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题目要求 Listen to the follwing passage.Altogether the passage will be read to you four times.During the first reading,which will be done at normal speed,listen and try to understand the meaning.For the second and third readings,the passage will be read setence by setence,or phrase by phrase,with intervals of 15 seconds.The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work.You will then be given 2minutes to check through your work once more. 习题 Unit 1 The damage that a fire can cause is obvious and this is why the firefighters’s jobs are so important.Firefighters are usually the first ones responding to any type of emergency and perform many tasks,which include putting out burning building,helping out with medical emergencies, vehicle accidents and many other incidents.They must make sure their equipment is clean and all the items they use are in proper working order. Keeping their skills up to date is necessary .Therefore,they will be continually trained with new equipment and techniques.Because of the extreme conditions and also the stress associated with the emergency situations that arise, the firefighters definitely need to stay in shape for the work they must do.They will stay in the fire statin while on duty. Unless they need to work on the trucks or respond to a call,they can eat,sleep,shower and wath TV at the fire station,just like at home. Unit 2 For a long time,aliens have often been in the news.They have always been surrounded by mystery and interest of people all around the world.People have claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Some have claimed to have actually seen them.But is there a sound proof that can prove aliens to be real?Alien sightings have mostly been accompanied by sightings of lights in the night sky.Some of them have also believed that the lights came from the spaceships used by the aliens. Disk-like objects traveling across the sky have often been taken as aliens’vehicles.At times, peo