I （） poems when I was his age.

听力原文： What happened to me that day is just unbelievable. The first thing to go wrong was that all the parking spaces were taken. So I had to park on the grass, and hoped that I would not get a parking ticket. When I got to the ad- mission office, there was already a long line of students waiting. By the time it was my turn. two of the courses I needed were filled, and I had to go back to my adviser and make out a whole new timetable. Although I did sign up for all my courses, I missed the lunch. The next thing to go wrong was that the bookstore had sold out one of the textbooks required. As I was leaving, I wondered what else could possibly happen, and then there I saw a policeman standing beside my car and writing out a ticket.

Who is the speaker？

A．A student.

B．A teacher.

C．An officer clerk.

听力原文：M: Did you see that TV special on Norman Rockwell last night？

W: Yes, I did. It was really good, wasn't it？

M: It sure was. I thought it was really interesting how he developed the paintings in states starting with photographs.

W: Yes, I did, too. It never occurred to me that he would have actually employed models.

M: I know. But it does make sense to use photographs of real people, to solve as many of the composition problems as possible before starting to paint.

W: True. Anyway, you knew what I like most about his work？

M: What？

W: Well, when you look at one of the magazine coves, which magazine was it？

M: The Saturday Evening Post.

W: Yes, you can just tell what the people are thinking and feeling. The picture really tells a story.

M: You're right. I like that, too. And to think that he created several hundred of those.

W: Amazing. Of course; that was over a period of almost sixty years, but still...

M: I'd like to see them when that exhibit comes to Miami.

W: What exhibit？

M: The one they mentioned after the special.

W: Oh. I must have turned it off before the announcement. I'd like to see it, too, Let's go.

M: OK.

W: I'm sure we'll appreciate it very much.

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A．Last night.

B．Tonight.

C．Yesterday afternoon.

D．This morning.

第三节 短文理解2

阅读下列短文，从[A]、[B]、[C]三个选项中选择一个正确答案。

Beethoven (贝多芬) was never afraid to show his feelings. Once when he was playing at a rich man's house, one of the listeners, a man of good family, was talking to a girl. He liked girls more than music, and he didn't stop talking when Beethoven started to play. The voice was not a quiet one, and Beethoven could hear well in those, days. The music stopped in the middle and Beethoven stood up. "I don't play for animals of this kind!" he cried. "No! Not for animals!" Then he walked out.

Beethoven was a ______.

A．painter

B．musician

C．chemist

听力原文：M: Hi, Anne. How is your paper？

W: What paper？

M: You forgot it？ The paper we are going to hand in this Friday. Professor Smith assigned it.

W: Oh, I see. I finished it last week. How is yours？

M: I have just started to work on it.

W: Are you crazy？ You know what？ Only four days left.

M: Yes, I know. I can't get my inspiration until the last minute. I need the pressure.

W: Oh. I'm just the opposite. If I don't have enough time to prepare, I can do nothing.

M: What's your paper on？

W: William Shakespeare.

M: Wasn't he a dramatist？ I thought we were supposed to focus on a poet and his works.

W: He wrote some poems, don't you know？

M: Really？ I never knew that. I guess I'll learn more from your paper. I want to write something about Keats, but I don't know where I can find any useful information.

W: Uh-huh. Don't worry about it. I have bought some poetry anthologies of Keats. Maybe they will be useful to you.

M: Thank you so much. You are really giving me a timely hand. When can I get these books？

W: Will tonight be all right？ I have to buy something now, but I'll be around after dinner.

M: That sounds good. I'll see you then.

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A．The man.

B．The woman.

C．Both of them.

D．Neither of them.

"AMORETTI, SONNET 75" One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I write it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay, A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise. Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. "Sonnet 18" Shall I compare thee to a summer s day？ Thou art more lovely and more temperate; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature s changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow st, Nor shall death brag thou wander st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

听力原文：W: Bob, do you think I should put more fire into my poem？

M: No, I really think you should put more poems into the fire.

Q: What does the man mean？

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A．She is a very good poet.

B．Her poems are very inspiring.

C．Her poems excite fire in him.

D．She should stop writing poems.

听力原文：M: Hey, Ellen, you'll never guess who I met last week. Barbara Johnson.

W: You don't mean the Barbara Johnson who directed the choir that performed on campus last weekend？

M: That's right.

W: But she's so famous. How did you get to meet her？

M: Well, you know how in that program they handed out, they printed the words to the choral pieces a long with the translations. I found all these mistakes in the Latin text, you know typographic... Wait a minute. You were actually reading the words.

W: I like to follow the text while I'm listening. It helps me understand what they are singing about. Any way, while they were doing those Latin pieces.

M: I notice all these mistakes, mostly spelling errors. It was really annoying. So after the concert all those people were crowding around back stage to see her and the soloist...

W: Yeah, I remember there were dozens of people waiting there for autographs.

M: Well, I waited to the end, and then when I met Barbara Johnson I showed her the mistakes I'd found.

W: Was she upset？

M: Upset？ She actually thanked me and said if I sent her a copy of the corrected text, she would revise it for the next time they sing those pieces and even print my name in the acknowledgement as a pro gram editor.

W: Wow, your Latin must be pretty good to find all those errors.

M: I should hope so. I major in classics, you know.

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A．That he'll be performing in a concert.

B．That he had a conversation with the director of a choir.

C．That he's been translating some Latin poems for a class.

D．That he heard a new musical composition by Barbara Johnson.

A.The Wild Honey Suckle

B.The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

C.Because I Could Not Stop for Death

D.O Captain! My Captain!

A.had already learned

B.have already learned

C.would have already learned

D.already learned

-I've never heard of it. Is it any good？

-________.

A.That sounds great. Let's watch something else.

B.It's supposed to be.

C.Really？ I've heard it's not that great.

re seen. Comment on the images in either "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" or "I Like to See It Lap the Miles".