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听力原文--听写原文--答案

Test 1
Questions l~-3
Marlene: Don, you wouldn't believe what I bought today.
Don: Let me guess. A fur coat.
Marlene: No, a set of dining room chairs. They're just gorgeous.
Don: Dining room chairs? Marlene, why? We have dining room chairs.
Marlene: I know, but these are special. They're solid oak and they're beautifully constructed. And they were on deep sale. The style is being discontinued and they were only half price. I saved 499 dollars.
Don: Saved! Sounds to me more like you spent 499 dollars. Anyway, what are we going to do with an extra set of dining room chairs? We can't fit more than six chairs around the table.
Marlene: Well, these aren't for everyday use, just for special occasions. We can keep them out in the garage.
Don: In the garage? That's impossible. There's absolutely no room left. I can barely squeeze the car in between all the furniture you've stored out there already.
Marlene: Well then they can go in the basement.
Don: No way! The basement, that tiny little basement, is my workshop. It is not going to become a furniture warehouse. How about you put them on the back porch?
Marlene: Don, you can't put good furniture outside.
Don: Why not, they'd be under a roof.
Marlene: But the rain blows in, and there's mist and frost and dust. No, that's out of the question. How would it be if we put them in our bedroom, along the far wall?
Don: I suppose so. There is space in there. It'll look like we hold meetings in our bedroom, but why not?
* They're just gorgeous. 它们的确非常漂亮。
* on deep sale 价格狂跌
* The style is being discontinued... 这种样式的椅子已经不再生产了。。
Questions 4 — 7
Jack: Hi, Peter, that was some storm last night, wasn't it?
Peter: Oh, hi, Jack. Yeah, it sure was. Did you lose power?
Jack: No, we were lucky. But right across the street all the houses were blacked out.
Peter: Our power went off at about 10 and it was still out this morning when I got up.
Jack: That's no fun, to be without power at breakfast time.
Peter: Well, we've got a wood stove we use for backup heat. So we fired that up and got hot water for washing and coffee. But we were all stumbling around with flashlights and candles.
Jack: Where I had trouble was driving in. There must have been a dozen big trees down on the parkway. Traffic was hardly able to weave around them.
Peter: Yeah, there were several lying across our little street as well. But amazingly the crews had already been out and cleared at least one lane.
Jack: And now it's a bcutiful fall morning. Not a cloud in the sky.
Peter: That's the way with those thunderstorms. Fierce but brief.
* Did you lose power? 你们停电了吗?
* ... a wood stove we use for backup heat. 一只烧木柴的备用取暖器
* Traffic was hardly able to weave around them. 车辆行人几乎都无法绕过去。.
* That's the way with those thunderstorms. Fierce but brief. 雷暴雨就是这样 ,来势凶猛也去得快
Question 8 ~ 1 0
Dianne:Hi, Karen, I hear you're working at the cafeteria now.
Karen: Yeah, I started last week. Three days a week, that's all I can handle with a full load of courses.
Dianne:How do you like it?
Karen: Better than McDonald's, that's for sure. Not so stressful, regular hours. And it's right here on campus. But the pay's no better. A little worse, actually, because we don't get any tips at all.
Dianne:Yeah, that's the great thing about cafeterias for the eaters, but it's not so good for the employees.
Karen: Plus the atmosphere is pretty dismal. Nobody ever says a nice word to you: they hardly even look at you. Especially in the morning. Most students in the morning look just awful. md they have a disposition to match. After two hours on the breakfast line, I'm ready to quit.
Diannejs that all you do, just dish out the food?
Karen: No, I clean up too, clear the tables.
Dianne:I thought everybody bussed their own dishes in the cafeteria.
Karen: Are you kidding? Well, you're supposed to, and actually about half the students are pretty good about it, but the rest make up for them. You wouldn't believe the mess they leave.
Dianne:But you do get free food, don't you?
Karen: Sure, all you want to eat. But that's the catch. After dishing it out all day I don't want to eat even one spoonful. I've already lost two pounds. I tell everybody the best part of this job is the guaranteed diet plan. I figure if I can stick it out all semester I'll be down to my ideal weight.
* ... that's all I can handle with a full load of courses. 课程满满的，我只能做到这样了。
* .. .plus the atmosphere is pretty dismal. 另外那儿的环境也令人不舒服。
* ... and they have a disposition to match. 而且他们动不动就发脾气。
* .. .just dish out the food? 只是上菜？
* ... I thought everybody bussed their own dishes….我以为吃完饭人人都会收拾自己的盘子…
* ... and actually about half the students are pretty good about it, but the rest make up for them.
