Promptness is important in American business, academic, and social settings. The (56) of punctuality is taught to young children at school. Today slips and the use of bells signal to the child that (57) and time itself are to be respected. People who keep (58) are considered dependable. If people are late for job interviews, appointments, or classes, they are often (59) unreliable and irresponsible. In the business setting, "time is money" and companies may (60) their executive for tardiness to business meetings. Of course, it is not always possible to be punctual. Social and business etiquette also provides rules for (61) arrivals. Calling (62) the telephone if one is going to be more than a few minutes late for (63) appointments is (64) polite and is often expected. Keeping a friend waiting (65) ten to twenty minutes is considered rude. Respecting deadlines is also important in academic and professional (66) . Students who (67) assignments late may be surprised to find that the professor will (68) their grade or even refuse to (69) their work. (70) it is a question of arriving on time or of meeting a deadline, people are culturally expected to stick to the schedule time. Part Ⅳ ClozeDirections: In this part, there is a passage with 15 blanks. For each blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
A. integrity
B. importance
C. scrutiny
D. insignificance
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you will hear a monologue. While you listen, fill out the blank with a phrase or sentence you've just heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the text. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the text below. He is big. He always has been, over six feet, with what slump of the shoulders and tuck in the neck big men in this country often affect, (1) to apologize for being above the democratic norm (2).(In high school and at college he played varsity basketball. In high school he was senior class president.) And he looks healthy enough, blue-eyed behind his beard, like a trapper or (3),acquainted with silences. He also grins a lot. Odd, then, to have noticed earlier—at the house, when he took off his shabby coat to play Ping-Pong—that the white arms were very thin. The coat may have been a comment. This,(4), is southern California, where every man is an artist, an advertiser of himself;(5)and every object potted; where even the statues seem to wear socks. The entire population ambies, in polyesters, toward a Taco Bell. To wear a brown shabby cloth coat in southern California is to admit something. So he hash't been getting much exercise. (6) have elected him president of any class. At the house they avoided him. Or, since he was too big to be avoided entirely, they treated his presence as a kind of odor to pass through hurriedly, to be safe on the other side. They behaved like cats. Of course, he ignored them. (7) they were up to more than just protecting themselves from (8) . Children are expert readers of grins. His grin is intermittent. The dimples twitch on and off; between the teeth are bared; above them, the blue eyes disappear in a wince. This grin isn't connected to any humor (9) . It may be a tic. It could also be a function of some metronome made on Mars. It registers (10) . We aren't listening to the same music. 2()
Questions are based on a conversation between a travel agency executive and a journalist. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions. What are the two speakers talking about in the passage()
A. Economic and culture divide.
B. Travelling to other countries.
C. Inoculations.
D. How to keep healthy in Third World countries.
you will hear a talk by a well-known US fashion designer. While you listen, complete the sentences or answer the questions. Use not more than three words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the question below. Clothes beautify the scenes today in()
Questions are based on the following talk about how to love and to be loved. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions . People who are willful call themselves "independent" because()
A. their knowledge of words is very poor
B. they fail to make distinction between words; it is just a manner of speaking
C. they are too strict with their words
D. they use words loosely and make mistake in defining and distinguishing