浙江越秀外国学院英语学院 2009-2010学年第一学期
2009 级本科英语听力期末考试试卷A 60分钟，共4页
Part I Short Dialogue (2’ *10, 20’) (10 mins)
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken 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 is the best answer. 1. A) She goes by car. B) She hardly goes shopping. C) She walks. D) She shops by phone. 2. A) Twenty dollars. B) Twenty-five dollars. C) Forty dollars. D) Fifty dollars. 3. A) The bus is ahead of schedule. B) It is 7:15. C) The bus is late. D) The bus is on time. 4. A) 8:00.
B) 8:10.
C) 8:07.
D) 8:11.
5. A) Standing near her desk. B) Sitting at her desk. C) Sitting on her desk. D) Walking on her desk.
6. A) Manager and secretary. B) Teacher and student. C) Police and passer-by. D) Waiter and customer.
7. A) In a restaurant. B) At the railway station. C) In the post office. D) At the airport.
8. A) 6:45. B) 7:45. C) 7:15. D) 6:15.
9. A) Rome.
B) Paris.
C) New York. D) San Francisco. 10. A) He refused to drive her. B) He is glad to drive her.
C) He forgot his driver ’s license. D) He has a new car.
Part II Passages （2’*10, 20’）(20 mins)
Directions : In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. The passages will be read twice. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions, which will be read only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. A) Running along the country roads. B) Oiling the gate. C) Singing high notes. D) Taking notes. 12. A) He was attracted by Mrs. Jones. B) He had heard a noise. C) He had run out of gas. D) His tires were punctured.
13. A) The tires. B) Another car passing by.
C) The brakes. D) Mrs. Jones’s singing.
14. A) She was an excellent singer. B) She lived in a big house.
C) She was a shy person. D) She was not conscious of her weakness. Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. A) Americans are too attached to their cars.
B) American cars are too fast.
C) Automobiles threaten human health.
D) Automobiles are the main public transportation tools of USA.
16. A) Because they pollute the air. B) Because they are natural hazards.
C) Because they are increasing in numbers. D) Because people don’t walk so often.
17. A) Control of natural hazards. B) Control of heavy traffic.
C) Control of heart disease. D) Control of man-made hazards.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) March 20 through April 2. B) March 21 through April 1.
C) March 25 through April 1. D) March 26 through April 2.
19. A) In the 19th century. B) In the 18th century.
C) In the 17th century. D) In the 16th century.
20. A) People must play jokes on friends on April Fool’s Day.
B) Sometimes jokes last until the end of April Fool’s Day.
C) People usually buy interesting gifts for each other on April Fool’s Day.
D) Young lovers often eat out for fun on April Fool’s Day.
Part III News Broadcast (1’ *10, 10’) (8 mins)
Directions: In this part, you will hear several news broadcasts. After you hear the news item, read the question and four possible answers and decide which is the best answer.
News Item One
Questions 21 and 22 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
21. How many people died of HIV-related diseases in Asia last year?
A) 1,000,000 B) 300,000 C) 500,000 D) 5, 000,000
22. Which of the following items is NOT mentioned as the main way to spread AIDS?
A) Prostitution B) Injection drugs C) Homosexuality D) Blood transfusion News Item 2
Questions 23 and 24 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
23. How many mobile phone subscribers rose in the first five months?
A) 45 million B) 20 million C) 24 million D) 25 million
24. What’s the total number of fixed-line subscribers in China?
A) 360 million B) 692 million C) 333 million D) 363 million
News Item 3
Questions 25 and 26 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be
given 10 seconds to answer the question.
25. How old is the girl known as Peru’s mermaid?
A) 13 months old B) 13 days old C) 13 years old D) 30 months old
26. What’s the problem of the girl?
A) The girl’s two thighs are fused together.
B) The girl’s legs fused together from her thighs to her ankles.
C) The girl’s two knees are fused together.
D) The girl’s two ankles are fused together.
News Item 4
Questions 27 and 28 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
27. When did Vietnam’s prime minister announce his plan?
A) In June.
B) Last month.
C) On his official trip to China.
D) On his official trip to Australia.
28. How many Vietnamese soldiers died in the Vietnam War?
A) Over 58,000. B) Less than 58, 000.
C) Over one million. D) Less than one million.
News Item 5
Questions 29 and 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.
29. What is reported to have caused the death of at least 17 people?
A) The heaviest wind storm. B) The heaviest snowfall.
C) The most severe tornado. D) The most serious air crash.
