听力试题

Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed，listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings，the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase，with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.

Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.

Cell Phone Disturbance

答案详解

【听力原文】

Nowadays, / more people are using cell phones and there is also an increase in traveling by air. /Naturally, more people want to use their cell phone while traveling by plane. /However, they cannot. /The funny thing is that there has been no evidence of a cell phone signal causing a disturbance in the flight. /If you use their , fixed-line telephone on the plane, /it can be really expensive. /In America, this kind of telephone charges three dollars a minute, /and 15% of the income of the flight comes from the telephone bill. /In 1998, /an Englishman was sent to prison for one year/because he refused to turn off the cell phone. /Last month, a plane suddenly became alarmed and was forced to land. /Investigators found a cell phone in a piece of luggage that had been left on. /Flight crew insisted that using cell phone during the flight is very dangerous, / and many facts support that claim. /Although there is no factual evidence to prove this，/cell phone disturbance can affect the plane in some circumstances.

【核心词汇】

alarm v.报警

charge v.索价

circumstance n.情况;环境

disturbance n.干扰

evidence n.证据

investigator n.调查者

fixed-line telephone 固定电话