Part B
Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.
听力原文:M: Excuse me. Have you been waiting long?
W: About ten minutes.
M: Did you notice whether No. 7 bus has gone by?
W: Not while I've been standing here. I'm waiting for the number seven myself.
M: Good. Hot today, isn't it?
W: Yes, it is. I wish that it would rain and cool off.
M: Me, too. This is unusual for March. I don't remember it ever being so hot and dry in March before.
W: You're from Florida then.
M: Not really. I was horn in New York, but I've lived here for ten years now.
W: My mother and I have just moved here from Indiana.
M: Pretty cold in Indiana, isn't it?
W: Yes. That's why we moved. But we didn't know that it would be so hot here. We should have gone to California. Do you think that we've missed the bus?
M: No, it's always a little late.
W: I have twenty to one, but my watch is a little fast.
M: Don't worry. It never comes exactly on the half-hour like it should.
According to the conversation, what kind of weather is usual for March?
A. Cold.
B. Very hot.
Cooler than on the day of this conversation.
Drier than on the day of this conversation.
Part A
Directions: You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct answer ― A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each dialogue ONLY ONCE.
听力原文:M: I agreed with your plan at the meeting this morning: It was an excellent one.
W: You should have supported it then--when I needed it.
What does the woman mean?
A. She lost her face during the meeting.
B. She agreed that it was an excellent meeting.
C. The plan should be put forward.
D. He would have supported the plan this morning.
听力原文: Years ago before there were refrigerators, an icehouse was a building used for storing ice. The first icehouses were in the cellars of farmhouses. Pieces of ice, mixed with snow and meadow grass, were piled in winter and kept until the following summer. Soon farmers began to build separate houses for storing ice. These icehouses had double walls with hay stuffed between to keep out any heat. Blocks of ice were put inside the icehouse and packed with straw or sawdust.
Where did the ice for these icehouses come from? Workers took it from a frozen pond or river. They sawed the ice into even blocks. Then they pulled the ice blocks from the water with hooks and carried them to the icehouses on sleds. Special tools helped the workers cut and handle the ice. Ice axes chopped large holes !n the ice. Ice saws cut the ice into even blocks. Choppers loosened these blocks from one another. Ice hooks fastened themselves into the large blocks. Then they could be carried over the frozen surface of the pond or river. Tongs were used to pick up the smaller blocks of ice. Ships carded ice all over the world. In 1799 the first boatload in the United States was sent from New York City to icehouses in New Orleans, Louisiana. A boatload was sent from Boston, Massachusetts, to the West Indies to help fight yellow fever in 1805. Ice merchants in Boston also shipped tons of ice from ponds and rivers to cities in Europe.
(30)
A. Separate houses were built for storing ice.
B. Double walls were built in icehouses to keep cool.
C. Blocks of ice were packed with weed in icehouses.
D. Ice was put into icehouses in winter.
听力原文:W: Hi, Peter. I was surprised to see you in the class in Children's Literature yesterday. Are you also majoring in elementary education?
M: No, I'm not. But as a psychology major, I can use this to fulfill the requirement in developmental psychology.
Q: What do you learn from the conversation?
(14)
A. The two speakers are classmates.
B. The man is majoring in elementary education.
C. The woman is majoring hi elementary education.
D. The two speakers got to know each other in a class.