2008年6月大学英语四级听力真题
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| [00:00.00] | 试音时间及提示 |
| [02:40.14] | Section A |
| [03:32.78] | Q11. |
| [03:36.17] | M: Today is a bad day for me.I fell off a step and twisted my ankle. |
| [03:42.62] | W: Don't worry,usually ankle injuries heal quickly if you stop regular activities for a while. |
| [03:50.64] | Q: What does the woman suggest the man do? |
| [04:11.25] | Q12. |
| [04:13.33] | W: May I see you ticket, please? I think you're sitting in my seat. |
| [04:18.36] | M: Oh,you're right. My seat is in the balcony.I'm terribly sorry. |
| [04:24.50] | Q: Where does conversation most probably take place? |
| [04:46.78] | Q13. |
| [04:48.65] | W: Do you hear Mr. Smith die in his sleep last night? |
| [04:53.15] | M: Yes, it's very sad. Please let everybody know that whoever wants to may attend the funeral. |
| [05:01.49] | Q: What are the speakers talking about? |
| [05:21.49] | Q14. |
| [05:23.32] | M: Have you taken Professor Yang's exam before? I'm kind of nervous. |
| [05:29.49] | W: Yes. Just concentrate on the important ideas she's talked about in the class and ignore the details. |
| [05:37.96] | Q: How does the women suggest the man prepare for Professor Yang's exam？ |
| [06:01.09] | Q15. |
| [06:03.21] | W: I'm so sorry sir, and you'll let me pay to have your jacket cleaned, won't you? |
| [06:09.10] | M: That's all right.It could happen to anyone.And I'm sure that coffee doesn't leave lasting marks on clothing. |
| [06:17.28] | Q: What can we infer from the conversation? |
| [06:38.28] | Q16. |
| [06:40.40] | W: Have you seen the movie The Departed? The plot was so complicated that I really got lost. |
| [06:47.72] | M: Yeah, I felt the same, but after I saw it a second time,I could put all the pieces together. |
| [06:54.81] | Q: How did the two speakers find the movie? |
| [07:15.78] | Q17. |
| [07:17.44] | M: I'm really surprised you got an A on the test;you didn't seem to have done a lot of reading. |
| [07:24.41] | W: Now you know why I never missed the lecture. |
| [07:27.76] | Q: What contributes to the woman's high score? |
| [07:49.07] | Q18. |
| [07:50.42] | W: Have you heard about the new digital television system?It lets people get about 500 channels. |
| [07:58.76] | M: Yeah. But I doubt they'll have anything different from what we watch now. |
| [08:03.16] | Q: What does the man mean? |
| [08:27.07] | Conversation One: |
| [08:29.12] | W: Gosh! Have you seen this, Richard? |
| [08:32.49] | M: See what? |
| [08:33.73] | W: In the paper. It says, there is a man going around pretending he's from the electricity board. |
| [08:41.36] | He's been calling at people's homes, saying he is coming to check that all their appliances are safe. |
| [08:49.37] | Then he gets around them to make him a cup of tea,and while they are out of the room he steals their money, |
| [08:56.84] | handbag whatever and makes off with it. |
| [09:00.74] | M: But you know,Jane,it's partly their own fault;you should never let anyone like that in unless you're expecting them. |
| [09:08.45] | W: It's all very well to say that. |
| [09:11.04] | But someone comes to the door,and says electricity or gas and you automatically think they are OK, |
| [09:18.07] | especially if they flash a card to you |
| [09:21.02] | M: Does this man have an ID then? |
| [09:23.62] | W: Yes, that's just it. |
| [09:25.34] | It seems he used to work for the electricity board at one time according to the paper |
| [09:31.71] | the police are warning people especially pensioners not to admit anyone unless they have an appointment. |
| [09:40.10] | It's a bit sad. One old lady told them she'd just been to the post-office to draw her pension when he called. |
| [09:48.45] | She said he must have followed her home. He stole the whole lot. |
| [09:53.15] | M: But what does he look like? Surely they must have a description. |
| [09:57.57] | W: Oh,yes they have.Let's see,in his thirties,tall,bushy dark hair,slight northern accent,sounds a bit like you actually. |
| [10:10.19] | Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [10:18.60] | Q19. What does the woman want the man to read in the newspaper? |
| [10:42.93] | Q20. How did the man mention in the newspaper try to win further trust from the victims? |
| [11:07.78] | Q21. What is the warning from the police? |
| [11:29.02] | Q22. What does the woman speaker tell us about the old lady? |
| [11:51.81] | Conversation Two: |
| [11:54.73] | M: Miss Jones, could you tell me more about your first job with hotel marketing concept? |
| [12:02.54] | W: Yes, certainly. I was a marketing consultant responsible for marketing 10 UK hotels. |
| [12:11.10] | They were all luxury hotels in a leisure sector all of a very high standard. |
| [12:18.13] | M: Which markets were you responsible for? |
| [12:21.38] | W: For Europe and Japan. |
| [12:23.17] | M: I see from your resume that you speak Japanese. Have you ever been to Japan? |
| [12:29.74] | W: Yes, I have, I spent months in Japan 2006. |
| [12:34.84] | I met all the key people in the tourist industry, the big tour operators and the tourist organizations. |
| [12:41.63] | As I speak Japanese I had a very big advantage. |
| [12:45.62] | M: Yes, of course. Have you had any contact with Japan in your present job? |
| [12:51.55] | W: Yes, I've had a lot. Cruises have become very popular with the Japanese both for holidays and for business conferences. |
| [13:01.73] | In fact, the market for all types of luxury holidays for the Japanese has increased a lot recently. |
| [13:09.01] | M: Really, I'm interested to hear more about that, but first tell me have you ever traveled on the luxury train, |
| [13:16.57] | the Orient Express, for example? |
| [13:19.88] | W: No, I haven't. But I've traveled on the Glacial Express through Switzerland and I traveled across China by train about 8 years ago. |
| [13:30.15] | I love train travel. That's why I'm very interested in this job. |
| [13:37.12] | Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [13:45.98] | Q23. What did the woman do in her first job? |
| [14:06.32] | Q24. What give the woman an advantage during her business trip in Japan? |
| [14:30.07] | Q25. Why is the woman applying for the new job? |
| [14:51.73] | Section B |
