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-!剑11 听力test 2文本Section 1Good Morning. Youth Council. Caroline speaking.Oh, hello, Im interested in standing for election to the Youth Council, and I was told to give you a call.Thats good. Could I have your name, please?Yes, its Roger Brown.Thank you. Im Caroline, the Youth Council administrator.So do you know much about what the Council does, Roger?Ive talked to Stephanie I think shes the chair of the Council.Thats right.And she told me a lot about it.How its a way for young people to discuss local issues, for example,and make suggestions to the town council. Thats what made me interested.Fine. Well let me take down some of your details.First of all, how old are you? You know the Council is for young people aged from 13 to 18?Ive just turned 18.And where do you live, Roger?Well, thats a bit complicated.At the moment Im looking for a flat to rent here, so lm in a hosteI from Monday to Friday.I go back to my parents place at the weekend.OK, so wheres the best place to send you some information about the Council?Oh, to my parents address, please.Thats 17, Buckleigh Street B-U-C-K-L-E-I-G-H Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire,though you dont really need the county.Oh, I know Stamford its a lovely town. And whats the postcode?PE9 7QT.Right, thank you. So are you working here, or are you a student?I started studying at the university a couple of weeks ago,and Ive got a part-time job for a few hours a week.What do you do?Well, Ive done several different things.Ive just finished a short-term contract as a courier,and now Im working as a waiter in one of the big hotels.Uhuh. That cant leave you much time for studying!Oh, its not too bad. I manage to fit it all in.What are you studying?My ambition is to go into parliament eventually, so my major subject is politics.Thats partly why I think the Youth Council is important and want to be a part of it.And I suppose youre also taking a minor subject, arent you?I know a lot of people study economics too.I chose history.To be honest, Im not finding it as interesting as I expected!OK, so with your studying and your part-time job, do you have time for any other interests or hobbies?Well, I spend quite a lot of time cycling both around town to get to university and to work,and also long-distance, from here to London, for instance.Thats pretty impressive! Anything else?For relaxation Im also keen on the cinemaI used to go at least once a week, but I cant manage to go so often now.Right. Are you sure youll have enough time for the Youth Council?Yes, Ive worked out that I can afford to reduce my hours at work, and that will make the time.So is there any particular aspect of the Youth Councils work that appeals to you, Roger?Well, my sister is blind, so Im particularly interested in working with disabled young people,to try and improve the quality of their lives.Thats great. Well, the best way to get involved is to be nominated by some people who you know.Right. Can you tell me how to set about organising that?You should talk to Jeffrey, our Elections Officer.I can arrange a meeting in the council office with him, if you like.Yes, please.Hell be here next Monday, if that suits you.Thats the 14th, isnt it?Yes.I can manage late afternoon.Would you like to suggest a time?He generally leaves around 5.30.Well, would 4.30 be OK?My last class finishes at 4, so Id have plenty of time to get to your office.Right, thats fine. Oh, and could I have a phone number we can contact you on?Yes, my mobile numbers 07788 136711.Thank you. Well, well look forward to seeing you next week.Thanks very much. Goodbye.Bye.Section 2Hi. Great to see you!Im Jody, and Ill be looking after both of you for the first month youre working here at the Amersham Theatre.Ill tell you something about the theatre now, then take you to meet two of the other staff.Its an old building, and its been modernised several times.In fact, as you can see, were carrying out a major refurbishment at the moment.The interior has just been repainted, and were about to start on the exterior of the building thatll be a big job.The works running over budget, so weve had to postpone installing an elevator.I hope youre happy running up and down stairs!When the theatre was built, people were generally slimmer and shorter than now, and the seats were very close together.Weve replaced them with larger seats with more legroom.This means fewer seats in total but weve taken the opportunity to install seats that can easily be moved, to create different acting spaces.Weve also turned a few storerooms over to other purposes like using them for meetings.We try hard to involve members of the public in the theatre.One way is by orgnising backstage tours so people can be shown round the building and learn how a theatre operates.These are proving very popular.What were finding is that people want to have lunch or a cup of coffee while theyre here,so were looking into the possibility of opening a cafe in due course.We have a bookshop which specialises in books about drama and that attracts plenty of customers.Then there are two large rooms that will be decorated next month,and theyll be available for hire, for conferences and private functions, such as parties.Were also considering hiring out costumes to amateur drama clubs.Now I want to tell you about our workshops.We recently started a programme of workshops that anyone can join.Eventually we intend to run courses in acting,but were waiting until weve got the right people in place as trainers.Thats proving more difficult than wed expected!Theres a big demand to learn about the technical side of putting on a production,and our lighting workshop has already started with great success.Were going to start one on sound next month.A number of people have enquired about work shops on make-up, and thats something were considering for the future.A surprise success is the workshop on making puppetswe happen to have someone working here who does it as a hobby, and she offered to run a workshop.It was so popular were now running them every month!Now, a word about the layout of the building.The auditorium, stage and dressing rooms for the actors are all below ground level.Here on the ground floor we have most of the rooms that the public doesnt see.The majority are internal, so they have windows in the roof to light them.Standing here in the foyer, youre probably wonderingwhy the box office isnt here, where the public would expect to find it.Well, you might have noticed it on your way inalthough its part of this building, its next door with separate entrance from the road.For the theatre managers office you across the foyer and through the double doors,turn right and its the room at the end of the corridor with the door on the left.The lighting box is where the compute rise stage lighting is operated and its at the back of the building.When youre through the double doors turn left, turn right at the water cooler, and right again at the end.Its the second room along that corridor.The lighting box has a window into the auditorium, which of course is below us.The artistic directors office is through the double doors turn rightand its