专项技能训练（14）

第一部分：听力（共两节）
第一节（共 5 小题）
请听下面 5 段对话，选出最佳选项。
1. What color sweater was the girl wearing?
A. Red. B. White. C. Yellow.
2. What kind of contest did the woman take part in?
A. Photography. B. Writing. C. Singing.
3. When does the bakery close?
A. At 6:55. B. At 7:00. C. At 7:30.
4. What will the man have to do?
A. Do his homework again. B. Take another exam.
C. Go to the teacher’s office.
5. What does the woman think of the man’s new digital television system?
A. Surprising. B. Useful. C. Unnecessary.
第二节（共 15 小题）
请听下面 5 段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。
请听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。
6. What did the man’s grandmother do in 1946?
A. She worked at an ice cream factory.
B. She left Italy with her parents.
C. She made a Hollywood movie.
7. Why did the photographer want to take pictures of the man’s grandmother?
A. To help her become a film star.
B. To use the pictures for his window display.
C. To show he was good at taking pictures.
请听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。
8. What does the man take to school?
A. His gym clothes. B. His mobile phone. C. His PC.
9. Where does the man have lunch?
A. In a coffee shop. B. In a cafeteria. C. In his classroom.
10. How long does the man stay at school every day?
A. 5 to 6 hours. B. 6 to 7 hours. C. 7 to 8 hours.
请听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。
11. Who posted the radio back to the woman?
A. The woman’s niece. B. The woman’s sister. C. The woman’s daughter.
12. What’s wrong with the radio?
A. It cannot turn on.
B. It makes noise when turning on.
C. It picks up short wave programs only.
13. What does the man think caused the problem?
A. He has no idea now.
B. The radio may have fallen on the ground.
C. The radio may have been left out in the rain.

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请听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。
14. What are the two speakers doing?
A. Trying on clothes. B. Selling new buttons. C. Buying old clothes.
15. How much does the jacket cost?
A. Five dollars. B. Fifteen dollars. C. Fifty dollars.
16. What do we know about the jacket?
A. Some buttons are missing. B. It is made of wool.
C. It needs to be cleaned.
17. What is the woman interested in?
A. A coat. B. A skirt. C. A jacket.
请听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。
18. What happened in the Ivory Coast and Ghana over the past ten years?
A. Cocoa production was greatly reduced.
B. Heavy rains damaged the cocoa plants.
C. Farmers found a way to stop a new plant disease.
19. What is the easiest way to provide farmers with new cocoa plants?
A. Sending them seeds for a new kind of cocoa plant.
B. Introducing cocoa plants from other regions.
C. Improving the genes of the current cocoa plants.
20. Why are the cocoa plants taken to the center?
A. To improve their genes.
B. To see if they’re qualified.
C. To cure their diseases.
Key: 1-5 ABCAC 6-10 BBACB 11-15 AACCB 16-20 CBABB
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专项技能训练（14）
(Text 1)
W: Can you describe the girl you saw? What was she wearing?
M: A red sweater and white and yellow jeans.
(Text 2)
W: Guess what? I won first prize in last week’s contest and I got this camera as an award!
M: Congratulations! I had no idea you were such a marvelous writer.
(Text 3)
M: Kate, are we going home now?
W: I was hoping to get some bread from the bakery before it closes.
M: My watch says 6:55, so we have 35 minutes to get there.
(Text 4)
W: I’m afraid that I have some bad news for you.
M: What is it?
W: The teacher said you have to rewrite your homework.
M: Oh, no!
(Text 5)
M: I’m using a new digital television system now. It lets me get about five hundred channels.

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W: Yeah, but I don’t think you’ll make good use of all those channels. You just watch football
games.
(Text 6)
W: Is the woman in this old picture a Hollywood movie star?
M: No. That’s my grandmother. She was very beautiful when she was young.
W: Was she a Native American?
M: No. She was born in a small town in northern Italy. She was three when her parents
immigrated to America in 1946. They lived in Chicago where my great grandfather worked
making ice cream.
W: When was this picture taken?
M: When she was about 22 years old. One day, a local photographer saw her and asked her if he
could take some pictures of her.
W: Why did he want to do that?
M: He wanted to use her pictures in his monthly window display.
(Text 7)
W: Hello. Today I’m interviewing Jackson on his experiences attending a Japanese school. Now
Jackson, what time do you arrive at school every day?
M: Eight o’clock.
W: And do you walk to school by yourself, or do you go on a school bus?
M: No, I walk to school with a group of other students.
W: And what kinds of things do you take to school?
M: I take my gym clothes, backpack, books and stuff like that, but not my mobile phone or PC —
those are not allowed at school.
W: And what do you study at school?
M: We study basic courses, writing, reading, and math. We have gym classes, too.
W: Okay. And where do you eat lunch? In a cafeteria, or at a coffee shop nearby?
M: No, we eat in our classroom.
W: You eat in your classroom! Oh, wow. That is very interesting. What time do you leave school?
M: We sometimes leave school at 2:00 pm and sometimes at 3:00 pm.
(Text 8)
M: Good morning, ma’am. What can I do for you?
W: I bought this brand-new radio here half a month ago. Then I posted it to my sister’s daughter,
who is studying in Shanghai, but a week later, she posted it back, saying that it doesn’t work.
Could you help me check out the radio?
M: Let me see. Did you check it when you bought it?
W: Of course. I remember I could receive short wave programs very well, but now it doesn’t turn
on. I put in a new battery, but it still doesn’t work.
M: Let me check it. Oh, it seems as if it’s been left out in the rain. Hmm … If that’s the case, that
is not our fault. You should go to the post office and ask them for details about the shipping.
W: Yes, that sounds like a good idea, but I’d really rather just have it repaired here. I think you
offer excellent service.
M: Thank you, ma’am. Yes, you can leave it to us.
W: That’s very kind of you.
(Text 9)

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M: Don’t you just love this store? Every time I go through all the things here, I always find
something interesting, although they are all second hand.
W: I know what you mean. Look at this box of clothes over here. Each piece is only five dollars.
M: Look at what I got here!
W: What? So now you’re interested in a wool coat all of a sudden? The weather is too warm for
that, I think.
M: No, not that. I’m talking about this jacket from the 1950s. Isn’t it nice?
W: Yes, it is. It’s only fifteen dollars, too.
M: I think if I clean it up a little and get this button fixed, it’ll look like it’s worth a million
dollars!
W: I think I’m going to buy this little skirt, and then I’ll be ready to go. How about you?
M: I’m ready anytime you are.
(Text 10)
The world today is in need of more and more chocolate. To ensure a good supply of
chocolate, increasing cocoa production is a must. However, that is not as easy as it sounds. In the
last ten years, drought and plant disease in the Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world’s largest
producers, have reduced global cocoa production by almost 40 percent. To make matters worse,
many cocoa farmers are turning to easier-to-grow crops such as corn or rubber.
In order to prevent other farmers from planting other types of crops, researchers are trying to
provide farmers with new cocoa plants that can better fight drought and disease and have better
production. The easiest way to do that would be to send them plants that survive well in other
cocoa-producing areas like Venezuela and Indonesia. However, there is a risk of introducing new
diseases and pests. In order to prevent that, all cocoa plants first make their way to a center. There
each plant is kept separately for a few months to make sure it is healthy. It is then tested for about
two years. Only after the researchers are completely satisfied, will the plants get shipped to
farmers in West Africa or wherever else they are needed.