News Report One

【主题分类】  新闻听力  一般新闻

【高级表达】

slide v. 滑  

poisonous adj. 有毒的  

encounter v. 遇见 

guarantee v. 保证

work out 弄明白

【关键句型】

But the womansays the snake she encountered Thursday terrified her out of her wits.

女士提到，她在周四遇到的那条蛇把她吓得魂不附体

It was rough,with big scales

蛇身粗糙，鳞片很大

I am not themost flexible person in the world, but I can guarantee my knees were up next tomy ears.

我不是世界上反应最敏捷的人，但我敢保证，当时我的膝盖都快碰到我的耳朵了。

听力原文：

Kelly Swisher,an Arkansas woman, escaped injury and managed to safely stop her car after a4-foot-long rat snake came out from under her car seat and slid across her feetas she was driving down the highway. Rat snakes aren’t poisonous or a threat topeople generally. But the woman says the snake she encountered Thursday terrifiedher out of her wits. “It was rough, with big scales，”said Swisher, who was on her way to pick up her friend at the airport when ithappened. “I don’t know whether I had my hands on the steering wheel or not. Iam not the most flexible person in the world, but I can guarantee my knees wereup next to my ears.” She said the snake first slid back under the seat, and shehoped it would stay there until she was able to get off the high way and stop. “Thatdidn’t work out,” she said. “Here he comes, and he wound up in my back seatbefore I could finally get off the road, stop and get out of the car.” Shecalled for help. And Washington County animal control officers came andcaptured the snake

Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.

详解：

预览两道题各选项，第1 题选项均为描述人物心理状态的形容词，因此此题考查的是人物心理。第2 题各选项主语均为 It，由选项中出现的crawled，wound up，waskilled 和 scales 等词可推测，It指蛇；再结合本题选项中出现的 the woman 和steering wheel 可推测，本篇新闻与某位女士遭遇蛇的经历有关，涉及女士当时的心理活动等方面内容。

1. 1.       How did Kelly Swisherfeel when she first came across the rat snake?

答案：B

详解：新闻中女士提到，她在周四遇到的那条蛇把她吓得不轻。因此答案为B。

2.    What does the report say about the snake？答案：D

详解：新闻中提到了Swisher 对食鼠蛇的描述：它身上粗糙，鳞片很大。因此答案为D。

News Report Two

【主题分类】  新闻听力  一般新闻

【高级表达】

turn out   证明  

average adj. 平均的  

industry  n. 行业

slow down  慢下来

essential adj. 基本的

【关键句型】

Fast food, itturns out, isn’t quite as fast as it used to be.

事实证明快餐没有以前那么快了

Among thereasons for the slower service, today there are more choices on the menu

服务速度变慢的原因之一是如今菜单上的选择多了

The productsthemselves are more complex and take longer to prepare.

餐品本身更复杂，且需要更多的时间去准备。

听力原文：

Fast food, itturns out, isn’t quite as fast as it used to be. A new study finds thatMacDonald’s posted its slowest drives-through times since this survey was firstconducted fifteen years ago. As MacDonald’s, customers will spend on averagethree minutes and nine seconds from the time they placed their orders untilthey received their food. That’s about ten seconds more than the industryaverage--and a lot slower than a decade ago, according to the study, which wascommissioned by QSR, an industry trade publication. And MacDonald’s wasn’talone in slowing down: Other chains also saw their drive-through performanceslow down. Among the reasons for the slower service, today there are morechoices on the menu, and the products themselves are more complex and takelonger to prepare. Speed, of course, is essential to the drive-throughexperience. And drive- throughs are hugely important to chains, such asMacDonald’s, Burger King and Taco Bell. “Usually the drive-through accounts forsixty to seventy percent of all business that goes through a fast-foodrestaurant,” notes Sam Ochers, editor of QSR. Of course, consumers also wanttheir orders prepared correctly and on that score, Ochers says, “accuracy isstill really high.”

Questions 3 and4 are based on the news report you have just heard.

详解：

预览两道题各选项，由其中反复出现的fast-food 可推测，新闻内容与快餐有关。其中第3 题各选项均为概括性比较强的名词短语，可能考查新闻主旨；结合第4 题各选项语义可推测，此题考查出现某个问题的原因。

3.    What is the news report mainly about？答案：A

详解。新闻开头就提到，事实证明快餐没有以前那么快了，接下来就讲到了得出这一结论的依据——针对快餐业的一项新研究。因此答案为A。

4.    What has slowed down MacDonald’sdrive-through service？答案：C

详解：新闻中提到，服务速度变慢的原因是如今菜单上的选择多了，而且商品本身更复杂，需要更多的时间去准备。因此答案为C。

News Report Three

【主题分类】  新闻听力  航空航天

【高级表达】

Mission  n. 使命  

orbit  n. 轨道  

exploration  n. 探索 

approve  v..同意

spacecraft  n.飞行器

【关键句型】

The firstprivate mission outside of Earth’s orbit is closed to many of our think.

