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1、Section A11W: This is one of our best and least expensive two-bedroom listings. Its located in a quiet building and its close to bus lines.M: That maybe true. But look at it, its awful, the paint has peeled off and carpet is worn and the stove is ancient.Q: What can we infer from the conversation?12

2、M: The pictures we took at the botanical garden should be ready tomorrow.W: I cant wait to see them, Im wondering if the shots I took are as good as I thought.Q: What is the woman eager to know?13W: The handle of the suitcase is broken. Can you have it fixed by next Tuesday?M: Let me see, I need to

3、find a handle that matches but that shouldnt take too long.Q: What does the man mean?14M: This truck looks like what I need but Im worried about maintenance. For us itll have to operate for long periods of time in very cold temperatures.W: We have several models that are especially adaptive for extr

4、eme conditions. Would you like to see them?Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?15M: I think your boss would be very upset when he gets your letter of resignation.W: That may be so. But in the letter, I just told him frankly I could no longer live with his poor management and stup

5、id decisions.Q: What do we learn about the woman?16W Id like to exchange the shirt. Ive learned that the person bought it for allergic to wool.M Maybe we can find something in cotton or silk. Please come this way.Q；What does the women want to do？17M: Excuse me, Miss？Did anyone happen to turn in a ne

6、w handbag? You know, its a birthday gift for my wife.W: Let me see. Oh, weve got quite a lot of womens bags here. Can you give me more detailed information, such as the color, the size and the trademark?Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place?18M What are you going to do with the ol

7、d house you are in heritage from your grandfather?W I once intended to sell it, but now, Im thinking of turning it into a guest house, because its still a solid structure.Q: What does the man plan to do with his old house?W: When you write a novel, do you know where youre going, Dr. James?M: Yes, yo

8、u must, really, if youre writing the classical detective story, because it must be so carefully plotted and so carefully clued. I have schemes. I have charts. I have diagrams. It doesnt mean to say that I always get it right, but I do plan before I begin writing. But what is so fascinating is how a

9、book changes during the process of writing. It seems to me that creative writing is a process of revelation, really, rather than of creativity in the ordinary sense.W: When youre planning the basic structure, do you like to go away to be sure that youre by yourself?M: I need to be by myself certainl

10、y, absolutely. I cant even bare anybody else in the house. I dont mind much where I am as long as Ive got enough space to write, but I need to be completely alone.W: Is that very important to you?M: Oh, yes. Ive never been lonely in all my life.W: How extraordinary! Never?M: No, never.W: Youre very

11、lucky. Someone once said that theres a bit of ice at the heart of every writer.M: Yes. I think this is true. The writer can stand aside from experience and look at it, watch it happening. There is this detachment and I realize that there are obviously experiences which would overwhelm everyone. But

12、very often, a writer can appear to stand aside, and this detachment makes people feel theres a bit of ice in the heart.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. What is the key to write a good classical detective story according to the man?20. What does the man mainly

13、need when working on a book?21. What does the man say about writers?W: There is an element there about competition then, isnt there? Because British railways are a nationalized industry. Theres only one railway system in the country. If you dont like a particular kind of big beans, you can go and bu

14、y another. But if you dont like a particular railway, you cant go and use another.M: Some people who write to me say this. They say that if you didnt have monopoly, you wouldnt be able to do the things you do. Well, I dont think we do anything deliberately to upset our customers. We have particular

15、problems. Since 1946, when the Transport Act came in, we were nationalized.W: Do you think thats a good thing? Has it been a good thing for the railways, do you think, to be nationalized?M: Oh I think so, yes. Because in general, modes of transport are all around. Lets face the fact. The car arrived

16、. The car is here to stay. There is no question about that.W: So what are you saying then? Is it if the railways happen being nationalized, they would simply have disappeared?M: Oh, I think they would have. Theyre disappearing fast in America. Er, the French railways lose 1 billion ponds a year. The

17、 German railways, 2 billion ponds a year. But you see, those governments are preparing to pour money into the transport system to keep it going.W: So in a sense, you cope between two extremes. On the one hand, youre trying not to lose too much money. And on the other hand, youve got to provide the b

18、est service.M: Yes, you are right.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22. What does the woman say about British railways?23. What do some people who write to the man complain about?24. What does the man say threatens the existence of railways?25. What does the man sa

19、y about railways in other countries? Section BPassage OneAmong global warmings most frightening threats is the prediction is that the polar ice-caps will melt, raising sea level so much that coastal cities from New York to Los Angles to Shanghai will be flooded. Scientists agree that key player in t

