M: Mrs. Dereal, can you tell us something about further and continuous education in Britain?
W: Further and continuous education in Britain can be of different kinds. Apart from the world famous Open University, there are other colleges that can provide programs of further education for adults students.
M: We are all quite familiar with the Open University, what about the other colleges?
W: Well, first there are the Polytechnics. The Polytechnics are colleges or institutions of further education. They are study centers that offer many different courses for students of all ages. These courses lead to Diplomats or to Degrees awarded by the Council for National Academic Awards, which was set up to award Degrees to adult students in non-university institutions.
M: And then what about Non-Degree courses for adult students?
W: Second, there are specialist colleges, such as the Agricultural Colleges, Colleges of Art or Music and so on. There are also a large number of local colleges of further education: Technical Colleges and Colleges of Commerce. All these special colleges provide a variety of Non-Degree courses for adult students.
M: What about the courses? Are they specially designed for adult students?
W: Courses for adult students may also be vocational or recreational. That is, they may be related to a person’s job or taken purely for interest and pleasure. Examples of popular recreational classes are pottery, woodwork, car maintenance, cookery and so on. At the same time, university lecturers may give up some of their free time every week to talk to town and village clubs about anything from archeology to the sociological effects of the industrial revolution.
Questions:
19. What is the topic of the interview?
20. What are the polytechnics?
21. According to the interviewee, what is a vocational course?
22. Which of the following is not a subject for recreational classes?
點評：本段講的是英國的各種成人進修和繼續教育體制，總體難度適中。文章從不同的學校類型入手，分別介紹高職院校、專修學校的課程設置、學位授予等方面，以及職業型和娛樂型教育課程。題目設置基本進口每部分開頭的介紹，而22題也考察了學生對細節和舉例的把握。
Talks and Conversations 4

As a normal person, you see colors everywhere, so long as you have good eyesight. In fact, color plays a central role in our life. For example, color is used to communicate life-saving information. To the driver of a vehicle, the green color means “go”, and the red color means “stop”. You should always pull up when the traffic light turns red. Besides, colors can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your appetite, or even change your mood. A delicious meal with appropriate colors can certainly make your mouth watering. Good colors also help us in many other ways. Statistics show, that in sports competition a team wearing red has a higher chance of winning. Of course, it’s largely due to the psychology of wearing red. Luck and ability can be more important.
For animals, color reflects their environments and their characteristics. For instance, a male peacock has its tail feathers of bright colors to win the attention of female peacocks. A tree frog can be so green as to indicate its poisonous nature. So don’t eat it, or you might die. A wasp, with its bright yellow color, may warn us that it has a sting, and it is not afraid to use that sting. People often think that rainbow is the most colorful, but for our artists, all they need are three colors, namely, red, blue and yellow. They are called the primary colors——colors that cannot be made by mixing others together. And our artists can mix them together to create any color in the rainbow, and hundreds of other shades in making art.
Questions：
23. Why are green and red colors important to drivers?
24. According to statistics, what team has a higher chance of winning in sports competition?
25. which animal has green color that warns us of its poisonous nature?
26. what is a primary color?
點評：本篇文章探討了關于顏色的話題。顏色在我們生活中扮演了很重要的角色，既可用于交通中給司機傳達指令，又可在日常生活中發揮其他的作用。此外，顏色對于動物來說也很重要。有的動物利用顏色來吸引雌性；而有的動物則利用身上的顏色來警告其他動物禁止侵犯。雖然在我們眼里，顏色是多種多樣的，但是所有的 顏色都來源自三種顏色：紅、藍和黃。文章內容貼近我們現實生活，文中也并沒有出現很多生詞。考生只需要適當地做些筆記，結合平常的生活常識，在聽的過程中即可選出正確答案。
Talks and Conversations 5

W: Of course, we ought to be permitted to think, speak, and feel as we like, provided we don’t do any harm to anyone else.
M: How do you know when you are doing harm or not？Would you permit people to take drugs, for example?
W: That depends on the drugs, some of them can be harmful in all sorts of ways, like too much drink and smoking as many cigarettes as you do.
M: Well, I have been trying to give up smoking for a long time. But you know, it’s not easy. And I’m afraid I don’t have that strong will.
W: I think the government should banned smoking in all the public places and they should levy heavier taxes on selling and buying cigarettes.
M: What really makes me mad is the attitude toward morals. Some people are really shocked, because in the theaters today actors are allowed to walk about the stage with little or without any clothes on. And they think it’s right that the police should be able to walk into our galleries and decide whether pictures are works of art or obscene. But the same people aren’t shocked by advertisements which persuaded the public to buy things which can do real harm, like cigarettes and alcohol, for example. I think a lot of advertisements are much more immoral than so-called pornographic or dirty plays and books. Because they lie, or at least disguise the truth.
W: How do you know that pornographic pictures in books don’t do harm?
M: I didn’t say they did no harm, I’m just suggesting that the whole question of morality is relative. I think the behavior of some businessman is relative more immoral than that of some of the young people they criticize.
W: You seem to think that everything will be alright if you just allow people to be natural. I personally feel we all need some kind of outside authority to help us discipline ourselves.
Questions:
27. What has the man been trying to do for a long time?
28. According to the man, what things can do real harm to people?
29. Why does the man think that advertisements are much more immoral than dirty place and books?
30. According to the woman, what do we need to discipline ourselves?
點評：此對話主要是談論哪些行為是會對他人造成傷害。女士認為煙酒對他人造成極大傷害，因此國家應該禁止公眾場合的吸煙行為或者征收更多的稅，而男士卻認為只要不過量，煙酒就不會造成傷害。男士認為人們的道德觀會對他人造成極大傷害，并以人們對現代藝術和廣告的虛假信息兩種事物的態度來舉例說明。最后，女士總結男士的觀點是人們應順其自然地要求自我，而女士的觀點則是希望通過外界的權威來約束自我。
本文緊緊圍繞中心觀點進行討論，其中關于不良書籍的說法可能會造成一定干擾，但切忌勿因小失大，而忘記聽真正要考查的重要信息。