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Listening Comprehension短对话
Part III Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
M: I don&t know what to do. I have to drive to Chicago next Friday for my cousin&s wedding, but I have got a Psychology test to prepare for.
W: Why don&t you record your notes so you can study on the way?
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
【答案】A）Listen to the recorded notes while driving.
M: Professor Wright, you may have to find another student to play this role, the lines are so long and I simply can&t remember them all.
W: Look, Tony. It is still a long time before the first show. I don&t expect you to know all the lines yet. Just keep practicing.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
【答案】C）The man lacks confidence in playing the part.
M: Hello, this is Dr. Martin from the Emergency Department. I have a male patient with a fractured ankle.
W: Oh, we have one bed available in ward 3, send him here and I will take care of him.
Q: What are the speakers talking about?
【答案】A）Arranging a bed for a patient.
W: Since Simon will graduate this May, the school paper needs a new editor. So if you are interested, I will be happy to nominate you.
M: Thanks for considering me. But the baseball team is starting up a new season. And I&m afraid I have a lot on my hands.
Q: What does the man mean?
【答案】A）He is too busy to accept more .&
M: I don&t know what to do. I have to drive to Chicago next Friday for my cousin&s wedding, but I have got a Psychology test to prepare for.
W: Why don&t you record your notes so you can study on the way?
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
【答案】A) Listen to the recorded notes while driving.
M: Professor Wright, you may have to find another student to play this role, the lines are so long and I simply can&t remember them all.
W: Look, Tony. It is still a long time before the first show. I don&t expect you to know all the lines yet. Just keep practicing.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
【答案】C) The man lacks confidence in playing the part.
M: Hello, this is Dr. Martin from the Emergency Department. I have a male patient with a fractured ankle.
W: Oh, we have one bed available in ward 3, send him here and I will take care of him.
Q: What are the speakers talking about?
【答案】A) Arranging a bed for a patient
W: Since Simon will graduate this May, the school paper needs a new editor. So if you are interested, I will be happy to nominate you.
M: Thanks for considering me. But the baseball team is starting up a new season. And I&m afraid I have a lot on my hands.
Q: What does the man mean?
【答案】A) He is too busy to accept more .
15. W: Have you heard the news that Jame Smeil has resigned his post as prime minister?
M: Well, I got it from the headlines this morning. It&s reported that he made
at this decision at the last cabinet meeting.
Q: what do we learn about Jame Smeil?
【答案】C) He has left his position in the .
16. W: The morning paper says the space shuttle is taking off at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
M: Yeah, it&s just another one of this year&s routine missions. The first mission was undertaken a decade ago and broadcast live then worldwide.
Q: what can we infer from this conversation?
【答案】D) The man is well informed about the space shuttle missions.
17. M: We do a lot of camping in the mountains. What would you recommend for two people?
W: You&d probably be better off with the four reel drive vehicle. We have several off-road trucks in , both new and used.
Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?
【答案】A) At a car renting company
&Section B
Passage One
&The University of Tennessee&s Walters Life Sciences building, is a model animal facility, spotlessly clean, careful in obtaining prior approval for experiments from an animal care committee. Of the 15,000 mice house there in a typical year, most give their lives for humanity. These are good mice and as such won the
of the animal care committee. At any given time however some mice escape and run free. These mice are pests. They can disrupt experiments with the
organisms they carry. They are bad mice and must be d and ed. Usually, this is accomplished by means of sticky traps, a kind of fly paper on which they become increasingly stuck. But the real point of the cautionary tale, says animal ist Herzau, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral responses to them. Using stick traps or the more deadly snap traps would be deemed unacceptable for good mice. Yet the killing of bad mice requires no prior approval. Once the research animal hits the floor and becomes an escapee, says Herza, its moral standard is instantly diminished. In Herzau&s own home, there was more ironic example when his young son&s pet mouse Willy died recently, it was accorded a tearful ceremonial burial in garden. Yet even as they mourned Willy, says Herzau, he and his wife were setting snap traps to kill the pest mice in their kitchen with the bare change in labels from pet to pest, the kitchen mice obtained totally different moral standards
【材料评析】
本篇文章主要是讲述人们对待老鼠不同的道德态度。
同是一个实验室里面老鼠，如果是为了人类实验做贡献，就是人们眼中的好老鼠；而一旦老鼠从实验室里面跑出来，携带病菌危害到了人类健康，那么这些逃跑掉的老鼠就成为了人们眼中的坏老鼠。人类会使用那些捕鼠夹子来消灭坏老鼠，但是对待好老鼠的时候态度截然不同，比如作者儿子的宠物老鼠死掉了，他们家甚至给它办了一场葬礼。
作者的观点就是：如果我们对一样事物贴上了标签，那么在道德层面上，我们内心会根据标签的不同作出不同的反应。并不是事物本身有任何好与不好，只是人类自作主张给各个事物贴上了不同的标签。
Questions:
