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Section One Tactics for Listening

Parti Spot Dictation

Make Your Child a Winner

Peak performances

- moments when children (1) achieve the best that's in them

-

are the stuff of every parent's (2) dream. And yet most of us have seen a report card or

heard a trumpet solo that (3) falls short of what our kids can (4)

accomplish.

Why can some boys and girls repeatedly pull themselves to the (5) heights, while

others

of

equal

or

(6)

superior

ability

cannot?

Many

parents

assume

skill

is

pretty

much determined by (7)

natural

ability;

the student

with the highest

I.Q. will

get

the

best grades, or the athlete with the most prowess will (8) surpass his teammates.

Genes count in determining performance, but they're not everything. The (9) edge

comes from mental attitude, character and (10) strategy. There are some simple ways

for parents to help their youngsters develop those (11) traits:

Find something to praise. A child who feels good about himself

(12) succeeds; Assess your child's (13) strengths;

Encourage self- applause;

Knowing how to relax is key to (14) peak performance.

A good report card (15) posted near your daughter's mirror reminds her that she can

do well and (16) reinforces the urge to repeat her success. There are no (17) shortcuts to

bringing your child to do his best. It's a (18) gradual process of support, encouragement

and hard work. And those efforts (19) payoff not only in peak performance but also in (20)

closei_winner relations between parent and child.

Part2 listening for Gist

Elderly people deserve our care and respect. Too many of them are left in homes for

the elderly,

alone

and

often

forgotten by their

families. Or they live

with

their families,

who then have no time to themselves.

The family placement scheme is currently providing many carers with a satisfying

and important occupation. And more and more grandparents are being

caring families.

How does the scheme operate?

Families

are

interviewed

and

carefully

matched

to

the

elderly

person

or

persons,

taking into account

such

things as

suitability of accommodation

- special

needs,

children

and

pets,

smoking,

lifestyle,

personality

and

interests.

Matching

is,

of

course,

largely

a

matter of ensuring that the elderly person and the carer

will enjoy each other's company.

After this the elderly person and the family are prepared for the placement: An

introductory visit is arranged, usually in the carer's home. This means that when the

placement begins the elderly person and family have met each other. Carers are paid

0n a weekly basis to cover expenses.

Exercise

Directions: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help

you decide.

1. This passage is about the family placement scheme and how it operates.

The

key

words

are

elderly

people,

care,

respect:

scheme,

adopted,

caring

families:

interviewed,

matched,

suitability:

matching,

ensuring,

enjoy

company:

introductory

visit, caring home: paid.

cover expenses. Section Two Listening

Comprehension

Part 1 Dialogue

Tree Climbers of Pompeii*

Sara: Urn ... It's another one of my adventures as a tourist, urn ... finding out things you

really didn't expect to find out when you went to the place! 1 went to Pompeii and of

course what you go to Pompeii for is er ... the archaeology.

Liz: To see the ruins.

Sara:

To

see

the

ruins.

And

I

was

actually

seeing

the

ruins

but

urn

...

suddenly

my

attention was caught by something else. I was just walking round the comer of a ruin,

into a group of trees, pine trees, and I was just looking at them, admiring them and

suddenly I saw a man halfway up this tree, and I was looking at him so all I could see

was his hands and his feet and he was about 20 or 30 feet up. I thought,

what's going on here? Has he got a ladder or hasn't he?

he had a ladder. No, he had just gone straight up the tree.

Liz: He'd shinned up* the tree.

Sara:

He'd

shinned

up

the

tree.

Like

a

monkey,

more

or

less,

except

he

was

a

rather

middle-aged monkey ... He was er ... he was all of 50 and (Dh God), what's going on

here?

Anyway,

I

walked

a

bit

further

and

saw

other

people

either

up

trees

or

preparing to go up trees, and then I noticed a man standing there directing them. A

sort of foreman, and began to wonder what on earth was going on, and then on the

ground I saw there were all these polythene* buckets and they were full of pine

cones*

and

of

course

what

they

were

doing

was

collecting

pine

cones,

and

I

thought,

urn ... made urn ... made untidy with all these things.

lorry ...

full

of

pine

cones ...

