新理念外语网络教学平台第二版综合答案BUA

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Part I Listening Comprehension ( 11 minutes )

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false.

1.

A) T

B) F

Script: The pole was set as high as Michael Stone's personal best record.

正确答案：B

2.

A) T

B) F

Script: The pole vault competition is not important in the track and field competition.

正确答案：B

3.

A) T

B) F

Script: Coaches always dreamed of athletes' dedication, determination and discipline. Michael was a good example in this aspect.

正确答案：A

4.

A) T

B) F

Script: When Michael felt nervous even afraid facing the height, his mother's words echoed in his mind and worked.

正确答案：A

5.

A) T

B) F

Script: Michael didn't even think of winning the first place, as he thought that winning second place was not shameful.

正确答案：B

6.

A) T

B) F

Script: Michael's life would be different, only as he won the National Junior Olympics and set a new record and won the media's attention and sponsorship.

正确答案：B

7.

A) T

B) F

Script: The writer was born in a winter of 1904, and was the youngest child in the farming family.

正确答案：B

8.

A) T

B) F

Script: The sudden progressive disease depressed the author and deterred him from wandering about outside.

正确答案：B

9.

A) T

B) F

Script: The writer grew impatient with the old man and little daughter as they charged him a lot of money for changing the tire.

正确答案：B

10.

A) T

B) F

Script: When the old man turned out to be blind, the writer thought that while the old man was blind in sight, he, himself, was blind in mind.

正确答案：A

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would (11)_________________ sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, (12)_________________ , and a keenness of (13)_________________ which are often lost when time stretches before us in the (14)_________________ panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those who, of course, who would adopt the epicurean (享乐者) (15)_________________ of "Eat, drink, and be merry," but most people would be chastened (磨练) by the certainty of (16)_________________ death. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do. Most of us, however, (17)_________________ . We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant (乐观的) health, death is all but (18)_________________ . We seldom think of it. The days (19)_________________ in an endless vista. So we go about petty tasks, hardly aware of our (20)_________________ attitude toward life.

Script: Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply