武汉大学硕士英语听力答案

武汉大学硕士英语听力答案

Unit One Education and Dreams

Exercise 1

1 Where did the man see the woman yesterday?

D. At registration.

2 How was the distance learning course different from the traditional one?

A. Students are not required to attend regular classes.

3 What is the main advantage of the distance learning course that the speakers agree with?

C. It allows more flexibility in students’ schedules.

4 Why did the woman decide to enroll in the distance learning course?

D. Because she would work a lot of hours next semester.

5 What is the disadvantage of the distance learning course that the man thinks?

B. It limits interaction among students.

Exercise 2

1 According to the speaker, which of the following statements best reflects his reason for his success?

C. He prepared himself well beforehand.

2 What example has he set up for the rest of people?

B. American dream.

3 Which of the following statements is likely to have a monument?

A. Generals.

4 What is the most powerful way to increase one’s capacity?

D. Learning on one’s own.

5 Which kind of the communications might not be preferred by the speaker?

D. Call-to-call contact. Unit Two Jobs and Duties

Exercise 1

1 Who is Alan Greenspan?

B. An economist.

2 To whom does Alan Greenspan have to answer?

D. No one.

3 What is the goal of Greenspan?

D. To let economy grow and contract gradually.

4 What happened to Dow Jones Index after Greenspan’s speech?

A. It rose by 3%.

5 Which one is not true about Greenspan?

C. He is appointed the job by President Bush.

Exercise 2

1 Which one is not mentioned in the woman’s first job experience?

A. Answering the door when doorbell rings.

2 Why did the woman quit her first job?

D. Because she could not ask for a 4-week leave.

3 What was not the reason for the woman’s dislike of her third job?

D. Because there was too much harassment.

4 What was the main reason for the woman holding her last job?

A. It is very promising for future her in the company.

5 How many jobs has the woman tried?

B. Five.

Unit Three Cultures and Customs

Exercise 1

1 Why do some American men no longer push the chairs for ladies at a dinner table?

B. Because they emphasize equality of the sexes.

2 What’s the difference between American and European customs in using the knife and fork?

D. Europeans keep the knife in the right hand and the fork in the left while Americans use just one hand and keep the other one on their lap.

3 What’s the difference between American and European customs in drinking coffee?

A. Europeans are more apt to drink coffee after the meal while Americans between bites.

4 Which of the following statements is considered to be polite concerning the placement of silverware in America?

C. Putting a coffee spoon on the saucer or a soup spoon on the service plate.

5 How long a guest may stay after dinner?

B. Two or three hours.

Exercise 2

1 To whom is it inappropriate to give four of anything?

A. The Japanese and Korean.

2 What does it mean to present an even number of flowers in European countries?

B. It means bad luck.

3 What should you do first when you present flowers to a German?

D. Unwrap the bouquet.

4 What gift is inappropriate to a French person?

A. A gift of perfume.

5 What should people pay special attention to in rank conscious societies like Japan C. Presenting gifts in accordance with position and prestige.

Unit Four Health and Medicine

Exercise 1

1 What do we know from the first paragraph?

C. More and more people take up the habit of smoking.

2 What determines a person’s smoking habits?

D. Occupation, income and education.

3 Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

D. Well-educated men with high incomes are generally less likely to smoke.

4 What is the smoking situation for women?

B. Better-educated women are likely to smoke heavily.

5 What can we say about teenage smokers?

A. The picture about the teenage smokers is similar to that of women smokers.

Exercise 2

1 What is this passage about?

D. General information about cancer.

2 What is meant by metastasis?

A. The unchecked spread of cancer.

3 Which of the following statement is true?

D. Benign tumors can be life-threatening when they are near a major blood vessel.

4 Which of the following therapies offers hope for a patient whose cancer had spread throughout the body?

B. Chemotherapy.

5 Which of the following statements may respond to hormone treatment well?

C. Ovarian or uterine cancer.

Unit Five Travel and Tourism

Exercise 1

1 What attitude does the author take to “sustainable tourism model”?

C. Negative.

2 Which of the following statements refers to six broadly conceived principles that the travel ecology approach is based upon?

