第一节听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后,你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。` How did the woman feel about the books’ price
A. She thought they were expensive.
B. She thought they were cheap.
C. She didn’t say.
C Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value. The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer. As a result, Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps. Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius’ Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was told to copy the design for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed (记下) the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the several hundred stamps that he printed. Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left: fourteen One Penny Orange— Reds and twelve Two Penny Blues. Because of the Two Penny Blue’s rareness and age, collectors have paid as much as $16,800 for it. The mistake was in the ______ on the locally printed postage stamp.
A. price
B. inscription
C. size
D. color
B From the 440 radio channels available on Osaka Yusen Broadcasting, Japan’s largest cable- radio network, subscribers (订户) can tune into a channel featuring (以……为特色) 24 hours of croaking frogs, or one that consists of the sound of trains polling in and out of stations. As well as the sounds of birds or percolating (过滤) coffee, Osaka Yusen offers nearly 100 channels of announcer-free jazz, rock, classical music, Second World War military marches, and folk music from all over the world. Easton and Abba each have entire channels to themselves, al- though the repeating rate must be almost as high as that of an in-flight music channel. For those in search of more intellectual (智力的) background sounds for their dinner par- ties, there is always the lesson channel or a range of talks on spiritual development. But anyone tired of all the above should adjust their sets to "drowsing (瞌睡) channels" and tune into the sheep-counting station, for example, which features a mature male voice slowly counting from one to a thousand. For busy people wishing to calm down after an awful day at work, there is a channel of slow music, and another carrying only the sound of a mother’s heartbeat. According to the company, "Babies listen to this noise before they are born. It’s a natural relaxant." If you are suffering from insomnia (失眠), you may tune into a channel feature ______.
A. the sounds of birds
B. the sound of croaking frogs
C. folk music from all over the world
D. a mature male voice slowly counting from one to a thousand.
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项[A]、[B]、[C]和[D]中选出最佳选项。A Peter Fern was mad on mount. Climbing was the core of his life. Church towers, seaside cliffs, or ice mountains, anything - "If it’s there" he used to say, "then I want to climb it." So the news of his marriage gave me a surprise. I’d never known him to take much interest in girls. Well, well, Peter Fern was a married man! I couldn’t get over it. I wondered whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky adventures (冒险). From Chamonix he climbed Mont Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and one of the Aifuilles the day after! That was it, then: she was French, from a family, most of whom like climbing. No doubt. No other explanation (解释). A month later I met them both in town. Anna surprised me because she was English. She was a dancer in the theatre. "I never climbed more than sixty steps in my life." She told me. "Peter has his interests, and I’ve got mine. No problems." "None at all," Peter said, smiling. "Where did you spend your honeymoon" "I flew to New York to see the drake Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful show!" Peter said, "Didn’t want to miss the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north face of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Grand place, a honey- moon! I’ll show you the photographs we took one day." In the author’s opinion, Peter Fern must have married for ______.
A. his wife might enjoy climbing mountains
B. his wife might be from a rich family
C. his wife might be from a French mountaineer family
D. his wife might climb with him