2007年6月大学英语四级听力真题
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| [00:00.00] | Part III Listing Comprehension |
| [00:00.87] | Directions |
| [00:57.76] | 听力开始 |
| [01:03.54] | Q11. |
| [01:06.62] | W: Did you watch the 7 o'clock program on Channel 2 yesterday evening? |
| [01:11.30] | I was about to watch it when someone came to see me. |
| [01:14.47] | M: Yeah. It reported some major breakthroughs in cancer research. |
| [01:19.73] | People over 40 would find the program worth watching. |
| [01:24.28] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation about the TV program? |
| [01:45.29] | Q12. |
| [01:47.02] | W: I won the first prize in the national writing contest and I got this camera as an award. |
| [01:53.54] | M: It's a good camera.You can take it when you travel.I had no idea you were a marvelous writer. |
| [02:02.49] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [02:21.34] | Q13. |
| [02:23.89] | M: I wish I hadn't thrown away that waiting list. |
| [02:27.88] | W: I thought you might regret it. |
| [02:30.42] | That's why I picked it up from the waste paper basket and left it on the desk. |
| [02:36.49] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [02:54.56] | Q14. |
| [02:56.81] | W: Are you still teaching at the junior high school? |
| [02:59.72] | M: Not since June.My brother and I opened a restaurant as soon as he got out of the army. |
| [03:06.42] | Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation? |
| [03:25.27] | Q15. |
| [03:28.05] | M: Hi, Susan. Have you finished reading the book Prof. Johnson recommended? |
| [03:33.62] | W: Oh, I haven't read it through the way I'd read a novel. |
| [03:37.69] | I just read a few chapters which interested me. |
| [03:42.34] | Q: What does the woman mean? |
| [04:00.17] | Q16. |
| [04:02.34] | M: Jane missed class again, didn't she? I wonder why. |
| [04:06.57] | W: Well, I knew she had been absent all week, |
| [04:11.01] | so I called her this morning to see if she was sick. |
| [04:14.19] | It turned out that her husband was badly injured in a car accident. |
| [04:19.22] | Q: What does the woman say about Jane? |
| [04:38.34] | Q17. |
| [04:40.95] | W: I'm sure that Smith's new house is somewhere on this street, |
| [04:44.98] | but I don't know exactly where it is. |
| [04:48.03] | M: But I'm told it's two blocks from their old home. |
| [04:51.59] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [05:11.21] | Q18. |
| [05:14.66] | W: I've been waiting here almost half an hour.How come it took it so long? |
| [05:20.23] | M: Sorry,honey.I had to drive two blocks before I spotted a place to park the car. |
| [05:26.66] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [05:47.00] | |
| [05:50.70] | Conversation 1: |
| [05:53.91] | -Hello, I have a reservation for tonight. |
| [05:56.67] | -Your name, please? |
| [05:58.12] | -Nelson, Charles Nelson. |
| [06:00.14] | -Ok, Mr. Nelson, that's a room for 5 and … |
| [06:04.42] | -Excuse me? You mean a room for 5 pounds? I didn't know the special was so good |
| [06:10.36] | -No, no, no, according to our records, a room for 5 guests was booked under your name. |
| [06:16.74] | -No, no, hold on. You must have two guests under the name. |
| [06:21.56] | -OK, let me check this again. Oh, here we are. |
| [06:26.50] | -Yes? |
| [06:27.24] | -Charles Nelson, a room for one for the nineteen… |
| [06:31.69] | -Wait, wait, it was for tonight, not tomorrow night. |
| [06:36.05] | -Ehm, hmm, I don't think we have any rooms for tonight. |
| [06:41.61] | There is a conference going on in town and, er, let's see, yeah, no rooms. |
| [06:50.07] | -Oh, come on, you must have something, anything! |
| [06:54.08] | -Well, let, let me check my computer here. Ah! |
| [07:00.34] | -What? |
| [07:01.33] | -There has been a cancelation for this evening. A honeymoon suite is now available. |
| [07:07.00] | -Great, I'll take it. |
| [07:08.77] | -But I'll have to charge you a hundred and fifty pounds for the night. |
| [07:13.22] | -What? I should get a discount for the inconvenience! |
| [07:17.81] | -Well, the best I can give you is a 10% discount,plus a ticket for a free continental breakfast. |
| [07:26.52] | -Hey, isn't the breakfast free anyway? |
| [07:29.73] | -Well, only on weekends. |
| [07:31.41] | -I want to talk to the manager. |
| [07:33.65] | -Wait, wait, wait,Mr. Nelson,I think I can give you an additional 15% discount! |
| [07:41.51] | Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. |
| [07:49.91] | Q19. What is the man's problem? |
| [08:10.13] | Q20. Why did the hotel clerk say they didn't have any rooms for that night? |
| [08:33.56] | Q21. What did the clerk say about the breakfast in the hotel? |
| [08:56.31] | Q22. What did the man imply he would do at the end of the conversation? |
| [09:21.03] | Conversation 2: |
| [09:23.63] | -Sarah, you work in the admission's office, don't you? |
| [09:28.39] | -Yes, I'm, I've been here 10 years as an assistance director. |
| [09:35.21] | -Really? What does that involve? |
