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Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
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Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Example:You will hear:
You will read:
A) At the office. B) In the waiting room. C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place at the office . Therefore, A) “ At the office ” is the best answer. You should choose on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
Sample Answer ［ A ］［ B ］ ［ C ］ ［ D ］
1.A) The woman is seeing a doctor.
B) The woman is a close friend of the man.
C) The woman is tired of her work.
D) The woman has been working too hard.
2.A) His mother can ' t make apple pies.
B) This pie can ' t match his mother ' s.
C) His mother likes the pie very much.
D) This apple pie tastes very good.
3.A) Take a walk.B) Listen to the music. C) Dance to the music.D) Give a performance.
4.A) Read more than one article.
B) Choose a better article to read.
C) Present a different theory to the class.
D) Read an article on political science.
5. A) The woman isn ' t a skillful typist.
B) The woman should work as hard as Mary.
C) The woman should do the typing for Mary.
D) The woman would understand if she did Mary ' s job.
6.A) He wants to make an appointment with Mr. Smith.
B) He wants to make sure that Mr. Smith will see him.
C) He wants to change the time of the appointment.
D) He wants the woman to meet him at three o ' clock.
7.A) He gets nervous very easily.
B) He is an inexperienced speaker.
C) He is an awful speaker.
D) He hasn ' t prepared his speech well.
8.A) She didn ' t like the books the man bought.
B) There wasn ' t a large selection at the bookstore.
C) The man bought a lot of books.
D) She wanted to see what the man bought.
9.A) Buy a ticket for the ten o ' clock flight.
B) Ask the man to change the ticket for her.
C) Go to the airport immediately.
D) Switch to a different flight.
10.A) Dr. Lemon is waiting for a patient.
B) Dr. Lemon is busy at the moment.
C) Dr. Lemon has lost his patience.
D) Dr. Lemon has gone out to visit a patient.
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 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) A car outside the supermarket.
B) A car at the bottom of the hill.
C) Paul ' s car.
D) The sports car.
12.A) Inside the car.
B) At the foot of the hill.
C) In the garage.
D) In the supermarket.
13.A) The driver of the sports car.
B) The two girls inside the car.
C) The man standing nearby.
D) The salesman from London.
14.A) Nobody.B) The two girls. C) The bus driver.D) Paul.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15.A) His friend gave him the wrong key.
B) He didn ' t know where the back door was.
C) He couldn ' t find the key to his mailbox.
D) It was too dark to put the key in the lock.
16.A) It was getting dark.
B) He was afraid of being blamed by his friend.
C) The birds might have flown away.
D) His friend would arrive any time.
17.A) He looked silly with only one leg inside the window.
B) He knew the policeman wouldn ' t believe him.
C) The torch light made him look very foolish.
D) He realized that he had made a mistake.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18.A) The threat of poisonous desert animals and plants.
B) The exhaustion of energy resources.
C) The destruction of oil wells.
D) The spread of the black powder from the fires.
19. A) The underground oil resources have not been affected.
B) Most of the desert animals and plants have managed to survive.
C) The oil lakes soon dried up and stopped evaporating.
D) The underground water resources have not been polluted.
20.A) To restore the normal production of the oil wells.
B) To estimate the losses caused by the fires.
C) To remove the oil left in the desert.
D) To use the oil left in the oil lakes.
参考答案和录音文字材料
Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension
Section A
1. M: Hello, Mrs. White. What can I do for you?
W: I don ' t know what ' s the matter with me. I ' m always feeling tired. I ' m usually worn out at the end of the day.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
2.W:What do you think of the apple pie? I made it myself.
M: Very delicious.Indeed even my mother ' s can ' t match this.
Q: What does the man mean?
3.M:The music is so beautiful that I ' d like to dance, but I don ' t know the steps.
W: It doesn ' t matter. No one will be looking at us in the crowd.
Q: What does the woman suggest they do?
4.M:I ' d better read one of the articles for our Political Science class.
