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[00:01.83]Model Test Two
[00:03.26]Section A
[00:05.01]Directions: In this section,
[00:08.95]you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.
[00:14.52]At the end of each conversation,
[00:17.59]one or more questions will be asked about what was said.
[00:22.29]Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.
[00:27.54]After each question there will be a pause.
[00:31.37]During the pause, you must read the four choices
[00:36.40]marked A) , B) , C) and D) , and decide which is the best answer.
[00:43.18]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
[00:48.43]with a single line through the centre.
[00:51.16]Now let's begin with the 8 short conversations.
[00:57.18]11. M: I wonder if you know a new client whose name is John Smith.
[01:05.38]W: That name rings a bell.
[01:08.11]Q: What does the woman mean?
[01:28.97]12. M: Let's try the soundproof room.
[01:32.13]It's sure to be a lot easier to work there.
[01:35.63]W: You've said it!
[01:37.61]Q: What does the woman mean?
[01:57.31]13. W: Won't you join us for a game of bridge?
[02:03.76]M: No, thanks. I am really not in the mood for bridge this evening.
[02:09.12]Q: Why doesn't the man want to join them for bridge?
[02:29.76]14. M: They said the train wouldn't arrive until nine.
[02:34.68]W: Well, is that boiled down to with yet another delay in our schedule?
[02:39.94]Q: What does the woman mean?
[03:00.16]15. M: You look depressed. What's eating you?
[03:05.51]W: My dog. He's missing these three weeks.
[03:09.34]Q: What do we learn from this conversation?
[03:30.36]16. M: Professor Smith was acting so strangely today.
[03:35.83]W: I noticed that too. She was talking so quietly
[03:41.19]and then not giving us any homework. Can you believe that?
[03:45.23]Q: What can we infer about Professor Smith?
[04:06.58]17. W: I suppose we'd better start packing.
[04:10.95]It's four o'clock already.
[04:12.81]M: Yes, you're right. If we want to leave at seven tomorrow,
[04:17.84]we must get our packing done early,
[04:19.81]so that we can get a good night sleep.
[04:22.87]Q: What are they going to do first?
[04:40.93]18. M: I don't think I want to live in the dormitory next year.
[04:47.83]I need more privacy.
[04:50.13]W: I know what you mean. But check out the cost of renting an apartment first.
[04:56.25]I wouldn't be surprised if you changed your mind.
[05:00.40]Q: What does the woman think the man will do?
[05:23.35]Now you will hear the 2 long conversations.
[05:25.10]Conversation One
[05:26.75]M:  You are making me very disappointed.
[05:29.59]W:  What makes you say that?
[05:31.23]M:  You are supposed to do your work well.
[05:33.74]But you keep forgetting things that you are expected to do.
[05:37.25]Look at the letters you've typed
[05:39.43]Do you know how many mistakes you've made?
[05:41.62]W:  I'm really sorry about it. I'd like to apologize for that, John.
[05:44.46]I hope you'll forgive me.
[05:48.93]M:  I can forgive
[05:51.11]if you promise me you can improve your work
[05:52.75]and do a good job in the future
[05:54.40]If not, you'll get the pink note.
[05:58.03]W:  OK. I'll do a good job in everything I do in the future.
[06:02.84]M:  And don't litter all over the room.
[06:05.13]I can't stand people doing that.
[06:07.10]W:  I'm sorry, John. It's my fault.
[06:10.05]I was so careless that I neglected that.
[06:13.34]Again, I apologize.
[06:15.96]M:  I'm afraid I also have to apologize to you
[06:19.46]for behaving so rudely to you.
[06:21.43]W:  You're right to be strict with me.
[06:24.27]I don't mind your criticisms since they are reasonable.
[06:28.43]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[06:35.32]19. What's the relationship between the two speakers?
[06:59.41]20. Why does the first speaker criticize the second?
[07:17.41]21. What's the second speaker's attitude?
[07:40.44]Conversation Two
[07:41.32]M: Are there any actors or actresses that you like?
[07:44.93]Who are your favorite movie stars?
[07:47.00]W: Yes, I've got a few favorites:
[07:49.96]Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Ben Affleck. I like them very much.
[07:54.33]They are all quite handsome and attractive.
[07:56.08]M: Many American movies center around these movie stars.
