2013-6听力原文
沈阳铁路局招聘-留学的利弊
Part III Listening Comprehension
Section A 短对话
Directions: In this
section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2
long conversations. At the
end of each
conversation, one or more questions will be asked
about what was said. Both the
conversation and
the questions 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
Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through
the
centre.
11.
W: What's wrong with your
phone, Gary? I tried to call you all night
yesterday.
M: I'm sorry. No one's able to get
through yesterday. My telephone was disconnected
by the phone
company.
Q: What does the
woman ask the man about?
12.
W: I
finally found a really nice apartment that's
within my price range.
M: Congratulations!
Affordable housing is rare in this city. I've been
looking for a suitable place
since I got here
six months ago.
Q: What does the man mean?
13.
M: I got this in my mailbox
today, but I don't know what it is. Do you have
any idea?
W: Oh, that's your number for the
new photocopier. It acquires an access code.
Everyone got one.
Q: What do we learn from the
conversation?
14.
W: Jane told me
that you'll be leaving at soon. Is it true?
M:
Yeah, my wife's maternity leave is close to an
end. And since she wants to go back to work,
I've decided to take a year off to raise the
baby.
Q: What does the man mean?
15
M: We'll never find a parking space here. What
about dropping you at thesouth gate and I'll find
parking somewhere else.
W: Well, OK. It
looks like everyone in town came to the mall
today.
Q: What does the woman mean?
16
W: When will the computers be back
online?
M: Probably not until tomorrow. The
problem is more complicated than I thought.
Q:
What does the man mean?
17
M:
Did you catch Professor Smith on TV last night?
W: I almost missed it, but my mother just
happened to be watching at home and gave me a
call.
Q: What does the woman imply?
18
M: May I get this prescription
refilled?
W: I'm sorry, sir, but we can't give
you a refill on that. You'll have to get a new
prescription.
Q: What can we infer from the
conversation?
Conversation One
W: Well, it’s the South Theater Company. They
want to know if we’d be interested in sponsoring
a tour they want to make to East Asia.
M:
East Asia? uhh… and how much are they hoping to
get from us?
W: Well, the letter mentions
20,000 pounds, but I don’t know if they might
settle for us.
M: Do they say what they would
cover? Have they anything specific in mind?
W:
No, I think they are just asking all the firms in
tongue for as much money as they think they’ll
give.
M: And we are worth 20, 000 pounds,
right?
W: It seems so.
M: Very flattering.
But I am not awfully happy with the idea. What we
get out of it?
W: Oh, good publicity I
suppose. So what I suggest is not that we just
give them a sum of money,
but that we offer to
pay for something specific like travel or
something, and that in return, we ask
for our
name to be printed prominently in the program, and
that they give us free advertising space
in
it.
M: But the travel bill would be enormous,
and we could never manage that.
W: I know. But
why don’t we offer to pay for the printing of the
programs ourselves on condition
that on the
front cover there's something like This program is
presented with the compliments of
Norland
Electronics, and free advertising of course.
M: Good idea. Well, let’s get back to them and
ask what the program they want will cost. Then we
can see if we are interested or not.
Questions 19-21 are based on the conversation
you have just heard.
19. What do we learn
about the South Theater Company?
20. What
benefit does the woman say their firm can get by
sponsoring the Theater Company?
21. What does
the woman suggest they do instead of paying the
South Theater Company’s travel
expenses?
Conversation Two
W: Rock stars now
face a new hazard --- voice abuse. After last
week's announcement that Phil
Collins
might give up touring because live concerts are
ruining his voice, doctors are counseling
stars about the dos and don'ts of voice care.
Here in the studio today, we have Mr. Paul
Phillips, an
expert from the High Field
Hospital. Paul, what advice would you give to
singers facing voice
problems?
M: If pop
singers have got voice problems, they really need
to be more selective about where they
work.
They shouldn't work in smoky atmospheres. They
also need to think about resting their
voices
after a show. Something else they need to be
careful about is medicines. Aspirin, for
example, singers should avoid aspirin. It
thins the blood. And if a singer coughs, this can
result in
the bruising of the vocal cords.
