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01年1月 托福听力文字 part A 1. jane was really accepted she didn’t invite to the graduation ceremony. well, you know. There only for people. But as turns out my brother can go after all. And she is the next my list. 2. do you know what time the train goes the city? Normally it’s every 20 minutes. But it’s weekend, so I’m not sure. 3. could you do me a favor? I really a couple of coffee, and I know she’s in your chemistry class this afternoon, so I was wondering. Not problem. Considerate it done. 4. there you are. Finally, we’d better get moving if we expected to get seat. the lecture start fifteen minutes. And we still have a long walk to . please, things never start on time. and anyway, I don’t think the road would be crowded. 5. I studied French in high school, but I never really learned it until I learned in summering paris. Really using the language makes all the differents, doesn’t it? 6. I wait it until midnight for your call last night. you know I really need those notes. Oh, I am so sorry. I get called up the conversation my roommate completely forgot. But you know what, I am right here. 7. can you believe that doctor foster exactly giving us extra week to hand the papers? That’s time I can certainty used. Believe me, I am not even the half way through. 8. my parents want to come visit next weekend, but I check every hotel in the area, and all seem to be full. Why not call the , it’s not so near the campus but it’s always get a few vacancy. 9. I heard you looking for someone to pick up your mail where your way the conference next week. Oh, could you? 10. I just come back from the campus bookstore, every single textbook I need in this semester is sold out. That until the day class begin. 11. I’ sorry, I shouldn’t volunteer to help you memorize lines to the play, I still haven’t finish reading my essay. That’ ok, sue said she will help me she could do it. 12. you know, I was really hoping to get this genteelism in turn cheep at the times. But I was only two weeks before start. Can I still have a heed for them? Don’t worry about it. They must be cleaning weather places would be happy to help you. 13. you know, team was very funny lately, everything you want photograph to local paper. well, he is kind of change, like he is hard to know. yeah, I know what you mean, I guess zaogang was too had. 14. if I can keep up the pace, I will graduate in just 3 years. That may be true, but I never want to give up my summer breaks. 15. I am hiding over to the fid box office, to the weekend concert, before you will gone. I hate to tell you this, but for more I read this morning, you are already to late. 16. it’s no use. I am never learn to swim as well as you do. Don’t lock so easily, remember, water. 17. you need to decide where do you going to do your research project done. I have got the background information together, now all I need is to find right subject to observe. 18. what’s the problem? Don’t you have your apartment key? It’s a good thing I leave sprice my neighbor, I am going to have a stop by asking for getting my books. 19. I am having a hard time keeping up my biology class. I am seriously considering hiring a turtle. Would it advice, don’t make a mistake I made last semester and wait until after midterm exam to do it. 20. we hope you enjoy year stay at hotel. here is a room key and by the way, check out until 12 noon. Oh, thanks for reminding me. It’s a lovely hotel and I am not at all hurry to leave. but I would not want to be charged for second night. 21. I am thinking about spending my spring breaks skiing at central mountain, you will there last year, how was it? To be completely I horonest that was to be desired. 22. did I read the campus newspapers that your roommates was named the top student in history department? Oh, that’s highly likely, considering that filter this chemistry. 23. I know what is short notice, but did you think to prove free Talk about this the last minute. 24. I have got to give up my all presentation in class tomorrow, and I am so nervous. Maybe you just need a trail run, why don’t you use me as your audience? 25. you know I have to leave the basket ball game I have through last night. So I never found out one. Well, don’t look at me, I left just few minutes behind you. 26. this need something to give some more favor, don’t you think? Right, tell me what you like run over to the corner store, I need to get it anyway. 27. Jeff, I am so sorry, I don’t know what I did about your dictionary, of course, I will buy you a new one. Don’t be sadly, I have , and I hardly use it anyway. 28. can I expect to see the party if I carry Friday night? The fifty begin at six and little probably last few hours. Yeah, I will miss it. Socker practice just until seven but I will be there. 