5套预测试卷4
5套预测试卷4
Part II Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions:
In this section, you will hear two long conversations.
At the end of each conversation, you will hear some questions.
Both the conversation 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Now you will hear two long conversation.
Conversation One
M: Hello. What can I do for you?
W: Hi. Fill it up. I need a full tank.
M: Check the hood?
W: No, thanks.
M: Whereabouts are you headed?
W: Pete Waters` farm, near Chesterton.
M: I know it well. Pete Waters has lived around here almost as long as I have.
W: How long is it going to take for me to get there?
M: About fifteen minutes. There`s a shortcut—if you know it.
W: No, I don`t. Could you tell me how to use the shortcut?
M: Sure. Take the next left turn, and you`ll see a stop sign.
Make a right at the stop sign. Stay on that road, and you`ll cross a blue bridge.
Then you`ll see a big old red barn. That`s the back of Pete Waters` place.
W: That`s quite a difference from the directions that Pete sent me.
M: Now, if you take that route, it`s probably a lot simpler,
but it`ll take you ten minutes longer.
W: OK. Let me repeat it. I take the next left turn to the stop sign.
Then a right across a blue bridge, and then a big red barn.
M: Can`t miss it.
W: How much do I owe you?
M: Well, that`ll be eighteen dollars and seventy cents.
No charge for the cleanup. It`s on the house.
W: Well, here`s a twenty.
M: Ah. OK. That`s the change. Thanks.
W: Thank you. And thanks for the directions.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Questions 1
Which place will the woman finally arrive at?
Questions 2
Why doesn`t the woman need to pay more for cleaning service?
Questions 3
Which of the following is NOT true according to the conversation?
Questions 4
How much should the woman pay?
Conversation Two
W: Thank you for seeing me on such short notice.
M: I hope you`ve brought your pictures along, Ingrid.
I see that you have. Let`s get right to it. We need a new coffee table book,
and a book of photos about the United States still feels right.
OK, let`s take a look. Good. Very good. Family Album, U.S.A.
It`s an excellent title. If you had to describe the book in one sentence,
how would you do it?
W: Well, I`d describe it as a book which is a…a portrait of the United States—the places,
the people—mostly the people. The things they do, the ways they live,
the places they visit, and the landmarks. A photographic journey.
M: These are wonderful—these photos in your performing arts section.
Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center. But there`s something missing.
You`ve got a good eye, Ingrid. You`re terrific. But before I can publish your work,
I need to meet with my marketing department, and you`ve got to do one more thing.
W: What`s that, Mr. Carlson?
M: In the section on culture, you`ve included performing arts centers,
but you`ve left out street performance.
The mimes. The musicians. The dancers—in the parks and on the streets.
Ingrid, if you go out and photograph street performances in the city, you`ll have it.
W: That is a great idea. The performing arts centers and the street performances. I`ll do it.
M: If you do it, I`ll publish your work.
W: Are you serious?
M: I`ve never been more serious. When do you think you can return with street performances?
W: A couple of weeks.
M: If they`re as good as the rest of these pictures, it`s a deal.
Questions 5-8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Questions 5
What may Ingrid be according to the conversation?
Questions 6
Which of the following is Mr. Carlson not yet so satisfied with?
Questions 7
What might not we see in the woman`s photo album?
Questions 8
During the two weeks what photos might be added to the woman`s photo album?
Section B
Directions:
In this section, you will hear two 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
My father came from a terribly wealthy family and had it all going for him.
He came to study law and then had a superb restaurant in Hungary, full of actors, politicians,
and writers. He was very wealthy and well thought of.
I remember leaving Hungary to come to live in England. My grandmother brought my sister and me out.
I still find it difficult to travel on trains because
I was sick all the way — probably from being so upset at leaving.
We joined our father and mother in Kent.
I think my father knew some people in England from his Cambridge days and there were quite a few Hungarians.
He must have been very short of money because we left with absolute nothing.
We did have maids and a cook but I think he always lived above his means.
My mother continued to be beautifully dressed and my sister
and I were always being taken a long way to the dressmakers to have hand
embroidered dresses made. Everything had to be perfect.
I always had a warm loving feeling from him and for him.
He worked very hard and went up to London every day, but he never complained.
I’m full of admiration for him.
When I was about 14 he had a restaurant in Knightsbridge and he had to be up
very early in the morning and go to market and be there until one o’clock at night.
I hated to see him work so hard. I also thought, “My God, I never want to work that hard”,
and now it looks as if I do , so it must run in the family.
I admire my father, because he is quite conservative in his views and it is
very difficult to sway his mind about anything. I’m always been grateful
for the fact that he let me leave school and go to art school.
He recognized that I really hated school and loved art.
But I’m surprised he let me do so much because it is not his style to be that flexible.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Questions 9
With whom did the speaker leave Hungary?
Questions 10
What kind of man is her father?
Questions 11
Why has the speaker always been most grateful to her father?
Passage Two
London taxi drivers know the capital like the back of their hands.
No matter how small or indistinct the street is,
the driver will be able to get you there without any trouble.
The reason London taxi drivers are so efficient is that
they all have gone through a very tough training period to get special taxi driving license.
During this period, which can take two to four years,
the would be taxi driver has to learn the most direct route to
every single road and to every important building in London.
To achieve this, most learners go around the city on small motorbikes practicing
how to move to and from different points of the city.
Learner taxi drivers are tested several times during the training period by government officers.
The exams are terrible experience.