[08:03.08]What do you think about these kinds of American movies?
[08:06.47]W: I think these American movies do not reflect real life.
[08:10.74]They may be inventive or well-produced,
[08:14.12]and they may have famous stars and handsome actors,
[08:17.74]but the stories are so far from reality that they are not instructive or meaningful.
[08:23.42]M: So maybe these movies are more about the action;
[08:27.14]but there's no moral to the story.
[08:29.87]W: Exactly! I couldn't have put it better myself!
[08:33.16]M: What do you think about violence in movies?
[08:36.33]W: I don't like violent movies. They are not good for children.
[08:40.48]M: Why?
[08:41.36]W: Some movies harm children's concepts of love and innocence.
[08:46.07]Since they are young and naive,
[08:48.58]they may be moved to imitate the violence they see,
[08:52.19]which is surely harmful to their development.
[08:55.14]M: I agree. In the United States,
[08:57.77]most movies are rated in order to tell people
[09:00.28]what is appropriate for children.
[09:01.92]The ratings include “G”
[09:03.78]which means for the general audience including children,
[09:06.74]“PG” which recommends parental guidance for children,
[09:10.90]“PG 13” which strongly recommends parental guidance for children under 13,
[09:16.25]and “R” which is for adults.
[09:18.63]W: I see. So there are different ratings for different kinds of movies.
[09:24.31]There are different kinds of American movies,
[09:27.16]such as action movies and violent movies you mentioned earlier.
[09:30.77]I don't like these and I seldom watch them.
[09:34.27]Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[09:42.58]22. What can be inferred about American movies according to the conversation?
[10:04.41]23. Why are some movies detrimental to children?
[10:29.46]24. Do you think rating of films can solve all the problems that films have?
[10:53.61]25. What's the second speaker's attitude to these films?
[11:08.82]Section B
[11:14.18]Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages.
[11:20.30]At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions.
[11:24.57]Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.
[11:29.05]After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer
[11:33.76]from the four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D).
[11:39.01]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
[11:43.91]with a single line through the centre.
[11:46.31]Passage One
[11:48.83]Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago.
[11:54.44]Police records show a surprising relation
[11:58.05]between changes in the season and crime patterns.
[12:01.22]The pattern of crime has changed very little
[12:05.71]over a long period of the years.
[12:07.67]Murder reaches its high during July and August,
[12:12.05]as do other violent attacks.
[12:14.59]Murder, in addition, is more than seasonal; it is a weekend crime
[12:19.74]It is also a nighttime crime:
[12:22.36]62 percent of murders are committed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
[12:29.04]on a Saturday night in December, January, or February.
[12:32.86]Except for on strange statistic,
[12:36.14]May is the least criminal month of all.
[12:39.09]Apparently our intellectual season cycles
[12:42.93]are completely different from our criminal patterns.
[12:47.21]Professor Huntington made a lot of studies
[12:50.06]to discover the seasons when people read serious books,
[12:53.78]attend scientific meetings,
[12:55.96]and make the highest scores on examinations.
[12:58.81]In all examples, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak
[13:04.49]separated by a summer low.
[13:06.46]On the other hand, Professor Huntington's studies showed
[13:12.37]that June is the peak month for suicides
[13:14.34]and for admitting patients to mental hospital.
[13:17.40]June is also a peak month for marriages!
[13:20.90]Possibly, high temperature and humidity bring on
[13:25.17]our strange and surprising summer actions,
[13:27.46]but police officers are not sure.
[13:29.98]“There are, of course,
[13:32.28]no proof of a relation between humidity and murder”, they say.
[13:36.77]“Why murders high time should come in the summer time
[13:40.16]we really don't know”.
[13:42.14]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[13:48.98]26. What is this passage mainly about?
[14:11.55]27. According to the speaker, which is the safest month?
[14:32.64]28. What did Professor Huntington's research show?
[14:54.12]Passage Two
[14:55.87]“Go to the playground and have fun,”
[14:59.04]parents will often say to their kids.
[15:01.89]But they should remember playgrounds can be dangerous.
[15:05.71]Each year, about 200,000 children end up in hospital emergency rooms
[15:12.06]with playground injuries.
[15:13.59]Many injuries involve falls from too high equipment onto too hard surfaces.
