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Test 4

Section A

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.

Now let's begin with the 8 short conversations.

1. M: I hope you don't mind but I want very much to watch the game this coming Sunday.

W: I certainly do mind, but there's not very much I can do about it, is there?

Q: What was the woman objecting to?

2. W: I'm moving to a new place tomorrow.

Could you possibly give me a hand?

M: Sure. Why not ask around the department

and see if some of the other students will be free, too?

Q: What does the man suggest?

3. W： Is this line for purchasing tickets?

M: Yes, but all they have left are tickets for the late performance.

Q: What can we learn from the conversation?

4. W: Could you change a fifty-dollar bill?

M: Fifty? That would take all the change I've got.

Q: What does the man mean?

5. M: I really had a busy week. I want to get some rest.

I always enjoy a long nap on Saturday afternoon.

W: I wish you could, but Mr. Smith has just parked his car at the door, and he is coming up now.

Q: What can we learn from this conversation?

6. W: I am a stranger here. Where can I have copies made of my application?

M: Isn't there a photocopy machine inside the post office that you were just in?

Q: What does the man imply?

7. W: What a memory I have! I did write down the number on a sheet of paper

when I answered the phone this morning.

But now the paper has disappeared without any trace.

M: Don't worry. I'll be seeing Mr. Brown in an hour.

Q: What do we learn from this conversation?

8. W: Jim, are you planning to buy that nice blue Ford car you looked at last week?

M: I'm afraid that's impossible because I haven't been able to come up with the cash,

and someone else has already made a down payment on it.

Q: What do we know about Jim?

Now you'll hear two long conversations.

Conversation One

W: Dear audience, this evening we'll talk with a scholar

who has been doing research into Mark Twain's works for 12 years.

Welcome, Mr. Waton.

M: Hi, everyone! Good evening!

W: What would you like to talk about the great writer? Maybe some details that we don't quite know.

M: Ok, Mark Twain, who traveled quite a lot, often because circumstances,

usually financial circumstances forced him to. He was born in Florida Missouri in 1835,

and moved to Hannibal, Missouri with his family when he was about four years old.

Most people think he was born in Hannibal, but that isn't true.

W: Yes, I didn't know it if you don't tell us this evening.

M: Well, after his father died when he was about twelve,

Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left so he could earn more money.

He worked for a while as a typesetter on various newspapers,

and then got a job as a river pilot on the Mississippi.

W: Did Twain like that job?

M: He loved this job, and many of his books show it.

The river job didn't last however, because of the outbreak of the Civil War.

To avoid joining the army, he went west—California.

Twain worked as a gold digger without much luck.

W: That's interesting！

M: But he did succeed as a writer, once that happened,

Twain traveled around the country giving lectures and earning enough money to go to Europe.

Twain didn't travel much the last ten years of his life, and he didn't publish much either.

Somehow his travel inspired his writings. Like many other popular writers,

Twain derived much of the materials for his writing from the wealth and diversity of his own experience.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9. Which aspect of Mark Twain's life does the speaker focus on?

10. What job did Twain especially love?

11. Why did Twain go west?

12. What connection does the lecture suggest between Twain's travels and his writings?

Conversation Two

W: Good afternoon, Dr. Anderson's office.

M: Hello, my name is John Keat, and I was hoping I could come in today to see the doctor.

W: Are you a patient of Doctor Anderson?

M: Well, no. I'm at a convention from Mexico and the manager of the hotel

where I'm staying suggested that I call you.

W: Well, I see. What seems to be the problem?

M: Well, I got this ringing in my ears.

It's so terrible that I can hardly hear people talking now.

W: Are you in any pain or is there any fluid?

M: No discharge, just a slight earache.

W: Does the pain happen all the time, or once in a while.

M: It has been aching for two days and it's never stopped.

I thought it might be due to my flying in the air, and after some rest it'll be all gone.

But who knows it's getting worse. I need to see the doctor.

W: The doctor will be busy at the hospital until this evening.

The earliest you could see him would be tomorrow morning at ten.

