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听力题M: You’ll be in Room 207. Here’s your key

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听力题If you are like most people

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听力题Faces, like fingerprints, are unique

听力题 Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one. Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning a foreign language. It is only by traveling in, or living in a country and getting to know its people and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be different from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all! Differences between peoples do of course exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world would be a dull place indeed when all different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel today, has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from ourselves. Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one. Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning a foreign language. It is only by traveling in, or living in a country and getting to know its people and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be different from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different after all! Differences between peoples do of course exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world would be a dull place indeed when all different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel today, has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from ourselves.

听力题Cats never fail to fascinate human beings

听力题Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

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听力题 There are many computer users who are wondering if they should be putting their computers to sleep at the end of the day or if they should actually shut down. Sleep mode was originally implemented simply as a screen saver. On laptop computers it became very useful for conserving battery power if the computer was to remain idle for a period of time. (In the beginning, sleep mode was for laptops only. ) Later, the monitor companies got on the "green" computing kick, and began to build in "energy saver" features that would put just the monitor to sleep, but not the computer. So now the purpose of the desktop''s Sleep became a) to conserve power, and b) to let the computer "rest." Putting your computer to sleep at the end of the day has these two very advantageous benefits. First and foremost, the sleep mode allows your computer to go to sleep when not in use, and to re-launch very quickly. A cold startup will take as much as 10 times as long. That''s the most important function. It also allows you to leave projects in progress like they are, and reappear instantly when you return. There is a downside however. So some warnings are in order. As Mr. Murphy put it: "If something can go wrong, it will. " If anything happens during the period of sleep, you can come back to a crashed computer, and any unsaved work gone forever. For instance, around here I can''t leave the computers at sleep during a thunder storm season—in a black-out, without battery back-up, you''ve got a crash. There are many computer users who are wondering if they should be putting their computers to sleep at the end of the day or if they should actually shut down. Sleep mode was originally implemented simply as a screen saver. On laptop computers it became very useful for conserving battery power if the computer was to remain idle for a period of time. (In the beginning, sleep mode was for laptops only. ) Later, the monitor companies got on the "green" computing kick, and began to build in "energy saver" features that would put just the monitor to sleep, but not the computer. So now the purpose of the desktop''s Sleep became a) to conserve power, and b) to let the computer "rest." Putting your computer to sleep at the end of the day has these two very advantageous benefits. First and foremost, the sleep mode allows your computer to go to sleep when not in use, and to re-launch very quickly. A cold startup will take as much as 10 times as long. That''s the most important function. It also allows you to leave projects in progress like they are, and reappear instantly when you return. There is a downside however. So some warnings are in order. As Mr. Murphy put it: "If something can go wrong, it will. " If anything happens during the period of sleep, you can come back to a crashed computer, and any unsaved work gone forever. For instance, around here I can''t leave the computers at sleep during a thunder storm season—in a black-out, without battery back-up, you''ve got a crash.

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听力题M: Hi Diana, mind if I sit down? W: Not at all

听力题 William Shakespeare was christened in the market town of Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, on April 26, 1564; traditionally, his actual birthday was three days earlier, on St. George''s day, the same day as his death fifty-two years later. His father, John, was a respected middle-class trader, and his mother, Mary Arden, came from a family of local landowners. It seems probable that young William received a fair education (for his day) at the local Grammar School; at the age of eighteen he married a girl eight years older than himself, Anne Hathaway, who gave him a child the following year and twins in 1585. Little else is known of his early life, and so we cannot tell what made him decide to leave Stratford in 1586 for London, where he stayed until 1611. In London he must soon have attracted attention, because by 1592 he was a popular enough writer and actor to be laughed at by an older dramatist as an uneducated Jack of all trades. He is mentioned as being among the principal actors of the city as early as 1598, and in 1599 we find that he is a member of the company running the Globe Theater, with one-tenth interest in the profits—showing a business sense rarely seen in his fellow writers. His popularity is indicated by the fact that not only were his own plays published under his name, which was a rare procedure in his day, but also plays by others are to be found attributed to him, as if to indicate that his name alone would promise a good sale. William Shakespeare was christened in the market town of Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, on April 26, 1564; traditionally, his actual birthday was three days earlier, on St. George''s day, the same day as his death fifty-two years later. His father, John, was a respected middle-class trader, and his mother, Mary Arden, came from a family of local landowners. It seems probable that young William received a fair education (for his day) at the local Grammar School; at the age of eighteen he married a girl eight years older than himself, Anne Hathaway, who gave him a child the following year and twins in 1585. Little else is known of his early life, and so we cannot tell what made him decide to leave Stratford in 1586 for London, where he stayed until 1611. In London he must soon have attracted attention, because by 1592 he was a popular enough writer and actor to be laughed at by an older dramatist as an uneducated Jack of all trades. He is mentioned as being among the principal actors of the city as early as 1598, and in 1599 we find that he is a member of the company running the Globe Theater, with one-tenth interest in the profits—showing a business sense rarely seen in his fellow writers. His popularity is indicated by the fact that not only were his own plays published under his name, which was a rare procedure in his day, but also plays by others are to be found attributed to him, as if to indicate that his name alone would promise a good sale.

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听力题Some people have very good memories

听力题Are you afraid to raise your hand in class

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听力题W: Elizabeth Martin speaking. M: Dr. Martin

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