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Part A

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1. A: A bunch of us are getting together to go to the basketball game on Saturday

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afternoon. You want to come?

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B: Oh, I’d love to, but I have to work.

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What will the woman probably do on Saturday?

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2. A: What do you think of the suit? With this new job, I’ve got to start dressing more

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professionally.

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B: Well, the style is fine. You might want to reconsider the choice of color.

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What does the woman imply?

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3. A: We need a quiet place to study. My roommate’s got company. Could we walk

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over your place?

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B: Yeah, no problem, but I have to warn you: I haven’t done much cleaning this week.

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What does the man imply?

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4. A: Pam asked me to tell you to call her. She said you have her biology notes.

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B: Whoops I was supposed to give those to her yesterday.

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What can be inferred about the man?

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5. A: I have to give an oral presentation in history next week. I’m really nervous about

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speaking in front of everyone.

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B: Try making a tape yourself while you practise. That might help you feel more

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comfortable.

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What does the woman suggest the man do?

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6. A: Tom, could I bother you for a moment? I need someone to return this book to the

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library for me.

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B: That’s no bother at all. I’m on my way there now.

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What will the man probably do next?

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7. A: Everything on this menu sounds delicious. What likes good to you?

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B: Mm, maybe just a salad, I had a late lunch.

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What does the man imply?

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8. A: I hear you are thinking about moving back into the dorm next semester.

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B: Who told you that? I’d never give up my apartment.

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What does the woman mean?

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9. A: You don’t care if we don’t watch the soccer game, do you?

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B: You must be joking! My sister is one of the star players.

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What does the woman mean?

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10. A: Hello, this is Margaret Methues. I’m calling to make an appointment with Dr.

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Anderson for tomorrow morning.

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B: Well, I can give you the number of Dr. Anderson’s new office, but I’m afraid he’s not

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at this office any more.

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What does the man imply?

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11. A: Don’t you just love the hot mid-day sun?

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B: I sure do. Unfortunately, it doesn’t like my skin.

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What does the woman mean?

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12. A: Professor Sullivan assigned us three more novels to read.

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B: She must think you don’t have any other classes.

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What can be inferred about Professor Sullivan?

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13. A: I’m amazed that you are still driving that old car of yours. I thought you would

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have gotten rid of it years ago.

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B: It runs well and I actually grown quite attach to it.

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What does the man mean?

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14. A: Bill has tried so hard to win a race since he first joined the track team, but it’s two

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years later and he still hasn’t.

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B: I know, and it takes so much time from his class work. Maybe he should just

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forget about sports from now.

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What does the man mean?

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15. A: Let’s see. Another thing we need to do is show the new students around town,

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you know, show them all the highlights of the area.

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B: I don’t see why we need to do that ourselves. I understand the Visitors’ Center

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offers a wonderful bus tour.

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What does the man suggest they do?

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16. A: What do you think of the assignment we just got in Dr. Bennet’s class.

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B: A 25-page pager in two weeks? There goes my social life.

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What does the woman imply?

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17. A: I just found up I can’t renew my lease for the next school year.

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B: Well, don’t worry. There should be plenty of apartments freeing up after

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graduation.

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What does the woman imply?

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18. A: You looked different today, but I can’t quite put my finger on what it is!

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B: I finally got around to trying that new hair saloon in the mall.

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What can be inferred about the man?

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19. A: It’s really cold outside. You should ware a scarf to keep your neck warm.

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B: That’s a good idea, if only I had one with me.

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What does the woman mean?

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20. A: I’m sure glad it’s almost quitting time.

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B: Me too. I’ve been watching the clock all afternoon.

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What can be inferred about the man?

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21. A: You’ve been studying so hard I almost forgot to tell you about the all-day volleyball

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tournament going on.

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B: That’s just the kind of news I’ve been waiting to hear. The books can wait.

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What will the man probably do?

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22. A: Eh, about that money I loaned you, isn’t today the day you said you’d have it?

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B: Oh, eh, my finances have been really tight this month, but all I need is few more

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days.

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What does the man mean?

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23. A: Somebody better tell Julie that the student government meeting has been

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canceled.

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B: Bill said he’ll call her about the election results. I’m sure he’ll let her know then.

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What does the woman imply?

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24. A: You are welcome to borrow whatever you’d like from my jazz collection.

