1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Who is the speaker talking to?

A．Shop customers.

B．House agents.

C．Cafe employees.

2. Why does the speaker give the talk?

A．To announce the opening of a new shop.

B．To tell the listeners the move of the cafe.

C．To apologize for the wrong decisions.

3. When is a new place expected to be found?

A．By November.

B．By September.

C．By December.

4. What is the speaker’s attitude toward the matter in general?

A．Confused.

B．Nervous.

C．Positive.

2 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man say about his new neigbourhood?

A．There is no store nearby.

B．There is slight air pollution.

C．There is no heavy traffic.

2. How long does it take the man to drive to work?

A．For about 20 minutes.

B．For about 30 minutes.

C．For about 40 minutes.

3. How does the woman go to work every day?

A．By subway.

B．By bus.

C．By car.

4. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A．A couple.

B．Neighbours.

C．Workmates.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where are the two speakers?

A．In a restaurant．

B．At home．

C．In the street．

2. What do we know about the man?

A．He hates fast food restaurant．

B．He feels too sick to eat．

C．He thinks fast food is convenient．

3. How many hamburgers have the fast food restaurant sold?

A．More than 100 million．

B．More than 100 billion．

C．More than 200 billion．

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the center aim to do?

A．Offer a relaxing place for sick people to recover.

B．Encourage people to live a healthy life.

C．Provide a colorful life for the retired people.

2. What advice does the speaker give about exercising?

A．Doing exercise after lunchtime.

B．Exercising as planned.

C．Trying all kinds of exercise.

3. What entertainment does the center offer?

A．Relaxing in the garden.

B．Watching TV.

C．Holding parties.

4. How can the members have newspapers sent to their rooms?

A．By informing the library of demands.

B．By paying a little more booking fee.

C．By contacting the people at reception.

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Where does the factory tour take place?

A．In England.

B．In America.

C．In Denmark.

2. How many machines are there in the factory?

A．About 200.

B．About 1,000.

C．About 10,000.

3. What process comes first about dealing with the plastic?

A．It is melted.

B．It is shaped.

C．It is cooled.

4. What might be Roger’s job at the factory?

A．Designing the toys.

B．Fixing the machines.

C．Cleaning the factory.

6 . When it comes to a public library, you usually think of books and computers for people to use. You can even think of educational lectures and concerts that are often held in the library. But few people would expect to have a farm in the library.

But why not? After all, with rising costs, food safety is a community-wide issue. The Cicero Public Library near Syracuse in New York solved this problem by building a farm on its land. When Meg Backus saw all the open space in the library across the street from the building, he realized it could be used to benefit the community.

The farm was created in 2011 and in the beginning, 40 members of the library brought seeds (种子), water, and supplies to see if they could grow food on the land. It turned out that they could. To get the needed supplies for a larger farm, the library began to work with the organization Syracuse Grows Agency.

The community farm donates (捐赠) over 200 pounds of fresh produce (农产品) to local food banks every year. Half of the growing area is used as the Food Educational Garden. The other half is used by growers themselves. During the year, there are educational programs held at the library to teach people how to garden. There are also a lot of gardening books that can be used at the library.

Lauren Rosenstein, a worker of the library, said that she felt like she was giving something back to the community. “You’re really making a difference as a local community because you’re growing the food that people are eating.”

1. Why did Meg Backus build the farm?

A．To earn money.

B．To attract more readers.

C．To improve food safety.

D．To teach readers how to grow food.

2. How did the 40 members feel at first?

A．Doubtful.

B．Stressed.

C．Hopeless.

D．Confident.

3. What are educational programs held at the library mainly about?

A．Farmers’ life.

B．Food donation.

C．Gardening skills.

D．Food banks.

4. What’s the best title for the text?

A．Make a Farm Popular	B．Turn a Library into a Farm
C．Meet the First Library Farm	D．Find a Job on a Library Farm

7 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why doesn’t Ann like her current apartment?

A．Too expensive.

B．Noisy.

C．Far from school.

2. How much money does Ann want to pay for rent?

A．Around $200.

B．No more than $200.

C．A little more than $200.

3. How is Roger going to help her?

A．To see the apartment building on his way to class.

B．To plan on calling a friend who owns an apartment building.

