历年托福听力考试2004-05（打印版）

04年 5月托福听力文字
Fight, you may die. Run, and you will live at least a while, and dyingin your beds many years from now. Would you be willing to trade? All the days from this day to that, for one chance, just for one chance, to come back here to tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!（最令我热血沸腾的一句电影台词）
PART A
1. W: U are a little late. I was beginning to think that you’d forgot about having dinner with me.
M: Oh come on, how could u think that? I told u I really wanted to try that new restaurant tonight.
2. M: Hello? Yes, I’d like to make a reservation for one round trip New York to Boston leaving this Saturday and returning Sunday the very next day.
W:I can do that for u. we have several flights daily taking off from Gordian and landing at Logan. When did u wish to depart?
3. M: Hey Barbara, check your calendar here. Don’t u know it’s February?
W: Oh did I forget to change it?
4. W: The car is over heating again. I am going have to pull over(靠边).
M: I guess we can forget about making it to the restaurant in time for our reservation
5. M: I can’t believe our basketball team won the game in the last five seconds.
W: It was a close call(千钧一发), though. Wasn’t it?
6. W: I’ll be really interested here about that film u and Mary are going to see tonight. It sounds really good.
M: Why don’t u come along and see for yourself?
7．W: We need to leave for the concert no later than 3 o’clock. What time is your conference over?
M: I’m not sure, it’s up to Professor Campbell. But if I’m not back by 2:45, go ahead without me
8．M: Hi, uh, sorry to interrupt your study group, but can I borrow some laundry detergent? I’m all out.
W: Me too. But I know that they sell some at the store around the corner.
9. W: Pardon me, could u tell me if the Holiday Motel is near here?
M: Uh, not too far. But u might want consider the First Class inn. It’s right around the corner, and it’s very nice.
10. M: Jennie, listen to this. It’s only October 21, and it’s suppose to snow today.
W: That must be why the people here in Canada say that there are only two seasons: this winter and next winter
11. W: So how did u make out with your private German lessons last month? Any improvement?
M: Let’s just say it was money down the drain（打水漂）.
12. W: Is your committee report almost finished?
M: Not by a long shot (远没有成功). In fact we barely started the introduction
13. W: I really hope we can still hold our volleyball game outside tomorrow instead of in the gym.
M: I’m sure we won’t be able to if this rain doesn’t light up(clear up).
14. M: What do u think of my letter to the editor, I wanna type it and mail it today.
W: I like your ideas Robert, but I underlined some of the expressions u used, they seemed a little awkward.
15. W: I’m sorry, doctor Tomas, I can’t seem to hit the high notes(唱高音). It’s this awful cold.
M: It seems like half the choirs got the same thing. I guess we’d better just call it a day. Focus.
16. M: What’s holding up traffic! I’ve got to get to the bank before it closes.
W: Relax, a construction crews been repairing the roads, they’ll let through in a second.
17. M: I know the museum cafeteria isn’t open yet, but these still life paintings of food are too realistic, they are making me hungry!
W: Me too. Let’s go out and find a restaurant and back later
18. W: Have u seen my English paper? I thought I left it on the table with the newspapers but the table is clear now.
M: Oho, I didn't see your paper. I just picked up the pile and threw everything out
19. W: I’ve been trying to call the airline for over an hour, but I can’t get through. I wonder what’s going on?
M：Oh it’s probably those cheap fares they are offering. Don’t worry, the offer ends at midnight.
(机场正在出售打折机票，所以电话被打爆了。男的要女的别急，这优惠要到午夜才结束)
20. W: Hey Bruce, I’m off to lunch, why don’t u come along?
M: I just ate, but I’d be happy to keep your company.
21. M: Hey Mary, I just get an A on my history test. Do u wanna see it?
W: That’s ok, I’ll believe u.
22. M: Could u possibly get this papers in order for this afternoon’s meeting with the legal staff?
W: I’m willing, but I will need u to tell me what’s involved.
Q: What does the man mean?
23. W: I can’t take that sociology class I registered for. I was just notified that I needed every Friday for my part time job.
M: That shouldn’t be a problem; there are lots of courses to choose from the sociology department.
24. M: Say, do u think u can help me with these applications for graduate school? I really like someone to read them over.
W: Un, well, yeah. But I’ve got to get a class right now. How about later around, like may be after lunch?
25. W: what Phil’s chances of becoming class president?
M: I think Mary has a slight edge(优势).
26. W: I’ve got a terrible headache. I’m gonna take a break. I think I’ve been staring at this computer screen too long.
M: Yeah, that occasionally happens to me when I work too long.
27. W: U are gone long. Did u have any luck?
M: No, but it wasn’t a total loss. I got a couple of mysteries and I picked up a book on golf for Jack, for he’s birthday.
28. W: I’m leaving now. So be sure to lock all the lab equipment in the storage room
M: don’t worry, I’ll see that everything’s taken care of
29. W: Hey John, the notes u loaned me to are clear and well organized. But they have nothing to do with psychology.
M: U know, I bet I’ve give u my sociology notes.
30. M: I’ve been looking for a job for month, and I can’t find anything in my field.
W: I know how u feel, but u should keep at it. Eventually something will come up.#p#副标题#e#

