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If you drive from the airport, go on the motorway and follow the______. A.designs B.signs
A.A.designs
B.B.signs
C.C.ways
D.D.points
A.A.designs
B.B.signs
C.C.ways
D.D.points
SECTION B PASSAGES
Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文: [11] The market is a concept. [12] If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor or some to the manager of the local supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them. If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steelworker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, [12] he is producing goods or service for the market. When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations, and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market. The market may seem to be something abstract. But for each person or business who is making and selling something, it's very real. [13] If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won't be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It's telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn't want you to do.
What is the passage mainly about?
A.Selling and buying.
B.What is the market?
C.Everything you do is producing for the market.
D.What the market can do for you?
A.To pull a train.
B.To drive a paddle steamboat.
C.To get water from ground and turn the wheels of mills.
D.To do nothing.
A.It is very beautiful when the sun rises.
B.A person needs experience to appreciate the beauty.
C.It is more beautiful when there is some fog around it.
D.It looks very romantic when you drive past it.
What reason does the man give for not visiting his parents?
A.He lives too far away from them.
B.He doesn't get along with them.
C.He has been too busy with work.
D.He doesn't have a car to drive there.
SECTION B PASSAGES
Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文: In an attempt to resist the rising cost of fuel and fight the pollution choking our cities, many outgoing students have taken to riding bicycles to school. The unfortunate result of this otherwise positive trend is the traffic problems caused by bicycles having to share the road with cars. Unfortunately, traffic accidents involving bicycles are on the increase throughout the country, so this new solution has led to a dilemma.
To solve this dilemma, special bike paths have been created on most roads leading to and from college campuses. It is essential that cyclists stay on those paths. It is necessary for the safety of those of you who ride bicycles as well as the motorists that you share the road with.
Obviously, it may be inconvenient to ride in the bike paths at times, but we must insist on it. To enforce the necessity of staying on the paths, there are fines for bicyclists who ride down the middle of the street. The federal fines are currently running at $ 25 for a first time violation, but if the law is continually violated, the fines will increase by different amounts depending on your local ordinances.
The money that is collected from the fines will go towards a fund to help build better bike paths. You may have special bicycle bridges in your neighborhood right now. If not, you can count on seeing them in the future. We are committed to making bicycling a safe alternative to using cars and we appreciate your help in making that goal a reality.
What is the latest problem facing people who drive to school?
A.Pollution in the air.
B.A lack of parking.
C.Accidents with bicycles.
D.A lack of bridges.
—It takes me just twenty minutes to reach the city from here. —Do you really drive ______ ?
A.as fast
B.that fast
C.with such fastness
D.fast like that
SECTION B PASSAGES
Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文: It was difficult for the people of Mutton to know when or where the fire had started but there was no time to wonder for the little town had to defend itself. Only when the wind died and the fire was out would the black signs of where it had started become visible. In the smoke and dost no one could tell. Grass fires driven by such winds usually pushed a great cloud of smoke ahead of them so that it was impossible to know where the flames were. People could walk right through the smoke-trap into the fire.
The people already knew, though, that this fire was different from fires in previous years. Heat was extreme, and the suddenness of the outbreak was extreme. Because the fire was almost on them, and because they had only a limited amount of water, they decided to defend rather than attack.
Owners of sheep or cattle raced for their horses and galloped away to drive their herds to the nearest grass-flee field--a field which had been prepared for just such an emergency. No one thought of running away from the fire in their cars. Too many had died that way in the past, smashed against a tree or a fence. If the worst happened, they would go into their housos, shut every door and window, block every hole and wait.
They would wait in calm or in terror for the flames to pass--or not to pass.
Why didn't the people of Mutton know where the fire had started?
A.Because they were wandering about.
B.Because they were trapped.
C.Because the smoke and dust blurred everything.
D.Because they couldn't find the signs of the fire.
A: I haven't been driving as fast as the other cars.B: ______
A.Sorry, madam. I am sorry there is something wrong with your car.
B.Don't be arguing with me. I'll kill you if you drive so far next time on the superhighway.
C.The other cars? Different cars have to observe different traffic rules, you know.
D.I'm sorry, madam, your speed limit's fifty-five miles per hour. I have to give you a ticket.
听力原文:W: If you hadn't driven fast enough, I would have missed my plane.
M: Thanks to the short cut to the airport.
Q: What does the man mean?
(18)
A.He was good at driving.
B.He could drive very fast.
C.He was able to avoid a traffic accident.
D.He managed to take the shortest route.
SECTION B PASSAGES
Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文: We all scream for water when thirsty. (15[A]) But do you know in very hot, dry weather plants also make faint sounds— as if they're crying out for help?
You see, in a plant's stem there're hundreds of "water pipes" that bring water and minerals from the soil all the way up to the leaves. As the ground turns dry, it becomes harder and harder for the plants to do this.
In severe droughts, plants have to fight to pull out any water available. Scientist Robert Winter has found out that when it is really bad their water pipes snap from the tension like rubber bands. When that happens, the whole plant vibrates a little. The snapping pipes make noises 10,000 times quieter than a whisper.
Robert knows that healthy, well-watered plants are quiet. (16[D]) He also knows that many insects prefer attacking dry plants rather than healthy plants. How do the insects know which are healthy plants and which are not? Robert thinks that the insects may listen for the plants that cry. And then they may buzz in to kill.
To test his theory, Robert is using a device that can imitate plant cries. He attaches it to a quiet, healthy plant so the plant sounds thirsty. Then he watches insects lo see if they attack more often than usual.
If he is right, scientists could use the insects' ability against them. (17[D]) They could build traps that imitate crying plants. So when the insects buzz in to eat, they won't buzz out.
What do plants do when they are thirsty?
A.They give out faint cries.
B.They make noises to drive away insects.
C.They extend their water pipes.
D.They become elastic like rubber bands.
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