Rumors are often repeated【70】by those who do not believe the tales. There is a fascination about them. The reason is【71】the cleverly designed rumor gives expression to something deep in the hearts of the victims—the fears, suspicion, forbidden hopes, or daydreams which they hesitate to【72】directly. Pessimistic rumors about defeat and disasters show that the people who repeat them are【73】and anxious.【74】rumors about record production or peace soon come point to complacency (自满的) or confidence—and often to【75】.
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A. primitive
B. important
C. impossible
D. outstanding
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听力原文:W: What are you doing this term?
M: Oh, I'm still studying English. I have to do one more term before I can start my real study.
W: You make it sounds like a prison. How are the class going?
M: I don't know. It seems that they never tell us what we really need to know.
W: What do you mean?
M: Well, when I study math, for example, I go to class, I keep up, I do the homework, and I know it.
W: How is your English Class different?
M: In the first place, they don't want to teach us all the rules. They tell us one rule. OK, we use that rule, but soon it doesn't work. It becomes more and more complicated.
W: But you don't learn a language from the rules anyway. You have to use it.
M: Yes. That's something else they tell us. But I just wonder why we can't just go to class, study, and do our homework.
W: Well, can you learn to play football by sitting at home and reading about it?
M: No, of course not.
W: But why not? You could understand the rules, toe.
M: Football isn' like math. You have to feel the ball, practice kicking it thousands of times, No one can learn it by reading at home.
W: Well, language is like football. You have to ask a lot of questions, and listen to the answers carefully. And then, f course, lots of practice on all the skills—reading, speaking, spelling, writing...
M: Maybe I'll join a football team and practice English and football at the same time. I can talk with people before and after practice.
W: Good idea.
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A. His mother tongue is not English.
B. His major is English.
C. His major is math.
D. His major is football.
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: Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one.
Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in, or living in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge on gains this way frequently turns out to be different from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all!
Differences between people do of course exist and, one hopes, will always continue to' do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel today has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselves.
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A. They will find out what its people like.
B. They will argue in favor of this country and the language.
C. They will know the country and its people better.
D. They will like its inhabitants and their language.
If you want to answer the 12 questions honestly, you should know what makes you not blindly blame your department for ______.
As he wiped sweat from his face on a crowded bus, Wang Jun spoke angrily, " it is simply too hot today. They say it is 35 degrees, but who believes them?"
Mr. Wang, a retired worker, was echoing the feelings of thousands of Beijing people as summer entered its hottest stage.
Thursday was the hottest day of the year so far, with the temperature officially reported as 36 degrees. But many people believe the government understates the real figure because regulations (条例 ) passed in the 1950s allow workers to stay at home for all or half day if the temperature is higher than 38 degrees.
" It was at least 40 degrees on Thursday, " said Liang Guojun, a middle school teacher. " It was unbearable. But the newspaper said only 36 and forecast rain. Of which there was none.
In Beijing, visitors to Daguanyuan Park in the southwest of the city said the ground temperature reached 55 degrees on Thursday.
The Beijing Evening News reported yesterday that more than 3 , 000 people had been admitted to hospitals suffering from heat stroke (中暑) , while local power companies were struggling to meet the demand for electricity.
A heat wave is sweeping much of the mainland, with temperatures in parts of Beijing, Shandong and Hebei provinces reaching as high as 39 degrees. Xinhua said the average temperature in Beijing on Thursday was 36 degrees but in the northern part of Tanghe Kou it was 39 degrees.
Hundreds of people suffering fevers were treated at hospitals. The Chaoyang hospital in northeast Beijing reported 55 such cases on Wednesday. They said most were caused by the difference in temperature between air-conditioned areas and outdoors.
Mr. Liang said the regulation on stopping work when the temperature reached 38 degrees was passed in the 1950s when Beijing had no air-conditioning and depended on fans—either handheld or electric.
"But in those days the temperature rarely reached 38 degrees, so the rule was not actually used. Now we have had years of global warming and industrial pollution and the summers get hotter each year, which means that the temperature is often higher than 38.
But an official from the Beijing Meteorological Observatory (北京气象台) said they had no knowledge of any such regulation.
Whom does the underlined word "they" (Paragraph 1) refer to?
A. Bus drivers.
B. Weather reports.
C. Newspaper editors.
D. Passengers on the bus.