【正文】 ster move. 14. How will the man get in touch with the woman? A. By making a phone call to the woman’s house. B. By making a phone call to the woman’s mother’s house. C. By making a call to her cell phone. 聽(tīng)第 9 段材料，回答第 15 至 17 題。 18． How many news headlines are broadcast? A． 4． B． 5． C． 6． 19． What happened early on Saturday morning? A． A Russian rocket was sent up． B． A tour bus slid off a highway． C． Three aid workers were killed． 20． How many people were killed in the gas explosion? A． At least 4． B． About 30． C． Over 40． 二 .閱讀理解（每題 2 分，共 40 分） 第一部分 閱讀下面的文章，從每題后面所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出正確的一項(xiàng)。s phone number was no longer in service. A check of the caller . told us the call had e from the manager39。t know about. If you don39。s husband passed away and left several children for her. C. The author will help the woman overe her difficulties by paying for her. D. The check written by the woman had been returned because of the wrong number. 24. What is the purpose of this text? A. To solve a problem. B. To present a research result. C. To conclude a lesson. D. To tell an interesting story. B Since the invention of Guitar Hero and similar puter games, it is no longer necessary to imagine what it would be like to play along with the Beatles—you can e together with them in the virtual world. Bill Wyman, former bass player(貝斯手 ) in the Rolling Stones, has pointed out that music video games discourage kids from learning to play real instruments. My own opinion suggest quite opposite. Last year, I bought Guitar Hero Ⅲ for our 14yearold son, Jack. Jack quickly mastered the process and entered an intense period of playing the game. A few months later, while I was away on tour, a couple of his friends came around with a real electric guitar. Playing Guitar Hero had taught them how to play along the track. Now they wanted to see if they could apply that to the real thing. Jack’s friends taught him how to play along to his favorite songs using just his index finger (食指 )on the bass string. He got it right away. Guitar Hero had helped him over the first difficulty for guitar players—how to strum(撥弄 ) the strings with one hand while making chord(和弦 ) shapes with the other. He never plays Guitar Hero now, preferring to rock out in the garage with his mates. Despite my attempts at getting him to learn an instrument, it was Guitar Hero that taught him the basics of playing and built up his confidence to the extent that he was able to make a recognizable sound the first time he played it. So let’s not plain about a game that encourages kids to bee music fans and, in our son’s case, gives them the basic skills needed to learn how to play guitar. 25. What’s Bill Wyman’s attitude towards music video games? A. Curious B. Approving. C. Negative. D. Unconcerned. 26. Which statement is TRUE about Jack’s first playing with a real electric guitar? A. He did it successfully. B. He taught his friends how to play. C. He didn’t know how to play along to a song. D. He didn’t know how to strum the instruments. 27. What can we infer from Jack’s case? A. parents should encourage their kids. B. puter games are harmful to kids. C. kids should learn an instrument. D. Guitar Hero is a useful game. 28. What’s the best title for the text? A. A new puter game B. The story of a guitarist C. In defense of Guitar Hero D. The best way to play guitar C When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case fastened to the wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with great interest when my mother used to talk to it. Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an amazing person— her name was Information Please and there was nothing she did not know. Information Please could supply anybody’ s number. My first personal experience with Information Please came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor. I accidentally hit my finger with a hammer. The pain was terrible, but there didn’ t seem to be any reason in crying because there was no one home to give sympathy. I walked around the house sucking my hurting finger, finally arriving at the stairway— the telephone! Climbing up I unhooked the receiver and held it to my ear. “ Information Please,” I said. A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear, “ Information.” “ I hurt my finger?” I cried. The tears came readily enough now that I had an audience. “ Isn’ t your mother home?” came the question. “ Nobody’ s home but me.” I sobbed. “ Are you bleeding?” “ No,” I replied. “ I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts.” “ Can you open your icebox?” she asked. I said I could. “ Then chip off a little piece of ice and hold it to your finger.” After that I called Information Please for everything. I asked her for help with my geography and she told me where Philadelphia was. And there was the ti