If you're not going to impress yourself, let alone inspire others.

You're Not Picky Enough If...

1. You are willing to date anyone fairly decent, regardless of whether or not he or she is a good match for you.

You don't want much from a partner. If he or she has a sense of humor, a job and feelings for you, then he or she is good enough.

You get into relationships quickly.

You accept lots of imperfections in your partner.

You date people to whom you are not physically attracted.

If you identify more with the "not picky enough" list, you mostly end up with people who aren't very good matches for you. Perhaps, not having been in a relationship in a long time, you are so desperate for love that being with any person seems better than being alone.

If you are not picky enough,

A．date someone, whether he or she is decent enough.

B．date someone, whether he or she has a sense of humor.

C．date someone, whether you are physically attracted.

D．date someone, whether he or she has feelings for you.

听力原文： If you feel overwhelmed by your college experience, you are not alone--many of today' s college students are suffering from a form. of shock. Going to college has always had its ups and downs, but today the "downs" of the college experience are more numerous and difficult. The schools are responding to the problem with increased support service.

Lisa is a good example of a student in shock. She is a lovely, intelligent girl of twenty and is in her third year at a university. Having been a straight A student in high school and a member of the basketball team there, she remembers her high school days with fondness. Lisa was popular then and had a boyfriend for the last two years of school.

Now, only three years later, Lisa is miserable. She has changed her major four times already and is forced to hold two part-time jobs in order to pay her tuition. She can't sleep well or eat properly. She also believes that she has no close friends. Sometimes she bursts into crying for no apparent reason. On more than one occasion, she has considered taking her own life.

What is happening to Lisa happens to millions of college students each year. As a result, roughly one-fourth of the students suffer from depression. Some of them are so depressed that they have to go to the doctor. Meanwhile, suicide rate among college students is higher now than at any other time in history. It is fifty percent higher than among non-students of the same age. It is estimated that each year more than five hundred college students take their own lives.

College health officials believe that these reported problems represent only the tip of the iceberg. They fear that most students, like Lisa, suffer in silence.

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A．Going to college in the past was more stressful than it is today.

B．Going to college in the past was less stressful than it is today.

C．Going to college in the past was as stressful as it is today.

D．Going to college was not stressful in the past, neither is it today.

听力原文： If you feel overwhelmed by your college experience, you are not alone--many of today' s college students are suffering from a form. of shock. Going to college has always had its ups and downs, but today the "downs" of the college experience are more numerous and difficult. The schools are responding to the problem with increased support service.

Lisa is a good example of a student in shock. She is a lovely, intelligent girl of twenty and is in her third year at a university. Having been a straight A student in high school and a member of the basketball team there, she remembers her high school days with fondness. Lisa was popular then and had a boyfriend for the last two years of school.

Now, only three years later, Lisa is miserable. She has changed her major four times already and is forced to hold two part-time jobs in order to pay her tuition. She can' t sleep well or eat properly. She also believes that she has no close friends. Sometimes she bursts into crying for no apparent reason. On more than one occasion, she has considered taking her own life.

What is happening to Lisa happens to millions of college students each year. As a result, roughly one-fourth of the students suffer from depression. Some of them are so depressed that they have to go to the doctor. Meanwhile, suicide rate among college students is higher now than at any other time in history. It is fifty percent higher than among nonstudents of the same age. It is estimated that each year more than five hundred college students take their own lives.

College health officials believe that these reported problems represent only the tip of the iceberg. They fear that most students, like Lisa, suffer in silence.

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A．Going to college in the past was more stressful than it is today.

B．Going to college in the past was less stressful than it is today.

C．Going to college in the past was as stressful as it is today.

D．Going to college was not stressful in the past, neither is it today.

听力原文： Certain phrases one commonly bears among Americans capture their devotion to individualism: "Do your own thing." "I did it my way." "You'll have to decide that for yourself." "YOU made your bed, now lie in it." "If you don't look out for yourself, no one else will." "Look out for number one." Closely associated with the value they place on individualism is the importance Americans assign to privacy. Americans assume that people need some time to themselves or some time alone to think about things or recover their spent psychological energy. Americans have great difficulty understanding foreigners who always want to be with another person who dislike being alone. Americans assume that people will have their private thoughts that might never be shared with anyone. Doctors, lawyers, psychologists, and others have rules governing confidentiality that are intended to prevent information about their clients' personal situations from becoming known to others. Americans' attitude about privacy can be hard for foreigners to understand. Americans' houses, yards and even offices can seem open and inviting. Yet in the minds of Americans, there are boundaries that other people are simply not supposed to cross. When those boundaries are crossed, an American's body will visibly stiffen and his manner will become cool and aloof.

What topic does the speaker explain in details?

A．American individualism.

B．Americans' attitude toward privacy.

C．Personal values in Americans.

D．Professional values in Americans.

You are going to read a magazine article about a man who teaches children how to improve their memory Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-I for each part (1-7) of the article. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).

A An obvious need

B Gaining attention

C The odder the better

D Making sense of information

E Trade secrets

F Academic approval

G A change of focus

H Selected memories

I An ancient skill

Memory test

Jerome Burne talks to a magician who teaches children ways to remember facts.

The Greek philosophers knew about it and it could still dramatically improve children's school results today, except that no one teaches it. "It' is a very old technique for making your memory better. Try memorising this series of random numbers: 3, 6, 5, 5, 2, 1,2, 4. About as meaningful as dates in history or equations in maths, aren't they? Chances are you won't remember them in five minutes, let alone in five hours. However, had you been at a lecture given at a school in the south of England last month, you would now be able to fix them in your head for five days, five weeks, in fact for ever."

