英语听力原文

2010年6月
Passage1 原文
As the new sales director for a national computer firm, Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company's district managers. Every one arrived on time and Alex's presentation went extremely well. He decided to end the meeting with a conversation about the importance of the district managers to the company's plans. “I believe we're going to continue to increase our share of the market”, he began, “Because of the quality of the people in this room. The district manager is the key to the success of the sales representatives in his district. He sets the tone for everyone else. If he has ambitious goals and is willing to put in long hours, everyone in his unit will follow his example.” When Alex was finished, he received polite applause but hardly the warm response he had hoped for. Later, he spoke with one of the senior managers. “Things were going so well until the end”, Alex said disappointedly, “Obviously I said the wrong thing.” “Yes”, the district manager replied, “ Half of our managers are women. Most have worked the way up from sales representatives and they are very proud of the role they've played in the company's growth. They don't care at all about the political correctness but they are definitely surprised and distressed to be referred to as ”he“ in your speech.”
作为国家电脑公司一个新的销售总监，阿莱士.戈登期待着与公司地方经理们的第一次会见。每个人都准时到场，阿莱士的演讲也做得好极了。他决定在会议的最后进行一个关于地方经理对公司计划重要性的交流。“我相信，我们会延续市场份额增长的势头，”他开始说，“多亏了每个在场的人。地方经理是地方销售代表们成功的关键。他为其他每个人定下了基调。如果他有不凡的抱负，愿意花时间，那他单位里的每个人都会以他为榜样。”讲话结束时，出乎阿莱士的意料，他收到了出于礼貌但并不热烈的掌声。片刻后，他找到一个高管人员。“会议进行得真不错，只是结尾不好。”他失望地说，“很明显，我说错话了。”“是的，”那个高管说，“我们地方经理一半以上是女性，大多都是从销售代表做上来的，她们也都为自己对公司的贡献而自豪。她们并不在乎言语原则上的正确性，但听到您用‘他’来称呼她们，她们肯定会感到惊讶和不快。”


Passage2
The way to complain is to act business-like and important. If your complaint is immediate, suppose you got the wrong order at a restaurant, make a polite but firm request to see the manager. When the manager comes, ask his or her name and then state your problem, and what you expect to have done about it. Be polite. Shouting or acting rude will get you nowhere. But also be firm in making your complaint. Besides, act important. This doesn't mean to put on airs and sa

y, “Do you know who I am?” What it means is that people are often treated the way they expect to be treated. If you act like someone who expects a fair request be granted, chances are it will be granted. The worst way to complain is over the telephone. You are speaking to a voice coming from someone you can not see, so you can't tell how the person on the line is reacting. It is easy for that person to give you a run-around. Complaining in person or by letter is generally more effective. If your complaint does not require an immediate response, it often helps to complain by letter. If you have an appliance that doesn't work, send a letter to the store that sold it. Be business-like and stick to the point. Don't spend a paragraph on how your Uncle Joe tried to fix the problem and couldn't.
投诉的最佳方式是做得正式、有权威。如果你的投诉发生在当下，比如你在餐馆的点菜被弄错了，你就提出一个礼貌但坚决的要求，去见经理。经理过来时，询问他或她的名字，然后陈述你的遭遇，以及你想要餐馆怎么赔偿你。礼貌些。叫嚷或者动粗不会给你带来好结果。但是投诉一定要坚决。另外，要显出你的权威性（让人感觉到或显示出高位或权威的意思；具有一种权威之神态。译者注）。但并不代表装腔作势地说：“知道我是谁么？”权威性的意思是，人们希望别人怎么对待自己，就怎样对待别人。如果你表现出希望合理地要求得到实现的架势，要求就很可能实现。最差的抱怨是用电话。你对一个声音说话，但看不到人，于是你不知道对面是什么反应。那个人很可能搪塞你。当面或书信投诉总的说来更有效些。如果你的投诉并不急于得到回应，那书信会更好。如果你买了没用的设备，写信给卖家，信要正式、切题——不要罗嗦一段你叔叔怎么怎么修然后怎么怎么不好的话。

