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河南省驻马店市2023-2024学年高三上学期1月期末英语试题含答案
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1. What does the woman ask the boy to stop doing?A. Getting out of the elevator.B. Going to the playground.C. Jumping in the elevator.2. What will happen about the city center?A. There will be more pollution.B. There will be more parking areas.C. There will be more bicycle tracks.3. How will the woman pay?A. In cash.B. By credit card.C. By check.4. Why is the woman unsatisfied with the fish?A. It tastes terrible.B. It is served too late.C. It’s not what she ordered.5. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a restaurant.B. At a gas station.C. In a theatre.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。
新编大学英语(浙大 第三版 4)视听说教程 unit8听力原文及答案
Part 1Listening 1Ex1: 1) rocks 2) Yes 3) stones 4) not 5)sand 6) No 7) waterEx2:1) time management business students 2) wide-mouthed produce at a time 3) dumped work themselves down 4) grabbed filled to the top illustration5)eager beaver how full your schedule is fit some more things 6) get them in at all Script:One day an expert on the subject of time management was speaking to a group of business students and, to stress a point, used an illustration I'm sure those students will never forget. After I share it with you, you'll never forget it either.As this man stood in front of the group of high-powered overachievers, he said, "Ok, time for a quiz." He pulled out a large, wide-mouthed jar and set it on a table in front of him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar.When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar full?"Everyone in the class said, "Yes."Then he said, "Really?" He reached under the table and pulled out a bag of little stones. Then he dumped some of them in and shook the jar causing the little stones to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks.Then he smiled and asked the group once more, "Is the jar full?" By this time the class was onto him. "Probably not," one of them answered. "Good!" he replied. And he reached under the table and brought out a bag of sand. He started dumping the sand in and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the little stones. Once more he asked the question, "Is this jar full?""No!" the class shouted. Once again he said, "Good!" Then he grabbed a bottle of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the top. Then he looked up at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?"One eager beaver raised his hand and said, "The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can always fit some more things into it!""No," the speaker replied, "that's not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us is: If you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all."Listening 2Ex1: B C A B D C B B A DEx2: F T F F TScripts:Throughout the day, energy rises and falls. At its peak, you're likely to perform 30 to 40 percent faster and more accurately, than at its lowest, says Lynne Lamberg. So by synchronizing your schedule with your natural energy supply ,it will help you use it more efficiently.She also says, alertness is highest and concentration the most between 9a.m. and early afternoon—the best time to crunch numbers or write a report. You should dive into the hardest tasks first, and your extend high-energy mornings with a late lunch. Many people are still going strong until 1 or 2 p.m., so why break the momentum?During mid-afternoon, you might attend to some routine tasks, such as paying bills or sorting through a pile of junk mail. Work that involves physical activity, such as running down the hall tophotocopy a memo, or talking to other people (that includes phone calls)—will keep your energy level from dropping way down.When full alertness returns—around 4 p.m.—you might do a few small projects that give you a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. Send off an important letter. Or plan and prioritize for the next day.The dark side of your cycle is equally important: For daylong energy we need a good night's sleep. On average, Americans get about seven-and-one-half hours, although some need more and others get by on less. We 're getting enough sleep if we wake up without the help of an alarm clock and don't feel the urge to nap during the day.Listening 3Ex1: 1) London 2) What a wonderful Life 3) Globe 4) changes developmentsnatural resources cities nuclear warEx2: T F T T FScript:(Do you feel depressed when you read newspapers? Does the news always seem bad? To many people it does, but not to Alexander Dubois, a French scientist living in London. Unlike many scientists, he believes that the world will be a better place in the future. His book, What a Wonderful Life, will be on sale, and Globe sent Reporter Catherine Brown to talk to him. Here is part of their conversation.)Catherine Brown: What changes will we see in the next few years?Alexander Dubois: Today, work is the most important part of many people's lives.In the future, machines will do much of our work. This meansthat we'll have more time to think about how to live happily.Catherine Brown: What developments will there be in medical science?Alexander Dubois: The day will come when we will eliminate killer diseases suchas diphtheria and typhoid. Also, there will be fewer babiesborn with birth defects because doctors will be able to operateon children before they are born.Catherine Brown: And what about natural resources? Will there be an adequatesupply of coal, oil and gas?Alexander Dubois: Of course! Research shows that there are sufficient resourcesfor the next 20,000 years within one kilometer of the earth'ssurface.Catherine Brown: Will cities continue to grow and become more and moreovercrowded?Alexander Dubois: No, they won't. People will return to smaller communitieswhere they can really know their neighbors and participate incommunity life.Catherine Brown: Aren't you worried about the possibility of nuclear war?Alexander Dubois: Yes, I am. I expect there will be a nuclear war in the future,but it won't end our world. Life will continue.Statements:1. Alexander Dubois holds an optimistic point of view for the world's future.2. Alexander Dubois believes that, people's jobs will play the most important part in their lives.3. Alexander Dubois thinks that,6 some defects in babies will be treated before birth.4. Alexander Dubois predicts that someday some people will move from big cities to smallercommunities.5. Alexander Dubois believes that a nuclear war can be the end of the world.Listening 4Ex1: e c b f a dEx2:1)biased 2) unaware 3) success 4) fun 5)control 6) environment7) flexibility 8)optimal 9)wings 10）exploreScripts:Professor Zimbardo: Time perspectives are easy to identify when people are making decisions. For some people, it’s only about what is in the immediate situation, what other people are doing, and what they are feeling. And those people, when they make their decision in that form, we’re going to call “present-oriented”, because their focus is what is now.Student A: Then maybe , I’m not ”present-oriented”. It seems what I care most is always what will be in the future.Professor Zimbardo: Yes. You might be among those ”future-oriented”. There focus is always about anticipated consequences. OK, anybody here who is neither “present-oriented”nor “future-oriented”?Student B: Myself. I think neither of your description about this two time perspectives fits me well.Professor Zimbardo: Then you mast belong to the third type. We call them “pat-oriented”because they focus on what was. For them, both the present and the future are irrelevant. Thire decisions are based on past memories.Student B: That’s true, but sometimes, I just fell my time perspectives are a mixture. Professor Zimbardo: That’s very likely the case. There are actually six time perspectives: past-positive or past-negative; present-hedonistic or present-fatalist: future-oriented or transcendental future, as a matter of fact, these six time perspectives might coexist in a person. But they are biased in different situations. Either of them may rise to be the dominating one that influences us to make decisions. But we’re totally unaware.Student A: But do those perspectives show bias in their influence on human life, for example, positive or negative?Professor Zimbardo: In a sense, that’s right. Any time perspective in excess has more negatives than positives, you know what those future-oriented people sacrifice for success. They sacrifice family time . they sacrifice friend time. They sacrifice fun time. And they sacrifice sleep. So it affects their health. And they live for work, achievement and control.Student B: Yes. That’s ture. We just never realized that before. But professor, do you think time perspective is something inherent or something we learn?Professor Zimbardo: People’s time perspectives result from the social environment and their life experiences, and they can be learned and be changed . That’s the last point I want to make today.one needs to develop the mental flexibility to shift time perspectives fluidly, depending on the demands of the situation; that’s what you’re got to learn to do. The optimal temporal mix is What you get from the past-positive gives you roots. What you get from the future is wings to soar to new destinations, new challenges. What you get from the present hedonism is energy, the energy to explore yourself, places, people, sensuality.Further ListeningListening 1Ex1: F F F F T T F TEx2: 1)friend 2) end 3) weeks 4)know 5)terrible 6)rang 7)younger 8)tired 9)game 10）make 11）show 12）thinking 13）distance 14）corner 15）telegram 16）deserveScripts:Around the Cornerby Henson TowneAround the corner I have a friend,In this great city that has no end.Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,And before I know it, a year is gone.And I never see my old friend's face,For life is a swift and terrible race,He knows I like him just as well,As in the days when I rang his bell,And he rang mine.But we were younger then,And now we are busy, tired men.Tired of playing a foolish game,Tired of trying to make a name."Tomorrow," I say, "I will call on JimJust to show that I'm thinking of him."But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,And distance between us grows and grows.Around the corner! — yet miles away."Here's a telegram sir—Jim died today."And that's what we get and deserve in the end.Around the corner , a vanished friend.Listening 2Ex1: 1)clocks 2) promptness efficiency 3) impatient 4) household appliances save time 5)control miss avoidEx2: F T F F FScript:Almost every American wears a watch, and in nearly every room in an American home,there's a clock. "Be on time." "Don't waste time." "Time is money." "Time waits for no one." All of these familiar sayings reflect the American obsession with promptness and efficiency. Students and employees displease their teachers and bosses when they arrive late. This desire to get the most out of every minute often affects behavior, making Americans impatient when they have to wait. The pressure to make every moment count sometimes makes it difficult for Americans to relax and do nothing.The desire to save time and handle work efficiently also leads Americans to buy many kinds of machines. These range from household appliances to equipment for the office such as calculators, photocopy machines and computers. One popular machine is the videocassette recorder, which gives Americans a new kind of control over time. Fans of professional football