M: The time is good for me. I'll come in then if that's okay.

W: That will be fine; in the meantime you should try to take it easy.

Don't press your ear and don't have water in when you take a shower.

M: Do I have to bring something when I'm seeing the doctor,

since I have never seen a doctor in Canada.

W: For foreign visitors, I guess you may bring your passport for the hospital registration.

M: Yes, I will. Thank you for your help.

W: Thanks for calling. See you.

Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

13. Who is the man speaking to?

14. What is one of the man's symptoms?

15. What advice does the woman give the man?

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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman.

A man goes shopping because he needs something.

His purpose is settled and decided in advance.

He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it;

the price is a secondary consideration.

All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want.

If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it,

and the business of trying it on proceeds at once.

All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes,

with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.

How does a woman go about buying clothes?

In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way.

Her shopping is not often based on need.

She has never fully made up her mind what she wants,

and she may begin her shopping with the assumption that

"I just want to have a look around."

She will try on many dresses.

She is determined to find something that everyone thinks suits her.

Most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes.

They are always looking for the unexpected bargains.

Faced with a roomful of dresses,

a woman may spend hours choosing the dresses she wants to try on.

It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one.

Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. What is the topic discussed in the passage?

17. What does a man usually do when he buys clothes?

18. Which of the following most particularly interests women?

19. How do women feel about shopping?

Passage Two

America is a nation of sports fans. They learn sports as part of their education.

They learn two or more ball games, such as football or basketball.

At high school, they choose groups of boys or girls to make teams.

They choose those who are best at that sport.

These teams compete against teams from other schools.

In many schools students also learn wrestling,

running, tennis, golf and swimming.

They have teams for some of these sports, too.

The games between schools are often very exciting.

Other students, the ones not on the team, love to watch them.

They let everyone know this by shouting and cheering when their team plays well.

Such sports play a very important role in building the students' team spirit,

which could be very useful in their future career.

There is a special club of girls and boys, mostly girls,

who jump up and down and shout for their football team.

They call themselves cheerleaders, because they lead everyone in shouts and cheers.

They wear clothes of a special color—the color of their school's team.

The football players wear that color, too.

Each school has a team color and a team name.

Cheerleaders call out the team name in their cheers.

They practice many hours to learn the special jumping and cheering moves.

Cheerleading is almost a sport itself,

and it is very enjoyable to both the players and the audience,

who really need a moment to relax.

Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

20. Why is America a nation of sports fans?

21. What does the speaker think of the games between schools?

22. What can be learned about cheerleaders?

Passage Three

Pat O'Burke was a poor Irishman with a large family to support, and one morning,

waking up very early from cold and hunger,

he decided to go shooting in a wood near his cottage.

The wood belonged to Lord Northwood, a rich gentleman,

and Pat had no right to go there,

but in it there were swarms of rabbits and flocks of birds that were good to eat,

and Pat determined to take the risk. Suddenly he saw the owner,

with a group of friends, coming towards him in the wood.

There was a look of anger on Lord Northwood's face as he caught sight of the gun in Pat's hands.

Pat's heart sank with fear, but he saw there was no hope of escape,

so he walked boldly up to the company and said to Lord Northwood,

"Good morning, sir; and what has brought you out so early this morning?"

Lord Northwood, rather surprised,

said he and his friends were taking a little exercise to get an appetite for their breakfast.

Then, looking at Pat with suspicion, he said,

"But why are you out so early in the morning?" "Well, sir," said Pat,

"I just came out to see if I could get a breakfast for my appetite."

The whole crowd burst into laughter at Pat's ready wit,

and with a smile Lord Northwood walked on with the group of friends, all amused,

leaving Pat to try his luck with the rabbits.

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

23. What is Pat's purpose to go to a wood one morning?

24. Why was Lord Northwood surprised?

25. What did Lord Northwood do in the end?

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times.

When the passage is read for the first time,

you should listen carefully for its general idea.

When the passage is read for the second time,

you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 26 to 33

with the exact words you have just heard.

For blanks numbered from 34 to 36 you are required to fill in the missing information.

