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第一节

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

W：Oh, Michael…I didn’t tell you．My sister phoned yesterday．She wants to get married．

M：Married! She’s only seventeen．

1．What does Michael think of the woman’s sister?

A．She is not old enough to get married．

B．She is too old to get married．

C．She is married．

M：Waitress! I’d like the menu, please．

W：Here you are, sir．

2．Where is the man?

A．In a bookstore．

B．In a train station．

C．In a restaurant．

M：Has the TV been repaired?

W：Yes．We’d expected the repairs to cost us about 　　　　 dollars, but they charged us twice as much．

3．How much did the lady pay?

A．＄15．

B．＄20．

C．＄30．

M：Hello, Jane．How lucky to run into you．Can you and Tom come to dinner tomorrow evening?

W：I think so．I don’t think we’re going out．

4．How does the woman respond?

A．She refuses to go to dinner．

B．She agrees to go to dinner．

C．She is angry．

M：I have to go to class because I have a test, but if I could, I’d go with you to the cinema．

W：That’s too bad．I wish that you could come along．

5．Where is the man going?

A．To class．

B．To the cinema．

C．To the doctor’s office．

第二节

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6～8题。

M：Hello, Mrs Smith．How are you?

W：Fine, thanks, Mr Downs．How’s your boy, Jack?

M：He is a bit tired．You know, he goes to school at eight o’clock every morning．He doesn’t get home till after four．Then he does his homework after ten．It often takes him a couple of hours to finish it．

W：Poor boy．Children work hard at school nowadays, don’t they? Does he like it?

M：School, you mean? Yes, he does．He likes his teachers, and that always makes a difference．

W：Yes, it does．Does he go to school by bus?

M：No, he walks．He likes walking．He meets some of his friends at the corner and they go together．

W：What does he do when it rains?

M：His uncle takes him in the car．He passes the school on the way to the office．

6．What are the two talking about?

A．Mrs Smith．

B．Mr Downs．

C．Mr Downs’ son．

7．How long does a school day last?

A．At least 8 hours．

B．About 6 hours．

C．Nearly 7 hours．

8．How does Jack usually go to school?

A．By bus．

B．On foot．

C．By car．

听第7段材料，回答第9～11题。

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 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!

9．Who answered the phone?

A．Tom．

B．Tom’s wife．

C．Susan．

10．When are they going to New Zealand?

A．In half a year．

B．In a couple of months．

C．In two weeks．

11．Where are they going to meet?

A．At Susan’s．

B．At Tom’s．

C．In New Zealand．

听第8段材料，回答第12～14题。

M：As you can see, Maria, the railway station is very crowded during rush hours．

W：How many people do you suppose ride into New York every day to work?

M：I don’t know．Must be several hundred thousand at least．Maybe a million．

W：I’m glad they’re not all taking this train．

M：Oh, they come from all directions, and by many different means, by railroads, ferries and subways．Then of course, some people drive in．

W：I’m a little afraid I’ll get lost．

M：You’ll soon learn that New York is a very easy city to get around．

W：Let’s see, the “Avenues” run north and south and the “Streets” run east and west, don’t they?

M：That’s right．You won’t get lost when you travel alone．

W：I hope not．

12．What can Maria see?

A．Many trains．

B．Many planes．

C．Many people．

13．What’s the woman afraid of?

A．Driving in．

B．Taking ferries(摆渡)．

C．Getting lost．

14．What kind of city is New York, according to the man?

A．An easy city to get around．

B．A city full of subways．

C．A city difficult to get around．

听第9段材料，回答第15～17题。

W：Good afternoon．

M：Good afternoon．My name’s William Turner．I want to make an appointment to see Dr Smith please．

W：Yes, of course, Mr Turner．May I have your address please?

M：108 Park Road, London．

W：Yes, we have you on our records．Can you manage this afternoon at 3：00?

M：Fine．

W：Will 3：00 be all right?

M：Well, yes, but I prefer a later time so I can come along after work．

W：Then what about 5：30?

M：Well, that’s fine．Thank you．Goodbye．

W：Goodbye．

15．Who is William Turner?

A．A close friend of Dr Smith’s．

B．A patient of Dr Smith’s．

C．Both A and B．

16．When will Mr Turner go to see Dr Smith?

A．At 4∶00 p. m．

B．At 5∶00 p. m．

C．At 5∶30 p. m．

17．What’s the main idea of this dialogue?

