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Test OneSection A11. W: Bob, look at all the beautiful clothes displayed in the window! Arent they dazzling?M: This is Versace. You have to pay through the nose to buy even a shirt here.Q: What does the man mean?12. M: The team leader says hes inviting us to go the restaurant around the corner to celebrate the success on your last project. Are you coming with you?W: I would love to, but that would ruin my plan of losing weight. You guys have fun there.Q: Why does the woman refuse to go with the man?13. W: I heard you have arranged to meet Mr. Bush on Wednesday. So I dont have to write to him, do I?M: But would you please call him on Tuesday to confirm the meeting?Q: What are the speakers talking about?14. W: Larry told me he wanted to go to the drama school and his dream was to be a star in Hollywood. M: He is not really handsome and whats worse, he cant even speak very clearly.Q: What can you learn about Larry?15. W: Aaron, can you give me a hand? The sofa is too heavy, but I need to move it to the other side of the room.M: The movie is so interesting and I dont want to miss the story. Can you wait for a couple of minutes till the commercials are on?Q: What is the man doing?16. M: Ms. Dawson, what were you doing when the man with the mask took his gun out?W: Oh, it was so terrible. I was just talking with the bank clerk when he pointed the gun to me and told me to like down on my face. Q: What are they talking about?17. M: Which model of the TV sets are you interested in purchasing?W: Mm, the TWX model is really a bargain. But I do need to talk with my husband before making the decision. Q: What is the woman doing?18. W: Its a miracle that John got the job! There were so many applicants and John is not experienced at all. M: It must be his charming personality that brings him the good luck. Q: Why is the man surprised?Conversation OneW: Nick, Nick! Here you are! Ive been looking for you everywhere. M: Susan. Look at you. You are out of breath. Whats the matter?W: Have you heard of the hip-hop dancing competition?M: Yes, of course. Everybody has been talking about it recently. W: (19) Look at what Ive got. A registration form. You are such a wonderful hip-hop dancer. Why dont you take part in it?M: Oh. ThisMmmActually, I dont care much for the competition.W: (20) But you enjoy dancing so much and you make a habit of practicing everyday. M: well, dancing is one thing and the competition is another. W: come on. Whats the big difference?M: I only do hip-hop with friends. I dont feel like dancing in front of a huge group of strangers, not to mention being on TV and seen by thousands even millions of people. Its quite something for me. W: I see. But I still think you should be part of it. You can meet more people who also love hip-hop in the competition and make more friends. M: The final examination week is coming, too. I dont think I should spare any time on this competition at this moment. W: The final examination is important. (21)But the competition wont begin until two weeks after the final exams. You can practice during that time. Why dont you take the form with you and talk with your hip-hop friends? You dont have to make the decision now.M: Thank you, Susan. I will think about it carefully. W: But remember, the deadline for registration is one week before the final exam begins19. What does Susan want Nick to do?20. What can you learn about Nick from the conversation?21. When will the hip-hop dancing competition begin?Conversation TwoW: Michael, where are you heading? You seem to be in a hurry. M: Oh, Samantha, I am on my way to the bookstore. The professor has just recommended to us a book on western culture. W: I am also going to the bookstore. Lets go there together and you can tell me something about the book on the way. M: All right. The professor says the book is written by a famous sociologist and it contains not only theory, but many stories illustrating all the culture differences between the east and the west. W: It must be a good book. M: yes, Whats more, the writer has chosen simple but humorous language to make the book even more interesting.W: Mm, as far as I am concerned, a good book is one that makes people want to read. M; Thats true. A good writer knows how to draw the readers attention.W: But why are you in such a hurry? Are you really so eager to read the book?M: Well, there are over 200 students in my class and the professor made the recommendation in the class. Im afraid if I dont get there early enough, it will be sold out. W: But why dont you take advantage of the reservation system of the bookstore? You can always make the reservation online or through telephone. M: I tried both. The website seems to be jammed and I cant get through by phone. Considering the popularity of the book, Im afraid I have to stand in line and try my luck. W: I happen to have a friend working part-time in the bookstore. Let me call him and see if he can do anything about it. M: really?! It would be wonderful. Thank you very much. 