历年托福听力考试2001-05（打印版）

01年5月托福听力文字
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use wemake of them. ------------Montaigne
Part A
1. A: So are you going to see the student play tonight?
B: I doubt it. I'm still getting over（恢复）the flu.
Q: What does the man mean?
2. A: Gordon needs to find another place to live. The apartment he rents now has been sold to a new owner.
B: He'd better start looking right away. When all the students come back in a few weeks, he won't find any near the campus.
Q: What does the woman suggest Gorden do?
3. A: Mind if I borrow ur Spanish workbook?
B: Not as long as I have it back in time to take to class this evening.
Q: What does the man mean?
4. A: U know that quiz we took in Dr. Turner's class today? Did u know that she was going to give it to us?
B: Actually I was just as surprised as u were.
Q: What does the woman mean?
5. A: I don't know which color folder to use, white or brown?
B: What difference does it make? It's the content that's important.
Q: What does the man mean?
6. A: U know I’ve heard that professor Martin's introduction to chemistry class is way too demanding(过分要求的) for first year students. They say it's as hard as courses for graduate students.
B: Yeah, but a lot of students will tell u otherwise. To talk to anyone who's gone on to the advanced course, like organic chem or who study chemistry in graduate school. They r really glad they started out with professor Martin.
Q: What does the man imply about professor Martin?
7. A: Hey Mark, have u been able to sell ur old piano yet?
B: Ah, u were right, just posting notices on bulletin boards at a couple of supermarket wasn't enough. I think I have to place an advertisement in the local newspaper.
Q: What does the man imply?
8. A: My back has been aching ever since I started playing tennis on the weekends,
B: haven't u had that checked out yet?
Q: What does the woman imply?
9. A: Hi, uhm... I think something's wrong with the washing machine. It works and I just did my laundry but it makes some strange noises. Maybe u should call sb to fix it.
B: Oh don't worry. Sb from the repair shop is already on the way over to take a look at it.
Q: What does the man imply?
10. A：It's so thoughtful of u to offer to drop me off at the train station. Ru sure it's not out of ur way?
B: Not at all. The station is really close to where i'm going.
Q: What does the man mean?
11. A: I'm here about the job u advertised in the paper.
B：U need one of those forms over there, on the table next to the file cabinet.
Q: What does the woman imply the man should do?
12. A:I know i ought to call home, but i've got a plane to take and I am already late.
B: Weoo, I know you are hurry, but it only takes a minute.
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
13. A: i have to drive in to Chicago next week. Do u have a map I could borrow?
B: Sorry I don't, but i can pick one up for u while I'm at the bookstore.
Q: What does the man mean?
14. A: What did u think of the paintings that Ted was showing last week?
B：I never made it to the exhibit.
Q: What does the woman mean?
15. A: Did u hear about the big show storm in Iowa yesterday? Three feet and twelve hours.
B: Yeah, and I hear it's headed our way. We're supposed to get the same thing tonight.
Q: What does the woman mean?
16. A: U'r joining us for dinner tonight, aren't u?
B: Oh, I'm really sorry, but I had the wrong date for my geometry test. i just found out it's tomorrow and I need all the time I can get to prepare.
Q: What does the woman imply?
17. A: I can't decide whether I should take physics now or wait till next semester.
B: U might as well get it over with if u can.
Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?
18. A: U look different today. Did u get a haircut?
B: That's funny. Ur the third person to ask me that. But all I did was getting new frames for my eye glasses.
Q: What does the man imply?
19. A: Dr. Eliot, I'd like u to check the way u calculated my grade for this test, I think u may have made a mistake in adding up the number of questions I got right. When I added them up I came up with the slightly higher grade than u did.
B: I'd be happy to check it for u. And if I made a mistake in determining the grade I'll be sure to correct it. Don't worry.
Q: What does the man imply?
20. A: That last speaker was pretty boring. But he did make a few good points at the end.
B: Really? I didn't catch them. I must have dozed off for a minute.
Q: What does the woman mean?
21. A: If u run into Joan this afternoon, could u ask her to call me. I need that book back that i lent her yesterday.
B: No need. I saw her this morning and I've got it right here.
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
22. A: I told my student today that I'd be taking a sabbatical（休年假） next semester. But they didn't seem very surprised.
B: Well, last week I let ur plans slip to some my students. So more than likely the word got around.
Q: What does the man explain to the woman?
23. A: Mary, I've got the bowls out for the stew. Do u think it needs any more pepper before I serve it?
B: It's really quite nice and we did exactly what the recipe says. Why take a chance of ruining it?
Q: What does the woman imply the man should do?
24. A: Those were such funny stories Tom told last night. He was like a totally different guy.
B: Yeah, really. He is normally so serious. What do u think brought all that out of him.
Q: What does the woman imply?
25. A: Wow, look at all these old books on this shelf. They've got to be at least one hundred years old. I'll bet they’re worth a lot to collectors.
B：Well. they've got a lot of sentimental value（情感价值）, for me, but that's about it.(仅此而已)
Q: What does the man mean?
26. A: Hi, Susan, would u like to go out to eat with us? Several of us are going over to the Macardy's.
B: Well, that sure beats sticking around here. Uhh... just let me pack up my things.
Q: What is the woman going to do?
27. A: I thought u said u and ur friends were just planning a small gathering. I could hear u from all the way up on the fourth floor of the building.
B: OH, Gee, I'm really sorry. I guess we did get a little carried away（得意忘形）, didn't we?
Q: What can be inferred from the conversations?
28. A: I kept looking for Mary at the seminar but never did see her. I can't imagine she forgot about it. She's been talking about it for weeks.
B: Oh she didn't. It's just that she caught a really bad cold a couple of days ago.
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?
29. A: Our history presentation is Thursday. When do u want to get together to work on it?
B: Well, how about Monday? That way we will still have enough time to figure out anything we have trouble with.
Q: What does the woman suggest they do?
30. A: Hi, thanks for ur help. I guess I can handle the rest myself. But just in case, r u going to be around later?
B: I don't know but u can always ask Judy. She 's really good with these kinds of problems.
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Part B
Q31-34
A: Hi, Janet, u r so lucky to be done with your final exams and term papers. I still have 2 more finals to take?
B: Really?
A: Yeah, So what r u doing this summer, anything special?
B: Well, actually yeah. My parents have always liked taking my sister and me to different places in the United States. U know, places with historical significance. I guess they wanted to reinforce the stuff we learned in school about history. And so even though we are older now, they still do once in a while. Oh so where r u going this summer?
A: Well, this summer it's finally going to be Gettysburg.
B: Finally? U mean they never took u yet? I mean Gettysburg, it's probably the most famous civil war site in the country, It's only a couple of hours away. I think that would be one of the first place that they've taken u. i have been there a couple of times.
A: We were gonna go about ten, well, no, it was exactly ten years ago, but I don't know, sth happened, I cannot remember what.
B: Sth changed ur plans?
A: Yeah, don't ask me what it was, but we ended up not going anywhere that year.
B: I hope that doesn't happen again this year. I wrote a paper about Gettysburg last semester for a history class I was taking. Well about the political situation in the United States right after the battle at Gettysburg, So I'm eager to see the place.

