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M: Congratulations! I heard your baseball team is going to the Middle Atlantic Championship.
W: Yeah, we're all working real hard right now!
Q: What is the woman's team doing?
A) Training for the Mid-Atlantic Championships.
B) Making preparations for a trans-Atlantic trip.
C) Collecting information about baseball games.
D) Analyzing their rivals' on-field performance.
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W: John's been looking after his mother in the hospital. She was injured in a car accident two weeks ago and still in critical condition.
M: Oh, that's terrible. And you know his father passed away last year.
Q: What do we learn about John?
A) He had a narrow escape in a car accident.
B) He is hospitalized for a serious injury.
C) He lost his mother two weeks ago.
D) He has been having a hard time.
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A. Training for the Mid-Atlantic Championship.
男：祝賀你，我聽說你們的棒球隊將要參加亞特蘭大中部地區(qū)冠軍爭奪賽了。
女：是呀，我們現(xiàn)在正緊鑼密鼓地練習(xí)呢!
問：這個女人所在的球隊正在做什么?
答：對話開頭男生提到女生所在的棒球隊要參加Mid-AtlanticChampionship.女生說：“we're all working real hard right now!”(我們現(xiàn)在正緊鑼密鼓地練習(xí)呢!)由此可知，女生所在的棒球隊正在進行賽前訓(xùn)練。
此題還有一個迷惑選項B, Making preparations for a trans-Atlantic trip,必須注意的是：這里并不是準備旅行，而是準備參賽。
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D) He has been having a hard time.
女：約翰正在醫(yī)院里照顧他媽媽，她在兩個周前的一次交通事故中受了傷，現(xiàn)在情況依然不容樂觀。
男：哦，那太可怕了，你知道，他父親去年去世了。
問：關(guān)于約翰，我們能了解到什么?
答案：解析：根據(jù)聽力原文可知，“John's mother is in the hospital and his father died last year.”(約翰的母親出車禍住院了，父親兩年前也過世了)由此可見，John的近況還是蠻悲慘的;答案也就顯而易見了。