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2000年5月托福听力考试真题原文229 woman:i heard that only 20% of summer jobs in this part os the country are advertised. the other 80% are filled some other way. man: relaly? then maybe i need to change my jobsearch techniques. Q:what can be inferred about the man? 30 man: i dont remember theassignmentoff hand,but ive got it written down at home.how about if i call u tonight? woman:if u call before nine,just leave a message with my roommate. Q:why will the man call the woman? Listen to a voncersation between two stduents in the lounge of a college dormitory. Woman:Hi,Kaven.Your roommate told me that I could find you in the TV lounge. what are you doing here? Man:what does it looklike i am doing? woman:well, it looks like u are watching television.but we have a linear algebra mid-term tomorrow, so i thought youd be studying for it and maybe i can study with you. man:oh,well,i was just taking a break.this linear algebra stuff gives me a headache if i work on it too long. woman:i know what you mean.ive been working on it for three hours through it already. im beginning to go corss.id been theorying at the sample problems. i just dont get some of them. man:but i cant believe you are coming to me.i mean you do konw what i got on the last test,dont u? woman:yeah,i know.you told me.i just thought two heads might be better one. man:yeah,thats nice idea.but.you know,i wish i knew that person in our class who got a hundred on the last test.she didnt miss a question.umm.was it Elizabeth? woman:oh yeah,Elizabeth!she is a friend of mine.shed be a big help right now.why dont i give her a call? man:what!at this hour?its already ten thirty. i dont wanna impose on her. woman:yeah,i guess you are right.but you know what,she owes me a big favor.lets at least give her a call and see what she syas.maybe going over some of the problems with us wouls help her review the material. man:its worth a try. 31 what are the speakers mainly discussing? 32 why is the man watching television? 33 why is the man surprised that the woman wants to study linear algebra with him? 34 why doesnt the man want to call Elizabeth? Questions 35 through 39: Listen to two students talking about their engineering class. woman:hello? man:hi,may,this is bill johns. woman:oh hi,bill.you werent in engineering class today, were you? man:i have the ful.i was sonderfing if you could tell me what went on. woman:actually we had an interesting class. Dr.Collin talked about a new type of fuel. man:oh,yeah? woman:uh-hum.its called dimethyl-ether or DME. man:oh,i remember reading somethinga bout DME.its mostly used in spray cans,right? woman:right. DME doesnt destory the ozone,so its been environmentally friendsly. man:but doesnt DME pullute the air if its burned in an engine? woman:Dr.Collin says something about its exhausts being clear,that it doesnt release as much pullutants as diesel fuel.and he mentioned something about DME being more efficient than other alternative fuels. man:when will it replace diesel fuel? woman:not for a while.its not economical to massproduce. man:well,thanks for the information.i guess i wont need to borrowyour notes. woman:well,maybe you should look at them.we are having a test next week. man:okay,could u give them to Mike Andrews? I think he is in your psychology class.he is my roommate. woman:sure.i hope youre feeling better soon. man:thanks.me too.bye! woman:bye! 35 what is the converstation mainly about? 36 why is the woman giving the man the information? 37 what effect will the increased use of DME instead of diesel fuelprobably have? 38 according to the conversation,why wont DME be on the market soon? 39 why does the woman suggest the man look at her notes?Questions 40 through 43: Okay.Uh.you remember that ive mention that its important to read the assigned poems aloud,so you can develp and appreciation of the sounds of the poetry: the rhymes,the rhythm,the repetition of words or sounds,and to get a sense of the interplay between the sounds of the words and their meaning.this is really critical as we move into modern poetry,especially by writers woh place so much importance on sounds that the meaning becomes all etter relevant.like this line by Gertrude Stein that Id like to quote.listen,listen as i say the words.rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. taken literally this would seems to be an empty statement,one which gives us no information. but the purpose of a poem need not be to infrom the reader of anything, but rather to evoke feelings. to create a sensual as well as phonically pleasing experience. now Gertrude Stein was better known for her prose than for her poems.but id like to like to quote this line because of its musicality,and because i think it helps open up our awareness to the unconventionallyricism of contemporary poets.youll see this in your homework tongiht as you read the poetryof John Ashbery,especially if you read it out loud,which i recommend you do.poets like ashbery dont rely so much on any formal rhyme scheme or meter as on the musical quality of the individual words themselves. as i said,Stein was better known for her non-poetical work.and now id like to touch briefly on her essay entitled Converstaion and Explanation.this work deals with her theory of writing and will help to explain some of the things weve talking about. 40 what does the professor mainly discuss? 41 what does the professor say about Gertrude Stein as a writer? 42 why does the professor recommend the students do as part of their homework? 43 what does the professor recommend the students do as part of their homework? Questions 44 through 46 Listen to a talk in a class about United States history. last week,you recall,we discussed the early development of railroads in the United States.today i want to mention an even earlier form of transportation , one that brought the first European settlers to America. and thats the wooden sailing ship. from colonial times sailing ships were vital to the economy. many coastal towns depended on fishing or whaling for employment and income. this was especiallytrue in the northeastern states. and there the wood from nearby forests and the skills of local designers and workers also formed the basis of an important shipbuilding industry. but the big profits were to be made on trade with far away places.and since sea captains often became part owners of their ships,they had a strong interest in the commercial success of their voyages.so these Yankees,thats what US sailor and officers cmae to be called, they carried on a very profitabletrade with other partsof the world.the high pointof this trade came in the mid-th centurywith the introduction of the clipper ship,the enormous Yankee clippers with huge sails reaching nearly two hundredfeet into sky.hed carry passengers and cargo from New York around South America to San Francisco in less than three months and clear to China in just half a year.at that time this seemed unbelievalbe fast and efficient.but in the 60s ,more reliable steam-poweredship began to take over. and soon the important role of sailing ships in the US economy would come to an end. 44 what aspect of United States histroy does the professor mainly discuss? 45 According to the professor,what may be one reason for the success of the merchant ships of the United States? 46 what does the professor say about clipper ships? Questions 47 through 50: Listen to part of a talk in a class on early childhood education.the professor is discussing penmanship: the quality of ones handwriting. as you prepare to become elementary school teachers,youll be hearing a lot of disscussion about the relevance of teaching permanship.now years ago when i was studying education in college,reading writikng and arithmetic were the basics of elementary school education.it went without saying that writing meant first and foremost penmanship.that is,the neatness of a childs handwriting.back then,penmanship was often taught as a separate subject from the fist grade right up through the sixth grade long after the children had moved from writing in block capital letters to cursive scipt. it was considered so important that sometimes prizes were even awarded for the best handwriting.but when we move ahead a few decades into the 80s,we see teachers and administrators and even parents telling us that teaching penmanship is waste of time.with computers,they said,children can successfully manipulate the keyboard or mouse of their home computers before they can even hold a pencil. this change in attitude had an impact on