2023年大学生英语竞赛决赛级听力原文.doc

全国大学生英语竞赛（B级决赛赛卷）听力理解录音材料文字稿
（Script for Listening Comprehension）
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 6 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be read 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
1. M: The tape explains that there'll be a short pause. Allow a minute or two, but no longer.
   W: Should we intervene at all during the exam? For instance, to repeat certain instructions if some candidates look puzzled?
   M: No, I'm afraid that if someone looks confused, it's their English which isn't up to scratch, not the instructions.
   Question: What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
2. W: Well, can you tell me why you came to Finland?
   M: Well, I came to Finland - it was right after I finished university in Toronto where I studied literature - I always wanted to be a journalist - and the reason I came to Finland was just for a summer job.
   Question: Why did the man come to Finland?
3. W: How long have you been a lock-keeper, Mr. Fidlder?
   M: Oh dear, let me think... umm... I started when I was 25, so that means I've been at it for uh twenty-one years now. Yeah, that's it - three years on the Oxford Canal and the past eighteen years here on the Reading Stretch. Twenty-one years in all.
   W: Oh, really!That's incredible.
   Question: How long has the man been a lock-keeper?
4. W: Can you tell me when Sudeley Castle is open?
   M: Yes, of course, Sudeley Castle, Sudeley, I think it's open all day, someone asked me this a week or so ago... Here  we  are,  I've  got the guide. Yes, it's open from 11 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon. Well, not quite all day, but morning and afternoon.
   W: Eleven am to five pm, OK, that's great.
   Question: When is Sudeley Castle open?
5. M: Where did the idea of the gentle classical music come from?
   W: From my studies of Renaissance music, and of course, opera. On the continent, especially in Spain and Italy where it still thrives, it is a traditional romantic experience. Over the centuries, university students have turned the classical music into an art form for hire.
   Question: Where did the idea of the classical music come from?
6. W: What about the new signposting in the airport?
   M: New signposting!It's as bad as it's ever been. Oh, I've been going round in circles. You follow a sign and you find that the arrow's pointing the other way.
   W: Right. Thank you.
   Question: How does the man feel about the new signposting in the airport?
Section B 
Directions: In this section, you will hear one long conversation. At the end of the conversation, 4 questions will be asked about what was said. You will hear both the conversation and the questions 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
    W: Excuse me. I'm doing a survey on the recent modernisation of this airport. Would you     mind answering some questions?
    M: Well, if you're quick.
    W: Right um could you tell me um where you're going and why you're going there?
    M: Yes, I'm flying to Barcelona on business.
    W: OK. Can you tell me how often you use the airport?
    M: Yes, I use this airport approximately twice a month because of my work.
    W: And um what do you think of the new restaurant?
    M: I'm sorry, but I think it's tacky - cheap, vulgar, I mean - plastic cups, wobbly chairs, we deserve something better.
    W: Right, now what about the speed of airport procedures and formalities?
    M: Well, that varies. Now, some days they're all right, they can cope but on busy days they can't cope at all - if it gets overcrowded they just don't seem to have the staff to deal with the situation and there are delays.
    W: Thank you. Um. What about the new parking facilities?
    M: In my opinion the parking lot is too far from the terminals. I know there's a courtesy bus but it isn't frequent enough.
    W: Well, er, and what about the transport links to the airport?
    M: Transport facilities, public transport is pretty good. I think there are frequent rail services and buses, yes, I think it's pretty good.
Questions 7 to 10 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
7.  Where do you think this dialogue takes place?
8.  Why is the man flying to Barcelona?
9.  How often does the man use the airport?
10. What does the man think of the new parking arrangements?
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short pieces of news from BBC or VOA. After each news item and question, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
11. It is the second time in twenty-four hours that the condemned man, Michael Morales, has been spared, not by the actions of the courts or by the governor, but by doctors. Morales, convicted of killing a seventeen-year-old girl twenty-five years ago, had been due to be executed by lethal injection on Monday night.
    Question: By whom has Michael Morales been spared the second time in twenty-four hours?
12. The charity group Plan International says 600 million Asian children are deprived of one of the seven basic needs used to define poverty, including food, safe water, shelter, health and education. And it says 350 million children, equivalent to the population of the European Union, are deprived of two or more basic needs, classifying them as absolutely poor.
    Question: According to the charity group Plan International, how many children are deprived of two or more basic needs?
13. Health officials say as many as eighty percent of deaths from chronic diseases could be prevented. They say an important tool for governments is to restrict the marketing of alcohol and tobacco to young people. Also, more programs are needed to urge healthy eating and more physical activity.
    Question: How can governments reduce chronic disease deaths?
14. In winter in Britain, many children and adults enjoy going to the theatre to watch a pantomime. Pantomimes are a very old form of entertainment, but the modern version is as popular as ever. Pantomimes today originate from a type of light, popular, comedy play from 16th- century Italy. Some aspects of modern pantomime date from this time, for example having stock characters who appear in different stories.
