[英语学习]新世纪大学英语第一册测试一听力原文

11. W: How many people came to your grandmothers 80th birthday? M: We invited 12 people, but 15 came. Q: How many people were invited for the birthday party?,12. M: Mary, why were you late for class this morning? G: I overslept. I didnt wake up until 8:00 oclock. Q: Why was Mary late?,13. W: This is Toms composition. What do you think of it? M: Well, it seems like a bit of a rushed job. Q: What does the man imply about the composition?,14. W: Would you please spell your name for me, Sir? M: Sure. WIdouble TNER. Q: What is the mans name?,15. M: Jane was supposed to be here at the meeting this morning. I didnt see her. W: She came down with a flu and had to stay home. Q: Why didnt Jane attend the meeting?,16. M: What did you do in class today? W: The teacher went over last Fridays lesson. Q: What did the teacher do?,17. M: Are you going to the party tonight? W: No, I promised to help Maggie with her science project. Q: What will the woman do tonight?,18. W: Tina is doing a lot better in her biological class, isnt she? M: Yes. She has really come a long way. Q: What does the man say about Tina ?,11-15 BAABA16-18 CDD,Conversation One M: I dont think weve met. My names Tom. W: Hi, Tom. Nice to meet you. I am Jenny. M: Nice to meet you, Jenny. So, where are you from? W: Well, originally Im from Argentina, but we moved to the United States when I was about five years old. My parents now live in France. Thats where they first met. How about you, Tom?,Conversation One M: I was born in San Francisco, California, and we lived there until I was seven. Then, since my father worked for the army, we moved all over the place. W: Oh yeah? Where are some of the places youve lived? M: Mostly, we were overseas. We spent a total of ten years in Korea, Germany and Japan. We were transferred back to the United States three years ago, but I think my parents would have liked to live overseas for at least 20 more years.,Conversation One W: Wow, it sounds like youve had an interesting life. So, what do you do now? M: Im a student at Yale University. W: Oh really? What are you studying? M: Im majoring in psychology. How about you? What do you do? W: Well, Im working as a sales representative at Microsoft. M: No kidding! My brother works there, too.,19. What is the womans name?,20. Where is the woman originally from?,21. What is the man studying?,22. What is the womans job?,Conversation Two W: Dad, Im bored. Can I go to a movie today? M: A movie today? Well, I dont know. W: Uncle Jeff always takes me to a movie. M: Well, I know Uncle Jeff always takes you, but what movie would you like to see today, Maggie? W: George of the Jungle. M: George of the Jungle. Let me look at the newspaper. Okay. Ah, here it is. George of the Jungle that starts in the afternoon at 2:45. Well, should we take mommy with us?,Conversation One W: Yeah. M: Okay, we have to wait for mommy because shes at a meeting right now. W: Okay. M: Alright. And what should we do after we go see the movie? W: Ummgo on a little walk. M: Go on a little walk. Where would you like to go on a walk to? Would you like to go down to the beach or through the park?,Conversation One W: To the beach. M: To the beach. Well, that sounds great. And then maybe we can go out to eat tonight. Does that sound okay? W: Yeah, thats really good to me.,23. Where does the young girl want to go with her father?,24. Who are they going with?,25. What does the father suggest they do at the end of the day?,19-22 BACA23-25 BAA,Passage One,It was exactly four oclock when she woke up. She jumped quickly out of bed, got dressed and looked through the window. It was a cold winters day and snow lay on the ground. She then took her best clothes out of her wardrobe and put them into her small, dusty old suitcase which was leaning against the wall. She took the money which she kept inside an empty chocolate box hidden between the wardrobe and the wall and put it into her pocket. She took a note for her parents out of a drawer and placed it onto her dressing table. Carefully, she opened the door and crept along the corridor, past,her parents room and down the dark staircase into the hall. She made her way towards the back door and opened it. Closing it quietly behind her, she moved silently across the garden and climbed over the low garden gate. For a few minutes, she stood at the gate and looked back at the sleeping house. Then she turned and walked quickly away to begin a new life.,26. What season was it in the story?,27. What was inside the chocolate box?,28. What was the girl in the story doing?,Passage Two,Walt Disney was born on December 5th, 1901. In his teens he began an art course but World War I broke out and he drove for the Red Cross in Europe. When he got back to America he met the artist Ub Iwerks and they got into business together.,They made a series of short cartoons but lost all their money. Luckily, Walts brother Roy gave him more to start up again. The first talking picture came out in 1927 and Disney saw that sound held the key to the future of film.,He built on this success with other cartoons but soon felt ready for something more ambitious. He took the biggest risk of his career and spent a fortune on a full-length cartoon. He finally brought out “Snow White” in 1935, which the public paid millions of dollars to see. By the time he was 40, Disney and his creations was household names around the world.,29. When was Disney born?,30. Who helped Disney out after his failure?,31. When did the first talking picture come out?,Passage Three,A healthy diet and improved living conditions, together with advances in medical treatment, have meant that most people, in the developed countries at least, are living longer. This is very good news for the people concerned, especially if they remain reasonably healthy.,However, the increase in life expectancy has led to problems for many governments. Many older people require a good deal of care, either help with personal care or nursing care. Often, this care has to be provided in a residential home or a nursing home, when the elderly people do not have family,who are able to or willing to look after them. Governments are finding it increasingly difficult to find the money for this and the elderly people often do not have the money to pay for it themselves.,The trouble is that, as the numbers of old people are increasing, the numbers of young people are decreasing. Reliable modern methods of birth control have led to successful family planning with many people choosing to restrict the number of children they have to one or two, feeling, perhaps, that this is all they can afford or cope with.,The combination of a falling birth rate and an increase in life expectancy is likely to cause problems for governments. It is the young and the middle-aged who do most work and pay most taxes. In other words, it is they who keep the country going, for it is the income from taxes that pays for public services and state benefits.,The lack of balance between the number of the young and the old is, thus, very worrying in financial terms. There are too few people working to provide the necessary funds to pay for a state benefit system which looks after those who are, for one reason or another, unable to work.,One rather harsh solution is to increase greatly the rate of taxation payable by those who are in work. Another is to increase the age of retirement, and yet another is to try to attract healthy people who are already in retirement ba