For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard

or write down the main points in your own words.

Finally, when the passage is read for the third time,

you should check what you have written.

Now listen to the passage.

Last week, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced help for American farmers hurt by lack of rain.

The aid will include loans, indirect payments and other assistance for farmers

in the central western and southern United States.

However, the weather has endangered some areas,

but left others with enough rain. The Northeast,

for example, had sufficient rainfall during the same period.

Secretary Johanns spoke with reporters during an interview last Thursday to South Dakota.

He said sixty-four percent of beef cows in America are in drought areas.

The dry conditions have left little or no grass in many areas where cattle are bred.

Farmers who feed their cattle grass for part of the year

have had to purchase food or sell some or all of their animals.

The Department of Agriculture will provide fifty million dollars in aid for farmers.

That money will go to affected states

in the form of awards, or grants, and do not have to be repaid.

So far the farmers in dry states have been offered awards

and grants adding up to seven hundred million dollars.

According to the report, the payment will sustain

until it covers half the loss of farmers in the dry areas.

This aid is part of the Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program,

which pays farmers an amount based on a set price for their crop and the number of hectares they have.

The Program is designed to lift farm income

when prices drop so as to make sure that farmers' interests will not be impaired.

This year, Secretary Johanns has moved up payments

so that farmers can receive them now instead of later in the year.

Now the passage will be read again.

Last week, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced help for American farmers hurt by lack of rain.

The aid will include loans, indirect payments and other assistance for farmers

in the central western and southern United States.

However, the weather has endangered some areas,

but left others with enough rain. The Northeast,

for example, had sufficient rainfall during the same period.

Secretary Johanns spoke with reporters during an interview last Thursday to South Dakota.

He said sixty-four percent of beef cows in America are in drought areas.

The dry conditions have left little or no grass in many areas where cattle are bred.

Farmers who feed their cattle grass for part of the year

have had to purchase food or sell some or all of their animals.

The Department of Agriculture will provide fifty million dollars in aid for farmers.

That money will go to affected states

in the form of awards, or grants, and do not have to be repaid.

So far the farmers in dry states have been offered awards

and grants adding up to seven hundred million dollars.

According to the report, the payment will sustain

until it covers half the loss of farmers in the dry areas.

This aid is part of the Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program,

which pays farmers an amount based on a set price for their crop and the number of hectares they have.

The Program is designed to lift farm income

when prices drop so as to make sure that farmers' interests will not be impaired.

This year, Secretary Johanns has moved up payments

so that farmers can receive them now instead of later in the year.

Now the passage will be read for the third time.

Last week, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced help for American farmers hurt by lack of rain.

The aid will include loans, indirect payments and other assistance for farmers

in the central western and southern United States.

However, the weather has endangered some areas,

but left others with enough rain. The Northeast,

for example, had sufficient rainfall during the same period.

Secretary Johanns spoke with reporters during an interview last Thursday to South Dakota.

He said sixty-four percent of beef cows in America are in drought areas.

The dry conditions have left little or no grass in many areas where cattle are bred.

Farmers who feed their cattle grass for part of the year

have had to purchase food or sell some or all of their animals.

The Department of Agriculture will provide fifty million dollars in aid for farmers.

That money will go to affected states

in the form of awards, or grants, and do not have to be repaid.

So far the farmers in dry states have been offered awards

and grants adding up to seven hundred million dollars.

According to the report, the payment will sustain

until it covers half the loss of farmers in the dry areas.

This aid is part of the Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program,

which pays farmers an amount based on a set price for their crop and the number of hectares they have.

The Program is designed to lift farm income

when prices drop so as to make sure that farmers' interests will not be impaired.

This year, Secretary Johanns has moved up payments

so that farmers can receive them now instead of later in the year.

This is the end of listening comprehension.

