听力试题1

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE, using no more than three words in each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

Now, listen to the mini-lecture.

What Do Active Learners Do?

There are differences between active learning and passive learning.
Characteristics of active learners:

Ⅰ. reading with purpose
A. before reading: setting goals
B. while reading: (1)

Ⅱ. (2)and critical in thinking
i.e. information processing, e.g.
-connections between the known and the new information
-identification of (3)concepts
-judgment on the value of (4)

Ⅲ. active in listening
A. ways of note-taking: (5)
B. before note-taking: listening and thinking

Ⅳ. being able to get assistance
A. reason 1: knowing comprehension problems because of (6)
B. reason 2: being able to predict study difficulties

Ⅴ. being able to question information
A. question what they read or hear
B. evaluate and (7)

Ⅵ. last characteristic
A. attitude toward responsibility
-active learners: accept
-passive learners: (8)

B. attitude toward (9)
-active learners: evaluate and change behaviour
-passive learners: no change in approach
Relationship between skill and will: will is more important in (10)
Lack of will leads to difficulty in college learning.

听力试题2

SECTION B INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10
seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

1、 According to the interviewer, which of the following best indicates the relationship between choice and mobility?
A. Better education → more choices → greater mobility.
B. Better education → greater mobility → more choices.
C. Greater mobility → better education → more choices.
D. Greater mobility → more choices → better education.

2、 According to the interview, which of the following details about the first poll is INCORRECT?
A. Job security came second according to the poll results.
B. Chances for advancement might have been favoured by young people.
C. High income failed to come on top for being most important.
D. Shorter work hours was least chosen for being most important.

3、 According to the interviewee, which is the main difference between the first and the second poll?
A. The type of respondents who were invited.B. The way in which the questions were designed.
C. The content area of the questions. D. The number of poll questions.

4、 What can we learn from the respondents' answers to items 2, 4 and 7 in the second poll?
A. Recognition from colleagues should be given less importance.
B. Workers are always willing and ready to learn more new skills.
C. Work will have to be made interesting to raise efficiency.
D. Psychological reward is more important than material one.

5、 According to the interviewee, which of the following can offer both psychological and monetary benefits?
A. Contact with many people. B. Appreciation from coworkers.
C. Chances for advancement. D. Chances to learn new skills.

听力试题3

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

Now listen to the news.
6. According to the news item, "sleepboxes" are designed to solve the problems of
A. airports.
B. passengers.
C. architects.
D. companies.
7. Which of the following is NOT true with reference to the news?
A. Sleepboxes can be rented for different lengths of time.
B. Renters of normal height can stand up inside.
C. Bedding can be automatically changed.
D. Renters can take a shower inside the box.

Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
Now listen to the news.
8. What is the news item mainly about?
A. London's preparations for the Notting Hill Carnival.
B. Main features of the Notting Hill Carnival.
C. Police's preventive measures for the carnival.
D. Police participation in the carnival.

Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the news.
9. The news item reports on a research finding about
A. the Dutch famine and the Dutch women.
B. early malnutrition and heart health.
C. the causes of death during the famine.
D. nutrition in childhood and adolescence.

10. When did the research team carry out the study?
A. At the end of World War II.
B. Between 1944 and 1945.
C. In the 1950s.
D. In 2007.

试题答案

Section A Mini-lecture
1、checking traderstanding。
2、reflective
3、puzzling/confusing
4、what is read
5、comprehensive and organized
6、constant understanding monitoring//monitoring their understanding
7、differ
8、blame others
9、poor performance
10、school work//studies

Section B Interview
1-5 BABDC

Section C News Broadcast
6-10 BACAD

听力原文1

Part 1, Listening Comprehension

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

What Do Active Learners Do

Ability for learning. Active learners tmderstand that the responsibility for learning must come from within, while passive learners often want to blame others for their lack of motivation, poor performance, time management problems and other difficulties that they might experience. When active learners don't perform as well as they've hoped, they evaluate why they didn't do well and change those studying behaviors the next time. Passive learners, on the other hand, often approach evey. course in the same manner, and then get angry with professors when their performance is poor. It is only when students accept the respon- sibility for their own learning that they can truly be called active learners.