[15:20.37]Nearly 70% of the injuries happen on public playgrounds.
[15:25.51]Recent studies show they may be badly designed,
[15:29.77]their protective services are inadequate
[15:32.62]and  their equipment is poorly maintained.
[15:35.25]Parents should make sure that the equipment in the playground is safe
[15:39.51]and their children are playing safely.
[15:41.80]Last year, the national program for playground safety
[15:46.83]gave the nation's playgrounds a grade of C for safety
[15:50.89]after visiting more than 3,000 playgrounds nationwide.
[15:54.38]Parents should watch closely.
[15:56.90]They should always be within shouting and running distance of their children.
[16:01.60]Young children don't understand cause and effect,
[16:04.99]so they may run in front of moving swings.
[16:08.28]They are also better at climbing up than getting down,
[16:10.90]so they may panic at the top of a ladder.
[16:14.51]It's important for the children to know you are watching them.
[16:18.01]Once they feel that sense of security, that's when they can be creative.
[16:22.93]Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[16:30.81]29. What is the cause of playground injuries?
[16:51.79]30. What should parents do to prevent playground injuries?
[17:17.39]31.  What does the speaker say about young children?
[17:32.56]Passage Three
[17:35.51]When my interest shifted from space to the sea,
[17:41.43]I never expected it would cause such confusion among my friends,
[17:47.00]yet I can understand their feelings.
[17:50.72]As I have been writing and talking about space flight
[17:54.99]for the best part of 20 years,
[17:57.61]a sudden switch of interest to the depth of the sea does seem peculiar.
[18:03.08]To explain, I'd like to share my reasons behind this  unusual change of mind.
[18:09.09]The first excuse I give is an economic one.
[18:13.25]Underwater exploration is so much cheaper than space flight.
[18:18.94]The first roundtrip ticket to the moon
[18:22.55]is going to cost at least 10 billion dollars
[18:25.93]if you include research and development.
[18:29.11]By the end of this century, the cost will be down to a few million.
[18:34.57]On the other hand,
[18:36.43]the diving suit and a set of basic tools needed for skin-diving
[18:41.13]can be bought for 20 dollars.
[18:43.32]My second argument is more philosophical.
[18:46.82]The ocean, surprisingly enough, has many things in common with space.
[18:52.40]In their different ways, both sea  and space are equally hostile.
[18:59.07]If we wish to survive in either for any length of time,
[19:04.21]we need to have mechanical aids.
[19:07.06]The diving suit helped the design of the space suit.
[19:11.87]The feelings and the emotions of a man beneath the sea
[19:16.02]will be much like those of a man beyond the atmosphere.
[19:20.62]Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[19:27.84]32. How did the speaker's friends respond to his change of interest?
[19:51.91]33. What is one of the reasons for the speaker
[19:58.17]to switch his interest to underwater exploration?
[20:14.43]34. In what way does the speaker think diving is similar to space travel?
[20:41.73]35. What is the speaker's purpose in giving this talk?
[21:02.16]Section C
[21:06.75]Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times.
[21:14.19]When the passage is read for the first time,
[21:17.47]you should listen carefully for its general idea.
[21:20.75]When the passage is read for the second time,
[21:24.80]you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43
[21:31.58]with the exact words you have just heard.
[21:34.21]For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required
[21:40.34]to fill in the missing information.
[21:42.74]For these blanks, you can either use the exact words
[21:47.88]you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words.
[21:52.80]Finally, when the passage is read for the third time,
[21:57.18]you should check what you have written.
[22:00.32]Now listen to the passage.
[22:03.38]The history of man's exploration of the earth extends over 5,000 years.
[22:11.04]The earliest cavemen explored in a very limited way:
[22:15.53]they had to go out to gather plants
[22:18.26]and hunt animals to feed themselves.
[22:20.34]Also, in order to feel more secure in their homes,
[22:24.06]they had to investigate their surroundings quite thoroughly.
[22:27.66]But the wider world remained a mystery to them.
[22:31.49]It was only later,
[22:33.46]once the necessities of life had been obtained,
[22:35.98]that people began to wonder what lay on the other side of the hill,
[22:40.25]whether the forest around them ever came to an end,
[22:43.42]or where the sun went after it had fallen into the sea.
[22:47.03]This curiosity caused them to discover previously  unknown lands and seas.
