Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will heara passage three times. When the passage is read for thefirst time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for thesecondtime, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have justheard. Finally,when the passage is read for the third time, you should checkwhat you have written.

　　Now listen to the passage.

　　When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? There are other heavenly bodies out therebesides the moon and stars. One of the most fascinating of this is a comet. Comets were formedaround the same the earth was formed. They are made up of ice and other frozen liquids andgasses. Now and then these dirty snow balls begin to orbit the sun just as the planets do. As acomet gets closer to the sun, some gasses in it begin to unfreeze. They combine with dustparticles from the comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even nearer to the sun and solarwind blows the cloud behind the comet thus forming its tail. The tail and generally fuzzy atmospherearound the comet are characteristics that can help identify this phenomenon in the night sky. Inany given year, about dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits. The averageperson can't see them all of course. Usually there is only one or two a year bright enough to beseen with the naked eye. Comet Hale-Bopp discovered in 1995 was an unusually bright comet. Itsorbit bought it relatively to the earth within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long wayon its earthly visit. It won't be back for another 4 thousand years or so.

　　1. C. They enjoyed the movie on space exploration.

　　2. B. At a gift shop.

　　3. D. He declined a job offer from the art gallery.

　　4. A. He will be unable to attend the birthday party.

　　5. A. Set a deadline for the staff to meet.

　　6. D. The way to the visitor's parking.

　　7. B. He has benefited from exercise.

　　8. D. The secretaries in the man's company.

　　9.B. It is used by more people than English.

　　10.C. The influence of the British Empire.

　　11.A. It includes a lot of words from other languages.

　　12.C. To place an order

　　13.B. He is not familiar with the exact details of goods.

　　14.D. It depends on a number of factors.

　　15.C. Ring back when she comes to a decision.

　　16. A) No one knows for sure when they came into being.

　　17. D) Carry ropes across rivers.

　　18. C) To prove that lightening is electricity.

　　19. C) She can speak several languages.

　　20. B) They have an intense interest in cross-cultural interactions.

　　21. C) She was able to translate for a German sports judge.

　　22. B) Taste the beef and give her comment.

　　23. D) He grew up in a poor single parent family.

　　24. A) Stupid

　　25. B) Write two book reports a week.

　　(26) heavenly

　　(27) fascinating

　　(28) made up of

　　(29) Now and then

　　(30) combine with

　　(31) generally

　　(32) characteristics

　　(33) phenomenon

　　(34) naked

　　(35) relatively