PART B
31-34
A: What’s up Marcy? U seemed to be in a good moon today.
B: I guess I am. It’s the new printer I just bought for my computer.
A: Hey, that’s terrific.
B: Thanks.
A: It’s good I can charge it to my credit card though. if I’d had to come up with that much cash on the spot, I just wouldn’t be able to afford it.
B: U know, I’m doing a term paper on that for my economic seminar. I read that a lot people in the world would be able to support themselves and their families much better if they could start their own businesses. But usually the bank won’t lend them money they need to start it. Often, if u don’t have property or other assets, they won’t give u even the smallest loan.
A: That doesn’t seem fair.
B: Exactly. But now there’re something known as micro-credit. That’s what we call very small loans that enable people to go into business for themselves. In Southern Asia micro-credit programs were set up to lend people that regular banks even wouldn’t look at.
A: And the borrowers used the money？
B: To buy tools and materials for producing cloth or food or whatever that they can sell to make a little money to feed their families and also start to pay back the loan, and then they can borrow a little more and make a little more profit. And…
A: And the lenders get their money back?
B: With interest. It’s been so successful that now micro-credit lending is spreading to other parts of the world too, even to North America. That’s what my paper will be about.
A: Say, do u need someone to type it for u? My rates are reasonable, and it’ll look really nice when I print it out.
B: On your new printer? Hey, how could I say no.

31. Why is the woman happy?
32. What is the conversation mainly about?
33. Why does the man mention Southern Asia?
34. What will the woman probably do?

35-38
A: I think I’ve finally decided what to write my paper about. It’s a new museum right near the Capitol building in Washington D.C.
B: Really? I picked a museum too, a science museum up in Alberta, Canada. They look sort of like spaceship.
A: Say I read about that. It was built about 20 years ago, I think by the same architect who designed the building I’m interested in. Douglas Cardinal.
B: That’s him! But I can’t image Cardinal designing anything in the traditional classical style of the Capitol.
A: Well this new structure has to fit in with the architecture of the Capitol, but its style is anything but traditional. I don’t mean that it’s one of those big glass boxes they call modern architecture though. Instead of rectangles and straight lines, this build has rounded free form shapes and sweeping curves. It supposes to represent the natural forms like the Canyon cliffs in the western states, rock formations that were shaped by water and the wind.
B: Sounds fantastic. But I wonder why that sort of style would be chosen for a building in Washington D.C.
A: That’s easy. This place is called the National Museum of American Indian. And it’s devoted to exhibits of Native American cultures, including those of the west. And for Cardinal this is his own family heritage too. And in designing this museum he was careful to respect the various Native American values and traditions, like paying attentions to the directions of winds and the position of the sun in different seasons of the year.
B: Wow, an untraditional building, designed to show case some of north American’s oldest traditions. Interesting!

