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听力原文:I grew up in a small town. My father raised chickens and ran a construction compa

听力原文: I grew up in a small town. My father raised chickens and ran a construction company. When I was 10 years old, my dad gave me the responsibility of feeding chickens and cleaning up the stable. He believed it was important to me to learn responsibility and moods from those jobs.

When I was 22, I found a job in New York at a country music club. I washed dishes and cooked from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.and then went on stage and sang until 2:00 in the morning. I soon became known as a singing cook.I had been refused so many times by record companies that it was easy to be discouraged.

One night, a woman executive from a company named Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing. When the show was over, we sat down and talked. Several weeks later, my manager received a phone call--Warner Brothers wanted to sign me to a record deal. I released my first record in July, 1987. It was sold over 2 million copies.

My best efforts had gone into every job I ever held. It was the sense of responsibility that made me feel like a man. Knowing that I had done my best filled me with pride. I still feel that way today, even though I have become a well-known singer.

32. When did the speaker begin to learn responsibility?

33.Who first recognized his gifts as a singer?

34.Where did the speaker work before he became a professional singer?

35.What made the speaker feel proud of himself?

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A.At the age of 10.

B.At the age of 22.

C.When he was known as a singing cook.

D.After he found a job in New York.

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第1题
听力原文:W: Since you don't want to spend the vacation here, you can take a trip elsewhere
, like...urn... Hawaii.

M: A good idea! But going to Hawaii is just like staying at home, since I grew up there. Maybe, I need to seek me advice from the professionals. Anyway, thank you. for your suggestion.

Q: What will the man probably do?

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A.Stay at home.

B.Go to travel agencies for more information.

C.Go to Hawaii for a travel.

D.Turn to other friends for a better idea.

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第2题
听力原文:I grew up in Scotland. And that was where I first became interested in mu- sic. I

听力原文: I grew up in Scotland. And that was where I first became interested in mu- sic. I've never been outside the country before I joined a rock group. Scot- land has no music industry as such. Everything in terms of the industry goes through London, which makes it quite difficult for Scottish artists to really attract any national attention in the United Kingdom. I think Scottish artists work just by themselves a lot of the time. Edinburgh is a very artistic city. It's sort of known as the artistic center of Scotland and also has quite any effect on the UK scene because it has an arts exhibition every summer and a film week every year. There are a lot of chances at that time for us to attract a huge following. There have always been a lot of popular music groups. The Scots are very friendly and really love to get together. Playing in the bars and cafes is a very common way of reaching the fans. They all sing a- long. There are a lot of great things coming out of Scotland now which is very exciting. It goes in waves. It's becoming quite common for the record companies to come north. And at the moment, I think Scotland is enjoying a sort of rebirth in a sense. With the huge success of Scottish artists over the last ten years, twenty years, they have to rethink. There's just a lot of new development and much more variety now than there was when I was fifteen.

What does the speaker mainly tell us about?

A.Music in Scotland.

B.Art events in the UK.

C.Music industry in London.

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第3题
听力原文:M: Are you close to your parents?W: Yeah, we're close. My father and I have alway

听力原文:M: Are you close to your parents?

W: Yeah, we're close. My father and I have always been close. Sometimes my mom and I don't really see eye to eye. What about you?

M: Well, I think my parents definitely don't understand me. My mother always says I'm perfect while my father often criticizes me for doing things wrong.

W: That's interesting. Do you think that's just a generational thing?

M: Well, I don't know. My parents grew up in the 60's. But they didn't seem to know much about their times.

W: So they were kept away from all the big social activities?

M: Yeah. They grew up in a small town and neither of them knew anything about politics, even though my father's father was a local judge and lawyer.

W: My parents grew up in the 60's too, but my dad taught physics at the university and my mom ran a small bookstore in town. I guess they were the kind of people who were open to current events.

M: I'm jealous. Sometimes I feel a lot more educated than my parents, which is fine, but also uncomfortable at times.

W: I can imagine.

M: They just don't understand some things. They haven't experienced life in the same way I have.

