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弥补听力(六) 补充听力(六) Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A 11. [A] Both speakers think half of the staff are efficient. [B] The woman has a favorable opinion of the staff. [C] Neither of them has a favorable opinion of the staff. [D] The woman is a restaurant manager herself. 12. [A] In a bike parking lot. [B] At a bike repair shop. [C] In a bike showroom. [D] In a bike factory. 13. [A] Shop for new clothes. [B] Lose some weight. [C] Have his jeans altered. [D] Wear clothes that fit more tightly. 14. [A] Paul should take over his uncle’s business now. [B] He doesn’t agree with the woman’s remarks. [C] Paul should stay another year for his studies. [D] He felt upset by Paul’s hasty decision. 15. [A] Go cross the bridge. [B] Repeat the experiment. [C] Come to the bridge game. [D] Wait and see what will happen. 16. [A] It wasn’t good investment. [B] It should have lasted longer. [C] The man should buy new parts for it. [D] The man won’t be able to get it repaired. 17. [A] Nick repaired it himself. [B] Nick now works in a garage. [C] Nick had his motorcycle fixed. [D] Nick wasted his money. 18. [A] He wishes to have more courses like it. [B] He finds it hard to follow the teacher. [C] He wishes the teacher would talk more. [D] He doesn’t like the teacher’s accent. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. [A] The man’s pay raise. [B] A career ladder for the man. [C] The man’s education. [D] A new chance for everyone to be promoted. 20. [A] Three years. [B] Four years. [C] Five years. [D] Six years. 21. [A] The person who has the strong will. [B] The person who has attended the adult school. [C] The person who can pass the test of arithmetic. [D] The person who can work at computers quickly after a two-day training. 22. [A] The man is eager to attend the training. [B] The man is not very interested in this chance for promotion. [C] The man has been training for computer work since last year. [D] The man is not confident in his chance to be promoted to the Grade 7. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 23. [A] To see his tutor for help. [B] To help the woman with her report. [C] To find some materials for his essay. [D] To read books on the effect of smoking by parents on their children. 24. [A] The computer doesn’t work properly. [B] Peter is writing an essay on environment. [C] Mary is much better than Peter in using computers. [D] Peter is taking a computer class which is helpful. 25. [A] Stand in the queue. [B] Wait for a free computer. [C] Ask his tutor to recommend him some books. [D] Use the computer to find the needed information. Section B Passage One Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. [A] Remember the entire trade route. [B] Know the making of products. [C] Receive certain special training. [D] Deal with a lot of difficulties. 27. [A] It was made up of different routes. [B] Silk trading became less popular. [C] Sea travel provided easier routes. [D] People needed fewer foreign goods. 28. [A] People learned from one another. [B] People shared each other’s beliefs. [C] People traded goods along the route. [D] People earned their living by traveling. Passage Two Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 29. [A] They worry about school. [B] They dislike living with their parents. [C] They have to be locked in to avoid troubles. [D] They quarrel a lot with other family members. 30. [A] They don’t want to make family decisions. [B] They don’t want to share family responsibility. [C] They don’t want to go boating with their family. [D] They don’t want to cause trouble in their families. 31. [A] They give their children more freedom. [B] They care less about their children’s life. [C] They are much stricter with their children. [D] They go to clubs more often with their children. 32. [A] Negotiation in family. [B] Education in family. [C] Harmony in family. [D] Teenage trouble in family. Passage Three Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 33. [A] Amery was fond of games. [B] Amery was of similar size. [C] Amery was good at sports. [D] Amery looked like an animal. 34. [A] He was laughed at by other boys. [B] He pushed Amery hard and hurt him. [C] He played a joke on an outstanding athlete. [D] Amery turned out to be in the same grade. 35. [A] The speaker could run faster than Amery. [B] The speaker liked playing on boys of all sizes. [C] Amery was a student in Grade Four. [D] Amery forgave the speaker for his rude behavior. Section C Sixteen-year-old Michael Viscardsi of San Diego won first prize in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology. He showed (36) ________ to a nineteen-century math problem. Michael has been (37) ________ by his mother, who has a doctorate in neuroscience. He also worked on his project with a professor at a university. The National Center for Education Statistics did its (38) ________ research on home-schooling in 2003. Researchers (39) ________ that more than one million American students learned at home. That was more than two percent of the school-age population. Michael Viscardsi, for example, has been taught mostly at home, but with (40) ________ math classes at a local university. The researchers asked parents why they home-schooled their children. Thirty-one percent said the most important reason was (41) ________ about the environment of the local schools. Thirty percent said it was to provide (42) ________ instruction. Sixteen percent said they were not satisfied with the quality of the (43) ________ in the local schools. (44) _________________________________________________________. An education expert said much of this increase was in cities with histories of racial tension. Also, (45) ________________________________________________________________. Critics of home-schooling say children need to attend school to help them learn social skills. They also say that home-schooled children do not get a very good education. Still, (46) ________________________________________________________________. 补充听力(七) Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A 11. [A] The man was confused about the date of the appointment. [B] The man wants to change the date of the appointment. [C] The man is glad he’s got in touch with the doctor. [D] The man can’t come for the appointment at 4:15. 12. [A] Wait for him until he finishes his class. [B] Invite Judie to play instead. [C] Cancel the game and stay at home. [D] Go to attend the class with him. 13. [A] She was considerate. [B] She was unforgiving. [C] She was apologetic. [D] She was sympathetic. 14. [A] It is totally different this time. [B] It has nothing to do with the textbook. [C] Most of the questions aren’t from the textbook. [D] Half of the questions are in the textbook. 15. [A] He can’t afford to buy the ticket. [B] He needs a break from the math problem. [C] He doesn’t want to go to the opera. [D] He’ll meet the woman when he has finished the math problem. 16. [A] Professor Harrison doesn’t teach well. [B] The woman doesn’t have to borrow notes from Jim. [C] Jim’s notes are good for the woman to borrow. [D] The woman shouldn’t have been absent-minded in the lecture. 17. [A] She would mark the exam papers herself. [B] She would not give her students an exam. [C] She would collect the exam papers herself. [D] Her teaching assistant would grade the exam papers. 18. [A] He’s eager to start his new job. [B] His job starts early next week. [C] He believes the job interview went well. [D] His professor was mistaken about the job. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. [A] The country. [B] Another country. [C] Cornfield. [D] Birmingham. 20. [A] He might get his passport. [B] He might get some money and clothes. [C] He might make himself armed. [D] He might make a call. 21. [A] He will meet her in another country. [B] They will go to another country together. [C] He will leave her in the country. [D] He will appear somewhere near her. 22. [A] By air. [B] By car. [C] By sea. [D] By train. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 23. [A] They left their pets with neighbors. [B] They rented their house to a student. [C] They hired someone to stay in their home. [D] They asked their gardener to watch their house. 24. [A] They look at a house sitter’s score report. [B] They interview a house sitter’s friends. [C] They check a house sitter’s references. [D] They attend a house sitter’s party. 25. [A] The homeowner is afraid of being accused. [B] The house sitter pleads again and again. [C] Most house-sitters are very poor. [D] The homeowner doesn’t want to bother. Section B Passage One Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. [A] Neutral. [B] Opposed. [C] Approving. [D] Supportive. 27. [A] Because FDA approved them. [B] Because they cannot read the labels. [C] Because they support the new technique. [D] Because they cannot tell which one is the cloned food. 28. [A] More and more people accept cloned milk and meat. [B] FDA approved that cloned food is safe for human beings. [C] American farmers produce more milk than the people can consume. [D] Because more milk is produced by cloned cows, the milk price is reduced. 29. [A] It may cause unintended bad results to human beings. [B] It is developed well enough to clone human beings. [C] It will bring more unexpected economic benefits. [D] It is supported by ethicists and religious leaders. Passage Two Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 30. [A] To tell us how much time the new bridge will spend. [B] To tell us how much money the new bridge will cost. [C] To tell us China has started to build the longest bridge across the sea in the world. [D] To tell us why China began to build the longest bridge across the sea in the world. 31. [A] 120kms. [B] 184kms. [C] 268kms. [D] 304kms. 32. [A] To make it easy to enjoy the beautiful scene of the sea. [B] To show China’s growing economic power. [C] To help develop economy. [D] To do wonders. Passage Three Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 33. [A] Ask for their names. [B] Name babies after them. [C] Put down their names. [D] Choose names for them. 34. [A] If the family tree is fairly limited. [B] If the family tie is strong enough. [C] If the name is commonly used. [D] If nobody in the family complains. 35. [A] It will show the beauty of its own. [B] It will develop more associations. [C] It will lose the original meaning. [D] It will help form the baby’s personality. Section C With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation’s news (36) ________. And of course in Britain listeners and viewers can (37) ________ into two BBC television channels, five BBC national radio services and dozens of local radio stations. They are brought sport, comedy, drama, music, news and current affairs, education, religion, parliamentary coverage, children’s programs and films for an (38) ________ license fee of ,83 per household. It is a remarkable record, (39) ________ back over 70 years — yet the BBC’s future is now in (40) ________. The Corporation will survive as a publicly-funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now the subject of a (41) ________ debate in Britain. The debate was (42) ________ by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC — (43) ________ ordinary listeners and viewers — to say what was good or bad about the Corporation. (44) ________________________________________________________________. Defenders of the Corporation of whom there are many are fond of quoting the American slogan “If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.” The BBC “isn’t broke”, they say, by which they mean it is not broken, so why bother to change it? (45) ________________________________________________________________. The commercial TV channels were required by the Thatcher Government’s Broadcasting Act to become more commercial, competing with each other for advertisers, and cutting costs and jobs. (46) ________________________________________________________________. 补充听力(八) Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A 11. [A] The woman is an unusual student. [B] The man is a rigid person. [C] The woman’s request will be granted. [D] No make-up exam will be given. 12. [A] He does want the woman to pay. [B] He doesn’t understand the woman. [C] He is wondering what the woman is thinking. [D] He is surprised that the woman would think that. 13. [A] He probably has a poor memory. [B] He is very forgiving and tolerant. [C] He is well liked by his customers. [D] He has been introduced to the staff. 14. [A] The man doesn’t want to see Mr. Williams. [B] Mr. Jones is in an inferior position. [C] Mr. Jones used to be in charge. [D] Mr. Williams doesn’t want to do it tomorrow. 15. [A] It will probably be cold. [B] It will be mild as usual. [C] It will probably rarely be cold. [D] It will be warm and comfortable. 16. [A] Ask someone to help the woman. [B] Give the woman the notes for her reference. [C] Lend the woman his pencil and paper. [D] Feel sorry that he can’t help the woman. 17. [A] The dirty street. [B] The noisy place. [C] The low voice of the man. [D] The crowded park. 18. [A] The woman should join the chess club. [B] The woman needs a lot of time to play chess. [C] He himself is not a very good chess player, either. [D] He’s willing to teach the woman how to play chess. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. [A] More work as a teaching assistant. [B] A higher salary. [C] A longer vacation period. [D] A research assignment. 20. [A] He’ll start next week. [B] He wouldn’t enjoy it. [C] He would like time to decide. [D] He wants his adviser’s opinion. 21. [A] Finish his degree in the fall. [B] Let someone else read his evaluation. [C] Consider taking fewer courses. [D] Get more teaching experience. 22. [A] Frank’s talent for teaching. [B] Frank’s interesting approach to research. [C] A present Frank will receive for graduation. [D] A congratulatory letter from the department. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 23. [A] He is sad to have lost his job. [B] He totally supports the woman’s choice. [C] He insists that the woman major in business. [D] He doesn’t believe in his wife. 24. [A] He is out of employment. [B] He lets the woman down. [C] He has to delay the woman’s study. [D] The woman chooses the wrong major. 25. [A] In their home. [B] In the school. [C] At a grocery. [D] On the telephone. Section B Passage One Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. [A] More than 12%. [B] Almost 50%. [C] Nearly 60%. [D] About 70%. 27. [A] They are self-evident. [B] They are yet to be proved. [C] They are to be further studied. [D] They are supported by scientific evidence. 28. [A] Different Forms of Exercise [B] Exercise — The Road to Health [C] Running — A Popular Form of Sport [D] Scientific Evidence of Health Benefits Passage Two Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 29. [A] To improve her computer program. [B] To find out their attitudes towards food. [C] To find out details she can make use of. [D] To predict what food they’ll like in the future. 30. [A] People believe what the computer tells them. [B] People can be led to believe in something false. [C] People tend to forget their childhood experiences. [D] People are not always aware of their personalities. 31. [A] If they learn it is harmful for health. [B] If they lie to themselves that they don’t want it. [C] If they are willing to let doctors control their minds. [D] If they think they once had a bad experience of eating it. 32. [A] Whether it is moral. [B] Who it is best for. [C] When it is effective. [D] How it should be used. Passage Three Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 33. [A] Helicopters have only been worked on by man since 1940. [B] Chinese children were the first to achieve flight in helicopters. [C] Helicopters were considered more dangerous than the early airplanes. [D] Some people thought they would become widely used by average individuals. 34. [A] They are used for rescue work. [B] They are taking the place of high-flying jets. [C] They have been widely used for various purposes. [D] They are now used exclusively for commercial projects. 35. [A] For high-speed transportation. [B] For extremely high altitude flights. [C] For overseas passenger transportation. [D] For urgent mission to places inaccessible to other kinds of craft. Section C Prospective students should bear in mind that housing will be an expensive item in their budget, (36) ________ in magnitude the cost of tuition and food. In (37) ________, the amount that a student spends for housing should be held to (38) ________ one-fifth or one-fourth of the total (39) ________ for living expenses (as opposed to educational expenses, such as tuition and fees). If the amount spent for housing reaches one-third of the total (40) ________ for living expenses, the student is certainly spending too much; however, if it drops to one-sixth, it is possible that the quarters are unsafe, unhealthy, and possibly (41) ________. For detailed information on local housing (42) ________, students should contact the housing office or the foreign student adviser of the institution that has (43) ________ them. (44) _________________________________________________________________, because public transportation in many towns and cities in the United States is simply not adequate or convenient. (45) _________________________________________________________; the housing office of the institution; bulletin boards located in dormitories, cafeterias, libraries, etc. on the campus; the “for rent” columns of campus or community newspapers; fellow students who attend the institution; and a host family in the community. (46) ________________________________________________________________. 补充听力(九) Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A 11. [A] The man must be an excellent student. [B] The man’s idea is probably a good one. [C] The man had better drop more than one course. [D] The man would not have dropped the best course of the four. 12. [A] The movie was really wonderful. [B] The movie was so full of violent scenes. [C] The movie wasn’t as good as he had expected. [D] The movie was overly concerned with romantic relationships. 13. [A] She wasn’t able to manage the project well. [B] She’s not sure how she was able to finish so early. [C] She’s not sure how to solve the mystery. [D] She still hasn’t heard what was shocking. 14. [A] He thinks the woman is unfair. [B] He agrees that the workload is heavy. [C] He feels the assignment is reasonable. [D] He won’t be able to go to the lab today. 15. [A] Lose weight. [B] Quit smoking. [C] Weigh himself frequently. [D] Have a talk with the doctor. 16. [A] Getting dressed. [B] Collecting old clothes. [C] Trying out new clothes. [D] Looking for her black dress. 17. [A] The man should go to bed at eleven. [B] The man should give up watching the movie. [C] The man should stay up and watch the program. [D] The man should read something exciting instead. 18. [A] She was born there. [B] Her children were born there. [C] She has lived there since 1970. [D] Her husband was teaching English there. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. [A] They are looking for an apartment to live in. [B] They are discussing living places and children’s education. [C] They are complaining about their children. [D] They are planning for the next weekend. 20. [A] There’s much to do besides work and study. [B] It’s convenient for people to go anywhere. [C] The natural environment is beneficial to children. [D] The countryside is a perfect place for weekends. 21. [A] The children are too young to benefit from city life. [B] Even adults themselves cannot go everywhere in the city. [C] There is a lot to see and do for children and adults. [D] There isn’t a lot to see and do for children. 22. [A] She is a full-time housewife. [B] She does not care for her children. [C] She used to live in the suburbs in her childhood. [D] She will go to a museum next weekend. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 23. [A] She couldn’t go to Spain for holiday this summer. [B] She couldn’t communicate with Spanish people very well. [C] She didn’t learn enough Spanish vocabulary. [D] She had few chances to speak Spanish in Spain. 24. [A] By reading the BBC book. [B] By going to an evening class of BBC. [C] By watching BBC programs. [D] By going to Spain to talk with Spanish people. 25. [A] Learn more grammar and vocabulary. [B] Watch more BBC television programs. [C] Understand Spanish cultures well. [D] Do more practice in speaking Spanish. Section B Passage One Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. [A] Opera is only for rich people. [B] Opera is famous for its history. [C] Young people are not interested in operas. [D] Opera companies are trying to keep operas alive. 27. [A] Because it is hard to find long versions. [B] Because they can make people interested. [C] Because short versions are easy to perform. [D] Because they can be performed in public libraries. 28. [A] To reduce the cost. [B] To attract young people. [C] To make Cinderella popular. [D] To celebrate its 75th anniversary. 29. [A] Opera is not so popular an art form today. [B] Students enjoy performing operas very much. [C] The tickets for opera are very expensive at present. [D] Opera is performed in a language difficult to understand. Passage Two Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 30. [A] Because it is part of a historical cave system. [B] Because it is the largest body of water in Tennessee. [C] Because it is the biggest underground lake in the world. [D] Because it is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. 31. [A] By diving into the water. [B] From “The Council Room”. [C] By riding far out onto the lake. [D] From an opening in a mountainside. 32. [A] They serve as a tourist attraction. [B] They serve as an Indian meeting ground. [C] They serve as an underground testing site. [D] They serve as a motorboat race course. Passage Three Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 33. [A] Because only rich people can afford the watches. [B] Because the watches were made many years ago. [C] Because only a few watches of the kind were made. [D] Because the watches were made by a Swiss watchmaker. 34. [A] Its new uses. [B] Its splendid color. [C] Its fashionable style. [D] Its mechanical movement. 35. [A] Buy the watch. [B] Return the watch. [C] Wear the watch. [D] Receive the service. Section C The family in Britain is changing. The once typical British family headed by two parents has (36) ________ substantial changes during the twentieth century. In particular there has been a rise in the number of single-person households, which (37) ________ from 18 to 29 percent of all households between 1971 and 2002. By the year 2020, it is (38) ________ that there will be more single people than (39) ________ people. Fifty years ago this would have been socially (40) ________ in Britain. In the past, people got married and stayed married (41) ________ was very difficult, expensive and took a long time. Today, people’s views on marriage are changing. Many (42) ________, mostly in their twenties or thirties, live together without getting married. Only about 60%of these couples will (43) ________ get married. In the past, people married before they had children, but now about 40%of children in Britain are born to unmarried parents. In 2000, (44) _________________________________________________________________. Before 1960 this was very unusual. People are generally getting married at a later age now and many women do not want to have children immediately. (45) _________________________________________________________________. The number of single-parent families is increasing. This is mainly due to more marriages ending in divorce, (46) ________________________________________________________________. 补充听力(十) Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A 11. [A] Talking about their house. [B] Looking for a place to live in. [C] Walking on the campus. [D] Reading a newspaper. 12. [A] He lent her his extra pen. [B] He offered her a pencil. [C] He was afraid of losing his pen. [D] He said he didn’t have any extra ink. 13. [A] They should wait patiently. [B] They should ask that man to leave. [C] They should serve that man immediately. [D] That man is old enough to order things he likes. 14. [A] Change a partner. [B] Ask the teacher for advice. [C] Meet his partner in the mid-town. [D] Make a compromise with his partner. 15. [A] Go to the game. [B] Have her supper. [C] Miss her class. [D] Meet her friends any minute. 16. [A] It was burned down. [B] It was robbed. [C] It was blown up. [D] It was closed down. 17. [A] He takes it as a kind of exercise. [B] He wants to save money. [C] He loves doing anything that is new. [D] His office isn’t very far. 18. [A] The assignment looks easy but actually it’s quite difficult. [B] The assignment is too difficult for them to complete on time. [C] They cannot finish the assignment until Thursday. [D] They have plenty of time to work on the assignment. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. [A] Her roommate won’t share expenses. [B] The apartment needs a lot of repair work. [C] The apartment is too far from the campus. [D] She’s having trouble with the owner of the apartment. 20. [A] Paula doesn’t pay the rent on time. [B] She has to buy a new dishwasher. [C] Paula repairs the dishwasher without her permission. [D] She can’t find anyone to repair the dishwasher. 21. [A] Friends. [B] Classmates. [C] Lawyer and client. [D] Lifesaver and drowned victim. 22. [A] He can bring a lawsuit against the owner. [B] He has some knowledge of the law. [C] He once had the same problem. [D] He knows the owner. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 23. [A] Making a travel to Finland. [B] How to post a letter. [C] Reserving airline tickets. [D] Booking a train ticket. 24. [A] Flight 1070 and 90. [B] Flight 1017 and 19. [C] Flight 1070 and 19. [D] Flight 1017 and 90. 25. [A] At 10:00 a.m. on the 23rd of this month. [B] At 10:00 a.m. on the 22nd of this month. [C] At 4:35 p.m. on the 29th of this month. [D] At 5:55 p.m. on the 22nd of this month. Section B Passage One Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. [A] Pollution in the air. [B] A lack of parking. [C] A lack of bridges. [D] Accidents with bicycles. 27. [A] The law of the road. [B] International law. [C] Federal law. [D] Local law. 28. [A] To reduce the number of cars. [B] To train bicyclists. [C] To help build special bike paths. [D] To help buy more bikes. 29. [A] Bicycles are causing all the problems. [B] Bicycling would be safer in the future. [C] There are special paths set aside for bicycles. [D] Bicycles cannot help clean up the environment. Passage Two Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 30. [A] Space Travel [B] Problems of Astronauts [C] Water Pollution [D] The Spaceship Earth 31. [A] The present population on earth is fourteen billion. [B] Water is recycled every seventy million years. [C] The planet earth travels around the sun at 18 miles per second. [D] The earth is compared to a spaceship because they both travel around the sun. 32. [A] The spaceship Earth cannot make a trip to the moon when its supplies are used up. [B] Man must stop abusing the environment in order to have a better future. [C] Someday human beings will be able to live on a spaceship. [D] Space travel will cause pollution to other planets. Passage Three Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 33. [A] The family was extremely large. [B] He didn’t live very long with them. [C] He was too young when he lived with them. [D] He was fully occupied with observing nature. 34. [A] He was first of all a scientist. [B] He was not only a naturalist but also a scientist. [C] He was no more than a born naturalist. [D] He was a scientist as well as a naturalist. 