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福建省2013届高考压轴卷
英 语 试 题（2013.05.24）
(满分：150分，时间：120分钟)
第一卷（；三部分，共115分）
第一部分 （共两节，满分30分）?
第一节(共5小题；每小题1. 5分，满分7. 5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例：How uch is the shirt?
A. ￡l9. 15. B. ￡9. 15. C. ￡9. 18.
答案是B。
1.What will the speakers give George?
A. A bike. B. A guitar. C. Soe videos.
2.What will the an do?
3.Visit a doctor. B. Get soe rest. C. Take soe edicine.
4.What will the an probably do?
A. Buy a newspaper. B. Put up an ad in the paper. C. Go for an intervie
5.What has the woan left?
A. The tickets. B. The passports. C. The caera.
6.What are the speakers ainly talking about?
A. atches. B. Hobbies. C. Soccer.
第二节(共15小题；每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段对话，回答第6至8题。
7.Who was the party held for last night?
A. The woan’s aunt. B. The woan’s sister. C. The woan’s brother.
8.What did the woan do after the party?
A. She worked on her hoework.
B. She went hoe to sleep.
C. She studied history.
9.What does the an feel difficult to do?
A. Sleep during the day. B. Work well under stress. C. Organise a birthday party.
听第7段对话，回答第9至11题。
10.When did the woan lose her obile phone?
A. On her way hoe. B. On her way to a bank. C. On her way to a football gae.
11.What does the an suggest the woan do?
A. Phone the bus copany.
B. Report the loss to the police.
C. Go back and look for the phone.
12.What tie is it now?
A.About 9:40. B. About 10:00. C. About 10:20.
听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。
13.What does the an pay ost attention to about the suit?
A. Colour, style and aterial.
B. Fashion, price and design.
C. Cofort, quality and price.
14.Why does the an need a suit that never goes out of style?
A. He is a fashion-conscious an.
B.He can’t afford to buy so any suits.
C.He doesn’t like to spend uch tie buying clothes.
15.What colour suit does the an select in the end?
A.Gray. B. Black. C. Blue.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
16.What is the an ost probably?
A. A reporter. B. A farer. C. A crop circle expert.
17.How is the crop circle?
A. Classic. B. Large. C. Siple.
A. Why doesn’t the an think this crop circle was ade by people?
They couldn’t ake such a coplicated design.
B. The weather was so terrible yesterday evening.
C. They couldn’t ake it in such a short tie.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18.What kind of job did the speaker do last year?
A. She was a secretary.
B. She was a shopkeeper.
C. She was a general anager.
19.Why did the speaker feel confident that she could find a new job soon?
A. She had been offered several jobs.
B. She was quite experienced.
C. She didn’t have a high deand for the salary.
20.What does the speaker think of her present job?
A. Challenging . B. Tiring. C. Acceptable.
第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）?
第一节 单项（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
21. By the tie you _______ this book, your eal will get cold.
A. will have finished B. have finished C. are finishing D. finished
22. ______ is required in the library regulations that any book borrowed be returned by due tie.
A. As B. What C. It D. Which
23. ______ to the sun for too long in that area ay probably cause skin cancer.
A. Exposed B. Being exposed C. Exposing D. To be exposed
24. Tie is our ost precious investent ______ , unlike oney, we only get 24 hours in each day.
A. until B. once C. because D. while
25. Indeed, ore challenges ay arise. This is only natural _______ the fact that the Basic Law has been in effect for just a onth.
A. to give B. given C. giving D. having given
26. Applicants for the job ust be between 25 and 35 years old and a good _______ of English is required.
A. coand B. experience C. deand D. coent
27. ______ an iportant decision ore on reason than on eotion, and you will never regret it.
A. Base B. Based C. Basing D. Having based
28. The flower in the picture standing ______ the bright blue sky inspired the poet to write a beautiful poe.
A. with B. against C. across D. by
29. Under no circustances _______ take part in any discussion that attepts to change your ind through flattery(恭维).
A. you should B. should you C. would you D. you would
30. The center runs two life drawing classes for children _______ there is a sall fee.
A. where B. of who C. when D. for which
31. If you are preparing for a job interview, then follow these tips, which I believe will set yourself _______.
A. off B. apart C. up D. away
32. They ight have had second thoughts, but they _______ what was coing next.
A. don’t know B. hadn’t known C. didn’t know D. haven’t known
33. On ay 10, 2013, a Yun resigned as CEO of Alibaba , ______ to Alibaba Chief Data Officer Jonathan Lu.
A. taking over B. handing over C. getting over D. coing over
34. With all the arrangeents ______ for y parents’ visit, I rang to confir their tie of arrival.
A. in sight B. in return C. in vain D. in place
35. ―Thank you very uch for your wonderful lecture, r. Brucel！
― .
