[01:43.22]Part III Listening Comprehension
[01:46.83]Section A
[02:32.46]Q11.
[02:34.55]M: Shawn's been trying for months to find a job.
[02:37.72]But I wonder how he could get a job when he looks like that.
[02:41.69]W: Oh, that poor guy!
[02:44.08]He really should shave himself every other day at least and put on something clean.
[02:51.15]Q: What do we learn about Shawn?
[03:08.73]Q12.
[03:10.99]W: I wish Jane would call when she know she'll be late.
[03:15.13]This is not the first time we've had to wait for her.
[03:19.42]M: I agree. But she does have to drive through very heavy traffic to get here.
[03:25.93]Q: What does the man imply?
[03:43.48]Q13.
[03:46.24]M: Congratulations! I heard your baseball team is going to the Middle Atlantic Championship.
[03:52.79]W: Yeah, we're all working real hard right now!
[03:56.31]Q: What is the woman's team doing?
[04:13.48]Q14.
[04:16.55]W: John's been looking after his mother in the hospital.
[04:20.04]She was injured in a car accident two weeks ago and still in critical condition.
[04:26.45]W:Oh, that's terrible. And you know his father passed away last year.
[04:32.31]Q: What do we learn about John?
[04:50.57]Q15.
[04:53.14]M: What a boring speaker! I can hardly stay awake.
[04:57.93]W: Well, I don't know. In fact, I think it's been a long time since I've heard anyone is good.
[05:05.86]Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
[05:24.98]Q16.
[05:27.20]W: I'm having a lot of trouble with logic
[05:29.92]and it seems my professor can't explain it in a way that makes sense to me.
[05:34.75]M: You know, there is a tutoring service on campus.
[05:38.89]I was about to drop statistics before they helped me out.
[05:43.34]Q: What does the man mean?
[06:01.73]Q17.
[06:03.43]M: This is a stylish overcoat. I saw you wearing it last week, did't I ?
[06:09.20]W: Oh, that wasn't me. That was my sister Joe. She's in your class.
[06:15.50]Q: What does the woman mean?
[06:33.19]Q18.
[06:34.95]M: Jane, suppose you lost all your money while taking a vacation overseas, what would you do?
[06:42.00]W: Well, I guess I'd sell my watch or computer or do some odd jobs
[06:47.29]till I could afford a return plane ticket.
[06:50.31]Q: What are the speakers talking about?
[07:09.07]Two long conversations
[07:13.22]Conversation One
[07:15.34]M: Hello, professor Johnson.
[07:17.00]W: Hello, Tony. So what shall we work on today?
[07:20.39]M: Well, the problem is that this writing assignment isn't coming out right.
[07:25.67]What I thought I was writing on was to talk about what particular sport means to me when I participate in.
[07:34.23]W: What sport did you choose?
[07:36.98]M: I decided to write about cross-country skiing.
[07:41.10]W: What are you going to say about skiing?
[07:44.07]M: That's the problem. I thought I would write about how peac eful it is to be out in the country.
[07:50.12]W: So why is that a problem?
[07:52.87]M: As I start describing how quiet it is to be out in the woods.
[07:57.34]I keep mentioning how much effort it takes to keep going.
[08:01.24]Cross-country skiing isn't as easy as some people think.
[08:05.70]It takes a lot of energy, but that's not part of my paper.
[08:10.44]So I guess I should leave it out.
[08:12.37]But now I don't know how to explain that feeling of peacefulness without explaining how hard you have to work for it.
[08:20.06]It all fits together. It's not like just sitting down s omewhere and watching the clouds roll by.
[08:26.95]That's different.
[08:28.41]W: Then you'll have to include that in your point.
[08:31.93]The peacefulness of cross-country skiing is the kind you earn by effort.
[08:37.79]Why leave that out? Part of your point you knew before hand but part you discovered as you wrote.
[08:45.09]That's common, right?
[08:46.75]M: Yeah, I guess so.
[08:49.59]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[08:56.69]Q19: What is the topic of the man's writing assignment?
[09:19.11]Q20: What problem does the man have while working on his paper?
[09:42.61]Q21: What does the woman say is common in writing papers?
[10:05.24]Conversation Two
[10:08.01]W: Good evening and welcome to this week's Business World.
[10:12.79]It program for and about business people.
[10:16.37]Tonight we have Mr. Angeleno who came to the US six years ago,
[10:22.28]and is now an established businessman with three restaurants in town.
[10:26.93]Tell us Mr. Angeleno, how did you get started?
[10:31.16]M: Well I started off with a small diner.
[10:34.82]I did all the cooking myself and my wife waited on tables.
[10:39.30]It was really too much work for two people. My cooking is great.
