2021.12.听力录音材料.docx

虹口区2021学年度第一学期期终学生学习能力诊断测试
高三英语试卷
听力材料
I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. W: Joe, what are you doing on your computer? Don't you remember your promise?
M: This is not a game. It's only a crossword puzzle that helps increase my vocabulary.
Q: What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
2. M: You look worn out. Are you feeling under the weather?
W: Not at all. But I have been in the chemistry lab for five hours.
Q: What does the woman mean?
3. W: Lucy is going to get a little dog from one of her relatives.
M: Really? But I hear her apartment is about to place a ban on pet animals.
Q: What does the man imply?
4. W: I thought Paul might be able to help me figure out the computer program.
M: Paul is about the last person I'd ask if I were you.
Q: What does the man imply about Paul?
5. W: I honestly don't want to continue the gardening tomorrow.
M: Neither do I. But I think I should get it over within this weekend.
Q: What does the man mean?
6. W: I don't think we have enough information for our presentation, but we have to give it tomorrow. Theredoesn't seem to be much we can do about it.
M: Yeah, at this point we'll have to make do with what we've got.
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
7. W: How did you feel when you found out you had high blood pressure?
M: Shocked! The problem for me was that there were no symptoms. Tt seemed to have struck me suddenly.
Q: What does the man mean?
8. M: I need to find a dentist. You said you know Dr. Johnson well. Do you recommend him?
W: Well, I have seen him a few times, but what impressed me most were the magazines in his waiting room. Q: What does the woman imply?
9. M: I think I'll get one of those new T-shirts, you know, with the schooPs logo on both the front and back.
W: You'll regret it. They are expensive, and I've heard the printing fades easily when you wash them.
Q: What does the woman mean?
10. M: Cars had lined up car to car. And I've been held up on the express way for an hour.
W: Really? It must be a pain in the neck. But be patient, anyway. You can do nothing but wait.
Q: What do we learn about the man?
Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
Searching for secondhand goods is no longer regarded as a shameful thing. Nowadays, many people in Shanghai enjoy the fun of wandering about the city in their spare time to hunt for something valuable. Looking for used goods has become a fashion.
In the past, craftsmen were serious about making furniture. Since they were not keen on seeking wealth, they could settle down to make real artistic works. No wonder people nowadays love their products. Insiders estimate that there are at least 50 to 60 stores in Shanghai that sell used goods. Apart from furniture stores, business of stores that sell secondhand jewels booms as well.
Recently, bookstores that sell secondhand books have reappeared in Shanghai. Some books were made during the late Qing Dynasty while other books during the 1980s. People flood into these bookstores to look for books that are good yet not expensive.
Many Shanghainese, after spending big money for an expensive apartment house, like to decorate their new houses in an old style. These houses might appear modern from the outside, but once you walk in, you will find that it is full of old things with a strong atmosphere relating to the past.
(Now listen again, please.)Questions:
11. What is the passage mainly about?
12. What can be learned about the craftsmen in the past?
13. What might be a reason why people hunt for secondhand goods?
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
Researchers have found that students who tutor others work harder to understand the material, recall it more accurately and apply it more effectively. Student teachers score higher on tests than pupils who are learning only for their own sake. But how can children, still learning themselves, teach others? One answer is that they can tutor younger kids.
Now educators are experimenting with a new way to apply this model to academic subjects. The cutting-edge tool under development is the "teachable agent” 一 a computerized character who learns, tries, makes mistakes and asks questions just like a real-world pupil. Computer scientists have created an animated figure called Betty9s Brain, who has been “taught" about environmental science by hundreds of middle school students. Student teachers are motivated to help Betty master certain materials. While preparing to teach, they organize their knowledge and improve their own understanding. And as they explain the information to it, they identify problems in their own thinking.
Feedback from the teachable agents further enhances the tutors' learning. The agents' questions oblige student tutors to think and explain the materials in different ways, and watching the agent solve problems allows them to see their knowledge put into action.
Above all, it's the emotions one experiences in teaching that facilitate learning. Student tutors feel upset when their teachable agents fail, but happy when these virtual pupils succeed as they obtain pride and satisfaction from someone else's accomplishment.
(Now listen again, please.)Questions:
14. What is the passage mainly about?
15. What must student tutors do to teach their teachable agents?
16. What is the key factor that eases student tutors5 learning?
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
W: How do you feel about the future of the artificial intelligence? Personally, I feel quite optimistic about it.
M: Al? I'm not so optimistic actually. In fact, it's something we should be concerned about.
W: Well, it will help us humans understand ourselves better. And when we have a better understanding of ourselves, we can improve the world.
M: Well, one thing is for sure, technology is evolving faster than our ability to understand it. And in the future Al will make jobs kind of meaningless.
W: I think artificial intelligence will actually help create new kinds of jobs, which would require less of our time and allow us to focus on creative tasks.
M: I doubt that very much. Probably the last job that will remain will be writing Al software. And then eventually Al will just write its own software.
W: At that time we are going to have a lot of jobs, which nobody will want to do. So we will need artificial intelligence for the robots to take care of the old guys like us.
M: I don't know. There's a risk that human civilization could be replaced by a superior type of digital life. Al will be able to completely imitate a person in every way possible. In fact, some people think we're in an imitation right now.
W: That's impossible. Humans can't even make a mosquito. Computers only have chips. People have brains. And that's where the wisdom comes from.
M: Once it's fully developed, Al will become tired of trying to communicate with humans as we would be much slower thinkers in comparison.
W: Well, I'm not so sure. A computer is a computer and a computer is just a toy.
M: Computers can easily communicate incredibly fast. So the computer will just get impatient talking to humans, and it'll be barely getting any information out.
W: Well, I believe there's a bright future with AL I also think you watch too many science-fiction films.
(Now listen again, please.)Questions:
17. What can we learn about the speakers from the conversation?
18. What will new kinds of jobs be like according to the woman?
19. What is the risk the man predicts?
20. What is the man's concern about Al technology?
（Thafs the end of listening.听力部分到此结束，请同学们继续答题。）