小托福韩国模拟卷test1听力原文

韩国模拟卷听力原文 Test 1 Part 1: 1.Listen to a conversation between two friends. G: Bill, are you going to the soccer game this evening ? B: I wish I could, but my parents want me to go home immediately after school. G: How come? Are you in some kind of trouble? B: No, it’s not that. Today is my sister’s birthday. So we are going out to ea t at her favourite restaurant. I will have to take a pass on the game. 2.Listen to a conversation between a student and a teacher. T: Jimmy, I am a little worried about your grade this semester. You started out with an A, but you almost failed the last test. S: I am sorry Mrs. Wingle. Is it possible for me to do an extra report for bonus points? T: I don’t normally allow that, but I will make an exception in your case. Here’s what I want you to do. 3.Listen to a conversation between two friends. G: Can you beli eve how hard it’s raining today? B: I know and it’s supposed to keep raining all weekend. G: Oh no! That’s terrible! I was planning to go cycling with some of my friends tomorrow morning. B: You better cancel those plans. The weather forecast is calling for thundershowers. G: That’s too bad. Huh…I guess I will have to go cycling next week. 4.Listen to a conversation between two friends. B: Jenny, I have been looking all over for you. Do you happ en to know Brian’s phone number? G: Sure! It’s 9531202. What do you need to talk to him about? B: He’s one of my partners of that group project in Mr. Jacob’s class. I need to talk to him about it immediately. Thanks for the number. I will talk to you later. 5.Listen to a conversation between a student and a teacher S: Mr. Williamson, I don’t underst and why I got a bad grade on this essay. I thought that I did a pretty decent jo b on it. T: Well your paper had several spelling mistakes and your grammar wasn’t good either. S: Are grammar and spelling that important? T: Of course they are important. You need to do both well to write an A paper. 6.Listen to a conversation between two friends. B: I tried to finish all of the math problems, but I couldn’t. I can’t figure out how to solve No.3. G: Math problems? Oh my goodness! I totally forgot about our homework! B: Class starts in 10 minutes. You have time to do it. G: You are right. Thanks for reminding me. I’ve got to get going. 7.Listen to a conversation between two friends. G: How did you do on the pop test we had in Mr. Norton’s class? B: Pretty well, I answered 9 out of 10 questions correctly. How did you do on it? G: I made a couple of silly mistakes. So I only got an 8 out of 10. B: At least it’s not worth too many points. It won’t affect your grade that much. 8.Listen to a principal making an announcement. P: Attention everyone, there is a severe winter storm that is approaching rapidly. According to the weather forecast, it’s going to drop at least 10 centimeters of snow in the next two hours. I have decided to cancel classes for the rest of the day. All students and teachers need to leave school and return to their homes immediately. 9.Listen to an announcer talking on a radio program. A: Our next guest is Dr. Walt Campbell. He’s an expert on French history. He’s going to talk to us about Napoleon this evening. In case you don’t know, Napoleon ruled over Fr ance in the early 1800s.His armies conquered virtually the entire European mainland. He was finally defeated a t the battle of Waterloo in 1815. That battle marked the end of Napoleon’s rule. Part 2: 10-13: Listen to a conversation between a student and a teacher S: Mrs. Martin, do you have a couple of minutes to speak with me? It’s kind of important. T: Sure Da vid, what’s going on? S: I need to talk about the report that we are supposed to hand in tomorrow. Hm m…Is it possible for me to get an extension on it? T: Why do you need an extension? Every other student in the class is going to turn his or her report in on time. S: Well…I haven’t ha d enough time to do the report. Coach Grubbs has kept the soccer team practicing late after school every day this week. So by the time I get home, I am totally worn out. I just haven’t had enough energy to write the paper. T: David, I think you need to get your priority straight. S: What do you mean? T: I mean that you are supposed to be focusing on learning at school rather than athletics. The soccer team is of less importance. S: But… T: Look…I know how important soccer is to you. But your classes are more important. So I am going to have to reject your request. You need to get that report to me by tomorrow. S: Yes mam. But I don’t know how good it’s going to be. T: Do your best. Why don’t you go to the library now an d start doing some research?You’ve got an hour before you have to go to your next class. Use this time wisely. You can start gathering all of the information you need right now. S: Alright, thanks. 