【正文】 me when I read the newspaper. She even follows me out of the house when I take out the refuse. I need a break and she does, too. And so, several times a week, David and Ann39。s friendly and likes to talk. He lives with his wife in a small flat in the city. But David is being forgetful. His wife says, He39。s grandfather stop being negative?10. Why does the speaker39。s grandfather think she should do?8. Why does the speaker39。t I do what I like? It39。t you helping your mother? He thinks I39。t get to sleep. When he39。t like my friends or my favorite records. You39。t know anything. But that doesn39。t wear make－up. Existing beauty is best. Sometimes he disturbs my homework. When I was young we used to do maths differently, he says. Honestly, he39。t like my clothes. Nice girls don39。s talking. It39。s always negative and finding fault. I mustn39。t dare admit it: it was not done. On the other hand, while Mom and Dad were going without things, they expected their children to obey the rules of nice manners, and to grow up into adults that make parents proud. These were the very ideas against which the young rebels of the 1960s rebelled.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the passage you have just heard.1. According to the passage, what did children think of their parents?2. What was true success according to young people?3. What did most parents learn to do when they were young?4. What did parents think was their first duty?5. What did parents expect their children to be?Key: 1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. TPassage two My grandfather lives with us and he39。s first duty, therefore, was to think of their children39。s thinking. They themselves had been brought up to respect traditional values。s goals and achieving happiness in one39。t go far enough in trying to stop young people from smoking. 8. She bolted to the phone to ring for an ambulance. 9. It39。m done. 5. She pretended that she didn39。 7. definitely 8. stuff 9. rhythms 10. horribleUnderstanding sentencesTask1: 1. When he heard the music blast forth, Tom bolted out of bed like shot from a gun.2. Sandy sang along with the music as she lay listening to her favorite record.3. Not stopping to knock, the children burst into the room,4. It must be weird for him to listen to such horrible stuff as a youngster.5. He asked Sandy to turn down her music so that it did not wake her younger sister. 6. The music is so loud that it will hurt your ears as well as your brain, so mm it off. 7. Please hurry up or you39。 4. jeans。 2. disgusting。s the best way to learn it? You may look it up in an EnglishChinese dictionary. It will tell you a lot about a word: the pronunciation, the part of speech, the Chinese meaning and how to use this word. But how can you know where to find a word among thousands of English words? How do you find it both quickly and correctly in the dictionary?First, all the English words are listed in alphabetical order. In the dictionary, first you will see all the words beginning with the letter A, followed by those beginning with B, C, and D and so on. That means with two words like desert and pull, desert must e before pull. Then, if two words both begin with the same letter, you look at the second letter, then the third, the fourth and so on. For example, pardon es before plough, judge before just, and so on.Do you understand now how to look up a word in a dictionary? The dictionary will be your good friends. I hope you39。t get everything from school. Edison didn39。t be shy! They will not laugh at you just for a little mistake you make. The best way to get rid of mistakes is to learn to speak by speaking more. I am sure that continual practice will help you succeed. Questions 11 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. What does this talk mainly discuss?12. Why are so many Chinese students good at writing English but poor at speaking English?13. Why are so many Chinese students afraid to speak to native speakers?14. How can we speak English well?15. What does the phrase get rid of mean in the talk?Key: 12. F 13. F 14. T 15. FTask 2 Passage one Imagine you are a doctor of medicine from Japan. You are at an international meeting in Europe. You want to municate with a doctor from Africa. What language do you speak with him? The answer is probably English.Today, nearly 600 million people around the world use the English language. Only half of them speak English as their first language. Why is English useful for international munication? For one thing, many books and papers in special fields are in English. As a result, people with great knowledge in these special fields often learn English. Such people from different countries can use their English for international munication. English is really a world language.Key: 1. C 2. A Passage two Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, political methods, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Others go to school to learn skills in order to make a living. Traditional education is very useful and important. Yet, no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, cannot teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher39。t foreign language learners worry too much about making mistakes?10. What does the speaker say about the use of mistakes in foreign language learning?Key: 6. F 7. T 8. T 9. F 10. FPassage three Many Chinese students have studied English for more than ten years. However, they are still unable to speak English very well when they meet a native speaker. They seem to have mastered the basic language structure, but a conversation in English will make them feel unfortable. They are afraid that other people might find out their mistakes. It39。11 do it lo express willingness to do something in the immediate future, could, by municating with native speakers, realize that native speakers actually say 39。t have t