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Part I Listening Comprehension

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1. M: That’s good. Could you wrap it up for me?

W: Sure. Is there anything else that I can get for you?

Q: Who is the woman?

2. W: So, how was your interview? 

M: I haven’t gone to the interview yet. It’s tomorrow. I’m so nervous. 

Q: What can we learn about the man?

3. W: Why does May have such a long face? I thought she’d be happy.

M:Yes, especially since she’s just got a promotion recently. 

Q:What can we learn from the conversation about May?

4. W:John, where are the cookies? Don’t tell me you ate them all again.

M: Yeah, I did. I couldn’t help it. They were so good.

Q:What do we learn about the cookies from the conversation?

5. M:Hi, Lisa! I almost didn’t recognize you with your hair fixed that way. It looks great.

W:Do you really like it? I wasn’t too sure about the colour yesterday when I had it done.

Q:What are the two speakers talking about?

6. W:I have to go to the other side of the town, but it’s the rush hour now.

M:Driving is not the ideal way. I always take the underground at this time of the day.

Q:What does the man suggest the woman do?

7. W:How many students are there in your class? 

M:There were originally 50. Several dropped out last December. Now there are only 20 boy students and 25 girl students.

Q: How many students left the class?

8. M:Thank you for your helpful assistance. Otherwise I’d surely have missed it. The place is so out of the way.

W: It was a pleasure meeting you. Goodbye!

Q: Why did the man thank the woman?

9. M:Where have you been all this time? The train is about to leave.

W:Sorry, I’m late. But I was waiting for you at the information desk upstairs.

Q:Why was the woman late?

10. W: Have you seen that movie about the girl who has 16 different personalities?

M: No, and I did not plan to. It sounds scary.

Q: Why doesn’t the man want to see the movie?

Passage One

Speaking of Speech is a book that tells about a method of teaching public speaking for nonnative speakers. In his book, Mr. LeBeau shows a simple approach to help English learners. He divides public speaking into three parts: the physical message, the visual message and the story message.

“The central thing to remember about public speaking or presentation is that it’s a very complex communicative activity. For nonnative speakers it’s a really scary activity. So to make that more simplistic and easy for them, the approach that I’ve taken is to simplify and break it down. First if we look at presentation, there are basically three messages that the presenter is giving the audience all at once. The first is what I call the physical message. It’s basically body language. It’s the way that my body, as a speaker, is talking to the audience. Then there’s also the visual message. The visual messages are the slides that we now make and show to the audience. The third message is the story message. The story message is the content of our presentation. It’s what we say to the audience. The story message also includes how we organize our ideas to present to the audience.”

Questions 11-13 are based on the passage you have just heard.

11. What is Speaking of Speech according to the report?

12. Why does Mr. LeBeau divide public speaking into three parts?

13. What is the story message according to Mr. LeBeau?

Passage Two

Men sometimes say, “We are better and cleverer than women. Women never invent things. We do.” It is true that men have invented a lot of useful things: the alphabet, machines, rockets and guns, too. But scientists now agree that women invented one very important thing. It has changed history. They invented agriculture.

Before the invention of agriculture men were hunters. They went out every day. Sometimes they killed animals, and sometimes animals killed them. Life was difficult and dangerous. Women had to go out every day, too. They collected roots, fruits and grasses. Then, one day, more than 10,000 years ago, a woman in the Middle East dropped some grass seeds. She dropped them near her home. The seeds grew and the first wheat was born. The idea grew. Women planted roots and fruit trees. Then they could stay at home and look after the children and the animals. Women like baby animals. Scientists think that women kept the first domestic animals: dogs, cows, sheep and goats. That idea grew, too. Then their husbands did not have to go hunting for meat. They stayed at home. They built villages and cities. Civilization began. Men began civilization—after women invented agriculture.

Questions 14-16 are based on the passage you have just heard.

14. Why was life dangerous before the invention of agriculture?

15. Where did the woman first drop grass seeds according to the passage?

16. Why were men able to develop civilization after the invention of agriculture?

Passage Three

On Monday afternoon, shoppers in a Tax Shopping mall helped to get two small unattended children out of a hot car. The boy and girl, who had no way to get out since there was a child lock, were freed when one of the shoppers took a hammer and broke the car window to let them out. Gabriel Dorval who recorded the incident on a cell phone was heading out of a shop when he noticed two kids crying desperately in a car. “The kids were in there crying.” Said Dorval, “I mean, you would understand: it’s real hot.”

The kids’ mother was found soon and she claimed she left them there only temporarily so that she could get a haircut. However, Dorval said that nothing justifies putting children in such a dangerous situation. “Even a dog can die. So imagine a person.” He said. Fortunately the children were unharmed. The shoppers wanted to call the police. But the mother bagged them to keep the authorities out of it.

Questions 17-20 are based on the passage you have just heard.

17. How did the two small unattended children get out of the car?

18. When do you think the incident most likely happened?

19. What did the mother do after she left her children in the car?

20. What did Dorval do in the incident?

Plants have a “biological clock” that tells them when to produce leaves, seeds, and other growth. A new study says (21)understanding that clock may help scientists develop crops that can feed a growing population in an increasingly warmer world.

Rob McClung, a professor at Dartmouth College, says scientists need to (22)create ways to feed the nearly 10 billion people who will be living on Earth by the middle of the century. He says (23)estimates show that there will need to be an increase in the world food (24)supply of about 50 to 60 percent in the next thirty-five years. “And we’re (25)worried that the things that we’ve done to increase agricultural productivity may be becoming (26)exhausted.”To find new ways to increase productivity, Mr. McClung (27)examined the biological clocks of plants. He discovered that different genes in plants (28)affect the plants' clock and that the speed of the gene’s development can affect when the plant is ready for production. “The gene also affects how the plant (29)deals with extreme cold and high levels of salt,” he says.He says he hopes his research will help to make plants that are better in tune with their environment and able to (30)perform more effectively.

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