历年托福听力考试2000-08（打印版）

man:do you have this style shirt in my size?
woman:i'll check.but...to tell u the truth,i think this one's right for u.
Q:what does the woman mean?
2 man:oh,i'm sorry,i just realized that i forgot to bring the tape recorder
you lent me.i left it back in my dorm.
woman:that's all right.i won't need it until tonight.as long as i've got it
my by then.
Q:what does the woman imply?
3 man:so how much was your plane ticket?
woman:more than i could really afford.i had to dip into my saving.
Q:what does the woman imply?
4 woman:Wed. are going to be busy days for me next semester.three class in
the morning and then two more in the afternoon. i won't even have time for
lunch.
man:you relaly should try to fit it in,you know.those afternoon classes
would be tough to sit through if u stomach's rumbling.
Q:what does the man suggest the woman do ?
5 woman:you are dropping out of the Marching Band?but i thought you loved
it.all the travelling,playing before big crowds..
man:i do.but...with all that time away from my studies my grades are really
starting to slip.
Q:what does the man mean ?
6 woman:i'm thinking of getting a new pantsuit to wear to James' wedding.
man:i just hope that my old suit still fits.you know how i feel about
shopping.
Q:what does the man imply?
7 man:what's my share of the bill?18.50?that can't be right!i only had a
salad for dinner.
woman:don't get excited.let me check them out.
Q:what will woman probably do next?
8 man:i'm surprised that Sarah told her boss he was wrong to have fired his
secretary.
woman:i know.but that Sarah...if she has an opinion,everyone's got to know
it.
Q:what does the woman mean?
9man: how about a movie tonight?that new comedy is opening in town.
woman:sounds great,but i've got be finishing sketches on my psychology
research paper.
Q:what does the woman imply?
10 woman:you won't have to look very hard to find a job on campus.but i
don't think you'll find anything that isn't just part-time.
man:that suits me.anything more than that,and i have to change my class
schedule.
Q:what does the man mean?
11 man:do u think u feel energetic enough to walk to our study group
session tnight?
woman:if there is one! i guess u haven't heard the weather reports.oever a
foot of snow is expected.
Q:what does the woman imply?
12 man:oh!i turned all of my white sock pink! i threw a red T-shirt in by
accident.
woman:have u tried running them through again with bleah?
Q:what does the woman suggest the man do?
13 woman:i hear that your brother is planning to transfer to another
univerisity
man:not if i can talk him out of it.and believe me,i'm trying.
Q:what does the man imply?
14 woman:i'd like to enrollin the free seminar u advertised in
newspaper.the one on managing your personal finances.
man:okay.now the ad did say that u have to have a saving account at our
bank to be eligible.do u have one here?
Q:what does the man want to know?
15 woman:did see the weather forecast for this weekend?i can't believe how
the temperature's going to dip.
man:i know.that isn't my idea what Oct. should be like.
Q:what does the man mean?
16 man:this exhibit is a total bore!i can't believe they call this art.
woman:i think i've seen enough.
Q:what will the woman probably do next?
17 woman:we should probably think about selecting someone to lead our study
group.u know,somebody really organized.
man:then u can count me out.
Q:what does the man mean?
18 woman:what do you think would be a reasonalbe price to pay for a new
computer?
man:you are asking the wrong person.my brother gave me mine.
Q:what does the man imply?
19 woman:tha'ts a nice-looking jactket.it fits u perfectly.i sit something
u bought recently?
man:thanks.no,i've had it a while.i've just been waiting for the weather to
cool down.
Q:what does the man imply?
20 man:what's wrong with Herald today?he snapped even no reason.
woman:don't worry,it's just the end of the semester pressure.he'll be his
old self next week.
Q:what does the woman say about Herald?
21 woman:i'm sorry.i need to work late tonight.so u should probably cancel
our reservation at the restaurant.
man:oh,actually i've never got round to making one in the first place.
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22 man:professor Johnson,for my sociology project this term i'm thinking of
interviewing all the residents in town on their TV viewing habit.
woman:well that's quite an undertaking for such a short-term project. maybe
you should to take a little shile to think about what that would entail
before making your final decision.
Q:what does the woman suggest the man do?
23 man:how do i look in this new sweater i bought yesterday?i was in a
hurry,so iddn't have a chance to try it on.
woman:well,i really like the style.but it looks a little tight.you might
want to take it back and get the next size up.
Q:what does the woman suggest the man do ?
24 man:do you have any idea what it'll cost to send this little package to
Australia?
woman:you've got me!the farthest i've ever sent a package is Canada.
Q:wat does the woman mean?
Question 36 through 39;
man:let's say you are geologist,and u want to investigatethe geological
histroy of a place.that is,how did geologists determine things
like...say ..how were the rocks formed? or was an area once under water?if
so,when?how should u about it?
woman:i'd start with stratigraphy.
man:could u explain what this is to the class?
woman:well,stratigraphy is the description of strata in sedimentary rock.i
guess that's not so clear,huh?ok,let's say one of the investigators thought
near a river,for example.well, over the history of the area,every time the
river flooded,it would deposit a layer of sediment all through with
flooded,it would deposit a layer of sediment all through with
floodplain.sometimes a bigger layer,sometimes a smaller,depending on the
size of the flood. well, one layer or stratum gets deposited over
another.obviously these strata built up over millions of years.