| [15:30.31] | Passage 1 |
| [15:32.44] | Time. I think a lot about time and not just because it's the name of the news organization I work for. |
| [15:43.12] | Like most working people, I find time, or the lack of it, and never-ending frustration and an unwinnable battle. |
| [15:52.86] | My every day is a race against the clock that I never ever seem to win. |
| [15:59.26] | This is hardly a lonesome complaint. According to the families and work institutes, national study of the changing workforce, |
| [16:10.45] | 55 percent of employees say they don't have enough time for themselves, |
| [16:16.35] | 63 percent don't have enough time for their spouses or partners, and 67 percent don't have enough time for their children. |
| [16:27.39] | It's also not a new complaint. |
| [16:31.04] | I bet our ancestors returned home from hunting wild animals and gathering nuts |
| [16:37.58] | and complained about how little time they had to paint battle scenes on their cave walls. |
| [16:43.62] | The difference is that the boss of animal hunting and the head of nut gathering probably told them to shut up or no survival for you. |
| [16:54.89] | Today's workers are still demanding control over their time. |
| [16:59.83] | The difference is today's bosses are listening. |
| [17:04.49] | I've been reading a report issued today called "when work works" produced jointly by three organizations. |
| [17:14.66] | They set up to find and warn the employers who employ the most creative and most effective ways to give their workers flexibility. |
| [17:25.97] | I found this report worth reading and suggest every boss should read it for ideas. |
| [17:33.85] | Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [17:42.20] | Q26. What is the speaker complaining about? |
| [18:04.49] | Q27. What does the speaker say about our ancestors? |
| [18:26.61] | Q28. Why does the speaker suggest all bosses read the report by the three organizations? |
| [18:52.03] | Passage 2 |
| [18:53.89] | Loving a child is a circular business. |
| [18:58.01] | The more you give, the more you get, the more you want to give, *** said. |
| [19:05.03] | What she said proves to be true of my blended family. I was born in 1931. |
| [19:13.13] | As the youngest of six children, I learned to share my parents' love. |
| [19:18.82] | Raising six children during the difficult times of the Great Depression took its toll on my parents' relationship |
| [19:26.65] | and resulted in their divorce when I was 18 years old. |
| [19:31.03] | Daddy never had very close relationships with his children and drifted even farther away from us after the divorce. |
| [19:39.78] | Several years later, a wonderful woman came into his life and they were married. |
| [19:46.73] | She had two sons, one of them still at home. |
| [19:51.14] | Under her influence, we became a blended family and a good relationship developed between the two families. |
| [19:59.83] | She always treated us as if we were her own children. |
| [20:04.33] | It was because of our other mother, Daddy's second wife, that he became closer to his own children. |
| [20:12.28] | They shared over 25 years together before our father passed away. |
| [20:18.04] | At the time of his death, the question came up of my mother, Daddy's first wife, attending his funeral. |
| [20:26.07] | I will never forget the unconditional love shown by my step mother. |
| [20:31.28] | When I asked her if she would object to mother attending Daddy's funeral, |
| [20:36.23] | without giving it a second thought, she immediately replied."Of course not, honey. She is the mother of my children." |
| [20:46.51] | Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [20:53.95] | Q29. According to the speaker, what contributed to her parents' divorce? |
| [21:18.83] | Q30. What brought the father closer to his own children? |
| [21:41.88] | Q31. What message does the speaker want to convey in this talk? |
| [22:04.88] | Passage 3 |
| [22:07.75] | In February last year, my wife lost her job. |
| [22:12.56] | Just as suddenly, the owner of the Green House where I worked as manager died of a heart attack. |
| [22:20.16] | His family announced that they were going to close the business because no one in the family wanted to run it. |
| [22:27.16] | Things looked pretty gloomy. My wife and I read the want ads each day. |
| [22:34.58] | Then one morning,as I was hanging a "going out of business" sign at the green house,the door opened and in walked a customer. |
| [22:45.35] | She was an office manager whose company had just moved into the new office park on the edge of the town. |
| [22:52.92] | She was looking for potted plants to place in the reception areas in offices. |
| [22:58.83] | "I don't know anything about plants", she said, "I am sure in a few weeks, they'll all be dead." |
| [23:06.61] | While I was helping her select her purchases, my mind was racing. |
| [23:13.03] | Perhaps as many as a dozen firms that recently opened offices in the new office park |
| [23:19.66] | and there were several hundred more acres with construction under way. |
| [23:25.53] | That afternoon, I drove up to the office park. |
| [23:30.68] | By 6 o'clock that evening,I had signed contacts with 7 companies to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to maintain them. |
| [23:42.25] | Within a week, I had worked down to an agreement to lease the Green House from the owner's family. |
| [23:50.15] | Business is now increasing rapidly. And one day we hope to be the proud owners of the Green House. |
| [24:00.21] | Question 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [24:07.28] | Q32. What do we learn about the green house? |
| [24:28.22] | Q33. What was the speaker doing when the customer walked in one morning? |
| [24:50.60] | Q34. What did the speaker think of when serving the office manager? |
| [25:12.77] | Q35. When was the speaker's hope for the future? |
| [25:33.98] | Section C |
| [26:31.16] | We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. |
| [26:38.38] | Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. |
| [26:47.09] | Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. |
| [26:52.99] | Tomorrow's wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. |