the first room you come to on the right-hand side.And finally, for the moment, the room where Ill take you next the relaxation room.So if youd like to come with me.Section 3Ive brought my notes on our Biology Field Trip to Rocky Bay, Colin,so we can work on our report on the research we did together.OK. Ive got mine too. Lets look at the aims of the trip first.Right. What did you have?I just put something about getting experience of the different sorts of procedures used on a field trip.But we need something about what causes different organisms to choose particular habitats.I agree. And something about finding out how to protect organisms in danger of dying out?In our aims? But we werent really looking at that.I suppose not. OK, now theres the list of equipment we all had to bring on the field trip.What did they tell us to bring a ruler for?It was something about measuring the slope of the shore,but of course we didnt need it because we were measuring wind direction, and wed brought the compass for that.But not the piece of string to hold up in the air!Didnt Mr Blake make a fuss about us leaving that behind.Yeah. He does go on. Anyway it was easy to get one from another of the students.Now, the next sections the procedure. I sent you the draft of that.Yeah. It was clear, but I dont think we need all these details of what time we leftand what time we got back and how we divided up different research tasks.OK. Ill look at that again.Then we have to describe our method of investigation in detail.So lets begin with how we measured wave speed I was surprised how straightforward that was.Id expected us to have some sort of high-tech device not just stand there and count the number of waves per minute.Not very precise, but I suppose it was good enough.But the way we measured the amount of salt was interesting.In the water from the rock pools?Yeah, oh, I wanted to check the chemicals we used in the lab when we analysed those sampleswas it potassium chromate and silver nitrate?Thats right.OK. And we need the map of the seashore. You just left that to me.And I had to do it while the tide was low, well that was OK,but the place I started it from was down on the beachthen I realised I should have gone up higher to get better visibility, so I had to start all over again.But at least Id got the squared paper or Id have had problems drawing it all to scale.Yeah. It looks good.We could get a map of the region off the internet and see if we need to make any changes.I had a look but I couldnt find anything.But you took some pictures, didnt you?Yeah. Ill email you them if you want.OK. Ill make my amendments using those then I can scan it into our report. Great.Now when we get to our findings I thought we could divide them up into the different zoneswe identified on the shore and the problems organisms face in each zone.So for the highest area.The splash zone?Yeah, we found mostly those tiny shellfish that have strong hard shells that act as protection.But not from other organisms that might eat them, predators?No, thats not the main danger for them.But the shells prevent them from drying out because theyre in the open air for most of the time.Right. And since theyre exposed, they need to be able to find some sort of shelter,or cover themselves up, so they dont get too hot.Then in the middle and lower zones, nearer the sea, we need to discuss the effects of wave action.Yes, and how organisms develop structures to prevent themselves from being swept away,or even destroyed by being smashed against the rocks.I havent done anything on the geological changes. I dont know what to put for that.No, we werent concentrating on that. Maybe we need to find some websites.Good idea. Ive got the lecture notes from Mr. Blakes geology course, but theyre too general.But we could ask him which books on our Reading List might be most helpful.Right. OK, now I did a draft of the section of sources of possible error in our research,but I dont know if you agree.For example, the size of the sample, and whether its big enough to make any general conclusions from.But I thought actually we did have quite a big sample.We did. And our general method of observation seemed quite reliable.But we might not be all that accurate as far as the actual numbers go.Yeah, we might have missed some organisms if they were hiding under a rock for example.I wasnt sure about the way we described their habitats.I decided it was probably OK.Yeah, and the descriptions we gave of the smaller organisms, they werent very detailed,but they were adequate in this context.Im not sure we identified all the species correctly though.OK, wed better mention that. Now, how we.Section 4Weve been discussing the factors the architect has to consider when designing domestic buildings.Im going to move on now to consider the design of public buildings,and Ill illustrate this by referring to the new Taylor Concert Hall thats recently been completed here in the city.So, as with a domestic building, when designing a public building, an architect needs to consider the function of the buildingfor example, is it to be used primarily for entertainment, or for education, or for administration?The second thing the architect needs to think about is the context of the building,this includes its physical location obviously but it also includes the social meaning of the building,how it relates to the people its built for.And finally for important public buildings,the architect may also be looking for a central symbolic idea on which to base the design,a sort of metaphor for the building and the way in which it is used.Lets look at the new Taylor Concert Hall in relation to these ideas.The location chosen was a site in a run-down district that has been ignored in previous redevelopment plans.It was occupied by a factory that had been empty for some years.The whole area was some distance from the high-rise office blocks of the central business district and shopping centre,but it was only one kilometre from the ring road.The site itself was bordered to the north by a canalwhich had once been used by boats bringing in raw materials when the area was used for manufacturing.The architect chosen for the project was Tom Harrison.He found the main design challenge was the location of the site in an area that had no neighbouring buildings of any importance.To reflect the fact that the significance of the building in this quite run-down location was as yet unknown,he decided to create a building centred around the idea of a mystery-something whose meaning still has to be discovered.So how was this reflected in the design of the building?Well, Harrison decided to create pedestrian access to the building and to make use of the presence of water on the site.As people approach the entrance they therefore have to cross over abridge.He wanted to give people a feeling of suspense as they see the building first from a distance, and then close-up,and the initial impression he wanted to create from the shape of the building as a whole was that of a box.The first side that people see, the southern wall, is just a high, flat wall uninterrupted by any windows.This might sound off-putting, but it supports Harrisons co