最新版英语听力教程 Model Test9-part c

　　[00:28.50]You'll hear three pieces of recorded material.
[00:33.36]Before listening to each one,
[00:36.91]you will have time to read the questions related to it.
[00:42.06]While listening,answer each question by choosing A,B,C or D.
[00:48.33]After listening,
[00:51.57]you will have time to check your answers.
[00:55.93]You will hear each piece once only.
[01:00.60]M:Questions 11-13 are based on the following radio speech on How to Get a Raise
[01:07.68]You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11 -13.
[01:14.45]W:Here're proven tips from a career strategist to put extra money in your paycheck
[01:23.49]To win a raise you must be a top performer you have to make your case known.
[01:30.75]Yet when it comes to asking
[01:34.69]for an increase many of us become like Oliver Twist approaching his master for gruel¹:
[01:42.14]"Please,sir,I want some more."
[01:46.58]Everybody wants a raise.But few know how to ask without sounding like a beggar.
[01:53.35]Here are two steps to help you make an affective case:
[01:58.49]1.Change your attitude
[02:02.75]The most common roadblock to higher earning is what I call
[02:08.39]the "good student" attitude.
[02:12.15]Think back to the eighth grade,when your job was merely to pass
[02:18.00]The requirements were clearly spelled out.
[02:22.16]At the end of the year every student who had done an adequate job
[02:27.83]was automatically² promoted.
[02:31.59]Work is different.
[02:34.54]You can't expect the system to take care of you.
[02:39.27]You must take care of it. Too many of us forget this.
[02:44.60]When there's a pitfall³ in the workload⁴,
[02:48.46]for example,we sit around waiting for"them" to tell"us" what to do.
[02:54.03]If profits sink,we blame "them" for decisions that we knew to be bad--
[03:00.19]forgetting that we never tried to influence those decisions.
[03:05.97]And we fear that mixing with the boss would be seen as "apple-polishing."
[03:11.71]This attitude can be dangerous.
[03:15.47]You need to make your relationship with your boss
[03:20.23]as important as doing your job well.
[03:24.90]2.Give more of yourself.
[03:29.45]Just doing your job well does not get you a raise.
[03:35.01]That's exactly what you were hired for in the first place.
[03:40.66]To fatten⁵ your pay check,
[03:44.21]you need to do something extra.
[03:47.97]Many of us already work beyond the boundaries of our jobs without realizing it
[03:54.81]Try this:at the end of every workday,ask yourself:
[04:00.67]"What have I done that wasn't called for in my job?"
[04:06.23]Write it on your calendar.
[04:09.76]When your next performance appraisal⁶ comes around,
[04:14.43]you'll have a record of achievements that you could never reconstruct from memory.
[04:20.78]W:Questions 14-16 are based on the following speech on the New Millennium⁷.
[04:28.04]You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16.
[04:33.89]M:My dear friends all over the world.
[04:38.60]Today we celebrate a special New Year with a momentous⁸ number:
[04:44.47]the Year Two Thousand.
[04:48.42]As we move into a New Millennium,
[04:52.21]many of us have much to be thankful for.
[04:56.57]Most of the world is at peace.
[05:00.51]Most of us are better educated than our parents or grandparents,
[05:06.29]and can expect to live longer lives,
[05:10.54]with greater freedom and a wider range of choices.
[05:15.51]A new century brings new hope,
[05:19.58]but can also bring new dangers
[05:23.74]or old ones in a new and alarming form.
[05:28.28]Some of us fear seeing our jobs and our way of life
[05:33.74]destroyed by economic change.
[05:37.58]Others fear the spread of violence or disease
[05:42.44]Others still are more worried that
[05:46.49]human activities may be ruining the global environment
[05:51.76]on which our life depends
[05:55.84]No one knows for sure how serious each of these dangers will be.
[06:01.48]But one thing they have in common:
[06:06.94]they do not respect state frontiers.
[06:11.80]Even the strongest state,acting alone,
[06:16.48]may not be able to protect its citizens against them.
[06:21.23]More than ever before in human history,
[06:27.16]we all share a common destiny⁹.
[06:31.21]We can master it only if we face it together
[06:35.89]And that,my friends,
[06:39.65]is why we have the United Nations
[06:43.72]Through the United Nations we are working together to preserve peace;
[06:49.36]to outlaw¹⁰ weapons that kill and maim¹¹ indiscriminately;
[06:54.64]to bring mass murderers and war criminals to justice.
[07:00.21]Through the United Nations
[07:03.68]we are working together to defeat AIDS and other epidemics¹²
[07:09.64]to control climate change;
[07:13.48]to make clean air and water available to everyone.
[07:18.65]Through the UnitedNations we are working together to ensure that
[07:23.98]the global market benefits all of us,
[07:28.42]freeing the poor to lift themselves out of poverty.
[07:33.28]In all these areas and more,
[07:36.83]the United Nations is working for you,
[07:41.19]but it can do little without you.
[07:44.74]After all,it belongs to you,
[07:49.11]to the peoples of the world.
[07:52.76]And therefore it can work much better with your help and your ideas.
[07:59.24]My friends,the new millennium need not be a time of fear or nxiety.
[08:06.09]If we work together and have faith in our own abilities,
[08:11.13]it can be a time of hope and opportunity.
[08:15.86]It's up to us to make it so.
[08:20.11]Happy New Year!
[08:22.88]M:Questions 17-20 are based on a Professor's Lecture on Medical Care.
[08:30.33]You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20.
[08:36.49]W:The medical world's gradually realising that the quality of the environment
[08:44.09]in hospitals may play a significant role in the process of recovery from illness
[08:51.25]As part of a nationwide effort in Britain to bring art
[08:56.29]out of the galleries and into public places,
[09:00.84]some of the country's most talented artists
[09:05.52]have been called in to transform older hospitals
[09:10.66]and to soften¹³ the hard edges of modern buildings.
[09:16.12]Of the 2,500 National Health Service hospitals in Britain, almost 100
[09:24.58]now have significant collections of contemporary art in corridors,
[09:31.35]waiting areas and treatment rooms.
[09:35.19]These recent initiatives¹⁴ owe a great deal to one artist,
[09:41.25]Peter Senior,who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital
[09:47.00]in northeastern England during the early 1970s.
[09:52.43]He felt the artist
[09:56.38]had lost his place in modern society,and that
[10:00.22]art should be enjoyed by a wider audience.
[10:04.89]A typical hospital waiting room
[10:09.15]might have as many as 5,000 visitors each week.
[10:14.50]What better place to hold regular exhibitions of art?
[10:20.07]Peter Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings
[10:26.02]in the out-patients waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975.
[10:33.89]Believed to be Britain's first hospital artist.
[10:38.46]Senior was so much in demand that he was
[10:43.71]soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates
[10:49.48]The effect is striking¹⁵
[10:52.83]Now in the corridors and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full
[10:59.30]view of fresh colours,
[11:03.14]playful images and restful courtyards
[11:07.98]The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs
[11:14.14]when a patient is recovering from an illness.
[11:18.50]A study has shown
[11:21.98]that patients who had a view onto a
[11:26.11]garden needed half the number of strong pain killers¹⁶
[11:31.44]compared with patients who had no view at all
[11:36.50]or only a brick wall to look at.

