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1996年英语专业八级考试听力MP3
1996年英语专业八级考试听力MP3
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS （1996） GRADE EIGHT
PAPER ONE
PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION （40 MIN）
In sections A , B and C, you will hear everythingONCE ONLY, listen carefully and then answer thequestions that follow. Mark the correct response foreach question on your Colored Answer Sheet.
SECTION A TALK
Questions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. Atthe end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds toanswer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the talk.
1. The speaker thinks that .
A. car causes pollution only in some cities
B.60% of the cities are affected by car pollution
C.90% of the city residents suffer from car pollution
D. car is the main contributing factor in polluting air
2. Which of the following is not mentioned as a cause of car pollution?
A. Car tyres. B. Car engines. C. Car horns. D. Car brakes.
3. Which of the following is not cited as a means to reduce the number of cars?
A. To pass laws to control the use of cars.
B. To improve public transport systems.
C. To increase car tax and car price.
D. To construct effective subway systems.
4. One of the mechanical solutions to car pollution is .
A. to change the mechanical structure of fuel
B. to improve on the exhaust pipe
C. to experiment with new engines
D. to monitor the amount of chemicals
5. According to the speaker. a sensible way to solve car pollution is that we should
A. focus on one method only
B. explore some other alternatives
C. improve one of the four methods
D. integrate all of the four methods
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SECTION B INTERVIEW
Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview with an architect. At the end of the interviewyou will be given 13 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to theinterview.
6. The interviewee's first job was with .
A. a newspaper B. the government
C a construction firm D. a private company
7. The interviewee is not self-employed mainly because .
A. his wife likes him to work for a firm
B. he prefers working for the government
C. self-employed work is very demanding
D. self-employed work is sometimes insecure
8. To study architecture in a university one must .
A. be interested in arts B. study pure science first
C. get good exam results D. be good at drawing
9. On the subject of drawing, the interviewee says that .
A. technically speaking artists draw very well
B. an artist's drawing differs little from an architect's
C. precision is a vital skill for the architect
D. architects must be natural artists
10. The interviewee says that the job of an architect is ________.
A. more theoretical than practical
B. to produce sturdy, well-designed buildings
C. more practical than theoretical
D. to produce attractive, interesting buildings
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Questions 11 to 12 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will begiven 30 seconds to answer the two questions. Now listen to the news.
11. The man was convicted for .
A. dishonesty B. manslaughter C. murder D. having a gun
12. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Mark Eastwood had a license for a revolver.
B. Mark Eastwood loved to go to noisy parties.
C. Mark Eastwood smashed the windows of a house.
D. Mark Eastwood had a record.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will begiven 45 seconds to answer the three questions. Now listen to the news.
13. How many missing American servicemen have been positively confirmed dead in
Vietnam so far?
A.67. B.280. C.84. D.1,648.
14. According to the search operation commander, the recovery of the missing
Americans is slowed down because .
A. the weather conditions are unfavorable
B. the necessary documents are unavailable
C. the sites are inaccessible
D. some local people are greedy
15. According to the news, Vietnam may be willing to help American mainly because of .
A. its changed policy towards America
B. recent international pressure
C. its desire to have the US trade embargo lifted
D. the impending visit by a senior US military officer
SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture, take noteson the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-lecture. Use the blank paperfor note-taking. Fill in each of the gaps with one word. You may refer to your notes. Make surethe word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.
LAND USE
A problem related to the competition for land use is whether crops should be used toproduce food or fuel.
（1）______ areas will be examined in this respect. Firstly, the problemshould be viewed in its
（2）______ perspective. When oil prices rose sharply in the 1970s,countries had to look for alternatives to solve the resulting crisis.
In developing countries, one of the possible answers to it is to produce alcohol from （3）_____ material. This has led to a lot of research in this area particularly in the use of （4）______. The use of this material resulted from two economic reasons:
a （5）______ in its priceand low （6）_____ costs.