| [09:38.31] | -Well, I'm in charge of all the admissions of post graduate students in the university. |
| [09:44.32] | -Only post graduates? |
| [09:46.08] | -Yes, post graduates only.I have nothing at all to do with undergraduates. |
| [09:51.90] | -Do you find that you get a particular...sort of different national groups? |
| [09:58.18] | I mean you get larger numbers from Latin America or... |
| [10:02.84] | -Yes, well,of all the students enrolled last year,nearly half were from overseas. |
| [10:09.54] | They were from the Afican countries,the far east,the middle east and Latin America. |
| [10:15.42] | -Ehm, but have you been doing just that for the last 10 years or have you done other things? |
| [10:22.33] | -Well,I've been doing the same job,ehm,before that I was a secretary of the medical school at Birmingham, |
| [10:31.52] | and further back I worked in the local government. |
| [10:34.63] | -Oh, I see. |
| [10:36.40] | -So I've done different types of things. |
| [10:38.82] | -Yes, indeed. How do you imagine your job might develop in the future? |
| [10:44.72] | Can you imagine shifting into a different kind of responsibility or doing something...? |
| [10:50.51] | -Oh, yeah, from October 1st I'll be doing an entirely different job. |
| [10:55.63] | There is going to be more committee work. |
| [10:58.12] | I mean, more policy work, and less dealing with students unfortunately. |
| [11:03.90] | I'll miss my contact with students. |
| [11:09.33] | Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. |
| [11:16.30] | Q23. What is the woman's present position? |
| [11:37.75] | Q24. What do we learn about the post graduates enrolled last year in the woman's university? |
| [12:00.53] | Q25. What will the woman's new job be like? |
| [12:22.37] | Directions |
| [12:58.77] | Passage 1 |
| [13:00.99] | My mother was born in a small town in northern Italy. |
| [13:05.33] | She was three when her parents immigrated to America in 1926. |
| [13:11.00] | They lived in Chicago, where my grandfather worked making ice-cream. |
| [13:16.48] | Mama thrived in the urban environment. |
| [13:20.57] | At 16, she graduated first in her high school class, |
| [13:25.11] | went on to secretarial school and finally worked as an executive secretary for a rare wood company. |
| [13:32.57] | She was beautiful too. |
| [13:34.89] | When a local photographer used her pictures in his monthly window display,she felt pleased. |
| [13:41.75] | Her favorite portrait showed her sitting by Lake Michigan, |
| [13:45.43] | her hair wind-blown, her gaze reaching towards the horizon. |
| [13:50.85] | My parents were married in 1944. Dad was a quiet and intelligent man. |
| [13:57.97] | He was 17 when he left Italy. |
| [14:01.27] | Soon after, a hit-and-run accident left him with a permanent limp. |
| [14:06.30] | Dad worked hard selling candy to Chicago office workers on their break. |
| [14:11.69] | He had little formal schooling. His English was self-taught. |
| [14:16.77] | Yet he eventually built a small successful whole-sale candy business. |
| [14:22.07] | Dad was generous and handsome. Mama was devoted to him. |
| [14:27.65] | After she married, my mother quit her job and gave herself to her family. |
| [14:33.95] | In 1950,with three small children,Dad moved the family to a farm 40 miles from Chicago. |
| [14:42.02] | He worked the land and commuted to the city to run his business. |
| [14:46.43] | Mama said good-bye to her parents and friends and traded her busy city neighborhood for a more isolated life. |
| [14:55.37] | But she never complained. |
| [14:58.92] | Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard: |
| [15:05.21] | Q26: What does the speaker tell us about his mother's early childhood? |
| [15:31.03] | Q27: What do we learn about the speaker's father? |
| [15:53.28] | Q28: What does the speaker say about his mother? |
| [16:14.50] | Passage 2 |
| [16:16.23] | During a 1995 roof collapse,a fire fighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged. |
| [16:25.48] | For 10 years he was unable to speak. |
| [16:28.79] | Then one Saturday morning,he did something that shocked his family and doctors - he started speaking. |
| [16:38.63] | "I want to talk to my wife," Donald Herbert said out of the blue. |
| [16:44.62] | Staff members of the nursing home where he has lived for more than 7 years rose to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. |
| [16:53.23] | "It was the first of many conversations the 44-year-old patient had with his family and friends during the 14 hour stretch." |
| [17:03.00] | Herbert's uncle Simon Manka said. |
| [17:06.03] | "How long have I been away?" Herbert asked. |
| [17:09.81] | "We told him almost 10 years." The uncle said. |
| [17:14.16] | He thought it was only three months. |
| [17:17.03] | Herbert was fighting a house fire Dec. 29, 1995, when the roof collapsed burying him underneath. |
| [17:27.11] | After going without air for several minutes, |
| [17:30.60] | Herbert was unconscious for two and a half months and has undergone therapy ever since. |
