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剑桥雅思8 Test 1真题SECTION 1 Questions 1-10Questions 1 and 2Choose the correct letter，A，B or C.ExampleIn the library George foundA a book.B a brochure.C a newspaper.1 In the lobby of the library GeorgesawA a group playing music.B a display of instruments.C a video about the festival.2 George wants to sit at the back so theycanA see well.B hear clearly.C pay less.Questions 3-10Complete the form below.Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS ANDIOR A NUMBER for each answerSECTION 2 Questions 11-20Questions 11-15Complete the sentences below.Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer.The Dinosaur Museum11The museum closes at ........................ p.m. on Mondays.12The museum is not open on ........................13School groups are met by tour guides in the ........................14The whole visit takes 90 minutes ，including ........................ minutes for the guided tour.15There are ........................ behind the museum where students can have lunch.Questions 16-18Choose THREE letters，A-G.Which THREE things can students have with them in the museum?A foodB waterC camerasD booksE bagsF pensG worksheetsQuestions 19 and 20Choose TWO letters，A-E.Which TWO activities can students do after the tour at present?A build model dinosaursB watch filmsC draw dinosaursD find dinosaur eggsE play computer gamesSECTION 3 Questions 21-30Questions 21-24Choose the correct letter，A ，B or C.Field Trip Proposal21The tutor thinks that Sandra's proposalA should be re-ordered in some parts.B needs a contents page.C ought to include more information.22The proposal would be easier to follow if SandraA inserted subheadings.B used more paragraphs.C shortened her sentences.23 What was the problem with the formatting on Sandra's proposal?A Separate points were not clearly identified.B The headings were not always clear.C Page numbering was not l:Jsed in an appropriate way.24Sandra became interested in visiting the Navajo National Park throughA articles she read.B movies she saw as a child，C photographs she found on the internet.Questions 25-27Choose THREE letters，A-G.Which THREE topics does Sandra agree to include in the proposal?A climate changeB field trip activitiesC geographical featuresD impact of tourismE myths and legendsF plant and animal lifeG social historyQuestions 28-30Complete the sentences below.Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer28The tribal park covers ......................... hectares.29Sandra suggests that they share the .......................... for transport.30She says they could also explore the local .......................... SECTION 4 Questions 31-40Complete the notes below.Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.GeographyStudying geography helps us to understand:the effects of different processes on the 31 ......................... of theEarththe dynamic between 32 ......................... and populationTwo main branches of study:physical featureshuman lifestyles and their 33 ........................Specific study areas: biophysical ，topographic ，political，social ，economic ，historical and 34 ......................... geography ，and also cartography Key point: geography helps us to understand oursurroundings and the associated 35........................What do geographers do?find data - e.g. conduct censuses,collect information in the form of36 ........................ usingcomputer and satellite technologyanalyse data 一identify 37 ........................，e.g. cause and effectpublish findings in form of:a) maps一easy to carry一can show physical features of large and small areas一 BUT a two-dimensional map will always have some 38.........................b) aerial photos一can show vegetation problems,39 ......................... density, ocean floor etc.一Landsat pictures sent to receiving stations一used for monitoring 40 ......................... conditions etc.。
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剑桥8test1SECTION 2Hello,and thank you for asking me to your teachers' meeting to talk about the DinosaurMuseum and to tell you a bit about what you can do with your students there.Well,let me give you some of the basic information first.In regard to openinghours,we're open every day of the week from 9.00 am to 8.00 pm except on Mondayswhen we close at1.30 pm.And,in fact the only day in the year when we’re closed ison the 25th of December Q11&12. You can book a guided tour for your school groupany time that we're open. If you bring a school group to the museum,when you arrivewe ask you to remain with your group i n the car park. One or more of the tour guideswill welcome you there and brief you Q13 about what the tour will be about. We dothis there because our entrance is quite small andwe really haven't got much roomfor briefing groups in the exhibition area.As far as the amount of time you'll need goes,if you bring a school group you shouldplan on allowing a minimum of 90 minutes for the visit.This allows 15 minutes toget on and offthe coach,45 minutes Q14for the guided tour and 30 minutes for after-tour activities.If you're going to have lunch at the museum you will,ofcourse,have to allow moretime. There are two cafés in the museum,with seating for 80 people. If you want toeat there you'lI need to reserve some seating, as they can get quite crowed at lunchtime. Then utside the museum at the back there are tables Q15, and students can bringtheir own lunchand eat it there in the open air.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When the students come into the museum foyer we ask them to check in their backpackswith their books,lunch boxes , etc, at the cloakroom before they enter the museumproper. I'm afraid in the past we have had a few things gone missing after schoolvisits so this is a strict rule. Also,some of the exhibits are fragile and we don'twant them to be accidentally knocked. But we do provide school students with handoutswith questions and quizzes on them.Q16-18There's so much that students can learnin the museum and it’s fun for them to havesomething to do. Of course! They’llneed to bringsomething to write with for these. We do allow students to takephotograph.Q16-18For students who are doing projects it's useful to make some kindof visual record of what they see that they can add to their reports. And finally,they should not bring anything to eat into the museum, or drinks of any kind.Thereare also a few things the students can do after the tour. In the theatre on thegroundfloor there are continuous screenings of short documentaries about dinosaurs whichthey can see any time.Q19&20We used to have an activity room with more interactivethings like making models of dinosaurs and drawing and painting pictures, evenhunting for dinosaur eggs, but unfortunately the room was damaged in a bad stormrecently when water came in the roof, so tha1's closed at the moment. But we do have an IT Centre where students have access to CD ROMs with a range of dinosaur games.Q19&20These games are a lot of fun, butthey also teach the students about the lives of dinosaurs, how they found food, protected their habitat, survivedthreats, that kind of thing.And . . .Ithink that's all 1 have to tell you. Please feel free to ask any questions if you would like to know anything else.。
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名师点题剑桥雅思8听力：1.本段文章是独白形式,我们可以把说话人当做是博物馆的工作人员,他参加教师会议的目的是介绍恐龙博物馆,便于老师安排学生参观。
首先自然是介绍基本信息,博物馆的开放时间具体是 :周二到周日,博物馆全天开放,从 9.00 am 到 8.00 pm ;周一的开放时间是 9.00 am 到1.30 pm(in regard to opening hours, we’re open every day of the week from 9.00 am to 8.00 pm except on Monday when we close at 1.30 pm)。
