托福听力文字(2004-1至2005-5).doc

04年 1月 托福听力文字Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get.Part A 1. M：Sorry, but I cant go and have a cup of coffee with you now. Ive only done half the readings for the philosophy class tomorrow. W：And I thought I was a slow reader. Q：What does the woman mean? 2. W：I entered one of my new photographs in the newspapers contest. M：If its anything like the others youve shown me, Im sure youll come out on top(=win the contest)! Q：What does the man mean? 3. W：You took the European literature class last year; are you interested in selling me any of the books? M：I always hold on to them for future reference. Q：What will the man probably do? 4. M：I havent heard from Janet since she entered medical school. I wonder how shes doing. W：Well, I understand she gave our department secretary her new address and phone number. Why dont you try to get in touch with her? Q：What does the woman suggest the man do? 5. M：Hi, I have a map of the campus, but I still cant find the building with the new sculpture(雕像) exhibit in it. Can you tell me how to get there? W：That looks like an old map. Follow me; Im going that way myself. Q：What does the woman mean?6. M：I just count my travelers checks for the trip to California. I hope 300 dollars will be enough. W：I guess Id better do that before Friday uh? Maybe I can get to the bank tomorrow after physics class. Q：What can be inferred about the woman? 7. W: Sally and Mark havent been talking to each other lately. I wonder what happened. M: I havent the faintest idea.(我一点也不知道) But Id stay out of it if I were you. Q: What does the man mean? 8. M: Did you hear that my parents are planning a trip to Vancouver? W: What Philip? （菲利普，你刚才说什么来着？）Q: What does the woman want to know? 9. M: I keep putting off getting my passport application. W: Thank Goodness I didnt drag my feet on（拖拖拉拉）that one. Q: What does the woman mean? 10 W: How about a couple of sets of tennis this weekend? M: I dont know. My games a little rusty.(生锈，生疏) Q: What does the man imply? 11 W: So, what did you think about the discussion at lunch? I didnt realize people have such strong feelings about politics. M: Are you kidding? That subject always touches a nerve.（触动神经） Q: What does the man mean? 12 M: I dont want to buy the book Prof. Brown told us to read for the exam. Do you think you could lend me yours?W: Well, Im not using it right now? But I really need to keep it handy just in case. Q: What does the woman mean? 13 W: Look at that sky! I cant believe I forgot my umbrella again! M: We are almost there, Mary. I think well be able to make it. Q: What can be inferred about the weather? 14 W: I dont know why the university requires freshmen to live in dorms for a whole year! M: Cheer up. Youll be able to live off-campus（校外） next year if you want! Q: What can be inferred about the woman? 15 M: So, you and Julia are no longer roommates. Im not surprised. You two never did things very compatible.（共处，相容） W: Yeah, well. Its not that we didnt get along. We just didnt have much in common. Q: What can be inferred about the woman? 16 M: The glare was so intense even my sunglasses didnt help. W: Look, if you take Route 27 in the late afternoon, youre driving straight into the sun（正对着太阳）! Id consider an alternative. Q: What does the woman suggest the man do? 17 M: Remember when I said I might have to back out(停止不干) of the concert if I didnt have my history paper done yet? Well, guess what? W: Thats okay. Do you know anyone else who enjoys Jazz? Q: What will the woman probably do? 18 W: Personally Ive never cared for the food at Sullivans. M: I think it all depends on the chefs mood that day. Q: What does the man imply? 19 M: You look worn out. Are you feeling under the weather? (dont feel well)W: Not at all. But I have been putting in（投入） some long hours in the chemistry lab. Q: What does the woman mean? 20 W: I think this coat is a great color. And the price is certainly right. M: How about the weight, though. Remember were supposed to have a really severe winter this year. Q: What does the man imply about the coat? 21 M: Michelle, this is Jeff, our new reporter. Would you have some time today to show him around? You know introducing to the others make him feel at home. W：Ill be happy to. Then after lunch I can set him up at his desk so he can get to work. Q: What will Jeff probably do after lunch? 22 W: Do the directions say we should go left or right at the stop sign? M: Hum, thats funny! I dont actually see anything here about it! Q: What does the man imply? 23 W: Someone told me the new restaurant on Grant Street is pretty goodM: The atmosphere is wonderful. But whats more important to you, good food or nice atmosphere? Q: What does the man imply? 24 M: So, what time does your art-history class meet again? W: Two to five Tuesdays and Thursdays. But the course is already full. Q: What can be inferred about the woman? 25 W: I heard you just had your wisdom teeth（智齿）removed. How do you feel? M: Actually theres not much swelling（肿胀） and I got something for the pain.（消除疼痛） Q: What does the man mean? 26 M: I read that the enrollment（招生） in the School of Business is on the rise! W: Well, thats been a trend for several years now. Q: What does the woman imply? 27 W: Its 9:15! Did you just get to the lab? M: Yes! I was up late studying（熬夜学习） and I overslept again. I guess I need a louder alarm clock.Q: What can be inferred about the man? 28 W: My parents think I ought to buy a computer. You know now Im in college. But I hate to spend so much of my savings now. M: Id say its probably a worthwhile investment. Q: What does the man mean? 29 M: Do we need to get the concert tickets in advance?（事先） W: There may be some for sale at the door at a higher price.Q: What does the woman say about the tickets? 