| [17:38.19] | News accounts in the days and years after his injury, |
| [17:42.25] | described Herbert as blind and with little, if any, memory. |
| [17:48.00] | A video shows him receiving physical therapy, |
| [17:52.00] | but apparently unable to communicate and with little awareness of his surroundings. |
| [17:57.51] | Manka declined to discuss his nephew's current condition or whether the apparent progress was continuing. |
| [18:05.22] | "The family was seeking privacy while doctors evaluated Herbert," he said. |
| [18:11.22] | As word of Herbert's progress spread, visitors streamed into the nursing home. |
| [18:17.71] | "He is resting comfortably," the uncle told them. |
| [18:22.46] | Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [18:29.37] | Q29: What happened to Herbert 10 years ago? |
| [18:52.18] | Q30: What surprised Donald Herbert's family and doctors one Saturday? |
| [19:15.65] | Q31: How long did Herbert remain unconscious? |
| [19:39.14] | Q32: How did Herbert's family react to the public attention? |
| [20:01.15] | Passage 3 |
| [20:03.76] | Almost all states in America have a state fair.They last for one, two or three weeks. |
| [20:13.39] | The Indiana state fair is one of the largest and oldest state fairs in the United States. |
| [20:21.17] | It is held every summer. It started in 1852. |
| [20:27.34] | Its goals were to educate, share ideas and present Indiana's best products. |
| [20:35.30] | The cost of a single ticket to enter the fair was 20 cents. |
| [20:40.81] | During the early 1930's,officials of the fair ruled that people could attend by paying something other than money. |
| [20:51.56] | For example, farmers brought a bag of grain in exchange for a ticket. |
| [20:57.49] | With the passage of time, the fair has grown and changed a lot. |
| [21:03.16] | But it is still one of the Indiana's celebrated events. |
| [21:07.99] | People from all over Indiana and from many other states attend the fair. |
| [21:13.90] | They can do many things at the fair. |
| [21:16.89] | They can watch the judging of the priced cows, pigs and other animals. |
| [21:23.60] | They can see sheep getting their wool cut and they can learn how that wool is made into clothing. |
| [21:31.04] | They can watch cows giving birth. |
| [21:34.23] | In fact, people can learn about animals they would never see except other fair. |
| [21:40.36] | The fair provides the chance for the farming community to show its skills and fun products. |
| [21:48.14] | For example, visitors might see the world's largest apple or the tallest sun flower plant. |
| [21:56.11] | Today, children and adults at the fair can play new computer games or attempt more traditional games of skill. |
| [22:06.28] | They can watch performances put on by famous entertainers. |
| [22:11.85] | Experts say such fairs are important because people need to remember |
| [22:17.46] | that they are connected to the earth and its products and they depend on animals for many things. |
| [22:25.36] | Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard: |
| [22:33.00] | Q33: What were the main goals of the Indiana state fair when it started? |
| [22:56.16] | Q34: How did some farmers give entrance to the fair in the early 1930's? |
| [23:22.12] | Q35: Why are state fairs important events in the America? |
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| [00:00.00] | Part III Listing Comprehension |
| [00:00.87] | Directions |
| [00:57.76] | ting li kai shi |
| [01:03.54] | Q11. |
| [01:06.62] | W: Did you watch the 7 o' clock program on Channel 2 yesterday evening? |
| [01:11.30] | I was about to watch it when someone came to see me. |
| [01:14.47] | M: Yeah. It reported some major breakthroughs in cancer research. |
| [01:19.73] | People over 40 would find the program worth watching. |
| [01:24.28] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation about the TV program? |
| [01:45.29] | Q12. |
| [01:47.02] | W: I won the first prize in the national writing contest and I got this camera as an award. |
| [01:53.54] | M: It' s a good camera. You can take it when you travel. I had no idea you were a marvelous writer. |
| [02:02.49] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [02:21.34] | Q13. |
| [02:23.89] | M: I wish I hadn' t thrown away that waiting list. |
| [02:27.88] | W: I thought you might regret it. |
| [02:30.42] | That' s why I picked it up from the waste paper basket and left it on the desk. |
| [02:36.49] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [02:54.56] | Q14. |
| [02:56.81] | W: Are you still teaching at the junior high school? |
| [02:59.72] | M: Not since June. My brother and I opened a restaurant as soon as he got out of the army. |
| [03:06.42] | Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation? |
| [03:25.27] | Q15. |
| [03:28.05] | M: Hi, Susan. Have you finished reading the book Prof. Johnson recommended? |
| [03:33.62] | W: Oh, I haven' t read it through the way I' d read a novel. |
