[00:00.40]test 5
[00:01.74]Section A
[00:03.31]Now let's begin with the 8 short conversations.
[00:07.12]11．M：Mary, what did you think of the movie last night?
[00:10.90]W：I don't know why I let you talk me into going,
[00:13.60]I just don't like violence.
[00:15.78]Q：What is Mary's opinion of the movie?
[00:33.37]12．W：You speak English very well.
[00:36.21]How long have you been studying the language?
[00:38.64]M：I've been studying English for six and a half years .
[00:41.77]Q：How long has the man been studying English ?
[01:00.16]13．W：Excuse me, Constable,
[01:02.78]but have you seen an old gentleman looking for his glasses?
[01:06.05]M：An old gentleman, Madam ?
[01:07.87]Q：Who is the woman looking for ?
[01:25.61]14．W：Waiter, do you recommend the roast duck or
[01:29.32]the specialty of the house?
[01:31.36]M：Ma'am, I can't recommend one over the other,
[01:33.97]they are both excellent.
[01:36.32]Q：How does the waiter feel about the food?
[01:54.43]15．W：How did you go to Canada? Did you fly?
[01:58.06]M：I was planning to because it's such a long trip by bus or train,
[02:01.81]but Fred decided to drive and invited me to join him.
[02:05.11]It took us two days and a night .
[02:07.48]Q：How did the man go to Canada ?
[02:25.14]16．W：The Boeing 747 is ready to take off .
[02:29.64]M：The what ?
[02:30.84]W：The 747.
[02:32.69]Q：What is the 747 most likely to be ?
[02:51.27]17．W：See the kid over there cutting grass ?
[02:55.44]My kid brother does that every summer.
[02:58.13]He usually gets five dollars a lawn, and it only takes him an hour.
[03:02.05]M：That's pretty good .
[03:03.13]I didn't use to get that much when I was in high school.
[03:06.25]Q：What are they talking about?
[03:23.08]18．W：This TV set is not working properly.
[03:27.04]I suppose we should buy a new one,
[03:28.97]but I don't see how we can afford it right now .
[03:31.33]M：If only we hadn't bought the car .
[03:34.32]Q：Why didn't they buy another TV set ?
[03:41.63]Now you'll hear 2 long conversations.
[03:44.94]Conversation One
[03:47.74]W: Hurry up! We don't have much time left.
[03:50.18]M: Take it easy. We still have two hours.
[03:52.83]W: Come on! This is my first time ever to take a plane.
[03:56.67]I don't want anything to go wrong.
[03:58.77]M: Let me take care of everything, all right?
[04:00.91]Now, let's go to the check in counter.
[04:03.49]W: All right.
[04:04.54]M: They will first weigh our baggage.
[04:06.57]We are allowed twenty kilos each.
[04:09.41]W: What's the weight? Is that inside the free allowance?
[04:12.90]M: Yes, thirty eight kilos and we allow twenty kilos each.
[04:17.22]W: That's lucky! What's next?
[04:19.37]M: They'll have to check our baggage.
[04:20.97]W: Anything wrong with our baggage?
[04:23.15]M: They do not permit us to take the fork.
[04:25.62]What can a small fork do on the airplane?
[04:28.06]It seems that they regard it as a gun.
[04:30.86]W: Take it easy. It's also for the sake of our security.
[04:34.62]We needn't it on the plane anyway. What do we do now?
[04:38.47]M: We will go to gate 5. They're announcing our flight.
[04:42.36]W: I didn't hear anything.
[04:43.93]M: It's on that sign board up there. See?
[04:46.54]UA 801. At gate 5. Let's go then.
[04:51.16]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[04:56.98]19. What's the free allowance of baggage for them on the plane?
[05:15.85]20. What's wrong with their baggage?
[05:32.93]21. What's their flight number?
[05:49.94]Conversation Two
[05:52.12]W: Hi,Sir. May I help you?
[05:53.94]M: Yes, please. I am looking to rent an apartment.
[05:56.92]W: This is my business card. I am Chen Lu. Nice to meet you.
[06:00.81]M: Thank you. I am Sam Roberts.
[06:02.85]I am looking for an apartment of around
[06:04.85]one thousand square feet for my family.
[06:07.69]W: Mr.Roberts, are you familiar with this area?
[06:10.49]M: Yes, I am living in Rose Garden now,
[06:12.74]but the lease will expire in two months.
[06:14.96]The landlord is going to sell his apartment.
[06:17.29]W: I see. I guess you prefer remaining in the same neighbourhood.
[06:21.61]Let me check the computer's property data for you first.
