【正文】 nce in my life. I spend most of my time improving my oral and aural English. You know I have a good mand of written English. In fact, I have written my papers in English, some of which have been published abroad already. But my listening and speaking ability of English is far behind. I am afraid that this poor mand of listening and speaking will hinder the effective munication once I am abroad. Can you just suggest any good way of improving my oral English skills quickly? I am a bit anxious recently. 。t black out when they drink? The answer to the (77) feet problem, the researchers found, is that giraffes have (78) the researchers call a natural antigravity suit. It (79) out that the skin and other (80) in their legs and feet are (81) stiffer and tougher than those of other (82) . As a result, the blood vessels in the leg cannot swell. Therefore, the blood has nowhere to go but back to the heart. What about blood rushing to the head (83) the giraffe bends down to drink? The researchers found that the giraffe39。 is of course an elastic word? [A] Different families have different ways of life. [B] Different definitions could be given to the word. [C] Different nations have different families. [D] Different times produce different families.63. For an English family, the husband39。s parents, that is, it was the parents39。s to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support, and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their mon responsibility and theirs alone. Neither the wife39。s memory capacity according to the author? [A] It can be expanded by language. [B] It can remember all the bined words. [C] It may keep all the information in the past. [D] It may change what has been stored in it.61. Human beings make themselves different from other animals by ______ . [A] having the ability to perceive danger [B] having a far greater memory capacity [C] having the ability to recognize faces and places on sight [D] having the ability to draw on past experiencesPassage Two Family is of course an elastic word. But when British people say that their society is based on family life, they are thinking of family in its narrow, peculiarly European sense of mother, father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus, every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent familyhence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life. For both the man and the woman, marriage means leaving one39。s memory is in terms of words and binations of words. But while language greatly expands the number and the kind of things a person can remember, it also requires a huge memory capacity. It may well be this capacity that distinguishes humans, setting them apart from other animals.57. Which of the following is TRUE about memory? [A] It helps us perceive things happening around us every day. [B] It is based on the decisions we made in the past. [C] It is rooted in our past habits and skills. [D] It connects our past experiences with the present.58. According to the passage, memory is helpful in one39。s camera. [B] A television camera. [C] A movie camera. [D] The man39。13. [A] She wasn39。ve seen ______ .10. The water cycle is responsible for clouds, rain and ______ .Part Ⅲ Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D], and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Questions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.11. [A] At the department store. [B] At the office. [C] In the restaurant. [D] In the drug store.12. [A] The man shouldn39。ve seen water form on the side of a cold drink, you39。s rotation, affects this system as well. It causes large weather systems, like hurricanes, to rotate. It helps create westwardrunning trade winds near the equator and eastwardrunning jet streams in the northern and southern hemispheres. These wind patterns move moisture and air from one place to another, creating weather patterns. (The Coriolis Effect works on a large scaleit doesn39。s axis tips a littleabout degrees. One hemisphere points toward the Sun as the other points away. The hemisphere that points toward the Sun is warmer and gets more lightit39。s biggest impacts on our planet are also its most obvious. As the Earth spins on its axis, parts of the planet are in the Sun while others are in the shade. In other words, the Sun appears to rise and set. The parts of the world that are in daylight get warmer while the parts that are dark gradually lose the heat they absorbed during the day. You can get a sense of how much the Sun affects the Earth39。s diameter at its equator is about 100 times bigger than Earth39。t dwell on those numbers too long, though。Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 17, choose the best answer from the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. For questions 810, plete tile sentences with the information given in the passage. The EarthPower and Light Compared to the rest of the universe, the Earth is very small. Our planet and eight (or maybe nine) others orbit the Sun, which is only one of about 200 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of