听力原文：M: Good morning, Mrs. Wells. It's a long time since I visited you last time.
W: Yes, it must be three or four years. I haven't visited you since I called on you about my will. You helped me a lot, remember?
Q: Who is the man?
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A．Mrs. Wells' neighbor.
B．Mrs. Wells' classmate.
C．Mrs. Wells' lawyer.
D．Mrs. Wells' doctor.
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听力原文：M: What's a "music hall"? I've seen that name several times--and heard it is used in broadcasts, too.
W: A music hall is something very different from a concert hall! If you want to hear a symphony orchestra playing good music, you go to a concert hall. A music hall is more like a theatre where you can see and hear popular music, singing and dancing. There might even be animal performance.
Q: What cannot be seen or heard in a music hall?
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A．Popular music.
B．Dancing.
C．Performing animals.
D．Symphony orchestra.
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A．He is becoming too old
B．He has trouble in hearing.
C．He can no longer accomplish mental tasks.
D．He is in a depressed emotional state.
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听力原文：W: Cattle raising in the U.S. is a big business, isn't it? It must be very profitable.
M: Uh...not really. At times it's not profitable. It's a supply and demand market, you know. The price is fluctuating all the time, and it can get below production costs sometimes.
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
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A．The price fluctuates all the time because the production costs are high.
B．The production costs will be higher if the market demands more beef.
C．The price will get below production costs if your supply is larger than demand.
D．Cattle raising is a non-profit-making business in the U.S.
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Because high-income consumers are selective, they only buy expensive things.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
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In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness of the inadequacies of the judicial system in the United States. Costs are staggering both for the taxpayers and the litigants--and the litigants, or parties, have to wait sometimes many years before having their day in court. Many suggestions have been made concerning methods of improving the situation, but as in most branches of government, changes come slowly.
One suggestion that has been made in order to maximize the efficiency of the system is to allow districts that have an overabundance of pending cases to borrow judges from other districts that do not have such a workload. Another suggestion is to use pretrial conferences, in which the judge meets in his chambers with the litigants and their lawyers in order to narrow the issues, limit the witnesses, and provide for a more orderly trial. The theory behind pretrial conferences is that judges will spend less time on each case and parties will more readily settle before trial when they realize the adequacy of their claims and their opponents' evidence. Unfortunately, at least one study has shown that pretrial conferences actually use more judicial time than they save, rarely result in pretrial settlements, and actually result in higher damage settlements.
Many states have now established another method, small-claims courts, in which cases over small sums of money can be disposed of with considerable dispatch. Such proceedings cost the litigants almost nothing. In California, for example, the parties must appear before the judge without the assistance of counsel. The proceedings are quite informal and there is no pleading--the litigants need to make only a one-sentence statement of their claim. By going to this type of court, the plaintiff(原告) gives up any right to a jury trial and the right to appeal the decision.
In coming years, we can expect to see more and more innovations in the continuing effort to correct a situation which must be corrected if the citizens who have valid claims are going to be able to have their day in court.
The pretrial conference, in theory, is supposed to do all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A．narrow the issues
B．cause early settlements
C．save judicial time
D．increase settlement costs