| [03:37.69] | I just read a few chapters which interested me. |
| [03:42.34] | Q: What does the woman mean? |
| [04:00.17] | Q16. |
| [04:02.34] | M: Jane missed class again, didn' t she? I wonder why. |
| [04:06.57] | W: Well, I knew she had been absent all week, |
| [04:11.01] | so I called her this morning to see if she was sick. |
| [04:14.19] | It turned out that her husband was badly injured in a car accident. |
| [04:19.22] | Q: What does the woman say about Jane? |
| [04:38.34] | Q17. |
| [04:40.95] | W: I' m sure that Smith' s new house is somewhere on this street, |
| [04:44.98] | but I don' t know exactly where it is. |
| [04:48.03] | M: But I' m told it' s two blocks from their old home. |
| [04:51.59] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [05:11.21] | Q18. |
| [05:14.66] | W: I' ve been waiting here almost half an hour. How come it took it so long? |
| [05:20.23] | M: Sorry, honey. I had to drive two blocks before I spotted a place to park the car. |
| [05:26.66] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [05:47.00] | |
| [05:50.70] | Conversation 1: |
| [05:53.91] | Hello, I have a reservation for tonight. |
| [05:56.67] | Your name, please? |
| [05:58.12] | Nelson, Charles Nelson. |
| [06:00.14] | Ok, Mr. Nelson, that' s a room for 5 and |
| [06:04.42] | Excuse me? You mean a room for 5 pounds? I didn' t know the special was so good |
| [06:10.36] | No, no, no, according to our records, a room for 5 guests was booked under your name. |
| [06:16.74] | No, no, hold on. You must have two guests under the name. |
| [06:21.56] | OK, let me check this again. Oh, here we are. |
| [06:26.50] | Yes? |
| [06:27.24] | Charles Nelson, a room for one for the nineteen |
| [06:31.69] | Wait, wait, it was for tonight, not tomorrow night. |
| [06:36.05] | Ehm, hmm, I don' t think we have any rooms for tonight. |
| [06:41.61] | There is a conference going on in town and, er, let' s see, yeah, no rooms. |
| [06:50.07] | Oh, come on, you must have something, anything! |
| [06:54.08] | Well, let, let me check my computer here. Ah! |
| [07:00.34] | What? |
| [07:01.33] | There has been a cancelation for this evening. A honeymoon suite is now available. |
| [07:07.00] | Great, I' ll take it. |
| [07:08.77] | But I' ll have to charge you a hundred and fifty pounds for the night. |
| [07:13.22] | What? I should get a discount for the inconvenience! |
| [07:17.81] | Well, the best I can give you is a 10 discount, plus a ticket for a free continental breakfast. |
| [07:26.52] | Hey, isn' t the breakfast free anyway? |
| [07:29.73] | Well, only on weekends. |
| [07:31.41] | I want to talk to the manager. |
| [07:33.65] | Wait, wait, wait, Mr. Nelson, I think I can give you an additional 15 discount! |
| [07:41.51] | Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. |
| [07:49.91] | Q19. What is the man' s problem? |
| [08:10.13] | Q20. Why did the hotel clerk say they didn' t have any rooms for that night? |
| [08:33.56] | Q21. What did the clerk say about the breakfast in the hotel? |
| [08:56.31] | Q22. What did the man imply he would do at the end of the conversation? |
| [09:21.03] | Conversation 2: |
| [09:23.63] | Sarah, you work in the admission' s office, don' t you? |
| [09:28.39] | Yes, I' m, I' ve been here 10 years as an assistance director. |
| [09:35.21] | Really? What does that involve? |
| [09:38.31] | Well, I' m in charge of all the admissions of post graduate students in the university. |
| [09:44.32] | Only post graduates? |
| [09:46.08] | Yes, post graduates only. I have nothing at all to do with undergraduates. |
| [09:51.90] | Do you find that you get a particular... sort of different national groups? |
| [09:58.18] | I mean you get larger numbers from Latin America or... |
| [10:02.84] | Yes, well, of all the students enrolled last year, nearly half were from overseas. |
| [10:09.54] | They were from the Afican countries, the far east, the middle east and Latin America. |
| [10:15.42] | Ehm, but have you been doing just that for the last 10 years or have you done other things? |
| [10:22.33] | Well, I' ve been doing the same job, ehm, before that I was a secretary of the medical school at Birmingham, |
| [10:31.52] | and further back I worked in the local government. |
| [10:34.63] | Oh, I see. |
| [10:36.40] | So I' ve done different types of things. |
| [10:38.82] | Yes, indeed. How do you imagine your job might develop in the future? |
| [10:44.72] | Can you imagine shifting into a different kind of responsibility or doing something...? |
| [10:50.51] | Oh, yeah, from October 1st I' ll be doing an entirely different job. |
| [10:55.63] | There is going to be more committee work. |
| [10:58.12] | I mean, more policy work, and less dealing with students unfortunately. |
| [11:03.90] | I' ll miss my contact with students. |
| [11:09.33] | Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. |
| [11:16.30] | Q23. What is the woman' s present position? |
| [11:37.75] | Q24. What do we learn about the post graduates enrolled last year in the woman' s university? |