35.what is the discussing mainly about?
36.what do the two museums mentioned in the conversations have in common?
37.what did the architect designed the new building to look like?
38.what kinds of traditions are represented in Cardinal’s new building?

PART C
39-41
Today let’s consider the neutrino(中微子) and the resolves of some experiments down in the 1995 at the Los Alamos national laboratory in New Mexico, which bear on the neutrino. These resolves suggest that this little particle does indeed have mass that tiny bet to be sure but measurable by the very sensitive instruments of that lab. The neutrino’s origin has always been an interesting case, though a case not unusual in the history of physics. As you know, ordinarily scientific observation precedes scientific theory. Ocean tides were observed, ocean tides were explained; gravity is observed, gravity is explained. However, let’s consider what happened in the neutrino’s case. When the neutrino was proposed over sixty years ago, it was a convenient fiction. Scientists had not observed such a particle nor even as a fact. So what let them to conceive of this imaginary object? They had been writing equations about neutron decay in which the energy amounts on each side of their equations were unequal. In order to keep this energy amounts the same on both sides of the equations, they added little particle named neutrino and gave it precisely enough energy to balance the equations and the loan be hold years later. About thirty-five years ago real neutrinos were found. Now we have the more recent developments. Originally, the neutrino was thought not to have any mass at all. But Los Alamos experiments seem to disprove this premise. They indicated that neutrinos do have mass—about one-millionth the mass of electron.

39.why did the speaker mentions the ocean tides and gravity?
40.how did the concept of neutrino originate?
41.what did the experimental results at Los Alamos show about the neutrino?

42-46
The forests of New England constituted both are resource and barrier for the first British settlers who reach these shores. In addition to the maples, firs, oaks and birches(白桦) were white pines whose scientific name is Pinus strobus. These white pines were straight and tall, perfect for use as masts on the sailing ships of the time. Britain had used up its supply of mast trees, so is eager for this product of its young colony. By the first load of masts reached Britain in 1634 and Britain was marveled the size of the trees, which had diameters of up to 4 feet at the wide end. For every yard of mast height, the body end needed to be one inch in diameter. In1705, Britain passed a law stating that all white pines over 24 inches at the body end were reserved for the use of king’s navy. Such trees were marked by blazing the king’s arrow symbol on the tree with three cuts of the hatchet. These trees were selected by the surveyor general, whose work often met with resistances of colonists.

42.what is the main topic of this talk?
43.in what course is this speaker probably lecturing?
44.what type of trees were used to making masts?
45.which characteristic of the tree was used to classify as reserved for the king?
46.which mark was used to reserve a tree for the king’s navy?

47-50
Now the Australia jumping spider as you can image got its name for its ability to leap. But it can swim too. What’s most interesting though is its ability to use try and error tactics when solving problems. Now the jumping spider attacks and eats other spiders. It’ll sit at the edge of another spider's web and attract the spider by tapping out different signals to mimic the struggles of a trapped insect and it’ll keep changing the signals till successfully lured its prey out. Well, to see if the jumping spider could apply the same problem solving technique, try and error to unfamiliar situations, scientists conducted an experiment. They field a trap full of water and then put some sand in the middle, like an island. In between the island and the edge of the trap, they put a rock. When they put the spider on the island, some tried jumping to the rock, and some tried swimming. All the spiders that successfully reached the rock either by jumping or by swimming use the same method to make it from the rock to the edge of the tree. If the spider failed to reach the rock, it was placed back on the island, but the next time they try to leave, spiders did opposite of whatever didn’t work the first time, leaping if it had swum, or swimming if it had leaped. So we see the spiders using the same try and error in crossing the water as they used in hunting.

47.what this talk on Australia jumping spiders mainly about?
48.according to the talk, how does the Australia spiders attract the other kinds of spiders?
49.in the experiment, what did the spiders have to do to reach the rock?
50.what would happen if the spider tied to get to the rock but fail to reach the rock?

历年托福听力考试2004-05（在线收听）