Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)
Section A
A 11. [A] He doesn’t like the paintings. [B] He hasn’t seen the paintings yet. [C] He doesn’t enjoy his art history course. [D] He would like to own one of the paintings.
B12. [A] Her name is on the top of the list. [B] She is expecting a job interview. [C] She will be the last to be interviewed. [D] She must fix a date for the job interview.
A 13. [A] Their father is unable to keep his promise. [B] Their father is going on a vacation without her. [C] Their father isn’t telling her the truth. [D] Their father doesn’t want to travel abroad.
A 14. [A] Substitute for Laura at work. [B] Meet Laura at the restaurant. [C] Go out of town with Laura. [D] Accept a full-time job.
B 15. [A] He thinks the woman is wasting her time. [B] He is eager to know the woman’s answer.
[C] He can wait and there is no need for the woman to hurry. [D] He thinks the woman should make full use of her time.
C 16. [A] Jane is the laughing stock of the class. [B] Jane works in the ABC Company. [C] Jane’s laughter is quite impressive.
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[D] Jane survived the interview.
D 17. [A] Moving out.
[B] Repairing the house.
[C] Doing up the kitchen.
[D] Building a private residence.
A 18. [A] The woman is inviting the man to dinner. [B] The man probably won’t visit the woman. [C] The woman enjoyed her holiday very much. [D] The man is going to visit the woman without Mary.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. [A] Yesterday morning.
[B] Yesterday noon. [D] Yesterday evening.
[C] Yesterday afternoon.
20. [A] He doesn’t have good qualifications.
[B] His resume hasn’t outlined his past in a proper way. [C] He is not nervous when taking an interview.
[D] He always thinks that the interviewer is like an enemy.
21. [A] He should outline his past better.
[B] He should send his resume directly to the manager.
[C] He should create a new area in his resume called “value offered”. [D] He needn’t write different resumes to different employers. 22. [A] A shipping company.
[B] A consulting company.
[C] An accounting company. [D] A headhunting company.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 23. [A] The hotel doesn’t open that day. [B] She doesn’t work that day. [C] There is no room available that day.
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[D] There is no discount on books that day.
24. [A] He wants to give his wife a surprise on their anniversary. [B] The woman can’t cancel his reservation record. [C] He doesn’t appreciate the woman’s calling. [D] He doesn’t understand what the woman means.
25. [A] The receptionist is not serious.
[B] The receptionist’s advice is helpful to him. [C] Its charge is reasonable.
[D] Its reservation service is very poor.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. [A] Direct the driver.
[B] Look ahead to see where there’s a turn. [C] Move to the back seat if feeling uncomfortable. [D] Keep looking at the map to find a place to go to.
27. [A] To get information when in danger. [B] To be saved in case of an accident. [C] To share the fun with them in exploration.
[D] To tell them what’s going on with the group members.
28. [A] They can make people work fast. [B] They can help people stay healthy.
[C] They can help people organize other activities. [D] They can make people get prepared for sports.
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Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard. 29. [A] By producing pressure waves going in the opposite direction. [B] By mixing new sound waves with the noise and sending them out together.
[C] By mixing high-frequency sound waves with low-frequency ones. [D] By making a copy of the unwanted sound waves and letting it out a little later.
30. [A] It can make a car lighter. [B] It can make a car faster.
[C] It can reduce the cost of a silencer.
[D] It can improve the performance of a silencer.
31. [A] It is still being tried out. [B] People still have their doubts.
[C] It increases the cost of car production. [D] Carmakers are not sure if it is necessary.
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 32. [A] One must read books in a critical way. [B] A student should not have a complicated idea. [C] It was impossible for one to read two thousand books. [D] Students ought to make a list of the books they had read.
33. [A] He had plans for reading. [B] He learned to educate himself.
[C] He only read books over 100 pages.
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[D] He read only one book several times.
34. [A] To explain why it was included in the list. [B] To describe why he seriously crossed it off the list.
[C] To prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word.
[D] To show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand.
35. [A] To show how he developed his point of view. [B] To tell his reading experience at high school. [C] To introduce the two persons’ reading methods. [D] To explain that he read many books at high school.
Section C
Can we generate the new cultural attitudes required by our technological virtuosity? History is not very reassuring here. It has taken centuries to learn how to live (36) _________ in the family, the tribe, the city, the state, and the nation. Each new (37) _________ of human sensitivity and loyalty has taken generations to become firmly (38) _________ in the human mind. And now we are forced into a quantum leap from the mutual suspicion and (39) _________ that have marked the past relations between peoples in a world in which (40) _________ respect and comprehension are necessary.
Even events of recent decades provide little basis for (41) _________. Increasing physical proximity has brought no millennium in human relations. If anything, it has appeared to (42) _________ the divisions among people rather than to create a broader intimacy. Every new (43) _________ in physical distance has made us more painfully aware of the psychic distance that divides people and has increased alarm over real or imagined differences. If today people
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