Part A

1. M: I don't think you have time to send out the invitations to all the new
students.
W: Oh, yes. I will.
Q: What do we learn about the woman from this conversation?
2. W: Nobody told me that Bill was in the hospital.
M: Sorry. I meant to give you a call when I found out, but it slipped my mind.
Q: What does the man mean?
3. M: I don't know if I will be able to turn in my economics paper on time.
W: Haven’t you heard that the professor gave us a week of extension on it.
Q: What does the woman mean?
4. M: I'd like to make an appointment with the doctor for tomorrow.
W: Unfortunately he is completely booked.
Q: What does the woman mean?
5. M: Joe just went down to the engineering meeting.
W: Where is it?
Q: What does the woman want to know?
6. M: I have a collect call from Mike Peterson.
W: I’ll accept the charges.
Q: What does the woman mean?
7. W: I'd really like to go to the concert tonight, but I don't know if I could spare
the time.
M: Music always relaxes me. It might be worth it in a long run .
Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?
8. M: Those airplanes are certainly loud.
W: Aren't they though?
Q: What does the woman think of the airplanes?
9. M: Helen and I are thinking of renting a house at the beach in June. Are you
interested?
W: June? I guess it is cheaper then, but do you really think it will be warm
enough?
Q: What does the woman mean?
10. M: I'm getting hungry. I think we should go to dinner soon.
W: Me too. All I have for lunch was a chocolate bar.
Q: What does the man mean?
11. M: Your apartment always looks so good，so spotless. Mine is such a mess.
W: I've been at the lab all week. It is my roommate doing.
Q: What does the woman imply?
12. M: I run out of coins when I’m doing my laundry.
W: That's too bad.
Q: What does the woman mean?
13. W: It's a shame that you didn't win your tennis match.
M: I might have won if I listened to my coach.
Q: What does the man imply?
14. M: The Variety Theatre finally went out the business .
W: Well, that's not a surprise. It was the worst one in town.
Q: What does the woman mean?
15. W: Shall we run around the park or go for a bike ride?
M: It makes no difference to me. They are both good activities.
Q: What does the man say about the activities.
16. M: I can't for the life of me get that washing machine downstairs to work.
Do you have any suggestions?
W: Try washing just half of the normal load.
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
17. M: I'm think about dropping my swimming class. I am just not catching on.
W: Stick with it. I did and I learned how to swim eventually.
Q: What can be inferred about the woman?
18. M: Doctor, this cough medicine doesn't seem to be helping. Can you give me
a different prescription?
W: Let's give it another day or two and see how you are doing then.
Q: What does the doctor imply?
19. W: Would you like to see those pants in another color? They also come in
brown and in Navy.
M: Actually the gray is fine but I prefer something in wool.
Q: What will the woman probably do next?
20. W: Professor Burns seems to think that there is only one way to write a paper
and that's her way.
M: No kidding, she sure wasn't like that last semester.
Q: What can be inferred about professor Burns?
21. W: This Barbecue sure beats the last one we went to Ha?
M: Oh that's right. Everyone had to spend the whole time inside. Good thing is
weather decided to cooperate this time around.
Q: What can be inferred from this conversation?
22. M: That new position requires a letter of reference. I guess the one my
professor wrote for me last year should be fine. Don't you think?
W: It’s a little dated though. You might want to submit a current one.
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
23. W: I don't think I want to be on the curriculum committee anymore but I'm
not sure how to get out of it .
M: Well, you know there are plenty of people who will be interested. Me, for
example.
Q: What does the man imply?
24. W: Excuse me? Could you direct me to Customer Service? I need to have this
gift wrapped.
M: We can take care of that right here ma'am, and no charge. You can choose
either silver or gold with the matching bow .
Q: What will the woman probably do the next?