35. [A] He came up with solutions in a most natural way. [B] He lacked some of the qualities required of a scientist. [C] He had a great deal of trouble doing mental arithmetic. [D] He just read about other people’s observations and discoveries. Section C Perched among the highlands of western Cameroon, bordered by green mountains and cliff faces, Lake Nvos is a scene of (36) ________ beauty. But the picture cannot be trusted. A detailed study (37) ________ that the lake could release a deadly cloud of carbon dioxide, capable of wiping out entire (38) ________ around its shores. The warning, from a team of scientists, comes nearly 20 years after the lake discharged an (39) ________ 80m cubic metres of CO into the atmosphere. (40) 2 ________ than air, the cloud of gas rolled down surrounding hillsides and villages. Silent and (41) ________, it exhausted the air of oxygen, killing hundreds of cattle and (42) ________ the lives of more than 1,700 people up to 26 kilometers away. “It was one of the most mysterious (43) ________ scientists have ever investigated,” said George Kling, an ecologist at the University of Michigan. (44) _________________________________________________________. Gas bubbling up from the Earth’s magma (岩浆) was under such pressure at the bottom of the 200 metre deep lake that it dissolved until it reached max. (45) ________________________________________________________________. To prevent a recurrence, in 2001 engineers installed a pipe to suck CO 2 from the bottom of the lake and release it harmlessly into the air. A pipe was also installed at Lake Monoun, where an outbreak of CO killed 37 people in 1984. 2 (46) _____________________________________________________________. “By 2010, those five pipes would be enough to get the carbon dioxide down to safe levels,” he said. 补充听力(六)答案解析 Part III Listening Comprehension Section A 11. M: The service in this restaurant is 【听前预测】由选项中的Both，The really terrible. woman，Neither，the staff，opinion W: Right. It’s high time they got 等可知，对话与对员工的看法有关。 rid of half of the staff here, if 【解 析】选[C]。对话中男士提到 you ask me. The service…is really terrible(服务真 Q: What conclusion can we draw 是糟透了)，女士回答说Right，即认 from the conversation? 同男士的观点，故答案为[C]。It’s high time +过去式是一种虚拟句型，示 “是时候做…了”。 12. W: Could you have my bike ready 【听前预测】由选项均为地点可知，本 before ten? Recently the brake 题考查对话地点或场所。 hasn’t worked well. 【解 析】选[B]。对话中女士提到 M: Sure, I’ll check it. That won’t the brake hasn’t worked well(刹车不 be a big problem. You may 灵了)，选项[B]中的repair与女士的 come and pick it up before ten 话对应，故[B]为答案。sth. doesn’t o’clock. work well意为“某物坏了”。 Q: Where did this conversation most probably take place? 13. M: I’m having trouble fitting into 【听前预测】选项均以原形动词开头表 my jeans. Looks like I’ll have 明, 本题可能考查建议。由[C]中的his to get some new ones. jeans可知，女士的话为听音重点。 W: Oh, you wouldn’t do that if you 【解 析】选[B]。女士的话just cut just cut down on what you eat. down on what you eat为听音重点，[B] Q: What does the woman imply the 的内容是对女士话的同义转述，故为 man should do? 答案。have trouble doing sth.意为“做 某事有麻烦”;cut down on sth.意为“减 少、削减某物”;lose weight意为“减 肥”。 14. W: Paul would be much wiser to 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 stay in this country another Paul, should可知, 本题可能考查与 year finishing his Master’s Paul有关的建议。 Degree than to rush home and 【解 析】选[C]。对话中男士提到I to take over his uncle’s couldn’t agree with you more，结合女 business now. Don’t you think 士所说的Paul…wiser to…another so? year finishing…Degree可知，[C]的内 M: Yes, I couldn’t agree with you 容为男士的话的同义转述，故[C]为答more. 案。couldn’t agree with sb. more意为 Q: What does the man mean? “非常同意某人的观点”;take over sb’s business意为“接管某人的生意”。 15. W: Do you think Professor Green 【听前预测】选项均以原形动词开头表 will make you redo the entire 明, 本题考查行为动作。 experiment? 【解 析】选[D]。对话中男士提到 M: I don’t know. I’ll cross that cross that bridge when I come to it，[D] bridge when I come to it. 的内容是对男士话的同义转述，故为 Q: What is the man planning to do? 答案。cross the bridge when…come to it意为“船到桥头自然直”。 16. M: The washing machine in our 【听前预测】选项中的wasn’t good， apartment is more than should have lasted longer和反复出现 seventeen years old, and it 的the man，should等表明，对话可能 worked just fine until last 与某种东西坏了之后男士应该怎么做 night. 有关，女士的话为听音重点。 W: You’ll never be able to get parts 【解 析】选[D]。由女士所说的You’ll for it. It might be time to invest never be able to get parts for it(你永远 in a more recent model. 都买不到它的零件了)可推断出，女 Q: What does the woman imply 士认为洗衣机没法修了，[D]的表述与 about the washing machine? 此一致, 故为答案。 17. M: There is Nick on his 【听前预测】根据意思相反的选项其中 motorcycle. Did he take it to 一个可能为正确答案的命题规律, 答 the garage to be fixed? 案锁定在[A]和[C]之间。 W: Don’t be foolish. That would 【解 析】选[A]。对话中男士提到 have been a waste of money. It Did he take it to the garage to be fixed? only had a flat tire. (他是到车店修理的吗,)，女士回答 Q: What does the woman imply? 时提到Don’t be foolish.(不要傻了)， 否定了男士的看法，即认为Nick没有 到车店修理，自己修理，故答案为[A]。 flat tire意为“瘪的车轮”。 18. W: You took an optional course this 【听前预测】选项以He wishes/finds/ semester, didn’t you? How is doesn’t like开头表明，男士的话为听音 it going? 重点。 M: Terrible. It seems like the more 【解 析】选[B]。对话中男士提到， the professor talks, the less I the more the professor talks, the less I understand. understand(老师讲得越多，我越不明 Q: How does the man feel about 白)由此可知，男士跟不上老师的进 the course? 度，[B]的表述与此一致, 故为答案。 follow意为“(学习等)跟得上，听得 懂”。 Now you will hear the two long conversations. Conversation One 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由选项中的career ladder, pay raise, training 等可知，对话可能与职业升迁、加薪和培训有关。 M: Good morning, Mrs. Green. You Questions 19 to 22 are based on the want to see me? conversation you have just heard. W: Yes, Jim. Let’s review what you’ve 19. What is mainly discussed in the done so far. You were hired as a conversation? mail clerk about five years ago. 【解析】选[B]。选项均为概括性强的 You’ve learned a lot since then, 名词短语表明，本题可能考查对话 haven’t you? 主旨。对话开头简短的问候之后，M: Sure. I learned more about the 女士直接说明谈话目的review what company because I went around to you’ve done so far(回顾一下你的工 different offices. Then I was 作历程)，后面提到现在又有一个晋 promoted to mail distribution clerk. 升机会(move up the ladder)，由此 That’s two grades higher than the 可知，对话的主要内容就是男士的 mail clerk. So I skipped a grade. I 职业提升，故答案为[B]。 went from Grade 1 to Grade 3. 【点睛】对话主旨一般要根据对话开W: Did you like that job? 头的主要信息进行总结。 M: Yeah, my pay went up, and every 20. How many years did it take the year I moved up a step. Every time man to move up to Grade 5? I moved up a step, I got a pay raise. 【解析】选[C]。对话中女士说男士5 It was a Grade 3, Step F. But I 年前刚到公司是一名邮政职员，男 didn’t go outside. I was usually in 士说他自己现在是5级高级职员， the mail room. I was in charge of 故答案为[C]。 the other messenger clerks. 【点睛】本题设题点为数字信息处， W: You were a boss. 此类题一般需要对描述进行推理方 M: Right. After three years, the 可得出。 manager said he wanted to help me 21. Who can get the chance to go to move up. They gave me a little test school for more training? — arithmetic, alphabetizing, and 【解析】选[D]。对话中女士说掌握 some typing. 较快(learn quickly)的人能去学校 W: You did well on the test. 接受进一步培训(more training)， M: Yes. I did well because I studied at 故答案为[D]。 an adult school, and I practiced at 【点睛】[D]是对We will give home before the test. So I got this everybody two days of training和The job as senior clerk. I’m a Grade 5 people who learn quickly can go to now. school for more training的综合表述。 W: Well, Jim, here is another chance to 22. What can be inferred from the move up the ladder. The Mail conversation? Department is getting some new 【解析】选[B]。选项均以The man computers. We will give everybody 开头，其中涉及男士对培训的态度。 two days of training. The people 对话后面提男士到， I’d like to think who learn quickly can go to school about it for a few days(他要考虑几 for more training. 天)，但Maybe I should stay where I M: You mean going to school on am now(可能会留在原职位)， 由 company time? Go to school 此可推断出，他对这次脱产培训带 instead of coming to work? 来的升迁机会不是很感兴趣，故答 W: Yes, because it will help you in 案为[B]。 your work later. You can be 【点睛】听音时应注意表示观点态度 promoted to production 的词汇(例如对话中的Maybe I programming after you’ve learned should表不确定性)，从而推断出 to use computer. The job starts at 说话者的态度。 Grade 7. M: Well, I’d like to think about it for a few days. Maybe I should stay where I am now. Conversation Two 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的tutor，report，essay，computer等可知，对话可能与写论文有关。 M: Hello, Mary. Fancy meeting you Questions 23 to 25 are based on the here! conversation you have just heard. W: Hi, Peter. Yes, I’m here again, there 23. What is the man’s purpose to always seems to be a queue. I’m come here? writing a report for my economics 【解析】选[C]。选项均以不定式开头 class. How about you? 表明, 本题可能考查行为目的。对话 M: I’m still working on my essay for 一开始男士提到，…working environmental science. I need to on…essay for environmental check out a reference. science…need to check out a W: You know, when I first started reference(为环境科学论文查找参考 doing my report I was frightened to 资料)，故答案为[C]。 use these computer catalogues. I 【点睛】[C]中的find some materials was sure something would go 是对对话中check out a reference的 wrong. 同义转述。 M: But they’re so useful. You can see at a glance what books you need and if they’re checked out or not. W: I know that now, but at the beginning I really missed the card catalogues. But anyway I still have the same problem I used to have, 24. What can we learn from the knowing what to look up! conversation? M: Yes, I agree, it’s the same for me. 【解析】选[B]。对话中男士提到，I’m Last week I must have wasted two still working on my essay for hours looking for information on a environmental science(他正在写环 topic I was working on. 境科学方面的论文)， 故答案为[B]。 W: Really? What was the topic? 【点睛】[B]中的writing an essay是对M: It was about the effect of smoking 男士所说working on my essay的同 by parents on their children’s sleep. 义转述。 I looked up sleeping, child psychology, child development, problems in social work, children’s medical problems, and I can’t remember what else. In the end, I had to go back and ask my tutor for help. 25. What is the man going to do W: You know, I took a study skills soon? class because I thought it would 【解析】选[D]。对话结尾处女士提 help me locate information, and all 到，there’s a free computer now(有 I learned was how to read the 一台空闲的电脑)，由此可推断出， cards, which wasn’t of much help! 男士将要做的是用电脑查资料了， My real problem is knowing what 故答案为[D]。 card to look up. 【点睛】听音时对话末尾要留意，它M: Yes, and that takes thinking! Pity 容易成为设题点。 the computer can’t do that for us. W: Maybe it will some day. Oh, look, there’s a free computer now. M: Yes, thanks. See you! Section B Passage One 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的trade route，silk trading，traded goods等可知，短文与丝绸贸易有关。 Runners in a relay race pass a Questions 26 to 28 are based on the stick in one direction. However, passage you have just heard. merchants passed silk, gold, fruit, and 26. What was needed for traders glass along the Silk Road in more than along the Silk Road to do? one direction. They earned their living 【解析】选[D]。选项均以原形动词 by traveling the famous Silk Road. 开头表明，本题可能考查行为动作。 The Silk Road was not a simple 短文中提到，However，the Silk Road trading network. It passed through was made up of many routes, not one thousands of cities and towns. It started smooth path，以及后面提到的many from eastern China, across Central dangers，由此可知，在丝绸之路上 Asia and the Middle East, and ended in 有很多困难，[D]中的difficulties是 the Mediterranean Sea. It was used 对其中dangers的同义转述，故为答 from about 200 B.C. to about A.D. 案。 1300, when sea travel offered new 【点睛】However转折处常设为考点， routes. It was sometimes called the 其后通常为答案所在。 world’s longest highway. However, the Silk Road was made up of many routes, not one smooth path. They passed through what are now 18 27. Why did the Silk Road become countries. The routes crossed less important? mountains and deserts and had many 【解析】选[C]。短文中提到It was dangers of hot sun, deep snow and used from about 200 B.C. to about even battles. Only experienced traders A.D. 1300, when sea travel offered could return safe. new routes，即由于海路的发现使得 The Silk Road got its name from 丝绸之路变得没那么重要了，[C]是 its most prized product. Silk could be 对短文中when sea travel offered used like money to pay taxes or buy new routes的同义转述，故为答案。 goods. But the traders carried more 【点睛】听清问题中的the Silk Road than just silk. Gold, silver, and glass become less important 是解答本题from Europe were much found in the 的关键。 Middle East and Asia. Horses traded from other areas changed farming practices in China. Indian merchants traded salt and other valuable goods. 28. Why could new technologies Chinese merchants traded paper, which travel along the Silk Road? produced an immediate effect on the 【解析】选[A]。短文中提到They West. Apples traveled from central passed this science on to others，也就Asia to Rome. The Chinese had 是说人们互相学习新技术，[A]中的learned to graft (to join a part of a plant learned from one another对应短文中or tree onto another plant or tree) 的passed this science on to others，故different trees together to make new 为答案。 kinds of fruit. They passed this science 【点睛】听清问题中的new on to others, including the Romans. technologies travel along the Silk The Romans used grafting to grow the Road是解答本题的关键。 apple. Trading along the Silk Road led to worldwide business 2,000 years before the World Wide Web. The people along the Silk Road did not share just goods. They also shared their beliefs. The Silk Road provided pathways for learning, diplomacy, and religion. Passage Two 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由选项中的They，parents，family members 等可知，短文可能与青少年和父母的关系有关。 The evidence for harmony may Questions 29 to 32 are based on the not be obvious in some families. But passage you have just heard. it seems that four out of five young 29. What is the popular image of people now get on with their parents, teenagers today? which is the opposite of the 【解析】选[B]。短文开头提到，the popularly-held image of unhappy popularly-held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their rooms after teenagers locked in their rooms after endless family quarrels. endless family quarrels，即通常人们认 An important new study into 为，青少年不愿意和父母们在一起， teenage attitudes surprisingly shows 故答案为[B]。 