英语听力答案.docx

1.
A) Give Bob a phone call.
B) Go and pick Bob up.
C) Go look for Bob.
D) Wait for Bob.
2.
A) She is working in the city.
B) Life in the suburbs is lonely.
C) Jobs are easier to find in the city.
D) It's less expensive l/ring in the city.
3.
A) In a printing shop.
B) At a publishing house.
C) At a bookstore.
D) In a library.
4.
A) The woman be more careful next time.
B) They try to think of a solution.
C) The woman find a spare key.
D) They come downstairs.
5.
A) Sending an e-mail.
B) Working in an office.
C) Talking on the phone.
D) Doing spelling practice.
6.
A) Buy something for the picnic.
B) Go for a ride around town.
C) Go shopping with the man.
D) Have a picnic.
7.
A) The woman misplaced her class permit for biology.
B)The woman arrived for registration too early.
C) The woman missed registration for the biology course.
D) The woman got a wrong class permit.
8.
A) The woman likes the weather in New York very much.
B) The woman will stay in New York a long time.
C) The man is planning to visit New York.
D) It's quite cold in New York now.
9.
A) The old lady sitting next to the couple likes toys very much.
B) An old lady took the couple’s suitcase for her own.
C) The couple's suitcase was stolen in the restaurant.
D) The man forgot to put the toys in their suitcase.
10.
A) She's flying to Hong Kong.
B) She's going to buy an air ticket.
C) She's going to say good-bye to Bill.
D) She's leaving for Hoog Kong with Bill.
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 the Answer Sheet with a single line
through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.
A)They him only retired workers.
B) They each do jobs they are good at.
C) They close the hotel during low seasons.
D) They employ as few workers as possible.
12.
A) Staff training.
B) Book-keeping.
C) Cleaning and washing up.
D) Gardening and flower arranging.
13.
A) They have their hotel beautifully decorated.
B) They provide delicious food.
C) They make their guests feel at home.
D) They give parties regularly for their visitors.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14.
A) To withdraw his deposit.
B) To cash a cheek.
C) To rob the bank.
D) To get his prize.
15.
A) A radio announcer
B) A bank employee.
C) A car mechanic.
D) A movie actor.
16.
A) They let him do what he wanted to.
B) They helped him find large bills.
C) They pressed the alarm.
D) They called the police.
17.
A) He was afraid that be would be caught on the spot.
B) Large bills were not within his reach.
C) The maximum sum allowed was 55,000.
D) He was limited by time and the size of his pockets.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18.
A) A rescuer on the Golden Gate Bridge.
B) A professional diver.
C) A telephone operator.
D) A guard on the Golden Gate Bridge.
19.
A) Someone ham fallen off the bridge.
B) Someone on the bridge is being attacked.
C) Someone is threatening to destroy the bridge.
D) Someone on the bridge is attempting to kill himself.
20.
A) Call the mother to come fight away.
B)Try to communicate with them first.
C) Help them to get out of their misty.
D) Remind them that they have children to take care of.

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed
by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are
four choices marked A), B), C)and D). You should decide on the best choice
and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single ling
through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
A rectal study, published in last week’s Journal of the American
Medical Association, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift
from a teenage driver, Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more
passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal accident as a teenager
driving alone, By contrast, the risk of death for drivers between 30 and
59 decreases with each additional passenger.
The autboes also found that the death rates for teenage drivers
increased dramatically after 10 p.m., and especially after midnight, With
passengers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a
late-night accident.
Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway
Safety Research Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers
have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of
driving experience. “The basic issue.” Be says, “is that adults who
are responsible for issuing licenses fail to recognize how complex and
skilled a task driving is.”
Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate
(使……缓解)the problem is to have states institute so-called graduated
licensing systems, in which getting a license is a multistage process.
A graduated license requires that a leenager first prove himself capable
of driving in the presence of an adult, followed by a period of driving
with night of passcager restrictions, before graduating to full driving
privileges.
Graduated licensing systems have reduced leenage driver crashes,
according to recent studies, About half of the states now have some sort
of graduated Hcensing system in place, but only 10 of those states have
restrictions on passengers, California is the strictest, with a novice(新
手)driver prohibited from carrying any passenger under 20(without the
presence of an adult over 25)for the first six months.
21. Which of the following situations is most dangerous according to the
passage?
A) Adults giving a lift to teenagers on the highway after 10 p.m.
B) A teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car.
C) Adults driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night.
D) A teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight.
22. According to Robert Foss. The high death rate of teenage drivers is
mainly due to ________ .
A) their frequent driving at nignt
B) their improper way of driving
C) their lack of driving experience
D) their driving with passengers
23. According to Paragraph 3. which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) Teenagers should spend more time learning to drive.
B) Driving is a skill too complicated for teenagers to learn.
