听力原文:M: How are you today?
W: I am fine, thank you.
Q: How is she?
(20)
A.She is fine.
B.She is ill.
C.She is crying.
In this passage, the word "straitened" underlined in Paragraph 1 means______.
A.difficult
B.wealthy
C.past
D.distant
The sentence "a handful of common sense was worth a bushel of learning" underlined in Paragraph 3 means that______.
A.a little practical good sense gained from experience of life is better than a lot of knowledge learned from books
B.common sense is always more valuable than learning
C.a little common sense is as worthwhile as a lot of knowledge
D.learning is never as useful as common sense
听力原文:Whose basketball is this?
(12)
A.Sorry, I don't know.
B.I'm fine.
C.Yes, I do.
Most of the older civilizations which flourished during the fifth century B.C.are died out.
A.they have died out
B.has died out
C.have died out
D.they had died out
What is the organizational pattern of the first two paragraphs of this passage?
A.Order of importance.
B.Comparison/Contrast.
C.Chronological order.
D.Example/Dlustration.