A. It doesn't atter B. Just so so
C. That's very kind of you to say so D. I' glad you've enjoyed it
第二节 完形（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
On a trip to California, y faily stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a an, with a 36 beard and dirty hair, juped up fro a bench outside the restaurant and opened the door for us．Regardless of his 37 , he greeted us in a friendly way.
Once inside, y daughters whispered, "o, he 38 . " After we ordered our lunch, I explained, telling the kids to look 39 the dirt. We then watched other custoers approach the restaurant but any 40 hi. Seeing this rudeness truly upset e. The day I becae a other, I had deterined to set a good 41 to y children. Yet soeties when things didn't go right, being a good exaple was 42 . When our eal arrived, I realized I had left the car-sick pills in the truck．With the windiest trip ahead, the kids needed the, so I 43 yself fro the eal and went to get the.
Just then, the "dooran" was opening the door for a couple. They rushed past hi without even acknowledging his 44 . Letting the in first, I said a loud "thank you" to hi as I 45 .
When I returned, we talked a bit. He said he was not allowed inside 46 he purchased food . I went back and told y faily his 47 .Then I asked our waitress to add one soup and sandwich. The kids looked 48 as we had already eaten, but when I said the order was for the "dooran" , they siled. When it was tie to 49 our trip, I found the "dooran" enjoying his eal. Upon seeing e, he stood up and thanked e heartily. He then 50 out his hand for a handshake and I gratefully accepted. I suddenly 51 the tears in his eyes―tears of gratitude (感激) .What happened next drew great astonishent: I gave the " dooran" a 52 _ . He pulled away, with tears 53 down his face. xKb 1.Co
Back in truck, I fell into deep thought．While we can't choose any things in life, we can choose when to show gratitude．I said thanks to a an who had 54 held open a door for e, and also said thanks for that 55 to teach y children by exaple.
36．A．cleanB．essyC．prettyD．bright
37．A．serviceB．appearanceC．stateD．attitude
38．A．sokesB．silesC．sighsD．sells
39．A．beyondB．overC．aroundD．into
40．A．hatedB．ignoredC．issedD．refused
41．A．targetB．ruleC．recordD．exaple
42．A．stressfulB．accessibleC．awkwardD．tough
43．A．excusedB．refreshedC．preventedD．forgave
44．A．copanyB．presenceC．challengeD．attack
45．A．quittedB．archedC．exitedD．approached
46．A．beforeB．unlessC．thoughD．since
47．A．storyB．deedC．desireD．deand
48．A．concernedB．excitedC．puzzledD．bored
49．A．akeB．startC．takeD．continue
50．A．reachedB．washedC．raisedD．waved
51．A．watchedB．inspectedC．witnessedD．noticed
52．A．hugB．nodC．liftD．strike
53．A．slippingB．rollingC．rushingD．breaking
54．A．firlyB．constantlyC．siplyD．politely
55．A．journeyB．wisdoC．opportunityD．counity
第三部分 阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
A
On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley saved e.
The previous afternoon, I played with y six-year-old peers in Heather Peters’ backyard. I was enjoying y cake, when Heather asked e where y sleeping bag was. Only then did I know this party was a sleepover. The word “sleep-over” to a six-year-old bed-wetter is like what “cancer” eans to an adult. But what if I told the I was a bed-wetter? At least with cancer, people gather at your bedside instead of running fro it.
I thought of a way to escape. I would explain that I needed y other's perission to spend the nights. But as I called y o, Heather stood beside e to listen. She granted perission! Then I would be sleeping in the sae living roo as the other girls. I didn't bring y own pajaas (睡衣)，so rs. Peters offered e Heather's pajaas.
As the other girls drifted into their sweet dreas, I tried to stay awake. “Do I need to go again? I'll stay up to go one ore tie.. .”.Of course , I finally fell asleep.
