大学英语视听说试题及答案

M: Why don't we go to the concert today?W: I'll go get the keys.Q: What does the woman imply?1.A) She's too busy to go to the concert.B) She'll go with the man soon.C) She prefers to go to the movies instead.D) She'll go with the man next time.Your answer Correct answerBW: I can't find my purse anywhere. The opera tickets are in it. M: Have you checked in the car?Q: What does the man imply?2.A) The man should check in the car before it is too late.B) The purse might be in the car.C) The woman might find the purse by the bar.D) It is too late to look for the purse.Your answer Correct answerBM: Are you going to buy that pirated CD?W: Do I look like a thief?Q: What does the woman imply?3.A) She likes a CD on thieves and robbers.B) The man looks like a pirate.C) She will probably buy the CD.D) She won't buy the CD.Your answer Correct answerDM: Do you think the singer is pretty?W: Let's just say that I wouldn't vote for her in the local beauty contest. Q: What does the woman imply about the singer?4.A) If the singer were in a beauty contest, she might win.B) The singer is a very pretty woman.C) The singer is unattractive.D) No votes were cast for the singer at the beauty contest.Your answer Correct answerCM: Have you seen Tom? I can't find him anywhere.W: The light in his dorm was on just a few minutes ago.Q: What does the woman mean?5.A) He might be in the dorm right now.B) He will return to his dorm in a few hours.C) The woman has no idea where he is.D) He has left for his vacation.Your answer Correct answerAEncore!1. As soon as the singer finished the song, the audience screamed for another song.T FYour answer Correct answerF2. The singer was very glad to sing the song a second time.T FYour answer Correct answerT3. The singer sang the song ten times.T FYour answer Correct answerF4. The singer wanted to know why the audience liked the song so much.T FYour answer Correct answerT5. The audience greatly enjoyed the song.T FYour answer Correct answerFAs soon as the singer completed the song, the audience cried, "Encore! Encore!" The singer was delighted and sang the song again. She couldn't believe it when the audience shouted for her to sing it again. The cycle of shouts and songs was repeated ten more times. The singer was overjoyed with the response from the audience. She thanked them and asked them why they were so much interested in hearing the same song again and again. One of the people in the audience replied, "We wanted you to improve it; now it is much better."Mozart1. Which of the following is true of Mozart?A) Good at both business and finance.B) Good at business, though he had financialproblems.C) A successful musician and businessman.D) A successful musician but a bad businessman.Your answer Correct answerD2. How long has Mozart's fame lasted?A) Over 200 years.B) Less than 200 years.C) Ever since 1756.D) Even before 1756.Your answer Correct answerA3. Which of the following is true of the four-year-old Mozart?A) He was a slow learner.B) He displayed a gift for music.C) He mastered the harpsichord.D) He composed music.Your answer Correct answerB4. What could Mozart do at the age of six?A) He could write music.B) He could perform music.C) Both A) and B).D) Neither A) nor B).Your answer Correct answerC5. Which of the following is not mentioned as one of Mozart'saccomplishments while he was in his early teens?A) He was able to play the piano well.B) He was able to play the violin well.C) He was able to play all parts in a symphony.D) He was able to compose an opera.Your answer Correct answerCMozart was a fascinating musician and composer whose fame continues to grow more than two centuries after his death. He was born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1756. Before the age of four, he had shown great musical talent. His father then decided to let him start taking harpsichord lessons. The boy's reputation as a musical talent grew fast. At five, he was composing music. From that time on, Mozart was performing in concerts and writing music. By his early teens, hehad mastered the piano, violin and harpsichord, and was writing symphonies and operas. His first major opera was performed in Milan in 1770, when he was only fourteen. At fifteen, Mozart became the conductor for an orchestra in Salzburg. In 1781, he left for Vienna, where he was in great demand as both a performer and a composition teacher. His first opera was a success. But life was not easy because he was a poor businessman, and his finances were always in a bad state. His music from the next decade was not very popular, and he eventually fell back on his teaching jobs for a living. In 1788 he stopped performing in public, preferring only to compose. He died in 1791 at the age of thirty-five. Although he lived only a short life, he composed over 600 works.The Carpenters1. The man never gets tired of the Carpenters' songs because2. The woman likes their songs because their voices3.Richard and Karen are brother and4.their appearances.5.going to the concert.