| [12:00.53] | Q25. What will the woman' s new job be like? |
| [12:22.37] | Directions |
| [12:58.77] | Passage 1 |
| [13:00.99] | My mother was born in a small town in northern Italy. |
| [13:05.33] | She was three when her parents immigrated to America in 1926. |
| [13:11.00] | They lived in Chicago, where my grandfather worked making icecream. |
| [13:16.48] | Mama thrived in the urban environment. |
| [13:20.57] | At 16, she graduated first in her high school class, |
| [13:25.11] | went on to secretarial school and finally worked as an executive secretary for a rare wood company. |
| [13:32.57] | She was beautiful too. |
| [13:34.89] | When a local photographer used her pictures in his monthly window display, she felt pleased. |
| [13:41.75] | Her favorite portrait showed her sitting by Lake Michigan, |
| [13:45.43] | her hair windblown, her gaze reaching towards the horizon. |
| [13:50.85] | My parents were married in 1944. Dad was a quiet and intelligent man. |
| [13:57.97] | He was 17 when he left Italy. |
| [14:01.27] | Soon after, a hitandrun accident left him with a permanent limp. |
| [14:06.30] | Dad worked hard selling candy to Chicago office workers on their break. |
| [14:11.69] | He had little formal schooling. His English was selftaught. |
| [14:16.77] | Yet he eventually built a small successful wholesale candy business. |
| [14:22.07] | Dad was generous and handsome. Mama was devoted to him. |
| [14:27.65] | After she married, my mother quit her job and gave herself to her family. |
| [14:33.95] | In 1950, with three small children, Dad moved the family to a farm 40 miles from Chicago. |
| [14:42.02] | He worked the land and commuted to the city to run his business. |
| [14:46.43] | Mama said goodbye to her parents and friends and traded her busy city neighborhood for a more isolated life. |
| [14:55.37] | But she never complained. |
| [14:58.92] | Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard: |
| [15:05.21] | Q26: What does the speaker tell us about his mother' s early childhood? |
| [15:31.03] | Q27: What do we learn about the speaker' s father? |
| [15:53.28] | Q28: What does the speaker say about his mother? |
| [16:14.50] | Passage 2 |
| [16:16.23] | During a 1995 roof collapse, a fire fighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged. |
| [16:25.48] | For 10 years he was unable to speak. |
| [16:28.79] | Then one Saturday morning, he did something that shocked his family and doctors he started speaking. |
| [16:38.63] | " I want to talk to my wife," Donald Herbert said out of the blue. |
| [16:44.62] | Staff members of the nursing home where he has lived for more than 7 years rose to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. |
| [16:53.23] | " It was the first of many conversations the 44yearold patient had with his family and friends during the 14 hour stretch." |
| [17:03.00] | Herbert' s uncle Simon Manka said. |
| [17:06.03] | " How long have I been away?" Herbert asked. |
| [17:09.81] | " We told him almost 10 years." The uncle said. |
| [17:14.16] | He thought it was only three months. |
| [17:17.03] | Herbert was fighting a house fire Dec. 29, 1995, when the roof collapsed burying him underneath. |
| [17:27.11] | After going without air for several minutes, |
| [17:30.60] | Herbert was unconscious for two and a half months and has undergone therapy ever since. |
| [17:38.19] | News accounts in the days and years after his injury, |
| [17:42.25] | described Herbert as blind and with little, if any, memory. |
| [17:48.00] | A video shows him receiving physical therapy, |
| [17:52.00] | but apparently unable to communicate and with little awareness of his surroundings. |
| [17:57.51] | Manka declined to discuss his nephew' s current condition or whether the apparent progress was continuing. |
| [18:05.22] | " The family was seeking privacy while doctors evaluated Herbert," he said. |
| [18:11.22] | As word of Herbert' s progress spread, visitors streamed into the nursing home. |
| [18:17.71] | " He is resting comfortably," the uncle told them. |
| [18:22.46] | Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [18:29.37] | Q29: What happened to Herbert 10 years ago? |
| [18:52.18] | Q30: What surprised Donald Herbert' s family and doctors one Saturday? |
| [19:15.65] | Q31: How long did Herbert remain unconscious? |
| [19:39.14] | Q32: How did Herbert' s family react to the public attention? |
| [20:01.15] | Passage 3 |
| [20:03.76] | Almost all states in America have a state fair. They last for one, two or three weeks. |
| [20:13.39] | The Indiana state fair is one of the largest and oldest state fairs in the United States. |
| [20:21.17] | It is held every summer. It started in 1852. |
| [20:27.34] | Its goals were to educate, share ideas and present Indiana' s best products. |
| [20:35.30] | The cost of a single ticket to enter the fair was 20 cents. |
| [20:40.81] | During the early 1930' s, officials of the fair ruled that people could attend by paying something other than money. |
