Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) SECTION A
1.A) It’s too windy. B) The people there get annoyed easily. C) The beaches are dirty. D) The air is polluted.
2.A) A secretary. B) An accountant. C) A financial student. D) A librarian.
3.A) USA. B) Canada. C) France. D) Japan.
4.A) On a train. B) On a jet aircraft. C) At a restaurant. D) At a grocery.
5.A) The man wants to repair the car. B) The car is parked round the corner. C) Only the mechanics of that garage can repair the car. D) It is convenient to have the car repaired at the garage.
6.A) On his way to work. B) Home in bed. C) Away on vacation. D) At the office.
7.A) At a concert. B) At a flower shop. C) At a restaurant. D) At a cinema.
8.A) Jack likes to sleep. B) The man thinks Jack is nothing but a dreamer. C) The teacher thinks Jack has got a lot of good ideas. D) The woman agrees with the teacher about Jack.
9.A) She has passed it already. B) She agrees that it is very difficult. C) They have all semester to do it. D) There is nothing wrong with it.
10.A) 11 p.m. B) 6 p.m. C) 10 p.m. D) 7 p.m.
SECTION B Passage 1 Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A) He is a teacher. B) He is a scholar. C) He is a doctor. D) He is a philosophor.
12.A) She can’t speak because of a certain disease. B) She is terrified by her friend’s request of reading at her wedding. C) She feels humiliated because she is not invited to her friend’s wedding. D) She is sorry because she is too busy to attend her good friend’s wedding.
13.A) She may talk with her friends only at the wedding. B) She may talk with strangers only at the wedding. C) She may offend her friend by refusing her request. D) She may do the readings as her friend requires.
Passage 2 Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14.A) Optimism can cure any disease. B) Pessimists cannot sell insurance. C) The pessimist blames the weather for his failure. D) Pessimism leads to hopelessness.
15.A) The Havard graduates chosen for the study are all good students. B) The study was made 20 years ago. C) The feeling of happiness caused middle-age diseases among them. D) Havard graduates suffer middle-age diseases easier than others.
16.A) It tries to teach people how to sell more insurance. B) It tells people what is optimism. C) It tries to persuade people to be optimist. D) It tells people how to find an excuse.
Passage 3 Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17.A) He could not sleep well. B) He lost his shoes every night. C) Thieves slipped into his room and stole his money every night. D) He quarreled with his servants every night.
18.A) His friends. B) His servants. C) Nobody. D) The shoemakers.
19.A) They were discovered at the poet’s garden. B) The poet saw a man take out his shoes at one o’clock in the morning. C) His friend overslept and forgot to find out the thief of the shoes. D) His shoes were hidden in grass.
20.A) The poet seldom got along well with others easily. B) The poet was rather forgetful. C) The poet had a habit of walking in his sleep. D) The poet went mad for his missing shoes.
