听力原文:Father's Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington, in 1910. Mrs. Dodd first

第1题

听力原文：Father's Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington, in 1910. [32] Mrs. Dodd f

听力原文： Father's Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington, in 1910. [32] Mrs. Dodd first proposed the idea of a "father's day" in 1906. Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, who was widowed when his wife died in childbirth after their sixth child was born. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself. Mrs. Dodd wanted Father's Day to be celebrated on the first Sunday in June, her father's birthday. But it wasn't until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation, declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day. [33] In 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national ceremony of [34] Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June, coming almost sixty years after Mother's Day had been proclaimed a national holiday. Today, Father's Day has become a day to [35] not only honor your father, but all men who act as a father-like figure, such as stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, and adult males.

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A．William Smart.

B．Mrs. Dodd.

C．President Lyndon Johnson.

D．President Nixon.

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第2题

听力原文：M: Who came up with the idea of Father's Day？W: Her name was Sonora Louise Smart

听力原文：M: Who came up with the idea of Father's Day？

W: Her name was Sonora Louise Smart Dodd and she lived in Spokane, Washington. Sonora was the oldest of six children raised by their father, William Jackson Smart, when their mother died during childbirth. Sonora honored and revered her father, and while listening to a Mother's Day sermon, in 1899, she determined there should also be a day to honor fathers.

M: Why June？

W: In 1910 Sonora chose June 19th, as the day to celebrate Father's Day because that was her father's birthday. With support from the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA, the first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane on June 19,1910.

M: When did the United States begin celebrating Father's Day？

W: In 1910 Spokane, Washington celebrates Father's Day. In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. In 1926 National Father's Day Committee was formed in New York City. Then in 1956 Father's Day was recognized by Joint Resolution of Congress. In 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring that the third Sunday of June as Father's Day. In 1972 President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday in June.

M: Do other countries celebrate Father's Day？

W: Father's Day is celebrated in every part of the world. In the United States, Canada and most countries in Asia, Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. Apart from flowers, on the third Sunday in June each year, all the fathers are still given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.

M: What flowers are given to fathers as gift？

W: In both early times and these days, wearing flowers was a common way of celebrating Father's Day. Mrs. Dodd favored the red rose to honor a father still living, while a white flower honored a deceased dad.

Why Sonora Louise Smart Dodd wanted to celebrate Father's day？

A．Because she thought man and woman should be equal.

B．Because the president Washington asked her to do so.

C．Because she wanted to show respect to her father who brought up six children.

D．Because she could not celebrate Mother's day.

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第3题

听力原文：W: How many holidays do you have in the U.S.？M: Er, I'm not quite sure. I just kn

听力原文：W: How many holidays do you have in the U.S.？

M: Er, I'm not quite sure. I just know some.

W: For example？

M: Mmm..., Mother's Day, National Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Valentine's Day.

W: Not bad. When does its National Day come？ And the Valentine's Day？

M: The National Day comes on July 4th and the latter on February 14th.

W: Talking of the National Day, who is the Father of the state？ Benjamin Franklin or George Washington？

M: George Washington, of course.

W: Besides Washington, who else is regarded as a great president？

M: Abraham Lincoln, I'm one hundred per cent sure.

What were the two speakers talking about？

A．They were talking about the US holidays and so on.

B．They were talking about the US language and so on.

C．They were talking about the US presidents and so on.

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第4题

听力原文：Everyone has heard of the Braille system of reading for the blind. But few people

know why it is called the "Braille" system or who Louis Braille was. In the year 1812,Louis Braille was a very small boy. He lived in a small town in France. Louis' father had a small shop in which he made things of leather. One day Louis was playing in his father's shop and picked up a small tool with a very sharp point, Louis fell, the point of the tool entered his eye. And later he became blind in both eyes. One day, he said to his father," Blind people are the loneliest people in the world. I can tell one bird from another by its sound. I can know the door of the house by feeling it with my hand. But there are so many things which I can not hear and can not feel. Only books can free the blind. But there are no books for us to read."

Why is the reading system for the blind called the Braille？

A．Because it was invented by the person called Braille.

B．Because it was first used by the person called Braille.

C．It is unknown.

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第5题

听力原文：A six - year - old boy has been round alive spending four days and five nights in

听力原文： A six - year - old boy has been round alive spending four days and five nights in an icebox that was buried under tons of ruins in Thurs day' s big earthquake. The boy Tom was found early yesterday in the village of Sem as rescuers were working to pull his father out of the ruins of their home. Hearing a faint cry of "Get me out. Get me out', rescuers dug down another one point five meters and found the boy in the icebox. He was pronounced in a good condition, suffering only four or five slight wounds. Tom' s eight brothers and sisters died in the earth quake which officials say may have killed as many as 50,000 people. By Sunday foreign doctors were leaving the earthquake areas as hope faded out finding any more survivors.

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A．He lost consciousness.

B．He was slightly wounded.

C．He was seriously injured.

D．He was buried under an icebox.

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听力原文：Christmas is a day for family members to get together. People who live away try t

听力原文： Christmas is a day for family members to get together. People who live away try to get back home. The roads and railways are full of people traveling long distances in order to spend Christmas at home. Everyone wants to spend this day with their family. And above all, it's the children's holiday. They like to be happy at this day.