29. are you crazy, how come you bring that from doctor smith? I don’t know, I guess he just call me of gold. 30. I hear you have got your own stutido now, are you still painting oils? I am, and I just saw price pieces. And another one could shown in the exhibit next month. part B 31-34 listen to the conversation between the student employee and administrator in the cafeteria. Hi, rob, mind if I eat lunch with you? No, Mr.evens, not at all. Thanks, I just heard you study new sth. and you got a quite a bit experience with working in cafeteria ,so I wonder if you have been interested in a small project of doing this term. Was the project got about? More and more students have been deciding no to buy the meal plan and we want trade them back. I want to hear what’s the students would like. Your job would be found out. Of course I like to hear the any of your own ideas. Well, if menus were changed, then maybe I would have to listen to so much cristism this term. You know I have taken several nutrition classes, and every Wednesday this food year. So they always complete to me about the food. That makes you perfect for the job. Would you be interest? I am not sure. What is the sort of change you thinking up? I’d like to make some changes we prepare our food. For example, we just look about we had to choose from today. You got fry Hamburg with this oil and I got fried chicken. We both contain too much fat. But you’d better not to get rid of them. Everybody favoury. Well, we can certainly keep them but we need to give them the people some choices. For example we could also prepare chicken without fat. We served on some rice with litus. Do you think that would appeal the students? Well, I like fat. But you are right, you’d better find out with other think.oh, sorry, I have got to back to work. I’d like to hear more though. All job buy your office later. Who can, she is then? 31. what are the speaker mainly discussing? 32. what is the woman current job in the cafeteria? 33. what does the man want the woman to do? 34. what does the man suggest the cafeteria to do? 35. how does the woman probably feel about the man’s project? Listen to a conversation between two students. Hi, alias, you never guess so I met last week. Bob johnson. You know mean the bob Johnson who directed the quite performance that weekend? That’s right. But she is so famous. How to get to meet her? Well, you know have a programming hind the printed I thought I made a mistakes, you know , type the graphical. Wait a minute, you were acturely reading the word? Well, I will so called up a performance that I never even look the program. I’d like to follow the test what I listening. You mean understand what is the thing about. Anyway, all I ever doing the last pieces, I know the mistakes. but I was really annoy. So at the concert when over, people were crowding around the backstage to see her and soloist. Yeah, I remember, there were dozens of people waiting the theater outgraph. Well, I wait to the end and then when I met job Johnson I showed the mistakes I found. Were she accept? Accept? She acturally thanks me and send me a copy of correct test. She will advice for the next time they sing the pieces. And even she print my name in the program editor. Woo, you pretty good to find out the errors. I should hold to sell them my majoring classics. 36. what is the man eager to tell the other students? 37. what can be inferred about the two students? 38. what was bob Johnson’s reaction to the man’s commons. 39. what will the man probably seen to bob Johnson. Listen to a talk given by a history prof. The calron in west usa in the late 18 hundreds. As the industry develop so did the house ridding contests we called radios. Radios was always to begin at we see nowdays. The first want small contast started at among competition people restore to reflect to cowboys. Although they didn’t clue both man and woman. One do the cowboys was to guide the cattle from grass rangers into town along the railroad lines where the cows were load on the trains. The cowboys would gather near the cattle towns to complete for cattle house writer. They were demonstrated to riding skills that learned survival. And the ordiens was composed mainly of other cowboys who watch the competitive . since they knew what they want . radio context took a different turn in the 1890’s . when organizers began to hold a cowboys sports during yearly every cultural affairs. What was different with the ardins it consist mostly people who were unfamiliar with the rage. They were amazed by the sth writers and intenllence houses. The radio at every cultural affairs became so popular that the racher and business people begin to organize radio indepentent events set from affairs. The organizers still large riners and earn money by requiring spectator to pay masion. More and more notable radios held annually in wem. It called fronter days. While is not the first indepentent radio.,but is the owl this annually show.it has been 1897 40. What is the topic mainly about? 41. What can be infer about the early radio? 