The new arrival was _______________ （不是别人，正是那位著名的科学家).

another？

shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries. Alternatively, if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurse's convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. "Who is that？" the new arrival asked St. Peter. "Oh, that's God," came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor."

If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman's notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn't attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging (贬低性的) remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.

If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it's the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.

Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote "If at first you don't succeed, give up" or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.

In order to make your humor work, you should ______.

A．show sympathy for your listeners

B．make fun of the disorganized people

C．address different problems to different people

D．take advantage of different audience

听力原文： The term "culture shock" has appeared in the popular vocabulary. Culture shock is the effect that immersion in a strange culture has on the unprepared visitor. Peace Corps volunteers suffer from it in Borneo or Brazil. Macro Polo probably suffered from it in China. Culture shock is what happens when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where "yes" may mean "no", where a "fixed price" is negotiable, where laughter may signify anger. It is what happens when the familiar psychological cues that help an individual to function in society are suddenly withdrawn and replaced by new ones that are strange or incomprehensible.

The culture shock phenomenon explains much of the bewilderment, frustration, and disorientation that plagues people in their dealing with other societies. It causes a breakdown in communication, a misunderstanding of reality, an inability to cope. Yet culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with the much more serious disease--future shock. Future shock is the frightening disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. It may well be the most serious disease of tomorrow.

Future shock is a time phenomenon, a product of the greatly accelerated rate of change in society. It arises from the imposition of a new culture on an old one. It is culture shock in one's own society. But its impact is far worse. For the traveler can at last turn back to his own familiar culture, but the victim of future shock can not.

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A．Because future shock is caused by greatly accelerated rate of change.

B．Because future shock can not be predicated.

C．Because future shock prevent people from returning to a more familiar culture.

D．Because future shock can't be explained in words.

听力原文：W: Freedom Travel. May I help you？

M: Yes, I'd like to make a flight reservation for the twenty-third of this month.

W: Okay. What is your destination？

M: Well. I'm flying to Helsinki, Finland.

W: Okay. Let me check what flights are available. And when will you be returning？

M: Uh, well, I'd like to catch a return flight on the twenty-ninth. Oh, and I'd like the cheapest flight available.

W: Okay. Let me see. Um, hmm...

M: Yeah？

W: Well, the price for the flight is almost double the price you would pay if you leave the day before.

M: Woo. Let's go with the cheaper flight. By the way, how much is it？

W: It's only $980.

M: Alright. Well, let's go with that.

W: Okay. That's Flight 1070 from Salt Lake City to New York, Kennedy Airport, transferring to flight 90 from Kennedy to Helsinki.

M: And what are the departure and arrival times for each of those flights？

W: It leaves Salt Lake City at 10:00 a.m., arriving in New York at 4:35 p.m., then transferring to Flight 90 at 5:55 p.m., and arriving in Helsinki at 8:30 a.m. the next day.

M: Alright. And, uh, I'd like to request a vegetarian meal.

W: Sure no problem. And could I have your name please？

(20)

A．Making a travel to Finland.

B．How to post a letter.

C．Reserving airline tickets.

D．Booking a train ticket.

听力原文：W: Freedom Travel. How may I help you？

M: Yes, I' d like to make a flight reservation for the twentythird of this month.

W: Okay. What is your destination？

M: Well. I'm flying to Helsinki, Finland.

W: Okay. Let me check what flights are available？ And when will you be returning.

M: Uh, well, I' d like to catch a return flight on the twentyninth. Oh, and I' d like the cheapest flight available.

W: Okay. Let me see. Urn, hmm ...

M: Yeah？

W: Well, the price for the flight is almost double the price you would pay if you leave the day before.

M: Who. Let's go with the cheaper flight. By the way, how much is it？.

W: It's only $ 980.

M: Alright. Well, let's go with that.

W: Okay. That's flight 1070 from Salt Lake City to New York, Kennedy Airport, transferring to flight 90 from Kennedy to Helsinki

M: And what are the departure and arrival time for each of those flights？

W: It leaves Salt Lake City at 10:00 A.M., arriving in New York at 4:35 P.M., then transferring to flight 90 at 5:55 P.M., and arriving in Helsinki at 8,30 A.M. the next day.