| [20:51.56] | For example, farmers brought a bag of grain in exchange for a ticket. |
| [20:57.49] | With the passage of time, the fair has grown and changed a lot. |
| [21:03.16] | But it is still one of the Indiana' s celebrated events. |
| [21:07.99] | People from all over Indiana and from many other states attend the fair. |
| [21:13.90] | They can do many things at the fair. |
| [21:16.89] | They can watch the judging of the priced cows, pigs and other animals. |
| [21:23.60] | They can see sheep getting their wool cut and they can learn how that wool is made into clothing. |
| [21:31.04] | They can watch cows giving birth. |
| [21:34.23] | In fact, people can learn about animals they would never see except other fair. |
| [21:40.36] | The fair provides the chance for the farming community to show its skills and fun products. |
| [21:48.14] | For example, visitors might see the world' s largest apple or the tallest sun flower plant. |
| [21:56.11] | Today, children and adults at the fair can play new computer games or attempt more traditional games of skill. |
| [22:06.28] | They can watch performances put on by famous entertainers. |
| [22:11.85] | Experts say such fairs are important because people need to remember |
| [22:17.46] | that they are connected to the earth and its products and they depend on animals for many things. |
| [22:25.36] | Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard: |
| [22:33.00] | Q33: What were the main goals of the Indiana state fair when it started? |
| [22:56.16] | Q34: How did some farmers give entrance to the fair in the early 1930' s? |
| [23:22.12] | Q35: Why are state fairs important events in the America? |
| . | |
| [00:00.00] | Part III Listing Comprehension |
| [00:00.87] | Directions |
| [00:57.76] | tīng lì kāi shǐ |
| [01:03.54] | Q11. |
| [01:06.62] | W: Did you watch the 7 o' clock program on Channel 2 yesterday evening? |
| [01:11.30] | I was about to watch it when someone came to see me. |
| [01:14.47] | M: Yeah. It reported some major breakthroughs in cancer research. |
| [01:19.73] | People over 40 would find the program worth watching. |
| [01:24.28] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation about the TV program? |
| [01:45.29] | Q12. |
| [01:47.02] | W: I won the first prize in the national writing contest and I got this camera as an award. |
| [01:53.54] | M: It' s a good camera. You can take it when you travel. I had no idea you were a marvelous writer. |
| [02:02.49] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [02:21.34] | Q13. |
| [02:23.89] | M: I wish I hadn' t thrown away that waiting list. |
| [02:27.88] | W: I thought you might regret it. |
| [02:30.42] | That' s why I picked it up from the waste paper basket and left it on the desk. |
| [02:36.49] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [02:54.56] | Q14. |
| [02:56.81] | W: Are you still teaching at the junior high school? |
| [02:59.72] | M: Not since June. My brother and I opened a restaurant as soon as he got out of the army. |
| [03:06.42] | Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation? |
| [03:25.27] | Q15. |
| [03:28.05] | M: Hi, Susan. Have you finished reading the book Prof. Johnson recommended? |
| [03:33.62] | W: Oh, I haven' t read it through the way I' d read a novel. |
| [03:37.69] | I just read a few chapters which interested me. |
| [03:42.34] | Q: What does the woman mean? |
| [04:00.17] | Q16. |
| [04:02.34] | M: Jane missed class again, didn' t she? I wonder why. |
| [04:06.57] | W: Well, I knew she had been absent all week, |
| [04:11.01] | so I called her this morning to see if she was sick. |
| [04:14.19] | It turned out that her husband was badly injured in a car accident. |
| [04:19.22] | Q: What does the woman say about Jane? |
| [04:38.34] | Q17. |
| [04:40.95] | W: I' m sure that Smith' s new house is somewhere on this street, |
| [04:44.98] | but I don' t know exactly where it is. |
| [04:48.03] | M: But I' m told it' s two blocks from their old home. |
| [04:51.59] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [05:11.21] | Q18. |
| [05:14.66] | W: I' ve been waiting here almost half an hour. How come it took it so long? |
| [05:20.23] | M: Sorry, honey. I had to drive two blocks before I spotted a place to park the car. |
| [05:26.66] | Q: What do we learn from the conversation? |
| [05:47.00] | |
| [05:50.70] | Conversation 1: |
| [05:53.91] | Hello, I have a reservation for tonight. |
| [05:56.67] | Your name, please? |
| [05:58.12] | Nelson, Charles Nelson. |
| [06:00.14] | Ok, Mr. Nelson, that' s a room for 5 and |
| [06:04.42] | Excuse me? You mean a room for 5 pounds? I didn' t know the special was so good |
| [06:10.36] | No, no, no, according to our records, a room for 5 guests was booked under your name. |
| [06:16.74] | No, no, hold on. You must have two guests under the name. |
| [06:21.56] | OK, let me check this again. Oh, here we are. |
| [06:26.50] | Yes? |
| [06:27.24] | Charles Nelson, a room for one for the nineteen |
| [06:31.69] | Wait, wait, it was for tonight, not tomorrow night. |