26 What does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiments?
【答案】D）They sacrifice their lives for the benefit of humans.
27 Why did the so-called bad mice have to be d and ed?
【答案】C) They may affect the s of experiments.
28 When are mice killed without prior approval?
【答案】C) When they become escapees.
29 Why does the speaker say what the Herzau&s did at home is ironical?
【答案】A）While holding a burial ceremony for a pet mouse, they were killing pest mice.
Passage Two
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter & the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last, the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung , its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city it s give it sol but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being d by her s, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the in excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.
【材料评析】
这篇文章的主题是城市和文化。属于散文性质。
讲述了不同的人带给纽约不同的气息。第一种，纽约本地人，让纽约完整持续；第二种，纽约上班族，让纽约躁动不安；第三种，来纽约寻梦的人，他们让纽约充满热情。作者在内心觉得纽约正是因为有这样三种人才能如此闪耀光彩，尤其是最后一类人，为纽约做出的贡献最大。
本篇文章中，The Three New Yorks 具有双关含义，既可以指纽约城，也可以指纽约人。有些学生可能看到这里就没看懂。遇到这种情况应该先接着往后看，然后猜这个three New Yorks到底指什么。
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. What does the speaker say about the s of New York?
【答案】D) They take it for granted.
31. What does the speaker say commuters give to New York?
【答案】A) Tidal restlessness.
32. What do we learn about the settlers of New York?
【答案】B) They are adventurers from all over the world.
&If you asked me television is unhealthy&, I said to my roommate Walter, as I walked into the living room.&While you are sitting passively in front of the TV set, your muscles are turning to fat, your ion is fading, and your eyesight is being ruined.&
&Shh~&Walter put his finger to his lips, &This is an intriguing murder mystery.&
&Really?& I replied.
&But you know, the brain is ed by TV viewing. Creativity is killed by that box. And people are kept from communicating with one another. From my point of view, TV is the cause of the declining interest in school and the failure of our entire educational system.&
&Ah ha, I can&t see your point.& Walter said softly. &But see? The woman on the
target=_blank class=infotextkey> stand in this story is being questioned about the murder that was committed one hundred years ago.&
Ignoring his
description of the plot, I went on with my argument.
&As I see it,& I explained, &not only are most TV programs badly written and produced, but viewers are also manipulated by the mass media. As far as I am concerned, TV watchers are cut off from reality from nature, from the other people, from life itself! I was confident in my ability to persuade.
After a short silence, my roommate said, &Anyway, I&ve been planning to watch the football game. I am going to change the channel.&
&Don&t touch that dial!& I shouted, &I wanted to find out how the mystery turns out!&
I am not sure I got my point to cross.
【材料评析】
这是一篇很有趣的记叙文。讲述了作者和室友的一段关于看电视问题的对话。
作者一直在强调看电视如何如何不好，并且列举出了一大堆的原因：会让身体变胖，面色枯黄，视力下降，并且会让孩子们的创造能力，交际能力下降。但是他的室友一直没有接他的话，一直专心于看自己的电视节目。
文章最幽默的是，最后一个情节，当室友说要换台的时候，作者立刻不愿意了，真是非常地讽刺，原来作者自己也是离不开电视机，受不了电视节目的诱惑的。
这篇文章难度比较低，生词几乎没有，大家只要看懂情节，基本上所有问题也可以回答出来，需要仔细认真，在听的时候虚拟场景。
33. As the speaker walked into the living room, what was being shown on TV?
【答案】D） A murder mystery
34. What does the speaker say about watching television?
【答案】C）It is unhealthy for the viewers.
