[00:00.54]Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension
[00:04.48]In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY.
[00:12.76]Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
[00:17.39]Mark the correct answer to each question on Answer Sheet Two.
[00:23.60]SECTION A CONVERSATIONS
[00:28.74]In this section you will hear several conversations.
[00:33.61]Listen to the conversations carefully
[00:36.71]and then answer the questions that follow.
[00:40.03]Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation.
[00:46.08]At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds
[00:51.08]to answer the questions.
[00:53.59]Now, listen to the conversation.
[00:58.09]W: Hello. Sunnyside Inn. May I help you?
[01:01.05]M: Yes, I'd like to reserve a room for two on the 21st of March.
[01:05.43]W: Okay. Let me check our books here for a moment.
[01:09.33]The 21st of May, right?
[01:11.52]M: No. March, not May.
[01:13.67]W: Oh, sorry. Let me see here. Hmmm.
[01:17.53]M: Are you all booked that night?
[01:19.83]W: Well, we do have one suite available,
[01:23.17]complete with a kitchenette and sauna bath.
[01:26.14]And the view of the city is great, too.
[01:28.88]M: How much is that?
[01:30.75]W: It's only $200, plus a 10% room tax.
[01:35.78]M: Oh, that's a little too expensive for me.
[01:39.23]Do you have a cheaper room available
[01:41.04]either on the 20th or the 22nd?
[01:43.92]W: Well, would you like a smoking or non-smoking room?
[01:48.54]M: Non-smoking, please.
[01:50.49]W: Okay, we do have a few rooms available on the 20th;
[01:54.84]we're full on the 22nd, unless you want a smoking room.
[01:58.75]M: Well, how much is the non-smoking room on the 20th?
[02:02.79]W: $80, plus the 10% room tax.
[02:06.39]M: Okay, that'll be fine.
[02:08.94]W: All right. Could I have your name, please?
[02:12.07]M: Yes. Bob Maexner.
[02:14.37]W: How do you spell your last name, Mr. Maexner?
[02:17.89]M: M-A-E-X-N-E-R.
[02:23.62]W: Okay, Mr. Maexner, we look forward to
[02:26.48]seeing you on March 20th.
[02:28.40]M: Okay. Goodbye.
[02:45.35]Questions 4 to 6 are based on the following conversation.
[02:50.40]At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds
[02:55.20]to answer the questions.
[02:56.89]Now, listen to the conversation.
[03:01.00]M: Hi Randall.
[03:02.07]W: Hi.
[03:02.97]M: Come on in.
[03:04.53]W: Uh, yeah, uh, I stopped by to see if you were still
[03:08.92]looking for a roommate to share your house.
[03:11.72]M: Hey, let me show you the place.
[03:14.13]Uh, here's the living room.
[03:16.18]W: Oh. It looks like you could use a new carpet...
[03:20.13]and those stains?
[03:22.12]M: Well. I've had a few problems with some former roommates.
[03:25.87]I know it needs to be cleaned,
[03:27.42]but I just don't have the money to do it right now.
[03:29.67]W: Oh. And what about the kitchen?
[03:32.47]M: Well, the refrigerator door is broken... a little bit...
[03:36.95]and it won't shut all the way.
[03:38.90]It needs fixing, but don't worry.
[03:40.96]I've just improvised by pushing a box
[03:43.12]against it to keep it shut.
[03:45.16]W: Hmm. Great.
[03:46.60]M: Ah. It isn't that bad.
[03:49.01]W: Well, how about the bathroom?
[03:53.08]M: Well...
[03:54.42]W: No, no. Don't tell me.
[03:56.68]The toilet is stuffed or the sink has a few leaks.
[04:00.63]M: No, those work fine, but the window needs fixing.
[04:04.49]W: The window? Where's the window pane?
[04:07.53]M: Well, that's a little slight problem.
[04:09.70]I've put up a piece of cardboard to keep out the rain and snow,
[04:13.24]and if it gets a little cold, you can always turn up the heat.
[04:16.89]W: Hey, I think I've seen enough.
[04:34.40]Questions 7 to 10 are based on the following conversation.
[04:39.96]At the end of the conversation, you will be given 20 seconds
[04:44.46]to answer the questions.
