Not only ____ strict with us, but also ____ for us.

--- Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?

--- I have seldom had any chance to come back to the hometown ____ I was sent to Beijing ____ the project.

 --- Is there any possibility of the film ____ in Paris International Festival?

--- Not in the least, because the audience generally think little of it.

 People have lots of problems living in the central Australian desert, ____ the lack of water is the most serious one.

 ____ of the land in that district ____ covered with trees and grass.

 To tell the truth, I would rather that I ____ the pain instead of you. You don’t know how worried I was.

 I don’t think you should mention it at the beginning of the story, or it may ____ the shocking ending.

第一节 语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出所给单词的正确读音，并在答

题卡上将该选项涂黑。

1. glove          A. prove         B. polar        C. discovery      D. plot

2. technique      A. helicopter      B. fist        C. bicycle         D. mosquito

3. export         A. explanation    B. extreme     C. experiment     D. exist

4. wisdom        A. fasten         B. purpose     C. phrase        D. focus

5. castle         A. climate        B. advantage    C. marine       D. franc

M: How are your new neighbors, Nancy?

W: They seem nice enough, but they have a son who’s driving me

crazy.

M:    6  

W: He comes home every night around 10 with his car window rolled

down and radio turned up really loud.    7   But by then Brian and Lisa are wide awake.

M: Oh, no.

W: Oh, yes. Sometimes it takes us until midnight just to get them to

settle down again.

M:    8  

W: We haven’t even really met them yet except to say a quick hello.

M: You are not going to like them when you do meet them, I dare say.

W: I know, but I feel stupid complaining.    9   I’m just not getting

enough sleep and neither are the children.

M:    10  

W: Yeah.

M: Then you could mention that the hardest thing at present is getting

your children to sleep at night.

E. Well, you know how early I have to get up to be here at the office.

F. Don’t get your hopes too high!

G. It stops as soon as he turns the car off.

Brian told you that there wasn’t anyone in the room at that time,

___________?