恒星英语听力材料

恒星英语听力材料 Directions: In part A, you will hear short conversations between two people. After each conversation, you will hear a question about the conversation. The questions and the questions will not be repeated. After you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your test book and choose the best answer. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. 11. A Go to the football match with the woman. B Ask the woman to help him write the term paper on history. C Finish the last tow chapters of history assignment. D Take part in the football match. 12. A she wants to borrow the man’s student card B the tickets are less expensive than she expected C she won’t be able to get any discount for the ticket D the performance turns out to be disappointing 13. A it’s far from being ready B it contains some valuable ideas C she needs another week to get it ready D it has nothing to do with the internet 14. A He is suffering from the difference of time zones. B He has been studying hard at night. C He finds biology difficult fo learn. D He has not adjusted to a new culture. 15. A A lesson requires student’s active involvement B students usually take an active part in a lecture C more knowledge is covered in a lecture D there is a larger group of people interested in lesson 16.A The pictures of night view are really better than he expected B He didn’t know how he finished his role in the play C The film hasn’t been processed yet D He didn’t have enough film 17. A He often complains. B he is a short person. C He is worried about something. D He is a happy sort of person. 18. A He can’t miss the bank. B She forgot to tell him one thing. C It’s no use going there. D The bank is close to the corner. Questions 19-21 are based on the conversation you have just heard 19. A A vacation trip to Yellowstone Park B A lecture by a visiting professor C Her biology thesis D A research project on Yellowstone Park 20. A More buffalo are surviving the winter B Fewer buffalo are dying of disease C More buffalo are being born D Fewer buffalo are being killed by hunters 21. A She is from Wyoming and eager to visit Yellowstone Park B She needs the money to continue her studying C She has been studying animal diseases D Her thesis adviser is heading the project Questions 22-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 22.A) She knew about it by reading a booklet. B) She knew about it by reading a student union introduction. C) She knew about it by reading a newspaper. D) She knew about it by reading a magazine. 23.A) Because they want to preserve the natural beauty of the campus. B) Because they want to protect the students’ right for living space. C) Because they want to conserve the place for future use. D) Because they want to sell the place for a better price. 24. A) They will organize a meeting to discuss a proposal. B) They will organize a protest to express their opposition. C) They will organize an appeal-letter signing activity. D) They will organize a march around the campus. 25. A) She will participate in the protest. B) She will sign the appeal letter. C) She will take part in a meeting of the Student Action Union. D) She will attend her class as usual. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. A How much exercise they get every day? B What they are most worried about? C How long their parents accompany them daily? D What entertainment they are interested in? 27. A get enough entertainment B have more activities C receive early education D have regular checkups 28. A be no place for play B be near a common area C have no TV sets D have a computer for study Passage Two Questions 29-32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 29. A) To look for two of her close friends. B) To stay at home and study. C) To share an apartment with friends. D) To move out and live alone. 30. A) She couldn’t find a good place to stay. B) Her friend and she couldn’t afford the rent. C) A friend left her for work’s sake. D) She quarreled with her friends. 31. A) Because her home was far way form school. B) Because her parents asked her to do so. C) Because she was bored living outside. D) Because the place where she lived caught fire. 32. A) Because she was disappointed in the college. B) Because she kept moving all the time and couldn’t concentrate on studying. C) Because her home was too far away from school and it was inconvenient. D) Because she was not interested in study at all. Passage Three Questions 33-35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 33. A) Italian people. B) German people. C) British people. D) French people. 34. A) Wash the dishes. B) Have her own meal. C) Make plans for other activities. D) Serve some wine. 35. A) Odd B) Crazy C) Regular D) Romantic Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. The Romans built great “aqueducts” to carry fresh water from the mountains to the cities. Many of these aqueducts are still standing today. The Roman (36) _____even set up a (37)___ health service. They built the first great public hospitals in Europe, and they paid doctors to look after poor people. When the Roman Empire fell to pieces, these (38) _____ methods of treatment (39) _____ from most of Europe, for more than a thousand years. People went back to the old ways. They lived in dirty conditions, which helped to cause diseases; and they asked God to cure the (40) _____. They shut up (41) _____ sick people in prisons. Or they burnt them alive because they were supposed to have (42) _____ powers. But the work of the Greek and Roman doctors was not lost. Over a thousand