24. Why is the woman interested in working with Professor Smith?
【解析】B女士为什么会对与史密斯教授合作非常感兴趣呢，从她的话中我们可以看出结论。Im sure well get something though, probably not much. Anyway it doesnt matter to me. I just want to have some handson experience. 对我来说，是否付我钱都不重要，我只想要些实践的经验。由此可见，正确答案是：She wants to get practical experience.
25. What will the college students do for the high school students?
【解析】C从文中多处对话可看出答案，如itll be nice to help the high school students, too.说话人所做的计划可以帮助成绩不太好的高中生找到适合自己的学习方式，从而达到帮助高中生们学习的目的。因此，答案是：Help them with their studies.
Section B
Passage One
Do you have a tough math test coming up? Then listen to some classical piano music just before the test. You might end up with a higher score. Researchers at a university in California conducted an experiment. They asked a group of college students to listen to some piano music by a famous 18th century composer before taking a math test. They were surprised to find that the students scores jumped 8 to 9 points. The music seems to excite nerve activity in the brain; similar to the activity that occurs when a person is figuring out a math problem. However, the scientists warn that before you get too excited about applying this method to your math test. You should remember that brain exciting effects last only 10 or 15 minutes. Would rock music work as well as the piano music did? No, the scientists say. In fact, the less complex music might even interfere with the brains reasoning ability.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What is this passage mainly about?
【解析】C根据文章的内容，科学家们做的测试，在做数学题的时候放音乐，成绩普遍提高好几分，我们可以推断出这篇文章是讲音乐对数学测验结果的影响，所以选C。
27. Why can classical music play a positive role in problem solving?
【解析】A科学家们说，摇滚音乐就不能像钢琴曲那样对成绩有所帮助，只有那些不是特别复杂的音乐会对大脑的思维有影响，能够刺激你的神经活动。所以选A。
28. What is one of the findings of the research?
【解析】B科学家们说，必须记住这种让大脑兴奋起来的效果只会维持10到15分钟。不会持续太长的时间，所以选B。
Passage Two
We use all sort of services without thinking how we get them. But such services cost money. We pay for them through taxes. What would happen if everyone in a city stopped paying taxes? The water supply would stop. The street might not be cleaned. There would be no police force to protect people and property.
The chief duty of every government is to protect persons and property. More than threefourths of the money spent by our government is used for this purpose .The next largest amount of public money goes to teach and train our citizens. Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries. Public money is used to pay the teachers and other public officials.
Years ago the government made money from the sale of public lands. But most of the best public lands have now been sold. The money raised was used to help pay the cost of government. There are still some public lands that contain oil, coal, gas, and other natural products. They could be sold, but we want to save them for future years. So we all must pay our share for the services that make our lives comfortable.
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. Whats the chief duty of every government?
【解析】A文章第二段第一句话就说每个政府的主要职能就是保护人民和财产安全。The chief duty of every government is to protect persons and property. 所以A是符合原文的。
30. How did the government raise money in the past?
【解析】C文章第三段，很多年以前，政府都是通过卖掉公有土地来获得钱的，Years ago the government made money from the sale of public lands. 所以选C。
31. What is the passage mainly about?
【解析】B这篇文章主要是讲公共税收和公共服务，讲政府收入的获得和用处，税收、政府收入取之于民，用之于民，所以选B。
Passage Three
The key question for any only child is this: why were you an only child? Its a key question for at least two reasons. If your parents had wanted several children but could have you only, they are most likely to pour into you all the energy and attention that had been intended for several children. I call this the “special jewel” phenomenon. Only children who are special jewels often arrive when their parents are older—usually in their thirties. These special jewels can become very spoiled and selfcentered.
On the other hand, you may be an only child because your parents planned for only one and stuck to their plan. Your parents may give you a very strict and wellstructured education to make you “a little adult”. Many only children grow up feeling unhappy because they always had to be such “little adults”.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. Who are likely to treat their only children as “special jewels”?
【解析】B文章第一段的第三句话，如果你的父母想要几个孩子却只能有你一个，我就称这种为“special jewel”。所以选B。
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