don't have to miss the Sunday afternoon game on TV because of a birthday party. They simply videotape it and watch the game in the evening. What's more, they can actual save time by fast-forwarding through all the sales ads and commercials shown during te game. So a 3.5-hour game, seen later on, might only last 1.5 hours.Listening 3Ex1: A B A B DEx2: 1)pessimistic 2)doubled 3)coal 4)chickens 5) artificial 6)well-designed7)fresher 8)leading 9)unnecessaryScript:What will life be like 100 years from now? Some experts are optimistic; others, far more pessimistic. They think that by then the population will have doubled. We will have run out of essential materials, like oil and coal. We may even have run out of water to drink. They believe that we will be living like chickens- living in little boxes, and eating artificial food.But those who are more optimistic say that life in the future will be much better than it is today. We may be living in well-designed , systematic communities. We may be getting more sunlight, breathing fresher air, living in a better environment and leading far more pleasant lives than we are today.Life will certainly have become far more mechanized by the year 2100. It may even have become too mechanized. Mechanization has already caused quite a few problems and will cause still mo re. For example, many jobs will have been “automated”. People will no longer be able to learn only one job in their lifetime. Many of the jobs that young people are doing today will have become unnecessary by the time they are 40.Questions:1. What can definitely be said of life in the next century?2. What does "many jobs will be 'automated'" mean according to the passage?3. What will the influence of automation be upon people in terms of employment?4. Is there any possibility hat some jobs will disappear in decades from now? Why or why not?5. What would the future job market look like?Listening 4Ex1: F T T F FEx2: 1) Because they could have a large house and yard there2) The cities have grown larger3) During the last 10 or 15 years of the 20th century4) Because they want to change them into apartment buildings5) It saves people time for traveling back and forthScript:Starting in the early 1900s, many Americans living and working in large cities moved to the suburbs. They wanted to live where they could have a large house and yard, instead of a small apartment with no yard. The problem that this has brought is that as the cities have grown larger, people must travel a long way to their place of work. Often the trip takes as much as two hours each way. Thus they have very little time to enjoy their houses and yards.Therefore, during the last decades of the 20th century, some people became interested in moving back to the business areas of the cities. Many old buildings with businesses or factories on the first few floors have upper floors that are empty- Other old buildings are completely empty. Architects have been buying these buildings and changing them into attractive apartment buildings. Most have large comfortable rooms with big windows, which let in a lot of light. The apartments in these buildings are quickly bought by people who want to move back downtown. As one new apartment owner said, "I don't have a yard anymore, but I also don't have to sit in my car for over three hours a day. And there are nearby parks that I can visit now that I have more time."。
外研社英语教材第一册01-04 听力材料
MODULE 1 My first Day at Senior High [00:58.27]READING AND VOCABULARY[01:01.75]3.Read the school diary and find ... 1 something about this school[01:09.57]which is different from Li Kang's Junior High school.[01:13.35]2 two things that the English teacher thinks are important to do in class. [01:20.95]3 two things that the English teacher wants to improve.[01:28.09]My first Day at Senior High[01:33.11]My name is Li Kang. I live in Shijia zhuang, a city not far from Beijing.[01:40.59]it is the capital city of Hebei Province.[01:44.36]Today is my first day at Senior High school[01:48.27]and I'm writing down my thoughts about it.[01:53.47]My new school is very good and I can see why.[01:57.93]The teachers are very enthusiastic and friendly[02:01.67]and the classrooms are amazing.[02:04.76]Every room has a computer with a special screen,[02:08.72]almost as big as a cinema screen. The teachers write on the computer,[02:15.17]and their words appear on the screen behind them.[02:19.88]The screens also show photographs, text and information from websites. [02:26.29]They're brilliant! The English class is really interesting.[02:31.70]The teacher is a very enthusiastic 20 woman called Ms Shen.[02:37.41]We're using a new textbook[02:40.25]and Ms Shen's method of teaching is nothing like[02:44.29]that of the teachers at my Junior High school.[02:48.56]She thinks that READING 25 com- prehension is important,[02:52.40]but we speak a lot in class, too. And we have fun.[02:57.40]I don't think I will be bored in Ms Shen's class![03:01.94]Today we introduced ourselves to each other. We did this in groups.[03:08.02]Some students were embarrassed at first[03:11.11]but everyone was very friendly and it was really nice.[03:15.42]Ms Shen gave us instructions and then we worked by ourselves.[03:21.18]Ms Shen wants to help us improve our spelling and handwriting.[03:27.54]We do this in a fun way, with spelling games and other activities.[03:33.34]I like her attitude very much,[03:36.20]and the behaviour of the 40 other students shows that they like her,too.[03:42.06]There are sixty-five students in my class[03:45.22]—more than my previous class in Junior High.[03:49.08]Forty-nine of them are girls.[03:51.90]in other words, there are three times as many girls as boys.[03:57.52]They say that girls are usually more hardworking than boys,[04:02.30]but in this class, everyone is hard- working.[04:07.46]For our homework tonight,[04:09.26]we have to write a description of the street where we live.[04:12.98]I'm looking forward to doing it![04:27.63]Word List academic [,╗k╓'demik] adj.学院的,理论的[04:32.25]province ['pr╛vins] n.省[04:33.84]enthusiastic [in,╙ju:zi'╗stik] adj.热心的,热情的[04:36.20]amazing [╓'meizi╕] adj.令人惊异的[04:37.86]information [,inf╓'mei╞╓n] n. 信息[04:39.93]website ['websait] n. 网站;网址[04:41.74]brilliant ['brilj╓nt] adj.(口语)极好的[04:43.45]comprehension [,k╛mpri'hen╞╓n] n.理解,包含[04:45.38]instruction [in'str╘k╞╓n] n.指示,用法说明(书)[04:47.40]method ['me╙╓d] n.方法bored [b╛:d] adj. 无聊的,无趣的[04:50.66]embarrassed [im'b╗r╓s] vt.使困窘,使局促不安[04:52.52]attitude['╗titju:d] n.姿势,态度[04:54.18]behaviour [bi'heivj╓] n.行为,举止[04:56.04]previous['pri:vj╓s] adj.在前的,早先的[04:57.63]description [dis'krip╞╓n] n.描写,记述[04:59.56]amazed [╓'meizd] adj.吃惊的,惊奇的[05:01.11]embarrassing [im'b╗r╓si╕] adj. 令人为难的[05:02.74]technology [tek'n╛l╓d╜i] n.技术[05:04.55]impress [im'pres] vt.印,盖印,留下印象[05:06.26]correction [k╓'rek╞╓n] n.改正,修正[05:07.98]encouragement [in'k╘rid╜m╓nt] n. 鼓励,奖励[05:09.90]enjoyment [in'd╜╛im╓nt] n. 享乐,快乐,享受乐事[05:12.18]fluency ['flu╓nsi] n. 流利,流畅[05:14.03]misunderstanding [mis╘nd╓'st╘ndi╕] n. 误会,误解[05:16.56]disappointed [,dis╓'p╛intid] adj. 失望的[05:20.73]system ['sist╓m] n. 系统,体系,制度,体制[05:22.28]teenager ['tI:n,eid╜╓] n. 十几岁的青少年[05:24.09]disappear [,dis╓'pi╓] vi. 消失,不见[05:26.19]move [mu:v] vi.搬家assistant [╓'sist╓nt] n.助手,助教[05:29.50]cover ['k╘v╓] n.包含diploma[di'pl╓um╓] n.文凭,毕业证书[05:43.54]LISTENING AND VOCABULARY[05:46.68]3.Read the sentences in activity 2 again. Answer these questions.[05:57.08]Now listen to the conversation and check your answers.[06:02.56]LISTENING content[07:34.36]4.Listen again and answer these questions. Add information.[09:13.32]PRONUNCIATION -ed endings[09:18.39]1.Listen to the PRONUNCIATION of these words.[09:22.79]What is different about the PRONUNCIATION[09:25.45]of the ends of the words in the different groups?[09:29.42]1 amazed bored tired 2 embarrassed[09:39.47]3 disappointed excited interested[09:48.09]2.Listen and repeat the sentences in Grammar 2 activity 3.Module 2 My New Teachers INTRODUCTION [10:53.40]Vocabulary and LISTENING[10:56.77]4.Look at the statements in activity 3 again.[11:01.78]Listen to Alex,an English student,and tick the sentences that he agrees with.[11:10.07]LISTENING content[12:24.86]READING AND VOCABULARY[12:27.09]1.Read My New Teachers. Answer these questions.[12:32.74]1 Which teachers do students like a lot?[12:37.65]2 Who is a very good teacher but is serious and strict?[12:44.84]My New Teachers I hey say that first impressions are very important.[12:52.16]My first impression of Mrs Li was that she was nervous and shy.[12:58.45]I think perhaps she was, as it was her first lesson with us.[13:03.88]But now, after two weeks, the class really likes working with her.[13:09.59]She's kind and patient,[13:12.05]and she explains English grammar so clearly that even I can understand it! —[13:17.81]She avoids making you feel stupid! I've always hated making mistakes[13:23.12]or pronouncing a word incorrectly when I speak English,[13:26.95]but Mrs Li just smiles, so that you don't feel completely stupid![13:32.84]I think maybe she goes a bit too slowly for the faster students,[13:37.24]but for me it's wonderful!I feel I'm going to make progress with her.[13:43.70]I'd guess that Mrs Chen is almost sixty.[13:48.09]She's very strict — we don't dare to say a word unless she asks us to.[13:54.15]She's also very serious and doesn't smile much.[13:59.00]When she asks you to do something, you do it immediately![14:04.32]There are a few students in our class who keep coming to class late[14:09.18]but they're always on time for Mrs Chen's lessons![14:13.23]Some of our class don't like her, but most of us really appreciate her[14:18.72]because her teaching is so well organised and clear.[14:22.84]And a few students even admit liking her![14:27.18]During scientific experiments, she explains exactly what is happening[14:32.90]and as a result my work is improving.[14:36.88]Physics will never be my favourite lesson,[14:40.04]but I think that I'll do well in the exam with Mrs Chen teaching me.[14:45.34]Mr Wu's only been teaching us for two weeks and he's already very popular [14:52.15]I think this is because he really enjoys teaching Chinese literature —[14:57.00]he loves it,in fact![14:59.63]He's got so much energy, this is one class you do not fall asleep in![15:05.69]He's about 28, I think, and is rather good-looking.[15:10.60]He talks loudly and fast, and waves his hands about a lot when he gets excited [15:17.62]He's really amusing and tells jokes when he thinks we're getting bored. [15:22.87]Even things like compositions and summaries are fun with Mr Wu.[15:27.62]I respect him a lot.[15:41.72]Word list amusing[╓'mju:zi╕] adj.有趣的[15:46.18]energetic [,en╓'d╜etik] adj. 精力充沛的[15:47.79]intelligent [in'telid╜╓nt] adj.聪明的[15:49.61]nervous ['n╓:v╓s] adj. 神经紧张的,不安的[15:51.45]organised ['╛:g╓naiz] vt. 组织,创办[15:53.15]patient ['pei╞╓nt] adj.耐心的serious ['si╓ri╓s] adj.严肃的[15:56.36]shy [╞ai] adj.怕羞的,害羞的strict [strikt] adj.严格的,严厉的[15:59.43]impression [im'pre╞╓n] n.印象[16:00.69]avoid [╓'v╛id] vt.避免,消除hate /heit/ vt. 憎恨,不喜欢[16:04.23]incorrectly /,ink╓'rektli/ adv. 不正确地[16:06.30]completely [k╓m'pli:tli] adv. 十分,完全地[16:08.06]immediately [i'mi:dj╓tli] adv. 立即,马上,直接地[16:10.30]appreciate [╓'pri:╞ieit] vt.感激[16:11.84]admit [╓d'mit] v.承认[16:13.67]scientific [sai╓n'tifik] adj.科学的[16:15.72]literature ['lit╓rit╞╓] n.文学[16:17.54]loudly ['laudli] adv. 大声地wave [weiv] vt. 挥手[16:20.80]joke [d╜╓uk] n.笑话,玩笑summary ['s╘m╓ri] n.摘要,概要[16:23.84]respect [ris'pekt] n.尊敬,敬重grade [greid] n.成绩；分数[16:26.97]headmaster [hed'ma:st╓(r)] n.校长[16:28.97]headmistress ['hed'mistris] n.