Directions：In this section，you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question，you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A ，B ，C and D .Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
◆9.A.It might increase mothers’mental distress.
B.It might increase the risk of infants’death.
C.It might affect mothers’health.
D.It might disturb infants’sleep.
◆10.A.Mothers who sleep with their babies need a little more sleep each night.
B.Sleeping patterns of mothers greatly affect their newborn babies’health.
C.Sleeping with infants in the same room has a negative impact on mothers.
D.Mothers who breast.feed their babies have a harder time falling asleep.
◆11.A.Take precautions to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
B.Sleep in the same house but not in the same room as their babies.
C.Sleep in the same room but not in the same bed as their babies.
D.Change their sleep patterns to adapt to their newborn babies’.
Questions l2 t015 are based on the passage you have just heard.
◆12.A.More money is needed to record the native languages in the US.
B.The efforts to preserve Indian languages have proved fruitless.
C.The US ranks first in the number of endangered languages.
D.A lot of native languages have already died out in the US.
◆13.A.To set up more language schools.
B.To educate native American children.
C.To revitalise America’s native languages.
D.To document endangered languages.
◆14.A.The US government’s policy of Americanising Indian children.
B.The failure of American Indian languages to gain an official status.
C.The long.time isolation of American Indians from the outside world.
D.The US government’s unwillingness to spend money educating Indians.
◆15.A.It is widely used in language immersion schools.
B.It speeds up the extinction of native languages.
C.It is being utilised to teach native languages.
D.It tells traditional stories during family time.
