决胜英语四级听力必备 unit15

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[00:01.28]1. W: Let's have a look at the men.
[00:04.28]What can you recommend - that's fast and good?
[00:07.94]M: That sounds fine. I'll have mine rare.
[00:11.02]Q: What are they talking about?
[00:13.90]2. M:I hate them.I'm sure I've got a low IQ.
[00:18.36]W: Oh,cheer up!We didn't do too badly.
[00:21.63]The fellow next to me wrote his name at the top of the paper and looked at it for three hours.
[00:27.09]He didn't write a word.
[00:28.79]Q: What are they talking about?
[00:32.29]3.M: What did you think of your English test?
[00:36.00]W: I was expecting it to be easy.
[00:38.37]But at the end of the first hour.
[00:40.54]I was still on the first page.
[00:43.34]Q: What can we conclude from the above conversation?
[00:48.61]4. M: What's it going to be like this afternoon.
[00:52.14]I'd like to hear about those warm days and cool nights they promised us.
[00:56.61]W: He says it's going to be in the high sixties,cloudy and cool.
[01:01.20]Q: What are they talking about?
[01:05.59]5. M: Listen,I've got an idea.
[01:08.65]Let's go to a drive-in as we used to in the old days.
[01:12.33]W: Why should we freeze in our own comfortable jalopy,
[01:15.47]when we could be lounging in some plush theater?
[01:18.86]Q: What are they talking about?
[01:22.65]6. M: Ranger,thanks for taking the time to give us those tips.
[01:27.51]W: Not at all. Watch out for the bear.
[01:29.94]Don't leave any food around
[01:32.21]or you're liable to have an unwanted visitor.
[01:34.90]Q: What are they talking about?
[01:38.12]7. M: Do you want airmail or regular?
[01:41.72]W: Airmail.They're for overseas,France.
[01:45.01]Q: What are they talking about?
[01:48.51]8. W: Do you want a day course or an eveing course?
[01:48.62]M: Well,it will have to be an evening course since I work during the day.
[01:53.06]Q: What are they talking about?
[01:56.77]9. M: Do you prefer a one-storey or two - storey house?
[02:01.79]W: One-story,I think because there are no stairs to climb.
[02:06.17]Q: What are they talking about?
[02:09.21]10. M: It's mostly blue and green with a pattern of flowers in the middle.
[02:14.80]There's a dark green border.
[02:17.09]W: Yes,it matches the curtains well.
[02:20.52]We are going to put it down in the sitting room.
[02:23.44]Q: What are they talking about?
[02:26.94]Section B     Compound Dictation
[02:30.16]Any mistake made in the (11)-{printing} of a stamp raises its value to stamp (12)-{collectors
[02:35.93]A mistake on a (13)-{twopenny} stamp has made it worth a million and a half times its face value
[02:42.96]Do you think it (14)-{impossible
[02:45.15]Well,it is true,and this is how it (15)-{happened}.
[02:48.60]The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the former British (16)-{colony} of Mauritius.
[02:54.42]a small island in the Indian Ocean.
[02:57.45]In 1847,an order for stamps was sent to London.
[03:02.08]Mauritius was about to become the (17)-{fourth} country in the world to put out stamps.
[03:07.59]Before the order was filled and the stamps arrived from England.
[03:11.38]a big dance was planned by the Commander-in-chief of all the armed forces on the island.
[03:17.05](18)-{The dance would be held in his house.
[03:19.29]and letters of invitation would be sent to all the important people in Mauritius.
[03:24.36]Stamps were badly needed to post the letters.
[03:28.04]Therefore,an islander,who was a good printer.
[03:31.49]was told to copy the pattern of the stamps.
[03:34.57](19)-{He carelessly put the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid"
[03:39.35]two words seen on stamps at that time
[03:42.33]on the several hundred that he printed}.
[03:45.31]Today,there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left-fourteen One-penny Reds and twelve Two-penny Blue.
[03:55.13]Because there are so few Two-penny Blues and because of their age.
[03:59.76](20)-{collectors have paid as much as $ 16,800 for one of them}.