听力原文：W：Excuse me，what's the time，please？
M：Sorry，I don't know．My watch is at home.
W：Hi，Tom．Could you tell me the time，please？
M：It's 5:15．
Q：What time is it？
（25)
A．It's 5:05.
B．It's 5:15.
C．It's 4:15.

The phrase "suck in" underlined in Paragraph 3 means______.
A．draw into the mouth
B．please somebody by flattering
C．pull somebody or something down or under with great force of water or air
D．cheat or take in

What made home a cozier extension of the office？
A．Telecommuting and cell phones.
B．The innovation and creation.
C．The nirvana and paradise.
D．Computers and E-mail.

Task 2
Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.
As civilization proceeds in the direction of technology, it passes the point of supplying all the basic essentials of life-food, shelter, clothes, and warmth. Then we are faced with a choice between using technology to provide and fulfill needs which have been regarded as unnecessary or, on the other hand, using technology to reduce the number of hours of work which man must do in order to earn a given standard of living. In other words we either raise our standard of living above that necessary for comfort and happiness or we leave it at this level and work shorter hours. I shall take it for granted that mankind has, by that time, chosen the latter alternative. Men will be working shorter and shorter hours in their paid employment. It follows that the housewife will also expect to be able to have more leisure in her life without lowering her standard of living. It also follows that human domestic servants will have completely ceased to exist. Yet the great majority of the housewives will wish to be relived completely from the routine operations of the home such as vacuuming the floors, or washing the clothes, or making beds.
By far the most logical step to relieve the housewife of routine, is to provide a robot slave which can be trained to the requirements of a particular home and can be programmed to carry out half a dozen or more standard operations, when so switched by the housewife.
In this passage, the author states that______.
A．technology is no linger regarded as important as it used to be
B．it is always reasonable to make a man work fulltime for a good salary
C．modem civilization provides people with more than daily necessities
D．it is salary, not the number of working hours that worries people most

According to the passage, which of the following statements is true？
A．Employees could work at home freely by using cell phones and telecommuting.
B．Employees could escape from work because they had telecommuting and cell phones.
C．Employees were controlled by their employers because of the telecommuting and cell phones.
D．Employees were called up by their employers for seven times within 24 hours.

For more than a century, a key struggle for the labor movement was______.
A．increasing workers' pay
B．reducing working time
C．improving working conditions
D．asking for more rights