W: Thanks, Sam! You’re a lifesaver!
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19. Why is Paula unhappy?
20. Why is Ms. Connors angry?
21. What are Paula and her roommate planning to do?
22. Why does Paula think Sam can help her?
Conversation Two
M: Hey, Karen. Looks like you got some sun this weekend.
W: Yeah, I spent the weekend at the beach.
M: Oh yeah? That’s great! Where did you stay?
W: Some friends of my parents live out there and they invited me for as long as I wanted to stay.
M: So what are you doing back here already?
W: Oh, I have a paper I need to work on, and I just couldn’t do any serious studying at the beach.
M: I don’t blame you. So what did you do out there… I mean besides lie out in the sun, obviously?
W: I jogged up and down the beach and I played some volleyball. You know, I never realized how hard it is to run on sand. I couldn’t even get through a whole game before I had to sit down. It’s much easier to run in the wet sand near the water.
M: Not to mention cooler. Did you go swimming?
W: I wanted to, but they said the water isn’t warm enough for that until a couple months from now, so I just waded in up to my knees.
M: It all sounds so relaxing; I wish I could get away to the beach like that.
W: It looks like you could use it. Don’t tell me you spent the weekend in the library again.
Questions 23to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. Why did the woman come home so soon?
24. Why did the woman have to stop playing the volleyball game?
25. Why didn’t the woman go swimming?
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage one
Speech—the act of uttering sounds to convey meaning—is a kind of human action. Like any other constantly repeated action, speaking has to be learned, but once it is learned, it becomes a generally unconscious and apparently automatic process.
As far as we can determine, human beings do not need to be forced to speak; most babies seem to possess a sort of instinctive drive to produce speech like noises. How to speak and what to say are another matter altogether. These actions are learned from the particular society into which the baby is born; so that, like all conduct that is learned from a society—from the people around us—speech is a patterned activity.
The meandering babble and chatter of a young child are eventually channeled by imitation into a few orderly grooves that represent the pattern accepted as meaningful by the people around him. Similarly, a child’s indiscriminate practice of putting things into his mouth becomes limited to putting food into his mouth in a certain way.
The sounds that a child can make are more varied and numerous than the sounds that any particular language utilizes. However, a child born into a society with a pattern of language is encouraged to make a small selection of sounds and to make these few sounds over and over until it is natural for him to make these sounds and no others.
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. For an adult, what does the process of speaking usually involve?
27. When does a child’s chatter become speech?
28. What are the sounds that a child is able to make like?
29. According to the author, what is the function of a society around a child?
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