[10:44.27]And word got around town about the food. Within a year, I had to hire another cook and four waitresses.
[10:52.09]When that restaurant became very busy, I decided to expand my business.
[10:57.97]Now with three places my main concern is keeping the business successful
[11:03.83]and running business successful and running smoothly.
[11:05.88]W: Do you advertise?
[11:07.74]M: Oh yes. I don't have any TV commercials, because they are too expensive.
[11:12.99]But I advertise a lot on radio and in local newspapers.
[11:17.29]My children used to distribute ads. in nearby shopping centres, but we don't need to do that anymore.
[11:24.32]W: Why do you believe you've been so successful?
[11:27.50]M: Em, I always serve the freshest possible food and I make the atmosphere as comfortable and as pleasant as I can,
[11:36.86]so that my customers will want to come back.
[11:39.56]W: So you always aim to please the customers?
[11:42.93]M: Absolutely!Without them I would have no business at all.
[11:47.52]W: Thank you Mr.Angeleno.I think your advice will be helpfull to those just staring out in business.
[11:55.48]Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[12:02.81]Q22 What is the woman's occupation?
[12:24.27]Q23 what do we learn about Mr.Angel eno's business at its beginning?
[12:47.08]Q24 what does Mr.Angeleno say about advertising his businesses?
[13:11.39]Q25 What does the man say contribute to his success?
[13:33.91]Section B
[14:07.08]Passage One
[14:09.39]There are many commonly held beliefs about eye glasses and eyesight that are not proven facts.
[14:17.31]For instance, some people believe that wearing glasses too soon weakens the eyes.
[14:24.42]But there is no evidence to show that the structure of eyes is changed by wearing glasses at a young age.
[14:32.13]Wearing the wrong glasses, however, can prove harmful.
[14:37.36]Studies show that for adults there is no danger,
[14:41.44]but children can develop loss of vision if they have glasses inappropriate for their eyes.
[14:47.84]We have all heard some of the common myths about how eyesight gets bad.
[14:54.69]Most people believe that reading in dim light causes poor eyesight, but that is untrue.
[15:02.55]Too little light makes the eyes work harder, so they do get tired and strained.
[15:08.85]Eyestrain also results from reading a lot, reading in bed, and watching too much television.
[15:15.96]However, although eyestrain may cause some pain or headaches, it does not permanently damage eyesight.
[15:25.19]Another myth about eyes is that they can be replaced, or transferred from one person to another.
[15:32.34]There are close to one million nerve fibres that connect the eyeball to the brain,
[15:38.31]as of yet it is impossible to attach them all in a new person.
[15:44.05]Only certain parts of the eye can be replaced.
[15:47.98]But if we keep clearing up the myths and learning more about the eyes,
[15:53.29]some day a full transplant may be possible.
[15:57.69]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[16:03.63]Q26. What does the speaker want to tell us about eyesight?
[16:25.25]Q27. What do studies about wearing the wrong glasses show?
[16:47.55]Q28. What do we learn about eye transplanting from the talk?
[17:11.41]Passage Two
[17:13.48]When people care for an elderly relative,
[17:16.73]they often do not use available community services such as adult daycare centers.
[17:23.12]If the caregivers are adult children, they are more likely to use such services,
[17:29.16]especially because they often have jobs and other responsibilities.
[17:33.65]In contrast, a spouse usually the wife, is much less likely to use support services
[17:41.38]or to put the dependent person in a nursing home.
[17:44.82]Social workers discover that the wife normally tries to take care of her husband herself
[17:51.62]for as long as she can in order not to use up their life savings.
[17:56.55]Researchers have found that caring for the elderly can be a very positive experience.
[18:02.76]The elderly appreciated the care and attention they received. They were affectionate and cooperative.
[18:09.60]However, even when care giving is satisfying, it is hard work.
[18:15.04]Social workers and experts on aging offer caregivers
[18:19.13]and potential caregivers help when arranging for the care of an elderly relative.
[18:24.64]One consideration is to ask parents what they want before they become sick or dependent.
[18:31.69]Perhaps they prefer going into a nursing home and can select one in advance.
[18:37.65]On the other hand, they may their adult children.
[18:41.94]Caregivers must also learn to state their needs and opinions clearly
[18:46.58]and ask for help from others especially brothers and sisters.
[18:51.14]Brothers and sisters are often willing to help, but they may not know what to do.
[18:57.86]Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[19:04.19]Q29. Why are adult children more likely to use community services to help care for elderly parents?
[19:31.31]Q30. Why are most wives unwilling to put their dependent husbands into nursing homes?
[19:55.27]Q31. According to the passage, what must caregivers learn to do?
