【正文】 e news from her mother.Q: What do we know about Mary’s mother?20. A. She knows something about her own real condition. B. She knows nothing about her own real condition. C. She doesn’t know anything about Mary’s real condition. D. She doesn’t want to know about Mary’s real condition.Passage 1 Script of Passage 1:In the United States ideas about education are changing. Education today is not just a high school diploma or a college degree. Many grownups are not interested in going to college. They are interested in other kinds of learning. For them, learning does not end with a diploma. Continuing education gives these grownups the opportunity to increase their knowledge about their own field or to learn about a new field. It also gives them a chance to improve their old skills or to learn new ones.Secretaries, mechanics, drivers and barbers can take classes to improve their own skills. Nurses can take classes to increase their knowledge of nursing. If they know more or learn more, then they can get a better job and earn more money.Continuing education classes give some grownups the chances to learn new skills. There is usually a large variety of classes to choose from: Typing, nursing, cooking, driving or photography. But only some of the classes are available.Q1: What is this passage mainly about?1. A. The ideas about education in the United States. B. Going to college. C. Learning new skills in schools. D. Continuing education in the United States.Q2: What are the changing ideas about education mentioned in the passage?2. A. The Americans are not interested in a diploma. B. The adults in America show little interest in going to college. C. Continuing education gives many American adults a chance to know and learn more. D. Continuing education is better than college education in America.Q3: What can we learn from the passage?3. A. Continuing education is popular among many American adults. B. Continuing education offers a large variety of classes for the students to choose from. C. Many American adults are no longer interested in a college degree. D. Adults take continuing education classes for a better job and more money.Passage 2 Script of Passage 2:Recently the term “health” has e to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the wellbeing of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person’s life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.Q1: What is this passage mainly about?1. A. Different interpretations of the term “health”. B. Improving the quality of life. C. The importance of health to quality living. D. People’s expectations of a long and healthy life.Q2: What does health mean to people of today according to the passage?2. A. Absence of illness. B. A long life. C. Good conditions of living. D. Complete satisfaction with life.Q3: What can you infer from the passage?3. A. Nowadays the emphasis of health has a broader focus because of improvements in the quality of food. B. The overall quality of people’s lives improved greatly in the 20th century. C. Those who never fall ill are the truly healthy people. D. Those who were born before 1900 could not have lived long.Passage 3 Script of Passage 3:Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. Very soon it spread to other parts of the world. Now it is being difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to music.To begin with, background music was intended simply to create a soothing atmosphere. Recently, however, it’s being a big business. An American marketing expert has shown that music can boost sales or increase factory production by as much as a t