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听力题Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to help secure America''s energy future?
President Bush (36)________thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR''s oil would help ease California''s electricity (37)________and provide a major boost to the country''s energy (38)________. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the (39)________earth with the last government survey, (40)________in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels.
The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of US (41)________for as long as six years. By pumping more than one million barrels a day from the (42)________for the next two or three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports (43)________to all shipments to the US from Saudi Arabia. It sounds good. (44)________________.
Not so far, say environmentalists. Sticking to the low end of government estimates, the National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America''s energy problems. (45)________________ because drilling could only begin after much bargaining over leases, environmental permits and regulatory review. As for ANWR''s impact on the California power crisis, (46)________________.
听力题 Cats have been popular pets for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians are thought to have been the first to keep cats in their homes. Today, people like cats for many reasons. Cats are easy to. care for. They are soft and beautiful and they can catch mice!
A cat is a natural hunter. It has a good sense of hearing. Its sense of smell is well developed, too. Its eyes can detect the smallest movements. With its powerful legs it can run after its prey and jump to catch it.
A pet cat that is fed every day does not need to hunt for food. But it may go after a mouse anyway. This is because hunting is an instinct in cats. They are born with this ability.
Cats have other instincts as well. They purr when they are happy. They arch their backs and puff up their fur when they are afraid. Cats also scratch objects with their front claws. Some people think cats scratch to sharpen their claws. Others think this action helps exercise their legs and feet. Both reasons may be true.
There are many breeds of cats. Some have long hair, others have short hair. Their coats can have different colors and patterns. Cats have different personalities, too. Some use their voices a lot. Others are silent. Some are shy, while others are friendly. Many people enjoy having these animals as companions.
Cats have been popular pets for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians are thought to have been the first to keep cats in their homes. Today, people like cats for many reasons. Cats are easy to. care for. They are soft and beautiful and they can catch mice!
A cat is a natural hunter. It has a good sense of hearing. Its sense of smell is well developed, too. Its eyes can detect the smallest movements. With its powerful legs it can run after its prey and jump to catch it.
A pet cat that is fed every day does not need to hunt for food. But it may go after a mouse anyway. This is because hunting is an instinct in cats. They are born with this ability.
Cats have other instincts as well. They purr when they are happy. They arch their backs and puff up their fur when they are afraid. Cats also scratch objects with their front claws. Some people think cats scratch to sharpen their claws. Others think this action helps exercise their legs and feet. Both reasons may be true.
There are many breeds of cats. Some have long hair, others have short hair. Their coats can have different colors and patterns. Cats have different personalities, too. Some use their voices a lot. Others are silent. Some are shy, while others are friendly. Many people enjoy having these animals as companions.
听力题 Education has encountered a kind of embarrassment in modern times. We are becoming unsatisfied with years of patient practice before working as a skilled craftsman. Nowadays if we want to get a decent job, we have to possess a piece of paper. Without a certificate or a diploma, you can hardly get promotion in even the humblest job.
We may know that we will be better at the job than the man with the paper qualifications, but our experience and practical skills are regarded as relatively unimportant compared with that. On more than one occasion we can hear such remarks as "Jack would have been a manager if he had taken pains to get a degree." "Given the same chance, he could have done even better. But he didn''t receive a proper education!"
I wonder if we would discover that many so called unqualified people but with practical experience and ability would have been rejected while those paper qualifiers confused before complicated blueprints and machine parts. Wouldn''t it be better to allow people become expert in a way most suited to them? To feed them a set of instruction courses blindly may offer no opportunity for them to develop skills. It''s high time for educators to work out new training measures.
Education has encountered a kind of embarrassment in modern times. We are becoming unsatisfied with years of patient practice before working as a skilled craftsman. Nowadays if we want to get a decent job, we have to possess a piece of paper. Without a certificate or a diploma, you can hardly get promotion in even the humblest job.
We may know that we will be better at the job than the man with the paper qualifications, but our experience and practical skills are regarded as relatively unimportant compared with that. On more than one occasion we can hear such remarks as "Jack would have been a manager if he had taken pains to get a degree." "Given the same chance, he could have done even better. But he didn''t receive a proper education!"
I wonder if we would discover that many so called unqualified people but with practical experience and ability would have been rejected while those paper qualifiers confused before complicated blueprints and machine parts. Wouldn''t it be better to allow people become expert in a way most suited to them? To feed them a set of instruction courses blindly may offer no opportunity for them to develop skills. It''s high time for educators to work out new training measures.
听力题 In the next few decades people are going to travel very differently from the way they do today. Everyone is going to drive electrically powered cars. So in a few years people won''t worry about running out of gas.
Some of the large automobile companies are really moving ahead with this new technology. F &. C Motors, a major auto company, for example, is holding a press conference next week. At the press conference the company will present its new, electronically operated models.
Transportation in the future won''t be limited to the ground. Many people predict that traffic will quickly move to the sky. In the coming years, instead of radio reports about road conditions and highway traffic, new reports will talk about traffic jams in the sky.