that their family life is more 【点睛】问题中的popular image对应 harmonious than it has ever been in 短文中的the popularly-held image; the past. “We were surprised by just locked in their rooms after endless how positive today’s young people family quarrels作后置定语修饰 seem to be about their families,” said teenagers。 one member of the research team. 30. What do we know about teenagers “They’re expected to be rebellious according to the study? and selfish but actually they have 【解析】选[D]。由选项中重复出现的 other things on their minds; they want They don’t want to和family可知，本 a car and material goods, and they 题考查They不愿意在家里的某种表 worry about whether school is 现。短文中间提到，They don’t want to serving them well. There’s more rock the boat，即他们并不想惹麻烦， negotiation and discussion between 故答案为[D]。其中cause trouble是对 parents and children, and children 短文中rock the boat的同义转述。 expect to take part in the family 【点睛】听清问题中的teenagers，明 decision-making process. They don’t 确选项中They的指代内容是解答本 want to rock the boat.” 题的关键。 So it seems that this generation 31. What do we know about today’s of parents is much more likely than parents compared with parents of parents of 30 years ago to treat their 30 years ago? children as friends. “My parents are 【解析】选[A]。短文中间通过17岁女 happy to discuss things with me and 孩Daniel Lazall的话说明了现在父母 willing to listen to me,” says 给孩子更多的自由，故答案为[A]。 17-year-old Daniel Lazall. “I always 【点睛】问题中的today’s parents 对应 tell them when I’m going out 短文中的this generation of parents。 clubbing. As long as they know what 32. What is the passage mainly about? I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan 【解析】选[C]。选项均为概括性强的 Crome, who is now 21, agrees. 名词表明，本题可能考查短文主旨。 “Looking back on the last 10 years, 短文一开头就提到，The evidence for there was a lot of what you could call harmony(和谐的迹象)may not be negotiation. For example, as long as obvious in some families, 接下来的几 I’d done all my homework, I could go 段围绕“家庭和谐”展开叙述，故答 out on a Saturday night. But I think 案为[C]。 my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.” Passage Three 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的Amery，speaker等可知，短文 可能与说话者和Amery有关, 涉及到Amery的外貌特征、爱好、行为动作等。 I first went to Harrow in the Questions 33 to 35 are based on the summer term. The school had the passage you have just heard. biggest swimming pool I had ever 33. Why did the speaker think seen. It was a good joke to come up Amery “a fair game”? behind a naked boy, and push him into 【解析】选[B]。短文开头提到，作者 the pool. I made quite a habit of this 已经养成了将与自己个子差不多或 with boys of my own size or less. 比自己矮的同学推进游泳池的习 One day I saw a boy wrapped in a 惯，所以作者看见Amery的个子跟towel on the side of the pool. He was 自己差不多, 所以就觉得Amery是no bigger than I was, so I thought him 个理想的猎物(fair game)，故答案a fair game. Coming secretly behind, I 为[B]。 pushed him in, holding on to his towel 【点睛】根据上下文语境理解a fair so that it would not get wet. I was game的含义是解答本题的关键。 surprised to see an angry face come out 34. Why did the speaker feel from the water, and a being of great ashamed? strength making its way by face strokes 【解析】选[C]。在作者将Amery推to the shore. I fled, but in vain. He 进游泳池之后，有一群比他小的男overtook me, seized me violently, and 孩围了过来，说“Amery是一名运threw me into the deepest part of the 动健将”，作者以个子大小为标准pool. I soon climbed out on the other 将一名运动健将推进游泳池，所以side, and found myself surrounded by a 作者觉得羞愧，故答案为[C]。 crowd of younger boys. “Do you know 35. Which is true according to the what you have done?” they said. “It’s passage? Amery; he is in Grade Six. He is 【解析】选[D]。短文最后提到，大champion at gym; he has got his 家被说话者的言辞(My father, who football honor.” is a great man, is also small.)逗笑了， I was frightened and felt ashamed. 最后Amery告诉说话者以后要小心How could I tell his position when he 一点，原谅了说话者，故答案为[D]。 was wrapped in a bath towel and so 【点睛】细节事实题需要仔细听录small. He didn’t seem pleased at all, so 音，并做好笔记。 I added in a most brilliant word, “My father, who is a great man, is also small.” At this he laughed, and after some general words about my rude behavior and how I had better be careful in the future, signified the incident was closed. Section C 36.【解析】solutions。空前的showed表明此处应填一名词，且能与空后的 to搭配。 37.【解析】schooled。空前的has been表明此处应填一过去分词形式的动词。 School在此作动词，意为“教育(某人)”。 38.【解析】latest。空前的its和空后的research表明，此处应填一形容词。 39. 【解析】found。空前的Researchers及空后的that引导的宾语从句表明， 此处应填一动词。 40.【解析】advanced。空后的math classes表明此处应填一形容词，一起构 成名词短语。 41.【解析】concerned。空前的was表明, 此处应填一形容词，并能与空后 的about搭配。 42.【解析】religious。空前的动词provide和空后的名词instruction表明此 处应填一形容词。 43.【解析】instruction。空前的定冠词the表明此处应填一名词。 44.【答案】It is recently reported that there is an increase in the number of black Americans home-school their children 【Main Points】It is lately reported that the number of black African-American home-school their kids rises 45.【答案】some families were concerned that local schools were not teaching about African-American history and culture 【Main Points】some families were worried that local schools were not teaching about African-American history and culture 46.【答案】all fifty states and the District of Columbia permit home-schooling, but some require more parent preparation or student testing than other states do 【Main Points】all fifty states and the District of Columbia allow home-schooling, but some require more parent preparation or student testing than other states do 补充听力(七)答案解析 Part III Listening Comprehension Section A 11. W: Hello! This is Prof. Gates’ 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 office. I’m calling to remind The man，appointment等可知，对话 you of your 4:15 appointment 与约会有关，男士的话为听音重点。 with the professor to discuss 【解 析】选[A]。对话中男士提 your term paper tomorrow. 到，I thought it was 4:15 today(我原 M: Oh. Thanks. It’s a good thing 以为是今天4:15呢)为听音重点， that you called. I thought it was 结合女士提到的4:15和tomorrow可 4:15 today. 知，男士记错了约会的日期，故[A] Q: What do we learn from the 为答案。 conversation? 12. W: We need a fourth player for 【听前预测】由选项中的play，game tennis this morning. Do you 等可知，对话与打球或比赛有关。 want to join us? 【解 析】选[B]。对话中女士问 M: I’ve got a class at ten. But Do you want to join us?，男士回答时 Judie’s free and she’s really 提到I’ve got a class…But Judie’s good. free(我有课…但Judie有空)，即男 Q: What does the man suggest the 士建议女士叫Judie去打球，故[B] woman do? 为答案。 13. M: I’m really sorry I didn’t make it 【听前预测】根据意思相反的两个选 to your dinner party last night, 项中有一个可能是答案的命题规 Julie. 律，答案锁定在[B]和[C]之间。 W: It’s all right to say that now, but 【解 析】选[B]。由对话中女士 we wasted half the evening (Julie)提到的we wasted half the waiting for you to turn up. evening waiting for you(我们浪费了 Q: What do we learn about Julie? 半个晚上等你)可知，女士还在生 气，不原谅男士，故[B]为答案。 14. W: Professor Smith, all of us are 【听前预测】根据意思相反的两个选 very worried about the coming 项中有一个可能是答案的命题规 exam on Friday and we just 律，答案锁定在[C]和[D]之间。 want to know if there are any 【解 析】选[C]。对话中男士提到 text-related questions in the just a minor portion(只有少部分)， exam? You know that will [C]是对男士的话的同义转述，故为 make a big difference. 答案。 M: Yes, but they are just a minor portion of the test. Q: What can we learn about the test? 15. W: Do you want to come with me 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 to the opera tonight? I’ve got math problem以及[C]中的opera可 extra tickets and I think it will 知，对话与做数学题和看歌剧有关。 take your mind off that math 【解 析】选[C]。对话中男士提到， problem that you were sweating I think I have a better chance of over for the last two hours. understanding a math problem(我想 M: That’ll be great, but the opera is 我更明白数学题)，[C]的内容是对男 in what? Italian, right? I think I 士的话的同义转述，故为答案。take have a better chance of one’s mind off意为“转移某人的注 understanding a math problem. 意力”，sweat over sth.意为“长时间 Q: What does the man imply? 地努力做某事”。 16. W: I was a half hour late for 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 Professor Harrison’s lecture borrow，notes以及The woman this morning. Could you lend should可知，对话与女士借笔记有 me your notes, Jim? 关。 M: Sure. But you won’t find 【解 析】选[B]。对话中男士提到， anything in my notes. You you won’t find anything in my notes know I am always (你在我的笔记里找不到什么东西 absent-minded in his classes. 的)，[B]的内容与男士的话对应，故 Q: What do we learn from the 为答案。absent-minded意为“走神 conversation? 的，开小差的”。 17. M: Excuse me, but I didn’t hear 【听前预测】根据意思相反的两个选 clearly what you said. Did you 项中有一个可能是答案的命题规 say that your teaching assistant 律，答案锁定在[A]和[D]之间。 would mark the exam papers? 【解 析】选[A]。对话中女士提到， W: No, I said I would collect the I’ll grade them myself(我亲自评 papers. I’ll grade them myself. 卷)，[A]的内容为女士的话的同义 Q: What did the woman say about 转述，故为答案。Grade与mark同 the exam? 义，意为“评分”。 18. W: Congratulations, Tom. I heard 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 you got a job with the Wilson job可知，对话与工作有关。 Company. 【解 析】选[D]。由对话中女士 M: Hm, thanks, Prof. Smith, but 提到的I heard you got a job和男士 it’s a little too soon for 提到的All I got so far is an interview congratulations. All I got so far (我目前得到的只是面试)可知， is an interview, early next 女士(即教授)弄错了，故[D]为答 week, on Tuesday. 案。 Q: What does the man mean? Now you will hear the two long conversations. Conversation One 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由选项中的country, get his passport, By air等可知，对话与国家、护照等有关。 W: No luck then, John? Questions 19 to 22 are based on the M: I’m afraid not, ma’am. Not yet, conversation you have just heard. anyhow. We’re still checking 19. According to the woman, where on stolen cars. might the wanted man first go? W: Mm. 【解析】选[D]。对话开头男士问嫌疑犯 M: Where do you think he’ll head 可能去了什么地方，女士认为嫌疑犯暂 for, ma’am? 时不会逃到国外，他会先从Cornfield W: Well, he definitely won’t try to 那里拿护照，并搞些钱和衣服。 leave the country yet. He may Cornfield为人名，住在Birmingham， try to get a passport, and he’ll 故答案为[D]。 certainly need clothes and 【点睛】解答本题的关键是区分 money. He’ll probably get in Cornfield和Birmingham。make for意 touch with Cornfield for those, 为“前往，走向”。 so I expect he’ll make for 20. How will the wanted man probably Birmingham. get in touch with Cornfield M: Right. I’ll put some men on the according to the women? house. 【解析】选[D]。对话中女士分析嫌疑犯 W: Yes, do that. Mind you, I doubt 不会show up there in person(亲自)， if he’ll show up there in person. 而是probably use a telephone(可能会 Hammond’s no fool, you know. 打电话)，故[D]为答案。 I should think he’ll probably use 【点睛】[D]中的make a call是对对话中 a telephone. use a telephone的同义转述。 M: What about his wife? 21. What will the wanted man deal with W: Mm. I shouldn’t think he’ll go his wife? anywhere near her — though he 【解析】选[A]。对话中男士询问What might get her to join him after about his wife,女士回答:他不会出现 he’s left the country. And when 在他妻子附近，而是等他离开这个国家 he does leave, he probably 后让他妻子和他会合，故答案为[A]。 won’t use a major airport, 【点睛】join sb. 在此意为“与某人会 either. So you’d better notify the 合”。[D] He will appear somewhere coastguard, and keep an eye on near her是根据对话中I shouldn’t think the private airfields. he’ll go anywhere near her设的干扰项。 M: Right, ma’am. I’d better get his 22. According to the police, how will the description circulated. wanted man try to leave the W: Yes. He may change his country? appearance, of course. And John 【解析】选[A]。预览选项可知，本题考 — be careful. He could be 查交通方式。对话中女士说，keep an armed. And if I know eye on the private airfields，可见女士猜 Hammond, he certainly won’t 测他会乘坐私人飞机逃跑，故答案为 give himself up without a fight. [A]。 Conversation Two 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中重复出现的homeowner和 house-sitter可推知，对话可能涉及到房主和看房人。 M: The summer holiday is coming, but Questions 23 to 25 are based on the I really don’t know what to do. conversation you have just heard. There doesn’t seem to be any jobs 23. What did the Smiths do when available. they left for summer holiday? W: Why don’t you try house-sitting? 【解析】选[C]。由选项中的rented， Last summer Cindy was a house hired，watch，house等词可知，对 sitter for the Smiths when they 话可能与雇佣看房人有关。根据女 went away on vacation. They hired 士提到的They(the Smiths) hired Cindy to stay in their house Cindy to stay in their house可知[C] because they didn’t want it left 为答案。 empty. 【点睛】听清问题中的the Smiths，M: You mean they paid Cindy just to 明确选项中They的指代内容是解答 live in their house? 本题的关键。 W: It wasn’t that easy. She had to water the house plants, mow the lawn, 24. In what way do homeowners and even take care of the pets. determine the reliability of a M: I guess it is a little like house-sitter? baby-sitting，except you’re taking 【解析】选[C]。分析选项可知，本题 care of a house instead of children. 可能与房主考查house-sitter的方法W: The Student Employment Office 有关。对话中女士提到，You have to still has a few jobs posted. have an interview…three references M: Do I just have to fill out an at least，由此可知，房主应该是对the application? house sitter的相关证件进行核查，故W: You have to have an interview with [C]为答案。 the homeowner and provide three references at least. 25. Why does the homeowner usually M: That seems a lot of trouble for a pay even if the house-sitters summer job. don’t do their job well? W: Well, the homeowner wants some 【解析】选[D]。由选项中的accused， guarantee that they can trust the pleads，bother等可知，本题可能考 house-sitter. You know they want 查的是房主对待house-sitter工作的 to make sure you’re not the type 态度。对话中提到，the homeowners who’ll hold wild parties in their don’t want to make a fuss，由此可知， house, or bring a group of friends 即使house-sitter没有做好工作，为 in with you. 了不惹麻烦，房主还是会付给对方M: I see. House-sitters who do that sort 报酬的，由此可知答案为[D]。 of thing probably aren’t paid then. 【点睛】make a fuss意为“大惊小 W: Usually they’re paid anyway just 怪，小题大做”，[D]中的doesn’t because the homeowners don’t want to bother与此相对应。 want to make a fuss. But if the homeowner reports it, the house sitter won’t be able to get another job so easily. So why don’t you apply? M: I think I will. Thank you. Section B Passage One 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，结合cloned food，cloned milk and meat等可知，本文应与克隆食品有关。 The Food and Drug Questions 26 to 29 are based on the Administration is, again, threatening to passage you have just heard. impose milk and meat from cloned 26. What is the speaker’s attitude animals on a public that opposes the towards cloning? technology and its products. 【解析】选[B]。短文末句提到的The Respected polls report that more president should halt further FDA than 60% of Americans think animal action on cloning 表明，作者认为总cloning is immoral, and that most 统应该阻止FDA的克隆行动，由此people said they wouldn’t knowingly 可推测说话者对克隆是持反对态度eat the products even if the FDA 的，故答案为[B]。 approved them. But because the FDA 【点睛】should常用来表达建议，或would allow cloned meat and milk to 表明说话者的观点。 