The officers ask you “How do you get from Birmingham Palace to the Tower of London?”
and you have to take them there in the direct line.
When you get to the tower, they won’t say “well done”.
They will quickly move on to the next question.
After five or six questions, they will just say “See you in two months’ time.”
and then you know the exam is over.
Learner drivers are not allowed to work and earn money as drivers.
Therefore, many of them keep their previous jobs until they have obtained the license.
The training can cost quite a lot,
because learners have to pay for their own expenses on the tests and the medical exam.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Questions 12
Why are London taxi drivers very efficient?
Questions 13
How long does the training period last?
Questions 14
Why does the speaker think the driving test is a terrible experience?
Questions 15
Why do learner drivers have to keep their present jobs?
Section C
Directions:
In this section, you will hear recordings of lectures or talks followed by some questions.
The recordings will be played 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 16 to 19.
I`m talking about the design of digital experiences and specifically the design
of systems that are so big that their scale can be hard to comprehend.
But what is really hard about designing at scale is this: It`s hard in part
because it requires a combination of two things,
audacity and humility audacity to believe that the thing that you`re making is something
that the entire world wants and needs, and humility to understand that as a designer,
it`s not about you or your portfolio, it`s about the people that you`re designing for,
and how your work just might help them live better lives.
Now,the first thing that you need to know about designing at scale is that the little things really matter.
Now, this is the new version of the button,
and the designer who led this project estimates that he spent
over 280 hours redesigning this button over the course of months.
Now, why would we spend so much time on something so small?
It`s because when you`re designing at scale,
there`s no such thing as a small detail.
This innocent little button is seen on average 22 billion times
a day and on over 7.5 million websites. You need to get even the tiny things right.
Now, the next thing that you need to understand is how to design with data.
Now, when you`re working on products like this,
you have incredible amounts of information about how people are using your product
that you can then use to influence your design decisions,
but it`s not just as simple as following the numbers.
Of course we use a lot of data to inform our decisions,
but we also rely very heavily on iteration, research,
testing, intuition, human empathy. It`s both art and science.
Data can help you make a good design great, but it will never make a bad design good.
The next thing that you need to understand as a principle is that when you introduce change,
you need to do it extraordinarily carefully. The fact is,
people can become very efficient at using bad design,
and so even if the change is good for them in the long run,
it`s still incredibly frustrating when it happens,
and this is particularly true with user generated content platforms,
because people can rightfully claim a sense of ownership.
But they don`t mean anything if you don`t understand something much more fundamental.
You have to understand who you are designing for.
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 20 to 22.
We always hear that texting is a scourge.
The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability,
among young people in the United States and now the whole world today.
The fact of the matter is that it just isn`t true,
and it`s easy to think that it is true, but in order to see it in another way,
now we have to pull the camera back for a bit and look at what language really is,
in which case, one thing that we see is that texting is not writing at all.
What do I mean by that? Basically, if we think about language,
language has existed for perhaps 150,000 years, at least 80,000 years,
and what it arose as is speech. People talked.
That`s what we`re probably genetically specified for.
That`s how we use language most.
Writing is something that came along much later.
If humanity had existed for 24 hours,
then writing only came along at about 11:07 p.m.
That`s how much of a latterly thing writing is.
Now don`t get me wrong, writing has certain advantages.
When you write, because it`s a conscious process,
because you can look backwards,
you can do things with language
that are much less likely if you`re just talking.
Casual speech is something quite different.
Linguists have actually shown that when we`re speaking casually in an unmonitored way,
we tend to speak in word packets of maybe 7 to 10 words.
You`ll notice this if you ever have occasion to record yourself or a group of people talking.
That`s what speech is like.Speech is much looser.
It`s much more telegraphic.
It`s much less reflective very different from writing.
So we naturally tend to think, because we see language written so often,
that that`s what language is, but actually what language is, is speech.
They are two things.
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 23 to 25.
Ten thousand people every month google, Am I ugly?
This is Faye. Faye is 13 and she lives in Denver.
And like any teenager, she just wants to be liked and to fit in.
So, she takes a video of herself.
She posts it to YouTube and she asks people to please leave a comment:
Am I pretty or am I ugly?
But what`s leading them to do this? Well,
today`s teenagers are rarely alone.
They`re under pressure to be online and available at all times,
talking, messaging, liking, commenting, sharing,
posting and it never ends. Never before have we been so connected, so continuously,
so instantaneously, so young.
This always on environment is training our kids to value themselves based on the number
of likes they get and the types of comments that they receive.
There`s no separation between online and offline life.
And where are they looking to for inspiration?
Well, you can see the kinds of images that are covering the newsfeeds of girls today.
Size zero models still dominate our catwalks. Airbrushing is now routine.
It is not hard to see what girls are benchmarking themselves against.
But boys are not immune to this either. Aspiring to the chiseled jaw lines
and ripped six packs of superhero like sports stars and playboy music artists.
But, what`s the problem with all of this? In an image obsessed culture,
we are training our kids to spend more time and mental effort on their appearance at the expense
of all of the other aspects of their identities.
So, things like their relationships,
the development of their physical abilities,
and their studies and so on begin to suffer.
Low body confidence is undermining academic achievement.
But it`s also damaging health. Teenagers with low body confidence do less physical activity,
eat less fruits and vegetables,
partake in more unhealthy weight control practices that can lead to eating disorders.
They have lower self esteem.
They`re more easily influenced by people
around them and they`re at greater risk of depression.