第一节　(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1.What was Mr Smith when the woman was a school teacher？

A.A teacher.　　　　　　　B.A student.　　　　　　C.A doctor.

2.What does the woman mean？

A. She has no time to see the computer.

B. She is eager to see the computer.

C. She wants the computer.

3.Why didn't the woman get the job？

A. She is not old enough.

B. She is not good at the job.

C. She is no longer young.

4.Where is the nearest bookstore？

A. On the opposite side of the road from the post office.

B. Next to the post office.

C. Far from the post office.

5.What can we learn from this dialogue？

A. They are talking about holidays.

B. The man will be waiting for her at 4.

C. The woman wants to visit the man tomorrow.

第二节　(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6.Where is the new sports center？

A. On Hill Road.  B. On Mill Street.  C. On Station Road.

7.What sport did the man do last week？

A. Swimming.    B. Basketball.     C. Table­tennis.

8.When will they go to the sports centre？

A. On Friday.    B. On Thursday.    C. On Wednesday.

听第7段材料，回答第9至10题。

9.What can we know from the conversation？

A. J.K.Rowling is an orphan.

B. The British writer has become rich by writing.

C. Mike is writing a novel now.

10.What will the woman probably do after the conversation？

A. Visit a bookstore.

B. Borrow the novel from the man.

C. Finish the novel as fast as possible.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11.What is the relationship between Jack and the woman？

A. Brother and sister.  B. Husband and wife.  C. Mother and son.

12.Why is the woman angry with Jack？

A. He spends too much time on the computer.

B. He doesn't do his school work at all.

C. He won't follow the man's advice.

13.What does the woman ask the man to do？

A. To phone Jack's teacher.

B. To have a talk with Jack.

C. To help Jack with his lessons.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14.What can we know about Helen？

A. She is in New York now.

B. She was born in New York.

C. She will go home by train.

15.Who has booked the ticket for Helen？

A. The man.  B. Rose.  C. Helen herself.

16.When is Helen invited to dinner at the man's？

A. This Friday.  B. Next Sunday.  C. This Sunday.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.When did Alice make up her mind to be a nurse？

A. After she left school last year.

B. When she was just a little child.

C. When she began to study in a big hospital.

18.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage？

A. Alice went to classes every day.

B. Alice hated to care for the old people.

C. Alice studied late at night.

19.What was Alice told to do one day？

A. To serve meals.

B. To bath the patients.

C. To clean the patients'false teeth.

20.How long did it take patients to find their teeth？

A. Half an hour.  B. One hour.  C. One hour and a half.

 

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　For 30 years, Randy J. Murphy drove without being stopped by the policeand without a driver's license.

　　The 46 - year - old man's luck came to an end last May. On his way home from his job as a dishwasher, he turned up the radio in the car.

　　“I just turned the corner, and there was Mark,” Murphy said of the police officer who has since made such a difference in his life.

　　Officer Mark Taylor had stopped the car as he heard the blaring music. When he asked for a driver's license, Murphy said that he didn't have one.

　　Murphy told Taylor he couldn't read well enough to take the written part of the licensing test. “He said people just don't help any more. I told him if he was willing, I'd help him,” said Taylor. He gave Murphy his phone number. That afternoon Murphy called the officer.

　　For the next three months, the men met several times a week to review the questions which might appear in the test. When Murphy took the test, Taylor went with him. Murphy passed on his sixth attempt. He then sailed through the road test. On September 5, he got his license.

　　Taylor's act of kindness won him the Officer of the Month award from Knoxville Police Department. “People should help each other if they can,” Taylor said. “Randy did all the work. I just guided him along.”

　　Although Murphy has overcome the difficulty that kept him from getting a driver's license, he hasn't stopped there. “We still meet once a week to read,” Taylor said. “We've also become friends.”

　　“I'm glad he pulled me over now,” said Murphy.

1．Why did Taylor stop Murphy's car one day?

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A．The music in his car was too loud.

B．He drove without a driving license.

C．He made a wrong turn at a corner.

D．He listened to the radio while driving.

2．After learning Murphy's situation, Taylor decided ________.

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A．to put an end to his luck

B．to help him learn how to read

C．to take away his driving license

D．to stop him from doing silly things

3．The underlined phase “sailed through” in the passage is close in meaning to ________.

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4．According to the passage, Taylor helped Murphy pass the licensing test because ________.

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A．he felt sorry for the bad situation of the workers

B．he wanted to win the Officer of the Month award

C．he hated to see people in need of help were not helped

D．he thought it was a policeman's duty to help people read

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　If US software(软件) companies don't pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top US quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their own country.

　　Already, of the world's 12 software houses that have earned the highest position in the world, seven are in India. That's largely because they have used new methods American software specialists refused to use. For example, for years, quality specialists, W. Edwards Deming and J. M. Juran had tried to persuade US software companies to change their attitudes to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the US－but not in Japan. By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was taking its market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming's and Juran's ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little as 5% of total production costs. In US factories, the cost of quality then was 10 times as high: 50% In software, it still is.

　　Watts S. Humphrey spent 27 years at IBM heading up software production and then quality assurance(保证). But his advice was seldom paid attention to. He retired from IBM in 1986. In 1987, he worked out a system for assessing(评估) and improving software quality. It has proved its value time and again. For example, in 1990 the cost of quality at Raytheon Electronics Systems was almost 60% of total software production costs. It fell to 15% in 1996 and has since further dropped to below 10%.

　　Like Deming and Juran, Humphrey seems to be winning more praises overseas than at home. The Indian government and several companies have just founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute at the Software Technology Park in Chennai, India.

　　Let's hope that US lead in software will not be eaten up by its quality problems.

1．Which country has the most first-class software companies in the world?

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2．Which of the following statements about Humphrey is true?

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A．He is now still an IBM employer.

B．He has worked for IBM for 37 years.

C．The US pays much attention to his quality advice.

D．India honors him highly.

3．By what means did Japan take its large market share by the 1970s and the 1980s?

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A．Its products were cheaper in price and better in quality.

B．Its advertising was most successful.

C．The US hardware industry was falling behind.

D．Japan hired a lot of Indian software specialists.

4．What is the writer worrying about?

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A．Many US software specialists are working for Japan.

B．The quality problem has become a worldwide problem.

C．The US will lose its lead in software in the world.

D．India and Japan are joining hands to compete with the US.