答案：
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. C) She is not sure she can pass on the message.
2. D) Hold the ladder for him
3. B) He'd like some coffee
4. C) He might get fired
5. D) Tony's wife
6. A) He was fined for running a red light
7. C) He finds reward more effective than punishment
8. B) At the dentist’s
9. B) He doesn’t agree with the woman’s remark
10. A) It was applaudable.
11. B.) Medical care
12. C) Her determination to fulfill her dream.
13. B) To help disabled children there.
14. D) In a small village in Chile.
15. A) By expanding their minds and horizons.
16. D) She made outstanding contributions to Children’s education.
17. A) She won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.
18. C) How animals protect themselves against predators.
19. B) Its plant-like appearance.
20. A) It helps improve their safety.

Part II Reading Comprehensio
21 D) Showing violence is thought to be entertaining
22 B) Most studies exaggerate the effect of media violence on the viewers.
23 C) assert a direct line between violent media and aggressive behavior.
24 D) their definition of violence
25 A) More studies should be conducted before conclusions are drawn.
26 A) A quarter of Americans can't afford their prescription drubs.
27 D) exercising price control on brand-name drugs.
28 B) High prices are essential to funding research on new drugs.
29 C) To allow the vast majority to enjoy its benefits.
30 C) Reducing supplies to uncooperative Canadian pharmacies.
31 A) offering senior citizens discounts has become routine commercial practice
32 C) The elderly, being financially underprivileged, need human help from society.
33 B) intensify conflicts between the young and the old
34 C) It benefits the old at the expense of the young.
35 D) Senior citizen discounts may well be a type of age
36 A) crime against humanity
37 C) deep-rooted socio-economic inequality
38 B) The blacks are not compensated for their unpaid labor
39 D) has been accumulated from generations of slavery
40 B) Inequality of many kinds remains virtually untouched.