35. What can we say about the speaker?
【答案】B) He can&t resist the temptation of T.V. either.
Section C Compound Dictation
In the past, one of the biggest disadvantages of machines has been their inability to work on a micro scale. For example, doctors did not have devices allowing them to go inside the human body todetect&health
or to perform&delicate&surgery. Repair crews did not have a way of&identifying&broken pipes located deep within a high-rise&apartment&building. However, that&s about to change. Advances in computers and biophysics have started a micro miniaturerevolution&that allows scientists to envision and in some cases actually build microscopic machines. These devices promise to&dramatically&change the way we live and work.
Micromachines already are making an impact. At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny&primitive&motors. At Lucas Nova Sensor in Fremont, California, scientists have perfected the world&s first microscopic blood-pressure . Threaded through a person&s blood&vessels, the
can provide blood pressure readings at the valve of the heart itself.
Although simple versions of miniature devices have had an impact, advanced versions are still several years away.&
Auto manufacturers, for example, are trying to use tiny devices&that can sense when to
an airbag and how to keep engines and breaks operating efficiently. Some futurists envision nanotechnology also being used to explore the deep sea in small submarine, or even to launch finger-sized rockets packed with micro miniature .
&There is an explosion of new ideas and applications,& So,&when scientists now think about future machines doing large and
tasks, they&re thinking smaller than ever before.
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46.&when scientists now think about future machines doing large and
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Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in depth)
这篇阅读理解的主题是讲商务领导才能，关键词两个：leadership和business。考生要理解这篇文章，就需要抓住这两个关键词，并且认真领会作者所阐述的这二者之间的关系。开篇第一句即指出领导才能在当今竞争激烈的商务领域的重要地位，是排名第二的重要，并指出原因。随后进一步指出，研究领导才能的专家们会毫不犹豫地指出&做事情的方式&影响结果的成功与否，并且暗示着做事方式的对与错。最后，作者引用了曾经是一位出色管理人Peter Drucker总结的一句话：管理是将事情做对，领导是做对的事情。意即在Peter Drucker看来，优秀的领导人需要擅长做对的事情。以上都是先前存在的对商务领导才能的一些看法。随后第二段，作者就将话题一转 ，指出Stephen Covey在其畅销书中提出的观点开始引起人们反思先前对领导才能的理解。Stephen Covey指出先前的领导才能都是以人的性格和个性为中心，而他则倡导领导人必须了解实现高效的普遍原则，并且强调了领导人要想在工作中有杰出表现，先实现良好的自我管理是至关重要的。在此基础上，作者水到渠成地指出，要达到业务目标，必须要对自己的目标和重视的东西有清楚的认识。最后，作者总结出，商务领导才能就是要将首要的事情放在首要位置，这就暗示着在领导他人之前，你要先对自己的价值观、能力和优势有清楚的认识，并且要让自己在别人看来是值得信任的。换句话说，优秀的商务领导要十分了解自己，并且要能赢得他人的信任。
47. values, abilities and strengths
48. doing the right things
49. positive mental attitude
50. manage themselves
Passage One
53. A It indicates that economic activities in the US have increased.
54. C Producers of agricultural goods and raw materials
55. C People&s reluctance to spend
56. B To increase their
share overseas.&
Passage Two
这是一篇议论文。文章开头就提供了一个背景，即英国的大学在将知识转化成产品和服务的能力方面不断的遭受着批评。第二段提到了UK National Stem Cell Network，即英国国家干细胞网络，发出了这样的警告：如果没有资金和立法支持的话，英国将在干细胞研究方面失去领军地位。 第三段，作者针对这个批评，提出了相反的看法，并以最近的一个研究数据作支撑：对比澳洲，加拿大，美国和英国的高校及研究所，英国在商业化活动的指标上还是处于领先地位的。第四段作者从国家政策层面来分析，认为过去十年的政策介入也对英国大学的表现产生了积极的影响。第五段讲述，研究资金的偏态分布不仅仅是英国独有的，其他经济体也存在这样的问题。在英国，不到25%的大学却拥有75%的研究资金。但同时，这些大学也是培养博士生最多的，产生的科学著作、专利和授权收入最多的机构。可见，这种将资源集中的政策造就了研究型和商业型相结合的优秀的大学。第六段，作者提到这些研究型高校的核心目标就是将研究成果利益最大化。接着在第七、八两段里，讲述了这些高校能够为英国经济的复苏做些什么，即加快技术转换和研究院教育水平。