Passage3 原文：
Barbara Santos is a wife and the mother of 2 children, ages 2 and 4. Her husband, Tom, is an engineer and makes an excellent salary. Before Barbara had children, she worked as an architect for the government, designing government housing. She quit her job when she became pregnant, but is now interested in returning to work. She's been offered an excellent job with the government. Her husband feels it's unnecessary for her to work since the family does not need the added income. He also thinks that a woman should stay home with her children. If Barbara feels the need to do socially important work, he thinks that she should do volunteer work one or two days a week. Barbara, on the other hand, has missed the excitement of her profession, and does not feel she would be satisfied doing volunteer work. She would also like to have her own income, so she does not have to ask her husband for money whenever she wants to buy something. She does not think it's necessary to stay home every

day with the children, and she knows a very reliable babysitter who's willing to come to her house. Tom does not think a babysitter can replace a mother, and thinks it's a bad idea for the children to spend so much time with someone who's not part of the family.
芭芭拉.桑托斯是一个2岁和一个4岁孩子的母亲。丈夫汤姆是工资可观的工程师。在芭芭拉怀小孩之前，她给政府当建筑师，设计政府建筑。怀孕后，她辞职了，但现在又想恢复工作。为政府效劳的工作非常不错。她丈夫觉得，由于家里不需要额外的收入，她没必要工作。他还觉得女人就应该呆在家里陪孩子。他认为芭芭拉应该一周花一两天做志愿者工作，如果芭芭拉觉得有义务做社会劳动。而芭芭拉十分想念她工作带来的刺激，并且觉得做志愿者肯定不能让自己满意。她也希望能有自己的收入，当她想买东西的时候就不用和丈夫开口要钱了。她认为在家陪孩子没有必要，而且她认识一个愿意来家里工作的可靠的保姆。汤姆不认为保姆能代替妈妈，并且认为让孩子花这么长时间和一个外人混在一起是一个坏主意。

2010年12月

Passage One

One of the greatest heartbreaks for fire fighters occurs when they fail to rescue a child from a burning building because the child, frightened by smoke and noise, hides under a bed or in a closet and is later found dead. Saddest of all is when children catch a glimpse of the masked fire fighter but hide because they think they have seen a monster. To prevent such tragedies, fire fighter Eric Velez gives talks to children in his community, explaining that they should never hide during a fire. He displays fire fighters’ equipment, including the oxygen mask, which he encourages his listeners to play with and put on. “If you see us,” Velez tells them, “don’t hide! We are not monsters. We have come to rescue you.” Velez gives his presentations in English and Spanish. Growing up in San Francisco, he learnt Spanish from his immigrant parents. Velez and other fire fighters throughout North America, who give similar presentations, will never know how many lives they save through their talks. But it’s a fact that informative speaking saves lives. For example, several months after listening to an informative speech, Pete Gentry in North Carolina rescued his brother who is choking on food, by using the method taught by student speaker, Julie Paris. In addition to saving lives, informative speakers help people learn new skills, solve problems and acquire fascinating facts about the exciting world in which they live.


Passage Two
Some people want to make and save a lot of money in order to retire early. I see people pursuing higher paying and increasingly demanding careers to accomplish this goal. They make many personal sacrifices in exchange for income today. The problem is that tomorrow might

not come. Even if it all goes according to plan, will you know how to be happy when you are not working if you spend your entire life making money? More importantly, who will be around for you to share your leisure time with? At the other extreme are people who live only for today. Why bother saving when I might not be here tomorrow, they argue. The danger of this approach is that tomorrow may come after all. And most people don't want to spend all their tomorrows working for a living. The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older. You maybe surprise to hear me say that if you must pick an extreme I think it's better to pick the spend-all approach. As long as you don't mind continuing to work, assuming your health allows, you should be OK. At least, you are making use of your money, and hopefully deriving value and pleasure from it. Postponing doing what you love and being with people you love until retirement can be a mistake. It may never come. Retirement can be a great time for some people. For others, it is a time of boredom, loneliness and poor health.