22. Where is the conversation most likely taking place?23. Where does Michael get the information about the book?24. Which of the following is true about the book?25. Why is Michael in a hurry?Section BPassage OneThe portable, paperless e-newspapers would be a huge environmental win, eliminating the need to cut down trees and burn gasoline delivering the traditional folded parcels to readers driveways. Like many technologies, however, e-paper has been slow to take off. In the past year, since Amazon introduced its Kindle electronic reading device, thousands of Americans have experienced the pleasures of e-booksbut for most people, e-newspapers arent yet a reality.Millions of us already read paperless newspapers and magazines on the Web, but e-newspapers would offer different benefits for both readers and publishers. For consumers who already spend too many hours starting at PC screens, e-newspapers would offer portability and a simple reading environment, free from e-mail bells ringing or Instant Messages popping up mid-paragraph. Among publishers, theres real hope readers will pay subscription fees for those benefits, and that advertisers will pay considerably more for ads on e-readers than they do on the Web.For a primitive look at how e-newspapers might work, consider the Kindle, Amazon currently offers 24 newspapers for use on the device. Subscribers pay $5.99 to $14.99 per month, and each issue arrives wirelessly before sunrise. However, e-reader enthusiasts describe reading a newspaper on the Kindle as disappointing. The Kindles black-and-white screen doesnt handle paragraphs or graphics well, and its e-papers carry no advertising. Instead of offering well-designed pages that entice readers to skim a story they might otherwise skip, todays e-newspapers merely list headlines or tops of articles, which makes it hard to decide whats worth reading.26.Which of the following can best describe the benefits of e-newspapers?27. What can you learn of Kindle?28.Which of the following is the disappointing feature of reading e-newspapers on the Kindle?Passage BPreventing childhood injuries would seem a tough task. But theres a long list of proper ways to make the world safer for children. The World Health Organization wants its 193 member nationsand especially those in the developing world, where most deaths from injury occurto know that accidents dont have to happen.Many prevention strategies applied by rich societies are only now being adopted in the developing world. They include strict drunken-driving laws; requirements that wells be covered; installing window guards in upper-story apartments; and establishing poison-control centers and burn units.Traffic injuries are perhaps the most dramatic example of how much could be gained if prevention measures could be carried out more broadly. Traffic injuries are the leading cause of death worldwide for 15-to-19-year-olds and the second-leading cause for children 5 to 14. But the use of seat belts, child seats and helmets is still not required in many countries.For society, the payoff of prevention efforts is huge. For every $1 invested in bile helmets and child seats, for example, $29 is save in health care, disability and lost-income costs. But for individuals, prevention is often economically burdensome. Parents have to work longer and harder if they want to improve their childrens safety condition.At the same time, some countries have risks not widely shared by others. Deaths rates from burns are 11 times as high in developing countries as in industrial ones. European and American boys and girls have virtually equal rates of death from fire. In South Asia and Southeast Asia, girls mortality is three times that of boys because girls assist in family cooking at an early age.29.What can your learn from the passage?30. What is the effective prevention against injury?31. For which of the following age groups, traffic injuries are the leading cause of death worldwide.32.What conclusion can you draw from the passage?Passage ThreeMost graduates programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market and develop skills for which there is decreasing demand, all at a rapidly rising cost.Unfortunately, this mass-production university model has led to division where there ought to be cooperation.In my own religion department, for example, we have 10 faculty members, working in eight branches, with little in common. And as department fragment, research and publication become more and more about less and less. The emphasis on narrow scholarship also encourages and educational system that has become a process of copying. The dirty secret of higher education is that without graduate students who are not paid well to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldnt conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. Thats one of the main reasons we will encourage people we enroll in doctoral programs. In other words, young people enroll in graduate programs, work hard for little pay and assume huge debt burdens, all because of the misl