He’s been talking for more than two hours, I （) wish he would stop talking.

aming about.

W: He sure did. When you see it, you'll get so excited you can hardly wait to go for a ride in it.

Q: What are they talking about？

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A．Jason's new Italian sports car.

B．Going for a ride in a new car.

C．A famous new car in Italy.

D．A person winning a sports car.

ted States Marines and he was in the war in Iraq. Matt, how did you come to join the marines？

M: Well, Julia, I was just looking for something different, and it seemed like a good idea.

W: And how old were you when you joined？

M: I was twenty years old.

W: How long have you been in？

M: Three years and ten months.

W: And you're getting out soon and you want to go and study.

M: Correct.

W: What do you want to study？

M: I want to study American history.

W: That's interesting？ You're against the war. How many...um...how many people in the services are against the war, do you think, about what percent？

M: It's tough to put a number on it, but it's definitely higher than the public's perception.

W: Would you say more than half？

M: Yes.

W: A lot more？ I know it's a hard question. I mean how can you know？ You've got to talk to everybody.

M: About half, everyone has doubts about this war.

W: It's a terrible war, isn't？

M: Yes. Thousands of people died in the war, most of them were commoners.

W: I'm terribly sorry to hear that. Okay, thanks for talking to me, Matt. See you.

M: Have a good day.

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A．He performed military service there.

B．He went there for a sight-seeing.

C．He went there to do something different.

D．He was sitting there talking to Julia.

Shakespeare

When talking about the world's greatest poet and greatest dramatist, only one name can possible suggest itself; that of William Shakespeare. Nearly every Englishman has some knowledge, however slight, of the work of this greatest writer. We use words, phrases and quotations form. Shakespeare's writings that have become part of the common property of English-speaking people. Most of the time we are probably unaware of the source of the words we use. For example, and old lady, after seeing a performance of Hamlet complained, "It was full of well-known proverbs and quotations!"

Shakespeare made full use of the great resources of the English language. Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal employment of English; Shakespeare in his works used about twenty-five thousand! There is probably no better way for a foreigner (or an Englishman) to appreciate the richness and variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it. Such a study is well worth the effort, even thought some aspects of English and the meaning of many words, have changed since Shakespeare's day.

It is a pity that we know so little about the life of the greatest English author. We only know that he was born in 1564 in Stratford on-Avon, and that then died there in 1616. He almost certainly attended the Grammar School in the town, but of this we cannot be sure. We know he was married there in 1582 and had three children. We know that he spent much of his life in London, writing his masterpieces. But this is almost all that we do know.

However, what is important about Shakespeare's life is not its incidental details but its products, the plays and the poems. For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeare's life to the small number we already posses and for an equally long time critics have been theorizing about the plays. Sometimes indeed, it seems that the poetry of Shakespeare will disappear beneath the great mass of comment that has been written upon it.

Fortunately this is not likely to happen. Shakespeare's poetry and Shakespeare's characters (Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and all the others) have long delighted not just the English but lovers of literature everywhere, and will continue to do so after the scholars and commentators and all their works have been forgotten.

How can we best describe the popularity of Shakespeare's works among the English speaking people？

A．Most of the people have taken courses in Shakespeare's works.

B．The English-speaking people like to mention the names of Shakespeare's works.

C．Most of the people know clearly how to use the words and phrases from Shakespeare's works.

D．Many of the words and phrases used by the English-speaking people are taken from Shakespeare's works.

听力原文：W: Hey, Jake, rise and shine.

M: What time is it, Shelly？ I have no idea how long I've been here.

W: Hmm... the library is too quiet. You need a place that's nice and noisy to study.

M: You've got a point. I always mean to study hard but I quickly nod off. It's just too quiet here.

W: Maybe you were thinking of Professor Carlson's psychology lesson. That's as good as a sleeping pill.

M: Yeah, nice guy, but he just can't seem to come down to earth. The whole time he seemed to be talking to himself.

W: You should have been in my history class with Professor Rivers. What a trip! One student got up and challenged him to name six women who contributed to the American Revolution. He was speechless.

M: The class must have been buzzing.

W: Especially when the student started rattling off over a dozen names. She was no fool and she wasn't going to let him off the hook.

M: Seems she gave Professor Rivers a good lecture.

