參考答案:
SECTION 1：LISTENING TEST
Part A: Spot Dictation
1. government success 2. talk about
3. press conferences 4. alert foreign correspondents
5. local officials 6. write their stories
7. eye witness 8. opposition politicians
9. check information 10. close to it
11. inform other people 12. in an interesting way
13. only one chance 14. element of repetition
15. at the start of a report 16. shorten
17. match the subject matter 18. royal wedding
19. plane crash 20. making it difficult to understand
Part B: Listening Comprehension
1-5 D B D C B 6-10 C A D A D
11-15 B A C A B 16-20 D A C B B
SECTION 2: READING TEST
1-5 A B A B C 6-10 B C C D B
11-15 C D C D B 16-20 C B D C B
SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST
自達爾文以來，生物學(xué)家們一直堅信，大自然的運作是沒有計劃的或者是沒有意義的，
它不會通過直接的設(shè)計途徑去追求目標。但是，今天我們知道，這一信念是個嚴重錯誤。
為什么恰如達爾文所理解和描述的進化就該是無計劃、無理性的呢？當(dāng)飛機設(shè)計工程師們
利用風(fēng)洞對大量的、根據(jù)統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)制造的機體模型的耐用性能進行檢試，以從中選出功能
的設(shè)計時，物理學(xué)家經(jīng)過上萬次的計算機運算，試圖找出是哪些材料、以怎樣的結(jié)合
方式、以及什么的結(jié)構(gòu)形式才最適宜用于原子核反應(yīng)堆的建造時，我們能夠說這中間沒有
自然選擇的過程么？他們也未進行事先設(shè)計的適應(yīng)性調(diào)節(jié)，而是根據(jù)選擇原理開展工作
的。但是人們從未認為這種方法是無計劃、無理性的。
SECTION 4：LISTENING TEST
Part A：Note taking and Gap filling
1. labor saving 2. vacuum
3. electrical 4. dishwasher
5. time-consuming 6. models/types/kinds
7. twelve 8. water
9. cutlery 10. detergent
11. turn/switch 12. saucepans/pans
13. solid 14. dries
15. medium-sized 16. once
17. enough 18. meals
19. noisy 20. last
Part B：Listening and Translation
Ⅰ. Sentence Translation
（1）這是本世紀內(nèi)襲擊該地區(qū)的最嚴重的颶風(fēng)，但是至今未收到有關(guān)破壞或傷亡的報告。
（2）我剛收到香港辦事處邁克爾的電話，他需要最新的銷售數(shù)字，你能否明天上午一上
班就把數(shù)字傳真給他？
（3）如果你能在周末以前約個時間來見我們，我們將能告訴你我們的決定。
（4）在今年剩下的這段時間里，美國經(jīng)濟將有穩(wěn)定的發(fā)展，失業(yè)率下降，通貨膨脹得到
控制。
（5）總統(tǒng)說政府正在鼓勵大企業(yè)在該國、特別是在東南沿海地區(qū)投資。
Ⅱ. Passage Translation
（1）倫敦的旅游季節(jié)過去主要是夏季數(shù)月，現(xiàn)在已全年如此。每年約有1500萬人來英國，
其中大部分游客在倫敦至少要住幾天。但倫敦不僅所旅游城市，它是行政中心，女王
的住地。它還是英國的金融中心。
（2）加拿大幅員遼闊，其面積僅次于俄羅斯?？墒撬挥?600萬人口，是聯(lián)合王國人口
的一半還不到。國土的三分之一覆蓋著森林，還有大片的草原，無數(shù)的湖泊和河流。
其氣候差異甚大。除了溫哥華以外，冬天異常寒冷。溫哥華由于地處西海岸，氣候較
溫和。加拿大的夏天總的來說天氣暖和，特別是內(nèi)陸地區(qū)，因此你只需要輕薄的衣服。
SECTION 5：READING TEST
1． Because the chatline company provides sex lines to British callers and it breaks industry
rules of advertisement.
2． The company offers sex line to callers from Britain without using the British 0898 numbers.
The callers have to ring phone numbers in the Virgin Isles first and then they are given
Guyanan numbers for the chatline service, thus the company earns more money in the
process. The company didn’t give the countries of origin in their advertisement.
3． Because the routing between Britain and Guyana is relatively simple and direct, BT could
not isolate the 52 numbers involved. The High Court also prevents BT from taking such
action until a full hearing is heard from both sides.
