听力原文
第一部分 听力理解
Tapescripts
Section A
1. M: We shouldn’t have very long to wait now.
W: I hope not. I’m starving.
M: How can you think of food at a time like this?
Q: Where are the man and the woman?
2. W: I don’t understand how or why, but it seems to have disappeared.
M: But you just had it this morning, didn’t you?
Q: What happened?
3. M: What is the best time to visit Hong Kong, Jane?
W: I think autumn is the best. From September to November.
Q: What are they discussing?
4. M: I’d like to make a long distance call to New York, please. The number is 4763489.
W: May I have your name and room number please?
Q: Where is the woman working?
5. M: I would like two tickets for the 9 o’clock show this evening.
W: I’m sorry, sir. They are sold out. But we have a few left for tomorrow.
Q: what do we learn from this conversation?
6. W: You are too careful. I can hardly put up with a car moving at this speed.
M: Once bitten, twice shy. I was involved in a head-on collision a few months ago. I don’t want to repeat it.
Q: What can we learn from this conversation?
7. W: Our teacher encourages us to watch the news in English on TV. She says it is a good way to learn a language.
M: I think so. It will especially helpful if you can check the same story in the newspaper.
Q: What does the man mean?
8. W: Excuse me, we are ready to order now.
M: I’ll be with you in just a minute.
Q: What does the man mean?
9. M: What time did you show up? I didn’t expect you to arrive here so soon.
W: I got here are four o’clock. There was little traffic today.
Q: What can be concluded from the conversation?
Section B
Passage one
W: Did you hear the latest about Danny?
M: No. What happened to him?
W: Nothing happened to him exactly. He’s going to move to Seattle.
M: To Seattle? That’s a long way from here! What in the world made him decide to move to Seattle?
W: He got this terrific job offer. I guess the salary was so good he just couldn’t turn it down.
M: Well. It certainly will be a switch for him to be living in a place where it rains a lot. You know what a sun lover he is.
W: I guess if you are earning good money you can learn to like rain.
M: I don’t know. I’ve never had the chance to learn. I’ve never had a lot of money!
Questions:
10. From the conversation what do we know about Seattle?
11. Why did Danny decide to move to Seattle?
12. What can be concluded about Danny?
Passage two
Children in the United states are exposed to many influences other than that of their families. Television is the most significant of these influences, because the habit of watching television usually begins before children start attending school. And, by the time that the average child finishes high school, he or she will have spent 18,000 hours in front of a television set as opposed to 12,000 hours in a classroom.
Parents are concerned about these figures. They are also concerned about the lack of quality in television programs for children. The degree of violence in many of these shows also worries them.
Even if it is unreal – a cartoon cat beating up a cartoon mouse with a baseball bat – this violence may have a negative effect on the young minds exposed to it. Studies indicate that, when children are exposed to violence, they may become aggressive or insecure.
Parents are also concerned about the commercials that their children set on television. Many parents would like to see fewer commercials during programs for children. And some parents feel that these shows should not have commercials at all because young minds are not mature enough to deal with the claims made by advertisers.
Educational television has no commercials and has programs for children that many parents approve of. The most famous of these is “Sesame Street”, which tries to give preschool children a head start in learning the alphabet and numbers. It also tries to teach children useful things about the world in which they live.
Even though most parents and educators give “Sesame Streets” and shows like it high marks for quality, some critics argue that all television, whether educational or not, is harmful to children. These critics feel that the habit of watching hours of television every day turns children into bored and passive consumers of their world rather than encouraging them to become active explorers of it.
Questions:
13. Which of the following statements best gives the main idea of the passage?
14. According to the passage, what do you think “Sesame Street “is?
15. What will be the consequence if a child forms a habit of watching hours of television every day?
