Section A

　　Directions: In this section ,you will hear 10 short conversations .At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said .Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once .After each question there will be a pause .During the pause ,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　Example: You will hear :

　　You will read : A)At the office .

　　B)In the waiting room.

　　C)At the airport .

　　D)In a restaurant.

　　From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening .This is most likely to have taken place at the office .Therefore ,A)"At the office "is the best answer .You should choose A on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.

　　1. A) Go out to work C) Be calm and patient

　　B) Listen carefully to John D) Do the easiest thing

　　2. A) He doesn't like to talk C) He is friendly

　　B) He is a very kind man D) He is not a pleasant person

　　3. A) The doctor won't see her tomorrow

　　B) The doctor is busy tomorrow

　　C) The doctor is busy all day today

　　D) The doctor will see her today

　　4. A) Young people are too quick in making decisions

　　B) Young people seldom stay long on the same job

　　C) Young people lose their jobs easily

　　D) Young people are too eager to succeed

　　5.A) She felt it was tiring. C) She thought it took less time.

　　B) She felt it was very nice. D) She thought it was expensive

　　6. A) They are having breakfast C) They are preparing a hot soup

　　B) They are eating some fruit D) They are drinking cold milk

　　7. A) The woman doesn't want to spend Christmas with the man.

　　B) The woman is going home for Christmas.

　　C) The woman has not been invited to the Christmas party.

　　D) The woman is going to spend Christmas abroad.

　　8. A) By car C) By plane

　　B) By bus D) By train

　　9. A) It closes at four on weekdays C ) It isn't open on Sundays

　　B) He doesn't know its business hours D) It is open till four on Sundays

　　10. A) Tennis shoes C) Nothing yet

　　B) Some clothes D) Music records

　　Section B

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage ,you will hear some question. 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 center.

　　Passage One

　　Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　11. A) In about 20 years C) In a couple of weeks

　　B) Within a week D) As early as possible

　　12. A) Yes ,of course C) Not mentioned

　　B) Possibly not D) Definitely not

　　13. A) Her complaint was ignored

　　B) The store sent her the correct order

　　C) The store apologized for their mistake

　　D) The store picked up the wrong items

　　Passage 2

　　Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　14. A) The prison gates are always open. C) The prison has no armed guards

　　B) Its prisoner can work outside D) The prison is open to the public

　　15. A) The prisoners are provided with jobs on release

　　B) Its prisoners are seldom made to work overtime

　　C) It is run on the principle of trusting prisoners

　　D) It has no security measures

　　16. A) One years C) Thirteen years

　　B) Thirteen years D) Fourteen years

　　17. A) Doubtful C) Critical

　　B) Positive D) Indifferent

　　Passage 3

　　Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　18. A) It's good for training one's character but not good for one's health

　　B) It cannot prepare pupils to be good citizens.

　　C) It has less effect on a child's character than sports and games.

　　D) It's as important as after-class activities

　　19. A) Because pupils there have to spend most of the time studying

　　B) Because the school authorities insist on traditional ways of teaching

　　C) Because the school authorities have neglected discipline

　　D) Because pupils there are too fond of playing

　　20. A) Practical work B) Collective activities

　　C) Teacher's encouragement D) Book knowledge

　　Part II   Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

　　Direction: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

　　I believe very strongly that our overproduction of cheap grain in general, and corn in particular, has a lot to do with the fact that three-fifths of Americans are now overweight. The obesity crisis is complicated in some ways, but it’s very simple in another way. Basically, Americans are on average eating 200 more calories a day than they were in the 1970s. If you do that and don’t get correspondingly more exercise, you’re going to get a lot fatter. Many demographers are predicting that this is the first generation of Americans whose life span may be shorter than their parents’. The reason for that is obesity, essentially, and diabetes specifically.

　　Where do those calories come from? Except for seafood, all our calories come from the farm. Compared with the mid-to-late 1970s, American farms are producing 500 more calories of food a day per American. We’re managing to pack away 200 of them, which is pretty heroic on our part. A lot of the rest is being dumped overseas, or wasted, or burned in our cars.

　　Overproduction sooner or later leads to over-consumption, because we’re very good at figuring out how to turn surpluses into inexpensive, portable new products. Our cheap, value-added, portable corn commodity is corn sweetener, specifically high-fructose(高糖) corn syrup. But we also dispose of overproduction in corn-fed beef, pork, and chicken. And now we’re even teaching salmon to eat corn, because there’s so much of it to get rid of.

　　There is a powerful industrial logic at work here, the logic of processing. We discovered that corn is this big, fat packet of starch(淀粉) that can be broken down into almost any basic organic molecules and reassembled as sweeteners and many other food additives. Of the 37 ingredients in chicken nuggets, something like 30 are made, directly or indirectly, from corn.

　　11. Which of the following best summarizes the passage?

　　A. Overproduction of corn products leads to overweight.

　　B. Corn is the most popular portable product in America.

　　C. Corn processing is a powerful industrial logic at work.

　　D. A balanced diet of corn is beneficial to one’s life span.

　　12. The word “obesity”(Line 3, Para. 1) most probably means __________.

　　A. having much nutrition

　　B. becoming too fat

　　C. abundance in calories

　　D. shortening of life span

　　13. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

　　A. Americans’ standard of living is relatively low in the 1970s.

　　B. Americans are on average consuming 200 calories every day.

　　C. Farms are responsible for American over-consumption of calories.

　　D. Diabetes is the unavoidable result of Americans’ consuming corn.

　　14. Overproduced corn in American farms has been converted to __________.

　　A. feed cattle, pigs and poultry

　　B. manufacture automobile components

　　C. make artificial beef, pork, and chicken

　　D. become high-fructose low fat products

　　15. The reason why corn can be processed into other food additives is that __________.

　　A. it can serve as sweeteners during cooking

　　B. it contains an unparalleled amount of starch

　　C. its basic organic molecules can be broken down

　　D. its chemical composition can be changed and reorganized

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

　　In California the regulators, the utilities and the governor all want the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to cap spot (现货的) market prices. The Californians claim it will rein in outrageous prices. Federal regulators have refused. The battle is on.

　　Governor Gray Davis says, “I’m not happy with the Federal Regulatory Commission at all. They’re living in an ivory tower. If their bills were going up like the people in San Diego, they would know that this is a real problem in the real world.”

　　As part of deregulation, price caps were removed to allow for a free market. Timing is everything; natural gas prices had already skyrocketed. Demand was high from California’s booming economy. No new power plants had been built here in ten years, and power producers had the right to hike prices along with demand. And hike them they did.

　　Loretta Lynch of the Public Utilities Commission says, “This commission and all of California was beating down the door of federal regulators to say ‘help us impose reasonable price caps to help to keep our market stable.’”

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