W: And is it true that some singers use drugs
before concerts to boost their voices when they
have
voice problems?
M: Yes, this does
happen on occasion. They are easily-available on
the continent and they are
useful if a singer
has problems with his vocal cords and has to sing
that night. But if they are taken
regularly,
they cause a thinning of the voice muscle. Most
pop singers suffer from three things:
lack of
training, overuse and abuse of the voice,
especially when they are young. They have
difficult lives. When they go on tour, they do
a vast number of concerts, singing in smoky
places.
W: So, what would you advise the
singers to do?
M: Warm you voice up before a
show and warm it down after.
Questions
22-25 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
22. What does last week's
announcement say about rock star, Phil Collins?
23. What does Paul Philips say about aspirin?
24. What does Paul Philips say about young pop
singers?
25. What are the speakers mainly
talking about?
Passage 1
Would you
trust a robot to park your car? The question will
confront New Yorkers in February as
the city's
first robotic parking opens in Chinatown.
The technology has been successfully applied
overseas, but the only other public robotic garage
in
the United States has been troublesome,
dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of
technical
problems.
Nonetheless, the
developers of the Chinatown garage are confident
with the technology and are
counting on it to
squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-building basement
that would otherwise fit only
24, accomplished
by removing a maneuver space normally required.
A human-shaped robot won't be stepping
into your car to drive it. Rather, the garage
itself does the
parking. The driver stops the
car on a flat platform and gets out. The platform
is lowered into the
garage, and it is then
transported to a vacant parking space by a
computer-controlled device
similar to an
elevator that also runs sideways.
There
is no human supervision, but an attendant will be
on hand to accept cash and explain the
system
to newly users. Parking rates will be attracted
about $$400 monthly or $$25 per day,
according to Ari Milstein, the director
of planning for Automation Parking Systems, which
is the
U.S. subsidiary of a German company.
This company has built automated garages in
several
countries overseas and in the United
States for residents of a Washington, D.C.
apartment
building.
Questions 26 to
29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What do we learn about the robot
parking in the U.S. so far?
27. What advantage
does robotic parking have according to the
developers?
28. What does the attendant do in
the automated garage?
29. What does the
company say about the parking rate?
Passage 2
A recent study shows that
meat consumption is one of the main ways that
human can damage the
environment, second only
to the use of motor vehicles. So how can eating
meat have a negative
effect on the
environment? For a start, all animals, such as
cows, pigs and sheep, always gas limed
methane, which is the second most common green
house gas after carbon dioxide. Many
environmental experts now believe that methane
is more responsible for global warming than
carbon dioxide. It is estimated that 25% of
all methane that released into the atmosphere
coming
from farm animals. Another way in which
meat production affects the environment is through
the
use of water and land. 2,500 gallons of
water are needed to produce one pound of beef.
While 20
gallons of water are need to produce
one pound of wheat. One acre of farmland use to
for raising
cows can produce 250 pounds of
beef. One acre of farmland use to for crop
production can
produce 1,500 pounds of
tomatoes. Many people now say the benefits of
switching to vegetarian
diet which excludes
meat and fish. Not just for health reasons, but
also because it plays a vital role
in
protecting the environment. However, some
nutritionists advise against switching to a
totally
strict vegetarian diet. They believe
such a diet which includes no products from animal
sources
can be deficient in many of the
necessary vitamins and minerals our bodies need.
Today many
people have come to realize that
help the environment and for the human race to
survive, more of
us will need to become
vegetarian.
Questions 30 to 32 are based
on the passage you've just heard.
30.
What does the recent study show?
31. What do
some nutritionists say about the strict vegetarian
diet?
32. What does the speaker think more
people need to do?
Passage 3
Alcoholism is a serious disease. Nearly nine
million Americans alone suffer from the illness.
