201306-3听力原文+答案

听力短对话

11.

M

:

What do you think of the government'snewtax cut

proposal

?

W

:

Though it may give some

benefit

tothepoor,tis key

component

is t

he

elimination

oftax on means therich will get richer.

Q

:

What does the woman think about thegovernment'stax cut propsal?

12.

M

:

Jenny, remember this:a job worth doing atall is worth doing well.

W

:

Oh,yes,I certainly won't forget 't expect me to

stick

to the

job just because tipays a few more bucks.A lifeof

continuous

exploratio

n

is a life worth living.

Q

:

What can be

inferred

about the woman fromthe

conversation

?

13.

M

:

I found that one of my schoolmates can I help him

,Mom?

W

:

Stay away from him, think thatyou can talk him out of t

he habit if he ps you can talk toyour teacher about the

matter.

Q

:

What's the woman'sadvice to her son?

14.

W

:

I don't know how you can eat so much yetnever put on any weight,

father's gotthesame luck.I can't take a bite withoutcalculating ho

w many calories I am taking.

M

:

but remember Aunt louise, Mom?She ate alot and never gained a p

ound.

Q

:

Who is worried abort qaining weight?

15.

W

:

Did you turn off the lights and

check

thelocks on all the doors?

M

:

Yes, I told the Johnsons that we'd begone for two pro

mise to keep an eyeon the house for us.

Q

:

What are the two speakers going to do?

16.

M

:

Hurry up,Linda!I hear that there are notmany tickets left for the fo

otball match.

W

:

I an ready now,

let’s

is the earlybird that catches the

worm

.

Q

:

Why did the man ask the woman to hurryup?

17.

W

:

Did you hear that the

convenience

storenext to the gas station was

held up last night?

M

:

Yes, I heard it on the radio thismorning.

Q

:

What happened to the

convenience

store?

18.

M

:

Congratulations!I just heard about youracceptance in the law schoo

l. Do you think youwould join your brother's firmafter graduation?

W

:

Not likely. He is a tax lawyer, and I amgoing to major in

criminal

law.

Q

:

Whatdoes the woman mean?

听力长对话原文

1

Conversation One

W

:

Hi, Bill, how is it going?

M

:

Oh, hi, Jane.

I’m

OK. How about you?

W

:

You can probably tell just by looking

atme.I’m

really busy. Hey,

what are you reading?

M

:

A pretty interesting article. My biologyprofessor assigned it, and I

thought I just lookedit over. But I got reallyinvolved in it.

It’s

about enda

ngered

species

.

W

:

That sounds pretty interesting.

I’mgetting

frustrated with the two r

esearch papers

I’mstruggling

with. And canyou believe they are both due

on the same day?

M

:

That’s

tough.

W

:

I’ll

get through it. So

what’s

this youare reading?

M

:

Well,

it’s

basically about the choicesconservationists are faced wit

h. You know, thesedays when funding is so hardto come by.

W

:

Wait a minute. Is the focus on biologyor economics?

M

:

Both. Conservationists

don’t

have enoughfunding to save every en

dangered

species

inthe world, so they have to decidebased on what would

be lost if a

species

became

extinct

.

W

:

Can you give me an example of what youmean?

M

:

Take for instance, two animals, thespotted owl and the tailed toad.

The article says thetoad is

unique

. It has norelatives. But there are a lot o

f varieties of owls.

W

:

So, if that toad became

extinct

,

we’dlose

an important link in the

chain of

evolution

,right?

M

:

Exactly. But that

isn’t

so for the for conservationists, it mi

ght be a clear choice ofwhich animal to save.

W

:

I see. I am glad I

don’t

have to makethat kind of

decision

.

Aren’t

you?

Questions

19

to

21

are based on theconversation you have just heard

.

19. What are the speakers mainlydiscussing?

20. What problems do conservationists have?

21. What can be

inferred

about the tailedtoad?

听力长对话原文

2

Conversation Two

M

:

Good evening, dear audience.

I’m

glad tocontinue the topic about

music. It is commonknowledge that music can have apowerful effect on o

ur emotions. In fact, since 1930s, musictherapists haverelied on music to

soothe

patients and help

control

pain. Now psychologistsareconfirming t

hat music can also help

relieve

depression

and improveconcentration.

W

:

That’s

nice. Do they have any concreteexamples?

M

:

For instance, in a recent study,

15surgeons were given some highly stressed mathproblems to

solve

. The

y weredivided into three groups: one worked in

silence

; and in another,th

e surgeonslistened to music of their choice on headphones; the third listen

ed to classicmusicchosen by the researchers.

W

:

What’re

the results?

M

:

The results of the study may surpriseyou. The doctors who got to

choose their music

experienced

less

stress

andscored better than the other

s.

W

:

That is surprising. How to explain this?

M

:

One possible

explanation

is thatlistening to music you like stimul

ates the Alfa- wave inthe brain, increasesthe heart rate and expands the bre

athing. That helps to reduce

stress

andsharpen

concentration

.

W

:

Is there any other research?

M

:

Yes. Other research suggests a secondrelation between the music

and the brain: byexamining the

students’

bloodafter listening to a

variety

of classical music collections, theresearchersfound that some students sho

wed a large increase in a chemical

substance

,anatural pain reliever, in the

ir blood, which can help

soothe

the patient.

W

:

Well, thank you so much for being withus today and having us kn

ow about another

function

of music.

Questions

22

to

25

are based on theconversation you have just heard

.

22. What is the talk mainly about?

23. According to the speaker, how is themusic

therapy

currently used

in medicine?

24. What did the study done with surgeonshow?