2022剑桥雅思8test1听力原文挖空练习C8Test1

1、精品资料C8Test 1Section 1A: Hi，George! Glad youre back. Loads of people have phoned you.B: Really?A: I felt just like your secretary!B: Sorry! I went into the this afternoon to have a look at a and I came across something really interestingA: What? A book?B: No，a from a festival - mainly music. Look，Ive

2、 got it here. A: music? I really love the . Lets have a look. So whats this Guitarrini?B: Theyre really good. They had a with all the highlights of the festival at a stand in the lobby to the ，so I heard them. They play fantastic instruments - and flutes and old kinds of . Ive never heard anything l

3、ike it before.A: Sounds great.B: Okay. Shall we go then? Spoil ourselves? A：Yes，lets.B: The only problem is there arent any cheap . . . its all one . A: Well，in that case we could sit right at the front - wed have a really good .B: Yeah，though I think that if you sit at the back You can actually hea

4、r the whole thing better.A: Yes. Anyway we can decide when we get there.-A: So will you fill in the or shall I?B: 111 do it. Name: George ONeill. : ,West sea. Do you remember our new postcode? Still cant remember it.A: Just a minute - Ive got it written down here. Do you need the too?B: Please. Im r

5、eally bad at .A: . So，lets book two for Guitarrini. B: Okay. If youre sure _ each is all right. How do you feel about the singer?A: I havent quite decided. But Ive noticed something on the booking that might just persuade me! B: Whats that then?A: Free !B: Really ?A: Yes，look here. . Singer, _ inclu

6、des in the .B: Sounds like a to me!A: Yes，lets book two for that. So, what else? Im feeling quite keen now! How about the on the ? B: Anna Ventura? Ive just remembered thats my evening c1ass night.A: Thats okay. Ill just have to go on my own - but we can go to the and together，cant we?B: Yes -Im sur

7、e Tom and Kieran would enjoy that too. Good heaven _ a ! I can see were going to have to go without food for the rest of the week - well need to book ! A: Wish we were 一 look! ， and Senior Citizens get a on everything. B: If only!Section 2Hello, and thank you for asking me to your teachers to talk a

8、bout the Dinosaur and to tell you a bit about what you can do with your there.Well, let me give you some of the first. In regard to opening _, were open every day of the week from _ to _ except on when we close at . And, in fact the only day in the year when were closed is on the You can book a for

9、your school any time that were open. If you bring a school to the , when you arrive we ask you to remain with your in the . One or more of the will welcome you there and brief you about what the will be about. We do this there because our is quite small and we really havent got much room for briefin

10、g in the 。As far as the amount of time youll need goes, if you bring a school you should plan on allowing a minimum of for the visit. This allows to get on and off the , for the and for after-tour .If youre going to have at the you will, of course, have to allow more time. There are two in the , wit

11、h seating for people. If you want to eat there youll need to reserve some seating, as they can get quite crowed at time. Then the at the back there are , and _ can bring their own and eat it there in the open air.-When the _ come into the foyer we ask them to check in their backpacks with their _, b

12、oxes, etc, at the before they enter the proper. Im afraid in the past we have had a few things gone missing after school visits so this is a strict . Also, some of the are fragile and we dont want them to be accidentally knocked. But we do provide school _ with with and quizzes on them. Theres so mu

13、ch that _ can learn in the and its fun for them to have something to do. Of course! Theyll need to bring something to write with for these. We do allow _ to take For _ who are doing its useful to make some kind of visual of what they see that they can add to their . And finally, they should not brin

14、g anything to eat into the , or of any kind. There are also a few _ the _ can do after the . In the on the there are continuous screenings of short about dinosaurs which they can see any time. We used to have an with more interactive things like making of dinosaurs and drawing and pictures, even hun

15、ting for dinosaur eggs, but unfortunately the room was damaged in a bad storm recently when water came in the roof, so thats closed at the moment. But we do have an IT where students have to with a range of dinosaur games. These games are a lot of fun, but they also teach the students about the of d

16、inosaurs, how they found food, protected their habitat, survived threats, that kind of thing.And . . .I think thats all 1 have to tell you. Please feel free to ask any if you would like to know anything else.Section 3T: Right, Sandra. You wanted to see me to get some feedback on your groups proposal

17、. The one youre submitting for the Geography society Ive had a look through your proposal and I think its a really good . In fact, I only have a few things to say about it, but even in an like this you really have to be careful to avoid typos and with in the proposal, and even in the contents . So r

18、ead it through carefully before submitting it, okay?S: Will do.T: And Ive made a few on the proposal about things which could have been better . S: Okay.T: As for the writing itself, Ive annotated the proposal as and where I thought it could be improved. Generally speaking, I feel youve often used c

