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Ⅱ. Basic Listening Practice
Listen to the short dialogs and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) She envies the man.
B) She congratulates the man.
C) She thinks money causes trouble.
D) She wants to borrow money from the man.
2. A) He was very angry.
B) He is still learning to drive.
C) He is helping Mary obtain a driver's license.
D) He has a driver's license.
3. A) She will regret her decision.
B) She does not think much of her boyfriend.
C) She will wait for the right time to get married.
D) She still wants to marry the guy.
4. A) The woman has not overcome her grief.
B) The woman has returned to normal.
C) The man's mother has died.
D) The woman is comforting the man.
5. A) She needs more fresh air in the room.
B) She can't make her voice heard in the noisy room.
C) She has to work too hard.
D) Nobody is listening to her opinions.
Ⅲ. Listening In
Task 1: Soft answers turn away wrath.
Listen to the dialog and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) A stain on a new dress.
B) A woman's desire formoney.
C) Pleasure changed into rage.
D) Fury turned into delight.
2. A) The man has spilled wine on her dress.
B) The man is rude to her.
C) The man refuses to apologize.
D) She doesn't know the man.
3. A) She looks like one of his friends.
B) She looks very young.
C) She looks attractive.
D) She looks like a child.
4. A) He asks her to hand over her dress immediately.
B) He offers to take her home to change the clothes and get her dress cleaned.
C) He pays the woman immediately.
D) He takes her home to give her a new dress.
5. A) To buy her a fashionable dress.
B) To buy her a brand-name dress.
C) To have dinner with the woman.
D) To exchange phone numbers with the wom
Listen to the dialog again and answer the questions.
1. What three factors make the woman angry?
________
2. What four steps does the man take to turn the woman's fury into delight?
________
Task 2: Big john is coming!
Compound Dictation: Listen to the passage three times. When the passage is read for
the first time, listen for the general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, fill
in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact
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s you hear. For blanks
numbered from S8 to S10, write down either the exact words you hear or the main points
in your own words. When the passage is read for the third time, check what you have
written.
A bar owner in the Old West has just hired a timid bartender. The (S1) ___ of the
establishment is giving his new hire some instructions on (S2) ____ the place. He tells the
timid man, "If you ever hear that Big John is coming to town, (S3) ____ everything and
run for the hills! He's the biggest, nastiest (S4) ____ who's ever lived!"
A few weeks pass (S5) ____. But one afternoon, a local cowhand comes running
through town (S6) ____, "Big John is coming to town! Run for your (S7) ____!"
When the bartender leaves the bar to start running, he is knocked to the ground by
several townspeople rushing out of town. (S8) _______.
He steps up to the door, orders the poor barkeep inside, and demands, "I want a beer
NOW!"
He strikes his heavy fist on the bar, splitting it in half. (S9) _______. He takes the
beer, bites the top of the bottle off, and downs the beer in one gulp.
As the terrified bartender hides behind the bar, the big man gets up to leave. "Do you
want another beer?" the bartender asks in a trembling voice.
"Dang it, I don't have time!" the big man yells. (S10) "_______?"
Task 3: A View of Happiness
Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) To illustrate their great attracting force.
B) To illustrate how to place the positive and negative poles.
C) To illustrate the difference between animals and inanimate objects.
D) To illustrate a state of happiness.
2. A) They will need water.
B) They will need a rest.
C) They will want more food in the future.
D) They do not want any more food.
3. A) Learning happiness can take place only with conscious efforts.
B) Learning happiness can take place subconsciously.
C) Only animals with a great ability to learn can experience happiness.
D) Only human beings can experience happiness.
4. A) They are balanced by two poles of magnets.
B) They satisfy animals with water and food.
C) They are blessed.
D) They are not limited to short-term satisfaction.
5. A) Happiness is a state of balance.
B) Happiness arises from physical satisfaction.
C) The difference between animal and human satisfaction.
D) Long-term goals versus short-term goals.
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Ⅱ. Basic Listening Practice
Listen to the short dialogs and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) She had modeling experience.
B) She had practiced a lot.
C) She paid high fees.
D) She complained to the right person.
2. A) The man speaks favorably of it, and the woman speaks unfavorably.
B) The woman speaks favorably of it, and the man speaks unfavorably.