4． Tanning in the sun may cause skin cancer while a tanning salon may be awfully expensive.
5． The hormone may also prevent aging of skin. In addition, it might hep to cure vitligo, a
disease that causes a progressive depigmentation of the skin.
6． After application (taken orally or applied topically), the hormone (Melano-Tan) would enter
the bloodstream and systematically tan the entire body; Initial tanning would begin in two or
three days and a dark, uniform tan could be achieved within two weeks.
7． Professor Ordman found that taking vitamin C twice a day (one 500mg dose every 12 hours)
can keep blood levels of the vitamin continuously high. He was not definte/certain about
vitamin C’s anti-oxidant properties.
8． Because Pauling’s book on vitamin C popularized the idea of taking large doses of vitamin
C. He is also known for taking huge doses/megadoses of vitamin C every day.
9． The sentence can be paraphrased as;However, most of the vitamin taken becomes/is
useless//has no effects//brings no obvious effects.
10. Megadoses of vitamin C have some protective effect against the common cold. However
there is no evidence of a beneficial effect against other diseases (such as heart disease,
cancer and ageing process.)
SECTION 6：TRANSLATION TEST
In October 1995, another bridge flew to span the Huangpu River, connecting Punan with
Fengxian. This Fengpu Bridge is the fourth Huangpu River bridge completed and open to traffic
after the Xupu, Nanpu and Yangpu bridges.
The Fengpu Bridge is the first bridge across the Huangpu River built with funds totaling
446 million yuan jointly raised by the departments concerned and enterprises of Fengxian
County and urban districts of the City. It was successfully completed in one year and 7 months
only. The completion of the bridge has solved the problem of crossing the Huangpu River that
bothered the residents in Fengxian and Punan for a long time. It has also improved the
investment environment in the area and laid a good foundation for the development and
construction on the north bank of the Hangzhou Bay.
In the golden autumn of October, the Xupu, Nanpu, Yangpu and Fengpu Bridges on the
Huangpu River, bathed in the golden sunshine, show their distinctive features and enhance each
other’s magnificence, adding more luster to Shanghai, a cosmopolis that is full off charm and
vitality. In the near future, Shanghai is going to build more facilities across the river to link both
banks of the Huangpu River closer.
聽力測試題錄音文字稿：
SECTION 1：LISTENING TEST
Part A：Spot Dictation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with
blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write
your answer in the corresponding space in your answer booklet. Remember you will hear the
passage only once. Now let’s begin Part A with Spot Dictation.
News can be something the authorities want you to know, or something they would rather
keep secret. An announcement of a government success, a denial of a ailure, or, a secret scandal
that nobody really wants you to talk about.
If the authorities want to tell the world some good news, they issue statements,
communiqués, and call press conferences. Or politicians make speeches. Local newspapers,
radio and television help to alert foreign correspondents to what is going on. And by making
contacts with local officials, journalists can ask for more information or explanation to help them
write their stories.
Unless the correspondent is an eye-witness, it’s rare to trust any single source. Officials
have a policy to defend, and opposition politicians want to attack it. Rumor and gossip can also
confuse the situation. So, you have to check information as much as possible using common
sense and experience as final checks to help establish just what’s likely to be the truth, or close
to it.
Just getting the news is only half the job. A correspondent may be well-informed, but his
job is to inform other people, the public. So once the information is available it has to be written
in an interesting way which is also easily understood. Particularly for radio, since, while a
newspaper reader can turn back and re-read a sentence or two, the radio listener has only one
chance. This also means that only a limited number of facts can be contained in a sentence, that
there should be an element of repetition. And vital information necessary to understand the latest
development should be presented at the start of a report-in case the producer of a news program
decides to shorten an item, by cutting for example the last sentence or two.
Finally, the style of presentation must match the subject matter. A cheerful voice might be
perfect for a royal wedding. But it would be sadly out of place for a report of a plane crash. And
this would also confuse and distract the listener, probably making it difficult to understand just
what had happened and to whom.
Part B：Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test, there will be some short talks and conversations. After each
one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken
only once. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and
write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your answer booklet.
Now let’s begin Part B with Listening Comprehension.
Questions 1~5 are based on the following conversation.
FRED: Well, Vic, I’m sure all our listeners would love to be brought up to date on the latest in
tiny television.
