听力试题

Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.

Now， listen to the conversation.

8. Why can't Don call the professor himself?

A. Because he is in the hospital.

B. Because he has a bad cough.

C. Because he has a busy line.

D. Because he lost his voice.

9. What does the professor's assistant want him to do?

A. To cancel the class.

B. To give the midterm exams.

C. To let someone pass back the exam papers.

D. To find someone to teach the class.

10. How can the professor unlock the office's door?

A. By using the key from the department's master.

B. By using the key from the superintendent.

C. By using the key from the woman.

D. By using the key from his assistant.

答案详解

【听力答案】

8. D 9. C 10. A

【听力原文】

Conversation 3

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.（8）Don asked me to call you because he's lost his voice and can't talk to you himself.（Don因为嗓子哑了不能亲自打电话。）

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.（9）What he want to do is get someone to go in for him—just to pass back the midterm exams.（他需要有人都帮忙发放期中试卷。）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.（10）We have a master key in the Math Department, So I can get into his office.（用学院的万能钥匙就能进办公室）

W: Thank you. Professor Webster.

M: My pleasure.

【核心词汇】

go in 进去，参加

make it ( 口）达到预定目标；及时抵达；走完路程

master key 万能钥匙

pass back 返还；回传

teaching assistant 教学助理