The children count the weeks, then the days to Christmas. They're wondering what presents they are going to have; they are very happy about this. They keep trying to find something out from their mother, but the only thing the mother will tell them is stories about Father Christmas, who brings presents to good children.

Christmas Eve comes at last. When the children go to bed they hang up their socks and on Christmas morning they wake to find them full of presents. Of course it's really their parents who fill the socks, but even the older children often pretend not to know this.

Everybody likes to be happy at Christmas time. The theatre puts on special shows for children. The circle is another thing that parents may take their children to see. Here, the audiences sit in a circle and the performance takes place in the center. The main attraction is the performing animals. Elephants, lions and tigers are trained to do astonishing tricks. Every circle has many funny persons who make people laugh.

Where do people want to spend Christmas？

A．In the park.

B．At home.

C．In a store.

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听力原文：In this century the traditional American family is constantly faced with the thre

听力原文： In this century the traditional American family is constantly faced with the threat of breakdown. Some sociologists suggest that one little-noticed cause may be the introduction of the TV dinner.

Before the appearance of television sets, the American dinner was a big event for the family, for in many homes dinner time may he the only time when everyone got together. A typical dinner was usually in three stages. In the preparation stage, the children and father frequently helped with table setting while mother put the last touches on the roast. In the eating stage, family members shared the day's experiences and mere food was consumed. In this stage families got to know one another and made joint decisions around the dinner table, and thus the family solidarity was reinforced. In the cleaning-up stage, children or father again gave their hands, so that the significance to the home community was clear. Unfortunately, all of these have been erased by a product—the television set.

By the beginning of the 1980s, the typical American family dinner is just twenty minutes long. The speed-up of this once leisurely experience is clearly connected to the overall pace of modem life and maybe a model of the modern life is the TV dinners—meals designed to be consumed between the opening and closing credits of a half-hour program. The once family affair has now become nothing more than the use of a fork and knife.

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A．The problem of poverty.

B．The problem of having few children.

C．The problem of poor living conditions.

D．The problem of divorce.

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第8题

听力原文：My father was 44 and knew he wasn't going to make it to 45. He wrote me a letter

听力原文： My father was 44 and knew he wasn't going to make it to 45. He wrote me a letter and hoped that something in it would help me for the rest of my life.

Since the day I was 12 and first read his letter, some of his words have lived in my heart. One part always stands out. "Right now, you are pretending to be a time-killer. But I know that one day, you will do something great." Knowing that my dad believed in me gave me permission to believe in myself: "You will do something great." He didn't know what that would be, and neither did I, but at times in my life when I've felt proud of myself, I remember his words and wish he were here so I could ask, "Is this what you were talking about, Dad？ Should I keep going？"

A long way from 12 now, I realize my father would have been proud when I made any progress. Lately, though, I've come to believe he'd want me to move on to what comes next: to be proud of, and believe in, someone else. It's time to start writing my own letters to my children. Our children look to us with the same unanswered question we had. Our kids don't hold back because they're afraid to fail — they're only afraid of failing us. They do not worry about being disappointed. Their fear — as mine was until my father's letter — is of being a disappointment.

Give your child permission to succeed. If you don't have children, then write a letter to someone who looks up to you. You know who they are. They're writing for you to believe in them. I always knew my parents loved me. But trust me: That belief will be more complete, that love will be more real, and their belief in themselves will be greater if you write the words on their hearts: "Don't worry; you'll do something great." Not having that blessing from their parents may be the only thing holding them back.

Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. What happened to the speaker as mentioned in the passage？

27. According to the speaker, what are children afraid of？

28. What do we know about the speaker from the passage？

29. What is the main purpose of the passage？

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A．He lost his father when he was young.

B．He worked hard before he read his father's letter.

C．He asked his father's permission to believe in himself.

D．He knew what his father wanted to do from the very beginning.

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第9题

听力原文：What happened to me that day is just unbelievable. The first thing to go wrong wa

听力原文： What happened to me that day is just unbelievable. The first thing to go wrong was that all the parking spaces were taken. So I had to park on the grass, and hoped that I would not get a parking ticket. When I got to the ad- mission office, there was already a long line of students waiting. By the time it was my turn. two of the courses I needed were filled, and I had to go back to my adviser and make out a whole new timetable. Although I did sign up for all my courses, I missed the lunch. The next thing to go wrong was that the bookstore had sold out one of the textbooks required. As I was leaving, I wondered what else could possibly happen, and then there I saw a policeman standing beside my car and writing out a ticket.

Who is the speaker？

A．A student.

B．A teacher.

C．An officer clerk.

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第10题

听力原文：M: My father can do cooling carpentry, and a bit of gardening. W: He's a Jack of

听力原文：M: My father can do cooling carpentry, and a bit of gardening.

W: He's a Jack of all trades, really.

Q: What does the woman mean？

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A．The man's father works for Jack.

B．The man's father has talent in trade.

C．The man's father has many different skills.

D．The man's father does many jobs at the same time.

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听力原文：Father's Day was first observed in Spokane, Washington, in 1910. Mrs. Dodd first