20、his scenario is the West Antarctic ice sheet, a Brazil-size mass of frozen water that is much as 7000 feet thick. Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface. Surrounded by open ocean, it is also

21、 vulnerable, but Antarctic experts disagree strongly on just how unstable it is. Now, new evidence reveals that all or most of the Antarctic ice sheet collapsed at least once during the past 1.3 million years, a period when global temperatures probably were not significantly higher than they are tod

22、ay. And the ice sheet was assumed to have been stable. In geological time, a million years is recent history. The proof, which was published last week in Science, comes from a team of scientists from Uppsala University in Sweden and California Institute of Technology who drew deep holes near the edg

23、e of ice sheet. Within samples collected from the solid substances lying beneath the ice. They found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once open ocean not solid ice. As Herman Engleheart, a co-author from the California Institute of Technology says, the West Anta

24、rctic ice sheet disappear once and can disappear again.26. What is one of the most frightening threats of global warming according to the passage?27. What did scientists disagree on?28. What is the latest information revealed about the West Antarctic ice sheet?29. What the scientists latest findings

25、 suggest?Passage TwoIts always fun to write about research that you can actually try out for yourself.Try this: Take a photo and upload it to Facebook, then after a day or so, note what the URL link to the picture is and then delete it. Come back a month later and see if the link works. Chances are:

26、 It will.Facebook isnt alone here. Researchers at Cambridge University have found that nearly half of the social networking sites dont immediately delete pictures when a user requests they be removed. In general, photo-centric websites like Flickr were found to be better at quickly removing deleted

27、photos upon request.Why do deleted photos stick around so long? The problem relates to the way data is stored on large websites: While your personal computer only keeps one copy of a file, large-scale services like Facebook rely on what are called content delivery networks to manage data and distrib

28、ution. Its a complex system wherein data is copied to multiple intermediate devices, usually to speed up access to files when millions of people are trying to access the service at the same time. But because changes arent reflected across the content delivery networks immediately, ghost copies of fi

29、les tend to linger for days or weeks.In the case of Facebook, the company says data may hang around until the URL in question is reused, which is usually after a short period of time, though obviously that time can vary considerably.30. What does the speaker ask us to try out?31. What accounts for t

30、he failure of some websites to remove photos immediately?32. When will the unwanted data eventually disappear from Facebook according to the company?Passage ThreeEnjoying an iced coffee? Better skip dinner or hit the gym afterwards, with a cancer charity warning that some iced coffees contain as man

31、y calories as a hot dinner.The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) conducted a survey of iced coffees sold by some popular chains in Britain including Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa Coffee to gauge the calories as studies increasingly link obesity with cancer.The worst offender - a coffee from Starbu

32、cks - had 561 calories. Other iced coffees contained more than 450 calories and the majority had an excess of 200.Health experts advise that the average woman should consume about 2,000 calories a day and a man about 2,500 calories to maintain a healthy weight. Dieters aim for 1,000 to 1,500 calorie

33、s a dayThe fact that there is an iced coffee on the market with over a quarter of a womans daily calories allowance is alarming, Dr Rachel Thompson, science programme manager at London-based WCRF, said in a widely-reported statement.This is the amount of calories you might expect to have in an eveni

34、ng meal, not in a drink.The WCRF has estimated that 19,000 cancers a year in Britain could be prevented if people lost their excess weight with growing evidence that excess body fat increases the risk of various cancers.If you are having these types of coffee regularly then they will increase the ch

35、ances of you becoming overweight, which in turn increases your risk of developing cancer, as well as other diseases such as heart disease. she added.33. What warning did some health experts give?34. What does the author suggest people do after they have an iced coffee?35. What could British people e

36、xpect if they maintain a normal body weight according to the WCRF? Section CPsychologists are finding that hope plays a surprisingly vital role in giving people a measurable advantage in rounds as diverse as academic achievement, bearing up in tough jobs, and coping with tragic illness. And, by cont

37、rast, the loss of hope, is turning out to be a stronger sign that a person may commit suicide than other factors long thought to be more likely risks. Hope has proven a powerful predictor of outcome in every study weve done so far, said Doctor Charles R. Snyder, a psychologist, who has devised a sca

38、le to assess how much hope a person has. For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or the

39、ir grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance. Students with high hope set themselves higher goals and know how to work to attain them, Doctor Snyder said. When you compare students of equivalent intelligence and past academic achievements

40、, what sets them apart is hope. In devising a way to assess hope scientifically, Doctor Snyder went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right. That notion is not concrete enough and it blurs two key components of hope, Doctor Snyder said, Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be.