【正文】 travel according to the passage? 18. What do we learn from the passage about Paris? 19. What impression will a tourist get of HongKong? 20. What does the passage tell us about travelling?Section A1. M: Have you had the brakes and tires checked? And do you have enough money? W: I39。m getting. We are supposed to do out assignment on the puter. But I have difficulty getting access to the puters in the library. W: I understand the way you feel. I39。ve noticed that you get letters from Canada from time to time. Would you mind saving the stamps for me? My sister collects them. W: My roommate already asked for them. Q: What does the woman imply?4. M: What39。s called a hotdog? Well, the long red sausage which goes into a hotdog is called Frankfurter. It got its name from the German town Frankfurt. The sausages were very popular, but hot frankfurters were difficult to sell in crowds. One man, Harry Stevens, had the job of feeding the crowds in baseball games. He had an idea, why not put the Frankfurters in long hot bread rolls? This made them easy to sell. The red hots had a hot and attractive taste, and became very popular. But in 1903, an American cartoonist drew a long German sausage dog in place of the Frankfurter. So an Frankfurter in a roll soon became known as a hotdog. It was a joke, but some people really thought the sausages contained dog meat. For a while, sales of hotdogs failed, but not for long. Questions 11to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. What is a Frankfurter? 12. What was Harry Stevens39。m responsible for the editorials. Q: Where does the woman work?8. M: I ran into our friend Mark yesterday on the street, and he said he hadn39。s a bit unusually busy tonight. As a pensation, your meal will be free. Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?  3. M: I can39。5. M: To collect a data for my report, I need to talk to someone who knows that small city very well. I was told that you lived there for quite a long time. W: Oh ,I wish I could help, but I was only a child then. Q: What does the woman imply? ll just have to hurry. Q: What does the woman mean? 8. W: When I go on a diet, I eat only fruit, and that takes off weight quickly. M: I prefer to eat whatever I want, and then run regularly to lose weight. Q: How does the man control his weight? 9. W: John, can you tell me what in the book interested you most? M: No, well, nothing specific, but I like it overall. Q。t figure out is how to make it work in our program. Q: What is the man39。s all right. He promised not to tell, and he does not make promises likely. Q: What does the man mean?  Section A 1. W: I’m trying to find out how this dishwasher works, the manual is in French, I can’t wait for Bill to translate it for me. M: Don’t worry, Mary, I can do the dishes before the machine starts to work. Q: What does the man mean? t among the 4 final teams. Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14. Why wasn39。t have enough money for advertising. M: How about using the school radio station? They broadcast free publicservice announcement. Q: What does the man suggest they do?5. M: By the way, Jane, did you talk to the consultant about our health program? W: I contacted his office, but his secretary said he would be out for lunch until two. Q: What does the woman mean?6. M: I don39。t have played worse. Q: What does the woman mean?9. M: I think I39。t oversleep, I39。s remark?8. M: I39。ve been introduced about three times. He seems a little forgetful. Q: What do we learn about the new sales manager?3. W: I don39。 instruments. Drums and trumpets are for boys. According to psychologists Susan Onco and Michael Balton, children have very clear ideas about which musical instruments they should play. They find that despite the best efforts of teachers, these ideas have changed very little over the past decade. They interviewed 153 children aged between 9 and 11 from schools in northwest England. They asked them to identify 4 musical instruments and then to say which they would like to play most and which they would least like to play. They also asked the children for their views on whether boys or girls should not play any of the 4 instruments. The piano and the violin were both ranked more favorably by girls than by boys, while boys prefer the drums and trumpets. There was broad agreement between boys and girls on which instruments each sex should play and the reasons vary. And while almost half of all boys said they avoid certain instruments because they were too difficult to play, only 15% of girls gave that as a reason. Earlier studies indicated that very young school children aged between 5 and 7 showed no bias in choosing musical instruments, but their tastes bee more clear between the ages of 8 and 10. One survey of 78 teachers suggested that after that age both boys and girls begin to restrict themselves to the socalled male or female instruments. Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. Why did Susan and Michael interview children aged between 9 and 11? 12. Why do many of the boys avoid certain instruments? 13. Which group of children have a bias when choosing musical instruments?Passage Two In the 1970s, the famous Brazilian football player Pele retired from the national team of Brazil and became a professional player for a team in New York. Football, or soccer, wasn39。s a real surprise to many people.t found anybody else. They will keep searching until night falls. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? 2. M: How many students passed the final physics exam in your class?s menu. What do sharks feed on, mainly fish and other sea animals? Doctor Clark also found that sharks don39。8. M: Do you want to turn on the air conditioner or open the window? W: I love fresh air if you don’t mind. Q: What can be inferred from th