This air crash which was suspected to be plotted by international political terrorists led to the stop of the diplomatic relations between the two countries.
A．suspensory
B．sustenance
C．suspicion
D．suspension

Which of the following is likely to sympathize with the victims of pay discrimination？
A．George W. Bush.
B．U.S. Supreme Court.
C．Hillary Clinton.
D．Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Section A
Directions: This section is to test your ability to understand short dialogues. There are 5 recorded dialogues in it. After each dialogue, there is a recorded question. The dialogues and the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices A , B, C, and D.
听力原文：M: Mary, will you come home right after class today？
W: I'm afraid not. There will be a class meeting after class. I won't be able to come home until 10:00.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation'？
（1)
A．Mary will come home after class.
B．Mary is going to attend the class meeting at 10: 00.
C．The class meeting will be over at 10: 00.
D．Mary will come home late because of the class meeting.

The word "fizzle" in the first sentence of paragraph 4 can best be paraphrased as ______.
A．make voice
B．fail
C．come out
D．stagger

Mr. Salt wants to create anti-cancer foods by ______.
A．copying tissues from wild plants that take up selenium naturally into crop plants
B．copying genes that causes the plants to take up selenium from the soil
C．moving selenium from the tissues of wild plants into crop plants
D．moving genes from wild plants that take up selenium naturally into crop plants

The author mentions Lilly Ledbetter's case to show that ______.
A．she did not receive equal treatment as her male colleagues
B．her complaint is not timely enough to be validated
C．the new rule is problematic in practice due to its ambiguous wording
D．there is pay discrimination against women at work