【正文】 e nearly 200 vehicles for every kilometer of roadway, but the sight of so many vehicles parked along the roadside will be a much more vivid lesson. The tourist to HongKong will never forget the contraststhe straight verticle lines of the tall modern buildings and the moving lines of boats that people live in. Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 17. Why do people leave home to travel according to the passage? 18. What do we learn from the passage about Paris? 19. What impression will a tourist get of HongKong? 20. What does the passage tell us about travelling?Section A1. M: Have you had the brakes and tires checked? And do you have enough money? W: I39。ve taken care of everything and I39。m sure it39。s going to be a wonderful trip. Q: What is the woman going to do?2. M: The new sales manager says he has never met you before. W: We39。ve been introduced about three times. He seems a little forgetful. Q: What do we learn about the new sales manager?3. W: I don39。t understand why this book for selfstudy doesn39。t have answers to the questions. M: But it does. You can find them at the back of the book. Q: What does the man say about the selfstudy book?4. W: We mean to let everyone know about the charity concert, but we don39。t have enough money for advertising. M: How about using the school radio station? They broadcast free publicservice announcement. Q: What does the man suggest they do?5. M: By the way, Jane, did you talk to the consultant about our health program? W: I contacted his office, but his secretary said he would be out for lunch until two. Q: What does the woman mean?6. M: I don39。t know whether to ask Joe or Cora to draw the posters. W: What difference does it make? They39。re both excellent artists. Q: What does the woman imply about Joe and Core?7. M: Mary is in charge of the art and music section。 and Charles, the sports page. What about you? W: I39。m responsible for the editorials. Q: Where does the woman work?8. M: I ran into our friend Mark yesterday on the street, and he said he hadn39。t heard from you for two months. W: Yes, I know, but I39。ve been too busy to phone him. Q: What do we learn from the conversation?9. M: I39。m really exhausted. But I don39。t want to miss the film that es on at W: If I were you, I39。d skip it. We both have to get up early tomorrow. And anyway, I39。ve heard it isn39。t that exciting. Q: What does the woman mean?10. M: I thought the librarian said we could check out as many books as we need without our library cards. W: That39。s right, but not those reference books. Q: What does the woman mean?Section BPassage One The piano and violin are girls39。 instruments. Drums and trumpets are for boys. According to psychologists Susan Onco and Michael Balton, children have very clear ideas about which musical instruments they should play. They find that despite the best efforts of teachers, these ideas have changed very little over the past decade. They interviewed 153 children aged between 9 and 11 from schools in northwest England. They asked them to identify 4 musical instruments and then to say which they would like to play most and which they would least like to play. They also asked the children for their views on whether boys or girls should not play any of the 4 instruments. The piano and the violin were both ranked more favorably by girls than by boys, while boys prefer the drums and trumpets. There was broad agreement between boys and girls on which instruments each sex should play and the reasons vary. And while almost half of all boys said they avoid certain instruments because they were too difficult to play, only 15% of girls gave that as a reason. Earlier studies indicated that very young school children aged between 5 and 7 showed no bias in choosing musical instruments, but their tastes bee more clear between the ages of 8 and 10. One survey of 78 teachers suggested that after that age both boys and girls begin to restrict themselves to the socalled male or female instruments. Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. Why did Susan and Michael interview children aged between 9 and 11? 12. Why do many of the boys avoid certain instruments? 13. Which group of children have a bias when choosing musical instruments?Passage Two In the 1970s, the famous Brazilian football player Pele retired from the national team of Brazil and became a professional player for a team in New York. Football, or soccer, wasn39。t very popular in the United States at the time. Few North Americans knew anything about this fastmoving sport. There was no money to pay professional players and there was little interest in football in high schools and colleges. When Pele and other international stars began playing in various US cities, people saw how interesting the game was and began to go to the matches. It is now mon for important games to have fifty to sixty thousand fans. Support from the fans is important to the football. The fans cheer enthusiastically for their favorite players and teams, who respond by playing better than before. In most World Cups, the home team, or the team from the host country usually plays better than most people expect. In 1966, 1974 and 1978, the home teams of England, West Germany and Argentina all won the World Cup. The World Cup is called that because teams from every continent have played in it. However, since the Cup began, all of the winning teams have been from Europe or South America. Teams from Asia or Africa always do well but they haven39。s yet won. Mexico played surprisingly well in the 1970 Cup, which a hosted, but it wasn39。t among the 4 final teams. Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14. Why wasn39。t football a popular sport in the . in the 1970s? 15. When does a football team have the best chance to win the World Cup? 16. Ho