C. Discovery, mutuality, locality, historicity, potentiality, enhancement.

3 What does “travel ecology approach” refer to in this passage?

D. It is a community tourism planning approach uniting the themes of social development and ecological sustainability.

4 Why is “the creation of social capital” important to tourism development?

A. Because it not only generates hospitality that helps make a community a desirable destination, but also helps share scarce resources.

5 Which of the following statements could be the best title of this passage?

B. Travel Ecology.

Exercise 2

1 How does the author think of choosing a travel companion?

C. It is something of a gamble.

2 According to the passage, what is the relationship between travel and friendship?

A. It is most likely that in choosing a travel companion you will lose a friend.

3 According to the passage, what kind of people should travel together?

D. Like-minded people should travel together.

4 Why do people prefer to have travel companion?

B. Because a travel companion can help overcome the threat of loneliness.

5 Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

A. Whether or not people will get along is difficult to predict. Unit Six Entertainment and Hobbies

Exercise 1

1 What do you know about both the Jerry Springer’s and the Oprah Winfrey’s TV talk shows?

B. They are unusually popular.

2 What’s the audiences’ reaction to Jerry Springer talk shows?

A. The audience remain fascinated by them.

3 Which of the following statements is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?

C. Family budget planning.

4 What’s the common feature of the two talk shows?

C. Instructive.

5 What can we know about the two talk shows from the passage?

D. The two talk shows are targeted at different audiences.

Exercise 2

1 Which group of people enjoy American music?

D. All of the above.

2 Why is American music so popular in all countries?

D. Because it has a fast pace and rhythmic beats.

3 What can be learned from the passage?

C. The blues is usually played by black musicians.

4 What do you know from the passage?

C. Rock music was influenced by the blues and country music.

5 Which of the following statements is Not true according to the passage?

C. The words of the songs differ, and so does the enjoyment of the music.

Unit Seven Love and Friendship

Exercise 1

1 What did the speaker love most about Emily?

D. She was often like a child.

2 Why didn’t the speaker tell Emily they were going in the car?

C. Because he was sure she’d want to go to the same place where he wanted to go.

3 Why do you think the speaker didn’t insist that they ride the ferris wheel first?

D. Because it pleased him for Emily to get more excited on the Tily-a-Whirl.

4 What do you think the speaker signaled the ferris wheel operator to do?

D. Stop the machine when he and Emily reach the top.

5 What was the main problem in the speaker’s plan?

A. He couldn’t control other people’s decisions.

Exercise 2

1 Which of the following statements is least likely to be true according to the passage?

D. Friendship may end pleasantly.

2 Which of the following statements does not suggest a friendship has ended?

A. We meet often, mainly as a habit.

3 According to the information from the passage, what is the greatest danger to a friendship?

B. Change.

4 According to the passage, who may most often have a feeling of being deserted by old friends?

C. Divorced people.

5 How can you ENSURE that a friendship will NEVER end?

D. There is no way for that: even the best maintained friendship may end. Unit Eight Advertising and Publicity

Exercise 1

1 Which of the following statements is the original form of advertising?

A. Crying one’s goods in the street.

2 What was a popular form of advertisements during the Roman Empire?

C. Wall painting.

3 Why do some people think radio commercials are the best form of advertising?

D. Because they can be heard everywhere in a country.

4 Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?

A. Only some large companies can afford radio commercials.

5 What is the passage mainly about?

B. Development of advertising.

Exercise 2

1 Why are people in developing countries easily influenced by cigarette?

A. Because they don’t know the relationship between tobacco and disease.

2 Why didn’t many government launch anti-smoking campaigns?

A. Because tobacco taxes take up a large part of their revenue.

3 Which of the following statements is true according to an executive on the Philip Morris account?

D. Cigarette advertising also appeals to kids.

4 Why is cigarette advertising appealing to adolescents according to Dr. John L. Clowe?

B. Because they regard smoking as a symbol of sexual ability and even success.

5 What does the passage mainly discuss?

C. Smoking and cigarette advertising.

Unit Nine Development and Environment

Exercise 1

1 How many people died between 1980 and 2000?

A 1,500,000.

