When I saw her this morning, she wore a ________ look on her face.

We hadn't met for 20 years, but I recognized her ___________ I saw her .

A) the moment B) for the moment C) the moment when D) at the moment when

听力原文： There are so many things going on in our modern lives, and change happens so quickly. It is hard to imagine a time when things were slower and you could really see a new thing come into your life and to remember the day or the year when those things happened. I know that today, for example, there, are many instances of second and third generations of things, such as televisions or radios, when some of us were not even aware that there was a first generation.

A friend of mine was born at the end of the last century, and talking to her, I really got a sense of her being a living history book, of being able to talk about the changes in her own life and to know that these changes were really the changes that society was going through.

She gets really excited, for example, when she talks about the first time she ever saw a camera, and even more excited when she saw herself in the picture that the photographer took. She lived in a small town, and at the time that she was very young, there were no cars or trains in her town at all. As she grew up, cars and trains came in, and she remembers her first ride with a real sense of amazement that any one count move so fast.

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A．It's amazing that anyone could move so fast.

B．Televisions mark the beginning of modem life.

C．Modern life is changing very fast.

D．It's hard to remember the past.

听力原文：M: Hi, mum!

W: Ah, there you are, I was getting worried about you. It's late.

M: Yes. I bumped into Lyn and went to the pub for a drink. She was telling me about a funny thing that had happened to her yesterday.

W: Oh, what was that？

M: Well, she was driving home from work when suddenly she saw an old lady on her hands and knees in the middle of the road.

W: Oh, her hands and knees in the middle of the road？

M: Yes, in front of her car. She was so shocked that she stopped without warning, and the car behind crashed into hers.

W: Oh! Was she hurt？

M: No, she wasn't, fortunately.

W: And what was the old lady doing on her hands and knees？

M: I'm just coming to that -- so Lyn got out of her car. Then the old lady picked up something, and walked away without saying a word.

W: Well. I never! She was lucky, Lyn didn't run her over.

M: Well, yes. Then a policeman came but he didn't believe the story.

W: Oh？

M: Luckily there was a witness, a man waiting for the bus. He saw it all. Guess what the old lady was doing？

W: I haven't the faintest idea.

M: She was looking for a false tooth.

W: A false tooth？

M: Yes, it fell out as she was crossing the road. The witness heard her mumbling, "Oh, my gold tooth."

W: I don't believe it.

M: It's true. Ask Lyn.

Why was the old lady on her hands and knees in the middle of the road？

A．She was run over by a car.

B．She was shocked to see a car crashing into another.

C．She fell when crossing the road.

D．She was looking for her false tooth.

brothers and I all loved Brownie and did different things with her. One of us would walk her, another would feed her, then there were baths, playing catch and many other games. Brownie, in return, loved each and every one of us. One thing that most touched my heart was that she would go to whoever was sick and just be with them. We always felt better when she was around. One day, as I was getting her food, she chewed up one of Dads shoes, which had to be thrown away in the end. I knew Dad would be mad and I had to let her know what she did was wrong. When I looked at her and said "Bad girl", she looked down at the ground and then went and hid. I saw a tear in her eyes. Brownie turned out to be more than just our family pet. She went everywhere with us. People would stop and ask if they could pet her. Of course shed let anyone pet her. She was just the most lovable dog. There were many times when wed be out walking and a small child would come over and pull on her hair. She never barked or tried to get away. The funny thing is she would smile. This frightened people because they thought she was showing her teeth. Far from the truth, she loved everyone. Now many years have passed since Brownie died of old age. I still miss the days when she was with us. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. What would Brownie do when someone was ill in the family？ 17. What do we learn about Brownie from the passage？ 18. Why does the speaker say that Brownie was more than just a family pet？17．

A．She disliked the speaker"s dad.

B．She felt scary for her mistake.

C．She loved playing hide-and-seek.

D．She would eat anything when hungry.

听力原文：M: Hi, mom!

W: Ah, there you are, I was getting worried about you. It's late.

M: Yes. I bumped into Lyn and went to the pub for a drink. She was telling me about a funny thing that had happened to her yesterday.

W: Oh. What was that？

M: Well. She was driving home from work when suddenly she saw an old lady on her hands and knees in the middle of the road.

W: Oh, her hands and knees in the middle of the road？

M: Yes, in front of her car. She was so shocked that she stopped without warning, and the car behind crashed into hers.