C) Both the man and the woman speak favorably of it.
D) Neither the man nor the woman speaks favorably of it.
3. A) Only vegetables and fruit.
B) A lot of fish and meat.
C) New diets.
D) Traditional diets.
4. A) She is a blonde.
B) She envies a blonde's white skin.
C) She looks dark and unattractive.
D) She looks brown and attractive.
5. A) Business.
B) Vanity.
C) A stronger body.
D) Slimming.
Ⅲ. Listening In
Task 1: A Friend Stylist
Listen to the dialog and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) It's quite cheap.
B) It's reasonably expensive.
C) It's far too expensive.
D) He can't afford it unless he robs somebody.
2. A) There is an imbalance between him and his hairstyle.
B) It is a work of art.
C) It is an imaginative style.
D) It needs disjunction.
3. A) Create peaks.
B) Create a pigtail.
C) Put in streaks.
D) All of the above.
4. A) It will make it a disjunction.
B) It will make it a work of art.
C) It will make it look like a foreigner's hairstyle.
D) It will make it look like the skin of a tiger.
5. A) How a customer is tricked.
B) How a customer gets a good service.
C) How to create a work of art.
D) How to avoid disjunction.
Listen to the dialog again and answer the questions.
1. What does the stylist mean by "disjunction"?
____________
2. What does the stylist say when the customer asks for the total cost?
____________
Task 2: The Voice Lift
After the face-lift, the forehead tightener and the (S1) ___ job, something still might
be revealing your age: your (S2) ___.
For patients who think their trembly, hoarse words don't (S3) ___ their newly firm
face and figure, there's a procedure that claims to make them (S4) ___ younger too: the
voice lift.
There are two general kinds of voice lifts. In some cases, implants (S5) ___ through
an incision in the (S6) ___ bring the vocal cords closer together. Doctors also use
injections of (S7) ___ or other substances to plump up the cords, so that the voice sounds
younger.
(S8) ______.
"If I spoke a great deal, or I was shouting, on a particular day, at the end of the day, I
would feel exhausted," said Robert Brown, 75, (S9) ____. "I don't know if I sound
younger, but the hoarseness is gone, which is such a great improvement."
(10) ____. and hope to shave years off the sound of their voice.
Task 3: Plastic Surgeries forMen
Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) Men's use rose 44 percent and women's use fell 57 percent.
B) Men's use rose 44 percent and women's use rose 57 percent.
C) Men's use rose 47 percent and women's use fell 36 percent.
D) Men's use rose 47 percent and women's use rose 36 percent.
2. A) The number of men rose while that of women fell.
B) The number of women rose while that of men fell.
C) The numbers of both men and women rose.
D) The numbers of both men and women fell.
3. A) 44 percent.
B) 13 percent.
C) 47 percent.
D) 54 percent.
4. A) Women's use rose 6 percent while men's use fell 40 percent.
B) Women's use rose 60 percent while men's use fell 14 percent.
C) Men's use rose 6 percent while women's use fell 40 percent.
D) Women's use rose 60 percent while men's use rose 14 percent.
5. A) Methods of cosmetic surgery.
B) Cosmetic surgery for both good appearance and job hunting.
C) More men than women are having cosmetic surgery this year.
D) Cosmetic surgery is catching on with men.
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Ⅱ. Basic Listening Practice
Listen to the short dialogs and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) Widespread destruction.
B) Moderate damage.
C) Small loss of lives.
D) No loss of lives.
2. A) Traveling to India.
B) Looking at a landslide.
C) Sending an e-mail to the man.
D) Waiting for the woman's e-mail.
3. A) She is on a holiday in Asia.
B) She is coming back from a holiday.
C) She is staying home.
D) She can't come back due to a flood.
4. A) It delayed the flight by 20 hours.
B) It made a mess of part of the city.
C) It hurt a lot of people.
D) It influenced Tokyo.
5. A) Destructive.
B) Beautiful.
C) Both A) and B).
D) Safe.
Ⅲ. Listening In
Task 1: Is tsunami delicious?
Listen to the dialog and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) A giant ocean wave.
B) A kind of food.
C) A bus.
D) A Japanese person.
2. A) There will be an eastward ocean current.
B) There will be a westward ocean current.
