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Unit 1 听力原文与答案A. 1. M: Look, its getting late, and wed better be leaving together. Have you got a car, Miss Smith? W: No, thanks. Theres a bus. Q: what does the man intend to do?B. 2. M: Do you really have to go down to the river to wash your clothes? W: Yes, but all things considered, life in the country is still a lot less complicated than life in the city.Q: How does the woman feel about life in the country?A. 3. W: Im afraid Dr. Anderson wont be able to see you then. His appointment book is filled for the next couple of weeks. M: oh, but I dont have to see him. Ill just leave my teeth in his office and he can look at them when he has time. They are false teeth!Q: what is Dr. Anderson?B. 4. M: Id like to go to the movies this evening. Would you like to come with me? W: well, Ill go if you really want to, but Im a little worn out from my work today. Q: what conclusion can we draw from the conversation?C. 5. M: whats your family like, Susan? W: Well, my parents are separated, but my father lives near us. Mom is middle aged and pretty. Shes tall with blonde hair. She works as a chemical engineer for a drug company. Q: How do Susans parents get along?D. 6. M: I wonder if you can finish your paper by Monday afternoon. W: Im sorry Dr. Johnson. I dont think I can finish it that early. Thursday morning would be the earliest that you could have it. Q: when will the woman hand in her paper?B. 7. w: do you think the possibility of cold weather and snow will affect the results of the game? M: well, the Stealers are accustomed to playing in bad weather, so it shouldnt make any difference to them.Q: how does the man think aobut the weather and the game?C. 8. m: I bought this sweater as a gift last week but have just discovered that it is the wrong size, so I want to return it. W: if you have your receipt, I can give you credit for the purchase. But I cant repay you.Q: where did the conversation probably take place?Conversation oneM: Tina, Im studying American geography at school right now, but Im a little confused about the terminology they are using. Can you explain the basic geographical divisions to me?W: well, the U.S. is made up of fifty states. Some of them are quite small such as Rhode Island or Hawaii; others are very large such as Alaska or Texas.M; my teacher mentioned that the capital of the United States is special. Do you know what he was talking about?W: the capital is Washington D. C. - the “D.C” stands for District of Columbia. Washington D.C. is not a state; it is a separate political division. The United States also includes many territories such as Guam, American Samoa and the U.s Virgirn Islands. And of course, Puerto Rico is classified as a commonwealth.M: what exactly is a commonwealth?W: that means that Puerto Rico is tied to the United States, but it is largely self-governing.M: what about the cultural divisions?W: Americans divide the united States into many different cultural regions: the Northwest, the West Coast, the Wese, the South West, the deep South, the Midwest, the Easr Coast and last but not least New England.M: whats that?W: it is a cultural region in the far Northeast that stretches from Connecticut to Maine.9. what are the speakers mainly talking about? A10. whats special about the capital of the U.S.A? c11. according to the conversation, which of the following is a cultural region? BConversation TwoW: oh, hi Dave. Long time no see!M: hi, maria. I was in the neighborhoood, so I thought Id drop by.W: come in. take a seat. Would you like anything to drink? I have Sprite and orange juice.M: Sprite would be fine. Uh, so, how have you been?W: oh, not bad. And you?M: oh, Im doing okay, but school has been really hectic these days, and I havent had time to relax.W: by the way, whats your major anyway.M: hotel management.W: well, what do you want to do once you graduate?M: uh I havent decided for sure, but I think Id like to work for a hotel or travel agency in this area. How about you?W: well, when I first started college, I wanted to major in French, but I realized that I might have a hard time finding a job using the language, so I changed majors to computer science. With the right skills, finding a job in the computer industry shouldnt be as difficult.M: so, do you have a part-time job to support yourself through school?W: well, fortunately for me, I received a four-year academic scholarship that pays for all of my tuition and books.M: wow. Thats great.W: yeah. How about you? Are you working your way through school?M: yeah. I work three times a week at a restaurant near campus?W: oh, what do you do there?M: Im a cook.W: how do you like your job?M: Its okay. The other workers are friendly, and the pay isnt bad.12. what does the man decide to do when he graduates? C13. what is the womans major now? c14. how does the woman support herself through college? D15. what thing did the man NOT mention about his part-time job? BSection BPassage one Freezing can keep food fresh and safe to eat. Freezing lowers the food temperature below zero degrees celsius. That is the point where water turns to be. To start the freezing process, it is important to lower the temperature to between minus fifteen and minus twenty degrees Celsius as quickly as possible. The faster the freezing process, the fresher the taste of the food. Fruits and vegetables can be spread out inside the freezer. Once the food is frozen, it should be placed in containers and then stored at a temperature of about minus twenty degrees Celsius. Fruits are usually not cooked before they are frozen. This allows them to keep their fresh taste. The simplest way to prepare fruits is to cut them up and place them in a container inside the freezer. In some cases it is better to permit the fruit to freeze before putting it in the container. This will keep it from sticking to the container. This is called the “dry pack” method. The second way is the “wet pack” method. The fruit is prepared along with some of its liquid or juice. You can add some sugar to fruits that are naturally juicy. The sugar sweetens the fruit and brings out its natural juices. Once foods have been unfrozen, they should not be frozen again. There is a danger of food poisoning if food is frozen more than once. 16. whats important to start the freezing process? C17. whats the advantage of “dry pack” method? B18. what can we conclude from the passage? CPassage Two The United States has more than 3,000 colleges and universities. Most require high school students to take an admissions test, either the SAT or the ACT. But some have reconsidered. The activist organization FairTest opposes the requirements.It lists more than seven hundred individual schools now where testing is optional.Students can provide their results, but only if they want to.A number of the schools are related as campuses within university systems.Yet in some cases, it appears that other campuses do still require testing.Testing critics say one reason to drop the requirement is that preparing for the tests takes away too much time from schoolwork, and life.They say the requirement places too much importance on one test and causes too much stress for students.Still, critics question just how much the tests really show about a student.They say higher scores in some cases might only show that a students family had the money for costly test-preparation classes.One of the first colleges to drop the requirement was Bates College in Maine in nineteen eighty-four.Over the next twenty years, it compared students who provided their test scores and those who did not.The study found that grades and graduation rates were the same.19. what would the students in the listed 700 schools probably do? D20. according to the critics, why should they drop the requirement? D21. what can we learn from the passage? BPassage Three Two new American studies are adding to our understanding of women and their sense of smell. The first study showed that women appear to like the smell of men whose genes are similar to the womens fathers. Scientists at the University of Chicago in Illinois described their experiment in Nature Genetics magazine. The scientists asked a group of forty-nine women to smell several boxes. Each box had a different smell. The women were asked which box they would choose if they had to smell it all the time. They were not told what each box contained. The ten boxes contained pieces of clothing called T-shirts. Some of the T-shirts contained a common smell of a substance found around the house. Each of the other six T-shirts had been worn by a man for two days. The six men who wore the T-shirts were told to avoid activities that produced strong smells. The scientists tested the genes of the men and women in the study. They examined a special group of genes called M-H-C genes. The scientists found that the women did not choose smells of men with genes totally similar to their own. However, women generally liked the smell of men whose M-H-C genes were similar to the genes that were passed to the women from their fathers. There was no such relationship between a woman and genes from her mother. A s