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1、-剑桥雅思8 Text1 听力原文-第 9 页Test 1 Section 1A:Hi，George! Glad youre back. Loads of people have phoned you.B: Really?A: I felt just like your secretary!B: Sorry! I went into the library this afternoon to have a look at a newspaper and I came across something really interestingA: What? A book?B:No，a brochu

2、re (EXAMPLE) from a summer festival - mainly Spanish music. Look，Ive got it here. A: Spanish music? I really love the guitar. Lets have a look. So whats this group Guitarrini?B: Theyre really good. They had a video Q1with all the highlights of the festival at a stand in the lobby to the library，so I

3、 heard them. They play fantastic instruments - drums and flutes and old kinds of guitars. Ive never heard anything like it before.A: Sounds great.B: Okay. Shall we go then? Spoil ourselves? Yes，lets.A: The only problem is there arent any cheap seats . . . its all one price. Well，in that case we coul

4、d sit right at the front - wed have a really good view.B:Yeah，though I think that if you sit at the back You can actually hear the whole thing better.Q2A: Yes. Anyway we can decide when we get there.A: So will you fill in the form or shall?B: 111 do it. Name: George ONeill. Address: 18 North AvenueQ

5、3,Westsea. Do you remember our new postcode? Still cant remember it.A: Just a minute - Ive got it written down here. WS6 2YHQ4. Do you need the phone too?B: Please. Im really bad at numbers.A: 01674553242.Q5 So，lets book two tickets for Guitarrini. B: Okay. If youre sure f7.50 each is all right. How

6、 do you feel about the singer?A: I havent quite decided. But Ive noticed something on the booking form that might just persuade me!B: Whats that then?A: Free refreshments!B: Really ?A: Yes，look here. Sunday 17th of June. Singer, ticket 6.00 includes drinksQ6 in the garden.B: Sounds Iike a bargain to

7、 me!A: Yes，lets book two tickets for that. So, what else? Im feeling quite keen now! How about the pianistQ7 on the 22nd of June? B: Anna Ventura? Ive just remembered thats my evening c1ass night.A: Thats okay. Ill just have to go on my own - but we can go to the Spanish dance and guitar concert tog

8、ether，cant we?B: Yes -Im sure Tom and Kieran would enjoy that too. Good heavens-10.50 Q8 a ticket! I can see were going to have to go without food for the rest of the week - well need to book four! Q9 A:Wish we were students 一 look! Children，Students and Senior Citizens get a 50%Q10 discount on ever

9、ything. B: If only!Section 2Hello,and thank you for asking me to your teachers meeting to talk about the Dinosaur Museum and to tell you a bit about what you can do with your students there.Well,let me give you some of the basic information first. In regard to opening hours,were open every day of th

10、e week from 9.00 am to 8.00 pm except on Mondays when we close at 1.30 pm.And,in fact the only day in the year when were closed is on the 25th of December Q11&12. You can book a guided tour for your school group any time that were open. If you bring a school group to the museum,when you arrive we as

11、k you to remain with your group in the car park. One or more of the tour guides will welcome you there and brief you Q13 about what the tour will be about. We do this there because our entrance is quite small and we really havent got much room for briefing groups in the exhibition area.As far as the

12、 amount of time youll need goes,if you bring a school group you should plan on allowing a minimum of 90 minutes for the visit. This allows 15 minutes to get on and offthe coach,45 minutesQ14 for the guided tour and 30 minutes for after-tour activities. If youre going to have lunch at the museum you

13、will,of course,have to allow more time. There are two cafs in the museum,with seating for 80 people. If you want to eat there youlI need to reserve some seating, as they can get quite crowed at lunch time. Then utside the museum at the back there are tablesQ15, and students can bring their own lunch

14、 and eat it there in the open air.When the students come into the museum foyer we ask them to check in their backpacks with their books,lunch boxes , etc, at the cloakroom before they enter the museum proper. Im afraid in the past we have had a few things gone missing after school visits so this is

