One of the women I work with is getting______（marry) this weekend.

听力原文：W: I think several people must have been killed in that road accident.

M: There were 2 men in the truck and 3 women and a child in the car. Fortunately, no one was badly hurt.

How many people died in the accident？

A．2 men.

B．3 women.

C．None.

D．One child.

is allergic to wool M: Maybe we can find something in cotton or silk. Please come this way. Q: What does the women want to do？

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A．Visit a different store for a silk or cotton shirt.

B．Get a discount on the shirt she is going to buy.

C．Look for a shirt of a more suitable color and size.

D．Replace the shirt with one of some other material.

听力原文：M: Do you think women are generally better at certain things than men？

W: Well, it seems to me women are much better at dealing with more than one thing at a time. I don't know whether this has to do with the difference in their brain or whether it's just how they have to cope more often with more than one thing. For example, it is usually women who work, have babies, look after the babies and take the main responsibility for looking after the home. And maybe it's practicing all that makes women be better able to do more than one thing at a time. Men, it seems to me, can only concentrate on one thing at a time, including boring domestic things like washing the dishes. If a friend of mine who is a man washes the dishes he'll find it quite difficult to conduct a conversation at the same time, whereas if I'm doing the dishes I'm always talking to someone, probably cooking something as well, and finding that not too stressful.

M: Do you think women are more interested in personal relationships than men？

W: Generally, yes, though again I don't know if this is because that from an early age they are taught to please other people, whereas men are always taught to please themselves. I think relationships are more central to most women's lives. For example, I think men don't have very good conversations with each other, whereas women do. If you listen to women talking, often they will be having, after a relatively short time of knowing each other, fairly personal and truthful conversations, whereas men have conversations not about what I'd call real things. They will talk about their work in a very superficial way, or their interests in a very superficial way, for example, and football is the—um—just a sort of way for men to relate to each other without actually saying anything important, it appears to me.

According to the woman, why women are much better at dealing with more than one thing at a time？

A．She doesn't know the reason exactly.

B．Because women are smarter than men.

C．Because women have more things to deal with than men.

D．Because men always refuse to deal with more than one thing at the same time.

听力原文：M：Do you think women are generally better at certain things than men？

W：Well，it seems to me women are much better at dealing with more than one thing at a time．I don't know whether this has to do with the difference in their brain or whether it's just how they have to cope more often with more than one thing．For example，it is usually women who work，have babies．look after the babies and take the main, responsibility for looking after the home．And maybe it's practicing all that makes women be better able to do more than one thing at a time．Men，it seems to me，can only concentrate on one thing at a time，including boring domestic things like washing the dishes．If a friend of mine who is a man washes the dishes he'll find it quite difficult to conduct a conversation at the same time．whereas if I'm doing the dishes I'm always talking to someone．probably cooking something as well，and finding that not too stressful．

M：Do you think women are more interested in personal relationships than men？

W：Generally，yes，though again I don't know if this is because that from an early age they are taught to please other people，whereas men are always taught to please themselves．I think relationships are more central to most women's lives．For example．I think men don't have very good conversations with each other．whereas women do．If you listen to women talking，often they will be having，after a relatively short time of knowing each other，fairly personal and truthful conversations，whereas men have conversations not about what I'd call real things．They will talk about their work in a very superficial way，or their interests in a very superficial way，for example，and football is me—um—just a sort of way for men to relate to each other without actually saying anything important，it appears to me．

According to the woman,why women are much better at dealing with more than one thing at a time？

A．She doesn't know the reason exactly.

B．Because women are smarter than men.

C．Because women have more things to deal with than men.

D．Because men always refuse to deal with more than one thing at the same time.

is allergic to wool M: Maybe we can find something in cotton or silk. Please come this way. Q: What does the women want to do？

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A．Visit a different store for a silk or cotton shirt.

B．Get a discount on the shirt she is going to buy.

