How long did he tell you he waited？

听力原文： A famous writer who was visiting Japan was invited to give a lecture at a university to a large group of students. As most of them could not understand spoken English, he had to have an interpreter.

During his lecture he told an amusing story which went on for rather a long time. At last he stopped to allow the interpreter to translate it into Japanese, and was very surprised when the man did this in a few seconds, after which all the students laughed loudly.

After the lecture, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work and then said to him, "Now please tell me how you translated that long story of mine into such a short Japanese one."

"I didn't tell the story at all," the interpreter answered with a smile. "I just said, 'The honorable lecturer has just told a funny story. You will all laugh, please. '"

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A．To tell a story to a group of students.

B．To translate some books.

C．To act as an interpreter.

D．To give a lecture at a university.

听力原文： A university professor recently made several experiments with different animals to find out which was the most intelligent. He found out that monkey was more intelligent than other animals.

In one experiment the professor put a monkey in a room where there were several small boxes. Some boxes were inside other boxes. One small box had some food inside of it. The professor wanted to watch the monkey and to find out how long it would take the monkey to find the food. The professor left the room. He waited a few minutes outside the door. Then he knelt down and put his eye to the keyhole. What did he see？ To his surprise he found himself looking directly into the eye of the monkey. The monkey was looking at the professor through the keyhole on the other side of the door.

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A．To find out how clever monkeys were.

B．To test the intelligence of different animals.

C．To tell the difference between man and the monkey.

D．To find out how monkeys search for food.

e you doing？

W: I came back from Australia. Now I've opened a company. I heard from Miss Sue that you are getting married. Congratulations!

M: Thank you!

W: Why did you keep so quite about it？

M: I'm sorry. I mean to tell you. But I couldn't find you by your previous address.

W: When will the wedding be？

M: January 1st

W: I want to give you a present. What would you like？

M: Let me see. Oh, a bunch of flowers will do.

W: I see. Bye.

M: Bye.

How long hasn't he heard from Clara？

A．More than three years.

B．Less than three years.

C．Three years.

13：How long did he stay in Moscow？

A.Three days.

B.Two days.

C.A week.

D.A night.

How long did he live？

A．To the age of 90.

B．To the age of 80.

C．To the age of 70.

D．To the age of 60.

A、was he beginning

B、did he begin

C、will he begin

D、has he begun

Why did the writer say that he would have a long night？

A．He wondered how long he had to wait for the next bus.

B．No driver would give him a ride.

C．He didn't know the mutes.

D．He perhaps would have to take a taxi.

but I don't know how to let others realize that I am the best candidate for it.

W: It's not an easy job at all.

M: Thanks a lot.

W: I'm just kidding, Robert. In fact, you will win it easily, as long as you tell them how well you did in junior middle school.

M: How can I do that？ Shall I come to visit all of my classmates and tell them？ Is it possible？ W: Come on, I think, it may be better if you write something about yourself and post it in our classroom, so that every body can see it.

M: That sounds good. But everyone puts up posters. What can we do that's different？

W: Oh, I just forgot it. Today is Paul's birthday, and he will invite the whole class to his party, so you can make full use of that.

M: That is a great idea.

W: And I strongly advise you to introduce your plan for the year.

M: That is a great idea. But I think I'd better come up with a speech pretty quickly. How about if I write it later and show it to you after it's done？

W: Fine, I'll see you then.

M: Thanks for all your help.

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A．He wants to run with the woman.

B．He wants to visit his classmates.

C．He wants to write articles for news agency.

D．He wants to be the monitor of the class.

n prison. Now his trial was about to begin, and he felt sure that he would be found guilty and sent to prison for a long time.

Then he discovered that an old friend of his was one of the members of the jury at his trial. Of course, he did not tell anybody, but he managed to see his friend secretly one day. He said to him, "Jim, I know that the jury will find me guilty of having stolen the money. I cannot hope to be found not guilty of taking it—that would be too much to expect. But I should be grateful to you for the rest of my life if you could persuade the other members of the jury to add a strong recommendation for mercy to their statement that they consider me guilty."

"Well, George," answered Jim, "I shall certainly try to do what I can for you as an old friend, but of course I cannot promise anything. The other 11 people on the jury look terribly strong-minded to me."

George said that he would quite understand if Jim was not able to do anything for him, and thanked him warmly for agreeing to help.

The trial went on, and at last the time came for the jury to decide whether George was guilty or not. It took them five hours, but in the end they found George guilty, with a strong recommendation for mercy.

Of course, George was very pleased, but he did not have a chance to see Jim for some time after the trial. At last, however, Jim visited him in prison, and George thanked him warmly and asked him how he had managed to persuade the other members of the jury to recommend mercy.

"Well, George," Jim answered, "as I thought, those 11 men were very difficult to persuade, but I managed in the end by tiring them out. Do you know, those fools had all wanted to find you not guilty!"

Question : What did George manage to do when his trial was about to begin？

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A．Decided that he would plead guilty.

B．Told another prisoner about his old friend.

C．Succeeded in seeing his friend secretly one day.

D．Told his family about his old friends.

根据以下材料，回答题

Older Volcanic Eruptions

Volcanoes were more destructive in ancient history， not because they were bigger， but because the carbon dioxide they released wiped out life with greater ease.

Paul Wignall from the University of Leeds was investigating the link between volcanic eruptions and mass extinctions. Not all volcanic eruptions killed off large numbers of animals， but all the mass extinctions over the past 300 million years coincided with huge formations of volcanic rock. To his surprise， the older the massive volcanic eruptions were， the more damage they seemed to do. He calculated the "killing efficiency" for these volcanoes by comparing the proportion of life they killed off with the volume of lava that they produced. He found that for size， older eruptions were at least 10 times as effective at wiping out life as their more recent rivals.

The Permian extinction， for example， which happened 250 million years ago， is marked by floods of volcanic rock in Siberia that cover an area roughly the size of western Europe. Those volcanoes are thought to have pumped out about 10 gigatones of carbon as carbon dioxide. The global warming that followed wiped out 80 percent of all marine genera at the time， and it took 5 million years for the planet to recover. Yet 60 million years ago， there was another huge amount of volcanic activity and global warming but no mass extinction. Some animals did disappear but things returned to normal within ten thousands of years. "The most recent ones hardly have an effect at all，" Wignall says. He ignored the extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago， because many scientists believe it was primarily caused by the impact of an asteroid. He thinks that older volcanoes had more killing power because more recent life forms were better adapted to dealing with increased levels of CO2.

Vincent Courtillot， director of the Paris Geophysical Institute in France， says that Wignall"s idea is provocative. But he says it is incredibly hard to do these sorts of calculations. He points out that the killing power of volcanic eruptions depends on how long they lasted. And it is impossible to tell whether the huge blasts lasted for thousands or millions of years. He also adds that it is difficult to estimate how much lava prehistoric volcanoes produced， and that lava volume may not necessarily correspond to carbon dioxide emissions.

Why did older volcanic eruptions do more damage than more recent ones？ 查看材料

A.Because they killed off life more easily.

B.Because they were brighter.

C.Because they were larger.

D.Because they were hotter.