in regard to 意为“关于”,with re- gards to / regarding to 也表示“关于”的意思。
2.As far as the amount of time you’ll need goes ...(就时间而言......)。
as far as sth. goes 意为“就......而言”,相当于 as far as sth. is concerned。
as far as 也可作短语介词或连词,后跟从句或名词,意为“像......那样远,远到......,直到......”,如 :You can see as far as the coast.(极目远眺,你可以看到海岸)。
3.工作人员介绍说“博物馆里面有两个咖啡馆,可以容纳 80 人。
如果想在那里吃饭,需要预定座位,因为午餐时间那里很拥挤”(There are two cafes in the museum, with seating for 80 people. If you want to eat there you’ll need to reserve some seating, as they can get quite crowded at lunch time)。
剑桥雅思8test1听力原文挖空练习C8Test-1
C8Test 1Section 1A: Hi，George! Glad you're back. Loads of people have phoned you.B: Really?A: I felt just like your secretary!B: Sorry! I went into the this afternoon to have a look at a and I came across something really interestingA: What? A book?B: No，a from a festival - mainly music. Look，I've got it here.A: music? I really love the. Let's have a look. So what's this ‘Guitarrini'?B: They're really good. They had a with all the highlights of the festival ata stand in the lobby to the，so I heard them. They play fantastic instruments- and flutes and old kinds of. I've never heard anything like it before.A: Sounds great.B: Okay. Shall we go then? Spoil ourselves?A：Yes，let's.B: The only problem is there aren't any cheap . . . it's all one .A: Well，in that case we could sit right at the front - we'd have a really good . B: Yeah，though I think that if you sit at the back You can actually hear the wholething better.A: Yes. Anyway we can decide when we get there.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A: So will you fill in the or shall I?B: 1'11 do it. Name: George O'Neill. : ,West sea. Do you remember our new postcode? Still can't remember it.A: Just a minute - I've got it written down here. Do you need the too?B: Please. I'm really bad at .A: . So，let's book two for Guitarrini.B: Okay. If you're sure _____each is all right. How do you feel about the singer?A: I haven't quite decided. But I've noticed something on the booking that might just persuade me!B: What's that then?A: Free !B: Really ?A: Yes，look here. . Singer, ____includes inthe .B: Sounds like a to me!A: Yes，let's book two for that. So, what else? I'm feeling quite keen now!How about the on the ?B: Anna Ventura? I've just remembered that's my evening c1ass night.A: That's okay. I’ll just have to go on my own - but we can go to the and together，can't we?B: Yes -I'm sure Tom and Kieran would enjoy that too. Good heaven ___ a ! I can see we're going to have to go without food for the rest of the week - we'll need to book!A: Wish we were 一look! ，and SeniorCitizens get a on everything.B: If only!Section 2Hello, and thank you for asking me to your teachers' to talk about the Dinosaur and to tell you a bit about what you can do with your there.Well, let me give you some of the first. In regard to opening _______, we're open every day of the week from_____ to ____ except on when we close at . And, in fact the only day in the year when we’re closed is on the You can book a for your school any time that we're open.If you bring a school to the , when you arrive we ask you to remain with your in the. One or more of the will welcome you there and brief you about what the will be about. We do this there because our is quite small and we really haven't got much room for briefing in the 。
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• sonata [sə'nɑːtə] 奏鸣曲
• serenade[serə'neɪd] 小夜曲
• overture['əʊvətj(ʊ)ə] 前奏曲
• concerto[kən'tʃɜːtəʊ]协奏曲
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老年人 打折
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Test 1 Section 1Hi gorge, glad you’re back, loads of people have phoned you.Really?I felt just like your secretary.Sorry, I went into the library this afternoon to have a look at a newspaper and I came across something really interesting.What? A book?No. a brochure from a summer festival, mainly Spanish music. Look, I’ve got it here.Spanish music? I really love the guitar. Let’s have a look. So what’s this group guitarriniThey’re really good. There had a video with all the highlights of the festival at a stand in the lobby to the library, so I heard them. They play fantastic instruments, drum and flutes and old kinds of guitars. I’ve never heard anything like it before.Sounds greatOk, shall we go then, spoil ourselvesYes, let’sThe only problem is there aren’t any cheap seats. It’s all one price Well, in that case, we could sit right at the front, we’d have a really good view.Yeah, though I think that if you sit at the back, you can actually hear the whole thing better.Yes, anyway, we can decide when we get there.So will you fill in the form or shall II’ll do it, name, address 48 north avenue west seaDo you remember our new postcode, still can’t remember itJust a minute, I’ve got it written down here. Ws62yh, do you need the phone tooPlease. I’m really bad at numbers01674553242, so let’s book 2 tickets for guitarriniOk, if you’re sure 7.5 each is all right. How do you feel the singerI haven’t quite decided. But I’ve noticed something on the booking formthat might just persuade meWhat’s that thenFree refreshments.ReallyYes, look here, Sunday, 17th of June, singer, ticket 6 pounds includes drinks in the gardenSounds like a bargain to meYes, let’s book 2 tickets for that. So what else, I’m feeling quite keen now, how about the pianist on the 22nd of JuneAnna Ventura, I’ve just remembered that’s my evening class night That’s ok, I’ll just have to go on my own. But we can go to the Spanish dancing and guitar concert together, can’t we?Yes, I’m sure tom and kerry would enjoy that too. Good heavens, 10.5 a ticket. I can see we’re going to have to go without food for the rest of the week. We’ll need to book 4Wish we were students. Look, children, students and senior citizens get a 50% discount on everythingIf onlySection 2Hello, and thank you for asking me to your teachers’meeting to talk about the dinosaur museum and to tell you a bit about what you can do with your students there.Well let me give you some of the basic information first. In regard to opening hours, we are open everyday of the week from 9 am to 8 pm except on Mondays when we close at 1.30 pm. And in fact the only day in the year when we’re closed is on the 25th of December. You can book a guided tour for your school group any time that we’re open.If you bring a school group to the museum, when you arrive we ask you to remain with your group in the car park, one or more of the tour guides with welcome you there and brief you about what the tour will be about. We do this there because our entrance is quite small and we really haven’t got much room for briefing groups in the exhibition area.As far as the amount of the time you’ll need goes, if you bring a school group you should plan on allowing a minimum of 90 minutes for the visit, this allows 15 minutes to get on and off the coach, 45 minutes for the guided tour and 30 minutes for after-tour activities.If you’re going to have lunch in the museum, you will of course have to allow more time. There are 2 cafes in the museum with seating for 80 people. If you want to eat there, you will need to reserve some seating as they can get quite crowded at lunch time. Then outside the museum at the back, there are tables and students can bring their own lunch and eat it there in the open air.When the students come into the museum foyer, we ask them to check in their backpacks with their books, lunch boxes etc, at the cloakroom before they enter the museum proper. I’m afraid in the past we have had a few things gone missing after school visit, so