VIC: It’s an expanding market, Fred, that’s for sure, and they seem to be getting smaller
every year.
FRED: Which countries are dominating the market?
VIC: At the moment it’s Japan, principally. In the spring of 1982 Sony introduced the
passage only once. Now let’s begin Part A with Spot Dictation.
News can be something the authorities want you to know, or something they would rather
keep secret. An announcement of a government success, a denial of a ailure, or, a secret scandal
that nobody really wants you to talk about.
If the authorities want to tell the world some good news, they issue statements,
communiqués, and call press conferences. Or politicians make speeches. Local newspapers,
radio and television help to alert foreign correspondents to what is going on. And by making
contacts with local officials, journalists can ask for more information or explanation to help them
write their stories.
Unless the correspondent is an eye-witness, it’s rare to trust any single source. Officials
have a policy to defend, and opposition politicians want to attack it. Rumor and gossip can also
confuse the situation. So, you have to check information as much as possible using common
sense and experience as final checks to help establish just what’s likely to be the truth, or close
to it.
Just getting the news is only half the job. A correspondent may be well-informed, but his
job is to inform other people, the public. So once the information is available it has to be written
in an interesting way which is also easily understood. Particularly for radio, since, while a
newspaper reader can turn back and re-read a sentence or two, the radio listener has only one
chance. This also means that only a limited number of facts can be contained in a sentence, that
there should be an element of repetition. And vital information necessary to understand the latest
development should be presented at the start of a report-in case the producer of a news program
decides to shorten an item, by cutting for example the last sentence or two.
Finally, the style of presentation must match the subject matter. A cheerful voice might be
perfect for a royal wedding. But it would be sadly out of place for a report of a plane crash. And
this would also confuse and distract the listener, probably making it difficult to understand just
what had happened and to whom.
Part B：Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test, there will be some short talks and conversations. After each
one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken
only once. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and
write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your answer booklet.
Now let’s begin Part B with Listening Comprehension.
Questions 1~5 are based on the following conversation.
FRED: Well, Vic, I’m sure all our listeners would love to be brought up to date on the latest in
tiny television.
VIC: It’s an expanding market, Fred, that’s for sure, and they seem to be getting smaller
every year.
FRED: Which countries are dominating the market?
VIC: At the moment it’s Japan, principally. In the spring of 1982 Sony introduced the
VIC: Yes, Casio—that’s C—A—S—I—O. Their latest is a calculator-sized TV about
one-third the bulk of the Watchman and with 1983 production figures of 2000 units a
month.
FRED: I see.
VIC: And, according to a spokesman, they hope to match their calculator sales, which are
about 25 million units per year.
FRED: Very impressive. And no doubt other Japanese companies will jump on the
bandwagon.
VIC: Most likely.
FRED: Now, could you tell us about other countries making these tiny TVs?
VIC: Of course. From Sinclair in England there’s one similar in size to the Casio, and their
production levels were 1 million for 1983.
FRED: Obviously they’re planning on backing a winner!
VIC: How right you are. A representative said they expect a mass-market response, not just
as a novelty item.
FRED: And just which market are the manufacturers aiming at?
VIC: Mainly the commuters who spend hours going to and from work. These tiny TVs will
provide relief from the monotonous train and bus rides.
FRED: Well, Vic, thanks for keeping us in touch with this extremely popular gadget.
VIC: My pleasure, and happy viewing to all of you with those wee TVs.
Question No.1. What is being discussed in the talk?
Question No.2. When was this product recommended to the public?
Question No.3. Which of the following companies first introduced this product?
Question No.4. Which group of people are most likely to form the main market for this
product?
Question No.5. According to the talk, which of the following is true about its market?
Questions 6~10 are based on the following conversation.
Male: How many different countries do you think you’ve been to?
Female: Once I made a count of how many countries I’d hitchhiked through and it came to
twenty eight. So if you add on a few more for those where I haven’t hitched, I imagine
it comes to about forty by now.
Male: About forty! And are there any of these that you feel you really would like to go back
to?
Female: Two that I could actually live in I think. One would be the west coast of Canada
because I think that had everything to offer. It was rich culturally, it was very bright, it
had a very pleasant climate, slightly improved on Britain. It had the Rocky Mountains
behind, loads of coastline, um, a lot going on both day and night, a large university,
and it was just near America if you felt like crossing the border. The other place I liked,
but more for a holiday, was Sardinia, which I found was one of the quietest, most
unspoilt parts of Europe that I’ve seen.