W: Oh! Was she hurt？

M: No, she wasn't, fortunately.

W: And what was the old lady doing on her hands and knees？

M: I'm just coming to that--so Lyn got out of her car. Then the old lady picked up something, and walked away without saying a word.

W: Well. I never! She was lucky Lyn didn't run her over.

M: Well, yes. Then a policeman came but he didn't believe the story.

W: Oh？

M: Luckily there was a witness, a man waiting for a bus. He saw it all. Guess what the old la dy was doing？

W: I haven't the faintest idea.

M: She was looking for a false tooth.

W: A false tooth？

M: Yes, it fell out as she was crossing the road. The witness heard her mumbling, "Oh, my gold tooth."

W: I don't believe it.

M: It's true. Ask Lyn.

Why was the old lady on her hands and knees in the middle of the road？

A．She was run over by a car.

B．She was shocked to see a car crashing into a another.

C．She fell when crossing the road.

D．She was looking for her false tooth.

听力原文： Mrs. Brown was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast and boasted of the fact that she had never, in her thirty-five years of' driving, been punished for a driving offence.

Then one day she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policeman in it saw her pass a red light without stopping.

When Mrs. Brown came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason why she had not stopped at the red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak with old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was saying, Mrs. Brown opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she chose a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.

When she had successfully done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, "Now it is your turn. I suppose you drive a car, trod that you have no doubt about your own eyesight."

The judge took the needle and tried to thread it.. After half a dozen attempts, he had still not succeeded. The case against Mrs. Brown was dismissed and her record remained unbroken.

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A．She broke her record.

B．She didn't stop at a red light.

C．She saw an accident.

D．She stopped at a red light.

er. I had never met him before although I had often heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understood anything. Even then all I could make out was that someone called Milly had a very bad accident. I hadn't the slightest idea who she was but I obviously had to go.

It had been snowing heavily that day and I didn't know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for me. It seemed Milly had died. "She meant more to me than anyone… even my own wife!" he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, a possible scandal. I was even more shocked when he told me he had put her in the barn. "I would not leave her out in the cold !" he said.

Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground. "She was such a good cow! I wouldn't let anyone but a doctor touch her!" he said, and burst into tears again.

The underlined phrase "make out" in the first paragraph means ______.

A．expect

B．understand

C．see clearly

D．hear clearly

听力原文： Lisa was running late. She had a lot to do at work, plus visitors on the way: her parents were coming in for Thanksgiving from her hometown. But as she hurried down the subway stairs, she started to feel uncomfortably. Lisa felt weak and tired — maybe it hadn't been a good idea to give blood the night before, she thought.

Several yards away, Frank, 33, and his girlfriend, Jennifer, found a spot close to where the front of the train would stop. They were deep in discussion about a house they were thinking of buying. But when he heard the scream, followed by someone yelling, "Oh, my God, she fell in!" Frank didn't hesitate. He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. "No! Not you!" his girlfriend screamed after him. The train was about 20 seconds from the station. It was hard to lift her. She was just out. But he managed to raise her four feet to the platform. so that bystanders could hold her by the chin and drag her away from the edge. That was where Lisa briefly regained consciousness, felt herself being pulled along the ground, and saw someone else holding her purse. Lisa thought she'd been robbed. A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood pouring from her head.

Police and fire officials soon arrived, and Frank told the story to an officer. Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40-minute train ride downtown — just as he had been seconds after the rescue, which made her think about her reaction at the time. "I saw the train coming and I was thinking he was going to die," she explained.

Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. What was the most probable cause for Lisa's weakness？

27. How did Frank save Lisa？

28. When did Lisa become conscious again？

29. Why did Jennifer try to stop her boyfriend？

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A．She had run a long way.

B．She felt hot in the subway.

C．She had done a lot of work.

D．She had donated blood the night before.

at, finally, I do sleep, but only for a few minutes. It is not a bad dream that wakes me; it is the reality I took with me into sleep. I try to think of something else.

Immediately the woman in the marketplace comes into my mind. I was on my way to dinner last night when I saw her. She was selling skirts. She moved with the same ease and loveliness I often saw in the women of Laos. Her long black hair was as shiny as the black silk of the skirts she was selling. In her hair, she wore three silk ribbons, blue, green, and white. They reminded me of my childhood and how my girlfriends and I used to spend hours braiding ribbons into our hair.