[06:24.74]OK. Sir, do you know Robinson Garden?
[06:28.30]M: No, I'm sorry to say.
[06:30.29]W: Robinson Garden is only two years old.
[06:33.16]There is one vacant unit for lease.
[06:36.00]The gross area is one thousand three hundred square feet
[06:39.45]and the net area is almost one thousand square feet.
[06:43.08]The layout of the unit includes one huge living room,
[06:46.76]one dining room and three bedrooms.
[06:49.41]The maid's room is attached to the kitchen.
[06:51.59]M: Is it furnished or non furnished?
[06:53.92]W: It is a furnished apartment with necessary home appliances.
[06:58.39]M: How much is the rent?
[07:00.57]W: The asking rent is
[07:01.73]forty five thousand Hong Kong dollars per month.
[07:05.26]M: Okay. I would like to check the house with
[07:07.59]my wife tomorrow night after seven.
[07:09.99]Also, can you show me two more apartments for
[07:12.39]our comparison at the same time?
[07:14.71]W: Sure, Mr.Roberts.
[07:15.84]I'll arrange things for you tomorrow night.
[07:18.68]Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[07:24.57]22. What does the man want to do?
[07:41.76]23. Which statement is true according to the conversation?
[08:00.43]24. What's the condition of the apartment in Robinson Garden?
[08:18.98]25. Why does the man want to see more houses?
[08:38.25]Section B
[08:40.14]Passage One
[08:42.32]We are used to the idea of aging ourselves.
[08:45.19]We are so used to this that it comes as a surprise to find that
[08:48.69]there may be some animals that do not age.
[08:52.14]Sea animals are an example.
[08:54.85]Some have been kept for nearly a century without
[08:57.43]showing any signs of losing vigor.
[09:00.01]Some kinds of marine worms can even “grow backwards”.
[09:03.72]If starved and kept in the dark, they get steadily smaller.
[09:07.94]They finally end as a ball of cells,
[09:10.52]looking rather like the egg from which they came.
[09:13.50]Under favorable conditions the ball will
[09:15.60]turn back to a worm and start growing again.
[09:18.80]One could probably keep them growing
[09:20.66]and “un growing”indefinitely.
[09:23.82]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[09:28.58]26.In what condition do some sea worms get smaller?
[09:47.16]27.According to the passage what can you conclude
[09:50.61]about some of sea animals?
[10:07.04]28.What does the passage mainly talk about?
[10:24.60]Passage Two
[10:26.45]Now, we'll bring you a special news bulletin.
[10:29.20]The three astronauts have splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean,
[10:33.09]a hundred and forty five miles southwest of Hawaii,
[10:36.20]only six miles from the aircraft carrier that
[10:38.64]was dispatched for the recovery mission.
[10:41.33]The space module floated down on three parachutes
[10:44.24]and landed right side up in the water.
[10:46.71]Mission Control in Houston confirmed that
[10:48.70]the parachutes and landing systems had functioned properly.
[10:52.11]Mission Control has advised the astronauts to remain inside
[10:55.02]the module until they are lifted aboard the aircraft carrier.
[10:59.20]An Air Force helicopter is already hovering above the module
[11:02.66]and seven divers are in the process of attaching lines to the spacecraft.
[11:07.17]The astronauts have returned after fifteen days in space.
[11:10.62]Possibly one of the most important accomplishments of
[11:12.75]this mission was the extensive photographing of the sun's surface.
[11:17.35]After two days of physical examinations and observation,
[11:20.62]the astronauts will fly to Houston to reunite with their families.
[11:24.18]Ladies and gentlemen, we have confirmation that
[11:26.51]the astronauts are now aboard the aircraft carrier.
[11:29.38]They seem to be in very good condition
[11:31.09]as they prepare for the welcoming ceremonies.
[11:34.58]Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[11:39.29]29.According to the reporter, where did the spacecraft splash down?
[11:58.51]30.How long had the astronauts been in space?
[12:16.46]31.According to the reporter, where are the astronauts now?
[12:35.00]Passage Three
[12:36.49]Although Beethoven could sit down and make up music easily,
[12:40.24]his really great compositions did not come easily at all.
[12:43.87]They cost him a great deal of hard work.
[12:46.56]We know how often he rewrote and corrected his work
[12:49.29]because his notebooks are still kept in museums and libraries.
[12:52.96]He always found it hard to satisfy himself.
[12:56.27]When he was 28, the worst difficulty of all came to him.
[13:00.16]He began to notice a strange humming in his ears.