| [26:58.87] | And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. |
| [27:05.55] | Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. |
| [27:11.62] | Knowledge workers engage in mind work. |
| [27:16.13] | They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? |
| [27:26.61] | As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. |
| [27:36.72] | Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. |
| [27:44.40] | And that number will increase sharply in the future. |
| [27:49.09] | Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, |
| [27:56.59] | quality control, and customer satisfaction. |
| [28:01.43] | In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that |
| [28:09.57] | will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. |
| [28:14.93] | You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. |
| [28:21.04] | Gone are the nine-to-five jobs,life-time security,predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. |
| [28:32.66] | Don't expect the companies to provide you with a clearly-defined career path and don't wait for someone to empower you. |
| [28:43.58] | You have to empower yourself. |
| [28:51.76] | Read again |
| [28:53.83] | We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. |
| [29:01.46] | Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. |
| [29:08.71] | Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. |
| [29:14.94] | Tomorrow's wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. |
| [29:20.43] | And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. |
| [29:27.17] | Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. |
| [29:32.97] | Knowledge workers engage in mind work. |
| [29:36.95] | They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? |
| [29:45.20] | As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. |
| [29:53.89] | Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. |
| [30:00.05] | And that number will increase sharply in the future. |
| [30:03.90] | Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, |
| [30:11.33] | quality control, and customer satisfaction. |
| [31:28.70] | In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that |
| [31:36.13] | will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. |
| [32:41.71] | You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. |
| [32:46.31] | Gone are the nine-to-five jobs,life-time security,predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. |
| [32:57.42] | Don't expect the companies to provide you with a clearly-defined career path |
| [33:58.65] | and don't wait for someone to empower you. |
| [34:02.04] | You have to empower yourself. |
| [34:07.88] | Read third time |
| [34:10.90] | We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. |
| [34:18.02] | Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. |
| [34:27.11] | Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. |
| [34:33.34] | Tomorrow's wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. |
| [34:39.39] | And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. |
| [34:45.73] | Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. |
| [34:52.30] | Knowledge workers engage in mind work. |
| [34:57.10] | They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? |
| [35:06.93] | As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. |
| [35:16.89] | Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. |
| [35:24.57] | And that number will increase sharply in the future. |
| [35:28.64] | Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, |
| [35:36.97] | quality control, and customer satisfaction. |
| [35:41.31] | In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that |
| [35:49.79] | will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. |
| [35:54.43] | You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. |
| [36:00.63] | Gone are the nine-to-five jobs,life-time security,predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. |
| [36:12.35] | Don't expect the companies to provide you with a clearly-defined career path and don't wait for someone to empower you. |
| [36:23.31] | You have to empower yourself. |
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| [02:40.14] | Section A |
| [03:32.78] | Q11. |
| [03:36.17] | M: Today is a bad day for me. I fell off a step and twisted my ankle. |
| [03:42.62] | W: Don' t worry, usually ankle injuries heal quickly if you stop regular activities for a while. |
| [03:50.64] | Q: What does the woman suggest the man do? |
| [04:11.25] | Q12. |
| [04:13.33] | W: May I see you ticket, please? I think you' re sitting in my seat. |
| [04:18.36] | M: Oh, you' re right. My seat is in the balcony. I' m terribly sorry. |
| [04:24.50] | Q: Where does conversation most probably take place? |
| [04:46.78] | Q13. |
| [04:48.65] | W: Do you hear Mr. Smith die in his sleep last night? |
| [04:53.15] | M: Yes, it' s very sad. Please let everybody know that whoever wants to may attend the funeral. |
| [05:01.49] | Q: What are the speakers talking about? |
| [05:21.49] | Q14. |
| [05:23.32] | M: Have you taken Professor Yang' s exam before? I' m kind of nervous. |
| [05:29.49] | W: Yes. Just concentrate on the important ideas she' s talked about in the class and ignore the details. |
| [05:37.96] | Q: How does the women suggest the man prepare for Professor Yang' s exam? |
| [06:01.09] | Q15. |
| [06:03.21] | W: I' m so sorry sir, and you' ll let me pay to have your jacket cleaned, won' t you? |
| [06:09.10] | M: That' s all right. It could happen to anyone. And I' m sure that coffee doesn' t leave lasting marks on clothing. |
| [06:17.28] | Q: What can we infer from the conversation? |
| [06:38.28] | Q16. |
| [06:40.40] | W: Have you seen the movie The Departed? The plot was so complicated that I really got lost. |
| [06:47.72] | M: Yeah, I felt the same, but after I saw it a second time, I could put all the pieces together. |
| [06:54.81] | Q: How did the two speakers find the movie? |
| [07:15.78] | Q17. |
| [07:17.44] | M: I' m really surprised you got an A on the test you didn' t seem to have done a lot of reading. |
| [07:24.41] | W: Now you know why I never missed the lecture. |
| [07:27.76] | Q: What contributes to the woman' s high score? |
| [07:49.07] | Q18. |
