Test 4
• 11.W: I thought you were going to drive carefully so you wouldn’t get a traffic ticket.• M: I was, but it didn’t work out that way.• Q: What happened to the man on that day?
• 12.M: I don’t think Jim particularly likes his cousin.What do you say? • W: You are smart.There have been hard feelings between them for years, but no one knows the • Q: What does the woman say about Jim and his cousin?
details.• 13.M: I can’t find the kind of jogging shoes I want anywhere in the town.• W: Why not order them from a catalog? It’s easier than running around town looking for them.• Q: What does the woman suggest that the man do? • 14.W: Have you had a chance to wear your new shirt yet? You must look good in it.• M: That reminds me.I’ve been meaning to exchange it for a larger size.• Q: What does the man imply about the shirt? • 15.W: Are you going to the post office for stamps or to pick up a package? • M: Neither, I left a letter for the postman to collect yesterday, but he forgot.And it has to be mailed today, so I’d better hurry.
• Q: What will the man do?
• 16.W：Which of these sweaters do you like better? • M: That is not an easy question for me to answer, since this one isn’t my favorite color and the other one is too fancy for me.• Q: What conclusion can be drawn from the man’s answer? • 17.W: Hi, George.Could you give me a ride? I want to buy some food for the picnic.• M: OK.I’m going home, but I can drop you at the supermarket.• Q: What does the woman want to do?
• 18.W: These tomatoes are huge! You must have watered them a lot! • M: Yes, I did.They ought to be ripe enough to pick by the next Friday when we have our picnic.
1 • Q: Where did the conversation most probably take place？
W: I often read two newspapers, Washington Post and The Sun.What about you? M: I will buy the newspaper whose headlines catch my eyes in the front page.Do you buy the two newspapers every day? W: Yes, that way I’m sure not to mi my favorite sections.Doesn’t the size of the daily paper surprise you?
• M: Yes, it certainly does.The newspaper staff—the reporters, writers, editors, and linotype operators—must be busy continuously.They need a large circulation to support such a staff, don’t they? • W: I’m sure they do.Of course, much of a newspaper’s income comes from advertisements.
• M: That’s true.You try to read the whole paper, don’t you?
W: No.I just read the parts that interest me.I glance at the headlines, but I read the sports page and the busine section carefully.Do you read those? M: No, but I do read the editorials and news section.You saw the article about the earthquake in Japan, didn’t you?
W: Yes.That was a terrible disaster.Do you think newspapers should print stories like that?
M: Certainly they should! They’re part of the news of the day and people want to know about them.Don’t you agree?
W: Yes, I suppose disasters are news, too.It seems to me that newspapers would be more pleasant to read if the had a large society section and more comic strips.Don’t you like to read articles about celebrations and happy events? M: Yes, I enjoy reading them.But since you don’t like to read unhappy news, why do you subscribe to two newspapers? If I were you, I wouldn’t read a newspaper at all.
• Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.• 19.What sort of newspaper will the man buy? • 20.What surprises the speakers? • 21.Which part of the newspaper does the woman usually read? • 22.Why doesn’t the woman enjoy reading about disasters in the daily newspaper?
• (Knock, knock…) • M: Come in.• W: Good morning, Mr.Brown.• M: Oh, come in, Mary.I’ve been expecting you.Take a seat.• W: Thanks.• M: And what can I do for you? • W: Well, I was thinking about taking a year off after we finish school this summer, and I wanted some advice.
• M: I see.You mean putting off going to university for a year?
2 • W: That’s right.I’ve been offered a place at London University, but what I’d really like to do is take • • • • • a year out first—do something different, maybe go abroad.M: So were you thinking of getting some sort of job, or traveling around? I mean, is your main aim to earn some money, or to do something else? Or do you want to do a bit of both?
