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Man: One of the most deadly plants in the world is poison hemlock.
This plants grows in many parts of the world. It is quite dangerous to
humans, people can died if they eat it. One thing that makes the
poison hemlock really dangerous is that it looks like some plants that
people normally eat. Hemlock belong to the same family of plants as
the carrots. The leaves the plant looks very much like parsley, and its
roots look like carrots. People have died when they’ve made a
mistake and have eaten poison hemlock when they thought that they
were eating either parsley or carrots.
QUESTION AND ANSWER ( 1-4)
1. Man : What is the topic of the talk?
(A) A beautiful plant.
(B) A poisonous plant.
(C) A delicious plant.
(D) A fast-growing plant.
women : Today we’re going to see something that most of you have probably
never seen before, a frog jumping contest. This frog jumping contest is part of
the calaveras country fair in calaveras country. California, in this frog jumping
contest about 2 thousand frogs and the owners participate and more than forty
thousand pople usually come to watch. The frog’s owner and courage the frog to
jump by yelling, screaming, jumping, singing, talking, blowing, anyway they
can. To win a contest a frog needs to jump 3 times iin the row. This contest this
based on story by mark twain it’s call the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras
country. Twain publish the story in 1865,63 years later in 1928 the people of
calaveras country decided to hall the contest just like the one that. Twain had
describe a number of years earlier.
EXERCISE 12 (9-12)
On the recording, you hear:
(narrator) : Questions 9 through 12..
(man) : Hello, I’m mr. Tilled the Head library and i’d like explain to you about
checking out books from this library and I’d like to have books for this library and the
book may be kept for up to 2 weeks. The process for checking the books out is really
quite simple because of the computerized check out system. When you find a book in
the library that you would like to check out just bring it here circulation this. This
circulation for you check Materials our from the library all you need, when you come to
the circulation books desk is the book or books that you want to check out and your
student ID card and run them through the computerized scanner the from is printed
quickly by the computer and you need to sign the from that’s all there is to it just
remember to bring your ID card, when you come to the library to sign the from at the
circulation desk and to return the books withen 2 weeks and you won’t have any
problems here at the library.
QUESTION AND ANSWER (5-8)
5. Man: What type of contest is it ?
(A) A story-writing contest.
(B) A frog-catching contest.
(C) A singing contest.
(D) A frog-jumping contest.