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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?
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[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?