【B1】 ______

'I am going to give you five techniques that will enable you to remember anything you need to know at school," promised lecturer lan Robinson to a fascinated audience of a hundred schoolchildren. He slapped his hand down on the table. In his other life, Robinson is an entertainer, and he was using all the tricks he had picked up in his career. "When I've finished in two hours' time, your work will be far more effective and productive. Anyone not interested, leave now." The entire room sat still, glued to their seats.

【B2】 ______

When he entertains, Robinson calls himself the Mind Magician. He specialises in doing magic tricks that look totally impossible, and then he reveals that they involve nothing more mysterious than good old-fashioned trickery. '1 have always been interested in tricks involving memory being able to reel off the order of cards in a pack, that sort of thing," he explains.

【B3】 ______

Robinson was already lecturing to schools on his magic techniques when it struck him that students might find memory techniques even more valuable. "It wasn't a difficult area to move into, as the stutf's all there in books." So he summarised everything to make a two-hour lecture about five techniques.

【B4】 ______

What Robinson's schoolchildren get are methods that will be familiar to anyone who has dipped into any one of a dozen books on memory. The difference is that Robinson's approach is firmly aimed at schoolchildren. The basic idea is to take material that is random and meaningless—musical scales, the bones of the arm—and give them a structure. That series of numbers at the beginning of the article fits in here. Once you think of it as the number of days in the year—365—and the number of weeks—52—and so on, it suddenly becomes permanently memorable.

【B5】 ______

"You want to learn a list of a hundred things? A thousand? No problem," says Robinson. The scandal is that every child is not taught the techniques from the beginning of their school life. The schoolchildren who were watching him thought it was brilliant. "1 wish I'd been told this earlier," commented Mark, after Robinson had shown them how to construct "mental journeys."

【B6】 ______

Essentially, you visualise a walk down a street, or a trip round a room, and pick the points where you will put the things you want to remember—the lamppost, the fruit bowl. Then in each location you put a visual representation of your list—phrasal verbs, historical dates, whatever—making them as strange

听力原文：Lena: There are a lot of things that you can’t control in this world, is that correct?

Ahmed: Exactly. So you just keep going forward. You keep going, endure and perhaps something good will come of it.

Lena: What should be done if you do want success?

Ahmed: You got to work hard, real hard. If you' re really an expert, maybe something bad won’t come of it.

Lena: Do you think nothing is as good as you want because of other people’s perceptions?

Ahmed: No, I think one may overestimate their abilities. That is the problem.

Lena: What do you mean by that?

Ahmed: Pat it this way, you should never take it for granted your abilities, be whatever they are, they can, alone decide what will come of them.

Lena: Can you give me an example?

Ahmed: Well, for example, in talking about a performance in a film, there are so many other people involved. The performance is pretty much controlled by the editing. You' re now relying on the editor and the director. If you' re editing the film. ,you' re relying on the actor and the support team and on the terrible hand, you might not be doing enough.

Lena: It sounds like, with whatever you do in the world, there are so many factors that you can’t control.

Ahmed: Absolutely.

Why is NOT the possible factor of success according to the man in the conversation?

A．We should be patient.

B．We should work hard.

C．We should be blessed with luck.

D．We should understand the importance of teamwork.

If you smoke and you still don't believe that there's a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself. No one will accuse you of hypocrisy. Let us just say that you are suffering from a bad case of wishful thinking. This needn't make you too uncomfortable because you are in good company. Whenever the subject of smoking and health is raised, the governments of most countries hear no evil, see no evil and smell no evil. Admittedly, a few governments have taken timid measures. In Britain for instance, cigarette advertising has been banned on television. The conscience of the nation is appeased, while the population continues to puff its way to smoky, cancerous death.

You don't have to look very far to find out why the official reactions to medical findings have been so lukewarm. The answer is simply money. Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax. It's almost like a tax on our daily bread. In tax revenue alone, the government of Britain collects enough from smokers to pay for its entire educational facilities. So while the authorities point out ever so discreetly that smoking may, conceivable, be harmful, it doesn't do to shout too loudly about it.

This is surely the most short-sighted policy you could imagine. While money is eagerly collected in vast sums with one hand, it is paid out in increasingly vaster sums with the other. Enormous amounts are spent on cancer research and on efforts to cure people suffering from the disease. Countless valuable lives are lost. In the long run, there is no doubt that everybody would be much better-off if smoking were banned altogether.

Of course, we are not ready for such a drastic action. But if the governments of the world were honestly concerned about the welfare of their peoples, you'd think they'd conduct aggressive anti-smoking campaigns. Far from it! The tobacco industry is allowed to spend staggering sums on advertising. Its advertising is as insidious as it is dishonest. We are never shown pictures of real smokers coughing up their lungs early in the morning. That would never do. The advertisement always depict virile, clean-shaven young men. They suggest it is manly to smoke, even positively healthy! Smoking is associated with the great open-air life, with beautiful girls, true love and togetherness. What utter nonsense!

For a start, governments could begin by banning all cigarette and tobacco advertising and should then conduct anti-smoking advertising campaigns of their own. Smoking should be banned in all public places like theatres, cinemas and restaurants. Great efforts should be made to inform. young people especially of the dire consequences of taking up the habit. A horrific warning—say, a picture of a death's head—should be included in every packet of cigarettes that is sold. As individuals, we are certainly weak, but if governments acted honestly and courageously, they could protect us from ourselves.

Why do a few governments take timid measures toward smoking?

A．Because they are afraid of people.

B．Because diseases cost a lot.

C．Because they are afraid of the cutting down of their revenue.

D．Because they are afraid of manufacturers.