聽力原文： The Old Canada Road is a long lost trail between the Canadian province of Quebec and Maine in the northeast corner of the United States. Yes, it really was lost and finding it again was a

complex process that involved advanced technology: how the location of the roads was pinpointed was very interesting. And I'll return to it as soon as I gave you a little background information. The road was begun in 1817, a few years before Maine even became a state. At the time Quebec was a major market for livestock, crops and fish. So a road to Quebec was seen by officials in Maine as necessary for trade. For about 20 years the movement of people and goods was mostly from Maine to Quebec, and then the trend reversed as thousands of Canadians immigrated to Maine to escape poor crops, the lack of jobs and the threat of disease. I think it was a color epidemic. Besides its negative reasons major building projects in Maine also made the state very attractive for the Canadians who needed work. I should stress though that immigration during that period went in both directions. In fact the flow of people and goods went completely unhindered. There wasn't even a border post until around 1850. The people of the time saw Maine and Quebec as a single region mainly because of the strong French influence which is still evident in Maine today. Eventually the road fell into disuse as a major railway was completed. Finally people simply forgot about it and that's how it came to be lost. This brings me back to the original topic.

What does the speaker say about the road between Maine and Quebec?

A．It was built by the Canadians.

B．It was built to facilitate trade.

C．The path for the road was extremely difficult to clear.

D．Hostilities between Canada and the United States caused construction delays.

回答題。

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Advertising is a form. of selling. For thousands of years there have been individuals who have tried to 51 others to buy the food they have produced or the goods they have made or the services they can 52

But in the 19th century the mass production of goods 53 the Industrial Revolution made person-to-person selling inefficient. The mass distribution of goods that 54 the development of the railway and highway made person-to-person selling too slow and expensive. At the same time mass communication first newspapers and magazines then radio and television made mass selling through 55 possible.

The objective of any advertisement is to convince people that it is in their best 56 to take the action the advertiser is recommending. The action 57 be to purchase a product, use a service, vote for a political candidate or even to join the Army.

Advertising as a 58 developed first and most rapidly in the United States country that uses it to the greatest 59 In 1980 advertising expenditures in the U.S exceeded 55 billion dollars or 60 2 percent of the gross national product. Canada spent about 1.2 percent of its gross national product 61 advertising.

62 advertising brings economies of mass selling to the manufacturer it produces benefits for the consumer 63 . Some of those economies are passed along to the purchaser so that the cost of a product sold primarily through advertising is usually far 64 than one sold through personal salespeople. Advertising brings people immediate news about products that have just come on the market. Finally advertising 65 for the programs on commercial television and radio and for about two thirds of the cost of publishing magazine and newspapers.

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A.request

B.oblige

C.affect

D.persuade

Advertising is a form. of selling. For thousands of years there have been individuals who have tried to 【B1】______ others to buy the food they have produced or the goods they have made or the services they can 【B2】______ .

But in the 19th century the mass production of goods 【B3】______ the Industrial Revolution made person-to-person selling inefficient. The mass distribution of goods that 【B4】______ the development of the railway and highway made person-to-person selling too slow and expensive. At the same time, mass communication, first newspapers and magazines, then radio and television, made mass selling through 【B5】______ possible.

The objective of any advertisement is to convince people that it is in their best 【B6】______ to take the action the advertiser is recommending. The action 【B7】______ be to purchase a product, use a service, vote for a political candidate, or even to join the Army.

Advertising as a 【B8】______ developed first and most rapidly in the United States, the country that uses it to the greatest 【B9】______ . In 1980 advertising expenditure in the U.S. exceeded 55 billion dollars, or 【B10】______ 2 percent of the gross national product. Canada spent about 1.2 percent of its gross national product 【B11】______ advertising.

【B12】______ advertising brings the economics of mass selling to the manufacturer, it produces benefits for the consumer 【B13】______ . Some of those economies are passed along to the purchaser so that the cost of a product sold primarily through advertising is usually far 【B14】______ than one sold through personal salespeople. Advertising brings people immediate news about products that have just come on the market. Finally, advertising 【B15】______ for the programs on commercial television and radio and for about two thirds of the cost of publishing magazines and newspapers.

【B1】______

A．request

B．oblige

C．affect

D．persuade

For thousands of years comets had been a mystery to S1.______

man. They travel across the sky very fast and have a

bright "tail" of burnt gas. The comet Tempel 1 has an S2.______

orbit far outside the orbit of the furthest planet in our

solar system, Pluto. It has had been there for 4.6 billion years, S3.______

133 million kilometres from Earth. Last week

a little American spacecraft crash into Tempel 1. S4.______

The spacecraft had a camera and it took a photograph

of the comet every minute after it finally crashed into S5.______

its surface. The space mission to Tempel 1 cost $335

million and was called Deep Impact. Spacecraft was S6.______

travelling at 37,000 kilometres per hour when it hit the comet

and the crash completely destroying the spacecraft. But before S7.______

it hit the comet, the spacecraft took some amazingly photographs. S8.______

The last one was a close-up picture the spacecraft spent S9.______

just 3 seconds time before it crashed into the comet. S10.______

【S1】

man. They travel across the sky very fast and have a

bright "tail" of burnt gas. The comet Tempel 1 has an S2.______

orbit far outside the orbit of the furthest planet in our

solar system, Pluto. It has had been there for 4.6 billion years, S3.______

133 million kilometres from Earth. Last week

a little American spacecraft crash into Tempel 1. S4.______

The spacecraft had a camera and it took a photograph

of the comet every minute after it finally crashed into S5.______

its surface. The space mission to Tempel 1 cost $335

million and was called Deep Impact. Spacecraft was S6.______

travelling at 37,000 kilometres per hour when it hit the comet

and the crash completely destroying the spacecraft. But before S7.______

it hit the comet, the spacecraft took some amazingly photographs. S8.______

The last one was a close-up picture the spacecraft spent S9.______

just 3 seconds time before it crashed into the comet. S10.______

【S1】

Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers，small，tightly knit(聯系)groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12, 000 languages between them. Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuries, trade, industrialisation, the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory education, especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English，Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over. At present, the world has about 6, 800 languages. The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1, 000; Africa 2, 400; and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200, of which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800. The median number(中位數) of speakers is mere 6,000, which that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that. Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction (消亡), with only a few elderly speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon （eight remaining speakers), Chiapaneco in Mexico (150), Lipan Apache in the United States (two or three) or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a question-mark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival. 31. What is the main idea of the text？

A、New languages will be created.

B、People's lifestyles are reflected in languages.

C、Human development results in fewer languages.

D、Geography determines language evolution.