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Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the
end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation
and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must
choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark
the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the
centre.
Conversation One
W: Morning, this is TGC.
M: Good morning. Walter Barry here, calling from London. Could I speak to
Mr. Grand, please?
W: Who’s calling, please?
M: Walter Barry, from London.
W: What is it about, please?
M: Well, I understand that your company has a chemical processing plant. My
own company, LCP, Liquid Control Products, is a leader in safety from leaks in
the field of chemical processing. I would like to speak to Mr. Grand to discuss
ways in which we could help TGC protect itself from such problems and save money
at the same time.
W: Yes, I see. Well, Mr. Grand is not available just now.
M: Can you tell me when I could reach him?
W: He’s very busy for the next few days – then he’ll be away in New York.
So it’s difficult to give you a time.
M: Could I speak to someone else, perhaps?
W: Who in particular?
M: A colleague for example?
W: You’re speaking to his personal assistant. I can deal with calls for Mr.
Grand.
M: Yes, well, could I ring him tomorrow?
W: No, I’m sorry he won’t be free tomorrow. Listen, let me suggest
something. You send us details of your products and services, together with
references from other companies and then we’ll contact you.
M: Yes, that’s very kind of you. I have your address.
W: Very good, Mr….
M: Barry. Walter Barry from LCP in London.
W: Right, Mr. Barry. We look forward to hearing from you.
M: Thank you. Goodbye.
W: Bye.
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. What do we learn about the woman’s company?
9. What do we learn about the man?
10. What is the woman’s position in her company?
11. What does the woman suggest the man do?
Conversation Two
M: You’re going to wear out the computer’s keyboard!
W: Oh, hi.
M: Do you have any idea what time it is?
W: About ten or ten-thirty?
M: It’s nearly midnight.
W: Really? I didn’t know it was so late.
M: Don’t you have an early class to teach tomorrow morning?
W: Yes, at seven o’clock. My commuter class, the students who go to work
right after their lesson.
M: Then you ought to go to bed. What are you writing, anyway?
W: An article I hope I can sell.
M: Oh, another of your newspaper pieces? What’s this one about?
W: Do you remember the trip I took last month?
M: The one up to the Amazon?
W: Well, that’s what I’m writing about—the new highway and the changes it’s
making in the Amazon valley.
M: It should be interesting.
W: It is. I guess that’s why I forgot all about the time.
M: How many articles have you sold now?
W: About a dozen so far.
M: What kind of newspapers buy them?
W: The papers that carry a lot of foreign news. They usually appear in the
big Sunday editions where they need a lot of background stories to help fill up
the space between the ads.
M: Is there any future in it?
W: I hope so. There’s a chance I may sell this article to a news
service.
M: Then your story would be published in several papers, wouldn’t it?
W: That’s the idea. And I might even be able to do other stories on a
regular basis.
M: That would be great.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. What is the woman’s occupation?
13. What is the woman writing about?
14. Where do the woman’s articles usually appear?
15. What does the woman expect?
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of
each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best
answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the
corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
In today’s class, we’ll discuss Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. As I’m sure
you all know, Morrison is both a popular and a highly respected author, and it’s
not easy to be both. Born in 1931, Morrison has written some of the most
touching and intelligent works on the African-American experience ever written
by anyone, and yet to call her an “African-American writer” doesn’t seem to do
her justice. In many ways, she’s simply an American writer—and certainly one of
our best.
Beloved is a truly remarkable work. It was recommended for nearly every
major literary prize, including the National Book Award and the National Book
Critics Circle Award, and it in fact won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988.
Morrison herself is distinguished for having won the Nobel Prize for literature
in 1993.
What makes Beloved unique is the skillful, sure way in which Morrison
blends intensely personal storytelling and American history, racial themes and
gender themes, the experience of Blacks with the experience of all people
everywhere, the down-to-earth reality of slavery with a sense of mysterious
spirituality.
We’ll be paying special attention to these themes as we discuss this work.
I’m particularly interested in your views on the relative importance of race and
gender in this book. Is it more important that Sethe, the main character, is
black or that she’s a woman? Which contributes more to her being? What does
Morrison tell us about both?
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. What do we learn about Toni Morrison?
17. What honor did Toni Morrison receive in 1993?
18. What does the speaker tell us about Sethe, the main character in
Morrison’s novel Beloved?
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