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[14:02.86]Section B
[14:05.04]Directions: In this section,
[14:09.42]you will hear 3 short passages.
[14:12.59]At the end of each passage,
[14:14.34]you will hear some questions.
[14:16.31]Both the passage and the questions
[14:18.50]will be spoken only once.
[14:21.01]After you hear a question,
[14:22.76]you must choose the best answer from the four choices
[14:26.37]marked A), B), C) and D).
[14:30.74]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
[14:35.12]with a single line through the centre.
[14:38.18]Passage One
[14:40.59]The new year always brings with the cultural tradition
[14:45.29]of new possibilities.
[14:47.26]We see it as a chance for renewal.
[14:50.10]We begin to dream of new possible selves.
[14:53.60]We design our ideal self or an image
[14:57.43]that is quite different from what we are now.
[15:00.16]For some of us, we roll at dreamy film in our heads
[15:04.54]just because it’s the beginning of a new year.
[15:07.16]But we aren’t serious about making changes.
[15:10.88]We just make some half-hearted resolution
[15:13.72]and it evaporates after a week or two.
[15:16.90]The experience makes us feel less successful
[15:20.61]and leads us to discount our ability
[15:23.45]to change in the future. It’s not the changes impossible
[15:28.27]but that it won’t last unless our resolutions
[15:31.66]are supported with plans for implementation.
[15:34.94]We have to make our intentions manageable
[15:37.89]by detailing the specific steps
[15:40.41]that will carry us to our goal.
[15:42.70]Say your goal is to lose weight by dieting
[15:46.75]and cutting off sweets.
[15:48.93]But one night you just have to have a cookie.
[15:52.43]And you know there’s a bag of your favorites
[15:55.28]in the cupboard. You want one, you eat two,
[15:59.76]you check the bag and find out
[16:02.28]you’ve just shot 132 calories. You say to yourself,
[16:07.53]“What the hell!” and polish off the whole bag.
[16:10.48]Then you begin to draw all kinds of
[16:13.98]unpleasant conclusions about yourself.
[16:17.37]To protect your sense of self,
[16:19.44]you begin to discount the goal. You may think –
[16:23.61]"Well, dieting wasn’t that important to me
[16:26.77]and I won’t make it anyhow.”
[16:29.29]So you abandon the goal and return to your bad habits.
[16:35.09]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage
[16:39.79]you have just heard.
[16:42.30]26. What do people usually wish to do
[16:47.66]at the beginning of a new year?
[17:03.25]27. How can people turn their new year’s resolutions
[17:08.93]into reality?
[17:23.80]28. Why does the speaker mention
[17:28.40]the example of sweets and cookies?
[17:46.03]Passage Two
[17:48.22]25 years ago, Ray Anderson,
[17:52.27]a single parent with a one-year-old son
[17:54.56]witnessed a terrible accident
[17:56.97]which took place when the driver of a truck
[17:59.59]ran a red light and collided with the car of Sandra D.
[18:04.51]The impact of the collision killed Sandra instantly.
[18:07.91]But her three-month-old daughter
[18:10.20]was left trapped in the burning car.
[18:12.28]While others looked on in horror,
[18:14.79]Andersen jumped out of his vehicle
[18:17.20]and crawled into the car through the shadowed rear window
[18:20.59]to try to free the infant. Seconds later,
[18:24.86]the car was enclosed in flames.
[18:28.03]But to everyone’s amazement,
[18:30.44]Andersen was able to pull the baby to safety.
[18:34.04]While the baby was all right, Andersen
[18:36.78]was seriously injured. Two days later he died.
[18:41.92]But his heroic act was published widely in the media.
[18:45.96]His son was soon adopted by relatives.
[18:49.25]The most remarkable part of the story unfolded only last week.
[18:54.39]Karen and her boyfriend Michael were looking
[18:57.77]through some old boxes
[18:59.30]When they came across some old newspaper clippings.
[19:02.91]“This is me when I was a new born baby.
[19:05.98]I was rescued from a burning car.
[19:08.16]But my mother died in the accident,” explained Karen.
[19:11.99]Although Michael knew Karen’s mother
[19:14.18]had died years earlier,
[19:16.04]he never fully understood the circumstances
[19:18.66]until he skimmed over the newspaper article.
[19:22.05]To Karen’s surprise,
[19:24.24]Michael was absorbed in the details of the accident.
[19:27.19]And he began to cry uncontrollably.
[19:30.58]Then he revealed that the man that pulled Karen
[19:34.19]from the flames was the father he never knew.
[19:37.91]The two embraced and shed many tears,
[19:40.86]recounting stories told to them about their parents.
[19:45.78]Questions29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[19:52.02]29. What happened twenty-five years ago?
[20:10.16]30. What does the speaker say about Michael’s father?
[20:29.19]31. Why did Michael cry uncontrollably
[20:34.21]when he skimmed over the newspaper article?
[20:51.03]Passage Three
[20:54.08]Americans suffer from an overdose of work.
[20:58.24]Regardless of who they are or what they do.
[21:01.52]Americans spend more time at work
[21:03.71]than that any time since World War II.
[21:06.78]In 1950,the US had fewer working hours
[21:11.53]than any other industrialized country.
[21:14.49]Today, it exceeds every country but Japan
[21:17.44]where industrial employees load 2155 hours a year
[21:23.78]compared with 1951 in the US
[21:28.16]and 1603 in the former West Germany.
[21:33.30]Between 1969 and 1989, employed Americans
[21:38.66]add an average of 138 hours to their yearly work schedules.
[21:44.34]The workweek has remained above 40 hours.
[21:47.74]But people are working more weeks each year.
[21:51.46]Specifically pay time off holidays, vacations,
[21:56.70]sick leave shrank by 50% in the 1980s.
[22:01.84]As corporations have experienced stiff competitions
[22:05.96]and slow in growth of productivity,
[22:08.14]they have pressed employees to work longer.
[22:11.97]Cost-cutting lay-offs in the 1980s
[22:15.25]reduce the professional and managerial runs,
[22:18.53]leaving fewer people to get the job done.
[22:21.49]In lower paid occupations
[22:24.44]where wages have been reduced,
[22:26.63]workers have added hours in overtime
[22:29.36]or extra jobs to preserve their living standard.
[22:32.75]The government estimates that more than 7 million people hold a second job.
[22:38.22]For the first time,
[22:40.62]large numbers of people say they want to cut back
[22:43.24]on working hours even it means earning less money.
[22:47.18]But most employers are unwilling to let them do so.
[22:51.33]The government which has stepped back from its traditional role
[22:55.38]as a regulator of work time
[22:57.89]should take steps to make shorter hours possible.
[23:02.33]Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[23:08.90]32. In which country do industrial employees
[23:14.69]work the longest hours?
[23:30.60]33. How do employed Americans manage to work more hours?
[23:51.33]34. Why do corporations press their employees
[23:56.80]to work longer hours according to the speaker?
[24:14.27]35. What does the speaker
[24:17.44]say many Americans prefer to do?
| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| implementation | [.implimen'teiʃən] | |||
| professional | [prə'feʃənl] | |||
| enclosed | ||||
| related | [ri'leitid] | |||
| affected | [ə'fektid] | 联想记忆 | ||
| conversation | [.kɔnvə'seiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| legal | ['li:gəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| absorbed | [əb'sɔ:bd] | |||
| assess | [ə'ses] | |||
| emotional | [i'məuʃənl] |
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