| [07:50.42] | W: Have you heard about the new digital television system? It lets people get about 500 channels. |
| [07:58.76] | M: Yeah. But I doubt they' ll have anything different from what we watch now. |
| [08:03.16] | Q: What does the man mean? |
| [08:27.07] | Conversation One: |
| [08:29.12] | W: Gosh! Have you seen this, Richard? |
| [08:32.49] | M: See what? |
| [08:33.73] | W: In the paper. It says, there is a man going around pretending he' s from the electricity board. |
| [08:41.36] | He' s been calling at people' s homes, saying he is coming to check that all their appliances are safe. |
| [08:49.37] | Then he gets around them to make him a cup of tea, and while they are out of the room he steals their money, |
| [08:56.84] | handbag whatever and makes off with it. |
| [09:00.74] | M: But you know, Jane, it' s partly their own fault you should never let anyone like that in unless you' re expecting them. |
| [09:08.45] | W: It' s all very well to say that. |
| [09:11.04] | But someone comes to the door, and says electricity or gas and you automatically think they are OK, |
| [09:18.07] | especially if they flash a card to you |
| [09:21.02] | M: Does this man have an ID then? |
| [09:23.62] | W: Yes, that' s just it. |
| [09:25.34] | It seems he used to work for the electricity board at one time according to the paper |
| [09:31.71] | the police are warning people especially pensioners not to admit anyone unless they have an appointment. |
| [09:40.10] | It' s a bit sad. One old lady told them she' d just been to the postoffice to draw her pension when he called. |
| [09:48.45] | She said he must have followed her home. He stole the whole lot. |
| [09:53.15] | M: But what does he look like? Surely they must have a description. |
| [09:57.57] | W: Oh, yes they have. Let' s see, in his thirties, tall, bushy dark hair, slight northern accent, sounds a bit like you actually. |
| [10:10.19] | Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [10:18.60] | Q19. What does the woman want the man to read in the newspaper? |
| [10:42.93] | Q20. How did the man mention in the newspaper try to win further trust from the victims? |
| [11:07.78] | Q21. What is the warning from the police? |
| [11:29.02] | Q22. What does the woman speaker tell us about the old lady? |
| [11:51.81] | Conversation Two: |
| [11:54.73] | M: Miss Jones, could you tell me more about your first job with hotel marketing concept? |
| [12:02.54] | W: Yes, certainly. I was a marketing consultant responsible for marketing 10 UK hotels. |
| [12:11.10] | They were all luxury hotels in a leisure sector all of a very high standard. |
| [12:18.13] | M: Which markets were you responsible for? |
| [12:21.38] | W: For Europe and Japan. |
| [12:23.17] | M: I see from your resume that you speak Japanese. Have you ever been to Japan? |
| [12:29.74] | W: Yes, I have, I spent months in Japan 2006. |
| [12:34.84] | I met all the key people in the tourist industry, the big tour operators and the tourist organizations. |
| [12:41.63] | As I speak Japanese I had a very big advantage. |
| [12:45.62] | M: Yes, of course. Have you had any contact with Japan in your present job? |
| [12:51.55] | W: Yes, I' ve had a lot. Cruises have become very popular with the Japanese both for holidays and for business conferences. |
| [13:01.73] | In fact, the market for all types of luxury holidays for the Japanese has increased a lot recently. |
| [13:09.01] | M: Really, I' m interested to hear more about that, but first tell me have you ever traveled on the luxury train, |
| [13:16.57] | the Orient Express, for example? |
| [13:19.88] | W: No, I haven' t. But I' ve traveled on the Glacial Express through Switzerland and I traveled across China by train about 8 years ago. |
| [13:30.15] | I love train travel. That' s why I' m very interested in this job. |
| [13:37.12] | Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [13:45.98] | Q23. What did the woman do in her first job? |
| [14:06.32] | Q24. What give the woman an advantage during her business trip in Japan? |
| [14:30.07] | Q25. Why is the woman applying for the new job? |
| [14:51.73] | Section B |
| [15:30.31] | Passage 1 |
| [15:32.44] | Time. I think a lot about time and not just because it' s the name of the news organization I work for. |
| [15:43.12] | Like most working people, I find time, or the lack of it, and neverending frustration and an unwinnable battle. |
| [15:52.86] | My every day is a race against the clock that I never ever seem to win. |
| [15:59.26] | This is hardly a lonesome complaint. According to the families and work institutes, national study of the changing workforce, |
| [16:10.45] | 55 percent of employees say they don' t have enough time for themselves, |
| [16:16.35] | 63 percent don' t have enough time for their spouses or partners, and 67 percent don' t have enough time for their children. |
| [16:27.39] | It' s also not a new complaint. |
| [16:31.04] | I bet our ancestors returned home from hunting wild animals and gathering nuts |
| [16:37.58] | and complained about how little time they had to paint battle scenes on their cave walls. |
| [16:43.62] | The difference is that the boss of animal hunting and the head of nut gathering probably told them to shut up or no survival for you. |
| [16:54.89] | Today' s workers are still demanding control over their time. |
| [16:59.83] | The difference is today' s bosses are listening. |
| [17:04.49] | I' ve been reading a report issued today called " when work works" produced jointly by three organizations. |
| [17:14.66] | They set up to find and warn the employers who employ the most creative and most effective ways to give their workers flexibility. |
| [17:25.97] | I found this report worth reading and suggest every boss should read it for ideas. |
| [17:33.85] | Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [17:42.20] | Q26. What is the speaker complaining about? |
| [18:04.49] | Q27. What does the speaker say about our ancestors? |
| [18:26.61] | Q28. Why does the speaker suggest all bosses read the report by the three organizations? |
| [18:52.03] | Passage 2 |
| [18:53.89] | Loving a child is a circular business. |
| [18:58.01] | The more you give, the more you get, the more you want to give, said. |