There are other starchy plants that can be used to produce alcohol, like the sweet （7）_____or the cassava plant in tropical regions, and （8）______ and sugar beet in non-tropicalregions. The problem with these plants is that they are also the people's staple food in manypoor countries.
Therefore, farmers there are faced with a choice:
crops for food or for fuel. And farmersnaturally go for what is more （9）______. As a result, the problems involved are economic innature, rather than technological. This is my second area under consideration. Finally, therehave already been practical applications of using alcohol for fuel. Basically, they come in twoforms of use:
pure alcohol as is the case in （10）______, and a combination of alcohol andgasoline known as gasohol in Germany.
（1）______
（2）______（3）______（4）______（5）______
（6）______（7）______（8）______（9）______（10）______
听力原文
SECTION A TALK
OK, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. In theprevious week we talked about different types ofpollution, and this week I want to focus on airpollution, air pollution caused by the car. It's wellknown that cars are the main cause of air pollutionin a city. This can mean up to 50% of some diseasesor even higher than 90% of all air pollution are caused by the car. Obviously cars contributea great deal to the air pollution in our cities, and this will get worse as the number of carsincreases in the cities.
Firstly, I would like to talk about how cars cause air pollution. How does the car cause airpollution?
Well, you are all familiar with internal combustion engine, there is a mixture ofpetrol which explodes, and the explosion that propels the car forward. Unfortunately, in thisprocess there are some poisonous chemicals made, and these poisonous chemicals mainlycome out of the back of the car through the exhaust.
Now it's not just what comes out of the car exhaust that is dangerous, the brakes also causepollution. The brakes in some cars give off asphaltum, and you know asphaltum is, is highlydangerous substance, and can kill us. And thirdly, the tyres themselves give off small rubberparticle which is not very good for health.
We need to find solutions to this problem. I'm going to talk about four possible solutions.Firstly, we could try and discourage the use of cars. We could do this by putting higher taxeson petrol, or we could make cars more expensive, we could put prices of cars up.
Secondly, we might encourage alternative methods of transport. For example, recently inShanghai, a new built supra-underground will take some of the pressure off the roads. Somepeople will use the underground rather than use cars.
In addition we could improve public transport, make it more comfortable, safer, more regularso that people will use the public transport rather than the car. Next, we could also use cleanerfuel rather than petrol. For example, we might use natural gas in the future or we mightexperiment battery cars.
And lastly, we could try mechanical means for reducing the amount of chemicals that areemitted, which comes out of the cars' the exhaust pipe. We could fix things called "absoluteconverters" for exhaust pipe. It's something, it's a device which is seated over the exhaust,which controls the carbon amount of minor primer, which reduces the amount of dangerouschemical that cars give off. Now, it's unlikely that any one of these solutions will work on itsown. I'm pretty sure that it will take a combination of all four of these solutions to solve thisproblem.
SECTION B INTERVIEW
Interviewer:
So, you are an architect?
Interviewee:
Yes.
Interviewer:
Do you work for a public or private organization, or are you self-employed, that is,working on your own?
Interviewee:
I'm working for a private design and construction company.
Interviewer:
How did you start your career?
Interviewee:
I started it with the government.
Interviewer:
Oh, did you?
What made you decide to work for the government?
Interviewee:
Well, it was a matter of chance really. I saw an advertisement for a vacant positionin a newspaper, and I thought "Why don't you try it?
" In fact, I have no preferences to where Iwork, public or private.
Interviewer; And do you still have this idea, or ...
Interviewee:
More or less. Yes. Although I'm now working for a private firm. I worked for thegovernment for about three years. It was all right. Of course, there is the bureaucracy onehas to put up with, but that's not that bad, if you don't mind bureaucratic wheels turningslowly, and things not being as efficient.
Interviewer:
Ah-ah. And what made you leave the public sector?
Interviewee:
Money mainly. You see, I got married, and my wife doesn't work, and we wanted tostart a fam
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