【正文】 In some respects traditional British“ class distinctions” are being _________(13), and you can be less sure how people will vote. Many members of the middle class __________(14). Many ordinary working people enjoy a better standard of living and are ___________(15) any change which might affect them. But the ___________(16) between the classes remain. Many Conservative fear that the sovereignty of Parliament is being threatened by __________(17). Many workers are afraid that the Conservative bosses are trying to keep __________(18) down. But class feelings have not reached a __________(19) yet. Middleclass and working class min can ___________(20) at a football match and be the best of friends. Part B: Listening Comprehension Ⅰ . Statements Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short statements. These statements ill be spoken only once, and you will not find them written on the paper。t like the dress code. B. Few of the board members voted for the dress code. C. The director was the only one who was against the dress code. D. The director as well as the board members voted for the dress code. 6. A. Cathy told the police about the burglary. B. Cathy telephoned to say that her office had a window pane broken. C. The police told Cathy that they had found the key to her office. D. The police was called in to check the security system of Cathy39。s rich tapestry: 15yearold schoolboy who was caught in the Stock Market crash after a ￡ 100,000 shares gamble. Peeved stockbrokers to whom he owes ￡ 20,000 now say in injured tones:“ He has been very naughty. We thought he was 19.” I must say that small fry finances have e on a bit since the era of Billy Bunter39。s no thrusting executive was plete without his her personal aniser— a leather binder containing everything from addressbook and diary to a careerplanning chart. Then came the portable telephone, whispered into with ostentatious discretion. Now the electronic aniser has arrived. Psion, a British firm which created the first such digital diarycumcalculator, sells about 200,000 a year. Competitors are piling into the market. When Psion launched its handheld puter in 1982, it foresaw two markets. One was in the salerooms and warehouses of large panies. Here, stocktakers and salesmen needed a portable way to talk to the big puters back at head office. About half of Psion39。 the real business is the quarrel itself. Essentially, adversaries in a quarrel are out to establish or rescue their dignity. Hence the elementary principle: anything may be said. The unschooled, probably no less quarrelsome by inclination than anyone else, may spend an hour with knocking heart, sifting the consequences of calling this old acquaintance a lying fraud. Too late! With a cheerful wave the old acquaintance has left the room. Those who miss their first apprenticeship may care to enrol in the second, the bad marriage. This can be perilous for the neophyte。s Sharp recently launched a similar machine, and Casio has been nibbling at the edges of the market for some time. Other panies are selling programs that enable Psion to do tasks ranging from plex financial calculations to rudimentary FrenchEnglish translation. A fledgling British firm has launched an electronic “ Agenda” with a new, faster way of entering “ lunch with Desdemona” . It uses the Microwriter keyboard, which was invented some years ago by Mr. Cy Endfield, a film director whose other works include “ Zulu” . His idea soon gained the support of Sir Mark Weinberg, chairman of an insurance group. Allied Dunbar. He is a 30% shareholder in Microwriter and has written its notably undaunting instruction book. In addition to the standard letter keys, the Microwriter has a second keyboard consisting of five unmarked keys, one for each finger. By pressing the keys in various binations, one can learn quickly to “ type” almost as fast as on a full keyboard. The Microwriter was first peddled as a sort of handheld wordprocessor, but only about 7,000 were sold. Now the firm is hoping that the boom in electronic anisers will revive its fortunes. 中國(guó)最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費(fèi)資源共享 ) 第 9 頁(yè) 共 12 頁(yè) 16. According to the passage, which of the following is true about a personal aniser popular in the mid198039。m sure it did me a good deal of good. Ten pounds a week does seem an awful lot to be squandering on fripperies, but at least it39。s thought will show this is not so. If, for example, a solution to today39。t call you. C. We didn39。 so you must listen carefully. When you hear a statement, read the answer choices and decide which one is closest in meaning to the statement you have heard. Then write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. 1. A. The houses had not been sold until last January. B. The houses have been for sale for some time. C. They went to the market to but their house. D. They have marked down their house since last January. 2. A. Alice doesn39。s office. 7. A. The manager will spend his summer holiday in the North. B. The manager is going to have a look at some northern factories. C. The manager himself will run the factories in the North. D. The manager plans to retire after his travel to the North. 8. A. Thirty guests came. B. Forty guests came. C. Twenty guests didn39。s nonarriving five bob postal order. While not in the same league as Britain39。s sales now e from panies—as well as many lucrative contracts to write software specially tailored to link its little machines into a firm39。 the mutual intimacy of spouses makes them at once more vulnerable and more dangerous in attack. Once sex is involved, the