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（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. Mary: Could you help me paint my flat this weekend, David?
   David: Oh, sorry, I'm going sailing. I've decided to enjoy myself for a change. I spent last weekend helping my mum do her garden and I need to repair the car next weekend.
   Q: What is David going to do this weekend?
2. Woman: Dr. Brown's Clinic. Can I help you?
   Man: Yes. Can I have an appointment to see the doctor, please?
   Woman: Well, he's free at a quarter past eleven today or tomorrow at a quarter past ten or five to two.
   Man: I'll come tomorrow afternoon.
   Q: What time is the appointment?
3. Man: Are you going to take the train up to Edinburgh?
   Woman: We've booked tickets on the coach, actually. We wanted to drive up there, but we've been having problems with the car and we can't afford to fly.
   Q: How will they travel to Edinburgh?
4. Man: Can you tell me how much it is for a ticket for Saturday's performance of  Macbeth?
   Woman: The front stalls and the circle are the most expensive at $ 16.50. The middle seats in the stalls cost $ 15 and the back three rows cost $ 12.50, but the view isn't so good. All seats are $ 10 for students.
   Man: I'll have one in the middle, please. I'm not a student. I've got my credit card here.
   Q: How much is the man's ticket? 
5. Woman: Hi!Have you had a busy day at the office?
   Man: Yes, sorry I'm late. I didn't get the bus because John offered me a lift. We didn't realize the motorway was closed because of a lorry accident, so it took much longer than usual. I'll be even later tomorrow with the train strike.
   Q: Why was the man late home? 
6. Woman: It's a bit crowded isn't it... worse than a football match!Can you see well enough from here?
   Man: It doesn't matter - as long as I can hear and get down the important points of what he says, it's OK.
   Woman: I'm going to the library after this. I want to get this report finished so that I can go to the cinema later. 
   Q: Where are the man and the woman talking?
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.
Mark: Hello, Jenny. What are you doing here?
Jenny: Hello, Mark!This is my daughter, Sarah. It's the school holidays so we're shopping now - we're not sure what to do after that.
Mark: Well, there's a show for children this afternoon in the library where I work.
Jenny: Oh? What time is it at?
Mark: It starts at two and finishes at three thirty. It's only a quarter past one now. Do you think Sarah would like that?
Jenny: How much is a ticket?
Mark: Well, it's one pound fifty for adults and seventy-five pence for children. Programmes are twenty-five pence.
Jenny: And does your library run a reading course in the holidays?
Mark: Yes, and if children under ten, like Sarah, read four books in six weeks, we give them something to take home.
Jenny: What, like a book?
Mark: Well, this year it's a pen, but sometimes it's a book or a school bag. Meet me after the show and I'll give you more detail.
Jenny: Thanks. See you later then.
Questions 7 to 10 are based on the long conversation you have just heard.
7. When will the show begin?
8. How much is a child's ticket?
9. How long is the holiday reading course?
10. What free gifts can children get from the library this year?
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. President Obasanjo said about 148 billion dollars were lost each year as a result of corruption. He described the loss as ‘monumental' and ‘preventable', with extractive industries, such as oil and gas, among the worst hit.
   Question: Approximately how much was lost each year as a result of corruption?
12. The University Boat Race is a uniquely British institution but it's taken on a distinctly international character. It dates back to 1829 and is now broadcast on television in more than a hundred countries. And of the sixteen rowers in the two boats, only five were British this year. It was the first time a French rower had taken part for at least a century. There were also four Americans, three Germans, two Canadians and an Australian.
    Question: How many British students joined the University Boat Race?
13 In Romania, to the east, and Slovakia and the Czech Republic, to the north, populations in low-lying areas have been put on alert. In the Czech Republic, several people have died, and anti-flood barriers on the river Vltava have been raised. Czech officials have declared a state of emergency in several areas, and in the historic city of Olomouc, 250 kilometers east of Prague, thousands of people had to be evacuated.
    Question: In which country have several people died because of the flood?
14. I was so touched by the way the people in London took to that animal and cheered it on. I just feel bitterly disappointed that we couldn't give them the result that they wanted. I feel that perhaps we got the result, hopefully, that the whale needed, and that's probably more important.
    Question: What animal was the man talking about?
15. Steven Spielberg's ‘Munich' and Ang Lee's ‘Brokeback Mountain' are likely to be the big winners at the Oscar ceremony in five weeks' time. Spielberg's highly controversial drama about the 1972 Olympic massacre, and what happened after it, is one of the five nominations for Best Picture. Some have speculated opposition to the movie and its theme might harm its Oscar chances, but that hasn't happened. Spielberg's also nominated as Best Director.
    Question: Who won the nomination as Best Director according to the speaker?
16. Ukrainian politicians claim there are political motives behind the price rise originally demanded by the Russian energy giant Gazprom. They say Russia is offering much more favourable terms to other former Soviet Republics. Russian officials insist it's a purely commercial matter.
    Question: Which countries are having talks over gas prices?