The next orning , I was the first to wake up. I was war! I lay in panic for what seeed like hours before the other girls started to wake up. I did the only thing I could do ― I pretended that the bed-wetting didn't happen. I got up, took off Heather's pajaas and changed into y clothes like the other girls.
rs. Peters walked into the roo, and before she could say anything, she stepped right onto the pile of y wet pajaas. y heart stopped as I watched her face burn red. “WHO DID THIS?” She screaed, with a look so frightening. Should I answer? And that was when it happened ― r. Peters cae in and grabbed his wife , ‘‘Elvis Presley died!”
The news of the King's death overtook rs. Peters, and I ,was spared. I got hoe without the other girls knowing what had happened.
56. The author had to spend the night at Peters' because ________.
A. she enjoyed her cake there
B. her other asked her to do so
C. the faous singer Elvis Presley died that night
D. she and her friends were having a sleepover party
57. rs. Peters got angry because ________.
A. she found the wet pajaasB. Elvis Presley passed away
C. her husband was rude to herD. all the girls slept at her house
58. Fro the story, we know rs. Peters was ________.
A. a crazy woanB. a fan of Elvis Presley
C. a woan for perfectionD. a woan who hated to wash pajaas
59. The passage is ainly about ________.
A. an ebarrassing childhood incident B. an adventure experience
C. a friendship between two girls D. an unfriendly hostess
B
Oyster
What is an Oyster card?
Oyster is the easiest way to pay for journeys on the bus，Tube，tra，Docklands Light Railway (DLR), London Overground and National Rail journeys in London You can store your travel cards, Bus ≈ Tra Pass, season tickets and credit to pay for journeys as you go.
Where to get an Oyster card?
There are a nuber of ways for you to get an Oyster card:
•At over 3,900 Oyster Ticket stops
•At Tube and London Overground station ticket offices
•At soe National Rail stations
•At London Travel inforation Centres
•Online at tfl. gov. uk/oyster
How to use an Oyster card?
To pay the correct fare on the Tube , DLR, London Overground and National Rail services, you ust always touch in on the yellow Oyster card reader at the start of your journey, and touch out at the end. If you don’t, a axiu cash Oyster fare will be charged. When using the bus or tra, you ust only touch in at the start, but not at the end of your journey.
What happens if I don’t visit London very often?
Don’t worry. Any pay as you go credit on your card will not expire (过期)，so you can keep it for your next visit or lend it to a friend.
Fares
Traveling by Tube fro Central London (Zone l)to Heathrow (Zone 6)
Adult Oyster single fare
£ 4. 20 onday to Friday 06:30 - 09:30 and 16:00 - 19:00
£ 2. 70 at all other ties including public holidays
Adult single cash fare £ 5.00
For further inforation，visit tfl.gov. uk /fares.
60. You can get an Oyster card at the following places EXCEPT ________.
A. on the website B. at an Oyster Ticket stop C. at a post office D. at a Tube station
61.Which of the following is TRUE about Oyster cards?
A.They are liited in use to the owners theselves.
B.On National Rail services you ust touch the on the reader twice.
C.They are not suitable for those who don’t visit London often.
D.Oyster card Tube fares cost ore on public holidays than on weekdays.
62. If a person with an Oyster card takes the 7 o’clock Tube fro Central London to Heathrow for a week (no public holiday in between)，he should pay________.
A.£ 18.90 B. £ 29.40 C. £21.90 D. £ 26.40
63.The passage is probably taken fro a _________ .
A. agazine B. travel brochure(旅游手册) C. textbook D. novel
C
Children's lives have changed greatly over the last 50 years. But do they have a happier childhood than you or I did?
It's difficult to look back on one's own childhood without soe eleent of nostalgia（怀旧的). I have four brothers and sisters, and y eories are all about being with the. Playing board gaes on the living roo floor, or spending days in the street with the other neighborhood children, racing up and down on our bikes, or exploring the nearby woods. y parents hardly appear in these eories, except as providers either of eals or of severe blae after soe particularly risky adventure.
These days, in the UK at least, the nature of childhood has changed greatly．Firstly, failies are saller, and there are far ore only children. It is coon for both parents to work outside the hoe and there is the feeling that there just isn't tie to bring up a large faily, or that no one could possibly afford to have ore than one child. As a result, today's boys and girls spend uch of their tie alone. Another ajor change is that youngsters today tend to spend a huge aount of their free tie at hoe, inside. ore than anything this is due to the fact that parents worry far ore than they used to about real or iagined dangers, so they wouldn't drea of letting their children play outside by theselves.
