4套听力答案及原文

Section A11. M: I am glad you suggested driving this way today.W: Isn’t it nice to have a change in our routine?Q: What do you learn from the woman’s response?12. M: How would you like to go to McDonald’s for lunch?W: I don’t mind going there, but there is something I hate-it’s too noisy inside especially during the weekends.Q: What does the woman say about lunch at McDonald’s?13. M: Darling, how do you feel about moving to San Francisco? It’s so cold here.W: I couldn’t agree with you more. And the children will have more fun.Q: What do you learn from the conversation?14. W: Professor, have you graded my term paper yet?M: To tell you the truth, I’ve been tied up in committee meeting all week.Q: What can be inferred about the paper?15. W: Matthew wants to know if he can go with us to the party.M: That’s odd, this morning he said he wanted to go by himself.Q: What does the man mean?16. W : If you are interested in gymnastics, the university has an outstanding team.M: I can’t even climb the stairs without having to stop and catch my breath.Q: What does the man mean?17. M: Aren’t you going to the concert in the park tonight?W: Even if I didn’t have a paper to write I’d rather spend an evening at school.Q: What does the woman imply?18.W: I thought Paul might be able to help me figure out this computer program.M: Paul is about the last person I’d ask if I were you.Q: What does the man imply about Paul?Conversation OneM：Now, Madam, can you tell me exactly what happened?W: Yes, I think so. I was right here waiting three…three? Yes, three children playing ball in front of the supermarket. I t’s a dangerous place for children to be playing. I wonder where their parents are. Really! Some people!M: Yes, madam, go on.W: Anyway, a white V olkswagen came up on the right side of the street.M: Did you say a white V olkswagen?W: Uh-huh. There was a bus in front of it, but the bus turned right at the corner. And at the same time a truck came down the other side of the street. What make was it? Uh, Let me think.M: It’s not important. Just go on.W: Well, the Volkswagen stopped at the stop sign and then went on. Well, just at that moment, one of the children kicked the ball into the street and a little boy ran after it.M: So a boy ran into the street.W: He sure did and right in front of the car too. The driver of the car slammed on the brakes but he had to turn to the left. That’s how he ran into the truck. Uh, OK. There was an old lady standing near the bus stop. She saw the whole thing too. Why don’t you ask her? She’ll tell you the exact same thing.M: Don’t worry, madam. We’ll talk to everyone, but which driver was to blame?W: Why, neither driver! It was the child’s fault, clear and simple, coming out behind one parked car.I don’t understand how parents can let their children play in such dangerous places. Really! Parents today! They should...M: Thank you, madam. You are very helpful. If we have any other questions, we’ll be in touch. W: You’re welcome. But those parents should be put in jail. When I was…Questions:19. Where does the dialogue most probably take place?20. What has happened?21. According to the woman, what caused the accident?22. What does the woman think of parents today?Conversation TwoM: Hey, Jane. What’s so interesting?W: What? Oh, hi, Tom. I’m reading this fascinating article on the societies of the Ice Age.M: The Ice Age? There weren’t any societies then. Just a bunch of cave people.W: That’s what people used to think. But a new exhibit of the American Museum of Natural History showed Ice Age people were surprisingly advanced.M: Oh, really? In what ways?W: Well, Ice Age people were the inventors of language, art and music as we know it. And they didn’t live in caves; they built their own shelters.M: What did they use to build them? The cold weather would have killed off most of the trees so they couldn’t have used wood.W: In some of the warmer climate, they did build the houses of wood. In other places, they used animal bones and skins or lived in natural stone shelters.M: How did they stay warm? Animal skin walls don’t sound very sturdy.W: Well, it says here that in the early Ice Age, they often faced the house towards the south to take the advantage of the sun, a primitive sort of solar heating.M: Hey, that’s pretty smart.W: Then people in the late Ice Age even insulated their homes by putting heated cobble stones on the floor.M: I guess I spoke too soon. Can I read that magazine article after you’re done? I think I’m going to try to impress my anthropology teacher with my amazing knowledge of the Ice civilization.W: What a show off.Questions:23. What did the man think of the people in the Ice Age?24. How did people