| [19:05.03] | What she said proves to be true of my blended family. I was born in 1931. |
| [19:13.13] | As the youngest of six children, I learned to share my parents' love. |
| [19:18.82] | Raising six children during the difficult times of the Great Depression took its toll on my parents' relationship |
| [19:26.65] | and resulted in their divorce when I was 18 years old. |
| [19:31.03] | Daddy never had very close relationships with his children and drifted even farther away from us after the divorce. |
| [19:39.78] | Several years later, a wonderful woman came into his life and they were married. |
| [19:46.73] | She had two sons, one of them still at home. |
| [19:51.14] | Under her influence, we became a blended family and a good relationship developed between the two families. |
| [19:59.83] | She always treated us as if we were her own children. |
| [20:04.33] | It was because of our other mother, Daddy' s second wife, that he became closer to his own children. |
| [20:12.28] | They shared over 25 years together before our father passed away. |
| [20:18.04] | At the time of his death, the question came up of my mother, Daddy' s first wife, attending his funeral. |
| [20:26.07] | I will never forget the unconditional love shown by my step mother. |
| [20:31.28] | When I asked her if she would object to mother attending Daddy' s funeral, |
| [20:36.23] | without giving it a second thought, she immediately replied." Of course not, honey. She is the mother of my children." |
| [20:46.51] | Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [20:53.95] | Q29. According to the speaker, what contributed to her parents' divorce? |
| [21:18.83] | Q30. What brought the father closer to his own children? |
| [21:41.88] | Q31. What message does the speaker want to convey in this talk? |
| [22:04.88] | Passage 3 |
| [22:07.75] | In February last year, my wife lost her job. |
| [22:12.56] | Just as suddenly, the owner of the Green House where I worked as manager died of a heart attack. |
| [22:20.16] | His family announced that they were going to close the business because no one in the family wanted to run it. |
| [22:27.16] | Things looked pretty gloomy. My wife and I read the want ads each day. |
| [22:34.58] | Then one morning, as I was hanging a " going out of business" sign at the green house, the door opened and in walked a customer. |
| [22:45.35] | She was an office manager whose company had just moved into the new office park on the edge of the town. |
| [22:52.92] | She was looking for potted plants to place in the reception areas in offices. |
| [22:58.83] | " I don' t know anything about plants", she said, " I am sure in a few weeks, they' ll all be dead." |
| [23:06.61] | While I was helping her select her purchases, my mind was racing. |
| [23:13.03] | Perhaps as many as a dozen firms that recently opened offices in the new office park |
| [23:19.66] | and there were several hundred more acres with construction under way. |
| [23:25.53] | That afternoon, I drove up to the office park. |
| [23:30.68] | By 6 o' clock that evening, I had signed contacts with 7 companies to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to maintain them. |
| [23:42.25] | Within a week, I had worked down to an agreement to lease the Green House from the owner' s family. |
| [23:50.15] | Business is now increasing rapidly. And one day we hope to be the proud owners of the Green House. |
| [24:00.21] | Question 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [24:07.28] | Q32. What do we learn about the green house? |
| [24:28.22] | Q33. What was the speaker doing when the customer walked in one morning? |
| [24:50.60] | Q34. What did the speaker think of when serving the office manager? |
| [25:12.77] | Q35. When was the speaker' s hope for the future? |
| [25:33.98] | Section C |
| [26:31.16] | We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. |
| [26:38.38] | Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. |
| [26:47.09] | Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. |
| [26:52.99] | Tomorrow' s wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. |
| [26:58.87] | And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. |
| [27:05.55] | Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. |
| [27:11.62] | Knowledge workers engage in mind work. |
| [27:16.13] | They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? |
| [27:26.61] | As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. |
| [27:36.72] | Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. |
| [27:44.40] | And that number will increase sharply in the future. |
| [27:49.09] | Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, |
| [27:56.59] | quality control, and customer satisfaction. |
| [28:01.43] | In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that |
| [28:09.57] | will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. |
| [28:14.93] | You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. |
| [28:21.04] | Gone are the ninetofive jobs, lifetime security, predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. |
| [28:32.66] | Don' t expect the companies to provide you with a clearlydefined career path and don' t wait for someone to empower you. |
| [28:43.58] | You have to empower yourself. |
| [28:51.76] | Read again |
| [28:53.83] | We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. |
| [29:01.46] | Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. |
| [29:08.71] | Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. |
| [29:14.94] | Tomorrow' s wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. |
| [29:20.43] | And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. |
| [29:27.17] | Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. |
| [29:32.97] | Knowledge workers engage in mind work. |
| [29:36.95] | They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? |
| [29:45.20] | As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. |
| [29:53.89] | Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. |
| [30:00.05] | And that number will increase sharply in the future. |
| [30:03.90] | Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, |
| [30:11.33] | quality control, and customer satisfaction. |