Passage Three
Imagine that someone in your neighborhood broke the law, and the judge put the whole neighborhood under suspicion. How fair will that be? Well, it happens everyday to high schoolers. Just because some students have stolen things in shops, all of us are treated like thieves. Even though I’d never steal.Store employees looked at me like I’m some kind of hardened criminal. For example, during one lunch period, my friend Denny and I went to the Graben Gore Restaurant to have a hot dog. We arrived to find a line of students waiting outside. A new sign in the window told the story. “No more than two students at a time”. After 15 minutes, we finally got in. But the store manger laid the evil eye on us. I asked him about the new sign, and he said, “You kids are stealing too much stuff.” You kids? Too much stuff? We were not only assumed to be thieves, but brilliant, greedy thieves. The most annoying thing though, is the way employees watched my friends and me. It’s horrible.Once, at a drug store, I was looking around and found a guy standing on a large box, stocking the shelves. He was watching my hands, more than he was watching his own. I showed him that my hands were empty. He got down off his box and rushed off, as if he was going to get the store manger. How crazy is that!




2011年6月


Section B


Passage One


There are many commonly held beliefs about eye glasses and eyesight that are not proven facts. For instance, some people believe that wearing glasses too soon weakens the eyes. But there is no evidence to show that the structure of eyes is changed by wearing glasses at a young age. Wearing the wrong glasses, however, can prove harmful. Studies show that for adults there is no danger, but children can develop loss of vision if they have glasses inappropriate for their eyes. We

have all heard some of the common myths about how eyesight gets bad. Most people believe that reading in dim light causes poor eyesight, but that is untrue. Too little light makes the eyes work harder, so they do get tired and strained. Eyestrain also results from reading a lot, reading in bed, and watching too much television. However, although eyestrain may cause some pain or headaches, it does not permanently damage eyesight. Another myth about eyes is that they can be replaced, or transferred from one person to another. There are close to one million nerve fibres that connect the eyeball to the brain, as of yet it is impossible to attach them all in a new person. Only certain parts of the eye can be replaced. But if we keep clearing up the myths and learning more about the eyes, some day a full transplant may be possible.




Passage Two

听力原文 When people care for an elderly relative, they often do not use available community services such as adult daycare centers. If the caregivers are adult children, they are more likely to use such services, especially because they often have jobs and other responsibilities. In contrast, a spouse usually the wife, is much less likely to use support services or to put the dependent person in a nursing home. Social workers discover that the wife normally tries to take care of her husband herself for as long as she can in order not to use up their life savings. Researchers have found that caring for the elderly can be a very positive experience. The elderly appreciated the care and attention they received. They were affectionate and cooperative. However, even when caregiving

is satisfying, it is hard work. Social workers and experts on aging offer caregivers and potential caregivers help when arranging for the care of an elderly relative. One consideration is to ask parents what they want before they become sick or dependent. Perhaps they prefer going into a nursing home and can select one in advance. On the other hand, they may want to live with their adult children. Caregivers must also learn to state their needs and opinions clearly and ask for help from others especially brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters are often willing to help, but they may not know what to do .



Passage Three

听力原文 Since a union representative visited our company to inform us about our rights and protections. My coworkers have been worrying about health conditions and complaining about safety hazards in the workplace. Several of the employees in the computer department, for example, claim to be developing vision problems from having to stare at a video display terminal for about 7 hours a day. The supervisor of the laboratory is beginning to get headaches and dizzy spells because she says it’s dangerous to breathe some of the chemical smoke there. An X-rays technician is refusing to do her job until the firm agrees to replace its out-dated equipment. She insists that it’s exposing wor

kers to unnecessarily high doses of radiation. She thinks that she may have to contact the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and asked that government agency to inspect the department. I’ve heard that at a factory in the area two pregnant women who were working with paint requested a transfer to a safer department, because they wanted to prevent damage to their unborn babies. The supervisor of personnel refused the request. In another firm the workers were constantly complaining about the malfunctioning heating system, but the owners was too busy or too mean to do anything about it. Finally, they all met an agree to wear ski-clothing to work the next day. The owner was too embarrassed to talk to his employees. But he had the heating system replaced right away.