this is a strict rule. Also some of the exhibits are fragile and we don’t them to be accidentally knocked. We do provide school students with handouts with questions and quizzes on them. There is so much that students can learn in the museum and it’s fun for them to have something to do. Of course they’ll need to bring something to write with for these. We do allow students to take photographs, for students who are doing projects, it’s useful to make some kind of visual record of what they see that they can add to their reports. And finally, they should not bring anything to eat into the museum or drinks of any kind.There are also a few things the students can do after the tour. In the theatrette on the ground floor, there are continuous screenings of short documentaries about dinosaurs which they can see at any time. We used to have an activity room with more interactive things like making models of dinosaurs and drawing and painting pictures, even hunting for dinosaur eggs, but unfortunately the room was damaged in a bad storm recently when water came in the roof, so that’s closed at the moment. But we do have an IT center where students have access to CD-roms with a range of dinosaur games. These games are a lot of fun but they also teach the students about the lives of dinosaurs, how they found food, protected their habitats, survived threats, that kind of thing.And I think that’s all I have to tell you, please feel free to ask any questions if you would like to know any…..Section 3Right Sandra, you wanted to see me to get some feedback on your group’s proposal. The one you’re submitting for the geography society field trip competition. I’ve had a look through your proposal and I think it’s a really good choice. In fact, I only have a few things to say about it, but even in an outline document like this, you really have to be careful to avoid typos and problems with layout in the proposal and even in the contents page. So read it through carefully before submitting it, ok?Will doAnd I’ve made a few notes on the proposal about things which could have been better sequenced. As to the writing itself I’ve annotated the proposal as and where I thought it could be improved. Generally speaking, I feel you’ve often used complex structures and long sentences for the sake of it, and as a consequence, although your paragraphing and inclusion of subheadings help, it’s quite hard to follow your train of thought at times. So cut them down a bit, can you?And don’t forget simple formatting like numbering.Didn’t I use page numbersI didn’t mean that. Look you’ve remembered to include headers and footers, which is good, but listing ideas clearly is important. Number them or use bullet points which is even clearer. Then you’ll focus the reader on your main points. I thought your suggestion to go to the Navajo tribal park was a very good idea.I’ve always wanted to go there. My father was a great fun of cowboy films and the wild west, so I was subjected to seeing all the epics, many of which were shot there. As a consequence it feels very familiar to me and it’s awesome both geographically and visually. So it’s somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit. The subsequent research I did and the online photographs made me even keener.Interesting, right let’s look at the content of your proposal now.Did you find it comprehensive enough?Well yes and no. you’ve listed several different topics on your contents page but I’m not sure they’re all relevant.Well, I thought that from the perspective of a field trip, one thing I needed to focus on was the sandstone plateaux and cliffs themselves, the way they tower up from the flat landscape is just amazing. The fact that the surrounding soft rocks were eroded by wind and rain, leaving these huge outcrops high above the plain. It’s hardly surprising at tourist flock to see the area.Well, yes, I’d agree with including those pointsAnd then the fact that it’s been home to native American Navajos and all the social history that goes with that, the hardships the endured trying to save their territory from the invading settlers, their culture is so rich, all those wonderful stories.Well I agree it’s interesting but it’s not immediately relevant to your proposal, so at this stage I suggest you focus on other considerations. I think an indication of what the students on the trip could actually do when they get there should be far more central, so that certainly needs to be included and to be expanded upon. And I’d like to see something about the local wildlife and vegetation too, not that I imagine there’s much to see. Presumably the tourist invasion hasn’t helped.Ok, I’ll do some work on those two areas as well. But you’re right, there is not much apart from some very shallow-rooted species, although it’s cold and snowy there in the winter, the earth is baked so hard in the summer sun that rainwater can’t penetrate, so it’s a case of flood or drought really.So I understand. Now before we look at everything in more detail, I’ve got a few factual questions for you. It’d be a good idea to include the answers in your finished proposal because they’re missing from your draft.So you mentioned the monoliths and the spires, which was good, but what area does the tribal park cover? Do you know?12000 hectares and the plain is at about 5850 meters above sea level Larger than I expected. Where is the nearest accommodation? That’s apractical detail that you haven’t included. Have you done any research on that?Yes, there is nowhere to stay in the park itself but there is an old trading post called Goulding quite near, all kinds of tours start from Goulding too.What kind of toursWell, the most popular are in four-wheel drive jeeps, but I wouldn’t recommend hiring those, I think the best way to appreciate the area would be to hire horses instead and trek around on those. Biking is not allowed and it’s impossible to drive around the area in private vehicles. The tracks are too rough.Ok, lastly, what else is worth visiting thenThere are several caves but I haven’t looked into any details, I’ll find out about themOk, good, now what I’d like to know.Section 4So welcome to your introductory geography lecture. We’ll begin with some basics. Firstly, what do we learn by studying geography.Well, we learn a great deal about all the processes that have affected and that continue to affect the earth’s surface. But we learn far more than that because studying geography also informs us about the different kinds of relationships that develop between the particular environment and the people that live there.Ok, we’d like to think of geography as having 2 main branches. There is the study of the nature of our planet, its physical features, what it actually looks like and then it’s the study of the ways in which we choose to live and of the impact of those on our planet. Our current use of carbon fuels is a good example of that.But there are more specific study areas to consider too, and we’ll be looking at each of these in turn throughout the semester. These include biophysical geography, by which I mean the study of the natural environment and all its living things; then there is topography that looksat the shapes of the land and oceans; there is the study of political geography and social geography too, of course, which is the study of communities of people; we have economic geography, in which we examine all kinds of resources and their use, agriculture for example; next comes historical geography, the understanding of how people and their environments and the ways they interact have changed over a period of time; and urban geography, an aspect I’m particularly interested in, which takes as its focus the location of cities, the services that those cities provide and migration of people to and from such cities. And lastly we have cartography, that’s the art and science of map-making, you’ll be doing a lot of that.So, to summarize before we continue, we now have a key answer, studying the subject is important because without geographical knowledge we would know very little about our surroundings and we wouldn’t be able to identify all the problems that relate to them. So, by definition, we wouldn’t be in any informed position to work out how to solve any of them.Ok, now for some practicalities. What do geographers actually do？