第一个私人外太空任务里我们的想象更近了

U.S. governmentofficials are set to approve a mission by…

美国政府官员准备批准任务

…ongoingexploration and commercial development.

正在进行的探测和商业发展

…is veryoptimistic about its proposal

对提议非常乐观

听力原文：                

The firstprivate mission outside of Earth’s orbit is closed to many of our think. U.S.government officials are set to approve a mission by privately-held spacecompany Moon Express to travel outside of Earth’s orbit in late 2017. (6) MoonExpress’s mission involves plans to land a suitcase-sized package of scientificequipment on the moon for ongoing exploration and commercial development. Thedecision involved months of lobbying and coordinated conversations between anumber of factual agencies. Under international treaties, the U.S. isresponsible for the cargo of both public and private spacecraft. This makescommercial space travel a complex legal issue not just domestically, butabroad. (7)A Moon Express representative declined to comment on the story butnoted that the company is very optimistic about its proposal. Moon Express isnot the only company seeking for the rights to travel to outerspace. ElonMusk’s space X aims to send an unmanned aircraft to Mars by 2018.

Questions 5 and7 are based on the news report you have just heard.

未听先知：预览三道题各选项，由space travel，spaceexploration，outerspace 和 spacecraft 等词可推测，新闻内容与航天和太空有关。第5 题各选项均为概括性比较强的名词短语，可能考查新闻主旨；第6 题各选项均为一般现在时态的动词短语，结合Deliver，a new mission，spaceprograms 和Launch 等词可推测，此题考查某航天机构将来的行为动作；第7 题各选项均为主系表结构，结合语义可推测，此题考查对某事物的评价。

5.    What is the news report mainly about？答案：C

详解：新闻开头提到，第一个私人外太空任务越来越近了，比我们想象中要快。美国政府官员将会批准一个私人控股航天公司Moon Express 的一项任务：2017年底穿越外太空。因此答案为 C。

6.    What is Moon Express planning to do？答案：A

详解：新闻中提到，MoonExpress 的任务包括在月球上放一个行李箱大小的包裹，里面是科技设备，以方便正在进行中的探测和商业方面的发展。因此答案为A。

7.    What does Moon Express think of its mission？答案：B

详解：新闻中提到，MoonExpress 的一位代表拒绝对这件事进行评论，但提到该公司对这个提议还是非常乐观的。因此答案为B。

Conversation One

【主题分类】听力长对话  旅游

【高级表达】

envy  v. 嫉妒

beach  n. 海滩 

sunburnt  adj. 晒伤

volunteer  n. 志愿者 

souvenir  n. 纪念品

【关键句型】

Thailand is anamazing place.

泰国是个迷人的地方

I’m alreadygetting sunburnt.

我已经被晒伤了

Remember to getme something from the souvenir shops.

记得帮我从纪念品商店带点东西回来

听力原文

M:Hey, Sophia,how are you doing？

W: Hi, Bob. I’mgood, thanks. Actually, I’m on holiday with my family in Thailand at themoment, although I wish it were with my friends instead.

M: Really? Younever said you are going to Thailand. How I envy you !

W: I’ve onlybeen in here a week. But you know, Thailand is an amazing place. I’m having agreat time here. In fact, I am now lying on the beach in Phuket. I’ve been inthe sun for around fifteen minutes only and I’m already getting sunburnt. Haveyou been here before?

M: No, I wish Ihad. What else have you been doing in Thailand besides enjoying the sun?

W: Well, I met aguy from Germany yesterday. He showed me around the orphanage he works at.Then, I met many volunteer teachers who are mainly young people from Europe.

M: Ah, that’sinteresting.

W: Yes. I alsomade a new little friend, Sarah. She was so cute. I was so sad that we were to leaveat the end of the day. If I ever come back to Thailand, I’d definitely visitthis place again as a volunteer.

M: Well, you cantell me all about it when you get back. My phone battery is almost dead now. Rememberto get me something from the souvenir shops. I like to collect bits and piecesfrom different parts of the world. Bye now. Enjoy yourself Sophia.

