M:Okay, I think I’ll get started with these books and then I’ll go over the magazines.

W:If you need any help, I’ll be over at the Reference Desk.

M: Great, thanks a lot.

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

23.What is the man doing?

【解析】［A］ 男士准备写一篇关于20世纪三、四十年代好莱坞电影的论文，他现在正在检索所需要的参考书，所以答案是“他在搜寻参考材料”。

24. What does the librarian think of the topic the man is working on?

【解析】［A］ 此题关键在于听出女士，即这位图书馆员说：Your topic sounds pretty big.Why don’t you narrow it 她认为这位男士的题目太大，因此答案应为It’s too broad to cope with.

25. Where can the man find the relevant magazine articles?【解析】［D］ 本题在听力原文中可直接找出答案。女图书馆员说Well, you can look up magazine articles in the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature.因此男士可以在Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature找到相关的杂志文章。

Section B

Passage One

There are many reasons why family life in Britain has changed so much in the last fifty years.The liberation of women in the early part of the twentieth century and the social and economic effects of World War II had a great impact on traditional family life.Women became essential to industry and the professions.During the war they had worked in factories and proved their worth, now, with the loss of millions of men, their services were indispensable to the nation.

More recently, great advances in scientific knowledge, and particularly in medicine, have had enormous social consequences.Children are better cared for and are far healthier.Infant death rate is low.Above all, parents can now plan the size of their family if they wish through more effective means of birth control.

Different attitudes to religion, authority and tradition generally have also greatly contributed to changes in family life.But these developments have affected all aspects of society.It is particularly interesting to note that the concept of “the family” as a social unit has survived all these challenges.

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26.What is this passage mainly about?

【解析】［D］ 短文第一句就点出了文章的主旨，There are many reasons why family life in Britain has changed so much in the last fifty years.即主要讲了英国家庭生活变化的诸多原因。

       27.Why did British women become indispensable to industry after World War II?

【解析】［A］ 为什么英国妇女二战之后在工业上起着不可或缺的作用？During the war they had worked in factories and proved their worth, now, with the loss of millions of men, their services were indispensable to the nation.从这两句话中可得出答案，由于战争中成千上万的男子牺牲了，因此女子必须承担起劳动的重任。

       28.What remained unchanged in spite of all the challenges in family life?

【解析】［A］ 虽然文中花了大量篇幅介绍英国人家庭生活变化的种种原因。但本题的答案出现在文章最后一句，即It is particularly interesting to note that the concept of “the family” as a social unit has survived all these challenges.

Passage Two

In the next few decades people are going to travel very differently from the way they do today.Everyone is going to drive electrically powered cars.So in a few years people won’t worry about running out of gas.

Some of the large automobile companies are really moving ahead with this new technology.F & C Motors, a major auto company, for example, is holding a press conference next week.At the press conference the company will present its new, electronically operated mo