| [31:28.70] | In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that |
| [31:36.13] | will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. |
| [32:41.71] | You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. |
| [32:46.31] | Gone are the ninetofive jobs, lifetime security, predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. |
| [32:57.42] | Don' t expect the companies to provide you with a clearlydefined career path |
| [33:58.65] | and don' t wait for someone to empower you. |
| [34:02.04] | You have to empower yourself. |
| [34:07.88] | Read third time |
| [34:10.90] | We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. |
| [34:18.02] | Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. |
| [34:27.11] | Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. |
| [34:33.34] | Tomorrow' s wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. |
| [34:39.39] | And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. |
| [34:45.73] | Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. |
| [34:52.30] | Knowledge workers engage in mind work. |
| [34:57.10] | They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? |
| [35:06.93] | As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. |
| [35:16.89] | Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. |
| [35:24.57] | And that number will increase sharply in the future. |
| [35:28.64] | Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, |
| [35:36.97] | quality control, and customer satisfaction. |
| [35:41.31] | In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that |
| [35:49.79] | will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. |
| [35:54.43] | You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. |
| [36:00.63] | Gone are the ninetofive jobs, lifetime security, predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. |
| [36:12.35] | Don' t expect the companies to provide you with a clearlydefined career path and don' t wait for someone to empower you. |
| [36:23.31] | You have to empower yourself. |
| ti: | |
| ar: | |
| al: | |
| [00:00.00] | shì yīn shí jiān jí tí shì |
| [02:40.14] | Section A |
| [03:32.78] | Q11. |
| [03:36.17] | M: Today is a bad day for me. I fell off a step and twisted my ankle. |
| [03:42.62] | W: Don' t worry, usually ankle injuries heal quickly if you stop regular activities for a while. |
| [03:50.64] | Q: What does the woman suggest the man do? |
| [04:11.25] | Q12. |
| [04:13.33] | W: May I see you ticket, please? I think you' re sitting in my seat. |
| [04:18.36] | M: Oh, you' re right. My seat is in the balcony. I' m terribly sorry. |
| [04:24.50] | Q: Where does conversation most probably take place? |
| [04:46.78] | Q13. |
| [04:48.65] | W: Do you hear Mr. Smith die in his sleep last night? |
| [04:53.15] | M: Yes, it' s very sad. Please let everybody know that whoever wants to may attend the funeral. |
| [05:01.49] | Q: What are the speakers talking about? |
| [05:21.49] | Q14. |
| [05:23.32] | M: Have you taken Professor Yang' s exam before? I' m kind of nervous. |
| [05:29.49] | W: Yes. Just concentrate on the important ideas she' s talked about in the class and ignore the details. |
| [05:37.96] | Q: How does the women suggest the man prepare for Professor Yang' s exam? |
| [06:01.09] | Q15. |
| [06:03.21] | W: I' m so sorry sir, and you' ll let me pay to have your jacket cleaned, won' t you? |
| [06:09.10] | M: That' s all right. It could happen to anyone. And I' m sure that coffee doesn' t leave lasting marks on clothing. |
| [06:17.28] | Q: What can we infer from the conversation? |
| [06:38.28] | Q16. |
| [06:40.40] | W: Have you seen the movie The Departed? The plot was so complicated that I really got lost. |
| [06:47.72] | M: Yeah, I felt the same, but after I saw it a second time, I could put all the pieces together. |
| [06:54.81] | Q: How did the two speakers find the movie? |
| [07:15.78] | Q17. |
| [07:17.44] | M: I' m really surprised you got an A on the test you didn' t seem to have done a lot of reading. |
| [07:24.41] | W: Now you know why I never missed the lecture. |
| [07:27.76] | Q: What contributes to the woman' s high score? |
| [07:49.07] | Q18. |
| [07:50.42] | W: Have you heard about the new digital television system? It lets people get about 500 channels. |
| [07:58.76] | M: Yeah. But I doubt they' ll have anything different from what we watch now. |
| [08:03.16] | Q: What does the man mean? |
| [08:27.07] | Conversation One: |
| [08:29.12] | W: Gosh! Have you seen this, Richard? |
| [08:32.49] | M: See what? |
| [08:33.73] | W: In the paper. It says, there is a man going around pretending he' s from the electricity board. |
| [08:41.36] | He' s been calling at people' s homes, saying he is coming to check that all their appliances are safe. |
| [08:49.37] | Then he gets around them to make him a cup of tea, and while they are out of the room he steals their money, |
| [08:56.84] | handbag whatever and makes off with it. |
| [09:00.74] | M: But you know, Jane, it' s partly their own fault you should never let anyone like that in unless you' re expecting them. |
| [09:08.45] | W: It' s all very well to say that. |
| [09:11.04] | But someone comes to the door, and says electricity or gas and you automatically think they are OK, |
| [09:18.07] | especially if they flash a card to you |
| [09:21.02] | M: Does this man have an ID then? |
| [09:23.62] | W: Yes, that' s just it. |
| [09:25.34] | It seems he used to work for the electricity board at one time according to the paper |
| [09:31.71] | the police are warning people especially pensioners not to admit anyone unless they have an appointment. |
| [09:40.10] | It' s a bit sad. One old lady told them she' d just been to the postoffice to draw her pension when he called. |
| [09:48.45] | She said he must have followed her home. He stole the whole lot. |
| [09:53.15] | M: But what does he look like? Surely they must have a description. |
| [09:57.57] | W: Oh, yes they have. Let' s see, in his thirties, tall, bushy dark hair, slight northern accent, sounds a bit like you actually. |
| [10:10.19] | Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [10:18.60] | Q19. What does the woman want the man to read in the newspaper? |
