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TOEFL LISTENING TEXT
普林斯第二套样题
1.
-W: Do you know anyone who can translate this document?
- M: What about the new secretary? I heard he’s bilingual.
What does the man mean?
2.
-W: Did you hear the weather report for today?
- M: The pollution’s going to be so bad they recommend staying indoors.
What are the speakers discussing?
3.
-W: Don’t you think Bob should go into engineering ---I mean, he’s so good in math.
- M: He’ll have to decide that for himself.
What does the woman say about Bob?
4.
-W: I’ll be ready in a few minutes. I have to finish up this letter.
- M: Ok, I’ll go down to the lobby for a paper.
What will the man probably do?
5.
-W: Did you see this article on the exhibit of eighteenth-century prints that opened today?
- M: Yes, and I’ve already bought a ticket to see it next month.
What does the woman mean?
6.
-W: I’d like to apply for the part-time job.
- M: Fine. Just fill out this form. Someone will be with you in a moment.
What does the woman mean?
7.
-W: It’s ten o’clock. Is that too late for us to call Professor Brown about the student council meeting?
- M: Let’s hold off till tomorrow.
What does the man mean?
8.
- W: Did you get a study manual for your driver’s test?
- M: I had Dan pick one up for me.
What does the woman mean?
9.
- W: Every time I come to the gym, you’re here exercising.
- M: I try to work out whenever I have a chance.
What does the woman mean?
10.
- W: Would you have some free time to look at this proposal for me?
- M: I’m kind of busy now. How does late this afternoon sound?
What does the woman mean?
11.
- M1: I was going to take organic chemistry next semester---but now it’s been cut.
- M2: I heard the university’s going to double the tuition, too.
What can be inferred about the university?
12.
- W: Could I get a ride with you to the concert tonight?
- M: I can’t go, but you might ask Betty. I think she’s leaving around 7:30.
What does the woman mean?
13.
- W: You’ve been living off campus this year, haven’t you?
- M: Yes, and I’m going to next year too---It’s so much nicer than living in the dormitory.
What does the man mean?
14.
- W: You ought to see a doctor about that cough.
- M: I guess I should. I’ve been putting it off for days.
What does the woman mean?
15.
- W: What do you want to do tonight?
- M: There’s supposed to be a good documentary on channel eight.
What does the man mean?
16.
- W: I’ve finally decided about my history paper. I’m going to focus on the Civil War.
- M: That’s so broad---do you think it’ll be approved?
What does the man imply?
17.
-W: Sorry you had to miss the seminar, how’re you doing now?
- M: I took it easy last week---it’s amazing what a little rest can do.
What does the man mean?
18.
-W: Is the snack bar always this deserted?
- M: It’s the end of the semester. Everyone’s in the library studying.
What does the woman imply?
19.
-W: Are you going to play tennis with us today?
- M: I promised Bill I’d go hiking with him---and I’m really looking forward to it.
What does the man mean?
20.
- W: Joe’s not planning to go to California again this summer.
- M: But with his new schedule, he could.
What does the woman say about Joe?
21.
- W: If Professor Thomson was willing to give us a three-day extension to finish the project, maybe she’ll give us a few more days.
- M: Let’s not push our luck, okay?
What does the man mean?
22.
- W: Do you know what’s wrong with Mark? He’s been acting very strangely lately.
- M: Come on, with his parents coming to visit next week---right after he’s moved into a new apartment---h’s just got a lot on his mind.
What does the woman say about Mark?
23.
- W: you look cold and tired. Could I buy you a hot cup of tee?
- M: Oh, that would be just what the doctor ordered.
What does the man mean?
24.
- W: There were only twenty students a last night’s meeting, so nothing could be voted on.
- M: That’s too bad. They’ll have to turn out in greater numbers if they want a voice in campus issues.
What does the woman mean?
25.
- W: Have we received response form everybody we invited?
- M: Only Tina can’t come.
What does the woman mean?
26.
- W: I hope the view form the balcony is good.
- M: No problem---you can see the actors no matter where you’ve sitting.
What kind of place are the speakers probably talking about?
27.
- W: Could you use a hand with those suitcases?
- M: If you wouldn’t mind.
What does the man mean?
28.
- W: You’re redecorating your apartment, aren’t you? How’s coming along?
- M: I’m just taking it one step at a time.
What does the woman imply?
29.
- W: We’re supposed to pick up the tickets to sell this afternoon.
- M: Oh, so they have been printed.
What had the man assumed about the tickets?
30.
- W: Were you able to reach Lucy at home?
- M: I couldn’t get to a phone.
What does the man mean?
-Question 31-34. Listen to a telephone call to a professor.
- M: Math Department. Dr. Webster speaking.
- W: Hello, Professor Webster. This is Janet Hill calling. I live two doors down from your teaching assistant, Don Williams. Don asked me to call you because he’s lost his voice and can’t talk to you himself.
- M: Lost his voice? That’s too bad. Is there anything I can do for him?
- W: Well, he has a class this afternoon from two-thirty to four, and he won’t be able to make it. But he doesn’t want to cancel it either.
- M: Does he want me to try to find somebody else to teach it?
- W: No, not exactly. What he wants to do is get someone to go in for him---just to pass back the midterm exams. He’s already marked them and they are on the desk in his office. The whole thing wouldn’t take more than….ehh, ten minutes or so.
- M: Two-thirty, you say? Well, I’m free then, and I was going to be on campus anyway, so I could do it for him. Where’s his class?