W: You mean the traveling you've done?

M: Yeah. My dad thinks I ran away from home because I hated him or something ridiculous like that. I just wanted to see the world.

W: I told my dad once that I'd find a way to study in America and then live there forever.

M: My dad always tells me that I'd be really homesick if I studied at a European university.

W: And then you have to remind him that Europe is only 10 hours away by plane.

(20)

A.Different family backgrounds.

B.The generation gap.

C.Traveling and studying overseas.

D.Different interests and hobbies.

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第4题
听力原文:I grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my be

听力原文: I grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves; most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping perspectives by creating worlds we could step into, take part in and live in.

With this unshakable belief, I, at fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became useful. Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say, but being unable to find the right ways to say it. He has to find his own voice by reading widely and discovering which parts of the writers he agrees or disagrees with, or agrees with so strongly that it reshapes his own world. He cannot write without loving to read, because only through reading other people's writing can one discover what works, what doesn't and, in the end, together with lots of practice, what voice he has.

Now I am in college, and have come to realize how important it is to read fiction. As a law student, my reading is in fact limited to subject matter — the volume of what I have to read for classes every week means there is little time to read anything else. Such reading made it all the clearer to me that I live in a very small part in this great place called life. Reading fiction reminds me that there is life beyond my own. It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the comfort of my own armchair, to experience, though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldn't necessarily be able to have in my lifetime.

Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

33. What can we learn about the speaker as a child?

34. What effect does reading fiction have on the speaker?

35. Which can be the best title for this passage?

(30)

A.He never watched TV.

B.He read what he had to.

C.He found reading unbelievable.

D.He considered reading part of his life.

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第5题
听力原文:There are so many things going on in our modern lives, and change happens so quic

听力原文: There are so many things going on in our modern lives, and change happens so quickly. It is hard to imagine a time when things were slower and you could really see a new thing come into your life and to remember the day or the year when those things happened. I know that today, for example, there, are many instances of second and third generations of things, such as televisions or radios, when some of us were not even aware that there was a first generation.

A friend of mine was born at the end of the last century, and talking to her, I really got a sense of her being a living history book, of being able to talk about the changes in her own life and to know that these changes were really the changes that society was going through.

She gets really excited, for example, when she talks about the first time she ever saw a camera, and even more excited when she saw herself in the picture that the photographer took. She lived in a small town, and at the time that she was very young, there were no cars or trains in her town at all. As she grew up, cars and trains came in, and she remembers her first ride with a real sense of amazement that any one count move so fast.

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A.It's amazing that anyone could move so fast.

B.Televisions mark the beginning of modem life.

C.Modern life is changing very fast.

D.It's hard to remember the past.

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第6题
听力原文:I was married for almost six years. Jody and I were classmates at high school and

听力原文: I was married for almost six years. Jody and I were classmates at high school and were attracted to each other from the time we first met at the age of 12 or 13. We always hung out together and started dating seriously when we were only 15.

Everyone predicted that we'd break up one day. We were determined to prove them wrong and were engaged when we were 19. The evening I proposed was like something from a romantic novel. I chose my moment and asked the magic question: "Jody, darling, will you marry me?" Her answer was a few tears of happiness.

A year later, we had a typical, big wedding ceremony and Jody really did look the perfect bride in her white gown. We had a great time at Lake Taho for our honeymoon and came back and settled down to married life. Jessica, our daughter, was born, according to plan, two years after we were married and that was when our problems began.

We were both delighted to be parents, but somehow we just grew further and further apart from each other. Eventually, after four years, we separated and then, divorced. I still see Jessica regularly. I'm really sad about our divorce, but I guess everyone was right: we were too young when we started going out together and, the truth is, we were never really compatible.

(26)

A.10 or 11.

B.14 or 15.

C.12 or 13.

D.19.

