Section B
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]. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. [A] The advantages of an economy based on farming.
[B] Reason that farmers continued using river transportation.
[C] The role of cotton in the United States economy.
[D] Improved methods of transporting farm crops.
12. [A] The new technology used to build roads.
[B] The ability to transport goods over land.
[C] The trade in grain and cotton.
[D] The linking of smaller local roads into one long road.
13. [A] They reduced charges for transporting farm products.
[B] They required payment from vehicles that used their roads.
[C] They made repairs to older roads.
[D] They installed streetlights on roads connecting major cities.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. [A] To look back to the early days of computers.
[B] To explain what technical problems may occur with computers.
[C] To encourage necessary investment in computers.
[D] To warn against a mentally lazy attitude towards computers.
15. [A] Use them for business purposes only.
[B] Check all their answers.
[C] Substitute them for basic thinking.
[D] Be reasonably skeptical about them.
16. [A] A computer used exclusively by one company for its own problems.
[B] A person's storage of knowledge and the ability to process the computer.
[C] The most up-to-date in-house computer a company can buy.
[D] A computer from the post-war era which is very reliable.
17. [A] Computer science courses in high schools.
[B] Business men and women who use pocket calculators.
[C] Maintenance checks on computers.
[D] Companies which depend exclusively on computers for decision-making.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. [A] How spiders gather food.
[B] Why spider webs are so strong.
[C] How spider build their webs.
[D] How new kinds of structures might be designed.
19. [A] They're much larger than spiders. [B] They're quite delicate.
[C] They have unusual ways of gathering food.
[D] They developed a long time before spiders.
20. [A] Chemists. [B] Architects. [C] Airline pilots. [D] Auto designers.
