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中口0503听力原文0503SECTION 1: LISTENING TESTPart A: Spot DictationAs crime Skyrockets in many communities, people are finally beginning to look for long-lasting, effective answers to stem the tide of juvenile crime. Reaching the youth who have committed a crime before they become hardened criminals is an essential step in reversing the crime trend. One possible solution may be the establishment of teen court.Teen court is known as a sentencing court for youths who have committed an offence. Teen courts primarily deal with first-time offenders. After arrest, the young offender must plead guilty to the charge in juvenile court. With the juvenile court’s permission, the offender agrees to be sentenced and abide by the decision of a peer jury of the same age. Another essential component to teen court is that as part of the sentence, the offender must sit in on one or more future peer juries to determine a sentence for other offenders. For example, a county teen court in Illinois gives young offenders a chance to clear their arrests from their permanent record by performing community service or other duties ordered by the court. Teen court is not a trial court. All teens admit their guilt and agree to accept a sentence given to them by a jury of their peers. A judge is present to oversee the proceeding of the court.The teen court alleviates the strain on the regular court system and has been implemented in 426 communities since the first teen court opened in Odessa, Texas. Beside giving the offender a second chance, it gives the youth a chance to participate in the judicial process.The purpose of the teen court, aside from sentencing youth offenders, is to educate and motivate both the offenders and the teen volunteers while simultaneously promoting better communication between defendants, the community, and the police. By offering this alternative system, teen court allows those teens who have made a bad decision an opportunity to recognize their mistake and learn from it. At the same time those teens learn a respect for themselves, the police, the community, and the legal system.Part B: Listening Comprehension1. Statements1. The summer job we advertised is still available. If you are interested, why don’t you come over to our office this afternoon for an interview?2. Because of his hard work, David is to be transf erred to the general manager’s office next week, he is sure to get a rise in pay.3. If you are asking for someone to translate this document, I think the new secretary, who is bilingual, can do the job hand over fist.4. Seafood prices had come down. The shrimp had been 3 dollars a pound last week. By this Monday, it was only two dollars, so I bought 4 pounds.5. Advanced business system training program, such as the MBA courses, may be very costly, but their record of job placement is excellent.6. We firmly believe that an agent for marketing your products in Shanghai would be of considerable benefit to both of us.7. Sorry to say, Mr. Smith, we don’t accept travelers’ checks or cash, so you’ll have to get a money order to pay for your insurance.8. The balance in your bank account is 200,000 dollars only and so this check in the amount of 300,000 dollars has to be returned.9. When this target is attained, we shall be glad to discuss with you a long-term agreement on a more cooperative basis.10. The survey report, which was recently submitted by the international investment department, caused controversy within the board of directors.2. Talks and ConversationsQuestions 11-14【原文】W: Hello, Mike. Did you enjoy the weekend in Paris?M: Yes, it was great, mom. Look, I bought you back some wine and here are some cigarettes for dad.W: Thank you, dear. That’s lovely. But you needn’t have gone to that expense.M: Well, I don’t often buy you presents, but I don’t often go to Paris, either.W: But you had been to London and Edinburgh, hadn’t you? Anyway, tell me about your trip. What did you do with yourself?M: Well, we had a quite good flight, and we got to the hotel at about seven o’clock. We had a super dinner. Then Clive, Tim and I went to a night club.W: Didn’t anyone else go with you?M: No, no one else wanted to come. All the others were too tired. Then on Saturday morning, we did some shopping and of course, we watched the international rugby match in the afternoon. The match was drawn, but England was lucky not to lose.W: Where else did you go? Didn’t you look around the Louvre?M: Yes, but it was a lightening visit and we went up the Eiffel Tower, too, of course. But we d idn’t have time for much else. We were told we were not to be late for check in at the airport, and we had to rush like mad. When we got there, though, we found we needn’t have hurried, because takeoff had been delayed for an hour.W: What else did you buy, then?M: Let me see. A few souvenirs. Some postcards. A bottle of perfume for Janet. Nothing much else, because I ran out of money. By the way, can you lend me a