15、a strict rule. Also,some of the exhibits are fragile and we dont want them to be accidentally knocked. But we do provide school students with handouts with questions and quizzes on them. Q16-18Theres so much that students can learn in the museum and its fun for them to have something to do. Of cours

16、e! Theyll need to bring something to write with for these. We do allow students to take photograph. Q16-18 For students who are doing projects its useful to make some kind of visual record of what they see that they can add to their reports. And finally, they should not bring anything to eat into th

17、e museum, or drinks of any kind. There are also a few things the students can do after the tour. In the theatre on the ground floor there are continuous screenings of short documentaries about dinosaurs which they can see any time. Q19&20We used to have an activity room with more interactive things

18、like making models of dinosaurs and drawing and painting pictures, even hunting for dinosaur eggs, but unfortunately the room was damaged in a bad storm recently when water came in the roof, so tha1s closed at the moment. But we do have an IT Centre where students have access to CD ROMs with a range

19、 of dinosaur games. Q19&20 These games are a lot of fun, but they also teach the students about the lives of dinosaurs, how they found food, protected their habitat, survived threats, that kind of thing.And . . .I think thats all 1 have to tell you. Please feel free to ask any questions if you would

20、 like to know anything else.Section 3T: Right, Sandra. You wanted to see me to get some feedback on your groups proposal. The one youre submitting for the Geography society field trip competition. Ive had a look through your proposal and I think its a really good choice. In fact, I only have a few t

21、hings to say about it, but even in an outline document like this you really have to be careful to avoid typos and problems with layout in the proposal, and even in the contents page. so read it through carefully before submitting it, okay?S: Will do.T: And Ive made a few notes on the proposal about

22、things which could have been better sequencedQ2I. S: Okay.T: As for the writing itself, Ive annotated the proposal as and where I thought it could be improved. Generally speaking, I feel youve often used complex structures and long sentences for the sake of it and as a consequence . . . although you

23、r paragraphing and inclusion of sub-headings help . . . its quite hard to follow your train of thought at times. So cut them down a bit,can vou?Q22S: Really?T: Yes. And dont forget simple formatting like numbering. S: Didnt I use page numbers?T: I didnt mean that. Look, youve remembered to include h

24、eaders and footers, which is good, but listing ideas clearly is important.Q23 Number them or use bullet points, which is even clearer. Then youll focus the reader on your main points. I thought your suggestion to go to the Navajo Tribal Park was a very good idea.S: Ive always wanted to go there. My

25、father was a great fan of cowboy films and the Wild West so I was subjected to seeing all the epics, many of which were shot there. As a consequence,Q24 it feels very familiar to me and its awesome both geographically and usually, so its somewhere Ive always wanted to visit.Q24 The subsequent resear

26、ch I did and the online photographs made me even keener.T: Interesting. Right, lets look at the content of your proposal now.S: Did you find it comprehensive enough?T: Well, yes and no. Youve listed several different topics on your contents page, but Im not sure theyre all relevant.S: No? Well, I th

27、ought that from the perspective of a field trip, one thing I needed to focus on was the sandstone plateaux and cliffs themselves.Q25-27 the way they tower up from the flat landscape is just amazing. The fact that the surrounding softer rocks were eroded by wind and rain, leaving these huge outcrops

28、high above the plain. Its hardly surprising that tourists flock to see the area.T: Well, yes, Id agree e with including those points . . .S: And then the fact that its been home to native American Navajos and all the social history that goes with that. The hardships they endured trying to save their

29、 territory from the invading settlers. Their culture is so rich - all those wonderful stories.T: Well, I agree its interesting, but its not immediately relevant to your proposal, Sandra, so at this stage, I suggest you focus on other considerations. I think an indication of what the students on the

30、trip could actually do when they get there should be far more centraI, Q25-27so that certainly needs to be included and to be expanded upon. And Id like to see something about the local wildlife, and vegetation too, Q25-27not that I imagine theres much to see. Presumably the tourist invasion hasnt h

31、elped.S: Okay, I II do some work on those two areas as well. But youre right, theres not much apart from some very shallow-rooted species. Although its cold and snowy there in the winter, the earth is baked so hard in the summer sun that rainwater cant penetrate.so its a case of flood or drought, re