42. what is the significant about the fronter days biological class we spend looking at for a biological perspective. And someone asked with the attendence to be fillfull djl. Some study indicate that mammal still to some degree. In one study for instence, a group of mice placed in the bright open buck for the now hiding places. Some of the mice wondered around the bars and didn’t appear to be bothered about being so exposed. But other mice didn’t move. Which indicate they were afraid. Well, when ferful mice or you might say anxious mice like ones stayed in one place. When mice like this bread but one another were repeatly, after about 12 also generation. Then all of the offspring show similar sign for ferful mice. And even when the new born mouse from this generation with rice by a mother, and with other mice were not ferful, mice still attend to be ferful as the dot. Now, why is this? Well, it’s sought that the gene specific have influrence the anxious behavior. This gene that associated with particular nerve in brain. And the degree of overall ferful mice in the mammal seem to depend in the large part . the present all expense this nerve cell seperator. And this appears to apply to umans and well by the way. But well the attandency talled may will be in trade.the specic form that take has more to do indivial enviorment. So a pectuliar affair like the ferful snake or the ferful spider not attk. But overall the attendence to have ferful is. 43. what is the talk mainly about? 44. how did some of the mice in the study demstrated that they were afraid? 45. according to the professor, what contribute to a mammal tendency to be ferful? 46. why does the prof. Mentions snakes and spiders? Listen to a part of talk in the geology class. one type of natural springe geography interest is a teasin spring. Hiking through the world some of to see water flowing from the opening ground. That will no more ever. That may tension spring. To help you understand why water might flow like underground. I ‘d like to experince two basic condition necessary for there formation. The first condition is the water not be contain . and acrofer isn’t underground layer of rock sediment that has poles or holes in it. And this poles rock allows water to flow it freely. The acrofer must be inclined so that the over the surface of the ground. Rain water enter this through exposed and traveled downward to the lower portion of the acrofer. The second condition is that above and below the acrofer there must be layer of none rock or clay. Either code acclouds, and they block or hinter the flow of water. Acclouds prevent water from drining out acrofer. So, let us go back to our tension spring. There usually located above the ground near the lower and wind clind acrofer. A tension spring there places some hole crack stand from the ground surface, down through the acrocolud.and into the acrofer. Now the rain moder that had drined into the acrofer makes expose up raind created pressure at the low raind .so if there is crack in the rock, a cracked that run from the acrofer surface, then the pressure pushes the water up through it.and water constrately out of the tension spring. 47. what is the topic mainly about? 48. why are the acroclode important to the development of the tension spring. 49. according to the prof., how does water in the acrofer reach the ground surface. 50. what does the prof. Say about the pressure 01年5月 托福听力文字 Part A 1. A: So are you going to see the student play tonight? B: I doubt it. I'm still getting over the flu. Q: What does the man mean? 2. A: Gordom needs to find another place to live. The apartment he rents now has been sold to a new owner. B: He'd better start looking right away. When all the students come back in a few weeks, he won't find any near the campus. Q: What does the woman suggest Gorden do? 3. A: Mind if I borrow ur Spanish workbook? B: Not as long as I have it back in time to take to class this evening. Q: What does the man mean? 4. A: U know that quiz we took in Dr. Turner's class today? Did u know that she was going to give it to us? B: Actually I was just as surprised as u were. Q: What does the woman mean? 5. A: I don't know which color folder to use, white or brown? B: What difference does it make? It's the content that's important. Q: What does the man mean? 6. A: U know I heard that professor Martin's introduction to chem class is way to demanding for first year students. They say it's as hard as courses for graduate students. B: Yeah, but a lot of students will tell u otherwise. To talk to anyone who's gone on to the advanced course,like organic chem or who study chem in graduate school. They r really glad they started out with professor Martin. Q: What does the man imply about professor Martin? 7. A: Hey Mark, have u been able to sell ur old piano yet? B: Ah, u were right, just posting notices on bulletin boards at a coupke of supermarket wasn't enough. I think i'll have to place an advertisement in the local newspaper. Q: What does the man imply? 8. A: My back has been aching ever since I started playing tennis on the weekends, B: haven't u had that checked out yet? Q: What does the woman imply? 9. A: Hi,uhm... I think something's wrong with the washing machine. It works and I just did my laundry but it makes some strange noises. Maybe u should call sb to fix it. B: Oh don't worry. Sb from the repair shop is already on the way over to take a look at it. Q: What does the man imply? 