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听力短对话
1.
W: Hasmy order arrived yet? I have beenexpecting it last week.
M:I called the company thismorning. They hadsome labor problems, so your order will be shipped late. Itshould be here by the end of theweek.
Q;What has caused the delayof the shipment?
2.
W: Idon’t agree with Mr. Johnson’s views on social welfare. He seems to suggest thepoorare robbing the rich.
M: Hemight have used better words to express his idea, but I think what he saidmakes a lotof sense.
Q:What does the man mean?
3.
M:Liz, I just found out Ihave a meeting and I can’t pick up the kids after their soccerpractice. Wouldyou be able to pick them up in time?
W:Yes, that won’t be aproblem. I think I can finish early today.
Q:Why does the man say he can’tpick up the kids?
4.
W: Maryis going to get a little dog from one of her relatives.
M: Really?But I hear her apartment building is about to place a ban on pet animals.
Q:What does the man imply?
5.
W:I can never tell whether it’sLisa or Gale on the phone. Their voices sound incrediblysimilar.
M: That’sabout the only thing they have in common for twins, believe it or not.
Q:What does the man mean?
6.
W: Jay,what does the fax from our associates in Britain say?
M:They want to know if theeconomic crisis would affect our ability to carry out the deal wesigned lastNovember.
Q:What are the speakerstalking about?
7.
M: Doyou think you'll be able to get this ink stain out of my pants?
W: Itwon't be a problem, but I need to send them over to our main cleaning facility.That’san extra day’s time.
Q:What does the woman mean?
8.
W: Thatlooks like a protest rally. I wonder what they are protesting against.
M: Thatsign says they are against importing luxury goods from Europe. They seemed tobegetting so worked up about that.
Q:What are the speakerstalking about?
听力长对话原文1
Conversation One
W:What isit, Bob? (9)You sounded prettyserious on the phone. Have we still got abudgetproblem?
M:I don’ know. I hope not. Themeeting's on Friday. But that’s not what I want to talk toyou about. Er, closethe door, will you? It’s Marsha.
W: Marsha?What about her?
M: I'mworried. I don’t know what to do. (10)She’s just not performing. We may have tolether go.
W: Fireher? She’s been with us a long time, Bob. If she leaves, it’ll be a big loss tous. She’sdone really excellent work.
M:Yes. But lately, the lastmonth or so, in fact, there have been a lot of problems. She’schanged. Notonly does she have a tendency to be moody all the time, but shemissesappointments, doesn’t follow through on projects, and doesn't seem to plananything tillthe last minute.
W: Em, didshe ever explain why she didn’t show up for the Denver trip?
M:No. She said she was sorryand that it wouldn’t happen again. (11) Something about amix-up onarrangements to get to the airport. Now, whenever anybody mentions the subjecttoher, she just goes silent. I don’t know. Thank goodness, David pulled us outof the hole on thatone.
W: Yes, hedid a really fine job, filling in for Marsha like that at the last minute.
M:(12)I don’t think it was thefirst time he’s had to do that. If we knew all the facts, I thinkwe’d findthat he's been covering for Marsha on quite a few projects.
9. Whatdid the man do before he came to see the woman?
10. Whatdoes the man say about Marsha?
11. Howdid Marsha explain why she didn't show up for the Denver trip?
12. Whatdoes the man say about David?
听力长对话原文2
Conversation Two
M:You also hire the mistressesof Oxford High School for girls. How many girls do you havehere?
W:We have 615 girls.
M: in yourexperience, do girls do better academically and later professionally insingle-sexschools?
W:Yes. I think they do betteracademically and you can measure that very crudely fromthe examinationresults, (13) I also think they do better academically because they havemoreopportunities to take the leading role in discussions and in managerial responsibilities.(14)Ithink they see the role models of the chief positions in the school beingheld by women.
M:I wonder if you could saythen in a few words what the advantages are for a girl at asingle-sex school.Well, I think within the classroom, she’s going to have full opportunitytoexpress her own opinions. She isn’t going to be shouted down by over-confidentyounggentlemen.
W: Areteenagers in particular, do you think, sheltered too much from contact withtheopposite sex? Does this cause them difficulties when they find themselves inmixed groups?