I don't know the word for "ribbons", so I put my hand to my own hair and, with three fingers against my head, I looked at her ribbons and said "Beautiful". She lowered her eyes and said nothing. I wasn't sure if she understood me (I don't speak Laotian very well).

I looked back down at the skirts. They had designs in them: squares and triangles and circles of pink and green silk. They were very pretty. I decided to buy one of those skirts, and I began to bargain with her over the price. It is the custom to bargain in Asia. In Laos bargaining is done in soft voices and easy moves with the sort of quiet peacefulness.

She smiled, more with her eyes than with her lips. She was pleased by the few words I was able to say in her language, although they were mostly numbers, and she saw that I understood something about the soft playfulness of bargaining. We shook our heads in disagreement over the price; then, immediately, we made another offer and then another shake of the head. She was so pleased that unexpectedly, she accepted the last offer I made. But it was too soon. The price was too low. She was being too generous and wouldn't make enough money. I moved quickly and picked up two more skirts and paid for all three at the price set; that way I was able to pay her three times as much before she had a chance to lower the price for the larger purchase. She smiled openly then, and, for the first time in months, my spirit lifted. I almost felt happy.

The feeling stayed with me while she wrapped the skirts in a newspaper and handed them to me. When I left, though, the feeling left, too. It was as though it stayed behind in marketplace. I left tears in my throat. I wanted to cry. I didn't, of course. I have learned to defend myself against what is hard; without knowing it, I have also learned to defend myself against what is soft and what should be easy.

I get up, light a candle and want to look at the skirts. They are still in the newspaper that the woman wrapped them in. I remove the paper, and raise the skirts up to look at them again before I pack them. Something falls to floor. I reach down and feel something cool in my hand. I move close to the candlelight to see what I have. There are five long silk ribbons in my hand, all different colors. The woman in the marketplace! She has given these ribbons to me!

There is no defense against a generous spirit, and this time I cry, and very hard, as ff I could make up for all the months that I didn't cry.

Which of the following is NOT correct？

A．The writer was not used to bargaining.

B．People in Asia always bargain when buying things.

C．Bargaining in Laos was quiet and peaceful.

D．The writer was ready to bargain with the woman.

听力原文： When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother's Chinese English. Because of her English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.

My mother realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on the phone to pretend I was she. I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who had been rude to her. One time I had to call her stockbroker. I said in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, "This is Mrs. Tan."

And my mother was standing beside me, whispering loudly, "Why he don't send me check already two week lone."

And then, in perfect English I said: "I'm getting rather concerned. You agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it hasn't arrived."

Then she talked more loudly. "What he want？ I come to New York tell him front of his boss." And so I turned to the stockbroker again, "I can't tolerate any more excuse. If I don't receive the check immediately, I am going to have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week."

The next week we ended up in New York. While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting to his boss in her broken English.

When I was a teenager, my mother's broken English embarrassed me. But now, I see it differently. To me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It is my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, and full of observation and wisdom. It was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed ideas, and made sense of the world.

Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

29. Why was the speaker's mother poorly served？

30. What do we learn about the speaker from the passage？

31. What does the speaker think of her mother's English now？

32. What can we infer about Chinese English from the passage？

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A．She was not very polite.

B．She was not clearly heard.

C．She was often misunderstood.

D．She was unable to speak good English.

n Atlanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man followed her and put a gun to her head. "I was opening my door and I felt really, really afraid," she said in a TV interview last week. The man was Brian Nichols, 33. He was suspected of killing three people on March 11 and later of killing a federal(联邦的)agent. The local police were searching for him. Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but released her after she repeatedly begged him not to take her life. "I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldnt have a mummy," she said. In order to calm the man down, she read to him from the purpose-driven life, a bestselling religious book. He asked her to repeat a paragraph about "what you thought your purpose in life was what talents were you given". And the two of them discussed this topic. Smith said, "I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust. " Smith said she asked Nichols why he chose her. "He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and we were Christian sister and brother," she said. "And that he was lost, and that God led him to me. " She even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave. She said Nichols was surprised when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched television coverage(报道)that the police hunt for him. "I cannot believe thats me," Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he should do. She said, "I think you should turn yourself in. If you dont, lots more people are going to get hurt. " Eventually, he let her go. Then she called the police. A US $ 60 000 reward had been posted for Nicholss capture. Authorities said they did not yet know if Smith should get that money.

How did Smith feel when she saw a robber with her？

A．Frightened.

B．Frustrated.

C．Nervous.

D．Calm.