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Part III Listening Comprehension
Section A 短对话
Directions: In this
section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2
long conversations. At the end of each
conversation,
one or more questions will be
asked about what was said. Both the conversation
and the questions will be spoken only
once.
After each question there will be a pause. During
the pause, you must read the four choices marked
A), B), C) and
D), and decide which is the
best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 2 with a single line
through the
centre.
11.
W: What's wrong with your
phone, Gary? I tried to call you all night
yesterday.
M: I'm sorry. No one's able to get
through yesterday. My telephone was disconnected
by the phone company.
Q: What does the woman
ask the man about?
12.
W: I finally found
a really nice apartment that's within my price
range.
M: Congratulations! Affordable housing
is rare in this city. I've been looking for a
suitable place since I got here six
months
ago.
Q: What does the man mean?
13.
M:
I got this in my mailbox today, but I don't know
what it is. Do you have any idea?
W: Oh,
that's your number for the new photocopier. It
acquires an access code. Everyone got one.
Q:
What do we learn from the conversation?
14.
W: Jane told me that you'll be leaving at
soon. Is it true?
M: Yeah, my wife's maternity
leave is close to an end. And since she wants to
go back to work, I've decided to take a
year
off to raise the baby.
Q: What does the man
mean?
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M: We'll never find a parking
space here. What about dropping you at thesouth
gate and I'll find parking somewhere else.
W:
Well, OK. It looks like everyone in town came to
the mall today.
Q: What does the woman mean?
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W: When will the computers be back
online?
M: Probably not until tomorrow. The
problem is more complicated than I thought.
Q:
What does the man mean?
17
M: Did you
catch Professor Smith on TV last night?
W: I
almost missed it, but my mother just happened to
be watching at home and gave me a call.
Q:
What does the woman imply?
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M: May I get this prescription refilled?
W: I'm sorry, sir, but we can't give you a
refill on that. You'll have to get a new
prescription.
Q: What can we infer from the
conversation?
W: Well, it’s the South Theater
Company. They want to know if we’d be interested
in sponsoring a tour they want to
make to East
Asia.
M: East Asia? uhh… and how much are they
hoping to get from us?
W: Well, the letter
mentions 20,000 pounds, but I don’t know if they
might settle for us.
M: Do they say what they
would cover? Have they anything specific in mind?
W: No, I think they are just asking all the
firms in tongue for as much money as they think
they’ll give.
M: And we are worth 20, 000
pounds, right?
W: It seems so.
M: Very
flattering. But I am not awfully happy with the
idea. What we get out of it?
W: Oh, good
publicity I suppose. So what I suggest is not that
we just give them a sum of money, but that we
offer to
pay for something specific like
travel or something, and that in return, we ask
for our name to be printed prominently
in the
program, and that they give us free advertising
space in it.
M: But the travel bill would be
enormous, and we could never manage that.
W: I
know. But why don’t we offer to pay for the
printing of the programs ourselves on condition
that on the front cover
there's something like
This program is presented with the compliments of
Norland Electronics, and free advertising of
course.
M: Good idea. Well, let’s get back
to them and ask what the program they want will
cost. Then we can see if we are
interested or
not.
Questions 19-21 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
19. What do
we learn about the South Theater Company?
20.
What benefit does the woman say their firm can get
by sponsoring the Theater Company?
21. What
does the woman suggest they do instead of paying
the South Theater Company’s travel expenses?
Conversation Two
W: Rock stars now face a
new hazard --- voice abuse. After last week's
announcement that Phil Collins might give up
touring because live concerts are ruining his
voice, doctors are counseling stars about the dos
and don'ts of voice care.
Here in the studio
today, we have Mr. Paul Phillips, an expert from
the High Field Hospital. Paul, what advice would
you
give to singers facing voice problems?
M: If pop singers have got voice problems,
they really need to be more selective about where
they work. They shouldn't
work in smoky
atmospheres. They also need to think about resting
their voices after a show. Something else they
need
to be careful about is medicines.