25. M: These plants next to the window always look brown. You wouldn't know
by looking at them that I watered them every week.
W: Maybe they don't like the direct sunlight. I had the same problem with some
of my plants and a little shade helped them immensely.
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
26. W: Oh no I just picked up the pictures I took at Dan and Linda's wedding and
looked at them and none of them came out.
M: They are dark, aren't they? What a shame. Oh, well I'm sure the professional
photographer got everything.
Q: What does the man mean?
27. M: I get a feeling that Sally never really listens to me.
W: You said it. It’s as if she was always using the time to rehearse what she’ll say
next.
Q: What does the woman imply?
28. W: Will you make sure all the members of student advisory committee know
what to expect at the tomorrow's meeting?
M: They will have a briefing this afternoon.
Q: What does the man mean?
29. W: How do you like my new poster. It was only twenty dollars.
M: Really? The frame alone is worth the money.
Q: What does the man mean?
30. M: I hear Mary isn't getting much support in her running against Steve in the
election.
W: It is not over yet. I think she will make a come back.
Q: What does the woman mean?

Part B
Question 31-34
M: I have been studying too much and need a change. So I just made plans to go
away during January break.
W: Really? Where are you going?
M: I'm planning to visit New Mexico.
W: Hey, my sister and I vacation there last year. We had a great time.
M: Did you get into Albuquerque?
W: Sure. Whenever we were skiing.
M: Is it far from the mountains?
W: Not at all. The even though Albuquerque on the high flat plateau ，there are
even higher mountains near it. Just half an hour away from the city there are
snow-covered slopes.
M: Well. As the mountains are just thirty minutes away, I guess I should take my
ice skate and my skis.
W: Definitely.
M: I heard that the weather there is great.
W: It is. No humidity, moderate temperatures, but you do need to be careful of
the high altitude.
M: What should I do about that?
W: Oh, just take it easy for a few days. Don't go hiking up the mountains or
exercise too vigorously. Just do everything gradually.
M: I'm sure I will be fine. And I will let know all about my trip when I come back.

31. What's the main purpose of the man's trip?

32. Why does the woman know so much about Albuquerque?
33. What can be inferred about the man?
34. According to the woman, what may cause the man the most problems in the
Albuquerque?

Question 35-38.
M: Hey Linda, do you get that letter about the new options for food service next
year?
W: Not yet. Are there a lot of changes?
M: There sure are. Instead of paying one fee to cover all meals for the whole
school year, we are now be able to choose how many meals per week we want
and can contract for that amount. We still have to pay for the whole year at the
beginning, but we can choose to buy seven, ten, fourteen or twenty-one meals
per week. They give you a card with the number of meals you get per week
marked on it.
W: That's a big change Tom, and a complicated system.
M: Yeah. But it will be much better for people who don't eat three meals a day,
seven days a week in the cafeteria because they won't have to pay for meals they
don't eat.
W: So what's the deal for those who do eat at school all the time?
M: It's better for them too. Because the more meals you contract for, the
cheaper each one is.
W: I see. It is still sound rather complicated.
M: True. It took me several hours to figure it out. I decided to go with the ten
Meals plan.
W: Why is that?
M: Well, I never eat breakfast and I often go away on weekends. So the ten meal
plan gives me lunch and dinner each weekday at a fairly low price. And I won't
be paying for meals that I don't usually eat.
W: But what about the weekend when you are on campus?
M: Well, there are often guests on campus on weekends. So they allow you to
buy single meals on a walk-in basis on Saturdays and Sundays. The price per meal
is much higher that way. But I an away so much that it will still be less money for
me to pay single prices on the weekend rather than sign up for the fourteen
meals a week plan.
W: Hum, I guess I'll have to sit down and figure out my eating pattern so I can
get the best deal.

35. What's the main feature of the new method of paying for meals?
36. When do the students pay for the meals they contract for?
37. How does the new plan benefit the students who eat all their meals at the
school cafeteria?
38. How can weekend guest eat at the cafeteria?

