Several hundred more employees will have to be ______ if the company does not get any new orders soon.

A.laid out

B.laid off

C.laid down

D.laid aside

A.Deep events are far less common than shallow events.

B.Deep events occur in places other man where crustal plates meet

C.Mantle rock is more ductile at a depth of several hundred kilometers than it is at 50 kilometers.

D.The speeds of both P and S waves are slightly greater than previously though.

A．Deep events are far less common than shallow events.

B．Deep events occur in places other man where crustal plates meet

C．Mantle rock is more ductile at a depth of several hundred kilometers than it is at 50 kilometers.

D．The speeds of both P and S waves are slightly greater than previously though.

SECTION B PASSAGES

Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

听力原文： Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one cheap postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value. The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer--Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.

Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the design for the stamps. He wrote by chance the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the several hundred stamps that he printed.

Today there are only 26 of these wrongly printed stamps left I fourteen One Penny Orange-Reds and twelve Two Penny Blues. Because of the Two Penny Blue's rareness and age, collectors have paid as much as ＄16,800 for it.

In 1847 most countries of the world were

A．not yet using postage stamps.

B．collecting valuable stamps.

C．buying stamps from Mauritius.

D．printing their own stamps.

从供选择的答案中选出应填入下列英文语句中______内的正确答案。

Say there are ten thousand computer shops in the U.S. and Canada. If each shop has a thousand programs, and if half of these programs use the data(1)more than just printing, we are thinking(2)five million programs that must(3)during the next years to take care of the year 2000 changeover. Several hundred thousand programs need(4). And that is only if we start right now. All of this will be in addition to the ongoing maintenance and development work that must(5).

【T10】

A. MEDICAL

B. SO

C. CONSIDERED A. SEVERAL HOT DAYS ARE【T7】______ A HEAT WAVE

B.【T8】______ DOES EXTREME HEAT

C. CAUSE SERIOUS【T9】______ PROBLEMS EXTREMELY HOT WEATHER IS COMMON IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORL

D. ALTHOUGH HOT WEATHER JUST MAKES MOST PEOPLE FEEL HOT, IT CAN【T10】______ — EVEN DEAT

H. FLOODS, STORMS, VOLCANO ERUPTIONS AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS KILL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY YEAR.【T11】______ EXPERTS SAY HEAT MAY BE NATURE"S DEADLIEST KILLER. RECENTLY, EXTREME HEAT WAS BLAMED FOR KILLING MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE IN INDIA. IT IS REPORTED THAT THE TOTAL HEAT OF A HOT DAY OR SEVERAL DAYS CAN AFFECT HEALT

H.【T12】______ EXPERTS SAY HEAT WAVES OFTEN BECOME DANGEROUS WHEN THE NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURE DOES NOT DROP MUCH FROM THE HIGHEST DAYTIME TEMPERATUR

E. THIS CAUSES GREAT STRESS ON THE HUMAN BODY.

A.More than 300 million.

B.More than 350 million.

C.More than 830 million.

D.About 930 million.

A.a variety

B.some

C.a sort

D.several

【T9】

A. MEDICAL

B. SO

C. CONSIDERED A. SEVERAL HOT DAYS ARE【T7】______ A HEAT WAVE

B.【T8】______ DOES EXTREME HEAT

C. CAUSE SERIOUS【T9】______ PROBLEMS EXTREMELY HOT WEATHER IS COMMON IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORL

D. ALTHOUGH HOT WEATHER JUST MAKES MOST PEOPLE FEEL HOT, IT CAN【T10】______ — EVEN DEAT

H. FLOODS, STORMS, VOLCANO ERUPTIONS AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS KILL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVERY YEAR.【T11】______ EXPERTS SAY HEAT MAY BE NATURE"S DEADLIEST KILLER. RECENTLY, EXTREME HEAT WAS BLAMED FOR KILLING MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE IN INDIA. IT IS REPORTED THAT THE TOTAL HEAT OF A HOT DAY OR SEVERAL DAYS CAN AFFECT HEALT

H.【T12】______ EXPERTS SAY HEAT WAVES OFTEN BECOME DANGEROUS WHEN THE NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURE DOES NOT DROP MUCH FROM THE HIGHEST DAYTIME TEMPERATUR

E. THIS CAUSES GREAT STRESS ON THE HUMAN BODY.