【正文】 o the radio. B. Looking at the photos. C. Watching television. D. Reading a newspaper. does the man mean? A. He hopes the party will be successful. B. He will see the woman around five. C. He is eager to help the woman. D. He is unenthusiastic about the party. is NOT a change to the literature class? A. Class location. B. Class times. C. Class length. D. Class size. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Questions 18 and 19 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. journalist was brought to court because ____. A. he was working for a British newspaper. B. he published an untrue story. C. the story was published in Britain. D. he was working with other foreign journalists. did the lawyer defend for the journalist? A. He was an American journalist. B. He worked for a British newspaper. C. His story was published elsewhere. D. Foreigners are not subject to local laws. Questions 20 and 21 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. ’ s first match will be against ____. A. Mongolia. B. South Korea. C. Iran. D. Qatar. of the following statements is NOT true? A. The announcement was made by AFA. B. Afghanistan was a founding member of AFC. C. Afghanistan had been in chaos for long. D. The football player were under 23. Question 22 and 23 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. expected lifespan of Beijing residents has gone up by ____ pared with that a decade earlier. A. years B. years C. years D. years ____ mortality rate had gone up greatly during the past 10 years. A. infant B. maternal C. male D. middleaged Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news. to Pakistan’ s President, the chances of the two countries going to war were ____. A. great B. small C. growing D. greater than before tensions between the two countries were a direct result of ____. A. their border conflicts B. their military buildup C. killings in the two countries D. their mutual distrust Part Ⅳ CLOZE ［ 15 MIN.］ Decide which of the choices given below would best plete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet. The normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 78 hours’ sleep alternation with some 1617 hours’ wakefulness and that the sleep normally coincides(26) ____ the hours of darkness. Our present concern is with how easily and to what extent this(27)____ can be modified. The question is no mere academic one. The ease with which people can change from working in the day to working at night is a(28)____ of growing importance in industry where automation(29)____ roundtheclock working of machines. It normally(30)____ from five days to one week for a person to adapt to a (31)____ routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night. (32)____, it is often the case in industry that shifts are changed every week. This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine(33)____ he has to change to another, (34)____ much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very(35) ____. One answer would seem to be(36)____ periods on each shift, a month, or even three months. (37)____, recent research has shown that people on such systems will revert to go back to their(38)____ habits of sleep and wakefulness during the weekend and that this is quite enough to destroy any(39)____ to night work built up during the week. The only real solution appears to be to hand over the night shift to those permanent night workers whose(40)____ may persist through all weekends and holidays. for to a word parison that short Part Ⅴ GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY ［ 15 MIN.］ There are twentyfive items in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one that best pletes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet. trumpet player was certainly loud. But I wasn’ t bothered by his loudness ____ by his lack of talent. A. so much as B. rather than C. as D. than , I’ ll marry him all the same. A. Was he rich or poor B. Whethere rich or poor C. Were he rich or poor D. Be he rich or poor government has promised to do ____ lies in its power to ease the hardships of the victims in the floodstricken area. A. however B. whichever C. whatever D. wherever if I had arrived yesterday without letting you know beforehand? A. Would you be surprised B. Were you surprised C. Had you been surprised D. Would you have been surprised not ____ with the respect he feels due to him, Jack gets very illtempered and grumbles all the time. A. being treated B. treated C. be treated D. having been treated is imperative that students ____ their term papers on time. A. hand in B. would hand in C. have to hand in D. handed in less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of a fullyloaded truck, ____ to the truck. A. the greater stress is B. greater is the stress C. the stress is greater D. the greater the stress Minister of Finance is believed ____ of imposing new taxes to raise extra rev