Pare A: Short Conversations

Directions: In Part A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers in your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1. A He can't go this weekend.   B He has a hole in his bathing suit.

  C They should stay at the beach longer.    D They shouldn't spend much money.

2. A Turn the alarm off.B Live on a farm. C Move his alarm clock. D Go to bed earlier.

3.A He hasn't and time to find another apartment.

B His mother dusted her apartment the day before last.

C He hasn't cleaned the apartment since his mother visited.

D His mother was the last person to come over to his apartment.

4. A Making a pot of coffee. B Trying different brands of coffee.

   C Drinking less coffee.   D Getting a different coffee pot.

5. A Some music cassettes.  B Some school supplies

C Something to drink.   D Something to eat.

6. A  He has finished his biology project. 

B He'll feel happier when the project is completed.

   C He's annoyed with everyone.  

D He took a nap in biology class.

7.A She knows very little about bicycles.   B She doesn't want the man to study.

  C The man likes to study outdoors.   D The man isn't ready to study yet.

8.A Try to find it in the house        B Repair the roof.

C Lend his friend a pen              D Become extremely angry.

9.A She agrees with the man.           B She didn't hear what the man said.

  C She is surprised by his opinion.    D She thinks he should look at it again.

10.A The weather forecast has often been wrong.  B No more rain is needed

   C It's going to rain today   D They'll have more time tomorrow.

Julie Zingeser texts at home,at school,in the car while her mother is driving.She texts during homework, after pompon(舞绣球)practice and as she walks the family dog.She takes her cellphone with her to bed.Every so often,the hum(嗡嗡声)of a new message wakes the Rockville teen from sleep.“I would die without it,”Julie,15,says of her text life.

This does not surprise her mother, Pam, who on one recent afternoon scanned the phone bill and found her youngest daughter, in one busy month,had sent and received 6,473 text messages.For Pam Zingeser, the key problem is not cost—it's$30 a month for the family’s unlimited texting plan—but the effects of so much messaging.Pam wonders:What will this generation learn and what will they lose in the endless stream of sentence fragments(碎片),abbreviations and emoticons?

     Parents, educators, and researchers are sharing similar concerns as text messaging has exploded across the formative years of the nation's youngest generation. Teens now do more texting on their cellphones than calling. Nationally, more than 75 billion text messages are sent a month, and the craziest texters are 13 to 17. Teens with cellphones average 2,272 text messages a month, compared with 203 calls, according to the Nielsen Co.

    The tap,tap,tap of connectivity can benefit teenagers at a time in life when they cannot always get together in art unscheduled way.Texters are “sharing a sense of  69  ,”said Mimi Ito of the University of California at Irvine.For families, the text world call bring convenience as never before in arranging tides,doing errands(差事),letting parents know of changing plans.

    But some experts say there are downsides,starting with declines in spelling,word choice and writing complexity.Some suggest too much texting is related to an inability to focus.

1.The first paragraph mainly tells us that Julie Zingeser __________

    A.joins in all kinds of activities

    B.sends and receives texts all the time

C.does nothing besides texting

D.does everything by texting

2.Pare disapproves of her daughter's texting because she worries that it may be ________

    A.a waste of money

    B.a waste of time

    C.harmful in every way

D.bad for language learning

3.The underlined phrase "the formative years" in the 3rd paragraph refers to the period when ________

A.someone's character develops

B.someone experiments with new things

C.someone learns to speak

D.someone grows from baby into adult

4.The word missing in the blank in the 4th paragraph must be _______

A.independence                            B.overexcitement

C.co-presence                             D.non-attendance

5.The original title of the article should be: “6,473 Texts a Month, But _______”.

A.at What Cost?                             B.What for?

C.Who Cares?                                D.How Could lt Be?

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