A．Mr Turner wants to make an appointment with Dr Smith．

B．Mr Turner will go to see Dr Smith at 5∶30 p. m．

C．Mr Turner is a patient of Dr Smith’s．

听第10段材料，回答第18～20题。

If a Chinese comes to England and wants to drive his car there, he must know the English rules of the road and the English traffic signs．One rule is that he must always drive on the left．Another rule is that he mustn’t drive faster than thirty mph through town and villages．If he does not pay attention to this speed limit, the police will soon be after him．The third rule is that cars on the main road have right of way．It is not easy to drive in London, because the traffic is so busy and buses and trucks sometimes block the roads．It is much less difficult to find your way if you go by one of the red buses or the underground．There are bus stops at every street corner．And if you cannot find one, ask a policeman．He will help you at once．

18．On which side of the road are cars driven in England?

A．On the left．

B．On the right．

C．The passage doesn’t tell about that．

19．What can we know from the passage?

A．We know police in England are often after you．

B．We know police in England are often helpful．

C．We know police in England are often impolite．

20．What’s the best title for this passage?

A．English Traffic

B．Come to England

C．Traffic Rules

情景对话

W：　　1　　

M：Yes, he has．He sold it last week．

W：Has he moved into his new house yet?

M：No, not yet．He's still here．　　2　　

W：When? Tomorrow morning?

M：No, tomorrow afternoon．I shall miss him．　　3　　

W：He's a very nice person．　　4　　

M：When will the new people move into his house?

W：I think they will move in the day after tomorrow．

M：Poor Mr．West! 　　5　　

W：No, he didn't want to, but his wife did．

A．He's always a good neighbor．

B．Has Mr．West sold his house yet?

C．He didn't want to leave his house．

D．He's going to move tomorrow．

E．We shall miss him．

F．His new house was very beautiful．

G．He always refused to help us．

On the 36th day after they had voted, Americans finally learned Wednesday who would be their next president: Governor George W. Bush of Texas.

Vice President Al Gore, his last realistic avenue for legal challenge closed by a U. S. Supreme Court decision late Tuesday, planned to end the contest formally in a televised evening speech of perhaps 10 minutes, advisers said.

They said that Senator Joseph Lieberman, his vice presidential running mate, would first make brief comments. The men would speak from a ceremonial chamber of the Old Executive office Building, to the west of the White House.

The dozens of political workers and lawyers who had helped lead Mr. Gore’s unprecedented fight to claw a come-from-behind electoral victory in the pivotal state of Florida were thanked Wednesday and asked to stand down.

“The vice president has directed the recount committee to suspend activities,” William Daley, the Gore campaign chairman, said in a written statement.

Mr. Gore authorized that statement after meeting with his wife, Tipper, and with top advisers including Mr. Daley.

He was expected to telephone Mr. Bush during the day. The Bush campaign kept a low profile and moved gingerly, as if to leave space for Mr. Gore to contemplate his next steps.

Yet, at the end of a trying and tumultuous process that had focused world attention on sleepless vote counters across Florida, and on courtrooms form Miami to Tallahassee to Atlanta to Washington the Texas governor was set to become the 43d U. S. president.

The news of Mr. Gore’s plans followed the longest and most rancorous dispute over a U. S. presidential election in more than a century, one certain to leave scars in a badly divided country.

It was a bitter ending for Mr. Gore, who had outpolled Mr. Bush nationwide by some 300000 votes, but, without Florida, fell short in the Electoral College by 271votes to 267—the narrowest Electoral College victory since the turbulent election of 1876.

Mr. Gore was said to be distressed by what he and many Democratic activists felt was a partisan decision from the nation’s highest court.

The 5-to –4 decision of the Supreme Court held, in essence, that while a vote recount in Florida could be conducted in legal and constitutional fashion, as Mr. Gore had sought, this could not be done by the Dec. 12 deadline for states to select their presidential electors.

James Baker 3rd, the former secretary of state who represented Mr. Bush in the Florida dispute, issued a short statement after the U. S. high court ruling, saying that the governor was “very pleased and gratified.”

Mr. Bush was planning a nationwide speech aimed at trying to begin to heal the country’s deep, aching and varied divisions. He then was expected to meet with congressional leaders, including Democrats. Dick Cheney, Mr. Bush’s ruing mate, was meeting with congressmen Wednesday in Washington.

When Mr. Bush, who is 54, is sworn into office on Jan.20, he will be only the second son of a president to follow his father to the White House, after John Adams and John Quincy Adams in the early 19th century.

Mr. Gore, in his speech, was expected to thank his supporters, defend his hive-week battle as an effort to ensure, as a matter of principle, that every vote be counted, and call for the nation to join behind the new president. He was described by an aide as “resolved and resigned.”

While some constitutional experts had said they believed states could present electors as late as Dec. 18, the U. S. high court made clear that it saw no such leeway.

The U.S. high court sent back “for revision” to the Florida court its order allowing recounts but made clear that for all practical purposes the election was over.

In its unsigned main opinion, the court declared, “The recount process, in its features here described, is inconsistent with the minimum procedures necessary to protect the fundamental right of each voter.”

