【正文】 es while men see cats as friends. Women clearly stated they could be easily attracted to such a sensitive and caring man. That is a good reason why you should go out and get a cat. They are real female mags! Just don39。d be out all day. It’d be marvelous to be on the Number 10 bus route, we wouldn’t have to walk at all and we’d get to work so quickly. Oh thanks so much. I must go and tell Betty and Silvia. M: Well, I hope it39。d really like it. W: It doesn39。s on the bus route after all. With all that traffic going past I don39。s fine. That would be ￡ 7 each. I don39。s got a kitchen and a bathroom. Um, apart from that I think it39。d like it though. It39。to share with them. M: Well, I know of an empty flat. I don39。t find anything good. M: Are you wanting to share or do you want a flat on your own? W: Well, you know Betty and Silvia? I39。m trying to find a flat and I39。m afraid we don39。ll hear two long conversations. Conversation One M: Could I have my bill, please? W: Yes, sir. One moment, please. M: Could you kindly explain this to me? What is item 6? W: Let me explain all of them to you. The first item is the cover charge. Number 2 is the beer. Then your starter, your main course and the vegetables. The main course was not , so item 6 is the difference. M: Oh, I see. But how was I expected to know that? W: Yes, sir. They are a bit hard to follow sometimes. Number 8 is your dessert and number 9 the cigarettes. Oh, and number 7 is your second beer. M: And what about the service, is that included? W: Yes, that39。t let us have a party there. M: Let39。t think I am OK. There must be something wrong with my health. I am sure. Q: What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? 17. W: Oh, you know what my landlady39。s an automatic waking device in the panel at the head of your bed. You just set it to the time you want. Q: Where does the conversation probably take place? 16. W: Sit down, please. What39。s really dark inside. Q: What can be inferred from the conversation? 14. W: Look at Lily over there! She is very slim. I admire her so much for her figure. M: Well, she eats like a bird. I do think she was more beautiful when she was not so thin as she is now. Q: What does the man say about Lily? 15. W: I39。ve bought some used furniture on Sunday market. It was a real bargain. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? 12. W: I have to take two parttime jobs at the same time to make ends meet. M: You won39。ve got your apartment finished haven39。s book, guides the child39。s books speak to the unconscious. Children can have strong feelings of loneliness, anxiety, and (36) helplessness, but they haven39。t afford to be late for the international conference held in St. Louis on that day. Using broken English and rich gestures, I finally made the conductor understand my situation. He advised me to get off before Union Station and take a taxi. When the time came, he even helped me with my luggage. He wished me a good luck as I jumped off, and a few minutes later I was going towards the Union Station in a taxi. Luckily the taxi driver is a real helper who is proud of his driving skills and speed as well. It was almost 7:50 when we stopped outside the station。ll breathe more easily inside your home. Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 29. What’s the potential danger of pollution that is unknown to most people? 30. According to the passage, why does the indoor air pollution do more harm to one’s health than the outdoor air pollution? 31. How much is the indoor air pollution more serious than the outdoor air pollution? 32. What’s the mon immediate measure to deal with the cleaning products pollution and the carpet chemical pollution? 4 Passage Three The train I was traveling on was already half an hour late. I had planned to arrive in Chicago at 7:00 in time to catch the 7:50 train to St. Louis, but there was no hope of that now. This was the first time I39。s name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I give up the candidate, Bob concludes. If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job?” Can we pay too much attention to detail? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work towards, “To keep from losing the forest for the trees”, says Charles, a university professor, “we must constantly ask ourselves how the details we’re working on fit into the larger picture. If they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else.” Too often we believe what accounts for others’ success is some special secret or a lucky chance. But rarely is success to mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow. Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. What mentioned in the passage that makes Bob eliminate some candidates? 27. What does “l(fā)osing the forest for the trees” in the passage mean? 28. How “l(fā)osing the forest for the trees” can be avoided then? Passage Two All of us have heard about the problems of outdoor air pollution — like automobile emissions — and indoor pollution has been in the news enough over the past decade that most people have probably heard of that too. But what many people may not know is that the risks to health may be greater from air pollution indoors — than outdoors, according to an environmental research. Although levels from individual pollutants may not threat too much, most homes have more than one source that contributes to indoor air pollution, and the accumulated effect can be serious indeed. Many cleaning products contain anic chemicals, which can be released during use. The research found levels of about a dozen mon anic pollutants to be two to five times higher inside homes than outside. Some of these chemicals are highly poisono