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[00:00.00]喜欢hxen.com，请把hxen.com放在QQ资料上，多谢支持!1.M:How quickly technology changes.So many people have a computer in their home nowadays.
[00:08.65]W:I know.I feel so behind the time.
[00:12.83]Q:What does the woman mean?
[00:16.43]2.W:This spring weather is perfect for playing tennis.
[00:23.07]M:Unfortunately they only time I get to enjoy it is when I'm walking to class or to the library.
[00:29.70]Q:What does the man imply?
[00:33.38]3.M:When are you ever going to finish this report?
[00:39.05]You've been working on it for three months.
[00:42.76]W:Only two and half.But it does seem longer.
[00:47.44]Q:What does the woman say about the report?
[00:51.54]4.W:I hear you have a brother who went to school here too.Have I ever seen him?
[00:59.19]M:Well,he graduated last year.But you would never have guessed that we were brothers.
[01:05.88]Q:What does the man imply?
[01:10.01]5.W:Nobody told me that Bill was in the hospital.
[01:15.73]M:Sorry.I meant to give you a call when I found out,but it slipped my mind.
[01:21.37]Q:Why did the man apologize to the woman?
[01:26.00]6.M:I don't know if I will be able to hand in my economics paper on time.
[01:32.63]W:Haven't you heard that the professor gave us another week?
[01:36.34]Q:Where did his conversation most probably take place?
[01:42.06]7.M:I get the feeling that Sally never really listens to me.
[01:47.73]W:You said it.It's as if she were always using the time to think what she will say next.
[01:54.89]Q:What do we know about Sally?
[01:58.60]8.M:Hello,This is Mark Smith.I'm calling to see if my blood test results are in.
[02:06.75]W:Dr.Miller just sent them to the lab last night,so the earliest they could be back is tomorrow.
[02:13.98]Q:What does the woman mean?
[02:17.61]9.M:I bought this fish to cook for my dinner tonight,but it doesn't look all that fresh to me now.
[02:25.82]Would you say it's still all right to eat?
[02:28.98]W:Let's take a look.Oh,if I were you,I wouldn't even think of it.
[02:36.11]Q:What do we know about the fish?
[02:40.29]10.M:My roommate and I have decided to do our own cooking next semester.
[02:46.95]W:Then I hope you'll have a lighter schedule than this term.
[02:50.61]Q:What problem does the woman think the man may have?
[02:55.80]Passage One
[02:57.97]How men first learnt to invent words is unknown;in other words,the origin of language is a mystery.
[03:06.64]All we really know is that men,unlike animals,somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings,
[03:14.85]actions and things,so that they could communicate with each other;
[03:19.50]and that later they agreed upon certain signs,called letters,
[03:24.20]which could be combined to represent those sounds,and which could be written down.
[03:29.84]Those sounds,whether spoken,or written in letters we call words.
[03:35.20]The power of words,then,lies in their associations____the things they bring up before our minds.