Band 3Listening ComprehensionSection A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will beasked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will bespoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A., B., C., and D. and decide which isthe best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet witha single line through the center.Short Conversations:Question 1W: Did you remember to get the bread at the baker's shop?M: I’m afraid not. I don’t remember you telling me to get it.(Q): What did the husband forget?Question 2M: You’d better take the dustbin out front because the truck usually gets here at noon on Tuesday, which is tomorrow.W: You bet. But I won’t be able to do it since every morning I get up late and rush off to work late.(Q): Which one of the following statements is NOT true?Question 3W: Has anyone told you about Jessica’s party coming up?M: Yeah, it sounds like it’s going to be a blast and I’m looking forward to it.(Q): What does the man imply?Question 4M: I don’t have an appetite. Can I have some painkillers? My body aches so much. Every muscle hurts!W: That’s just a symptom of the fever. Once your fever goes down your body will stop aching. You have a doctor’s appointment at 3:15 this afternoon, so just hang in there until then.(Q): What can we learn about the man?Question 5W: Hello! Can I interest anyone in dessert?M: Can we see the dessert menu?(Q): What is the relationship between the man and woman?Question 6M: I just found out that the manager is letting Neal take Friday off. I asked him two days ago for Friday off and he turned me down!W: Neal’s wife is pregnant, so maybe he needs time off to go with her to a doctor’s visit, or something.(Q): What can we learn from the conversation?Question 7M: Thanks so much for agreeing to show me the place. The rent is really reasonable. I’m sure you must have a million people calling to have a look.W: Well, not so many students want to live this far away from campus.(Q): What can we learn from the conversation?Question 8W: What are you wearing to the party? Let’s look through your closet and I’ll help youLong conversations:Conversation 1W: Hi David. How did your English final exam go today?M: I think it went well, mom. The test wasn’t as difficult as I had thought it would be. Some of the exam questions were multiple choice.W: You felt like you prepared well for it?M: Yes, I felt confident with the grammar and vocabulary but I’m not sure how I did on the writing and listening comprehension. Those are the hardest sections to study for. W: Well, it’s over now.M: I’m relieved about that. It was 3 hours long.W: When will you get the test scores back?M: I guess I won’t know how well I did until I get my report card. Now I just have two more exams left, and I have to finish that history paper, and then I’m done with all of my work for the semester.W: Wow, you’ve almost finished your junior year! Do you know what you want to do this summer?M: I haven’t really thought about it.W: I talked to Carl’s mom and Carl is going to a basketball camp at the University of Pennsylvania. I was wondering if you wanted to go.M: Really, you would send me there? Those programs are expensive.W: You and Carl could go together and you could stay in the dormitories at the university. It might be a nice break for you.M: Wow, that sounds too good to be true.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Question 9: What do we know about the boy?Question10: What is the boy most likely to do now?Question 11: What do we know about the camp?Conversation 2W: Hello.M: Hey Lucy, it’s Jeff.W: Hey, welcome back. How was your vacation?M: Oh, it was great. The seven days in New York was a blast!W: Oh, yeah? Did you do any sightseeing or just visit with friends?M: I got to do both, actually. First, I saw my friend Edmundo who just moved there. He hadn’t seen much of the city himself so we went to all the tourist spots. We got a guidebook and went to the major museums, saw a play, went to a concert in Central Park, and took the Staten Island Ferry. We did all of that in a day and a half. It was a whirlwind, but we got to see a lot.W: A day and a half?! You guys must have been exhausted.M: Yeah, we were. But, the rest of my trip was pretty low key. We rented a car and took a road trip to Upstate New York to visit some other friends of ours.W: Did you have to stay over in a hotel along the way, or did you drive straight through? M: We didn’t bother with booking hotel rooms so we just drove straight there. It wasn’t that far.W: How long did you stay there?M: We were only there two days and we drove back and got back last night. My flight was this morning at 8 a.m. The worst part of the whole trip was that my flight was canceled. I was rebooked onto another flight that had a three-hour layover in Chicago. That was a major pain.W: It sounds like it. Well, I’m glad you made it back okay. And, you even have the weekend to rest up before work on Monday.M: Yeah, I’ll need it. I’ve got to catch up on my sleep!Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Question 12: How does the man like his vacation in New York?Question13: What do we know about his stay in New York City?Question14: What do we know about his trip to Upstate New York?Question 15: What do we know about his flight back home?Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A., B., C. and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneFall is once again upon us, and that means that homecoming celebrations are just around the corner. Homecoming is an American tradition each September and October for high schools and colleges where they celebrate their school spirit with a football game and other celebrations.I remember the homecoming events when I was in school. First, there was the election of a homecoming king and queen. Each class had its own representative, usually one boy who is the most popular jock and one girl who is the cutest cheerleader. Needless to say, I was neither, so I never stood a chance of being elected! The king and queen,though, were always from the senior class.All the events led up to the big game, played on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon, always a home game for the school celebrating their homecoming. In my school, we had a pep rally the day before the game, where the cheerleaders and dance team would do their thing on the stage. We also had a small parade before the game, where all the homecoming royalty and the marching band would go around the track of the stadium where the game was held, cheered on by alumni, parents, and students. Then we would watch the football game.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.Question 16: What is “homecoming”?Question 17: What do we know about homecoming king and queen?Question 18: What are the activities held before the football game?Passage TwoHow could you survive without the media, the Internet and a mobile phone for 24 hours? For some media students at Bournemouth University, it’s been something akin to torture. They have been taking part in a global experiment called Unplugged.It is designed to examine the intimate relationship young people now have with the media and work out what happens when television, radio, the web, and mobile phones are taken away.Earlier this week I came to Bournemouth to film three of the many students in this project. Caroline Scott, Charlotte Gay and Elliott Day have all just started on a degree in multimedia journalism, so normally they would be reading papers, watching television, blogging, texting, Facebooking and tweeting, and generally engaging in the multimedia life of the modern student.But when I arrived, they had switched off their phones and computers and were wandering around the campus without so much as an MP3 player to entertain them.As we filmed it struck me just how dependent this generation is on modern media technology. When they wake, their first move is to the laptop or phone to check out Facebook. In the student union bar, big screens show live sport, while half the crowd seems more focused on their phones than their friends. Even in the library, it is computer screens rather than books that seem to command students’ attention.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.Question 19: What is “Unplugged”?Question 20: What is “Unplugged” designed for?Question21:What is NOT mentioned about the multimedia life of modern students?Passage ThreeWhen you turn on the radio, you hear an advertisement. When you watch television, you hear and see an advertisement. If you turn the pages of a newspaper or magazine, again you find an advertisement. If you walk down the street, you see one advertising board after another. All day, every day, people who want to sell you something compete to catch your attention. As a result, advertisements are almost everywhere. In the West, advertisements are the fuel that makes mass media work. The government does not givemoney to mass media such as TV stations, newspapers, magazines and radio stations. They are all owned privately.So where does the money come from?From advertisements. Without advertisements, there would not be these private businesses.Have you ever asked yourself what advertising is? Through the years, people have given different answers to the question. For some time it was felt that advertising was a means of“keeping your name before the public.” And some people thought that advertising was “truth well told.” Now more and more people describe it in this way：Advertising is the paid,non-personal,and usually persuasive description of goods, services and ideas through various media.All advertisements try to make people believe that the product, idea, or service advertised can do well to them. Advertisements exist everywhere in our lives. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.Question 22: What is the passage mainly about?Question 23: Why do people compete to catch your attention?Question 24: Where does the privately owned mass media get its money? Question 25: According to the passage, which of the following is the feature of advertisements?That’s the end of listening comprehension.。