Male: What is it about traveling that makes you want to keep doing it?
Female: I think it’s the one time when I feel completely alive every minute of the day. I also
feel I have a tremendous amount of experience to bring back every time I’ve traveled,
there’s so much to share with other people. I feel I’ve got, sort of, two hundred per
cent of me to give once I come back. But when I’m actually doing it, you’re free from
all the bounds of routine, you’re free from the assumptions people make about you.
You’re free from the inhibitons that cause you not to fully be yourself and enjoy
yourself because of what people might think and so on.
Male: But it can also be a little bit dangerous at times too, can’t it?
Female: It can certainly be dangerous if you’re doing it alone. I avoid traveling alone whenever
I can. I mostly go with people I know very well and this is part of the traveler
discovering the person you’re traveling with and discovering the differences in taste
and the similarities in taste. But, um the most dangerous situation I found myself in
was nearly being knifed here in Devon, in Tlfracombe. But apart from that, I was on a
train in Hungary where there was a murder in the loo, and we were kept for 10 hours
while they investigated why somebody had been stabbed in the loo. I’ve also slept,
voluntarily, in a prison in Norway and another prison in Germany. Um and in one of
them we were locked in and heard the other prisoners shouting and banging on the
doors and that felt quite frightening. Um I managed to get right into the center of the
Middle East war through no choice of my own. They wouldn’t let us out of the plane
and we were caught throughout the whole war in the country and couldn’t get around
at all. That felt as if you were living on a knife edge; we were lying there
contemplating quite coolly whether, if you were living on a knife edge; we were lying
there contemplating quite coolly whether, if there was an air raid, we should actually
go into the shelter or allow ourselves to be killed on the spot. And, er there are
certainly risks and I think more so when you do travel alone, so I try and avoid it.
Question No.6. How many countries has the woman been to?
Question No.7. Which place does the woman seem to like most?
Question No.8. Considering that traveling can be dangerous at times, what does the woman
do?
Question No.9. Which of the following is true about the woman?
Question No.10. Why does the woman want to keep traveling?
Questions 11~15 are based on the following news.
SECTION 1：LISTENING TEST
Part A: Spot Dictation
1. government success 2. talk about
3. press conferences 4. alert foreign correspondents
5. local officials 6. write their stories
7. eye witness 8. opposition politicians
9. check information 10. close to it
11. inform other people 12. in an interesting way
13. only one chance 14. element of repetition
15. at the start of a report 16. shorten
17. match the subject matter 18. royal wedding
19. plane crash 20. making it difficult to understand
Part B: Listening Comprehension
1-5 D B D C B 6-10 C A D A D
11-15 B A C A B 16-20 D A C B B
SECTION 2: READING TEST
1-5 A B A B C 6-10 B C C D B
11-15 C D C D B 16-20 C B D C B
SECTION 3: TRANSLATION TEST
自達爾文以來，生物學(xué)家們一直堅信，大自然的運作是沒有計劃的或者是沒有意義的，
它不會通過直接的設(shè)計途徑去追求目標。但是，今天我們知道，這一信念是個嚴重錯誤。
為什么恰如達爾文所理解和描述的進化就該是無計劃、無理性的呢？當(dāng)飛機設(shè)計工程師們
利用風(fēng)洞對大量的、根據(jù)統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)制造的機體模型的耐用性能進行檢試，以從中選出功能
的設(shè)計時，物理學(xué)家經(jīng)過上萬次的計算機運算，試圖找出是哪些材料、以怎樣的結(jié)合
方式、以及什么的結(jié)構(gòu)形式才最適宜用于原子核反應(yīng)堆的建造時，我們能夠說這中間沒有
自然選擇的過程么？他們也未進行事先設(shè)計的適應(yīng)性調(diào)節(jié)，而是根據(jù)選擇原理開展工作
的。但是人們從未認為這種方法是無計劃、無理性的。
SECTION 4：LISTENING TEST
Part A：Note taking and Gap filling
1. labor saving 2. vacuum
3. electrical 4. dishwasher
5. time-consuming 6. models/types/kinds
7. twelve 8. water
9. cutlery 10. detergent
11. turn/switch 12. saucepans/pans