57. A. they still have a place among the world leaders.
58. B. It does not reflect the differences among universities.
59. A. concentration of res in a limited number of universities.
60. A. Fully utilize their research to benefit all sectors of society.
61. C. By promoting the efficiency of technology transfer agencies.&
&Part V Cloze
The Truth About Plastic
By BRYAN WALSH Thursday, July 10, 2008 （Time magazine）
If you know where to find a good plastic-free shampoo, can you tell Jeanne Haegele? Last September, the 28-year-old Chicago resident&62. resolved&to cut plastics out of her life. The ing coordinator was concerned about&63. what&the chemicals coming out of some common types of plastic might be doing to her body. She was also worried about the damage all the plastic&64. rubbish&was doing to the . So she&65. hoppedon her bike and rode to the nearest grocery store to see what she could find that didn't66. include&plastic. &I went in and&67. barely&bought anything,& Haegele says. She did&68. purchase&some canned food and a carton (纸盒) of milk---69. only&to discover later that both containers were&70. lined&with plastic resin(树脂). &Plastic,& she says, &just seemed like it was in everything.&
She's right. Back in the 1960s, plastic was well&71. on&its way to becoming a staple of American life. The U.S. produced 28 million tons of plastic waste in 2005--27 million tons of which&72. ended&up in landfills. Our food and water come&73. wrapped&in plastic. It's used in our phones and our computers, the cars we drive and the planes we ride in. But the&74. infinitely&adaptable substance has its dark side. Environmentalists fret about the petroleum needed to make it. Parents worry about the possibility of&75.toxic&chemicals making their way from&76. household&plastic into children's bloodstreams. Which means Haegele isn't the only person trying to cut plastic out of her life--she isn't&77. even&the only one blogging about this kind of&78. endeavor. But those who've tried know it's&79. far&from easy to go plastic-free. &These things seem to be so common&80. that&it is practically im to avoid coming into&81. contact&with them,& says Frederick vom Saal, a biologist at the University of Missouri.
62:resolved
64:essence
66:include
68:purchase
70:combined
72:ended up
73:wrapped
74:infinitely
76:household
78:endeavor
81:contact&
&Part VI Translation
1. You shouldn't have run across the road without looking, youwould have been knocked down by a car.&(也许会被车撞到)
解析：本题考察虚拟语气。句子是与过去事实相反，因此用would have +过去分词，表虚拟语气。
2 By no means&does he regard himself as an expert,&(他把自己当成专家) although he knows a lot about the field.
解析：本题考察倒装和词组regard sb. as sth.(把&当作&)。介词短语by no means 置于句首，构成部分倒装，因此把助动词does提前。
3 He doesn't appreciate the sacrifice his friends have made for him,&however, he takes it for granted.(把他们所做的视作理所应当)
解析：本题考察词组take sth. for granted (把&当作理所当然)。同时，考生要注意句子后半句前是一个逗号，要加上一个连词and或者加上however。
4 Janet told me that she would rather her mother&not have interfered with her marriage.(不干涉她的婚姻)
解析：本题考察would rather have done sth, 表示过去事件，句子中told提示是过去发生的事，因此用would have interfered with。
5 To keep up with the expanding frontiers of scholarship. Edward Wilson found himself&always searching for in on the internet.&&（经常上网查信息）
解析：本题考察了感官动词find+宾语+现在分词（作宾补），现在分词表主动。因此这里用searching。
&2011年12月大学英语六级
Part III Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
M: I don&t know what to do. I have to drive to Chicago next Friday for my cousin&s wedding, but I have got a Psychology test to prepare for.