W: Yeah, although I felt she should have given him a chance to save some face. After all I doubt whether many people can name even one.

M: That's true. I sure can't.

W: Jake, Jake. You should attend Professor Anderson's class on women's studies.

M: Hmm... Maybe Rivers could join me.

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A．He was studying.

B．He was making noises.

C．He was nodding off.

D．He was looking for a book.

dies which meant, you know, looking at cameras and drinking lots of coffee. And one day, we visited a television station as, like, work experience. And they were making this variety show and said they were looking for a new comedian because someone had let them down and so myself and my friend volunteered. It's still a mystery to me why, but they liked us and so I was on live television at the age of about seventeen. We thought we were absolutely brilliant, but I'm glad to say no copy exists of those programmes.

You hear a famous comedian talking on the radio about his early career. Why is he telling this stow？

A．To show how lucky he was at the beginning.

B．To show the value of a good course.

C．To show that he has always been a good comedian.

第一篇 Shakespeare

When talking about the world's greatest poet and greatest dramatist, only one name can possible suggest itself;that of William Shakespeare. Nearly every Englishman has some knowledge, however slight, of the work of this greatest writer. We use words, phrases and quotations form. Shakespeare's writings that have become part of the common property of English-speaking people. Most of the time we are probably unaware of the source of the words we use. For example, and old lady, after seeing a performance of Hamlet complained, “It was full of well-known proverbs and quotations!”

Shakespeare made full use of the great resources of the English language. Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal employment of English;Shakespeare in his works used about twenty-five thousand! There is probably no better way for a foreigner (or an Englishman) to appreciate the richness and variety of the english language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it. Such a study is well worth the effort, even thought some aspects of English and the meaning of many words, have changed since Shakespeare’s day. It is a pity that we know so little about the life of the greatest English author. We only know that he was born in 1564 in Stratford on-Avon, and that then died there in 1616. He almost certainly attended the Grammar School in the town, but of this we cannot be sure. We know he was married there in 1582 and had three children. We know that he spent much of his life in London, writing his masterpieces. But this is almost all that we do know. 

However, what is important about Shakespeare's life is not its incidental details but its products, the plays and the poems. For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeare's life to the small number we already posses and for an equally long time critics have been theorizing about the plays. Sometimes indeed, it seems that the poetry of Shakespeare will disappear beneath the great mass of comment that has been written upon it. 

Fortunately this is not likely to happen. Shakespeare's poetry and Shakespeare's characters(Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and all the others) have long delighted not just the English but lovers of literature everywhere, and will continue to do so after the scholars and commentators and all their works have been forgotten.

31 How can we best describe the popularity of Shakespeare's works among the English speaking people？

A Most of the people have taken courses in Shakespeare's works.

B The English-speaking people like to mention the names of Shakespeare's works.

C Most of the people know clearly how to use the words and phrases from Shakespeare's works.

D Many of the words and phrases used by the English-speaking people are taken from Shakespeare's works.

Shakespeare

When talking about the world's greatest poet and greatest dramatist, only one name can possible suggest itself;that of William Shakespeare. Nearly every Englishman has some knowledge, however slight, of the work of this greatest writer. We use words, phrases and quotations form. Shakespeare's writings that have become part of the common property of English-peaking people. Most of the time we are probably unaware of the source of the words we use. For example, and old lady, after seeing a performance of Hamlet complained, "It was full of well-known proverbs and quotations!"

Shakespeare made full use of the great resources of the English language. Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal employment of English; Shakespeare in his works used about twenty-five thousand! There is probably no better way for a foreigner (or an Englishman) to appreciate the richness and variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it. Such a study is well worth the effort, even thought some aspects of English and the meaning of many words, have changed since Shakespeare's day.

It is a pity that we know so little about the life of the greatest English author. We only know that he was born in 1564 in Stratford on Avon, and that then died there in 1616. He almost certainly attended the Grammar School in the town, but of this we cannot be sure. We know he was married there in 1582 and had three children. We know that he spent much of his life in London, writing his masterpieces. But this is almost all that we do know.

However, what is important about Shakespeare's life is not its incidental details but its products, the plays and the poems. For many years scholars have been trying to add a few facts about Shakespeare's life to the small number we already posses and for an equally long time critics have been theorizing about the plays. Sometimes indeed, it seems that the poetry of Shakespeare will disappear beneath the great mass of comment that has been written upon it.