C) Restrictions should be imposed on teenagers applying to take driving
lessons.
D) The licensing authonties are partly responsible for teenagers' driving
accidents.
24. A suggested measure to be taken to reduce teenagers' driving accidents
is that ________ .
A) driving in the presence of an adult should be made a rule
B) they should be prohibited from taking on passengers
C) they should not be allowed to drive after 10 p.m.
D) the licensing system should be improved
25. The present situation in about half of the states is that the graduated
licensing system ________. A) is under discussion
B) is about to be set up
C) has been put into effect
D) has been perfected
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
If you know exactly what you want, the best route to a job is to get
specialized training. A recent survey shows that companies the graduates
in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately
with very little on-the-job training.
That's especially true of booing fields that are challenging for
workers. At Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, for example,
bachelor's degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with
salaries ranging from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances
for rapid advancement. Large companies, especially, like a background of
formal education coupled with work experience.
But in the long run, too much specialization doesn't pay off. Business,
which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an
automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher
salary injtially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years.
As further evidence of the erosion (销蚀) of corporate(公司的) faith
in specialized degrees, Michigan State’s Scheetz cites a pattern in
corporate hiring practices, Although companies tend to take on
specialists as new hires, they often seek out gencralists for middle and
upper-level management. “They want someone who isn’t constrained(限
制)by nuts and bolts to look at the big picture,”says Scheetz.
This sounds suspiciously like a formal statement that you approve of
the liberal-arts graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention
a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing
and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and
adapeability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems, David Birch
claims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree, “I
hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way
of doing things,” says Birch. Liberal-arts means an academically
thorough and strict program that includes literature, history,
mathematics, economics, science, human behavior—plus a computer course
or two. With that under your belt, you can feel free to specialize, “A
liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training
is a very good combination in the marketplace,” says Scheetz.
26. What kinds of people are in high demand on the job market?
A) Students with a bachelor's degree in humanities.
B) People with an MBA degree front top universities.
C) People with formal schooling plus work experience.
D) People with special training in engineering
27. By saying “…but the impact of a degree washes out after five years”
(Line 3, Para, 3), the author means ________.
A) most MBA programs fail to provide students with a solid foundation
B) an MBA degree does not help promotion to managerial positions
C) MBA programs will not be as popular in five years' time as they are
now
D) in five people will forget about the degree the MBA graduates have got
28. According to Scheetz's statement (Lines 4-5. Para. 4), companies
prefer ________.
A) people who have a strategic mind
B) people who are talented in fine arts
C) people who are ambitious and aggressive
D) people who have received training in mechanics
29. David Birch claims that he only hires liberal-arts people because
________.
A) they are more capable of handling changing situations
B) they can stick to established ways of solving problems
C) they are thoroughly trained in a variety of specialized fields
D) they have attended special programs in management
30. Which of the following statements does the author support?
A) Specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists.
B) Formal schooling is less important than job training.
C) On-the-job training is, in the long run, less costly.
D) Generalists will outdo specialists in management.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York
City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table, I couldn’t
help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked:
"So, how have you been?" And the boy—who could not have been more than
seven or eight years old —replied. "Frankly, I've been feeling a little
depressed lately.''
This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief
that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I
didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school.
The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent
years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like
adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used
to.
Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is
different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists, Why?
Human development is based not only on innate (天生的) biological
states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from
one social rote to another usually involves learning the secrets of the
new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly
and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden
from fifth graders.
In the last 30 years. however, a secret-revelation (揭示) machine has
been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television,
Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加区分地), to all
viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation,
many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less
challenging, more vivid moving pictures.
Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great
deal of control over the social information to which children have access.
Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be
memorized and practices. Children must read simple books before they can
read complex materials.
31. According to the author, feeling depressed is ________.
A) a sure sign of a psychological problem in a child
B) something hardly to be expected in a young child
C) an inevitable has of children's mental development
D) a mental scale present in all humans, including children
32. Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world
________.
A) through contact with society
B) gradually and under guidance
C) naturally and by biological instinct
D)through exposure to social information
33. The phenomenon that today’s children seem adultiike is attributed
by the author to ________.
A) the widespread influence of television
B) the poor arrangement of teaching content
C) the fast pace of human intellectual development
D) the constantly rising standard of living
34. Why is the author in favor of communication through print for children?
A) It enables children to gain more social information.
B) It develops children's interest in reading and writing.
C) It helps children to memorize and practice more.
D) It can control what children are to learn.
35. What does the author think of the change in today’s children?
A) He feels amused by chair premature behavior.
B) He thinks it is a phenomenon worthy of note.
C) He considers it a positive development.
D) He seems to be upset about it.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
"Opinion" is a word that is used carelessly today. It is used to refer
to matters of taste, belief, and judgment. This casual use would probably
cause little c