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Q: What does the man mean?
8. M: Hi, Mary. I see you walk to the office every day.
W: Yes. I find great pleasure in walking. That kind of exercise suits me very well.
Q: Why does Mary walk to the office every day?
9. M: I’d like to have two tickets for tonight’s show. Here’s a 10-dollar bill.
W: Here you are. Two tickets and a dollar and forty cents change.
Q: How much is one ticket?
10. W: I think I should call Helen now and tell her about our party tonight.
M: Why bother? You’ll see her at lunch.
Q: What does the man mean?
Part B Passages
Directions: In part B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
Two men were sentenced to death for stealing and selling 12 baby boys. Pan Mingquan, 38, and Wu Daping, 50, were from Shucheng County in Guizhou Province. Six others, reported all related to Wu, received jail terms ranging from four years to life.
The crime started in August 2004. Pan stole 12 boys, all between two and three years old, from streets or villages in Kunming and sold them to Wu.
Pan received 4,260 yuan for each boy. The Wus sold 10 babies for 15,000 to 23,000 yuan each. Wu’s daughter, two sons and a would-be daughter-in-law helped him sell the 10 boys in Xingtai, Hebei Province, and in Anyang, Henan Province.
On April 12, 2005, Wu and his daughter Wu Yongjie were attempting to transport an 11th baby to Anyang when they were caught by the police in Qujing, Yunnan.
11. How much did Pan get for selling each boy?
12. Where were the stolen boys sold?
13. What was the court decision on Pan Mingquan?
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
It was the ambition of an eleven years old boy in Kansas City to be an engine-driver. Born without arms, he had been to special schools, where he learned the skill of using his feet as “hands”. He spent all his spare time watching trains and one day his dreams came true. Seeing a deserted engine, the boy climbed in and he had no difficulty in starting it with his feet. Soon he was traveling along at forty miles an hour. Signalmen could not see the young driver, so they didn’t try to stop the train. The train passed Fillan and Omar, and reached Missouri, where the boy stopped the engine himself, and then made it go backwards. When he was near home, a railway-man caught up with the engine and stopped it. At first the railway-man was very angry. When he saw the armless boy, he was surprised and he smiled when the boy said simply, “I like trains.” “Well, I’m glad you don’t like planes!” answered the railway-man.
14. How did the boy acquire the skill of driving an engine?
15. Where was the engine stopped at last?
16. How did the railway-man feel at the end?
Part C Longer Conversations
Directions: In part C, you will hear two longer conversations. Each conversation will be read twice. After you hear the conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
W: Excuse me, sir, but will you do me a favour?
M: What can I do for you, madam?
W: I don’t have my glasses with me so I can’t write. Will you please fill in this form for me?
M: No problem.
W: Thank you. This is my passport.
M: Why do you plan to go to the US?
W: I’m going to see my niece in Detroit.
M: All right. What is her name?
W: Margaret. Margaret S. Walker.
M: And what is her address?
W: No. 116 Lincoln Avenue, Detroit.
M: How long are you going to stay in the US?
W: 60 days. I’ll leave before Independence Day.
M: That’s all.
W: Thank you very much for your help.
M: You’re welcome.
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
M: Thanks for coming to our program today, Lisa. Tell us a little bit about yourself, OK？
W: Well, I’m twenty-one, and I’m a junior at a university here in Chicago.
M: How are you paying for your college education?
W: My expenses for every semester are almost $15,000. At the start of each semester my parents pay the $10,000 tuition. I have to earn the rest myself.
M: How do you do that?
W: I have a part-time job at a hotel. I work about twenty hours a week, and earn $400. After taxes, I make $320.
M: How do you spend that money?
W: It helps to pay for my room and food. It also pays for things like my cell phone, books, transportation and clothes.
M: You don’t have much money for fun, do you?
W: That’s true! I stick to my budget carefully so I don’t have to borrow. I hardly ever go to the movies.
M: How else do you save money?
W: I don’t go to restaurants. I make meals with my roommates so it’s cheaper to eat. Oh, and I buy a lot of my clothes at second-hand stores. You can find some very cheap clothes in those stores and they are still in fashion.
M: Thank you, Lisa, for talking with me.
W: My pleasure.
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