题目

Questions 23 to 26 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.

23.
A) The increase in driving offences.
B) The increase in professional gangs.
C) The increase in car stealing.
D) The increase in car owners.

24.
A) In Rockinghill Palace Road.
B) In Southwell Park.
C) One block away from Southwell Park.
D) In an unlocked garage.

25.
A) A thief had abandoned it by the roadside.
B) Someone had borrowed it from the owner’s wife.
C) It had been towed away by the local police.
D) The owner had forgotten where he had parked it.

26.
A) To park the cars in the garages at night.
B) To lock up their garages where cars are kept at night.
C) To lock up their cars wherever cars are kept.
D) To keep their cars in locked garages.

Questions 27 to 29 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.

27.
A) It first became serious about five years age.
B) It has finally been brought under control.
C) It may lead to prosperity.
D) It has been climbing.

28.
A) One half as much.
B) Twice as much.
C) Close to the same.
D) Two-thirds as much.

29.
A) Income tax.
B) State tax.
C) Social Security tax.
D) Sales tax.

听力原文

Passage 7

The recent increase in car theft has alarmed the police who are looking for what they now believe must be a well-organized gang of professional car thieves. Most of the thefts have taken place in the rich residential areas round Southwell Park, where last week alone 22 car thefts were reported to the local police. Of these only one has been found, abandoned in Rockinghill Palace Road 20 miles away. The others have still not been found except for one which had been falsely reported missing. The owner later admitted that he had forgotten where he had parked it a few days before. An interesting aspect of the thefts is that nearly all the missing vehicles had been taken from locked garages. The owners now admit that they my have left the car doors unassumed that the gang find it easier to break into garages where vehicles are often left unlocked at night than into locked cars parked on the roadside in daytime or at night. They advise car owners to lock up their cars even when they are kept in locked garages.

Questions 23 to 26 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.

23. What has alarmed the police?
24. Where was one car found?
25. Why was one car falsely reported missing?
26. What did the police advise the car owners to do?

Passage 8

The American government, as well as every American, is touched by and concerned with inflation, and President Carter has called it our NO.1 problem.

The great jump in inflation has been during the past 10 years. Looking at the raw figures, people might consider this a time of prosperity. The wage of the average worker was ＄114 a week in 1969, and by September 1978 it had reached＄206. On the surface it might seem that people are better off, but taking into consideration the effects of inflation, the picture is different.
In 1976 the consumer price index stood at 100 and it has now topped 200. Allowing for this, the average wage of workers was＄104 in 1969 and ＄105 in April 1978. Since then with more inflation any gains in purchasing power has been wiped out and more taken away. In fact during the year of 1978, the buying power of the average paycheck had fallen by 3.4 percent. In addition to the income tax, there are usually state and country taxes, and in nearly all American communities, as in most of western Europe, there is a point of purchase tax, the sales tax, that is added to the cost of an item at the retail level. This is another tax that has been increasing with inflation, and it affects all purchasers.

Questions 27 to 29 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.

27. What does the article say about inflation?
28. How much will the dollar buy in real goods now compared with 1967?
29. What tax is collected from even the poorest citizen?

题解及答案

题解：

Passage 7

短文谈到了近来偷车案的增多。这印证了警察们的担扰：这些偷车案是有组织的职业偷车团伙所为。大部分的行窃都发生在Southwell Park周围的富人居住区。在上星期就有22起窃车案发生于此。被盗的车中只有一台被找到，被遗弃在20英里外的Rockinghill Palace路。另外有一台车的车主后来承认忘记了几天前停在何处而误报了车被窃。有趣的是，这些窃车案几乎都发生在上锁的车库。一些车主承认可能忘记了车入库后锁车，但只有一位车主不确定是否锁了车库。警察们假定，偷车团伙在晚上撬开了车库，把未上锁的车偷车或在白天、夜间偷走路边停的车。警察们提醒车主在车入库后仍要将车锁好。

23.C 题车查对具体信息的捕获。短文在开始即谈到窃车事件。片面占有信息可造成对选项B的误选。

24.A 本题对细节考察。

25.D 本题仍考查细节。

26.C 本题测试获取特定信息的能力。短文在最后告诉大家“They advise car owners to lock up their cars even when they are kept in locked garages”。

Passage 8

本文开始即谈到困扰美国政府和美国人民的通货膨胀问题。卡特总统称之为国家的第一大问题。尽管近十年来，经济上呈现出一片繁荣景象，通货膨胀问题却日益严重。接着短文列举了具体数字。从1969年到1978年9月，美国人的周薪从＄114增长到＄206。表面看来，人们的经济状况好转，但若要考虑到通货膨胀的影响，就是另一番情况了。

消费者物价指数由1976年的100上升到现在的200。把这一点计算进去，工人的平均工资在1969年是＄104，到1978年4月为＄105。通货膨胀的加剧抵消了购买力的增长。在1978年，购买力甚至下降了3.4%。除了要上缴个人收入所得税，州和郡也要征税，在美国和西欧，几乎都征收购买税，也就是附加于每一零售商品上的销售税。这部分税随着通货膨胀，也在日增，对所有的购买者都有影响。

27.D 本题测试对短文的总体理解。

28.A 本题测试把握特定信息并进行常识性地简单计算。文中谈到“In 1976 the consumer price index stood at 100 and it has now topped 200”。

29.D 本题测试获取特定信息的能力。文章最后提到销售税“affects all purchasers.”。