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man hope to do in Las Vegas? A. Buy a shirt. B. Buy a suitcase. lots of money. 3. What does the woman think of her sister? A. Neat. B. Noisy. C. Untidy. 4. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Making sandwiches. B. Buying food for a meeting. C .Earning money for an association. 5. Where does this conversation probably take place? A. In a cafe. B. In a library. C. In an Inter bar. 第二節(jié)(共 15 小題 。每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題,從題中所給的 A、B、 C 三個 選項中選出最佳選項,并標在試卷的相應位置。聽完后,各小題將給出 5 秒鐘的作答時間。 聽第 6 段材料,回答第 7 題。 8. Where does the woman buy most of her music? A. From iTunes. B. From eMusic. C. From Google Play. 9. What does the man seem to care about? A. Saving money on music. B. Collecting a certain kind of music. C. Supporting independent musicians. 聽第 8 段材料,回答第 10 至 12 題。 13. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Husband and wife. B. Doctor and patient. C. Boss and employee. 14. Where does the woman work? A. In a hospital. B. At a university. C. At a tech pany. 15. How long has the woman been at her present job? A. About one month. B. About six months. C. About one year. 16. What is the man?s advice? A. Finding a new job. B. Taking some medicine. C. working out more often. 聽第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 題。每小題 2 分,滿分 30 分) 閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的四個選項( A、 B、 C 和 D )中,選出最佳選項,并在答 題卡上將該項涂黑。 and immediately after leaving, he provided a great service by a speech at the Union League Club, in which he said in most effective fashion the very things I should have liked him to say; and his words, moreover, earned weight when addressing such an audience. Taft is a splendid fellow and will be an aid and fort in every way. But, as mother says, he is too much like me to be able to give me as good advice as Mr. Root because of the very differences of character between us. If after fully thinking the matter over, you remain firmly convinced that you want to go into the army, well and good. I shall be rather sorry for your decision, because I have great confidence in you and I believe that in civil life you could probably win in the end a greater prize than if you go into the army — though, of course,a man can do well in the army. I know perfectly well that you will have hard times in civil life. Probably most young fellows when they have graduated from college, feel pretty depressed for the first few years. In ordinary cases, it at first seems as if their efforts were not leading anywhere, as if the pressure around the foot of the ladder was too great to permit getting up to the top. But I have faith in your ability and your power to force yourself to the front when you have once found out and taken your line. However, you and I and mother will talk the whole matter over when you e back here on Easter. 25. What mainly contributes to Mr. Root?s being a good advisor according to the President? A. His great generosity. B .His effective speech. C. Their differences in character. D. Their similarities in character. 26. What did the President wish Ted to do? A. Lead a civil life. well in the army. C. Force himself to the front. postgraduate courses. 27. What did the President say about most young people starting their life after graduation? A. They would make no efforts. would have a hard life. C. They would look for a ladder. D. They would have no confidence. C Trailers(預告片) shouldn?t really be a hard thing to do: show some footage(鏡頭), get people excited, but don, t give too much away. It, s a practice that some movies struggle to do, with many either getting too enthusiastic about showing their big plot points, and others simply not catching the magic of the movie. Considering that humans struggle with this practice so much, the folks over the 20th Century Fox decided to see what a puter could do, tasking IBM?s Watson, the superputer, with cutting together footage from uping SciFi thriller, Man, to create the final trailer. ( IBM Watson has done many things ; beat human petitors in quiz shows, created reserved recipes and described the contents of photos. Now it has bee the firstever AI to produce a film trailer for the new scifi film. ) The result was actually surprisingly good. Using Watson?s experimental learning techniques, IBM?s cutting edge AI sorted out hundreds of classic thriller trailers to learn what exactly gets an