[04:46.55]Now, listen to the conversation.
[04:50.29]M: Hi, Mandy. How's everything going?
[04:53.07]W: Not too good, I suppose.
[04:55.57]M: What happened?
[04:57.36]W: Well, you know I moved
[04:59.17]out from Mrs. Henzer's nine months ago.
[05:02.20]And all along I forgot to inform the registration office
[05:05.99]to get my address changed.
[05:08.08]Guess what? The library sent three reminder notices
[05:12.44]on the fines incurred on the overdue books
[05:15.60]and Mrs. Henzer kept the letters without returning them to the senders.
[05:20.46]M: How did you find out?
[05:22.51]W: Well, I went to the registration to get my transcript
[05:26.57]but they said there are some outstanding fines
[05:29.57]that I have to settle before they can release it.
[05:32.65]M: Then just pay the fine and you can get your transcript.
[05:35.60]What's the big problem?
[05:37.60]W: Well... Yeah,
[05:38.30]that's exactly what I thought but the fine came to $150
[05:43.34]and that was a shock to me.
[05:45.53]I didn't expect it to come to that much.
[05:48.05]M: Ooh. That's a bit of a bite!
[05:50.91]Did you keep the book for long?
[05:53.36]That's the first time I've come across
[05:55.20]such a big fine on the library loan.
[05:57.07]W: Guess what? I checked with the library
[06:00.30]and they told me three books are still outstanding.
[06:03.71]They're from 8 months ago.
[06:05.92]I thought I'd returned them.
[06:07.98]M: Are you sure you returned the books yourself
[06:10.63]or did you get someone to do it?
[06:12.78]W: Well, hard to recall now since it was so long ago.
[06:17.11]At that time I was holding two jobs and had to juggle with school.
[06:21.95]I really thought I had returned them.
[06:24.84]M: Tell you what. Why don't you go back to Mrs. Henzer
[06:28.65]and see if the books are still there?
[06:30.80]Otherwise, you'll have to pay for the lost books
[06:33.65]and I'm sure they will cost more than $150.
[06:36.94]W: I guess that's the only choice I'm left with right now.
[07:01.20]SECTION B PASSAGES
[07:05.36]In this section, you will hear several passages.
[07:08.90]Listen to the passages carefully
[07:11.60]and then answer the questions that follow.
[07:14.50]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage.
[07:20.71]At the end of the passage,
[07:22.71]you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
[07:27.12]Now, listen to the passage.
[07:31.17]Animation means making things
[07:34.27]which are lifeless come alive and move.
[07:36.89]From earliest times,
[07:38.78]people have always been fascinated by movement.
[07:41.63]But not until this century
[07:43.38]have we managed to capture movement,
[07:45.43]to record it, and in the case of animation,
[07:48.82]to reinterpret it and recreate it.
[07:51.47]To do all this, we use a movie camera and a projector.
[07:55.62]In the world of cartoon animation, nothing is impossible.
[08:00.08]You can make the characters you create
[08:02.54]do exactly what you want them.
[08:04.38]A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat,
[08:08.13]created by Pat Sullivan in America in the early 1920s.
[08:12.26]Felix was a marvelous cat.
[08:14.40]He could do all sorts of things no natural cat
[08:17.36]could do like taking off his tail,
[08:19.59]using it as a handle and then putting it back.
[08:22.58]Most of the great early animators lived and worked in America,
[08:27.00]the home of the moving picture industry.
[08:29.63]The famous Walt Disney cartoon characters
[08:32.09]came to life after 1928.
[08:34.68]Popeye the Sailorman and his girlfriend Olive Oyl
[08:37.98]were born at the Max Fleischer studios in 1933.
[08:42.61]But to be an animator, you don't have to be a professional.
[08:46.31]It is possible for anyone to make a simple animated film
[08:50.35]without using a camera at all.
[08:52.78]All you have to do is draw directly on to blank film
[08:56.70]and then run the film through a projector.
[09:13.95]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage.
[09:19.74]At the end of the passage,
[09:21.98]you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
[09:26.37]Now, listen to the passage.
[09:30.51]Climate, more than any other single factor,
[09:33.95]determines distributions of life on Earth.
