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Part 1 短对话
Question 1
- M: Do you remember the wonderful film on space exploration we watched
together last month?
- W: Sure. It’s actually the most impressive one I’ve seen on that
topic.
Q:What do we learn about the speakers?
Question 2
- W: Are you looking for anything in particular?
- M: Yes. My son is graduating from high school, and I want to get him
something special.
Q:Where does the conversation most probably take place?
Question 3
- M: Mike told me yesterday that he had been looking in vain for a job in
the art gallery.
- W: Really? If I remember right, he had a chance to work there, but he
turned it down.
Q:What does the woman say about Mike?
Question 4
- W: Would you like to come to Susan’s birthday party tomorrow evening?
- M: I’m going to give a lecture tomorrow. I wish I could be in two places
at the same time.
Q:What does the man mean?
Question 5
- W: Aren’t you discouraged by the slow progress your staff is making?
- M: Yes. I think I will give them a deadline and hold them to it.
Q:What is the man probably going to do?
Question 6
- W: Excuse me. Could you tell me where the visitors’ parking is? I left my
car there.
- M: Sure. It’s in Lot C. Over that way.
Q:What does the woman want to know?
Question 7
- W: You look great! Now that you’ve taken those fitness classes.
- M: Thanks. I’ve never felt better in my life.
Q:What does the man mean?
Question 8
- W: I really admire the efficiency of your secretaries.
- M: Our company selects only the best. They have a heave workload and we
give them a lot of responsibilities.
Q:What are the speakers talking about?
Part 2 长对话
Conversion 1
W: Hi Leo, why do you say English would become the world language?
M: Well. For one thing, it’s so commonly used, the only language that is
used by more people is Chinese.
W: Why is English spoken by so many people?
M: It’s spoken in many countries of the world because of the British
empire. And now of course is the influence of America as well.
W: Many students find English a difficult language to learn.
M: Oh, all languages are difficult to learn. But English does have two
greatest advantages.
W: What are they?
M: Well, first of all, it has a very international vocabulary. It has many
German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian words in it. So speakers of those
languages will find many familiar words in English. In fact, English has words
for many other languages as well.
W: Why is that?
M: Well, partly because English speakers have travelled a lot, they bring
back words with them. So English really does have an international
vocabulary.
W: And what is the other advantage of English?
M: It that English grammar is really quite easy. For example, it doesn’t
have dozens of different endings for its nouns, adjectives and verbs, not like
Latin, Russian and German for example.
W: Why is that?
M: Well, it’s quite interesting actually, it’s because of the French. When
the French ruled England, French was the official language, and only the common
people spoke English. They tried to make their language as simple as possible.
So they made the grammar easier.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.
Q9: What does the man say about Chinese?
Q10: What made English a widely used language?
Q11: What is said to be special about English vocabulary?
Conversation 2
Man: Hello. Yes?
Woman: Hello. Is that the sales department?
M: Yes, it is.
W:Oh, well. My name is Jane Kingsbury of GPF limited. We need some supplies
for our design office.
M: Oh, what sort?
W:Well, first of all, we need one complete new drawing board.
M: DO44 or DO45?
W:Ah, I don’t know. What’s the difference?
M: Well, the 45 costs 15 pounds more.
W:So what’s the total price then?
M:It’s 387 pounds.
W:Dose that include valued-added tax?
M: Oh, I’m not sure. Most of the prices do. Yes, I think it does.
W:What are the boards actually made of?
M: Oh, I don’t know. I think it's a sort of plastic stuff these days. It’s
white anyway.
W:And how long does it take to deliver?
M: Oh, I couldn’t really say. It depends on how much work we’ve got and how
many other orders there are to send out, you know.
W:Ok, now we also want some drawing pens, ink and rulers, and some drawing
paper.
M: Oh dear. The girl who takes all those supplies isn’t here this morning.
So I can’t take those orders for you. I only do the equipment you see.
W:Ok, well, perhaps I’ll ring back tomorrow.
M: So do you want the drawing board then?
W:Oh, I have to think about it. Thanks very much. I’ll let you know.
Good-bye.
M: Thank you. Good-bye.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you just heard.
Question 12: What is the woman’s purpose in making the phone call?
Question 13: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
Question 14: What does the man say about delivery?
Question 15: What does the woman say she will possibly do tomorrow?
