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听力答案
1.  C) They knew none of the other guests at the party.
2.  B) To the dentist's.             
3.  C) Dr. Andrews used to keep his patients waiting.
4.   A) Tom is usually talkative.          
5.  D) To get the seminar schedule for the woman.  
6.  A) The woman has to get the textbooks in other ways.
7.  B) Give a speech.                    
8  A) Jessie always says what she thinks.  
9.   D) Helen is quiet.
10.  D) Jimmy's words are often not reliable.  
 
11.  C) It has done more harm than good in the southern USA.
12.  B) They will soon be overgrown with kudzu.
13. C) The climate there is unfavorable to its growth. 
14.  D) An association of teachers and scholars.
15.  A) Its largest expansion took place during that period. 
16.  B) Government funding.           
17.  C) He started the organization Heifer International.
18.  A) To help starving families to become self-supporting.
19.  A) They should help other families the way they have been helped.
20.  B) It has helped relieve hunger in some developing countries.

PartⅡ Reading Comprehension
21. C) they want to expand their business beyond home borders
22. D) seeks either his own or his children's development   
23 A) take cultural factors into consideration
24. C) provide a detailed description of their study and work experiences
25. B) the differences between the varieties of English

26. C) rewarding
27. A) girls will turn out to be less valuable than boys
28. B) girls can gain equal access to education
29. C) It will yield greater returns than other known investments.
30. D) the economic and social benefits of educating wom

31.C) To prevent the car thief from restarting it once it stops.
32. B) self-prepared tools are no longer enough for car theft
33. B) A unique ID cord.                   
34. D) To allow for possible errors in the GPS system.    
35. B) Contact the car owner.              

36B) Older parents can take better care of their children.
37. C) They can't get full pension unless they work some extra years.
38. C) older parents tend to be concerned about their aging bodies
39. A) Approaching of death.               
40. D) They believed that children born of older parents would be smarter.