in the early Ice Age keep warm?25. What does the man want the woman to do?Section BPassage OneToday school students in many countries have higher rates of failing eyesight. Two methods have been proposed to prevent near-sighted, one western and one Chinese. The western method was developed by Mr. Bates, a British actor in the early part of the century. He trained people to relax very frequently during the period of intense reading. His method simply included coveringthe eyes with the palms of the hands and looking at distant objects by moving the eyes from sideto side instead of staring straight at them. They then encouraged school children to look frequently at the calendar on the wall of the classroom to relax their eyes. A famous British writer even wrote a book on the beneficial effects of the Bates method on his vision. The traditional Chinese method involves pressing certain points around the eyes with the fingers. This also relaxes its excessive tension in the muscles. It is usually performed by a traditional Chinese doctor. But it can also be done by students themselves. Teachers and parents should encourage pupils to relax their eyes frequently when reading and studying.Questions:26. What was the profession of Mr. Bates?27. According to Mr. Bates, what should people do to protect their eyesight?28. According to the speaker, what should teachers and parents encourage their pupils do? Passage TwoOne of the most urgent problems in teaching handwriting is presented by the left-handed child. The traditional policy has been to attempt to induce all children to write with their right hands. Parents and teachers alike dislike the child’s using his left hand. On the other hand, psychologists have shown beyond a doubt that some people are naturally left-handed and that it is much more difficult for them to do any skillful act with the right hand than with the left hand. Some believe, furthermore, that to compel a left-handed child to write with his right hand may make him nervous and may cause stammering. There seems to be some cases in which this is true, although in the vast majority of children who change over, no ill-effects are noticed. In addition to these difficulties, left-handedness sometimes seems to cause mirror writing-writing from right to left- and reversals in reading, as reading “was” for “saw”.29. Which of the following best serves as the title of the passage?30. What is the author’s implication?31.What’s the possible result of the traditional policy in teaching handwriting?Passage ThreeAdvertising as we know it today did not begin in the United States until after the Civil War. Before that, advertising had consisted mainly of small paragraphs in which a man simply stated what he wanted to sell. Later, Benjamin Franklin became known as the “Father of Advertising”, partly because he used the modern copywriting technique of emphasizing the rewards derived from using a product, rather than simply talking about the product itself.The 19th century is also the period in which trademarks and slogans were born. Manufacturers often advertise a product by associating it with symbol, often a person or an animal, known as a trademark; the trademark for a product may only be used by that particular company. For instance, the trademark of RCA Victor Company is a picture of an old, old record player with a dog listening to the record; it appears in most RCA ads and on most of their products.Slogans and trademarks are still widely used in modern advertising, but generally the approach has become more scientific. With hundreds of products that are nearly identical, an advertiser must somehow make his product look different, even if it really isn’t. It has been said that the two most important words in advertising are “free” and “new”. The middle class American usually assumes that if a product is new, it is always better, and when people aren’t buying a product, calling it “new” often does wonders for its sales.Questions:32. When did modern advertising begin in the United States?33. Why was Benjamin Franklin called the “Father of Advertising”?34.What do we learn about RCA Company?35.What does the talk seem to focus on?Part III11-18 C B C C B C A C19-22 B C AC 23-25 A D B26-28 C B D 29-31 C B D32-35 B D A A36.ancestors 37.original 38. discrimination 39. eventually40.immigrants 41.Surprisingly 42. identity 43. settlement44 They live separately for religious reasons rather than keeping together in a racial group.45. And there is no group that can say they have done the most to make it a great country.46. It’s certain that in the future the United States will still need the help of people from all racial groups to remain a great country.。