Questions 23 to 25are based on the conversation you have just heard.

23. A) Bad weather.      B) Human error.  
C) Breakdown of the engines.      
D) Failure of the communications system.
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24. A) Two thousand feet.         B) Twelve thousand feet.
C) Twenty thousand feet.         D) Twenty-two thousand feet.

25. A) Accurate communication is of utmost importance.  
B) pilots should be able to speak several foreign languages. 
C) Air controllers should keep a close watch on the weather.  
D) Cooperation between pilots and air controllers is essential.

Section B
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Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
26. A) His father caught a serious disease.               B) His mother passed away.  
C) His mother left him to marry a rich businessman.      D) His father took to drinking.

27. A) He disliked being disciplined.                   B) He was expelled by the university.   C) He couldn't pay his gambling debts.                 D) He enjoyed working for a magazine.
28. A) His poems are heavily influenced by French writers.
B) His stories are mainly set in the State of Virginia.  
C) His work is difficult to read.
D) His language is not refined.
29. A) He grieved to death over the loss of his wife. 
B) He committed suicide for unknown reasons. 
C) He was shot dead at the age of 40. 
D) He died of heavy drinking.
Passage Two
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. A) Women.       B) Prisoners.     C) Manual workers.    D) School age children.
31. A) He taught his students how to pronounce the letters first.  
B) He matched the letters with the sounds familiar to the learners.  
C) He showed the learners how to combine the letters into simple words.  
D) He divided the letters into groups according to the way they are written.
32. A) It Can help people to become literate within a short time.  
B) It was originally designed for teaching the English language.  
C) It enables the learners to master a language within three months. 
D) It is effective in teaching any alphabetical language to Brazilians.
Passage Three
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33. A) The crop's blooming period is delayed.     B) The roots of crops are cut off. 
C) The topsoil is seriously damaged.             D)The growth of weeds is accelerated.
34. A) It's a new way of applying chemical fertilizer.
B) It's an improved method of harvesting crops.  
C) It's a creative technique for saving labor.  
D) It's a farming process limiting the use of ploughs.
35. A) In areas with few weeds and unwanted plants.  
B) In areas with a severe shortage of water.  
C) In areas lacking in chemical fertilizer.
D) In areas dependent on imported food.
Section C
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Adults are getting smarter about how smart babies are. Not long ago, researchers learned that 4-day-oldscould understand (36)____ and subtraction. Now, British research (37)____Graham Schafer has discovered that infant scan learn words for uncommon things long before they can speak. He found that 9-month-old infants could be taught, through repeated show-and-tell, to (38)_______the names of objects that were foreign to them, a result that(39)________in some ways the received (40)______that, apart from learning to (41)______things common to theirdaily lives, children don't begin to build vocabulary until well into their second year. "It's no (42)______that children learn words, but the words they tend to know are words linked to (43)_________situations in the home," explains Schafer."  44)__________________________with an unfamiliar voice giving instructions in an unfamiliar setting."     Figuring out how humans acquire language may shed light on why some children learn to read and write later than others, Schafer says, and could lead to better treatments for developmental problems. (45)__________________. "Language is a test case for human cognitive development," says Schafer. But parents eager to teach their infants should take note: (46)_________________________ . "This is not about advancing development," he says. "It's justabout what children can do at an earlier age than what educators have often thought."
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage. 
 
I've heard from and talked to many people who described how Mother Nature simplified their lives for them. They'd lost their home and many or all of their possessions through fires, floods, earthquakes, or some other disaster. Losing everything you own under such circumstances can be distressing, but the people I've heard from all saw their loss, ultimately, as a blessing.  
"The fire saved us the agony of deciding what to keep and what to get rid of," one woman wrote. And once all those things were no longer there, she and her husband saw how they had weighed them down and complicated their lives.   
"There was so much stuff we never used and that was just taking up space. We vowed when we started over, we'd replace only what we needed, and this time we'd do it right. We've kept our promise: we don't have much now, but what we have is exactly what we want."   
Though we've never had a catastrophic loss such as that, Gibbs and I did have a close call shortly before we decided to simplify. At that time we lived in a fire zone. One night a firestorm raged through and destroyed over six hundred homes in our community. That tragedy gave us the opportunity to look objectively at the goods we'd accumulated.   
We saw that there was so much we could get rid of and not only never miss, but be better off without. Having almost lost it all, we found it much easier to let go of the things we knew we'd never use again.   
Obviously, there's a tremendous difference between getting rid of possessions and losing them through a natural disaster without having a say in the matter. And this is not to minimize the tragedy and pain such a loss can generate.   
But you might think about how you would approach the acquisition process if you had it to do all over again. Look around your home and make a list of what you would replace.    Make another list of things you wouldn't acquire again no matter what, and in fact would be happy to be rid of.   
When you're ready to start unloading some of your stuff, that list will be a good place to start.
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47. Many people whose possessions were destroyed in natural disasters eventually considered their loss_______________.
48. Now that all their possessions were lost in the f