14-17: Listen to a conversation between two students. G: Hey John, did you happen to go to the game yesterday? B: I sure did. Congratulations on winning. I was impressed with how everyone on the team played. G: Yah, Ange did a great job didn’t she? B: She’s an outstanding goal keeper. She made a couple of impressive saves. And you had a good game too. G: I guess I played alright. B: Alright? What are you talking about?! You scored two goals and you had some great passes as well. G: Oh, thanks. I guess I did play pretty well, didn’t I? B: That’s one way of p utting it. So when is your next game going to be? Do you have a game this Friday or Saturday? G: No, we don’t play games any more this week. However, we have two games next week. The first is on Tuesday night and the second is on Thursday night. Do you think you can make it to one? B: I will do my best to go to both, I can definitely attend the Tuesday one. But I am not sure about the soccer game on Thursday. G: Awesome! Now that we are winning some games, we hope that more fans will start coming. We could use some big crowds. We play much better when we’ve got lots of people cheering for us. B: Yeah that makes sense. I will tell some of my friends and get them to go along with me. I am sure that they will love to see your team play. 18-22: Listen to the conversation between two students. G: George, what did Mr. Stevenson want to talk to you about after class today? B: Oh eh, he just told me about a science fair that’s going to be held next month. G: A science fair? That’s peculiar. I didn’t think that the school was having one this year. B: You are right. We are not. G: Then what science fair was he talking about? B: It’s a special event sponsored by the city. A bunch of students from all of the schools in the city are going to compete in it. Mr. Stevenson thinks that I ought to enter the contest. So that’s why he told me about it. G: Really? I wonder why he told you and not the rest of the students. Are you some kind of scientific genies or something? B: Eh… I don’t know about that… But I enjoy spending lots of time in the school’s science lab. Mr. Stevenson and I have been doing some research in chemistry during my free time. So he wants me to do something related to that research for the science fair. G: Wow! I never knew that about you. I always wondered where you went after school. I thought you are playing sports. B: No… I don’t really enjoy sports. I don’t have that much athletic ability. G: Yeah… neither do I. So can you tell me about the experiments you are doing? I actually kind of enjoy science myself. B: It’s a little hard to explain. Instead, why don’t you visit the science lab after school today? I can show you what I am working on. G: That sounds great. I will see you at the lab then. 23-26: Listen to a conversation between two friends. B: Mary, a few of us are going to the shopping mall to hang out after school. Do you wanna go? We are all planning to take the bus together around 3:30. G: Sorry Joe, I’d really love to spend time with everyone today but I can’t. I have somethin g else to do after school. B: Do you mind if I ask what you doing? G: Not at all, I am going to go to the airport. B: The airport? Are you taking a trip somewhere? G: No I am not going anywhere but my sister is and she is flying home this evening. She has been in Italy for the last 6 months. B: Isn’t she a college student? What was she doing in Italy? G: She was in Italy as an exchange student. She was studying at a university in Florence. Her major is Art History. So she wanted to study in Italy to get the chance to see all of the great medieval and Renaissance art that’s in the country. B: Wow, that sounds pretty cool. Did she have a good time? G: I think so. I didn’t actually talk to her that much while she wa s gone. Calling Italy is a little too expensive for me. And my sister rarely checks her email even when she is at home. So I only chatted with her a couple of times. But it seems that she enjoyed herself. She sounded rather happy in the few emails that I received from her. She sent some pictures too. She looked good in them. I can’t wait to see all of the pictures that she took. B: That’s great. I’d love to be an exchange student someday. Well anyway, I’ve got to get going. Have fun meeting your sister. G: Thanks, I will. And please tell everyone why I can’t meet them today. I promise to be there next time. Part 3: 27-29: Listen to a teacher talking to a biology class. T: Of all the species of squirrels that exist, probably the most interesting one is the flying squirrel. It doesn’t really fly though. After all, the squirrel doesn’t have wings and it can’t take off from the ground either. Instead of flying, it glides. S: How is it able to that? T: Its body has a special membranethat stretches between its legs and feet. This membrane is found on both sides of its body. It’s made of skin and fur and is very flexible. Normally, the membrane is tucked along the sides of its body. Take a look at the pictures on page 156 in your books. See it? That ridge like fold of fur along its side is the membrane. So, hmm what does the squirrel do with that membrane? Let me tell you. First, in order to take to the air, the flying squirrel needs to be high above the ground. It typically jumps from tall trees. When it leaps into the air, it stretches its legs. This causes the membrane to unfold and to become tight. I guess it’s sort of like a huh… like a parachute at that point. This membran e catches the air and allows the squirrel to glide. In some cases, it can even act like a wing and enable the squirrel to gain a small amount of altitude. Yes, Gina? G: How far can one of these squirrels glide? T: Hm m… In general, they make relatively sh ort glides of around five to thirty meters. However, the longest glide everobserved by a person was nearly ninety meters.Why don’t we take a look at a video and then you can see the flying squirrel in action. 30-33: Listen to a teacher talking in a history class. T: Two of the oldest civilizations in human history are Egypt and Mesopotamia. We talked about both of them during the past two days, right? As I hope you all remember, they were fairly different societies. But I want to talk today about how they had some similarities. For one, they both built rather large structures. Now, when I mention Egypt, what do you usually think about? Yeah that’s right, pyramids. The Egyptians built pyramids all over the place. Many of them are still standing. OK, but when I mention Mesopotamia, what kinds of buildings do you think about? No one? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Well the Mesopotamian s built ziggurats. That’s Z-I-G-G-U-R-A-T-S. There is a picture of them on page 218 on your books. Take a look! Here is a picture of a pyramid, as you can see the main differences between the two are their shapes and sizes. Notice that the Egyptian pyramid is more triangular in shape. Also, the pyramid is smooth-sided and its sides are rather steep. But look at the ziggurat here, you can see that it has a stepped appearance. KEHUM, by stepped, I mean that the zigg urat look like it has different levels, doesn’t it? It looks sort of like a lot of different sized boxes stacked on top of one another. The biggest box is on the bottom and boxes get smaller as you go higher. Oh and notice that the ziggurats has a set of stairs leading to the top. The pyramid lacks this. Why did ziggurats have stairs? Each had a temple at the top. So the Mesopotamians climbed the stairs to reach the temple. This brings me to another key difference. Ziggurats were places of worship. They were used by priests to pray to the various Mesopotamian gods. But the pyramids were tombs for the pharaohs. E uh… They were the kings of ancient Egypt. Many pharaohs built pyramids to be their tombs when they died. The largest one took nearly 20 years to build. How did the Egyptians and Mesopotamians build these huge structures? That’s a good question. No one is sure, but people had some theories, let me tell you about a few of them right now. 34-38: Listen to a teacher talking in a Biology class. T: One of the most beautiful creatures in the forest is the deer. It lives pretty much everywhere in the world except for Australia and Antarctica. There are many species of deer. However, the one that I want to talk about is the white tail deer. It mostly lives in North America. I am sure many of you have seen this deer before. I actually saw a couple of them near the road as I drove to school this morning. Anyway, the first thing that I should mention is that we have different names for male and female deer. The male is usually called a buck, some people call it a stag or a hart though. That’s H-A-R-T not H-E-A-R-T. The female deer, on the other hand, is called a dole. And a baby deer is a fawn. There are several differences between stags and doles. A stag is bigger than a dole. A stag weighs 100 kilograms on average. However, some of them can grow to be much larger than that. As for females, they average around 70 kilograms in weight. Another big difference between the two is antlers. Antlers are the long, sharp, pointed bony protrusions on a deer’s head. They begin as two short stubby knots. As they grow, they can form several branches that have many points. But only stags have antlers. Doles don’t have them. Oh, here’s something you might not know. Antlers fall off every year. Stags lose their antlers during the winter and then new ones grow during the spring and summer. Deer are mammals, so that means the mothers give birth to live animals. A dole has between one and three fawns when it gives birth. The fawns have white spots when they are born. For the first six weeks of their lives, they drink their mother’s milk. Remember, eh, that’s anoth er characteristic of mammals. Bu t fawns don’t exclusively drink milk, they can walk pretty much as soon as they are born. So they can forge for grass and other food right away. 39-42: Listen to part of a discussion in a literature class. T: One of my favourite American writers is Edgar Allan Poe. I am sure that all of you have heard about him. Can any of you tell me something about him? Tony? S: I believe that he lived during the 19th century? And I remembered he had a bunch of problems. I mean, I think he’s suffered from depression o r something. T: That’s a good start! Thanks Tony. He’s correct, class, Poe was born in 1809 and died in 1849. His short life was quite sad. His parents died before he turned three so he lived with a foster family. Poe dealt with a number of issues during his life. He had gambling and drinking problems. He suffered from depression. His life was definitely not a happy one. Many people believe that Poe’s dark life heavily influenced his writing. So let’s talk about Poe’s literature. He made a number of contributions to the world of literature. Jessica, do happen to know any of them? S: He wrote that poem called The Raven.I really like it a lot. It’s kind of creepy, but that seems characteristic of Poe’s writing. He wrote several works of horror as well, didn’t he? T: You are correct! As for The Raven, we are going to read that as soon as we finish talking about Poe’s life. So hold on for a moment concerning it. Also, you are right about Poe’s works of horror. He is said to have invented that genre as well as the modern detective story. He also wrote some early science fiction and is considered one of the founders of the modern short story. That’s a pretty impressive resume, isn’t it? Poe is most famous, however, for his horror stories. The most well-known are: The Fall of The House of Asher, The Mask of The Red Death and The Pit and The Pendulum. Each deals with death in very gruesome ways. We are going to read one of these stories. We are also going to read The Murders in The Rue Morgue, which is the first modern detective tale. You are going to love it. But for the time being, let’s look at some of Poe’s poetry.