英语考研复试听力练习材料.docx

Qll.W: This is one of our best and least expensive two-bedroom listings. It's located in a quiet building and is close to bus lines.M: That may be true, but look at it, it's awful. The paint has peeled off and the carpet is worn and the stove is ancient.Q: What can we infer from the conversation?Q12.M: The pictures we took at the Botanical Garden should be ready tomorrow.W: I can't wait to see them. I'm wondering if the shots I took is as good as I thought.Q: What is the woman eager to know?Q13.W: The handle of the bookcase is broken. Can you have it fixed by next Tuesday?M: Let me see. I need to find a handle that matches, but that shouldn't take too long.Q: What does the man mean?Q14.M: This truck looks like what I need but I'm worried about maintenance. For us, it will have to operate for long periods of time in very cold temperatures.W: We have several models that especially adapted for extreme conditions. Would you like to see them?Q: What's the man's demand 什om the conversation?Q15.M: I think your boss will be very upset when he gets your letter of resignation.W: That may be so. But in the letter, I just told him frankly I could no longer live with his poor management and stupid decisions.Q: What do we learn about the woman?Q16.W: I'd like to exchange the shirt. I've learned the person I bought it for is allergic to wool.M: maybe we can find something in cotton or silk. Please come this way.Q: What does the woman want to do?Q17.M: Excuse me Miss, did anyone happen to turn in a new hand bag? You know it's a birthday gift for my wife.W: Let me see. Oh, we've got quite a lot of women's bags here. Can you give me more detailed information, such as its color, the size and the trade mark?Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?Q18.W: What're you going to do with the old house you inherited from your grandfather?M: I once intended to sell it. But now I'm thinking of turning it into a guest house, because it's still a solid structure.Q: What does the man plan to do with his old house?W: there is an element there about the competitioner, isn't there? Because British railways are a nationalized industry, there isn't any one railway system in the country. If you don't like a particular kind of big beans, you can go on by another; but if you don't like the particular railway, you can't go on using anotherM: some people who write to me say this. They say that if you did not have a monopoly, you would not be able to do the things you do. Well, I don't think we do anything deliberately to upset our customers, we have particular problems. Since 1946, when the Transport Act came in, we were nationalized.W: Do you think that is a good thing? Has it been a good thing for the railways, do you think, to be nationalized?M: Oh, I think so, yes, because in general, mosts of the transports are all around. Let's face the fact, the car are arrived the cars are here to stay. There is no question about thatW:So what's your saying then? Is it if the railways haven't been nationalized, they would simply have disappeared?M: Oh, I think they would have. They are disappearing fast in America. TheFrench railways lose 1 billion pounds a year, the German railways, 2 billion a year.But you see those governments are preparing to pour the money into the transport system to keep it goingW: So, In a sense, you call between two extremes. On the one hand, they are trying not to lose too much money, and on the other hand, you've got to provide the best service.M: Yes, you are rightQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you've just heard22. What does the woman say about the British railways?23. What do some people who write to the man complain about?24. What does the man say threatens the existence of the railways?25. What does the man say about the railways in other countries?Passage 1Among global warming's most frightening threats is the prediction that the polar ice caps will melt, raising sea level so much, that coastal cities from New York, to Los Angeles, to Shanghai will be flooded. Scientists agree that they key player in this scenario is the West Antarctic ice sheet. A Brazil size mass frozen water that as much as 7,000 feet thick, unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface. Surrounded by an open ocean, it is also vulnerable. But Antarctic experts disagree strongly on just how unstable it is. Now new evidence reveals that all are most of the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed at least once during the past 1.3 million years-- a period when global temperatures probably will not significantly higher than they are today. And the ice sheet was assumed to have been stable. In geologic time, a million years is recent history. The proof which was published last week in Science comes 什om a team of scientists 什om Uppsala Un。