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B: Thanks, but I don’t know where I’m going to play them on.

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What can be inferred about the woman?

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25. A: Last Monday when I was at Doctor Smith’s office, I spent over an hour in the

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waiting room.

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B: Really? Something must have come up that day!

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What does the woman imply?

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26. A: Oh, no. Look at this red paint on my new jacket. Why did the school paint that

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rail any way?

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B: Oh, that’s too bad! You’d think they might at least put up a sign.

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What does the woman imply?

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27. A: Have you noticed how John’s changed since he became student governing

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president?

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B: I think the whole thing has gone to his head, and he used to be so sociable and

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open.

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What does the woman mean?

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28. A: Our litter brothers are so different that I was afraid they wouldn’t like each other at

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first.

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B: They really hit it off right away, didn’t they?

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What can be inferred about the speakers’ brothers?

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29. A: Is Sally still around? I was going to ask her if she wanted to walk to class with me.

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B: I just saw her in the lobby. You may still be able to catch her.

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What does the woman imply?

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30. A: I am really glad our club decided to raise money for the children’s hospital and most

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the people we’d phoned seemed happy to contribute.

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B: Yeah, I agree! That we’ve gone through all the numbers on our list now, so I

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guess we can call it a day.

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What can be inferred about the women?

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Part B

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Hi, Mark! How is it going?

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Well, not so great.

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What’s wrong?

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I’ve got a big problem with the poetry course that’s required for my major.

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Is that all filled up?

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No, no, there is plenty room, but there is a prerequisite. I’ve got to take an introduction

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to poetry before I can take the special course in poets of the 1960s and the introductory

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courses only offered in the evenings.

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You don’t like evening classes?

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No, that’s not the point. I work in the cafeteria every evening. I need the money to pay

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my tuition.

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Can you ask someone that work to switch hours with you? Maybe you could just switch

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a couple of evenings, since the course probably only meets two times a week.

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I wish I could. My boss just did me a favor by putting me on evenings, and he’ll hit the

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ceiling if I ask to change again.

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Wait a minute! I have an idea. Have you checked the courses over at the community

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college? They might offer introductory poetry course during the day.

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Hey! That’s a great idea. I’m free this afternoon. I think I’ll go over and check it out.

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Yeah, their courses are actually cheaper and you can transfer the credits over here.

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Thanks for the advice, Linda. I’ll let you know what happens.

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Sure, Mark! Good luck!

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Oh, while you are there, can you find out when their pool is open?

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No problem!

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31. What prevents the man from taking the poets of the 1960s class?

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32. What problem does the man have with the introduction to poetry class?

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33. Why doesn’t the man want to change his work schedule?

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34. Why does the man want to take a class at the community college?

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Listen to part of a radio interview between a reporter and a climatologist.

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Doctor White, we recently learned that a large piece of the Larsen ice shelf in Western

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Antarctica broke off in early January. Could you please tell us exactly what happened?

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I’d be happy to. The piece that broke off was over a thousand square miles in area.

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More recently and quite alarming to scientists is that the forty-mile crack, some thirty feet

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wide in places has torn through the ice shelf.

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I understand that the Scientific Community is quite concerned. What is the

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significance of these events?

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Well, some scientists believe that this is a clear sign of global warming. Back in 1978,

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some American researchers predicted that Antarctica would show early signs of global

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warming due to the green house effect—you know, the process of heat been trapped at

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the surface of the earth by the atmosphere.

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But couldn’t crumbling ice shelves also be a result of the unusual weather Antarctica

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itself has experienced lately?

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That’s certainly possible. But you have to remember that over the past thousands of

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years, ice shelves have been through a lot of weather changes without breaking up.

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Remember too that although ice shelves float on the ocean, they are attached to the

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continent and can be as thick as a thousand feet.

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I think most people know that if the ice cap over Antarctica melts, the level of the

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oceans will rise. What’s sort of impact will this have?

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Well, the ice shelves currently insulate the Antarctic continent from wind, which slows

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down melting. But without ice shelves to cool the wind, it would be warmer than usual as

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it flows over Antarctica. If the winds cause even a tenth of the continent’s ice to melt, the

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world’s oceans could rise as much as thirty feet.

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35. What are the speakers mainly discussing?

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36. Why are the events important?

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37. Why doesn’t the woman believe that weather is responsible for the recent events?

