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原题
Directions
For
this
part,
you
are
allowed
30
minutes
to
write
an
essay
commenting
on
the
saying
“Knowledge
is
a
treasure,
but
practice
is
the
key
to
do
it.”
You
can
give
an
example
or
two
to
illustrate your point of view. You
should write at least 150 words but no more than
200 words.
听力真题
1
A, prepare for his exams
C, Attend the concert
B Catch up his work
D, Go on a
vacation
2
A, Three crew
members were involved in the incident.
B, None of the hijackers carried any
deadly weapons.
C, The plane had been
scheduled to fly to Japan.
D, None of
the passengers were injured or killed.
3
A, An article
about the election
C, An election campaign
B, A
tedious job to be done
D, A fascinating topic
4
A, The restaurant was not up to the
speakers
’
expectations.
B, The restaurant places many ads in
popular magazines.
C, The critic
thought highly of the Chinese restaurant.
D, Chinatown has got the best
restaurants in the city.
5
A, He is going to visit his mother in
the hospital.
B, He is going to take on
a new job next week.
C, He has many
things to deal with right now.
D, He
behaves in a way nobody understands.
6
A, A large number of students refused
to vote last night.
B, At least twenty
students are needed to vote on an issue.
C, Major campus issues had to be
discussed at the meeting.
D, More
students have to appear to make their voice heard.
7
A, The woman can hardly
tell what she likes.
B, The speaks like
watching TV very much.
C, The speakers
have nothing to do but watch TV.
D, The
man seldom watched TV before retirement.
8
Short
conversations
1.
W:
Can
you
come
to
the
concert
with
me
this
weekend
or
do
you
have
to
prepare
for
exams?
M: I still have a lot to
do. But maybe a break will do me good.
Q: What will the man
probably do?
2.
W:
What
does
the
paper
say
about
the
horrible
incident
that
happened
this
morning
on
Flight
870 to Hong Kong?
M: It ended with the arrest of the
three hijackers. They have forced the plane to fly
to Japan.
But all the passengers and
the crewmembers landed safely.
Q: What do we learn from
the conversation?
3.
M: Helen, this is the most fascinating
article I
’
ve ever come
across. I think you should spare
some
time to read it.
W: Oh, really? I thought that anything
about the election would be tedious.
Q: What are the speakers
talking about?
4.
W:
I
’
m
not
going
to
trust
the
restaurant
critic
from
that
magazine
again.
The
food
here
doesn
’
t taste
anything like what we had in Chinatown.
M: It
definitely wasn
’
t worth the
wait.
Q: What
do we learn from the conversation?
5.
W: Do you know
what
’
s wrong with Mark?
He
’
s been acting very
strangely lately.
M: Come on. With his mother
hospitalized right after
he
’
s taking on a new job,
he's just got
a lot on his mind.
Q: What do we
learn from the conversation about Mark?
6.
W: There were only 20
students at last night
’
s
meeting, so nothing could be voted on.
M:
That
’
s
too
bad.
They'll
have
to
turn
up
in
greater
numbers
if
they
want
a
voice
on
campus issues.
Q: What does
the man mean?
7.
M: I try to watch TV as little as
possible. But it
’
s so hard.
W: I
didn
’
t watch TV at all
before I retired. But now I can hardly tear myself
away from it.
Q: What do we learn from the
conversation?
8.
W: I
’
m having a
problem registering for the classes I want.
M:
That
’
s too bad. But
I
’
m pretty sure
you
’
ll be able to work
everything out before the
semester
starts.
Q: What
does the man mean?
答案
听力真题
Short conversations
1.
W:
Can
you
come
to
the
concert
with
me
this
weekend
or
do
you
have
to
prepare
for
exams?
M: I still have a lot to
do. But maybe a break will do me good.
Q: What will the man
probably do?
2.
W:
What
does
the
paper
say
about
the
horrible
incident
that
happened
this
morning
on
Flight
870 to Hong Kong?
M: It ended with the arrest of the
three hijackers. They have forced the plane to fly
to Japan.
But all the passengers and
the crewmembers landed safely.
Q: What do we learn from
the conversation?
3.
M: Helen, this is the most fascinating
article I
’
ve ever come
across. I think you should spare
some
time to read it.
W: Oh, really? I thought that anything
about the election would be tedious.
Q: What are the speakers
talking about?
4.
W:
I
’
m
not
going
to
trust
the
restaurant
critic
from
that
magazine
again.
The
food
here
doesn
’
t taste
anything like what we had in Chinatown.
M: It
definitely wasn
’
t worth the
wait.
Q: What
do we learn from the conversation?
5.
W: Do you know
what
’
s wrong with Mark?
He
’
s been acting very
strangely lately.
M: Come on. With his mother
hospitalized right after
he
’
s taking on a new job,
he's just got
a lot on his mind.
Q: What do we
learn from the conversation about Mark?
6.
W: There were only 20
students at last night
’
s
meeting, so nothing could be voted on.