C．To check the newspapers to see if he can find an apartment for rent.

8 . Popular Libraries in the World

The idea of a public library —— where anyone in the community is trusted to borrow books, often for long stretches of time, for free —— is fairly magical. Some of the libraries in the world are pretty popular now.

The British Library, London, the UK

The British Library is comparable to the Library of Congress in terms of the size of their holdings, many of which are unique. According to its annual report, the British Library welcomes millions of visitors every year, but the figure in 2016-2017 represents a small but disappointing reduction in the overall visitor numbers.

The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

According to its annual report, the State Library of Victoria’s visitors broke the 2 million in 2016-2017 visit record for the first time in its history, making it the busiest library in Australia. It also recorded many online visits, accessed collection items and uses of digitized collection items.

The New York Public Library, New York, the USA

The New York Public Library reports that it has hosted millions of visitors and circulated large numbers of items over their locations. According to a press, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building —— the main branch of the library —— yearly receives the greatest number of visitors.

The National Library of China, Beijing, China

Established as the Imperial Library of Peking in 1909, the National Library of China is now the largest library in Asia, with holdings of over 30 million items. The library’s annual report puts its total visitors across multiple locations at several million every year.

1. What do we know about the British Library?

A．It holds many rare collections.

B．Its visitors are constantly on the rise.

C．It has the largest collection of books in Europe.

D．Its coverage is the smallest in the world’s libraries.

2. What do the four libraries have in common?

A．They possess two branches.

B．They gain plentiful visitors.

C．They are the busiest libraries in their countries.

D．They face a decline in tourism in the 20th century.

3. In which column of a magazine can you find the text?

A．Finance.	B．Culture.
C．Architecture.	D．Technology.

9 . When we think of food farming we usually think of green fields in the country, outside the city. Sam Chee works on a very different type of farm, in the center of the Canadian city of Toronto. “We grow fruit, vegetables and herbs,” says Sam. “But not many people know the farm is here. You can’t see it from the street. We’re on top of an office building, 50 meters above the ground.”

Rooftop farming is becoming popular in cities like Toronto, New York and London. The roofs of buildings are often just wasted space, but this space can be used for growing good fresh food, right in the middle of the city. Sam explains how it works. “We grow everything in big boxes —there are hundreds of them. We catch rainwater to water the plants when the weather is dry.”

The rooftop farm where Sam works belongs to a restaurant called Green Garden, on the ground floor of the building. The farm produces about half the restaurant’s fruit and vegetables. Sam believes that the rooftop farm is what makes Green Garden special. “We help to keep food production local. We don’t need to transport this food from anywhere and that saves energy. It’s better for the environment.”

The food from the rooftop is fresher too. “When the fruit and vegetables are ripe we can pick them and use them right away. They taste better when they’re really fresh,” says Sam. “I hope that there will be more rooftop farms in the city soon. It could be the farming of the future.”

1. Green Garden’s rooftop farm is ________.

A．the only one in the world	B．in the middle of a small town
C．one of many in cities around the world	D．near the countryside of a city

2. Sam thinks the food from the rooftop is better than that bought from other places because ________.

A．it is much cheaper and fresher	B．it tastes better and is better for the environment
C．it uses space which was being wasted	D．it can’t be bought in the local stores

3. According to the passage, which of the following is RIGHT?

A．The farm is on the top of a teaching building 50 meters above the ground.

B．The plants are watered by collected rainwater when necessary.

C．You can find more rooftop farms in the country than in the city.

D．When they pick the fruit and vegetables, they won’t use them at once.

4. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To describe what rooftop farming is by giving an example.

B．To describe why rooftop farming has become very popular in Canada.

C．To tell the story of the man who first started rooftop farming.

D．To encourage people to build as many rooftop farms as possible

10 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What was the survey on?

A．Hotel services.

B．Hotel rooms.

C．Hotel complaints.

2. How many hotel staff were surveyed?

A．400.

B．75.

C．39.

3. What were most of the unusual complaints about?

A．Food.

B．Rooms.

C．Location.

4. Why did the man at a luxury hotel in London complain?

A．He didn’t get a discount.

B．The guest in the next room snored

C．The room didn’t have a sea view.