13. solid 14. dries
15. medium-sized 16. once
17. enough 18. meals
19. noisy 20. last
Part B：Listening and Translation
Ⅰ. Sentence Translation
（1）這是本世紀內(nèi)襲擊該地區(qū)的最嚴重的颶風(fēng)，但是至今未收到有關(guān)破壞或傷亡的報告。
（2）我剛收到香港辦事處邁克爾的電話，他需要最新的銷售數(shù)字，你能否明天上午一上
班就把數(shù)字傳真給他？
（3）如果你能在周末以前約個時間來見我們，我們將能告訴你我們的決定。
（4）在今年剩下的這段時間里，美國經(jīng)濟將有穩(wěn)定的發(fā)展，失業(yè)率下降，通貨膨脹得到
控制。
（5）總統(tǒng)說政府正在鼓勵大企業(yè)在該國、特別是在東南沿海地區(qū)投資。
Ⅱ. Passage Translation
（1）倫敦的旅游季節(jié)過去主要是夏季數(shù)月，現(xiàn)在已全年如此。每年約有1500萬人來英國，
其中大部分游客在倫敦至少要住幾天。但倫敦不僅所旅游城市，它是行政中心，女王
的住地。它還是英國的金融中心。
（2）加拿大幅員遼闊，其面積僅次于俄羅斯?？墒撬挥?600萬人口，是聯(lián)合王國人口
的一半還不到。國土的三分之一覆蓋著森林，還有大片的草原，無數(shù)的湖泊和河流。
其氣候差異甚大。除了溫哥華以外，冬天異常寒冷。溫哥華由于地處西海岸，氣候較
溫和。加拿大的夏天總的來說天氣暖和，特別是內(nèi)陸地區(qū)，因此你只需要輕薄的衣服。
SECTION 5：READING TEST
1． Because the chatline company provides sex lines to British callers and it breaks industry
rules of advertisement.
2． The company offers sex line to callers from Britain without using the British 0898 numbers.
The callers have to ring phone numbers in the Virgin Isles first and then they are given
Guyanan numbers for the chatline service, thus the company earns more money in the
process. The company didn’t give the countries of origin in their advertisement.
3． Because the routing between Britain and Guyana is relatively simple and direct, BT could
not isolate the 52 numbers involved. The High Court also prevents BT from taking such
action until a full hearing is heard from both sides.
4． Tanning in the sun may cause skin cancer while a tanning salon may be awfully expensive.
5． The hormone may also prevent aging of skin. In addition, it might hep to cure vitligo, a
disease that causes a progressive depigmentation of the skin.
6． After application (taken orally or applied topically), the hormone (Melano-Tan) would enter
the bloodstream and systematically tan the entire body; Initial tanning would begin in two or
three days and a dark, uniform tan could be achieved within two weeks.
7． Professor Ordman found that taking vitamin C twice a day (one 500mg dose every 12 hours)
can keep blood levels of the vitamin continuously high. He was not definte/certain about
vitamin C’s anti-oxidant properties.
8． Because Pauling’s book on vitamin C popularized the idea of taking large doses of vitamin
C. He is also known for taking huge doses/megadoses of vitamin C every day.
9． The sentence can be paraphrased as;However, most of the vitamin taken becomes/is
useless//has no effects//brings no obvious effects.
10. Megadoses of vitamin C have some protective effect against the common cold. However
there is no evidence of a beneficial effect against other diseases (such as heart disease,
cancer and ageing process.)
SECTION 6：TRANSLATION TEST
In October 1995, another bridge flew to span the Huangpu River, connecting Punan with
Fengxian. This Fengpu Bridge is the fourth Huangpu River bridge completed and open to traffic
after the Xupu, Nanpu and Yangpu bridges.
The Fengpu Bridge is the first bridge across the Huangpu River built with funds totaling
446 million yuan jointly raised by the departments concerned and enterprises of Fengxian
County and urban districts of the City. It was successfully completed in one year and 7 months
only. The completion of the bridge has solved the problem of crossing the Huangpu River that
bothered the residents in Fengxian and Punan for a long time. It has also improved the
investment environment in the area and laid a good foundation for the development and
construction on the north bank of the Hangzhou Bay.
In the golden autumn of October, the Xupu, Nanpu, Yangpu and Fengpu Bridges on the
Huangpu River, bathed in the golden sunshine, show their distinctive features and enhance each
other’s magnificence, adding more luster to Shanghai, a cosmopolis that is full off charm and
vitality. In the near future, Shanghai is going to build more facilities across the river to link both
banks of the Huangpu River closer.
