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Conversation 2Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation.[听力原文]8-10W: I’m calling about your ad in the paper for the used air conditioner.M: Great, .do you have any questionW: Yes, is it in good conditionM: Oh, yes. It’s in excellent condition. It’s only one year old.W: Why are you selling itM: We’re moving across the country, and we just don’t have room to take it.W: How much are you asking for the air conditionerM: We’re asking $350. How much does the man charge()

A. Only $15.
B. Only $ 50.
C. Only $ 315.
D. Only $ 350.

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[听力原文]11-15Newspapers are not nearly as popular today as they were in the past. There are not very many people who seriously read a newspaper everyday. Most people read only the sports page, the comics, and perhaps the classified advertisements. Most people don’t take the time to read the real news. Newspaper editors say their readers are lazy. They say nobody really wants to read a newspaper. So they have to trick people into reading the news. They attempt to catch the readers’ interest with the pictures and exciting headlines. What pages or columns of newspapers do most people read?

In the rarefied world of the corporate board, a good network matters. (1) often involves word-of- mouth recommendations: getting on a (2) is easier if you have the right connections. New research suggests men use (3) better than women.Marie Lalanne and Paul Seabright of the Toulouse School of Economics (4) the effect of a network on (5) using a database of board members in Europe and America. They find that if you were to compare two executive directors, (6) in every way except that one had 200 ex-colleagues now (7) boards and the other 400, the latter, (8) , would be paid 6% more. For non-executives the gap is 14%.The really (9) finding concerns the difference between the sexes. Among executive-board members, women earn 17% less than their male (10) . There are plenty of plausible explanations for this (11) , from interruptions to women’s careers to old-fashioned (12) . But the authors find that this pay gap can be fully (13) by the effect of executives’ networks. Men can leverage a large network into more senior positions or a seat on a more (14) board; women don’t seem to be able to.Women could just have (15) connections with members of their networks. "Women seem more inclined to build and rely on only a few strong relationships," says Mr. Seabright. Men are better at developing (16) acquaintances into a network, and better at maintaining a high personal (17) through these contacts. Women may, of course, also be hurt by the existing (18) of men on boards and a male (19) for filling executive positions with other men. But a tendency to think of other men first will be (20) if talented women don’t stay on the radar. (289 words) 1()

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B. Application
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Mass advertising helped to ___________________ (转移重点) from the production of goods to their consumption.

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