W: Why don&t you record your notes so you can study on the way?
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
M: Professor Wright, you may have to find another student to play this role, the lines are so long and I simply can&t remember them all.
W: Look, Tony. It is still a long time before the first show. I don&t expect you to know all the lines yet. Just keep practicing.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
M: Hello, this is Dr. Martin from the Emergency Department. I have a male patient with a fractured ankle.
W: Oh, we have one bed available in ward 3, send him here and I will take care of him.
Q: What are the speakers talking about?
W: Since Simon will graduate this May, the school paper needs a new editor. So if you are interested, I will be happy to nominate you.
M: Thanks for considering me. But the baseball team is starting up a new season. And I&m afraid I have a lot on my hands.
Q: What does the man mean?&
15. W: Have you heard the news that Jame Smeil has resigned his post as prime minister?
M: Well, I got it from the headlines this morning. It&s reported that he made
at this decision at the last cabinet meeting.
Q: what do we learn about Jame Smeil?
16. W: The morning paper says the space shuttle is taking off at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
M: Yeah, it&s just another one of this year&s routine missions. The first mission was undertaken a decade ago and broadcast live then worldwide.
Q: what can we infer from this conversation?
17. M: We do a lot of camping in the mountains. What would you recommend for two people?
W: You&d probably be better off with the four reel drive vehicle. We have several off-road trucks in , both new and used.
Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?
18. W: I hear you did some serious shopping this past weekend.
M: Yeah, the speakers of my old stereo finally gave out and there was no way to repair them.
Q: What did the man do over the weekend?
Conversation One
W: Now, could you tell me where the idea for the business first came from?
M: Well, the original shop was opened by a retired printer by the name of Gruby. Mr Gruby being left-handed himself, thought of the idea to try to promote a few products for left-handers.
W: And how did he then go about actually setting up the business?
M: Well, he looked for any left-handed products that might already be on the
which were very few. And then contacted the manufactures with the idea of having products produced for him, mainly in the scissors range to start with.
W: Right. So you do commission some part of your .
M: Yes, very much so. About 75 percent of our
is specially made for us.
W: And the rest of it?
M: Hmm, the rest of it now, some 25, 30 years after Mr. Gruby&s initial s, there are more left-handed product actually on the . Manufactures are now beginning to see that there is a
for left-handed products.
W: And what&s the range of your ?
M: The range consists of a variety of scissors from children scissors to scissors for tailors, hairdressers etc. We also have a large range of kitchen ware.
W: What&s the competition like? Do you have quite a lot of competition?
M: There are other people in the business now in specialists, but only as mail-order outlets. But we have a shop here in central London plus a mail-order outlet. And we are without any doubt the largest supplier of the left-handed items.
Q19: What kind of business does the man engaged in?
Q20: What does the man say about his
of products?
Q21: What does the man say about other people in his line of business?
Conversation Two&
M: Can we make you an offer? We would like to run the
for four extra weeks.
W: well, can we summarize the problem from my point of view? First of all, the
was late. It missed two important trade affairs. The ads also did not appear into key magazines. As a , the
failed. Do you accept that summary of what happened?
M: well, the delay wasn&t entirely our fault. You did in fact make late changes to the specifications of the advertisements.
W: Uh, actually, you were late with the initial proposals so you have very little time and in fact, we only asked for small changes.
M: Well whatever, can we repeat our offer to run the
for 4 extra weeks?
W: That&s not really the point. The
missed two key trade affairs. Because of this, we are asking you either to repeat the
next year for free, or we only pay 50% of the fee for this year.
M: Could we suggest a 20% reduction to the fee together with the four week sustention to the .
W: We are not happy. We lost business.
M: I think we both made mistakes. The
is on both sides.
W: Ok, let&s suggest a new solution. How about a 40% cut in fee, or a free repeat ?
M: Well, let&s take a break, we&re not getting very far. Perhaps we should think about this.
22: What do we learn about the man&s company?
23: Why was the
delayed according to the man?
24: What does the woman propose as a solution to the problem?