Well we collect data to begin with, you’ll be doing a lot of that in your first field trip. How do we do this? There are several means, we might, for example, conduct a census, count the population in a given area perhaps. We also need images of the earth’s surface which we can produce by means of computer-generation technology or with the help of satellite relays. We’ve come a very long way from the early exploration of the world by sailing ships when geographers only had pens and paper at their disposal.After we‘ve gathered our information, we must analyze it. We need to look for patterns, most commonly those of causes and consequences. This kind of information helps to predict and resolve problems that could affect the world we live inBut we don’t keep all this information confidential, we then need to publish our findings so that other people can access it and be informed by it. And one way in which this information can be published is in the form of maps. You’ll all have used one at some stage of your life already. Let’sconsider the benefits of maps from a geographer’s perspective.Maps can be folded and put in a pocket and can provide a great store of reference when they’re collected into an atlas. They can depict the physical features of the entire planet if necessary, or just a small part of it in much greater detail. But there is a drawback, you can’t exactly replicate something that is 3-dimensional, like our planet, on a flat piece of paper, because paper has only 2 dimensions. And that means there’ll always be a certain degree of distortion on the map. It can’t be avoided. We can also use aerial photographs. Pictures taken by cameras at high altitude above the earth, these are great for showing all kinds of geographical features that are not easy to see from the ground. You can easily illustrate areas of diseased trees, or how much traffic is on the roads at a given time, or information about deep sea beds for example. Then there are landsats. These are satellites that circle the earth and transmit visual information to computers at receiving stations. They circle the earth several times a day and can provide a mass of information. You’ll all be familiar with the information they give us about the weather for example.So what we are going to do now is to look at a short presentation in which you’ll see all…..Test 2 Section 1Good morning, total insurance, judy speaking, how may I help youI recently shipped my belongings from overseas back here in Australia, and I took out insurance with your company, some items were damaged during the move, so I need to make a claim, what do I have to do?Ok, well, first I need to get a few details about this. Can you give me your name pleaseYes it’s Michael AlexanderAnd your address pleaseMy old address or my current oneYour current oneIt’s 24 manly street milperra SydneyWhat was the suburb sorryMilperraWho was the shipping agentYou mean the company we usedYes, the company who packed everything up at the point of originIt was first class moversWhere were the goods shipped fromChina, but the ship came via Singapore and was there for about a week Don’t worry, all of that information will be in the documentation. Now, the date, do you know when the ship arrivedIt left on the 11th of October, and got to Sydney on the 28th of November Ok, I need one more thing, there is a reference number, it should be in the top right-hand corner of the pink form they gave you.Let me have a look, yes, here it is, it’s 601ACKI need to take down a few details of the actual damage over the phone before you put in a full report. Can you tell me how many items were damaged and what the damage wasYes, well, 4 things actually, I’ll start with the big things, my TV first of all, it’s a large one, very expensiveOur insurance doesn’t cover electrical problemsIt isn’t an electrical problem, the screen has a huge crack in it, so it’s unusable.I see, any ideas of the price to repair itNo, well I don’t think it can be repaired, it will need a new one.Ok, I’ll make a note of that and we’ll see what we can doNow what was the second itemThe cabinet from the bathroom was damaged as well, it’s a lovely cabinet, we used it to keep our towels inAnd what is the extent of the damageWell the back and the sides seem ok, but the door has a huge hole in it, it can’t be repaired, I’m really not very happy about itAnd how much do you think it will cost to replace itWell, when I bought it last year I paid 125 dollars for it, but the one I’veseen here in Sydney is a bit more expensive, it’s 140 dollarsRight, what was the third itemMy dinning room table, it’s a lovely table from Indonesia, it must have been very hot inside the container because one leg has completely split down the middle, the top and the other 3 look ok, thank goodnessAny ideas of the price to repair itWell I had an estimate done on this actually because it is a very special table to us, they quoted us 200 dollars which is really pricey, so I hope the insurance will cover the total costI’m sure that will be fine, what was the last itemWe have a lovely set of china plates and dishes, you know, with matching cups, saucers, the lot. They were all in the one box which must have got dropped because some plates were broken, 6 actuallyAnd can you tell me the replacement value of theseWell, it’s hard to say because they were part of a set. But they can be up to 10 dollars each as it is such a good setOk so that would be around 60 dollars altogetherYes that’s rightAnd is that all of the itemsYes so what do I have to do now?Section 2Welcome to green vale agricultural park, as you know, we’ve only been open a week, so you’re amongst our first visitors. We have lots of fascinating indoor and outdoor exhibits on our huge complex, spreading hundreds of hectares. Our remit is to give educational opportunities to the wider public as well as to offer research sites for a wide variety of agriculturists and other scientists.Let’s start by seeing what there is to do. As you can see, here on our giant wall plan, we’re now situated in the reception block, here. As you walk out of the main door into the park, there is a path you can follow. If you follow this route, you will immediately come into the rare breedssection where we keep a wide variety of animals which I shall be telling you a little more about later. Next to this, moving east, is the large grazing area for the rare breeds. Then further east in the largest section of our park is the forest area, south of the grazing area and in fact just next to the reception block is our experimental crop area. In the middle of the park, this circular area is our lake, this 2 small rectangular shapes here are the fish farms where we rare fish for sale. To the east of those is the marsh area which attracts a great many migrant birds, in the southeastern corner, beyond the marsh is our market garden area growing vegetables and