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【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[听力原文] M: Do you know the thing that's always struck me as odd about opinion polls? W: What's that? M: The percentages. Like recently there was a survey about what people thought about traffic, and petrol prices, and public car parks. In some car parks it now costs something like 5 pounds to park a car for half an hour. W: Yeah, but I don't see what you're getting at. M: What I mean is the percentages in the results. So there might be 70% of people who complained about high petrol prices, and 60% who want to see the traffic reduced, and 65% who think car park charges are too high. Does that mean that there are 35% who actually think the charges are OK and would even be prepared to pay more, and another 30% who think petrol prices are OK? I mean that's absurd. I don't know anyone who doesn't think they're too high. W: Well, actually I think we should pay more. M: Come on, you're joking. W: No, seriously. I think we should pay more for petrol, even twice as much maybe, and certainly far more for inner city car parks. M: But why? W: More taxes should be charged on petrol, I think, to discourage people from using cars, and a kind of graded charging system for car parks depending on how far they are from the city center. M: What do you mean? W: Well, if you park your car quite far from the city center then you pay a nominal amount as a kind of reward for not polluting the city center. Well, the closer you get to the center, the more you are penalized. Prices in the center should be totally prohibitive. I mean with an efficient bus or train service there's no excuse for using cars. M: Yeah, but you can't penalize people who don't use their car to go into town. I mean if you doubled the price of petrol, it would cost people a fortune to go anywhere, even on short trips, and especially on holidays. W: Don't use your car then. Use a train. M: But what about lorries? I mean they use a lot of petrol to transport goods from one place to another. W: So what's to stop these goods from being transported by train or even via canal? M: Well, anyway, I still can't believe that 30% of those people who said car park charges were OK all think the same as you. W: Well, maybe that's where you are wrong. Just think about what I've said and you'll realize that perhaps it's not so stupid as it sounds. What items are surveyed in the opinion poll according to the man? 对话开头男士说意见调查总是让他觉得很奇怪,他解释到是百分比,比如最近有一个人们对交通、油价和公共停车的调查。A列举了这三项,与原文一致,故正确。
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【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文] What does the man find absurd about the survey? 问题问男士觉得关于调查,什么是荒谬的。对话中男士说他结果中的百分比不理解,接着举例解释说,70%的人抱怨油价高,难道另外30%的人就觉得价格是可以的?那太荒谬了。由此可知C“表明有些人愿意付高价”是答案。A“三种不同的事物在一个调查中询问”、B“调查结果与人们的预期相反”和D“相比驾车,有人更愿意坐公交车或火车”都不对。
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【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[听力原文] What is the woman's view about car parking? 问题问女士对停车的看法,女士对停车提出了分级收费系统的想法,即取决于隔市中心有多远。离得越近,收费越高。B项用the charge同义替换了原文中的you are penalized。女士并没有觉得停车是offenses“过错”,故A“人们应该要对停车过错受罚”不对。C“停车费要尽可以设高”和D“人们不应该停车超过半小时”都与对话不符。
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【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[听力原文] What problem is the woman most concerned about? 女士提到分级停车收费时,解释说,如果人们停在离市中心很远的地方,象征性地付一点就行,因为没有给市中心带来污染(for not polluting the city center),由此可知女士最关心的是B“市中心的污染”。A“城市中严重的交通”、B“公共交通的效率”和D“建停车场的高费用”都不是女士最关心的。
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【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文] What is the man's attitude towards the opinion poll? ①选项都是表态度的形容词,问题应与此相关。②男士从一开始就对问卷调查提出质疑,最后他又说,不管怎么样,我不相信……。C项skeptical“怀疑的”与still can't believe意思一致,为答案。男士在对话中问了好几个问题,因此他更多的是对结论的怀疑,而不是D项“批评的”。