D) Teachers were not allowed to smoke.
15.A) A day has 25 hours.
B) A day has only 24 hours.
C) A continual dull working day.
D) A good lucky day.
16.A) The Story of Teacher.
B) School & Teacher.
C) Other Times, Other Customs.
D) Teacher & Religion.
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Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17.A) Recent developments in pacemakers have increased the lifetime of many heart patients.
B) Pacemakers can be driven by chemical or nuclear batteries.
C) Pacemakers are devices to correct patient's heartbeats.
D) Pacemakers are devices which may help all people.
18.A) More danger than the chemical one.
B) Lighter than before because it is a new type.
C) Safer than before because it may last 10 years or more.
D) Cheaper than before because it needn't rechange every year.
19.A) To have more operations will help patients' hearts.
B) To have more operations will add patients' lifetime.
C) To have less operations will increase patients' living cost.
D) To have less operations will increase patients' lifetime.
20.A) It can be replaced frequently.
B) It can be powered by chemical batteries.
C) It can be expected to replace a healthy heart.
D) It can be used to save lives of people and regulate heartbeats of patients.
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.
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
Increasingly, over the past ten years, people—especially young people—have
become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed foods, is not good for health. Consequently,there has been a growing interest in natural foods: foods which do not contain chemical additives and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers widely used in farming today.
Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been
grown in soil that is rich in organic matter.In simple terms, this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the amount but not the quality of foods grown in commercial farming areas.
Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move
freely in healthy pastures. Compare this with what happens in the mass production
of poultry: there are battery farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than