flowers.All these areas can be visited by the general public for almost all the year, although, please take note of the large signs at the entrance to each area which tell you when certain areas are being used for particular controlled experiments and are therefore temporarily out of bounds to the public. You can see for yourself what a huge area the park covers and a key question is always how can we move around. Well you have a choice of means. All environmentally friendly, cars are banned in the park, we have bicycles which you can hire behind the reception block, the healthy ones of you can go on foot. And finally there is our electric tram powered from solar cells. You find more information about this at the front entrance.A good place to start on your tour is the rare breeds section. We keep goats, sheep and hens and other kinds of poultry. We are also thinking of bringing cows and horses but we do not, as yet, have facilities for these bigger animals. The animals are fed in public twice a day and a short lecture given on their feeding habits and nutritional needs. These are very popular with the public but of course you mustn’t lose sight of the main purpose of having this section, not as such to preserve rare animals but to maintain the diversity of breeds to broaden the gene pool for agricultural development. Green vale changes with the seasons with different events happening at different times of the year. May will be perhaps our most spectacular month with the arrival of the Canadian geese and when our fruit trees will be in full blossom. But there are interesting events on all year round, for example, john havers, our expert fly fisherman, is currently giving displays on the lake. Each of the sections has its ownseasonal calendar. Please consult the summary board at the main entrance. And the final section, as we return to the reception blocks is the orchard. Do take time to browse round our shop, there is a wide selection of books on wildlife, some of them were written by local authors, and the history of farming, including organic farming, something which the park will be diversifying into in the coming month.Section 3Good morning everyone, in today’s seminar Grand Freeman, a biologist who specializes in identifying insects and who works for the Australian quarantine service, has come to talk to us about his current research work. Right, well over to you GrandGood morning everyone, I’m sure that you know that the quarantine service regulates all food brought into Australia. Well obviously they want to protect Australia from diseases that might come in with imported goods, but they also want to prevent insect pests from being introduced into the country, and that’s where I have a part to play. Anyway, my current research involves trying to find a particular type of bee, the Asian honey bee and finding out whether there are any of them around in various states of Australia. We discovered a few of them in Queensland once and eradicated them. Now we’re pretty keen to make sure that there aren’t any more getting in, particularly to new south wales and other states.What’s wrong with Asian honey bees, are they so different from Australian bees?Well in fact, they look almost the same but they are infested with mites, microscopic creatures which live on them, and which can seriously damage our own home-grown bees, or could even wipe them out.Well, what would happen if Australian bees died outWell, the honey from Australian bees is of excellent quality, much better than the stuff the Asian bees produce. In fact, Australia exports native queen bees to a large number of countries because of this. When theEuropean honey bee was first discovered out in the bush, we found they made really unpleasant honey and they were also too big to pollinate many of our native flowers here in Australia.That must have had a devastating effect on the natural flora. Did you lose any species?No, we managed to get them under control before that happened. But if Asian bees got in, there could be other consequences. We could lose a lot of money because you might not be aware, but it’s estimated that native bees’ pollination of flowers in vegetable crops is worth 1.2 billion dollars a year. So in a way, they’re the farmer’s friend. Oh, and another thing is if you’re stung by an Asian honey bee, it can produce an allergy reaction on some people, so they are much more dangerous than native bees.How will you know if Asian bees have entered AustraliaWe’re looking at the diet of the bird called the rainbow bee eater, the bee eater doesn’t care what it eats as long as they’re insects, but the interesting thing about this bird is that we’re able to analyze exactly what it eats, so that’s really helpful if we’re looking for introduced insects. How comeBecause insects have their skeletons outside their bodies, so the bee eaters digest the meat from inside, then they bring up all the indigestible bits of skeleton and, of course, the wings in a pellet, a small ball of waste material which they cough up.Sounds a bit unpleasant, so how do you go about itIn the field we track down the bee eaters and find their favorite feeding spots, you know, the places where the birds usually feed. It’s here that we can find the pellets, we collect them up and take them back to the laboratory to examine the contentsHow do you do thatThe pellets are really hard, especially if they’ve been out in the sun for a few days, so first of all, we treat them by adding water to moisten them and make them softer. Then we pour them apart under the microscope, everything’s all scrunched up but we’re looking for wings, so we just pull them all out and straighten them, then we identify them to see if we can find any Asian bee wingsAnd how many have you foundSo far, our research shows that Asian bees have not entered Australia in any number, it’s a good result and much more reliable than trying to find live ones as evidence of introduced insects.Well, that’s fascinating, thank you for those insights, I hope that you might inspire some of our students here to conduct some similar experimentsSection 4I’ve been doing some research into what people in Britain think of doctors, the ones who work in general practice, the first call for medical care, and comparing this with the situation in a couple of other countries.I want to talk about the rationale behind what I decided to do.Now I had to set up my program of research in 3 different countries, so I approached postgraduates in my field in overseas departments, contacting them by email to organize for me at their end. I thought I’d have trouble recruiting help, but in fact everyone was very willing, and sometimes their tutors got involved too.I had to give my helpers clear instructions about what kind of sample population I wanted them to use. I decided that people under 18 should be excluded because most of them are students or looking for their first job. And also I decided at this stage just to focus on men who were in employment, and set up something for people who didn’t have jobs and for employed women later on as a separate investigation.I specifically wanted to do a questionnaire and interviews with a focus group. With the questionnaire, rather than limiting it to one specific point, I wanted to include as much variety as possible. I know questionnaires are very controlled way to do things but I thought I could do taped interviews later on to counteract the effect of this. And the focus group may also prove useful in future, by targeting subjects I can easily return to, as the participants tend to be more involved.So I’m just collating the