历年托福听力考试2005-08（打印版）

05年 8月托福听力文字
1，w:I need to get a new student ID card, I seem to have lost my old one, and I need one right away
M:me too,we are going to head over to the student service officec,and,wait a minute ,by now they are closed and won’t be open again till Monday morning ,so how about if we meet there then ,just before our biology class
2. M: have you seen my calculator, it was right here a minute ago, W: did you look it on your book; I am always losing things that way
3: W: (do) you think there is too much red in this painting; I feel that the colors aren’t quite balanced
M: why are you asking me, I am not a fine art major?
4: M:I hear they are giving free flu shot down at the student center
W: Really, when you find when it exactly is, let me know, I got one last year and it is the first winter I can remember that I didn’t get flu
5. W: do you want to see the baseball game tomorrow, Joe has an extra ticket
M: you must be kidding, when we before finals when everybody is studying day and night
6: M: can you come to that meeting on Friday morning
W: this Friday, I’ll have to see if I can rearrange my schedule
7:W: I just got off the phone with the housing office, I want to move to a different dorm, well, but they won’t let me move in the middle of the semester
M:I guess you sure have to make the best of it
8: m: excuse me, you didn’t happen to see a fig history book with a blue cover, I hope nobody has taken it
W: oh, that was your book; I took it down to the lost and found before someone walked off it
9: W: can I borrow your some money; I left my purse in my car
M: you bought me lunch last time; it is my turn to treat you
10, M: my computer screen is flashing, and I can’t get it stopped
W: oh, a similar thing happened to me the other day, I’ll bet together we can figure out what to do
11’w: now that the weather is getting nicer and I’d like to get some exercises outside, do you know anyone who is interested in playing tennis this week
M:that funny ,I was thinking the same thing ,are you free on Wednesday morning
12M: is professor miller teaching in this semester, I can’t find her name in this course catalog
M:you are looking in the anthropology section ,try biology
13: m: john, have you finished your assignment for history class yet, it is due this Thursday ,you know
M: I had got a couple of other things do on the same day,I ask professor for extension, she said I could hand it in next week,so I am concentuating on the other stuff first|
14:m:excuse me,Ms Williams ,you ask me to stack all these text books along the shelf by the door,but that shelf is full of sale books
W: so you do have more than one job ahead of you
15:m:there is so much stress at this time ,how do you manage to stay so clam
W:well ,the truth is I only look like I have got it all under control
16;W:you like you could use a study break ,why don’t grab a coffee
M:why not,life is too short to stay in a library all day
17:m: I am sorry if I seem to a little coarse on the phone yesterday,I am fine now ,but when you called I really wasn’t feeling very well
W: oh, of course,letting me know,I was kind of wondering what come to you
18m: you don’t know if Marry is going to the concert tonight ,do you ?
W: no ,but I can get a number for you
19:m: I don’t think I could pack one more idea into my head
W: yeah, professor Black’s lectures are something else,aren’t they?
20:w, Jim ,would you do me a favor
M: well it depends on how long it’ll take,I have to leave before three
21:w;I heard you ate taking a photographic class at the new studio, what is it like
M: nothing like oour old class,and you will like the instructor too,you know what ,they are offering free trial class
22:w:I was in such a hurry I scribble off my homework,I hope it is legible
M: it is hard to follow,you know,if you start now,you could have a copy neatly by the time it is due
23:m; I hear there is a new coffee that opens at the weekends ,want to go to check it out
M:thanks ,I have been waiting for an excuse to get away from this term paper
24:m: you know it has been three weeks ,and I still didn’t hear from the chemical company about the job I am interviewed for,may be I should call them
W: I don’t think it could hurtbbs.gter.net ?
25,w: do you remember when we were with Jim yesterday how he was talking about running for president of the student government ,do you think he is serious
M:you never can tell with jim ,even when he tells jokes,he keeps a straight face
26:m:I haven’t slept well days ,even with the fan on all the time,my room is like an oven
W:all of us in the resident ate in the same boat ,but cheer up,the heat wave was supposed to break by the weekends
27,m:those handmade sweaters of yours ate very nice ,does it take a long while to knit one
W:does it ever ,you know,as much as I enjoy it ,I can’t afford to work on them more on the school session|
28:w:do you know when the next bus is supposed to leave for downtown ,I need to go to get a book for my history class
M: hold on .i’ve got a schedule here some where
29:m:I can’t imagine with j’s thinking of when she set up a studying group meeting for the first of the basketball game championship
W:well it doesn’t matter to me ,but I bet the other would be pretty upset#p#副标题#e#
30;w: so you think professor Monroe will let me interview her ,I am writing an article for the newspaper on the campus research
M:why not ,I mean she love discussion on a research
A
M.:Hi, mashal, how is your study of DNA coming
W: Slow but sure,I know the definition, it carrys the blueprint for human life,but I got more to learn ,you are working on DNA ,right
M;Yes, I have been studying the amount of DNA in fish and frogs,dig you know that some flogs have twice as much DNA as human being,and are you ready for this ,the African long fish has forty-two times as much
W:No, I didn’t ,my research has been focused on human beins,forty-two more than human’s,why long fish has so much DNA than we do,does it help them to produce more offspring
M:No ,probably not,but I can’t really tell you for sure yet, we are still just collecring data,doesn’t it seem strange that the amount of DNA in a relative simple organism like a fish is greater than that of a more complex organism such sa human being
W:It does seen odd,but come to think to it ,in highly organism only a tiny percentage of DNA ,less han about five percents,is necessary to carry instruction for producing ife,that means a lot of extra amount as well
M:The question is why,I saw one theory that says it is very likely some of extra DNA may selfishly reproduce and increase in number,totally indifferent the need of the organism that contains it
W:You are saying that section of the moleculat might act like parasite and live off the organism without contributing anything to it ,right ,I’ve heard about that theory too,but it is pretty controversial
M:Well not for long I hope, which remind ,I had better get back to my fish ,I should have been the lab an hour ago