Fortunately this is not likely to happen. Shakespeare's poetry and Shakespeare's characters (Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and all the others) have long delighted not just the English but lovers of literature everywhere, and will continue to do so after the scholars and commentators and all their works have been forgotten.

How can we best describe the popularity of Shakespeare's works among the English speaking people？

A．Most of the people have taken courses in Shakespeare's works.

B．The English-speaking people like to mention the names of Shakespeare's works.

C．Most of the people know clearly how to use the words and phrases from Shakespeare's works.

D．Many of the words and phrases used by the English-speaking people are taken from Shakespeare's works.

听力原文：M: Everyone seems to be on a diet, Have you noticed that, Mary？

W: Everyone seems to be talking about diet.

M: A neighbor of mine is on a banana diet. She eats a banana for breakfast, a banana for lunch, and two bananas for dinner.

W: That's bad for health! Has she lost any weight？

M: She doesn't look any thinner, but she hasn't been on the diet long,

W: A friend of mine eats eggs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He never eats anything but eggs.

M: That's bad for the heart ! Eggs have a lot of protein, and protein is good for losing weight. Too many eggs are bad for the heart.

W: I've read that, too. But eggs are cheaper than steak. An uncle of mine doesn't eat anything but steak, He eats steak for breakfast.

M: The best way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more.

Why do people go on a diet？

A．To lose weight.

B．To eat steak.

C．To talk about eating.

Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles (困扰) old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ball- game, come back three and a half hours later, and they're still sitting on the sofa？ Talking？

What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about？

Betty shrugs. Talk？ We' re friends.

Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the re- suits were completely clear: women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the con- tent and the quality of those friend-ships is "marked and unmistakable".

More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife/ husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress (感情危机). "Most women," says Rubin, "identified (认定) at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives."

"In general," writes Rubin in her new book, "women' s friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men' s relationships are marked by shared activities." For he most part, Rubin says, interactions(交往)between men are emotionally controlled--a good fit with the social requirements of "manly behavior".

"Even when a man is said to be a best friend," Rubin writes, "the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman' s closest female friend, might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn't unusual to hear a man say he didn't know his friend' s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa."

What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that ________.

A．he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband

B．women have so much to share

C．women show little interest ballgames

D．he finds his wife difficult to talk to

听力原文： Today we're going to talk about shyness and discuss recent research on ways to help children learn to get along with others socially.

Many people consider themselves shy. In fact, forty percent of people who took part in our survey said they were shy--that's two out of every five people. And there are studies to indicate that the tendency toward shyness may be inherited. But certain timid children doesn't mean that they are bound to be shy forever. There is something parents, teachers, and the children themselves can do to overcome this tendency--and even to prevent it.

Our researchers found that if parents gently push their shy children to try new things, they can help these children become less afraid and less inhibited. Another way to help shy children is to train them in social skills. For example, there are special training programs where children are taught things like looking at other children while talking to them, talking about others' interests, and even smiling.

These groups have been very successful in giving shy children a place to feel safe and accepted, and building up their self-esteem.

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A．Showing children how to behave.

B．Helping children overcome shyness.

C．Several causes of children's shyness.

D．How timid children become shy adults.

n Doughty Street, London. Dr. Sanders, can you give us a brief introduction to the great writer？

M: Yeah. The novelist Charles Dickens has been a best selling author for a very long time, in fact since his work appeared a hundred and fifty years ago. It' s here in this house that he completed "The Pickwick Paper". It was here, too, that he wrote "Nicholas Nickleby" and "Oliver Twist". They followed on the success of "The Pickwick Papers" and established his reputation as a leading author.

W: Dickens really was the first great popular novelist, wash' t he？

M: Exactly. He and his publishers had discovered the very useful means of writing in monthly parts so you could buy parts of novels serially, quite cheaply. Dickens' works were absolutely best-sellers and this continued throughout the thirty or forty years of his writing life.

W: Why is he still so popular, when so many writers go out of fashion？

M: I think in the end you put it down to nothing short of genius, that what he was doing was writing for a popular audience in his own time.

Which is NOT the place where they are talking？

A．London University.

B．The home of Charles Dickens.

C．London.

D．The Dickens Museum,