    Question: What is a pantomime?
15. The website Friends Reunited was started for fun in 1999 by a couple who were interested to know what their old school friends were doing. The project snowballed and by , the site had 12 million members. One extraordinary fact is that Friends Reunited has never advertised, its success is entirely due to word-of-mouth.
    Question: When was the website Friends Reunited started?
16. The latest Chinese player to join a Premiership team was the 18-year-old prodigy Dong Fangzhou, who was bought by Manchester United in . Because of problems with red tape he does not yet have a work permit to play in Britain, so he is currently at a Belgian feeder club.
    Question: Where is Dong Fangzhou currently?
17. There are many traditional games on Halloween, but the most common is “apple-bobbing”. It's simple to play. Several apples are put floating in water. Children then have their hands tied behind their backs. They then have to try to pick the apples out of the water using only their mouths. Of course, people get very wet and it is very funny to watch.
    Question: How do children pick the apples out of the water?
18. The industry still has work to convince Americans of the virtues of wind power. Some residents complain the large towers are unsightly, and environmentalists have criticized the windmills as dangerous to birds. This is more of a problem at another site in Northern California, which is on a migration route. In response to complaints, owners have agreed to a temporary shutdown of some of that area's wind turbines during this year's winter migration.
    Question: Why do some American residents complain about the large windmills?
19. Foucht is one of an estimated 60 million Americans who regularly suffer from insomnia, either because they are taking medication, or experiencing pain, or not eating right. Or according to Russell Rosenberg, who directs the Sleep Medicine Institute in Atlanta, Georgia - simply because they are living in the modern world.
    Question: According to Russell Rosenberg, why do many Americans suffer from insomnia?
20. According to an annual poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, in , 75 percent of Americans experienced sleeping problems ranging from minor and transient to severe and chronic. That is up from 62 percent in 1999, when the NSF first conducted its poll.
    Question: What percentage of Americans had sleeping problems in 1999, based on the NSF research?
Section D
Directions: In this section, you will hear 2 passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear 4 or 6questions. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
    The Redfern Museum is closed today. Our opening hours are from half past one to half past four Monday to Thursday.
    The museum has things for you to see from the eighteenth century - the downstairs room shows the clothes of two hundred years ago. For example, you can see what children wore at school and what families wore for dinner.
    Upstairs, we are showing some important paintings by Spanish artists of the time. There's a short film about this exhibition every afternoon and there will be talks about some of these pictures in November.
    In the Garden Room, there will be free concerts all through December for visitors to the museum. A ticket to the museum costs five pounds for adults, three pounds eighty for students and two pounds fifty for children.
    We welcome school group visits. Please phone our Schools Officer for further information on double five seven six four two, between nine and five every day.
    Come to Redfern Museum soon. Thank you for calling.
Questions 21 to 24 are based on the passage you have just heard.
21. When is the Museum open?
22. What can you see downstairs in the Museum?
23. How much is a student ticket to the Museum?
24. When can you listen to talks about the Spanish painting exhibition?
Passage Two
    A 48-year-old man named Tom Wallace bought a beautiful diamond ring because he was going to ask his girl friend to marry him. He went to the office the next morning and left the ring at home by mistake. At lunch time, the woman who lived in the apartment next door to Tom called him up at the office and told him she had heard noises coming from his apartment. She wanted to know if she should call the police. Tom suddenly remembered the ring, and without answering her he threw down the phone and rushed out of the office. The elevator wasn't working so he ran all the way downstairs to the street. He tried to find a cab, but he couldn't, so he ran the two miles home.
    When he came to the apartment building where he lived, he found that the elevator wasn't working there either. So he ran up the four flights of stairs to his apartment and then remembered that he had left his keys at the office, but nothing could stop him now. He kicked in the door and rushed into the apartment. Then he ran into the living room and found that the ring was missing from the desk. He looked everywhere for the robber searching under the bed and in the closets. He was frantic. Then he rushed to the window and saw a man walking out the front door of the building four floors below.
    That's him, he thought and ran into the kitchen, pushed the refrigerator into the living room, and heaved it out the window onto the man below. Then, suddenly poor old Tom had a heart attack...
    At the gates of heaven, some time later, three men stood waiting for St. Peter. To pass the time they asked each other how they had died.
    The first man said, “Well, I was walking out of an apartment building when some idiot dropped a refrigerator on my head. What could I do?”
    The second one said, “Well, I had to run all the way across town and then had a heart attack from pushing the refrigerator out the window of my apartment.”
    Then the two men asked the third man how he died.
    “Well,” he said, “there I was sitting in this refrigerator...”
Questions 25 to 30 are based on the passage you have just heard.
25. What was Tom Wallace's job?
26. Where was Tom when he had to go home in a hurry?
27. Where was Tom's apartment?
28. What did Tom find when he got back to his apartment?
29. What did the man in Tom's apartment do when Tom arrived?
30. How did Tom die?