W: Bye.

Questions 8 and11 are based on the news report you have just heard.

未听先知：预览四道题各选项，由Visiting，Thailand，Phuket以及反复出现的 Thai 等词可初步推测，对话内容涉及在泰国旅游；再结合第8 题第 9 题各选项语义可进一步推测，在泰国旅游的是女士。第8 题各选项均为现在分词短语，结合 A 选项中出现的her 可推测，本题考查女士正在做什么；第 9 题均为过去时，且主语均为She，因此考查女士在泰国做了什么；第 10 题和第11 题各选项均与男士有关，听音时留意与男士相关的细节描述。

8.    What does the woman say she is doing now？答案：D

详解：对话中女士提到，她现在正在普吉岛的沙滩上躺着，在太阳底下仅仅待了大约15 分钟就已经要晒伤了。因此答案为 D。

9.    What did the woman do yesterday？答案：A

详解：对话中女士提到，她昨天遇到了一个来自德国的男子，而且这名男子带她参观了他所工作的孤儿院。因此答案为A。

10.  Why does the man have to end the conversation？答案：D

详解：对话中，男士对女士说等她从泰国回来再告诉他旅游的情况，他的手机电池马上就没电了。因此答案为D。

11.  Why does the man ask the woman to bring himsomething from Thailand？

答案：C

详解：对话最后，男士叮嘱女士记得给他在纪念品商店里带点东西回来，并且提到他喜欢收集来自世界各地的小物件。因此答案为C。

Conversation Two

【主题分类】听力长对话  健身

【高级表达】

Invitation  n. 邀请 

discount  n. 折扣 

belly  n. 腹部 

gym  n. 健身房

【关键句型】

Would you liketo do sth. 你愿意去做…吗？

more than gladto.  乐意之至

I’ve never triedweight-lifting before.  我以前从来没尝试过举重

I’ll be yourpersonal trainer.

我愿意成为你的私教

听力原文

W: Hi, David.There’s a new gym opening in town today. Would you like to go with me thisafternoon?

M: Yes, morethan glad to. I haven’t been to a gym for ages. I need to do some exercise totone up.

W: Then this isa good chance. They sent me an invitation with a note saying I could take afriend for free on the first day. Also, if we both sign up before Friday, wecan get a discount on a six-month membership.

M: Great. Countme in. I really want to lose some of these belly fat and turn it into muscle.But I’m not sure which of the gym equipment with best help.

W: Well, I knowexpert of that, but I think you can try lifting weights and do at least 200sit-ups twice a day.

M: I’ve nevertried weight-lifting before. Is it dangerous?

W: No, not atall, if you know some of the basics. Don’t worry, I’ll show you the rules. Iused to practice this at another gym before my membership ended. I’ll be yourpersonal trainer.

M: Thank you.What other equipment do they have?

W: Well, likeall gyms, they have all sorts of things to help build up muscles in differentparts of the body, like applied bicycles, chest stretching machines, andrunning machines. You could use any of these to suit your purpose. Now the gymopens at noon. So can we meet up in town at 1:30 p.m.?

M: Perfect. Seeyou there, coach.

Questions 12 and15 are based on the news report you have just heard.

未听先知：预览四道题各选项，由fitness equipment 和反复出现的new gym 可知，对话内容与健身设备和新开业的健身房有关。第12 题各选项均为动名词短语，且 B 选项中出现了personal trainers，为复数形式，因此可能考查涉及对话双方的问题，或者对话的主旨；第13 题各选项均为优惠活动描述，因此考查的是健身房的优惠内容；第14 题均为名词短语，且 C 中出现了his，因此可能考查与男士相关的细节信息，声音时留意选项中的关键词；第15 题各选项主语均为 She，因此考查女士的情况，听音时留意对话最后与女士相关的信息。

12.  What are the speakers talking about?

答案：D

详解：对话开头，女士提到今天镇上有一家新的健身房开业，并且邀请男士下午一起去看一下，男士欣然接受了邀请，对话由此展开。因此答案为D。

13.  What does the gym offer at its opening?

答案：C

详解：对话中女士提到，健身房给的邀请函中写着开业第一天女士可以免费带一位朋友，而且如果女士和朋友都在周五前报名的话，办理半年期会员会有折扣。因此答案为C。

14.  What is the man concerned about?

答案：A

详解：对话中，男士提到他以前从来没有尝试过举重，并问女士举重是否危险。由此可知，男士担心的是举重的安全问题，答案为A。

15.  What do we learn about the woman from theconversation?

答案：C

详解：对话中，女士对男士说如果知道一些基本知识，那么举重一点都不危险。女士让男士不要担心，她会交给他一些窍门（theropes），并且告诉男士她过去常常在另一家健身房练习举重。由此可知，女士知道举重的基本知识，答案为C。

Passage One

【主题分类】听力短文求职

【高级表达】

job seeker  n. 找工作的人 

interview   n. 面试 

keep track of 了解 

focus on 关注

count  vi. 重要

【关键句型】

In today’s jobmarket, it’s now common for job seekers to send applications for manypositions.

