---I put him downfor a well-educated man.

---________ ?—I mean that he’sa well-educated man.

1. A.
   I beg your pardon
2. B.
   Speak louder, will you
3. C.
   What’s that
4. D.
   Will you repeat word for word

You and your friends will have lots of fun with Rabbit Ears Walkie -Talkies. You can talk to someone who is in another room at your house or someone who is up to 180 feet away from you. You can take your walkie -talkie with you when you go camping or walking.
Rabbit Ears Walkie -Talkies are easy to use. This is what you do:
1. Push the ON button.
2. Hold the TALK button in and say something. If your friend has his/her walkie - talkie on, he/she will hear you.
If you want to talk for a long time, you can lock the TALK button. Just push the button in and up. When you finish talking, push the TALK button down.
3. When you finish talking, let go of the TALK button and listen. When your friend pushes the TALK button and says something, you will hear what your friend says through your walkie -talkie.
4. When you finish talking with your friend, push the ON button again to turn your walkie-talkie off.

Twenty-first century humanity has mapped oceans and mountains, visited the moon, and surveyed the planets. But for all the progress, people __1  don’t know one another very well.
That brings about Theodore Zeldin’s “  2  of conversation” — events   3  individuals sit in pairs with persons they don’ t know for three hours of  4  talk designed to help people know better about each other.
Mr. Zeldin heads Oxford Muse, a l0-year-old foundation based on the  _5  that what people need is not more information, but more inspiration and encouragement.
The “feast” in London looks  6 at politics or events, but at how people have felt about work, relations among the sexes, hopes  7   fears, enemies and authority, the shape of their lives. The “menu of _8  ” includes topics like “How have your concerns changed   9  the years?” Or, “What have you done against the past?”
As participants gathered, Zeldin opened with a speech: that despite  _10  communications like QQ and MSN in a globalized age, issues of human heart   11 . Many people are lonely, or occupied in dealing with their daily businesses that discourage knowing the _ 12 _ of one another. “We are trapped in _ 13 _ conversations and the whole point now is to think, which is sometimes painful,”he says. “But   14 _ interaction is what separates us from other species, __15  maybe dogs that do have interactions with humans.”
The main rules of the “feast”: Don’t   16 _ with someone you know or ask questions you would not answer. The only awkward moment came when the multi-racial crowd of people of different ages, in sun hats, ties and   __17_, looked to see   18  they would talk with for hours.   19  15 minutes later, everyone was seated and talking, continuing full force until organizers interrupted them 180 minutes later.
Some said they felt free to talk on   20   topics. Thirty-something Peter, from East London, said that “it might take weeks or months to get to the level of interaction we suddenly opened up.”

The hottest show this summer---"the Voice" just finished on Sunday at the Shanghai Stadium. But the show that had a good start didn’t end to everyone’s satisfaction. The two and a half hour show dragged on for more than four hours because of the huge amount of advertising, which the audience and residents living nearby could hardly bear.
This summer, something hotter than the weather came to Shanghai. That is the Voice of China. The show soon became a cash cow for the organizer as the advertisement prices reached 1.16 million yuan for 15 seconds. And the show has earned more than 100 million yuan up to now in ad income only,
But the organizers’ bliss was audiences’ melancholy.
In the final live show on Sunday, about 14 rounds of advertisements were aired, each of which came at a crucial result-announcing moment.
Frequently interrupted by advertisements, some live audience members complained that the show wasn’t worth its ticket prices of 180 to 1680 yuan.
The planned two and a half hour show went two hours overtime because of the advertising. This annoyed audience members, and touched the nerves of residents living near the site.
Someone called the police, and the show is now facing punishment for going over-time and disturbing residents late at night.
【小題1】 Why didn’t “the Voice” make audience satisfied?

第二節完型填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36—55各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項
The following is a true story. It shows that potential discovered may lead to success. A young, man traveled by train. As it was running across a  _36_ passengers looked out of the_37_  idly and aimlessly．When the train came near a bend it _38_ and then an unadorned （簡陋的）house came into _39_ ．It was so obvious _40_ the deserted landscape that everybody on the train began to “ _41_ ” it with their eyes wide open．Some passengers  _42_ began a discussion about it．
The young man was also _43_ by the scene．On his return he  _44_ the train at the nearest station and found his _45_ to the house．Its _46_ told him that troubled by the _47_ of the train he wanted to sell the house but  _48__would buy it．
Soon after the young man __49__three thousand dollars for the house, regarding it as a _50_ site for advertisement．It was facing the railway _51_ where the train had to slow down and the _52_ passengers would cast their eyes at the house to _53_ themselves．He managed to get  _54_ to big companies and tried his best to convince them of the advantage of the place for  _55_ ．Finally the Coca Cola Company took a lease on（租用） it to put up promotion signs．The young man was paid 180 thousand for a three - year rent．
36．A．city          B．station         C．tunnel         D．wilderness
37．A．windows     B．houses         C．rooms          D．planes            
38．A．broke down     B．turned down     C．slowed down   D．put down
39．A．being              B．view           C．use           D．effect
40．A．against        B．on            C．for           D．to           
41．A．enjoy          B．hear         C．inspect         D．see
42．A．ever         B．even           C．still          D．yet   
43．A．excited        B．expressed     C．shocked       D．impressed
44．A．got in          B．got out        C．got off        D．put off 
45．A．way          B．path         C．road        D．means
46．A．loser         B．employer     C．boss         D．owner
47．A．sound          B．noise          C．voice         D．saying
48．A．nobody       B．none         C．nothing        D．someone
49．A．cost          B．paid         C．spent          D．took 
50．A．favorable      B．wrong         C．best          D．just         
51．A．station         B．track         C．carriage      D．bend
52．A．tired           B．excited        C．moved         D．delighted
53．A．express        B．enjoy         C．refresh        D．seat
54．A．close         B．access         C．down         D．up           
55．A．promotion          B．production          C．sale          D．advertisement