M:
That
’
s
too
bad.
They'll
have
to
turn
up
in
greater
numbers
if
they
want
a
voice
on
campus issues.
Q: What does
the man mean?
7.
M: I try to watch TV as little as
possible. But it
’
s so hard.
W: I
didn
’
t watch TV at all
before I retired. But now I can hardly tear myself
away from it.
Q: What do we learn from the
conversation?
8.
W: I
’
m having a
problem registering for the classes I want.
M:
That
’
s too bad. But
I
’
m pretty sure
you
’
ll be able to work
everything out before the
semester
starts.
Q: What
does the man mean?
长对话
1
Long
Conversation 1
W: Jack, sit down and listen. This is
important. We have to tackle the problems of
exporting
step by step. And the first
move is to get an up-to-date picture of where we
stand now.
M:
Why don't we just concentrate on expanding here at
home?
W: Of
course we should hold on to our position here, but
you must admit the market here is
limited.
M: Yes, but it's safe. The
government keeps out foreigners with import
controls. So I must
admit I feel sure
we could hold our own against the foreign bikes.
W: I agree.
That
’
s why I'm suggesting
exporting, because I feel we can compete with the
best of them.
M: What you are really saying is that
we'd make more profit by selling bikes abroad,
where
we have a cost advantage and can
charge higher prices.
W: Exactly.
M: But
?
Wait a
minute! Packaging, shipping, financing, etc. will
push up our costs and we
could end up
no better-off. Maybe worse-off.
W: Okay. Now there are
extra costs involved. But if we do it right, they
can be built into the
price of the
bike, and we can still be competitive.
M: How sure are you about
our chances of success in the foreign market?
W: Well, that's
the sticky one. It's going to need a lot of
research. I'm hoping to get your help.
Oh, come on Jack! Is that worth it or
not?
M:
There'll be a lot of problems.
W: Nothing we can't handle.
M:
Um
?
I'm not that
hopeful. But
?
yes, I think we should go ahead with
the feasibility
study.
W: Marvelous, Jack. I was
hoping you be on my side.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
9. What does the woman
intend to do?
10. Why does the man think
it
’
s safe to focus on the
home market?
11. What is the man's concern about
selling bikes abroad?
12. What do the speakers agree to do?
Long conversation2
长对话二
W: What does the term
alternative energy source mean?
M: When you think of energy
or fuel for our homes and cars, we think of
petroleum or fossil
fuel
processed
from
oil
removed
from
the
ground
of
which
there
is
a
limited
supply.
But
alternative fuels can be
many things, wind, sun and water can all be used
to create fuel.
W: Is the threat of running out of
petroleum real?
M: It has taken thousands of years to
create the natural stores of petroleum we have
now.
We are using what is available at
a much faster rate than it has been produced over
time. The real
controversy
surrounding
the
amounts
of
petroleum
we
have
is
how
much
we
need
to
keep
in
reserve
for future use. Most experts agree that by around
2025 the amount of petroleum we use
will reach a peak then production and
availability will begin to seriously decline. This
is not to say
there will be no
petroleum at this point, but it willbecome very
difficult and therefore expensive
to
extract.
W: Is
that the most important reason to develop
alternative fuel and energy sources?
M: There're two very clear
reasons to do so. One is that whether we have 60
or 600 years of
fossil fuels left, we
have to find other fuel sources eventually, so the
sooner we start, the better
off we will
be. The other big argument is that when you burn
fossil fuels, you release substances
trapped in the ground for a long time,
which leads to some long term negative effects
like global
warming and greenhouse
effect.
13. What do we usually refer to when we
talk about energy according to the man?
14. What do
most experts agree on according to the man?
15. What does
the man think we should do now?
短文一
Passage One
Karen
Smith
is
a
buyer
for
a
department
store
in
New
York.
Department
store
buyers
purchase the goods that their stores
sell. They not only have to know what is
fashionable at the
moment, but also
have to guess what will become fashionable next
season or next year.
Most buyers work for just one
department in a store, but the goods that Karen
finds may be
displayed and sold in
several different sections of the store. Her job
involves buying handicrafts
from all
over the world.
Last year, she made a trip to Morocco,
and returned with rugs, pots, dishes, and pans.
The
year before, she visited Mexico,
and brought back hand-made table cloths, mirrors
with frames of
tin, and paper flowers.
The paper flowers are bright and colorful, so they
were used to decorate
the whole store.
This year, Karen is traveling in Malaysia,
Thailand, and Indonesia. Many of the
countries that Karen visits have
government offices that promote handicrafts. They
officials are
glad to cooperate with
her, by showing her the products that are
available.
Karen
especially
likes
to
visit
markets
and
small
towns
and
villages
whenever
she
can
arrange
for it. She
’
s always looking
for interesting and unusual items. Karen thinks
she has the
best job she could have
found. She loves all the traveling that she has to
do,because she often
visits markets and
small out-of-the-way places. She sees much more of
the country she visits than
an ordinary
tourists would. As soon as she gets back to New
York from one trip, Karen begins to
plan another.