今天的就业市场，找工作的人经常会向很多职位发出申请

to follow up aresult.

紧跟其结果

Google isanother tool to help you get organize effectively.

谷歌是又一个帮助你使你高效的工具

you shouldalways focus on quality, not quantity.

你一直关注的应该是质量而不是数量。

听力原文

In today’s jobmarket, it’s now common for job seekers to send applications for manypositions. That involves lots of time and lots of work to organize. Certainly,you can’t wait to waste your precious hours on following the developments in adisorderly fashion and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times, orforget to follow up a result. Accordingly, managing your job search properly isjust as important as identifying job opportunities and submitting yourapplications. If you are familiar with Microsoft Excel or a similar program,creating a table is a simple and effective way to keep track of your jobapplications. If Excel isn’t quite your cup of tea，don’t worry, you can create a table in Microsoft Word or a similar wordprocessor. Google is another tool to help you get organize effectively. If youhave a Gmail account, you can create, safe and send tables in addition towritten document like your cover letter and resume. You can also link up withGoogle calendar to make sure you stay on top of important dates. Clearly, thereare plenty of ways to keep track of your job search and making the effort tosimplify your job search will paid off. Nevertheless, (18) you should alwaysfocus on quality, not quantity. Only apply for position you are qualified for,and make each application count, personalizing each  cover letters ,and updating and editing your resume.

Questions 16 and18 are based on the news report you have just heard.

未听先知：预览三道题各选项，由interviews、applyfor、positions 和jobs 等词可推测，短文内容与求职有关。第16 题主语为They，由选项语义可知，They 指求职者，此题考查求职者求职过程中的细节信息；第17 题各选项均为动词短语，考查行为动作，听音时留意选项关键词；第18 题各选项均为动词短语，结合选项语义可推测，此题考查某人的建议或指示。

16.  What does the speaker say about today’sjobseekers？答案：B

详解：短文开头提到，在如今的就业市场上，求职者申请多个职位是很常见的。因此答案为B。

17.  What can job applicants do with the help ofthe Google？答案：A

详解：短文中提到，谷歌是另一个可以有效地帮你变得有条理的工具。因此答案为A。

18.  What does the speaker suggest job seekers do？答案：B

详解：短文最后讲话者提到，求职者应该注重质量而不是数量，至申请那些自己可以胜任的职位，让每个申请都有意义，而且每逢求职者都要个性化，要不断更新和编辑自己的简历。因此答案为B。

Passage Two

【主题分类】听力短文,教育

【高级表达】

Happen to  碰巧

Be likely to 可能

Learn about 了解

Stir up 搅动

【关键句型】

if we stirred upour brains and gave children a little help

如果我们开动脑筋，给与孩子们一些帮助。

It makes sense.

有意义

to learn abouttheir world and society at first hand.

第一手地了解他们所在的世界和社会

听力原文：

Some people say,if kids didn’t happen to go to school, they’d all be out in the streets. Myreply is “No, they wouldn’t.” First, even if schools stay just what they are,children would spend at least some time there, because that’s where they’d belikely to find their friends. Second, schools wouldn’t stay the way they are.They’d get better, because we would have to start making them what they oughtto be right now. Last, if we stirred up our brains and gave children a littlehelp, those who did not want to go to school could find other things to do —things many children now do during their holidays. There’s something easier wecould do. We need to get kids out of the school buildings, give them a chanceto learn about the world at first hand. In Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon,plans are being drawn up for public schools that won’t have any schoolbuildings at all. That will take the students out into the city and help themto use it and its people as a resource. In others words, students perhaps ingroups, perhaps independently, will go to libraries, museums, exhibitions,courtrooms, radios and TV stations, meetings, businesses, and laboratories tolearn about their world and society at first hand. A small private school inWashington is already doing this. It makes sense. We need more of it.

Questions 19 and21 are based on the news report you have just heard.

