11. M：Sean has been trying for month to find a job, but I wonder how he could get a job when he looks like that。

　　W: Oh, poor guy, he really should shave himself every other day at least, and put on something clean。

　　Q: What do we learn about Sean?

　　12. W: I wish Jane would call when she know she’ll be late. This is not the first time we had to wait for her。

　　M: I agree, but she does have to drive through very heavy traffic to get here。

　　Q: What does the man imply?

　　13. M: Congratulations. I heard your baseball team is going to the Mid-Atlantic Championships。

　　W: Yeah. We are all working real hard right now。

　　Q: What is the woman’s team doing?

　　14. W: John has been looking after his mother in the hospital. She was injured in a car accident two weeks ago and is still in critical condition 。

　　M: Oh, that’s terrible. And you know, his father passed away last year。

　　Q: What do we learn about John?

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　　15.

　　M: What a boring speaker! I could hardly stay awake.

　　W: Well, I don’t know. In fact I think it’s been a long time since I’ve heard anyone is good.

　　Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

　　16.

　　W: I’m having a lot of trouble with logic and it seems my professor can’t explain it in a way that makes sense to me.

　　M: You know, there is a tutoring service on campus. I was about to drop statistics before they helped me out.

　　Q: What does the man mean?

　　17.

　　M: this is a stylish overcoat. I saw you wearing it last week, didn’t I ?

　　W: oh, that wasn’t me. That was my sister Jill. She is in your class.

　　Q: What does the woman mean?

　　18.

　　M: Jane, suppose you lost all your money while taking a vacation overseas, what would you do?

　　M: well, I guess I’d sell my watch or computer or do some odd jobs till I can afford a return plane ticket.

　　Q: what are the speakers talking about?

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　　M: Hello, Professor Johnson.

　　W: Hello, Tony, so what shall we work on today?

　　M: Well, the problem is that this writing assignment isn’t coming out right. What I thought I was writing on was to talk about what a particular sport means to me when I participate in.

　　W: What sport did you choose?

　　M: I decided to write about cross-country skiing.

　　W: What are you going to say about skiing?

　　M: That’s the problem. I thought I would write about how peaceful it is to be out in the country.

　　W: So why is that a problem?

　　M: I’d like to start describing how quite it is to be out in the woods. I keep mentioning how much effort it takes to keep going. Cross-country skiing isn’t as simple as some people think. It takes a lot of energy, but that’s not heart of my paper, so I guess I should leave it out. But now I don’t know how to explain that feeling of peacefulness without explaining how hard you have to work for it. It all fits together. It’s not like just sitting down somewhere and watching the clouds roll by. That’s different.

　　W: Then you have to include that in your point. The peacefulness of cross-country skiing is the kind you earn by effort. Why leave that out? Part of the point you knew beforehand, but part you discovered as you wrote. That’s common, right?

　　M: Yeah, I guess so.

　　Q19. What is the topic of the man’s writing assignment?

　　Q20. What problem does the man have while working on his paper?

　　Q21. What does the woman say is common in writing papers?

　　Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one. Time slows down when you are on the move. It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts someday may survive so long in space that they would return to earth in a distant future. If you could move at the speed of light, your time will stand still. If you could move faster than light, your time will move backwards. Although no form of matter yet discovered move as fast as or faster than light, scientific experiments have already confirmed that the accelerated motion causes a traveller’s time to be stretched。

　　Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905, when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his special theory of relativity. A search is now underway to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at the speed greater than light, and therfore might serve as a passport to the past And obsession with time, saving, gaining, wasting, losing and mastering it, seems to have been part of humanity for as long as human’s have existed。

　　Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time. Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, is that which is measured by a clock, thus time and time’s relativity are measurable by any hour glass, alarm clock or an atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second。