确实有一半的学生还不错，收拾盘子，但其余的人就不会收拾盘子了。
* But that's the catch. 但那只是听起来很诱人的。
... the best part of this job is the guaranteed diet plan. 这份工作最值得的是保你减肥。
SECTION B
Questions 11~13
Women in Britain are without doubt better off today than they used to be. At the beginning of the nineteenth century women seemed to have had almost no rights at all. They could not vote, or even sign contracts. Their marriages were arranged by their parents, and once they were married they could not own property. Most of the time they were kept at home, and even when they were allowed to work, they were never given responsible jobs. It is strange to think that, as far as we know, most women were happy with this situation.
Today the position is quite different. Women can now vote and choose their own husbands. In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal share of property in the case of divorce, and in the same year the Equal Pay Act gave them the right to equal pay with men for work of equal value.
Yet despite these changes, there is no doubt that there are still great differences between men and women. Many employers—may be even the majority—seem to ignore the Equal Pay Act, and the average working woman is likely to earn only about half what a man earns for the same job. Most women who do work still do unskilled jobs, while only a small proportion of the country's workers, possibly one third, are in fact women. There is also great inequality in education. Only a quarter of all university students are women, and at present boys' schools are undoubtedly much better than girls' schools. Questions 14~17
People today expect to be examined when they enter a doctor's office. At least they expect their blood pressure and temperature to be measured. However, as recently as two hundred years ago, a doctor's treatment depended on talking with the patient. In general, the communication between doctors and their patients was the most important part of medical methods. The modern age of medicine began with the stethoscope, an instrument for listening to patient's Heartbeat and breathing. Before that, a doctor did not touch a patient. In fact, there was no such thing as1 a medical examination. All treatment was the result of the patient's telling the doctor what the problem was and the doctor's being able to understand it.
The stethoscope—and all the other medical instruments—had a serious effect on the practice of medicine. Doctors became better at finding the medical problems. More lives were saved. At the same time, doctors gave less importance to the communication between patients and doctors. Some doctors actually stopped talking to their patients. It is easy to understand why some sick people thought of themselves as broken machines.
Questions I8~20
The Golden Gate Bridge joins the beautiful city of San Francisco with the suburbs to the north. Each day, about one hundred thousand automobiles cross the bridge, taking people to and from the city. More than half of them cross the bridge during the morning and evening rush hours; with traffic so heavy, the trip is not pleasant.
Now, however, there is at least one group of happy commuters. These are the people who travel under the bridge instead of on it. They go to work by boat and enjoy it so much that most of them say they will never go by car again.
The ferry they take is the roomy, quiet, comfortable "Golden Gate". Commuters can enjoy the sun on deck. In the morning they can have breakfast in the coffee shop, and in the evening they can order a drink in the bar while looking at San Francisco's famous skyline and the nearby hills.
Their trip takes only thirty minutes and is not very costly. But best of all, being on a boat seems to make 20 people feel more friendly toward each other. There has already been a marriage of two commuters who met on the "Golden Gate".
Because the ferry has been so successful, there are plans to use other, still larger boats. There is also a proposal for a high-speed boat that will make the trip in only fifteen minutes.
Not everyone is happy about that. "A lot of people don't want to get back and forth faster," said one commuter. "They feel that half an hour is just enough time to relax."
SECTION C
Questions 21 ~ 22
Peter Sissons: Cancer researchers have shown that thousands of lives could be saved every year by a simple test, which takes only four minutes. 16,000 people die of bowel cancer every year. But a trial, involving 170,000 people in their 50s and 60s, suggests at least 2,000 of these deaths could be prevented by detecting and treating it early.
Karen Allen: This patient is about to undergo checks for bowel cancer, the third most common form of the disease in the UK. Using a long flexible tube with a camera at the end, doctors can examine the lower part of the bowel.
Questions 23 ~ 24
Karen Allen: Researchers caution against rushing, but the procedure offers enormous potential. In human terms, screening programs have been credited with saving tens of thousands of lives. And though they're expensive, they save millions on treatment costs. Screening for cervical cancer was introduced in 1988. It costs 150 million pounds a year. The program for breast cancer came in at the time. It costs about one third of that. It's estimated that screening for bowel cancer would cost roughly the same. The government's pledged to extend cancer-screening programs, and they're taking this research very seriously. Karen Allen, BBC News.