results now. At the moment, it looked as if in the UK, despite the fact that newspapers continually report that people are unhappy with medical care, in fact it is mainly the third level of care,which take place in hospitals, that they are worried about. Government reforms have been proposed at all levels and although their success is not guaranteed, long-term hospital care is in fact probably less of an issue than the media would have us believe. However I’ve still got quite a bit of data to look at.Certainly I will need to do more far-reaching research than I had anticipated in order to establish if people want extra medical staff invested in the community, or if they want care to revert to fewer but larger key medical units. The solution may well be something that can be easily implemented by those responsible in local government, with central government support of course.This first stage have proved very valuable though. I was surprised by how willing most of the subjects were to get involved in the project. I had expected some unwillingness to answer questions honestly. But I was taken aback and rather concerned that something I thought I’d set up very well didn’t necessarily seem that way to everyone in my department.I thought you might also be interested in some of the problems I encountered in collecting my data. There were odd cases that threw me. One of the subjects who I had approached while he’s out shopping in town, decided to pull out when it came to the second round. It was a shame as it was someone who I would like to have interviewed more closely.And one of the first-year students I interviewed wanted to reassurance that no names would be traceable from the answers. I was so surprised because they think nothing of telling you about themselves and their opinions in seminar groups.Then one of the people that I work with got a bit funny. As the questions were quite personal, and one minute he said he’d do it, then the next day he wouldn’t. and in the end, he did do it. It’s hard not to get angry in that situation but I tried to keep focused on overall picture in order to stay calm.The most bizarre case was a telephone interview I did with a teacher at a university in France, he answered all my questions in great detail, but then when I asked how much access he had to dangerous substances, he。
雅思剑8听力原文
雅思剑8听力原文hi, joanna, good to meet you.你好，joanna，很高兴见到你。
now, before we discuss your new research project,在我们讨论你的新研究项目之前，i'd like to hear something about the psychology study you did last year for your master'sdegree.我想听一听你去年读硕士的时候做过的心理学研究。
so how did you choose your subjects for that?你当时是怎么选择的研究对象?well, i had six subjects, all professional musicians, and all female.我有六个研究对象，全都是专业的音乐家，而且都是女性。
three were violinists and there was also a cello player and a pianist and a flute player.其中三位是小提琴家，还有一位大提琴演奏家，一位钢琴家和一位长笛演奏家。
they were all very highly regarded in the music world and they'd done quite extensive tours indifferent continents,她们在音乐界声望都很高，而且在不同大洲还做过大量的巡回演出，and quite a few had won prizes and competitions as well.她们中不少还赢过一些奖项和比赛。
and they were quite young, weren't they?而且她们还都相当年轻，对吧?yes, between 25 and 29 — the mean was 27.8.是的，都在25-29岁之间，平均年龄是27.8。
剑桥雅思 IELTS 听力原文
Hello?Oh, hello. I wanted to enquire about hiring a room in the Village Hall, for the evening of September the first.Let me just see...Yes, we have both rooms available that evening.There's our Main Hall-that's got seating for 200 people. Or there's the Charlton Room... Sorry?The Charlton Room - C-H-A-R-l-T-0-N.That's got seating for up to one hundred.Well, we're organising a dinner to raise money for a charity, and we're hoping for at least 150 people,so I think we'll go for the Main Hall.How much would that cost?Let's see. You wanted it for the evening of September 1st?Yes, that's a Saturday.So from 6 p. m. to midnight that'd be 115 pounds-that's the weekend price, it's 75 pounds on weekdays.That's all right.And I have to tell you there's also a deposit of 250 pounds, which is returnable of course as long as there's no damage.But we do insist that this is paid in cash, we don't take cards for that.You can pay the actual rent of the room however you like though cash, credit card, cheque... Oh, well I suppose that's OK.So does the charge include use of tables and chairs and so on? Oh, yes.And what about parking?Yeah that's all included.The only thing that isn't included is that...you said you were organising a dinner?Yeah.Well, you'll have to pay extra for the kitchen if you want to use that. It's 25 pounds.It's got very good facilities — good quality cookers and fridges and so on.OK, well I suppose that's all right.We can cover the cost in our entry charges.Right. So I'll make a note of that.Now there are just one or two things you need to think about before the event.For example, you'll have to see about getting a licence if you're planning to have any music during the meal.Oh, really?It's quite straightforward, I'll give you the details later on.And about a week or ten days before your event you'll need to contact the caretaker, that's Mr Evans,to make the arrangements for entry- he'Il sort that out with you.And do I give him the payment as well?No, you do that directly with me.Right. Now is there anything I need to know about what happens during the event?Well, as you'll be aware, of course the building is no smoking throughout.Of course.Now, are you having a band?Yes.Well, they'll have a lot of equipment,so rather than using the front door they should park their van round the back and use the stage door there.You can open that from inside but don't forget to lock it at the end.OK.And talking of bands, I'm sure I don't need to tell you this,but you must make sure that no one fiddles about with the black box by the fire doorthat's a system that cuts in when the volume reaches a certain level. It's a legal requirement. Sure. Anyway, we want people to be able to talk to one another so we don't want anything too loud.Oh, that reminds me, we'll be having speeches-are there any microphones available? Yeah. Just let the caretaker know, he'll get those for you.Right, now when the event is over we do ask that the premises are left in good condition. So there's a locked cupboard and you'Il be informed of the code you need to open that.It's got all the cleaning equipment, brushes and detergent and so on.Right, so what do we need to do after everyone's gone?Sweep the floors I suppose?Well actually they have to be washed not just swept.Then you'll be provided with black plastic bags,so all the rubbish must be collected up and left outside the door.Of course. We'll make sure everything's left tidy.Oh. and I forgot to ask.I presume we can have decorations in the room?Yes, but you must take them down afterwards.Sure.And the chairs and tables should be stacked up neatly at the back of the room.I'll make sure I've got a few people to help me.Test1(section2-1)Welcome to the Fiddy Working Heritage Farm.This open-air museum gives you the experience of agriculture and rural life in the English countryside at the end of the nineteenth century.So you'll see a typical farm of that period, and like me, all the staff are dressed in clothes of that time.I must give you some advice and safety tips before we go any further.As it's a working farm, please don't frighten or injure the animals.We have a lot here, and many of them are breeds that are now quite rare.And do stay at a safe distance from the tools:some of them have sharp points which can be pretty dangerous, so please don't touch them. We don't want any accidents, do we?The ground is very uneven, and you might slip