be sold without identifying labels, consumers wouldn’t be able to avoid 27. Why do many people in U.S. buy them. The FDA has consistently tilted cloned foods? toward those who want cloned milk 【解析】选[D]。问题询问美国许多 and meat in our food. Agency officials 人购买克隆食品的原因。短文中提 have repeatedly asserted that science 到，But because the FDA would allow shows cloned milk and meat are safe cloned meat and milk to be sold… be for humans. But the FDA has never able to avoid them由此可知，[D]为 published the complete scientific 答案。 studies it says support that claim. 【点睛】But转折处和because表原 The argument that cloning is safe 因处常设为考点。 for animals is unconvincing. Cloned meat and milk offer no public 28. Which statement is true economic benefits. Having cloned according to the passage? cows produce more milk wouldn’t 【解析】选[C]。短文中提到，U.S. reduce milk prices. U.S. farmers farmers produce more milk than we produce more milk than we drink, and drink…，由此可知，美国农民生产 the government is required to buy the 了比人们所能消费的更多的牛奶， surplus. Since 2000, dairy support 故[C]为答案。 programs have cost taxpayers more than $5 billion. 29. What do we know about cloning Most important, this first decision technique from the passage? to advance animal biotechnology raises 【解析】选[A]。根据意思相反的两 ethical issues beyond the FDA’s 个选项中有一个很可能是正确答案 expertise. Techniques used to clone 的命题规律，将答案锁定在[A]和[C] animals will advance the ability to 之间。短文末尾提到，Given the risk clone humans — and create animals of unintended consequences, we with human genes. Neither the agency should proceed cautiously，由此可推 nor animal scientists are qualified to 断出，克隆产品可能会对人类产生 tell us whether and when it is ethically 难以预料的后果，故[A]为答案。 acceptable for humans to alter the 【点睛】Given the risk of unintended essential nature of animals. We need a consequences中的Given是介词，意 national discussion, including ethicists 为“如果有;假如;考虑到”。 and religious leaders, to consider the wisdom of cloned and transgenic animals. Given the risk of unintended consequences, we should proceed cautiously. The president should halt further FDA action on cloning and set in motion a process for beginning this broader discussion. Passage Two 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，结合China, bridge和第27题中的数字可 知，本文可能与中国某座桥及其长度有关。 China began work on one of the Questions 30 to 32 are based on the world’s longest bridges in Zhejiang passage you have just heard. Province On June 8. The 36km bridge 30. What is the purpose of the over Hangzhou Bay will cut the passage? journey between Ningbo and Shanghai 【解析】选[D]。短文开头提到，China by 120kms. began work on one of the world’s The construction work is expected longest bridges…，接着具体解释了 to be finished in five years and the 要建桥的原因，故[D]为答案。 bridge will open for traffic in 2009. 【点睛】短文目的首先可根据选项内 The project will cost 11.8 billion yuan 容进行推断，然后根据短文内容进 and is thought to last 100 years. 行确定，短文开头和短文结尾一定 The bay itself is at the center of a 要给予足够的重视。 densely-populated region that includes 31. What will be the distance Shanghai on the northern edge and the between Shanghai and Ningbo major port of Ningbo, Zhejiang when the bridge is completed? Province, to the south. Shanghai and 【解析】选[B]。由短文中提到的but Ningbo have close economic ties, but it it is 304 kilometers long between the is 304 kilometers long between the two two cities. The bridge will shorten the cities. The bridge will shorten the distance by 120kms，由此可推断出， distance by 120kms. The flat structure 桥建成后上海和宁波之间的距离应 could be the longest seacrossing bridge 是304-120=184kms，故[B]为答案。 in the world. According to the 【点睛】解答数字题关键是要听清短 Guinness Book of Records, the record 文中的数字，并弄清它们之间的关 over water is now held by the 系。 lakecrossing bridge in Lousiana, US, at 32. What is the main purpose of 38.5kms. building the longest bridge Jin Jianming, an official in charge across the sea? of the Chinese bridge project says that 【解析】选[C]。本题考查建桥原因。 the new bridge reflects China’s 短文中提到的Shanghai and Ningbo growing economic power. have close economic ties(上海和宁 The bridge is also one part of a 波有密切的经济联系)，桥建成后将 5,200 km highway planned as a link 缩短这两座城市之间的距离，由此 between the northern province of 可推断出建桥的目的是促进经济发 Heilongjiang and the southernmost city 展，故[C]为答案。 of Sanya on the island province of 【点睛】but转折处通常为考点，其 Hainan. 后的句子通常为答案所在。 Work on the dam began a week after engineers began filling the Three Gorges Dam reservoir on the Yangtze River. Passage Three 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的names，family tree，babies等 可知，短文与给婴儿起名有关。 One of the first questions anybody Questions 33 to 35 are based on the asks about a new-born is “what is the passage you have just heard. baby’s name?” Faced with this tiny 33. What do we often do with the pink new-born, we want to put a name things we love? to it, as if by doing so, we welcome it 【解析】选[D]。选项均以原形动词 to this world of individuals. We always 开头表明，本题可能考查行为活动 name the things we love. A small child 或观点建议。短文中提到，We always will give names to even his tiniest toys name the things we love，可知答案为 or his well-chewed blanket. And the [D]。 difference between “blankie” and the 【点睛】[D] Choose names for themblanket is an entire personality. 是对短文中name the things we love There are many ways to choose a 的同义转述。 name for a baby. One of the most 34.Under what condition is the common is to use an old family name. unpleasant meaning of an old If the family tie is strong enough, family name often overlooked? parents are often willing to overlook an 【解析】选[B]。选项中的the name unpleasant feeling or meaning. If all 和重复出现的the family表明，本题 the men for five generations have been 与家庭和起名有关。短文中提到，If named Branden, who are you to the family tie is strong…willing to complain that the name means “smelly overlook…，由此可知答案为[B]。 hair”? Inspiration need not be limited family tree意为“家谱，族谱”。 to the family tree. Pick an attribute, or 【点睛】If虚拟条件从句常设为考点。 pick the name of an Italian city where 35. What will happen to a baby’s the baby was born. Name the baby name after several months? after your favorite poet or interesting 【解析】选[C]。根据意思相反的两个 scent. It can be difficult to find a 选项中有一个很可能是正确答案的 perfect name for your baby. But the 命题规律，将答案锁定在[B]和[C] beauty of the process is this. By the 之间。短文中提到，By the time the time the baby is a few months old, his baby is a few months old…erases all personality erases all other associations other associations the name may the name may hold, the evil snake or hold，由此可知，几个月以后，婴儿the much-loved poet fades away and 的名字就会失去原有的含义，由此the name becomes quite simply the 可知[C]为答案。 name of your child. And you will have made the right choice. Section C 36.【解析】coverage。空前的news表明，本空应填一名词，且能和news 构成名词短语，作watch的宾语。news coverage意为“新闻报道”。 37.【解析】tune。空前的can表明，本空应填入一原形动词，且与in搭配。 tune into sth.意为“(调收音机、电视等的频率、频道等)收听或收看某 一节目”。 38.【解析】annual。空中的an和空后的license fee表明，本空应填入一元 音音素开头的形容词。 39.【解析】stretching。分析句子结构，本空应填入一个动词的分词形式， 空所在句作状语，对前句进行补充说明。stretch back意为“回溯到„”。 40.【解析】doubt。空前的in表明，本空应填一名词，和in构成固定搭配， 作表语。in doubt意为“不肯定的，不确定的”。 41.【解析】nationwide。空前的a和空后的debate表明，本空应填一形容词， 修饰debate。nationwide意为“全国范围内的，全国性的”，注意nation 和wide中间没有连字符。 42.【解析】launched。由空后的by推断，本空应填入一个过去分词形式的 动词，与was构成被动语态。 43.【解析】including。分析句子成分可知，破折号内的ordinary listeners and viewers是which从句中anyone中的一部分个体，故本空应填入一表示 涵盖意义的词 44.【答案】The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC’s royal charter runs out and it must decide whether to keep the organization as it is, or to make changes 【Main Points】The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC’s royal charter runs out and it must decide whether to change the organization or not 45.【答案】Yet the BBC will have to change sooner or later, because the broadcasting world around it is changing 【Main Points】Yet the BBC will have to change, because the broadcasting world around it is changing 46.【答案】But it is the arrival of new satellite channels which will bring about the biggest changes in the long term 【Main Points】But the arrival of new satellite channels will bring about the biggest changes in the long term 补充听力(八)答案解析 Part III Listening Comprehension Section A 11. W: May I take a make-up exam 【听前预测】由选项中的student， next week? make-up exam等可知，对话可能与 M: It’s not my policy to give 学生补考有关。 make-up exams, but the 【解 析】选[C]。对话中男士提到 circumstances in your case are It’s not my policy to give make-up unusual. exams, but the circumstances in your Q: What can be concluded from case are unusual. (让学生补考不是 this conversation? 我的一贯做法，不过你的情况比较 特殊)，即男士允许女士补考。[C] 的内容与此一致，故为答案。 12. W: I’d like to pay my share of the 【听前预测】由选项中的He does meal, but I guess you won’t want/is wondering可知，女士的话为 mind treating me just this time. 听音重点。 M: Oh, that’s what you think. 【解 析】选[A]。对话中女士说I Q: What does the man mean? guess you won’t mind treating me(我 猜你不会介意请我吧)，男士答that’s what you think表达了相反意见，即 男士想让女士付款，故答案为[A]。 treat sb.在此意为“请某人客”。 13. M: The new sales manager says he 【听前预测】由选项中的He， has never met you before. forgiving，tolerant，liked by等可知，W: We’ve been introduced about 本题考查对He的评价和看法。 three times. He seems a little 【解 析】选[A]。对话中女士提 forgetful. 到He seems a little forgetful(他似乎Q: What do we learn about the 有点健忘)，[A]是对此的同义转述， new sales manager? 故为答案。[D]中的has been introduced是针对女士提到的 introduced about three times所设的 干扰。 14. M: I’d like to speak to Mr. Jones, 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 please. Mr. Williams和Mr. Jones可知，对W: Sorry, sir. But Mr. Jones isn’t 话与这两人的情况有关。 here any more. Mr. Williams is 【解 析】选[C]。对话中女士提到， in charge now. But Mr. Jones isn’t here any more. Q: What can we infer from the Mr. Williams is in charge now. (Mr. conversation? Jones已经不在这儿了，现在负责人 是Mr. Williams)。由此可推知，原 来是Mr. Jones负责，[C]的内容与此 一致，故为答案。 15. M: It is a good place to spend my 【听前预测】根据意思相反的两个选 holidays. Many people say the 项中有一个很可能是答案的命题规 winter here is usually mild. 律，将答案锁定在[A]和[C]之间。 How do you feel? 【解 析】选[A]。对话中女士提到，W: Usually? But I think this year it But…it will be very different(天气会 will be very different. 大不相同)，结合男士提到的usually Q: What does the woman imply mild(通常温和)可知，答案为[A]。 about this winter? mild意为“(天气)温和的”，相当 于warm and comfortable。 16. W: I forgot to bring paper and a 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 pencil to take notes with me in help the woman可知，对话与男士帮 class. 助女士有关，男士的话为听音重点。 M: That’s all right. I have enough 【解 析】选[C]。对话中男士提到， for both of us. I have enough for both of us(我的足Q: What will the man most 够咱俩用)，结合女士所说的I forgot probably do next? to bring paper and a pencil可知，男 士要借纸和笔给女士，故答案为[C]。 17. W: Can we go to some place and 【听前预测】选项均为名词性短语， talk? I can’t even hear my voice 且含有dirty，noisy等消极词，可知 in here. 本题可能考查女士抱怨的对象。 M: Well, there’s a little park down 【解 析】选[B]。对话中女士提到 the street. It’s usually quiet this I can’t even hear my voice in here time of the day. (在这儿我连自己的声音都听不见Q: What is the woman 了)，[B]是对此的同义转述，故为答 complaining about? 案。 18. W: I’d really like to learn how to 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 play chess, but it looks so play chess可知，对话与下棋有关。 complicated. It seems like it [A]中的The woman should表明男士 will take a really long time to 的话为听音重点。 learn. 【解 析】选[D]。对话中男士提 M: Well, it does take a long time to 到，But we can go over the basics…if get good at it. But we can go you want，[D]是对此的同义转述， over the basics this afternoon if 故为答案。go over the basics在此意 you want. 为“熟悉一遍(下棋的)基本规 Q: What does the man mean? 则”。But后的内容常设为考点和答 案出处所在，听音时应注意。 Now you will hear the two long conversations. Conversation One 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由选项中的work，higher salary，courses等可知，对话很可能与男士的工作和学业冲突有关。 M: Hello, Prof. Diana, you wanted to Questions 19 to 22 are based on the see me? conversation you have just heard. W: Oh, yes, Frank. Thanks for coming. 19. What does Prof. Diana offer It’s about your work as a teaching Frank? assistant. I’ve just read your 【解析】选[A]。对话中女士提到 evaluations, the ones the students Frank的助教工作，接下来对他的工 filled out toward the end of the 作给予了肯定，提到希望Frank继续 semester. 当助教，后面的对话也都是围绕此M: Yes? Well, how were they? 话题展开，故答案为[A]。 W: Would you like to take a look? Out 20. What’s Frank’s answer to Prof. of a possible score of five, you got Dianna’s offer? a 4.8. That’s very high, Frank. 【解析】选[C]。女士征求意见时，男M: Well, what a pleasant surprise. 士表示I sure would，但接着又用but W: When we see such a high score, we 进行转折，表示自己下学期时间会 generally try to keep the teaching 很紧张，最后要求考虑几天再给答 assistant on a little longer and 复，故答案为[C]。 perhaps even ask them to cover 21. What does Prof. Dianna suggest more classes. What do you say, that Frank do? Frank? Would you like this? 【解析】选[D]。选项均以原形动词M: I sure would, but I don’t know if I 开头表明，本题可能与建议有关。 can. Next fall will be my last 女士说不希望男士耽误学业，接着 semester of course work for my 用but转折，认为男士应该consider master’s and I’ll be very busy getting more experience in the doing research on my thesis. Could classroom，故答案为[D]。 I have a few days to think about it? 【点睛】but转折处为常考点，其后W: Certainly. I wouldn’t want you to 的句子通常为答案所在。 fall behind in your course work, 22. What is the “gift” the professor but I do think you should consider refers to? getting more experience in the 【解析】选[A]。对话中女士赞扬男 classroom. You seem to have a real 士You seem to have a real gift。由对 gift. 话中提到的teaching，evaluations，M: Thanks for your praise, Professor. score，very high可推断车，女士是W: Let me know by the beginning of 对男士的教书能力赞赏有加，故答 next week, will you? 案为[A]。gift在此含“天赋M: Sure thing. I’ll drop by again on (talent)”之意。 Monday or Tuesday. 【点睛】问题中的gift为一词多义， 听清对话所陈述的主要内容是解题 的关键。 Conversation Two 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的He，lost his job，woman’s study，chooses the wrong major等可知，对话与男士的工作和女士的专业有关。 M: Hi, honey! What’s going on? Questions 23 to 25 are based on the W: I have great news to tell you. I just conversation you have just heard. found out that I was accepted as an 23. Which is true about the man RA! according to the conversation? M: That’s really great news! I’m sorry 【解析】选[B]。对话中女士说她要修 that you had to postpone your 人类学，男士说your mother and I studying abroad because I lost my will support your decision，故答案为 job. I just interviewed at a home [B]，同时排除[C]。由对话中男士提 grocery delivery business, so we’ll 到的Don’t forget I’m an optimist(乐 see if I get hired. 观主义者)可排除[A]。 W: Don’t worry. Everything will be 24. Why does the man feel sorry? OK! 【解析】选[C]。