研究生英语听力LESSON 10B

LESSON 10(B)

研究生英语听力

LESSON TEN

Women

PART A

1. M: Hello. I'm calling to see if the summer position you advertised in tstill available? W: Uh, yes. Certainly. When can you come to the office for an interview Q: What will the

man probably do?

2. M: It took me five days to drive down to Florida.

W: Five days? I could have walked there in less time.

Q: What do you learn from the conversation?

3. W: Excuse me, did anybody find a black umbrella after the last shounder my chair.

M: As a matter of fact, we did. Check it at the ticket counter. That'turn in the

lost-and-found items.

Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?

4. W: I spent the whole weekend totally absorbed in this biography.

M: And you still haven't finished reading it?

Q: What can be inferred about the biography?

5.W: You haven't phoned Harry yet, have you?

M: As a matter of fact, I have.

Q: What does the man mean?

6. M: Do you have a shirt of this style in my size?

W: I'll check, but, to tell you the truth, I think this one is right for you.

Q: What does the woman mean?

7. M: Oh, I'm sorry. I just realized that I forgot to bring the tape recordme. I left it back at my dorm.

W: That's all right. I won't need it until tonight. As long as I've got it by Q: What does the woman imply about the tape recorder?

8. M: So how much was your plane ticket?

W: More than I could really afford. I had to dip into my savings.

Q: What does the woman imply?

9. W: Wednesdays are going to be busy days for

me next Semester. Threthe morning and then two more in the afternoon. I won't even halunch. M: You really should try to fit it in, you know. Those afternoon clastough to sit through if your stomach is rumbling.

Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?

10.W: You're dropping out of the marching band? But I thought you lovetraveling, playing before big crowds...

M: I do, but with all that time away from my studies, my grades starting to slip.

Q: Why is the man dropping out of the band?

11.W: I'm thinking of getting a new pant suit to wear to Jean's wedding.

M: I just hope that my old suit still fits. You know how I feel about sho Q: Which of the following is true about the man?

12. M: What's my share of the bill?

M: Eighteen fifty.

M: That can't be right. I only had a salad for dinner.

W: Don't get excited. Let me check it for you.

Q: What will the woman probably do next?

13. M: I'm surprised that Sara told her boss he was wrong to fire the secr W: I know, but that's Sara. If she has an opinion, everyone's got to kn Q: What do you think of Sara according to the conversation?

14. M: How about a movie tonight? That new comedy is opening in town.

W: Sounds great, but I've got to put the finishing touches on my

research paper.

Q: What will the woman probably do tonight?

15.W: You won't have to look very hard to find

a jo

b on campus. But I

you'll find anything that isn't just part time.

M: That suits me. Anything more than that and I have to changschedule.

Q: What information can you get about the man?

PART B

Passage I :

Women in Southern Europe

It is not often realized that women held a high place in southernsocieties in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protesetting up of a dowry or decimum. Admittedly, the purpose of this was to against the risk of desertion, but in reality its function in the social and fathe time was much more important. The decimum was the wife's right ttenth of all her husband's property. The wife had the right to withhold co transactions the husband would make. And more than just a right, the

showed that she enjoyed a real power or decision, equal to that of her husb

case did the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legahusband and wife. The wife shared in the management of her husband's personal propeopposite was not always true. Women seemed perfectly prepared to defendinheritance against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on ocshowed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Maria Vivas, aBarcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro about selling a fieinherited, for the needs of the household, she insisted on compensation.

offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have

drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro's personal inheriunfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says,