三.听力部分
1. white 2. 2 3. wine
4.well-cooked 5. Kobak 6. checking
7. 1,000pounds 8. 69 9. onholiday
10. friends 11. three 12. March
13. F 14. H 15. D
16. G17. A 18. C
19. A 20. E 21. B
22. F 23. B 24. A
25. A 26. C 27.B
28. C 29. B 30. C
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Part One. Questions1-12
Message One. Questions 14.
F1 : Hello ! Welcome to ourrestaurant.
M1 : Hello ! I have booked a table for 2 people.
F1 : Areyou Mr. White?
M1 : Yes ,I am.
F1 : Then , come this way , please!
M1 : Thank you. Could you show us the menu?
F1 : Here you are,Sir.
M1 : Well ,well ,there are so many beautiful names ,but I have noidea what they really are. Can you recommend something for us?
F1 : Isuggest you should have today's special.
M1 : And what's that?
F1 :It's chicken with red wine ,mushroom ,onion and garlic.
M1 : it soundsdelicious. Well ,we don't like onion and garlic. Do you have beef?
F1 : Yes,sir. How do you like it?
M1 : Well-cooked.
F1 : Yes ,sir. Would youlike something to drink?
M1 : Just two bottles of beer.
F1 : Anythingelse?
M1 : No , thank you.
Message Two. Questions 5-8.
M1 : Goodmorning. May I help you?
F1 : Yes. I have just moved here from Liverpool.As you seem to be the closest bank I'd like to open an account here.
M1 :Welcome to account services in our bank. What type of account would you like toopen ?
F1 : Of course ,a check account. Do you have a check account policy?Is there a minimum balance required?
M1 : Yes ,you have to open youraccount with five hundred pounds or more ; otherwise , we'll charge a monthlyservice fee of five pounds. Also , we pay interest on your check account.
F1 : How much interest do you pay?
M1 : Right now, it's six percent.And we use the average daily balance to calculate the interest you've earned andcredit it automatically to your account.
F1 : Then I'd like to open thisaccount with a deposit of one thousand pounds. My name is Lilian Kobak.
M1: Could you spell it?
F1 : L-I-L-I-A-N , K-O-B-A-K.
M1 : Ok , Ms.Kobak, you'll receive the printed checks in ten days. First , you have to fillout these forms.
Message Three. Questions 9- 12.
M1 : Welcome toParis. May I see your passport?
...Oh I see you've never been herebefore.
F1 : No ,this is the first time I have been to Paris.
M1 : Er,what's the purpose of your visit?
F1 : I'm on holiday.
M1 : Where areyou going?
F1 : I'm going from here to London ,then to Edinburgh and thenback to Paris.
M1 : Where are you going to stay?
F1 : Well ,mainlywith my friends.
M1 : And how long are you going to be here?
F1 : Well,about three months.
M1 : Er ,what's the date of your return?
F1 :Could you make it the 15th of March?
M1 : Ok !
F1 : Thanks alot.
Part Two. Questions 13-22.
Section One. Questions13-17.
Question Thirteen
It is said in the newspaper that thetemperature will be in the mid-eighties Fahrenheit in the east today. No rain isexpected ,and the forecast says the temperature won't go below seventy-five forthe next week or so.
Question Fourteen
It uses lighter material in thebody and frame. It adopts a new kind of carburetor which cuts down on petrolconsumption. That will save your money. The steering and brakes are powerful.You can take a test drive and see how it runs.
Question Fifteen
Thislooks funny, but I don't know if it has the same sense of humour as me.This
second one is pretty ,but it doesn't have any of my personality ortaste in it. Oh ,I like this one. The design is attractive and the message iswarm and friendly.
Question Sixteen
I started with some game showsthis morning. I answered almost all the questions
correctly. At 11 : 30 1switched to the cable channel and the film was so boring that I changed toChannel 5. That's Animal World. But I was so tired that I fellasleep.
Question Seventeen
There was a big box like piece of furniturewith lots of long drawers that had cards inside. Each card represents adifferent book. These cards are all arranged in alphabetical order. If you knowthe name of the book, the name of the author, or the subject ,you'll be able tofind the book you need.
Section Two. Questions 18-22.
QuestionEighteen
I've been driving for about six years now. It's a good job. I meetdifferent, interesting people. Most months the business is good. My office isthe wheels instead of in high buildings. I like my job very much.
QuestionNineteen
Have you any identification which shows your address. I need tosee something that verifies that you are a resident of our country. And pleasefill out this card. In a week, you'll receive a new library card.
QuestionTwenty
If you put your money in long-term bonds or securities ,you knowwhat the interest is going to be. It's usually a safe way to invest. If youinvest in the stock market ,you may make a big profit when the price goes up.But none of us really knows what's going to. happen in the market.
QuestionTwenty-one
Welcome to Flight 721. We'll depart for Paris and will arrive at2:32 pm. local time. We'll be flying at an altitude of thirty-five thousandfeet, so please fasten your seat belts. Our stewardesses will come around tohelp you.
Question Twenty-two
After four days of talks in Tokyo,American and Japanese negotiators have agreed on a proposal for balanced tradein modern technology products. Only after the approvals of the Japanese andAmerican governments will the proposal take effect.
Part Three. Questions23-30.
As German broad money supply(M3)now seems set to exceed itstarget for the third year in a row, pressure on the Bundesbank is growing toignore what Bundesbank president, Mr.Hans Tieteyer, calls an "importantintermediate indicator". The Bundesbank itself has been strengthening the handof critics of monetary targeting by lowering interest rates sharply despite verystrong money supply growth in the past six months.
Abandoning M3 now as asignpost for monetary policy would be a grave mistake for at least two reasons.First, there is on convincing evidence so far that the long-run relationshipbetween money supply growth and inflation has ceased to exist. Publiclyavailable independent studies , such as those from the Kiel institute of WorldEconomics , have found some evidence for a short-term disturbance in the demandfor money in the wake of German unification. But they have failed to reject thehypothesis that the long-run demand for money has remained stable.
Second,excessive money supply growth has reflected the partial monetary financing ofgovernment debt ,which ,if continued ,could threaten the purchasing power of theD-Mark.
In recent months Bundesbank representatives and other observershave attempted to explain the rampant growth of money supply on the basis ofportfolio shifts between money and "monetary capital" which means thelonger-term liabilities of the credit institutions. It is excluded fromM3.
In reality, however, expansion of credit has been driving money supplygrowth. At the end of 1993, total bank credit amounted to about DM3, 800bn, M3money to DMI , 900bn, and monetary capital to roughly DMZ , 100bn. With bankcredit rising at an annual rate of 10. 3 per cent between the end of 1991 andthe end of 1993 ,monetary capital would have to grow substantially above thisrate to neutralize the effects of credit growth on M3.
In fact, monetarycapital grew at an annual average rate of only 7. 7 pre cent ,so the annual riseof M3 during this period was 8. 7 per cent.
If the expansion of banklending had been used to finance investment in future productive capacity ,therewould have been little reason to worry.
However, between the second half of1990 and the second half of 1993, real investment in machinery and equipment inunited Germany declined by about 4 per cent. This suggests that most of thecredit was used for housing construction and consumption.
An importantsource of the demand for bank credit was the public sector. Between the end of1989 and mid-1993 ,public debt rose by 52 per cent. By-the end of 1994 ,the risewill be more than 115 percent. The lion's share of this increase was incurred tofinance transfers to east Germany. Since the appetite of German domestic saversfor government bonds was not sufficient to absorb the `new debt, the governmentexported part of it by selling bonds abroad ,and allowed the monetization ofanother part. |