M: Alright. And, I'd like to request a vegetarian meal.

W: Sure no problem. And could I hove your name please？

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A．Salt Lake City, USA.

B．New York City, USA.

C．Helsinki, Finland.

D．Stockholm, Sweden,

the first few decades of the new millennium(a period of 1, 000 years), when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life. Pearson has【C1】______together to work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a【C2】______millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key【C3】______and discoveries to take place. Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including an【C4】______life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs【C5】______into use between now and 2040. Pearson also【C6】______a breakthrough in computer human links. "By linking【C7】______to our nervous system, computers could pick up【C8】______we feel and, hopefully, simulate【C9】______too so that we can start to【C10】______full sensory environments, rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck(甲板演习)," he says. But that, Pearson points【C11】______is only the start of man-machine【C12】______: "It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will【C13】______lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century. "【C14】______his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted. However, there are still no【C15】______for when faster-than-light travel will be【C16】______or when human cloning will be perfected, or when time travel will be possible. But he does【C17】______social problems as a result of technological advances. A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will, for example, 【C18】______problems in 2010 , while the arrival of synthetic【C19】______robots will mean people may not be able to【C20】______between their human friends and the droids(机器人). And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder-kitchen rage.

【C1】

A．taken

B．pieced

C．kept

D．made

for 23rd of this month. W: Okay. What is your destination？ M: Well, Im flying to Helsinki, Finland. W: Okay. Let me check what flights are available. And when will you be returning？ M: Uh, well, Id like to catch a return flight on 29th. Oh, and Id like the cheapest flight available. W: Okay. Let me see. Um, hmm... M: Yeah？ W: Well, the price for the flight is almost half the price you would pay if you leave the day before. M: Whoo. Lets go with the cheaper flight. By the way, how much is it？ W: Its only $980. M: Alright. Well, lets go with that. W: Okay. Thats Flight 1070 from Salt Lake City to New York, Kennedy Airport, transferring to Flight 90 from Kennedy to Helsinki. M: And what are the departure and arrival times for each of those flights？ W: It leaves Salt Lake City at 10:00 a.m., arriving in New York at 4:35 p.m., then transferring to Flight 90 at 5:55 p.m., and arriving in Helsinki at 8:30 a.m. the next day. M: Alright. And, uh, Id like to request a vegetarian meal. W: Sure, no problem. And could I have your name please？ Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 13. What is the conversation mainly about？ 14. What are the two flights the man will take？ 15. When will the man start off from Salt Lake City？13．

A．Flight 1070 and 90.

B．Flight 1017 and 19.

C．Flight 1070 and 19.

D．Flight 1017 and 90.

States increased The arrival of (26) a great wave of southern and eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century coincided with and contributed to an enormous expansion of formal schooling. (27) By 1920 schooling to age fourteen or beyond was compulsory in most states, and the school year was greatly lengthened Kindergartens, vocation schools, extracurricular activities, and vocational education and counseling extended the influence of public schools over the lives of students, many of whom in the larger industrial cities were the children of immigrants.

(28 ) Reformers early in the twentieth century suggested that education programs should suit the needs of specific populations. Immigrant women were one such population. Schools tried to educate young women so they could occupy productive places in the urban industrial economy, and one place many educators considered appropriate for women was the home. Although looking after the house and family was familiar to immigrant women. American education gave homemaking a new definition. In preindustrial economies, homemaking had meant the production as well as the consumption of goods, and it commonly included income-producing activities both inside and outside the home, (29) in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States, however, overproduction rather than scarcity was becoming a problem. Thus, the ideal American homemaker was viewed as A consumer rather than a producer. Schools trained women to be consumer homemakers, cooking, shopping, decorating, and caring for children "efficiently" in their own homes, or if economic necessity demanded, as employees in the homes of others.

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A．Reformers' suggestions.

B．The coming of a large population from Europe.

C．The expansion of industrial cities.