years ago, the Arabs moved into many of the Mediterranean countries. They took big parts of the old (43)_____ lands. (44) ______________________________ Arab doctors themselves made many new discoveries. (45)___________________________________________ Slowly, European doctors discovered again the things that the Greeks and Romans had known so long ago. (46) ____________________________ Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. The song “Happy birthday to you” is sung all over the world just before the birthday boy or girl blows out the candles on the cake. It is so simple that children as young as three can sing it without ___47___. The song, with its ___48___ title “Good Morning to You”, was written in 1893 by the two sisters, Mildred and Patty Smith Hill. They were the daughters of a ___49___ Kentucky couple, who believed in female education at a time---the mid-nineteenth century--- when it was still a ___50___ idea and who trained their two daughters to be schoolteachers. They were long involved in elementary education. A birthday cake with ___51___ candles is also indispensable at one's birthday party. It may derive, ___52___, from the ancient Greek practice of offering to Artemis, goddess of the moon, a round honey cake into which a candle was stuck. After German bakers ___53___ the modern birthday cake in the Middle Ages, a similar ___54___ was adopted for happiness at birthdays. The candle-blowing-out custom may be associated with double meaning at birthdays. Some people believe that each birthday is another step toward the end, and what we ___55___ at birthday gatherings is not only our growth, but our transience. Thus, candles at birthdays are ___56___ of life and death, hopes and fears, increase and loss, and so on. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 A) invented I) original B) accelerate J) novel C) old K) apparently D) symbols L) burning E) hesitation M) prevented F) progressive N) custom G) celebrate O) substitute H) distantly Section B Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. Electric cars are dirty. In fact, not only are they dirty, they might even be more dirty than their gasoline-powered cousins. People in California love to talk about “zero-emissions vehicles,” but people in California seem to be clueless about where electricity comes from. Power plants most all use fire to make it. Aside from the few folks who have their roofs covered with solar cells, we get our electricity from generators. Generators are fueled by something usually coal, oil, but also by heat generated in nuclear power plants. There are a few wind farms and geothermal plants as well, but by far we get electricity mainly by burning something. In other words, those “zero-emissions” cars are likely coal-burning cars. It's just the coal is burned somewhere else so it looks clean. It is not. It’s as if the California Greens are covering their eyes “If I can’t see it, it’s not happening.” Gasoline is an incredibly efficient way to power a vehicle; a gallon of gas has a lot of energy in it. But when you take that gas (or another fuel) and first use it to make electricity, you waste a nice part of that energy, mostly in the form of wasted heat at the generator, through the transmission lines, etc. A gallon of gas may propel your car 25 miles. But the electricity you get from that gallon of gas won't get you nearly as far so electric cars burn more fuel than gas-powered ones. If our electricity came mostly from nukes, or geothermal, or hydro, or solar, or wind, then an electric car truly would be clean. But for political, technical, and economic reasons, we don’t use much of those energy sources. In addition, electric cars’ batteries which are poisonous for a long time will eventually end up in a landfill. And finally, when cars are the polluters, the pollution is spread across all the roads. When it’s a power plant, though, all the junk is in one place. Nature is very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated, but it takes a lot longer when all the garbage is in one spot. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 57. What does “clueless” mean in paragraph 2? A) The California Greens are covering their eyes. B) People in California love to talk about zero-emissions vehicles C) People in California love to have their roofs covered with solar cells D) People there have no idea that so far electricity mainly comes from burning coal, oil, etc. 58. According to the passage, why the California Greens hold the idea “If I can’t see it, it’s not happening.”? A) They do not know those clean cars are likely coal-burning cars. B) They do believe that the coal is burned somewhere else so it looks clean. C) They tend to hold that electricity is a nice part of energy. D) They tend to maintain that gasoline is a good way to run a vehicle. 59. The electricity we get from a gallon of gas may make our car run __________. A) not less than 25 miles. B) more than 25 miles. C) no less than 25 miles. D) not more than 25 miles. 60. Compared with cars using gas, electric cars __________ A) do not burn fuel and more environmental. B) are toxic and it is difficult for nature to clean it up when their batteries are buried in one spot. C) are very good at cleaning up when things are not too concentrated D) are poisonous for a long time and will eventually end up in a landfill. 