But the sky isn''t the limit. In the future, you''ll probably even be able to take a trip to the moon. Instead of listening to regular airplane announcements, you''ll hear someone say, The spacecraft to the moon leaves in ten minutes. Please check your equipment. And remember, no more than ten ounces of carry-on baggage are allowed.
In the next few decades people are going to travel very differently from the way they do today. Everyone is going to drive electrically powered cars. So in a few years people won''t worry about running out of gas.
Some of the large automobile companies are really moving ahead with this new technology. F &. C Motors, a major auto company, for example, is holding a press conference next week. At the press conference the company will present its new, electronically operated models.
Transportation in the future won''t be limited to the ground. Many people predict that traffic will quickly move to the sky. In the coming years, instead of radio reports about road conditions and highway traffic, new reports will talk about traffic jams in the sky.
But the sky isn''t the limit. In the future, you''ll probably even be able to take a trip to the moon. Instead of listening to regular airplane announcements, you''ll hear someone say, The spacecraft to the moon leaves in ten minutes. Please check your equipment. And remember, no more than ten ounces of carry-on baggage are allowed.
听力题 He usually sat behind me in class but seldom talked. Perhaps he feared to make mistakes. His worry was not reasonable because he always spoke words of wisdom.
One day, there he was leaning against a tree alone in front of my dormitory. Could he be waiting for me? I looked directly at him but he didn''t notice. My heart beat fast. Was he waiting for someone else?
It was Wednesday. The professor asked him to distribute our homework. He called out each English name of my classmates and returned the assignment. The he came to my desk and held out my paper. He looked at me and when he said my name—my Chinese name—it sounded more beautiful than anyone else had ever pronounced it. For a time we took a firm hold of the paper. A force seemed to pass through the paper between us. That day he had a lot to say and so did I . All the world seemed sunny and magnificent.
He hurriedly left the classroom when the bell rang. I hastened to follow him and at the doorway I froze. My notebook fell. He took my notebook and put it under his arm as he brushed my shoulder, pushing me slightly toward the outside door: "I know where you live. I will walk you home. "
He usually sat behind me in class but seldom talked. Perhaps he feared to make mistakes. His worry was not reasonable because he always spoke words of wisdom.
One day, there he was leaning against a tree alone in front of my dormitory. Could he be waiting for me? I looked directly at him but he didn''t notice. My heart beat fast. Was he waiting for someone else?
It was Wednesday. The professor asked him to distribute our homework. He called out each English name of my classmates and returned the assignment. The he came to my desk and held out my paper. He looked at me and when he said my name—my Chinese name—it sounded more beautiful than anyone else had ever pronounced it. For a time we took a firm hold of the paper. A force seemed to pass through the paper between us. That day he had a lot to say and so did I . All the world seemed sunny and magnificent.
He hurriedly left the classroom when the bell rang. I hastened to follow him and at the doorway I froze. My notebook fell. He took my notebook and put it under his arm as he brushed my shoulder, pushing me slightly toward the outside door: "I know where you live. I will walk you home. "
听力题Bows and arrows are one of man''s oldest weapons
听力题Questions 5 and 7are based on the news report you have just heard
听力题 There Yale University professors agreed in a panel discussion tonight that the automobile was what one of them called "Public Health Enemy No.1 in this country". Besides polluting the air and congesting the cities, automobiles could cause heart disease "because we don''t walk anywhere any more," said Dr. H. P. Richard Weinerman, professor of medicine and public health. Dr. Weinerman''s sharp indictment of the automobile came in a discussion of human environment on Yale Reports, a radio program broadcast by Station WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut. The program opened a three-part series on "Staying Alive". "For the first time in human history, the problem of man''s survival has to do with his control of man-made hazards," Dr. Weinerman said. "Before this, the problem had been the control of natural hazards." There Yale University professors agreed in a panel discussion tonight that the automobile was what one of them called "Public Health Enemy No.1 in this country". Besides polluting the air and congesting the cities, automobiles could cause heart disease "because we don''t walk anywhere any more," said Dr. H. P. Richard Weinerman, professor of medicine and public health. Dr. Weinerman''s sharp indictment of the automobile came in a discussion of human environment on Yale Reports, a radio program broadcast by Station WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut. The program opened a three-part series on "Staying Alive". "For the first time in human history, the problem of man''s survival has to do with his control of man-made hazards," Dr. Weinerman said. "Before this, the problem had been the control of natural hazards."
