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Section B
Passage One
    Getting behind the wheel of a car can be an exciting new step in a teen's life. But along with that excitement comes a new responsibility---understanding the need for common sense and maturity to avoid accidents. (26)In an effort to spread awareness to teens across the nation, the All-state Foundation sponsored a Keep-The-Drive Summit at Sunset Station on January 23rd. Students from Kennedy and Alamo Heights High schools participated in the summit, which was held here for the first time. The goal of the year-long effort is to educate teens on the rules of safe driving and the severe consequences that can result if those rules are not followed, and then have them communicate that information to their peers. The students watched videos that told them about the numbers of teenage driving injuries and deaths. They listen to the videos as students from other cities share their stories of how their reckless driving affected not only their lives but also those of their passengers. "We are trying to create awareness in high schools across the country," said Westerman, an All-state representative. "We focus on changing how teens think behind the wheel. "(27)According to the presentation, more teens die in automobile crashes in the United States each year than from drugs, violence, smoking and suicide. An average of 16 teens die every day in motor vehicle crashes and nearly forty percent of those are caused by speeding. Texas is the state with the most teen driving deaths according to the presentation. (28)Students .agreed that the statistics were amazing and made them think twice about how they drive.
  26．For what purpose did the All—state Foundation sponsor the Keep-The-Drive Summit?
B)。[听前猜测] 四个选项中出现的young people，teenagers，driving skills，reckless driving，careless drivers等词汇表明文章与年轻人驾车有关，四个选项都是不定式结构，可以判断本题可能会考查目的。
[精解] 文章开头提到，开车对年轻人来说是很刺激的事情，但也意味着责任：理解常识和避免事故。为了在全国范围内向年轻人传播这种意识，All-state Foundation赞助了一个称作Keep-The-Drive Summit的会议。
    故B)为本题答案。
27．What causes the greatest number of deaths among American teens according to the presentation?
A)。[听前猜测] 根据选项中accidents，violence，drug abuse，lung cancer可以判断，本题可能考查某种行为引起的后果。
[精解] 短文中提到，与吸毒、暴力、吸烟和自杀死亡相比，更多的美国少年死于汽车事故，故本题答案为A)。
28．What can we conclude about the Keep-The-Drive Summit?
C)。[听前猜测] 四个选项似乎关联性不大，但都用了现在完成时，因此推测本题考查的是某件事的结果。
[精解] 文章提到学生通过看录像等方式了解了粗心和超速驾驶的危险性，并认为这些统计数字让人吃惊，能使他们在驾车时三思而后行。可见，这次会议实现了预期的目标，故C)为答案。
Passage Two
    Dr. Allen Hersh designs smells for businesses. He says that it doesn't take a whole lot of smell to affect you. Store owners can lure you to the candy aisle, even if you don't realize your are smelling candy. This idea scares a lot of people. (29)Groups that protect the rights of shoppers are upset. They say the stores are using a kind of brainwashing which they call "smell-washing". "It's pretty dishonest," says Mark Silbergeld. He runs an organization that checks out products for consumers. The scientists hired to design the scents disagree. (30)"There's soft background music. There's special lighting. There're all sorts of bells being used," says Dr. Hersh, "why not smells?" "One reason why not," says Silbergeld, "is that some people are allergic to certain scents pumped into products or stores." But there is a whole other side to this debate, "do the smells really work?" So far, there is little proof one way or the other. (31)But Dr. Hersh has run some interesting experiments. In one of Hersh's experiments,31 volunteers were led into a shoe store that smells slightly like flowers. Later, another group shopped in the same store, but with no flower odor. (31)Dr. Hersh found that 84% of the shoppers were more likely to buy the shoes in the flower-scented room, but Hersh found out something even stranger. "Whether the volunteers like the flower scent or not didn't matter, "Hersh says, (31)"Some reported that they hated the smell, but they still were more likely to buy the shoes in the scented room."
29．Why are some people against the use of smells to attract customers?
B)。[听前猜测] 四个选项有两项以customers作主语，另两项以it作主语，it在本题中应为smell，故本题与customer和smell有关。
[精解] 文章一开始就说，Allen Hersh博士为企业设计味道，这一想法使许多人感到吃惊。反对者称这是一种洗脑的方法，很不诚实。因此B)为本题答案。
30．What is Dr．Hersh's attitude to the use of smells for business?
C)。[听前猜测] 由四个选项可以看出，本题考查的是某人的态度。
[精解] 文章中提到，Hersh博士说有背景音乐，有特殊的灯光，有各种铃声，为什么不能使用味道呢?这表明 Hersh是赞成使用味道的，因此C)为本题答案。
31．What did Hersh's experiment show?
A)。[听前猜测] 四个选项的相关度不大，但都表明味道对购物造成的影响。
[精解] 文章在提到Hersh博士的实验时说，31个志愿者被吸引到带有轻微花香味的商店，84%的消费者更喜欢在有花香味的商店里买鞋。这表明花香对消费者起到了作用。因此A)为本题答案。