【C18】A．factB．privateC．commonD．different

A．assemble

B．resemble

C．respect

D．relate

A．the

B．a

C．and

D．in

A．cultural

B．industrial

C．commercial

D．economic

B．At the age of 36.

C．At the age of 20.

D．In 1986.

M: What do you mean？

W: [20] Wow, the computer shows you got an overdue book, art work, out since last September.

M: But that's impossible. I only started going to this school last month and I'm a business major, not an artist.

W: Oh. This is pretty strange. Let me look out the records. OK. You are Richard Smith？

M: Yeah.

W: You live at fifty thirty-three western？

M: No, I am living on campus, in the new...

W: You did say you are Richard Smith, right？

M: Yeah, well, my full name is Richard James Smith, but I usually go by Richard Smith.

W: Let me check one more thing on the computer. Aha, I see now. [21] There's another Richard Smith in the class... Richard El Smith. And it looks like he's the one who got the overdue book checked out.

M: Another Richard Smith？ No kidding.

W: So I guess you two never met.

M: No, but I think I should probably try. I could at least warn him what's just happened.

W: Good idea. Now I'll let you check out these books today. [22] But I suggest you start using your middle name, or mid initial to avoid any problem like this in the future.

(23)

A．To return some business books.

B．To apply for a new library card.

C．To check out some books from the library.

D．To find out where the art books are located.

M: Well, to be honest, Carla, [24] I was feeling great on Saturday, but I started to feel sick Sunday afternoon. I thought I'd get better, but I feel worse than before. And I'm really worried because I'm scheduled to have a presentation at work on Friday, so I have to be better by then.

W: Well, what seems to be the problem？

M: Well, [23] I thought I had the flu, but the doctor said it was just a bad cold. He gave me some cold medicine to take care of my stuffy nose and fever. I'm supposed to take the medicine three times a day after eating, but it doesn't seem to help. He also told me to stay off my feet for a day or so, but I'm so busy these days.

W: Listen, forget about that medicine! I have just the thing to get rid of bad colds. You see, my mom is really into herbal medicine.

M: Oh, no, thanks.

W: Ah, come on! Give it a try. [25] You just take some of my mom's herbal tea and drink it four times a day. Believe me. You'll be up and dancing around in no time.

M: Dancing around in no time, right？ Well, I guess. Nothing else seems to be doing the job.

W: Great. I'll come by your place at 7:30. See you then.

(20)

A．He has a cold.

B．He has the flu.

C．He has a stomachache.

D．He has a toothache.

W：I am sorry，nobody by that name works here．

Q：What do we learn from this conversation？

(19)

A．Paul Bacon isn't in right now.

B．Paul Bacon can't come to the phone right now.

C．Paul Bacon doesn't want to speak to the man.

D．The man dialed the wrong number.

听力原文： Gates was born and brought up in Seattle. [29] At the age of 14, he founded a computer programming company with three friends, and they had earned $20,000 by selling their traffic-counting system to local governments. In 1975, he dropped out of his law course at Harvard to found the Microsoft Software Company in Washington. Gates' domination of the emerging computer industry began in 1980-1981, when he devised an operating system and licensed it to IBM. [30] 6MS-DOS became the standard operating system for nearly all IBM personal computers. During the 1980s, Microsoft also developed more specialized software. When the company went public in 1986, [31] Gates became a multimillionaire at the age of 31. Five years later, he was ranked as the world's richest man. In the 1990s, Gates made a fresh fortune from sales of Windows, a system that enables a computer to be operated with on-screen symbols rather than complex keyboard commands. A revised version was launched amid huge publicity in 1995.

(30)

A．He sold traffic-counting system to local governments.

B．He dropped out of his law course at Harvard University.

C．He founded his own company--Microsoft Software company.

D．He devised an operating system for IBM.

