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Section A |
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Question 1 |
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W: Raise your head a little bit and hold the saddle and smile a little. |
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You look wonderful posing like that. Shall I press the shutter? |
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M: Wait a minute. Let me put on a cowboy hat. |
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What are the speakers doing? |
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Question 2 |
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M: I'm still waiting for my sister to come back and type the application letter for me. |
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W: Why bother her. I'll show you how to use the computer. It's quite easy. |
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What does the woman mean? |
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Question 3 |
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M: Hey, where did you find the journal? I need it, too. |
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W: Right here on the shelf. Don t worry, John. |
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I'll take it out on my card for both of us. |
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What does the woman mean? |
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Question 4 |
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M: Thank you for your helpful assistance. |
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Otherwise, I'd surely have missed it.The place is so out of the way. |
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W: It was a pleasure meeting you. Good bye! |
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Why did the man thank the woman? |
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Question 5 |
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W: We are informed that the eleven thirty train is late again. |
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M: Why did the railway company even bother to print a schedule? |
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What do we learn from the conversation? |
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Question 6 |
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M: Maybe I ought to subscribe to the Engineering Quarterly. |
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It contains a lot of useful information. |
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W: Why not read it in the library and save some money? |
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What is the woman s advice to the man? |
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Question 7 |
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M: I've been waiting all week for this concert. |
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The performance is said to be excellent and with a student's discount, |
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the tickets will be really cheap. |
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W: Ah-huh. I'm afraid I left my Student ID card in the dorm. |
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What does the woman imply? |
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Question 8 |
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M: Mr.Smith,our history professor,announced we would be doing two papersand three exams this semester. |
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I wonder how I m going to pull through when two other courses have similar requirements. |
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W: Well, can't you drop one course and pick it up next semester? |
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What does the woman suggest the man do? |
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Question 9 |
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W: Renting a Conference Room at the hotel will cost us too much. |
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We are already running in the red. |
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M: How about using our dining room for the meeting? |
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What's worrying the woman? |
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Question 10 |
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W: Jerry, can you pick me up after work today? I left my car at the garage. |
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M: I'm afraid I can't. I have scheduled an appointment with a client at dinner time. |
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What is the man going to do? |
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Setion B |
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Passage One |
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A few months ago, millions of people in London heard alarms all over the town. |
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Emergency services, the Fire Departments, the Police, hospitals, |
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and ambulances stood by, ready to go into action. |
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In railway underground stations, people read notices and maps , |
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which told them where to go and what to do in the emergency. |
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This was Exercise Flood Call, to prepare people for a flood emergency. |
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London wasn't flooded yet, but it is possible that it would be. |
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In 1236 and in 1663, London was badly flooded. |
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In 1928, people living in Westminster, the heart of London, drowned in floods. |
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And in 1953, one hundred people, living on the eastern edge of the London suburbs were killed, |
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again, in the floods. |
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At last, Greater London Counciltook actions to prevent this disaster from happening again. |
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Though a flood wall ias built in the 1960s, |
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Londoners still must be prepared for the possible disaster. |
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If it happens, 50 underground stations will be under water. |
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Electricity, gas and phone services will be out of action. |
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Roads will be drowned. |
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It will be impossible to cross any of the bridges between north and south London. |
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Imagine: London will be like the famous Italian city, Venice. |
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But this Exercise Flood Call didn't cause panic among Londoners. |
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Most people knew it was just a warning. |
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One lady said, |
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"Its a flood warning, isn t it? The water doesn t look high to me." |
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Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Question 11: What happened in London a few months ago? |
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Question 12: What measure was taken against floods in London in the 1960s? |
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Question 13: What can we learnt from the lady s comment? |
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Passage Two |
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America's national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct twenty years ago, |
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but it did made a comeback. |
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In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service is considering the possibility |
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of taking it off the Endangered Species List. |
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Once,more than fifty hundred pairs of bald eagles nested across the country, |
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but by 1960 that number had fallen below four hundred. |
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The chief killer was the widely used DDT. |
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Fish, soaked up DDT, died, and were washed up on shores, |
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where bald eagles feasted on them. |
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DDT prevented eagle egg shells from thickening. |
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The shells became so thin that they shattered before the babies hatched. |
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Fortunately, in 1972,a law was passed to ban DDT, |
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which saved the bald eagle from total wipeout. |
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And since then wild life biologists had reintroduced bald eagles from Canada to America. |
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The result was that last year U.S. bird watchers |
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counted eleven thousand six hundred and ten bald eagles in the country. |
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If it were dropped from the Endangered Species List, |
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the bald eagle would still be a threatened species. |
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That means the bird would continue to get the same protection. |
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No hunting allowed, and no disturbing of nests. |
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But bald eagles still face tough times. |
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The destruction ctheir natural homes could be the next DDT causing eagle numbers to drop quickly. |
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Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Question 14: What was the main harmful effect of the pests killer DDT on baldeagles? |
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Question 15: What measure did the wild life biologist take to increase the number of bald eagles? |
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Question 16: According to the speaker, what is the possible danger facing baldeagles? |
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Passage Three |
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If the earth gets hotter in the new century, |
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what will harm animals and the plants which animals depend on for survival? |
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The question offers another way of looking at the "Greenhouse Effect". |
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People have talked about the general problem of "Global Warming" for some time. |
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But they were usually worried about things like whether to buy a home on the coast. |
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Biologists and other scientists turn their attention to plants |
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and animals at an important meeting that took place last October. |
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They reviewed evidence that plants and animals are sensitive to climate. |
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Since the Ice Age ended ten thousand years ago |
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and warmer temperatures returned to the northern latitudes, |
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many species have migrated north. |
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If the predictions about the Greenhouse are correct, |
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temperatures will rise by the same amount in the next one hundred years |
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as they did in the past ten thousand. |
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Will animals and plants beable to adapt that quickly to change in the environment? |
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Many won't. |
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Certain species will probably become very rare. |
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Experts say plants under climate stress will be very open to disease and fire. |
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Forest fires may become more common. |
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That,in turn, may harm animals that depend on the trees for food or shelter. |
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Any preserves we set up to protect endangered species may become useless |
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as the species are forced to migrate along with their natural homes. |
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Change is a part of life, but rapid change, says scientist George Woodwell, is the enemy of life. |
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Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
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Question 17: What is the concern of ordinary people about the "GreenhouseEffect"? |
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Question 18: What has happened since the end of the ICE AGE? |
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Question 19: What will be a possible threat to plants in the future? |
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Question 20: According to the passage, what will probably happen to the endangered species? |
