23.What is the man doing?

　　【解析】[A] 男士準(zhǔn)備寫一篇關(guān)于20世紀(jì)三、四十年代好萊塢電影的論文，他現(xiàn)在正在檢索所需要的參考書，所以答案是“他在搜尋參考材料”。

　　24. What does the librarian think of the topic the man is working on?

　　【解析】[A] 此題關(guān)鍵在于聽出女士，即這位圖書館員說：Your topic sounds pretty big.Why don’t you narrow it 她認(rèn)為這位男士的題目太大，因此答案應(yīng)為It’s too broad to cope with.

　　25. Where can the man find the relevant magazine articles?

　　【解析】[D] 本題在聽力原文中可直接找出答案。女圖書館員說Well, you can look up magazine articles in the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature.因此男士可以在Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature找到相關(guān)的雜志文章。

　　Section B

　　Passage One

　　There are many reasons why family life in Britain has changed so much in the last fifty years.The liberation of women in the early part of the twentieth century and the social and economic effects of World War II had a great impact on traditional family life.Women became essential to industry and the professions.During the war they had worked in factories and proved their worth, now, with the loss of millions of men, their services were indispensable to the nation.

　　More recently, great advances in scientific knowledge, and particularly in medicine, have had enormous social consequences.Children are better cared for and are far healthier.Infant death rate is low.Above all, parents can now plan the size of their family if they wish through more effective means of birth control.

　　Different attitudes to religion, authority and tradition generally have also greatly contributed to changes in family life.But these developments have affected all aspects of society.It is particularly interesting to note that the concept of “the family” as a social unit has survived all these challenges.

　　Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　26.What is this passage mainly about?

　　【解析】[D] 短文第一句就點出了文章的主旨，There are many reasons why family life in Britain has changed so much in the last fifty years.即主要講了英國家庭生活變化的諸多原因。

　　27.Why did British women become indispensable to industry after World War II?

　　【解析】[A] 為什么英國婦女二戰(zhàn)之后在工業(yè)上起著不可或缺的作用?During the war they had worked in factories and proved their worth, now, with the loss of millions of men, their services were indispensable to the nation.從這兩句話中可得出答案，由于戰(zhàn)爭中成千上萬的男子犧牲了，因此女子必須承擔(dān)起勞動的重任。

　　28.What remained unchanged in spite of all the challenges in family life?

　　【解析】[A] 雖然文中花了大量篇幅介紹英國人家庭生活變化的種種原因。但本題的答案出現(xiàn)在文章最后一句，即It is particularly interesting to note that the concept of “the family” as a social unit has survived all these challenges.