[恒星英语学习网] [00:00.00]喜欢Hxen.com,请把Hxen.com告诉你QQ上的5位好友,多谢支持!Section A [00:02.90]1.M:You should never strike up a conversation with a man on the street. [00:08.65]Don't you know how dangerous it is! [00:12.49]W: I usually don't [00:15.75]but I couldn't find the restaurant and he looked very respectable. [00:21.50]Q: Why was the man upset? [00:24.95]2.W:I heard there was a scene at the dinner last night. [00:30.41]M: You're right. [00:33.15]Nobody at the table could put up with Dr.Lawrence. [00:38.11]He proposed that life would be much better in this country [00:42.87]if we had a segregation policy. [00:46.92]Q: How did the other guests feel about Dr.Lawrence's suggestion? [00:52.45]3. W: Don't talk to the boss today. [00:56.89]He must have got out of bed on the wrong side. [01:01.34]M: No, his arthrites is probably bothering him. [01:06.87]It's awfully damp out. [01:10.11]Q: What is wrong with the boss according to the man? [01:14.55]4.Why don't you immigrate to Canada instead of coming here on short visits? [01:21.21]I would like to but I couldn't live if I were cut off from my family and friends. [01:27.75]Q: Where are the woman's family and friends? [01:31.79]5. M: I need to send in an accident report. [01:37.04]Tell me in you own words Mrs. Nanthy. [01:41.59]W:Well,I was driving along Jefferson Street. Between 19th and 20th Street. [01:48.43]I wasn't going fast at all. [01:51.99]I saw a car backing out of the drive way. [01:56.85]It was Mrs. Kathy who didn't stop at all. [02:01.89]She backed right into me. [02:05.83]Q: Where did the accident happen? [02:09.49]6. W: If we hurry we can take the express train and save an hour. [02:15.94]M: Yes.The express takes only two hours to get to Tokyo. [02:21.79]Q: How long does it take the local train to Tokyo? [02:27.33]7. M: Say Phi. [02:31.09]How about donating $ 15 or $ 20 to the scholarship fund? [02:37.05]W: I wish I could. But $ 10 is all I can spare. [02:42.48]Q: What did you learn about Phil and the scholarship fund? [02:47.52]8.M:If you want to make friends in this town [02:52.46]you ought to join the Theater Group. [02:56.40]W: But my English isn't good enough to act in a play. [03:01.16]Q:What does the woman mean? [03:04.50]9.M:Professor Smith wil give a lecture in Room 105 this evening [03:11.35]but I don't think all the students in our grade can go there. [03:16.78]Because it can only hold 60 persons. [03:21.14]W: Oh.Didn't you know? [03:24.70]They've doubled the size of the room by pulling down a wall. [03:29.95]Q: How many persons can the room hold now? [03:34.39]10. W:How will you spend your summer vacation? [03:39.25]M:At first I thought I'd go to Mount Lu for the vacation [03:44.81]but after a careful thought [03:48.15]I decided to stay at the school and find an odd job to earn some money. [03:54.11]Q: What is the man going to do during the vacation? [03:58.86]Section B Passage One [04:03.12]It was not yet eleven o'clock when a boat crossed the river with a single passenger [04:09.36]who had promised to pay an extra far. [04:14.12]While the youth stood on the landing place searching in his pockets for money [04:19.66]the boatman got close to him and with the help of the moonlight [04:25.20]took a careful look at the stranger---a young man of just 18 years [04:31.75]obviously country bred,and now,as it seemer [04:36.69]on his first visit to town. [04:40.42]He was wearing a rough gray coat [04:44.37]which was in good shap [04:47.71]The clothes under his coat were well made of leathee [04:52.65]and fitted tightly to a pair of fat legs [04:57.22]his blue cotton stockings must have been the work of his mother or sister [05:03.46]and on his head was a 3-cornered hat. [05:08.01]In his left hand was a walking stick [05:12.16]which hung on his strong shoulder [05:16.03]with 2 leather bags on both ends of the stick. [05:20.68]The youth,whose name was Robin, paid the boatman [05:25.93]and then walked forward into the town with light steps [05:30.97]as if he had not already traveled more than 30 miles that day. [05:37.42]As he walked alone he looked about his surroundings [05:43.09]as eagerly as if he were entering London or Madrid [05:48.53]in stead of the little town. [05:52.05]11. Why was the boarman willing to taken Robin across the river? [05:58.58]12. What time of the year did the story most probably take place? [06:05.04]13. At what time of the day did Robin cross the river? [06:10.60]14. What do we know from the context about Robin? [06:16.24]Passage Two [06:19.79]In the year 2000,the world is going to have a population of about 8 billion. [06:26.56]Most scientists agree that the most severe problem is food suppy. [06:33.01]Who is going to feed all those people? [06:37.45]Where is the food going to come from? [06:42.10]Are you going to have enough food? [06:46.36]Are we going to produce more artificial food? [06:51.22]One way of improving the situation is for people to eat less meat. Why? [06:58.56]Because it takes four kilo of grain protein to produce half a kilo of meat protein. [07:06.11]Clearly,there is not going to be sufficient meat protein for 8 billion people. [07:13.35]Therefore,it will also be necessary to change eating habits [07:19.01]because meat is the main part of many people's food today. [07:24.55]A possible solution to this latter problem is the soybea [07:30.90]The soybean plant produces beans which have a very high fat and protein content. [07:38.45]Scientists can now make these look and taste like real mea [07:44.80]They can also make many other artificial products such as soybean milk, [07:51.64]for example,which has a taste of milk and can be used in cooking [07:57.78]in very much the same ways as cow's milk. [08:03.21]In fact,one woman in the United States fed her family only on soybeans for a year. [08:10.97]She gave them soybean beef,soybean chicke, [08:16.22]soybean milk,and sometimes just soybean. [08:21.26]Possibly,we are all going to eat soybeans in the future [08:27.30]and finally give up meat completely from our tables. [08:32.37]15. What is the main subject of the passage? [08:38.11]16.Why will meat completely disappear in the future according to the passage? [08:45.35]17. What do we know about soybean meat? [08:50.29]Passage Three [08:53.34]If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good thing. [08:59.40]This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors [09:04.65]who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercises [09:10.61]---and as a result we are growing old unnecessarily soon. [09:16.96]Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out [09:20.90]why quite healthy farmers [09:25.55]in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think [09:30.80]and reason at a rather early age [09:35.76]and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down. [09:41.12]With a team of researchers at Tokyo National University [09:46.97]he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different jobs. [09:53.42]Computer technology helped the researchers to get most measurements of the volume [10:00.08]of the front and side parts of brain [10:04.73]which have something to do with intellect and feeling [10:09.78]and decide the human characte [10:14.03]As we all know, the back part of the brain [10:18.48]which controls tasks like eating and breathing [10:23.54]does not contract with age. [10:27.70]Contraction of the front and side parts [10:32.03]--as cells die off--was seen in some people in their thirties [10:38.09]but it was still not found in some sixty and seventy-year olds. [10:44.15]Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple way [10:49.90]to prevent the contraction--using the head.