2006Part I Listening Comprehension (30%)Section ADirections: In this section you will hear fifteen short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, you will hear a question about what is said. The questionwill be read only once. After you hear the question, read the four possible answersmarked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark the letter of your choice onthe ANSWER SHEET.Listen to the following example.You will hear:Woman: I feel faint.Man: No wonder. You haven’t had a bite all day.Question: What’s the matter with the woman?You will read:A. She is sick.B. She was bitten by an ant.C. She is hungry.D. She spilled her paint.Here C is the fight answer.Sample AnswerA B C DSection ANow let’s begin the question 11 M: Professor Handsome, Thank you for a very interesting lecture. I was wondering if I could askyou a question.W: Go right ahead.Q: What will the man do then?2 W: I haven’t heard whether Larry is going for the outing.M: He made other arrangements before the outing was planed.Q: What does the man mean?3 M: Are John and Alice still planning to study medicine?W: Alice has decided to .But John is still looking into the options.Q: What does the woman mean?4. W: Never have I read such an interesting science fiction. You know, the one about the ETs.M: That’s an understatement.Q: What did the speaker imply about the science fiction?5 M: Hi, Shelly, I wonder if we could possibly move our meeting to Wednesday. I can’t make it onTuesday. I’m tied up in an emergency room.W: Er…Wednesday is not good for me. How about Thursday?Q: What is the original day for the meeting?6 W: Is there anything you can give me to make me feel better, doctor? I’ve been very busy atwork and I have a lot of studying to do. But I don’t feel up to it. Also my daughter is still sick in bed and…M: Don’t worry. It’s just a touch of flu. But I will give you some medicine to make you feel better.Q: What can be inferred about the woman?7 M: I must admit that since I stopped smoking I’ve been feeling much better.W: What did I tell you?Q: What does the woman mean?8 W: When’s good time to go mountain climbing together?M: Other than Tuesday. One day is as good as the next.Q: What does the man mean?9 M: I heard that next month Pharmaceuticals Limited is going to hold interviews on campus nextweek.W: Really? What day? I’d like to talk to them and drop off my CV.Q: What is the woman going to do?10 W: I heard that you’ve had a rash around your waist. Have you seen the doctor?M: It’s a problem any more. I found an ointment that works just fine.Q: What does the man imply?11 M: So you are spending the holiday weekend in San Diego.W: Yes. Some friends of my parents live there and they’ll put me up.Q: What does the woman mean?12 W: Do you think that the patient really needs the surgery?M: It couldn’t have been more necessary.Q: What does the man mean?13 M: You don’t look well. Are you sure you want to go out?W: If there were some aspirins in the medicine cabinet, I would not need to go out to the drug store.Q: What will the woman most probably do?14 W: I have to take advanced mathematics from Professor Wells next semester. Is it difficult?M: You ask me? I’d say it’s a piece of cake.Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?15 W: Doctor Marines, that was a very interesting presentation. I enjoyed it very much.M: Well, that’s very kind of you to say so. Thank you. Have we met before?Q: What would most probably happen right then?Section BDirections: In this section you will hear three passages. After each one, you will hear five questions. After each question, read the four possible answers marked A, B, C and D.Choose the best answer and mark the letter of your choice on the ANSWER SHEET. Passage OneQuestions 16-20 are based on the following conversation:M: Good morning, Doctor.W: It’s Mr. Commen, isn’t it?M: Right. I saw you about six months ago with the broken finger.W: Yes, of course. Is it all healed now?M: It’s fine. No problems.W: What can I do for you today?M: Well, I’ve been having these headaches. They started two months ago. They seem to come on quite suddenly and I get dizzy spells as well.W: Right, let’s start with the headaches. Where is the pain exactly? Can you show me?M: In the front. I thought it might be my eyes.W: Did your headac hes come on at any particular time?M: Yes, when I go to work in the morning, when I step outside my shop, I run a boutique. My shop is just nearby. So when I walk out, the headache comes o n.W: Do you ever have these headaches at night?M: No, I’m not sleepy at night. I wake up two or three times every night.W: Why is that?M: Well, I think I’m a bit of worrier. We had staff problems at work and the financial situation is peculiar at the moment.W: I’m sorry to hear about that. Can I just come back for a moment to these dizzy spells? Can you describe them?M: Well, they last a few seconds, I suddenly feel very dizzy.W: This dizziness, for some people, it’s a sensation of falling; to other people, it’s a sensation of fading. How would you describe your dizziness?M: I feel that I am going to fall down.W: About your health in general? How do you feel in general?M: No problems beyond a cold, but that’s about it.W: Ok, let me give you a check-over.16. Why did the man visit the woman six months ago?17. What can we learn about the man’s headaches?18. When does the man usually have his headaches?19. What seems to have caused the man’s headaches?20. How does the man feel about the dizziness?Passage TwoQuestions 21-25 are based on the following conversation:Though they are an extensive supplier of vitamin, minerals and high-quality protein, eggs also contain a high level of blood cholesterol, one of the major causes of heart disease.One egg yolk, in fact, contains a little more than two-thirds of the cholesterol the body needs daily. This knowledge has caused egg sales to drop in recent years, which in turn has brought about the development of several alternatives to eating regular egg.One alternative is to eat substitute eggs. These egg substitutes are not really eggs. But they look somewhat like eggs when they are cooked. They have the advantage of having lower cholesterol rate, and they can be scrambled or used in baking. One disadvantage, however, is that they are not good for frying or boiling. A second alternative to regular eggs is a new type of egg, sometimes called “designer” eggs. These eggs are produced by hens that ar e fed low-fat diet including such ingredients as corn, flax, and rice bran. In spite of their diet, however, the se hensproduce eggs that contain the same amount of cholesterol as regular eggs. Yet, the producers of these eggs claim that eating their eggs will not raise the blood cholesterol all in human. Questions:21. What is good about the eggs?22. What happened when people came to know the high level of cholesterol in eggs?23. What has been one of the approaches to the problem of cholesterol?24. What makes these designer eggs different from the regular ones?25. What is the main idea of the talk?Passage ThreeQuestions 26-30 are based on the following conversation:Life insurance isn’t fun to buy. It forces you to think about your death, a subject many prefer not to confront. But there is a single, overriding reason to buy life insurance: to provide an income for your dependents if you die.Don’t depend solely on an agent to figure out your life-insurance needs. Rule-of-thumb estimates such as five or eight times of your income are guesses; they may produce too little or too much insurance. Carry too little insurance and you may not provide a reasonabl e standard of living for your family after your death; carry too much and you may not enjoy a reasonable standard of living whi le you are alive.According to statistics, most people who have life insurance don’t have enough. Then, how do you determine the amount of life insurance you would need to maintain your family’s current life style if the breadwinner died? First, figure what your family’s expenses would be if you died tomorrow. Then analyze your assets and the sources of income that you can use to cover the expenses. Finally, subtract the assets from the needs. The result is the amount of additional insurance that you’ll need to buy.26. What does the speaker think of buying life insurance?27. Which of the following is true according to the speaker?28. What is the most important thing to consider in buying life insurance?29. What is the key element in determining the amount of life insurance?30. What is the purpose of the talk?。