C) They would be swallowed up by the ocean waves.
D) They would be able to eat fish.
3. A) Cool.
B) Calm.
C) Dangerous.
D) Frightening.
4. A) An earthquake.
B) A volcano.
C) A landslide.
D) A warm current.
5. A) Several meters.
B) About a dozen meters.
C) Dozens of meters.
D) Over 100 meters.
1. How does a tsunami move in the open ocean and on the shore?
_______
2. What harm can tsunami waves do to a human being?
_______
Task 2: Flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
The death toll continues to (S1) ____ from last week's flooding in Haiti and the
Dominican Republic. The U.S. Agency for International Development (S2) _____ that at
least 1,068 people are dead, 1,600 are (S3) ____, and 25,000 are in need of emergency
food and other forms of (S4) ____. In the Dominican Republic, 414 are dead and 274 are
missing, all from the town of Jimani.
A key (S5) ____ in the widespread destruction is the extensive deforestation and the
(S6) ___ of settlements along the floodplains of rivers.
The flooding was driven by intense rainfall. A low-pressure system (S7) ______ in
Central America brought exceptionally heavy rain and thunderstorms to Haiti and the
Dominican Republic from May 18 to 25. (S8) ____. At the town of Jimani, Dominican
Republic, 250 mm (or 10 inches) of rain fell in just 24 hours, causing the Solie River to
overflow its banks from May 24 to 25. The heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding and
extensive debris flowed over the entire region. Swollen rivers and debris cut off many of
the roads traversing the area along the base of the mountains. (S9) ____.
The storm and flood also caused landslides in a few places.
Now people want to know: How often do floods and related landmass movements
that cause casualties occur in Haiti? (S10) _____. Since 1986, twelve lethal events have
occurred on the island.
Task 3: A Blizzard
Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) The definitions of blizzards.
B) The disasters caused by blizzards.
C) The amount of snow brought by blizzards.
D) The strong winds caused by blizzards.
2. A) One can't see anything beyond a mile.
B) One can't see anything beyond a quarter of a mile.
C) The wind blows at a speed of 23 miles per hour.
D) The wind blows at a speed of 31 miles per hour.
3. A) Visibility is decreased to 2 kilometers.
B) Visibility is decreased to 1.5 kilometers.
C) The wind blows at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour.
D) The wind blows at a speed of 32 kilometers per hour.
4. A) A blizzard blowing over a piece of land.
B) A blizzard hitting a plain.
C) When the snow has stopped falling, the visibility increases and wind force
decreases.
D) When the snow has stopped falling, the visibility and wind force remain.
5. A) Winter storm— whiteout — blizzard.
B) Whiteout — winter storm— blizzard.
C) Winter storm— blizzard —whiteout.
D) Blizzard — winter storm— whiteout.
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Ⅱ. Basic Listening Practice
Listen to the short dialogs and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) A team player.
B) A leader.
C) Either a team member or a leader.
D) A weak leader but a good team player.
2. A) In a coffee shop.
B) In an office.
C) In a restaurant.
D) At a railway station.
3. A) He won't be promoted.
B) His colleague instead of him will be promoted.
C) The boss is going to fire him.
D) His close friend is going to leave.
4. A) She praises Mr. Jones for being faithful.
B) She admires Mr. Jones.
C) She is a self-made millionaire.
D) She wants to employ an accountant.
5. A) The woman likes working there but worries about too much responsibility.
B) The man likes working there but worries about too much responsibility.
C) The man will be promoted to be an office manager.
D) The woman may be promoted to be an office manager.
Ⅲ. Listening In
Task 1: You're fired!
Listen to the dialog and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) He never took illegal commissions.
B) He sold the company's products at higher prices.
C) He sold more of the company's products than other salespeople.
D) He is getting along well with his colleagues.
2. A) He knows more customers than any other employee.
B) Only he knows how to get a certain large contract.
C) He used to be a manager of a large company.
D) A relative of his is the manager of a large company.
3. A) She mistook the man for Carl Smith.
B) She raised the man's pay by mistake.
C) She praised the wrong person.
D) She almost fired the wrong person.
4. A) He often works overtime.
B) He is a lazy worker.
C) He works neither too hard nor lazily.
D) He is often late for work.
