1．What does Helen mean?

A. She can’t wait to go for a picnic tomorrow.

B. She is sure the weather will be fine tomorrow.

C. She doesn’t think the weather tomorrow is good enough for a picnic.

2．What did the man borrow from the woman?

A. A plate. B. A letter. C. A ladder.

3．What does the woman probably do?

A. She is a librarian. B. She is a doctor. C. She is a student.

4．Why is the man late again?

A. He forgot to set the alarm clock last night.

B. The alarm clock didn’t go off this morning.

C. He overslept.

5．How long does it take the man to drive to work during rush hours?

A. 15 minutes. B. 20 minutes. C. 25 minutes.

第二节（共15小题：每小题1分，满分15分） ? ? ? ? ? ??

听下面5段对话或对白，每段对话或对白后有几个小题，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，你将有时间阅读各个小题。每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出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7题。

6．What’s the good news?

A. They will go on a trip this Saturday. B. They will go to the park for a picnic this Sunday.

C. They will go to the movie theater tonight.

7．Where are they going?

A. To the park B. To the lake. C. To the mountains.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8．What is true about Tokyo according to the woman?

A. It is big and quiet. B. It is crowded and interesting. C. It is a lovely city.

9．What is true about kyoto according to the woman?

A. It is big and crowded B. It is a lovely city C. It is a modern city.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10．What will the woman do tomorrow?

A. She will go to a concert. B. She will visit a friend and go to the theater.

C. She will clean her new flat.

11．What do we know about the concert?

A. It is a rock concert. B. It is over next Friday.

C. Thay can enjoy country music at the concert.

12．When will the tennis match be over?

A.5:00. B. 6:00. C. 7:30.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13．What is the woman here for?

A. She is here to visit the company. B. She is here to give a lecture.

C. She is here for a holiday.

14．Where are the speakers now?

A. At an airport. B. On a plane. C. In a hotel.

15．When is the lecture scheduled to begin?

A. At 9:30 p.m. tonight. B. At 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. C. At 9:30 p.m. tomorrow.

16．What will they do this evening?

A. Have a meeting. B. Have a small dinner. C. Meet a professor.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17．Where did the speaker have the experience?

A. At a coffee shop. B. At a fast-food restaurant. C. In an office.

18．What did the speaker forget to take when leaving the building?

A. His bag. B. His books. C. His pictures.

19．Why did the manager ask everyone out?

A. There were too many customers last night.

B. They found something suspicious that they thought was a bomb.

C. The police thought the place was dangerous and ask him to do so.

20．Which statement is true?

A. The speaker is not familiar with the restaurant.

B. A bomb was found by the police bomb team.

C. The police found there was no danger at all.

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)

第一节 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

A

Glynis Davis

I first piled on the pounds when I was in the family way and I couldn’t lose them after- wards. Then I joined a slimming club. My target was 140 pounds and I lost 30 pounds in six months. I felt great and people kept saying how good I looked. But Christmas came and I started to slip back into my old eating habits. I told myself I’d lose the weight at slimming classes in the new year… but it didn’t happen. Instead of losing the pounds, I put them on. I’d lost willpower and tried to believe that the old bag of fish and chips didn’t make any difference — but the

scales?don’t lie.

Roz Juma:

To be honest, I never weigh myself any more. I’ve learnt to be happy with myself. It seemed to me that I would feel sorry about every spoonful of tasty food that passed my lips. My idea is simple. You shouldn’t be too much thinking about food and dieting. Instead, you should get on with life and stop dreaming of a super thin body. This is obviously the size I meant to be end, most of all, I’m happy with it.

Lesley Codwin:

I was very happy at winning Young Slimmer of the year. I’d look in the mirror unable to believe this slim lady was me! That might have been my problem — perhaps from then on I didn’t pay any attention to myself. Winning a national competition makes everything worse, though. Because you feel the eyes of the world are fixed upon you. I feel a complete failure because I’ve put on weight again.

Ros Langfod:

Before moving in with my husband Gavin, I’d always been about 110 pounds, but the pleasant housework went straight to my waist and I put on 15 pounds in a year. Every so often I try to go on a diet. I’m really good in a few days, then end up having the children’s leftovers or eating happily chocolate — my weakness. I’d like to be slim, but right now my duty is the children and home. I might take more exercise when my kids are older.

21．What is the subject discussed in the text?

A．four women’s work as a housewife.

B．four women’s ideas about their life after marriage.

C．four women’s opinions about slimming matter.

D．different diets they prefer.

22．Where are these short passages most likely to be taken from?

A．Magazines for children. B．Advertisements on the wall.

C．Books in a library. D．Talks on the air.

23．Which of the following best describes each of the four women’s attitudes towards slimming?

① Glynis Davis? a. I put on weight soon after I got married.

② Roz Juma ?????? b. Fame doesn’t necessarily mean success.

③ Lesley Codwin??? c. Facts speak much louder than words.

④ Ros Langfod???????? d. I like myself as I am, and to be what you are.

A．①-a; ②-d; ③-b; ④-c?????????????????? B．①-c; ②-b; ③-d; ④-a

C．①-c; ②-d; ③-b; ④-a?????????????????? D．①-a; ②-b; ③-c; ④-d

B

Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they’ re still sitting on the sofa? Talking?

What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about?

Betty shrugs. Talk? We’re friends.

Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lilian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is “marked and unmistakable.”

More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress(感情危机).“Most women,” says Rubin, “identified at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives.”

“In general,” writes Rubin in her new book, “women’s friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men’s relationships are marked by shared activities.” For the most part, Rubin says, interactions(交往)between men are emotionally controlled a good fit with? the social requirements of “manly behavior.”

“Even when a man is said to be a best friend,” Robin writes, “the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn’t unusual to hear a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.”

24．What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that_____.

A. he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband

B. women show little interest in ballgames

C. women have so much to share

D. he finds his wife difficult to talk to

25．Rubin’s study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to? turn to ___________.

A. a male friend B. a female friend C. her parents D. her husband

26．According to the text, which type of behavior is NOT expected of a man by society?

A. Ending his marriage without good reason. B. Complaining about his marriage trouble.

C. Spending too much time with his friends. D. Going out to ballgames too often.

C

In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.

I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.

However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among?the most vocal?are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try. “What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one’s self-respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with ot