Aspirin, for example, singers should avoid
aspirin. It thins the blood. And if a singer
coughs, this can result in the bruising of the
vocal cords.
W: And is it true that some
singers use drugs before concerts to boost their
voices when they have voice problems?
M: Yes,
this does happen on occasion. They are easily-
available on the continent and they are useful if
a singer has
problems with his vocal cords and
has to sing that night. But if they are taken
regularly, they cause a thinning of the
voice
muscle. Most pop singers suffer from three things:
lack of training, overuse and abuse of the voice,
especially
when they are young. They have
difficult lives. When they go on tour, they do a
vast number of concerts, singing in
smoky
places.
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W: So, what would you
advise the singers to do?
M: Warm you voice up
before a show and warm it down after.
Questions 22-25 are based on the conversation
you have just heard.
22. What does last week's
announcement say about rock star, Phil Collins?
23. What does Paul Philips say about aspirin?
24. What does Paul Philips say about young pop
singers?
25. What are the speakers mainly
talking about?
Would you trust a robot to park
your car? The question will confront New Yorkers
in February as the city's first robotic
parking opens in Chinatown.
The technology
has been successfully applied overseas, but the
only other public robotic garage in the United
States has
been troublesome, dropping vehicles
and trapping cars because of technical problems.
Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown
garage are confident with the technology and are
counting on it to
squeeze 67 cars in an
apartment-building basement that would otherwise
fit only 24, accomplished by removing a
maneuver space normally required.
A human-
shaped robot won't be stepping into your car to
drive it. Rather, the garage itself does the
parking. The driver
stops the car on a flat
platform and gets out. The platform is lowered
into the garage, and it is then transported to a
vacant parking space by a computer-controlled
device similar to an elevator that also runs
sideways.
There is no human supervision, but
an attendant will be on hand to accept cash and
explain the system to newly users.
Parking
rates will be attracted about $$400 monthly or $$25
per day, according to Ari Milstein, the director
of planning for
Automation Parking Systems,
which is the U.S. subsidiary of a German company.
This company has built automated
garages in
several countries overseas and in the United
States for residents of a Washington, D.C.
apartment building.
Questions 26 to 29 are
based on the passage you have just heard.
26.
What do we learn about the robot parking in the
U.S. so far?
27. What advantage does robotic
parking have according to the developers?
28.
What does the attendant do in the automated
garage?
29. What does the company say about
the parking rate?
Passage 2
A recent study
shows that meat consumption is one of the main
ways that human can damage the environment, second
only to the use of motor vehicles. So how can
eating meat have a negative effect on the
environment? For a start, all
animals, such as
cows, pigs and sheep, always gas limed methane,
which is the second most common green house gas
after carbon dioxide. Many environmental
experts now believe that methane is more
responsible for global warming
than carbon
dioxide. It is estimated that 25% of all methane
that released into the atmosphere coming from farm
animals. Another way in which meat production
affects the environment is through the use of
water and land. 2,500
gallons of water are
needed to produce one pound of beef. While 20
gallons of water are need to produce one pound of
wheat. One acre of farmland use to for raising
cows can produce 250 pounds of beef. One acre of
farmland use to for
crop production can
produce 1,500 pounds of tomatoes. Many people now
say the benefits of switching to vegetarian
diet which excludes meat and fish. Not just
for health reasons, but also because it plays a
vital role in protecting the
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environment. However, some
nutritionists advise against switching to a
totally strict vegetarian diet. They believe such
a diet which includes no products from animal
sources can be deficient in many of the necessary
vitamins and minerals
our bodies need. Today
many people have come to realize that help the
environment and for the human race to survive,
more of us will need to become vegetarian.
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage
you've just heard.
30. What does the recent
study show?
31. What do some nutritionists say
about the strict vegetarian diet?
32. What
does the speaker think more people need to do?
Passage 3
Alcoholism is a serious disease.