B
M:So how was the singing competition last weekends
W:You don’t want to know
M:What do you mean,wasn’t it near the beach ,that should be fun
W:It should be fine,we only came in second place,not only that ,but we weren’t nearly able to enjoy the beach either
M;Hold on ,you are upset about finishing the second ,how many singing groups are competing
W; About thirty, I know second place sounds OD,but that three years in a row we have been second ,and it is the same group that beat us three years in a row
M:That too bad,but what about the beach ,I end up spend a lot time in the libraty ,I would love to at beach ,swimming in the ocean ,playing beach volleyball instead of being stuck in the library studying
W;Well ,it wasn’t exactly like that,I had spent some time studying too,we really don’t have much free time ,we were scheduled almost the whole time,practicing , performacing or watching the competition
M:So you were that busy,
W:Yeah ,but you know the ocean water is still cold ,so I don’t think we really miss too much M:Well ,you gosh may have got plans to go back when the semester is over
W:That is exactly what we have in our mind ,it should be a lot fun there when the weather warms up,and we don’t have to think about competing
Part C
1.
We’ve spent the last few weedks on the development of serious theaters in United States ,looking int the plays and play writers of the early 1900’s.our next unit is on American musical theater.this type of theater developed from both serious and popular art forms,like opera, dance ,drama and from a form of entainment called Vaudeville,which is where we will start today.vaudevill shows originated in Europe and by the 1800’s become a popular form o entainment in America .they were basically a variety of shows ,featuring several live entainer ,singer ,dancer, magician ,acrobat and trained animals, it is as many as ten acts that largely unrelated in theme or style. By the early 1900, vaudeville theater had sprang up in all large cities, in the large theater, there were usually two performances a day ,some theater would come to be four performances a day , but with the introduction of silent films ,live performance had to compete with movie theaters, and vaudeville attendance started to decline ,some vaudeville theater started to show some movies as well, movies were showing between vaudeville act, that kept people for coming to vaudeville for a while, but when talking films arrived ,vaudeville faced even stiffer competition ,and then with the great depression in the 1930’s when the Americans has less income to spend on entainment and the growth of radio and around television programme,vaudeville experienced a further decline, pretty disappeared entirely by the end of the second world war
2.
We have been discussing some factors that influence the globe climate today we are going to a factor that you might find it surprising ,surprising because it is so small that you probable wouldn’t expect it to be important . that factor is dust ,by dust ,we don’t mean only tiny pieces of dirt, but any small particles, bacterium, or fungus box. There are several methods to collect data on dust, one method is flying in the storm with alit craft equipped with dust collection devises ,we can then analyze the dust samples to find out what types of dust are present at a given time of year and at certain location and height in the atmosphere,well,why would you want to map out how the types and amount of dust varies under certain different circumstances, because different types of dust behave differently and affect the weather in different way. Some types of dust help rain droplet to form,however,other types of dust prevent rain., although some effects of dust on the climax now are understood ,there is some debate on the overall effect of dust on temperature ,for example, you know, the dust can cool our planet by blocking sunlight from reaching the ground ,on the other hand ,it can absorb sunlight ,warming the atmosphere ,this warming effect may have caused the ice age to end . hopefully ,more research will answer the question of just how dust affects the temperature
3.now many people living near the Mediterranean sea in ancient time had extensive shipping network ,two of the prominent are the Minoan and the Mycenaean .the Minoan lived on the island of kuit,they did extensive trade by sea trading farm products and highly priced bronze objects they made ,things like weapons and tools, they established a trading network or trading colonies through the east of Mediterranean ,and these became great commercial centers ,these commercial centers produced real wealth ,and the Minoans used these wealth to build palace and acre duct. The Minoan civilization reached its peak in the sixteen century B.C. but they gradually lost its dominance to the Mycenaean who were from the ----land ,well north of the Crete, the Mycenaean actually learned a lot about sea trade from the Minoan ,but this mentor relationship changed after a volcano erupted on the island of --- in 415B.C,that devastated Minoan ships and destroyed important part of Crete. After that, the Mycenaean become the dominant sea trader of this area,well,we know that natural disaster might have been largely responsible for the decline of the Minoan sea trade,but reasons for the decline of the Mycenaean sea trade are more controversial ,the key factor may have been the political unrest both internally among the Mycenaean and in countries they traded with ,which disrupted trade works.

历年托福听力考试2005-08（在线收听）