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听力原文：W: Good afternoon. Today our topic is child carE.Most people with young children work and need to use child carE.In some families, a relative can take care of the children. But in the United States, more than 50 percent of all families pay for child care—they hire someone to take care of the children. Some people take their children to day-care centers. Some people hire a sitter to take care of the children. And some families hire a nanny. A nanny usually lives with a family and takes care of the children in the family's home every day. Today, we have an unusual nanny to tell us about the joB.Let's welcome our nanny.
M: Hello.
W: Well hello, good afternoon. You are an unusual nanny, aren't you?
M: Yes, I am. A nanny is usually a woman. But a man can be a nanny, too. A man is a male nanny—or a manny. M for man. M-a-n-n-y.
W: Hmm. So you are a manny, right?
M: Yes, I am a manny.
W: What does a manny do?
M: Well, first of all, a nanny, male or female, is the same thing. It's just one is a man and one is a woman. We do the same thing. A nanny takes care of children. A nanny usually lives with a family, but not always.
W: And what is a typical day for you?
M: Well, I usually help the children get ready for school. I help them get dressed, make breakfast and lunch. Sometimes, I take them to school and always pick them up after school. I usually help them with their homework, and we often play together and things like that.
W: A nanny is not a typical job for a man. I mean, it is a littlE.unusual for a man to take care of children and do household chores, isn't it?
M: Yeah, some people just don't think men can take care of children. They think child care is a woman's joB.I disagreE.I like it. I also like doing household chores. A nanny is a good job for mE.I don't think it's woman's work at all.
W: And how did you know what a nanny does? I mean how did you learn to be a nanny?
M: Well, I went to a special school that trains nannies. I studied about children and child care in my classes. There are schools where people can go to learn how to become a nanny.
W: I seE.You went to school and got some training.
M: Yes, I diD.
W: Do you have other friends who are male nannies?
M: Well, now I do. My other friends used to make fun of mE.They thought it was strange—you know-I was doing a woman's joB.But they didn't have a job and I diD.I thought it was pretty funny.
W: Well, I learned something today. The new child care workers—male nannies. Thank you very much for coming.
Questions：
11. According to the conversation, what are the speakers mainly talking about?
12.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the man's typical day as a nanny?
13.According to the conversation, which of the following statements is NOT true?
14.How did the man learn to become a nanny?
15.What does the man think of his job?
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A.The difference between a male nanny and a female nanny.
B.The difference between a nanny and a sitter,
C.How to become a nanny in the United States.
D.The job of a nanny.

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听力原文： So, is everyone awake? I guess that's a good question at the start of an early-morning lecture about sleep. About 30% of adults say they frequently don't feel rested when they wake up in the morning. And why is that? Why, in most cases it is because they stayed up too late partying or watching TV. But in a small percentage of cases, they could be suffering from a sleep disorder, er— a condition that interferes with a person's ability to sleep normally. There are many different kinds of sleep disorders but the three I want to describe today are called sleep apnea, narcolepsy and insomniA.OK, the first disorder I list is sleep apneA.That's A-P-N-E-A.People with sleep apnea stop breathing, sometimes for 10 seconds or longer. And not just once; it can happen several hundred times a night! Each time this happens, they wake up and go right back to sleep, so their sleep is constantly interrupted, but in the morning, they don't remember waking up. They just feel tired and sleepy. The usual symptoms are heavy breathing and snoring, combined with feeling tired all the timE.The second sleep disorder I want to describe today is called narcolepsy. That's spelled N-A-R- C-O-L-E-P-S-Y. Perhaps you've seen a movie in which people are sitting at a table, eating and talking, and suddenly one person just falls over; perhaps his face falls into his soup. It's funny in a movie, but in reality this could be a symptom of narcolepsy. Narcoleptic persons get sudden attacks of sleep, in the middle of the day, any time, any placE.They can't control it; they simply fall asleep for brief periods of timE.By the way, this disorder appears to be particularly frequent among students enrolled in 8 A.m. classes. But seriously, narcolepsy can be quite scary.Sleep apnea and narcolepsy are serious problems, hut they are rare conditions. In contrast, the third disorder I want to discuss, insomnia, is quite common. Insomnia means difficulty either falling asleep or staying asleep. Almost everybody has insomnia once in a whilE.But I want to talk about chronic insomnia, which is when sleeping becomes difficult for weeks, months, or years at a timE.The cause could be either psychological or physical. Most often, it's psychological; that is, it's caused by stress—you know, worrying about problems at work or at home and so on. Or the cause could be physical such as too much caffeine or nicotine in the body. Both of these chemicals are stimulants that can keep you from sleeping.So, in summary, the thing I want you to remember is that everyone suffers from occasional sleeping problems, but a large number of people suffer from serious sleep disorders such as insomnia, apnea, and narcolepsy. As you've heard, these disorders have distinct symptoms, causes and treatment. Thanks to a lot of research in this area in the last few decades, doctors are now about to send patients to special sleep disorder clinics for specialized treatment. Since human beings spend one third of our lives sleeping, we should all be glad that medical science is now able to help people with sleeping problems.Questions：16. What is the talk mainly about?17.Which of the following statements is TRUE about apnea?18.What is the symptom of narcolepsy?19.What is the definition of insomnia?20.Which of the following statements is TRUE about sleep disorders?(36)A.Why do people fall asleep?B.Three kinds of sleep disorders.C.The treatment for sleep disorders.D.Staying up too late can be harmful.

