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[00:00.00]Questions 14-16 are based on the following talk.
[00:38.50]You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14--16.
[00:46.94]Good evening,ladies and gentlemen,
[00:52.79]today I'm going to show you how to gain high scores at the game BATTLEZONE
[01:01.15]In this game you are in a tank
[01:06.72]and the screen shows your view of the landscape outside.
[01:12.65]You gain points by shooting enemy tanks,super tanks,missiles and saucers.
[01:21.89]Expert players can gain scores of around 150,000 points at this game.
[01:30.44]To get a high score you have to destroy twenty tanks as quickly as possible
[01:39.50]After this the supertanks,missiles and saucers appear
[01:47.55]These are worth far more points than the ordinary tanks.
[01:53.68]However,the number of tanks you have to destroy
[01:59.82]before the supertanks appear varies on different machines.
[02:06.59]Try to approach an enemy tank from the side or the back,
[02:13.43]so it cannot shoot at you.
[02:17.38]Then,when you get close,turn to face it,
[02:23.65]line it up in your sights and fire before it turns to shoot at you.
[02:30.99]If you miss or are too slow,
[02:36.03]quickly escape by moving out of the enemy's line of fire.
[02:42.56]You can then move around the enemy and come in from another side.
[02:49.93]When a supertank appears,try to destroy it as quickly as possible.
[02:57.37]Then wait safely behind an obstacle for a missile or flying saucer
[03:05.73]The cubes are useful objects to hide behind
[03:11.09]as you can fire over them without exposing yourself to danger
[03:17.93]The missiles will fly straight at you,but they are difficult to hit,
[03:25.69]so do not shoot at them until they are quite close.
[03:31.25]The saucers are much easier to hit,
[03:35.90]but do not chase them as you will be open to attack from enemy tanks.
[03:43.03]There are other skills,which I'll come to tomorrow.
[03:49.56]Lots of luck.
[03:53.12]You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to Questions 14-16.
[04:03.98]14.What is the talk mainly about?
[04:06.02](A)A gun battle (B)A board game
[04:08.03](C)A ball game (D)A computer game
[04:10.10]15.What will you have to do first in order to get high scores?
[04:12.13](A)Shoot down some explosive weapons (B)Eliminate twenty tanks
[04:14.20](C)Destroy some armoured vehicles (D)Capture a number of tanks
[04:16.24]16.What will happen if you chase a saucer?
[04:18.30](A)You will be exposed to enemy attacks
[04:20.44](B)You can hit a flying saucer
[04:22.50](C)You can capture the saucer in the end.
[04:24.52](D)You can shoot behind the saucer.
[04:31.33]Questions 17--20 are based on the following talk.
[04:38.28]You have 20 seconds to read Questions 17--20.
[04:45.02]Is language a basic human need
[04:50.87]without which a child at a critical period of life
[04:56.41]can be starved and damaged?
[05:00.56]Judging from the experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century it may be
[05:08.51]Hoping to discover what language a child would speak
[05:14.25]if he heard no mother tongue,he told the nurses to keep silent.
[05:21.10]All the infants died before the first year.
[05:26.56]Today no such drastic deprivation1 exists.
[05:33.40]Nevertheless,some children are still backward in speaking.
[05:39.64]Most often the reason is that the mother
[05:44.48]is insensitive to the signals of the infant
[05:49.23]There are critical times when children learn more readily.
[05:55.58]If these sensitive periods are neglected,
[06:01.35]the ideal time for acquiring skills passes
[06:07.10]and they might never be learned so easily again.
[06:12.45]Linguists suggest that speech milestone2
[06:17.99]is reached in a fixed3 sequence and at a constant age.
[06:24.16]At twelve weeks a baby smiles and utters vowel4-like sounds;
[06:31.81]at twelve months he can speak simple words
[06:37.35]and understand simple commands;
[06:41.61]at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words.
[06:48.97]At three he knows about 1000 words which he can put into sentences,
[06:56.63]and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style
[07:03.86]rather than grammar.