31. What are the students mainly discussing?
32. What does the man find surprising about the woman?
33. What is the woman unable to remember?
34. What does the woman imply about Gettysburg?

Q35-39
A: What r u doing?
B: I'm ordering some filing cabinet out of a catalog.
A: What do u need them for?
B: There's so much stuff piling up in my dormitory room. If I don't do sth soon, I won't be able to move in there.
A: Do u usually order from a catalog?
B: Sometimes. Why?
A: OH, it's just in the history class today we were talking about how the catalog sales business first got started in the US. A Chicago retailer, Montgomery Ward started it in the late 1800s. It was really popular among farmers. it was difficult for them to make it to the big city stores so they ordered from catalogs.
B: Was Ward the only one in the business?
A: At first, but another person named Richard Sears started his own catalog after he heard how much money Ward was making.
B: What made them so popular?
A: Farmers trusted Ward and Sears for one thing. They delivered the products the farmers paid for and even refunded the price of things the farmers weren't satisfied with. The catalog became so popular some country school teachers even used them as textbook.
B: Textbook?
A: Yeah, Students practice spelling the names and adding up the prices of things in the catalogs.
B: Was everybody that thrilled about them?
A: That's doubtful. Say they drove some small store owners out of business. Sears and Ward sold stuff in such large quantities. They were able to undercut the prices at some small family owned stores.