M:Well, I would like to findthe parents who could shelter girls from the opposite sex ifthey live in Oxford.(15)They encounter boys all the time socially out of school, andthroughdebating societies and things like that, some school activities as well.
M: So, nodisadvantages at all?
WI don’t think there are anydisadvantages. I think that it’s grossly overstated that oneneeds to havecontact with the opposite sex right through the whole of life, in the classroomandoutside the classroom and at all ages.
13. Whatdoes the woman say about the girls in her school?
14. Whatdo we learn about the woman's school?
15. What does the woman say about the girls' social life?
听力短文原文
Passage One
Larry arrivedearly for his speaking engagement.He positioned the table so that he couldmove closeto the audience that's the strategic point in thespeech.(16)He hadread that speakers can be more persuasive if they invade the personalspace oflisteners, encouraging an emotional response. For the same reason, he placedthechairs close to each other and raised the temperature to a slightlyuncomfortable level.(17)Thepurpose of the speech was to encourage theaudience of corporate executives and localbusiness owners to support localsports groups. To enhance his credibility with the audience,Larry had broughtsome slides of his family attending sports events. One photo showed him atanaward ceremony, where he had been honored for his financial contribution to alocalbaseball team. Realizing that this particular audience would find hisregional accentunattractive, Larry planned to speak with an accent that wouldbe more acceptable to hisaudience.(18)After reading a book on how to addressfor success, he had purchased anexpensive dark navy suit and golden tie. Hechose colors and styles known to communicatepower and influence.(19)Justbefore people began entering the hall, Larry dimmed the lights andturned upthe sound system, which was playing soft music, hoping to create a warmpersonalatmosphere for the speech. He hoped that these added effects wouldencourage his audience tosupport local sports teams. He had also planned thecontent of his speech to focus on theteams with the best records, the onesthat had won the most games in the last season.
16.How cana speaker make himself more persuasive when delivering a speech?
17.Forwhat purpose was Larry going to make a speech?
18.Why didLarry purchase an expensive navy suit and golden tie?
19.Why didLarry dim the lights and turn up the sound system before people enteredthehall?
Passage Two
PhillisWheatley was a young African-American slave who belonged to landownerJohnWheatley in Colonial America. (20)She was also a poet and the firstAfrican-American everto publish a book. Her poems on various subjects,religious and moral were printed in Boston in1773, three years before thesigning of the Declaration of Independence. Early slaves weregenerally deniededucation, but Wheatley was allowed by her owner to study poetry, Latin andtheBible. And by the time she reached her late teens, she had written enoughpoetry to puttogether a slender book of verse. Even so, publication wasdifficult. (21)The publisher, fearfulof being cheated, forced her to submit tohis scholarly examination by a board of educatedmen, including the colonialgovernor. The board of judges questioned Wheatley extensively andruled thatshe was educated enough to have written the book. Only then waspublicationpermitted. Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave towritebooks during the growing days of the Republic. Unfortunately, most of theearly popularAfrican-American writers have been all but forgotten in moderntimes until now. A chronicleprofessor, Henry Louis Gates, recently studied aresearch project looking into 19th centuryAfrican-American fiction and poetry.(22)In the process he uncovered numerous lost works,almost half of which werewritten by African-American women. In very literary styles, thenewlyresurfaced manuscripts offered a rich stock of African-American culture,recreating amongother things the early days of slavery and the importance ofreligion to the slaves.
