三、真題講解三：

Questions 1 to 5

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation. 　

1. (A) For two years. (B) For one year.

(C) For three or four months. (D) For five or six weeks.

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2. (A) To cook breakfasts. (B) to comb her daughter’s hair.

(C) To water the garden. (D) To do sewing.

3. (A) There’s too much work to do. (B) She doesn’t get paid enough.

(C) She hasn’t got a desk or a telephone. (D) Her office is too small.

4. (A) In three months time. (B) In November.

(C) Next month. (D) Two weeks from now.

5. (A) She is a female Welsh MP.

(B) She’s the first black woman to get into Parliament.

(C) She’s not been nominated by any political party.

(D) She’s not a member of either the Labour Party or the Conservative Party.

Question No. 1. How long has the woman been an MP when the conversation took place?

(Man) You have been an MP for five or six weeks now. Is it as you expected it to be?

1. (A) For two years. (B) For one year.

(C) For three or four months. (D) For five or six weeks.

Question No. 2. What did her mother use to do when listening to the news?

when she was combing my hair when I was a little girl. I used to listen to that avidly, and form sort of views on the world and what I would do if I was Prime Minister, and um, I remember one of my earliest ambitions was to be Secretary-General of the United Nations.

2. (A) To cook breakfasts. (B) to comb her daughter’s hair.

(C) To water the garden. (D) To do sewing.

Question No. 3. What is the woman complaining about?

3. (A) There’s too much work to do. (B) She doesn’t get paid enough.

(C) She hasn’t got a desk or a telephone. (D) Her office is too small.

(Woman) I dislike the fact the House of Commons in many ways is a very amateur place, I still haven't got a desk or a telephone, which makes it very difficult to work. I dislike the kind of 'clubby' atmosphere, it's a bit like a gentleman's club, and I really came there to do a job of work, and I dislike — there's an awful lot of backbiting goes on there, and I dislike that.

Question No. 4. When is she going to get her missing office equipment?

4. (A) In three months time. (B) In November.

(C) Next month. (D) Two weeks from now.

(Man) You still haven't got a desk after six weeks. Is ... Any idea when you will get a desk, and a telephone.

(Woman) I'm told that I won't get one now until October, if then.

(Man) Which is, er, another three months' time.

(Woman) That's right.

Question No. 5. What is unusual about her being an MP?

5. (A) She is a female Welsh MP.

(B) She’s the first black woman to get into Parliament.

(C) She’s not been nominated by any political party.

(D) She’s not a member of either the Labour Party or the Conservative Party.