This

was

getting

ridiculous ...

They

were

really

collecting

them

in

a

big

way.

So

I

urn ...

asked

the

er ...

foreman

what

was

going on and

he

said,

know urn ... pine

nuts are extreme

ly sought

after and valuable in the food industry in Italy.

Liz: For food (Yeah). Not fuel! I thought you were going to say they were going to put

(bum) them on a fire. Yes.

Sara: Well, they might bum the er ... cones when they've finished with them but

inside these cones are little white things like nuts and er ... I realized that they're used in

Italian cooking quite a lot in er ... there's a particular sauce that goes with

spaghetti em ... from Geneva, I think, called

ground up and of course they they ... come in cakes and sweets and things like that.

Liz: So jt's quite a delicacy.

Sara: It's quite a delicacy. And of course I'd never thought of how they actually got

them 'cos you can't imagine having a pine nut farm. So w

hat he said

happens is that private Arms like his buy a licence off the Italian State for the

right to go round places like Pompeii - archaeological sites and things - and

systematically collect all the pine cones that come off the trees and similarly in t

he ...

in the forests. Liz: And of course they have to go up the tree because by the time it's

fallen food isn't any good . Sara: That's right. They're pulling them down and he said

they were very good at urn ... recognizing which ones were ready and which

ones were

a bit hard and etc, and each of them had a sort of stick with a hook at the end w hich

they were using to pull the pines off... off the trees but clearly it wasn't enough to sit

around and wait till they fell down. You ... you had to do somethin

g about it. There

they were. So that was er ... the end of my looking at the ruins for about half an hour. I

was too fascinated by this er .., strange form of er... agriculture.

Liz: Well, what you don't intend to see is always the most

interesting. Sara: Much more interesting.

Exercise

Directions: Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to each of the

following questions.

l.A 2.B 3.D 4.B 5.C 6. A 7. A 8.D

Part 2 Passage

Windmills

1.

Now, windmills are poised to break into a new frontier: the modern

city

center, often fused into building designs and barely noticeable from a

distance.

2.

Lighter, quieter, and often more efficient than their rural counterparts, they take

advantage of the extreme turbulence and rapid shifts in direction that

characterize urban wind patterns.

3.

But so far, the current models are being designed more for public or commercial

buildings than for private homes, and the smallest weigh roughly 200 kilograms.

4.

The recent liberalization of European energy markets also has allowed custome

rs to

choose

what

kind

of

sustainable

energy

they

want

to

purchase,

with

wind

energy

among the most popular.

In the classrooms down below, there's no palpable sign that a steel windmill up

above is continually feeding kilowatts to the local power grid.

The

graceful wooden

windmills

that

have broken

up

the

flat

Dutch

landscape

for

centuries

a

national

symbol

like

wooden

shoes

and

tulips

-

yielded

long

ago

to

ungainly metal-pole wind turbines.*

Now, windmills are poised to break into a new frontier: the modem

city center,

often fused* into building designs and barely noticeable from a distance.

Though still in its teething stages, the

windmill designed to generate energy from the rooftops of bustling cities.

Lighter, quieter, and often more efficient than their rural counterparts, they take

advantage of the extreme turbulence* and rapid shifts in direction that characterize

urban wind patterns.

Prototypes* have been successfully tested in several Dutch cities, and the

city government in the Hague has recently agreed to begin a large

-scale

deployment in 2003.

These very visible projects also improve the public profile of wind power, making

energy companies look environmentally correct.

Current

models

cost

US$$8,000

to

US$$12,000,

and

can

generate

between

3,000

and 7,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. A typical Dutch household uses 3,500

kilowatt hours per year, while in the United States, this figure jumps to around 10,000

kilowatt hours.

But so far, they are being designed more for public or commercial buildings than

for

private

homes.

The

smallest

of

the

current

models

weigh

roughly

200

kilograms

and can be installed on a roof in a few hours without using a crane.

