listening practice1

1. A) he didn’t expect there would be so many books

B) four books are a lot to borrow from the library C) he wasn’t sure she counted all her books D) he would like to return books for her

2. A）he has arranged to take the exam next year

B）he is pleased, since the woman offered to help him C）he has reason to be happy, despite the exam D）he actually did very well in the exam

3. A）at a service station B）on a hill C）in an emergency room D）in a parking lot 4. A）because Tom applied for a job B）because Tom was preferred to others

C）because Tom wanted other jobs D）because Tom was so unlucky 5. A）to clean the yard B）to weed the yard

C）to hire a gardener D）to work in the flowerbeds

6. A）12 dollars B）36 dollars C）24 dollars D）16 dollars 7. A）happy B）afraid C）surprised D）optimistic 8. A）because the show is not clear enough

B）because the show is too complicated to understand C）because the room is lack of air, she can’t breathe D）because the room is full of appreciators

9. A）an alternative use of fuel oil

B）a way to make fuel oil less polluting

C）a new method for locating underground oil D）a new source of fuel oil

10. A）to produce a gas containing carbon and hydrogen

B）to remove impurities from methanol C）to heat the reactors

D）to prevent dangerous gases from forming

11. A）it hasn’t been fully tested B）it’s quite expensive

C）it uses up scarce minerals D）the gas it produces is harmful to the environment 12. A）he will go to the library to find more information

B）he will go to the class with the woman

C）he will turn to his own professor for help D）he will go to the Anderson Hall

13. A）ages B）only a few minutes C）quite long D）half an hour

14. A）he met with an old friend B）the exchange rate was changing rapidly

C）the computer system was broken at that moment D）a foreigner started talking to him 15. A）coffee B）both snack and drink C）mineral water D）some snack

Section B

16. A）the Lower Forty-eight B）the Mainland C）the East Coast D）New England

17. A）Alaska and Hawaii B）Washington and Oregon

C）New York State and Ohio D）Western Texas and California 18. A）the sections of U.S. B）the history of the U.S.

C）the traveling in the U.S. D）the other names of the U.S.

19. A）he believes that history professors are poorly prepared

B）he believes that most students are lazy

C）he believes that professor fail to present facts in an interesting way D）he believes that most students feel that history is a waste of time

20. A）in Boston B）in Concord C）in Lexington D）in Britain 21. A）that the British were retreating to the Charles River

B）that the British would attack by sea

C）that the British were willing to sign a declaration of independence D）that the British had won the first two battles of the Revolution

22. A）training given to music therapists B）how music prevents disease

C）studies on the benefits of music D）how musicians create music 23. A）to relive tension B）to control brain seizures

C）to prevent heat disease D）in place of physical therapy 24. A）they like to have music in the operating room

B）they solved problems better while listening to music they liked C）they preferred classical music

D）they performed better when they used headphones 25. A）it increased students’ white blood cell count

B）it increased some students’ energy level

C）it released a natural painkiller in some students’ bodies

D）it improved the students’ ability to play musical instruments

Section C

As you begin your study of heavens, you may feel that the odds of your making any impact on the field of (26) are impossibly low. But in fact important (27) can come from students’ work. You may have heard from the media that the examples of one of the most illusive objects in the (28) ------the Brown Dwarf, were found by a 27-year-old student Clare Briadger. Scientists all over the world had been searching for more than 50 years and yet the (29) was made by someone still in (30) school, when Ms. Briadger (31) a paper at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society, her talk was for me the (32) of the meeting. There was (33)

agreement that what she had found was indeed the illusive Brown Dwarf. (34) while others spent their time studying what shows up big and bright in the heavens, Briadger searched for the small and faint.

(35) . She sometimes worked 100 hours in a single week, then finally she was able to isolate a number of points that seemed to be actual Brown Dwarf. (36) .