5. A) A salary increase for the first time.
B) A salary increase for the second time.
C) A promotion.
D) A demotion.
1. What does the woman say at the beginning to introduce an unpleasant topic?
__________
2. What does Carl say on hearing he's been given a salary increase?
__________
Task 2: SOHO
Compound Dictation: Listen to the passage three times. When the passage is read for
the first time, listen for the general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, fill
in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you hear. For blanks
numbered from S8 to S10, write down either the exact words you hear or the main points
in your own words. When the passage is read for the third time, check what you have
written.
The modern concept of small office and home office, or small and home office,
often (S1) _____ to SOHO, is concerned with businesses that employ from one to ten
workers. Also (S2) ____ as a virtual business, the SOHO has not evolved beyond the idea
of an (S3) _______ business person who has a few support staff members.
Business (S4) _______ that are larger are often called Small and Medium-sized
Enterprises.
Before the 19th century and the (S5) _____ of the industrial revolution around the
globe, (S6) ____ all offices were small offices or home offices, with only a few
exceptions. Most businesses were small, and (S7) ____ was the amount of paperwork that
went with their business activities.
At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, the term "Small or
Home Office" and (S8) _____.
Some products are often designed specifically for the SOHO market. (S9) _____.
Nowadays many consultants, lawyers, and real estate agents in small and
medium-sized towns operate from such home offices.
(S10) _____. They often work in small offices to have more freedom.
Task 3: The Role of Job Descriptions
Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) Ask your colleagues in private.
B) Ask the boss questions about it until you understand.
C) Ask the boss to clarify it just once.
D) Watch how your colleagues do the same job.
2. A) Questions about daily routine.
B) Long-term goals.
C) The role of your job in the company's aim.
D) All of the above.
3. A) One.
B)Two.
C) Three.
D) Four.
4. A) Her principal boss.
B) The quality control manager.
C) The human resource manager.
D) Her colleagues.
5. A) The boss was displeased with her ambition.
B) Her colleagues were unhappy about her ambition.
C) The boss used it to assess her annual performance.
D) The boss used it to assess all employees' annual performance.
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Ⅱ. Basic Listening Practice
Listen to the short dialogs and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) They hate spice.
B) They don't want to adjust to new conditions.
C) They are loyal by nature.
D) They expect faster promotion.
2. A) She expresses her indignation at the criticism.
B) She promises not to be late.
C) She proposes to work late.
D) Both B) and C).
3. A) She is not sorry at all.
B) She is somewhat sorry.
C) She is miserable.
D) She does not express her opinion clearly.
4. A) To get a raise.
B) To be promoted.
C) To leave by the end of the month.
D) To leave within two months.
5. A) He is upset.
B) He flies into a rage.
C) He is only too glad to go.
D) He is sure of his future.
Ⅲ. Listening In
Task 1: How toAvoid Bankruptcy
Listen to the dialog and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) The importance of reducing the administrative staff.
B) Ways of cutting staff.
C) The choice between downsizing and closing down.
D) The terms of a severance package.
2. A) We should mean what we say.
B) We should say what we mean.
C) We should cut the employees' salaries.
D) We should eliminate employees to gain efficiency.
3. A) Their long service.
B) Their familiarity with the workers.
C) Their familiarity with customers.
D) Their intention to sue the boss.
4. A) More reliance on part-time workers.
B) More dependence on the subordinates.
C) Greater dependence on computers.
D) None of the above.
5. A) The company will return to normal.
B) The company will develop fast.
C) They still have to cut workers in the service department.
D) They will be understaffed.
1. How does the man propose to maintain the level of service after a cut in the service
department?
_______
2. What does the woman conclude?
_______
Task 2: A Hard-nosed Boss
Mr. Stone was known far and wide as a hard-nosed boss who (S1) ______ his
employees like a hawk. He was making one of his regular tours of the factory (S2) ____
he spotted a young man leaning against a (S3) ____ of boxes just outside the foreman's
office. Since George, the foreman, wasn't around, Stone stood off to the side and watched
to see just how long the young man would stand (S4) ___ doing nothing.
The young man yawned, scratched his head, looked at his watch, and sat on the floor.
After ten minutes or so he yawned again and (S5) _____ back on the pile of boxes.
Stone stepped from his (S6) ______ place and w
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