Questions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A. To find a better record in the store.
B. Not to miss any chance to get the record.
C. To buy all the favorite records.
D. Not to buy the music records.
Passage Four In the US, people prefer waiting for a table to sitting with people they don’t know. This means a hostess may not scat a small group until a small table is available, even if a large one is. If you are sitting at a table with people you don’t know, it is impolite to light up a cigarette without first asking if it will disturb them. At American restaurants and coffee shops you are usually served tap water before you order. You may find the bread and butter is free, and if you order coffee, you may get a free refill. Most cities and towns have no rules about opening and closing times for stores or restaurants, though they usually do make rules for bars. Especially in large cities, stores may be open 24 hours a day. Servings in restaurants are often large, too large for many people. If you can’t finish your meal but would like to enjoy the food later, ask your waitress or waiter for a "doggie bag". It may have a picture of a dog on it, but everybody knows you are taking food for yourself. Supper and dinner are both words for the evening meal. Some people have "Sunday dinner". This is an especially big noon meal. Tips are not usually added to the check. They are not included in the price of the meal, either. A tip of about 15% is expected and you should leave it on the table when you leave. In some restaurants, a check is brought on a plate and you put your money there. Then the waiter or waitress brings you your change. Which statement is not mentioned in the passage()
A. Tips are not usually included in the total check.
B. A 15 percent tip in large cities indicates satisfactory service.
C. People tip waiters and waitresses.
D. People always put tips on the table.
They give Action Man a certain ruggedness and bestow instant testosterone (肾上腺激素) on movie heroes, and according to British psychologists, facial scars can also make men more attractive to the opposite sex. Men with mild facial scars were typically ranked as more appealing by women who were looking for a brief relationship, though they were not considered better as marriage material, a study found. In the same experiments, women with facial scars were judged to be as attractive as those without, the researchers said. The sexual allure of the facial scar has long puzzled psychologists. Many believe they are seen by women as a sign of masculinity and an exciting, risk-taking personality, though in Shakespeare’s Ali’s Well that Ends Well, an old lord, Lafeu, takes a different view, commenting: "A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery(特殊的外貌) of honor." Psychologists at the universities of Liverpool and Stirling decided to investigate the effects of facial scars by asking ll5 women and 64 men to rate the attractiveness of eight strangers of the opposite sex. Half were asked to look at original face shots, while the other half viewed images that had been digitally manipulated to add scars to their cheeks, jawbones(颌骨.) or foreheads. While the scars made no difference to the perceived attractiveness of women, scarred men ranked 5.7 percentage points higher in the appeal ratings than those with undamaged skin. "A large scar is unlikely to make you more attractive, but there are some scars that women do seem to find appealing. There’s the whole James Bond thing, where a person is attractive but probably not the best marriage material," said Robert Burriss, a psychologist at Liverpool who led the study. For each picture, volunteers were asked to guess whether the scar was from a fight, an accident or illness. The men’s scars were often blamed on a violent encounter, while those on women were often attributed to accidents. "When scarring is seen as the result of a violent encounter, it signifies strength or bravery in a guy, or it could be due to an accident, and so evidence of a risk-taking personality. Either way, it’s another way of assessing a man’s masculinity,’ Burriss said. Men without scars could be seen as more caring and cautious, and so more suitable for a long term relationship, he added. As to Lafeu in All’s Well that Ends Well, facial scars most probably means ______.
A. sexual attractiveness
B. high glory
C. serious dangerous
D. exciting personality
Since there is such an abundance of food in the sea, it is understandable that some of the efficient, highly adaptable, warm-blooded mammals that (67) on land should have returned to the sea. Those that (68) have flourished. Within about 50 million years-- (69) time at all, geologically speaking--one of the four kinds of mammals that has (70) to a marine environment has developed into the largest of all animal (71) , the whale. A second kind, the seal, has produced what is probably the greatest population of large carnivorous mammals on Earth. This suggests that these "top dogs" of the ocean are (72) and multiplying. (73) , such has not been the case, at ieast not for the last 150 years. Trouble has closed in (74) these mammals in the form of equally warm-blooded and even more (75) adaptable predators, humans. At sea, (76) on land, humans have now (77) themselves on the top of the whole great pyramid of life, and (78) have caused serious problems for the mammals of the sea, There is a simple (79) for this. (80) mammals have the misfortune to be swimming aggregates of (81) that humans want: fur, oil and meat. Even so, they might not be so (82) to human depredation if they did not, like humans, (83) so slowly. Every year humans (84) more than 50 million tons of fish from the oceans without critically depleting the population of any (85) . But the slowbreeding mammals of the sea have been all but wiped out by humans (86) satisfy their wants and whims.
A. others
B. we
C. they
D. you