couple of pounds until next week, mom?W: So that’s the price of my French wine, is it?Questions 15-18【原文】We may think that amusement parks are designed and set up only for children or teenagers. As far as I can tell, adults can also find delights in visiting and on most occasions are eager to enjoy the amusement parks. Adults visit amusement parks for several reasons. For one thing, an amusement park is a place where it is acceptable to pig out on junk food. At the park, everyone, including the adults, is drinking soda and eating popcorn, ice-cream or hotdogs. No one seems to be on a diet. And so buying all the junk food you can buy in an amusement park is a guilt-free experience. Another reason people visit amusement parks is to prove themselves. They want to visit the park that has the newest, scariest and most frightening ride in order to say that they went on the parachute drop, the 7-storey elevator, the water shoot or the death slide. They think that going on a scary and frightening ride is a way to feel courageous and adventurous without taking too much of a risk. A final reason that people visit amusement parks is to escape from their everyday pressures. When people are poised at the top of a gigantic roller-coaster, they are not thinking of their bills, work or personal problems. A scary and frightening ride from a high place ca n empty an adult’s mind of all worries, except making it to the bottom safe and sound. Adults at an amusement park may claim that they’ve come for their children, but they are there for themselves as well.Questions 19-22【原文】W: I wonder if you can help me, I’ve been so busy sightseeing these days and I haven’t had time to do any shopping. And now it’s almost the end of my tour and I’m leaving tomorrow. I need to buy and take presents for my family members.M: I’m glad to be of any help, although I’m new at this job I’m afraid. I’m American and I’ve only been working with the travel agency for 3 months.W: Well, I must buy a warm jumper for my mother so that she can wear it in winter back at home. My sister likes perfume but not expensive ones. And then some wine or aftershave for my brother.M: Can we stop for a moment and I’ll tell you where you can get some of those things. Have you got your map there? Well there’s a Scorch Wale shop here on the left hand side as you go dow n Regent Street from the hotel you are staying. They have all kinds of jumpers and tartan skirts and …W: Oh, that’s what I want for myself. I love those skirts. And do they sell socks too, you know, socks for a woman, I mean.M: I’m not sure, but there is a sock shop on the opposite side of road in fact. Now, as to your perfume…W: No. I’ve changed my mind. I think of a book for sister and a record for my brother. Can I get those near Piccadilly, too?M: Oh, yes. There is big record shop in the Circus it self. You’d find a good selection of books at Harcher’s. That’s a little way along the Piccadilly, the street, not the Circus. On the south side, that is, about there on the map.W: Ah, I see. Well, that’s about everything then, what a lot of shopping. After that, we’ll need a nice cup of English tea.M: I can tell you where you can go for that, if you go along the Piccadilly, past Harchers’, you will find a very good tea shop called Reshow on the same side of the street. Funny that one of the best tea shop in London has a French name.Questions 23-26【原文】What is marketing? Some people hold the mistaken idea that marketing is little more than selling. But marketing is more than just a business activity. In fact, it’s something everyone does quite often, acting as either the customer or the marketer. Consider a few of the activities we take for granted, like riding a bus, shopping for clothes, reading a newspaper or watching television. All of these rely on marketing. It’s hard to imagine contemporary l ife without marketing. You are on the customer side of marketing when you shop at the supermarket, pay your tuition or go to a movie. You are on the marketer side of the transaction when you advertise for a roommate, convince friends to lend you their bicycle or interview for a job. In the last two examples, you are marketing yourself and your credibility. Job applicants use resumes as marketing tools to gain interviews with potential employers. And then use the interviews to demonstrate what desirable products they are. Similarly, models and actors use photographs to market themselves. Artists and writers supply samples of their work. Even in the commercial round, companies aren’t the only marketers and goods aren’t the only item marketed. Football teams ma rket themselves when they give team photos and other premiums to their fans. And non-profit groups market what they do, the medical research or political action, when they solicit contributions of time and money or try to influence people’s behaviors.In 1985, the American Marketing Association redesigned marketing as the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of ideas, goods