Questions 25 ~ 26
Jenny Scott: Now, for the first time, Government statisticians have looked at the whole country, and found out what we're all doing with the time in our lives. And apart from sleeping and working, it's watching TV that takes up most of our time, an average of two hours and 20 minutes every day. We all have to eat, and that takes us one hour and 20 minutes. But we're not complete couch-potatoes, about 20 minutes of our day goes on household chores, which is still more time than we spend on active sport. And despite our busy lives we still manage to get a good eight and a half hours sleep a night. Statisticians have also tried to put a value on the unpaid work we do, like ironing, cleaning and childcare.
Questions 27~~28
Margaret Gilmore: At a skills center in Birmingham, teenagers convicted of crimes are tagged. Under the new scheme, young people could be tagged before they are convicted if they're ex-offenders, or there's a suspicion they' 11 re-offend while waiting for their court case to come up. One here who is now reformed and doesn't want his face shown, says being locked up didn't work but tagging did. His past offences include mobile phone theft, possession of drugs and causing grievous bodily harm.
Boy: I was enjoying it so much. It gave me a buzz doing all kinds of things. Robbing people, doing all kinds of things.
Questions 29 ~30
Michael Beurk: Britain is facing a crisis over its rubbish. Each year every household in the country produces a ton of rubbish, and 80 percent of it is buried in landfill sites. European Union rules say that's far too much. Richard Bilton has been to Edmonton in North London and Edmonton, Canada, where recycling is a way of life.
Richard Bilton: Packets, cartons and plastic. The Stone family, like the rest of us, face waste at every turn, and as a nation 80 percent of all our rubbish just gets dumped in the ground. The Stones live at Edmonton in North London, here they're less reliant on landfill, much to the family's annoyance most of their rubbish goes off to the incinerator.

Test 2
Questions 1~3
Greg: Hi, Kathy, where's Tim? He's not out shooting baskets.
Kathy: He's in his room. He's staying out of your way.
Greg: Why?
Kathy: He got sent home from school today.
Greg: Wonderful! What did he do this time?
Kathy: Well, they had a substitute, and of course the kids were giving her a hard time—talking, running around, throwing spit balls and paper airplanes. She called the principal, and when he opened the door, a paper airplane hit him in the face.
Greg: And Tim threw it?
Kathy: Apparently. That's what the principal thought, anyway. He ordered Tim home on the spot.
Greg: But it wasn't really his fault, was it?
Kathy: Well, he was goofing off.
Greg: But no more than the rest of the kids. And he didn't deliberately target the principal. Kathy: You're not going to excuse his behavior, are you?
Greg: No, I know he was out of line, but he didn' t mean any harm. Maybe the best thing would be if he went and apologized to the principal.
Kathy: That's a good idea. But it won't be easy for him.
Greg: No, he'd probably rather be grounded, or lose his allowance, or even be denied TV than have to call the principal. But I think it's about time he learned to take responsibility for his own actions, even if they're unintentional.
Kathy: That's why I leave the disciplining to you, Greg. I'm either too harsh or a total softie. You know how to make the punishment fit the crime.
* He's not out shooting baskets. .他没有出去打球。
* He's staying out of your way. 他躲着你呢。
* ... they had a substitute 他们换了个老师。
* ... he was goofing off. 他在胡闹，不干正经事情。
* ... I know he was out of line. 我指导他犯错误了。
* ... he'd probably rather be grounded 他可能宁愿挨打
* ... even be denied TV 甚至不让看电视
* That's why I leave the disciplining to you.这就是为什么让你来管教他。
Questions 4 — 7
Harold: Kate, I'm afraid I can't come to the meeting tonight. I have to stay home with our puppy.
Kate: With your puppy! So, you're just a dog-sitter now?
Harold: Yeah, that's what I've been reduced to. For the time being.
Kate: She can't be left by herself even for a few hours?
Harold: Well, we just got her last week, and she's only seven weeks old, just barely weaned.
Kate: So she's unhappy being alone.
Harold; That's an understatement. Anytime my wife and I are both out of sight, she cries piteously. It's an absolutely heart-rending sound.
Kate: What do you do at night? Does she sleep in your bed?
Harold: No, we draw the line at that.. We put her in her own box in the next room. The first couple nights were a bit rou