1、标准听力7原文标准听力（七）听力原文及答案解析Listening ComprehensionSection A11. W: Ill make your flight reservations by phone now and then write out the ticket for you. M: Thats fine. Could you please tell me the departure time again? Q: Whats the man doing?【听前预测】选项中的Buying a ticket，Arranging，trip等表明，对话可能与订票事宜有关。【解 析】选D
2、。由女士提到的Ill make your flight reservations by phone now和男士的话tell me the departure time可知，男士正在安排一次飞机旅行，故答案为D。12. M: The telephone company says that they can send a man between one and three tomorrow afternoon, but someone has to be at home to let him in. W: Well, I guess Ill have to take off from work
3、at noon. We cant go any longer without a telephone. Q: What is the woman going to do tomorrow afternoon?【听前预测】选项中重复出现的telephone表明，对话可能与电话有关。【解 析】选A。结合对话中男士提到的The telephone companysend a mantomorrow afternoon, but someone has to be at home to let him in和女士提到的Ill have to take off from work at noon不难推断
4、出，明天下午女士会在家里等电话公司的人来，故答案为A。13. W: I hear the Grand Hotel has a new manager. Did you notice any change when you stayed there last week? M: Yes, I found the room was surprisingly clean now, and the service was much better, too. Q: What can we learn about the hotel?【听前预测】选项中的hotel，better，compared with，
5、the former，clearer等表明，对话可能与对hotel的评价和比较有关。【解 析】选A。结合女士提到的Did you notice any change和男士提到的Yesthe service was much better可知，hotel比以前更好了，故答案为A。男士提到the room was surprisingly clean是为了证明hotel的环境比以前好很多，故不能听到surprisingly就误选C，surprising意为“让人感到吃惊的”。14. M: Did you get what you wanted? I remember you said you wa
6、nted to get a sweater. W: No, a blouse. But by that time, the ones on sale were all gone, so I settled for a skirt. Q: What did the woman finally buy?【听前预测】选项均以She bought开头以及其中的sweater，blouse，skirt等表明，对话与She买东西有关，听音时留意She到底买了什么东西。【解 析】选C。听到女士最后的话so I settled for skirt可知，她最终买了skirt， 故答案为C。settle for意
7、为“勉强接受”。15. W: Professor Hook was so strange today. M: I noticed that too. He was talking so quietly and then not giving us any homework at all. Can you believe that? Q: What can be inferred about Professor Hook?【听前预测】选项中的He，assigns homework，class，students等表明，对话与He布置作业有关。【解 析】选B。结合女士说的Professor Hook
8、 was so strange today以及男士说的He wasnot giving us any homework at all. Can you believe that?可推断，Professor Hook平常总布置家庭作业，故答案为B。16. M: I forgot to bring paper and a pencil to take notes with in class. W: Thats all right. I have enough for both of us. Q: What will the woman most probably do next?【听前预测】选项中
9、的help the man，Give the man the note，Lend the man her pencil等表明，对话与女士帮助男士有关，女士的话为听音重点。【解 析】选C。对话开始男士表示自己忘记带纸和笔了，女士说I have enough for both of us（我有足够我们两人用的），由此可推知，女士会把笔和纸借给男士，故答案为C。17. W: I wish Mary would put on a different record. She has played that song a thousand times. M: At least. It used to be
10、 one of my favorites before I had to hear it so often. Q: What can we infer from the conversation?【听前预测】选项中的like to listen，the record，song，favorite one，fed up with等表明，对话可能涉及对歌曲的评价。【解 析】选D。结合女士说的I wish Mary would put on a different record以及男士的附和It used to be one of my favorites before.hear it so ofte
11、n可推知，他们听够Mary的歌了，感到厌烦了，故答案为D。put on在此意为“推出，发行（新唱片）”。18. W: Whats the problem, Paul? You really look panicked. M: Im speaking to a group of high school students about engineering this afternoon. But I have no idea how Im going to simplify some of the concepts for them. Q: What can be inferred about t
12、he man?【听前预测】由选项中的He，concepts of engineering，explain，gives talks to，high school students等可推断，对话可能与He向高中生解释工程学术语有关，而D与此话题无关，故可初步排除。【解 析】选B。由对话中男士提到的But I have no idea how.to simplify some of the concepts可推断出，男士感觉自己解释不了某些术语，故答案为B。Now you will hear the two long conversations.Conversation One【听前预测】由选项中的
13、ocean currents，movement of sediment，turbidity current，underwater earthquakes等可知，对话可能与海洋的各种自然现象有关。W: Dr. Smith. I need to ask you about something in Chapter 12. Well, it talks about erosion and the deposit of sediment（solid matter that settles at the bottom of a liquid）on the deep sea floor, but Im c
14、onfused. For that to happen, there would have to be some kind of force down there moving the mud or sand or whatever, right? But I thought there werent any waves or currents that deep in the ocean.M: Thats not exactly correct. Its true that deep down on the ocean floor we wont have the same kinds of
15、 currents we find in shallower parts. But we do find what we call turbidity currents. That wasnt in the book but the term came up in class. Do you remember what it means?W: Um, turbidity currents? Oh, yeah! Isnt that when sediment like sand or mud gets stirred up and mixes with water? And then this