61. It can be inferred from the passage that __________. A) Being green is good and should be encouraged in communications B) Electric cars are not clean in that we get electricity mainly by burning something. C) Zero-emissions vehicles should be chosen to protect our environment. D) Electric cars are now the dominant vehicle compared with gasoline-powered cousins. Passage Two Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage. Rising global carbon dioxide levels tied to global warming may not be as crucial in determining the composition of plant communities as other, localized climate changes. "Nobody really knows what the increases in carbon dioxide are going to entail in terms of future changes in vegetation types," said Mark Brenner, a University of Florida assistant professor of paleolimnology, the study of ancient lakes. "It looks like climate changes in different areas may be more important than carbon dioxide, at least carbon dioxide by itself," he said. Brenner’s research team based their conclusions on an analysis of sediment from two lake bottoms, one in northern Mexico and one in northern Guatemala. The researchers used new techniques that allowed them to analyze only the remains of land plants, specifically their leaf waxes. By measuring the composition of the leaf waxes, the researchers were able to distinguish two broad categories of plants living in these areas -- so-called C3 and C4 plants, which have different photosynthetic(光合 作用) processes. Many C4 plants are tropical grasses, while most tropical trees are C3 plants. The researchers analyzed sediments(沉积物) deposited over the last 27,000 years, from the last ice age to the current geological period. Over this period, there was a worldwide, relatively uniform increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Brenner said that if carbon dioxide played the major role in determining plant composition, one would assume that analysis of the sediments would reveal very similar changes in relative abundance of C3 and C4 plants in the two places over the study period. But, in fact, the researchers found that trends in the two types of plants were different at the two locations. The changes were related not with carbon dioxide levels, but with shifts in rainfall. "The result appears to be that climate factors, especially moisture availability, determine whether C4 or C3 plants dominate in an area, not carbon dioxide," Brenner said. Many scientists believe global warming will cause major variation in local climates worldwide, with some wet areas becoming dry and dry areas becoming wet. If that happens, it could have more impact on relative C3 versus C4 plant distribution than the rising carbon dioxide levels. 62. What can be inferred in the first paragraph? A) Climate changes are more important to the composition of plant communities than rising global carbon dioxide. B) Localized climate shifts may not be as crucial as carbon dioxide. C) Nobody knows which one is important. D) Carbon dioxide levels is crucial to the global warming. 63. What is Mark Brenner? A) He studies co-author’s opinion. B) He is assisting the University of Florida. C) He is an expert in the field of ancient lakes. D) His research team composed of six geologists and geographers. 64. According to the third paragraph, which one is NOT true? A) Tropical grasses are usually C4 plants. B) C3 and C4 plants used to live in northern Mexico and Guatemala. C) C3 and C4 plants don’t have the same processes. D) Tropical trees are all C3 plants. 65. Why, in the 4th paragraph, the researchers found that trends in C3 and C4 plants were different at the two locations? A) The assumption that carbon dioxide played the major role is wrong. B) The carbon dioxide played an important role. C) The moisture availability was different. D) The carbon dioxide level was different. 66. What’s the main idea of the passage? A) Climates factors determine the plant distribution and composition of plant communities. B) Global warming will cause major variation. C) How has Brenner’s research team proved a truth. D) C3 and C4 plants are important plants in determining the composition of plant communities. W: Are you going to be able to come with us to a football match this evening? M: I’d love to. But my history assignment is due tomorrow, and I still have two chapters unfinished. Q: What will the man probably do this evening? 12. M: I’ve been waiting all week for this concert. The performance is said to be excellent and with a student’s discount, the tickets will be really cheap! W: I am sorry, but I have to tell you I lost my Student ID card in the canteen last week. Q: what does the woman imply? 13. M: how well are you prepared for your presentation? Your turn comes nest week Wednesday. W: I spent a whole week searching on the net, but end up with nothing valuable. Q: what did the woman say about her presentation? 14.M: Since I came here I’ve had to stay up most of the night for the last few days. No matter what time I go to bed, I always wake up in the middle of the night. W: Your biological rhythms probably haven’t adjusted to the tiime schedule here. ,:what is the man’s trouble? 15 W: what’s the difference between a lecture and a lesson? M: Well, both of them are imparting knowledge, but the main difference is that a lesson involves more participation. Q: What does the man mean? 16. W: Did your pictures of the night view come out like you expected? M: Actually, I ran out of film before I could even begin. I didn’t realize I’d finished the roll. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? 17. W: I’m sorry I’ve put your uncle to so much trouble. M: Don’t worry about it. He is the sort of man who is never happy unless he has something to complain about. Q: What do we learn about the man’s uncle frome the conversation?