【導(dǎo)讀】聽下面5段對(duì)話。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。和閱讀下一小題。每段對(duì)話僅讀一遍。小題，每小題5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時(shí)間。聽第10段材料，回答第17至20題。

　　

【正文】 th their landlord at the nearby Knickerbock Bar and Grill。 now Bass had to deal with himself. “ When I want to negotiate my own lease I have go to the bar myself”， he joked. Even in his late eighties Bass was making buying trips, though no longer by subway. Time and the Inter have not been kind to booksellers. “Book Row” is now only the Strand, which itself has been redesigned to be more “ user friendly” . T shirts, postcards, fridge mags and other gifts now account for about 15 per cent of the Strand39。s turnover. Satellite stores have been set up and new books have joined the traditional second hand modities. “ I make less money， ” Bass said， “ but it39。s a little bit more scientific”. Perhaps the most unusual part of management at the Strand book store was the book quiz—matching authors and title—that job applicants since the 1970 have been required to take. ( )65. From the first two paragraphs we learn that the Strand Store ________． A. is rented to different users by the foot B. sells thousands of books to buyers every day C. enjoys popularity with people from different walks of life D. serves regularly as background for a large number of films ( )66. What does “treasure hunt” mean to Fred Bass? A. Secondhand books may e from valuable sources. B. Fellow bookshops may make way for the Strand Store. C. He may find fun from characters in different books. D. He knows the changing current of the book trade well enough. ( )67. Which of the following is true about Fred Bass39。s family? A. His mother devoted herself to various civil rights causes. B. His father remarried when he was 13 years old. [來(lái)源 :Z+x x +k .Co m] C. Bass didn39。t get married until he bought an apartment. D. His daughter Nancy is a senator from Oregon. ( )68. The underlined word “haul” in Para 6 probably means ________. A. transport B. bargain C. howl D. drag ( )69. Why did Bass make less money? A. He had to spend money adopting more scientific management. B. People spend more time on the Inter than visiting his bookstore. C. His daughter remodeled the space and added such goods as T shirts. D. He had fewer job applicants who passed the book quiz. ( )70. The pattern of the passage is ________． A. a news report B. an advertisement C. a short story D. a biography 第四部分 任務(wù)型閱讀 (共 10 小題 ， 每小題 1 分 ， 滿分 10 分 ) 請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一個(gè)最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。 注意：每個(gè)空格只填一個(gè)單詞。 This time of year, thousands of college applicants wait for e notices and auspiciously(吉利地 ) sized envelopes from schools, under terrible pressure from their parents, friends, teachers, and themselves. To this anxious lot, I offer some advice, which es not only from a bit of experience, but also a bit of research: just cool out and continue, okay? Many parents and students think there is a world of difference between the lifelong outes of an A minus student who gets into, say. Princeton, and an A minus student who applies to Princeton but “only” gets into some less selective school, like Penn State or the University of Wisconsin. They assume that a decision made by faceless Ivy League admissions officers, to some extent, will mark the difference between success and failure in life. There are two important things to say about this stress. First, to put the anxiety into context, the kids applying to these schools are already doing quite well. Seventy percent of 29 year olds don39。t have a bachelor39。s degree, and the majority of BAs are earned at non selective schools that accept a majority of their applicants. Many of the applicants have already won life39。s lottery. But if that doesn39。t ease the nerves of the 40， 000 people waiting on Stanford or Penn, here is a more encouraging conclusion from economics. For most applicants, it doesn39。t matter if they don39。t get into their top choice, according to a paper by Stacy Dale, a mathematician at Mathematica Policy Research, and Alan Krueger, an economist at Princeton University. They tracked two groups of students—one that attended college in the 1970s and the other in the early 1990s. They wanted to know： Did students attending the most elite colleges earn more in their 30s. 40s. and 50s than students with similar SAT scores, who were rejected by elite colleges? The short answer was no. Or, in the author39。s language, the difference between the students who went to super selective schools and the students with similar SAT scores rejected by those schools and went to less selective institutions was “indistinguishable from zero.” What does that mean? It means that, for many students, “who you are” is more important than where you go. It39。s hard to show that highly selective colleges add much earning power, even with their distinguished professors and professional works. In addition, the decision of admissions officers isn39。t as important as the sum of the decisions, habits, and relationships students have built up to this point in their young life. For the elite colleges themselves, the Dale Krueger paper had additional, fascinating findings. It39。s found that the most selective schools do make an extraordinary difference in life earning for minority students from less educated families who are more likely to rely on colleges to provide the training and job works with great influence. Getting into Princeton if your parents went to Princeton? Fine, although not a game changer. But getting into Princeton if your parents both left munity college after a year? That could be game changing. Whatever the results, it39。s more important to choose a university that is suited to the college applicants. What is an elite college really worth for ？ Introduction College applicants tend to feel stressed while (71)________ admission decisions. Author39。s advice College applicants should cool down and ca