Nearly nine million Americans alone suffer from
the illness. Many scientists disagree
about
what the differences are between the alcohol
addict and social drinker. The difference occurs
when someone
needs to drink. And this need
gets in the way of his health or behavior. Alcohol
causes a loss of judgment and alertness.
After
a long period, alcoholism can deteriorate the
liver, the brain and other parts of the body. The
illness is dangerous,
because it is involved
in half of all automobile accidents. Another
problem is that the victim often denies being an
alcohol
addict and won’t get help. Solutions
do exist. Many hospitals and centers help patients
cope. Without the assistance, the
victim can
destroy his life. He would detach himself from the
routines of life. He may lose his employment, home
or
loved ones.
All the causes of the
sickness are not discovered yet. There is no
standard for a person with alcoholism. Victims
range
in age, race, sex and background. Some
groups of people are more vulnerable to the
illness. People from broken homes
and North
American Indians are two examples. People from
broken homes often lack stable lives. Indians
likewise had
the traditional life taken from
them by white settlers who often encourage them to
consume alcohol to prevent them
from fighting
back. The problem has now been passed on.
Alcoholism is clearly present in society today.
People have
started to get help and
information. With proper assistance, victims can
put their lives together one day.
Question 33
to 35 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
Q33. What is the problem of the victims
about alcoholism according to the speaker?
Q34. Why did white settlers introduce alcohol
to Indians?
Q35. What does the speaker seem to
believe about those affected by alcoholism?
Self-image is the picture you have of
yourself, the sort of person you believe you are.
Included in your self-image are
the categories
in which you place yourself, the roles you play
and other similar descriptors you use to identify
yourself.
If you tell an acquaintance you are
a grandfather who recently lost his wife and who
does volunteer work on weekends,
several
elements of your self-image are bought to light —
the roles of grandparent, widower and
conscientious citizen.
But self-image is more
than how you picture yourself; it also involves
how others see you. Three types of feedback from
others are indicative of how they see us:
conformation, rejection, and disconfirmation.
Conformation occurs when
others treat you in a
manner consistent with who you believe you
believe you have leadership abilities and your
boss put you in charge of a new work team. On
the other hand, rejection occurs when others treat
you in a manner that
is inconsistent with
yourself definition. Pierre Salinger was appointed
senator from California but subsequently lost his
first election. He thought he was a good
public official, but the voters obviously thought
otherwise— Their vote was
inconsistent with
his self-concept. The third type of feedback is
disconfirmation, which occurs when others fail to
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respond to your notion of self
by responding neutrally. A student writes what he
thinks is an excellent composition, but
the
teacher writes no encouraging remarks. Rather than
relying on how others classify you, consider how
you identify
yourself. The way in which you
identify yourself is the best refection of
yourself-image.
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11. Why she
could not get through to him
12. He has
difficulty finding affordable housing
13. A
code number is necessary to run the copy machine
14. He will stop work to take care of the
baby
15. The shopping center is flooded with
people
16. It will take longer to reconnect
the computers to the Net
17. She did see
Prof. Smith on TV
18. The man has to go to
see his doctor again
19. It is planning to
tour East Asia
20. A lot of good publicity
21. Pay for the printing of the performance
programme
22. He might give up concert tours
23. It can do harm to singer’s voice chords
24. Many lack professional training
25. Voice problems among pop singers
26. It
has not been very successful
27. It
increases parking capacity
28. Collect money
and help new users
29. They will be
discountable to regular customers
30. Meat
consumption has an adverse effect on the
environment
31. It lacks the vitamins and
minerals essential for health
32. Quit
eating meats
33. They do not admit being
alcohol addicts
34. To stop them from
fighting back
35. With support they can be
brought back to a normal life
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36. Included
37. categories
38.
similar
39. acquaintance
40. recently
41. volunteer
42. citizen
43.
indicative
44. You believe you have
leadership abilities and your boss put you in
charge of a new work team
45. He thought he
was a good public official, but the voters
obviously thought otherwise
46. A student
writes what he thinks is an excellent composition,
but the teacher writes no encouraging remarks
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