alone, and the rest made up of people living in a variety of family structures, such as dual-income families, single-parent families, step-families, inter-racial families, inter-faith families, foster families, cohabiting
A. 10%
B. 25%.
C. 35%.
D. 50%.