Section A

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversa tion, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there Will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A ), B), C) and D)~ and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

　　Example: You will hear.

　　You will read:

　　A) At the office.

　　B) In the waiting room.

　　C) At the airport.

　　D) In a restaurant.

　　From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This conversation is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) "At the office" is the best answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.

　　Sample Answer [A] [B [C] [D]

　　1. A) Mark and the woman had not been in touch for some time.

　　B) The man saw Mark on the street two months ago.

　　C) The woman made a phone call to Mark yesterday

　　D) The woman had forgotten Mark s phone number.

　　2. A) The woman is glad to meet Mr. Brown in person.

　　B) The woman feels sorry that Mr. Brown is unable to come.

　　C) The man is meeting the woman on behalf of Mr. Brown.

　　D) The man is late for the trip because he is busy.

　　3. A) At 10:25. C) At 10:45.

　　B) At 10:30. D) At 10:40.

　　4. A) The man refuses to listen to his doctor s advice.

　　B) The man is under pressure from his wife.

　　C) The man usually follows his wife s advice.

　　D) The man no longer smokes.

8. A) The man can t come for the appointment at 4:15.

　　B) The man is glad he s got in touch with the doctor.

　　C) The man wants to change the date of the appointment.

　　D) The man was confused about the date of the appointment.

　　9. A) The man is worded about his future.

　　B) The two speakers are seniors at college.

　　C) The two speakers are at a loss what to do.

　　D) The woman regrets spending her time idly.

　　10. A) She als0 found the plot difficult to follow.

　　B) She has learned a lot from the novel:

　　C) She usually has difficulty remembering names.

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

　　Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

　　Passage One

　　Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.

　　Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique - a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the worlds only liberal arts university for deaf people.

　　When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.

　　Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the "hand talk" his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf peopie dismissed their signing as "substandard". Stokoes idea was academic heresy (异端邪说).

　　It is 37 years later. Stokoe - now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture - is having lunch at a caf6 near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. "What I said," Stokoe explains, "is that language is not mouth stuff- its brain stuff."

　　11. The study of sign language is thought to be

　　A) an approach to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language

　　B) an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language

　　C) a challenge to traditional views on the nature of language

　　D) a new way to took at the learning of language [C]

　　12.The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by

　　A) a leading specialist in the study Of liberal arts

　　B) an English teacer in a university for the deaf

　　C) Some senior experts in American Sign Language

　　D) a famous Scholar in thestudy of the human brain

　　13. According to Stokoe, sign language is

　　A) an international language C) an artificial language

　　B) a substandard language D) a genuine language [D]

　　14. Most educators objected to Stokoes idea because they thought

　　A) a language should be easy to use and understand

　　B) sign language was tOO artificial to be widely accepted

　　C) a language could only exist in the form of speech sounds

　　D) sign language was not extensively used even by deaf people [C]

　　15. Stokoes argument is based on his belief that

　　A) language is a product of the brain

　　B) language is a system of meaningful codes

　　C) sign language is derived from natural language

　　D) sign language is as efficient as any other language [A]