女校长[16:30.80]period ['pi╓ri╓d] n.一段时间[16:32.40]revision [ri'vi╜╓n] n.复习[16:33.88]translation [tr╗ns'lei╞╓n] n. 翻译[16:35.77]timetable ['taimteib(╓)l] n. 时间表[16:37.38]topic ['t╛pik] n. 话题, 主题[16:38.91]vacation [v╓'kei╞╓n] n. 假期[16:40.63]revise [ri'vaiz] vt.温习(功课)[16:42.52]discipline ['disiplin] n.纪律[16:44.00]relationship [ri'lei╞╓n╞ip] n. 关系[16:46.06]formal ['f╛:m╓l] adj.正式的relaxed [ri'l╗kst] adj.不严格的,放松的[16:49.25]similarly ['simil╓li] adv. 同样地, 类似于[17:01.87]LISTENING AND VOCABULARY[17:04.51]2.Work in pairs.[17:07.48]You will hear a conversation between an English teacher and his students. [17:12.97]Complete the sentences with the words in bold in activity 1.[19:10.18]3.Listen to the conversation again and choose the right answer.[21:07.13]PRONUNCIATION 1.Listen and repeat these words.Notice the stressed sound. [21:18.20]choice test fail student junior[21:27.70]playground exam revision vacation[21:35.34]2.Underline the stressed sound in these words. Now listen and check[21:43.91]pass result senior school subject topic translationMODULE 3 My first ride on a train [22:24.77]READING AND VOCABULARY[22:27.73]3.Read My First Ride on a Train. What's the passage about?[22:37.11]a train ride to Sydney taking the train to Australia[22:43.27]travelling to the central part of Australia[22:46.75]a child visiting her grandmother My first ride on a train[22:54.93]My name is Alice Thompson.I come from Sydney, Australia and I'm 18 years old [23:03.26]Recently I had my first ride on a longdistance train. And what a ride![23:10.30]A friend and I travelled on the famous Ghan train.[23:14.57]We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs,[23:18.53]right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometres away. [23:24.23]We spent two days and nights on the train.[23:28.69]The train was wonderful and the food was great.[23:32.86]We ate great meals cooked by experts![23:36.81]For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey,[23:39.88]the scenery was very colourful.[23:42.75]There were fields and the soil was dark red.[23:46.45]After that, it was desert.[23:49.25]The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky.[23:55.54]Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time.[24:00.00]We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago. [24:06.00]The train was comfortable and the people were nice.[24:10.06]During the day, I sat and looked out of the window,[24:14.10]and sometimes talked to other passengers.[24:17.07]I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes[24:21.02](I'm studying Chinese at school). One night, at about midnight,[24:26.79]I watched the night sky for about an hour. The stars shone like diamonds. [24:33.91]Why is the train called the Ghan?[24:37.06]A long time ago,[24:38.50]Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country.[24:43.06]They tried riding horses,[24:45.15]but the horses didn't like the hot weather and sand.[24:49.31]A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some camels from A fghanistan. [24:54.91]Ghan is short for Afghanistan.[24:58.86]Camels were much better than horses for travelling a long distance.[25:03.53]For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies,[25:08.47]and returned with wool and other products.[25:12.47]The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s.[25:17.23]Then the government built a new railway line,[25:20.10]so they didn't need the camels any more.[25:23.45]in 1925, they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals [25:28.53]if they were a problem.[25:30.80]in 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day.[25:50.45]Word list helicopter ['helik╛pt╓] n.直升(飞)机, 直升机[25:54.84]motorbike ['m╓ut╓baik] n. 摩托车[25:56.66]tram [tr╗m] n. 有轨电车[25:58.52]distance ['dist╓ns] n. 距离[26:00.07]abandoned [╓'b╗nd╓nd] adj. 被抛弃的[26:01.87]camel ['k╗m╓l] n.骆驼cassette [ka:'set] n.盒子, 盒式磁带[26:05.13]desert [di'z╓:t] n.沙漠diamond ['dai╓m╓nd] n.钻石[26:08.14]expert ['eksp╓:t] n.专家midnight ['mid,nait] n.午夜[26:11.63]product ['pr╛d╓kt] n.产品 scenery ['si:n╓ri] n.风景, 景色[26:15.22]shoot [╞u:t] n.射击soil [s╛il] n.土壤[26:18.67]journey ['d╜╓:ni] n.旅行, 旅程train [trein] vt.训练[26:21.71]circus ['s╓:k╓s] n.马戏团seaside ['si:said] n.海滨[26:25.50]stadium ['steidi╓m] n.露天大型运动场eagle ['i:gl] n.鹰[26:29.23]frighten ['fraitn] vt.使惊吓vi.惊恐[26:31.17]kindergarten ['kind╓,ga:tn] n. 幼儿园[26:33.09]apartment [╓'pa:tm╓nt] n.<美>公寓住宅, 单元住宅[26:34.72]cartoon [ka:'tu:n] n.卡通画, 漫画[26:36.70]interview ['int╓vju:] vt.接见, 会见[26:38.68]interviewer ['int╓vju:╓(r)] n. 会见者[26:40.52]event [i'vent] n. 事件[26:41.86]exhausted [ig'z╛:stid] adj. 耗尽的, 疲惫的[26:44.09]downtown ['dauntaun] adv.商业区；市中心vacuum ['v╗kju╓m] n.真空, 空间[26:47.45]rail [reil] n.铁轨ceremony['serim╓ni] n.仪式[26:50.84]track [tr╗k] n.轨迹[26:52.43]souvenir ['su:v╓ni╓] n. 纪念品[27:04.84]LISTENING Listen to part of an interview[27:10.39]with a 90-year-old silent movie actress called Mary Lennon.[27:15.35]She was born in England but went to America to make films in the 1930s.[27:21.89]Answer the questions.[27:25.25]LISTENING content[29:41.15]2.Match the questions and answers.[29:46.77]PRONUNCIATION Word stress in sentences[29:51.84]Work in pairs.Listen and underline the words which are stressed.[29:57.90]These are the main ideas. I:Did you travel by plane?[30:04.38]M:By plane? No, of course not! We travelled by ship![30:12.02]I:How long did that take? M:About seven days. I:Did you enjoy it?[30:20.31]M:No! I hated it! I:Why?Were you sick? M:No, I was bored!Module 4 Social Survey MyNeighbourhood [30:48.88]READING AND VOCABULARY[30:52.50]A Lively City (XL=Xiao Li, JM=John Martin)[30:54.63]XL:It's great to see you again, John. JM:It's great to see you![31:00.43]Its been six years since we last saw each other,you know.[31:04.90]And this is the first time I've visited your hometown.[31:09.63]XL:Yes. I'm so glad you could come. JM:You know,[31:13.63]I've seen quite a lot of China and I've visited some beautiful cities,[31:19.98]but this is one of the most attractive places I've been to.[31:24.37]Its so lively, and everyone seems so friendly.[31:28.70]XL:Yes, it's one of the most interesting cities on the coast, everyone says so.[31:34.29]I feel very fortu- nate living here. And I love living by the seaside.[31:40.09]JM:You live in the northwest of Xiamen, is that right? XL:Yes,that's right.[31:47.00]JM:What's the climate like?[31:49.31]XL:Pretty hot and wet in the summer, but it can be quite cold in winter.[31:55.29]JM:Sounds OK to me. There are a lot of tourists around.[32:00.23]Don't they bother you?[32:02.47]XL:Yes,they can be a nuisance in the summer because there are so many of them. [32:08.22]You don't really see tourists where I live.[32:11.43]JM:Oh,look at that huge apartment block![32:15.35]XL:Yes, they've just completed it.[32:17.84]The rent for an apartment there is very high.[32:21.54]JM:I believe you! This area's so modern![32:26.04]XL:Yes. this is the business district.[32:28.87]They've put up a lot oF high- rise buildings recently.[32:32.88]And there are some great shopping malls See, we're just passing one now.[32:38.20]My wife's just bought a beautiful dress from one of the shops there.[32:43.31]JM:Maybe I could buy a few presents there. XL:I'll take you there tomorrow.[32:49.72]Now we're leaving the business distr- ict and approaching the harbour.[32:53.31]We're entering the western district,the most interesting part of the city.[32:57.75]Its got some really pretty parks ...[33:01.04]JM:It seems lovely. is that Gulangyu island, just across the water?[33:07.15]XL:Yes. It is. Us a gorgeous island with some really interes- ting architecture.[33:13.72]JM:So they tell me. Do you think we could stop and walk around for a while? [33:20.80]XL:Yes, I was just going to do that. We can park over there.[33:26.01]A friends told me about a nice little fish restaurant near here.[33:30.35]Shall we go there for lunch? JM:That sounds great I'm starving![33:46.84]Word list survey [s╓:'vei] n. 调查[33:50.58]neighbourhood ['neib╓hud] n. 邻居关系[33:52.38]local ['l╓uk╓l] adj. 地方的, 当地的[33:53.50]suburb ['s╘b╓:b] n.市郊, 郊区hometown['h╓umtaun] n.故乡[33:56.84]attractive [╓'tr╗ktiv] adj. 吸引人的, 有魅力的[33:58.86]fortunate ['f╛:t╞╓nit] adj.幸运的, 幸福的[34:00.40]pretty ['priti] adj.很；相当sound [saund] vi. 听起来[34:03.76]tourist ['tu╓rist] n.旅行者, 旅游者bother ['b╛╖╓] vt.烦扰, 打扰[34:07.15]nuisance ['nju:sns] n. 讨厌的人或东西rent [rent] n. 租金[34:10.55]district ['distrikt] n.区域,地方,行政区approach[╓'pr╓ut╞] n.接近[34:13.68]harbour ['ha:b╓] n.海港gorgeous['g╛:d╜╓s] adj.华丽的, 灿烂的[34:17.37]architecture ['a:kitekt╞╓] n.建筑[34:19.13]starve [sta:v] vt.使饿死park [pa:k] n.公园, 停车场[34:22.54]traffic ['tr╘fik] n.交通committee [k╓'miti] n.委员会[34:25.79]organisation [,╛: g╓naizei╞╓n] n.组织[34:28.20]unemployed ['╘nim'pl╛id] adj. 失业的, 未被利用的[34:30.01]household ['haush╓uld] n. 一家人, 家庭[34:31.89]occupation [,╛kju'pei╞╓n] n. 职业[34:33.95]professional [pr╓'fe╞╓nl] n.专业的[34:35.77]manual ['m╗nju╓l] adj. 手的, 手动的[34:37.13]employment [im'pl╛im╓nt] n. 雇用,工作,职业[34:39.06]gallery ['g╗l╓ri] n. 走廊[34:40.88]exchange [iks't╞eind╜] vt. 交换[34:42.90]fascinating ['f╗sineiti╕] adj. 迷人的,着魔的[34:44.74]afford [╓'f╛:d] vt. 提供, 给予, 供应得起[34:46.45]survive [s╓'vaiv] v. 幸免于, 幸存, 生还[34:48.47]contact ['k╛nt╗kt] n. 接触, 联系[35:00.34]LISTENING AND VOCABULARY 2.Listen to the passage.[35:06.38]Were your predictions about the passage correct?[35:10.93]LISTENING content[37:34.75]3.Listen to Part 2 and complete the chart.[38:57.22]PRONUNCIATION Stressed words in sentences[39:02.46]Listen to this ex- tract from LISTENING and vocabulary activity 2.[39:07.96]Underline the stressed words in each sentence.[39:12.13]I:Mr Yang, you're from Nanchang,aren't you?[39:15.89]And you've lived here all your life, is that right?[39:19.77]Y:Yes, I was born in this street. I:Really![39:24.23]And you work for an organisation called "the neighbourhood committee".。
新译林版初中八年级下册英语Unit 8单元测试卷(含听力材料及答案解析)
Unit 8单元过关卷时间：100分钟满分：120分听力部分（20分）Ⅰ.关键词语选择(每小题1分，满分5分)1．A．dig B．duck C．big2．A．erasers B．series C．serious3．A．sauces B．causes C．horses 4．A．punished B．finished C．published5．A．rang loud B．ran out C．ran upⅡ.短对话理解(每小题1分，满分5分)6．What did Jack lose?A. B. C.7．What sets the two speakers free from hard work?A. B. C.8．What was David doing when his parents got home yesterday?A. B. C.9．What will the weather be like this afternoon?A. B. C.10．Where hasn't the man been to?A. B. C.Ⅲ.长对话理解(每小题1分，满分5分)听下面一段对话，回答第11、12小题。
11．Which of the following about the Yellow River is not right?A．It's the second longest river in China.B．It's the second longest river in Asia.C．It's the second longest river in the world.12．What can we know from the conversation?A．The woman knows the Yellow River a lot.B．The man protected the Yellow River.C．Both the man and the woman join the program of protecting Mother River. 听下面一段对话，回答第13—15小题。
大学英语三级(B级)模拟试卷191(题后含答案及解析)
大学英语三级（B级）模拟试卷191(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. Listening Comprehension 2. V ocabulary and Structure 3. Reading Comprehension 4. Translation from English to Chinese 5. WritingPart I Listening Comprehension (15 minutes)Directions：This part is to test your listening ability. It consists of 3 sections.Section ADirections: This section is to test your ability to give proper answers to questions. There are 5 recorded questions in it. After each question, there is a pause. The questions will be spoken two times. When you hear a question, you should decide on the correct answer from the 4 choices marked A, B, C and D.听力原文：Hello, I’m David. May I have your name?1．A．I’m David.B．How do you do?C．How are you?D．I’m sorry.正确答案：A解析：问姓名，应当给姓名。
听力原文：How pretty your daughter is!2．A．Thank you.B．Fine.C．Really?D．It sounds nice.正确答案：A解析：Thank you可以回答一切恭维语。