2 Which is not the finding of the new study by the UNDevelopment Program?

B. Individual choices can create new economic risks.

3 Which is true according to the speaker?

B. Flood caused more death in large populated countries.

4 What is the Disaster Risk Index?

A. It is a measure to show that poverty and the risk of dying in a disaster are linked.

5 What is the most important thing for government?

C. To strengthen government structure.

Exercise 2

1 What does paper makers fail to do?

C. They fail to supply enough recycled products.

2 Which is not true about five paper makers?

D. They produce paper containing high level of recycled fibers.

3 What is “virgin fiber”?

A. The fiber extracted from natural forest.

4 Why don’t retailers want recycled papers?

C. Because recycled papers are not needed by the customers.

5 What does the WWF want the companies to do?

D. To advise consumers to buy recycled paper. Unit Ten Literature and Arts

Exercise 1

1 What does an artist hope for from the public?

A. Understand him and learn from him.

2 Why does a painter choose certain shapes and colors?

C. Because he feels that they are worth showing to the public.

3 What does an artist’s choice of shapes and colors indicate?

D. He believes them to be worth looking at.

4 What does contemporary art contain according to the author?

C. It contains subjects chosen partly for their meaning.

5 What’s the implied meaning of this passage?

D. One must look beyond shapes and colors to find what the artist is saying.

Exercise 2

1 With whom did Celine Dion begin to give performance when she was 12?

D. Her family.

2 Why did Celine Dion decide to learn English?

A. In order to enter the world of international pop music.

3 When did Celine Dion become an international pop star?

B. In 1994.

4 What makes Celine Dion so successful apart form having a powerful voice?

C. Singing with her own soul.

5 What did Celine Dion do to make her French songs have a wide appeal?

A .Translating them into English.

Unit Eleven Science and Technology

Exercise 1

1 How did the people react to the news about Dolly’s birth?

B. They were surprised at the rapid development of science.

2 What is Simon Fishel’s opinion toward cloning technology?

A. Cloning is beneficial and moral problems can be avoided.

3 What does Mary Warnock think of the possibility of human cloning?

C. It is not bad but we must make sure if it is necessary.

4 What attitude do ethical commentators take toward experimentation with human cloning?

C. They are more concerned with the moral features of science.

5 What is this passage mainly about?

D. Cloning and its controversies.

Exercise 2

1 Which of the following statements about anti-noise technology is correct?

C. It has just been in commercial use.

2 What is true about the modern electronic anti-noise devices?

D. They are based on an entirely new working principle.

3 Which of the following statements is not included in the French company working on anti-noise techniques to be used?

A. Streets.

4 What does the “zones of quiet” refer to according to the talk?

B. It refers to a certain area in which workers can hear talk from outside the zone.

5 What does this passage mainly talk about?

A. Noise-control technology. Unit Twelve Humanity and Society

Exercise 1

1 What are the determining factors of a person’s behavior?

A. Instincts and environment.

2 Which statements is true according to the speaker?

C. Aggression is something learned.

3 What did the father tell his young son to do?

D. To fight back hard.

4 Why are customs usually taught to children?

D. Because it is part of their way of life.

5 What did the children in Fentou learn?

C. Fighting and killing.

Exercise 2

1 Why is there inequality in the saying “All men are created equal” according to the interviewee?

D. Because woman is invisible in the saying.

2 Why do some women use “MS.” Instead of “Miss”?

B. Because they try to conceal their privacy.

3 What do men continue to believe about women?

C. Women are second-class citizens.

4 How have women put men to shame in many jobs?

B. Women have succeeded in their jobs.

5 What is the tragedy of our age?

A. Men refuse to admit women’s achievements.