19、omplex and long for the sake of it and as a consequence . . . although your paragraphing and inclusion of sub-headings help . . . its quite hard to follow your train of thought at times. So cut them down a bit, can you?S: Really?T: Yes. And dont forget simple like . S: Didnt I use ?T: I didnt mean t

20、hat. Look, youve remembered to include headers and footers, which is good, but listing clearly is . them or use bullet points, which is even clearer. Then youll focus the reader on your . I thought your to go to the Navajo Tribal S: Ive always wanted to go there. My father was a great of cowboy and

21、the Wild West so I was subjected to seeing all the epics, many of which were shot there. As a consequence, it feels very familiar to me and its awesome both geographically and usually, so its somewhere Ive always wanted to visit. The subsequent I did and the online made me even keener.T: Interesting

22、. Right, lets look at the content of your proposal now.S: Did you find it comprehensive enough?T: Well, yes and no. Youve listed several different on your contents , but Im not sure theyre all relevant.S: No? Well, I thought that from the perspective of a , one thing I needed to focus on was the san

23、dstone plat aux and themselves. the way they tower up from the is just amazing. The fact that the surrounding softer rocks were eroded by and rain, leaving these outcrops high above the plain. Its hardly surprising that flock to see the .T: Well, yes, Id agree with including those points . . .S: And

24、 then the fact that its been home to American Navajos and all the that goes with that. The hardships they endured trying to save their territory from the invading settlers. Their is so rich - all those wonderful .T: Well, I agree its interesting, but its not immediately relevant to your proposal, Sa

25、ndra, so at this stage, I suggest you focus on other considerations. I think an indication of what the on the could actually do when they get there should be far more so that certainly needs to be included and to be expanded upon. And Id like to see something about the , and vegetation too, not that

26、 I imagine theres much to see. Presumably the invasion hasnt helped.S: Okay, I II do some work on those two as well. But youre right, theres not much apart from some very shallow-rooted . Although its cold and snowy there in the , the is baked so hard in the sun that cant penetrate. so its a case of

27、 or , really.T: So, I understand. Now, before we look at everything in more , Ive got few factual for you. It would be a good idea to include the in your finished proposal, because theyre missing from your .S: Fine.T: so, you mentioned the monoliths and the spires, which was good, but what does the

28、tribal park cover? Do you know?S: hectares, and the plain is at about meters above sea level.T: Larger than I expected. Okay. Wheres the nearest ? Thats a practical that you havent included. Have you done any on that?S: Yes. Theres nowhere to stay in the park itself, but theres an old trading post c

29、alled Goulding quite near. AII kinds of start from Goulding, too.T: What kind of ?S: Well, the most popular are in four-wheel jeeps - but I wouldnt recommend hiring those. I think the best way to appreciate the wouldnt be to hire instead and trek around on those. Biking is not allowed and its imposs

30、ible to around the in private vehicles. The are too rough.T: Okay, lastly, what else is worth visiting there?S: There are several , but I havent looked into any . Ill find out about them.T: Okay, good. Now what Id like to know is . . .Section 4So, welcome to your introductory geography . Well begin

31、with some . Firstly what do we learn by studying geography?Well, we learn a great deal about all the processes that have affected and that continue to affect the earths . But we learn far more than that, because studying geography also informs us about the different kinds of that develop between a p

32、articular and the people that live there.Okay. We like to think of geography as having two . Theres the of the nature of our - its physical features, what it actually looks like - and then theres the of the ways in which we choose to live and of of those on our . Our current use of is a good example

33、 of that.But there are more specific study to consider too, and well be looking at each of these in turn throughout this . These include bio-physical geography, by which 1 mean the study of the and all its living things. Then theres topography- that looks at the shapes of the land and . Theres the s

34、tudy of political geography and geography too, of course, which is the of of people. We have geography - in which we examine all kinds of and their use - agriculture, for example. Next comes historical geography - the understanding of how people and their and the ways they interact have changed over

35、 a period of time -and geography, an aspect Im particularly interested in, which takes as its focus the of , the that those provide, and of people to and from such . And lastly, we have cartography. Thats the art and of . Youll be doing a lot of that!So, to summarize before we continue, we now have

36、our key answer . . . studying this subject is because without geographical , we would know very little about our surroundings and we wouldnt be able to all the that relate to them. so, by definition, we wouldnt be in an informed to work out how to solve any of them.Okay, now for some practicalities.

37、 What do geographers actually do? Well, we collect to begin with! Youll be doing a lot of that on your first ! How do we do this? There are several means. We might, for example, conduct a census - count a in a given perhaps. We also need of the earths which we can produce by means of computer-genera

38、tion or with the help of satellite relays. Weve come a very long way from the early of the by ships when geographers only had pens and paper at their disposal.After weve gathered our , we must analyse it! We need to look for , most commonly those of causes and consequences. This kind of helps us to predict and resolve that could affect the we live in.But we dont keep all this confidential. We then need to publish our findings so that other people can i