W: I’d really like to travel –but I don’t have any money.But I’ve heard of an organization called Peterson International—and that’s what I want to ask you about.Do you know anything about it? M: Sure.It’s a charity and it’s aimed very much at young people like you, and what they do is to get teams of young people to work together on various projects all over the world –environment projects, community projects, that sort of thing.W: Um, it sounds great.Is it just English people on the projects? M: No, they’re international teams.You’d be working with quite a variety of people.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.•
• 23.When does Mary want to take a year off? • 24.What project does Peterson International carry out? • 25.Where do the people in the Peterson International teams come from?
The days of the hunter are almost over in India.This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals which still survive.
Some people say that Man is a natural hunter.I disagree whit this view.Surely our earliest forefathers, who at first poeed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.
I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals.Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside.There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and to risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat.
I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself. The greatest big-game hunters expreed in their writings something of these finer motives.One of them wrote ―You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animal’s own territory.You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day.It is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half-alive, by other animals.
Hunting is not a cruel and sensele killing—not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people.‖
I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears and bravely caught them by the tail.But this is very different from many tiger-shoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used.The so-called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants.Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.Questions 26 to 29 are based on the paage you’ve just heard.26.Why is there no more hunting in India now? 27.What is the main purpose of modern hunters’ killing? 28.What do we learn about the big-game hunters? 29.What is the speaker’s view on the tiger-shoot he has seen?
Diet, diet, diet! It gets to be a constant battle for many of us to stay fit and healthy.But diets don’t
3 always allow us to learn new eating habits, improve our self-image, or make lifestyle changes.Developing good eating habits and proper exercise is a permanent iue.And it’s the main topic of this workshop. In order to keep a healthy diet and minimize the risk of disease, it’s eential to eat a diet that consists of low-fat foods and to maximize energy with carbohydrates.
Beef, nuts, oils, and most dairy products are rich in fat, so you should eat le of those; while pastry, rice, potatoes, and bread contain almost no fat and are a high-energy source of complex carbohydrates.You know that many food manufactures use sugar to make low-fat or fat-free foods taste good, but don’t worry too much about that.You don’t necearily ―get fat‖ by eating sugar, since sugar is an indirect fat.
When you exercise, carbohydrates are the first calories to burn.If you want to burn off fat, it’s good to do some sort of aerobic exercise such as biking, swimming, running, or fast waking.But you have to keep doing this exercise for at least twenty minutes because it takes about that long before we start to burn fat.And then the effect of burning fat decreases after 45minutes of exercise.So if you do some sort of aerobic exercise for three to four days a week for about thirty to forty minutes, you’ll have an effective schedule for reducing weight.
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the paage you’ve just heard.
30.According to the speaker, which will burn most quickly with exercise? 31.What does the speaker say is burned at the beginning of exercise? 32.According to the speaker, what is the most effective exercise time schedule for reducing weight?
From the earliest times, the sea has been a place of secrets—a place of mysteries hidden from us by thousands of kilograms of water.The early Greeks sailed the oceans.They wrote about the seas.But since they could not dive deep into the waters, they could not lat bare these secrets and so the secrets remained.But today we have more ways to study the sea than did the early Greek.Scientists are learning about life in the sea, and how it may improve life on land.The study of sea plants and sea animals may help us learn new ways of getting food.
Scientists are searching the ocean floor for oil and gas, to keep our world running smoothly.And they are also learning how not to pollute the oceans.For if the sea dies, so does life on earth.The sea may even become our home some day.People are studying ways to build cities on the ocean, and make more room to live in an overcrowded world.
Modern study was done, at first, by divers.But it was too dangerous for divers to keep diving and coming to the surface.So now, laboratories on the ocean floor are the homes for divers for months on end.Divers can work outside in the water and return to the laboratory to eat and sleep.Little by little, we are solving the mysteries of the deep.Little by little, the sea is showing us how we can live a better life on land.Questions 33 to 35.33.Who wrote about the seas in early times? 34.What kept early people from understanding the sea? 35.What happens if the sea dies? 36.recently 37.decide 38.awarene 39.rising 40.improved 41.lowered 42.survive 43.thus leaving even le for the people in the underdeveloped areas to survive on 44.there are striking regional differences in the population growth trends 45.which at present contains about 3/5 of the people in the world
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