选项中的He，out of M: I think so. Don’t forget I’m an employment，lets…down等表明， optimist. 本题考查男士做某件可能是不好的 W: Eh, dad, I want to talk with you 事情。男士提到I’m sorry that you about declaring a major had to postpone your studying abroad anthropology. Business isn’t the because I lost my job，即男士为因自 best choice for me. 己的失业而推迟女士出国留学的时 M: Well, I don’t know why you can’t 间而感到抱歉，故答案为[C]。 declare your own major. If this is 【点睛】[C]中的delay与对话中的 what you really want to do, then postpone同义。 your mother and I will support your 25. Where does this conversation decision. most probably take place? W: Thanks, dad! I just want you to 【解析】选[D]。预览选项可知，本 know that I will make you proud! 题考查对话发生的地点。对话末尾 M: Your mother and I are already 女士明确说她得挂电话了，抓住关 proud of you. 键词hang up不难选出答案为[D]。 W: Thanks, dad. I am really interested 【点睛】地点题要根据对话中的关键 in anthropology and I promise that 信息进行推断。 I will become a success with my degree. M: We believe in you! W: Well, I’d better hang up. I have a lot of reading to catch up on before finals. Talk to you soon! Section B Passage One 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的Exercise，Running，Health Benefits等可知，短文可能与运动和健康有关。 America is a country on the move. Questions 26 to 28 are based on the In unheard of numbers, people of all passage you have just heard. ages are exercising their way to better 26. According to the passage, what health. According to the latest figures, was the percentage of American 59 percent of American adults exercise adults doing regular physical regularly, up 12 percent from just two exercises two years ago? years ago and more than double the 【解析】选[B]。本题涉及到数字。近 figure of 25 years ago. Even 年来，本题的听音重点是现在和两 non-exercisers believe they would be 年前各自对应的百分比:现在为 more attractive and confident if they 59%;现在比两年前上涨12%，所 were more active. 以两年前应为59%-12%，即47%， It is not hard to get the message. 故答案为[B]。 The virtues of physical fitness are 【点睛】短文中一般会出现几组数 shown on magazine covers, postage 据，而问题的答案一般需要将几组 stamps, and television ads for 数字进行简单计算。 everything from beauty soaps to travel 27. What can be learnt about the books. Exercise as a part of daily life health benefits of exercise from did not catch on until the late 1960s the passage? when research by military doctors 【解析】选[D]。根据意思相反的两 began to show the health benefits of 个选项，其中之一很可能是答案的 doing regular physical exercise. 命题规律，将答案锁定在[A]和[D] Growing publicity for races held in 之间。短文中提 American cities helped fuel a strong 到，…research…show the health interest in the ancient sport of running. benefit of doing regular physical Although running has levelled off exercises，由此可知，答案为[D]， in recent years as Americans have 其中的are supported by scientific discovered equally rewarding and evidence是对短文中research…showsometimes safer forms of exercise, 的同义转述。 such as walking and swimming, 28. Which would be the best title for running remains the most popular form the passage? of exercise. 【解析】选[B]。由选项内容的实词首 As the popularity of exercise 字母均大写可知，本题考查短文标 continues to mount, so does scientific 题。短文主要介绍了体育锻炼对健 evidence of its health benefits. The key 康的好处，故答案为[B]。 to fitness is exercising the major 【点睛】短文标题或短文主旨可先根 muscle groups vigorously enough to 据选项进行推断，再根据短文内容 approximately double the heart rate 进行确定，短文开头和短文结尾要 and keep it doubled for 20 to 30 给予足够的重视。 minutes at a time. Doing such physical exercises three or more times a week will produce considerable improvements in physical health in about three months. Passage Two 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由选项中的attitudes，like，believe，forget， minds等可知，短文可能与人类思想的研究有关。 A study published in September Questions 29 to 32 are based on the suggests there is a surprising way to passage you have just heard. get people to avoid unhealthy foods: 29. Why did Loftus ask the change their memories. Scientist volunteers to answer some Elizabeth Loftus of the University of questions? California at Irvine asked volunteers to 【解析】选[C]。选项均以不定式开头 answer some questions on their 表明，本题考查某人做某事的目的 personalities and food experiences. 或原因。由短文中Loftus所说的 “One week later,” Loftus says, “we “One Week Later,”和“we told those told those people we’d fed their people we’d fed their answers answers into our smart computer and it into…computer…”可以推断，Loftuscame up with an account of their early 让志愿者回答问题是为了收集他们 childhood experiences.” Some 的个人信息，以使在此基础上 accounts included one key additional 出的false memory更有效。[C]的内 detail — “You got sick after eating 容是对此目的的进一步概括，故为 strawberry ice-cream.” The researchers 答案。 then changed this detail into a 【点睛】feed sth. into a computer意为 manufactured memory through leading “将„输入到计算机中”。 questions — Who were you with? How 30. What did Loftus find out from did you feel? By the end of the study, her research? up to 41% of those given a false 【解析】选[B]。短文指出调查结果: memory believed strawberry ice-cream 41%的被调查者都相信了 once made them sick, and many said researchers为他们设计的false they’d avoid eating it. memory，[B]的内容与此调查的结果 When Loftus published her 一致，故为答案。 findings, she started getting calls from 31. According to the study, under people begging her to make them what circumstances may people remember hating chocolate or French stop having a certain food? fries. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. 【解析】选[D]。分析选项可知，此False memories appear to work only 处的it指代的应该是food，该研究for foods you don’t eat on a regular 的结果是:41%的人都相信，在他们basis. But most important, it is likely 的记忆当中，ice-cream once made that false memories can be implanted them sick，并表示they’d avoid only in people who are unaware of the eating，[D]是对此的抽象概括，故为mental control. And lying to a patient 答案。 is immoral, even if a doctor believes 【点睛】[D]中的think对应短文中的it’s for the patient’s benefit. believed; bad experience对应made Loftus says there’s nothing to stop them sick。 parents from trying it with their 32. What is the biggest concern with overweight children. “I say, wake up the method? — parents have been lying about 【解析】选[A]。短文中提到，这种Father Christmas for years, and nobody 方法的缺点之一就是lying to a seems to mind. If they can prevent patient is immoral，而Loftus则举例diseases caused by fatness and all the 辩解说，这种方法是a more moral other problems that come with that, lie，可见人们最关心的是这种方法you might think that’s a more moral 是否道德，故答案为[A]。 lie. Decide that for yourself.” 【点睛】注意对If引导的虚拟语气句 的理解。 Passage Three 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中重复出现helicopters, used for等可知，段文应与直升飞机有关，并涉及它的用途。 For centuries man dreamed of Questions 33 to 35 are based on the achieving vertical flight. The ancient passage you have just heard. dream was finally realized in 1940 33. What is said about the when a Russian engineer piloted a development of the helicopter? strange-looking craft of steel tubing 【解析】选[D]。短文中提到People with a rotating fan on top. It rose anticipate that vertical flight awkwardly and vertically into the air transports would carry millions of from a standing start, hovered a few passengers as the airliners of today feet above the ground, went sideways do，[D]的表述与此一致，故为答案。 and backwards, and then settled back 【点睛】问题中的helicopter对应短 to earth. The vehicle was called a 文中的vertical flight transports。 helicopter. 34. How has the use of helicopters Imaginations were fired. Man developed? dreamed of going to work in their own 【解析】选[C]。短文中提到The personal helicopters. People helicopter has now become an anticipated that vertical flight extremely useful machine. It excels in transports would carry millions of military missions…use them in police passengers as the airliners of today do. work…for site selection，由此可知， Such fantastic expectations were not 直升飞机的用途是多种多样的，故 fulfilled. 答案为[C] 。 The helicopter has now become 【点睛】听清问题中的helicopters， an extremely useful machine. It excels 明确选项中They的指代内容是解答 in military missions, carrying troops, 本题的关键。 guns and strategic instruments where 35. Under what conditions are other aircraft cannot go. Corporations helicopters found to be absolutely use them as airborne offices, many essential? metropolitan areas use them in police 【解析】选[D]。选项均以“For+名词 work, construction and logging 短语”开头表明，本题可能考查某 companies employ them in various 物的用途，很可能是直升飞机。短 advantageous ways, engineers use 文中提到，Any urgent mission to a them for site selection and surveying, hard-to-get-to place is a likely task for and oil companies use them as the best a helicopter可知答案为[D]。 way to make offshore and remote work 【点睛】[D]中的places inaccessible tostations accessible to crews and 是对短文中hard-to-get-to place的同supplies. Any urgent mission to a 义转述。 hard-to-get-to place is a likely task for a helicopter. Among their other multitude of uses they deliver people across town, fly to and from airports, assist in rescue work, and aid in the search for missing or wanted persons. Section C 36.【解析】approaching。分析句子成分，空所在句作前面主句的伴随状语， 故本空应填一现在分词形式的动词。 37.【解析】general。分析句子结构，可知In (37) ________构成固定短语， 在句中作状语。In general意为“通常来讲”。 38.【解析】approximately。分析句子成分且由空后的数字可知，本空需要 填一副词来修饰。 39.【解析】available。空前the total与空后的介词短语for living expenses 表明，本空很可能应填一过去分词形式的动词或一形容词。 40.【解析】budget。空前的名词短语the total与空后的介词短语for living expenses表明，本空所填词很可能为动词的过去分词或形容词或一名词。 41.【解析】illegal。空前的and表明，本空应填一与unsafe和unhealthy一 样都表示负面意义的形容词。 42.【解析】alternatives。空前的housing表明，本空应填一名词。 43.【解析】admitted。空前的现在完成时标志词has表明，本空应填一动词 的过去分词。 44.【答案】Students should also be advised that commuting to campus from a distance is usually very difficult 【Main Points】Students should be advised that commuting far to campus is very hard 45.【答案】On arrival in the United States, students can usually obtain further information on local housing options from the foreign students adviser 【Main Points】Arriving in US, students can get more information on local housing options from their adviser 46.【答案】A local international hospitality organization may also be a source of assistance in finding a suitable place to live 【Main Points】A local international hospitality organization may also help in finding a suitable place to live 补充听力(九)答案解析 Part III Listening Comprehension Section A 11. M: I’ve been taking four courses, 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 but I think I’ll drop one of them drop，course可知，对话与放弃课程 at the end of this term. 有关。由The man must/had better可 W: That may be for the best. You 知，女士的话为听音重点。 should have done so earlier. 【解 析】选[B]。对话中女士提到， Q: What does the woman mean? That may be for the best(那或许再好 不过了)，[B]的内容是对女士的话的 同义转述，故为答案。 12. W: How was the movie that you 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 went to last night? I know how The movie和wonderful、good等词 much you wanted to see it. 可知，对话与对电影的评价有关。 M: Well, I was hoping for 【解 析】选[C]。对话中男士提到， something really wonderful. But I was hoping for something really the movie was full of wonderful. But… (我之前一直希望 stereotypes, and relationships 能很精彩，但是…)，转折处说明电 that never fully developed. 影没有男士期望的那么精彩，故答Q: What does the man mean? 案为[C]。 13. M: I was shocked when I heard 【听前预测】根据意思相反的两个选 you’d finished your research 项中有一个可能是答案的命题规 project a whole month early. 律，答案锁定在[A]和[B]之间，女士W: How I managed to do it is still 的话为听音重点。 a mystery to me. 【解 析】选[B]。对话中女士提到，Q: What does the woman mean? How I managed to do it is still a mystery to me.(我是怎么做到的对 我来说仍是个谜)，[B]的内容是对女 士的话的同义转述，故为答案。 14. W: I can’t believe we have another 【听前预测】根据意思相反的两个选 lab report due so soon. Dr. 项中有一个可能是答案的命题规 White must think that we don’t 律，答案锁定在[B]和[C]之间。男士 have any other classes. 的话为听音重点。 M: I know just what you mean. I’ll 【解 析】选[B]。对话中男士提到， be really pressed to get it done. I’ll be really pressed(我也很有压Q: What does the man mean? 力)，[B]的内容为男士的话的同义转 述，其中的heavy与对话中pressed 对应，故[B]为答案。 15. M: The doctor said if I kept 【听前预测】由选项均以原形动词开 smoking, I would increase my 头可知，本题考查行为动作或观点 chances of having a heart 建议，且对话与身体健康有关。 attack. 【解 析】选[A]。对话中女士提到，W: Did he suggest reducing weight, reducing weight(减肥)，[A]的Lose too? weight是对reducing weight的同义Q: What does the woman think the 转述，故为答案。 man should also do? 16. W: I don’t know what I’m going to 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 wear to the party. All of my clothes，dress可知，对话与穿着有 clothes look so old. It’s too bad 关。 I don’t have any money to get 【解 析】选[A]。由对话中女士 something new. 提到I don’t know what I’m going to M: Why don’t you wear your black wear(不知道要穿什么)可知，女 velvet dress? 士在穿衣服，故[A]为答案。 Q: What is the woman doing? 17. M: I’m really exhausted, but I don’t 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 want to miss the film that The man should可知，女士的话为听 comes on at 11. 音重点。 W: If I were you, I’d skip it. We 【解 析】选[B]。女士的话If I both have to get up early were you, I’d skip it.(如果我是你， tomorrow, and anyway, I’ve 就不看了)为听音重点。[B]中的give heard it isn’t that exciting. up与女士话中的skip同义，故为答Q: What does the woman mean? 案。If I were you, I’d…表示一种委婉 的建议。 18. M: Have you and your family lived 【听前预测】预览选项可知，对话可 in Chicago for a long time? 能与She一家人在there的情况有W: Oh, yes, but only since 1970. 关。 My oldest child was born in 【解 析】选[C]。对话中男士提到， Seattle and my second oldest Have you…lived in Chicago…?(你 child was born overseas when 在芝加哥„住过„吗,)，并结合女 my husband was teaching 士提到的yes, but only since 1970(是 English. 的，但只是从1970年才开始)可知 Q: What did the woman say about 答案为[C]。 life in Chicago? Now you will hear the two long conversations. Conversation One 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由选项中的apartment，children，natural environment等可知，对话很可能与居住地有关，涉及到居住地对孩子的影响、居住地的周边环境等。 M: You like living in the city, don’t Questions 19 to 22 are based on the you, conversation you have just heard. W: Oh，I love it. It’s so convenient. I 19. What are the two speakers can take the bus to work, or the talking about? subway, or the taxi. And there is so 【解析】选[B]。对话中提到，living in much more to do. the city…It’s so convenient…There M: I know what you mean. I’d like to are lots of things for them(children) live in the city, but to live in the here，由此可知，对话双方都是围绕 suburbs is better for children. 居住地和孩子所受的教育展开谈话W: Well, there are a lot of good things 的，故[B]为答案。 about suburban living. But, as a 【点睛】对话话题首先可根据选项进 working woman, I think a city has 行推断，然后根据对话内容进行确 all the conveniences, including the 定。对话开头和对话结尾一定要给 best food and fastest news. 予重视。 