听力题 Welcome to Wildlife Haven! Now we''re away from the city in a remote area between a national park and the sea. To encourage you to relax, there are no radios or TVs and the only phones and newspapers are in the office. So, if peace and quiet is what you''ve come for, this is the place to be. Your luggage will be unloaded from the bus and taken to your rooms in a few minutes. Once you have picked up your key at reception, please locate your room and check that all your luggage has arrived.
Tomorrow, there is a beachcombers and rock-hoppers tour, exploring marine life in the rock pools along the beach. Or, if you''d prefer to go inland, there''s a guided forest walk that takes you off the walking tracks. If you want to catch some lunch, you could join the beach fishing expedition. And at night, you''ll see there is a moonlight forest walk that leaves each night at 7:00 p.m. So there is plenty to choose from at Wildlife Haven, and of course, that includes just sitting on your balcony watching the waves roll in.
Welcome to Wildlife Haven! Now we''re away from the city in a remote area between a national park and the sea. To encourage you to relax, there are no radios or TVs and the only phones and newspapers are in the office. So, if peace and quiet is what you''ve come for, this is the place to be. Your luggage will be unloaded from the bus and taken to your rooms in a few minutes. Once you have picked up your key at reception, please locate your room and check that all your luggage has arrived.
Tomorrow, there is a beachcombers and rock-hoppers tour, exploring marine life in the rock pools along the beach. Or, if you''d prefer to go inland, there''s a guided forest walk that takes you off the walking tracks. If you want to catch some lunch, you could join the beach fishing expedition. And at night, you''ll see there is a moonlight forest walk that leaves each night at 7:00 p.m. So there is plenty to choose from at Wildlife Haven, and of course, that includes just sitting on your balcony watching the waves roll in.
听力题Canada is a welfare state
听力题W: Just a few years ago this city established what is called the Telephone Reassurance Service. It was set up by a volunteer group of people to ring up elderly or handicapped persons who live alone, to check on whether they are all right and to help cheer them up.
M: That sounds like a good idea.
W: Well, they had a 97-year-old woman on television to publicize the project. She lived alone and had never been out of the state she was born in. Although she had relatives, nobody seemed to know what had happened to them.
M: You say the service has been going for a few years?
W: I think it''s five, but it might even be ten years, and now it has about one thousand volunteers and they keep in daily touch with more than twelve hundred people, mostly senior citizens.
M: It must be frightening to be old and alone and have no one who has any interest in you.
W: The service made its millionth call recently. The volunteer calls once a day and if no one answers, another call is made in about an hour. If there is still no answer, a call is placed to a neighbor or to someone who can check to see if the person is all right. The project is supported twenty percent by federal funds and the rest by donations. The volunteers now go through an instruction course before beginning the calls.
W: Just a few years ago this city established what is called the Telephone Reassurance Service. It was set up by a volunteer group of people to ring up elderly or handicapped persons who live alone, to check on whether they are all right and to help cheer them up.
M: That sounds like a good idea.
W: Well, they had a 97-year-old woman on television to publicize the project. She lived alone and had never been out of the state she was born in. Although she had relatives, nobody seemed to know what had happened to them.
M: You say the service has been going for a few years?
W: I think it''s five, but it might even be ten years, and now it has about one thousand volunteers and they keep in daily touch with more than twelve hundred people, mostly senior citizens.
M: It must be frightening to be old and alone and have no one who has any interest in you.
W: The service made its millionth call recently. The volunteer calls once a day and if no one answers, another call is made in about an hour. If there is still no answer, a call is placed to a neighbor or to someone who can check to see if the person is all right. The project is supported twenty percent by federal funds and the rest by donations. The volunteers now go through an instruction course before beginning the calls.
听力题If you visit a big city anywhere in the world
听力题People have heard of various kinds of spies
听力题W: Mark
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听力题M: So, Rebecca, what did you do for spring break
听力题W: Please have a seat, Mr. Thaunders
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听力题M: Mind if I switch channels
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听力题Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard
听力题M: Excuse me. Have you been waiting long
听力题Two more people have died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in China, making the death toll five out of eight human cases (36)________ so far in the country. The Ministry of Health has announced Wednesday the two (37)________, first reported last month, were a 10-year-old girl in the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and a 35-year-old man in eastern Jiangxi Province. They had died on December 16th and 30th (38)________ after all medical treatment measures failed. A (39)________ for the Ministry says the current bird flu situation is "not optimistic", and is calling on people to remain (40)________.
"Although there hasn''t been any human-to-human case of bird flu reported so far, as the danger of bird flu not only exists in China but also threatens other countries, (41)________ to prevent and control the epidemic must be (42)________ . " Among the eight human cases of bird flu in China, the (43)________victim is a six-year-old boy from Central China''s Hunan Province, who is now in the hospital. The boy is in critical condition. The Ministry warns (44)________________________.
The United Nations agriculture agency warns the bird flu virus (45)________________________. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)says there have been more outbreaks than expected in Turkey. (46)________________________.
听力题It came as something of a surprise when Diana
听力题M: I really appreciate your filling me in on yesterday''s lecture.
W: No problem, I thought you might want to go over it together. And anyway, it helps me review. Hope you''re feeling better now.
M: I am. Thanks. So, you said she talked about squid? Sounds a little strange.
W: Well, actually, it was about the evolution of sea life—a continuation from last week. The octopus and the squid descended from earlier creatures with shells. They survived by shedding their shells—somewhere between 200 and 500 million years ago.
M: That''s a pretty long span of time.
W: I know. That''s what she said, though. To be precise: "Exactly when they emerged is uncertain...and why is still unexplained."
M: Some squid are really huge. Can you imagine something that big if it still had a shell?
W: Actually, it''s because they lost their shells that they could evolve to a bigger size.
M: Makes sense. But some are really huge. I''ve read about fisher men that caught squid that weighed over a ton. Did she talk about how that happens?
W: Not really. But she did mention some unusual cases. In 1933 in New Zealand they caught a squid...let''s see here...it was twenty-two yards long. Its eyes were eighteen inches across. Can you imagine?
M: Reminds me of all those stories of sea monsters.
W: Dr Simpson thinks there are probably even larger ones that haven''t been found because squid are intelligent and fast—so they can easily get away form humans. Maybe some of those monster stories are true.
M: I really appreciate your filling me in on yesterday''s lecture.
W: No problem, I thought you might want to go over it together. And anyway, it helps me review. Hope you''re feeling better now.
M: I am. Thanks. So, you said she talked about squid? Sounds a little strange.
W: Well, actually, it was about the evolution of sea life—a continuation from last week. The octopus and the squid descended from earlier creatures with shells. They survived by shedding their shells—somewhere between 200 and 500 million years ago.
M: That''s a pretty long span of time.
W: I know. That''s what she said, though. To be precise: "Exactly when they emerged is uncertain...and why is still unexplained."
M: Some squid are really huge. Can you imagine something that big if it still had a shell?
W: Actually, it''s because they lost their shells that they could evolve to a bigger size.
M: Makes sense. But some are really huge. I''ve read about fisher men that caught squid that weighed over a ton. Did she talk about how that happens?
W: Not really. But she did mention some unusual cases. In 1933 in New Zealand they caught a squid...let''s see here...it was twenty-two yards long. Its eyes were eighteen inches across. Can you imagine?
M: Reminds me of all those stories of sea monsters.
W: Dr Simpson thinks there are probably even larger ones that haven''t been found because squid are intelligent and fast—so they can easily get away form humans. Maybe some of those monster stories are true.
听力题W: Hello, Gary. How''re you