单项选择题 SECTION A CONVERSATIONSDirections: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.听力原文：M: My brother Peter has just done a course at the Green Park Camping School.W: That's great. What made him make such a decision?M: For one thing, some boys in his class dared him to go with them!W: You mean he wasn't really willing to go?M: He wanted to go but he was also a little frightened. Of course, now that he has done it, he's very pleased with himself and he's always talking about it.W: So he enjoyed it, didn't he?M: We cannot say so. I think he's enjoying the feeling of having done it more than he enjoyed actually doing it!W: What sort of things did he do?M: All sorts of open-air activities: camping, canoeing. One thing he had to do was to capsize a canoe and then right it again without getting out. The water was very cold but he hardly noticed it at that time.W: Why not?M: He was too busy righting the canoe!W: That doesn't sound very comfortable at this time of the year!M: That's what I said when he told me. On another occasion he had to spend a day and a night by himself in the open country. He was frightened at first, apparently, but then he got used to it.W: The course did him a lot of good. I expect it's made him more self-reliant.M: That's what he says--now he wants me to go!What can we learn about Peter from the conversation?A．Peter cannot wait to attend the course.B．At first he was reluctant and timid.C．Mike enjoyed the open-air life very much.D．Peter did not get well along with his classmates.

单项选择题 听力原文： There have been strong reactions in France following one of the worst fires to hit Paris since the Second World War. 17 people, 14 of them children, were killed when a tenement block housing African immigrants went up in flames overnight. Police said 130 people were living in the cramped, poorly maintained building. Jacky Roland reports from Paris: The fire broke out shortly after midnight in an old apartment building packed full of immigrant families. More than 130 people were staying there at the time. Many of them were cut off as flames tore through the wooden staircase. Firefighters struggled for 2 hours to bring the blaze under control and to help people escape. But there was a heavy loss of life. 17 people died, most of them children. This is the second time in the space of a few months that a fire has broken out in a building used to house immigrants from Africa. The Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said overcrowding had contributed to the high death toll.The building is for ______ to live in.A．Asian immigrantsB．African immigrantsC．suburban peopleD．overseas students

单项选择题 孟/关组合在雅典奥运会夺冠时，还有两对选手和他们几乎同时到达终点。在北京奥运会前，人们预测：虽然孟/关组合没有达到他们的最佳状态，但也有可能获得金牌。 以下各项中，除一项外都能提高孟/关组合在北京奥运会上夺冠的概率，这不能提高夺冠概率的是哪一项?（）