10.A; It's so thoughtful of u to offer to drop me off at the train station. Ru sure it's not out of ur way? B: Not at all. The station is really close to where i'm going. Q:What does the man mean? 11.A: I'm here about the job u advertised in the paper. B; U need one of those forms over there, on the table next to the file cabinet. Q: What does the woman imply the man should do? 12. A:I know i ought to call home, but i've got a plane to take and I may be late. B:But it only takes a minute. Q: What does the woman suggest the man do? 13.A: i have to drive in to Chicago next week. Do u have a map I could borrow? B: Sorry I don't,but i can pick one up for u while I'm at the bookstore. Q: What does the man mean? 14.A:What did u think of the paintings that Ted was showing last week? B; I never made it to the exhibit. Q: What does the woman mean? 15.A: Did u hear about the big show storm in Iowa yesterday? Three feet and twelve hours. B: Yeah, and I hear it's headed our way. We'r supposed to get the same thing tonight. Q: What does the woman mean? 16.A:U'r joining us for dinner tonight, aren't u? B: Oh, I'm really sorry, but I had the wrong date for my geometry test. i just found out it's tomorrow and I need all the time I can get to prepare. Q: What does the woman imply? 17.A: I can't decide whether I should take physics now or wait till next semester. B: U might as well get it over with if u can. Q: What does the man suggest the woman do? 18.A: U look different today. Did u get a haircut? B: That's funny. Ur the third person to ask me that. But all I did was getting new frames for my eye glasses. Q: What does the man imply? 19.A: Dr. Eliot, I'd like u to check the way u calculated my grade for this test, I think u may have made a mistake in adding up the number of questions I got right. When I added them up I came up with thos slightly higher grade than u did. B: I'd be ahppy to check it for u. And if I made a mistake in determing the grade i'll be sure to correct it. Don't worry. Q: What does the man imply? 20.A: That last speaker was pretty boring. But he did make a few good points at the end. B: Really? I didn't catch them. I must have dozed off for a minute. Q: What does the woman neam? 21.A: If u run into Joan this afternoon, could u ask her to call me. I need that book back that i lent her yesterday. B: No need. I saw her this morning and I've got it right here. Q: What can be infered from the conversation? 22.A:I told my student today that I'd be taking a sabbatical next semester. But they didn't seem very surprised. B: Well, last week i let ur plans slip to same my students. So more than likely the word got around. Q: What does the man explain to the woman? 23.A:Mary, I've got the bowls out for the stew. Do u think it needs any more pepper before I serve it? B: It's really quite nice an we did exactly what the recipe says. Why take a chance of ruining it? Q: What does the woman imply the man should do? 24.A: Those were such funny stories Tom told last night. He was like a totally different guy. B: Yeah, really. He is normally so serious. What do u think brought all that out of him. Q: What does the woman imply? 25.A: Wow,look at all these old books on this shelf. They've got to be at least one hundred years old. I'll bet they worth a lot to collectors. B; Well. they'be got a lot of sentimental value for me, but that's about it. Q: What does the man mean? 26.A: Hi, Susan, would u like to go our to eat with us? Several of us are going over to the Macardy's. B: Well, that sure beats sticking around here. Uhh... just let me pack up my things. Q: What is the woman going to do? 27.A: I thought u said u and ur friends were just planning a small gathering. I could hear u from all the way up on the fourth floor of the building. B:OH, Gee, I'm really sorry. I guess we did get a little carried away, didn't we? Q: What can be inferred from the conversations? 28.A: I kept looking for Mary at the seminar but never did see her. I can't imagine she forgot about it. She'd be talking about it for weeks. B: Oh she didn't. It's just that she caught areally bad cold a couple of days ago. Q: What can be inferred fom the conversation? 29.A: Our history presentation is Thursday. When do u want to get together to work on it? B: Well, how about Monday ?That way we will still have enough time to figure out anything we are having trouble with. Q: What does the woman suggest they do? 30. A: Hi, thanks for ur help. I guess I can handle the rest myself. But just in case, rugoing to be around later? B: I don't know but u can always ask Judy. She 's really good with these kinds of problems. Q: What does the woman imply? Part B Q31-34 Hi, Janet, ur so lucky to be done with ur final exams and term papers. I still have 2 more finals to take? Really? Yeah, So what ru doing this summer, anything special? Well, actually yeah. My parents have alway liked taking my sister and me to different places in the United States. U know, places with historical significance. I guess they wanted to reinforce the stuff we learned in school about history. And so even though we are older now, they still do once in a while. Oh so where ru going this summer? Well, this summer it's finally goinf to be Gettyburg. Fianlly? U mean they never took u yet? I mean Gettysburg, it's probably the most famous civil war site in the country, It's only a couple of hours away. I think that would be one of the first place that they've taken u. i have been there a couple of times. We were gonna to go about ten,well,no, it was exactly ten years ago, but I don't know,sth happened, I cannot remember what. Sth changed ur plans? Yeah, don't ask me what it was, but we ended up not going anywhere that year. I hope that doesn't happen again this year. I wrote a paper about Gettysburg last semester for a history class. I was taking. Well about the political situation in the United States right after the battle at Gettysburg, So I'm eager to see the place. 