Tom did（bad) ______ than Mike in the exam.

听力原文：W: Good morning, Tom! How are you？

M: Not bad! What about you？

W: Fine. Tom, you didn’t show up yesterday evening, did you？

M: I am sorry I didn’t. I had planned to go to your party, but was caught up by a program about Oprah Winfrey. I simply could not help sticking to the television until it was too late for your party.

W: Oprah Winfrey？

M: Yes. She is a US talk show hostess, and the queen of all talk! Come on, haven’t you ever heard of her？

W: Oh, I remember. She is enormously influential, and it is said that her influence extends far beyond the media! She must have a distinguished family background, don’t you think so？

M: No. on the contrary, her birth place was actually notorious for its poverty. But as she applied herself to study and work, she later became America’s first African-American news anchor.

W: She is really great! Then, have you watched her talk show for a long time？

M: Of course! She is frank and genuine. She never spreads gossip or scandal!

W: That would certainly make a difference among all the trash TV we have today!

M: You bet! That program I watched last night will be shown again this afternoon.

W: Really! I will make sure not to miss it! Bye for now!

M: See you later!

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A．Because he didn't want to go to the woman's party.

B．Because he was deeply attracted by a program about Oprah Winfrey.

C．Because he participated in Oprah Winfrey's program.

D．Because he forgot about the woman's party.

--Nancy's grades are really bad.

--Yes, but Tom's are ______.

A. bad

B. worse

C. worst

D. well

How is Tom？

A．He has a bad cold.

B．He has a headache.

C．His leg is hurt.

Why does the woman ask Tom to put on his clothes？

A．She is afraid that Tom may catch a bad cold.

B．She'll take Tom to see other children who'll have their tonsils (扁桃体) out.

C．She knows Tom used to wear more clothes in autumn.

D．He is very careless and will lose his clothes.

Passage 2 Questions 1to 5 are based on the following passage:

Sometimes a book can help change history. One book that certainly did was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was a book that spoke out against slavery.

As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her book, there were over3.5 million slaves in the United States. Slaves were usually in the cotton-growing states of the South. The Northern States has ended slavery. Yet most northerners were not strongly against slavery. They did not mind that slavery continued in the South.

Stowe decided to make people understand that slavery was very bad. Each night after putting r six children to bed, she worked on her book. She told the owner. She also told how the slaves tried to run away for freedom. Uncle Tom’s Cabin first came in 1852. Over 300,000 books were sold out in a year.

People had different ideas about the book. In the North, many people finally believed that slavery must be ended after they read the book. In the South, many people were very angry at the people in the North. By 1861 the two parts of the country were at war. The Civil War, which lasted until of cease, was made to happen by many things. Yet Uncle Tom’s Cabin surely played a part. Stowe met President Linclon in 1862. As Linclon took her hand, he said, “So you are the woman who starred the big war.”

1、Before Uncle Tom’s Cabin came out, most Northerners ______.

A、were slaves in the South

B、did not know how bad slavery was

C、kept slaves in their homes

D、understood that slavery was wrong

2、While many Northerners agreed with Harriet Beacher Stowe,______.

A、many southerners wanted war

B、many southerners had not read the boo

C、many southerners were angry at her

D、some slaves tried to run away from North

3、From the text, we can infer that _______.

A、Stowe was a very young woman

B、Stowe’s husband was dead when she wrote the story

C、Stowe wrote her book with stories from her six children

D、Stowe could not work on her book at all during the daytime

4、Uncle Tom’s Cabin was _______.

A、a book about Harriet Beecher Stowe

B、a history book

C、a book that helped change history

D、a book about the American Civil war

5、Harriet Beecher Stowe _______.

A、was a little woman who started the American Civil War together with Abraham Linclon

B、was strongly against the slavery

C、helped some slaves to run away from the South

D、met Abraham Lincoln before the Civil War

hen he was 15 he suddenly stopped trying. He left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary school subjects. One of the reasons that made it cool for him not to care was the power of his peer group. The lack of right male role models in many of their lives — at home and particularly in the school environment — means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselves against. They dont see men succeeding in society so it doesnt occur to them that they could make something of themselves. Without male teachers as a role model, the effect of peer actions and street culture is all-powerful. Boys want to be part of a club. However, schools can provide the environment for change, and provide the right role models for them. Teachers need to be trained to stop that but not in front of a childs peers. You have to do it one-to-one, because that is when you see the real child. Its pointless sending a child home if he or she has done wrong. They see it as a welcome day off to watch television or play computer games. Instead, schools should have a special unit where a child who has done wrong goes for the day and gets advice about his problems — somewhere he can work away from his peers and go home after the other children. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. Why did Tom give up studying？ 23. What seems to have a bad effect on students like Tom？ 24. What should schools do to help the problem schoolboys？ 25. When is a teachers work most effective with a schoolboy？22．

A．Peer groups.

B．A special unit.

C．The student judges.

D．The home environment.

Why does the woman ask Tom to put on his clothes？

A．She worries about Tom to get a bad cold.

B．She knows that Tom used to wear more clothes in autumn.

C．She'll take Tom to see other children who'll have their tonsils(扁桃腺) out.

A.Don't mention it

B.Hm, not too bad

C.Thanks

D.Pretty fast

A.Hm,not too bad

B.Don't mention it

C.Thanks.

on.

M: Oh, really？ That's not like the Tom we know.

Q: What does the man imply？

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A．Tom is usually talkative.

B．Tom has a very bad temper.

C．Tom has dozens of things to attend to.

D．Torn is disliked by his colleagues.