1.
M: If there is any sport less interesting than baseball I don't know what it is.
W: Yes, it's even duller than basketball.
Q: What conclusion can we draw from this conversation?
2.
W: Does the book have a happy ending?
M: It was hard to tell whether the hero was going to die in the war or come home and marry his childhood sweetheart.
Q: What did the man say about the end of the book?
3.
W: I have never seen you have such confidence before an exam.
M: It's more than confidence. Right now I feel that if I get less than an A, It'll be the fault of the exam not me.
Q: What's the man's attitude towards the examination?
4.
W: Winter is pretty cold here, don't you think?
M: But I'm used to cold weather. I'm from Chicago, you know. It can be very cold in winter there. But my wife doesn't quite like the weather here. She's from Los Angeles. It's much warmer there in winter.
Q: What do they think of the weather there?
5.
W: What are your major crops?
M: We mainly grow vegetables. Only a small part of the land is used for growing wheat and maize.
Q: What are they talking about?
6.
W: I find sentence structure especially difficult in learning English.
M: Well, to solve this problem, it's necessary to have a good idea of verb patterns. That's to say, when you learn a verb, you must know what comes after it. Some verbs take an infinitive object. Some are followed by a complex object.
Q: According to the man, how can she solve her problem?
7.
M: How are you getting on with your Chinese study?
W: Well, my pronunciation and intonation aren't very good. People have difficulty in understanding me. Besides, I don't speak well. When I speak, I make a lot of mistakes.
Q: What's the woman's problem?
8.
M: Look here, Nora, I'm tired of lying here with nothing to do. I hate doing nothing.
W: Don't be silly, Harry. You've got a temperature, and staying in bed is the only sensible thing to do. Now just be quiet, and stop preventing me from doing my housework.
Q: What's wrong with Harry?
9.
M: Well, Jane, how are you enjoying life in the country?
W: I'm getting used to it, David, but it's certainly a change. There's not much to do here, and there was always plenty to do in London.
Q: What do we know about her life in London?
10.
M: Tara is really enthusiastic about her singing class, isn't she?
W: Yes, she used to take lessons only one day a week, but now she goes every other day after school: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Q: Which day is Tara free from singing class?
When my husband was promoted, we put our house up for sale. Three weeks later, it was still on the market. I became a busy housekeeper. Every room had to be kept tidy, and dishes had to be washed and put away when used. Then one day the doorbell rang unexpectedly at 8 a.m. Sleepily, I opened the door and saw our agent standing there with a couple from New York. "There was no time to call," he explained, "because the couple had to catch a plane home."
The three people made their way past the dirty breakfast dishes on the kitchen table and into a bedroom with unmade beds. As I retreated into a bathroom to comb my hair, I heard the man say something to his wife. Then they both laughed.
Two days later, the agent phoned to tell me that the couple had bought the house. He repeated what the buyer had said when he handed over the check the following day: "That house has a warm, lived-in feeling, just like ours."
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. Why did the speaker sell her house?
12. Why did the agent visit the speaker so early in the morning?
13. Why did the couple laugh in the speaker's house?
11.
A) Her husband had got a higher position.
B) Her husband had lost his job.
C) She wanted to have a cleaner house.
D) She wanted to move to New York.
12.
A) His telephone went out of order.
B) The buyers had to leave soon.
C) He began to work at 8 a.m.
D) He had made an appointment with her for 8 a.m.
13.
A) They considered her lazy.
B) They considered her clever.
C) They considered her foolish.
D) They saw something familiar to them.
My friend Vernon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed the birds for him and said that he would leave the key to his front door in my mailbox.
Unfortunately, I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse, it was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front door or the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of what Vernon would say when he came back.
I was just going to give up when I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed it under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb up and open the window.
I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realised that someone was shining a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon's neighbours. "What are you doing up there?" said the policeman. Feeling like a complete fool, I replied, "I was just going to feed Mr. Davies' birds."
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. Why couldn't the man open the door?
16. Why did the man feel desperate?
17. Why did the man feel like a fool?
15.
A) His friend gave him the wrong key.
B) He didn't know where the back door was.
C) He couldn't find the key to his mailbox.
D) It was too dark to put the key in the lock.
16.
A) It was getting dark.
B) He was afraid of being blamed by his friend.
C) The birds might have flown away.
D) His friend would arrive any time.
17.
A) He looked silly with only one leg inside the window.
B) He knew the policeman wouldn't believe him.
C) The torch light made him look very foolish.
D) He realised that he had made a mistake.
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