Stratigraphy is the study of these layers of deposited settlement.
man:so does that mean if i exmaine each of these strata,i can tell how long
ago each one is deposited?
woman:not necessarily.u see,there might've been some years when the river
didn't flood and no settlement was deposited.you need other kinds of
evidence to tell how much time might've gone by between when one layer got
deposited and one on top of it got deposited.
man:and what are those other kinds of evidence u are talking about?
woman:well,fossils for one.u can determine exactly how old a fossil is and
that's how u can tell how the rock surrounding it is.
man:very good.the discovery of that particular technique is an interesting
story.it was a man named William Smith who first used fossils for the
purpose of dating strata back in the 1800s.let's take a look at how he went
about making this geological breakthrough.
36 what is the discussionmainly about?
37 what does the woman explain when she talks about rivers?
38 according to the discussion,why are geologists unable to determine the
geological age of an area by studying sediment deposit alone?
39 what will the class paobably discuss next?
Question 40 through 43;
Recently some anthropologist conducated an interesting case study in
ehnology. now ethnology as u reacall is a branch of anthropology that deal
with how various cultrues develped change. the study was about the
development of basket weaving by African-american women who live in the
town of Mount Pleasant,South Carolina.the town is known for its high
quality sweet grass baskets which are woven bye these women.they've been
weaving the baskets for generations,handing down the skiss from mother to
daughter. some of the baskets have been place on permanent display at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art.the origin of their basket weaing dates back to
the 17th century and even earlier when these women's ancestors came to the
United States from the west coast of Africa. Now,it's mainly a hobby.but
back in the 17th and 18th century African and American women wove the
baskets for use on hte rice plantations.there were two types of backets
then:workbaskets and baskets for use in the home. the wrokbaskets were made
out of the more delicate sweet grass.they were used for everything from
fruit baskets to baby cradles.
40 what is the talk mainly about?
41 how did the women mentioned in the talk learn to wave basket?
42 according to the speaker,what type of baskets was make out of bulrush?
43 what is the main reason taht the women in South Carolina now weave
baskets?
Questions 44 through 46:
this morning i want to tell u about a recent scientific discovery dealing
with the relation between plants and animals.this is about a desert shrub
whose leaves can shoot up a stream of poisonous resin a distance of six
feet.do you think it would be safe from all attacks by insects.but a recent
study has found one insect,a beetle,that can chew its way past the plant's
defense system by cutting the mainly vein that delivers the poison to the
leaves.this vein cutting is jut one method the beetles used to prepare a
safe meal.another is by cutting a path all the way across the leave to hold
the flow of chemicals.then they simply eat between the veins of poison.in
the past,scienists who studied inset adaptation to plant defenses have
focused on chemical responses.that is,how the insects can neutrala or alter
the poisonous substances plants produce.what's unique about this chewing
strategy is that the beetle is actually exhibiting a behavior response to
the plant's defenses rather than the more commom chemical response. it is
only after a beetle's survived weveral encounters with the plant' resin
that it learns how to avoid the poison:by chewing through the resin
transporting veins on the next leaf it eats.and thus gives itself a
meal.however,it can take a bettle an hours an a half of careful vein
cutting to prepare a small leaf that takes it only a few minutes to
eat.so,though the method is effective,it's not very efficient.
41 what is the talk mainly about?
42 what is unusual about the desert plant?
43 how can the beetles avoid being poisoned by the plant?
Questions 47 through 50:
we're going to start our discussion of poetry in Western Europe with the
Iliad and the Odyssey.these two great poems stand out as great examples of
the earliest Euopean poems.they are believeed to have been written some
time between 800BC and 700BC,partly because the poems refer to the social
conditions of that time,conditions that have been validated by the findings
of archeologists.but just who was the poet who laid down these cornerstones
of western literature?well,tradition ascribles them to a man named
Homer,but we know virtually nothing about this Homer.In fact,some say that
such a poet never existed at all,that neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey was
written by a single poet,but rather each poem is composed of the writings
of several people.this,anyway,is the view of a school of literary critics
in the 18th century known as the Analysts. the Analysts pointed to internal
evidence such as variations in the literary devices used in the poem to
argue that each work waaas in fact a collection of sereral poems by several
Greek authors.Opposing the ananlysts were a second group of scholars called
the Unitarian. they insisted that the Iliad and the Odyssey could have been
the wrok of single poetic genius.To support their argument,they stress
among other things the consistency of the character portrayed in the
poetry.this wouldn't've been possilbe,they said,if they were written by
many different poets.now how we look at the Homeric question today has been
greatly influenced by someone named Milman Parry,an American scholar who
first presented his ideas about Homer in the 1930s. so let's take a look at
Parry's research and how it affects what modern day scholars think about
Homer.
47 what aspect of the Iliad and the Odyssey does the professor mainly
discuss?
48 according to the professor,what is one of the claims made by the
analysts?
49 According to the Unitarians,what is one type of evidence that a single
poet could have written both the Iliad and the Odyssey?
50 What will the professor probably talk about next?

历年托福听力考试2000-08（在线收听）