Read the following conversation and answer the question. W: Can I help you? M: Yes, I'd like to read some articles that are on reserve about British culture. W: Professor Grand's class? M: That's right. How could you know? W: Let's just say you are not the first person coming in asking for those articles. M: Oh, well, seeing as how I haven't read any of them yet, it doesn't really matterwhich one you give me first. W: I'm afraid I can't give you any of them at the moment. They've all been checked out. M: You're joking, all of them? W: Every month. I've asked professor Grand twice already to bring in additional copies of the articles, but no sooner do I place them on the shelves than they are gone. See that girl in the black sweater? She's been waiting for half an hour for those same articles to be returned. M: And here's me. I went out of my way to free out the whole afternoon to read. W: I'm sorry, but there is not a whole lot I can do about it. All I can suggest is that you come in first thing tomorrow morning and try again. We open at eight. Question: What is the man surprised to learn? - That the library opens at 8:00. - That no one else has read the articles. - That none of the material he needs is available.
That none of the material he needs is available.

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Read the following conversation and answer the question. M: Hello, Kate. Have you been to the new sports center yet? W: Not yet. Where is it? M: On Mill Road, near Stone Street, behind Santa Station. W: What about it? M: It's wonderful. You can do a lot of sports there. I played table tennis last Saturday, and watched a basketball match. W: What about the swimming pool? M: It's very good. Would you like to go there with me next week? W: Good idea. Every day is OK except Monday. M: Well. Why not go there on Saturday? Then we can stay for a long time. W: OK. See you. Question: Where is the new sports center? - On Mill Road. - Near Santa Station. - Behind Stone Street.
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On Mill Road.

Ques: Read the following conversation and answer the question. W: The Spring Festival is coming. Danny. How do you want to celebrate it? M: I don't know. We have no Spring Festival in our country. W: But the Spring Festival is the biggest holiday of the year in our country. People are busy shopping and preparing presents for their relatives and friends before the, New Year's Eve. M: That sounds exciting. W: Children usually put on their new clothes on the first day of the Lunar New Year. And they also can get some money given by the elders as a Lunar New Year gift on the New Year's Eve. M: It's really quite interesting. W: And all the family members must come back home on the New Year's Eve no matter how far they are away from home. We call it "get--together". What are you going to do on the New Year's Eve? M: My teacher, Professor Wang and his wife have invited me to have dinner together. W: Sounds great. Question: What are they mainly talking about? - Chinese New Year's day. - Christmas Day. - The Chinese Spring Festival.
Ans: The Chinese Spring Festival.

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Read the following conversation and answer the question. W: Let's look at the survey on consumer confidence we conducted last week. How reliable are these figures? M: They have a 5% margin of error Question: What are the speakers talking about? - Newly-launched products. - Consumer preferences. - Survey results.
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Survey results.

Ques:Read the following conversation and answer the question. M: The traffic is becoming worse and worse. I think there'll be huge changes in the ways people use cars. New laws will be made about what kind of car you can own and when you can drive. W: Maybe there'll just be too many of them on the roads. The air will be so seriously polluted that nobody will be able to breathe. M: Exactly. People will have to rely on trains. W: Why do you say that? M: Well, we won't be able to use cars, and airports take up too much space. That leaves trains. W: Huh. So do you think there'll be more efficient train systems between cities? M: Sure. They'll enable people to travel between cities in a matter of hours. There may even be trains going under the oceans to connect the main continents. W: Under the oceans? Oh, no! I get nervous enough flying on a plane. Question: What will the new laws be about? - License plates. - Car types and driving time. - Parking rates and road construction.

Ans:Car types and driving time.

Read the following conversation and answer the question. B: I don't know if we'll be able to spare a whole day at the Ocean Park. We've only got four days in Hong Kong, remember. A: Oh right, well, in that case, I'd advise you to get there early. It opens at 10 o'clock in the morning on weekdays. Look, I think I've got a plan of the place somewhere. Let me see.., yes, here we are. You can have this. B: Thanks. A: OK I'll show you. Let's start with the lower level. See? Here? You arrive by taxi or bus or whatever here, on the right, can you see? That's the bus terminal. And you go in through the main entrance. You could go to Water World first but I think you'd better miss that out as you're short of time, you said. You see the cable cars? Well, those long lines are the wires and the little circles are the cars going up and down to the next level. Well, walk past the cable car terminal, at the bottom of the plan, and bear right past the Waterfall Gardens. Actually, have a look in, there are ducks and other birds in the pool there-it's very pretty. Then you'll see some steps up on the left. Follow that path and you'll come to the Centenary Garden which is a good place to stop and take pictures if you've got your camera. Then carry on until you're almost at the Children's Zoo. Right. I wouldn't bother to visit the zoo if I were you, it takes quite a long time to walk round. But I do recommend the "Touch and Feed" section opposite, as I said. It's great fun for small children. B: Ok, so we'll pay a visit there, and then what? A: You could come back a different way past the Chinese rock garden. Oh, that's lovely-do wander around if there's time. Then go down the steps to the Otter Pool-you can have a sit down there for a little while and watch the otters messing around in the water. Then back to the cable car terminal where you can catch a car to the upper level. The journey takes about ten minutes, I suppose, it's quite a long way. Now if you look at the other plan, the one for the upper level, you'll see where you arrive. B: Is this the terminal here in the... Question: According to one speaker, we could skip ______ if we are short of time. - Water World - the zoo - both these two places
both these two places