2023年全国大学生英语竞赛C类真题答案含听力原文.doc

2023年全国大学生英语竞赛初赛听力录音原文及参照答案 Part I Listening Comprehension (30 minutes, 30 points) Section A Dialogues (10 points) Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short dialogues. At the end of each dialogue, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the dialogue and the question will be read only once. After each question,there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. 1. W: Hi, I’d like to send this package by express mail to San Francisco and I would like to buy a sheet of stamps, please.    M: Here are your stamps, and just put the package on the scale.    Q: Where did the conversation take place? (D) 2. M: I’m going out to lunch. Do you need anything while I’m out?    W: Yes, if you pass a convenience store, get me some chocolate—a Snickers bar, please.    Q: What do you learn from this conversation? (B) 3. W: If we go by car, how do we cross the river?    M: There’s a ferry that will take your car. There’s even one for trains.    Q: How will they cross the river? (D) 4. W: I heard that the mayor is closing the cheese factory.    M: Yes, but it is only temporary.    W: Oh, I’m surprised. I thought it was going to shut down for good.    Q: Why was the woman surprised? (C) 5. M: I spilled tomato juice on my new white shirt. Do you think it will come out?    W: That’s too bad. Leave it there and I’ll see what I can do.    Q: What is the man’s problem?(B) 6. W: I’m going to lunch with my bowling instructor.    M: What about the committee meeting?    W: Don’t worry. I’ll be back at the office before then.    Q: Where is the woman probably going now? (C) 7. M: How long have you had this problem with your shoulder?    W: It started last week after my skiing accident.    M: Let’s try some tests to determine the nature of the injury.    Q: What is the man going to do? (B) 8. W: Are you having a good time?    M: Sure. Thanks again for inviting me.    W: No problem. I just wish more people could have come.    Q: How does the woman feel? (C) 9. M: We finally made it, Mary!    W: I can’t believe graduation is tonight.    M: Can you come to my graduation party?    W: Sure, after I finish the family celebration.    M: I want to be sure we get pictures of us together.    W: In our caps and gowns!    Q: When will the woman go to the man’s graduation party? (A) 10. M: Hi, did you pass your geography exam?     W: Yeah, I did quite well in fact, I got 76%.     M: Oh,well done! So they gave you a per cent? I thought they gave grades.     W: Yeah, they gave both. Mine was an “A”. So how about you?     M: Well, we don’t have exams.We have continuous assessment, so you just have to do coursework, and you get a mark for each essay.     Q: How does the school evaluate the man’s progress in geography? (A) Section B News Items (10 points) Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short pieces of news from BBC or VOA. After each news item and question,there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. 11. Tens of thousands of health workers will go house to house over the next three days in an effort to immunise 63 million children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa. The campaign is the start of monthly national immunisation days during the low season for polio. It’s hoped that vaccinating children now—when the virus is at its weakest—will be the best way of stopping transmission. Question:How old are the children to be immunised?(B) 12. Amid pomp and ceremony, China launched the 2023 Olympics. Together with a Chinese counterpart, the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, used a giant golden key to symbolically open what he called the most important market in the world. In his speech, he emphasised the power of the Olympic brand in China’s emerging market. Question:What does the giant golden key symbolize?(C) 13. Microsoft tries to keep the code for its Windows operating system a closely guarded secret. It’s the equivalent of computer DNA and the firm fears if it falls into the wrong hands it could be used to infiltrate millions of computers worldwide. More than 90 percent of the world’s PCs run Windows. Question:What action does Microsoft intend to take?(A) 14. Before he set off in November, there were fears that Francis Joyon would be unable to control his huge boat, named IDEC. With its three hulls slicing through the water and a massive rotating mast that reached 30 metres into the sky, the boat was built in 1986 for a crew of ten. It was feared that such a boat would be too powerful for one man in the rough seas of the Southern Oce。