31. What are the students mainly discussing? 32.What does the man find surprising about the woman? 33.What is the woman unable to remember? 34.What does the woman imply about Gettysburg? Q35-39 What ru doing? I'm ordering somw filing cabinet out of a catalog. What do u need them for? There's so much stuff piling up in my dormitory room. If I don't do sth soon, I won't be able to move in there. Do u usually order from a catalog? Sometimes.Why? OH, it's just in the history class today we were talking about how the catalog sales business first got started in the US. A Chicago retailer, Montgomery Ward started it in the late 1800s. It was really popullar among farmers. it was difficult for them to make it to the big city stores so they ordered from catalogs. Was Ward the only one in the business? At first, but another person named richard Sears started his own catalog after he heard how much mmoney Ward was making. What made them so popular? Farmers trusted Ward and Sears for one thing. They delivered the products the farmers paid for and even refunded the price of things the farmers weren't satisfied with. The catalog became so popular some countries school teachers even used them as textbooks. Textbooks? Yeah, Students practice spelling the names and adding up the prices of things in the catalogs. Was everybody that thrilled about it? That's doubtful. Say they drove some small store owners out of business. Sears and Ward sold stuff in such large quantities. They were able to undercut the prices at some small family owned stores. 35.What is the conversation mainly about? 36. Why was the woman reading a catalog? 37.Who were the main customers of Sears and Ward's business? 38. What unusual way were the catalog used? 39. What was one of the negative effects of the catalog business? Part C Q40-42 The birds u see here in this slide are peregrine falcons. These birds represent a success story among animals on the endanged species list.. In the 1970s, the peregrine falcons almost disappeared as a result of the contamination of the food chain by the DDT in pesticide. The presence of the poison in their systems resulted in eggs too weak to support the incubating chicks. Their remarkable recovery is a result of the ban of DDT as a pesticide, aggressive captive feeding programs and their own resiliency. the peregrine falcon is one of the fastest birds alive. They've been clocked at 140 to 200 miles per hour in successful pursuit of pray. In addition to speed, these birds fly directly into head winds and they are capable of flying more than 600 miles per day with favorable tail winds. today with the sophistication of telemetty, the speeds of these birds can be tracked by orbiting satellites, by means of transmitters attached to the bird. For example , peregrine falcons stage in warmer climate, in other words,they spend time in the southern US over changes preparing them to breed in the Arctic. Then they migrate north to the much colder Arctic regions. Birds have been tracked from Texas in late April to their nesting ground in Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Now let's move on to another species of birds, the bald eagles. 40 What is the talk mainly about? 41.According to the passage, what makes the peregrine falcon a good hunter? 42. How did biologists track peregrine falcons over long distances? Q43-46 Ok, so in our last class we were discussing big bands swing music.,u remember this was a kind of dance music with a steady rhythm. But today we deal with music played by smaller jazz bands. It's called bebop may use all sorts of new types of rhythms, some of them very irregular. We'll talk more about that later. But first I want to tald about some of the social elements that i believe contributed to the development of bebop music. To do this, we have to look at when bebop arose and started becoming so popular,which was from the late 1930s through the 1940s, from the time of the environment for bebop music was the decline of the US economy. During the great depression. the economy suffered tremendously. And fewer people had money to spend on entertainment. Then during the 2nd World War the government imposed a new tax on public entertainment, what u might call performance tax. The government collected money on performances that included any types of acting,dancing or singing, but not instrumental music. So to avoid this new tax, some jazz bands stop using singer altogether. They started relying on the creativity of the instrumentalist to attract audiences. This was what bebop bands did. Now remember a lot of bands have singers. So the instrumentalistssimply played in the background and had occasional solos while the singer sang the melody to the songs,but not bebop bands. So the instrumentalists had much more frredom to be creative. So they experimented, playing the music faster and using new irregular sorts of rhythms. 43.What is the talk mainly about? 44. How didi the bebop bands avoid the performance tax? 45 Why does the professor mention the decline of the US economy during the great depression? 