| [10:42.93] | Q20. How did the man mention in the newspaper try to win further trust from the victims? |
| [11:07.78] | Q21. What is the warning from the police? |
| [11:29.02] | Q22. What does the woman speaker tell us about the old lady? |
| [11:51.81] | Conversation Two: |
| [11:54.73] | M: Miss Jones, could you tell me more about your first job with hotel marketing concept? |
| [12:02.54] | W: Yes, certainly. I was a marketing consultant responsible for marketing 10 UK hotels. |
| [12:11.10] | They were all luxury hotels in a leisure sector all of a very high standard. |
| [12:18.13] | M: Which markets were you responsible for? |
| [12:21.38] | W: For Europe and Japan. |
| [12:23.17] | M: I see from your resume that you speak Japanese. Have you ever been to Japan? |
| [12:29.74] | W: Yes, I have, I spent months in Japan 2006. |
| [12:34.84] | I met all the key people in the tourist industry, the big tour operators and the tourist organizations. |
| [12:41.63] | As I speak Japanese I had a very big advantage. |
| [12:45.62] | M: Yes, of course. Have you had any contact with Japan in your present job? |
| [12:51.55] | W: Yes, I' ve had a lot. Cruises have become very popular with the Japanese both for holidays and for business conferences. |
| [13:01.73] | In fact, the market for all types of luxury holidays for the Japanese has increased a lot recently. |
| [13:09.01] | M: Really, I' m interested to hear more about that, but first tell me have you ever traveled on the luxury train, |
| [13:16.57] | the Orient Express, for example? |
| [13:19.88] | W: No, I haven' t. But I' ve traveled on the Glacial Express through Switzerland and I traveled across China by train about 8 years ago. |
| [13:30.15] | I love train travel. That' s why I' m very interested in this job. |
| [13:37.12] | Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [13:45.98] | Q23. What did the woman do in her first job? |
| [14:06.32] | Q24. What give the woman an advantage during her business trip in Japan? |
| [14:30.07] | Q25. Why is the woman applying for the new job? |
| [14:51.73] | Section B |
| [15:30.31] | Passage 1 |
| [15:32.44] | Time. I think a lot about time and not just because it' s the name of the news organization I work for. |
| [15:43.12] | Like most working people, I find time, or the lack of it, and neverending frustration and an unwinnable battle. |
| [15:52.86] | My every day is a race against the clock that I never ever seem to win. |
| [15:59.26] | This is hardly a lonesome complaint. According to the families and work institutes, national study of the changing workforce, |
| [16:10.45] | 55 percent of employees say they don' t have enough time for themselves, |
| [16:16.35] | 63 percent don' t have enough time for their spouses or partners, and 67 percent don' t have enough time for their children. |
| [16:27.39] | It' s also not a new complaint. |
| [16:31.04] | I bet our ancestors returned home from hunting wild animals and gathering nuts |
| [16:37.58] | and complained about how little time they had to paint battle scenes on their cave walls. |
| [16:43.62] | The difference is that the boss of animal hunting and the head of nut gathering probably told them to shut up or no survival for you. |
| [16:54.89] | Today' s workers are still demanding control over their time. |
| [16:59.83] | The difference is today' s bosses are listening. |
| [17:04.49] | I' ve been reading a report issued today called " when work works" produced jointly by three organizations. |
| [17:14.66] | They set up to find and warn the employers who employ the most creative and most effective ways to give their workers flexibility. |
| [17:25.97] | I found this report worth reading and suggest every boss should read it for ideas. |
| [17:33.85] | Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [17:42.20] | Q26. What is the speaker complaining about? |
| [18:04.49] | Q27. What does the speaker say about our ancestors? |
| [18:26.61] | Q28. Why does the speaker suggest all bosses read the report by the three organizations? |
| [18:52.03] | Passage 2 |
| [18:53.89] | Loving a child is a circular business. |
| [18:58.01] | The more you give, the more you get, the more you want to give, said. |
| [19:05.03] | What she said proves to be true of my blended family. I was born in 1931. |
| [19:13.13] | As the youngest of six children, I learned to share my parents' love. |
| [19:18.82] | Raising six children during the difficult times of the Great Depression took its toll on my parents' relationship |
| [19:26.65] | and resulted in their divorce when I was 18 years old. |
| [19:31.03] | Daddy never had very close relationships with his children and drifted even farther away from us after the divorce. |
| [19:39.78] | Several years later, a wonderful woman came into his life and they were married. |
| [19:46.73] | She had two sons, one of them still at home. |
| [19:51.14] | Under her influence, we became a blended family and a good relationship developed between the two families. |
| [19:59.83] | She always treated us as if we were her own children. |
| [20:04.33] | It was because of our other mother, Daddy' s second wife, that he became closer to his own children. |
| [20:12.28] | They shared over 25 years together before our father passed away. |
| [20:18.04] | At the time of his death, the question came up of my mother, Daddy' s first wife, attending his funeral. |
| [20:26.07] | I will never forget the unconditional love shown by my step mother. |
| [20:31.28] | When I asked her if she would object to mother attending Daddy' s funeral, |
| [20:36.23] | without giving it a second thought, she immediately replied." Of course not, honey. She is the mother of my children." |
| [20:46.51] | Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [20:53.95] | Q29. According to the speaker, what contributed to her parents' divorce? |
| [21:18.83] | Q30. What brought the father closer to his own children? |
| [21:41.88] | Q31. What message does the speaker want to convey in this talk? |
| [22:04.88] | Passage 3 |
| [22:07.75] | In February last year, my wife lost her job. |
| [22:12.56] | Just as suddenly, the owner of the Green House where I worked as manager died of a heart attack. |
| [22:20.16] | His family announced that they were going to close the business because no one in the family wanted to run it. |