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38. What would be the likely result of melting of the ice cap?

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Part C

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Questions 39- 41 Listen to part of a talk in a biology class.

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Before moving onto a new topic, I want to finish up our unit on a rag nitby looking at

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what may seem a very unusual aspect of spider behavior—a species where the young

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spiders actually consume the body of their mother. Unlike most other spiders, this

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species lays one and only one-clutch of forty eggs in a lifetime.

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The young spiders hatch in mid-spring or early summer inside a nest of eucalyptus

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leaves. Their mother spends the warm summer months bringing home large insects,

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often ten times of weight for meals. The catch is always significantly more than her

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young spiders can eat. So the mother fattens herself up by this extra prey and stores the

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nutrients in her extra unfertilized eggs. As the weather turns cooler, there are fewer

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insect preys to hunt. That is when the nutrients store in those extra eggs begin to seep

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into the mother’s blood stream. So, when there are no more insects to feed to the young

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spiders, they attach themselves to the mother’s leg joints and draw nourishment by

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sucking the nutrient-rich blood. After several weeks, the mother is depleted of all

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nutrients and she dies.

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But then, how do the young get nourishment? They start to feed on one another.

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Now, if you recall our discussion of Darwin, you’ll see the evolutionary value of this.

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Only the strongest spiders of the clutch will survive this cannibalism. And the mother

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spider will have ensured that her genes have an increased chance of survival through

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future generations.

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39. What is the talk mainly about?

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40. What happens after the mother of the young spiders dies?

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41. What idea of Darwin does the professor relate to the spider’s behavior?

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Questions 42-46 Listen to a talk in a Mass Communications class.

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Moving away from newspapers, let’s now focus on magazines. Now the first

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magazine was a little periodical called the Review and it was started in London in 1704.

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It looked a lot like the newspapers of the time, but in terms of its contents it was much

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different. Newspapers were concerned mainly with news events but the Review focused

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on important domestic issues of the day, as well as the policies of the government.

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Now, in England at the time, people could still be thrown in jail for publishing articles

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that were critical of the king. And that is what happened to Daniel Defoe. He was the

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outspoken founder of the review. Defoe actually wrote the first issue of the Review from

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prison. You see, he had been arrested because of his writings that criticized the policies

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of the Church of England, which was headed by the king. After his release, Defoe

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continued to produce the Review and the magazine started to appear on a more frequent

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schedule, about three times a week.

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It didn’t take long for other magazines to start popping up. In 1709, a magazine

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called the Tattler began publication. This new magazine contained a mixture of news,

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poetry, political analysis and philosophical essays.

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42. What is the main topic of the talk?

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43. What is significant about the review?

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44. According to the speaker, how was the Review different from early newspapers?

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46. What does the speaker say about the Tattler?

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Questions 47-50 Listen to a talk given by an art history professor.

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There is an art exhibition here on campus which ties well of discussions we’ve had

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about folk art. It’s an exhibition of wildlife art calendars from about a hundred years

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ago. Like most other folk art, the calendar pictures were not considered to be art in their

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own days. People just thought of them as a way of decorating a practical object. In fact,

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the calendar pictures were originally painted as advertising for various companies that

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made hunting or fishing produces, like guns or fishing rods. The calendars were handed

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out free to customers to thank them for their business. Most people just hung the

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calendars on their walls where the pictures faded in the sun and then tore the pictures off

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the calendar as each month passed. As a result, collectors today place of a lot of value

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on calendars that are complete and in good condition. Even through the people who

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used the calendars didn’t regard them as art, the original paintings the prints were made

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from were often of good quality. In fact, many famous wildlife painters created calendar

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art at some point in their lives. To them, it was way of getting a work reproduced and

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showed around. One aspect of the exhibit that I find very interesting is the way these

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pictures reflect changing attitudes toward wildlife. The pictures in the exhibit often

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portray the thrill and adventure of hunting rather than any particular concern for wildlife

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preservation. But most of today’s wildlife art shows animals in their natural

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surroundings without any humans in the scene. This modern wildlife art appeals to large

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numbers of nature lovers, even those who oppose the practice of hunting.

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47. What is the talk mainly about?

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48. According to the speaker, why is it difficult to find calendar pictures that are in good

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condition?

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49. What was the theme of many early wildlife calendars?

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50. According to the speaker, why did artists want to produce work for calendars?

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