C．Look for a shirt of a more suitable color and size.

D．Replace the shirt with one of some other material.

phen' s class？

W: I didn't see it. Was it good？

M: Really it was. It was about stress, the effects of stress on the national health.

W: It was interesting, right？

M: Yes. I think they said that one out of nine women aged 45 to 65 will have a heart attack.

W: I' m surprised at that.

M: I was too. Oh, another thing. They said that women usually don' t get the same level of care as men do, so the heart attack is likely to be more serious.

W: Why is that？

M: Because many members of the medical profession still think of a heart attack as a male problem, so they don' t recognize the symptoms in women patients.

W: Well, it does sound very interesting. I' m going to try to see it before class next time, so I'll be ready for the discussion.

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A．It is required by Professor Stephen.

B．It is very interesting.

C．He wants to know about heart attacks.

D．He took part in the discussion.

听力原文：W: Hi, John.

M: Hi, Jenny.

W: One of the issues today is the digital divide.

M: I know it refers to the divide between who is online and who isn't.

W: What's the nature of the division？ How do they divide？

M: They are looking atthree principal portions of the American population with regard to ethnic gap, income gap and also different age groups.

W: What do they discover？

M: They find that today 30% of African Americans, 33% of Hispanic Americans, and 47% of White Americans, are online, but the largest portion of the American population are Asian Americans with a 65% online.

W: Do they offer any explanations about why this might be？

M: Well, one reason is income. Low-income population's use of the Internet is less.

W: Well, computers are still a fairly expensive item.

M: But within five years double the amount of people will be using them.

W: Well, is there a gender divide？

M: No. Not only is there not a gender divide but this year mare women will be online than men.

W: Really？

M: But the difference here is the sites they visit. Men are interested in financial and technology sites. Women tend to prefer sites dealing with more, personal matters. For instance, they want to find out about woman's health.

W: Yeah. Interesting.

M: Well, they're also forecasting that three quarters of the country will be online within five years.

W: That's fast, isn't it？

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A．Different countries.

B．Income, race and age.

C．Americans.

D．Both men and women who are interested in lt.

I can see, but put it on first, then Ill tell you if it suits you. M: I tried on about twenty times. This one isnt really what I wanted. W: Why did you buy it then？ M: The salesman sold it to me before I realised what had happened. He just never stopped talking and he told me some stories about the latest fashion and special reductions. Before I could say anything hed wrapped it up and taken my money. W: Well, it doesnt look too bad. I think it looks good on you. M: But I went out to get a blue sweater with a V-neck, short sleeves and pattern, and I came home with a brown one with a high neck, long sleeves and no pattern. W: You must be easily taken in. Youve got to learn to stand up to these high-pressure salesmen. Theyll sell you all sorts of things you dont want if you dont watch out. M: Next time Ill send my wife. Shell probably sell something to the salesman. W: Thats a good idea. Actually women are good at shopping. Whenever my husband and I buy something important, I have the final say. M: I must admit that women have better taste in shopping. I should simply leave the whole business to them. W: Yes, I agree. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. What is the main idea of this conversation？ 10. Why does the man buy a sweater which he doesnt like？ 11. Which character is not true about the sweater that the man buys？ 12. What is the womans suggestion？10．

A．The one he likes doesn"t suit him.

B．This sweater is on special.

C．This sweater is the most fashionable one.

D．He is tricked by the salesman.

听力原文：M: Yael, what's that in your hand？

W: Come on, Don. Haven't you seen a cigarette before？ Every day in the United States, about 1500 girls begin smoking, and I figured, why not do my share？

M: But Yael, don't you know that tobacco kills more than 140,000 women each year, and that half of those women are between the ages of thirty-five and sixty-nine？

W: Yeah, but that's why I smoke a brand brand with low nicotine and tar content.

