After 14 years with the company, Mr. Friedman has retired to______more time to his family.

A．due

B．lone

C．sole

D．keen

听力原文： The Allentown Food Bank will hold its third annual fundraiser on Monday at Beaver Brook Country Club in Clinton Township, from 5 to 8 p.m. It is being held in honor of food bank director Patty Apgar, who retired in September after 14 years of service. During those 14 years, the bank went from 1 volunteer, 1 full-time staffer and 3 part-time staffers, to nearly 800 volunteers, as of last year, with 7 full-time and 10 part-time employees. Music and food will be provided, and all proceeds from the event will benefit the food bank.

For how many years was Patty Apgar the food bank's director？

A．13

B．14

C．15

D．16

听力原文： You can find many art galleries in London. The most famous of all is the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. It has many of the best paintings in the world. Paintings by Rembrandt are in Room 12. Paintings by Rubens are in Rooms 14 and 15.

Another of the great London galleries is the Tate. The Tate Gallery was built in 1897—sixty years after the National Gallery. It is on the north bank of the Thames near Lambeth Bridge.

In the Tate, you will find paintings by British artists. The best known are Turner and William Blake. The Tate also has collections of modem paintings by foreign artists—for example, Picasso.

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A．In room 12.

B．In room 14.

C．In room 15.

D．In room 20.

听力原文： During a 1995 roof collapse, a firefighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged. For ten years, he was unable to speak. Then, one Saturday morning, he did something that shocked his family and doctors. He started speaking. "I want to talk to my wife." Donald Herbert said out of the blue. Staff members of the nursing home where he has lived for more than seven years, raced to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. "It was the first of many conversations the 44-year-old patient had with his family and friends during the 14 hour stretch" Herbert's uncle Simon Menka said. "How long have I been away？" Herbert asked. "We told him almost ten years," the uncle said, "he thought it was only three months." Herbert was fighting a house fire on December 29, 1905 when the roof collapsed, burying him underneath. After going without air for several minutes, Herbert was unconscious for two and a half months and has undergone therapy ever since. News accounts in the days and years after his injury, described Herbert as Mind and with little if any memory. A video shows him receiving physical therapy but apparently unable to communicate and with little awareness of his surroundings. Menka declined to discuss his nephew's current condition or whether the apparent progress is continuing. "The family was seeking privacy while doctors evaluated Herbert", he said. As word of Herbert's progress spread, visitors streamed into the nursing home. "He's resting comfortably," the uncle told them.

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A．He suffered a nervous breakdown.

B．He was wrongly diagnosed.

C．He was seriously injured.

D．He developed a strange disease.

听力原文： Few buildings on earth can compete with the legendary beauty of the Taj Mahal. Towering over the ancient Indian city of Agra, the Taj Mahal is the grandest monument to love ever created.

The lovers in this story are Ire 17th century Indian emperor Shah Jehan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. She took a leading role in advising him, which is something unique for a woman to do for a husband who's an emperor. Over the course of their nineteen-year marriage she gave birth to 14 children. But in 1631 while trying to deliver their fifteenth -- she tragically died. He was heartbroken when she died. And after her death, he decided to build the world's greatest monument ever built, for love.

He ordered the royal architects to design the most beautiful building the world had known and decided to name it after his beloved, Mumtaz Mahal. He summoned twenty thousand laborers and sent wagons to all corners of his empire in search of precious metals and jewellery. And after seventeen years of construction, the monument was completed and his beloved empress was moved to her final resting place.

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A．Because there are priceless treasures.

B．Because it is the most beautiful building.

C．Because it is the tomb for an empress.

D．Because it is the grandest monument to love ever created.

Research on Child Psychology

After the 1971 earthquake in Southern California, a group of researchers decided to (______1) a study of psychological effects of the quake on children who had experienced it. In carefully formulating the problems to be (______2) , the scientists stated their hypothesis that the children's dream would be quake-related but decreasingly so as time passeD． "Quake related" was (______3) in precise psychological terms. After studying the (______4) used by researchers who had (______5) fire-related dreams, they designed their (______6) . Data was (______7) over a period of two years, the time span which the researchers felt would be sufficient to (______8) their hypothesis. Early in 1973 they began a rigid (______9) of their data, though they had (______10) some tentative conclusion in the course of the two years. As part of the (______11) of the data, they (______12) the values for a graph of elapsed time versus quake related dreams. In a preliminary report of their (______13) given in a paper presented at a conference on child psychology held in late 1973, the researchers summarized the results they obtaineD．Following that, they began to prepare a lengthy report for publication. In that paper, they (______14) the developments of the research, (______15) the choice of subjects, and demonstrate the evidence which confirms their hypothesis. Finally, they recommend future research studies which may eventually help psychologists find ways to lessen the psychological impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes on both adults and children.

第 24 题 请选择（1）处的最佳答案．

A．conduct

B．buy

C．work

D．do

听力原文： When I left school I went to university here in Nairobi. I studied electronics and communications. I finished studying in 1992 and then I got my first job. That was with Siemens. I stayed there for five years. With the growth of the Internet, I decided that I wanted to have my own business as a consultant to people wanting to set up websites. I went to the bank and they loaned me some money. Two months after I got this, I left Siemens and took a management course at Kenya College of Communications Technology. This was a short course which taught me how to run my own communications business. My business is now doing very well, and I have five people working for me.

● Look at the passage below.

● Some information is missing.

● You will hear a woman talking about personal experience.

● For each question 9-15, fill in the missing information in the numbered space using a word, numbers or letters.

● After you have listened once, replay the recording.

Specialized subject in the university: (9)______ and

(10) ______

The year of graduation: (11) ______

The first job: (12) ______

How many years she stayed in her first job: (13) ______

The business she run is about: (14) ______

How many people work for her: (15) ______

(9)______

听力原文： St. Valentine's Day has roots in several different legends that have found their way to us through the ages. One of the earliest popular symbols of the day is Cupid, the Roman god of love, who is represented by the image of a young boy with bow and arrow.

Three hundred years after the death of Jesus Christ, the Roman emperors still demanded that everyone believe in the Roman gods. Valentine, a Christian priest, had been thrown in prison for his teachings. On February 14, Valentine was beheaded, not only because he was a Christian, but also because he had performed a miracle. He supposedly cured the jailer's daughter of her blindness. The night before he was executed, he wrote the jailer's daughter a farewell letter, signing it "From Your Valentine." Another legend tells us that this same Valentine, well-loved by all, received notes to his jail cell from children and friends who missed him.

Another Valentine was an Italian bishop who lived at about the same time, AD 200. He was imprisoned because he secretly married couples, contrary to the laws of the Roman emperor. Some legends say he was burned at the stake.

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A．3.

B．4.

C．5

D．6

The ten warmest years since 1860 happened after __

A.1987

B.1990

C.2002