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

听力原文： A blonde lady walks into a New York City Bank and asks for the loan officer. She says she is going to Europe on business for 2 weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The bank officer says he will need some kind of security for the loan, so the lady hands over the keys to a new, costly car parked in front of the bank. With all checked out, the bank agrees to accept the car as security for the loan. The loan officer drives the new car into the bank's underground garage and parks it there. Two weeks later the lady returns, repays the $5,000 she loaned, and [27] $15.40 interest. The loan officer comes up to the lady and says, "We here at the bank are very happy to this deal, but while you were away, I checked you out, and I'm a little puzzled. [28] I found out that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles me is why you would bother to borrow $5,000." The lady replies, "[26] Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for 15 dollars？"

(27)

A．She wanted to buy a car.

B．She wanted to joke with the bank.

C．The bank is the cheapest place in New York to park her car.

D．She will go to Europe on business.

—Full Steam Ahead

Rocketing through sunlit seas in mid-Atlantic, Peter Blake had been radioing daily race re ports to listeners all over New Zealand. Blake heard a terrific crash and felt the boat slow. Racing on deck, he found a mass of wreckage—the lofty mast had collapsed.

But Blake sat down with his shattered crew and had a cup of tea. "This is what we're going to do," he said and explained his plan. He added: "If anyone wants to get demoralized(削弱士气), come and see me and we'll do it together." There were no takers.

Making a temporary rig(桅杆)out of the wreckage, the crew sailed over 6000 kilometers, following a different route to find better winds, and drove themselves so hard they reached Cape Town ahead of more than a third of the fleet. Just over six weeks later, with a new mast, Blake sailed into Auckland and won the next leg(旅程的一段)of the Whitbread Around the World Race.

Blake turned disaster into triumph. It was an amazing feat of leadership.

Over the next two decades there would be many more such inspiring deeds. Blake would win the world's toughest ocean races, as well as the desirable America's Cup, becoming a national hero and the world's greatest sailor. "Peter brought out the best in us," says Don Robertson, a close friend and shipmate. "We were astonished by what we could achieve."

With his laid-back manner and big smile, Blake(who died in tragic circumstances three years ago)built up teams that dared to reach for the stars and win. He was a great leader, and the lessons of his career can be used by leaders in all walks of life.

It's the Team That Counts

When Mark Orams grew up, he wanted to sail with his hero. But his job interview was not what he expected.

"Blake and I talked for half an hour about ordinary things, like the food we hated," Orams says. "I said it was onions; he said macaroni(通心粉)cheese."

Orams felt he'd failed, because Blake hadn't asked a single question about his sailing. Two days later Blake called him in again, shook his hand and said. "Welcome aboard!"

Orams was proud and puzzled. "It wasn't until I was at sea with him that I realized fitting into the team was more important than know-how.'

As Blake put it, "You can learn as you go, but getting on with people is something you're born with."

When Blake put together a team for New Zealand's America's Cup challenge in 1995, he began with an inner circle of himself and three friends. They chose the fifth team member and then all five chose the sixth, and so on, up to nearly 100.

Every member was an equal partner. At one meeting, Blake introduced the receptionist. "This is Michelle, who runs the front desk, and she's just as important as any of you in the boat," he said. "There are no number ones in this team, no small jobs."

Learn to Delegate

Peter Blake never had to say he was a boss or a skipper(船长). He'd walk into a room or step on the deck, and everybody knew. But he didn't try to do or control everything himself. "There's no point in having a dog and doing your own barking," he'd say. During a two-handed race around Australia, Mike Quilter was alone at the helm(驾驶舱)when a massive weather front(气象峰)appeared. Blake was down below, asleep, but a long piece of string had been tied to his toe so Quilter could wake him if he needed help. "I was relying on Blake to be Mr. Cool," Quilter says, "so, I pulled the string. 'Here's the front,' I told him."

"Blake said, 'Yep, that's it!' Then he closed the hatch(舱口)and went back to bed, leaving m

A．Y

B．N

C．NG