新编六级听力练习 第232期

Passage Three
Telephone books in the United States have white, blue and yellow pages. The white pages list people with phones by last name. [32]The blue pages contain numbers of city services, government agencies, and public schools. Businesses and professional services are listed in a special section-the Yellow Pages.
[33]To make a long distance call, you need an area code. Each area in the U.S. has an area code. The area covered by one area code may be small or large. For example, New York City has one area code, but so does the whole state of Oregon. If you want to know the area code of a place, you can look it up in the area map which is printed in the front of the white pages.
There are a lot of public telephones in the U.S. They have their own numbers. [34]If you are making a long distance call on a public phone and run out of money, give the number on your phone to the person you're talking to. Then hang up the receiver and he can call you back.
[35]If you make a long distance call and get a wrong number, call the operator and explain what happened. This means that you can make the call again to the right number without having to pay more money.

答案解析：
32. In a telephone book, where can you find the number of a city council?
[B]解析：推断题。电话蓝页上包含城市服务、政府部门和公立学校的电话号码，而city council属于government agencies，因此可以在蓝页上查到，故B正确。
33. What should you check in a telephone book for a long distance call?
[C]解析：细节题。提到打长途电话后马上就说了需要“区号”，即C。选项D是强干扰项，注意area map上面也有“区号”，所以区域图只是查找区号的一种手段。
34. How can you avoid losing contact when making calls on public phones without much money left?
[C]解析：细节题。如果在打长途电话时用光了钱，可以告诉对方你所用公用电话的号码，然后让对方打过来，故C正确。
35. What should you do if you get a wrong number in making a long distance call?
[B]解析：细节题。如果打长途电话时拨错号了，打给接线员解释一下情况，接线员会再次帮你接通，故B正确。if后面的内容是考点。