2011年12月


Passage One

While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed. Were they tuned off because an American had the nerve to instruct Japanese in their own art form or they deliberately tried to signal their rejection of her? Obcamp later found out that her listeners were not being disrespectful. Japanese listeners sometimes closed their eyes to enhance concentration. Her listeners were showing their respect for her by chewing on her words. Some day you may be either a speaker or a listener in a situation involving people from other countries or members of minority group in North America. Learning how different cultures signal respect can help you avoid misunderstandings. Here are some examples. In the deaf culture of North America, many listeners show applause not by clapping their hands but by waving them in the air. In some cultures, both overseas and in some minority groups in North America, listeners are considered disrespectful if they look directly at the speaker. Respect is shown by looking in the general direction but avoiding direct eye contact. In some countries, whistling by listeners is a sign of approval while in other courtiers it is a form of insult.
而盖尔Obcamp,一位美国艺术家发表演讲时在日本的艺术毛笔画的听众包括游客来自日本,她困惑地看到,她的许多日本听众已经闭上眼睛。他们因为一个美国人调了神经指导日本在自己的艺术形式或他们故意试图表明自己拒绝她?Obcamp后来发现她的听众都不尊重。日本听众有时闭上眼睛来提高浓度。她的听众都显示他们的尊重她,咬她的话。有一天你可以是一个扬声器或一个侦听器,在这种情况下,包括来自其他国家的人或少数群体成员在北美。学习不同的文化信号方面可以帮助你避免误解。这里有一些例子。聋文化的北美,许多听众表现出不为他们鼓掌喝彩,而是在空中挥舞。在一些文化中,国内外一些少数民族在北美,听众被认为

是无礼的,如果他们直接看着演讲者。尊重是通过查找显示总的方向,但要避免直接接触眼睛。在一些国家,吹口哨,听众是一个信号,表明批准而在其他朝臣们这是一种侮辱。


Passage Two

Chris is in charge of purchasing and maintaining equipment in his Division at Taxlong Company. He is soon going to have an evaluation interview with his supervisor and the personnel director to discuss the work he has done in the past year. Salary, promotion and plans for the coming year will also be discussed at the meeting. Chris has made several changes for his Division in the past year. First, he bought new equipment for one of the departments. He has been particularly happy about the new equipment because many of the employees have told him how much it has helped them. Along with improving the equipment, Chris began a program to train employees to use equipment better and do simple maintenance themselves. The training saved time for the employees and money for the company. Unfortunately, one serious problem developed during the year. Two employees the Chris hired were stealing, and he had to fire them. Chris knows that a new job for a purchasing and maintenance manager for the whole company will be open in a few months, and he would like to be promoted to the job. Chris knows, however, that someone else wants that new job, too. Kim is in charge of purchasing and maintenance in another Division of the company. She has also made several changes over the year. Chris knows that his boss likes Kim’s work, and he expects that his work will be compared with hers.

克里斯负责购买和维护设备在他的部门Taxlong公司。他很快将会评估采访他的主管和人事主管讨论他所做的工作在过去的一年。工资、晋升和计划未来一年还将在会上讨论。克里斯已经作出了一些改变对他的部门在过去的一年。首先,他买了新设备的部门之一。他特别高兴新设备,因为许多员工已经告诉他多大的帮助他们。随着改善设备,克里斯开始一个项目,培训员工使用设备更好的和简单的维护自己。培训为员工节省时间和金钱为公司。不幸的是,一个严重的问题在这一年里开发。两个员工雇佣的克里斯是偷窃,他不得不解雇他们。克里斯知道新工作对于一个采购和维修经理对整个公司将开放在几个月后,他想被提升到这份工作。克里斯知道,然而,别人想要的,新的工作,太。金负责采购和维护公司在另一个部门。她也做了一些改变过去一年。克里斯知道他的老板喜欢金的工作,他希望他的工作将与她相比。