35. What is the conversation mainly about?
36. Why was the woman reading a catalog?
37. Who were the main customers of Sears and Ward's business?
38. What unusual way were the catalog used?
39. What was one of the negative effects of the catalog business?

Part C
Q40-42
The birds u seen here in this slide are peregrine falcons(游隼).
These birds represent a success story among animals on the endangered(将要绝种的) species list. In the 1970s, the peregrine falcons almost disappeared as a result of the contamination of the food chain by the DDT in pesticide. The presence of the poison in their systems resulted in eggs too weak to support the incubating chicks. Their remarkable recovery is a result of the ban of DDT as a pesticide, aggressive captive feeding programs and their own resiliency（弹性）. The peregrine falcon is one of the fastest birds alive. They've been clocked at 140 to 200 miles per hour in successful pursuit of pray. In addition to speed, these birds fly directly into head winds（顶风）and they are capable of flying more than 600 miles per day with favorable tail winds（顺风）. today with the sophistication of telemetry (遥感勘测), the speeds of these birds can be tracked by orbiting satellites, by means of transmitters attached to the bird. For example, peregrine falcons stage in warmer climate, in other words, they spend time in the southern US awaiting hormonal changes preparing them to breed in the Arctic. Then they migrate north to the much colder Arctic regions. Birds have been tracked from Texas in late April to their nesting ground in Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Now let's move on to another species of birds, the
bald eagle(秃头鹰). 【美国国徽上手持橄榄枝与箭的就是这种鹰】

40 What is the talk mainly about?
41. According to the passage, what makes the peregrine falcon a good hunter?
42. How did biologists track peregrine falcons over long distances?

Q43-46
Ok, so in our last class we were discussing big bands swing music（摇摆舞音乐）. u remember this was a kind of dance music with a steady rhythm. But today we deal with style of music played by smaller jazz bands. It's called bebop. Now bebop may use all sorts of new types of rhythms, some of them very irregular. We'll talk more about that later. But first I want to talk about some of the social elements that i believe contributed to the development of bebop music. To do this, we have to look at when bebop arose and started becoming so popular, which was from the late 1930s through the 1940s, some the time of great depression write into the second world war. Now one factor that certainly help create the environment for bebop music was the decline of US economy. During the great depression, the economy suffered tremendously. And fewer people had money to spend on entertainment. Then during the 2nd World War the government imposed a new tax on public entertainment, what u might call performance tax. The government collected money on performances that included any types of acting, dancing or singing, but not instrumental music. So to avoid this new tax, some jazz bands stop using singers altogether. They started relying on the creativity of the instrumentalists(乐器家) to attract audiences. This was what bebop bands did. Now remember a lot of big bands have singers. So the instrumentalists simply played in the background and had occasional solos while the singer sang the melody to the songs, but not bebop bands. So the instrumentalists had much more freedom to be creative. So they experimented, playing the music faster and using new irregular sorts of rhythms.

43. What is the talk mainly about?
44. How did the bebop bands avoid the performance tax?
45 Why does the professor mention the decline of the US economy during the great depression?
46. What dose the professor describe as a significant characteristic of bebop music?

Q47-50
Ur professor has asked me to talk to u today about the topic that should be of real concern to civil engineers: the erosion of the US beaches. Let me start with some statistics. Did u know that 90% of the coast in this country is eroding, on the gulf of Mexico for instance, erosion averages 4 to 5 feet per year. Over the past 20 years, there has been an increase in building along the coast, even though geologists and environmentalists have been warning communities about problems like erosion. Some way communities have tried to protect their building and roads and to build seawalls. However geologists have found that such stabilizing structures actually speed up to the destruction of the beaches. These beaches with seawalls, called stabilized beaches, are much narrower than beaches without them. U may wonder how seawalls speed up beach loss. The explanation is simple. If the flow of the beaches is gentle, the water energy is lessened as it washes up along the shore. It is reduced even more that returns to the sea so it doesn't carry back much sand. On the other hand, when the water hit the nearly vertical face of the seawall, it goes straight back to the sea with the full force of its energy and it carries back a great deal of sand. Because of the real risk of losing beaches, many geologists support a ban on all types of stabilizing construction on the shore lines.

47. What is the speaker mainly discussing?
48. Why do communities build seawalls?
49. How does a gently sloping beach help prevent erosion?
50. What would the speaker probably advise engineers to do?

历年托福听力考试2001-05（在线收听）