Part One : Now you will hear 10 short conversations. A question will follow each conversation. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four possible choices . 1. T he President has no idea how to change anything in the country. The President doesn’ t want to change the education system. The President doesn ’ t have the right people to carry out his ideas. The President doesn ’ t know exactly how to change the education system. 2. He knew a teacher of the school. He learned of it from the woman. He heard about it from a news report. He was a student of the school. 3. Because it is modeled on Japanese schools. Because its students are successful. Because it is what the woman wants. Because it helped him learn quite well. 4. Chinese cooking. Chinese religions. Chinese lifestyles. Chinese philosophy. 5. She ’ s much too cold and distant. S h e ’ s not loving toward her own family. She ’ s loving, but doesn ’ t know how to show it. She ’ s never expressed her love to him. 6. Her father is much too tough. Her father is crazy about guns. H e r father has provided for the family. H e r father is admirable. 7. Love requires one not to give up a person. Her brother ’ s nature keeps him from loving others. H e r parents have reasons for not quitting on her brother. She always gets a second chance to do things right. 8. Because she had beaten herself up about it already. Because she had stayed with her mother so much already. Because her mother had forgiven her about it already. Because her mother had never been ashamed of her. 9. He was generous with others. He shared with everyone. He was not a generous person. He was a man of few words. 10. The rest of their loving family. Everything their father did in the world. When their father passed away. Some advice their father once gave them. Part Two : Now you will hear a long conversation followed by five questions. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four possible choices . 11. The cause for a person getting heart disease. The advice that the woman ’ s doctor has for her. The woman ’ s problems with her heart. The amount of exercise the woman should get. 12. S h e is talking to her parents. She is seeing her doctor. She is running on the school track. S h e is going to the track. 13. A. That she is exercising too much. B. That she isn ’ t listening to her doctor. C. That her heart is growing weaker. D. That her heart is not strong enough. 14. It is something that the woman ’ s doctor told him. It is something that people commonly know. It is something that his parents told him. It was helpful in his own exercise program. 15. Brother and sister. Father and daughter. Mother and son. Doctor and patient.