《现代大学英语听力2》听力原文及题目答案Unit2
《现代大学英语听力2》听力原文及题目答案Unit 2Unit 2Task 1【答案】1) b 2) a 3) d【原文】Texas was the biggest state before Alaska became the forty-ninth state in 1959. One good way to understand the size of Texas is to learn about its weather. Different parts of the state have very different kinds of weather.Laredo is one of the hottest cities in the United States in summer. The best time to visit Laredo is in winter, when it is pleasantly warm.Amarillo gets very cold in winter. Sometimes there is more snow in Amarillo than in New York, which is a northern city. Summers are better, but sometimes it gets quite hot. The best time to visit Amarillo is in the autumn when it is cool.If anyone asks you about the weather in Texas, ask him, “What part of Texas do you mean？”Task 2【答案】A.1)T 2) F 3) FB.1) d 2) c 3) cC.climate, reputation, extraordinary, unreliable, dry, wet, clear, dull, hot, cold, bad, mild【原文】Our friend, Nick, whose English gets better and better, declared solemnly the other day that he thought that the British climate was wonderful, but the British weather was terrible. He went on to explain by pointing out that the British climate was a temperate one. This meant, he said, "that you could always be certain that the weather would never be extreme — at any rate not for any length of time — never very hot and never very cold." He quite rightly pointed out that the rainfall in Britain, according to the statistics, was not very heavy. "Why then," he asked, "has the British climate such a bad reputation?" He answered by saying it was because of the extraordinary, unreliable weather. There was no part of the year at which you could be certain that the weather would be dry or wet, clear or dull, hot or cold. A bad day in July could be as cold as a mild day in January. Indeed you could feel cold at almost any time of the year. Nick blamed drafty British houses for this, but agreed you could also blame the small amount of sunshine and a great amount of dampness. He advised every student coming to Britain to bring an umbrella and to understand the meaning of that splendid word "drizzle".Task 3【答案】I.the country; Trees, grass, lakes and steamsII.A.1. concrete, iron, steel2. take in the heat during the day and throw off heat into the air at nightB. Warmer winters, car engines; electrical applianceⅢ.A. air pollution may stop sunlight from reaching the earthB.1. Ice near the North and South poles to melt2. to be slowly flooded and people living in these cities to move to higher land【原文】Cities change the climate around you. In the country, there are trees, grass, lakes, and streams. In hot weather, the trees and grass cool the area around them. Lakes and rivers also cool the area around them.But cities are not cooled in these natural ways. Cities are built of asphalt, concrete, iron, and steel. There are few trees and usually not much grass. Rain falls onto the streets and into the sewers.When the summer sun shines, streets and buildings take in the heat; after the sun sets, the streets and buildings throw off heat into the street. Once the sun sets, the countryside cools off, but a city may stay hot all night.Cities are hotter than the countryside in winter, too. Standing near a car with its motor running, winter or summer, you will feel the heat thrown off by the engine. The heat comes from the gasoline burned by the engine. This heat warms the air and the ground around the car. Thousands of running cars are almost like thousands of small fires burning.Carefully put your hand near a light bulb or television set. As you can see, electricity creates a lot of heat. This heat from electricity warms the house and the outside air.The heat given off by cities can affect the climate. Some experts even believe that cities can change the climate of the whole world. They think that air pollution may stop sunlight from reaching the earth. If less sunshine reaches the earth, the earth may become cooler.Still other experts think the world will get warmer. If the world did get warmer, great changes would occur. Ice near the North and South poles would melt. This would make the oceans rise. Cities near oceans — like Los Angeles, Boston, and Miami — would slowly be flooded. People living in these cities would have to move to higher land.Task 4【答案】A.1) b 2) cB. night, delight; morning, warning; gray, way, red, headC.1) F 2) T 3) F【原文】A red sky at either dusk or dawn is one of the spectacular and beautiful weather predictors we have in nature. By closely observing this phenomenon, you can achieve short-range accuracy of the weather as good as, or better than your local weatherman. In the Bible, Jesus in Matthew 16, 2-3 is quoted as saying, “When it is evening, it will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning it will be foul weather today: for the sky is red” when speaking to the Pharisees. An old English weather proverb based on this passage is:Red sky at night, sailors delight.Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.OrEvening red and morning gray,Sends the traveler on his way.Evening gray, morning red,Brings the rain down on his head.At dusk, a red sky indicates that dry weather is on the way. This is due to the sun shining through dust particles being pushed ahead of a high pressure system bringing in dry air. A red sky in the morning is due to the sun again shining through dust. In this case however, the dust is being pushed on by an approaching low reassure system bringing in moisture. Don't confuse a red sky in the morning with a red sun in the morning. If the sun itself is red and the sky is a normal color, the day will be fair.Task 5【答案】1) c 2) b 3) d 4) c 5) c【原文】Mark: I am an avid fly fisherman and frequently find myself on the river in a raft during lightning storms. We always have a debate at these times on where weare safest — pulling into shore or staying on the water. Since I have heard oneis safe in a car when lightning strikes I wonder if the raft floating on the wateris insulated, and therefore the safest place to be.Meteorologist A: We spoke with some scientists about your question, and they all agreed that under no circumstances should you remain on the water during a lightningstorm. If your raft is made of rubber, you might feel that you're .well insulated,but don't kid yourself. Typical lightning flashes travel 10 to 15 kilometers andcan deliver as much as 100,000 amps of current. In comparison, a toaster usesabout 10 amps of current. If lightning strikes the water near you, it will have notrouble traveling through a few extra centimeters of rubber.Meteorologist B: So, if you're on the water and a thunderstorm approaches, get to the shore and seek shelter on land. Try a building or car. If neither is available, look for a cave,cliff, wall, or a group of trees. Never take shelter under an isolated tree-it's also agood target for lightning.Task 6【答案】A.1) F 2) T 3) F 4) T 5) F 6) TB.Incredible, one minute, one kilometer, destroyed, lifted up, carried away, killed, injured【原文】Every spring and summer many inland areas are hit by tornados. A tornado is a kind of storm. It's a revolving, funnel-shaped column of air that moves through the sky at very high speeds. A tornado looks like a huge, black ice cream cone whirling through the sky. The speed of a tornado is very fast-it is believed to be between 200 and 700 kilometers per hour.Tornados form under very special weather conditions, and these special weather conditions occur most often in inland areas, such as the central United States. A tornado forms when a layer of warm, dry air is on top of a layer of cooler, moist air. This combination of dry, warm air above wet, cool air creates a condition that causes the lower layer of air to lift up. As the lower air rises, both layers of air begin to rotate, to turn around and around. The air begins to rotate faster and faster because of centrifugal force. The tornado has a center called an “eye” and the air rotates quickly around this eye.As the air begins to rotate faster and faster, the tornado cloud begins to grow downward; that is, it begins to form a funnel or cone, and this cone goes down toward the ground.The cone of air is dark because it develops from a dark rain cloud. As the cloud gets longer, as the cloud gets closer to the ground, it begins to pull up dirt from the ground. Then the funnel of rotating air becomes very dark because of the dirt in it. As the tornado funnel gets longer, it begins to drag along the ground.When the tornado touches the ground, it does incredible damage. It usually touches the ground for only about one minute, and it usually travels along the ground for only about one kilometer, but during that one minute, buildings are destroyed, trees are lifted up out of the ground, small objects are carried away, and sometimes people are injured or killed.Task 7【答案】A.1) b 2) a 3) bB.1) It has been nice weather during the day, but it is going to change at night.2) Fine weather in southern Europe and not so nice in northern EuropeFor todaySoutheast England---26 degrees Celsius by mid-afternoonSouthern Scotland---Maximum temperatures of around 21 degreesBrighton---15 hours of lovely sunshineMidlands---23 degrees Celsius by early afternoonNorthwest of Scotland---Light showers around middayFor the weekendSpain---34 degrees CelsiusGreece---32 degrees CelsiusFrance---Cloudy with rain, maximum temperatures of 22 degreesNorthern Ireland---Heavy rain, 17 degrees CelsiusMost of England---Cloudy but mainly dry with sunny periods, 23 degrees Celsius【原文】Radio Announcer: You’re listening to Radio Metro. It’s two minutes to nine, and time for the latest weather for cast from Dan Francis at the London Weather Centre.Francis: Hello. It's been another warm and fine day for most of us. Temperatures in southeast England reached 26 degrees Celsius by mid-afternoon, and Brighton had 15 hours of lovely sunshine. Further north it was a little cooler with maximum temperatures of around 21 degrees in southern Scotland, and in the far northwest of Scotland there were some light showers around midday. But the rest of the country, as I said, has been warm and dry with temperatures in theMidlands reaching 23 degrees Celsius by early afternoon though it was a little cooler along the west coast and in Northern Ireland. But already the weather is beginning to change, I'm afraid, and during the night showers will slowly move in from the Atlantic to reach south-west England and the southern coast of Wales by early morning.The rest of the country will have a very mild, dry night with minimum temperatures no lower than 15 degrees in the south, a little cooler — 11degrees or so — in the north. Any remaining showers in northwest Scotland will pass quickly to leave a mild, dry night there too.And now the outlook for Friday and the weekend. Well, southern Europe will, once again, get the best of the weekend weather, and if your holiday starts this weekend, then southern Spain is the place to go, with temperatures of 34 degrees along the Mediterranean coast. At the eastern end of the Med, too, you can expect uninterrupted sunshine and temperatures of up to 32 degrees Celsius in Greece and southeast Italy, but further north the weather's not so settled. Much of France, Belgium and the Netherlands will be cloudy with occasional rain, and maximum temperatures will be around 22 degrees — very disappointing for this time of the year.Scotland and Northern Ireland will have heavy rain for much of the weekend and temperatures will drop to a cool 17 degrees. Across most of England the weather will be cloudy but mainly dry with sunny periods. And when the sun does come out, temperatures could rise to a maximum of 23 degrees.Task 8【原文】As the air pressure around you either rises or falls, many changes in nature occur. Most of these are very obvious changes while others are of a more subtle nature.Mountains and other far away objects will appear to be much closer and more sharply focused as wet weather approaches and the air pressure drops. The dust particles in the air begin to settle to the ground and the air clears, allowing you to see more details of faraway objects. As a high pressure front approaches and the air becomes “thicker,” more dust particles become suspended in air and things take on their normal somewhat hazy appearance.