Finally, the kind of toys children have and the way they play is totally different. Coputer and video gaes have replaced the board gaes and ore interesting activities of y childhood. The irony（令人啼笑皆非的事情）is that so any ways of playing gaes are called "interactive”. The fact that you can play electronic gaes on your own further increases the sense of loneliness felt by any young people today.
Do these changes ean that children today have a less relaxing childhood than I had? I personally believe that they do, but perhaps every generation feels exactly the sae .
64．What is the purpose of the direct question given in the first paragraph?
A．To show who the passage is written for.
B．To gather people's opinions on childhood.
C．To get people's attention and lead in the topic.
D．To copare the childhood lives of two generations.
65．Which is a reason for the changes?
A．Failies are bigger today.B．It's too dangerous to play outside.
C．Children play ore interactive gaes. D．Parents worried too uch about their children.
66．What does the writer focus on in the fourth paragraph?
A．Young people today shouldn't play electronic gaes.
B．Coputer and video gaes have replaced the board gaes.
C．Soe gaes that young people play today aren't really good.
D．Board gaes are uch ore interesting than coputer gaes.
67．The writer's attitude towards the childhood changing is ________ .
A．approving B．objective C．unconcerned D．optiistic
D
As you clib into the hill country, the roads get dustier and rougher, and fewer cars can be seen. Phonxay is one of the poorest districts of Laos, and any of its villages are only accessible by footpath. Our destination this hot orning is a concrete water tank that can be found just off the road. A UK organization helped to build it six years ago, and in the nearby village of Thapho, where clean drinking water is scarce, it has ade a big difference. The tank feeds six taps which in turn give water to over 800 people---it has iproved things for alost every faily, fro schoolchildren to grannies.
But lately, we were told, the clean water supply has coe under pressure fro new arrivals, people who have coe down fro the hill areas, and there are concerns that there will not be enough clean water to go round.
There are also serious worries about resources in Laos. The Chinese are building a 400k railway link, which could transfor the landlocked country. About 150,000 Chinese workers will be involved. What will this do to local clean water supplies? How will the workers be fed?
The vast ajority of Laotians live on fars. But with foreign investors wanting to buy up land, local people will have to be oved to ake roo for the. Heavily dependent on both foreign aid and foreign investent, Laos still falls well behind its neighbours, although its econoy has grown at about 6% a year in the last decade. Its biggest econoic proble is the lack of locally trained skilled workforce.
But there are reasons to be hopeful for the future. Laos is beautiful, and foreign touris continues to grow: fortunately so far the fast-food chains and coffee bars coon elsewhere are nowhere to be seen. Although all local edia are governent-run, the Internet is not controlled and the BBC and CNN are available to those with satellite dishes.
The governent has also achieved ipressive results in rural developent, with counities benefiting not just fro cleaner water but the construction of new schools and regular visits fro edical teas. Poverty will not be history in Laos within the next decade, but with sall steps forward and a bit of outside help, the country could find itself out of the UN’s least-developed category by 2020.
68. The underlined word ”scarce” in paragraph 1 ost probably eans_________.
A. valuable B. rare C. infrequent D. issing
69. What is putting pressure on the local supply of clean water?
A. Dust fro the road is aking the water dirtier.
B. There are too any taps accessing the water.
C. The population of the area is growing fast.
D. The coing suer will dry up rivers and lakes.
70. What is the ost serious liitation on Laos’ econoic growth?
A. The lack of local skilled workers. B. A poor transportation syste.
C. Too uch foreign aid. D. Too any foreign workers.
71. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Laos: sall steps forward. B. Laos: slow-developing nations
C. Laos: least-developed land D. Laos: landlocked country
E
He wrote that the “huan ind is capable of exciteent without the application of gross(粗俗的) and violent stiulants(刺激物)”. And it appears that siply reading those words by Willia Wordsworth proves his point.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool found the works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth and the like had a beneficial effect on the ind, lifting the readers’ spirits by catching their attention and leading to oents of self-reflection.
Using equipent, they exained the brain activity of volunteers as they read pieces of classical English literature both in their original for and in a ore siplified, odern translation.
And, according to the Sunday Telegraph, the experient showed the ore “challenging” works set off far ore electrical activity in the brain than the ordinary versions.