| [06:36.05] | Ehm, hmm, I don' t think we have any rooms for tonight. |
| [06:41.61] | There is a conference going on in town and, er, let' s see, yeah, no rooms. |
| [06:50.07] | Oh, come on, you must have something, anything! |
| [06:54.08] | Well, let, let me check my computer here. Ah! |
| [07:00.34] | What? |
| [07:01.33] | There has been a cancelation for this evening. A honeymoon suite is now available. |
| [07:07.00] | Great, I' ll take it. |
| [07:08.77] | But I' ll have to charge you a hundred and fifty pounds for the night. |
| [07:13.22] | What? I should get a discount for the inconvenience! |
| [07:17.81] | Well, the best I can give you is a 10 discount, plus a ticket for a free continental breakfast. |
| [07:26.52] | Hey, isn' t the breakfast free anyway? |
| [07:29.73] | Well, only on weekends. |
| [07:31.41] | I want to talk to the manager. |
| [07:33.65] | Wait, wait, wait, Mr. Nelson, I think I can give you an additional 15 discount! |
| [07:41.51] | Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. |
| [07:49.91] | Q19. What is the man' s problem? |
| [08:10.13] | Q20. Why did the hotel clerk say they didn' t have any rooms for that night? |
| [08:33.56] | Q21. What did the clerk say about the breakfast in the hotel? |
| [08:56.31] | Q22. What did the man imply he would do at the end of the conversation? |
| [09:21.03] | Conversation 2: |
| [09:23.63] | Sarah, you work in the admission' s office, don' t you? |
| [09:28.39] | Yes, I' m, I' ve been here 10 years as an assistance director. |
| [09:35.21] | Really? What does that involve? |
| [09:38.31] | Well, I' m in charge of all the admissions of post graduate students in the university. |
| [09:44.32] | Only post graduates? |
| [09:46.08] | Yes, post graduates only. I have nothing at all to do with undergraduates. |
| [09:51.90] | Do you find that you get a particular... sort of different national groups? |
| [09:58.18] | I mean you get larger numbers from Latin America or... |
| [10:02.84] | Yes, well, of all the students enrolled last year, nearly half were from overseas. |
| [10:09.54] | They were from the Afican countries, the far east, the middle east and Latin America. |
| [10:15.42] | Ehm, but have you been doing just that for the last 10 years or have you done other things? |
| [10:22.33] | Well, I' ve been doing the same job, ehm, before that I was a secretary of the medical school at Birmingham, |
| [10:31.52] | and further back I worked in the local government. |
| [10:34.63] | Oh, I see. |
| [10:36.40] | So I' ve done different types of things. |
| [10:38.82] | Yes, indeed. How do you imagine your job might develop in the future? |
| [10:44.72] | Can you imagine shifting into a different kind of responsibility or doing something...? |
| [10:50.51] | Oh, yeah, from October 1st I' ll be doing an entirely different job. |
| [10:55.63] | There is going to be more committee work. |
| [10:58.12] | I mean, more policy work, and less dealing with students unfortunately. |
| [11:03.90] | I' ll miss my contact with students. |
| [11:09.33] | Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. |
| [11:16.30] | Q23. What is the woman' s present position? |
| [11:37.75] | Q24. What do we learn about the post graduates enrolled last year in the woman' s university? |
| [12:00.53] | Q25. What will the woman' s new job be like? |
| [12:22.37] | Directions |
| [12:58.77] | Passage 1 |
| [13:00.99] | My mother was born in a small town in northern Italy. |
| [13:05.33] | She was three when her parents immigrated to America in 1926. |
| [13:11.00] | They lived in Chicago, where my grandfather worked making icecream. |
| [13:16.48] | Mama thrived in the urban environment. |
| [13:20.57] | At 16, she graduated first in her high school class, |
| [13:25.11] | went on to secretarial school and finally worked as an executive secretary for a rare wood company. |
| [13:32.57] | She was beautiful too. |
| [13:34.89] | When a local photographer used her pictures in his monthly window display, she felt pleased. |
| [13:41.75] | Her favorite portrait showed her sitting by Lake Michigan, |
| [13:45.43] | her hair windblown, her gaze reaching towards the horizon. |
| [13:50.85] | My parents were married in 1944. Dad was a quiet and intelligent man. |
| [13:57.97] | He was 17 when he left Italy. |
| [14:01.27] | Soon after, a hitandrun accident left him with a permanent limp. |
| [14:06.30] | Dad worked hard selling candy to Chicago office workers on their break. |
| [14:11.69] | He had little formal schooling. His English was selftaught. |
| [14:16.77] | Yet he eventually built a small successful wholesale candy business. |
| [14:22.07] | Dad was generous and handsome. Mama was devoted to him. |
| [14:27.65] | After she married, my mother quit her job and gave herself to her family. |
| [14:33.95] | In 1950, with three small children, Dad moved the family to a farm 40 miles from Chicago. |
| [14:42.02] | He worked the land and commuted to the city to run his business. |