25: What does the man suggest they do at the end of the conversation?&
Passage One
The University of Tennessee&s Walters Life Sciences building, is a model animal facility, spotlessly clean, careful in obtaining prior approval for experiments from an animal care committee. Of the 15,000 mice house there in a typical year, most give their lives for humanity. These are good mice and as such won the
of the animal care committee. At any given time however some mice escape and run free. These mice are pests. They can disrupt experiments with the
organisms they carry. They are bad mice and must be d and ed. Usually, this is accomplished by means of sticky traps, a kind of fly paper on which they become increasingly stuck. But the real point of the cautionary tale, says animal ist Herzau, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral responses to them. Using stick traps or the more deadly snap traps would be deemed unacceptable for good mice. Yet the killing of bad mice requires no prior approval. Once the research animal hits the floor and becomes an escapee, says Herza, its moral standard is instantly diminished. In Herzau&s own home, there was more ironic example when his young son&s pet mouse Willy died recently, it was accorded a tearful ceremonial burial in garden. Yet even as they mourned Willy, says Herzau, he and his wife were setting snap traps to kill the pest mice in their kitchen with the bare change in labels from pet to pest, the kitchen mice obtained totally different moral standards
Questions:
26, What does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiments?
27, Why did the so-called bad mice have to be d and ed?
28, When are mice killed without prior approval?
29, Why does the speaker say what the Herzau&s did at home is ironical?&
Passage Two&
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter & the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last, the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung , its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city it s give it sol but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being d by her s, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the in excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. What does the speaker say about the s of New York?
31. What does the speaker say commuters give to New York?
32. What do we learn about the settlers of New York?
Passage Three
&If you asked me television is unhealthy&, I said to my roommate Walter, as I walked into the living room.&While you are sitting passively in front of the TV set, your muscles are turning to fat, your ion is fading, and your eyesight is being ruined.&
&Shh~&Walter put his finger to his lips, &This is an intriguing murder mystery.&
&Really?& I replied.
&But you know, the brain is ed by TV viewing. Creativity is killed by that box. And people are kept from communicating with one another. From my point of view, TV is the cause of the declining interest in school and the failure of our entire educational system.&
&Ah ha, I can&t see your point.& Walter said softly. &But see? The woman on the
target=_blank class=infotextkey> stand in this story is being questioned about the murder that was committed one hundred years ago.&
Ignoring his
description of the plot, I went on with my argument.
&As I see it,& I explained, &not only are most TV programs badly written and produced, but viewers are also manipulated by the mass media. As far as I am concerned, TV watchers are cut off from reality from nature, from the other people, from life itself! I was confident in my ability to persuade.
After a short silence, my roommate said, &Anyway, I&ve been planning to watch the football game. I am going to change the channel.&
&Don&t touch that dial!& I shouted, &I wanted to find out how the mystery turns out!&
I am not sure I got my point to cross.
Questions 33- 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33. As the speaker walked into the living room, what was being shown on TV?
34. What does the speaker say about watching television?
35. What can we say about the speaker?
Section C Compound Dictation
In the past, one of the biggest disadvantages of machines has been their inability to work on a micro scale. For example, doctors did not have devices allowing them to go inside the human body to detect health
or to perform delicate surgery. Repair crews did not have a way of identifying broken pipes located deep within a high-rise apartment building. However, that&s about to change. Advances in computers and biophysics have started a micro miniature revolution that allows scientists to envision and in some cases actually build microscopic machines. These devices promise to dramatically change the way we live and work.
Micromachines already are making an impact. At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny primitive motors. At Lucas Nova Sensor in Fremont, California, scientists have perfected the world&s first microscopic blood-pressure . Threaded through a person&s blood vessels, the
can provide blood pressure readings at the valve of the heart itself.
Although simple versions of miniature devices have had an impact, advanced versions are still several years away.
Auto manufacturers, for example, are trying to use tiny devices that can sense when to
an airbag and how to keep engines and breaks operating efficiently. Some futurists envision nanotechnology also being used to explore the deep sea in small submarine, or even to launch finger-sized rockets packed with micro miniature .
&There is an explosion of new ideas and applications,& So, when scientists now think about future machines doing large and
tasks, they&re thinking smaller than ever before.&
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