【正文】 I’ m starving. Do we still have any pie left from the dinner yesterday? W: Oh, Julia invited her friends over in the afternoon and they ate it all. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? 答案： The man has to find something else to eat. 【解析】此題為簡單的推理題。 starving： adj. 饑餓的。只要考生抓住這位男士回答中的關(guān) 鍵詞 dated 和 recent，就不難找出正確答案，而且，整個答句也很短，均是簡單句，易于考生理解。 16. W: I’ ve noticed that you spend a lot of time tending your garden. Would you like to join our gardening club? We meet every other Wednesday. M: Oh, thanks for the invitation, but this is how I relax. I’ d rather not make it something formal and structured. Q: What can we infer about the man? 答案： He declines to join the gardening club. 【解析】此題為暗示推理題，有一定難度。 17. M: I heard the recent sculpture exhibit was kind of disappointing. W: That’ s right. I guess a lot of other people feel the way I do about modern art. Q: What does the woman mean? 答案： Many people do not appreciate modern art. 【解析】此題為簡單的推理題?！保纯蛇x出答案，而且答句中沒有一個生難單詞。 18. M: Bob is running for chairman of the student union. Would you vote for him? W: Oh, I can’ t decide right now because I have to find out more about the other candidates. Q: What does the woman mean? 答案： Bob cannot count on her vote. 【解析】此題為推理題。 run for：競選； chairman of the student union：學(xué)生會主席； vote for：投票贊成。對話一開篇女士先抱怨自己工作的醫(yī)院無人聽她申訴有關(guān)機(jī)器已過時，會造成身體傷害的問題，因?yàn)獒t(yī)院想要降低成本。主管還告誡她，醫(yī)院寧 愿換掉她，讓他人工作，也不會更換機(jī)器。同時要想利用目前的法案來解決這一問題，也會很難實(shí)現(xiàn)。 本對話考生雖然對輻射造成身體傷害的話題并不陌生，但整個對話中部分單詞可能還是會造成不少聽力困擾。 Conversation Two W: Mr. Green, is it fair to say that negotiation is an art? M: Well, I think it’ s both an art and science. You can prepare for a negotiation quite scientifically, but the execution of the negotiation has quite a lot to do with one’ s artistic quality. The scientific part of a negotiation is in determining your strategy. What do you want out of it? What can you give? Then of course there are tactics. How do you go about it? Do you take an opening position in a negotiation which differs from the eventual goal you are heading for? And then of course there are the behavioral aspects. W: What do you mean by the behavioral aspects? M: Well, that’ s I think where the art es in. In your behavior, you can either be an actor. You can pretend that you don’ t like things which you are actually quite pleased about. Or you can pretend to like things which you are quite happy to do without. Or you can be the honest type negotiator who’s known to his partners in negotiation and always plays everything straight. But the artistic part of negotiation I think has to do with responding immediately to cues one gets in the process of negotiation. These can be verbal cues or even body language. This is where the artistic quality es in. W: So really, you see two types of negotiator then, the actor or the honest one. M: That’ right. And both can work. I would say the honest negotiator can be quite effective in some circumstances. In other circumstances you need an actor. Q23. When is a scientific approach best embodied in a negotiation according to the man? Q24. In what way is a negotiator like an actor according to the man? Q25. What does the man say about the two types of negotiator? 【答案】 23. In the preparatory phase. 24. He behaves in a way contrary to his real intention. 25. Both can succeed depending on the specific situation. 【點(diǎn)評】 本長對話主要是關(guān)于談判的藝術(shù)性和科學(xué)性。這里可以歸為兩類，一是“演技派”，二是“誠實(shí)派”。最后男士指出根據(jù)不同場合，無論是“誠實(shí)派”，或是“演技派”談 判者都能起到各自的效果。 Section B Passage 1 A scientific team is studying the thinking ability of eleven and half month old children. The test is a simple one. The baby watches a sort of show on a small stage. In Act One of the show, a yellow cube is lifted from a blue box, and moved across the stage. Then it is returned to the box. This is repeated 6 times. Act Two is similar except that the yellow cube is smaller. Baby boys do not react at all to the difference and the size of the cube. But girls immediately bee excited. The scientists interpret the girls’ excitement as meaning they are trying to understand what they have just seen. They are wondering why Act Two is odd and how it differs from Act One. In other words, the little girls are reasoning. This experiment certainly does not definitely prove that girls start to reason before boys, but it provides a clue that scientists would like to study more carefully. Already it is known that bones, muscles and nerves develop faster in baby girls. Perhaps it is early nerve development that makes some infant girls show more intelligence than infant boys. Scientists have also found that nature seems to give another boost to girls. Baby girls usually talk at an earlier age than boys do. Scientists think that there is a physical reason for this. They believe that the nerve endings in the left side of the brain develop faster in girls than in boys, and it is this side of the brain that strongly influences an individual’s ability to use language and remember things. Q26. What is the difference between Act One and Act Two in the test? 答案： The size of the objects shown. Q27. How do the scientists interpret their observation from the experiment? 答案： Girls seem to start reasoning earlier than boys. Q28. What does the speaker say about the experiment? 答案： It may simulate scientists to make further studies. Q29. According to scientists, what is another advantage given to girls by nature? 答案： They talk at an early age. 【點(diǎn)評】 本文是一篇關(guān)于幼兒思維能力的文章。實(shí)驗(yàn)發(fā)現(xiàn)可能是早期的神經(jīng)發(fā)育使女嬰比男嬰更聰明。 關(guān)鍵詞： interpret v. 解釋；翻譯 boost n. 推動，幫助 Passage 2 A super attendant of the city municipal building, Dillia Adorno, was respon