Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions, Now, listen to the passage. Muhammad Ali started to learn boxing because______.
A. he was very much interested in the sport
B. he intended to revenge on the bike thief
C. he found a policeman as his best trainer
D. he had got boxing lessons from the police
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TEXT A James Joyce’s Ulysses In 1918, James Joyce’s novel Ulysses was published in installments by a small Greenwich Village magazine, The Little Review.The novel, which uses stream-of-consciousness storylines to compress universal concerns into a single day in the life of three characters in 1904 Dublin, immediately came under the eye of the New York Anti-Vice Society because of its frank sexual content. The publishers were tried under obscenity provisions in the U. S. Postal Code in 1920 and were found guilty, fined, and ordered to cease publication. Ulysses’ banned status and publicity from the trial, however, generated widespread interest among some writers and readers. In 1922, an American bookseller in Paris, Shakespeare Co, published the first edition, which sold out instantly. Joyce found champions in poets Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot and novelist Ernest Hemingway. He was hailed by some even as the greatest modem writer of English prose. The book was routinely smuggled into both the United States and Great Britain, where it was also banned. Random House waged a four-year legal battle to publish Ulysses in the United States and won its landmark case in 1934. Four years later, the book was published in England. By the end of the 20th century, Ulysses is taught in colleges and universities around the world. Scholars admire its audacity and poetical vision. Readers love its playful humor and humanity. Some critics consider its publication the signal event in the emergence of the modern novel. In 1998, a board of distinguished writers convened by Random House’s Modern Library series selects Ulysses as the best novel of the century. James Joyce’s Ulysses was banned because of its______.
A. stream-of-consciousness storylines
B. compression of universal concerns
C. certain obscene descriptions of life
D. being fined and ordered to cease publication
Questions 28 and 29 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news. The difference between the two versions of the timeline by NASA is______.
A. 30 seconds
B. 5 minutes and 30 seconds
C. 7 minutes and 30 seconds
D. 3 minutes and 30 seconds
Questions 7 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation. Which of the following is NOT true, according to the conversation
Aunt Celia has confirmed the news about the marriage.
B. Aunt Celia has written them the letter about the marriage.
C. Aunt Celia will come to see them to talk about the marriage.
D. Aunt Celia has concealed the news of the marriage from them.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage. Which of the following is true, according to the passage you have just heard
A. Einstein took part in the Manhattan Project together with a Leo Szilard.
B. Einstein wrote a letter to inform Roosevelt of the possible atomic bomb.
C. Einstein was asked to deliver speeches on peace, and on many other topics.
D. Einstein was opposed to war by writing extensively on peace in Germany.