17.  Britain's Labour government is having a difficult week. The government wants to ban smoking in indoor public places, including restaurants and other places of entertainment. This is partly because it wants to discourage people from smoking, since smoking causes so much illness, but also to protect the health of the staff who work there, and who got no choice about breathing in second hand smoke.
    Question: What does the British government want to do?
18. A crowd of some 35,000, including U.S. First Lady Laura Bush and Italian film legend Sophia Loren, filled the Olympic Stadium. More than 4,700 performers, including fast-moving skaters with fiery rocket packs, dancers and even dancing cows opened the  festivities.  Some 2,600 athletes from more than 80 countries and territories marched into the stadium accompanied by American pop music from the 1970s and 1980s.
    Question: How many performers joined the Winter Olympics opening ceremony?
19. Governments from Singapore to South Korea are increasingly lifting restrictions on gambling. But gamblers do not have to wait for new casinos to open to place their bets: they can just use their mobile phones. Europe is the largest market for mobile gambling, but telecommunications analysts predict that Asia will catch up soon.
    Question: What is the passage mainly talking about?
20. The United States National Weather Service says that this huge winter storm has dumped some 68.3 centimetres of snow in Central Park, making it the worst blizzard to hit New York City since records began in 1869. To add to the problems facing the entire north-eastern seaboard, winds across the region have been gusting at up to 96 kilometres an hour, causing serious localised drifting.
    Question: Which part of the United States was attacked by snowstorm?
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
    I have four small children, three girls and one boy. I don't go out very much because it's hard for me to find someone to look after them. Any time I do go out, I have to find a baby sitter. It's not easy for me to find a baby sitter because we have just moved here. Since we're new in town I don't know very many people yet.
    Well, one Friday morning I looked in my purse and found that I had only two dollars left. I still had to do that week's grocery shopping. There was nothing else I could do; I had to go to the bank. I hoped that Rachel, my next-door neighbor, could come and baby-sit for me, but she wasn't home. So after the children were all dressed, off we went to the bank.
    After we'd all got into the car, I tried to relax a little as I drove to the bank. The children were very noisy from the start. They were yelling and crying and picking on each other. By the time we arrived at the bank, I was very angry.
    The bank was very crowded. I don't think I'd ever seen so many people there at once. I think, since it was the end of the month, it was payday for most people.
    Anyway, the children were still acting up, and I was still pretty angry with them. I turned around to try to keep them quiet and shouted, “Stand against the wall and don't say a word!” Everyone in the whole bank stopped talking. They thought it was a hold-up.
Questions 21 to 24 are based on the psssage you have just heard.
21. Why was it hard for the woman to find a baby sitter?
22. Why couldn't Rachel, her next-door neighbor, baby-sit for her?
23. How did the woman feel when she arrived at the bank?
24. What happened when the woman shouted at her children?
Passage Two
    You will hear an announcement about what's on television tomorrow.
Man: And that's the weather forecast. And now we know what the weather's going to be like, let's have a look at what we've got for you tomorrow on TV31. Most of the morning is taken up with children's television. As it's Saturday, we've got programmes for children from the under fives to teenagers. We start the day at 7:00 with cartoons and programmes for the very young. These go on until 9:00 when we have a film specially made for television called ‘The Railway Princess'. It was first shown about six months ago and we've had lots of requests to show it again. The film is based on Jenny Johnson's best-selling  children's book. Then from 10:30 until 12:00, we continue with a magazine programme for 5 to 12 year-olds. There's something for everyone - animals, art, sport, the countryside. At lunchtime, from 12:00 till 2:00, we have something for teenagers - ‘Here and Now' - our music programme with all the latest groups and singers, and the results of last week's competition.
    After lunch there's half an hour of news and that's followed at 2:30 by sport. This afternoon you can watch the match between Brazil and Ireland, the winner of that match will go on to play Italy or Spain in the final next week.
    Football is followed at 4 o'clock by tennis. We'll be watching part of the Macmillan Tennis Tournament. If the tennis is cancelled because of rain we'll be going over early to Japan to see some of the skiing. Let's hope Angus Burns has recovered from yesterday's fall. At 5 o'clock we'll be bringing you the end of the Round Britain Cycle Race.
    At 6 o'clock it's time for our new quiz programme ‘Your guess is as good as mine' with Nigel Parsons. Each team is shown pictures of people who were in the news in one particular year, or important things that happened in that year. The teams guess when that was.
    That's followed by more news and at 7:00 it's time for our Saturday evening film ‘I Could Live Forever', a sad story with a happy ending. You'll recognize the songs, made famous by the film and sung by Julia Jones. And of course there's some wonderful dancing.

Questions 25 to 30 are based on the psssage you have just heard.
25. During which period is The Railway Princess on television?
26. When is there a music programme for teenagers?
27. Which two teams can you see in the football match?
28. If the weather is bad, which sport will be cancelled?
29. What do the teams have to guess in the quiz programme?
30. What kind of film is I Could Live Forever?