46. What dose the professor describe as a significant characteristic of bebop music? Q47-50 UR professor has asked me to talk to u today about the topic that should be of real concern to civil engineers: the erosion of the US beaches. Let me start with some statistics. Did uknow that 90% of the coast in this country is eroding, on the gulf of Mexico for instance, erosion averages 4 to 5 feet per year. Over the past 20 years, there has been an increase in building along the coast, even though geologists and environmentalists have been warning communities about problems like erosion. Someway communities have tried to protect their building and roads and to build seawalls. However geologists have fould that such stabilizing structure actually speed up the destruction of the beaches. These beaches with seawalls, called stabilized beaches, are much narrower than beaches without them. U may wonder how seawalls speed up beach loss. The explanations is simple.If the flow of the beaches is gentle, the water energy is lessened as it washes up along the shore. It is reduced even more that returns to the sea so it doesn't carry back much sand. ON the other hand, when the water hit the nearly vertical face of the seawall. it goes straight back to the sea with the full force of its energy and it carries back a great deal of sand. Because of the real risk of losing beaches, many geologists support a ban on all types of stabilizing construction on shore lines. 47. What is the speaker mainly discussing? 48. Why do communities build seawalls? 49. How does a gently sloping beach help prevent erosion? 50. What would the speaker probably advise engineers to do? 02年10月 托福听力文字 Part A 1. Do you think we should make reservations for dinner tonight? I doubt we’ll need one. Lucia seems to be one of those places that is only crowded on weekends. 2. Did you realize that our meeting this afternoon was supposed to be for 2:15, not 2:30. I’m really sorry. I think my watch has been running slow. I’m going to do something about it soon. 3. I’m really disappointed; there are a couple of required courses I have to take before I can take the history class I’m interested in. Don’t be disappointed yet. You may be able to get special permission from the professor. 4. Do you know who won the baseball game? They had to postpone it because of the rain. It’s been rescheduled for next week. 5. Hi, I hope you can help me, I need the 2nd edition of United States’ government for my class on Monday afternoon, but I only see the 1st edition on the shelf and I’ve already checked other book stores around here. Yes, some one else asked about the book earlier. I’ve called the warehouse and they’re shipping copies to us, we should have them Monday morning. 6. I’ll never catch up in my classes after being at sick all last week. It took me over 3 hours just to do last night’s assignment. Maybe I’ll need a tutor. Sounds like you could use one. 7. I’m still not sure which brand of ice cream I should buy. Oh, not that one, it’s cheaper but these other brand taste much better. 8. Losing the championship must have been a big disappointment to the players on our volleyball team. Yeah, but they really played their hearts out. They are still champions in my book. 9. Hey, did you hear that they’re going to raise the dorm fees again. Really? Am I glad I decide to move off campus? 10. Do you have any idea why David wants to see me tomorrow? Is he having problems with his accounting project? Yeah, he’s been struggle with it from day one and I’m told him you’re an expert on that stuff. 11. I have to borrow enough money to buy a plane ticket. My archaeology class is taking a future trip to Alaska and I may never get another chance like this. Look, when push comes to show, the people you can rely on most are your family. 12. I’ve been in a library studying all day. What do you say to a walk around Grain Lake? I’ve got to go to the computer lab. Can I take a ring check? 13. Hey, it was great to see you at the French club meeting yesterday. You know we could really use your help getting ready for the activity’s fair. I don’t know. I don’t really have that much extra time. 14. Do you mind if I put on some music? It helps me relax while I’m studying. Well, en, do you have to? I’m having a hard time concentrating on this chapter as it is. 15. I’m pretty confident the company where I worked the passed 2 summers will hire me full time after graduation. Well, just in case that it doesn’t work out, career’s service is having a workshop on campus next Thursday on applying for a job. They have one here last year, and I know a lot of people find it helpful. 16. I washed this sweater according to the directions on the label and look what happen to it. It could be a manufactures’ defect, we’ll exchange it for you. 17. I was wandering if you wanna to join my parents and me for dinner Friday night. I won’t miss it for the world. 18. Thanks for lending me your history notes. They were really very helpful. Can I ask you for a few questions about something though? Sure, but could we make it for tomorrow. I have a report to finish before my 2 o’clock class and I’m running behind. 