Passage Three


Proverbs, sometimes called sayings, are examples of folk wisdom. They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life. Many proverbs remind people of the values that are important in the culture. Values teach peopl

e how to act, what is right, and what is wrong. Because the values of each culture are different, understanding the values of another culture helps explain how people think and act. Understanding your own culture values is
important too. If you can accept that people from other cultures act according to their values, not yours, getting along with them will be much easier. Many proverbs are very old. So some of the values they teach may not be as important in the culture as they once were. For example, Americans today do not pay much attention to the proverb “Haste makes waste”, because patience is not important to them. But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today. Benjamin Franklin, a famous American diplomat, writer and scientist, died in 1790, but his proverb “Time is money” is taken more seriously by Americans of today than ever before. A study of proverbs from around the world shows that some values are shared by many cultures. In many cases though, the same idea is expressed differently.


箴言,有时被称为语录,是民间智慧的例子。他们是小课,老年人的文化传下来的年轻人们教他们关于生活。许多谚语提醒人们的价值观,是重要的文化。价值观教育人们如何行为,什么是对,什么是错的。因为每个文化价值观的不同,了解另一种文化的价值观有助于解释人们如何思考和行动的。了解你自己的文化价值观

同样重要。如果你可以接受来自其他文化的人们按照他们的价值观,不是你的,跟他们相处会更加容易。许多谚语是非常古老的。所以他们教的某些值可能不是一样重要文化不如从前。例如,今天的美国人不重视这个谚语“欲速则不达”,因为耐心并不重要。但如果你知道过去的值,它有助于你理解现在和很多老的值仍然强劲的今天。本杰明·富兰克林,一位著名的美国外交官、作家和科学家,于1790年去世,但他的谚语“时间就是金钱”是美国人所重视的今天比以往任何时候。一项研究来自世界各地的谚语表明一些值是由许多文化共享。在许多情况下,相同的想法是不同的表达。

2012年6月


Passage 1
I first met Joe Ganz when we were both nine years old, which is probably the only reason he’ s one of my best friends. If I had first met Joe as a freshman in high school we wouldn’t even have had the chance to get to know each other. Joe is a day student, but I am a boarding student. We haven’t been in same classes, sports or extra-curricular activities. Nonetheless, I spend nearly every weekend at his house and we talk on the phone every night. This is not to say that we would not have been compatible if we had first met in our freshman year. Rather, we would not have been likely to spend enough time getting to know each other due to the lack of immediately visible mutual i

nterests. In fact, to be honest, I struggle even now to think of things we have in common. But maybe that’s what makes us enjoy each
other’s company so much. When I look at my friendship with Joe, I wonder how many people I’ve known whom I never disliked, but simply didn’t take the time to get to know. Thanks to Joe, I have realized how little basis there is for the social divisions that exist in every community. Since this realization, I have begun to make an even more determined effort to find friends in unexpected people and places。

我第一次见到乔甘兹当我们都是九岁,这可能是唯一的原因,他的我的一个最好的朋友。如果我第一次见乔作为一个新生在高中我们甚至不会有机会了解彼此。乔是一个天的学生,但我是一个寄宿学生。我们没有在同一个班级,运动或课外活动。尽管如此,几乎每个周末我花在他的房子和我们在电话中交谈每个晚上。这并不是说,我们不会一直兼容的如果我们第一次见面在我们的大一。相反,我们将不会很容易花足够的时间了解对方由于缺乏立即可见的共同利益。事实上,说实话,我现在想斗争甚至事情我们有共同之处。但也许这就是让我们享受每个

其他的公司那么多。当我看我的友谊与乔,我想知道有多少人我认识谁我从来没有不喜欢,只是没花时间去了解。由于乔,我已经意识到小基础为社会存在分歧,存在于每一个社区。因为这个实现,我已经开始做一个更加坚定努力找到朋友在意想不到的人和地方。

