It was a hot day and the bus was filled with people. A good-looking young man (41) near the front of the bus. (42) near him was a beautiful girl. The man still had a long journey (旅程) to do (43) he began talking to the girl. He told her he (44) a sheep farm and was very rich—the girl looked at (45) with deep interest. Then he told her that he was sad (46) he was still single. When the bus got to a (47) , the man said to the woman, " (48) we get off the bus and have a meal together" The girl (49) and got off the bus. She didn’t look behind her. He (50) her seat!
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SECTION A In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, when the United States was in (1) . Then the new president began to adopt a complex of (2) known as the New Deal. The New Deal brought to the individual citizen a sharp (3) of interest in government. Then a policy of (4) currency inflation was adopted in order to start an upward movement in commodity prices. In agriculture, far-reaching reforms were (5) . By 1940, nearly six million farmers were receiving (6) subsidies under this program. In the 1936 election, Roosevelt won an even more (7) victory over his republican opponent. The 1940 presidential election (8) another majority for Roosevelt. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation’s (9) and resources for global war. He was devoted much to the planning of a United Nations, where, he hoped, international difficulties could be (10) .
B 根据下面短文回答下列问题。 A dog was carrying a bone (骨头) in his mouth one day. Coming to a river, he looked for a bridge. As he was crossing the bridge, he looked down. On the water he saw his reflection (倒影). He thought it was another dog with a bone in its mouth. To drive the other dog away, he barked at it. When he opened his mouth the bone fell into the water. The ripples made the reflection disappear. He believed then that the other dog had taken his bone and had run away with it. When the dog opened his mouth, the bone fell into the water, and the dog in the water took it and ran away quickly.
A. [A] True
B. False
Question 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. According to the forecast, Hurricane Dennis will get stronger as it passes through ______.
A. Florida
B. Cuba
C. Louisiana
D. the Gulf of Mexico
TEXT D It is interesting to reflect for a moment upon the differences in the areas of moral feeling and standards in the peoples of Japan and the United States. Americans divide these areas somewhat rigidly into spirit and flesh, the two beings in opposition in the life of a human being. Ideally spirit should prevail but all too often it is the flesh that does prevail. The Japanese make no such division, at least between one as good and the other as evil. They believe that a person has two souls, each necessary. One is the "gentle" soul; the other is the "rough" soul. Sometimes the person uses his gentle soul; sometimes he must use his rough soul. He does not favor his gentle soul; neither does he fight his rough soul. Human nature in itself is good, Japanese philosophers insist, and a human being does not need to fight any part of himself. He has only to learn how to use each soul properly at appropriate times. Virtue for the Japanese consists in fulfilling one’s obligations to others. Happy endings, either in life or in fiction, are neither necessary nor expected, since the fulfillment of duty provides the satisfying end, whatever the tragedy it inflicts. And duty includes a person’s obligations to those who have conferred benefits upon him and to himself as an individual of honor. He develops through this double sense of duty a self-discipline, which is at once permissive and rigid, depending upon the area in which it is functioning. The process of acquiring this self-discipline begins in childhood. Indeed, one may say it begins at birth—how early is the Japanese child given his own identity! If I were to define in a word the attitude of the Japanese toward their children I would put it in one succinct word "respect." Love Yes, abundance of love, warmly expressed from the moment he is put to his mother’s breast. For mother and child this nursing of her child is important psychologically. Rewards are frequent, a bit of candy bestowed at the right moment or an inexpensive toy. As the time comes to enter school, however, discipline becomes firmer. To bring shame to the family is the greatest shame for the child. What is the secret of the Japanese teaching of self-discipline It lies, I think, in the fact that the aim of all teaching is the establishment of habit. Rules are repeated over and over, and continually practiced until obedience becomes instinctive. This repetition is enhanced by the expectation of the elders. They expect a child to obey and to learn through obedience. The demand is gentle at first and tempered to the child’s tender age. It is no less gentle as time goes on, but certainly it is increasingly inexorable. Now, far away from that warm Japanese home, I reflect upon what I learned there. What, I wonder, will take the place of the web of love and discipline which for so many centuries has surrounded the life and thinking of the people of Japan (511 words) To the Japanese, the aim of existence is ______.
A. the pursuit of happiness
B. reward in the afterlife
C. a happy ending to one’s activities
D. fulfilling one’s duty