M: But there are more trees, grass and 20. What does the man think of fresh air in the suburbs. living in the suburbs? W: Yeah, but living in a city, it’s 【解析】选[C]。预览选项可知，本题 convenient to go everywhere. 可能考查居住地的环境对孩子的影 There are lots of movie houses, 响。对话中提到，to live in the theaters and so on. You can take suburbs is better for children…there them to the suburbs on the are more trees, grass and fresh air in weekends. the suburbs，由此可知答案为[C]。 M: Yeah, my children are the right age. 【点睛】but转折处为常考点，其后 There are lots of things for them 的句子通常为答案所在。 here. 21. What is the man’s opinion of the W: You are right. They are at the city? library in Brooklyn. And they come 【解析】选[C]。根据意思相反的两个 back home for lunch, then go 选项中有一个可能是答案的命题规 uptown to the Museum of Natural 律，答案锁定在[C]和[D]之间。短文 History. There is so much for 中提到，children are the right young people to see and do. age…lots of things for them here和 M: Not just for young people. What Not just for young people，由此可知， about me? I’ve never been to the 男士认为在城里孩子和成年人都有 Museum of Natural History. 很多可看的东西和可做的事，故[C] W: Neither have I. When I was a child, 为答案。 I used to go to the Museum of Art. 22. What do we know about the M: I’ve been there several times. Twice woman according to the with children. conversation? W: Well, I have an idea. Next 【解析】选[D]。对话中女士提到， weekend, let’s go to the Museum of Next weekend, let’s go to the Natural History. Museum of Natural History可知，女 M: OK, that’s really a very nice idea. 士下周末将要去自然历史博物馆， 故[D]为答案。 Conversation Two 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的Spain，holiday，summer，BBC， grammar and vocabulary等词可推知，对话很可能与女士去西班牙有关，涉及 到出国前的准备，如语言学习等。 W: Good evening, professor. My name Questions 23 to 25 are based on the is Alice Brown. conversation you have just heard. M: Good evening, Alice. What is your 23. What made Alice feel question? disheartened? W: I’ve been studying Spanish for 【解析】选[B]。对话中提到的But I some years. I go to Spain on find it very difficult to speak, and holiday some times. I’ve learnt when I went to Spain…couldn’t quite a lot of grammar and understand the Spanish peoples at vocabulary. But I find it very all… disheartened可知，Alice感到 difficult to speak, and when I went 沮丧的原因是她不能跟西班牙人很 to Spain this summer I couldn’t 好地交流，[B]的内容与此一致，故 understand the Spanish people at 为答案。 all. I got really disheartened. 【点睛】But转折处常设为考点，其 M: Yes, it is a problem. How long have 后的句子通常为答案所在。 you been studying Spanish? W: About four years. M: Yes, how exactly? Go to an evening class, using tapes? W: I’ve been going to an evening class 24. What is one of the ways Alice and I’ve watched quite a lot of the learns Spanish? BBC television programs. 【解析】选[C]。选项均以By开头及 M: Oh, they’re very good. Did you buy BBC等词表明，此题可能与学习西 the BBC book? 班牙语的方式有关。对话中提到， W: No, we just use a different book in I’ve been going to…the BBC the class. television programs可知答案为[C]。 M: Yes, I see, Alice. I always think that 【点睛】[C]是对对话中watched quite learning a language is rather like a lot of the BBC television programs learning to drive. Now, you 的同义转述。 couldn’t learn to drive a car by sitting in a classroom or watching television. I think what you need is a lot of practice in using the language. 25. What does the professor think W: That’s all very well if you live in Alice needs? the country where they speak the 【解析】选[D]。选项均以动词原形 language, but I don’t. 开头可知，本题可能考查方法建议。M: Yes, I understand the problem. 对话中提到，I was thinking perhaps Though even if you live in the you might…regular conversation country where the language is practice可知，教授给Alice的建议 spoken, you have to reach a certain 是让她多练习讲西班牙语，故[D]为 standard before you are able to 答案。 have conversations with the 【点睛】[D]是对对话中have regular natives. I was thinking perhaps you conversation practice的同义转述。 might arrange with another student or students to have regular conversation practice. W: I see what you mean. Thank you very much, professor. M: You are welcome, Alice. Section B Passage One 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，结合第26题和第29题中重复出现的opera(s)可知，短文与歌剧有关。 For a 400-year-old art form, Questions 26 to 29 are based on the opera had a bad fame: overweight passage you have just heard. actresses singing the words which 26. What is the main idea of the were hard to understand in one of passage? those romance languages you were 【解析】选[D]。根据短文中提到的But supposed to learn in high school. now opera companies around the And with tickets costing as much as country… in an attempt to keep opera $145 a performance, opera goers alive… audience以及上下文可知，本文 also had a certain appearance in 主要讲述的是歌剧公司正在努力将歌 people’s minds: rich, well-dressed 剧变“活”，以此来吸引年轻但不富有的 and old. 观众，故[D]为答案。 But now opera companies 【点睛】But转折处为常考点，其后的 around the country are loosening 句子通常为答案所在。短文主旨首先可 their ties and kicking off their shoes 根据选项内容进行推断，然后根据短文 in an attempt to keep opera alive 内容进行确定。 and take it to a younger and not so 27. Why do opera companies prefer to wealthy audience. perform smaller versions? Opera producers have found 【解析】选[B]。由短文中提到的By that to attract this crowd, they need performing smaller versions of large to associate opera with the common productions, producers are able to make people. That means no formal suits, people interested…可知，通过表演巨著 old-style theatre or bank-breaking 的较短剧本，制片人在保证合理票价的 ticket prices. And because young 同时可以使人们对此感兴趣，故[B]为 people don’t or won’t come to the 答案。 opera, companies are bringing the 【点睛】问题中的perform smaller opera to them, giving performances versions是听音关键。 in such usual places as parks, 28. What is the purpose of the San libraries and public schools. Francisco Opera employs young The Houston Grand Opera’s students? choice is the public library, where it 【解析】选[A]。选项均以To+原形动词 performs “mobile operas”, 开头表明，本题很可能考查做某事的目 shortened version of child-friendly 的。由短文末尾提到的…keeping costs operas. This summer’s production is down by employing students from its Hansel & Cretel. By performing Young Artists’ Training Program可知， smaller versions of large 旧金山歌剧院雇佣年轻学生的目的是 productions, producers are able to 使演出成本降低，故[A]为答案。 make people interested while 29. What can you infer from the keeping costs at a reasonable level. passage? The San Francisco Opera, which 【解析】选[A]。短文开头就提到了拥有 will be celebrating its 75th 四百年历史的歌剧有一个较差的名声， anniversary this year, is staging 由此可推测歌剧在现在并不受人们欢 Cinderella free of charge, keeping 迎，故[A]为答案。 costs down by employing students 【点睛】选项内容比较分散，故听音时 from its Young Artists’ Training 要做详细的笔记。 Program. Passage Two 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，结合Indians, water, lake, underground lake等词可推知，本文可能与湖和印第安人有关。 Deep inside a mountain near Questions 30 to 32 are based on the Sweet-water in East Tennessee is a passage you have just heard. body of water known as the Lost Sea. 30. Why is the Lost Sea unique It is listed by the Guinness Book of according to the passage? World Records as the world’s largest 【解析】选[C]。根据短文中提到的It is underground lake. The Lost Sea is listed…as the world’s largest part of the extensive and historic cave underground lake可知，the Lost Seasystem called Craighead Caverns. 是世界上最大的地下湖，故[C]为答 The caverns have been known 案。 and used since the days of the 【点睛】问题中的Lost Sea是听音关 Cherokee Indian nation. The cave 键。unique意为“独一无二的”。 expands into a series of huge rooms 31. According to the passage, how can from a small opening in the side of the caverns be entered? the mountain. Approximately one 【解析】选[D]。短文开头提到Deep mile from the entrance is a room inside a mountain…is a body of water called “the Council Room”. Many known as the Lost Sea，后来又提到 Indian artifacts have been found. through a small opening男孩发现了地 Some of the items discovered include 下湖，由此可知只有通过山里的一个 pottery, arrow-heads, weapons, and 入口才能进入洞穴，故[D]为答案。 jewelry. 【点睛】[D] From an opening in a For many years, there were mountainside对应短文中的a small persistent rumors of a large opening。 underground lake somewhere in a 32. What can be inferred about the cave, but it was not discovered until present Craighead Caverns from 1905. In that year, a thirteen-year-old the passage? boy named Ben Sands crawled 【解析】选[A]。选项均以They serve asthrough a small opening 开头表明，本题可能考查They的用 three-hundred-feet underground. He 途。短文末尾提到的Today tourists found himself in a large cave half visit the Lost Sea… by electric motors filled with water. 表明，现在的克雷格赫德大洞穴是一 Today tourists visit the Lost Sea 个旅游胜地，故[A]为答案。 and ride far out onto it in 【点睛】选项中的They 指the present glass-bottomed boats powered by Craighead Caverns. [A]中的tourist electric motors. More than thirteen attraction对应短文中的tourists visit。 acres of water have been mapped out so far and still no end to the lake has been found. Even though teams of divers have tried to explore the Lost Sea, the full extent of it is still unknown. Passage Three 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由watches可推知，短文涉及到表;再由 by a Swiss watchmaker， fashionable style等词可推知，短文可能涉及到表的制 造者和款式等。 Have you ever dreamed of having Questions 33 to 35 are based on the a fashionable watch of great value,A passage you have just heard. small watchmaker in Switzerland in 33. Why are the original automatic 1922 designed the first automatic watches valuable? watch to show the day, month, and 【解析】选[C]。选项均以Because开 date. Only seven of these splendid 头表明，本题考查原因。根据短文 watches were ever made and these 中提到的Only seven of these watches were almost lost to history. splendid watches were ever made and Today, it is so hard to get an original these watches were almost lost to watch that some watch historians are history可知[C]为答案。 even willing to offer $200,000 for one. 【点睛】splendid意为“豪华的”。 These watches attracted a lot of people for their splendid color, fashionable style, and new uses in the 1920s. The owners of the watches were 34. Which feature of the improved admired and set apart from the crowd. watch awakes watch collectors’ Because the number of the original desire to get one? watches is very limited, owning such a 【解析】选[D]。预览选项可知，此 watch will make you feel very special. 题可能与表的特点有关。短文中提 Today, you are offered the same 到It has a 24 jewel mechanical kind of watch with improvement. It has movement…made the movement of a 24 jewel mechanical movement， the watch much more modern 表明，the kind desired by watch collectors. 正是因为表独特的机械运转装置，The watchmaker has made the 手表收藏者才想购买，故[D]为答movement of the watch much more 案。 modern with an automatic rotor so that the watch never needs to be wound by hand. To get a watch in such a perfect 35. What does the passage encourage design means to get a chance to know a the readers to do according to piece of watch making history and to the passage? wear such a watch will show your 【解析】选[A]。前三个选项都与personal taste and social position. watch有关，而[D]却没有提到，故 You can get the watch either in 首先排除。再根据文中提到的To get person or by mail all at an affordable a watch in such… taste and social price. You will also receive good position可知，短文鼓励读者买手表，service from the watch seller. If you 故[A]为答案。 are not satisfied with the watch after 【点睛】短文通篇都与表有关，且主you get it， you may simply return it 要介绍表的收藏价值。 within 30 days. Don’t miss the chance to realize your dream. Section C 36.【解析】undergone。空前的has表明此处应填一动词的过去分词。首句 提到英国家庭正在发生变化，接着具体介绍其变化过程。undergone意为 “经历”。 37.【解析】increased。空所在句是一个定语从句，修饰single-person households，空后的from 18 to 29 percent表明比例是在增加(increased)。 between 1971 and 2002表明要用动词的过去式。 38.【解析】estimated。空前的is表明此处应填一动词的过去分词。下文提 到single-person households到2020年还会增加，而这一趋势是被估计 (estimated)的。 39.【解析】married。空后的people和空前的single people than表明，此处 应填一类人与than前的一类人进行比较，根据常理，单身家庭应该与已 婚家庭进行比较。 40.【解析】unacceptable。空前的have been表明此处应填一动词的过去分 词或形容词。上文提到单身家庭比已婚家庭多，而这种反传统的社会现 象在50年前是不被社会接受的(unacceptable)。 41.【解析】Divorce。空所在的句子缺一主语。上句提到在过去人们结婚后 就一直在一起生活，这表明离婚是很难的。 42.【解析】couples。空前的Many表明此处应填一复数名词。文中提到一 种现象，很多恋人(couples)在没有结婚前就同居，这也是一种变化。 下文也提到these couples，此处属于原词复现。 43.【解析】eventually。空所在的句子成分完整，故此空应填一副词，修饰 get。上文提到恋人同居现象，下文提到他们中只有60%的人最终 (eventually)结婚。 44.【答案】around a quarter of unmarried people between the ages of 16 and 59 were living together in Great Britain 【Main Points】around 1/4 of unmarried people aged 16 to 59 were living together in Great Britain 45.【答案】They prefer to concentrate on their jobs and put off having babies until their late thirties 【Main Points】They prefer to focus on their jobs and delay having babies until late thirties 46.【答案】but some women are also choosing to have children as a single parent without being married 【Main Points】but some women also choose to have babies as a single unmarried parent 补充听力(十)答案解析 Part III Listening Comprehension Section A 11. W: Here’s an ad for an apartment 【听前预测】由选项均为动名词且概 with two bedrooms. It’s near 括性强可知，本题可能考查对话双 the campus and not too high. 方正在进行的行为，再由house和 M: What’s the number? I’ll find out live in 可知，这种行为可能与房子 if it’s available for immediate 有关。 occupancy. 【解 析】选[B]。由对话中女士提 Q: What are the speakers doing? 到ad for an apartment(公寓广告)和 男士提到的I’ll find out if…immediate occupancy(我看看是否能立刻入住) 可知答案为[B]。immediate occupancy 在此意为“立可迁入”。 12. W: Could you lend me your pen? 【听前预测】由He lent/offered/was Mine has just run out of ink. afraid/said等可知，男士的话为听音 M: I’m afraid I don’t have an extra 重点。 one. Would a pencil do? 【解 析】选[B]。对话中男士提到， Q: How did the man respond to the Would a pencil do?(铅笔行吗,)， woman’s request? 由此可知，男士要借铅笔给女士， 故答案为[B]。 13. M: See that man over there facing 【听前预测】浏览选项可知，对话与 the window? He comes in They应该对that man做什么有关。 every Friday night and just 由serve和order可知，They可能是 sits there for hours. 服务员。 W: It’s odd, but there isn’t much we 【解 析】选[A]。对话中女士提 can do as long as he orders 到，but there isn’t much we can do(但 something. 我们也做不了什么)，[A]是对此的Q: What does the woman mean? 同义转述，故答案为[A]。as long as 意为“只要”。 14. M: My chemistry project is in 【听前预测】由选项均以原形动词开 trouble because my classmate 头以及重复出现的his partner可知， and I had completely different 本题可能考查与搭档有关的建议。 ideas about how to process 【解 析】选[D]。对话中女士提 next. 到，Why shouldn’t you meet each W: Why shouldn’t you meet each other halfway?，[D]中的Make a other halfway? compromise是对meet each other Q: What does the woman suggest halfway的同义转述，故答案为[D]。 the man do? Why shouldn’t you…是一种表示建 议的委婉表达方式。meet sb. halfway 意为“各让一步，妥协”。 15. M: Don’t eat too fast. It’s not good 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的 for you. her可知，本题可能考查女士的行为W: OK, but the girls will be here 动作，女士的话为听音重点。 