test 10

Model Test 10
11. W: How long have you been writing?
M: Frankly speaking, I began writing poems when I was 12. But I didn’t publish any one until I was 20. Then I changed to write essays when I was 25.
Q: When did the man start writing poems?
12. W: How is your new job at the student cafeteria? Have you started it yet?
M: Have I ? Hours of smelling bad food—I just can’t take it anymore.
Q: What can be inferred about the man’s problem?
13. M: What do you think of Professor Brown’s lecture?
W: The topic was interesting, but the lecture was much more difficult to follow than I had expected.
Q: What does the woman say about the lecture?
14. W: I want to ask the Johnsons to come to the party. Do you know their address?
M: No. But I would like them to come. I think Tom can give you their address.
Q: What is the woman going to do?
15.M: I’m exhausted. I stayed up the whole night for my final math exam.
W: But why do you always wait until the last minute?
Q: What does the woman mean?
16. W: Where can I find some of the socks you advertised on sale?
M: Check out the sales rack in the aisle. There’s still quite a few left.
Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?
17. M: Excuse me. I’d like to place an advertisement for a used car in this Sunday’s edition of your paper.
W: Ok, but you have to run your advertisement all week. We can’t quote rates for just Sunday.
Q: Where is the conversation most probably taking place?
18. W: Mark is playing computer games.
M: Should he do that when the final exam is drawing near?
Q: What does the man think Mark should do?
Conversation One
W: Good afternoon. This is Wilson Communication. Can I help you?
M: Hi, I am calling about the cellphone I bought from your company two months ago. I am afraid there is some problem with it.
W: What happened to your cellphone?
M: It seems that sometimes I can’t get incoming and outgoing calls and it always gives
me a busy signal. Do you know what the problem could be?
W: Could you tell me how long this has been happening?
M: A couple of days. At the beginning I thought it could be the handset’s problem but then I realized it was probably the transmission signal.
W: Please give me your number and I will check whether there is any problem on the line.
M: 978924.
W: Thank you. Please hold onto the line and I will get back to you in a minute.
M: Sure.
W: Sorry to keep you waiting, sir. I have checked your number and everything is fine. It could be due to our line upgrading and sometimes it could affect certain mobile numbers.
M: How long do I have to wait before the signal returns to normal?
W: Well, another couple of days. And if the problem still existed after two days, please give us a call and we will look into it and solve it.
M: Ok. Thank you.
19. What is the most probable relationship between the two speakers?
20. When did the man buy his cellphone?
21. What is the problem with the man’s cellphone?
22. What could be the possible reason for the problem with the man’s cellphone according to the woman?
Conversation Two
W: Today we have with us Dr Michael White, a space scientist, to tell us about a new space plane that British scientists are working on. Firstly, Dr. White, could you tell us what the space plane looks like?
M: Well, it looks just like an ordinary plane, really. It’s about the same size as a plane, and it can carry about 50 passengers.
W: But it doesn’t act like an ordinary plane, does it?
M: No, it’s much faster. For example, you could fly from London to Beijing in only 30 minutes. W: My goodness! And how does it work?
M: Well, shortly after taking off, the plane leaves the earth’ atmosphere and goes into orbit around the earth until it returns to the ground.
W: So it’s really a kind of space rocket.
M: Not really, no, for two reasons. First, a space rocket can only be used once, but this space plane can be used for many times. Second, while the plane is traveling through the atmosphere, the pilot can fly it just like an ordinary plane.
W: It sounds very interesting.
23. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
24. How is a space plane different from an ordinary plane?
25. Why does the man say that a space plane is not a kind of space rocket?
Passage One
To most foreigners, especially those from the eastern world, such as Chinese and Japanese, cricket seems a dreadfully boring game. But English people think the sound of a wooden cricket ball striking a wooden cricket bat is just about the most beautiful sound in the town.
The all-England cricket team is the most important one. Its players, who may be either amateur or professional, are chosen from the country cricket teams. The most important international matches are those played between England and Australia, and are held one year in one country, the next year in the other. While these matches are being played, if an Englishman says, “The news is terrible”, he does not mean that an international disaster has occurred—but merely that English is not doing well at cricket.
But to see real English cricket, a visitor should go to watch a village team. On Saturday and Sunday summer afternoon, on driving into any village, he is certain to hear the crack of a bat hitting a ball. Then presently he will come to a field or village green. All around it, sitting on the ground, on benches, or in their cars, are the people of the neighborhood. They are not saying much, but their eyes are fixed on the cricket pitch.
26. Where are the all-England cricket team players chosen from?
27. Which international cricket matches are the most important ones for English people?
28. When should a visitor go to watch a village cricket game?
Passage Two
Well, good morning. Last week we went through the beginning of the new republic. There are a number of myths we need to clear up. The first is that the legislators of the US Constitution saw the document as what it was. In fact, a lot of delegates at the Constitutional Convention hated it. So many compromises had to be made in order to secure agreement that many participants viewed it, as Alexander Hamilton put it, “a weak and worthless fabric”. Fifteen delegates refused to sign it, and even the Constitution’s biggest supporters saw it as little more than a makeshift measure—after a few years passed, the new delegates could meet at another convention and try to pass something better. Another myth that has been propagated in history was that the Founding Fathers believed in democracy. The truth is the Founding Fathers, that is, the men who framed the Constitution, disagreed about many things, but on one point they were in complete agreement: that democracy meant mass rule and if uncontrolled, it would pose a grave threat to life, liberty and property, and so on. There was nothing unusual in the Founding Fathers’ suspicion of democracy; it was conventional wisdom in the 18th century. Even well into the 19th century, in the United States as well as Western Europe, the world “democracy”had a boring connotation, especially among conservatives. The question then becomes “how did both the Constitution and democracy become so workable and sustainable?” And that’s what we’ll deal with in the next class.
29. What historical period does the lecture mainly talk about?
30. What did the legislators of the Constitution think of this document?
31. What is the topic of the next class?
Passage Three
A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business and fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features as well, from editorial pages to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music.
A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping form here to there, in and out, glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next.
A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality, its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But the immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: What each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day’s paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.
32. Which of the following is NOT a trait of a modern newspaper?
33. Why does the speaker say that no two people really read the “same” newspaper?
34. Why does a good modern newspaper offer “a variety” to readers?
35. What conclusion can we draw from the passage?
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44. when I had to keep chewing gum and drinking ice-cold water
45. During the first several days when I began to quit, I couldn’t get to sleep.
46. I wish my friends would quit for their own health and that of their families.。