听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。

1. What does Sue look like?

A. She's got a long curly red hair with glasses.

B. She's beautiful with long curly red hair.

C. She's tall enough but not so beautiful.

2. How tall is Sue?

A. About 1 inch shorter than the woman.

B. About 2 inches shorter than the man.

C. About 3 inches shorter than the man.

3. How is Sue's skin?

A. Brown B. Smooth. C. White

4. What does the man think of Sue?

A. Excellent. B. Just so so. C. Doubtful.

听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20小题。

5. Who is Johnson?

A. A government official. B. A tourist guide. C. A professor.

6. What is the main topic of the man's speech?

A. Social development. B. Environment protection. C. Scientific research.

7. How many people were there in Anchorage in 1960?

A. About 40 thousand. B. About 75 thousand. C. About 180 thousand.

8. What is the man most probably doing next?

A. Writing a letter to the government. B. Showing some slides.

C. Planning a suggestion.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．

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　　America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don't feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand .Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）deeply into both families.

　　There is another difficult point for us to understand. Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don't show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take a day off from our work to act as guides to our friends. It is opposite in America. Americans cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.

For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their