聽力測試題錄音文字稿：
SECTION 1：LISTENING TEST
Part A：Spot Dictation
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with
blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write
your answer in the corresponding space in your answer booklet. Remember you will hear the
passage only once. Now let’s begin Part A with Spot Dictation.
News can be something the authorities want you to know, or something they would rather
keep secret. An announcement of a government success, a denial of a ailure, or, a secret scandal
that nobody really wants you to talk about.
If the authorities want to tell the world some good news, they issue statements,
communiqués, and call press conferences. Or politicians make speeches. Local newspapers,
radio and television help to alert foreign correspondents to what is going on. And by making
contacts with local officials, journalists can ask for more information or explanation to help them
write their stories.
Unless the correspondent is an eye-witness, it’s rare to trust any single source. Officials
have a policy to defend, and opposition politicians want to attack it. Rumor and gossip can also
confuse the situation. So, you have to check information as much as possible using common
sense and experience as final checks to help establish just what’s likely to be the truth, or close
to it.
Just getting the news is only half the job. A correspondent may be well-informed, but his
job is to inform other people, the public. So once the information is available it has to be written
in an interesting way which is also easily understood. Particularly for radio, since, while a
newspaper reader can turn back and re-read a sentence or two, the radio listener has only one
chance. This also means that only a limited number of facts can be contained in a sentence, that
there should be an element of repetition. And vital information necessary to understand the latest
development should be presented at the start of a report-in case the producer of a news program
decides to shorten an item, by cutting for example the last sentence or two.
Finally, the style of presentation must match the subject matter. A cheerful voice might be
perfect for a royal wedding. But it would be sadly out of place for a report of a plane crash. And
this would also confuse and distract the listener, probably making it difficult to understand just
what had happened and to whom.
Part B：Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test, there will be some short talks and conversations. After each
one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken
only once. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and
write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your answer booklet.
Now let’s begin Part B with Listening Comprehension.
Questions 1~5 are based on the following conversation.
FRED: Well, Vic, I’m sure all our listeners would love to be brought up to date on the latest in
tiny television.
VIC: It’s an expanding market, Fred, that’s for sure, and they seem to be getting smaller
every year.
FRED: Which countries are dominating the market?
VIC: At the moment it’s Japan, principally. In the spring of 1982 Sony introduced the
passage only once. Now let’s begin Part A with Spot Dictation.
News can be something the authorities want you to know, or something they would rather
keep secret. An announcement of a government success, a denial of a ailure, or, a secret scandal
that nobody really wants you to talk about.
If the authorities want to tell the world some good news, they issue statements,
communiqués, and call press conferences. Or politicians make speeches. Local newspapers,
radio and television help to alert foreign correspondents to what is going on. And by making
contacts with local officials, journalists can ask for more information or explanation to help them
write their stories.
Unless the correspondent is an eye-witness, it’s rare to trust any single source. Officials
have a policy to defend, and opposition politicians want to attack it. Rumor and gossip can also
confuse the situation. So, you have to check information as much as possible using common
sense and experience as final checks to help establish just what’s likely to be the truth, or close
to it.
Just getting the news is only half the job. A correspondent may be well-informed, but his
job is to inform other people, the public. So once the information is available it has to be written
in an interesting way which is also easily understood. Particularly for radio, since, while a
newspaper reader can turn back and re-read a sentence or two, the radio listener has only one
chance. This also means that only a limited number of facts can be contained in a sentence, that
there should be an element of repetition. And vital information necessary to understand the latest
development should be presented at the start of a report-in case the producer of a news program
decides to shorten an item, by cutting for example the last sentence or two.
Finally, the style of presentation must match the subject matter. A cheerful voice might be
perfect for a royal wedding. But it would be sadly out of place for a report of a plane crash. And
this would also confuse and distract the listener, probably making it difficult to understand just
what had happened and to whom.
Part B：Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test, there will be some short talks and conversations. After each
one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken
only once. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and
write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your answer booklet.
Now let’s begin Part B with Listening Comprehension.
Questions 1~5 are based on the following conversation.
FRED: Well, Vic, I’m sure all our listeners would love to be brought up to date on the latest in
tiny television.
VIC: It’s an expanding market, Fred, that’s for sure, and they seem to be getting smaller
every year.