So, from what I have said so far, you can see that being an active learner involves both skill and will. By skill, I mean the tools to handle the studying and learning demands placed on you, like how to read with purpose, when and where to get assistance if you are having difficulty. By will, I mean the desire and motivation to follow through. Here I'd like to emphasize that skill is nothing without will. For example, you may have a friend who is knowledgeable, but not motivated in the classroom, even though he reads widely and can intelligently discuss a variety of issues, he does little school work and rarely studies. In other words, students, such as these, may have the skills to do well, but for some reason, they simply do not have the will. And because skill and will go hand in hand, unmotivated students, those who do not have the will, may experience difficulty in college.

OK, today we discuss the differences between an active learner and a passive one, and some useful study strategies that may eventually help you become an active learner.

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SECTION B INTERVIEW

Interviewer: Good morning, Mr. West. Nice to have you on ore" program.
Interviewee: Good morning.
Interviewer: OK. We all work or very few people can get away with not working. Work is a fact of life when we're adults. But before, there wasn't a lot of choice in the selection of work. Now things are different.With greater mobility, the mobility that is offered when people have greater opportunities for higher education or training, more and more people are able to choose the fields that interest them . They can and do have opinions about what makes one job for them better than another job. So, Mr. West, what do people actually want from their jobs? What are workers' opinions, you know, about what makes one job better than another?
Interviewee: Well, to answer your questions, I'd like to look at two polls, two surveys. They were both done in the 1990s. The purposes were to find out what issues or job characteristics were especially important to workers.
Interviewer: Umm. What were they?
Interviewee: Some of you might guess that the answer is obvious.
Interviewer: I think so.
Interviewee: You might say "oh people just want higher salaries, more money." But let's see if that's true.
Interviewer: OK.
Interviewee: Now, the first poll. The first poll was taken in 1990, and this poll asked respondents to choose what was the most important to them among five items. And they were only allowed to choose one out of the five items.
Interviewer: So what were the five items?
Interviewee: Alright. The first item was important and meaningful work. The second was high income. The third was chances for advancement, promotion and so on. The fourth item was job security, and the fifth was shorter work hours, OK?
Interviewer: It would be interesting to know the survey results.
Interviewee: Yes, now let me tell you the results. 50% considered important and meaningful work the most important characteristic of a job. They didn't choose high income. Interesting. Anyway, 24% did say high income was the most important characteristic of a job. Of the remaining, 16% said chances for advancement was most important. Maybe these were younger workers, starting out on a career. 6% said job security and fmally4% said shorter work hours was most important.
Interviewer: I think what's striking about the results is that by far workers valued important and meaningful work as more important than any of the other characteristics, that included salary.
Interviewee: Yeah. Now I'm going to tell you about another poll, and this poll was taken a year later in 1991, and it asked the respondents to reflect on how important certain job characteristics were in their work.And this is a different type of poll because whereas in the first poll, respon- dents had to choose only one out of five, in this poll they wanted their respondents to react to each item separately. You know, this is to rank each item as "not important", "somewhat important", "important" or "very important". So they have four choices for each item.
Interviewer: Sorry to interrupt you. How many items altogether?
Interviewee: Oh, the poll had 16 items. Let me give you a few examples.
Interviewer: OK.
Interviewee: The second item they asked about is interesting work. They asked how important is interesting work to you. And again, I'm just going to tell you about how many people said it was very important. In this case, 78% of the respondents ranked this as very important to them.
Interviewer: 78%?
Interviewee: Yes, 78%. This is a key point, I think. One often sees people working for a lot less if they enjoy their work.
Interviewer: That's true.
Interviewee: The fourth item they asked about was opportunity to learn new skills. How important is that to you? 68% ranked this as very important. And I think that goes again to the idea of interest level, personal satisfaction, and the idea that people want their work to be meaningful.
Interviewer: Definitely.
Interviewee: Another item, item NO. 7, recognition from coworkers.. 62% of the respondents said that this was very important. It was important for them to be recognized, to be respected, and acknowl- edged for the work they've done. And I see recognition as a psychological benefit. There's no monetary reward necessarily attached to it, although sometimes they could be. But more people are looking for the psychological reward in terms of appreciation.
Interviewer: It seems to me that people value psychological reward a lot more than money.
Interviewee: That's right. At least the poll result seemed to say so. Now, let's take a look at another item, NO. 14.
Interviewer: OK!
Interviewee: NO. 14 was chances for promotion. 53% said that this was very important to them. It was im portant to them to have opportunities for advancement, chances for promotion. And I think this goes along with high income and recognition. That's both a psychological reward, promo tion, as well as a monetary reward.
Interviewer: Umm.
Interviewee: 15 is contact with a lot of people. Some people are very people-oriented, and 52% said that this was very important to them.
Interviewer: So we can see workers do have a lot of things that are very huportant to them.
Interviewee: Yes, but you can also see the variation in numbers. But a note of caution here. These are av erages, and polls talk about averages. But still I think it is important for employers to become more aware of polls like these because it might allow them to keep their workers satisfied in ways that maybe they haven't thought of before.
Interviewer: Yeah, OK. Thank you very much Mr. West for talking to us on the program.
Interviewee: Pleasure.

