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 choice marked A) B) C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
A community theatre is an important part of almost every city or town in the United States. There are over 2,000 community theatres in the United States today, about 4.5 million people work or perform in these theatres for an audience of more than 50 million people annually.
These theatres are amateur organizations and are different for professional theatre companies. A community theatre may have its own building or perform in a school or church hall. The actors and actresses do not receive money for their work in the community theatre. They have other jobs to support themselves instead. Small communities can't support a full time theatre. They cannot pay actors, directors or stage workers, so the theatre participants work for free.
One purpose of community theatre is to provide an opportunity for creative work. Many people join in community theatres because they want to perform or to be creative. Several people in a community theatre group were asked why they join. Each one said he or she needed to be creative, to be something original. One man said, "I loved act. It's the only time I feel alive." Another said, "I have a very boring job. In the play, I can create something." One woman said, "My whole life is occupied by husband and family. I need something more than that."
Another purpose of community theatre is to educate and improve the community. Theatre is an art but also introduces new ideas to the audience.
Questions 26-28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Question No.26. How many people participate in the work of community theatres in the United States?
Question No.27. How are community theatres different from professional theatre companies?
Question No.28. What opportunity does the community theatre provide to the people in a community?
Passage Two
According to a new study done at the Medical School of University of California at Los Anglos, left-handed people may be more likely to have accidents than the right-handed. One reason may be: left-handers tend to make minor mental mistakes. In the study of 2,000 sailors, those who had more mental errors also had more accidents, and left-handers were reported to have more mental errors and more accidents than right-handers.
The author of the study Jim Watson said, "Minor mental mistakes are mistakes that any of us would make when we’re tired or careless and they could lead to accidents because we lose track of what we are doing". Paul White, chief of the study program said that he found the study interesting and exciting.
But he warned that the conclusions should not be accepted without further investigation. He said the study had limitations, and limitations could have influenced the results. Jim Lawson, who is right-handed himself, stressed that the study was not an official project and said that the findings cannot be applied to every left-hander. He said minor mental mistakes can be regarded as evidence of lack of concentration. But in the past, it was believed that left-handers tended to have more accidents largely because most equipment was designed for right-handers.
Questions 29-31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Question No. 29. What is said about left-handers in the study?
Question No. 30. What was said about the study program?
Question No. 31. What was the traditional explanation of left-handers having more accidents?
Passage Three
On 15th, Feb, 2006, an instance survey was carried out among 18 overseas postgraduate students. 11 students were male and 7 were female. The purpose of the survey was to discover the view of the students on a number of matters of personal concern. The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire given to the students to complete.
There were five questions. The first question concerned favorite color and the second favorite number. The next 3 questions were all concerned with aspects of marriage. No. 3 looked at the ideal age to get married, No. 4 examined the qualities looked for in a partner and No. 5 asked about the ideal number of children.
The main findings were as follow: Blue was the most popular color. This was followed by green and purple. There was no real significance in the choice of lucky number. About one third of the students said that they had none. Sixty-one percent of the students selected the age group 26 to 30 as an ideal age for marriage, followed by 21 to 25 years. In looking at the most important qualities in an ideal partner, someone hoped the person to be intelligent, others chose natural, still others indicated attractive and honest. The ideal number of children was 2, followed by 3.
It is not easy to reach any definite conclusions based up on such a small sample of students from such widely different backgrounds. However, it is clear that majority favored of 26 to 30 is the ideal age to get married with an intelligent partner, and producing 2 children.
Questions 32-35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32.Who were involved in this instance survey?
33.What do the 5 questions to be answered focus on?
34.What color was chosen as the most popular in the survey?
35.Why is it difficult to reach any definite conclusions by the survey?
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