[20:17.35]Passage Three
[20:21.26]Since a union representative visited our company to inform us about our rights and protections.
[20:27.86]My coworkers have been worrying about health conditions and complaining about safety hazards in the workplace.
[20:35.84]Several of the employees in the computer department, for example,
[20:40.37]claim to be developing vision problems from having to stare at a video display terminal for about 7 hours a day.
[20:49.20]The supervisor of the laboratory is beginning to get headaches and dizzy spells
[20:55.67]because she says it's dangerous to breathe some of the chemical smoke there.
[21:01.53]An X-rays technician is refusing to do her job until the firm agrees to replace its out-dated equipment.
[21:09.84]She insists that it's exposing workers to unnecessarily high doses of radiation.
[21:17.83]She thinks that she may have to contact the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[21:21.87]and asked that government agency to inspect the department.
[21:28.42]I've heard that at a factory in the area two pregnant women
[21:32.19]who were working with paint requested a transfer to a safer department,
[21:38.12]because they wanted to prevent damage to their unborn babies.
[21:42.76]The supervisor of personnel refused the request.
[21:46.35]In another firm the workers were constantly complaining about the malfunctioning heating system,
[21:53.98]but the owners was too busy or too mean to do anything about it.
[21:58.89]Finally, they all met an agree to wear ski-clothing to work the next day.
[22:05.36]The owner was too embarrassed to talk to his employees.
[22:09.02]But he had the heating system replaced right away.
[22:12.90]Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[22:19.30]Q32. What does the talk focus on?
[22:40.59]Q33. What did the X-ray technician ask her company to do?
[23:03.56]Q34. What does the speaker say about the two pregnant women working with paint?
[23:26.38]Q35. Why did the workers in the firm wear ski-clothing to work?
[23:49.03]Section C
[24:44.55]Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one, time slows down when you are on the move.
[24:51.64]It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts some day may survive so long in space
[25:00.71]that they would return to an Earth of the distant future.
[25:04.70]If you could move at the speed of light, your time would stand still,
[25:10.29]if you could move faster than light, your time would move backward.
[25:16.19]Although no form of matter yet discovered, moves as fast as or faster than light,
[25:22.62]scientific experiments has already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched.
[25:30.89]Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905,
[25:35.39]when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity.
[25:42.28]A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light.
[25:51.70]And therefore, might serve as our passports to the past.
[25:55.83]An obsession with time--saving, gaming, wasting, losing and mastering it--
[26:02.76]seems to have been a part of humanity for as long as human have existed.
[26:08.63]Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time.
[26:14.52]Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.
[26:22.44]Thus time and time's relativity are measurable by any hour glass, alarm clock,
[26:29.49]or atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second.
[26:36.38]Read again
[26:39.43]Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one, time slows down when you are on the move.
[26:47.54]It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts some day may survive so long in space
[26:56.81]that they would return to an Earth of the distant future.
[27:00.89]If you could move at the speed of light, your time would stand still,
[27:06.44]if you could move faster than light, your time would move backward.
[27:11.77]Although no form of matter yet discovered, moves as fast as or faster than light,
[27:18.43]scientific experiments has already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched.
[27:27.61]Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905,
[27:31.61]when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity.
[27:39.25]A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light.
[27:49.72]And therefore, might serve as our passports to the past.
[28:56.46]An obsession with time--saving, gaming, wasting, losing and mastering it--
[29:04.65]seems to have been a part of humanity for as long as human have existed.
[29:55.42]Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time.
[30:02.57]Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.
[31:11.55]Thus time and time's relativity are measurable by any hour glass, alarm clock,
[31:18.75]or atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second.
[31:25.04]Read third time
[31:29.11]Contrary to the old warning that time waits for no one, time slows down when you are on the move.
[31:36.82]It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts some day may survive so long in space
[31:45.89]that they would return to an Earth of the distant future.
[31:50.10]If you could move at the speed of light, your time would stand still,
[31:55.71]if you could move faster than light, your time would move backward.
[32:01.29]Although no form of matter yet discovered, moves as fast as or faster than light,
[32:07.46]scientific experiments has already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched.
[32:16.13]Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905,
[32:20.02]when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity.
[32:27.34]A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light.
[32:36.49]And therefore, might serve as our passports to the past.
[32:40.67]An obsession with time--saving, gaming, wasting, losing and mastering it--
[32:47.79]seems to have been a part of humanity for as long as human have existed.
[32:53.13]Humanity also has been obsessed with trying to capture the meaning of time.
[32:59.76]Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.
[33:07.37]Thus time and time's relativity are measurable by any hour glass, alarm clock,
[33:14.33]or atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second.