未听先知：预览三道题各选项，由kids，school 和learning 等词可推测，短文内容与孩子的教育有关。第19 题各选项均为 If 条件句，听音时应留意逻辑关系处；第20 题和第 21 题各选项均为动词短语，结合语义可推测，可能分别考查下一步的行动计划、针对某事所采取的措施或给出的意见，听音时应留意计划、措施、意见等方面的描述。

19.  What are some people worried about accordingto the speaker？答案：B

详解：短文开头提到，有些人说，如果孩子们不需要去上学，那么他们都会在大街上（乱跑）。因此答案为B。

20.  What does the speaker think we could do forthe kids who dislike school？答案：D

详解：短文中提到，如果我们动脑筋给孩子们一点帮助，那些不愿意去上学的孩子就可以找到其他的事情（很多孩子目前在假期里做的事情）去做。也就是说，对于那些不愿意去学校上学的孩子，我们可以给他们设计一些他们在假期里喜欢做的活动，答案为D。

21.  What does the speaker say is the easier thingwe could do？答案：D

详解：短文中提到，有一件事情比较简单，我们可以做到。我们需要把孩子们带出教学楼，给他们一个直接了解这个世界的机会。因此答案为D。

Passage Three

【主题分类】听力短文舞蹈

【高级表达】

express  v. 表达

horizon  n. 地平线

social life 社交生活

rhythm  n. 节奏

in a bad mood 坏心情

【关键句型】

Before there wasthe written word, there was the language of dance.

早在有文字之前就已经存在有舞蹈语言。

Dance expresses loveand hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between

舞蹈表达着爱恨，喜忧，生死以及一切。

It’s a way ofmeeting people and having a social life.

它是一种交往，社交方式。

Dance, like therhythm of a beating heart, is life.

舞蹈，像极了心跳的节奏，就是生命本身。

听力原文

Before there wasthe written word, there was the language of dance. Dance expresses love andhate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between, Dance inAmerica is everywhere. We dance from Florida to Alaska, from horizon to horizon,and coast to coast. We dance at weddings, birthdays, office parties, or just tofill the time. “I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life ,” Bridgesruns dance classes for all ages. “Teaching dance is wonderful. My olderstudents say it makes them feel young. It’s marvelous to watch them. For manyof them, it’s a way of meeting people and having a social life. So why do wedance? I can tell you about one young couple” says Bridges. “They arrive at theclass in a bad mood, and they leave with a smile. Dancing seems to change theirmood completely.” So do we dance in order to make ourselves feel better,calmer, healthier ? Andrea Hillier, a dance teacher says, “Dance, like therhythm of a beating heart, is life. Even after all these years, I want to getbetter and better. I keep practicing even when I’m exhausted. I find it hard tostop. Dancing reminds me I’m alive.”

Questions 22 and25 are based on the news report you have just heard.

未听先知：预览四道题各选项，由popular，social activity 和more expressive 等词可推测，短文内容与某种流行的社交活动有关，而且这种社交比较有表达力。第22 题均为对 It 的描述，结合主题可知，It指某种社交活动，听音时注意确定 It 所指；结合第23 题各选项语意可知，主语 It 指某个具体的事物，可能考查其位置、外观或益处；第24 题考查某物给 They 带来的好处，听音时应留意对某物的益处的描述；第25 题则是考查对 It 的评价，听音时留意短文结尾处出现选项中关键形容词及其近义词的地方。

22.  What does the passage say about the dance inAmerica？答案：C

详解：短文中提到，跳舞在美国处处可见，从佛罗里达到阿拉斯加、从地平线的一端到地平线的另一端、从东海岸到西海岸的美国人都跳舞。婚礼上、生日会上、办公室派对上，甚至是仅仅为了打发时间时，美国人都喜欢跳舞。因此答案为 C。

23.  What do we know about the Lester Bridges’dance studio？答案：D

详解：短文中提到，LesterBridges 说，对他的很多学生来说，跳舞是一种与人交往、拥有社交生活的方式。也就是说，LesterBridges 的舞蹈工作室给人们提供了社交的机会，答案为D。

24.  What happened to the young couple after theyattended Lester Bridges’ in class？答案：A

详解：短文中提到，LesterBridges 说他的学生中有一对年轻夫妻，他们来上课的时候情绪不好，但却是带着微笑离开的，看来跳舞彻底改变了他们的情绪。因此答案为A。

25.  What does Andrea Hillier say about dancing?

答案：B

详解：短文最后提到了舞蹈老师Andrea Hillier 的话：跳舞就像心脏跳动的节奏，是生命之所在。因此答案为B。