听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Friends. B. Shop assistant and customer. C. Waitress and customer.

13. What happened to the man’s records?

A. He lost them in Canada.

B. He sent them to his sister.

C. He broke them accidentally.

14. How much is each of the record?

A.￡4.5. B.￡1.5. C.￡4.05.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. Where are the two speakers?

A. In the USA. B. In Europe. C. In China.

16. Why is there no national health insurance here?

A. The government hasn’t realized its importance.

B. The people don’t think the government can do it better.

C. The government hasn’t paid enough money for it.

17. What does the man think of having good insurance?

A. Expensive. B. Unnecessary. C. Important.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What service is being advertised?

A. Carpet cleaning. B. Food service. C. House repair.

19. What is the cost of the service if customers call now?

A. $4.49. B. $25.46. C. $ 29.95.

20. Who is most likely to call for the service?

A. Master Cleaners. B. Repair workers. C. Housewives.

第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分60分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题3分，满分45分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡该项涂黑。

A

Many of yoare studying hard because yohave to compete with many others in the upcoming national college entrance exam. But it may not occur to yothat one of your competitors is a robot. An artificial intelligence(AI) robot will take part in the 2017 National College Entrance Exam, reported China Daily.

“The robot will sit three exams: math, Chinese, and a comprehensive test of liberal arts (文科), which includes history, politics and geography,” Lin Hui, CEO of an AI company in Chengdu. Like the others who take the exam, the robot will have to finish the tests in the given time. But instead of taking exams together with other students, the robot will take its exams in a closed room without anyone else present, except for proctors(监考人)and a notary(公证人). It is expected to be totally disconnected from the Internet and solve the problems with its AI program.

It’s believed that Chinese and the test of its liberal arts skills, rather than its math skills, will give the robot its biggest challenges. Questions in math are objective with specific answers, while in the other test subjects there are some subjective questions that test skills such as reading comprehension and essay writing.

The robot aims to be enrolled in one of the first-class Chinese universities in 2017, and then try to get into the more famous universities of Tsinghua or Peking University in 2020.

21. The author wrote the passage in order to _________.

A. lay more burden on Grade 3 students

B. inform readers of the explosive news

C. introduce the function of the robot

D. predict what robots will do in the future

22. What’s the main idea of the second paragraph?

A. The differences between the robot and other candidates