The research also found poetry, in particular, increased activity in the right heisphere (脑半球) of the brain, an area concerned with “autobiographical eory”, which helped the reader to reflect on and reevaluate their own experiences in light of what they had read. The acadeics said this eant the classics were ore useful than self-help books.
The brain responses of 30 volunteers was onitored in the first part of the research as they read Shakespeare in its original and “odern” for.
In one exaple, volunteers read a line fro King Lear, “A father and a gracious(仁慈的) aged an: hi have you added ”, before reading the sipler “A father and a gracious aged an: hi you have enraged(使暴怒)”.
Shakespeare's use of the adjective “ad” as a verb caused a higher level of brain activity than the straightforward translation.
“Reading classics is not just a atter of style. It is a atter of deep versions of experience that prootes the cognitive(认知的) ability,” said Prof Davis, who will present the findings at the North of England education conference in Sheffield this week.
72. What does the author suggest by saying “siply reading those words by Willia Wordsworth proves his point”?
A. Willia Wordsworth’s poes are full of wisdo.
B. It excites readers to read Willia Wordsworth’s poes.
C. Only gross and violent words can arouse people’s exciteent.
D. Willia Wordsworth’s poes are the application of gross and violent stiulants.
73. In what way did the researchers ake their conclusion?
A. By questionnaire.B. By online chatting.
C. By lab experient.D. By telephone intervie
74. According to the researchers at the University of Liverpool, reading classical works can benefit readers in ________.
A. helping relieve their pressure B. helping the focus ore on their work
C. helping the think about theselves carefully
D. helping keep their spirits up for a whole day
75. Which of the following sets off the ost electrical activity in the brain?
A. Reading nursery rhyes.
B. Reading self-help books.
C. Reading adapted version of King Lear.
D. Reading Shakespeare’s sonnets(十四行诗) in iddle English.
第II 卷 （共35分）
第四部分 写作 (共两节，满分35分)?
第一节 短文填词 (共10小题；每小题1分,满分10分) ?
阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示；2）首字母提示；3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
People tend to becoe ore personal and hide ore of theselves
when ______(使用)eail. Researchers fro Open University in Britain1. ___________
have found in a r______ study that there are good reasons for this. 2. ___________
They asked 83 pairs of students, all strangers to ______other, to 3. ___________
s______ a proble. They had to discuss this question: If only five people in 4. ___________
the world could be r______ fro a world disaster, who should they be? 5. ___________
The pairs of students had to talk over the proble either face to face _____by6. ___________
coputers. Dr Johnson said, “ They told their partners four _____(次数) as7. ___________
uch about theselves when they talked over the Internet ______when they8. ___________
talked face to face. When the coputers were fitted w_____ caeras so that 9. ___________
the students could see each other, this ______(限制) the personal side of the 10. __________
conversation.”
第二节 书面表达 （满分25分）
当今，很多青少年拥有手机，而越来越多的长辈因为晚辈在家庭聚会上只顾玩手机却不和他们聊天感到失落万分。请根据下图写一篇英语短文。内容要点如下：
1. 描述图画所反映的事件；
2. 对图中现象加以分析；
3. 针对这个现象提出建议。
注意：
1. 开头已写，不计入总词数；
2. 考生可适当发挥，使内容充实、连贯；
3. 词数120词左右。
It was Grandpa’s birthday party.____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
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英语试题参考答案
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IV.阅读40% 56-59 DABA 60-63 C B D B 64-67 C D C B 68-71 B C A A
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V.短文填词10%
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6. or7. ties8. as9. with10. liited
IV.书面表达25%
One possible version:
It was Grandpa’s birthday party. It was not easy to have his children and grandchildren all back hoe together. But they just busied theselves in playing their cellphones, totally ignoring their grandpa, who let out a deep sigh and left the party.
There is no doubt that cellphones have a negative ipact on our lives. Heavy use of cellphones actually widens the distance between teenagers and their elders, leaving the elders ore lonely. Worse still, addition to cellphones ight also leads to teenagers’ poor perforance at school, which adds to elders’ worries.
As far as I’ concerned, it’s necessary to liit the tie we spend using cellphones. And I attach great iportance to counicating with our faily ebers face to face, which helps build a haronious faily atosphere.
附：听力材料
（Text1）
W: George wants a bicycle for Children’s Day, but they’re so expensive.
