高二英语听力专项训练11 听力原文

高二英语听力专项训练（11）

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W: Where shall I pay for food?

M: At the checkout counter near the main entrance. There is a mark on it. See it?

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M: Do you have some change? I have to make a call on the phone.

W: Pay phone? Why not use my mobile phone? Here you are.

M: Thank you.

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W: Yesterday when I drove to the farm, my car hit a tree.

M: Oh, no! Are you OK?

W: I’m fine, but the car was damages.

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W: Is n’t that a new brand of typewriter you’re working with?

M: Oh. This not the first time you’re asked me about it.

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W: Do you know Harry Houdini, an admirable magician? Oliver Fuller, a film-maker, is making a movie about him.

M: Yes, he was born in 1874. His family moved to the USA when he was 4.

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W: So how dose this car work?

M: I’ll show you. This engine in the back pushes the wheels around. The car uses gas.

W: And how do you control the direction?

M: This handle here turns the front wheel. If you want to go to the right, you push it to the left. W: How fast does it go?

M: The top speed is about eighteen miles per hour.

W: That’s fast! Can I have a ride?

M: Yes. There’s room for two people. I’ll just ask my assistant to start the engine.

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M: Hello, Marry. It’s Jim. I got your message.

W: At last! Where are you? Your receptionist thinks you’re at home and your wife thinks you’re at work. Are you on a golf course?

W: Jim, you should be at work, not playing golf.

M: But I’m practicing so as to beat you this time. By the way, what do you want to talk to me about?

W: I just want to check if you’ve booked the hotel for Saturday night.

M: Of course.

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W: Mr Simmons, what is a desert, exactly?

M: Well, there are different kinds of deserts—hot deserts and cold deserts. And hot deserts aren’t always hot.

The temperature changes, for example, from 38 degrees to 10 degrees.

W: 10 degrees! Tha t’s cold.

M: Also, only about 30 percent of the world’s deserts are sand—a lot of deserts are just rocks and stones .But all deserts have one thing in common: they’re very dry, with about 250mm of rain a year.

W: OK. So there isn’t any water. So how do animals and plants live in deserts?

M: A lot of desert animals sleep in the day and come out at night to look for food. They get water from the food. And desert plants have water in them. People often live in groups, and they often live at the edges of desert. Oh, it’s time for class. You can ask me more after class.

W: OK. Thank you.

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W: Today our guest is Dr Dylan Evans, head of the robotics department at the University of the west of England. Welcome, Dylan. First, what kind of things can robots do now?

M: Well, today robots can build cars and other machines very quickly, but they can’t move very easily.

W: What will robots be able to do in 5or 10 years?

M: By 2020, robots will be able to learn a language, recognise your face and understand what you say. They will also be able to sweep up the house.

W: Really?

M: Yes, but they won’t do more complex things, like, er, play football. That won’t happen for another 20 or 30 years.

W: Well, will a lot of people have robots in their houses?

M: Yes. In 2020 most home in Japan will 2 or 3 robots. They’ll be able to do the housework—even feed the cat! They’ll be able to talk to other machines in your house.

W: Finally, do you think robots will control the world, like in the movies?

M: No. Humans and robots will have to work together, because they’ll need each other. So you should be optimistic about that.

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M: Welcome to today’s programme. Now I’m going to tell you something about Hina Maturi. It’s a one-day festival, and many Japanese girls take part in the festival each year on 3rd March. Hina Matsuri means “little doll” and it is a festival which is completely about dolls.

These dolls aren’t something you just play with like a Barbie or something like that, rather, they aren’t something that you display. Lots of girls are given a set of dolls when they are born, often by their grandparents, or else there are dolls which have been in the family for generations, or else there are dolls which have been in the family for generations. The idea is that the dolls are used to teach the girls about the traditional values.

There’s one more thing I must say about the dolls. Some Japanese believe you can pass illness or bad luck to one of these dolls. The dolls are put into boat and taken down to the sea by people wearing traditional costumes. The idea is any bad luck or illness of the girls taken away with the doll. Over the years it has become a popular sight, and more and more people come to watch the ceremony.