第1题
听力原文:M: Hello. This is Greg Rice reporting live in Barrow, Alaska.
W: Hello, Greg. Is everything going smoothly?
M: Yes. I've just arrived here in Barrow, Alaska, to bring you live coverage of what appears to be the results of a huge meteorite impact, perhaps the largest in recent history, that occurred just twelve hours ago. The exact location of the impact is unknown, but estimates put it about 20 kilometers south of Barrow based on shock waves felt throughout the region.
W: Are there any witnesses?
M: Yeah. Some witnesses say they saw a bright light streaking through the sky, accompanied by a roaring boom, moments before the impact. It's unknown whether there are any casualties, but it is unlikely considering this sparsely populated area.
W: It's said that such impacts were commonplace during the formation of our solar system, and many believe that a meteorite 10 kilometers in diameter which crashed into Earth 65 million years ago led to the mass extinction of many animal species including the dinosaurs.
M: You're right. But it is often difficult to calculate the number of such large impacts on Earth because erosion and vegetation make it difficult to spot them. In recent years, astronomers have focused more of their attention on the paths of many uncharted space rocks or asteroids floating out there in the hope that we might be able to determine the threat they pose on mankind...This is Greg Rice reporting from Alaska.
W: Thanks, Greg...We'll keep you up-to-date on any development there.
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A.An alien spacecraft landing.
B.The impact of a meteorite.
C.A volcanic eruption.
D.The blizzard conditions in Alaska.
第2题
听力原文:Interviewer: So, do you have a favourite movie?
Director: Oh ... that's difficult. Well ... I think it has to be The Agents, the Mel Rivers movie. I like it because it reminds you that no matter how hard life is, or how many times you get knocked down by bad situations, things can get a whole lot worse.
Interviewer: When did you first see it?
Director: On television, late one night... I must have been about 16. There were moments when I just couldn't stop laughing. It's anarchic and silly, but it's very warm. I love the friendship that develops between the two main characters.
You hear part of an interview in which a film director talks about his favourite movie.
Why does he like the film?
A.It is very funny.
B.It is very exciting.
C.It is very romantic.
第3题
What is the talk mainly about?
A.Overland transportation in the nineteenth century.
B.Historical aspects of mail delivery.
C.Vehicles currently in use by the postal service.
D.The invention of railroad.
第4题
M: Well, It's developed by being all of those things that you mentioned really. People are looking for pictures that will record their families and their homes and so the photographic technology has got closer and closer to the home—more and more informal. So if you look at the early pictures in people's albums—those taken when grandmother was a girl—in everybody's albums you'll find these very stiff, posed portraits, some of them studio portraits, and then you look at contemporary pictures today, you know, you find the family at play, you find snapshots which show children laughing, you find the holiday pictures, so it's changed over the years, become more relaxed, less of an ordeal.
W: Gerald, is there a conflict, as there is in other artistic areas, between the low art of the domestic photographer and the high art of the professional?
M: No, there's no conflict. I, as a professional photographer, don't take any family snaps because my children would never pose for me as a photographer at all. And if it hadn't been for my wife with her instamatic camera taking pictures, I wouldn't have any record at all of their younger years. I detect a sort of use now more by women using very easy-to-use, throw-away cameras almost, and certainly in my family it seems to be the women who are taking the pictures rather than the men.
W: As you say, all the photographic companies, all the Kodak ads are directed at women. You know the kind of thing, even a woman can do this very simple photography. Taking pictures couldn't be easier these days. What about these ones then that you've got here? You've actually brought pictures that your wife has taken.
M: Yes, these are not great photographs, but they are very important memories for me and they will be for my children—though they won't thank my wife for taking some of these poses. But it's interesting what you can do. The page here is a series of little cut-outs that my wife took. There are maybe twenty pictures here and they haven't all got great backgrounds. I mean, you were asking the difference between amateur and professional photography. Professional photography will have good backgrounds. Ruth would just go round and take pictures because they were good little fun moments and what she's done is cut out the best bits of it. She's got rid of, you know, the annoying chair in the background or whatever and just made one picture out of twenty bits of picture.
W: But they're all lovely, smiling, oh, not that you haven't got lovely, smiling children, but does the camera in a way tell us lies about ourselves?
M: You're right. People do play up to the camera and this is the greatest problem. Among this lot here, there aren't any pictures of children looking bad tempered. We do react to the camera. As soon as the camera comes out you sort of go into a pose, if you like. Probably that's their weakness really as family snaps.
W: Or is it weakness? Isn't that just what they are? I mean...
M: There's something missing. There's something missing from the family album. That is, anger, bad temper, you know the foul days, the sulks.
W: Thank you very much.
Questions:
11.According to the interview, what is the big difference between pictures of old days and contemporary pictures?
12.What is the subject Gerald never photographs?
13.According to the interview, what do photographic companies want people to think about taking photos?
14.According to the interview, which of the following statements is NOT true about pictures taken by amateur photographers?
15.What does the interviewee mean by sug
A.Contemporary pictures focus more on domestic issues.
B.These days, having one's photograph taken is more informal.
C.In the old days, people only took pictures of their grandmothers.
D.The photographic technology is more advanced nowadays.
第5题
听力原文:M: Were those books ordered by Ellinwood or Renter?
W: Hardin ordered them.
Q: By whom Were the books ordered?
(16)
A.Ellinwood.
B.Reuter.
C.Hardin.
D.The woman.
第6题
Out of 300 papers checked for fakes, ______.
A.255 were originals
B.45 were originals
C.85% were fakes
D.155 were originals
第7题
听力原文:W: Those packages took forever to arrive.
M: But they did arrive, didn't they?
Q: What does the man say about the packages?
(19)
A.They were never sent.
B.They eventually arrived.
C.They were taken away.
D.They went to the wrong address.
第8题
"The peace process is not necessary. We ought to save the lives of the people. That's what are needed to do." But the biggest supporter of peace for Northern Ireland, says now is the time to send a message to the terrorists(恐怖分子)behind the attack.
Tony Blair: "That these people will not win; that they will not destroy the process that we have built up; that they will not succeed in returning Northern Ireland to the past. There is a future for Northern Ireland. We have to carry on, trying to give people and the children of Northern Ireland the future they need and they deserve."
The bombing ______.
A.was the worst single attack in twenty years of conflict in Northern Ireland
B.was captured by a special reporter
C.is threatening to hold back the peace process
D.will destroy the peace process, according to Tony Blair's view
第9题
His telescope andhisexperiments were always bringing him new surprises,andhe made notes of his work every day.
第10题
听力原文:M: What terrible heat we are having now!
W: July and August were bad enough, and I don't think the heat will be relieved before October.
Q: Which month is it now?
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A.July.
B.August.
C.September.
D.October.