Section A
　　Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations.At the end of each conversation,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.
　　1.Q:What is the woman going to buy for herself?
　　A.She does not say.
　　B.Some wine.
　　C.Blue skirts and wine.
　　D.Some colorful dresses.
　　2.Q:How do the man and woman feel about products made nowadays?
　　A.Satisfied with their price.
　　B.Displeased with the quality.
　　C.Dissatisfied with their technology. D.Happy with the modern mass-production techniques.
　　3.Q:What is Dr.Cahill?
　　A.He is a dentist.
　　B.He's a physician.
　　C.He's a surgeon.
　　D.He's a chemist.
　　4.Q:How far must the man walk to get to the Bank?
　　A.Two blocks.
　　B.Three blocks.
　　C.Four blocks.
　　D.Five blocks.
　　5.Q:What can we learn from the conversation?
　　A.He cannot speak to his family.
　　B.He is living abroad.
　　C.His family is ill.
　　D.He is not worried at all.
　　6.Q:What can we learn from the conversation?
　　A.The man dialed a wrong number.
　　B.John Black is out.
　　C.John Black has not come.
　　D.The woman is John Black's secretary.
　　7.Q:What does the woman mean?
　　A.She prefers the stadium.
　　B.She agrees with the man.
　　C.The light is not bright enough.
　　D.The dining hall is not large enough.
　　8.Q:What does the man mean?
　　A.He did not expect there would be so many books.
　　B.Five books are a lot to borrow from the library.
　　C.He is not sure she counted all her books.
　　D.She has reminded him that he also has some books to return.
　　9.Q:What does the woman mean?
　　A.All the students would like a formal ball.
　　B.Raising the money will be hard.
　　C.The festival will begin the year nicely.
　　D.The club needs some sports as well.
　　10.Q:What is the woman's opinion?
　　A.She feels the Andersons did a good thing.
　　B.She does not think they should move.
　　C.She thinks it is unwise to buy stocks.
　　D.She thinks it is better to invest later.
　　Section B
　　Compound Dictation
　　Directions:In this section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general idea.Then listen to the passage again.When the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard.For blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information.You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words.Finally,when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.
　　Never before have so many people applied such abstract (S1)_to so great a variety of problems.To meet the demands of industry,technology,and other sciences,mathematicians have had to invent new(S2)_of mathematics and expand old ones.They have built a superstructure of fresh ideas that people trained in the(S3)_branches of the subject would hardly recognize as mathematics at all.(S4)_mathematicians have been grappling successfully with the world's problems at a time,curiously enough,when pure mathematicians seem almost to have lost touch with the(S5)_world.Mathematics has always been abstract,but pure mathematicians are pushing abstraction to new limits.To them mathematics is an art they(S6)_for art's sake,and they don't much care whether it will ever have any(S7)_use.(S8)_By applying its concepts to worldly problems,the mathematicians can often(S9)_.Celestial mechanics,for example,enables astronomers(S10)_.
　　answers:
　　1.A 2.B 3.A 4.C 5.B 6.A 7.B 8.A 9.C 10.C
　　S1.mathematics
　　S2.branches
　　S3.classical
　　S4.Applied
　　S5.real
　　S6.pursue
　　S7.practical
　　S8.Yet the very abstractness of mathematics makes it useful.
　　S9.brush away the obscuring details and reveal simple patterns.
　　S10.to calculate the positions of the planets at any time in the past of future and to predict the comings and goings of comets