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[00:00.54]Test 4
[00:04.48]Section A
[00:05.68]Directions: In this section,
[00:08.34]you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.
[00:13.26]At the end of each conversation,
[00:15.22]one or more questions will be asked about what was said.
[00:19.28]Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.
[00:24.53]After each question there will be a pause.
[00:27.70]During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D),
[00:34.59]and decide which is the best answer.
[00:37.54]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
[00:41.75]with a single line through the centre.
[00:43.94]Now let's begin with the 8 short conversations.
[00:48.97]1. M: I hope you don't mind but I want very much to watch the game this coming Sunday.
[00:55.64]W: I certainly do mind, but there's not very much I can do about it, is there?
[01:01.00]Q: What was the woman objecting to?
[01:19.10]2. W: I'm moving to a new place tomorrow.
[01:22.58]Could you possibly give me a hand?
[01:24.66]M: Sure. Why not ask around the department
[01:27.39]and see if some of the other students will be free, too?
[01:30.46]Q: What does the man suggest?
[01:47.67]3. W： Is this line for purchasing tickets?
[01:52.05]M: Yes, but all they have left are tickets for the late performance.
[01:56.31]Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
[02:14.17]4. W: Could you change a fifty-dollar bill?
[02:17.56]M: Fifty? That would take all the change I've got.
[02:20.95]Q: What does the man mean?
[02:39.10]5. M: I really had a busy week. I want to get some rest.
[02:43.15]I always enjoy a long nap on Saturday afternoon.
[02:46.44]W: I wish you could, but Mr. Smith has just parked his car at the door, and he is coming up now.
[02:52.56]Q: What can we learn from this conversation?
[03:11.11]6. W: I am a stranger here. Where can I have copies made of my application?
[03:17.75]M: Isn't there a photocopy machine inside the post office that you were just in?
[03:22.89]Q: What does the man imply?
[03:38.38]7. W: What a memory I have! I did write down the number on a sheet of paper
[03:45.71]when I answered the phone this morning.
[03:47.89]But now the paper has disappeared without any trace.
[03:51.37]M: Don't worry. I'll be seeing Mr. Brown in an hour.
[03:54.88]Q: What do we learn from this conversation?
[04:12.38]8. W: Jim, are you planning to buy that nice blue Ford car you looked at last week?
[04:18.85]M: I'm afraid that's impossible because I haven't been able to come up with the cash,
[04:23.77]and someone else has already made a down payment on it.
[04:27.48]Q: What do we know about Jim?
[04:45.33]Now you'll hear two long conversations.
[04:49.21]Conversation One
[04:50.63]W: Dear audience, this evening we'll talk with a scholar
[04:55.21]who has been doing research into Mark Twain's works for 12 years.
[04:59.80]Welcome, Mr. Waton.
[05:02.21]M: Hi, everyone! Good evening!
[05:04.07]W: What would you like to talk about the great writer? Maybe some details that we don't quite know.
[05:10.19]M: Ok, Mark Twain, who traveled quite a lot, often because circumstances,
[05:16.09]usually financial circumstances forced him to. He was born in Florida Missouri in 1835,
[05:22.98]and moved to Hannibal, Missouri with his family when he was about four years old.
[05:28.34]Most people think he was born in Hannibal, but that isn't true.
[05:32.28]W: Yes, I didn't know it if you don't tell us this evening.
[05:36.33]M: Well, after his father died when he was about twelve,
[05:39.94]Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left so he could earn more money.
[05:44.75]He worked for a while as a typesetter on various newspapers,
[05:48.25]and then got a job as a river pilot on the Mississippi.
[05:51.97]W: Did Twain like that job?
[05:54.15]M: He loved this job, and many of his books show it.
[05:57.66]The river job didn't last however, because of the outbreak of the Civil War.
[06:01.81]To avoid joining the army, he went west—California.
[06:06.15]Twain worked as a gold digger without much luck.
[06:09.32]W: That's interesting！
[06:10.74]M: But he did succeed as a writer, once that happened,
[06:14.35]Twain traveled around the country giving lectures and earning enough money to go to Europe.
[06:19.82]Twain didn't travel much the last ten years of his life, and he didn't publish much either.
[06:26.78]Somehow his travel inspired his writings. Like many other popular writers,
[06:31.70]Twain derived much of the materials for his writing from the wealth and diversity of his own experience.
[06:38.38]Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[06:44.07]9. Which aspect of Mark Twain's life does the speaker focus on?
[07:03.51]10. What job did Twain especially love?
[07:23.39]11. Why did Twain go west?
[07:42.98]12. What connection does the lecture suggest between Twain's travels and his writings?
[08:05.40]Conversation Two
[08:06.58]W: Good afternoon, Dr. Anderson's office.
[08:09.43]M: Hello, my name is John Keat, and I was hoping I could come in today to see the doctor.
[08:14.68]W: Are you a patient of Doctor Anderson?
[08:17.08]M: Well, no. I'm at a convention from Mexico and the manager of the hotel
[08:21.89]where I'm staying suggested that I call you.
[08:24.52]W: Well, I see. What seems to be the problem?
[08:27.70]M: Well, I got this ringing in my ears.
[08:30.43]It's so terrible that I can hardly hear people talking now.
[08:34.14]W: Are you in any pain or is there any fluid?
[08:37.10]M: No discharge, just a slight earache.
[08:39.94]W: Does the pain happen all the time, or once in a while.
[08:43.77]M: It has been aching for two days and it's never stopped.
[08:47.49]I thought it might be due to my flying in the air, and after some rest it'll be all gone.
[08:53.72]But who knows it's getting worse. I need to see the doctor.
[08:57.23]W: The doctor will be busy at the hospital until this evening.
[09:00.72]The earliest you could see him would be tomorrow morning at ten.
[09:04.77]M: The time is good for me. I'll come in then if that's okay.
[09:08.71]W: That will be fine; in the meantime you should try to take it easy.
[09:13.19]Don't press your ear and don't have water in when you take a shower.
[09:17.67]M: Do I have to bring something when I'm seeing the doctor,
[09:21.07]since I have never seen a doctor in Canada.
[09:23.48]W: For foreign visitors, I guess you may bring your passport for the hospital registration.
[09:29.05]M: Yes, I will. Thank you for your help.
[09:31.78]W: Thanks for calling. See you.
[09:33.97]Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[09:39.33]13. Who is the man speaking to?
[09:58.33]14. What is one of the man's symptoms?
[10:17.40]15. What advice does the woman give the man?

