2. Ethbell Pepper had wished to relax and enjoy a peaceful life after retirement. True False
3. Ethbell Pepper attended a program at the University of California when she was 68. True False
4. Older adult students could bring a lot of valuable experience to the university with them and
enrich the university's educational resources. True False
5. The appearance of older people in university could reduce the fear of the young students of
growing older. True False Answer: 1. False 2. False 3. True 4. True 5. True
Listening Comprehension
Directions: Listen to the passage and choose the correct answers to the questions. The passage
will be read ONLY ONCE.
SET 1 1. A. 500. B. Over 500. C. A few hundred. D. One hundred.
2. A. Their normal growth. B. A lot of job opportunities. C. Their employee retirements. D. Their creative thinking.
3. A. They may offer positions which you demand. B. They may send recruiters to colleges to interview people. C. They usually offer competitive salaries. D. Their employees may be promoted more quickly. 4. A. He could report to the general manager directly.
B. He has to wait for many years to report to the general manager directly. C. He has to accumulate experience to report to the general manager directly. D. He has to specialize in a certain field to get the opportunities to report to the general manager
directly.
5. A. Students. B. Employers. C. Employees. D. Engineers. Answer: 2 4 2 1 1 SET 2
1. A. There are more different ideas. B. There are more different beliefs.
C. There are more different ways of looking at things. D. There are more mutual interests.
2. A. People there are always satisfied with their living conditions. B. People there have identical needs that can be met without many disputes. C. People there have got used to their conditions and don't see the necessity to change.
D. People there are lazy and easy to please.
3. A. Social change is more likely to occur in technology than in values. B. Social change is more likely to occur in material aspects of society than in non-material aspects.
C. Social change is more likely to occur in form than in substance.
D. Social change is more likely to occur in the complex elements than in simple elements.
4. A. Social change occurs more readily to people with a sharp distinction. B. Black Americans have distinctive differences in appearance from white Americans.
C. Black Americans have less emotion than other American minorities. D. Black Americans have too many complex elements. 5. A. Two different societies. B. The necessity of social change. C. Different social changes.
D. Certain factors that determine the ease with which social changes occur. Answer: 4 3 4 2 4
Listening Comprehension
Directions: Listen to the passage TWICE and fill the blanks with the missing words SET 1
China's hand-held computer market continued tumbling in last year's fourth quarter, and (1