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听力题W: I want to register for this mathematics course
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听力题Some people believe that Edgar Cayce
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听力题It was 1951
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听力题I heard a lovely story about somebody who took (36)________on her husband. A young man picked up a copy of the Evening Standard one day and he was (37)________ through the ads for cars. He saw this car...a Rolls Royce four years old (38)________ for ￡25. .. so he assumed, obviously, that it was a (39)________mistake, but just in case, he rang up the phone number in the ad. A woman answered the phone, and he said "You''ve got a Rolls Royce... advertised for ￡25, is that right?" and she said "yes. " So he said "Well, could I come and see it?" and she gave him the (40) ________and he went to see it, not (41)________believing it obviously; but on the other hand not wanting to miss an (42)________. So she showed him the car and it was a... four-year-old Rolls Royce in (43)________condition, not a mark on it. He started the car and it worked perfectly well. And... so it was worth about ￡40,000...And so he... sort of held his breath and then he said to the woman "Erm... and you want to sell this car for ￡25?" She said "Yes." (44) ___________________. She said "That''s all right. All I want is ￡25. "So very quickly he got out his wallet, paid her the ￡25. (45) __________________________. So he signed the bill of sale, and got into the car.
Because he couldn''t bear not knowing, he asked just before he drove away: "But why? Why are you selling this very valuable car for ￡25?" "It''s quite simple," the woman said. (46)__________________________.
听力题 When the United States Geological Survey makes its annual report on earthquakes, California usually leads the nation in the number of tremors that people, rather than measuring instruments, can "feel". California also suffered the most serious damage from an earthquake in the Survey''s most serious damage from an earthquake in the Survey''s 1983 report on significant earthquakes. These are the quakes that measure at least 6.5 on the Richer scale. These earthquakes are included if they cause considerable damage or casualties (that is, if people are injured or killed).
In 1983, four significant quakes occurred in the United States. This compares to 70 earthquakes worldwide. The strongest Unites States earthquake took place in south—central Idaho and measured 7.3. It killed two children in Challis, a nearby town. It caused $2.5 million in damages. A 6.5 quake in Coalinga, California, injured 45 people and cost $3.1 million. Large areas of Coalinga had to be razed or torn down because the buildings could not be repaired.
A tremor off the southern coast of Alaska in the Pacific Ocean measured 6.5 but caused no damage. However, a 6.6 quake on the Big Island in Hawaii hurt six people and cost $6 million.
California had a total of 119 earthquakes that people felt and reported to authorities in 1983. Hawaii was second with 75, and Alaska was third with 64 earthquakes.
When the United States Geological Survey makes its annual report on earthquakes, California usually leads the nation in the number of tremors that people, rather than measuring instruments, can "feel". California also suffered the most serious damage from an earthquake in the Survey''s most serious damage from an earthquake in the Survey''s 1983 report on significant earthquakes. These are the quakes that measure at least 6.5 on the Richer scale. These earthquakes are included if they cause considerable damage or casualties (that is, if people are injured or killed).
In 1983, four significant quakes occurred in the United States. This compares to 70 earthquakes worldwide. The strongest Unites States earthquake took place in south—central Idaho and measured 7.3. It killed two children in Challis, a nearby town. It caused $2.5 million in damages. A 6.5 quake in Coalinga, California, injured 45 people and cost $3.1 million. Large areas of Coalinga had to be razed or torn down because the buildings could not be repaired.
A tremor off the southern coast of Alaska in the Pacific Ocean measured 6.5 but caused no damage. However, a 6.6 quake on the Big Island in Hawaii hurt six people and cost $6 million.
California had a total of 119 earthquakes that people felt and reported to authorities in 1983. Hawaii was second with 75, and Alaska was third with 64 earthquakes.
听力题 Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of How to books are useful: in fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the word“how to”, such as how to earn more money, how to save money, and even how to give your money away.
Many How to books give advice on careers. They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed in it. If you fail, however, you can still buy a book entitled How to Turn Failure into Success. If you would like to become rich, you can buy the book How to Make a Millionaire. If you never make any money at all, you may as well read a book called How to Live on Nothing.
One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love of life, you can read How to Succeed in Loving Every Minute of Your Life. If you’re tired of books on happiness, you may prefer the book How to Make Yourself Miserable. Many of these books help people use their time better. Some people want books which will give them useful information about sports, hobbies and travel. Other people use their free time to make repairs and improvements on their homes. They prefer books which give step-by-step instructions on how to repair things like pluming and electrical wiring, or on how to redecorate or enlarge a house.
Why have How to books become so popular? Probably it’s because life has become so complex. Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. How to books help people cope with the modern life.
Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of How to books are useful: in fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the word“how to”, such as how to earn more money, how to save money, and even how to give your money away.
Many How to books give advice on careers. They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed in it. If you fail, however, you can still buy a book entitled How to Turn Failure into Success. If you would like to become rich, you can buy the book How to Make a Millionaire. If you never make any money at all, you may as well read a book called How to Live on Nothing.
One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love of life, you can read How to Succeed in Loving Every Minute of Your Life. If you’re tired of books on happiness, you may prefer the book How to Make Yourself Miserable. Many of these books help people use their time better. Some people want books which will give them useful information about sports, hobbies and travel. Other people use their free time to make repairs and improvements on their homes. They prefer books which give step-by-step instructions on how to repair things like pluming and electrical wiring, or on how to redecorate or enlarge a house.
Why have How to books become so popular? Probably it’s because life has become so complex. Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. How to books help people cope with the modern life.
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听力题 An “early bird” used to be a person who was awake early and began his(or her)day’s work before other people. The people who said it were thinking of an old saying: “It is the early bird that catches the worm.” But since 1965 the Early Bird has had a different meaning. The modern Early Bird is a communications satellite in orbit round the earth.
The use of wires to carry telephone communications and for other purposes of the same kind does not satisfy modern needs. We had to use radio. But the radio waves that we use for these purposes — microwaves — travel in straight lines. They do not follow the curve of the earth’s surface.
We can send them from one radio station to another relay station. If there is no relay station within about 50 kilometers to receive the microwaves, they will continue into space. At a certain height, some of them are sent back to earth. A powerful station several hundred kilometers from their starting point can receive them. But these are not good ways of sending the thousands of telephone, radio and television signals across the oceans.
An “early bird” used to be a person who was awake early and began his(or her)day’s work before other people. The people who said it were thinking of an old saying: “It is the early bird that catches the worm.” But since 1965 the Early Bird has had a different meaning. The modern Early Bird is a communications satellite in orbit round the earth.
The use of wires to carry telephone communications and for other purposes of the same kind does not satisfy modern needs. We had to use radio. But the radio waves that we use for these purposes — microwaves — travel in straight lines. They do not follow the curve of the earth’s surface.
We can send them from one radio station to another relay station. If there is no relay station within about 50 kilometers to receive the microwaves, they will continue into space. At a certain height, some of them are sent back to earth. A powerful station several hundred kilometers from their starting point can receive them. But these are not good ways of sending the thousands of telephone, radio and television signals across the oceans.
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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