Ten years have passed _______ I began to learn English.

I suppose when I come back in ten years' time, all these old houses______down.

A．will have been pulled

B．will have pulled

C．will be pulling

D．will be pulled

I suppose that when I come back in ten years' time, all these old houses ______ down.

A．will have been pulled

B．will have pulled

C．will be pulling

D．will be pulled

Researchers have studied the connection between aspirin and heart disease for _______.

A．more than a century

B．more than ten years

C．more than one year

D．a few years

听力原文：W: What jobs have you done in the last ten years？

M: Many kinds of jobs. I was once an engineer and later a teacher. Up till now I have been an official for three years.

What's the man now？

A．A student.

B．A teacher.

C．An engineer.

D．An official.

听力原文： Marriage is still a popular institution in the United States, but divorce is becoming almost as "popular". Nevertheless, most American people get married at the present time. Fifty percent of American marriages end in divorce. However, four out of five divorced people do not stay single. They get married a see6nd time to new partners. Sociologists tell us that in the next century, most American people will marry three or four times in one lifetime. Alvin Toffler, an American sociologist, calls this new social form. "serial marriages". In his new book Fortune Shock, Toffler gives many reasons for this change in American marriage. In modern society, people's lives don't stay the same for very long. Americans frequently change their jobs, their homes, and their circle of friends. So, the person who was a good husband or wife ten years ago is sometimes not as good ten years later. After some years of marriage, a husband and wife can feel that their lives have become very different, and they don't share the same interests any more. For this reason, Toffler says, people in the twenty- first century will not plan to marry only one person for an entire lifetime. They will plan to stay married to one person for perhaps five or ten years, and then marry another. Most Americans will expect to have a "marriage career" that includes three or four marriages.

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A．Marriage that continues for many years without divorce.

B．Marriage that can easily end in divorce.

C．People will marry three or four times in one life-time.

D．Divorced people don't stay single.

Whenever you see the old film, even one 【M1】 ______

made ten years before, you can not help being 【M2】 ______

strucked by the appearance of the women taking part. 【M3】 ______

Their hair-styles and make-up look dated; their

skirts look either too long nor too short; their 【M4】 ______

general appearance is, in fact, slightly funny.

The men taking part, on the other hand, are clearly

recognizable. There are nothing about their appearance 【M5】 ______

to suggest they belong to an entire different age. 【M6】 ______

This illusion is created by changing fashions. Over the

years, great majority of men have resisted 【M7】 ______

all attempts to making them change their style 【M8】 ______

of dress. The same can not be said for woman. 【M9】 ______

Each year a few so-called top designers

in Paris and London lay down on the law 【M10】 ______

and the women of the whole world over run to obey.

The rules of the designers are unpredictable

and dictatorial. Sometimes they decide randomly,

that skirts will be short and waists will be high;

hips are in and buttons are out.

【M1】

听力原文：M: Excuse me. Have you been waiting long？

W: About ten minutes.

M: Did you notice Whether the number seven bus has gone by？

W: Yes, it is. I wish that it would rain and cool off.

M: Me too. This is unusual for March. I don't remember it ever being so hot dry in March before.

W: You're from Florida then.

M: Not really, I was born in New York, but I've lived here for ten years now.

W: My mother and I have just moved here from Indiana.

M: Pretty cold in Indiana, isn't it？

W: Yes. That's why we moved. But we didn't know that it would be so hot here. We should have gone to California. Do you think that we've missed the bus？

M: No, it's always a little late.

W: I have twenty to one, but my watch is a little fast.

M: Don't worry. It never comes exactly on the halfhour like it should.

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A．She is waiting for the man.

B．She is waiting for her mother.

C．She is waiting for a bus.

D．She is waiting for it to stop raining.

ave a comfortable house near the sea.

During the winter they would be quite happy, but every summer a lot of their relatives used to spend holiday in their house, and it was much cheaper than staying in hotel. Finally one day in June Mr. Richards complained to a clever friend of his who lived in the same place. “One of my wife’s cousins is going to bring her husband and children and spend ten days with us next month again. How have you prevented all your relatives from coming to live with you in summer？” “Oh,” the friend answered, “that is not difficult. I just borrow money from all the rich ones, and lend it to all the poor ones. After that, they seldom come again.” Hearing this Mr. Richards smiled.

第40题：The relatives preferred to stay in Mr. Richards’ house because ________.

[A] it was cool in summer

[B] they might spend less money

[C] they were more welcome

[D] it was a comfortable place

over the last ten years. Before that time, large computers were only used by large, rich companies that could afford the investment. With the advancement of technology, small computers have come into the market, which are capable of doing the work that used to be done by much larger and expensive computers, so now most smaller companies can use them. The main development in small computers has been in the field of word processors, or WPS as they are often called. 40% of British offices are now estimated to have a word processor and this percentage is growing fast. There are many advantages in using a word processor for both secretary and manager. The secretary is freed from a lot of daily work, such as retyping letters and storing papers. He or she can use this time to do other more interesting work for the boss. From a managers point of view, secretarial time is being made better use of and money can be saved by doing daily jobs automatically outside office hours. But is it all good？ If a lot of daily secretarial work can be done automatically, surely this will mean that fewer secretaries will be needed. Another worry is the increasing medical problems related to work with visual display units. The case of a slow loss of sight among people using word processors seems to have risen greatly. It is also feared that if a woman works at a VDU for long hours, the unborn child in her body might be killed. Safety screens to put over a VDU have been invented but few companies in England bother to buy them. Whatever the arguments for and against word processor, they are a key feature of this revolution in office practise. Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 20. Why didnt smaller companies use large computers ten years ago？ 21. What is the main feature of the revolution in office work over the last ten years according to the passage？ 22. What is implied about the result of using word processors in the passage？20．

A．The saving of time and money.

B．The wide use of word processors.

C．The decreasing number of secretaries.

D．The use of computers in small companies.

听力原文： More than sixty percent of all homes in the United States have at least one thing in common: the people living in them keep one or more small animals as pets. These pet owners spend about ten billion dollars each year to buy, feed' and care for their animals. Why？ If you ask the owners, their answers probably would be emotional.

During the past ten years researchers have been attempting to find a more scientific answer. Much of the research on the ties between people and pets is being done at the University of Pennsylvania. Re searchers there have watched hundreds of people play with small animals. Some were very sick. Perhaps the most important observation was the physical effect the animals had on most of the people. The animals seemed to calm the people who touched and talked to them. The human's blood pressure actually dropped.

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A．They keep one or more small animals at home as pets.

B．They kill animals from time to time.

C．They let animals run or fly away now and then.

D．They exchange their animals year in and year out.