Section A
Directions: In this section, you will read 5 short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the answer that best suits the situation to complete the dialogue by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
A: Helen, you look great ! You are much slimmer than last time I saw you. B: ______Actually, I've been on a diet and I've been doing a keep-fit class too.
A. No, thanks.
B. Well, yes.
C. You are flattering me.
D. Are you kidding?
听力原文:W: It's almost vacation time. Have you found a summer job yet?
M: I suppose I can work at the boy's camp where I worked last summer. But camp jobs don't pay much.
W: I think I can get a job at the Edgewater Hotel. A friend of mine was a waiter there last summer. The pay wasn't good, but he got lots of tips.
M: My sister worked there last summer, making beds and cleaning bathrooms. She didn't like it, but she earned quite a lot of money.
W: A friend of my sister's did that one summer.
M: What I want is a job outside. After sitting in college classes all winter, I'd like a job in the open air.
W: The high school kids earn a lot of money every summer cutting grass. My brother is only fourteen, but he gets five dollars every time he cuts somebody's grass, and it only takes him an hour. He just rides around on the machine that he bought, and the machine does all the work.
M: That's pretty good. I used to cut grass when I was in high school. But now I thought I might work for a road-building company, or something like that.
W: It would be a good experience. You could earn a lot, too.
8. Q: When did the conversation take place?
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A. Before summer vacation.
B. During summer vacation.
C. After summer vacation.
D. In class.
Which of the following is NOT considered by the author as a potential threat to kids?
A. The drugstore.
B. Teenage bullies.
Child abusers.
D. Cars racing by.