if you're wearing sandalsso I'm glad to see you're all wearing shoes - we always advise people to do that.Now, children of all ages are very welcome here, and usually even very young children love the ducks and lambs,so do bring them along next time you come.I don't think any of you have brought dogs with you, but in case you have,I'm afraid they'll have to stay in the car park, unless they're guide dogs.I'm sure you'll understand that they could cause a lot of problems on a farm.Test1(section2-2)Now let me give you some idea of the layout of the farm.The building where you bought your tickets is the New Barn, immediately to your right,and we're now at the beginning of the main path to the farmland — and of course the car park is on your left.The scarecrow you can see in the car park in the corner beside the main path,is a traditional figure for keeping the birds away from crops, but our scarecrow is a permanent sculpture.It's taller than a human being, so you can see it from quite a distance.If you look ahead of you you'll see a maze.It's opposite the New Barn beside the side path that branches off to the right just over there. The maze is made out of hedges which are too tall for young children to see over them,but it's quite small, so you can't get lost in it!Now can you see the bridge crossing the fish pool further up the main path?If you want to go to the cafe go towards the bridge and turn right just before it.Walk along the side path and the cafe's on the first bend you come to.The building was originally the schoolhouse, and it's well over a hundred years old.As you may know, we run skills workshops here,where you can learn traditional crafts like woodwork and basket-making.You can see examples of the work, and talk to someone about the courses, in the Black Barn. If you take the side path to the right here just by the New Barn you'll come to the Black Barn just where the path first bends.Now I mustn't forget to tell you about picnicking, as I can see some of you have brought your lunch with you.You can picnic in the field, though do clear up behind you, of course.Or if you'd prefer a covered picnic area there's one near the farm yard:just after you cross the bridge there's a covered picnics spot on the right.And the last thing to mention is Fiddy House itself.From here you can cross the bridge then walk along the foot path through the field to the left of the farm yard.That goes to the house, and it'll give you a lovely view of it.It's certainly worth a few photographs, but as it's a private home, I'm afraid you can't go inside. Right. Well, if you're all ready, we'll set off on our tour of the farm.Test1(section3-1)OK, Greg, so I finally managed to read the article you mentionedthe one about the study on gender in physics.About the study of college students done by Akira Miyake and his team?Yeah. I was interested that the researchers were actually a mix of psychologists and physicists. That's an unusual combination.Yeah. I got a little confused at first about which students the study was based on.They weren't actually majoring in physics —they were majoring in what's known as the STEM disciplines.That's science, technology, engineering and...-...and math.Yes, but they were all doing physics courses as part of their studies.That's correct. So as I understood it,Miyake and co started from the fact that women are underrepresented in introductory physics courses at college,and also that on average, the women who do enrol on these courses perform more poorly than the men.No one really knows why this is the case.Yeah. But what the researchers wanted to find out was basically what they could do about the relatively low level of the women's results.But in order to find a solution they needed to find out more about the nature of the problem. Right. Now let's see if I can remember...it was that in the physics class,the female students thought the male students all assumed that women weren't any good at physics...was that it?And they thought that the men expected them to get poor results in their tests.That's what the women thought, and that made them nervous, so they did get poor results. But actually they were wrong...No one was making an assumptions about the female students at all.Anyway, what Miyake's team did was quite simple — getting the students to do some writing before they went into the physics class.What did they call it?Values-affirmation —they had to write an essay focusing on things that were significant to them,not particularly to do with the subject they were studying,but more general things like music or people who mattered to them.Right. So the idea of doing the writing is that this gets the students thinking in a positive way. And putting these thoughts into words can relax them and help them overcome the psychological factors that lead to poor performance. Yeah.But what the researchers in the study hadn't expected was that this one activity raised the women's physics grades from the C to the B range.A huge change. Pity it wasn't to an A, but still!No, but it does suggest that the women were seriously underperforming beforehand, in comparison with the men.Yes. Mind you, Miyake's article left out a lot of details.Like, did the students do the writing just once, or several times?And had they been told why they were doing the writing? That might have affected the results. You mean, if they know the researchers thought it might help them to improve, then they'd just try to fulfil that expectation?Exactly.Test1(section3-2)So anyway, I thought for our project we could do a similar study,but investigate whether it really was the writing activity that had that result.OK.So we could ask them to do a writing task about something completely different...something more factual?Like a general knowledge topic.Maybe...or we could have half the students doing a writing task and half doing something else, like an oral task.Or even, half do the same writing task as in the original research and half do a factual writing task.Then we'd see if it really is the topic that made the difference, or something else.That's it. Good. So at our meeting with the supervisor on Monday we can tell him we've decided on our project.We should have our aims ready by then.I suppose we need to read the original study — the article's just a summary.And there was another article I read, by Smolinsky.It was about her research on how women and men perform in mixed teams in class, compared with single-sex teams and on their own.Let me guess...the women were better at teamwork.That's what I expected, but actually the men and the women got the same results whether they were working in teams or on their own.But I guess it's not that relevant to us.What worries me anyway is how we're going to get everything done in the time.We'll be OK now we know what we're doing.Though I'm not clear how we assess whether the students in our experiment actually make any progress or not...No. We may need some advice on that.The main thing's to make sure we have the right size sample, not too big or too small.That shouldn't be difficult.Right, what do we need to do next?We could have a look at the time table for the science classes...or perhaps we should just make an appointment to see one of the science professors. That'd be better.Great. And we could even get to observe one of the classes.What for?Well...OK maybe let's just go with your idea. Right, well...Test1(section4-1)I've been looking at ocean biodiversity, that's the diversity of species that live in the world's oceans.About 20 years ago biologists developed the idea of what they called 'biodiversity