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Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: Never a very confident man, Hanley was happy to leave all the arrangements for the exhibition to his agent, a young man by the name of Green, who had a talent for organization. Green had been to his studio and, with the help of Hanley's wife, had selected the pictures for the exhibition. He had decorated the hall and had personally supervised the hanging of the pictures. Most important of all, he had seen to it that all the invitations went to the right people: critics, reporters and, of course, people with money to spend on paintings.
"There's no doubt about it," Green assured him during the exhibition," everything has gone off very well. "Hanley was pleased, but remained shyly in the background, unwilling to meet his public.
"One picture caught special attention. "Green told him. He consulted his catalogue. "Number thirty-seven. It did not have a name, so your wife and I decided to call it' Midnight'-- because all the colors are very dark."
Hanley, unable to recognize the picture from this description, was puzzled, but he said nothing. When everyone had left, he slipped across to see for himself the painting which had attracted so much attention. He laughed so much that Green came across to see what the matter was. Trying hard to suppress his amusement, Hanley told him that one of his son's paintings had been hung up by mistake.
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A. He was too busy.
B. He was sick.
C. He lacks confidence.
D. He was at a meeting.

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听力原文:Man: Do you know the thing that's always struck me as odd about opinion polls?
Woman: What's that?.
Man: The percentages. Like recently there was a survey about what people thought about traffic, and petrol prices and public car parks. In some car parks it now costs something like £5 to park a car for half an hour.
Woman: Yeah, but I don't see what you are getting at?
Man: What I mean is the percentages m the result. So there might be 70% of people who complained about high petrol prices, and 60% who want to see the traffic reduced, and 65% who think car park charges are too high. Does that mean that there are 35% who actually think the charges are OK and would even be prepared to pay more, and another 30% who think petrol prices are OK? I mean that's absurd. I don't know anyone who doesn't think they' re too high.
Woman: Well, actually I think we should pay more.
Man: Come on, you're joking.
Woman: No, I'm serious. I think we should pay more fur petrol, even twice as much maybe, and certainly far more for inner city ear parks.
Man: But why?
Woman: More taxes should be charged on petrol, I think, to discourage people from using cars, and a kind of graded charging system for car parks depending on how far they are from the city center.
Man: What do you mean?
Woman: Well, If you park your car quite far from the city center then you pay a nominal amount as a kind of reward for not polluting the city canter. Well, the closer you get to the center, the more you are penalized. Prices in the center should be totally prohibitive. I mean with an efficient bus or tram service there's no excuse for using cars.
Man: Yeah, but you can't penalize people who don't use their car to go into town. I mean if you doubled the price of petrol, it would cost people a fortune to go anywhere, even on short trips, and especially on holidays.
Woman: Don't use your ear. Use a min.
Man: But what about lorries? I mean they use a lot of petrol to transport goods from one place to another.
Woman: So what's to stop these goods being transported by train or even via canal?
Man: Well, anyway, I still can't believe that 30% of those people who, said car park charges were OK. All think the same as you.
Woman: Well, maybe that's where you were wrong. Just think about what I've said and you'll realize that perhaps its not so stupid as it sounds.
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A. Traffic, petrol prices, and public car parks.
B. Public transport, petrol prices, and car parks.
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