19. Are you going to spend your vacation in New York again this summer? Actually I’ve got a different destination in mind this year. 20. I can’t believe how much that student who was just in here looks like you. She could be your daughter. I know, people are always assuming that we’re related. 21. I just realize my telephone isn’t working and I’m just expecting for an important phone call in a few minutes. Well, you can use my phone to make a call to the phone company, but it looks like there’s not much that can be done about the one you’re expecting. 22. I was in line for 2 hours today waiting to drop a class. Not me, when I saw the line snaking around the building, I said no, I’ll just try again tomorrow. 23. Could you take a look at my printer? It doesn’t seem to be working. I can after I set up this new one. Just give me a few minutes, OK? 24. Did you bring your blue and yellow sweater for me to wear at the game today? You know I like to wear school colors at these games. Oh, I know I’ve forgot something and it’s too far to get back to get it. Will my blue and yellow scarf do? 25. The doctor says I’ve to cut down on fattening foods. All the ones I like.. So that explains your mood. 26. I missed the election returns on TV last night. What was the outcome? You remember last time when C B won easily, well, this time he barely won. 27. Excuse me, I bought the wrong math book a couple of weeks ago. Here is the receipt. Can I get my money back? Oh, I’m sorry not after 10 days, but you can still exchange it for something else. 28. I just got back from the new art gallery downtown. Have you seen their collection yet? It’s a lot smaller than what I was expecting, but what they do have is impressive. 29. I’m sorry Bob, I wouldn’t invite you over to eat lunch with us, but we’re in the middle of working on a math problem. Oh, I can understand. Anyway, I can tell you’re working. 30. I just wrote the speech for the election. You know, I’m running for a class president. I was wandering if you would mind looking it over. Hey, what a friend’s for? Part B 31-35 -Excuse me, I’ve been using this old book for a research project and I noticed that a lot of pages are turning brown and becoming brittle. -Yes, unfortunately, that’s a common problem with books made from wood pulp. -I suppose to make paper from wood that you have to add a lot of chemicals and acids to make it turn white. -Exactly and it’s the acid that eventually eats away the paper. -Oh, that actually make sense, but this book’s not even 75 years old and I’ve seen books in museum that are hundreds of years old and they’re in fine condition. -Well, you see, books have been made from wood pulp only since 1850’s, before that they were made from materials mostly animals’ skins or C, no chemicals were added. -It’s a shame those older wood pulp books are going to fall apart some day. Is there anything that can be done to preserve them? -En, currently the only way to stop the books from decaying is to remove the binding and treat each page individually to remove the acid. -That doesn’t sound very economical. -No, it isn’t. It’s not practical to treat a large number of books with this process, so we only try to rescue the most valuable 1st edition books in our collection. -Well, thanks for the explanation. I’d better get back to my project. -Good luck, and I hope the old book hold long enough for you to finish it. 31. What are the speakers mainly discussing? 32. According to the man, why do modern books decay? 33. What does the man say about books published before 1950? 34. What does the man say is a drawback to the process of restoring books? 35. What will the women probably do next? 36-39 OK, as you all know, tomorrow we’re be going to the museum to see a special exhibit of screemshore carvings. So today, I’d like to take a few minutes to talk about the article on screemshore you read for today’s class. Let me start by asking exactly what is screemshore? Well, basically it’s a kind of artwork that was done by sailors on whaling ships. When there weren’t any whales around, there might not be much for the sailors to do and they often get pretty bored. So to entertain themselves, they started carving stuff on whalebones and whale teeth. OK, so basically the term screemshore refers to the artwork that sailors created. Usually out of whalebones and whale teeth. Can you give me an example or something that sailors might have carved? Well, for one thing, I remember reading that they carved things that could be used around house, you know, cooking and sowing utensils, that kind of stuff. Good. You know, I noticed from the pictures in the article that some of the carvings have really detailed images on them, like they have some pretty sophiscated pictures of famous people and historical themes and stuff like that. And I was wandering just how they did that. That’s a very good question and it brings us your assignment for tomorrow. While we are at the museum, I’d like each of you to take some notes on the various technique used in making screemshore. So that we can discuss them when we come back to class. 36. What is the purpose of the discussion? 37. From what material dose screemshore usually made? 38. According to the discussion, why did sailors begin making screemshore? 