30 M: Are you free tonight? Im meeting a few friends at the restaurant on Main Street. W: Oh, Id love to. But I already have dinner plans for tonight. Anothertime perhaps? Q: What does the woman mean? Part B Questions 31 through 34W: Hey Steve, got any plans for tonight? M: Hi, Jane. No, I dont think so. Why? Got any suggestions? W: In fact, I do. I just got two tickets to the opening of the exhibit of the reprints（再版） by Julia Margaret Cameron. I would have mentioned it earlier, but I was on the waiting list for these tickets and I wasnt sure Id even get them. M: An exhibit, huh? I like such things. But I dont know who Julia W: Margaret Cameron! She was a photographer in the 1800s. She is interesting to art-historians in general and students of photography in particular（尤其） because she . how should I say, change the aesthetics for photography. M: What do you mean? W: Well, her specialty was portraits and instead of just making a factual（实际的） record of details like most photographers did, you know, just capturing what a person look like in a dispassionate（平心静气的）thought of way. She, like a portrait painter, was interested in capturing her subjects personality. M: Interesting! How did she do that? W: She invented a number of techniques that affect the picture. Like one of these things she did was blur（模糊） images slightly by using a soft focus on the subject. Thats pretty common now. M: Yeah, seen that. Who did she photograph? W: Famous people of her day, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Darwin, I dont know who else. Well see at the exhibition. M: You really pick my curiosity. I am going to enjoy this.31. What is the conversation mainly about? 32. What did Julia Margaret Cameron emphasize in her portraits? 33. According to the conversation, what unique photographic technique did Margaret Cameron use?34. What will be the subject of the pictures at the exhibit?Questions 35 through 38M: Do you want to go to the movies with on Saturday?W: Thanks, but I have to study my research project. Im taking that same anthropology course you took with Prof. Grady.M: The one on ethnographic interviewing? Oh, good! Im sure youll get a lot out of it.（从中学到很多）W: I have to admit the word ethnography(人种学) scared me a little at first. It seems so technical. But then when she explained that its what anthropologists do, you know, how they investigate and record aspects of a culture, I didnt seem so intimidating! M: Yeah, its all part of the fields work anthropologists conduct and its good to start doing that now before you become a graduate student and have to conduct large projects yourself. Who are you going to interview? W: You know the publishing office where I used to work? Vivian, the woman I worked for, shes been a manager there for over 30 years and had seen a lot of changes in the industry（在该领域）. I thought Id start out by interviewing her about how the people in the office interact with each other and with outside clients. M: Isnt it funny how we use the thing that anthropologists study to foreign cultures and had the travel halfway across the world to do it? The best part of that course is that it shows you that ethnographic research can also be done on a familiar ground.（在熟悉的地方）W: Yeah. I got the idea from my project from reading Robert Marshals study of office life and I realized I already had some background in that. So far, Im really enjoying this course.35. What is the conversation mainly about? 36. What does the woman say about the subject of ethnography? 37. Why does the man think that the course will be a good one for the woman? 38. Who is the first person the woman will interview?Part CQuestions 39 through 43M: Im going to pass this piece of amber around so you can see this spider trapped inside it. Its a good example of amber-inclusion（内容物）, one of the inclusions that scientists are interested in these days. This particular piece is estimated to be about 20 million years old. Please be extremely careful not to drop it. Amber shatters as easily as glass. One thing I really like about amber is its beautiful golden color. Now, how does the spider get in there? Amber is really fossilized tree resin. Lots of chunks（结块） of amber contain insects（昆虫） like this one or animal parts like feathers or even plants. Here is how it happens. The resin oozes（渗出） out of the tree and the spider or leaf gets in cased（被包住） in it. Over millions and millions of years, the resin hardens and fossilizes into the semiprecious(次珍贵的、准宝石的) stone you see here. Ambers can be found in many different places around the world. But the oldest deposits（矿床） are right here in the United States, in Appalachia(阿巴拉契亚). Its found in several other countries, too, though right now scientists are most interested in ambers coming from the Dominican Republic（多美尼加共和国）. Because it has a great many inclusions, something like one insect inclusion for every one hundred pieces. One possible explanation for this it that the climate is tropical（热带的） and a greater variety of number of insects thrive in tropics than in other places. Whats really interesting is the scientists are now able to recover DNA from these fossils and study the genetic material for important clues to revolution. 39. Why does the professor pass the amber around to the students? 40. When the professor mentor glass in the talk, what point is he trying to make about amber?41. What is amber derived from? 42. Why is the Dominican Republic an important source of amber? 