5．B言外之意题。此题的关键是理解want ads(招聘广告)的意义，或者根据look for a job和newspapers之间的关系来推测，大部分毕业生通过阅读报纸上的招聘广告来求职。

6．C推理题。女士提到她打算下学期毕业，所以必须做全日制学生。

7．A职业与身份题。男士问的是对这次lecture是否还有其他问题，由此可以断定他是一位 lecturer，向他提问的Mary显然最可能是一位听他讲课的学生。

8．D推理题。男士提到他以为预约的时间是today，而来电提醒他是tomorrow，显然他混淆了时间。

Exercise 4

1. M: I can‘t understand why Mike isn‘t here yet. Do you think we should try to call him or go to look for him?

W: He probably just got held up in traffic. Let‘s give him a few more minute.

Q: What are the speakers probably going to do?

2. M: I'm going to drop my Information Science class. It meets too early in the morning.

W: Is that really a good reason to drop the class, Tom?

Q: What does the woman mean?

3. W: Renting a Conference Room at the hotel will cost us too much. We are already running in the red.

M: How about using our dining room for the meeting?

Q: What's worrying the woman?

4. M: Juana, I awfully sorry. I didn‘t mean to hurt you. Shall we have a beer and forget the whole thing?

W: OK, we can drop it this time. But don‘t do it again.

O: What do we learn from the conversation?

5. W: Frank, I thought you were working in New York.

M: I was, but I moved back. I just couldn‘t get used to living in a big city, so here I am, back in school taking courses for a teacher‘s certificate.

Q: What is Frank planning to do?

6. M: Maybe I ought to subscribe to Engineering Quarterly. It contains a lot of useful information. W: Why not read it in the library and save some money?

Q: What is the woman‘s advice to the man?

7. W: Professor Newven, a few of us at the back didn‘t get the copy of your reading assignment. M: Well, there are only 38 names on my class list, and I didn‘t bring any spare copies.

Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

8. M: What was the weather like when you left New York last week?

W: It was very much like the weather here in Beijing. So you needn‘t take a lot of clothes if you don‘t plan to stay there long.

Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

答案解析

1．C 推理题。女士主张give him a few more minutes，即先不要call him or look for him，再多等他几分钟。

2．A 言外之意题。从女士的问题Is that really a good reason to drop the class可以看出，她并不赞同男士(Tom)放弃课程的做法。

3．B 推理题。in the red 是 负债‘的意思，女士说己方在负债经营，而租用饭店的会议室cost too much，可想而知她担心的是会议室的租金。