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[21:]they told us we had to do it. [21:]W: Fine. Now, last question, [21:]how long will the parcel take to get to New York? [21:]M: One to two working days. [21:]There are daily flights at midday. [21:]And if we collect the parcel from you at 10:15, [21:]then your parcel catches that flight, [21:]and it’ll arrive within 24 hours. [21:]W: Right. Thank you very much. [21:]You’ve been very helpful. [21:]M: Not at all. Goodbye. [21:]W: Goodbye. [21:]SECTION B PASSAGES [21:]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following announcement. [21:]Attention, all passengers. [22:]Platform changethis is a platform change. [22:]The train now standing at Platform 9 is the 10:48 train [22:]calling at all stations to Nanjing. [22:]Please note. [22:]The train on Platform 9 is not the 10:52 train to Jinan. [22:]It’s the 10:48 train calling at all stations to Nanjing. [22:]The 10:52 to Jinan will now leave from Platform 7. [22:]Train announcement. [22:]The 11:20 train to Zhengzhou from Platform 8 [22:]will be subject to a fifteenminute delay. [22:]I repeat, there will be a fifteenminute delay for [22:]the Zhengzhou train on Platform 8. [22:]It will now leave at 11:35, not 11:20. [22:]The 11:28 train to Hangzhou has been cancelled. [22:]We apologize to customers, [22:]but due to signal problems the 11:28 train to Hangzhou [22:]from Platform 15 has been cancelled. [23:]The 11:32 train to Tianjin is now standing at Platform 13. [23:]Please notethere will be no restaurant car on this train. [23:]I repeat, there will be no restaurant car [23:]on the 11:32 to Tianjin now standing at Platform 13. [23:]Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage. [23:]The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum [23:]was opened in Geneva in 1988. [23:]It tells the story of men and women who, [23:]in the course of the major events of the last 150 years, [23:]have given assistance to victims of war and natural disasters. [24:]The anization was established in 1863, [24:]and was based on the idea [24:]by a Swiss businessman called Henry Durant. [24:]He had witnessed the heavy casualties of the Battle of Solferino [24:]in Italy four years earlier, [24:]and which 40,000 people were killed, wounded, or missing. [24:]He had seen the lack of medical services and [24:]the great suffering of many of the wounded, [24:]who simply died from lack of care. [24:]The International Red Cross or Red Crescent exists to [24:]help the victims of conflicts and disasters [24:]regardless of their nationalities. [24:]The symbol of the anization was originally just the red cross. [24:]It has no religious significance。 [24:]the founders of the movement [24:]adopted it as a tribute to Switzerland. [24:]However, during the RussoTurkish war, [24:]the Turks felt that the cross could be seen [24:]as offensive to the Muslim soldiers [24:]and a second symbol, the red crescent, [25:]was adopted for use by national anizations [25:]in the Islamic world. [25:]Both are now official symbols. [25:]Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. [25:]At major college or high school sports events, [25:]cheerleaders, both male and female, [25:]jump and dance in front of the crowd and [25:]shout the name of their team, [25:]running around yelling Go, team, go! [25:]The first cheerleader ever was a man. [25:]In 1898, Johnny Campbell jumped in front of the crowd [25:]at the university of Minnesota