“Really？”， I responded，” tell me about them.”

“Receptionist in an attorney’s office and a welder at a construction site.” She answered in a matter-of-fact way. The interesting thing is my daughter‘s date is the receptionist and my daughter is the welder. The old stereotypes of men’s and women‘s work have been changing more quickly than ever before， except perhaps in my own marriage.

“Who’s going to mow the lawn？ ” I asked my husband this morning.

“Oh， I will，” he answered politely. ”That‘s men’s work. ”

“What？” Irritated， I raised my voice. “That‘s a ridiculous stereotype. I’ll show you who can do the best job on the lawn.”

The work took 3 hours and I did it all myself.

Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

29. What is the speaker mainly talking about？

答案：B） The changing roles played by men and women.

30. What might women do at office meetings nowadays according to the speaker？

答案：A） Offer more creative and practical ideas than men.

31. Why did the speaker mow the lawn herself that morning？

答案：C） To show that women are capable of doing what men do.

Passage Three

听力原文

Florence Hayes is a journalist for the Green Ville Journal， the daily newspaper in town. Specifically she covers crime in the Green Ville area. This responsibility takes her to many different places every week——the police station， the court and the hospital. Most of the crimes that she writes about fall into two groups： violent crimes and crimes against property. There isn‘t much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville， or at least not as much as in the large urban areas. But assaults often occur on Friday and Saturday nights， near the bars downtown. There’re also one or two rapes on campus every semester. Florence is very interested in this type of crime and tries to write a long article about each one. She expects that this will make women more careful when they walk around Green Ville alone at night

Fortunately， there were usually no murders in Green Ville. Crimes against property make up most of Miss Heyes‘ reporting. They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses， such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum. Miss Hayes enjoys working for a newspaper but she sometimes gets unhappy about all the crime she has to report. She would prefer to start writing about something more interesting and less unpleasant such as local news or politics， maybe next year

Florence Hayes

Green Ville

Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

32. What is Florence Hayes’ main responsibility as a journalist？

答案：B： Reporting criminal offenses in Grennville.

33. What does the speaker say about security in Greenville？