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　　[02:33.58]College English Test-Band six

　　[02:36.86]Part III  Listening Comprehension

　　[02:40.47]Section A

　　[02:42.33]Directions: In this section,

　　[02:45.50]you will hear 8 short conversations

　　[02:48.01]and 2 long conversations.

　　[02:50.31]At the end of each conversation,

　　[02:52.50]one or more questions will be asked about

　　[02:54.90]what was said. Both the conversation and the questions

　　[02:58.73]will be spoken only once.

　　[03:00.92]After each question there will be a pause.

　　[03:04.20]During the pause, you must read the four choices

　　[03:07.81]marked A), B), C) and D), and decide

　　[03:12.29]which is the best answer.

　　[03:14.37]Then mark the corresponding letter on

　　[03:17.10]Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

　　[03:22.19]Now let's begin with the 8 short conversations.

　　[03:28.23]11. W: Jim, you are on the net again!

　　[03:33.48]When are you going to get off? It’s time for the talk show.

　　[03:37.74]M: Just a minute dear! I’m looking at a new jewelry site.

　　[03:41.68]I want to make sure I get the right gift for mom’s birthday.

　　[03:45.81]Q: What is the man doing right now?

　　[04:02.91]12. W: I have never seen you

　　[04:06.62]have such confidence before in the exam!

　　[04:09.25]M: It’s more than confidence!

　　[04:11.11]Right now I feel that if I get less than an A,

　　[04:14.39]it will be the fault of the exam itself.

　　[04:17.48]Q: What does the man mean?

　　[04:34.15]13. W: Just look at this newspaper!

　　[04:38.53]Nothing but murder, death and war!

　　[04:41.92]Do you still believe people are basically good?

　　[04:45.31]M: Of course, I do! But newspapers

　　[04:48.26]hardly ever report stories about peace and generosity.

　　[04:52.31]They are not news!

　　[04:54.38]Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

　　[05:11.13]14. M: Tom must be joking when he said

　　[05:16.17]he plans to sell his shop and go to medical school.

　　[05:19.67]W: You are quite right! He’s just kidding!

　　[05:22.51]He’s also told me time and time again

　　[05:25.79]he wished to study for some profession

　　[05:28.41]instead of going into business.

　　[05:30.71]Q: What will Tom probably do according to the conversation?

　　[05:48.09]15. W: I hear your boss has a real good impression of you,

　　[05:54.87]and he is thinking about giving you two more days off each month.

　　[05:59.14]M: I hope not. I’d rather get more work hours ,

　　[06:02.41]so I can get enough bucks to help out my two kids at college.

　　[06:06.90]Q: What does the man truly want?

　　[06:23.91]16. M: I heard you took a trip to Mexico last month.

　　[06:29.59]How did you like it?

　　[06:31.13]W: Oh, I got sick and tired of the hotels

　　[06:34.41]and hotel food! So now I understand the thing:

　　[06:38.89]East, west, home’s best!

　　[06:43.05]Q: What does the woman mean?

　　[06:58.24]17. W: I’m worried about Anna.

　　[07:03.38]She’s really been depressed lately.

　　[07:06.11]All she does is staying in her room all day.

　　[07:09.28]M: That sounds serious!

　　[07:11.36]She’d better see a psychiatrist at the counseling center.

　　[07:15.73]Q: What does the man suggest Anna do?

　　[07:32.10]18. M: I could hardly recognize

　　[07:37.24]Sam after he got that new job!

　　[07:39.54]He’s always in a suit and tie now.

　　[07:42.06]W: Yeah. He was never liked that in college.

　　[07:45.55]Back then, he went around in old T-shirts and jeans.

　　[07:50.04]Q: What do the speakers say about Sam?

　　[08:08.21]Now you will hear the two long conversations.

　　[08:12.03]Conversation One

　　[08:14.11]M: Hi, Ann! Welcome back! How was your trip to the States?

　　[08:19.69]W: Very busy. I had a lot of meetings,

　　[08:23.63]so, of course, I didn’t have much time to see New York.