any minute, and I don’t want to 【解 析】选[A]。对话中女士提 miss the game. 到，I don’t want to miss the game. Q: What will the woman probably (我不想错过比赛)，[A]的内容与 do? 此一致，故为答案。[D]是针对the girls will be here any minute设的干 扰。 16. W: Did you hear that the 【听前预测】由选项中的It was， convenience store next to the burned，robbed等可知，对话与It gas station was held up last 的遭遇有关。 night? 【解 析】选[B]。对话中女士提到，M: Yes, I heard it on the radio this the convenience store…was held up morning. (便利店遭劫了)，[B]中的was Q: What happened to the robbed是对was held up的同义转 convenience store? 述，故答案为[B]。hold up 在本对 话中相当于rob，意为“抢劫”。 17. W: Hi, Frank. I hear you walk all 【听前预测】选项中的He wants to， the way to the office these love等表明，本题可能考查He做某 days? 事的原因或目的，男士的话为听音 M: Yes, I’ve found great pleasure 重点。 in walking. That’s the type of 【解 析】选[A]。对话中男士提 exercise I enjoy very much. 到That’s the type of exercise I enjoy Q: Why does the man walk all the (那是我喜欢的锻炼方式)，[A]中 way to the office? 的a kind of exercise是对the type of exercise的同义转述，故答案为[A]。 18. M: Wow, that’s a big assignment 【听前预测】根据意思相反的两个选 we got for the English class. 项中有一个很可能是答案的命题规 W: Well, it’s not as bad as it looks. 律，答案锁定在[B]和[D]之间。 It isn’t due until Thursday 【解 析】选[D]。对话中女士提 morning. 到It’s not due until Thursday morning Q: What does the woman mean? (到周四早上才交)，由until可知女 士认为能按时完成作业，[D]的内容 与此一致，故为答案。big assignment 在此是说作业量大。 Now you will hear the two long conversations. Conversation One 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由选项中的roommate，share expenses，repair work，apartment，rent等可知，对话双方很可能在商讨合租的相关事宜。 M: Hello. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the W: Hello, Sam. This is Paula conversation you have just heard. Hanson. Sorry to bother you. 19. Why is Paula unhappy? But I’m having a small problem 【解析】选[D]。根据对话中女士(Paula) I thought you might be able to 提到的the dishwasher broke down, for help me with. less money和Now she’s threatening to M: Sure, Paula. What is up? drive us away for not paying the full rent W: Well, you know Sarah and I 可知，因为修理洗碗机的费用，房东想 moved into an off-campus 把她们赶出去，故答案为[D]。 apartment in the fall, over on 20. Why is Ms. Connor angry? the west side of town. 【解析】选[C]。选项中的buy，repairs， M: Yeah. What happened? find, dishwasher等表明，本题可能与修 W: Well, the dishwasher broke 理洗碗机有关。[C]信息含量大，根据 down. So we reported it to Ms. 命题规律，很可能是答案。对话中提到， Connors, the owner, and she When I didn’t hear from her, I had the said she’d take care of it. But a repair done，[C]的表述与此一致，故为 month went by and nothing 答案。 happened. 【点睛】问题中的angry对应对话中的 M: Did you get back in touch with as a mad cow。 her? 21. What is the relationship between W: I got a repair person to give me Paula and Sam? an estimate, then I sent it to her. 【解析】选[A]。选项均为表示身份的名 When I didn’t hear from her, I 词，本题可能考查人物关系。对话开始 had the repair done. And I Paula对Sam说有个小问题请Sam帮忙 removed the cost from the rent 解决。她之所以求助于Sam，是因为他 check. 是学法律的。再根据对话中提到的you M: So what is the problem? are over at the law school和I haven’t W: She called here as a mad cow. studied…about contracts yet可知，Sam She said she could have gotten 已在法律学院毕业，但他与Paula不是 the repair done for less money. 律师与委托人的关系，由此可知，答案 Now she’s threatening to drive 为[A]。 us away for not paying the full 【点睛】人物关系要根据对话中的关键 rent. 信息词进行判断。 M: Hold on, Paula. It does sound 22. Why does Paula think Sam could pretty serious. But I’m sure you help her? can all sit down and work this 【解析】选[B]。由选项主语均为He和 out. 其中的the same problem可知，女士可W: Well, you are over at the law 能让男士帮她解决问题。再根据对话中 school, so I wondered if you 女士提到的you are over at the law would mind coming with Sarah school可知，男士学过法律，因此Paula and me when we go to talk to 认为他可以提供帮助，故答案为[B]。 Ms. Connors. We’re supposed 【点睛】[B]是对对话中you are over at to meet her tomorrow night at the law school的同义转述。 eight. M: Sure. I haven’t studied a lot about contracts yet. But I’d be glad to help you straighten things out. Why don’t I stop by at about 17:30? W: Thanks, Sam. You are a lifesaver. Conversation Two 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的travel，ticket，Flight等可知，对话很可能与度假有关，涉及到度假出行方式、时间等。 W: Freedom Travel. May I help you? Questions 23 to 25 are based on the M: Yes, I’d like to make a flight conversation you have just heard. reservation for 23rd of this month. 23. What is the conversation mainly W: Okay. What is your destination? about? M: Well, I’m flying to Helsinki, 【解析】选[C]。选项概括性强，本题Finland. 可能考查对话话题。由对话中的I’d W: Okay. Let me check what flights like to make a flight reservation可知 are available. And when will you 答案为[C]。对话中只提到男士要订 be returning? 一张去芬兰的机票，并未提到是否M: Uh, well, I’d like to catch a return 去芬兰旅行，[A]属于过度推断，故 flight on 29th. Oh, and I’d like the 排除。 cheapest flight available. 【点睛】对话主题要根据主要内容进W: Okay. Let me see. Um, hmm… 行总结，对话开头要给予足够的重M: Yeah? 视。 W: Well, the price for the flight is 24. What are the two flights the man almost half the price you would will take? pay if you leave the day before. 【解析】选[A]。选项内容表明，本M: Whoo. Let’s go with the cheaper 题涉及到两趟不同的航班。由对话 flight. By the way, how much is it? 中的That’s Flight 1070 W: It’s only $980. from…transferring to Flight 90…可M: Alright. Well, let’s go with that. 知，答案为[A]。 W: Okay. That’s Flight 1070 from Salt 【点睛】注意辨清17和70，19和90 Lake City to New York, Kennedy 的发音。 Airport, transferring to Flight 90 25. When will the man start off from from Kennedy to Helsinki. Salt Lake City? M: And what are the departure and 【解析】选[B]。选项表明，本题可能 arrival times for each of those 考查离开或到达某地的具体日期和 flights? 时间。由对话可知，男士原计划23W: It leaves Salt Lake City at 10:00 日出发，但后来选择提前一天走， a.m., arriving in New York at 4:35 因为这样机票比较便宜，又由对话 p.m., then transferring to Flight 90 中的It leaves Salt Lake City at 10:00 at 5:55 p.m., and arriving in a.m.可知，答案为[B]。 Helsinki at 8:30 a.m. the next day. 【点睛】对话中一般会给出两个以上 M: Alright. And, uh, I’d like to request 的时间或数字，往往需要根据问题 a vegetarian meal. 进行简单的计算或推断才能得出答 W: Sure, no problem. And could I have 案。 your name please? Section B Passage One 【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由选项中的Pollution in the air，bicycles， road，bike paths等可知，短文与交通方式有关，尤其是自行车。 In an attempt to resist the Questions 26 to 29 are based on the rising cost of fuel and fight the passage you have just heard. pollution choking our cities, many 26. What is the newest problem facing outgoing students have taken to people who ride to school? riding bicycles to school. The 【解析】选[D]。短文提到，In an attempt unfortunate result of this otherwise to…fight the positive trend is the traffic problems pollution…students…riding bicycles to caused by bicycles having to share school…traffic problems caused by the same road with cars. bicycles，为了减少空气污染，学生们 Unfortunately, traffic accidents 开始骑自行车上学，但这又引起了新的 involving bicycles are on the 交通问题，即自行车交通事故太多，故 increase throughout the country, so 答案为[D]。 this new solution has lead to a 27. What is the basis for the law that dilemma. doesn’t allow bicyclists in the To solve this dilemma, special middle of the street? bike paths have been created on 【解析】选[C]。预览选项可知，本题考 most roads leading to and from 查法律名称。短文中提到，The federal college campuses. It is essential that fines are currently running at $25 for a cyclists stay on those paths. It is first-time violation…，即联邦法律规定 necessary for the safety of those of 第一次在路中间骑自行车的人要罚25 you who ride bicycles as well as the 美元，故答案为[C]。 motorists that you share the road 【点睛】问题中的bicyclists in the middle with. of the street对应短文中的bicyclists Obviously, it may be who ride down the middle of the street。 inconvenient to ride in the bike 28. How will the money from the fines paths at times, but we must insist on be used? it. To enforce the necessity of 【解析】选[C]。选项均以不定式开头表 staying on the paths, there are fines 明，本题考查将来的行为动作或目的。 for bicyclists who ride down the 短文中提到，The money…from the fines middle of the street. The federal will…help build better bike paths，即罚 fines are currently running at $25 款将用来修建更好的自行车道，[C]是 for a first-time violation, but if the 对短文中to help build better bike pathslaw is continually violated, the fines 的同义转述。故答案为[C]。 will increase by different amounts 【点睛】问题中的the money from the depending on your local orders. fines对应短文中的The money that is The money that is collected collected from the fines。 from the fines will go towards a 29. What can we learn about bicycles fund to help build better bike paths. from the passage? You may have special bicycle 【解析】选[B]。预览选项可知，本题考 bridges in your neighborhood right 查自行车的特点或作用。短文末提到， now. If not, you can count on seeing making bicycling a safe alternative，故答 them in the future. We are 案为[B]。 committed to making bicycling a safe alternative to using cars and we appreciate your help in making that goal a reality. Passage Two 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由选项中的spaceship，以及第31题和第 32题选项中多次出现earth可知，短文可能涉及宇宙飞船和地球。 Spaceships travel around the Questions 30 to 32 are based on the earth, go to the moon, and return home passage you have just heard. safely. The astronauts carry important 30. Which would be the best title for supplies with them on the spaceship — the passage? food, water and air. Sometimes there 【解析】选[D]。选项的概括性较强 are problems on the spaceship, and the 且实词首字母基本都大写，本题可 astronauts have to understand how the 能考查短文的标题。短文中提到，In spaceship works in order to repair the a way, all of us are really on a problems. spaceship, the planet Earth，由此可 In a way, all of us are really on a 知，答案为[D]。 spaceship, the planet Earth. We move 【点睛】短文标题首先可根据选项内 around the Sun at 18 miles per second 容推断，然后根据短文内容确定。 and never stop. On our spaceship we 短文开头和结尾要给予足够的重 have four billion people and a limited 视。 supply of air, water and land. These supplies, just like the limited supplies on the astronauts’ spaceship, have to be used carefully because we can’t buy new air, water or land from anywhere 31. Which is true according to the else. Everyone needs air, water and passage? land to live — this is our environment. 【解析】选[C]。短文中提到，We move The environment on our planet is around the sun at 18 miles per a closed system; nothing new is ever second…，由此可知，答案为[C]。 added. Nature recycles its resources. 根据常识即可排除[A]。 Water, for example, evaporates and 【点睛】选项信息比较分散，故听音 rises to form clouds. This same water 时注意做好笔记。 returns to the earth as rain or snow. The rain that falls today is actually the same water that fell on the dinosaurs 70 million years ago. Over the years, people have 32. What can we conclude from the changed the environment. We have passage? poured back into the land, air, and 【解析】选[B]。短文末尾提到，To water more wastes than nature can continue to survive, we must…To clean. So we have pollution today. save the spaceship Earth, we To continue to survive, we must must…not to abuse our environment， learn how to use the Earth’s resources 由此可知，这两句点明文章主题， wisely, without destroying them. To 答案为[B]。 save the spaceship Earth, we must cooperate with nature and learn better ways to use, not to abuse our environment. Passage Three 【听前预测】预览三道题各选项，由33题中的family和34题中提到的各种 “职业”可知，短文可能讲述的是He的家庭和职业的故事。 Before World War II, we spent our Questions 33 to 35 are based on the summer holidays in Hungary. I have passage you have just heard. only the dim memory of the house we 33. Why couldn’t the speaker lived in, of my room and my toys. Nor remember his relatives clearly? do I recall clearly the large family of 【解析】选[D]。选项中的family，live， grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins with等表明，本题可能与He和家庭 who gathered next door. But I do have 成员在一起居住有关。由短文中提 a clear memory of the dogs, the farm 到的Nor do I recall clearly the large animals, the local birds, and above all, family of…But I do have a clear the nature. memory of…the nature推断，说话者 I’m a naturalist, not a scientist. I 不能清晰记得亲戚的原因是他一心 have a strong love of the natural world 只想着观察自然，故答案为[D]。 and my enthusiasm has led me into 【点睛】But转折处常设为考点，其 varied investigations. I love discussing 后内容常为答案。 my favorite topics and enjoy burning 34. What can be inferred about the the midnight oil while reading about speaker from the passage? other people’s observations and 【解析】选[C]。选项表明，本题是就 discoveries. Then something happens He的身份进行提问。[B]和[D]意思 and brings these observations together 相近，根据命题规律，两项为答案 in my conscious mind. Suddenly you 的可能性小。由短文中提到的I’m a fancy you see the answer to the riddle, naturalist, not a scientist及A because it all seems to fit together. This naturalist is born可知，说话者是一 has resulted in my publishing 300 个天生的自然学家，故答案为[C]。 papers and books, which some might 35. Why did the speaker think he honor with the title of scientific was a naturalist rather than a research. But curiosity, a keen eye, a scientist? good memory and enjoyment of the 【解析】选[B]。由短文中提到的 animal and plant world do not make a But… not make a scientist: one of the scientist: one of the outstanding and outstanding and essential qualities essential qualities required is required is self-discipline, a quality I self-discipline, a quality I lack. A lack推断，说话者认为自己缺少科 scientist requires not only 学家需要具备的一些素质，故答案 self-discipline but hard training, 为[B]。 determination and a goal. A scientist, 【点睛】[B]中的He lacked some of up to a point, can be made. A naturalist the qualities是对短文中的 is born. If you can combine the two, self-discipline, a quality I lack的同义 you get the best of both worlds. 转述。 Section C 36.【解析】breathtaking。空后的名词beauty表明，本空应填一形容词。 breathtaking beauty意为“令人惊叹的美”。 37.【解析】reveals。空前的主语A…study表明，本空应填一第三人称单数 形式的动词。 38.【解析】communities。空前的形容词entire表明，本空应填一名词。 39.【解析】estimated。空后的名词表明，本空应填一以元音音素开头形容 词或相当于形容词用法的动词分词。 40.【解析】Heavier。空后的than表明，本空应填一比较级形容词，且首字 母要大写。 41.【解析】invisible。空前的and表明，本空应填一与Silent表达场景相似 的形容词。 42.【解析】claiming。空前的and和killing表明，本空应填一动词的现在分 词。 解析】disasters。空前的形容词mysterious表明，本空应填一名词。由43.【 one of 可知该名词应为复数形式，书写时别漏掉词尾的s。 44.【答案】Researchers called in after the 1986 tragedy discovered that the lake contained record levels of carbon dioxide 【Main Points】After the 1986 tragedy researchers found the lake had record levels of CO2 45.【答案】A slight shake then released the dissolved gas as a dangerous bubble 【Main Points】A slight shake released the gas as a dangerous bubble 46.【答案】The science team suggests the urgent installation of a further four pipes in each lake at a rate of one a year