【正文】 ssible for me to make it to the bar at : Then it seems that we’ll have to meet an hour later at the : What will the man do first after class? : It’s already 11 you mean I ought to wait until es back from the class? W: Not can just leave a ’ll give it to her : What does the woman mean? : How is John now? Is he feeling any better? W: Not still seems impossible to make him to him is really difficult and he gets upset easily over little : What do we learn about John from the conversation? : Do we have to get the opera tickets in advance? W: at the door are usually sold at a higher : What does the woman imply? : The taxi driver must have been : Well, not crashed into the tree because he was trying not to hit a box that had fallen off the truck ahead of : What do we learn about the taxi driver?Long Conversations Conversation 1 W: Hey, Bob, guess what? I’m going to visit Quebec next ’m invited to go to a friend’s while I’m there I’d also like to do some : That’s nice, do you mean the province of Quebec, or Quebec City? W: I mean the friend’s wedding is in ’m going there ’ll stay for five Montreal the capital city of the province? M: Well, Many people think so because it’s the biggest it’s not the City Montreal is Saint Royal River runs right through the middle of the ’s beautiful in : Wow, and do you think I can get by in English? My French is OK, but not that know most people there speak French, but can I also use English? M: Well, People speak both French and English you’ll hear French most of the all the street signs are in fact, Montreal is the third largest French speaking city in the you’d better practice your French before you : Good about Quebec City? I’ll visit a friend from college who lives there ’s it like? M: It’s a beautiful city, very old buildings have been nicely of them were built in the 17th or 18th ’ll love : can’t wait to : ’s the woman’s main purpose of visiting Quebec? does the man advice the woman to do before the trip? does the man say about the Quebec City?Conversation 2 M: Hi, Miss Rowling, how old were you when you started to write? And what was your first book? W: I wrote my first Finnish(finished)story when I was about was about a small animal, a rabbit, I I’ve been writing ever since? M: Why did you choose to be an author? W: If someone asked me how to achieve 1 would be finding out what you love doing two would be finding someone to pay you to do consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing M: Do you have any plans to write books for adults? W: My first two novels were for suppose I might write another I never really imagine a target audience when I’m ideas e it really depends on the ideas that grasp me : where did the ideas for the “Harry Potter” books e from? W: I’ve no ideas where the ideas came I hope I’ll never find would spoil my excitement if it turned out I just have a funny wrinkle on the surface of my brain, which makes me think about the invisible train : How did you e up with the names of your characters? W: I invented some of I also collected strange ’ve got one from ancient saints, maps, dictionaries, plants, war memoirs and people I : Oh, you are really : do we learn from the conversation about Miss Rowling’s first book? does Miss Rowling consider her so very lucky? dictates Miss Rowling’s writing? to Miss Rowling where did she get the ideas for the Harry Porter books?Section B Passage 1 Reducing the amount of sleep students get at night has a direct impact on their performance at school during the to classroom teachers, elementary and middle school students who stay up late exhibit more learning and attention has been shown by Brown Medical School and Bradley Hospital the study, teachers were not told the amount of sleep students received when pleting weekly performance reports, yet they rated the students who had received eight hours or less as having the most trouble recalling all the material，learning new lessons and pleting highquality also reported that these students had more difficulty paying experiment is the first to ask teachers to report on the effects of sleep deficiency in staying up late can cause increased academic difficulty and attention problems for otherwise healthy, wellfunctioning kids, said Garharn Forlone, the study’s lead the results provide professionals and parents with a clear message: when a child is having learning and attention problems, the issue of sleep has to be taken into consideration.“If we don’t ask about sleep, and try to improve sleep patterns in kids’ struggling academically, then we aren’t doing our job”, Forlone parents, he said, the message is simple, “getting kids to bed on time is as important as getting them to school on time”.Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just were teachers told to do in the experiment? to the experiment, what problem can insufficient sleep cause in students? message did the researcher intend to convey to parents?Passage 2Patricia Pania never wanted to be a public she wanted to be was a mother and her life was turned upside down when a motorist, distracted by his cell phone, ran a stop sign and crashed into the side of her impact killed her 2yearold months later, Pania reluctantly but courageously decided to try to educate the public and to fight for laws to ban drivers from using cell phones while a car is wanted to save other children from what happened to her her first speech, Pania got off to a shaky was visibly trembling and her voice was soft and as she got into her speech, a dramatic transformation took stopped shaking and spoke with a strong the rest of her talk, she was a forceful and pelling wanted everyone in the audience to know what she knew without having to learn it from a personal in the audience were moved to tears and to subsequent presentations, Pania gained reputation as a highly effective appearance on a talk show was broadcast three times, transmitting