and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives. This definition encompasses all the diverse activities of marketing and highlights the central marketing functions-the exchange process.Questions 27-30【原文】W: I’m not surprised that factory workers wa nt shorter hours. How would you like to beat panels or turn screws hours after hours everyday.M: I wouldn’t. I’d get bored. And I think only of my weekly wage packet.W: So naturally, our workers are always on strike. They are bored and they want more money to spend in spare time.M: No. what worries me is that there are far too many unnecessary disagreements between workers, trade unions and management. We haven’t yet learned to work together as a team.W: Is that why so many of our industries are dying?M: What do you mean so many of our industries and what do you mean by dying?W: That’s the word you used the other day about coal mining and cotton textile industryM: What do people get so upset about these industries. I suppose it’s because it use d to be our pride and strength. Well, they aren’t any more as far as I’m concerned, the sooner the people realize it, the better. Then all the money, labor and technical skill wasted on them could be put into the spending of other industries like electronics, motor cars, IT industry, and even some tertiary industry like tourism.W: What about industries in other European countries? Haven’t they got the same sort of problems?M: Yes, but they had more practice at fighting for markets. That’s why I’m in fa vor of Britain being a member of Euro Zone. Industries inside of the Euro Zone are forced to take notice of their competitors.W: Then, you don’t feel too hopeless about the future?M: Of course, I don’t. We are very inventive and innovative people and w e have plenty of skilled and professional workers. Besides, we still have our reputation for honesty and fair dealing in business.W: How nice to hear you boast, Charlie. The English think it’s in bad taste to boast, don’t they? When foreigners ask you how are things, and you answer “not bad”. How they are to know “not bad” often means “first class, thank you”.Part C: Listening and Translation1. Sentence Translation(1) People are now ordering and purchasing virtually anything over the internet. Books, compact discs and even stocks are available from websites that seem to spring up almost daily.(2) It was supposed to be a short briefing but it lasted 3 hours. We were all exhausted when we stepped out of the conference room, all except the chairperson.(3) I have sought to give our nation a new kind of government, smaller, more modern and more effective, always putting people first, always focusing on the future.(4) Thanks to the continuing boom and technology shares on the stock market, this year, the richest have added 5 billion more to their wealth.(5) According to a recent survey, about 65% of Britain couples get married in a church, most people who die get a Christian funeral, but less than 20% go regularly to church.2. Passage Translation(1) If you are born into an American family ranking in the top ten of income, chances are 1 in 3 that you’ll stay there. If you’re born into a family of bottom tens, however, chances are much rarer that you’ll ever reac h the top. So much for equality of opportunity, in America as elsewhere in the world, the rich always get richer, and the poor can hardly get by. The widening up gap between the rich and the poor is everyone’s problem and everyone’s responsibility..(2) T he credit card industry is only about 50 years’ old. Some credit cards have offered real convenience. Those accepting credit cards include hospitals for open-heart surgery and the federal government for income taxes. Instead of saving for a washing machine or computer, some people merely charge them. They do not realize that it may cost them more to charge thanto pay cash. Because of the easy access to credit, many Americans today are over their heads in debt.中口0509听力原文0509SECTION 1: LISTENING TESTPart A: Spot DictationIf you find you spend more than you make, there are only two things to do: decrease your spending or increase your income. It's often easiest to decrease expenditures, because your expenses tend to be more under your control. There are as many ways to save money as there are people looking to save it. For example, you may pool your resources with friends, or make major purchases only during sales, or even live more simply.But keep in mind that saving money should not necessarily be an end in itself. Don't spend hours thinking of ways to save a dime, and don't get upset about situations where you are forced to spend money. The goal is to bring your budget into balance, not to become a tightwad who keeps track of every penny and feels that spending money is a personal failure. It is important to remember that budgets may be brought into balance not only by decreasing expenditures, but also by increasing income the most direct way to increase income is to get a