43. What type of amber is probably the most valuable for genetic research?Questions 44 through 46Now weve been talking about the revolutionary period in the United States history when the colonies wanted to separate from England. Id like to mention one point about the very famous episode from that period, a point I think is pretty relevant（贴切） even today. Im sure you remember, from when you are children, the story of Paul Reveres famous horseback ride to the Massachusetts countryside. In that version, he single-handedly（单独） alerted the people that the British were coming. We have this image of us solitary rider galloping（飞驰的）along of the dark from one farm house to another. And of course the story emphasized the courage of one man, made him a hero in our history books, right? But, that rather romantic version of the story is not what actually happened that night. In fact, that version misses the most important point entirely. Paul Revere was only one of the many riders helping deliver the messages that night. Just one part of a pre-arrange plan, that was thought out well in advance in preparation for just such an emergency. I dont mean to diminish（降低） Reveres role though. He was actually an important organizer and promoter of this group effort for freedom. His mid-night rider didnt just go knocking on farm house doors. They also awaken the institutions of New England. They went from town to town and engage（联络） the town leaders, the military commanders and volunteer groups, even church leaders, people who would then continue to spread the word. My point is that Paul Revere and his political party understood, probably more clearly than later generations ever have, that political institutions are theirs a kind of medium for the will of people and also to both build on and support the individual action. They knew the success requires careful planning and organization. The way they went about the work that night made a big difference in the history and this country.44. What does the story of Paul Revere usually emphasize? 45. What new information does the speaker provide about Paul Revere? 46. What does the speaker imply is most significant about the ride of Paul Revere?Questions 47 through 50Let me warn you against a mistake that historians of science often make. They sometimes assume that people in the past use the same concepts we do. Here is a wonderful example that makes the use of history of mathematics some while ago. It concerns an ancient Mesopotamian(美索不达米亚人) tablet that has some calculations on it using square numbers. The calculations look an awful one like the calculations of the link of the sides of triangle. So thats what many historians assume they were. But using square numbers to do this is a very sophisticated technique. If the Mesopotamians knew how to do it, as historians started thinking that they did. Well, they learn math with incredibly advanced. Well, it turns out the idea of Mesopotamians use square numbers to calculate the link of triangles sides is probably wrong. Why? Because we discovered that Mesopotamians didnt know how to measure angles, which is a crucial（决定性的） element in the whole process of triangle calculations. Apparently the Mesopotamians had a number of other uses for square numbers. These other uses were important but they were not used with triangles. And so these tablets in all likelihood（多半） were practice sheets, if you like, for doing simpler math exercises with square numbers. In all likelihood, it was the ancient Greeks who first calculate the link of triangles sides using square numbers. And this was hundreds of years after the Mesopotamians. 47. What is the main purpose of the talk? 48. According to the professor, what did some historians mistakenly assumed about the Mesopotamians? 49. What was on the Mesopotamian tablet mentioned in the talk? 50. What does the professor imply about the ancient Greeks?05年 5月 托福听力文字Part A1. M: Do you know when the next train is? I need to be at the Museum of Fine Arts(美术) by 10:30.W: Actually there is a shuttle bus at 10 that takes you directly there. And its only a 25-minute ride.Q: What does the woman imply?2. M: It was such a great weekend. I saw two really good movies on the play. What did you do?W: What you were supposed to be doing? Studying! Did you forget we have an exam today?Q: What does the woman mean?3. W: So what are they supposed to be building over there? Another gym?M: Isnt that where the new library is going?Q: What are the speakers talking about?4. W: Do you mind if I use your computer to write a history paper? Mines out for repairs.M: Sorry, but I am in the middle of typing something and its gonna be a while. You know, the computer lab is still open.Q: What does the man imply the woman should do?5. M: Hi Gina, thats a really cool watch. Where did you get it?W: Well, my sister works at the jewelry store right off campus.6: W: Do you think classes are gonna be canceled because of the snow storm?M: I sure hope so. It says on the radio that the roads are treacherous(难料的，危险的). Why dont you check with the administration office?Q: What does the man suggest the woman do? 7. M: So where is Gloria these days? Its like that she is disappeared. W: You obviously havent been to the library in a while（有一阵子没去图书馆了）.Q: What can be inferred about Gloria?8. W: I dont know what you did to this computer. But it keeps giving me these error messages. M: Oh, sorry, I was playing around with（玩耍） it before you came in. Let me take a look at it.Q: What will the man do?9. M: Chicken or fish? I know they are both good here. But I just cant make up my mind. W: Come on. We havent got all night.（我们的时间不多了） Q: What does the woman mean?10. W: Oh no, I just remembered I was supposed to give Tom his CD back when I see him in class today. But I left it sitting on the kitchen table.M: I dont think its any big deal. I am sure he can do without it until our next class.Q: What does the man imply about the woman?11. W: Im starting to lose my voice, which usually means I am about to catch a cold. Do you think I should go to the clinic and have my throat looked at?M: As soon as possible, esp. since we have four exams next week