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SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
News 1:
A Moscow company is now marketing "Sleepboxes"-freestanding, mobile boxes with beds inside for travelers stranded overnight, or those in need of a quick snooze . The Sleepboxes are meant to be installed in airports and rented for 30 minutes to several hours at a time . A Sleepbox is currently installed at the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. "We travel a lot and many times we faced a problem of rest and privacy in airports," says co-designer Mikhail Krymov of design firm Arch Group, who together with Alexei Goryainov came up with the idea of Sleepbox. "And as we are architects, we like to think of solutions." Measuring 1.4 meters wide, two meters in length and 2.3 meters in height, Sleepboxes star feature is a two-meter-long bed made of polymer foam and pulp tissue that changes bed linen automat- ically. It 'also comes with luggage space, a ventilation system, WiFi, electric sockets and an LCD TV.

News 2:
Police in London are lining up a huge police operation for the Notting Hill Carnival in the wake of the rioting and looting that hit the city earlier this month. More than a million people are expected to head to west London over the course of the colorful two-day event, which features music, parades, dancing and stalls serving up Caribbean favorites like jerk chicken and rice and peas. Some 5,500 officers will be on duty at the carnival on Sunday and 6,500 on Monday-a public holiday in Britain-with 4,000 additional officers deployed elsewhere across the city on top of usual police numbers, London's Metropolitan Police said. Commander Steve Rodhouse said creating a safe environment at the carnival is "a top priority" for the police force.

News 3:
Growing up starved of calories may give you a higher risk of heart disease 50 years on, research suggests. Researchers in the Netherlands tracked the heart health of Dutch women who lived through the famine at the end of World War II. Those living on rations of 400-800 calories a day had a 27% higher risk of heart disease in later life. It's the first direct evidence that early nutrition shapes future health, they report in the European Heart Journal. The Dutch famine of 1944-45 gave researchers in Hol- land a unique opportunity to study the long-term effects of severe malnutrition in childhood and adolescence. A combination of factors-including failed crops, a harsh winter and tlie war-caused thousands of deaths among people living in the west of the Netherlands.The women, who were aged between 10 and 17 at the time, were followed up in 2007.The team found those who were severely affected by the famine had a 27% greater risk of developing heart disease than those who had enough to eat.