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s boring. 18. D. Assemble a puter. 19. B. It requires him to apply theory to patience. 20. D. It demands physical endurance and patience. 21. D. In a hotel. 22. B. Paying attention to every detail. 23. A. The pocket money British children get. 24. C. It often rises higher than inflation. 25. B. Pay for small personal things. 短文聽力部分:(李瑛) 26A Direct mangers. 27D The important part played by direct mangers. 28B Fifty percent of them were female. 29B He was not gender sensitive. 30C Aask to see the manger politely but firmly. 31D You can39。t tell how the person on the line is reacting. 32D Stick to the point. 33B Architect. 34A Do some volunteer job 35C A babysitter is no replacement for a mother. 復(fù)合式聽寫:(王雙林) Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in the school building, is smarter, more (36)curious, less afraid of what he doesn’t know, better at finding and (37)figuringthings out, more confident, resourceful, persistent, and (38)independentthan he will ever be again in his schoolingor, unless he is very (39)unusualand very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and (40)interactingwith the world and people around him, and without any schooltype (41)formalinstruction, he has done a task far more difficult, plicated and (42)abstractthan anything he will be asked to do in school or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the (43)mysteryof language. He has discovered it. Babies don’t even know that language exists (44) and he has found out how it works and learned to use it appropriately. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, (45) by trying it out and seeing whether it works by gradually changing it and refining ituntil it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, (46) including many of the concepts that the schools think only they can teach him,and many that are