Part C
Questions 39 to 42
I was really glad when your club invited me to share my coin collection. It's been
my passion since I collected my first Lincoln cent in 1971. That is the current
penny with Abraham's image. Just a little history before I started in my own
collection. Lincoln pennies are made of copper and they were the first United
States coins to bear the likeness of the president. It was back in 1909 when the
country was celebrating the centennial of Lincoln's birth than 1809 that the
decision was made to redesign the one-cent piece in his honor. Before that, the
penny has an American Indian head on it. The new penny was designed by artist
Victor David Braner. This is interesting because he put his initials VDB on the
reverse of the coin ad the original design. There was a general abort when the
initial was discovered. And only a limited numbers of coins were struck with the
initials on them. Today a penny with the initials from a San Francisco mint called
the 1909s' VDB is worth over 500 dollars. Now, when I started my coin
collection, I began with the penny for several reasons. There were a lot of them,
several hundred billion of them were minted and there were a lot of people
collecting them. So I have plenty of people to trade with and talk to about my
collection. Also it was the coin I could afford to collect as a young teenager. In
the twenty-five years since then, I have managed to acquire over three hundred
coins; some of them very rare. I will be sharing with you today some of my rare
specimen including the 1909s' VDB.

39. Why does the woman collect coins?

40. Why were letters DVB on pennies?
41. What was one of reasons the collector collected coins as a teenager?

Question 43 to 46
Today I want to talk to you about the wasps and their nests. You recall the
biologist divided species of wasps into two groups, solitary and social. Solitary
wasps as the name implied do not live together with other wasps. In most
species the male and female get together only to mate and then the female does
all the work of building the nest and providing food for the offspring by herself.
Solitary wasps usually make nests in the ground and they separate the chambers
for the individual offspring with of grass, stone or mud, whatever is handy.
What about social wasps? They form a community and work together to build
and maintain the nest. A nest begins in the spring when the fertile female called
the queen builds the first new compartment in the nest and lays eggs. The first
offspring are small females that cannot lay eggs. These females called workers.
Then build a lot of new compartments and the queen lays more eggs. They also
care for the new offspring and defend the nest with their stingers. By the way
only female wasps have stingers. Most social wasps make nest of paper. The
female produce the paper by chewing out plant fibers or old wood. They spread
the paper in thin layers to make cells, which the queen lays her eggs. Most of you
I'm sure have seen these nests suspended from the trees. They may also be built
underground in abundant road burrows.

43. Who builds the nest of solitary wasps?

44. Why the female wasps are more dangers to people than the male wasps are?
45. What is the main function of the queen?
46. What are the nests of social wasps made of?

Question 47 to 50
What was the most popular myth about the United States in the 19th Century
was that of the free and simple life of the farmer. It was said that the farmers
worked hard on their own land to produce whatever their families' needed. They
might sometimes trade with neighbors, but in general they could get along just
fine by relying on themselves, not on commercial ties with others. This is how
Thomas Jefferson idealized the farmers at the beginning of the 19th century.
And at that time, this may have been close to the truth especially on the frontier.
But by the mid century sweeping changes in agriculture were well under way as
farmers began to specialize in the raising of crops such as cotton or corn or
wheat. By late in the century revolutionary invents in farm machinery has vastly
increased the production of specialized crops and extensive network of railroads
had linked farmers throughout the country to markets in the east and even
overseas. By raising and selling specialized crops, farmers could afford more and
finer goods and achieve much higher standard of living, but at a price. Now
farmers were no longer dependent just on the weather and their own efforts,
their lives were increasingly controlled by the banks, which had powder to grant
or deny loans for new machinery, and by the railroads which set the rates for
shipping their crops to the market. As businessmen, farmers now had to worry
about national economic depressions and the implements of world supply and
demand on for example, the of price of wheat in Kansas. And so by the end of
the 19th century, the era of Jefferson's independent farmer had come to a close.

47. What is the main topic of the talk?

48. According to the professor, what was the major change in the agriculture
during the 19th century?
49. According to the professor, what was one result of the increased use of
machinery on farms of the United States?
50. According to the professor, why was world market important for the United
States agriculture?