16、mixture flows through the water around it, right?M: Good!W: Uh, but I thought that only happened in rivers.M: Well, yes. This does occur in rivers, but we see turbidity currents deep in the ocean as well.W: But how do they get started there?M: Earthquakes mostly. When an earthquake occurs under wate
17、r, it throws up tremendous amounts of mud or sand that becomes suspended in a layer of water near the bottom of the ocean. This layer is so much denser and heavier than other ocean water that it flows right down the slopes of the ocean floor and gains more and more speed as it moves along. Then its
18、just like the winds blowing across the desert picking up sand from one place and moving it along and finally dropping it somewhere else.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. What is the main topic of the discussion?【解析】选B。选项内容概括性强，故本题很可能考查对话话题。对话中女士向男士咨询Chapter 12中
19、她不明白的内容，即erosion and the deposit of sediment on the deep sea floor是如何发生的，后面都是男士针对此问题进行回答。由此可见，整个对话讨论的话题是海底沉淀物的运动，故答案为B。【点睛】对话主旨要听清对话的主要内容，也可根据选项内容进行推测。对话开头是听音关键。20. What does the professor ask the student to explain?【解析】选A。男士解释海底沉淀物运动时提到了turbidity currents，并说这个术语曾经在课堂上提过，然后男士问Do you remember what it
20、 means? 由此可见，教授希望学生能解释turbidity current，故答案为A。【点睛】A What a turbidity current is对应对话中的what it means，其中的it即turbidity currents。21. According to the professor, how do earthquakes cause turbidity currents?【解析】选B。选项均以By+现在分词开头表明，本题考查行为方式。对话中教授在解释turbidity currents的形成时说earthquakethrows upmud or sand that b
21、ecomes suspended inwater，由此可知，地震带动泥沙运动，最后与海水混合，故答案为B。22. Why does the professor mention desert winds?【解析】选A。选项均以“To+原形动词”开头表明，本题考查做某事的目的。由对话中提到的Then its just like the winds blowing across the desert picking up sand.moving it.dropping it somewhere else可知，是将turbidity currents的作用与desert winds作用进行类比，答案为
22、A。Conversation Two【听前预测】由选项中的lifestyles of celebrities，values of celebrities等可知，对话可能是在讨论社会名流。W: Im fascinated with them. I often read the stories about their lives and their hobbies.M: Why should we care about celebrities? When they were born, they were no different than any of us. Just because they
23、 have a camera on them doesnt mean that they have to be ideal citizens.W: I think many celebrities have fascinating stories, and to read these stories can be very inspirational. They forever inspire us to achieve more.M: So you hold celebrities as your role models?W: Yes. But celebrities definitely
24、should consider how their behavior will be seen by those who have chosen them as a role model.M: But dont you think celebrities also make us spend money? I mean we have to follow their lavish lifestyles.W: Although I may be fascinated with celebrities lifestyles, I stop short of imitating them.M: I
25、think its all right to have a normal interest in actors and artists were fond of, but if you know more about Britney Spears than your next-door neighbor, you need help.W: I think too that the most important people in our lives should be our friends and family. But celebrities do keep us entertained
26、whether it is sports, music or movies.M: The entertainment value cannot be emphasized enough, but celebrities shouldnt be such a big deal so that we are totally obsessed with them.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. What do we learn about the woman from the conve
27、rsation?【解析】选B。对话中女士一开始说自己经常关注名流的生活和兴趣，接着说从这些名流的故事中可以得到鼓励，故答案为B。【点睛】inspiration是形容词inspirational的名词形式。24. According to the man, which statement is not true?【解析】选B。根据男士提到的I think its all right to have a normal interest in actors and artists were fond of 可知，男士赞同对自己的偶像有正常范围内的兴趣，根据问题要求可知答案为B。【点睛】but if
28、you know more about Britney Spears than your next-door neighbor, you need help是A项的设题处；But dont you think celebrities also make us spend money?是C项的设题处；When they were born, they were no different than any of us是D项的设题处。25. What do the man and the woman agree most on?【解析】选D。对话中女士和男士对待明星的态度基本不同，最后女士说But
29、celebrities do keep us entertained，男士说The entertainment value cannot be emphasized enough，由此可知，二人对名流具有娱乐作用这方面的观点还是一致的，故答案为D。【点睛】But转折处通常为考点，其后的句子通常为答案。Section BPassage One【听前预测】由选项中的tea leaves，make sandwiches with tea，Britons got.tea from，became a popular drink等可推知，短文可能与茶叶的历史有关，涉及茶叶的用法以及英国的茶叶的来源等。Te
30、a-drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops. And even those people who could afford to have i
31、t sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with batter and salt. Many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to t
32、heir children as sandwiches. Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea.