20. Whatdoes the speaker say about Phillis Wheatley?
21. Whatwas Wheatley forced to do to get her book published?
22. Whatdid Prof. Henry Louis Gates uncover in the process of his research?
Passage Three
In today'spersonality stakes, nothing is more highly valued than the sense of humor.Weseek it out in others and are proud to claim it in ourselves, perhaps even morethan goodlooks or intelligence. (23) If someone has a great sense of humor, wereason, it means thatthey are happy, socially confident and have a healthyperspective on life. (24)This attitudewould have surprised the ancient Greeks,who believed humor to be essentially aggressive.And in fact our admiration forthe comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded,says RodMartin’s a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario. "Being funnyisn'tnecessarily an indicator of good social skills and well-being,” hisresearch has shown, "it mayjust exactly be a sign of personalityflaws." (25)He has found that humor is a double-edgedsword. It can forgebetter relationships and help you cope with life, or it can be corrosiveeatingaway your self-esteem and irritating others. "It’s a form of communicationlike speech,and we all use it differently*" says Martin. We use bondinghumor to enhance our socialconnections* but we also may employ it as a way ofexcluding or rejecting an outsider. Thoughhumor is essentially social, how youuse it says a lot about your sense of self. Those who useself-defeating humor,making fun of themselves, of the enjoyment of others, tend to maintainthathostility toward themselves even when alone. Similarly, those who are able toview the worldwith amused tolerance are often equally forgiving of their ownshortcomings.
23. How dopeople today view humor according to the speaker?
24. Whatdid ancient Greeks think of humor?
25. What has psychologist Rod Martin found about humor?
听力填空
It isimportant that we be mindful of the earth, theplanet out of which we are bornand by which we arenourished, guided, healed-the planet, however,which wehave abused to a considerable degree inthese past two centuries of industrialexploitation.This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently itappears that some hundreds ofthousands of species will be extinguished beforethe end of the century.
In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep mysteriesof the earth at a level farbeyond the capacities of earlier peoples. We canbreak the mountains apart; we can drain therivers and flood the valleys. Wecan turn the most luxuriant forests into throwaway paperproducts. We can tear apartthe great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxicchemicals into thesoil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute theairwith acids, the rivers with sewage(污水), the seas with oil. We caninvent computers capableof processing ten million calculations per second. Andwhy"? To increase the volume and thespeed with which we move naturalresources through the consumer economy to the junk pile orthe waste heap. Ourmanagerial skills are measured by the competence manifested inacceleratingthis process. If in these activities the physical features of the planet aredamaged, ifthe environment is made inhospitable for a multitude of living species,then so be it. We are,supposedly, creating a technological wonder world.