W: You can ' t read just one.They say each presents a different theory.
Q: What does the woman tell the man he must do?
5.W: Mary is always complaining about her job.
M: Maybe if you try typing letters every day you ' d see what it ' s like.
Q: What does the man mean?
6.M:Good morning! This is John Parker speaking. I ' m just ringing to confirm my appointment with Mr. Smith for this afternoon.
W: Yes, Mr Smith ' s expecting you at 3 o ' clock.
Q: Why is the man making the phone call?
7.W: Tom looks awfully nervous, doesn ' t he?
M: Yes, I ' m afraid he is not used to making speeches.
Q: What do they think of Tom?
8.M:I bought a few books at the new bookstore. Would you like to have a look at them?
W: A few! It looks like you bought out the whole bookstore.
Q: What does the woman mean?
9.M: Jane, you won ' t be able to get to the airport in time to catch the 10 o ' clock flight.
W:I realize that now. I ' ll have to get my ticket changed.
Q: What will the woman have to do?
10.M:Would you get me through to Doctor Lemon please?
W:I ' m sorry. He is with a patient.
Q: What does the woman mean?
Section B
Passage One
Paul, a salesman from London , was driving past a sports car parked outside a supermarket when he saw it start to roll slowly down the hill. Inside the car were two young girls on the passenger seat but no driver. Paul stopped quickly, jumped in front of the sports car and tried to stop it, pushing against the front of the car. Another man, who was standing nearby, got into the car and put on the hand brake, saving the girls from injury. It was at this point that Paul noticed his own car rolling slowly down the hill and going too fast for him to stop it. It crashed into a bus at the bottom of the hill and was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled away to a garage. As if this was not bad enough, Paul now found he had no one to blame. He was so busy chasing his car that he did not get the name of the driver of the sports car who just came out of the supermarker and drove away without realizing what had happened.
11. Which car was badly damaged?
12. Where was the driver of the sports car when the accident happened?
13. Who did Paul think was to blame for the accident?
14. Who was injured in the accident?
Passage Two
My friend Vernon Davie kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed the birds for him and said that he would leave the key to his front door in my mail box. Unfortunately, I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse: It was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front door or the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of what Vernon would say when he came back. I was just going to give up when I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed it under the window. As the barrel was very heavy I made a lot of noise. But in the end I managed to climb up and open the window. I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone was shining a torch up at me.I looked down and saw a police man and an old lady, one of Vernon ' s neighbours.
“ What are you doing up there? ” said the policeman.
Feeling like a complete fool, I replied “ I was just going to feed Mr. Davie ' s birds. ”
15.Why couldn ' t the man open the door?
16.Why did the man feel desperate?
17.Why did the man feel like a fool?
Passage Three
When Iraqi troops blew up hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells at the end of the Gulf War, scientists feared an environmental disaster. Would black powder and the smoke from the fires circle the globe and block out the sun? Many said “ No way ” . Rain would wash the black powder from the atmosphere. But in America , air sampling balloons have detected high concentrations of particles, similar to those collected in Kuwait . Now that the fires are out, scientists are turning their attention to yet another threat: the oil that didn ' t catch fire. It has formed huge lakes in the Kuwait Desert . They trap insects and birds and poison a variety of other desert animals and plants. The only good news is that the oil lakes have not affected the underground water resources. So far, the oil has not been absorbed because of the hard sand just below the surface.
Nothing, however, stops the oil from evaporating. The resulting poisonous gas is choking nearby residents. Officials are trying to organize a quick clean-up but they are not sure how to do it. One possibility is to burn the oil. Get those black powder detectors ready!
18. What were the scientists worried about soon after the Gulf War?
19. What was the good news for scientists?
20. What are the officials trying to do at the moment?
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. B 8. C 9. D 10. B 11.C 12.D 13.A 14.A 15.A 16.B 17.B 18.D 19.D 20.C | 
