Section A

　　1. M: You see,a marine biologist is now appearing on the screen.

　　Yeah.We are now being taken on a tour familiarizing with life in the salty depth

　　It's an interesting tele teaching lesson.

　　Q:What are the man and woman doing?

　　2. M: Alice is in bad mood today

　　What's wrong with her?

　　W:She failed the examination which she prepared for a long time.

　　Q: What can you conclude from this conversation?

　　3. W:The biology class next Monday has been replaced by a chemistry class.

　　M: Awful.I haven't prepared for that.

　　Q: For which class hasn't the man prepared?

　　4. M:Since it's the rush hour,let's take the subway.

　　W: OK.It's not as direct as the bus

　　but it's faster and there will be less chance of a traffic jam.

　　Q: Why do the man and the woman decide to take the subway?

　　5. W: If I were you,I would take a bus instead of a plane.

　　Flying makes me nervous.

　　M: But it will take me forever to get there by bus.

　　Q: What does the man prefer to do?

　　6. W: Could you tell me the least expensive way to get to London?

　　M: If you go by bus it's only 20 pounds.

　　But if you go by train,it's a almost twice that much.

　　Q: What does this man explain to the woman?

　　7.Miss Green.I told Dr.Smith that I would call him in the Paris office at 11 o'clock their time.

　　Please find out the time difference for me so that I'll know when to place the call.

　　W: It's 4 hours earlier in Paris,sir.

　　Q: When should the man place his call to Paris?

　　8. M: There's no use going to the store now.

　　W: You are right. It's after 5:30 already.

　　Q: When does the store probably close?

　　9. M: Jane told me you were on a die.

　　How much weight have you lost?

　　W: Well, to start with, I weighed 150 pounds.

　　The first two weeks I took off 10 pounds,

　　but then I gained back 5 pounds over the holiday.

　　Q: How much does the woman weight now?

　　10. W: Was the movie as good as you expected?

　　M: It was a waste of time and money!

　　Q: How does the man feel about the movie?

　　Section B

　　Passage One

　　And now for the Monday Morning weather report.

　　Right now the skies over the Chicago area are sunny and clear.

　　We are expecting warm dry weather to continue throughout the day

　　with temperatures in the middle to upper 80's.

　　Winds will continue to be slightly variable as high as ten miles per hour.

　　We are going to have fair weather continuing over the next couple of days so that means clear and somewhat cooler weather tonight.

　　Tomorrow will be sunny again and quite warm.

　　No precipitation is expected for at least three or four days.

　　Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　11. Who is the speaker?

　　12. What will the daytime weather probably be like on Tuesday morning?

　　13. What's the long range forecast for the next few days?

　　Passage Two

　　There is a strange area in the Atlantic Ocean called the Bermuda Triangle.

　　People have been fascinated by the Bermuda Triangle for years

　　because of the mysterious disappearance of many ships and planes in the area.

　　There is hardly any agreement about the cause of these disappearances

　　in fact it is difficult to find any agreement about the boundaries of the area.

　　Whereas most people argue that the triangle's northern most point is Bermuda

　　its western most point is Florida

　　and its eastern point is the coast of Africa

　　a few researchers prefer the northern point to be in the Boston area.

　　Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　14. On what do most people agree?

　　15. What did the speaker say have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle?

　　16. Where is the Bermuda Triangle?

　　Passage Three

　　Two bombs exploded in Algeria Tuesday,

　　as a European Union team met with government leaders to discuss the wave of civilian massacre.

　　One bomb went off at a bus center in the center of the capital of Algiers

　　killing one person,and an hour later,

　　another bomb blew up in the coastal town of Annaba, killing 3 others.

　　The Algerians agreed to allow European Union depute

　　foreign ministers into discuss the situation

　　but again turned down any UN investigation.

　　Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　17. What happened in Algeria on Tuesday?

　　18. Where did the first bomb go off?

　　19. How many people were killed in the two bombings?

　　20. What did the Algerians reject?