Germany,

Finland

and

Denmark

have

also

been

experimenting

with

the

technology,

but

the

ever-practical

Dutch

are

natural

pioneers

in

urban

wind

power,

mainly because of the lack of space there.

The Netherlands, with 16 million people crowded into a country twice the size of

Slovenia, is the most densely populated in Europe.

The scarcity of land also is felt in the countryside, forcing traditional wind farms to

seek new locations. Offshore wind farms are more common, but remain pricey and

difficult to service.

Various

European

initiatives

to

increase

the

viability*

of

s

ustainable

energy

also

have

given

the

urban

turbine

a

boost,

leading

to

heightened

interest

in

-energy

buildings that generate their own power.

The recent liberalization of European energy markets also has allowed customers to

choose what kind of sustainable energy they want to purchase, with wind energy among

the most popular.

Windmills are usually noisy, though the latest models are considered quiet enough

to blend into the background noise that already exists in the urban environment.

In the Dutch town of Ede, whose old wooden mill now generates more tourism than

energy,

the

new

windmill

on

the

roof

of

the

ROVC

Technical

School

hardly

makes

a

whisper as its blades spin in a brisk winter breeze. If the wind is blowing really hard, you

can usually hear it a little bit on the roof.

But in the classrooms down below, there's no palpable sign that a steel windmill up

above is continually feeding kilowatts to the

local power grid. Nor is the kind

of

visual

blight often associated with modern windmills.

But in

the classrooms down below, there's no palpable* sign that a

steel

windmill up

above is continually feeding kilowatts to the local power grid. Nor is there the kind of

visual blight* often ssociated with modern windmills.

Meanwhile, projects are under way to use the windmills to generate power for

lifeboats, streetlights, and portable generators.

Exercise A Pre-listening Question

Holland, I think, is the country noted for windmills. We seldom have the chances to

see the real ones, but sometimes we can find them in some amusement parks.

Exercise B

Sentence Dictation

Directions: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each

sentence three times.

Exercise C Detailed Listening

Directions: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to c

omplete each

of the

following sentences.

l.D 2.C 3.A 4.A 5.D 6.C 7.A 8.B Section Three NEWS

News Item 1

Indonesia-IMF*

Indonesia has made the long-awaited announcement that it is going to leave the

International Monetary Fund* loan program at the end of the year. Tim Johnston

reports from Jakarta. That presents a number of challenges for the government of

President Megawati Sukarnoputri *.

Indonesia has been reliant on funding from the IMF since its economy

almost collapsed during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.

The country now

owes

9.2 billion dollars

to the

IMF,

and it has

said that it

will

repay

the

money

over

six

years.

In

order

to

satisfy

the

fund's

conditions

-

and

reassure* investors - IMF officials will still monitor the country's finances.

Some economists are worried that without the steadying hand of the IMF, the

administration will be less inclined to tackle reforms that are politically sensitive,

but necessary.

Exercise A

Directions: Listen to the news item and complete the summary.

This news item is about an announcement made by Indonesia to leave the

International Monetary Fund loan program at the end of the year.

Exercise B

Directions: Listen to the news again and choose the best answer to complete each

of the following sentences.

l.D 2.A 3.C 4.A 5.B

News Item 2

US Economy

Most analysts had expected the GDP number to be one percentage point lower than

what

was actually the case.

The Commerce

Department says the economy moved ahead

in large part because of a surge* in defense spendin

g, which was up 44 percent from the

same period a year ago. The housing sector was also strong because of low interest rates,

which are at their lowest level in 45 years.

Drew

Matus,

an

analyst

at

Lehman

Brothers

in

New

York,

is

encouraged

by

the

apparent rebound* in capital investment.

A

second

report

also

lifted

stock

prices

as

investors

began

to

think

that

the

long-expected

pickup

in

growth

may

be

actually

occurring.

First-time

claims

for

unemployment

benefits

fell

back

last

week

to

their

lowest

level

in

five

weeks.

Lower

first-time claims is a sign that the long depressed US labor market may be improving.

Exercise A

Directions: Listen to the news item and complete the summary.

This news item is about the faster-than-expected grow th of US economy.