Listening test is one of the most important parts of the English exam. Here are some tips for you.
Before you start to listen, you need to relax. Don't be stressed out. And try to read the questions.These questions usually help you understand the conversation or the passage.
Then listen carefully to the first sentence. It usually tells you the main idea of the passage. When you're listening, try to do some thinking and take some notes, such as:
☆What happened　
☆When, where, and how　
☆What does the speaker want to tell us　
In this way, you may understand the passage better,
Please remember not to think about one or two words for a long time. When you hear some words you don't know, don't spend too much time on them. Very often, you'll find out what they mean later when you go on with the listening.
【小题1】This passage mainly talks about______.

　　Compared with ordinary books, e-books have many advantages. First of all. e-books save space. You can put as m ________ as ten books into a thing no bigger than a pocket radio and then carry it everywhere. You can renew reading materials in your e-books as many as you 1 ________. With the development of e-book technology, probably an e-book library will appear. Then you just take your e-books there and download w ________ you want to read. You no longer need to worry about whether your books are over-due（逾期）or not.

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　　Mother's Day is celebrated in US. It's also a holiday in some 1 countries. It is on the second Sunday in May. It is a day to thank mothers. 2 that day mothers usually 3 flowers and cards. On the cards, children will write “Thanks, Mom”, “To the best mother in the world”, “Best 4 for Mother's day” and so on.

　　Where does the idea for the holiday 5 ? We should thank Miss Anna Jarvis. She brought up the idea of having 6 day. She 7 West Virginia. Her mother 8 on May 9,1905.

　　She 9 her mother. She wrote letters to 10 important persons. In her letters she asked them to decide a day for 11 mothers. Then Mother' s Day 12 on the second Sunday in May by the US in 1913.

　　On Mother's Day, children give 13 , 14 the whole family go out and try to do 15 for their mothers.