1 gruel   

n.稀饭，粥

参考例句：

• We had gruel for the breakfast.我们早餐吃的是粥。
• He sat down before the fireplace to eat his gruel.他坐到壁炉前吃稀饭。

2 automatically   

adv.不加思索地，无意识地，自动地

参考例句：

• The machine cycles automatically.这台机器自动循环运转。
• She had automatically labelled the boys as troublemakers.她不假思索地认定这些男孩子是捣蛋鬼。

3 pitfall   

n.隐患，易犯的错误；陷阱，圈套

参考例句：

• The wolf was caught in a pitfall.那只狼是利用陷阱捉到的。
• The biggest potential pitfall may not be technical but budgetary.最大的潜在陷阱可能不是技术问题，而是预算。

4 workload   

n.作业量，工作量

参考例句：

• An assistant one day a week would ease my workload.每周有一天配一个助手就会减轻我的工作负担。
• He's always grousing about the workload.他总是抱怨工作量大。

5 fatten   

v.使肥，变肥

参考例句：

• The new feed can fatten the chicken up quickly enough for market.新饲料能使鸡长得更快，以适应市场需求。
• We keep animals in pens to fatten them.我们把动物关在围栏里把它们养肥。

6 appraisal   

n.对…作出的评价；评价，鉴定，评估

参考例句：

• What's your appraisal of the situation?你对局势是如何评估的？
• We need to make a proper appraisal of his work.对于他的工作我们需要做出适当的评价。

7 millennium   

n.一千年，千禧年；太平盛世

参考例句：

• The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
• We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。

8 momentous   

adj.重要的，重大的

参考例句：

• I am deeply honoured to be invited to this momentous occasion.能应邀出席如此重要的场合，我深感荣幸。
• The momentous news was that war had begun.重大的新闻是战争已经开始。

9 destiny   

n.命运，定数，天命

参考例句：

• Nobody knows his own destiny.没有人知道自己的命运。
• It was her destiny to become famous.她命里注定出名。

10 outlaw   

n.歹徒，亡命之徒；vt.宣布…为不合法

参考例句：

• The outlaw hid out in the hills for several months.逃犯在山里隐藏了几个月。
• The outlaw has been caught.歹徒已被抓住了。

11 maim   

v.使残废，使不能工作，使伤残

参考例句：

• Automobile accidents maim many people each year. 汽车车祸每年使许多人残废。
• These people kill and maim innocent civilians.这些人杀死和残害无辜平民。

12 epidemics   

n．流行病

参考例句：

• Reliance upon natural epidemics may be both time-consuming and misleading. 依靠天然的流行既浪费时间，又会引入歧途。
• The antibiotic epidemics usually start stop when the summer rainy season begins. 传染病通常会在夏天的雨季停止传播。

13 soften   

v.(使)变柔软；(使)变柔和

参考例句：

• Plastics will soften when exposed to heat.塑料适当加热就可以软化。
• This special cream will help to soften up our skin.这种特殊的护肤霜有助于使皮肤变得柔软。

14 initiatives   

n.主动性( initiative的名词复数 )；主动的行动；初步；主动权

参考例句：

• Economic policy is liberalized to encourage initiatives in production. 放宽经济政策以鼓励生产的积极性。
• They are tireless in thinking up initiatives. 他们不厌其烦地想出种种采取主动行为的倡议。

15 striking   

adj.显著的，惹人注目的，容貌出众的

参考例句：

• There is a striking difference between Jane and Mary.简和玛丽之间有显著的差异。
• What is immediately striking is how resourceful the children are.最令人注目的是孩子们的机智聪明。

16 killers   

凶手( killer的名词复数 )； 消灭…者； 致命物； 极难的事

参考例句：

• He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
• They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。