[07:06.92]Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak
[07:14.08]What is special about Man's brain
[07:19.22]is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel
[07:26.77]And even more incredible
[07:30.85]is the young brain's ability to pick out an order in language
[07:37.09]from the hubbub5 of sound around him,to analyze6,
[07:43.23]to combine and recombine the parts of a language in novel ways.
[07:50.47]But speech has to be triggered,
[07:55.12]and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child.
[08:01.28]Insensitivity of the mother dulls the interaction because the child
[08:09.04]gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals.
[08:15.67]Sensitivity to the child's non-verbal cues
[08:21.24]is essential to the growth and development of language.
[08:27.19]You now have 40 seconds to check your answers to Questions 17-20.
[08:37.25]Question 17-20 according to Part B (3).
[08:40.99]17.What happened to the child in Frederick II's experiment?
[08:43.05](A)The child's brain was damaged (B)The child died
[08:47.60](C)The child kept silent (D)The child heard no mother tongue
[08:49.66]18.Why are some children still backward in speaking?
[08:51.77](A)Their brains have to absorb too much language at once.
[08:53.81](B)They do not listen carefully to their mothers.
[08:55.85](C)Their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them.
[08:57.89](D)Their mothers do not respond to their attempts to speak.
[09:03.82]19.What is the difference of the language of a child
[09:05.85]of four from that of his parents?
[09:10.50](A)The vowel sounds (B)The grammar (D)The vocabulary
[09:15.36]20.What is a possible consequence
[09:20.40]if the mother does not respond to her child's signals?
[09:24.74](A)The child will make little effort to speak.
[09:26.80](B)the child will never be able to speak properly.
[09:28.82](C)the child will stop giving out signals.
[09:33.15](D)the child will invent a language of its own,
[09:33.22]Questions 21-- 24 are based on the following talk.
[09:40.15]You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 21-- 24.
[09:48.09]It has often been remarked that the saddest thing about youth
[09:56.13]is that it is wasted on the young,
[10:00.71]According to a recent survey,today's college freshmen7 are "more materialistic8
[10:09.14]and less considerate of others"
[10:13.71]than at anytime in the 19 years of the poll.
[10:19.64]The survey disclosed what I had already suspected from informal polls:
[10:27.09]if it (whatever it may be) won't compute,and you can't drink it,
[10:34.93]smoke it or spend it,then "it" holds little value.
[10:41.38]Not surprising in these hard times,
[10:46.52]the student's major objective is "to be financially well off."
[10:53.47]Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life."
[11:01.02]It follows then that today
[11:05.78]the most popular is not literature or history but accounting9.
[11:13.04]Interest in teaching and social service is at a low,
[11:19.57]along with ethnic10 and women's studies.
[11:24.40]On the other hand,enrolment in business programs,
[11:30.07]engineering and computer science is way up.
[11:35.22]That's no surprise either.
[11:39.76]A friend of mine was a sales representative for a chemical company.
[11:46.61]And she was making twice the salary of her college instructors11
[11:53.74]her first years on the job
[11:57.99]--even before she completed her two-year associate degree.
[12:04.16]"I'll tell them what they can do with their music,
[12:09.51]history,literature,or whatever,"she was fond of saying.
[12:15.97]And that was four years ago;
[12:20.12]I shudder12 to think what she's earning now.
[12:25.16]Frankly,I'm proud of the young lady,
[12:30.62]though not her attitude but her success.
[12:36.06]But why can't we have it both ways?
[12:40.71]Can't we educate people for life as well as for a career?
[12:47.16]In a time of increasing specialization,
[12:53.51]more than ever we need to teach young people what is truly important in life
[13:00.45]Oscar Wilde had it right
[13:05.00]when he said that we ought to give our ability to our work
[13:10.95]but our genius to our lives.
[13:16.10]You now have 40 seconds to check your answers to Questions 21--24.
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deprivation
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| n.匮乏；丧失；夺去，贫困 | |
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milestone
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| n.里程碑；划时代的事件 | |
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fixed
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| adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的 | |
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vowel
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hubbub
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analyze
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freshmen
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| n.（中学或大学的）一年级学生( freshman的名词复数 ) | |
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materialistic
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accounting
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ethnic
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instructors
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