Why did the railway company even bother to print a schedule?
[Q] What do we learn from the conversation?
W：有人告诉我们1130号列车会再次晚点。
M：本对话的大意是：车又晚了！铁路公司还费神搞什么时刻表啊？搞出来又不准。就跟没有一样。
Q：从对话中我们可以了解什么？
Question 6
M： Maybe I ought to subscribe to the Engineering Quarterly. It contains a lot of useful information.
W： Why not read it in the library and save some money?
[Q] What is the woman's advice to the man?
M：我可能会订阅Engineering Quarterly（一种季刊杂志），因为这种杂志里有很多有用的信息。
W：干嘛不在图书馆里看这杂志？还可以省点钱？
Q：女士给男士什么建议？
Question 7
M: I've been waiting all week for this concert. The performance is said to be excellent and with a student's discount, the tickets will be really cheap. Student discount
W: Ah-huh. I'm afraid I left my Student ID card in the dorm.
[Q] What does the woman imply?
M：我整个星期都在等待这场音乐会。据说表演精彩，而且学生还可以享受折扣，票价会非常便宜。
W：啊，恐怕我把学生证放宿舍里了。
Q：女士什么意思？
Question 8
M: Mr. Smith, our history professor, announced we would be doing two papers and three exams this semester. I wonder how I'm going to pull through when two other courses have similar requirements.
W: Well, can't you drop one course and pick it up next semester?
[Q] What does the woman suggest the man do?
M：我们的历史学教授，史密斯先生，宣布我们这学期要写两篇论文，还要通过三次考试。其他两门课也有同样的要求，我都不知道我怎么活了。
W：为什么不放弃一门课，明年再学？
Q：女士建议男士做什么？
Question 9
W: Renting a Conference Room at the hotel will cost us too much. We are already running in the red
M: How about using our dining room for the meeting?
[Q] What's worrying the woman?
W：在这个宾馆里租会议室的费用太高。公司现在财政困难。
M：哪就用我们的餐厅开会行了？
Q：女士担心什么？
Question 10
W: Jerry, can you pick me up after work today? I left my car at the garage.
M: I'm afraid I can't. I have scheduled an appointment with a client at dinner time.
[Q] What is the man going to do?
W：杰瑞，能不能今天来接我？我的车还在修理厂。
M：恐怕够呛，我和一个客户约好了晚饭时见。
Q：男士会做什么？
Section B
Passage One
A few months ago, millions of people in London heard alarms all over the town. The Emergency Emergency services, the Fire Departments, the Police, hospitals, and ambulances stood by, ready to go into action. In railway underground stations, people read notices and maps which told them where to go and what to do in the emergency. This was Exercise Flood Call, to prepare people for a flood emergency. London wasn't flooded yet, but it is possible that it would be. In 1236 and in 1663, London was badly flooded. In 1928, people living in Westminster, the heart of London, drowned in floods. And in 1953, one hundred people, living on the eastern edge of the London suburbs were killed, again, in the floods. At last, Greater London Council took actions to prevent this disaster from happening again. Though a flood wall was built in the 1960s, Londoners still must be prepared for the possible disaster. If it happens, 50 underground stations will be under water. Electricity, gas and phone services will be out of action. Roads will be drowned. It will be impossible to cross any of the bridges between north and south London. Imagine: London will look like the famous Italian city, Venice. But this Exercise Flood Call didn't cause panic among Londoners. Most people knew it was just a warning. One lady said, "It's a flood warning, isn't it? The water doesn't look high to me."
Question 11: What happened in London a few months ago?
Question 12: What measure was taken against floods in London in the 1960s?
Question 13: What can we learnt from the lady's comment?
Passage Two
America's national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct twenty years ago, but it has made a comeback. In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service is considering the possibility of taking it off the Endangered Species List. Once, more than fifty hundred pairs of bald eagles nested across the country, but by 1960 that number had fallen below four hundred. The chief killer was the widely used DDT. Fish, soaked up DDT, died, and were washed up on shores, where bald eagles feasted on them.DDT prevented eagle egg shells from thickening. The shells became so thin that they shattered before the babies hatched. Fortunately, in 1972, a law was passed to ban DDT, which saved the bald eagle from total wipeout. And since then wild life biologists had reintroduced bald eagles from Canada to America. The result was that last year U.S. bird watchers counted eleven thousand six hundred and ten bald eagles in the country.If it we
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