Many scientists disagree about what the
differences are between the alcohol addict and
social
drinker. The difference occurs when
someone needs to drink. And this need gets in the
way of his
health or behavior. Alcohol causes
a loss of judgment and alertness. After a long
period,
alcoholism can deteriorate the
liver, the brain and other parts of the body. The
illness is dangerous,
because it is involved
in half of all automobile accidents. Another
problem is that the victim often
denies being
an alcohol addict and won’t get help. Solutions do
exist. Many hospitals and centers
help
patients cope. Without the assistance, the victim
can destroy his life. He would detach himself
from the routines of life. He may lose his
employment, home or loved ones.
All the
causes of the sickness are not discovered yet.
There is no standard for a person with
alcoholism. Victims range in age, race, sex
and background. Some groups of people are more
vulnerable to the illness. People from broken
homes and North American Indians are two
examples. People from broken homes often lack
stable lives. Indians likewise had the traditional
life taken from them by white settlers who
often encourage them to consume alcohol to prevent
them from fighting back. The problem has now
been passed on. Alcoholism is clearly present in
society today. People have started to get help
and information. With proper assistance, victims
can
put their lives together one day.
Question 33 to 35 are based on the passage you
have just heard.
Q33. What is the problem
of the victims about alcoholism according to the
speaker?
Q34. Why did white settlers introduce
alcohol to Indians?
Q35. What does the speaker
seem to believe about those affected by
alcoholism?
复合式听写
Self-image is the
picture you have of yourself, the sort of person
you believe you are. Included in
your self-
image are the categories in which you place
yourself, the roles you play and other
similar
descriptors you use to identify yourself. If you
tell an acquaintance you are a grandfather
who
recently lost his wife and who does volunteer work
on weekends, several elements of your
self-
image are bought to light — the roles of
grandparent, widower and conscientious citizen.
But self-image is more than how you
picture yourself; it also involves how others see
you. Three
types of feedback from others are
indicative of how they see us: conformation,
rejection, and
disconfirmation. Conformation
occurs when others treat you in a manner
consistent with who you
believe you believe
you have leadership abilities and your boss put
you in charge of a new
work team. On the other
hand, rejection occurs when others treat you in a
manner that is
inconsistent with yourself
definition. Pierre Salinger was appointed senator
from California but
subsequently lost his
first election. He thought he was a good public
official, but the voters
obviously thought
otherwise— Their vote was inconsistent with his
self-concept. The third type
of feedback is
disconfirmation, which occurs when others fail to
respond to your notion of self by
responding
neutrally. A student writes what he thinks is an
excellent composition, but the teacher
writes
no encouraging remarks. Rather than relying on how
others classify you, consider how you
identify
yourself. The way in which you identify yourself
is the best refection of yourself-image.
Self-image is the picture you have of
yourself, the sort of person you believe you are.
_______ in
your self-image are the _______ in
which you place yourself, the roles you play and
other
_______ descriptors you use to identify
yourself. If you tell an _______ you are a
grandfather who
_______ lost his wife
and who does _______ work on weekends, several
elements of your
self-image are bought to
light — the roles of grandparent, widower and
conscientious _______.
But self-image is more
than how you picture yourself; it also involves
how others see you. Three
types of feedback
from others are _______ of how they see us:
conformation, rejection, and
disconfirmation.
Conformation occurs when others treat you in a
manner consistent with who you
believe you
are. (44)_________________________________________
___________________.
On the other hand,
rejection occurs when others treat you in a manner
that is inconsistent with
yourself definition.
Pierre Salinger was appointed senator from
California but subsequently lost
his first
election. (45)____________________________________
_________________ — Their
vote was
inconsistent with his self-concept. The third type
of feedback is disconfirmation, which
occurs
when others fail to respond to your notion of self
by responding neutrally.
(46)_________________
__________________________________________________
________.
Rather than relying on how others
classify you, consider how you identify yourself.
The way in
which you identify yourself is the
best refection of yourself-image.
【参考答案】
36. Included
37. categories
38.
similar
39. acquaintance
40. recently
41. volunteer
42. citizen
43.
indicative
44. You believe you have leadership
abilities and your boss put you in charge of a new
work team
45. He thought he was a good public
official, but the voters obviously thought
otherwise
46. A student writes what he thinks
is an excellent composition, but the teacher
writes no
encouraging remarks