[13:03.29]At first he paid little attention; but it grew worse,
[13:06.94]and at last he consulted doctors.
[13:09.53]They gave him the worst news any musician can hear:
[13:12.98]he was gradually going deaf.
[13:14.95]Beethoven was in despair; he was sure that he was going to die.
[13:19.56]He went away to the country, to a place called Heiligenstadt,
[13:23.77]and from there he wrote a long farewell letter to his brothers.
[13:27.81]In this he told them how depressed and
[13:30.10]lonely his deafness had made him.
[13:32.50] “It was impossible for me to ask men to speak louder or shout,
[13:36.93]for I am deaf,”he wrote.
[13:39.73]“How could I possibly admit and infirmity
[13:42.24]in the one sense(hearing) which should have been more perfect
[13:45.94]in me than in others , I must live like an exile. ”
[13:50.75]He longed to die, and said to death,
[13:53.22]“Come when you will, I shall meet you bravely.”
[13:56.35]In fact, Beethoven did something braver than dying.
[13:59.66]He gathered his courage and went on writing music,
[14:02.42]though he could hear what he wrote only more and more faintly.
[14:06.75]He wrote his best music, the music we remember him for,
[14:09.69]after he became deaf.
[14:11.58]The music he wrote was very different from any
[14:13.87]that had been composed before.
[14:15.82]Instead of the elegant and stately music that
[14:17.99]earlier musicians had written for their wealthy listeners,
[14:21.52]Beethoven wrote stormy, exciting, revolutionary music,
[14:25.53]which reminds us of his troubled and courageous life.
[14:29.35]He grew to admire courage more than anything,
[14:32.04]and he called one of his symphonies the “Eroica” or
[14:35.81]heroic symphony,“to celebrate the memory of a great man”.
[14:40.30]Describing the dramatic opening notes of his famous
[14:42.85]Fifth Symphony, he said, “Thus fate knocks on the door”.
[14:47.36]In time Beethoven went completely deaf, so deaf that
[14:51.21]he could not hear even the stormiest parts of his exciting music.
[14:55.25]But in those years he wrote more gloriously than ever.
[14:59.21]He could “hear”his music with his mind, if not with his ears.
[15:03.14]His friends had to write down what they wanted to say to him.
[15:06.27]He was lonely and often unhappy, but in spite of this,
[15:09.78]he often wrote joyful music.
[15:12.07]In his last symphony, the Ninth,
[15:14.25]a choir sings a wonderful Hymn of Joy.
[15:17.45]Because of his courage and determination to overcome his terrible
[15:20.76]disaster, his music has given joy and inspiration to millions of people.
[15:26.50]Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[15:32.03]32.What did Beethoven think when he was told
[15:35.37]the bad news by the doctor?
[15:51.58]33.When did Beethoven realize that he was going deaf?
[16:10.01]34.What kind of music did Beethoven write when he became deaf?
[16:28.98]35.Which of the four titles best sum up the whole story?
[16:48.93]Section C
[16:51.00]To Pacific people the coconut palm is the Tree of Life,
[16:54.93]and life itself often depends on its presence.
[16:58.78]This versatile and ubiquitous tree still keeps to itself
[17:02.75]the mystery of its geographical origins.
[17:05.65]Scientists may have theories, but most Pacific islanders believe
[17:10.11]that the coconut palm is of supernatural origin.
[17:14.15]Stray palms on uninhabited isles or in remote island valleys
[17:18.36]may appear wild and neglected to stranger,
[17:21.78]but chances are that some local family is watching and using them.
[17:27.20]On the other hand, the material culture of the islands is based
[17:30.65]on forest products in general, not just the coconut.
[17:34.36]Melanesian craftsmen fashion their goods from
[17:37.09]bark, fiber, wood, and other plant parts.
[17:41.25]Stone, shell, and bone are found in great variety,
[17:45.62]feathers and shell are seen as ornaments.
[17:48.16]But it is the plants which form
[17:50.09]the structural materials or architecture and artifacts.
[17:54.41]Among Melanesia's varied cultures,
[17:56.78]that of New Guinea's Sepik River area is
[17:59.87]one of the richest in artifacts.
[18:02.56]An important source is the annual festival marking
[18:05.36]the harvest of the yamcrop, a hill country staple.
[18:09.34]Yams of special size and characterrepresent spirits of the dead,
[18:13.76]and the quality ofa man and his family may not eat
[18:16.56]their own produce but must give it to a family of a nonrelated clan.
[18:22.13]Each phase of the growing cycle of the yamis marked with ceremonies
[18:26.38]and festivities culminating in the great harvest festival
[18:29.94]when the village square is filled with piles of yams.