[09:37.20]Climatic boundaries establish the limits within
[09:40.38]which organisms can survive.
[09:43.13]Plants, even more than animals,
[09:45.42]must be well adapted to climate in order to survive.
[09:48.98]They cannot move about or take shelter
[09:51.82]but must be equipped
[09:53.78]to endure whatever weather conditions are likely to occur.
[09:56.98]In the harsh conditions of tundra,
[09:59.77]for example, low growing mosses,
[10:02.17]lichens, and a few flowering plants all hug the ground
[10:06.11]for shelter from icy winds.
[10:08.25]Animals, despite their ability to move about and find shelters,
[10:13.49]are just as much influenced by climate as plants are.
[10:17.33]Creatures such as the camel and the penguin
[10:20.47]are so highly specialized
[10:22.22]that they have extremely limited distribution.
[10:25.71]Others, such as bears,
[10:27.76]are flexible enough to adapt to a broad range of climates.
[10:31.49]Ocean-dwelling organisms are just as sensitive to climatic changes
[10:37.09]—in this case temperature and salinity—as land animals.
[10:41.89]Reef corals can survive only in clear warm seawater.
[10:46.73]Certain foraminifers are so sensitive to changes
[10:50.77]in their environment that their presence
[10:53.27]can be taken as an index of sea temperature.
[10:56.98]Human beings are among the least specialized of all animals
[11:01.86]and can live almost anywhere.
[11:04.21]Their clothes and their homes
[11:06.35]act as a sort of "miniature climate"
[11:09.26]that can be taken with them everywhere.
[11:31.49]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage.
[11:36.57]At the end of the passage,
[11:39.12]you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
[11:43.41]Now, listen to the passage.
[11:47.85]As the pace of life continues to increase,
[11:51.45]we are fast losing the art of relaxation.
[11:54.13]Once you are in the habit of rushing through life,
[11:57.04]being on the go from morning till night,
[11:59.44]it is hard to slow down.
[12:01.38]But relaxation is essential for a healthy mind and body.
[12:05.43]Stress is a natural part of everyday life
[12:08.82]and there is no way to avoid it.
[12:11.34]In fact, it is not the bad thing that is often supposed to be.
[12:15.08]A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation
[12:19.33]and give purpose to life.
[12:21.48]It is only when the stress gets out of control
[12:24.51]that it can lead to poor performance and ill health.
[12:27.81]The amount of stress a person can withstand
[12:30.79]depends very much on the individual.
[12:32.94]Some people are not afraid of stress,
[12:35.83]and such characters are obviously prime material
[12:39.12]for managerial responsibilities; others lose heart
[12:43.07]at the first sight of unusual difficulties.
[12:45.92]When exposed to stress, in whatever form,
[12:49.53]we react both chemically and physically.
[12:52.83]In fact we make choice between "flight or fight"
[12:57.48]and in more primitive days
[12:59.98]the choices made the difference between life or death.
[13:03.36]The crises we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme,
[13:07.96]but however little the stress,
[13:10.00]it involves the same response.
[13:12.11]It is when such a reaction lasts long,
[13:15.27]through continued exposure to stress,
[13:17.74]that health becomes endangered.
[13:19.87]Since we can't remove stress from our lives
[13:23.34]and it would be unwise to do so even if we could,
[13:26.53]we need to find ways to deal with it.
[13:44.55]SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
[13:48.64]In this section, you will hear several news items.
[13:53.13]Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
[13:58.72]Questions 21 to 22 are based on the following news.
[14:05.11]At the end of the news item,
[14:07.77]you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
[14:11.81]Now, listen to the news.
[14:15.81]Authorities in California say human remains found this week
[14:20.48]in Mojave Desert appeared to be those of the San Diego couple
[14:24.53]who vanished with their 2 young sons more than 3 years ago.
[14:28.87]The San Bernardino sheriff department
[14:32.08]confirms the bodies found in shallow graves are 40-year-old
[14:36.17]Joseph McStay and his 43-year-old wife.
[14:40.07]Officials say the deaths appear to be a homicide
[14:43.31]as there are four bodies found in the barren scrubland.
[14:47.15]Authorities believe the two others are the couple's children
[14:51.50]but have not yet confirmed.
[15:02.91]Questions 23 and 24 are based on the following news.