39. According to the discussion, what was done with the screemshore objects? Part C 40-43 A lot of people think that cultural anthropology is just about studying the special and strange aspects of a society, but anthropologists are also interested in the aspects of life that seems so ordinary that the people in the society think they’re not significant. Let me give you an example, I see lots of T-shirts here in class today, but you probably don’t think of them as an important part of your culture, but anthropologists could learn a lot about the culture of the US just by studying the T shirt. For one thing, T shirts are a mark of how casual clothing has become in America. No one was quite sure where they came from, but the T shirt first become popular in this country as an under shirt for sellers in the 1940s. Then in the 1950s, it became a sign of rebellion for teenagers to wear this white under shirt by itself, not under anything. By the 1960s and 70s, T shirts have become accepted as part of the uniform views. You could even say that they came symbolized that generation’s attitude towards informality and all thing, including dress. On another aspect that anthropologists would find interesting is that T shirts are used to express personal opinions. Look around this room, you know who likes watch TV show, who went where on vacation, who belongs to what organizations on campus. All of these aspects of our culture are printed on your T shirts. OK, I want to stop for a minute and ask you to try to write down five different conclusions you could reach about American culture from just the T shirts in this classroom. 40. What is the speaker’s mainly discussing? 41. Why does the speaker use T shirts as her example? 42. Why does the speaker mention what is printed on certain T shirts? 43. What does the speaker ask the students to write down next? Finally there is one more element to business success that we haven’t talked about. I know what you think I’m going to say, luck and you’re partially right. Good entrepreneurs know how to make their own luck and that means being in the right place at the right time with the right product. Let me give you a little example, early in this century, if you’re a traveler by train and subway and you happen to get a little thirsty in the station, where would you go for some water? There were no big soda machine at every corner or even drinking fountains, yet there were thousands of thirsty travelers out there, well, what they did was drank water out of one little tin cup that was passed from one thirsty commuter to the next. That’s right, everybody drank out of the same cup, and you can bat it didn’t get washed after every user. Will, that was the right time for the right product and there was a man who had it. His name is H M and his product was the disposable paper cup. He came up with it just as the nation was becoming concerned about their health risks associated with the tin cups. Laws were passed outlying the things; reports were published showing just what sorts of germs can be passed around from sharing them. Mr. M road that way to become the best known producers of one of the most successful paper products of all time. He originally called his product health cups, but later changed the nature, so can anyone guess what that name might be? 44. What general topic has the class been discussing? 45. In the earlier 20th century, what did train travelers do when they got thirsty? 46. What is the purpose of the professor’s story? A number of insects rely on leaping or jumping as a way of escaping from enemies. Grosshoppers probably have the most remarkable jumping ability of all these insects. If we think of it in human terms, a grosshopper’s high jump is like a human jumping over a five story building. Imagine that a person jumping over a five story building. Well, we’ll take a look at the structure of grosshopper’s leg to see why it’s able to jump so well, but first I wanna talk about the sensory organ that tells grosshoppers when to jump in the first place. En, OK, a grosshopper has two sensory organs located at the end of its abdomen. Whenever these organs sense of change in air pressure which might be produced by an enemy approaching, and impulses transmitted to the legs, this first impulse deactivates the nerves that control normal working and sets the grasshopper’s jumping muscles into a sort of pre-jumping position. Now at this point, if the sensory organs don’t detect additional air pressure changes, the jumping muscles relax and a grosshopper goes back to its normal walking, but if the organs continue to send danger, another set of impulses put the jumping muscles in motion. The distance of the jumping is determined by just how many impulses are transmitted in the second set, the more impulse the longer the jump. OK now let’s see why the grosshopper can jump so far. Open your books at the part of that muscle structure of the grasshopper’s leg. I think it’s in chapter 9. 47. Whet does the professor mainly discuss? 48. Why does the professor mention a five story building? 49. What is the function of the sensory organs that the professor discusses? 50. According to the professor, what determines the distance of a grosshopper’s jump? | 
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