That decision, by a court fractured along philosophical lines, left one liberal justice charging that the high court’s proceedings bore a political taint.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in an angry dissent:” Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the law.”

But at the end of five seemingly endless weeks, during which the physical, legal and constitutional machines of the U. S. election were pressed and sorely tested in ways unseen in more than a century, the system finally produced a result, and one most Americans appeared to be willing at lease provisionally to support.

The Bush team welcomed the news with an outward show of restraint and aplomb. The governor’s hopes had risen and fallen so many times since Election night, and the legal warriors of each side suffered through so many dramatic reversals, that there was little energy left for celebration.

The main idea of this passage is

[A]. Bush’s victory in presidential election bore a political taint.

[B]. The process of the American presidential election.

[C]. The Supreme Court plays a very important part in the presidential election.

[D]. Gore is distressed.

What does the sentence “as if to leave space for Mr. Gore to contemplate his next step” mean

[A]. Bush hopes Gore to join his administration.

[B]. Bush hopes Gore to concede defeat and to support him.

[C]. Bush hopes Gore to congraduate him.

[D]. Bush hopes Gore go on fighting with him.

Why couldn’t Mr. Gore win the presidential election after he outpolled Mr. Bush in the popular vote? Because

[A]. the American president is decided by the supreme court’s decision.

[B]. people can’t directly elect their president.

[C]. the American president is elected by a slate of presidential electors.

[D]. the people of each state support Mr. Bush.

What was the result of the 5—4 decision of the supreme court?

[A]. It was in fact for the vote recount.

[B]. It had nothing to do with the presidential election.

[C]. It decided the fate of the winner.

[D]. It was in essence against the vote recount.

What did the “turbulent election of 1876” imply?

[A]. The process of presidential election of 2000 was the same as that.

[B]. There were great similarities between the two presidential elections (2000 and 1876).

[C]. It was compared to presidential election of 2000.

[D]. It was given an example.

Memphis is the largest city in the southern State of Tennessee, USA. The Mississippi River flows along the west side of the city. Memphis is the chief center of business, industry and transportation in Tennessee.
650,000 people live in the city. More than one million people live in the area. Like many other American cities, Memphis has had racial problems. About forty-eight percent of the city’s population is African American. In 1968, city workers who collected waste went on strike. Most of the workers were black. The famous civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior went to Memphis to support the workers. On April 4^th, King was murdered in Memphis by James Earl Ray. After Mr. King’s death, the city worked to improve living conditions for black people. In 1991, voters elected W.E.Herenton the city’s first black mayor. The same year, Memphis opened the National Civil Rights Museum. It was built next to the place where Martin Luther King was killed. Many people visit the museum to learn about the history of the American civil rights movement. Today, people from across the United States and around the world visit Memphis,where tourism has become a major industry.
【小题1】.
There are about African Americans living in Memphis.

【小题2】.
Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Martin Luther King was killed in the city of Memphis by James Earl Ray in 1968.

B．W.E.Herenton was elected the first black mayor of Memphis in 1991.

C．Memphis opened the National Civil Rights Museum in 1991.

D．Martin Luther King was elected mayor of Memphis.

【小题3】.
The title for the passage should be .

A．How to fight against slavery	B．National Civil Rights Museum
C．Memphis	D．A black mayor

Memphis is the largest city in the southern State of Tennessee, USA. The Mississippi River flows along the west side of the city. Memphis is the chief center of business, industry and transportation in Tennessee.

650,000 people live in the city. More than one million people live in the area. Like many other American cities, Memphis has had racial problems. About forty-eight percent of the city’s population is African American. In 1968, city workers who collected waste went on strike. Most of the workers were black. The famous civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior went to Memphis to support the workers. On April 4^th, King was murdered in Memphis by James Earl Ray. After Mr. King’s death, the city worked to improve living conditions for black people. In 1991, voters elected W.E.Herenton the city’s first black mayor. The same year, Memphis opened the National Civil Rights Museum. It was built next to the place where Martin Luther King was killed. Many people visit the museum to learn about the history of the American civil rights movement. Today, people from across the United States and around the world visit Memphis,where tourism has become a major industry.

1..

There are about African Americans living in Memphis.

A. 312,000 B. 480,000 C. 650,000 D. 1,000,000

2..

Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Martin Luther King was killed in the city of Memphis by James Earl Ray in 1968.

B. W.E.Herenton was elected the first black mayor of Memphis in 1991.

C. Memphis opened the National Civil Rights Museum in 1991.

D. Martin Luther King was elected mayor of Memphis.

3..

The title for the passage should be .

A. How to fight against slavery B. National Civil Rights Museum

C. Memphis D. A black mayor

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