[15:09.09]At the end of the news item,
[15:11.64]you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
[15:15.63]Now, listen to the news.
[15:19.38]The WHO confirms that the cluster of paralysis cases
[15:23.42]among young children in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zour,
[15:27.83]is now a breakout of polio.
[15:29.98]These are the first cases of polio reported in Syria since 1999.
[15:35.81]In a period to be linked directly to the ongoing civil war,
[15:40.09]most of the children who weren't properly
[15:43.10]vaccinated against the virus have been paralyzed under the age of two.
[15:47.77]Immunization rates in Syria have plummeted
[15:51.26]as hospitals have been destroyed, doctors have fled the country,
[15:54.91]and the country's health care system has collapsed in the conflict.
[15:59.25]The WHO has launched a mass immunization campaign
[16:03.19]in both rebel held and government controlled parts of Syria
[16:06.97]to try to vaccinate 1.6 million kids against measles and polio.
[16:22.45]Questions 25 and 26 are based on the following news.
[16:29.52]At the end of the news item,
[16:31.46]you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
[16:35.70]Now, listen to the news.
[16:39.89]The Turkish President Abdullah Gul
[16:42.64]has appealed for calm after police clashed with protesters
[16:46.53]angered by the death of a teenage boy,
[16:49.18]who was hurt during anti-government demonstrations last year.
[16:52.61]Berkin Elvan had been in a coma
[16:55.38]since he was hit by a teargas canister as he went to buy bread.
[16:59.26]The news of the 15-year-old Berkin Elvan's death
[17:03.29]was announced earlier this morning.
[17:05.34]We lost our son, may he rest in peace,
[17:08.69]wrote his family on Twitter.
[17:10.70]As the news spread,
[17:12.81]people started gathering in front of the hospital
[17:15.39]where he spent 269 days in a coma.
[17:19.07]The police showed up, the crowd got angrier,
[17:22.41]and police intervened with pepper gas.
[17:25.35]Berkin's story had become a symbol for Gezi Park protesters.
[17:40.27]Questions 27 and 28 are based on the following news.
[17:46.10]At the end of the news item,
[17:48.50]you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
[17:52.65]Now, listen to the news.
[17:56.92]Libyan officials say they've seized a North Korean-flagged tanker
[18:02.17]carrying an illegal shipment of oil
[18:04.64]loaded at a port occupied by rebel forces.
[18:08.73]A spokesman for the state-owned national oil corporation
[18:12.98]said the ship was stopped as it tried to leave.
[18:16.22]The military and the Libyan congress are claiming
[18:19.82]they have intercepted the oil tanker
[18:21.97]carrying an illegal shipment of crude oil from Libya.
[18:26.17]They say their escorting get to a state-controled port.
[18:30.81]Meanwhile, the eastern oil port blockaded
[18:34.69]since July by former rebels,
[18:37.09]described the latest claims to the media
[18:40.07]as government's lies.
[18:41.97]They say the ship is still docked in As-Sidra,
[18:45.68]in the east of the country.
[18:47.67]Neither of the two claims can be dependently verified.
[19:01.98]Questions 29 and 30 are based on the following news.
[19:07.45]At the end of the news item,
[19:09.66]you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
[19:13.84]Now, listen to the news.
[19:17.71]The embattled mayor of Toronto Rob Ford
[19:21.00]has become aboard in a fresh controversy just two days
[19:24.43]after admitting to have smoked crack cocaine.
[19:27.43]A Canadian newspaper has released video footage
[19:30.52]of the mayor swearing and threatening an unnamed person.
[19:34.52]This video is the latest episode in a political saga
[19:38.30]which has gripped the city and the world.
[19:41.18]The mayor can be seen pacing up and down a room
[19:44.59]and swearing and using foul language at regular intervals.
[19:49.03]At one point in the conversation,
[19:51.37]which appears to have been secretly filmed on a phone,
[19:54.67]he threatens to rip out an unnamed person's throat
[19:58.24]and poke out his eyes.
[20:00.10]Shortly after the tape was released,
[20:02.94]the mayor spoke to reporters and apologized
[20:06.90]saying he was extremely inebriated.
[20:18.93]This is the end of listening comprehension.