Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
A) He liked writing when he was a child
B) He enjoyed reading stories in Reader's Digest
C) He used to be an editor of Reader's Digest
D) He became well known at the age of six
Question 7:
A: Your son circularly shows a lot of enthusiasm on the tennis course.
B: I only wish he show it much for his studies.
Q: What does the woman imply about her son?
A) He shows great enthusiasm for his studies
B) He is a very versatile person
C) He has no talent for tennis
D) He does not study hard enough
Question 8:
A: We supposed to meet John here at a railway station.
B: That's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Q: What does the man imply?
A) John has lost something at the railway station
B) There are several railway stations in the city
C) It will be very difficult for them to find John
D) The train that John is taking will arrive soon
Question 9:
A: Professor Stevenson, as an economist, how do you look upon the surgent Chinese economy? Does it constitute the threat to the rest of the world?
B: I believe China's economics success should be seen more opportunity than the threat. Those who look upon it as a threat overlook the benefit of China's growth to the world's economy. They also lack understanding of elementary economics.
Q: What does Prof. Stevenson think of China's economy?
A) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world
B) It can be seen as a model by the rest of the world
C) Its success can't be explained by elementary economics
D) It will continue to surge forward
Question 10:
A: Our school has just built some apartments near campus. But one bedroom rends for 500 dollars a month.
B: That's a big beyond the reach of most students.
Q: What does the man mean?
A) It takes only 5 minutes to reach the campus from the apartments
B) Most students can't afford to live in the new apartments
C) The new apartments are not available until next month
D) The new apartments can accommodate 500 students
标准答案：1-5 DABCA 6-10 ADCAB
Section B
Passage One
I have flown from San Francisco to Virginia to attend a conference on multi-cultrualism. Hundreds of educators from across the countries were meeting to discuss the needs of culture of the universities curriculism.
On the way, my driver and I chat about the weather and the tourists. The driver was a white man in his forties. "How long have you been in this country?"he asked. "All my life." I replied, "I was born in the United Stated." With a strong accent, he remarked:"I was wondering because your English is excellent." Then I explained that I have done many times before. "My grandfather came here from China in the 1880,My faimly has been here in America for over a hundred years." He glanced me in a miror. Somehow I did not look like an American to him.My apperance looked forum.
Questions like the one my drivers asked made me feel unconfortable, but I can not understand why he couldn't see me as an American. He has narrowed but wildly shared sense of the past, a history that has build Americans as the sunddens of the European. Waist has functions and something necessary to the constrution of American character and quality in the creation of our national identity. Americans has been found right since our very beginning on Virginia shore were the first group of the English man and Africans arrived in the 17 century. And this reality is increasingly becoming visible everywhere.
11.What was the theme of the conference the speaker was to turn?
A) The role of immigrants in the construction of American society
B) The importance of offering diverse courses in European history
C) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum
D) The historic landing of Europeans on the Virginia shore
12.Why did the taxi driver ask the speaker how long he had been in the US?
A) He was wondering if the speaker was used to living in America
B) He was trying to show friendliness to the speaker
C) He wanted to keep their conversation going
D) He believed the speaker was a foreigner
13.What massage did the speaker wish to convey?
A) The US population doesn't consist of white European descendants only
B) Asian tourists can speak English as well as native speakers of the language
C) Colored people are not welcome in the United States
D) Americans are in need of education in their history