[22:53.26]The explorers of today are the astronauts
[22:56.76]and their territory is space,
[22:59.06]but this does not mean there is nothing left to explore on Earth.
[23:02.33]It is true that with the invention this century of jet aircraft and spaceships,
[23:08.13]every part of the world has been photographed and maps made of it.
[23:12.29]But there is still much left to find out.
[23:15.02]Enormous parts of other continents remain practically unknown.
[23:19.29]And yet all these places are nowadays comparatively easy to reach.
[23:24.43]There is little difference in attitude
[23:27.05]between the men sent into space in our time
[23:30.67]and the explorers of an earlier age.
[23:33.73]The universe is as mysterious and exciting for them
[23:36.57]as our planet seemed to the people in the past.
[23:39.20]Man's natural curiosity drives him on
[23:42.26]to explore the unknown and to travel
[23:44.89]where no one has traveled before, even at the risk of his life.
[23:52.68]The history of man's exploration of the earth extends over 5,000 years.
[23:58.59]The earliest cavemen explored in a very limited way:
[24:02.75]they had to go out to gather plants
[24:05.48]and hunt animals to feed themselves.
[24:07.67]Also, in order to feel more secure in their homes,
[24:12.04]they had to investigate their surroundings quite thoroughly.
[24:15.98]But the wider world remained a mystery to them.
[24:21.01]It was only later,
[24:22.00]once the necessities of life had been obtained,
[24:24.84]that people began to wonder what lay on the other side of the hill,
[24:29.87]whether the forest around them ever came to an end,
[24:33.05]or where the sun went after it had fallen into the sea.
[24:37.09]This curiosity caused them to discover previously  unknown lands and seas.
[24:43.32]The explorers of today are the astronauts
[24:45.84]and their territory is space,
[24:47.81]but this does not mean there is nothing left to explore on Earth.
[25:42.68]It is true that with the invention this century of jet aircraft and spaceships,
[25:47.93]every part of the world has been photographed and maps made of it.
[25:52.53]But there is still much left to find out.
[25:55.37]Enormous parts of other continents remain practically unknown.
[25:59.86]And yet all these places are nowadays comparatively easy to reach.
[26:53.75]There is little difference in attitude
[26:57.79]between the men sent into space in our time
[26:59.87]and the explorers of an earlier age.
[27:03.15]The universe is as mysterious and exciting for them
[27:05.89]as our planet seemed to the people in the past.
[27:09.60]Man's natural curiosity drives him on
[27:12.34]to explore the unknown and to travel
[27:14.64]where no one has traveled before, even at the risk of his life.
[28:07.79]The history of man's exploration of the earth extends over 5,000 years.
[28:15.67]The earliest cavemen explored in a very limited way:
[28:20.26]they had to go out to gather plants
[28:22.89]and hunt animals to feed themselves.
[28:24.85]Also, in order to feel more secure in their homes,
[28:28.57]they had to investigate their surroundings quite thoroughly.
[28:32.51]But the wider world remained a mystery to them.
[28:36.12]It was only later,
[28:38.36]once the necessities of life had been obtained,
[28:40.88]that people began to wonder what lay on the other side of the hill,
[28:45.03]whether the forest around them ever came to an end,
[28:48.31]or where the sun went after it had fallen into the sea.
[28:52.03]This curiosity caused them to discover previously  unknown lands and seas.
[28:58.27]The explorers of today are the astronauts
[29:01.54]and their territory is space,
[29:03.73]but this does not mean there is nothing left to explore on Earth.
[29:07.34]It is true that with the invention this century of jet aircraft and spaceships,
[29:12.92]every part of the world has been photographed and maps made of it.
[29:16.97]But there is still much left to find out.
[29:19.81]Enormous parts of other continents remain practically unknown.
[29:24.08]And yet all these places are nowadays comparatively easy to reach.
[29:29.43]There is little difference in attitude
[29:32.39]between the men sent into space in our time
[29:35.67]and the explorers of an earlier age.
[29:37.64]The universe is as mysterious and exciting for them
[29:41.36]as our planet seemed to the people in the past.
[29:44.09]Man's natural curiosity drives him on
[29:47.48]to explore the unknown and to travel
[29:50.11]where no one has traveled before, even at the risk of his life.