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【听力短对话解析】
1.A)【精析】事实细节题。对话中,女士询问订单是否到 货,男士回答说由于劳工问题,将会延迟发货。由 此可知,造成货运延迟的原因是劳工问题。
2.D) 【精析】观点态度题。对话中,女士表示她不同意Johnson先生就社会福利问题提出的观点,男士则认为Johnson先生的观点很有道理。由此可见,男士同意Johnson先生的观点。
3.C) 【精析】目的原因题。对话中,男士说他刚发现自己 有个会议要参加,所以他无法去接孩子,因此询问 女士是否可以去接孩子。由此可知,男士不能去接 孩子的原因是他要去参加一个会议。
4.B)【精析】弦外之音题。对话中,女士提到Mary将会从亲戚那里得到一条小狗,男士却说听说Mary所住的公寓楼将要禁止养宠物。由此可知,Mary不能在公寓里养狗。
5.B) 【精析】弦外之音题。对话中,女士表示自己在电话里分不出Lisa和Gale的声音,男士则表示声音是这对双胞胎唯一相同之处。言外之意,她们有很多不同点。
6.C) 【精析】综合理解题。对话中,女士询问英国合伙人发来的传真内容,男士回答说合伙人想知道金触危机是否会影响去年11月份所签协议的执行。由此可见,两人谈论的话题是合伙人传真的内容。
7.D) 【精析】语义理解题。对话中,男士询问是否可以洗掉裤子上的污淸,女士表示没有问题,但是需要送到主洗衣设备那里去涨,因此需要额外加一天。由此可见,清洗这条裤子需要比平常多的时间。
8.B)【精析】综合理解题。对话中,女士说人们在抗议集会游行,并向男士询问人们抗议的原因。男士回答说标语上写着他们反对从欧洲进口奢侈品,游行人群似乎很激动。由此可见,两人谈it的话题与抗议集会有关。
【听力短对话解析】
1.A)【精析】事实细节题。对话中,女士询问订单是否到 货,男士回答说由于劳工问题,将会延迟发货。由 此可知,造成货运延迟的原因是劳工问题。
2.D) 【精析】观点态度题。对话中,女士表示她不同意Johnson先生就社会福利问题提出的观点,男士则认为Johnson先生的观点很有道理。由此可见,男士同意Johnson先生的观点。
3.C) 【精析】目的原因题。对话中,男士说他刚发现自己 有个会议要参加,所以他无法去接孩子,因此询问 女士是否可以去接孩子。由此可知,男士不能去接 孩子的原因是他要去参加一个会议。
4.B)【精析】弦外之音题。对话中,女士提到Mary将会从亲戚那里得到一条小狗,男士却说听说Mary所住的公寓楼将要禁止养宠物。由此可知,Mary不能在公寓里养狗。
5.B) 【精析】弦外之音题。对话中,女士表示自己在电话里分不出Lisa和Gale的声音,男士则表示声音是这对双胞胎唯一相同之处。言外之意,她们有很多不同点。
6.C) 【精析】综合理解题。对话中,女士询问英国合伙人发来的传真内容,男士回答说合伙人想知道金触危机是否会影响去年11月份所签协议的执行。由此可见,两人谈论的话题是合伙人传真的内容。
7.D) 【精析】语义理解题。对话中,男士询问是否可以洗掉裤子上的污淸,女士表示没有问题,但是需要送到主洗衣设备那里去涨,因此需要额外加一天。由此可见,清洗这条裤子需要比平常多的时间。
8.B)【精析】综合理解题。对话中,女士说人们在抗议集会游行,并向男士询问人们抗议的原因。男士回答说标语上写着他们反对从欧洲进口奢侈品,游行人群似乎很激动。由此可见,两人谈it的话题与抗议集会有关。
【听力短文解析】
【短文1解析】
16.How cana speaker make himself morepersuasive when delivering a speech?
A) 【精析】细节辨认题。短文中提到Larry从一本书 中学到,如果演讲者以进入听众的个人空间,就 会使演讲更具有说服力,激发听众情感上的回应。
17.Forwhat purpose was Larry going to make a speech?
B)【精析】目的原因题。短文中提到,演讲的听众是公司管理展和地方的企业家,演讲的目的是鼓励 他们支持地方的运动团体。
18.Why didLarry purchase an expensive navy suit and golden tie?
D)【精析】目的原因题。短文中提到,演讲者购买了昂贵的深蓝色西装和金色领带•是因为这样的照 格和颜色可以传达气势和影响力。
19.Why didLarry dim the lights and turn up the sound system before people enteredthehall?
B)【精析】目的原因题。对话中提到,Larry在观众入场之前将灯光调暗,调高轻音乐的音量,是希望能够力演讲创造一种温暖的私人氛围。
【短文2解析】
20. Whatdoes the speaker say about Phillis Wheatley?
D) 【精析】事实细节题。短文中指出,Phillis Wheatley 是一位诗人,并非是第一位出版书籍的非裔美国人。
21. Whatwas Wheatley forced to do to get her book published?
C) 【精析】细节辨认题。短文中提到,Phillis Wheatley 的诗集出版非常困难,出版商由于担心被欺骗,强迫她接受包括殖民忌督在内的一群受过教育的人对她进行学术审查。
22. Whatdid Prof. Henry Louis Gates uncover in the process of his research?
D)【精析】细节辨认题。短文中提到,编年史学教授Henry Louis Gates进行了项研究,研究过程中发现了众多先传的作品,其中半数都为非裔美国女性作家所著
【短文3解析】
23. How dopeople today view humor according to the speaker?
D) 【精析】推理判断题。短文介绍了幽默这一性格 特点,如果一个人拥有极强的幽默感,那么说明这 个人是快乐的,在社交方面充满自信,并且拥有健 康的生活态度。
24. Whatdid ancient Greeks think of humor?
B) 【精析】事实细节题。短文中提到,现代人对幽默的看法可能会吓到古希腊人,因为古希腊人认为幽默在本质上具有挑衅性。
25. Whathas psychologist Rod Martin found about humor?
A) 【精析】细节辨认题。短文中提到,心理学家Rod Martin发现幽默是一把双刃剑。
【听写填空解析】
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【精析】句意推断题。根据空