hotspots'. These are the areas which have the greatest mixture of species, so one example is Madagascar. These hotspots are significant because they allow us to locate key areas for focusing efforts at conservation.Biologists can identify hotspots on land, fairly easily,but until recently, very little was known about species distribution and diversity in the oceans, and no one even knew if hotspots existed there.Then a Canadian biologist called Boris Worm did some research in 2005 on data on ocean species that he got from the fishing industry.Worm located five hotspots for large ocean predators like sharks, and looked at what they had in common.The main thing he'd expected to find was that they had very high concentrations of foodbut to his surprise that was only true for four of the hotspots — the remaining hotspot was quite badly off in that regard.But what he did find was that in all cases,the water at the surface of the ocean had relatively high temperatures even when it was cool at greater depths,so this seemed to be a factor in supporting a diverse range of these large predators. However, this wasn't enough on its own, because he also found that the water needed to have enough oxygen in itso these two factors seemed necessary to support the high metabolic rate of these large fish.A couple of years later, in 2007, a researcher called Lisa Ballance, who was working in California,also started looking for ocean hotspots, but not for fishwhat she was interested in was marine mammals things like seals.And she found three places in the oceans which were hotspots,and what these had in common was that these hotspots were all located at boundaries between ocean currents,and this seems to be the sort of place that has lots of the plankton that some of these speciesfeed on.So now people who want to protect the species that are endangered need to get as much information as possible.For example, there's an international project called the Census of Marine Life.They've been surveying oceans all over the world, including the Arctic.One thing they found there which stunned other researchers was that there were large numbers of species which live below the icesometimes under a layer up to 20 meters thick.Some of these species had never been seen before.They've even found species of octopus living in these conditions.And other scientists working on the same project,but researching very different habitats on the ocean floor,have found large numbers of species congregating around volcanoes, attracted to them by the warmth and nutrients there.Test1(section4-2)However, biologists still don't know how serious the threat to their survival is for each individual species.So a body called the Global Marine Species Assessment is now creating a list of endangered species on land.So they consider things like the size of the population — how many members of one species there are in a particular placeand then they look at their distribution in geographical terms.Although this is quite difficult when you're looking at fish, because they're so mobile,and then thirdly the calculate the rate at which the decline of the species is happening.So far only 1,500 species have been assessed, but they want to increase this figure to 20,000. For each one they assess, they use the data they collect on that species to produce a map showing its distribution.Ultimately they will be able to use these to figure out not only where most species are located but also where they are most threatened.So finally, what can be done to retain the diversity of species in the world's oceans? Firstly, we need to set up more reserves in our oceans, places where marine species are protected.We have some, but not enough.In addition, to preserve species such as leatherback turtles,which live out in the high seas but have their nesting sites on the American coast,we need to create corridors for migration, so they can get from one area to another safely. As well as this, action needs to be taken to lower the levels of fishing quotas to prevent overfishing of endangered species.And finally, there's the problem of 'by-catch'.This refers to the catching of unwanted fish by fishing boats — they're returned to the sea, but they're often dead or dying.If these commercial fishing boats used equipment which was more selective,so that only the fish wanted for consumption were caught, this problem could be overcome. OK. So does anyone have any questions...。
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hello,and thank you for asking me to your teachers' meeting to told about the dinosaur museum and to tell you a bit about what you can do with your students on there
Well let me give you some of the basic information first
In regard to opening hours
We are open every day of the week from 9.am to 8.pm except on mondays,when we close it at 1.30 pm
And in fact the only day in the year when we are closed is on the 25th december
You can book a guided tour for your school group any time that we are open
if you bring a school group to the museum
when you arrive we ask you to remain with your group at your car park
one or more of the tour guides will welcome you there
and brief you what the tour will be about
we do this there because our entrance is quite small
and we really haven't got much room for briefing group in the exhibition area
as far as the amount of time you'll need goes
if you bring a school group
you should plan on allowing a minimum of 90 minutes for the visit
this allow 15minutes to get on and off the coach
45 minutes for the guided tour
and 30 minutes for the after tour activities
if you are going to have lunch at the museum
youwill,ofcourse,have to allow to have more time
there are two cafes in the museum
with sitting for 80 people
if you want to eat there you'll need to reserve some seating
as they can get quite crowded at lunch time
then outside the museum at the back there are tables
and students can bring their own lunch and eat there in the open air
when the students coming into the museum foyer
we ask them to check in the backpacks with their books
lunch boxes at the cloakroom
before they enter the museum proper
i am afraid in the past we have had few things gone missing after the school visit
so this is a strict rule
also some of the exhibits are fragile
and we don't want to be accentidentally knocked
but we do provide school students have handouts with questions and quizzes on them
there is so much that students can learn in the museum
and it is fun for them to have something to do
of course they'll need to bring something to write with for these
we do allow students to have photographs
for students who doing projects
it is useful to make some kind of visual record of what they see
that they can add to their reports
and finally
they should not bring anything to eat into the museum
or drinks of any kind
there are also a few things a student can do after the tour
in the theatrette on the ground floor
there are continuous screenings of shout documentaries about dinosaurs which they can see at anytime
we used to have an activity room with more interactive things such as making dinosaur model and drawing and painting pictures and even hunting on the dinosaur eggs
but unfortunately the room was damaged in the bad storm recently when the water came in the roof
so that is closed at the moment
but we do have an it center
where students have access to cd rows
with a range of dinosaur games
this game have a lot of fun
but they also teach the students about the lives of dinosaurs how they found food
protected the habitat
survived threat
that kind of thing
and that's all i have to tell you。