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听力原文:Today I'm going to discuss transportation and communication in the early 19th cen

听力原文: Today I'm going to discuss transportation and communication in the early 19th century in the United States. At that time, inland waterways provided North America's most popular form. of long distance transportation. Travel by river was often more convenient than taking a wagon over primitive country roads, especially when shipping heavy loads of farm products or household goods, Where the natural water ways were inadequate, shallow canals were built. The Erie Canal, opened in 1825, connected the Great Lakes with the upper Hudson River. It allowed settlers in the Great Lakes region to send their crops eastward to New York City at the mouth of the Hudson at a much lower cost. From there, crops could be shipped to other Atlantic ports. The construction of the Erie Canal also encouraged westward migration along inland waterways and helped populate the frontier. The City of Detroit grew up between two of the Great Lakes. Later a canal joined the Great Lakes with the Mississippi river system and Chicago became a thriving city. Politically the waterway system united the nation in a way few had imagined possible. By the mid-1800's faster and cheaper railroads became more popular and the canal system de dined. Railroads could be used year round whereas canals were often frozen in the winter. During the first third of the century, however, transportation on rivers, lakes and canals aided greatly in the growth of the United States. Next week we'll discuss the railroads in greater detail.

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A.The role of inland waterways in the nation's growth.

B.The development of New York City as a seaport.

C.The growth of the railroads.

D.The disappearance of the canal system.

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第8题
听力原文:W: Good Morning, Dr. Sherman Alexie. Let's talk about your life. Where do you com
e from?

M: I come from the Raze, an Indian reservation. I grew up there, lived there until 18. I lived on and off the reservation for the next 6 or 7 years during college. I lived there after I graduated and worked at a high school exchange program. I thought I would do that kind of job to support my writing, day jobs that require no emotional investment beyond 8 hours a day where I would not need to bring work home. I did not want to be part of management or anybody important on the job. I wanted to be completely replaceable. That is what I thought I would be doing for most of my life and writing. Then I got a grant and my first book got a front-page review in the New York Times Book Review.

W: When did writing enter your life?

M: Books have always been in my life. My dad loved books and most of what he read were westerns, spy novels, and mysteries. I grew up loving books, copying my dad's love for books. But nobody had showed me a book written by an Indian, not even one piece of a poem. Nothing. At that time, I was going to be a physician. I loved math and science. I got to college, could not handle physiology, and was looking around for options and took a poetry writing class for fun.

W: Poetry was your way in?

M: Yes, that's where I got started. I took the class and honestly I thought poetry would be an easy grade. But I completely underestimated poetry and what it would do to me and a realm of possibility for it. I took the class and was hooked about ten minutes after reading my first contemporary poem.

Why did Sherman Alexie only take day jobs?

A.He could bring unfinished work home.

B.He might have time to pursue his interests.

C.He might do some evening teaching.

D.He could invest more emotion in his family.

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第9题
听力原文: He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15,1929. He was black. He lived only
thirty-nine years, but he became world-famous in that short time. He grew up in the southeastern part of the United States. He studied at Morehouse College where he met many outstanding men whose ideas he found important and exciting. There he read the writings of Thoreau, which gave him many ideas about freedom. After he graduated from Morehouse, he went on to study at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Boston University. At Boston University, he met his wife, Coretta. In 1954, after he got his PhD degree, he became the minister of a small church in the South. There he became the leader of the black people, who were poor and without power. He gave speeches and led marches. For his ideas and actions, he went to prison for a short time. Many years later, in Washington DC, he spoke to a crowd of 250 000 people, He told them, "I have a dream" That speech is still famous. In 1964,he won the Nobel Peace Prize. His work was not finished when he died, on April 4,1968. Who was he? He was Dr Martin Luther King.

When was he born?

A.On January 15,1929.

B.On January 15,1920.

C.On June 15,1929.

D.On July 15,1920.

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第10题
听力原文:M: I've got to stop eating so much. This new coat is already getting too tight fo
r me.

W: Oh, no! I should have said something earlier. A man just left the restaurant wearing a coat down to his ankles.

Q: What does the woman imply?

(16)

A.The new coat was bought for his uncle.

B.He suddenly grew very fat.

C.His coat was taken away by mistake.

D.They shouldn't have come to this restaurant.

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