“Sharp horns on the moon threaten bad weather.” This and a bright, clear moon are good indicators that wet weather is on the way. As the air clears of dust particles ahead of a low pressuresystem, the moon appears to come closer and be more sharply focused due to the lack of dust.Sound also becomes sharper and more focused prior to stormy weather. Instead of traveling upward and outward into the atmosphere sound waves are bent back to the earth and their range extended. Bird calls sound sharper, and, at my house, we can hear the blowing of the train horn as it rumbles through the valley below.If you find yourself out in a marsh or swamp and the air really seems to stink more than normal, expect rainy weather. This happens when the pressure drops and the methane trapped on the bottom of the swamp is released in greater quantities. In reverse, as fair weather approaches and the pressure rises, things won't smell quite so strong.Birds and bats have a tendency to fly much lower to the ground right before a rain due to the “thinning” of the air. They prefer to fly where the air is the most dense and they can get greater lift with their wings. With high pressure and dry air, the atmosphere becomes denser and they can easily fly at higher altitudes.Smoke rising straight into the air means fair weather and smoke hanging low means rain is on the way. This is pretty much the same as with the birds and methane in the swamp. When high pressure approaches, smoke will rise whereas with low pressure it can't rise and tends to lay low.Remember a grandparent talking about how their corns, bunions, or joints ached right before a rain? Again, this is due to the decreasing atmospheric pressure allowing the gas in our bodies to expand.Task 9【答案】A. Statements 3, 6, 7 are true.B.f—c—a—d—b—eC.1) F 2) T 3) F 4) FD.1) d 2) b【原文】It was 1974. Richard Nixon was still president. Kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst was still missing. In Xenia, a pretty spot of 25,000 people amid fields of soybeans and corn, American Graffiti was held over at the Cinema. The Xenia Hotel offered a chicken and dumpling dinner for $2.25, but everyone flocked to the A&W drive-in for burgers and root beer floats. That's where five of the bodies were found after the storm.In all, 33 people died in Xenia's tornado, the deadliest of 148 storms that raged through 13 states during the infamous "Super Outbreak'' of tornadoes April 3 to 4, 1974. In 16 hours and 10 minutes, 330 people were killed and nearly 5,550 were injured from Illinois to Georgia.Though the Xenia death toll has been matched by other killer storms, the degree of devastation makes the city's tornado among U.S. history's most destructive. The storm still is studied in colleges by aspiring meteorologists, a textbook case of a rare Category F-5, the most intense of tornadoes.On that fateful day, I was a young boy of 8 years old. We lived in the Arrowhead Subdivision. That afternoon I was around the corner playing with some neighbor kids. I thought I could hear my father calling me, so I ran back to the house. Thinking back now, there is no way I would havebeen able to hear him. I was too far away for a voice to have traveled in the afternoon noise. Besides, Dad had a very bad case of tonsillitis that day. Like I was saying, I went back home and got through the door just in time to answer the ringing phone. On the other end of the phone was my Mother. Mom was working. She told me she heard a bad storm was on the way. She told me to make sure the garage door was shut and to stay inside. After I hung up the phone, I settled down to watch The Dennis Show. To this day I can vividly remember the electricity going out. I looked out the large window in the living room and didn't have a clue as to what I was looking at.Dad was asleep on the couch, so I woke him up to look. Dad looked and said to get into the bathroom. We sat on the floor. Dad had his back to the door and his feet pushing against the wall opposite the door. I remember that as soon as we sat down, the windows broke. Glass blew under the door, and the sound was tremendous. I know it really didn’t take too long for the tornado to go past, but I do remember the conversation we had in the process. I could feel the cool air rushing under the floor through the crawlspace vents. I asked if we were flying. He said he wasn't sure, but he didn't think we were. He said the house was tearing apart. I asked him how he knew. He said he just knew it was.When things calmed down, we opened the door. The odd feeling I had, looking up the street from inside what once was my hallway, is still with me today.I think back often to that day. I think back and wonder what would have happened if my Dad hadn't been sick that day. Like a lot of kids, I stayed home by myself after school back then. I seriously doubt I would be able to tell you my story, if I had been alone that day. I still live in Xenia and wouldn’t trade this town for any other.Task 10【原文】Undoubtedly, Tibet is one of the harshest places for human existence. It is cool in summer but freezing cold in winter. In Lhasa, the mildest city temperature may exceed 29C in summer while plummeting to -16C in winter! Sun radiation is extremely strong in Tibet. The sunlight in Lhasa is so intense that the city is called Sunlight City. The thin air can neither block off nor retain heat so that the temperature extremes can be met in daytime and the same night respectively in Tibet. However it is not impossible to visit the holy snow land. April to October is the best time to visit Tibet, out of the coldest months, which are from December to February usually. The average temperature in north Tibet is subzero and winter arrives in October until the following May or June. July and August are the best time to visit the area, enjoying warm temperature, intense sunshine, beautiful scenery and festive events. May, June and September is the tourist season in east Tibet. In winter, roads are all blocked by heavy snow. Landslides and rock falls frequently occur, which will make travel difficult.。
英语四级听力新题型模拟2021(第6套) 短篇新闻(3)
英语四级听力新题型模拟2021(第6套) 短篇新闻(3)avXEVpbqsb+DmqQX-&k,c=_ Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.QS50_aLTaY0TpNm[%m0 5A.To raise money for African humanitarian efforts.B.To raise money for Haitian earthquake victims.C.To sing in memory of Michael Jackson.D.To make a new version of the song.IdI]3C3,#hn*a5q 6A.Quincy Jones and Smoky Robinson.B.Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones.C.Smoky Robinson and Michael Jackson.D.Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson.WBPRj5T-APOhRPBesHwY 7A.145.B.25.C.100.D.45.0XCo;3j-8]9Q447qO4%TePbxF=A%^ZqBTeOZAivITUr%pbP~YXm]q +jmbiJky!J_TEn7e(=jsko3nx6E|](-KsS0)R@ News Item Threexy4,8E-U@6ZYx@am7g(5)Dozens of recording stars began gathering at a Hollywood studio on Monday, to add their voices to a song they hope will raise millions of dollars for Haitian earthquake relief. The words and music are an updated version of "We Are the World ", a song that raised at least 30 million dollars for African humanitarian programmes 25 years ago. (6) Lionel Richie, who co-wrote the first song with Michael Jackson, is organizing the effort. The original producer, Quincy Jones, is using the same studio he used in 1985. Reporters and security surrounded Henson Studios, anticipating the arrival of cars delivering the stars Monday afternoon for what is expected to be a marathon recording session. (7) Smoky Robinson, who sang on the original, said the list of 100 singers asked to take part does not include any of the 45 stars from the previous version. Organizers have not said when the song might be ready for theworld to hear.W~3|WiK*)o 5.Why did the singers meet in Hollywood?6.Who wrote the song "We Are the World"?7.How many singers were asked to take part in the recording this time?.YQep-.H@#U]eM,cxw 短篇新闻（三）eO+C[RCZ)V(i%(.5d 周一，近百名歌手齐聚好莱坞的一间录音棚，共同为一首歌献声，希望能以此为海地地震灾民募捐Bu|Y#+O-xozS。
2018年高考新课标Ⅰ卷英语试题解析(精编版)(解析版) (2)
绝密★启用前2018年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语（考试时间：120分钟试卷满分：150分）注意事项：1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。
回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。
录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。
每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。
听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。
每段对话仅读一遍。
例：How much is the shirt?A. £ 19. 15.B. £ 9. 18.C. £ 9. 15.答案是C。
1. What does the woman think of the movie?A. It’s amusing.B. It’s exciting.C. It’s disappointing.2. How will Susan spend most of her time in France?A. Traveling around.B. Studying at a school.C. Looking after her aunt.3. What are the speakers talking about?A. Going out.B. Ordering drinks.C. Preparing for a party.4. Where are the speakers?A. In a classroom.B. In a library.C. In a bookstore.5. What is the man going to do ?A. Go on the Internet.B. Make a phone call.C. Take a train trip.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。
2018年6月四级真题听力及解析
2018年6⽉四级真题（第2套听⼒试卷）Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spokenonly once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the fourchoices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. A) Annoyed. B) Scared. C) Confused. D) Offended.2. A) It crawled over the woman’s hands.B) It would up on the steering wheel.C) It was killed by the police on the spot.D) It was covered with large scales.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. A) A study of the fast-food service. B) Fast food customer satisfaction.C) McDonald’s new business strategies. D) Competition in the fast-food industry.4. A) Customers’ higher demands. B) The inefficiency of employees.C) Increased variety of products. D) The rising number of customers. Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. A) International treaties regarding space travel programs.B) Legal issues involved in commercial space exploration.C) U.S. government’s approval of private space missions.D) Competition among public and private space companies.6. A) Deliver scientific equipment to the moon.B) Approve a new mission to travel into outer space.C) Work with federal agencies on space programs.D) Launch a manned spacecraft to Mars.7. A) It is significant. B) It is promising.C) It is unpredictable. D) It is unprofitable.Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spokenonly once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the fourchoices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. A) Visiting her family in Thailand. B) Showing friends around Phuket.C) Swimming around a Thai island. D) Lying in the sun on a Thai beach.9. A) She visited a Thai orphanage. B) She met a Thai girl’s parents.C) She learned some Thai words. D) She sunbathed on a Thai beach.10. A) His class will start in a minute.B) He has got an incoming phone call.C) Someone is knocking at his door.D) His phone is running out of power.11. A) He is interested in Thai artworks.B) He is going to open a souvenir shop.C) He collects things from different countries.D) He wants to know more about Thai culture.