【正文】 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.　　Anyway, I will try my best.　　Hope to hear from you soon!　　Yours,　　Li Ming　　Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)　　1. N 本題考察文章的大意，可在做完后面9題后再解答?！　?. N 小標(biāo)題 Smart Money 下第一段明確指出 Neither Ghostrider nor It Came From the Garage made the final cut at this week39?！　?0. Stanley。言外之意，男士原以為簡并沒寫完，所以B正確。男士對此表示驚訝，說自己無法區(qū)分它們，所以D正確?！　?0. B 信息明示題?！　?1. A 信息明示題。男士問最新一期的《上海日報(bào)》到了嗎，今天都已經(jīng)星期二了。男士不知道琳達(dá)能否解決這類問題，女士回答說如果琳達(dá)解決不了，就每人能解決了。此題仍然考查了 only這種絕對化表達(dá)?！　?. NG 問中并未提及誰最終獲得得了大獎(jiǎng)?！　?. N 由原文第二段首句可知，most robots barely managed to get off the starting line，這就說明比賽并不算成功，故題干表述錯(cuò)誤。 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 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 is in terms of words and binations of words. But while language greatly expands the number and the king 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。ll go even though the movie is bad.　　[D] The man should count the number of people going.　　13. [A] She wasn39。t tell people how to solve the problem, he said. The munity has e up with its own elegant solutions.　　1. The passage mainly describes the advantages and disadvantages of robot car races.　　2. Last year39。re also a lot less expe nsive. This bike costs as much as a tire or a wheel of some of these other guys39。s brain has to figure out how to resolve unexpected conflicts, like a boulder sitting in the middle of the road.　　Think about all the decisions that you and I have to make when we drive from our house to the store, Kurjanowicz said. These vehicles have to do the same thing, without a driver.　　Among the top contenders in Saturday39。s race, dubbed(被稱作) the Grand Challenge. For the past week, teams ranging from garage enthusiasts to wellfunded university engineers have been finetuning their machines at qualifying rounds here at the California Speedway in Fontana, California. (Watch the robots in action in our exclusive video.)　　Twentythree finalists were announced Thursday for Saturday39。　　Part II Reading Comprehension (skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)　　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, mark　　Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage。s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is sponsoring the race.　　Unknown Course　　The aim of the Grand Challenge, Defense Department officials say, is to spur development of autonomous ground vehicles that can operate in dangerous environments, such as war zones, keeping soldiers out of harm39。s equivalent to that of a Humvee, he said.　　Ghostrider　　The resources of teams like TerraMax or Carnegie Mellon University, which has two vehicles in the race this year, are a far cry from those of some of the other petitors, including inventors, electricians, and even a high school team.　　One entry, from a Southern California team of engineers, racers, and hotrodders, is called It Came From the Garage. It has a beer keg(小桶)stuck on the back and an onoff switch that says brain.　　Most of the schools and organizations we39。 Cajun—a converted allterrain vehicle developed by a team from the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, did.　　The smart money in Saturday39。s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) is sponsoring the race.　　5. The aim of the Grand Challenge is to spur development of autonomous ground vehicles.　　6. Ghostrider and It Came From the Garage both made the final cut at this week39。t tear either piece of cloth. [C] The pieces of cloth are made by a secret process.　　[B] He wants part of each piece of cloth. [D] The pieces of cloth seem identical to him.　　17. [A] Tuesday. [C] Thursday.　　[B] Wednesday. [D] Friday.　　18. [A] A photographer39。s view about puters and human beings in terms of intelligence?　　[A] Computers have better memory than a child does.　　[B] Computers are as intelligent as a teenager is.　　[C] Computers can understand as many as 100,000 words.　　[D] Human beings are far superior to puters.　　60. What is the major characteristic of man39。s Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families was arranged by the girl39。t giraffes have swollen feet?　　Giraffes should have 73 problem, too. Every time they bend heads 74 to drink, the blood should 75 to their heads and have a hard time 76 back up (when the head is down) to the heart. How e giraffes don39?！　?. Y 根據(jù)題干中的信息詞 The Pentagon39?！　?. Ghostrider。男士建議大家一起去城里看電影，女士認(rèn)為看電視物非所值，讓他不要把自己算在內(nèi)，所以A正確。女士準(zhǔn)備請門衛(wèi)打掃大廳，男士說能否讓他也清洗一下樓梯，由此可知，他們對大樓的衛(wèi)生狀況不滿，即在談?wù)摯髽堑男l(wèi)生狀況，故選B。男士讓女士在攝像機(jī)前表現(xiàn)得自然一些，女士說面對上千萬觀眾自己怎么能自然呢，由此推斷，B(電視攝像機(jī)