[00:09.78]Section A
[02:00.70]Q1.
[02:03.47]W: Carol told us on the phone not to worry about her.Her left leg doesn't hurt as much as it did yesterday.
[02:11.89]M: She'd better have it examined by a doctor anyway. And I will call her about it this evening.
[02:20.33]Q: What does the man think Carol should do?
[02:39.70]Q2.
[02:42.43]M: There is a non-stop train for Washington and it leaves at 2:30.
[02:48.89]W: It's faster than the 2 o'clock train. Besides, we can have something to eat before getting on the train.
[02:58.12]Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
[03:16.96]Q3.
[03:19.16]M: Hi, Melissa, how's your project going? Have you thought about going to graduate school?　
[03:26.61]Perhaps you can get into Harvard.
[03:29.56]W: Everything is coming along really well. I have been thinking about graduate school.
[03:36.54]But I'll talk to my tutor Dr. Garcia first and see what she thinks.
[03:43.16]Q: What do you learn about the woman from the conversation?
[04:02.90]Q4.
[04:05.12]W: Did you attend Alice's presentation last night? It was the first time for her to give a speech to a large audience.
[04:14.55]M: How she could be so calm in front of so many people is really beyond me!
[04:21.00]Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
[04:39.92]Q5.
[04:44.04]W: You've been doing weather reports for nearly 30 years. Has the weather got any worse in all these years?
[04:51.72]M: Well, not necessarily worse. But we are seeing more swings.
[04:57.13]Q: What does the man say about the weather?
[05:17.11]Q6.
[05:19.57]M: Excuse me, I am looking for the textbook by a Professor Jordon for the marketing course.
[05:27.05]W: I am afraid it's out of stock. You'll have to order it.
[05:31.78]And it will take the publisher 3 weeks to send it to us.
[05:35.86]Q: Where did this conversation most probably take place?
[05:56.87]Q7.
[06:00.25]M: I am going to New York next week, but the hotel I booked is really expensive.
[06:06.96]W: Why book a hotel? My brother has 2 spare rooms in his apartment.
[06:13.26]Q: What does the woman mean?
[06:32.62]Q8.
[06:34.75]W: In my opinion, watching the news on TV is a good way to learn English. What do you think?
[06:41.75]M: It would be better if you could check the same information in English newspapers afterwards.
[06:49.06]Q: What does the man say about learning English?
[07:09.48]Q9.
[07:12.54]M: I hear a newly-invented drug can make people tell the truth and it may prove useful in questioning terrorists.
[07:22.38]Isn't it incredible?
[07:24.95]W: Simple solutions to complex problems rarely succeed.
[07:29.55]As far as I know, no such drugs are ever known to work.
[07:35.01]Q: What does the woman think of the new drug?
[07:54.29]Q10.
[07:57.26]M: You know the electronics company is coming to our campus to recruit graduate students next week.
[08:04.96]W: Really? What day? I'd like to talk to them and hand in my résumé.
[08:11.72]Q: What does the woman want to do?
[08:29.85]Section B
[09:10.65]Passage one
[09:13.03]A new study reports the common drug aspirin greatly reduces life threatening problems
[09:19.46]after an operation to replace blocked blood vessels to the heart.
[09:25.07]More than 800,000 people around the world have this heart surgery each year.
[09:32.71]The doctors who carried out the study say giving aspirin to patients soon
[09:38.96]after the operation could save thousands of lives.
[09:43.57]People usually take aspirin to control pain and reduce high body temperature.
[09:50.33]Doctors also advise some people to take aspirin to help prevent heart attacks.
[09:57.89]About 10-15 percent of these heart operations end in death or damage to the heart or other organs.
[10:08.45]The new study shows that even a small amount of aspirin reduced such threats.
[10:17.17]The doctors said the chance of death for patients who took aspirin would fall by 67%.
[10:25.82]They claimed this was true if the aspirin was given within 48 hours of the operation.
[10:33.54]The doctors believe aspirin helps heart surgery patients
[10:38.99]because it can prevent blood from thickening and blood vessels from being blocked.
[10:45.10]However, the doctors warned that people who have stomach bleeding
[10:50.36]or other bad reactions from aspirin should not take it after heart surgery.
[10:57.54]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[11:04.87]Q11. What is the finding of the new study of aspirin?
[11:27.43]Q12. In what way can aspirin help heart surgery patients according to the doctors?
[11:52.64]Q13. What warning did the doctors give about the use of aspirin?
[12:15.45]Passage Two
[12:18.14]Were you the first or the last child in you family? Or were you a middle or an only child?
[12:26.71]Some people think it matters where you were born in you family.
[12:31.93]But there are different ideas about what birth order means.
[12:36.77]Some people say that oldest children are smart and strong-willed.
[12:43.09]They are very likely to be successful. The reason for this is simple.
[12:48.81]Parents have a lot of time for their first child, they give him or her a lot of attention.
[12:56.66]So this child is very likely to do well. An only child will succeed for the same reason.
[13:04.12]What happens to the other children in the family?
[13:08.58]Middle children don't get so much attention, so they don't feel that important.
[13:15.50]If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd.
[13:21.52]The youngest child, though, often gets special treatment. He or she is the baby.
[13:28.69]Often this child grows up to be funny and charming. Do you believe these ideas of birth order too?
[13:37.41]A recent study saw things quite differently. The study found that first children believed in family rules.
[13:46.22]They didn't take many chances in their lives. They usually followed orders.
[13:52.27]Rules didn't mean as much to later children in the family.
[13:56.71]They went out and followed their own ideas. They took chances and they often did better in life.
[14:05.29]Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[14:11.74]Q14. According to common belief, in what way are the first child and the only child alike?
[14:38.39]Q15. What do people usually say about middle children?
[15:00.79]Q16. what do we learn about later children in a family from a recent study of birth order?
[15:26.28]Passage Three
[15:28.43]When my interest shifted from space to the sea, I never expected it would cause such confusion among my friends,
[15:38.90]yet I can understand their feelings.
[15:43.08]As I have been writing and talking about space flight for the best part of 20 years,
[15:49.53]a sudden switch of interest to the depth of the sea doer seem peculiar.
[15:55.17]To explain, I'd like to share my reasons behind this unusual change of mind.
[16:01.28]The first excuse I give is an economic one. Underwater exploration is so much cheaper than space flight.
[16:11.21]The first round-trip ticket to the moon is going to cost at least 10 billion dollars if you include research and development.
[16:21.50]By the end of this century, the cost will be down to a few million.
[16:27.29]On the other hand, the diving suit and a set of basic tools needed for skin-diving can be bought for 20 dollars.
[16:36.21]My second argument is more philosophical. The ocean, surprisingly enough, has many things in common with space.
[16:45.23]In their different ways, both sea and space are equally hostile.
[16:51.99]If we wish to survive in either for any length of time, we need to have mechanical aids.
[16:59.69]The diving suit helped the design of the space suit.
[17:04.20]The feelings and the emotions of a man beneath the sea will be much like those of a man beyond the atmosphere.
[17:13.84]Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[17:20.49]Q17. How did the speaker's friends respond to his change of interest?
[17:43.60]Q18. What is one of the reasons for the speaker to switch his interest to underwater exploration?
[18:08.93]Q19. In what way does the speaker think diving is similar to space travel?
[18:32.45]Q20. What is the speaker's purpose in giving this talk?