[18:33.87]Many of the finest specimens are adorned with painted masks,
[18:38.23]feather headdresses, and jewelry.
[18:41.37]Each man or the tribe, similarly adorned,
[18:44.89]extols the virtues of his yams in extravagant oratory,
[18:49.67]climaxing his presentation by pronouncing the name of
[18:53.13]the family who is to receive his crop.
[18:59.24]To Pacific people the coconut palm is the Tree of Life,
[19:03.10]and life itself often depends on its presence.
[19:07.79]This versatile and ubiquitous tree still keeps to itself
[19:11.64]the mystery of its geographical origins.
[19:15.53]Scientists may have theories, but most Pacific islanders believe
[19:19.97]that the coconut palm is of supernatural origin.
[19:25.06]Stray palms on uninhabited isles or in remote island valleys
[19:29.27]may appear wild and neglected to stranger,
[19:34.69]but chances are that some local family is watching and using them.
[19:40.06]On the other hand, the material culture of the islands is based
[19:43.55]on forest products in general, not just the coconut.
[19:47.37]Melanesian craftsmen fashion their goods from
[19:49.91]bark, fiber, wood, and other plant parts.
[19:54.13]Stone, shell, and bone are found in great variety,
[19:59.47]feathers and shell are seen as ornaments.
[20:03.04]But it is the plants which form
[20:04.89]the structural materials or architecture and artifacts.
[20:09.29]Among Melanesia's varied cultures,
[20:11.69]that of New Guinea's Sepik River area is
[20:14.71]one of the richest in artifacts.
[20:17.51]An important source is the annual festival marking
[20:20.31]the harvest of the yamcrop, a hill country staple.
[20:24.23]Yams of special size and characterrepresent spirits of the dead,
[20:29.43]and the quality ofa man and his family may not eat
[20:32.45]their own produce but must give it to a family of a nonrelated clan.
[21:26.03]Each phase of the growing cycle of the yamis marked with ceremonies
[21:30.10]and festivities culminating in the great harvest festival
[22:21.29]when the village square is filled with piles of yams.
[22:25.14]Many of the finest specimens are adorned with painted masks,
[22:29.51]feather headdresses, and jewelry.
[22:32.67]Each man or the tribe, similarly adorned,
[22:36.16]extols the virtues of his yams in extravagant oratory,
[22:40.94]climaxing his presentation by pronouncing the name of
[22:44.51]the family who is to receive his crop.
[23:37.18]To Pacific people the coconut palm is the Tree of Life,
[23:41.03]and life itself often depends on its presence.
[23:44.83]This versatile and ubiquitous tree still keeps to itself
[23:48.65]the mystery of its geographical origins.
[23:51.74]Scientists may have theories, but most Pacific islanders believe
[23:56.14]that the coconut palm is of supernatural origin.
[24:00.22]Stray palms on uninhabited isles or in remote island valleys
[24:04.58]may appear wild and neglected to stranger,
[24:07.89]but chances are that some local family is watching and using them.
[24:13.31]On the other hand, the material culture of the islands is based
[24:16.39]on forest products in general, not just the coconut.
[24:20.50]Melanesian craftsmen fashion their goods from
[24:23.12]bark, fiber, wood, and other plant parts.
[24:27.56]Stone, shell, and bone are found in great variety,
[24:31.73]feathers and shell are seen as ornaments.
[24:34.27]But it is the plants which form
[24:35.98]the structural materials or architecture and artifacts.
[24:40.53]Among Melanesia's varied cultures,
[24:42.93]that of New Guinea's Sepik River area is
[24:46.02]one of the richest in artifacts.
[24:48.71]An important source is the annual festival marking
[24:51.55]the harvest of the yamcrop, a hill country staple.
[24:55.44]Yams of special size and characterrepresent spirits of the dead,
[24:59.66]and the quality ofa man and his family may not eat
[25:02.75]their own produce but must give it to a family of a nonrelated clan.
[25:08.31]Each phase of the growing cycle of the yamis marked with ceremonies
[25:12.56]and festivities culminating in the great harvest festival
[25:16.13]when the village square is filled with piles of yams.
[25:20.09]Many of the finest specimens are adorned with painted masks,
[25:24.38]feather headdresses, and jewelry.
[25:27.47]Each man or the tribe, similarly adorned,
[25:31.03]extols the virtues of his yams in extravagant oratory,
[25:35.83]climaxing his presentation by pronouncing the name of
[25:39.54]the family who is to receive his crop. |