主题：校园生活对话
W: Hi, David. I haven't seen you in class for almost 2 weeks. We thought you had disappeared on holiday earlier or something[1].
M: Hi, Sarah, it's a bit of a long story I'm afraid. I got a throat infection last week and had to go to the hospital to get some antibiotics as I really wasn't getting any better.
W: Oh, yeah, there have been so many viruses going around this winter. The weather's been so awful for the last few weeks.
M: And on the way back from the hospital, I slipped on some ice and fell, and then had to go to the hospital to get an X-Ray because I basically thought I broke my wrist, although, thankfully, it's not broken[2]. But I need to be careful with it for the next few weeks.
W: Oh, hat's too bad. How unfortunate!
M: To make things worse, I managed to fall right in front of four girls from the 9th Grade. It was utterly humiliated. Plus, the laptop in my bag was broken, too.
W: Now, what a complete catastrophe! Is the laptop still under warranty? If it is, then you can easily send it back to the manufacturer, and they'll send you a brand new one for Free[3]. Surely.
M: The warranty ran out 3 days before I broke it. And all my essays are in
there, and I need to hand them in before we break for the Christmas holidays.
W: Listen, I have the number of a really good, affordable computer repair shop at home. My dad has used this guy before and he can work miracles. Let's go back to my house and we can call the repair shop. You can have some tea and cookies, too[4].
M: Wow, thanks, Sarah. That would be great. Let me just call my mom and let her know. I'll be home a little bit later.
Question 1-4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. What did Sarah think David was doing for the last 2 weeks?
2. What happened to David on his way back from the hospital?
3. What does Sarah say they should do with the damaged computer?
4. What does Sarah say she is going to do?
Conversation two.
M: Welcome to this week's episode of book talk. With me today is Heidi Brown, a historian who has written five critically acclaimed books about military history[5].
W: Thanks for having me, John. I'm so excited to talk about my latest book which was published last month.
M: So, this book is a novel, your first attempt at that genre. I thought it was a bit of a departure for you.
W: I'd say it's a major departure as it's not just a work of fiction[6]. It's set 200 years in the future.
M: Right. So how did that happen? You spent three decades writing about the past and focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries[7]. And now you're speculating about the future.
W: After years of researching soldiers and chronicling their lives during battle, I just started wondering about other facets of their lives, especially their personal lives[7].
M: I can see that. Your novel is about soldiers, but it focuses on their relationships, especially the bonds between sons and mothers and men and their wives.
W: Yes. That focus came about when I still intended to write another book of history. I started by researching soldiers, actual personal lives, studying their letters home[7].
M: So how did that history book become a novel?
W: Well, I realized that the historical record was incomplete, so I'd either have to leave a lot of gaps or make a lot more assumptions than a historian should.
M: But why write a novel set in the future when your credentials are perfect for a historical novel? As a historian, any historical novel you write would have a lot of credibility.
W: I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed
to be fact as opposed to fiction[8], but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.
M: Having read your book, I'm glad you made that choice to move into fiction.
5. What did the man say about the woman?
6. What does the woman say about her newly published book?
7. What did the woman do before writing her new book?
8. What does the woman say about her writing history books?
Passage one, 主题：可口可乐包装设计
【Q9】Whether it's in the hands of animated polar bears, or Santa Claus, there's one thing you'll find in nearly all ads for Coca Cola - the characteristic glass bottle. Most Americans don't drink soda out of the glass bottles seen in cokes ads anymore. But this week, the company is Celebrating a century of the bottle that's been sold in more than 200 countries. Flashback to 1915, when a bottle of Coca Cola cost just a nickel. 【Q10】As the soft drink gained in popularity, it faced a growing number of competitors, counterfeits even trying to copy cokes logo. So according to Coca Cola historian Ted Ryan, the company decided to come up with packaging that couldn't be duplicated.
六级查分2021时间A product request was sent to eight different glassmakers. 【Q11】Workers at the Root Glass company got the request and began flipping
through the encyclopedia at the local library, landing on cocoa seed. Though cocoa seed is not an ingredient of the soda, they designed their bottle based on the seeds shape and large middle. It won over coke executives in Atlanta and will go on to receive its own trademark, spur collections and earn Coca-Cola an iconic image that made it part of American culture for a century. It was 100 years ago this week that the bottle earned a patent. By World War Two, Coke bottle sales had ballooned into billions. Americans mostly consumed coke out of aluminum or plastic today, but the glass bottle remains a symbol of America is readily recognized around the world.
Question 9 what does the passage say appears in almost all ads for Coca Cola?
Question 10 Why did the Coca Cola company decide to have special packaging designed?
Question 11 What do we learn about the Coca Cola bottle designed by the Root Glass company?
Passage 2 主题：陌生人之间的交流使人愉悦
Research shows that 【Q12】a few moments of conversation with a stranger creates a measurable improvement in mood. But most of us are reluctant to start these conversations 【Q13】because we presume the opposite. In an experiment, commuters who talk to nearby strangers
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