| [22:27.16] | Things looked pretty gloomy. My wife and I read the want ads each day. |
| [22:34.58] | Then one morning, as I was hanging a " going out of business" sign at the green house, the door opened and in walked a customer. |
| [22:45.35] | She was an office manager whose company had just moved into the new office park on the edge of the town. |
| [22:52.92] | She was looking for potted plants to place in the reception areas in offices. |
| [22:58.83] | " I don' t know anything about plants", she said, " I am sure in a few weeks, they' ll all be dead." |
| [23:06.61] | While I was helping her select her purchases, my mind was racing. |
| [23:13.03] | Perhaps as many as a dozen firms that recently opened offices in the new office park |
| [23:19.66] | and there were several hundred more acres with construction under way. |
| [23:25.53] | That afternoon, I drove up to the office park. |
| [23:30.68] | By 6 o' clock that evening, I had signed contacts with 7 companies to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to maintain them. |
| [23:42.25] | Within a week, I had worked down to an agreement to lease the Green House from the owner' s family. |
| [23:50.15] | Business is now increasing rapidly. And one day we hope to be the proud owners of the Green House. |
| [24:00.21] | Question 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. |
| [24:07.28] | Q32. What do we learn about the green house? |
| [24:28.22] | Q33. What was the speaker doing when the customer walked in one morning? |
| [24:50.60] | Q34. What did the speaker think of when serving the office manager? |
| [25:12.77] | Q35. When was the speaker' s hope for the future? |
| [25:33.98] | Section C |
| [26:31.16] | We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. |
| [26:38.38] | Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. |
| [26:47.09] | Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. |
| [26:52.99] | Tomorrow' s wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. |
| [26:58.87] | And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. |
| [27:05.55] | Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. |
| [27:11.62] | Knowledge workers engage in mind work. |
| [27:16.13] | They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? |
| [27:26.61] | As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. |
| [27:36.72] | Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. |
| [27:44.40] | And that number will increase sharply in the future. |
| [27:49.09] | Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, |
| [27:56.59] | quality control, and customer satisfaction. |
| [28:01.43] | In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that |
| [28:09.57] | will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. |
| [28:14.93] | You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. |
| [28:21.04] | Gone are the ninetofive jobs, lifetime security, predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. |
| [28:32.66] | Don' t expect the companies to provide you with a clearlydefined career path and don' t wait for someone to empower you. |
| [28:43.58] | You have to empower yourself. |
| [28:51.76] | Read again |
| [28:53.83] | We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. |
| [29:01.46] | Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. |
| [29:08.71] | Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. |
| [29:14.94] | Tomorrow' s wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. |
| [29:20.43] | And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. |
| [29:27.17] | Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. |
| [29:32.97] | Knowledge workers engage in mind work. |
| [29:36.95] | They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? |
| [29:45.20] | As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. |
| [29:53.89] | Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. |
| [30:00.05] | And that number will increase sharply in the future. |
| [30:03.90] | Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, |
| [30:11.33] | quality control, and customer satisfaction. |
| [31:28.70] | In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that |
| [31:36.13] | will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. |
| [32:41.71] | You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. |
| [32:46.31] | Gone are the ninetofive jobs, lifetime security, predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. |
| [32:57.42] | Don' t expect the companies to provide you with a clearlydefined career path |
| [33:58.65] | and don' t wait for someone to empower you. |
| [34:02.04] | You have to empower yourself. |
| [34:07.88] | Read third time |
| [34:10.90] | We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. |
| [34:18.02] | Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. |
| [34:27.11] | Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. |
| [34:33.34] | Tomorrow' s wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. |
| [34:39.39] | And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. |
| [34:45.73] | Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. |
| [34:52.30] | Knowledge workers engage in mind work. |
| [34:57.10] | They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? |
| [35:06.93] | As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. |
| [35:16.89] | Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. |
| [35:24.57] | And that number will increase sharply in the future. |
| [35:28.64] | Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, |
| [35:36.97] | quality control, and customer satisfaction. |
| [35:41.31] | In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that |
| [35:49.79] | will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. |
| [35:54.43] | You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. |
| [36:00.63] | Gone are the ninetofive jobs, lifetime security, predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. |
| [36:12.35] | Don' t expect the companies to provide you with a clearlydefined career path and don' t wait for someone to empower you. |
| [36:23.31] | You have to empower yourself. |
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