32、ally.T: So, I understand. Now, before we look at everything in more detail, Ive got few actual questions for you. It would be a good idea to include the answers in your finished proposal, because theyre missing from your draft.S: Fine.T: so, you mentioned the monoliths and the spires, which was good

33、, but what area does the tribal park cover? Do you know?S: I2,000 hectares,Q28 and the plain is at about 5,850 meters above sea level.T: Larger than I expected. Okay. Wheres the nearest accommodation? Thats a practical detail that you havent included. Have you done any research on that?S: Yes. There

34、s nowhere to stay in the park itself, but theres an old trading post called Goulding quite near. AII kinds of tours start from Goulding, too.T: What kind of tours?S: Well,the most popular are in four-wheel drive jeeps - but I wouldnt recommend hiring those. I think the best way to appreciate the are

35、a wouldnt be to hire horsesQ29 instead and trek around on those. Biking is not allowed and its impossible to drive around the area in private vehicles. The tracks are too rough.T: Okay, lastly, what else is worth visiting there?S: There are several caves, but I havent looked into any details. III fi

36、nd out about them.T: Okay, good. Now what Id like to know is . . .Section 4So, welcome to your introductory geography lecture. Well begin with some basics. Firstly what do we learn by studying geography?Well, we learn a great deal about all the processes that have affected and that continue to affec

37、t the earths surfaceQ31.But we learn far more than that, because studying geography also informs us about the different kinds of relationships that develop between a particular environments Q32and the people that live there.Okay. We like to think of geography as having two main branches. Theres the

38、study of the nature of our planet - its physical features, what it actually looks like - and then theres the study of the ways in which we choose to live and of the impact Q33of those on our planet. Our current use of carbon fuels is a good example of that.But there are more specific study areas to

39、consider too, and well be looking at each of these in turn throughout this semester. These include bio-physical geography, by which 1 mean the study of the natural environment and all its living things. Then theres topography- that looks at the shapes of the land and oceans. Theres the study of poli

40、tical geography and social geography too, of course, which is the study of communities of people. We have economic geography - in which we examine all kinds of resources and their use - agriculture, for example. Next comes historical geography - the understanding of how people and their environments

41、 and the ways they interact have changed over a period of time -and urbanQ34 geography, an aspect Im particularly interested in, which takes as its focus the location of cities, the services that those cities provide, and migration of people to and from such cities. And lastly, we have cartography.

42、Thats the art and science of map- making. Youll be doing a lot of that!So, to summarize before we continue, we now have our key answer . . . studying this subject is important because without geographical knowledge, we would know very little about our surroundings and we wouldnt be able to identify

43、all the problemsQ35 that relate to them. so, by definition, we wouldnt be in an informed position to work out how to solve any of them.Okay, now for some practicalities. What do geographers actually do? Well, we collect data to begin with! Youll be doing a lot of that on your first field trip! How d

44、o we do this? There are several means. We might, for example, conduct a census - count a population in a given area perhaps. We also need image Q36 of the earths surface which we can produce by means of computer-generation technology or with the help of satellite relays. Weve come a very long way fr

45、om the early exploration of the world by sailing ships when geographers only had pens and paper at their disposal.After weve gathered our information, we must analyse it! We need to look for pattern,Q37 most commonly those of causes and consequences. This kind of information helps us to predict and

46、resolve problems that could affect the world we live in.But we dont keep all this information confidential. We then need to publish our findings so that other people can access it and be informed by it .And one way in which this information can be published is in the form of maps. Youll all have use

47、d one at some stage of your life already. Lets consider the benefits of maps from a geographers perspective.Maps can be folded and put in a pocket and can provide a great store of reference when theyre collected into an atlas. They can depict the physical features of the entire planet if necessary,

48、or, just a small part of it in much greater detail. But there is a drawback. You cant exactly replicate something that is three-dimensional, like our planet, on a map at piece of paper, because paper has only two dimensions, and that means therell always be a certain degree of distortionQ38 a map. It cant be avoided.We can also use aerial photographs . . . pictures taken