part-time job if you don't already have one.Many students work during college. Although working adds to the time pressure you will face, it does not mean that your grades will necessarily suffer. In fact, many students who work do better in school than those who don't work, because those with jobs need to be more disciplined and focused.Considering part-time work is often a better strategy for dealing with budget shortfalls, than taking out a loan. Because student loans are relatively simple to get, it's easy to use them as a crutch. Loans can be of help in an emergency or if you couldn't afford to attend a college without them. If you do take out a loan, remind yourself: one day soon you'll have to pay it back, with interest.Part B: Listening Comprehension1. Statements1. As far as I know, the Beachside hotel is one of the favorite hotels for many businesspeople, as it is always ready to offer the best conference facilities.2. The department is very selective in recruiting its new staff members. Only college graduates between 25 and 30 are eligible.3. As a rule, new scientific theories are seldom accepted immediately so we should be prepared for rejections and turn-downs.4. If there had been more cooperation between the two sides, the project would have been finished according to the schedule.5. The chairman of the committee found it hard to believe that no one at the meeting seconded his proposal to open a new branch downtown.)6. Our prices are lower than those of any of our competitors by 5 to 10 %. Besides, we have our products right here for immediate delivery.7. If someone had told me 20 years ago that I’d be the guest of honor at Shanghai movie festival Show, I doubt I’d h ave believed it.8. Don’t you think it would be wise for us to review how much we’ve invested so far? I am afraid we are unable to carry on with the project.9. We can not match our rival company’s financial background so we will have to beat them on professional expertise and hard work.10. Less than 10 years after the birth of world-wide web, some 260 million people are on line around the world and the internet population is expected to be over 500 million by the time of its 10-year anniversary.2. Talks and ConversationsQuestions 11-14【原文】W: Hello, Jimmy, nice to meet you!M: Hi, Sandy, can I have a word with you? Just a couple of minutes.W: Sure. What’s up? This morning I saw you in the telephone booth making a phone call. You looked a bit serious and worried.M: Well, I got to use your advice Sandy; you know the science project that we have to finish by next Friday?W: Yes, it put a little bit of pressure on all of us.M: Well, I’m having trouble finding out information yet. I have been to the college library, but I couldn’t find any books there.W: Neither did I! But I asked my friend to borrow some from the main library of Hurl University. They have a good selection.M: Lucky you! Would you mind if I borrow one of them for a few days?W: Yes, sure. I have nearly finished with them. If you drop in sometime tomorrow afternoon, I think I can let you have all of them, provided of course, that you return them before next Wednesday, or my friend will be fined by the university library for those over-due books.M: That would be great! Thanks a lot! I’ll see you tomorrow afternoon then. Bye-bye!W: OK, see you tomorrow afternoon, bye!Questions 15-18【原文】In some ways, children should be treated as mature people. For one thing, adults should not use baby talk with children, using real words with children helps them develop their language skills more quickly. In most cases, children admire their parents or their elders, and they want tounderstand and communicate with adults in the way adults do among themselves. Baby talk with children often makes them feel patronized, frustrated, and confused. So , animals should be called “cows” or “dogs”, not “mu-mews” and “bow-ows”. Second, parents should be consistent when discipline their children. F or example, If a parent tells a child “You can not have desert unless you put away your toys”, it is important that the parent follow through on the warning. By being consistent, parents will teach children responsibility and give them a stable center around which to grow. Finally and most important, children should be encouraged to join in such off class activities as the boy scouts, the children’s band and the teen-court. In doing so, parents will thus be helping their children prepare for the complex decisions that they will have to deal with in later life.Questions 19-22【原文】W: Well, good morning, Jack. I haven’t seen you for a long time.M: I have been feeling pretty well until just last few days.W: What seems to be the trouble now?M: I fee l run down, tired, I’ve been having headaches almost every day, and I’m not getting as much sleep as I usually do.W: Have you been eating properly? Eating the right kind of food is important for your health, you know.M: Well, I haven’t been eating too well, I guess. I usually only have enough time to