(1) beautiful and clear(2) blend well(3) sister(4) worry too much(5) more importantW: They play "Yesterday Once More" all the time on the campus radio. Do you like it?M: I do. I never get tired of it. I like the Carpenters. Their voices are so beautiful and clear. I guess that's why they're so popular.W: I like the way their voices blend. There were just two of them, brother and sister, right?M: Yes, Richard and Karen I think they were. She died I think.W: Yes, anorexia. It is hard to believe that someone so beautiful would starve herself to death.M: It's a problem everywhere in the world, including China, I'm afraid. Women worry too much about their appearances, and are so crazy about losing weight.W: Well, let's go for lunch before we go to the concert.The Origin of the Song"Happy Birthday to You"The story of the song "Happy Birthday to You" began as a sweet one, but later became bitter. Two sisters, Mildred Hill, a teacher at a kindergarten, and Dr. Patty Hill, the principal of the same school, wrote a song together for the children, entitled "Good Morning to All". When Mildred combined her musical talents with her sister's knowledge in the area of kindergarten education, "Good Morning to All" was sure to be a success. The sisters published the song in a collection entitled "Song Stories of the Kindergarten" in 1893. Thirty-one years later, after Dr. Patty Hill became the head of the Department of Kindergarten Education at Columbia University's Teachers College, a gentleman by the name of Robert Coleman published the song, without the sisters' permission. He added a second part, which is the familiar "Happy Birthday to You". Mr. Coleman's addition of the second part made the song popular and, finally, the sisters' original first part disappeared. "Happy Birthday to You" had altogether replaced the sisters' original song "Good Morning to All". In 1916 Patty took legal action against Mr. Coleman. In court, shesucceeded in proving that they were the real owners of the song.Karaoke1. A bunch of Americans are going to a karaoke bar.T FYour answer Correct answerF2. American bars also have special karaoke rooms.T FYour answer Correct answerF3. Chinese often spend time with friends in a karaoke bar.T FYour answer Correct answerT4. In America there are many famous singing groups but fewopportunities for karaoke singing.T FYour answer Correct answerT5. Both Americans and Chinese prefer to dance to music.T FYour answer Correct answerFDalin: It's Mike's birthday on Friday, so a bunch of us are going to go to the karaoke bar. Would you like to come with us?Laura: Karaoke bar? You have a special place just for singing? In America, bars sometimes have a karaoke night where the customers can sing a song, but we haven't special karaoke bars!Dalin: Really? In China, karaoke is a very popular way for friends to spend time together. We can select the music that our group enjoys. We mostly sing pop songs.Laura: Do you sing individually or in groups? Singing is not a very in thing, so I don't sing very well.Dalin: I'm surprised that you don't sing much in America. So many really cool groups come from there.Laura: Yeah, music is popular, but mostly we just listen to it.Dalin: If you just listen to it, you miss out on a lot of fun.Laura: Well, we sometimes dance to the music.When was music first sent downa telephone line?So you think downloading music from the Internet through a phone line is a really cool modern thing? Not so. In 1896, Thaddeus Cahill filed a patent on the instrument for transmitting music electronically, and until 1914 he sent music signals down telephone lines with this instrument. And he wasn't even the first. Elisha Gray transmitted music over a telephone line in 1876, which was the same year the telephone was invented. Gray invented the first electronic music instrument in 1874, calling it the "Musical Telegraph". Alexander Graham Bell also designed an experimental "Electric Harp" for speech to be transmitted over a telephone line using technology similar to Gray's. Bell was a speech teacher for the deaf. In 1879, he created an instrument to measure hearing loss. That is why the degrees of loudness came to be measured in bels or decibels.。