Passage 2
It was a bad night for Lewis. His research in the neighboring town has taken longer than he expected. It was late and he was very tired when he drove home. He turned into his building’s parking lot, but all the spaces were full. He drove back out onto the street, looking for a parking space. The first block was full. The next block was almost empty. Lewis didn’t see a “no parking” sign, but he has expected that his parking were allowed there. Most the spaces would be filled. Then he saw a small parking lot with two free spaces. He was so glad to see them that he didn’t even think to read the sign by the entrance. He drove in, parked and hurried home to go to bed. The next morning he went back to the lot to get his car. It was gone. He ran home and telephoned the city police to say that his car had been stolen. It took the police only a minute to tell him what had happened: his car had been on a private lot. It had been taken away by the police. Lewis had to take a taxi to visit the city garage far from the city center. He had to pay a fee of 40 dollars to get his car back. In addition, he got a parking ticket, his first one ever in Greenville。
这是一个糟糕的夜晚,刘易斯。他的研究在邻近的城镇已经比他预计的时间。很晚了,他很累当他开车回家。他变成了他的大楼的停车场,但是所有的

空间都满了。他开车回到大街上,找一个停车位。第一块是满的。下一个块几乎是空的。刘易斯没有看到一个“禁止停车”的牌子,但他预期,他被允许在停车。大部分的空间将被充满。然后他看见一个小停车场有两个免费的空间。他非常高兴看到他们,他甚至不认为阅读签署的入口。他开车,停,匆匆回家去睡觉。第二天早上,他回到了很多让他的车。它不见了。他跑回家,打电话给城市的警察说他的车被偷了。警察只用一分钟告诉他发生了什么事:他的车已经在一个私人很多。它已经被警方带走。刘易斯不得不乘出租车去访问城市车库远离市中心。他不得不支付费用为40美元,来让他的车回来。此外,他得到了一个停车罚单,他的第一个人在格林维尔。


Passage 3

Well, to pick up where we left off last time, I believe we agreed that creativity is a mysterious idea. It was those things we all recognize when we see it, but we don’ really understand what it is. t We seem to feel that some people are naturally creative, but we don’ know how they got that way. t Is creativity a natural gift like good looks, or is it something that can be acquired like knowledge? Perhaps if we analyze the creative process carefully, we might get some insight into what it is and how it might work in our lives. The creative process has always been accepted as the source of all important work in the arts, but we should not think the creativity plays a role only in the arts. Every major scientific discovery began with someone imagining the world to look differently from the way others saw it. And this is what creativity is all about -- imagining the world in a new way. And despite what you may believe about the limits of your own creative imaginations, we all have the potential to imagine the world in an absolutely new way. In fact, you are born with it. It is your birth right as a human being. And what’s more, you use it every day, almost every moment of your life. Your creative imagination is what you use to make sense of your experiences. It’s your creative mind that gets meaning from chaos of experiences and brings order to your world。
嗯,捡起上次我们说到,我相信我们一致认为,创造力是一个神秘的主意。这是这些东西我们都认识到当我们看到它,但我们不真正了解它是什么。t我们似乎觉得有些人天生具有创造力,但我们不知道他们如何得到这种方式。t是创造力自然礼物像美貌,还是那些可以获得像知识?也许如果我们仔细分析创意过程,我们可能会了解它是什么以及它如何工作在我们的生活中。创造的过程一直被接受作为一切艺术的重要工作,但我们不应该认为创造力发挥着作用只有在艺术。每一个主要的科学发现和某人开始想象这世界看起来不同于别人的方式看到它。这就是创造力就是

——想象世界以一种新的方式。尽管你可能认为你的创造性的想象力的极限,我们都有可能想象世界在一个全新的方式。事实上,而是与生俱来的。这是你作为一个人与生俱来的权利。更重要的是,你每天使用它,几乎生活的每个瞬间。你的创造性的想象力是你使用来理解你的经历。这是你的创造性思维,会从混乱的经验和意义为你的世界带来。


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