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听力原文： General Motors, the leading U.S. automaker on Tuesday reported a 4.2 per cent decline in total vehicle sales to 433,723 in April compared with the same month in 199Car sales fell 4.5 per cent and truck sales 3.9 per cent, the company said in a statement. Despite the April performance' GM vice-president for North American sales Roy Robert said: "We're going into the summer season with excellent momentum."
What is the percentage of total decline in vehicle sales in April this year？
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In no small measure, the epidemic of paranormal beliefs--beliefs beyond the range of scientific explanation--is due to the rapid emergence of the mass media on a global scale. These media have virtually replaced the schools, colleges and universities as the chief conveyors of information. The days of the lone scientist conducting research in the lab or of the isolated scholar writing a paper or book for a limited audience have been bypassed. Today new ideas are popularized--whether half or fully baked--and they are broadcast far and wide even if they have not been sufficiently tested. Apparently the chief interests of most media corporations are entertainment rather than information, profit rather than truth, selling products rather than contributing to the sum of human knowledge. Accordingly, paranormal ideas are pandered to a gullible public and the line between fiction and reality is blurred. The public is often confronted with sensational accounts of hidden realms, and pseudoscience is mistaken for genuine existence. Even reputable publishers prefer to publish books touting paranormal claims rather than dispassionate scientific critiques. Why is it that of the thousands of proastrology, pro-psychic, or pro-UFO books published, very few are sceptical7 "They don't sell," is the response of the hallelujah choir within the publishing industry--a sad commentary on our times.
The skeptics thus have a vital role to play: to educate the public about the nature of science and to attempt to persuade media producers and directors that they have some responsibility to develop an appreciation for scientific rationality. One of the roles of CSICOP is to challenge the views of pseudoscience pouring forth daily from the media. It is clear that we cannot operate within the cloistered confines of the academy, but need to enter into the public arena. In monitoring the media, we surely have not sought to center producers or publishers; we only wish for some balance on their part in presenting paranormal claims, and for some role for scepticism about theses claims. Largely because of the media, large sectors of public opinion simply assume that psychic powers are real, that it is possible to modify material objects merely by the mind, that psychics can help detectives solve mysteries, and that we can abandon the clinical tests of medical science and heal patients by miraculous means. The number of paranormal, occult, and sci-fi television programs is increasing. Our objection is that "docudramas" are not labelled as fictionalized accounts but touted as fact. In regard to the many talk shows that constantly deal with paranormal topics, the skeptical viewpoint is rarely heard; and when it is permitted to be expressed, it is usually sandbagged by the host or other guests.
It can be inferred from the text that most people who have no doubts about paranormal phenomena are probably ______.
听力原文：W. Hello. 24th Precinct. Officer White speaking.
M: Help. Yeah, uh, it was wild, I mean really bizarre.
W: Calm down, sir! Now, what do you want to report？
M: Well, I'd like to report a UFO sighting.
W: Wait, tell me exactly what you saw.
M: Well, I was driving home from a party about three hours ago, so it was about 2:00 am, when I saw this bright light overhead. I stopped to watch the light when it disappeared be- hind a hill about a kilometre ahead of me.
W: Now, how do you know it was a UFO？ Perhaps you only saw the lights of an airplane, or the headlights of an approaching car.
M: Well, if it was that, how do you explain "the BEAST" ？
W: What do you mean, "the BEAST"？
M: Okay. I kept driving for about five minutes when all of a sudden, this giant, hairy creature jumped out in front of my car.
W: Oh, yeah. Then what？
M: Well, then, the beast picked up the front of my car and said, "Get out of the car. I'm taking you to my master!" Something like that.
W: Wow？ A hairy Mien who can speak English! Now, have you been taking any medication, drugs, or alcohol in the last 24 hours？ You mentioned you went to a party.
M: What？ Well, I did have a few beers, but I'm telling the truth.
W: Well, we'll look into your story. Thank you.
What is the woman's most probable job？
SECTION A CONVERSATIONS
Directions: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文：W: Hello. Can I take your order？
M: Yes. I'd like a large pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and green peppers.
W: Would you like anything else？
M: Well, wait. Uh, can I make that a half-and-half pizza？
W: Sure. What would you like on each half？
M: Uh, what toppings do you have？
W: Well, we have Italian sausage, ham, mushrooms, onions, pineapple, black olives, green peppers, bacon, tomatoes, shrimp, clams, and squid;
M: Uh, I'll pass on the "Sink or Swim" special, but I'll have pepperoni and mushrooms on one half and green peppers and Italian sausage on the other. Oh, and could I get extra cheese on that pizza？
W: Alright. Would you care for any bread sticks or beverage with your order？ Actually, we have a Friday night family special going on right now, and if you order any large pizza and drink, we'll throw in a free order of bread sticks, plus a three dollar coupon for use with your next pizza order.
M: Huh, sure, why not. And what drink comes with the pizza？
W: Either apple or orange juice.
M: I'll take orange juice.
W: Okay. Your total comes to fifteen nineteen, which includes tax.
What did the man order？
Books are for reading, but man must bring to their reading a desire to learn and a power of absorbing. Reading should be active, not passive.
(79)When students first go to a library, they may be at a loss as to what to read of all the different subjects. Well, Bacon tells you to "look at weak places in your armor(盔甲)", and shows you how to fill up the blanks in your knowledge. On the other hand, it is no good just trying to fill your mind with knowledge. Knowledge in itself is often useless. A mind filled with too much knowledge is like a room too full of furniture; a man cannot walk about freely in it, and look out the windows. It is much better to concentrate on a few subjects which interest you and to deal lightly with the others than to march heavily through the whole range(范围) of learning, like a silly tourist going through a museum and not missing a single object. (80) If you try to master every subject, you may become very wise, but you will be very lonely and you will probably lose all your friends. So you must learn to pick and choose, and you must also learn to look here and there in a library like a camel eating grass on the grassland. If you watch it eating, you will see that although he is supposed to be one of the most stupid animals in the world, he has at least one of the qualities(品质) of the cultured(有修养的) man, the power to pick and choose. A student looking for mental food in a library should take the camel as his model.
The writer thinks that one must ______
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