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Part I Listening Comprehension

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Section A

1. M: Is your teacher Miss. Pond or Mrs. Pond?

W: Miss. She is not married. By the way, it’s Bond. B as in B-o-n-d.

Q: What is the teacher’s name?

2. W: John, can you do ma a favor? Can you help me cut the chicken?

M: At your service. How do you want me to cut it?

Q: Will the man help the woman?

3. M: I can’t stand this class.

W: Oh, you might as well get used to it if you want to graduate.

Q: What does the woman mean?

4. W: Did you finish your paper last night?

M: Almost, I still have 5 more pages to type.

Q: What do we learn about the man?

5. W: Jack, can you do the dishes tonight? I’m very tired.

M: Can we just put them in the dish-washer. I’ve had a very bad day too.

Q: What does the woman want the man to do?

6. M: What’s Linda doing here today? I thought she was supposed to be out of the office  on Mondays.

W: She decided she’d rather have Fridays off instead.

Q: What so we learn about Linda?

7. W: We don’t seem to have a reservation for you, sir. I am sorry.

M: But my secretary said that she had booked the room for me here. I phoned her from the airport this morning just before I got on board.

Q: What does the conversation most probably take place?

8. M: The plane was supposed to land at 10. And it’s already 20 minutes late.

W: I’m going to be late. I’ve got to get back to the office by 11 o’clock for an important meeting.

Q: What time is it now?

9. W: Excuse me, Mr. Robert? I’d like to take a few days off. My son is seriously ill. He is going to have an operation.

M: I’m sorry to hear that.

Q: What does the woman want to do?

10. W: Are you going to Kelly’s birthday party on Friday evening?

M: I wouldn’t miss it for the world.

Q: What is the man going to do?

Section B

Passage One

A postcard carrying a George 5^th stamp has mysteriously arrived at its destination at least 63 years after it was first posted. The card was sent to a banker name Richard Price of South Wales before the outbreak of the Second World War. It was delivered to a car hire company last week which is the current owner of the high street house formerly used by the banker.

After an appeal in the local newspaper to discover who the Mr. Richard Price of the address really was, a puzzled woman came forward. She is a granddaughter of the banker. She could not believe her eyes when she saw the address and the name. My grandfather died in 1970, at the age of 92, she said. The card carries a half-penny stamp with George 5^th’s head on it. I just don’t know how it was delivered. Seeing his name brings it all back to me, she said that the postcard would become a treasure to her and her family.

The card was sent from Birmingham by a salesman. A spokeswoman for the Royal Mail said it was unlikely that the postcard was delivered by a postman. “There is a slim chance it could have slipped through the system. But I don’t think the postman would have missed the stamp,” she said, “We’ll certainly look into the matter.”

Questions 11-13 are based on the passage you have just heard.

11. How long did it take for the postcard reach its destination?

12. How did the woman know that the postcard was for her grandfather?

13. Why was the woman and her family treasured the postcard?

Passage Two

My first semester of college was the worst I've been through. I had made plans during the summer to share an apartment with two of my close friends from high school. But before we moved in, problems started developing.

One of the two girls I was to share an apartment with was going to work instead of going to college. However, a week before we were to move in, she found out that she didn’t get the job. She was forced to live at home and look for work. The rest two of us lasted for a month and then agreed that we couldn’t make it with the higher monthly rent payments. I started looking around. I found another apartment and the rent wasn’t bad. The place was noisy, but it was the best I could afford for the time. However, one day when I returned, there was smoke coming from the back of the house. The house had caught fire, and my room was a burned mess. I was once more out of a place to stay.

I finally gave up looking around and moved home. I had to drive forty miles to school every day, so I almost spent as much on gas as I would have on rent. I was very bored. I almost lost the will to study. It had been really a bad semester!

Questions 14-16 are based on the passage you have just heard.

14. What was the speaker’s plan before her first college semester began?

15. Why did the speaker move back home finally?

16. Why did the speaker think her first semester of the college was the worst?

Passage Three

One winter evening, Mr. Blake was driving in his car along an isolated country road. He had been to New York, in which he had withdrawn 10, 000 dollars from the bank. He was then going back home with the money, which he had put in his pocket. At the loneliest part of the road, a middle-aged man in poor clothes stopped him and asked for a lift. Mr. Blake told him to get into the car and continued on his way. As he talked to the man, he learned that he had been in prison for robbery and had escaped from the prison three days before. Mr. Blake was very worried as he thought of the 10,000 dollars in his pocket.

Suddenly he saw a police car and had a clever idea. He had just reached a small town where the speed limit was 40 miles an hour. He managed to drive the car as fast as he could go.

He looked back and saw the police car had seen this and had begun to chase him. After a mile or so the police car overtook him and ordered him to stop.

Questions 17-20 are based on the passage you have just heard.

17. Where did the story happen?

18. Who was the middle-aged man?

19. What is the speed limit in the small town mentioned in the passage?

20. Why did Mr. Blake drive the car as fast as he could go?

Section C

If you visit a big city anywhere in the world, you will probably find a restaurant that would serve the food of your own native country. Most large cities in the United States offer (21)international samples of foods. Many people enjoy eating the food of other nations. This is probably one reason why there are so many (22)different kinds of restaurants in the United States. A second reason is that many Americans come from other parts of the world. They enjoy (23)tasting the foods of their native lands. In the city of Detroit, for example, there are many people from Western Europe, Greece, Latin America, and the Far East. There are many restaurants in Detroit which (24)serve the foods of these areas. There are many other international restaurants too. Americans (25)enjoy the foods in these restaurants as well as the (26)opportunity to better understand the people and their way of life. One of the most (27)common international restaurants to be found in the United States is the Italian restaurant. The restaurant may be a small business (28)run by a single family. The mother of the family cooks all of the dishes, and the father and children serve the people who come to eat there. Or it may be a large restaurant (29)owned by several different people who worked together in the business. Many Italian dishes that Americans enjoy are made with meat, tomatoes, and cheese. (30)They're very delicious and tasty.

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