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) Buying some fitness equipment for the new gym.B) Opening a gym and becoming personal trainers.C) Signing up for a weight-loss course.D) Trying out a new gym in town.13. A) Professional personal training. B) Free exercise for the first week.C) A discount for a half-year membership. D) Additional benefits for young couples14. A) The safety of weight-lifting. B) The high membership fee.C) The renewal of his membership. D) The operation of fitness equipment.15. A) She wants her invitation renewed.B) She used to do 200 sit-ups every dayC) She knows the basics of weight-lifting.D) She used to be the gym’s personal trainer.Section CDirections:In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 witha single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) They tend to be nervous during interviews.B) They often apply for a number of positions.C) They worry about the results of their applications.D) They search extensively for employers’ information.17. A) Get better organized. B) Edit their references.C) Find better-paid jobs. D) Analyze the searching process.18. A) Provide their data in detail. B) Personalize each application.C) Make use of better search engines. D) Apply for more promising positions. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) If kids did not like school, real learning would not take place.B) If not forced to go to school, kids would be out in the streets.C) If schools stayed the way they are, parents were sure to protest.D) If teaching failed to improve, kids would stay away from school.20. A) Allow them to play interesting games in class.B) Try to stir up their interest in lab experiments.C) Let them stay home and learn from their parents.D) Design activities they now enjoy doing on holidays.21. A) Allow kids to learn at their own pace.B) Encourage kids to learn from each other.C) Organize kids into various interest groups.D) Take kids out of school to learn at first hand.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A) It is especially popular in Florida and Alaska.B) It is a major social activity among the young.C) It is seen almost anywhere and any occasion.D) It is even more expressive than the written word.23. A) It is located in a big city in Iowa. B) It is really marvelous to look at.C) It offers free dance classes to seniors. D) It offers people a chance to socialize.24. A) Their state of mind improved. B) They became better dancers.C) They enjoyed better health. D) Their relationship strengthened.25. A) It is fun. B) It is life. C) It is exhausting. D) It is rhythmical.2018年6⽉四级真题（第2套听⼒解析）Part II Listening ComprehensionSection ANews Report OneKelly Swisher, an Arkansas woman, escaped injury and managed to safely stop her car after a 4-foot-long rat snake came out from under her car seat and slid across her feet as she was driving down the highway. Rat snakes aren't poisonous or a threat to people generally. (1) But the woman says the snake she encountered Thursday terrified her out of her wits. (2) "It was rough, with big scales," said Swisher, who was on her way to pick up her friend at the airport when it happened. "I don't know whether I had my hands on the steering wheel or not. I am not the most flexible person in the world, but I can guarantee my knees were up next to my ears." She said the snake first slid back under the seat, and she hoped it would stay there until she was able to get off the highway and stop. "That didn't work out," she said. "Here he comes, and he wound up in my back seat before I could finally get off the road, stop and get out of the car." She called for help. And Washington County animal control officers came and captured the snake.Questions 1 to 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.审选项预测从选项中出现的⾼高频名词“ snake、high way”中，可以推断出这篇新闻主题是“与毒蛇相关的意外”。
雅思(听力)模拟试卷84(题后含答案及解析)
雅思（听力）模拟试卷84(题后含答案及解析) 题型有：1. Listening ModuleListening Module (30 minutes & 10 minutes transfer time)听力原文：You will hear a telephone conversation between a woman and a man who works for a holiday company, about a holiday she would like to go on. First you have some time to look at questions 1 to 6.[Pause the recording for 30 seconds.]You will see that there is an example that has been done for you. On this occasion only, the conversation relating to this will be played first.Man: ‘Holidays for You’. Sean speaking. Can I help you?Woman: Oh hi. I’ve been looking at your website. Um, I’m interested in a cycling holiday in Austria in April.Man: Ah! We have two trips in April - one lasts fourteen days and the other ten days.Woman: Mm ... I think the(Example)10-day trip is better. So let’s see. I’ve got a calendar here. What are the dates?The length of the trip that the woman chooses is 10 days, so ‘10’has been written in the space. Now we shall begin. You should answer the questions as you listen because you will not hear the recording a second time. Listen carefully and answer questions 1 to 6.[repeat]Man: Well, that trip is in the middle of the month.(1)It starts on the 17th of April and it finishes on the 27th.Woman: That suits me. I can’t leave work before the 10th of April.Man: Let me see if there are any spaces. Is it just for yourself?Woman: Myself and my sister - so two of us.Man: Um, yes. We have spaces.Woman: Is it a big group?Man: At the moment there are 12 people booked on this trip and with you two that will be 14.(2)The maximum number is 16 so it’s almost fully booked. We can’t go over that because it’s hard to keep a larger group together.Woman: I need to check that I’m fit enough for this but the distances look OK. The website says(3)we’ll ride approximately 45km a day. Is that right?Man: That’s correct and I’ve got the exact distances here. It really depends on which part of the trip. Some days are only 35km and some are more. But you’ll never have to cycle more than 50km in one day.Woman: Oh, OK. I can manage that. And we stay in hotels?Man: Yes. They all have restaurants and the rooms have en-suite facilities.Woman: And do they have pools? It’s how I relax after a long day.Man: There is a(4)swimming pool in a few of the hotels but none of them has a gym.Woman: I don’t think we’ll need a gym after all that cycling! I’d better find out how much the holiday costs before I get too excited.Man: Including flights it’s ￡1,177 for one person.Woman: Oh, we’ll book our own flights on the Internet.Man: Ah, that’s just ￡(5)1.013 then. And we can book insurance for you if you want.Woman: Mm ... and which meals are included in that price?Man: Well, er, breakfast of course. And the hotels will provide you with a packed lunch each day. We do stop during the afternoon in a village somewhere for a rest, so(6)any snacks you buy then are extra. Then dinner will be in the hotel every evening and that’s included in the price of the holiday.Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions 7 to 10.[Pause the recording for 30 seconds.]Now listen andanswer questions 7 to 10.Woman: And you provide the bicycles of course. What else?Man: A lock and a bell come with the bike as well as lights, although you shouldn’t need to cycle in the dark. There’s a small bag, or pannier, on the front of the bike, where you can put the things you want to take with you during the day like water or fruit.(7)But we won’t allow you to cycle unless you bring a helmet. We don’t provide these locally because, like walking boots on a walking holiday, it’s really important it fits properly.Woman: OK.Man: If there’s any special gear you need for your holiday, we recommend a particular website and you can get a discount by quoting your booking reference.Woman: Great. What is it?Man: It’s . That’s all one word, and I’ll spell it for you: www dot(8)B-A double L-A-N-T-Y-N-E dot com.Woman: Good. I’ve got that down. I’ve been looking at your website while we’ve been talking. I see we cycle along the river Danube?Man: Yes, it’s one of Europe’s most well-known areas for cycling.Woman: It looks fascinating - lots of beautiful countryside and things to see.Man: I should warn you that we do reserve the right to make some alterations to the(9)route if the weather is bad. Some of the tracks sometimes get very muddy.Woman: OK. Well, hopefully it won’t rain too much! I know we stop in towns and villages but do we get a chance to look around? Because I’m really interested in history.Man: Oh yes, you get opportunities to explore. Is there something in particular you want to see?Woman: There’s a(10)theatre in a town called Grein. A friend of mine went there last year and said it was amazing.Man: Let’s see. Urn, ah yes, there’s a guide who’ll take you round the building. We don’t have any other tours arranged but you can visit several castles and museums on the holiday.Woman: Well, thank you for all that information. I’d like to book that then.Man: Right. Well, I’ll just...Cycling holiday in AustriaExample AnswerMost suitable holiday lasts __10__days.Holiday begins on【L1】______No more than【L2】______people in cycling group.Each day, group cycles【L3】______on average.Some of the hotels have a【L4】______Holiday costs【L5】￡______per person without flights.All food included except【L6】______Essential to bring a【L7】______Discount possible on equipment at www.【L8】______comPossible that the【L9】______may change.Guided tour of a【L10】______is arranged.1．【L1】正确答案：17th April /17 April / April 17解析：Distraction 27th April and 10th April. They are wrong because the man says that the trip ‘finishes’ on 27th April and the woman says she ‘can’t leave work before the 10th of April’.2．【L2】正确答案：16/sixteen解析：Distraction The man mentions ‘12’ and ‘14’. 12 is wrong because that isthe number of people booked on the trip ‘at the moment’; 14 is wrong because that will be the number with the woman and her sister. Neither is the maximum possible number. The woman asks, ‘Is it a big group?’; ‘the maximum number[= no more than]’.3．【L3】正确答案：45 km / forty-five km / kilometres / kilometers解析：Distraction The man mentions ‘35 km’ and ‘50 km’. The shortest distance is 35 km and the longest distance is 50 km but neither is the ‘average’. ‘distances’tells you that you will soon hear the answer; ‘approximately ... a day[= on average]’.4．【L4】正确答案：(swimming)pool解析：Distraction ‘restaurants’ and ‘en-suite facilities’ are mentioned but the man says ‘all’the hotels(not just ‘some’)have these; ‘gym’is wrong because ‘none of them’ has one.5．【L5】正确答案：1013解析：Distraction 1,177 is wrong because this price includes flights.6．【L6】正确答案：snacks解析：Distraction ‘breakfast’, ‘packed lunch’ and ‘dinner’ are all mentioned but these are included in the price.7．【L7】正确答案：(cycle)helmet解析：Distraction ‘lock’, ‘bell’, ‘lights’, ‘small bag’and ‘pannier’are all mentioned but they ‘come with the bike’ so you don’t need to bring them. You know that the answer is coming when after listing what the holiday company provides, the man says ‘But we won’t allow you to cycle unless you bring ...’.8．【L8】正确答案：ballantyne解析：(you can write this in small or capital letters)9．【L9】正确答案：route解析：[alterations = changes] Distraction ‘tracks’get muddy but they don’t change.10．【L10】正确答案：theatre / theater解析：’a guide who’ll take you round[= guided tour]’. Distraction ‘castles and museums’ are visited but there aren’t any other tours.