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escape	[is'keip]	想一想再看 v. 逃跑，逃脱，避开 n. 逃跑，逃脱，(逃
popular	['pɔpjulə]	想一想再看 adj. 流行的，大众的，通俗的，受欢迎的	联想记忆 X 单词popular 联想记忆： popul人民+ar…的→流行的
drought	[draut]	想一想再看 n. 干旱	联想记忆 X 单词drought 联想记忆：龙王不brought雨水，就会drought
purchase	['pə:tʃəs]	想一想再看 vt. 买，购买 n. 购买，购买的物品
affected	[ə'fektid]	想一想再看 adj. 受影响的，受感动的，受疾病侵袭的 adj. 做	联想记忆 X 单词affected 联想记忆：受到好的affect影响就充满爱affection，受到不好的影响affect就学会假装affected
unexpected	['ʌnik'spektid]	想一想再看 adj. 想不到的，意外的
assumption	[ə'sʌmpʃən]	想一想再看 n. 假定，设想，担任(职责等), 假装	联想记忆 X 单词assumption 联想记忆： as加强动作+sumpt拿，取+ion→假设，承担
inspired	[in'spaiəd]	想一想再看 adj. 有创见的，有灵感的	联想记忆 X 单词inspired 联想记忆： in向内，进入+spired有呼吸的→有生命的，有灵感的
diversity	[dai'və:siti]	想一想再看 n. 差异，多样性，分集	联想记忆 X 单词diversity 联想记忆： di分开，vers转－多样性
check	[tʃek]	想一想再看 n. 检查，支票，账单，制止，阻止物，检验标准，方格图案	联想记忆 X 单词check 联想记忆： check原是检查的意思，后来有这么一帮人喜欢突然阻止你，检查你的暂住证，所以就有了突然阻止的意思。