Part I Listening Comprehension

Section A

1. D) Dr. Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.

2. A) They will keep in touch during the summer vacation.

3. B) Peaches are not at their best now.

4. C) They work on the assignment together.

5. A) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness.

6. A) He liked writing when he was a child.

7. D) He does not study hard enough.

8. C) It will be very difficult for them to find John.

9. A) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world.

10. B) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments.

Section B

11. C) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum.

12. D) He believed the speaker was a foreigner.

13. A) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only.

14. A) By making laws.

15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand.

16. D) It should be carried high up in the air.

17. C) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed.

18. C) Truancy.

19. D) Students with good attendance records.

20. B) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction.

Part II Reading Comprehension

Passage One

21. D) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.

22. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause.

23. A) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents

24. A) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child.

25. C) It is troublesome but rewarding

Passage Two

26. D) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.

27. A) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns.

28. C) became wealthy after starting life very poor.

29. B) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life.

30. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.

Passage Three

31. B) Quick economic returns

32. C) obtain funding from the government

33. A) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.

34. D) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned.

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