【正文】 Next Thursday. C. At the end of the month. 15. Why don’ t they go to New York? A. It39。 8. When did the woman send the package? A. About three days ago. B. About a week ago. C. About ten days ago. 9. What has happened to the package? A. It is broken. B. It didn39。聽每段對(duì)話前，你將有時(shí)間閱讀各個(gè)小題，每小題 5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題給出 5秒鐘的作答時(shí)間。聽完每段對(duì)話后，你都有 10秒鐘的時(shí)間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對(duì)話后有一個(gè)小題，從題中所給的 A、 B、 C三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。每段對(duì)話后有幾個(gè)小題，從題中所給的 A、 B、 C三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。 6. What do we know about the girl? A. She es to school late. B. She has finished reviewing. C. She missed some classes. 7. What does the girl hope to do? A. Pass this course. B. Get financial support. C. Work even harder. 聽第 7段材料，回答第 9題。 10. What is the man making an ad for? A. A pany. B. A festival. C. A party. 11. What does the woman think of ads? A. She hates them. B. She likes them. C. She doesn’t mind them. 12. What are advertising rules like in the US? A. Strict. B. Misleading C. Flexible. 聽第 9段材料，回答第 13 至 16題。ve been there before. 16. What will the man do later? A. Make a phone call. B. Find out the skiing season. C. Look for a hotel. 聽第 10段材料，回答第 17 至 20題。d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start ups don’t and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion. I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a pany selling books on the Inter. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “ That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’ t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but finally, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’ t think I’ d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’ m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choice． inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore? A. His dream of being an inventor. B. The support of his wife. C. The greatly increasing usage of the Inter. D. Millions of exciting titles. 22. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence? A. The idea of not trying would keep ing to his mind and disturb him. B. He would be very excited if he tried it out. C. He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t tr y. D. The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him. 23. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? A Cleverness and Kindness B. The Starting of Amazon C. Following My Passion D. We Are What We Choose 24. We can know from the passage that_______ A. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author B. the author wanted someone else to try the idea C. the author might not regret if he failed the idea D. the author might go back to his boss if he failed B With the development of modern society, human beings are increasingly invading wild animals’ habitat as well as the wild plants’. Nearly a thir d of the world’ s cacti (仙人掌 ) are facing the threat of extinction, according to a shocking global assessment of the effects. Cacti are an important provider of food and water to desert wildlife ranging from wolves and deer to tortoises, bats and birds, and these fauna spread the plants’ seeds in return. But the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s first worldwide health check of the plants says that they are ing under huge pressure from human activities such as land use changes, mercial and residential developments and shrimp farming. But the paper said the driver of cacti species extinction was the “uncontrolled collection of live plants and private decorating collections, and annual agriculture.” The findings were described as “disturbing” by Inger Anderson, the IUCN’ s directorgeneral. “ They confirm that t