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Steven Spielherg has taken Hollywood's depiction of war to a new level. He does it right at the start of Saving Private Ryan, in a 25 minute sequence depicting the landing of American forces on Omaha Beach in 1944. This is not the triumphant version of D-Day we're used to seeing, but an inferno of severed arms, spilling intestines, flying corpses and blood-red tides. To those of us who have never fought in a war, this reenactment—newsreel-like in its verisimilitude, hallucinatory in its impact—leaves you convinced that Spielberg has taken you closer to the chaotic, terrifying sights and sounds of combat than any filmmaker before him.This prelude is so strong, so unnerving, that I feared it would overwhelm the rest of the film When the narrative proper begins, there's an initial feeling of diminishment, it's just a movie, after all, with the usual banal music cues and actors going through their paces. Fortunately, the feeling passes. Saving Private Ryan reasserts its grip on you and, for most of its 2 hour and 40 minute running time, holds you in thrall.Our heroes are a squad of eight soldiers lucky enough to survived Omaha Beach. Now they are sent, under the command of Captain Miller (Tom Hanks), to find and safely return from combat a Private Ryan (Matt Damon), whose three brothers have already died in action. Why should they risk their lives to save one man? The question haunts them, and the moviE.The squad is a familiar melting-pot assortment of World War Two grunts—the cynical New Yorker (Edward Burns) who doesn't want to risk his neck; the Jew (Adam Goldberg); the Italian (Vin Diesel); the Bible-quoting sniper from Tennessee (Barry Pepper); the medic (Giovanni Ribisi). The most terrified is an inexperienced corporal (Jeremy Davies) brought along as a translator. Davies seems to express every possible variety of fear on his eloquently scrawny facE.Tom Sizemore is also impressive as Miller's loyal second in commanD.As written by Robert Rodat, they could be any squad in any war moviE.But Spielberg and his actors make us care deeply about their fatE.Part of the movie's power comes from Hank's quietly mysterious performance as their decent, reticent leader (the men have a pool going speculating about what he did in civilian life). There's an unhistrionic fatalism in Captain Miller; he just wants to get the job done and get home alive, but his eyes tell you he doesn't like the odds.The level of work in Saving Private Ryan—from the acting to Janusz Kaminski's brilliantly bleached-out color cinematography to the extraordinary sound design by Gary Rydstorm—is state of the art. For most of Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg is working at the top of his form, with the movie culminating in a spectacularly staged climactic battle in a French villagE.The good stuff is so shattering that it overwhelms the lapses, but you can't help noticing a few Hollywood moments. Sometimes Spielberg doesn't seem to trust how powerful the material is, and crosses the line into sentimentality. There's a prelude and a coda, set in a military cemetery, which is written and directed with a too-heavy hanD.But the truth is, this movie so wiped me out that I have little taste for quibbling. When you emerges from Spielberg's cauldron, the world doesn't look quite the samE.The movie Saving Private Ryan is up to a new level because ______.A.it depicts the landing of American forces on Omaha Beach in 1944B.the landing is not successfulC.it reproduces the terrible pictures of severed arms, spilling intestines, etC.D.it is a 25-minute sequence

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