Section A
[00:01.78]1. W: What time does the ballet start?
[00:04.47]M: At 8:30. We have 35 minutes to get there.
[00:08.31]Q: What time is it now?
[00:11.08]2. W: How did your football team do last season?
[00:14.60]M: We won three times, lost five times, and tied twice.
[00:20.11]Q: How many times did they tie?
[00:23.72]3. W: Good afternoon,I'm Roseanne your flight attendant.
[00:27.69]Welcome aboard.
[00:28.92]M: Hello. I've got seat A
[00:32.21]I hope it's by a window so that I can see the view.
[00:35.63]Q: Where did this conversation most probably take place?
[00:40.36]4.M: Where did Suzanne come from?
[00:40.65]W: She was born in Switzerland and grew up in Swede
[00:43.86]but she's a citizen of England.
[00:45.82]Q: What country does Suzanne presently call her home?
[00:50.00]5 W:Are you going to watch the movie on TV tonight?
[00:54.00]M:No,I think I'll watch the soccer game and then the documentary on volcanoes.
[00:59.79]Q: Which is the first program the man is planning to watch?
[01:04.63]6. M: What do you think of professor Conrad's class?
[01:09.07]W: Well,his lectures are interesting enough
[01:11.50]but I think he could choose more appropriate questions for the tests.
[01:15.65]Q: What does the woman NOT like about professor Conrad's class?
[01:21.01]7. M:Nancy,why were you late for class this morning?
[01:25.58]W: I overslept and missed the bus.
[01:27.98]Q: Why was Nancy late?
[01:30.67]8. W: Aren't we supposed to have a science test this afternoon?
[01:34.88]M: It was postponed because the teacher had to attend a conference.
[01:39.11]Q: What do we learn from this conversation?
[01:42.40]9. W: Do you think I have a chance of proving my case?
[01:46.37]M: Definitely, and we're going to sue for injuries as well.
[01:50.81]Q: What is the probable relationship between the man and woman?
[01:55.67]10.M:Operator,I'd like to place a call to Athens,Greece.
[02:00.53]How much will it cost?
[02:02.12]W: $ 9 for the first three minutes and $ 3 for each additional minute.
[02:06.96]Q: How much would a ten--- minute call cost?
[02:10.64]Section B
[02:12.15]Passage One
[02:13.62]Indian summer is a short period of extremely fair weather and mild days in autumn.
[02:19.65]It comes in late October or early November
[02:22.55]while the leaves are changing color and falling from the trees.
[02:26.73]It has no definite day of beginning or ending.
[02:30.75]The pleasant weather follows the autumn's first period of cold,wintry days.
[02:35.90]The days become warmer but the nights remain chill
[02:39.63]An Indian summer moon often has a soft yellow or orange hud.
[02:44.44]Indian summer lasts from a week to ten days and sometimes for two weeks.
[02:49.67]Then winter starts.
[02:51.65]Indian summer is caused by a large mass of warm tropical ai
[02:56.09]South winds carry these masses northward.
[02:59.07]The American Indian enjoyed Indian summer and called it a gift of a favorite God.
[03:04.76]Cautantowwit,the god of the southwest.
[03:08.16]11. Which of the following can be understood from the passage?
[03:12.89]12. What causes Indian summer?
[03:16.15]13. What was NOT Mentioned as a feature of Indian summer?
[03:21.01]Passage Two
[03:22.53]I'm Mr. Britain, the head librarian
[03:25.30]and today I'd like to introduce you to facilities
[03:28.93]in our university library and show you how to use them.
[03:32.82]The first room on our tour is the reference room
[03:36.29]where you'll find all sorts of reference material
[03:39.51]dictionaries,bibliographies,literature guides,even telephone books.
[03:44.94]You may use these books only in the reference room itself.
[03:48.73]The next room is the periodicals room
[03:51.68]where you'll find various newspapers, magazines and academic journal.
[03:56.38]The current issues are usually directly available to you on the shelves
[04:01.37]And you can get an older issue by filling out a slip for the librarian.
[04:06.57]These items must also be used in this room.
[04:10.28]This next room contains the card catalog.
[04:13.36]All the library's books are listed here by title.
[04:16.81]by author and by topic.
[04:19.53]When you are looking for a book you must write the book's call number
[04:23.45]title and author on these slips and present them with your library card at the desk.
[04:29.06]The books themselves are kept in the stack
[04:32.20]which are open only to graduate student
[04:34.97]faculty members and library staff.
[04:37.71]Our library has over a million volumes in these stacks which cover five floor
[04:43.48]If you have any further questions about using the library.
[04:47.06]I'd be glad to help you after the touch.
[04:49.70]Thand you for your attention.
[04:51.97]14. What is the main topic of this talk?
[04:55.63]15. Who is probably listening to Mr.Britain?
[04:59.52]16. Which people are usually not allowed to use the stacks?
[05:05.14]Passage Three
[05:06.65]Today I'm going to discuss transportation and communication
[05:10.28]in the earty 19th century in the United States.
[05:13.44]At that time,inland waterways provided North America's most popular from of long distance transportation.
[05:20.34]Travel by river was often more convenient than taking a wagon over primitive country road
[05:26.06]especially when shipping heavy loads of farm products or household good
[05:30.16]Where the natural waterways were inadequate
[05:32.62]shallow canals were built.
[05:34.34]The Erie Canal,opened in 1825,connected the Great Lakes with the upper Hudson River.
[05:40.17]It allowed settlers in the Great Lakes region to send their crops eastward to New York City
[05:45.00]the mouth of the Hudson at a much lower cost.
[05:47.82]From there,crops could be shipped to other Atlantic ports.
[05:51.92]The construction of the Erie Canal also encouraged westward migration along inland waterways and helped populate the frontier.
[05:59.39]The City of Detroit grew up between two of the Great Laker.
[06:03.63]Later a canal joined the Great Lakes with the Mississippi river system and Chicago became a thriving city.
[06:10.36]Politically the waterway system untied the nation in a way few had imagined possible.
[06:15.75]By the mid -- 1800's faster and cheaper railroads became more popular and the canal system declined
[06:23.09]railroads could be used year round whereas canals were often frozen in the winter
[06:28.31]During the first third of the century,however
[06:31.05]tranportation on river
[06:32.78]lakes and canals aided greatly in the growth of the United States.
[06:37.11]Next week we'll discuss the railroads in greater detail.
[06:41.01]17. What is the main idea of this lecture?
[06:45.34]18. When was inland waterway travel most popular?
[06:50.54]19. What was usually transported from west to east?
[06:55.71]20. What was NOT a result of the inland water system in the United States |