Part 3 短文
短文 1
No one knows for sure just how old kites are. In fact, they have been in
use for centuries. 25 centuries ago, kites were well-known in China. These first
kites were probably made of wood. They may even have been covered with silk,
because silk were used a lot at that time. Early kites were built for certain
uses. In ancient China, they will use to carry ropes to cross rivers. Once
across, the ropes were tear down and wooden bridges would hang for them. Legend
tells of one General who flew musical kites over the enemies’ camp. The enemy
fled, believing the sounds to be the warming voices of angels. By the 15th
century, many people flew kites in Europe. Marco Polo may have brought the kite
back from his visit to China. The kite has been linked to great names and
events. For instance, Benjamin Franklin used kite to prove the lightening
electricity. He flew the kite in the storm. He did this in order to draw
lightening from the clouds. He tied a metal key and a strip of silk to the kite
line. The silk ribbon would stop the lightening from passing through his body.
Benjamin’s idea was first laughed at. But later on, it enlightened the invention
of the lightening rod. With such grand history, kite flying is short remain an
entertaining and popular sport.
Question 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Question 16: What does the speaker say about kite?
Question 17: What did ancient Chinese use cats to do?
Question 18: Why did BF flied a kite in the storm?
短文2
I have learnt many languages, but I’m not mastered them the way the
professional interpreter or translator has. Still, they have open doors for me.
They have allowed me the opportunity to seek jobs in international contexts and
help me get those jobs. Like many people who have lived overseas for a while, I
simply got crazy about it. I can’t image living my professional or social life
without international interactions. Since 1977, I have spent much more time
abroad than in the United States. I like going to new places, eating new foods
and experiencing new cultures. If you can speak the language, it’s easier to get
to know the country and its people. If I had the time and money. I would live
for a year in as many countries as possible. Beyond my career, my facility with
languages has given me a few rare opportunities. Once, just after I returned my
year in Vienna. I was asked to translate for a German judge at Olympic level
horse event and learned a lot about the sport.
In Japan, once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I
was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared
and tell what I thought. They asked” Was it as good as American beef?” It was
very exciting for me to be on Japanese TV, speaking in Japanese about how
delicious the beef was.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.
Question 19 What does the speaker say about herself?
Question 20 What does the speaker say about many people who have lived
overseas for a while?
Question 21 How did the speaker experience of living in Vienna benefit
her?
Question 22 What was the speaker asked to do in the Japanese studio?
短文3
Dr. Ben Carsen grew up in a poor single parent house-hold in Detroit. His
mother, who had only a 3rd grade education helds two jobs cleaning bathrooms. To
his classmates and even to his
teachers he was thought of as the dummest kid in his class. According to
his own not so fond memories.
He had a terrible temper, and once threatened to kill another child. Dr.
Carsen was headed down part of seld distraction until a critical moment in his
youth. His mother convinced that he had to do something dramatic preventing
leading a life of failure laid down some rules. He could not
watch television except for two programs a week, could not play with his
friends after school
until he finished his homework. And had to read two books a week, and write
book reports about them. His mother’s strategy worked. “Of course, I didn’t know
she couldn’t read. So there I was
submitting these reports.” he said. She would put check marks on them like
she had been reading them. As I began to read about scientists，economists and
philosophers. I started imaging myself in their shoes. As he got into the hobbit
of hard work, his grade began to soar. Ultimately he received a scholarship to
attending Yale
University, and later he was admitted to the University of Michigan Medical
School.
He is now a leading surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medical School and he is also
the author of the three books.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.
Q23 What do we learn about Ben Carsen ?
Q24 What did Ben Caren’s classmates and teachers think of him whenhe was
first at school?
Q25 What did Ben Carsen’s mother tell him to do when he was a school
boy?
Part 4 听写题
When you look up at the night sky, what do you see? There are other
heavenly bodies out there besides the moon and stars. One of the most
fascinating of this is a comet. Comets were formed around the same the earth was
formed. They are made up of ice and other frozen liquids and gasses. Now and
then these dirty snow balls begin to orbit the sun just as the planets do. As a
comet gets closer to the sun. Some gasses in it begin to unfreeze. They combine
with dust particles from the comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even
nearer to the sun and solar wind blows the cloud behind the comet thus forming
its tail. The tail and generally fuzzy atmosphere around the comet are
characteristics that can help identify this phenomenon in the night sky. In any
given year, about dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits. The
average person can’t see them all of course. Usually there is only one or two a
year bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. Comet Hale-Bopp discovered in
1995 was an unusually bright comet. Its orbit bought relatively to the earth
within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its earthly
visit. It won’t be back for another 4 thousand years or so.
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