| [14:46.43] | Mama said goodbye to her parents and friends and traded her busy city neighborhood for a more isolated life. |
| [14:55.37] | But she never complained. |
| [14:58.92] | Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard: |
| [15:05.21] | Q26: What does the speaker tell us about his mother' s early childhood? |
| [15:31.03] | Q27: What do we learn about the speaker' s father? |
| [15:53.28] | Q28: What does the speaker say about his mother? |
| [16:14.50] | Passage 2 |
| [16:16.23] | During a 1995 roof collapse, a fire fighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged. |
| [16:25.48] | For 10 years he was unable to speak. |
| [16:28.79] | Then one Saturday morning, he did something that shocked his family and doctors he started speaking. |
| [16:38.63] | " I want to talk to my wife," Donald Herbert said out of the blue. |
| [16:44.62] | Staff members of the nursing home where he has lived for more than 7 years rose to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. |
| [16:53.23] | " It was the first of many conversations the 44yearold patient had with his family and friends during the 14 hour stretch." |
| [17:03.00] | Herbert' s uncle Simon Manka said. |
| [17:06.03] | " How long have I been away?" Herbert asked. |
| [17:09.81] | " We told him almost 10 years." The uncle said. |
| [17:14.16] | He thought it was only three months. |
| [17:17.03] | Herbert was fighting a house fire Dec. 29, 1995, when the roof collapsed burying him underneath. |
| [17:27.11] | After going without air for several minutes, |
| [17:30.60] | Herbert was unconscious for two and a half months and has undergone therapy ever since. |
| [17:38.19] | News accounts in the days and years after his injury, |
| [17:42.25] | described Herbert as blind and with little, if any, memory. |
| [17:48.00] | A video shows him receiving physical therapy, |
| [17:52.00] | but apparently unable to communicate and with little awareness of his surroundings. |
| [17:57.51] | Manka declined to discuss his nephew' s current condition or whether the apparent progress was continuing. |
| [18:05.22] | " The family was seeking privacy while doctors evaluated Herbert," he said. |
| [18:11.22] | As word of Herbert' s progress spread, visitors streamed into the nursing home. |
| [18:17.71] | " He is resting comfortably," the uncle told them. |
| [18:22.46] | Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [18:29.37] | Q29: What happened to Herbert 10 years ago? |
| [18:52.18] | Q30: What surprised Donald Herbert' s family and doctors one Saturday? |
| [19:15.65] | Q31: How long did Herbert remain unconscious? |
| [19:39.14] | Q32: How did Herbert' s family react to the public attention? |
| [20:01.15] | Passage 3 |
| [20:03.76] | Almost all states in America have a state fair. They last for one, two or three weeks. |
| [20:13.39] | The Indiana state fair is one of the largest and oldest state fairs in the United States. |
| [20:21.17] | It is held every summer. It started in 1852. |
| [20:27.34] | Its goals were to educate, share ideas and present Indiana' s best products. |
| [20:35.30] | The cost of a single ticket to enter the fair was 20 cents. |
| [20:40.81] | During the early 1930' s, officials of the fair ruled that people could attend by paying something other than money. |
| [20:51.56] | For example, farmers brought a bag of grain in exchange for a ticket. |
| [20:57.49] | With the passage of time, the fair has grown and changed a lot. |
| [21:03.16] | But it is still one of the Indiana' s celebrated events. |
| [21:07.99] | People from all over Indiana and from many other states attend the fair. |
| [21:13.90] | They can do many things at the fair. |
| [21:16.89] | They can watch the judging of the priced cows, pigs and other animals. |
| [21:23.60] | They can see sheep getting their wool cut and they can learn how that wool is made into clothing. |
| [21:31.04] | They can watch cows giving birth. |
| [21:34.23] | In fact, people can learn about animals they would never see except other fair. |
| [21:40.36] | The fair provides the chance for the farming community to show its skills and fun products. |
| [21:48.14] | For example, visitors might see the world' s largest apple or the tallest sun flower plant. |
| [21:56.11] | Today, children and adults at the fair can play new computer games or attempt more traditional games of skill. |
| [22:06.28] | They can watch performances put on by famous entertainers. |
| [22:11.85] | Experts say such fairs are important because people need to remember |
| [22:17.46] | that they are connected to the earth and its products and they depend on animals for many things. |
| [22:25.36] | Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard: |
| [22:33.00] | Q33: What were the main goals of the Indiana state fair when it started? |
| [22:56.16] | Q34: How did some farmers give entrance to the fair in the early 1930' s? |
| [23:22.12] | Q35: Why are state fairs important events in the America? |
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