M: Although tobacco companies advertise some cigarettes as "light", this is just an advertising ploy to obscure the risks associated with smoking — smoking a light cigarette is just as risky as smoking a regular one. In fact, research shows that people who smoke light cigarettes actually smoke differently in order to get higher levels of nicotine.

W: I didn't know that.

M: The one thing you can say about tobacco companies is that they are really savvy about marketing. While tobacco ads that target men focus on cigarettes as macho or cool, tobacco ads that target women focus on social and political themes important to women. For example, ads will say that you've come a long way, or that you've found your voice, or encourage you to just be yourself, as if smoking has anything to do with progress and self-expression. Young women are especially vulnerable to these ads because addiction, disease, and premature death seem so remote to them. And the thing is, people who have smoked as few as one hundred cigarettes report having difficulty quitting.

W: So, Don, can you pass me that ashtray？

M: With pleasure, Yael, as long as you put it out.

What are the speakers talking about？

A．Tobacco advertisement.

B．Tobacco companies.

C．Smoking men.

D．Smoking women.

in Australia. That was one of the first countries. And I was merely going to say that we didn't have those things in Denmark. Women were equal in Denmark as far as I grew up.

M: You were going to tell a story about how you came to Melbourne and you walked in to this pub for the first time.

W: My first experience of that kind of separation of men and women, which I never had any understanding about...I never knew about that...and my first experience was in Melbourne. Down on the corner was this pub and I am going to go in with the boys and have a beer and then I thought, imagine all the girls. There are no girls here. There are only men. Where are all the girls？ Well, women are not allowed in this bar here. It's only men.

M: Public bar...the women and children used to sit in the Ladies' Lounge. It was so awfully ugly, right？ And unappetizing. Bad light and totally ugly, right？ So no woman with respect for herself would sit in there...

W: All right and here comes then Germaine Greer...arrives...some years later.., she arrives on the scene. And the next time I visit a pub was in Esk and two women walked into the public bar and said "we would like a beer" and they can't get served in that bar and they said "no, we are not going to move" and there were a lot of things about police and all sorts of things coming in to it and it was...in the newspaper.

M: And they chained themselves to the bar, didn't they？ Oh, that was in Coronation Drive, Regatta Hotel.

W: Yeah, well, they did it up in Esk too. It was on then.

M: Right, she chained herself to the Regatta Hotel bar.

W: The Regatta Hotel bar. That's famous.

M: I wonder if she's still around.

W: Anyhow...But that was just a talk.

M: No, but that's absolutely right. And that was in 1972.

W: But it was that type of thing.

M: It's only bloody...sorry...more than 30 years ago...

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A．She is from Austria.

B．She is from Australia.

C．She is from Denmark.

D．She is from England.

SECTION A CONVERSATIONS

Directions: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

听力原文：W: It is hard for me to believe that [3]shooting is one of the most popular sports in the world.

M: I believe this is true. In Europe, shooting is open to men and women and even children of all ages for recreation.

W: Even children？

M: Yes.

W: Shooting requires technical perfection and excellent mental conditioning. [1]I think one of the driving forces of shooting is the desire to conquer and control other people.

M: I agree. Just like the early days in America, the white settlers or the pioneers used guns to control and conquer Native Americans, which became one of the most popular and favorite movie themes in the U.S.

W: I am an American western movie fan.

M: I know you are.

W: The format of the Olympic shooting competition has changed greatly over the years. [2]I understand that Men's Shooting was one of the nine sports of the first Modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

M: Shooting has grown steadily since it became an official game at the Olympics. When it was first introduced in Athens in 1896, there were only three rifle and pistol events.

W: How many events are there nowadays？

M: Shooting events have gone through constant changes over the years. After World War Ⅱ, this Olympic event became more regular and it now stands at seventeen events.

According to the conversation, what is one of the driving forces of shooting？

A．The desire to be popular.

B．The desire to conquer and control other people.

C．The desire to be technically perfect.

D．The desire to use guns and show one’s skills.