- W: Carter Hall, room two-fourteen. Will you need his office key to get the exams? I could bring it to you.
- M: Well, actually, that won’t be necessary. We have a master key in the Math Department. So I can get into his office.
- W: Thank you. Professor Webster.
- M: My pleasure.
- W: Don doesn’t have another class to teach until Thursday, and hopefully he’ll be able to talk by then. He’ll call you as soon as he can. Oh, and…uh…I almost forgot…
- M: Yes?
- W: Could you put the next assignment on the board too? They should solve the equations at the end of chapter eight, and that’s due at the next class.
- M: Okay. No trouble at all. Thanks for the news about Don, and tell him not to worry about this.
31. What is Don’s problem?
32.What favor does Don want someone to do for him?
33.What does Janet offer to do?
34. What does Janet almost forget to ask Professor Webster to do?
-Questions 35-39. Listen to two students talk about an experiment in a science class.
- M: Have you done the lab for physiology yet---the one on taste?
- W: Yeah, it was kind of fun---mapping the taste buds? Didn’t you think so?
- M: I’m doing it this afternoon. How long will it take?
- W: It went pretty quickly---under an hour, anyway. See, first you mix up the four solutions.
- M: You take water and add either sugar, lemon juice, salt, or…What was it?
- W: Bitter quinine.
- M: That’s it…uh…then what?
- W: Then all you have to do is taste each sample and describe where each flavor seems most intense.
- M: Is that hard?
- W: Not really. One thing to remember though---not all the taste buds are on the tongue.
- M: Right. I’ll keep that in mind. And thanks for going over this with me. Maybe we could talk about this after I’ve tried it---we could get a pizza or something.
- W: Great. Give me a call.
35. What is the main purpose of the lab experiment?
36.About how long does it take to do the experiment?
37. What does the woman remind the man about?
38. How does the man close the conversation?
-Questions 39-42. Listen to “Science Watch,” a daily radio program.
- W: Word comes form California of a new weapon I the war on household pests. Two scientists working for a firm in Anaheim, California, have developed a method to eliminate insects without using dangerous chemicals. The new poison? Hot air. The basic idea is that insects cannot adjust to temperatures much above normal. In laboratory experiments, cockroaches and termites can’t survive much more than a quarter of an hour at 125 degree F, or about 50 degrees centigrade.
- The new method involves covering a house with a huge tent and filling it with air heated to around 65 degrees centigrade. Hot air is forced in with fans, and the tent keeps the heat inside the house. Since termites try to escape by hiding in wooden beams, the heat treatment must be continued for a full six hours. But when it’s all over and the insects are dead, there are no toxic residues to endanger humans or pets and no funny smells. Scientists claim that there is no danger of fire, either, since very few household materials will burn at 65 degrees centigrade in fact wood is prepared for construction use by drying it in ovens at 80 degrees centigrade, which is substantially hotter than the air used in this procedure.
39. What is the talk mainly about?
40. According to the speaker, what makes the new system better than other treatments.?
41. Why are the houses covered with tents?
42. Why does the speaker mention that construction wood is dried by heat?
-Qusetions 43-46. Listen to a teacher talk to students in her freshman English course.
- W: I’m sure you realize that your research papers are due in six weeks. I’ve looked at your proposed topics and made comments about them. The most frequent problem was proposing too broad a topic---remember, this is only a fifteen---page paper. As I return you topic papers. I’d like to look over the schedule which sketches out what we’ll do during the next two weeks. Today is Monday, by Friday, I want your preliminary outline. Please be sure to incorporate the suggestions I’ve made on your topics and your outlines. Next week I’ll have a conference with each of you. I’ve posted a schedule on my office door---sign your name to indicate the time you’re available for an appointment. In the conference, we'll discuss your preliminary outline. Then you can make the necessary revisions and hand in your final outline, which is due two weeks form today.
- Use the outline style in your textbook and remember it should be no more than two pages long. Be sure to begin with a thesis statement---that is with a precise statement of the point you intend to prove and include a conclusion. Have you got all that? Your two-page preliminary outlines are due at the end of this week and the final outlines are due after your conferences. Follow the text book style and include a thesis statement and conclusion.
43. What does the speaker mainly discuss?
44. When will conferences be held?
45. What is the purpose of the conference?
46. According to the speaker, how should the outline begin?
-Questions 47-50. Listen to a talk given by a tour guide at a museum.
- M: Before we begin our tour, I’d like to give you some background information on the painter Grant Wood---we’ll be seeing much of his work today. Wood was born in 881in Iowa country, and became interested in art very early in life. Although he studied art in both Minneapolis and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the strongest influences on his art were European. He spent time in both Germany and France and his study there helped shape his own stylized form of realism.
- When he returned to Iowa, Wood applied the stylistic realism he had learned in Europe to the rural life he saw around him and that he remembered from his childhood around the turn of the century. His portraits of farm families imitate the static formalism of photographs of early settlers posed in front of their homes. His paintings of farmers at work, and of their tools and animals, demonstrate a serious respect for the life of the mid-western United States. By the 1930’s, Wood was a leading figure of the school of art called “American regionalism.”
- In an effort to sustain a strong Mid-western artistic movement. Wood established an institute of Mid-western art in his home state. Although the institute failed, the paintings you are about to see preserve Wood’s vision of pioneer farmers.
47. What is the main purpose of the talk?
48. What had an important effect on Wood’s early art?
49.What would be most likely to appear in a painting by Wood?
50. According to the speaker, how did Wood try to encourage Mid-western art?下载本文