: What about soe videos or a guitar? He loves usic.
W: I know, but he’s wanted one for a long tie.
: Well, let’s get hi what he wants, then.
（Text2）
: I’ve had a terrible headache all day, and y nose is blocked up. I can’t breathe very well.
W: You look terrible! You ought to go hoe and go to bed. You could be coing down with the flu or soething.
: All right.
（Text3）
W: Hello. I’ calling to see if the suer position you advertised in the paper is still available.
: Uh, yes. When can you coe to the office for an interview?
（Text4）
: I’ve got the passports here.
W: And the tickets are in y bag.
: What about the caera?
W: Oh no! I’ve left it at hoe. And I really wanted to take soe holiday photos.
（Text5）
: So, what do you do in your free tie?
W: I like playing soccer. What do you like?
: Nothing special. Just hanging around.
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: Are you feeling OK, Jean? You look pretty tired. What’s the atter?
W: y sister and I had a birthday party for y brother last night. I didn’t get uch sleep.
: Where did you have the party?
W: It was at y aunt’s house. Then right after the party, I had to start typing a history paper that was due first thing this orning. I was kind of nervous because the professor said he wouldn’t accept any late papers.
: I’d like to know how you did it. I can’t handle a pressure situation like that.
W: Well, I just turned the paper in and now I’ going hoe to bed.
: Such a coincidence. I a going to the superarket. aybe I can give you a lift.
W: Really? That’d be great.
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: How was your weekend?
W: Not too good actually. I went to the football gae and unfortunately on the way back, I left y obile phone on the bus. When I got hoe, I rang the bus copany. They said it wasn’t at the lost-and -found office. I think soeone ust have taken it.
: Oh, that’s terrible. I think you need to go to the police station and report it issing. If you want I could go with you.
W: OK. Well, I’ free no Are you?
: I have to go to the bank , but give e twenty inutes and I’ll eet you at the cafe down the road.
W: OK. I’ll see you at ten.
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W: Can I help you, sir? 2013.05.25
: I’d like a dark business suit, the kind that never goes out of style. Soething in wool, I guess.
W: Right this way. We have soe excellent pure wool suits. Wool has the best of everything ---ore cofort, ore quality, ore value. But as to style, I think you should realise that even the ost conservative styles still change.
: I’ sure you’re right. It’s just that I’ afraid of buying a new suit every year. It’s troublesoe.
W: Well, the changes are usually not so great. What do you think of this one?
: That’s a bit too foral for e. I’d like a dark gray, or navy blue, or black. But I prefer a solid colour.
W: Here, try this gray one… That looks alosst tailor-ade for you.
: It’s just what I wanted.
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W: This orning people of a sall village in Wiltshire woke up to an aazing sight. It is the biggest crop circle we’ve ever seen in Britain. In the studio with e today is Ken Crystal. Ken, can you tell us soething about this circle.
: Well, we’re very excited about this crop circle. The design is absolutely aazing, and it’s huge.
W: It’s a very coplex design. And do you know who ade it?
: No, I don’t. I think it’s ipossible for people to ake soething like this.
W: But I’ve heard that ost circles are ade by people. Is that true?
: Yes, there are several groups of people who ake crop circles. But they didn’t ake this one. This circle appeared this orning. Yesterday it wasn’t there. There were only four hours of darkness that night--- there wasn’t enough tie to ake it.
W: Ken, a final question. How long does it take to ake a crop circle?
: Well, a sople circle can take a few hours. But a circle like this one would take several days.
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W: Good orning, everyone. y nae is Helen Green. Now , I’d like to say soething about y job. Last year I worked as a secretary to the general anager of a large copany in our town. I was happy and satisfied with y job. Then suddenly our copany was hit by econoic troubles. ost of the eployees knew nothing about it until one day we were told that we had to leave. Although I was very sad and worried, I soon overcae the shock. I had worked for any years and I knew how to do y job well. I felt quite confident that I would have little difficulty in quickly finding a siilar position with another copany before long. I applied for several jobs. But I was told that I was too experienced and they couldn’t pay e the high salary I had earned before. I had been out of a job for alost two onths. Then I saw a sall advertiseent in the newspaper one evening. A shopkeeper was wanted. I realised that I had no choice but to accept what was offered to e. However, I’ not tired of y present job because I’ still working. What about you? Do you like your jobs?