16. What is said to make a good
department store buyer?
17. What does
Karen
’
s job involve?
18. Why does
Karen think she has got the best job?
Passage Two
Mark
felt
that
it
was
time
for
him
to
take
part
in
his
community,
so
he
went
to
the
neighborhood meeting
after work. The area city council woman was
leading a discussion about
how the
quality of life was on the decline. The
neighborhood faced many problems. Mark looked
at the charts taped to the walls. There
were charts for parking problems, crime, and for
problems
in va
cant
buildings. Mark read from the charts, “Police
patrols cut back, illegal parking up 20%”.
People
were
supposed
to
suggest
solutions
to
the
council
woman.
It
was
too
much
for
Mark.
“The problems are too
big”, he thought. He turned to the man next to
him
and said, “I think this
is a waste of my time. Nothing I can do
would make a difference here.”
As he neared
the bus stop on his way home, Mark saw a woman
carrying a grocery bag, and
a
baby.
As
Mark
got
closer,
her
other
child,
a
little
boy,
suddenly
darted
into
the
street.
The
woman tried to reach for
him, but as she moved, her bag shifted, and
groceries started to fall out.
Mark ran
to take the boy’s arm and led him back to his
mother. “You gotta stay with mom,” he
said. Then he picked up the stray
gro
ceries while and the woman smiled in
relief. “Thanks,” she
said, “You’ve got
great timing.” “Just being neighborly,” Mark said.
As he rode home, he glanced
at the
poster near his seat in the bus. Small acts of
kindness add up. Mark smiled and thought,
“Maybe that’s a good place to
start.”
19. What did Mark think he should start
doing?
20. What was being discussed when Mark
arrived at the neighborhood meeting?
21. What did Mark think of
the community
’
s problems?
22. Why did
Mark smile on his ride home?
Passage
Three
And
if
stress
in
childhood
can
lead
to
heart
disease,
what
about
current
stresses?
Longer
work
hours,
threats
of
layoffs,
collapse
in
pension
funds.
A
study
last
year
in
the
Lancered
examined more than
11,000 heart attack sufferers from
52
countries. It found that in the year
before their heart attacks, patients
have been under significantly more stress than
some 13,000
healthy control subjects.
Those stresses came from work, family, financial
trouble, depression and
other causes.
Each
of
these
factors
individually
was
associated
with
increased
risk,
says
Dr.
Salim
Yosef,
professor of medicine
at Canada
’
s McMaster
University, and senior investigator on the study.
Together they accounted for 30% of
overall heart attack risk, but people respond
differently to
high pressure work
situations. Whether it produces heart problems
seems to depend on whether
you have a
sense of control over life, or live at the mercy
of circumstances and superiors.
That was the experience of
Jano Cano, a roughed Illinois laboratory manager,
who suffered
his first heart attack in
1996 at the age of 56. In the two years before,
his mother and two of his
children had
suffered serious illnesses, and his job had been
ch
anged in a reorganization. “My life
seemed complet
ely out of
control,” he says, “I had no idea where I would
end up.” He ended up
in hospital due to
a block in his artery. Two months later, he had a
triple bypass surgery. A second
heart
attack when he was 58 left his doctor shaking his
head. “There’s noth
ing more we can do
for you,” doctors told him.
23. What does
the passage mainly discuss?
24. What do we learn about
Jano Cano
’
s family?
25. What did
Jano Cano
’
s doctors tell him
when he had a second heart attack?
Spot
Dictation
When
most people think of the word
“
< br>education
”
, they think of
a pupil as a sort of animate
sausage
casing. Into this empty casting, the teachers are
supposed to stuff
“
education
.
”
But genuine education, as Socrates knew
more than two thousand years ago, is not inserting
the
stuffing
of
information
into
a
person,
but
rather
eliciting
knowledge
from
him;
it
is
the
drawing-out of what is
in the mind.
“
The
most
important
part
of
education,
”
once
wrote
William
Ernest
Hocking,
the
distinguished Harvard philosopher,
“
is this instruction of a
man in what he has inside of
him.
”
And, as Edith Hamilton has
reminded us, Socrates never said,
“
I know, learn from
me.
”
He
said, rather,
“
Look into your own selves
and find the spark of the truth that God has put
into
every heart and that only you can
kindle to a flame.
”
In a dialogue,
Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy, without a
day of schooling, and proves to
the
amazed
observers
that
the
boy
really
“
knows
”
geometry
–
because
the
principles
of
geometry are already in his mind,
waiting to be called out.
So
many
of
the
discussions
and
controversies
about
the
content
of
education
are
useless
and inconclusive
because they are concerned with what should
“
go
into
”
the student
rather
than with what should be taken
out, and how this can best be done.
The college student who
once said to me, after a lecture,
“
I spend so much time
studying
that I
don
’
t have a chance to learn
anything,
”
was
clearly expressing his dissatisfaction with the
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