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11. A) Children should be
taught to be more careful.
B) Children shouldn’t drink so much
orange juice.
C) There is no need for the man to make
such a fuss.
D) Timmy
should learn to do things in the right way.
12. A) Fitness training.
B) The new job offer.
C) Computer
programming.
D)
Directorship of the club.
13. A) He needs to buy a new sweater.
B) He has got to save on
fuel bills.
C)
The fuel price has skyrocketed.
D) The heating system doesn’t work.
14. A)
Committing theft.
B) Taking
pictures.
C) Window shopping.
D) Posing for
the camera.
15.
A) She is taking some medicine.
B) She has not
seen a doctor yet.
C) She does not trust the man’s advice.
D) She has
alm
ost recovered from the cough.
16. A) Pamela’s
report is not finished as scheduled.
B) Pamela has a habit of
doing things in a hurry.
C) Pamela is not good at writing
research papers.
D) Pamela’s mistakes could have been
avoided.
17. A)
In the left-luggage office.
B) At the hotel reception.
C) In a hotel room.
D) At an airport.
18. A) She was
an excellent student at college.
B) She works in
the entertainment business.
C) She is fond of telling
stories in her speech.
D)
She is good at conveying her message.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are
based on the passage you have just heard.
26. A) To give customers a
wider range of choices.
B)
To make shoppers see as many items as possible.
C) To supply as many
varieties of goods as it can.
D) To give space for more profitable
products.
27.
A) On the top shelves.
B) On the bottom shelves.
C) On easily accessible
shelves.
D) On
clearly marked shelves.
28. A) Many of them buy things on
impulse.
B) A
few of them are fathers with babies.
C) A majority of them are
young couples.
D) Over 60% of them make shopping
lists.
29. A)
Sales assistants promoting high margin goods.
B) Sales assistants
following customers around.
C) Customers competing for good
bargains.
D) Customers
losing all sense of time.
Passage Two
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
30. A) Teaching mathematics at a
school.
B) Doing research
in an institute.
C)
Studying for a college degree.
D) Working in a high-tech company.
31. A) He studied the
designs of various choices.
B) He did experiments to different
materials.
C) He bought an
alarm clock with a pig face.
D) He asked different people for their
opinions.
32.
A) Its automatic mechanism.
B) Its manufacturing pattern.
C) Its way of waking people
up.
D) Its funny-looking
pig face.
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
33. A) It’s often caused by a change of
circumstances.
B) It
usually doesn’t require any special
at
tention.
C) It
usually appears all of a sudden.
D) It usually lasts for several years.
34. A) They can’t mix well
with others.
B) They
emotionally receive their friends.
C) They depend severely on family
members.
D) They share
similar interests with friends.
35. A) They lack consistent support
from peers.
B) They doubt
their own popularity.
C)
They were born psychologically weak.
D) They focus too much attention on
themselves.
Section C
There was a time when any personal
information that was gathered about us was typed
on a piece of paper and (36) ________
away in a file cabinet. It could remain
there for years and, often (37) ________, never
reach the outside world.
Things have done a complete about-face
since then. (38) ________ for the change has been
the astonishingly (39) ________
development in recent years of the
computer. Today, any data that is
(40) ________ about us in one place or
another
—
and for one reason
or another
—
can be stored
in a computer bank. It can then
be
easily passed to other computer banks. They are
owned by (41) ________ and by private businesses
and corporations, lending (42)
________, direct mailing and
telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card
companies, and government (43) ________ at the
local,
state, and federal level.
A growing number of
Americans are seeing the accumulation and
distribution of computerized date as a
frightening invasion of their privacy.
(44) ___________
______________________
___________________________________ as the
computer becomes increasingly
efficient, easier to operate, and less
costly to purchase and maintain. In 1970, a
national survey showed that (45)
______
_____________________________________________
_________________. Seven years later, 47 percent
expressed the same worry. (46)
____________
__________________________
______________________________.
Part III Listening
Comprehension
11.
W: What are you doing in here, Sir?
Didn't you see the private sign over there?
M: I'm sorry. I
didn't notice it when I came in. I'm looking for
the manager's office.
Q: What do we learn from the
conversation?
12.
W: Mike, what's the problem? You've
known from month the report is due today.
M: I know, but
I'm afraid I need another few days. The data is
hard to interpret than I expected.
Q: What does the man mean?
13.
W: Excuse me, Tony. Has my
parcel from New York arrived?
M: Unfortunately, it's been
delayed due to the bad weather.