30. What happened to the 50 people?
A) They were injured. B) They were rescued.
C) They were missing.
D) They went to a small village in the kingdom of Lesotho.
Part IV Numbers (1’ *10, 10’) (4 mins)
Directions: Listen carefully and supply the missing information. This part will be spoken only once and pay special attention to the numbers.
31. Known for excellence in teaching, research, and service to the community, the University of
Victoria serves approximately students.
32. There are more than languages in the word. In addition, there are more
than7000 dialects. A dialect is a regional variety of a language that has a different pronunciation, vocabulary, or meaning.
33. Do you know which is the largest desert? Yes, it’s the Sahara Desert in North Africa. It covers
square miles.
34. The second largest in population is India. It listed a population of in 1997.
35. Women competed in Olympic events for the first time in Paris in .
36. In in Berlin TV cameras broadcast Olympic events for the first time.
37. British Aerospace plans to buy the part of General Electric Company of Britain that makes
defense electronics. The deal is worth $ .
38. Representatives of the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council have agreed to common
import taxes. Officials at the meeting in Riyad said representatives agreed to set the common tax on some goods at 5.5%. The tax on other goods will be .
39. A record number of shares, almost were traded Tuesday on the New York
Stock Exchange.
40. Trading was heavy again Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. About 97,000, 000 shares
were traded, a number second only to the record shares traded Wednesday.
Part V Spot Dictation （1’*20, 20’）(8 mins)
Directions: Listen to the short talk entitled “Focus on the Main Idea”twice. Some important words are taken away from the written passage. Supply the missing words.
Focus on the Main Idea
Listening and reading require many 41______ in common. Finding the 42______ in a paragraph is just one of these skills.
The purpose of this talk is to discuss 43_____ a main idea is and how to 44______ the main idea.
Perhaps the best way to understand the main idea is to think of it as the 45 ______ idea, or the most 46______ idea which gives the paragraph purpose and 47______. That is to say, when you are trying to find the main idea, you are actually thinking about the 48______ of the given paragraph: Is it to 49_______ you about something, to explain, to narrate? Or is it to 50_______ to argue, to persuade, etc.? When you get the right 51________for yourself, you are likely to have got the main idea.
The main idea of a paragraph is usually 52 ________ in what is called a topic sentence. More often than not, the topic sentence is the 53_______ sentence of a paragraph. It is followed by other sentences, containing supporting 54_______.
When a 55________ idea is discussed or when the purpose of the paragraph is to 56__________ and convince, the topic sentence is sometimes placed at the 57_________ of the paragraph.
If a paragraph has an 58______ main idea, it does not have a stated topic sentence. The main idea is 59________ by the sentences in the paragraph as 60__________.
Part VI Sentence Dictation (4’ *5, 20’) (10 mins)
Directions: Listen to the five sentences three times and write down the whole sentence correctly.
61. ____________________________________________________________________________
62. ____________________________________________________________________________
63. ____________________________________________________________________________
64. ____________________________________________________________________________
65. ____________________________________________________________________________
浙江越秀外国学院英语学院 2009-2010学年第一学期
2009 级本科英语听力期末考试答题卷A 60分钟，共2页
Part I Short Dialogue （2’*10, 20’）(10 mins) 1.______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4.______
5. ______
6. ______
7. ______
8. ______ 9. ______
10. ______
Part II Passage （2’*10, 20’）(20 mins)
11. ______ 12. ______ 13. ______ 14. ______ 15. ______
16. ______ 17. ______ 18. ______ 19. ______ 20. ______ Part III News Broadcast （1’ *10, 10’）(8 mins)
21. ______ 22. ______
23. ______ 24.______ 25. ______ 26. ______ 27. ______ 28. ______ 29. ______ 30. ______ Part IV Numbers （1’ *10, 10’）
(4 mins)
31. _____________ 32. ___________ 33. ___________
34. ___________ 35. ___________ 36. ___________ 37. ___________
38. ___________ 39. ___________ 40. ___________ Part V Spot Dictation （1’*20, 20’） (8 mins)
41 ____________ 42 ____________ 43 ____________ 44 ____________ 45 ____________ 46 ____________ 47 ____________ 48 ____________
49 ____________ 50 ____________ 51 ____________ 52 ____________
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53 ____________ 54 ____________
55 ____________ 56 ____________
57 ____________ 58 ____________
59 ____________ 60 ____________
Part VI Sentence Dictation (4’*5, 20’) (10 mins)
61.____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________ 62.____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ 63.____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 64.____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 65.____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________
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