grab a sandwich and a cup of coffee for lunch.W: And what about dinner?M: Sometimes I’m too tired to eat anything at all.W: That’s not good. It’s necessary to have a well-balanced diet. Have you been taking vitamin pills?M: I don’t like to take any medicine at all without talking it over with the doctor first.W: That’s very sensible of you. How are things going at work?M: Oh, pretty well. I’ve been promoted. So I have a lot of new responsibilities. We’ve had a lot of urgent projects, so it’s been necessary for me to work late almost every night.W: Working late and worrying aren’t very good for you. It’s important for you to eat properly and to get enough sleep.M: But what can I do? I can’t just quit my job.W: No, you can’t do that. First of all, you should take a multiple-vitamin pill with minerals, and you have to be careful about eating. It’s important to take the time to eat three good meals a day, and it’s even more impo rtant for you to get some exercise. Getting some exercise will help you to sleep better.M: Yes, I suppose so. I have been thinking about taking up jogging. Maybe I’ll try to do that this weekend.Questions 23-26【原文】Listening is one of the first things we learn to do, and one of the things we do most. The average person spends 9% of his daily communication time writing, 16% reading, 30% speaking and 45% listening. Students spend most of their school time listening, up to 60% according to some studies. Yet despite its importance, we usually take our ability to listen for granted. As we’ve already said, though, listening isn’t easy. In the first place, we’re surrounded by noise: the sound of traffic, the roar of jets overhead, even the start tick on the telephone line, which makes any listening job a challenge. In the second place, we often don’t seem to remember even when we do listen, by the time a speaker has finished a ten minutes’ speech, the average person has alrea dy forgotten half of what was said. Within 48 hours, another fifty percent has been forgotten. In other words, we quickly forget nearly all of what we hear. Unfortunately, the cost of poor listening is high. Poor listening may keep you from doing well on an exam, but it can cost all of us much more. One of the greatest tragedies in the history of sea travel occurred on the night of April 14th, 1912, when the crew of the TITANIC refused to listen to repeated warnings of iceberg, Even after the ship struck an iceberg and was obviously sinking, some of the passengers ignored the captain’s orders to get into the lifeboats.Questions 27-30【原文】M: I was young once myself, you know. I know what it’s like to be young.W: But you don’t know what it’s like to grow up in our world, Mr. Perkins.M: I grew up during the war, young lady.W: Exactly. You had a brave new world to fight for, didn’t you? But what have we got to look forward to? Pollution and population explosion, if we are not destroyed first by the H bomb.M: But you’ll survive like all the generations before us. Progress is just moving a little bit faster. That’s all.W: Really, Mr. Perkins? Progress, as you call it, can change things completely in a few years these days. You know that perfectly w ell. Can’t you pointless how pointless your business world must seem to young people like me?M: In any event, we have to go on living, Ann. And living means working. The young will realize that one day. They’ll learn. They’ll grow up.W: You think we sh ould grow up to be like you, don’t you, Mr. Perkins? I know you do. I know you’ll laugh at us when we talk about universal love and understanding between people. When people demonstrate about what is happening in other countries, you’ll say, what right hav e they to interfere, it’s none of their business. But it is our business, Mr. Perkins. We are all responsible for one another these days, whatever our race, or color, or nationality.M: I agree, Ann. But so many of your so-called international demonstrations only make misunderstanding worse. A lot of you are so sure you got the answer to everything. You won’t accept any guidance at all from older people.W: But it’s very difficult for older people to give proper guidance when, as people ofte n say, they had no experience of being young today. It’s no use their saying I never behaved like that when I was young. They didn’t have the same kind of problems. That’s what the generation gap is all about.M: Well, I don’t think the generation gap in this country is as great as you make out. In fact, I suspect many young people go to their parents for advice just as often as they go to friends of their own age.W: You know, Mr. Perkins, I am almost frightened of getting older. Will I be talking like this to my children one day?Part C: Listening and Translation1. Sentence Translation(1) University lecturers may give up some of their free time every week to talk to local residents about anything from health care to financial investment.(2) As for this type of camera, there may be cheaper ones on the market, but when you look atthe quality and the design you’ll agree our price is the most favorable.