FRED: Which countries are dominating the market?
VIC: At the moment it’s Japan, principally. In the spring of 1982 Sony introduced the
VIC: Yes, Casio—that’s C—A—S—I—O. Their latest is a calculator-sized TV about
one-third the bulk of the Watchman and with 1983 production figures of 2000 units a
month.
FRED: I see.
VIC: And, according to a spokesman, they hope to match their calculator sales, which are
about 25 million units per year.
FRED: Very impressive. And no doubt other Japanese companies will jump on the
bandwagon.
VIC: Most likely.
FRED: Now, could you tell us about other countries making these tiny TVs?
VIC: Of course. From Sinclair in England there’s one similar in size to the Casio, and their
production levels were 1 million for 1983.
FRED: Obviously they’re planning on backing a winner!
VIC: How right you are. A representative said they expect a mass-market response, not just
as a novelty item.
FRED: And just which market are the manufacturers aiming at?
VIC: Mainly the commuters who spend hours going to and from work. These tiny TVs will
provide relief from the monotonous train and bus rides.
FRED: Well, Vic, thanks for keeping us in touch with this extremely popular gadget.
VIC: My pleasure, and happy viewing to all of you with those wee TVs.
Question No.1. What is being discussed in the talk?
Question No.2. When was this product recommended to the public?
Question No.3. Which of the following companies first introduced this product?
Question No.4. Which group of people are most likely to form the main market for this
product?
Question No.5. According to the talk, which of the following is true about its market?
Questions 6~10 are based on the following conversation.
Male: How many different countries do you think you’ve been to?
Female: Once I made a count of how many countries I’d hitchhiked through and it came to
twenty eight. So if you add on a few more for those where I haven’t hitched, I imagine
it comes to about forty by now.
Male: About forty! And are there any of these that you feel you really would like to go back
to?
Female: Two that I could actually live in I think. One would be the west coast of Canada
because I think that had everything to offer. It was rich culturally, it was very bright, it
had a very pleasant climate, slightly improved on Britain. It had the Rocky Mountains
behind, loads of coastline, um, a lot going on both day and night, a large university,
and it was just near America if you felt like crossing the border. The other place I liked,
but more for a holiday, was Sardinia, which I found was one of the quietest, most
unspoilt parts of Europe that I’ve seen.
Male: What is it about traveling that makes you want to keep doing it?
Female: I think it’s the one time when I feel completely alive every minute of the day. I also
feel I have a tremendous amount of experience to bring back every time I’ve traveled,
there’s so much to share with other people. I feel I’ve got, sort of, two hundred per
cent of me to give once I come back. But when I’m actually doing it, you’re free from
all the bounds of routine, you’re free from the assumptions people make about you.
You’re free from the inhibitons that cause you not to fully be yourself and enjoy
yourself because of what people might think and so on.
Male: But it can also be a little bit dangerous at times too, can’t it?
Female: It can certainly be dangerous if you’re doing it alone. I avoid traveling alone whenever
I can. I mostly go with people I know very well and this is part of the traveler
discovering the person you’re traveling with and discovering the differences in taste
and the similarities in taste. But, um the most dangerous situation I found myself in
was nearly being knifed here in Devon, in Tlfracombe. But apart from that, I was on a
train in Hungary where there was a murder in the loo, and we were kept for 10 hours
while they investigated why somebody had been stabbed in the loo. I’ve also slept,
voluntarily, in a prison in Norway and another prison in Germany. Um and in one of
them we were locked in and heard the other prisoners shouting and banging on the
doors and that felt quite frightening. Um I managed to get right into the center of the
Middle East war through no choice of my own. They wouldn’t let us out of the plane
and we were caught throughout the whole war in the country and couldn’t get around
at all. That felt as if you were living on a knife edge; we were lying there
contemplating quite coolly whether, if you were living on a knife edge; we were lying
there contemplating quite coolly whether, if there was an air raid, we should actually
go into the shelter or allow ourselves to be killed on the spot. And, er there are
certainly risks and I think more so when you do travel alone, so I try and avoid it.
Question No.6. How many countries has the woman been to?
Question No.7. Which place does the woman seem to like most?
Question No.8. Considering that traveling can be dangerous at times, what does the woman
do?
Question No.9. Which of the following is true about the woman?
Question No.10. Why does the woman want to keep traveling?
Questions 11~15 are based on the following news.