Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked , and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
A. He definitely doesn’t know the date.
B. He is the only person who knows the date.
C. He forgot the time when he handed in his assignments.
D. The last assignment he handed in was not good.
Passage Two Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage yon have just heard.
A. With the help of people from colonies.
B. Owing to actively invading the Spanish Navy.
C. Due to the weather in favor of English ships.
D. Because of the great force of the English fleet.
Television is now playing a very important part in our life. But television, like other things, has both advantages and disadvantages. Do the former overweigh the latter In the first (62) , television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a (n) (63) cheap one. For a family of four, for example, it is more (64) as well as cheaper to sit comfortably at home, with almost unlimited entertainment (65) , than to go out in (66) of other sorts of entertainment (67) . They do not have to pay for expensive seats at the theater, the cinema, or the opera, only to discover, perhaps, that the show is (68) . All they have to do is (69) a button, and they can see plays, films, operas, and shows of every kind, not to (70) political discussions and the (71) exciting football match. Some people, (72) , maintain that this is precisely where the danger lies. The television viewer (73) no initiative. He makes no choice and exercises no judgment. He is completely (74) and has everything presented to him without any effort (75) his part. Television, it is often said, keeps one (76) about current events, allows one to (77) the latest developments in science and politics, and offers an endless (78) of programs which are both instructive and (79) . The most distant countries and the strangest customs are brought right into one’s sitting room. (80) here again there is a danger. We get so used to looking at it, so dependent on its sparkling pictures, that it begins to (81) our lives.
A. comparatively
B. completely
C. absolutely
D. essentially