D．The requirement of specific populations.

nstrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth, "acclaimed Victorian enthusiasts the arrival in 1858 of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. People say that sort of things about new technologies, even today. Biotechnology is said to be the cure for world hunger. The sequencing of the human genome(基因组) will supposedly uproot cancer and other diseases. The wildest optimism, though, has greeted the Internet. A whole industry of Internet has attracted audiences with claims that the Internet will prevent wars, reduce pollution, and combat various forms of inequality. However, although the Internet is still young enough to inspire idealism, it has also been around long enough to test whether the prophets(先知) can be right.

Grandest of all the claims are those made by some of the experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about the Internet's potential as a force for peace. Nicholas Negroponte, has declared that, thanks to the Internet, the children of the future "are not going to know what nationalism is". His colleague, Michael Dertouzos, has written that digital communications will bring" computer-aided peace" which" may help avoid future fight of ethnic hatred and national breakups". The idea is that improved communications will reduce misunderstandings and transfer conflict.

This is not new, any more than were the claims for the peace-making possibilities of other new technologies. In the early years of the 20th century, airplanes were expected to end wars, by promoting international communication and (less credibly) by making armies out-of-date, since they would be weak to attack from the air. After the First World War had dispelled such notions, it was the turn of radio. "Nation shall speak peace unto nation," ran the fine motto of Britain's BBC World Service.Sadly, Radio of Rwanda disproved the idea that radio was an intrinsically (固有的) peace force once and for all.

The mistake people make is to assume that wars are caused simply by the failure of different peoples to understand each other adequately. Indeed, even if that were true, the Internet can also be used to advocate conflict. Hate speech and intolerance develop in its dark comers, where government finds it hard to intervene. Although the Internet undeniably fosters communication, it will not put an end to war.

Nowadays, the 1858 acclaim by enthusiasts is still used to describe ______.

A．the merits of biotechnology

B．the significance of new technology

C．the prospect of the Internet

D．the sequencing of human genome

but her neighbors know the truth: Shes one of the "Pod People." At the supermarket she wanders the aisles in a self-contained bubble, thanks to her iPod digital music player. Through those little white ear buds, Wolfisch Cole listens to a playlist mixed by her favorite disc presenter-herself. At home, when the kids are tucked away, Wolfisch Cole often escapes to another solo media pod- but in this one, shes transmitting instead of just receiving. On her computer web log, or "blog", she types an online journal chronicling daily news of her life, then shares it all with the Web. Wolfisch Cole-who also gets her daily news customized off the Internet and whose digital video recorder (DVR)scans through the television wasteland to find and record shows that suit her tastes-is part of a new breed of people who are filtering, shaping and even creating media for themselves. They are increasingly turning their backs on the established system of mass media that has provided news and entertainment for the past half-century. Theyve joined the exploding "iMedia" revolution, putting the power of media in the hands of ordinary people. The tools of the movement consist of a bubbling stew of new technologies that include iPods, blogs, podcasts, DVRs, customized online newspapers, and satellite radio. Devotees of iMedia run the gamut (范围)from the 89-year-old New York grandmother, known as Bubby, who has taken up blogging to share herworldly advice, to 11-year-old Dylan Verdi of Texas, who has started broadcasting her own homemade TV show or "vlog, for video web log. In between are countless iMedia enthusiasts like Rogier van Bakel, 44, of Maine, who blogs at night, reads a Web- customized news page in the morning, travels with his fully loaded iPod and comes home to watch whatever the DVR has chosen for him. If the old media model was broadcasting, this new phenomenon might" be called ego-casting, says Christine Rosen, a fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The term fits, she says, because the trend is all about me-me-media -" the idea is to get exactly what you want, when and where you want it." Rosen and others trace the beginnings of the iMedia revolution to the invention of the TV remote, which marked the first subtle shift of media control away from broadcasters and into the hands of the average couch potato. It enabled viewers to vote with their thumbs-making it easier to abandon dull programs and avoid commercials. With the proliferation (激增)of cable TV channels in the late 1980s followed by the mid-1990s arrival of the Internet, controlling media input wasnt just a luxury. "Control has become a necessity," says Bill Rose, "Without it, theres no way to sort through all the options that are becoming available." Who is Terry Wolfisch Cole probably according to the passage？

A.A middle-aged housewife.

B.A saleswoman in the supermarket.

C.A disc presenter.

D.An online news writer.