【正文】 ee pieces of recorded material. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answers. You will hear each piece once only. (10 points) Questions 11 13 are based on a report about children39。s bedrooms should [A] be no place for play. [B] be near a mon area. [C] have no TV sets. [D] have a puter for study. Questions 14 16 are based on the following talk about how to save money. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14 16. 14. According to the speaker, what should one pay special attention to if he wants to save up? [A] Family debts. [B] Bank savings. [C] Monthly bills. [D] Spending habits. 15. How much can a person save by retirement if he gives up his packaday habit? [A] $190,000. [B] $330,000. [C] $500,000. [D] $ 1,000,000. 16. What should one do before paying monthly bills, if he wants to accumulate wealth? [A] Invest into a mutual fund. [B] Use the discount tickets. [C] Quit his eatingout habit. [D] Use only paper bills and save coins. Questions 17 20 are based on an interview with Herbert A. Glieberman,domesticrelations lawyer. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17 20. 17. Which word best describes the lawyer39。60s and 39。 （一）、試題（二）。英語知識(shí)運(yùn)用、閱讀理解 A節(jié)的答案必須用 2B 鉛筆按要求直接填涂在答題卡 1 上，如要改動(dòng)，必須用橡皮擦干凈。 ，考生應(yīng)將答題卡 答題卡 2 一并裝入原試卷袋中，將試題（一）、試題（二）交給監(jiān)考人員。 alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to ment on their disanized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses39。s God, came the reply, but sometimes he thinks he39。ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman39。t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it bees more natural. Include a few casual and apparently offthecuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it39。t succeed, give up or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor. 41. To make your humor work, you should [A] take advantage of different kinds of audience. [B] make fun of the disanized people. [C] address different problems to different people. [D] show sympathy for your listeners. 42. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are [A] impolite to new arrivals. [B] very conscious of their godlike role. [C] entitled to some privileges. [D] very busy even during lunch hours. 43. It can be inferred from the text that public services [A] have benefited many people. [B] are the focus of public attention. [C] are an inappropriate subject for humor. [D] have often been the laughing stock. 44. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered [A] in wellworded language. [B] as awkwardly as possible. [C] in exaggerated statements. [D] as casually as possible. 45. The best title for the text may be [A] Use Humor Effectively. [B] Various Kinds of Humor. [C] Add Humor to Speech. [D] Different Humor Strategies. Text 2 Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That pulsion has resulted in roboticsthe science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to e close. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robodrivers. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micromechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracyfar greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone. But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselvesgoals that pose a real challenge. While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error, says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, we can39。mon sense39。s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talentedand human perception far more plicatedthan previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced puter systems on Earth can39。t know quite how we do it. 46. Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in [A] the use of machines to produce science fiction. [B] the wide use of machines in manufacturing industry. [C] the invention of tools for difficult and dangerous work. [D] the elite39。s ability now is to design a robot that can [A] fulfill delicate tasks like pe