听力原文：You will hear someone talking on the radio about food and restaurants in the local area. First you have some time to look at questions 11 to 14.[Pause the recording for 30 seconds.]Now listen and answer questions 11 to 14.Announcer: And now we have our ‘Know your town’ section Where we look at what’s on offer in our area. Today John Munroe is going to tell us about local food and eating out. John.John: Well, most of us buy our food in supermarkets these days but we’re very lucky having a wonderful market here. It was originally on the piece of land in front of the cathedral but at the beginning of the twentieth century it was moved to a site by the river.(11)When the new shopping centre was built in the 1960s, it found a home beneath the multi-storey car park where it still is. but there are plans to move it back to its previous home by the river.The market is now open six days a week. On Tuesday to Saturday you can buy fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and cheese from the area, as well as a whole range of imported produce.(12)But if you come on a Sunday, you’ll find a different market, where craftspeople sell what they have made - things like bags, cards, clothes. During the week there are a few stalls selling more everyday utensils like saucepans and cleaning products alongside the fruit and vegetables - as well as one new stall selling antique furniture which is proving to be very popular.People often ask what our local dish is. As we’re by the sea, they expect it to be some kind of fish recipe. Our fish is good of course but there isn’t one particular dish that stands out.(13)What we do have is an apple cake that isn’t really made anywhere else. There’s a new cafe in the High Street: Barton’s, which bakes them fresh every morning and serves them with delicious home-made ice cream in a choice of flavours.Now, the harbour is obviously the place to buy fresh fish. Every morning there’s a stall where local fishermen sell a selection of the day’s catch before the rest goes to London or abroad. They’ve been doing that for as long as anyone can remember of course, but the harbour itself looks very different from a few years ago.(14)Most of the restaurants used to be at the far end, but that part was redeveloped and the restaurants had to relocate to the other end. Many of them are simply the old ones in new premises but a couple of new ones have opened recently so there’s a good range now both in the harbour and the town itself. I’m now going to give you my ‘Top Six Places to Eat’ in different parts of the town.Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20.[Pause the recording for 30 seconds.]Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20.So Number 1 for me isMerrivales, which is in one of the busiest parts of the town leading down to the harbour. It’s in a side street so it doesn’t look out over the water but it’s very close, so you can take a walk after your meal and find one of the cafes with live music. At Merrivales you can enjoy delicious fresh fish and seafood.(15)The friendly staff offer very attentive service and a really enjoyable evening.The Lobster Pot is on the main road going down to the harbour so it also misses out on the sea view, but the food makes up for that.(16)It serves a huge range of fish and seafood as well as vegetarian and meat dishes so there’s something for everyone. Prices are from mid-range to fairly expensive so it’s really only for a special occasion.Elliots is in the city centre and is a very upmarket restaurant in the evening but during the day it serves lunch and coffee.(17)It’s on the twentieth floor above some offices and it’s a great place to sit for a while as you can see most of the city spread out from there. It does get very busy though and you may have to wait to be served.Not far from the city centre is The Cabin which is on the canal bank. You can’t park your car there - it’s a fifteen-minute walk from the nearest car park - but(18)it’s very peaceful, a good place to relax away from the traffic. It’s not cheap but it’s an ideal place for a long lunch.The Olive Tree is a family-run restaurant in the city centre offering beautifully prepared Greek dishes. It’s well known locally and very popular. Service can be slow when it’s busy as all the food is freshly made. There’s plenty of room and on Friday and Saturday nights,(19)the wooden floors resound with live music and dancing which is certainly worth going for.The last place I want to recommend has only just opened in a converted school building. The Old School Restaurant has been very cleverly renovated.(20)The use of mirrors, plants and the colours on the walls makes you feel as though you’re in a large garden instead of the city centre. There are only a few dishes on the menu but they change every day.So Tanya, I...11．The market is now situatedA．under a car park.B．beside the cathedral.C．near the river.正确答案：A解析：Distraction B: ‘It was originally ... in front of the cathedral’ but later ‘it was moved’. It was never ‘beside’ the cathedral; C: ‘at the beginning of the twentieth century it was moved to a site by the river’ but John goes on to say it found another ‘home’‘in the 1960s’. Although ‘there are plans to move[the market]back ...’ these are for some time in the future, not now.12．On only one day a week the market sellsA．antique furniture.B．local produce.C．hand-made items.正确答案：C解析：Distraction A: Antique furniture is sold on ‘one new stall’, not ‘on onlyone day’; B: Local produce[= ‘fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and cheese from the area’]is sold from ‘Tuesday to Saturday’.13．The area is well known forA．ice cream.B．a cake.C．a fish dish.正确答案：B解析：Distraction A: Ice cream is served with the cake in one cafe but the area isn’t famous for the ice cream; C: John says ‘Our fish is good of course but there isn’t one particular dish that stands out’.14．What change has taken place in the harbour area?A．Fish can now be bought from the fishermen.B．The restaurants have moved to a different part.C．There are fewer restaurants than there used to be.正确答案：B解析：Distraction A: Fish can be bought from the fishermen but this isn’t a change(‘They’ve been doing that for as long as anyone can remember ...’); C: There are more restaurants(‘a couple of new ones have opened recently’)not fewer.Which advantage is mentioned for each of the following restaurants?Choose SIX answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-H, next to questions 15-20.AdvantagesA the decorationB easy parkingC entertainmentD excellent serviceE good valueF good viewsG quiet locationH wide menu15．Merrivales ______正确答案：D解析：Distraction C: The entertainment is in ‘one of the cafes with live music’ in the area. Distraction F: ‘it doesn’t look out over the water’, so it doesn’t have good views. Distraction G: It is in ‘one of the busiest parts of the town’, so it isn’t a quiet location. Distraction H: It doesn’t have a wide menu - John just mentions ‘delicious fresh fish and seafood’.16．The Lobster Pot ______正确答案：H解析：Distraction E: It’s not good value because prices ‘are from mid-range to fairly expensive’. Distraction F: ‘it also misses out on the sea view’. Distraction G: It ‘is on the main road’ so it isn’t in a ‘quiet location’.17．Elliots ______正确答案：F解析：Distraction G: John says it ‘is in the city centre’so it’s not in a ‘quiet location’. Distraction D: ‘you may have to wait to be served’so the service isn’t ‘excellent’.18．The Cabin ______正确答案：G解析：Distraction B: John says ‘You can’t park your car there ...’; E: ‘It’s not cheap’.19．The Olive Tree ______正确答案：C解析：Distraction H: It serves ‘beautifully prepared Greek dishes’ so it doesn’t have a ‘wide menu’; D: ‘Service can be slow’ so it’s not ‘excellent’.20．The Old School Restaurant ______正确答案：A解析：Distraction H: ‘There are only a few dishes on the menu’.听力原文：You will hear three students on a media studies course talking about a film they are planning to make. First you have some time to look at questions 21 to 26.[Pause the recording for 30 seconds.]Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 26.Reza: Hi Mike.Mike: Hi Reza, this is Helen.Helen: Hello!Mike: We’re really pleased you’ve agreed to join us on this film project.Helen: Yes, your experience is going to be so useful.Reza: Well, I hope so. It’s the technical side I know best - lighting, sound and stuff.Mike: But you think the script is OK?Reza: Yes, I think it’s great! Um, have you decided where you’re going to shoot?Helen: Well, there’s the water-mill scene at the end. And we’ve thought about some locations in town we can use. They’re behind the shopping mall and on a couple of residential streets. And in an empty shop on campus. It means we don’t have to worry about getting permission from a shopowner.Mike: So(21)do you think we should go to all the locations with you?Reza: It would be a good idea. We need to talk about the levels of background noise so we know they’re all going to be reasonable places to film.Mike: But the sounds of traffic will make it more natural.Helen: I think Reza means things like aeroplanes, trains and so on that would mean we have to stop filming.Reza: Exactly. And also I’ll make notes for myself about what lighting I’m going to need. I think the university department has a good range of equipment, but I’ll need to make a list for each location for my own reference. Anyway, once we’ve had a look round,(22)youcan do the roadworks check.Mike: What do you mean?Reza: You need to find out about building work or roadworks. Because you could start filming one day and come back in the morning to find one of the roads has been dug up! The local council have to be informed about things like that so you can find out from them.Mike: OK. Then I think we need to work from the script and put together a list of all the scenes and decide which ones we’re going to film when. We need to(23)prepare the shooting schedule, day by day.Reza: You’re right. Then when you know how long filming is going to last, you can tell everyone when they’re needed.Helen: OK, so as soon as we can, we’ll audition, and then when we contact people to offer them parts we can send the exact dates and(24)make really sure they are free. Because often the actors are all enthusiastic but then when you try to pin them down about whether they’re really free at that time, you find they’ve got exams or something, or they’re off to a festival just before and you have to rush about looking for replacements.Mike: Then, we need people who can take over the main parts if one of our stars falls ill or something.Reza: Yes, I agree. So offer the main parts to the people we really want, and then look at other volunteers who were OK.Helen:(25)Yes. We can select the understudies once the main roles have been confirmed. So, once we’ve got that sorted and we’ve held all the rehearsals of the main scenes, we’ll be ready to start filming.Reza: Yes, that sounds good. Anything else?Mike: Er, well, just housekeeping, really. We don’t actually need costumes because actors will wear their own clothes.(26)My family has agreed to lend us some pieces of furniture which we need, so we’ll go and fetch those the weekend before we start.Helen: We’ll provide food and drink during shooting so I’m going to borrow some cool-boxes.Mike: And I’ve got a little van. Most of the locations are within walking distance of the halls of residence anyway. The only one further away is the water-mill.Reza: Ah, yes, can you tell me about that?Mike: Um, OK. Er, hang on a minute, I’ll get my notes. There’s a plan in them.Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions 27 to 30.[Pause the recording for 30 seconds.]Now listen and answer questions 27 to 30.Mike: Here’s the mill. You see, basically you have a vertical water-wheel which was used to power the grinding stones.Reza: Mm, it sounds really interesting. Will we film inside?Helen: Yes. That’s where the final scene between the girl and the man takes place. Our plan is to(27)fix one camera outside bv the window next to the door, to film through the window, and then have another handheld camera inside the mill. That means we can get two views of the same scene. We were going to do something using a mirror, but we decided that would be too complicated.Mike: Yes, by doing it that way,(28)all we’ll need is lights on the inside, next to the wall behind the wheel which can shine across to the opposite wall.Reza: Hmm. Will that give enough light?Helen: I think so, because the scene is in the evening; it shouldn’t be too bright. The actors will be carrying torches too.Mike: And(29)we’ll have an old screen made of wood just inside the door, because it’s a new door and it’ll look wrong. The lights won’t shine directly on it so it’ll be fine.Reza: So you won’t actually show the door open?Mike: No.(30)There’s a huge box on the floor against the wall farthest from the wheel. We’ll see the girl approaching the mill on her bike. Then we see through the window and the man is inside looking at it, then the next shot is the girl, in the room with him,opening the box.Reza: So it’ll be a mysterious ending! Well, I think it’s going to be a great project.Mike: Good.Helen: Thanks!Complete the flow-chart below.Choose SIX answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-l, next to questions 21-26.A actorsB furnitureC background noiseD costumesE local councilF equipmentG shooting scheduleH understudiesI shopowners 21．正确答案：C解析：Distraction ‘equipment’ is wrong because Reza says ‘I’ll make notes for myself about what lighting I’m going to need ... a good range of equipment, but I’ll need to make a list for each location for my own reference’(he will decide on the lighting equipment himself so they won’t discuss it).22．正确答案：E解析：The word ‘roadworks’ tells you when to listen for the answer to 22 but it does not come immediately.23．正确答案：G24．正确答案：A25．正确答案：H解析：The meaning of ‘understudies’ is given before you hear the word.26．正确答案：B解析：Distraction Mike mentions ‘costumes’ but points out they ‘don’t actually need’ any.Choose four answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-G, next to questions 27-30.A lightsB fixed cameraC mirrorD torchesE wooden screenF bikeG large box27．正确答案：B解析：It’s outside the mill, by the window. Distraction Helen mentions a mirror but says they decided not to use it.28．正确答案：A解析：They are on the inside, next to the wall behind the wheel. Distraction Helen mentions torches but says the actors will be carrying them.29．正确答案：E解析：[wooden = made of wood] Distraction Mike says the lights won’t shine directly on the screen.30．正确答案：G解析：[huge = large] Distraction Mike mentions the bike, but he is referring to how the girl arrives at the mill.听力原文：You will hear part of a lecture about exotic pests given as the introduction to a course on ecology and environment. First you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40.[Pause the recording for one minute.]Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.Lecturer: Good afternoon. I want this afternoon as an introduction to our ecology module to offer examples of exotic pests - non-native animals or plants which are, or may be, causing problems - which might prove a fruitful topic for seminar papers later in the term. People and products are criss-crossing the world as never before, and on these new global highways, plants and animals are travelling too.Exotic plants and animals are turning up in Antarctica and on the most remote islands on Earth. For example, the Australian red-backed spider - it’s made its way to countries fairly near home, such as New Zealand and Japan, as some of you may know - well, it’s also been found on Tristan da Cunha,(31)which is a remote island, thousands of miles from anywhere, way out in the middle of the Atlantic.Now, another famous animal invader in the other direction, so to speak, from England to Australia in the southern hemisphere, is the rabbit. This was in 1830 and it might seem less of a threat, but it became an extraordinarily destructive pest. The fact that rabbits increased so rapidly is perhaps more understandable when we remind ourselves that they had originally been introduced to England from continental Europe eight centuries earlier.(32)This was because theywere regarded as a luxury food source, and in spite of having warm fur, they probably originated on the hot dry plains of Spain, which of course explains why they thrive in the climate of Australia.A much less cuddly example of a pest introduced to Australia, this time from America, is fire ants. These are increasing and spreading very fast.(33)Their huge nests can now be found in gardens in the city of Brisbane and they are costing the Australian government a great deal of money in control measures. These were an accidental introduction, rather than a deliberate one, brought to Australia, probably in horticultural imports or in mud on second-hand machinery.As a biologist and conservationist, I have become increasingly concerned about these matters. Exotic invasions are irreversible and deserve to be taken more seriously even when they aren’t particularly damaging. For example, something that is not necessarily a major disaster compared to other ecological experiments:(34)in 1975 an Australian species of earthworm was deliberately introduced to the northern hemisphere, in Scotland, because they were bigger than the natives.(35)The aim was that they would be more effective than native species, but in fact they don’t do more for the soil condition than the smaller locals which they displace. Although they don’t do a lot of harm, as far as we know up to now, this will probably prove to have been a mistake.A much more serious case, also in Scotland, as well as other countries, along with the latest victim, Iceland, is the New Zealand flatworm. This is a most unwelcome newcomer in these regions of (36)north-west Europe. Basically, this flatworm came into these countries by accident. It’s now been realised that it was actually (37)carried in the plant pots containing exotic ornamental shrubs and so on, and as it eats local earthworms, and doesn’t benefit the local ecology in any way, it is a real pest.Next, there’s a further instance, this time in the water and it’s come from Japan. It’s(38)a delicious but very fast-spreading seaweed and is one of many exotic species, large and small, in the seas covering the rocks around Australia. Unfortunately, it is replacing indigenous seaweeds and permanently altering the ecosystem. However, to look at the situation from a business point of view - it is now being harvested and exported, dried, back to Japan, its original home, where it’s particularly popular. So sometimes we may find accidental benefits from apparently harmful arrivals.Well, you could say that world ecology is now going the same way as popular culture. Global music and fashions, food and drinks are taking over from local ones in every land. And in ecosystems, we find vigorous exotic invaders overwhelming native species and natural habitats.But can we find any examples of invaders which appear to be a problem and then find that in fact they may not be such a big issue after all? We might take as an example a native of Australia, the budgerigar, the most common pet parrot in the world, of course. Because there have been many escapes over the years, it is now to be found flying about in feral flocks where the climate suits it. So, these flocks of budgerigars have been getting very numerous(39)in the south-east of the United States, particularly in residential areas. People have been getting quite worried about this, but it has been observed that the size of the flocks has diminished somewhat recently. The fact that they are smaller is thought to be(40)due to the fact that new competitors for their habitat have arrived from other places.That’s the last example for now. What I’d like you to consider isthis: Is the planet Earth moving towards a one-world ecosystem? How far would it be a wholly bad development?Complete the table below.Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.31．正确答案：(the)Atlantic(Ocean)32．正确答案：(luxury)food(source)解析：Distraction Rabbits’‘fur’ is mentioned but there is no suggestion they were imported for the fur to be ‘used for’ something.33．正确答案：(in)gardens解析：Distraction ‘nests’ are what the ants make, not their ‘habitat’(which is what this column is about).34．正确答案：earthworm / earth worm35．正确答案：soil(condition)解析：Distraction ‘natives’, ‘native species’ and ‘locals’ are all mentioned but the pests ‘displace’ these, they do not improve them.36．正确答案：North(-)west / north(-)west解析：Distraction ‘Scotland’ and ‘Iceland’ are mentioned, but they are names of countries so they cannot be the adjective in front of ‘Europe’.37．正确答案：plant pots解析：Distraction ‘ornamental shrubs’ are mentioned but the flatworms came in the earth in the pots, not the plants.。
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Dirtiest City
It's like some vision of hell, an environment of apocalypse（大灾难）happening right now. This is the place where the coal fires burn throughout the night and where there is still darkness at noon. This is the place where the worst pollution collects the worst of the polluters, the coal processors, the power plants and steel factories. Welcome to the most polluted city on the planet, the city of Linfen.
This city sinks, the assessment（评论）of one young boy, his mother hopes the facemasks（口罩）they wear offer at least some protection. Here you'll find the cheap goods China sells to the world as well as this nation's least welcome export, the green house gases are industry's pump pat.
If China is to view the workshop of the world, then this place is its engine room, pretty much. Everything you can see here is fueled by coal. This nation burns an amazing 2,000 million tons of it every year.
By the time, the children of Linfen No.2 School are grown China would have grown, too, bigger than America in terms of carbon dioxide admissions. This is a nation learning that their economic boom also means environment bust（破坏）.
What do you know about global warming? I only know that the ice at both poles will melt and the sea waters will rise and there will be less space for human beings to live. First of all, Linfen is very polluted, we need to clean up our own city. ITV news obtained these exclusive（独家的）pictures of the city council destroying they are playing the 200 dirtiest factories. When you wonder that their efficiency when their pollution monitoring kitties kept under wraps（外衣，包裹）and covered a thick layer of dust. It did look like to be used for weeks. And on the outskirts, we've found this, a huge coking plant burns out and fills it crowds of smoke.
How dirty do you say these places?
So I think it's not a small coal maker, it's very big. And very dirty, that's the dirtiest that I have ever seen.
China has set itself tough pollution targets and miss them dismally（惨淡地，低落地）. Coal is bringing wealth to this country, but either a little meaning to the fraise filthy（肮脏的）rich. John Ray ITV news, Linfen in China.。