(3) People with high self-confidence are generally happier and better able to cope with adverse condition. High self-confidence makes people feel that they are productive members of society. (4) Globally 140 million people are suffering from alcohol drinking. Drinking alcohol takes a heavy toll on peoples’ lives with countless traffic accidents. Now the situation is worsening.(5) On the whole, women tend to work for longer hours, less pay and less enjoyment. Study showed that women earned 74 cents for every one dollar a man earns.2. Passage Translation(1) As for your travel, first, it’s vital to arrange travel insurance for your trip. If you lose your baggage or if you need medical attention during the trip, your travel insurance will help to meet the costs. Second, it’s not a good idea to travel with large amounts of cash. Only carry the amount y ou’ll need for day to day expenses, such as taxis, bus fare and food. Traveler’s checks are a far safer way of carrying money around because you can get a refund if they are stolen. (2) Some people are inconsiderate drivers. In the city they often stop right in the middle of the street while looking for a certain home or landmark. Other drivers will suddenly slow down at cross road to make a right or left turn. Still others never wait for their turns in bottleneck situations, where the cars in two lanes must merge alternatively into one. Perhaps the most inconsiderate drivers are those who throw trash out their windows, which spoils the pleasure of driving as well as the environment.中口0603听力原文0603Part A: Spot DictationIn the early 1970’s, Citibank of New York City became one of the first financial institutions toinstall ATM’s on a large scale. Since then, the popularity of automated teller machines has increased dramatically. At the time, the bank hoped simply to reduce their operating costs by replacing human tellers with machines. Little did they suspect that the cash machines would become so successful. However, as more banks added round-the-clock automated service through ATM’s, the machines mushroomed all over the world.To use an ATM, all you need is a plastic card issued by your bank. Your bank may also offer ATM service through a credit card, such as MasterCard or Visa. To begin a transaction, you need to insert the card into an ATM and punch in a personal identification number on the machine’s keypad. The personal ID number may consist of four or six digits and can prevent anyone from using the card.The ATM next flashes instructions on its display screen for carrying out transaction. To get cash, for example, you are instructed to press buttons that indicate whether the money should be withdrawn form a checking or a savings account and the the amount to be withdrawn. This request is then displayed on the screen. After you press a button to verify that the information is correct, the ATM goes to work on the request.How safe, you may ask, is banking by ATM? The personal ID number is meant to prevent anyone, no matter who you are, from using a cash card without authorization. If you enter the wrong ID number for a card, a message on the screen will ask you to try again. As another precaution against card theft, the bank generally limits the amount that may be withdrawn by cash card in a single day, say, to $200.Part B: Listening Comprehension1. Statements1. Up to now, none of the candidates who applied for the position has the required credentials. We’d better let our ad in the Help-Wanted Section run for more weeks.2. Originally Florence was only asked to make some introductory remarks, but she ended up giving a speech herself when the speaker came down with the flu.3. You know what? I’ve got to finish that evaluation report for the board meeting next week. A10-page report within the week! There goes my social life this weekend.4. The director is kind of busy now and has no time to read over your proposal. How about dropping in tomorrow morning to see if I have something definite?5. We don’t have enough information for our financial plan, but it is due tomorrow. So I’m afraid we’ll just have to make do with what we have got..6. Americans use a variety of strategies to avoid silence. They keep on talking, especially during business negotiations. Because they think that silence makes a bad impression.7. We have enjoyed a relationship with China for more than half a century. But I do not believe there has ever been a more exciting time to do business here.8. I’v e already mentioned to the director about the signing of the agreement three times this month. Each time he said he was ready, but nothing happens.9. We are a new and growing firm in the area. And we’re willing to do our best to attract customers away from our competitors with more favorable terms.10. Compared to a meat-centered diet, meatless meals can easily supply all the essential nutrients our body requires, and cost only 20 to 30% as much.。