1994年1月听力原文
Section A
1. M: Please hold the line, Mrs. Smith. The doctor will talk to you in a minute.
W: I’m afraid I may have to hang up. I don’t have any more coins and the line will be cut soon.
Q: Where is Mrs. Smith most probably?
2. M: Excuse me, but could you show me the way to the train station?
W: Certainly. Go straight until you reach the traffic light, then turn left and you will see a square. The station is on the east side of it.
Q: Where is the train station located?
3. M: You’re going to make a trip to San Francisco, aren’t you?
W: Yes. But I haven’t got the plane ticket yet. I’m thinking of postponing the trip to next month since this is the busiest month for the airlines.
Q: What do we know about the woman from this conversation?
4. M: I hear you are moving to an apartment. Can you tell me why?
W: Actually, I didn’t want to move. It would be more expensive to live outside the college. But I just can’t bear the noise made by the people living next door.
Q: Why does the woman want to move?
5. M: You can get a lot of practice in giving up tickets and handling hotel reservations. Later on, you can take telephone calls.
W: That’s great! Thanks, Mr. Thomson. I’ll come to work tomorrow.
Q: Where will the woman probably be working?
6. M: Please make 20 copies of this and deliver them to the chief executive and heads of departments.
W: Certainly, sir. They will find it on their desks tomorrow morning.
Q: What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
7. W: Did you go shopping this afternoon?
M: Yes, but all I got was a sore foot.
Q: What does the man mean?
8. W: This school is lucky to have a teacher as good as Prof. Helen Johnson.
M: She is one in a million.
Q: What does the man mean?
9. M: I heard your daughter sing at the school concert last night. She has a lovely voice, I must say.
W: Thank you, but I don’t know where she gets it.
Q: What does the woman probably mean?
10. W: Why are you so tired and upset?
M: I’ve been taking the history course this term. But the trouble is that I’ll never get through the reading list.
Q: Why is the man worried?

Section B
Passage One
The time is 7 o’clock, and this is Amely Brown with the news: The German authorities are sending investigators to discover the cause of the plane crash late yesterday on the Island of Tenariff. The plane, a Boeing 727 taking German holiday makers to the island crashed into a hill side as it circled for preparing to land. The plane was carrying 180 passengers. It is thought there are no survivors. Rescue workers are at the scene.
The 500 U.K. motors workers who had bent on strike in High Town for the past 3 weeks went back to work this morning. This follows successful talks between management and union representatives, which resulted in a new agreement on working hours. A spokesman for the management said that they hoped they could now get back to producing cars and they lost a lot of money and orders over this dispute.
And finally, the weather: After a cold starts, most of the country shall be warm and sunny. But towards late afternoon, rain will spread from Scotland to cover most parts by midnight.
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. When was the news broadcast?
12. What is the first news item about?
13. Why did the workers go on strike?
14. What do you think of the weather that day?

Passage Two
When I arrived in American three years ago, I was surprised by the tremendous amount of advertising. But now I’ve come to realize that it is a creative and necessary part of an industrial society. I, too, want to improve my life style and to buy better products. I look to advertising to show me how to do it. Deciding what to believe in an advertising, however, isn’t easy. It seems to me that a person must purchase things with a lot of care. As a consumer, I want to get the best for my money. So I really have to understand the techniques of advertising. Otherwise, manufactures may be able to sell anything, whatever its quality may be. The creative aspects of advertisement, for instance, often cover up the defects or problems in products. I have learned this well, since I have made purchases and lost money because the items were of poor quality. The future advertising most likely will involve more public participation. In the future, if consumers really care about the quality of something as well as the quantity, maybe advertisers will begin to care more about what they are trying to sell.

Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. What do we learn about the speaker?
16. What’s the speaker’s impression of the advertisement in America when he first arrived there?
17. What does the speaker think future advertisers should do?

Passage Three
After years of study, I have determined there are only two types of people in this world: those who get to the airport early and those who walk in just as the plane is about to take off. If there were any justice in the world, the early airport people would be rewarded for doing the right thing and the late airport people would be punished. But there is no justice. I know I have been an early airport person for years. My luggage will get on the plane first but it will be the last luggage to come off the plane when we land. You know who really gets his luggage first when we land? The late airport person, who rushes into the airport three minutes before the plane takes off. “But if I get there real early,” I told myself, “I will get the best seat.” Well, no matter how early I showed up, I was always told that someone had called two or three days ahead of me and asked for that seat. The utmost embarrassment of the early airport person happened to me a few years age when I was flying from New York to Chicago. When I got to the ticket counter, the person there said, “Sir, you have a seat on the 9:15 a.m. flight, is that right?” “Yes,” I said. “Well, it’s only 7:00 a.m. and the 7:05 a.m. flight has not left yet. If you hurry you can make it.” I was too embarrassed to say that I arrived early so I wouldn’t have to hurry. Instead, I ran down the corridor to the plane.

Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. What does the speaker say about the early airport person?
19. What usually happens to the late airport person?
20. What made the speaker feel embarrassed?