【正文】 mal, a rabbit, I I’ve been writing ever since? M: Why did you choose to be an author? W: If someone asked me how to achieve 1 would be finding out what you love doing two would be finding someone to pay you to do consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing M: Do you have any plans to write books for adults? W: My first two novels were for suppose I might write another I never really imagine a target audience when I’m ideas e it really depends on the ideas that grasp me : where did the ideas for the “Harry Potter” books e from? W: I’ve no ideas where the ideas came I hope I’ll never find would spoil my excitement if it turned out I just have a funny wrinkle on the surface of my brain, which makes me think about the invisible train : How did you e up with the names of your characters? W: I invented some of I also collected strange ’ve got one from ancient saints, maps, dictionaries, plants, war memoirs and people I : Oh, you are really : do we learn from the conversation about Miss Rowling’s first book? does Miss Rowling consider her so very lucky? dictates Miss Rowling’s writing? to Miss Rowling where did she get the ideas for the Harry Porter books?Section B Passage 1 Reducing the amount of sleep students get at night has a direct impact on their performance at school during the to classroom teachers, elementary and middle school students who stay up late exhibit more learning and attention has been shown by Brown Medical School and Bradley Hospital the study, teachers were not told the amount of sleep students received when pleting weekly performance reports, yet they rated the students who had received eight hours or less as having the most trouble recalling all the material，learning new lessons and pleting highquality also reported that these students had more difficulty paying experiment is the first to ask teachers to report on the effects of sleep deficiency in staying up late can cause increased academic difficulty and attention problems for otherwise healthy, wellfunctioning kids, said Garharn Forlone, the study’s lead the results provide professionals and parents with a clear message: when a child is having learning and attention problems, the issue of sleep has to be taken into consideration.“If we don’t ask about sleep, and try to improve sleep patterns in kids’ struggling academically, then we aren’t doing our job”, Forlone parents, he said, the message is simple, “getting kids to bed on time is as important as getting them to school on time”.Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just were teachers told to do in the experiment? to the experiment, what problem can insufficient sleep cause in students? message did the researcher intend to convey to parents?Passage 2Patricia Pania never wanted to be a public she wanted to be was a mother and her life was turned upside down when a motorist, distracted by his cell phone, ran a stop sign and crashed into the side of her impact killed her 2yearold months later, Pania reluctantly but courageously decided to try to educate the public and to fight for laws to ban drivers from using cell phones while a car is wanted to save other children from what happened to her her first speech, Pania got off to a shaky was visibly trembling and her voice was soft and as she got into her speech, a dramatic transformation took stopped shaking and spoke with a strong the rest of her talk, she was a forceful and pelling wanted everyone in the audience to know what she knew without having to learn it from a personal in the audience were moved to tears and to subsequent presentations, Pania gained reputation as a highly effective appearance on a talk show was broadcast three times, transmitting her message to over 40 million campaign increased public awareness of the problem, and prompted over 300 cities and several states to consider restrictions on cell phone 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just was the significant change in Patricia Pania’s life? had led to Pania’s personal tragedy? did Pania feel when she began her first speech? could be expected as a result of Pania’s efforts?Passage 3Many people catch a cold in the spring time or makes us wonder if scientists can send a man to the can’t they find a cure for the mon cold? The answer is ’re actually hundreds of kinds of cold viruses out never know which one you will get, so there isn’t a cure for each a virus attacks your body, your body works hard to get rid of rushes to your nose and causes a blockade in feel terrible because you can’t breathe well, but your body is actually eating the temperature rises and you get a fever, but the heat of your body is killing the also have a running nose to stop the virus from getting into your may feel miserable, but actually your wonderful body is doing everything it can to kill the people have different remedies for the United States and some other countries, for example, people might eat chicken soup to feel people take hot bath and drink warm people take medicines to relieve various symptoms of was one interesting thing to scientists say taking medicines when you have a cold is actually bad for virus stays in you longer, because your body doesn’t develop a way to fight it and kill 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just to the passage, why haven’t scientists found a cure for the mon cold? does the speaker say about the symptoms of the mon cold? do some scientists say about taking medicines for the mon cold, according to the passage?Section C: Compound dictationYou probably have noticed that people express similar ideas in different ways depending on the situation they are is very languages have two general levels of usage: a formal level and an informal is no difference in these two levels is the situation in which you use a particular language is the kind of language you find in textbooks, reference books and