听力题 An elderly woman yesterday made a legal claim against a department store because it had wrongly accused her of stealing a Christmas card. Mrs. Doss white, 72 years old, is claiming $ 3,000 damages from the store for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment. Mrs. White said. "This man, a total stranger, suddenly grasped my bag and asked if he could look in it". She was taken back to the store and shut in a small room in full view of shoppers for 20 minutes until the police arrived. At the police station she was body-searched and nothing was found. Her lawyer said that the department store sent an insincere apology and they insisted that she may have been stealing. The hearing continues today. An elderly woman yesterday made a legal claim against a department store because it had wrongly accused her of stealing a Christmas card. Mrs. Doss white, 72 years old, is claiming $ 3,000 damages from the store for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment. Mrs. White said. "This man, a total stranger, suddenly grasped my bag and asked if he could look in it". She was taken back to the store and shut in a small room in full view of shoppers for 20 minutes until the police arrived. At the police station she was body-searched and nothing was found. Her lawyer said that the department store sent an insincere apology and they insisted that she may have been stealing. The hearing continues today.
听力题W: Hi, Brian
听力题It''s never too early to (36) ________your skin-or your children''s-from the sun. The sun produces (37)________ rays- (38) ________ A (UVA. and (39)_________B (UVB. -that can cause short-and long-term skin damage.
The immediate effects of harmful (40) ________- (41) ________, photosensitive (42) ________, and cell and (43) ________damage-are bad enough. But medical experts believe that (44)___________________________.Health experts also believe that UVA may weaken the immune system.
(45)___________________________.Using sunscreens regularly on children, for example, can reduce their risk of skin damage later in life.
Sunscreens provide some protection by blocking the sun''s rays on the skin. (46)___________________________. But no sunscreen totally blocks the sun''s rays.
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听力题Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard
听力题M: I had thought to drop in and find out exactly where I went wrong with this last paper. Do you remember marking it?
W: Yes I do and... well, my impression was that you were trying to connect argument after argument without any grounds to support each assertion.
M: But surely, you would agree that there simply isn''t a lot of research out there to support my arguments.
W: Ah, but research is only one way to back up an argument.
M: May I know what other things I can use?
W: For starters, your experiences. Experiences form the basis for conclusion. Then perhaps try to look at analogies to see all that can help you.
M: Are there any guidelines available on how I can use these experiences and analogies?
W: I did give a whole lecture on it dated February 7. You were there; weren''t you?
M: Whoops, that was one that fell on the week I couldn''t be there. I had to rush back home for personal reasons.
W: Well, perhaps on your next paper you''ll know that every argument you make needs legs or your paper will remain on the ground.
M: Thanks, Mrs. Morse. It''s all food for thought and you can bet the next one will have a solid base.
W: That''s the spirit.
M: I had thought to drop in and find out exactly where I went wrong with this last paper. Do you remember marking it?
W: Yes I do and... well, my impression was that you were trying to connect argument after argument without any grounds to support each assertion.
M: But surely, you would agree that there simply isn''t a lot of research out there to support my arguments.
W: Ah, but research is only one way to back up an argument.
M: May I know what other things I can use?
W: For starters, your experiences. Experiences form the basis for conclusion. Then perhaps try to look at analogies to see all that can help you.
M: Are there any guidelines available on how I can use these experiences and analogies?
W: I did give a whole lecture on it dated February 7. You were there; weren''t you?
M: Whoops, that was one that fell on the week I couldn''t be there. I had to rush back home for personal reasons.
W: Well, perhaps on your next paper you''ll know that every argument you make needs legs or your paper will remain on the ground.
M: Thanks, Mrs. Morse. It''s all food for thought and you can bet the next one will have a solid base.
W: That''s the spirit.
听力题 A young man who refused to give his name dived into the river yesterday morning to save a twelve-year-old boy. The boy ran away after he was rescued. He had been swimming in the river and had caught his foot between two concrete posts under the bridge. He shouted out for help. At the time a young man was riding across the bridge on his bicycle. He quickly got down and dived into the river. He then freed the boy’s foot and helped him to the riverbank where a small crowd had collected.
The boy thanked his rescuer sincerely, then ran off down the road. He was last seen climbing over a gate before disappearing over the top of the hill. The young man who was about 20 years of age said, “I don’t blame the boy for not giving his name. Why should he? If he wants to swim in the river, that’s his business. And if I want to help him, that’s mine. You can not have my name either.” He then ran back to the bridge, got on his bicycle and rode away.
A young man who refused to give his name dived into the river yesterday morning to save a twelve-year-old boy. The boy ran away after he was rescued. He had been swimming in the river and had caught his foot between two concrete posts under the bridge. He shouted out for help. At the time a young man was riding across the bridge on his bicycle. He quickly got down and dived into the river. He then freed the boy’s foot and helped him to the riverbank where a small crowd had collected.
The boy thanked his rescuer sincerely, then ran off down the road. He was last seen climbing over a gate before disappearing over the top of the hill. The young man who was about 20 years of age said, “I don’t blame the boy for not giving his name. Why should he? If he wants to swim in the river, that’s his business. And if I want to help him, that’s mine. You can not have my name either.” He then ran back to the bridge, got on his bicycle and rode away.
听力题In America
听力题Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard
听力题Convention varies from country to country
听力题Are you thinking of writing someone a letter