英语中级听力答案
第八课>>Section One
Task 1 Twins
Key to Exercises
A. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following questions.
1.a
2. c
3. b
4. c
5. a
6. b
B. Fill in the blanks with information about the twins.
Name : Laura and Sarah
Sex: female
Similarities:
1. Blonde
2. brown eyes
3. same height
4. same weight
5. same size
6. same shoes
Differences
1. Laura is single, but Sarah has a well-fed happy husband and four healthy children.
2. When Laura was learning to type, Sarah was washing up.
3. When Laura was writing articles for the school newspaper, Sarah was knitting.
4. When Laura was in Panama, doing her first job for United Information Services, Sarah was having her second child.
C. True or False Questions. Write a T in front of a statement if it is true according to the recording and write an F if it is false.
1.T
2. F
Section Two
Task 1 Can I Take a Message?
Key to Exercises
A. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following statements.
1. a
2. c
B. Fill in the following blanks.
1. Message 1:
Caller's name:Mary Roberts
Caller's number: 772-1852
Message: Call back at that number till 12.30 or between 2 and 5 this afternoon.
2. Message 2:
Caller's name: Mr Brown
Caller's number: 743-9821
Message: Cancel the lunch appointment for tomorrow noon, because he is out of town for a while. Please call and reschedule.
3. Message 3:
Caller's name: Mrs Turner
Message: She won't be home until 8 o'clock. She's working late.
4. Message 4:
Caller's name: Wendy
Message: Tickets for Puerto Rico is booked. That's Pan Am Flight 226, leaving Tuesday the 12th at 8 am. Ticket will be sent over later this afternoon.
5. Message 5:
Caller's name: Juan Salvade
Message: He'll call back about the meeting next Wednesday.
C. Fill in the following blanks.
1. I'm sorry, he's in a meeting right now. May I take a message?
2. I'm going to be out of town for a while. Would you offer my apologies to Mr Turner and have him call me, please?
3. Oh, excuse me just a minute . I have another call. Can you hold for a second?
4. Thank you for holding. Can I help you?
第九课>>Section One
Task1 Willing to Train
Key to Exercises
A. True or false Questions. Write a T in front of a statement if it is true according to the recording and write an F if it is false.
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
B. Fill in the blanks with information about Catherine based on her own statement. Name: Catherine Hunt
Age: almost nineteen
Qualification:
1. qualifications from school, very good results
2. certificates for ballet and for playing the piano
Interests:
1. tennis
2. swimming
3. travelling
4. talking to people
Intelligence: reasonably intelligent
C. Give brief answers to the following questions.
1. Dancing and music.
2. A good girl. A bit lazy and disorganized sometimes, but very bright.
3. Be a teacher or a vet.
4. Because she believes that Cathy likes working with young children and looking after sick animals.
5. She wants to talk to Cathy, not her mother.
6. No. She is not bright enough to be a vet and wants to find something different from school work.
7. Yes, if it is for something useful.
8. Nursing, because she has good qualifications in English and Maths.
9. Very hard work, not very pleasant sometimes.
10. At first she is afraid she is not good enough. Later she thinks she should enjoy that.
D. Complete the following sentences.
1. Ever since she was a little girl she's been very keen on her music and dancing. She ought to be a music teacher or something. She's quite willing to train for a few more years to get the right job.
2. My mother sent me to lessons when I was six, so I'm quite good, I suppose. But, I don't want to do that for the rest of my life, especially music. It's so lonely.
3. I went to France with the school choir last year. I really enjoyed that. And I like talking to people. But I suppose you mean real interests --- things that would help me to get a job.
4. I wondered about being a hairdresser --- you meet lots of people, and you learn to do something properly --- but I don't know. It doesn't seem very worthwhile.
5. I do look after sick animals. I looked after our dog when it was run over by a car. My mother was sick, but I didn't mind. I was too worried about the dog.
第十二课>>Section One
Section Two
Task 1 Crime
Key to Exercises
A. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following statements.
1. a
2. b
3. b
B. Activities. Write down what happened to the two villains at the following locations.
(1)South Street They parked the car outside the bank.
(2)High Street crossroads The traffic lights were red.
(3)The garage opposite the school to repair the car
(4)Outside the Police Station The catch of the money bag broke and they had to pick up all the notes.
(5)Ox Lane They switched cars.
(6)Church Lane Roads were dug up.
(7)London Road roundabout The road was blocked owing to a traffic accident.
(8)The Boss's The two arrived empty-handed.
Task 1 learning to Rephrase
Key to Exercise
1. Am. Indians in Southwest; agricultural life since 1 AD, similar today
2. farm on mesas --- tops of high, flat mountain plateau --- Spanish --- table
3. live on mesas or in caves on sides of cliffs
4. early history: Anasazi used baskets, later pottery, change --- important, began a series of secondary changes
5. fill basket with ground corn + water, build fire
6. many stones heated on fire & dropped into basket of food, but must be heated again soon
7. men brought idea but not how to make pottery; shown in anthropological discoveries
8. solved problem of cooking & storing food, a more prosperous &comfortable life