广东高考英语听说练习题11

PART A

It’s December, and even the great Yellowstone River is succumbing to the cold. / It’s only where the water runs fast that it still runs free. /It looks uncomfortably cold,/ but then the water, at around freezing point, can be 50 degrees warmer than the air. / Where the water stands still it is now frozen solid. / Yellow Stone Lake is 136 square miles, and now completely covered in 3 feet of ice. As the year comes to an end, it seems hard to imagine this winter getting any tougher. / But there’s another twist to the volcano’s story, / that is about to make things even worse.

PART B

情景介绍：

角色：你是Lucy

任务：(1)你通过网络图书馆查找作文资料；

(2)根据谈话内容回答问题。

生词：Confused 混乱的，束手无策的

Narrow 将<范围等>缩小

Specific 精确的

Catalogue 目录

W: Sir, you’ve been using the online library for quite a while. Is there anything I can do to help you?

Lucy: Well, it is my homework. We’ve been told to write a paper about Hollywood in the 1930s to 1940s. But now I’m really confused. There are hundreds of books talking about Hollywood, and I just don’t know which book to choose and where to begin.

W: Your topic sounds pretty big. Why don’t you narrow it down to something like, uh, the history of Hollywood’s movie studios during that time?

Lucy: Uh-huh. It was a good idea. You know, I was thinking about doing that before, but more than 50 books came up when I typed in “movie studios”.

3 Questions to ask:

1. 我还可以输入什么单词？

（计算机回答：You could narrow that down even by listing the specific years you want. You can try to type in “Golden Age”. That’s much easier for you.）

2. 有其他的报刊杂志吗？

（计算机回答：Of course. You can search for any magazine or newspaper in the online library. You can look up magazine articles in the Reader’s Guide. Also, we have China Daily.）

3.在哪里可以借这些书？

(计算机回答：We do not offer books, magazines or newspaper articles for borrowing. But you can pay for the copies by contacting our online servers.)

Keys:

1. What other words can I type in?

2. Are there any other newspapers or magazines?

3. Where can I borrow these books?

5 Questions to answer:

1. What’s the topic of the man’s homework?

2. What makes the man confused?

3. What’s the woman’s suggestion?

4. Where can people find magazine articles?

5. Can people borrow books from the online library?

Keys:

1. It is a paper about Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.

2. He doesn’t know which book to choose and where to begin.

3. She suggested the man write about the history of Hollywood’s movie studios.

4. People can find magazine articles in the Reader’s Guide.

5. No, online library doesn’t offer books borrowing service.