　　[08:27.99]M: What a pity! Actually, I have a trip there myself next week.

　　[08:32.27]W: Do you? Then take my advice, do the well-being

　　[08:36.97]in the air program. It really works.

　　[08:40.03]M: Oh, I read about that in a magazine.

　　[08:42.44]You say it works?

　　[08:43.63]W: Yes, I did the program on the flight to the States,

　　[08:47.03]and when I arrived in New York,

　　[08:49.65]I didn’t have any problem, no jet lag at all.

　　[08:53.70]On the way back, I didn’t do it, and I felt terrible.

　　[08:58.62]M: You’re joking!

　　[08:59.71]W: Not at all, it really made a lot of difference.

　　[09:03.43]M: En. So what did you do?

　　[09:06.28]W: Well, I didn’t drink any alcohol or coffee,

　　[09:10.21]and I didn’t eat any meat or rich food.

　　[09:13.49]I drink a lot of water, and free juice,

　　[09:16.77]and I ate the meals on the well-being menu.

　　[09:20.16]They’re lighter. They have fish, vegetables, and noodles,

　　[09:24.97]for example, and I did some of the exercises in the program.

　　[09:29.35]M: Exercises? On a plane?

　　[09:31.97]W: Yes. I didn’t do many, of course,

　　[09:35.25]there isn’t much space on a plane.

　　[09:37.77]M: How many passengers do the exercises?

　　[09:40.51]W: Not many.

　　[09:42.15]M: Then how much champagne did they drink?

　　[09:44.66]W: A lot! It was more popular than mineral water.

　　[09:48.27]M: So, basically, it's a choice.

　　[09:50.35]Mineral water and exercises, or champagne and jet lag.

　　[09:54.50]W: That’s right! It’s a difficult choice.

　　[09:59.31]Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation

　　[10:04.13]you have just heard.

　　[10:05.99]19. Why did the woman go to New York?

　　[10:24.74]20. What does the woman say about the well-being

　　[10:29.33]in the air program?

　　[10:45.16]21. What did the woman do to follow the well-being menu?

　　[11:05.24]22. What did the woman say about other passengers?

　　[11:25.18]Conversation Two

　　[11:27.88]W: Morning. Can I help you?

　　[11:31.06]M: Well, I’ m not really sure.

　　[11:33.35]I' m just looking.

　　[11:34.56]W: I see. Well, there’s plenty to look at it again this year.

　　[11:38.82]I’m sure you have to walk miles to see each stand.

　　[11:42.43]M: That’s true.

　　[11:43.30]W: Er..., would you like a coffee?

　　[11:45.49]Come and sit down for a minute, no obligation.

　　[11:48.33]M: Well, that’s very kind of you, but…

　　[11:50.85]W: Now, please. Is this the first year

　　[11:53.80]you’ve been to the fair,  Mr...

　　[11:55.66]M: Yes, Johnson, James Johnson.

　　[11:58.29]W: My name's Susan Carter.

　　[12:00.25]Are you looking for anything in particular,

　　[12:02.77]or are you just interested in computers in general?

　　[12:05.83]M: Well, actually, I have some specific jobs in mind.

　　[12:09.55]I own a small company, we’ve grown quite dramatically

　　[12:13.38]over the past 12 months,

　　[12:14.58]and we really need some technological help to

　　[12:17.31]enable us to keep on top of everything.

　　[12:19.83]W: What’s your line of business, Mr. Johnson?

　　[12:22.78]M: We’re a training consultancy.

　　[12:24.97]W: I see. And what do you need “to keep on top”?

　　[12:29.45]M: The first thing is correspondence.

　　[12:31.86]We have a lot of standard letters and forms.

　　[12:34.48]So I suppose we need some kind of word processor.

　　[12:37.65]W: Right. Well, that’s no problem.

　　[12:40.94]But it may be possible for you to get a system

　　[12:44.11]that does a lot of other things

　　[12:45.86]in addition to word processing.

　　[12:47.72]What might suit you is the MR5000.

　　[12:52.31]That’s it over there! It’s IBM compatible.

　　[12:55.70]M: What about the price?

　　[12:58.20]W: Well, the MR5000 costs 1,050 pounds.

　　[13:04.22]Software comes free with the hardware.

　　[13:07.06]M: Well, I’ll think about it. Thank you.

　　[13:10.78]W: Here’s my card. Please feel free to contact me.

　　[13:15.37]Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation

　　[13:20.18]you have just heard.

　　[13:22.70]23. Where did the conversation take place?

　　[13:42.22]24. What are the speakers talking about?

　　[14:01.30]25. What is the man’s line of business?

　　[14:20.07]Section B

　　[14:22.25]Directions: In this section,

　　[14:26.63]you will hear 3 short passages.

　　[14:29.80]At the end of each passage,

　　[14:31.55]you will hear some questions.

　　[14:33.52]Both the passage and the questions

　　[14:35.71]will be spoken only once.

　　[14:38.22]After you hear a question,

　　[14:39.97]you must choose the best answer from the four choices

　　[14:43.58]marked A), B), C) and D).

　　[14:47.95]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2

　　[14:52.33]with a single line through the centre.

　　[14:55.39]Passage One

　　[14:57.80]The new year always brings with the cultural tradition

　　[15:02.50]of new possibilities.

　　[15:04.47]We see it as a chance for renewal.

　　[15:07.31]We begin to dream of new possible selves.

　　[15:10.81]We design our ideal self or an image

　　[15:14.64]that is quite different from what we are now.

　　[15:17.37]For some of us, we roll at dreamy film in our heads

　　[15:21.75]just because it’s the beginning of a new year.

　　[15:24.37]But we aren’t serious about making changes.

　　[15:28.09]We just make some half-hearted resolution

　　[15:30.93]and it evaporates after a week or two.

　　[15:34.11]The experience makes us feel less successful

　　[15:37.82]and leads us to discount our ability

　　[15:40.66]to change in the future. It’s not the changes impossible

　　[15:45.48]but that it won’t last unless our resolutions

　　[15:48.87]are supported with plans for implementation.

　　[15:52.15]We have to make our intentions manageable

　　[15:55.10]by detailing the specific steps

　　[15:57.62]that will carry us to our goal.

　　[15:59.91]Say your goal is to lose weight by dieting

　　[16:03.96]and cutting off sweets.

　　[16:06.14]But one night you just have to have a cookie.

　　[16:09.64]And you know there’s a bag of your favorites

　　[16:12.49]in the cupboard. You want one, you eat two,

　　[16:16.97]you check the bag and find out

　　[16:19.49]you’ve just shot 132 calories. You say to yourself,

　　[16:24.74]“What the hell!” and polish off the whole bag.

　　[16:27.69]Then you begin to draw all kinds of

　　[16:31.19]unpleasant conclusions about yourself.

　　[16:34.58]To protect your sense of self,

　　[16:36.65]you begin to discount the goal. You may think –

　　[16:40.82]"Well, dieting wasn’t that important to me

　　[16:43.98]and I won’t make it anyhow.”

　　[16:46.50]So you abandon the goal and return to your bad habits.

　　[16:52.30]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage

　　[16:57.00]you have just heard.

　　[16:59.51]26. What do people usually wish to do

　　[17:04.87]at the beginning of a new year?

　　[17:20.46]27. How can people turn their new year’s resolutions

　　[17:26.14]into reality?

　　[17:41.01]28. Why does the speaker mention

　　[17:45.61]the example of sweets and cookies?

　　[18:03.24]Passage Two

　　[18:05.43]25 years ago, Ray Anderson,

　　[18:09.48]a single parent with a one-year-old son

　　[18:11.77]witnessed a terrible accident

　　[18:14.18]which took place when the driver of a truck

　　[18:16.80]ran a red light and collided with the car of Sandra D.

　　[18:21.72]The impact of the collision killed Sandra instantly.

　　[18:25.12]But her three-month-old daughter

　　[18:27.41]was left trapped in the burning car.

　　[18:29.49]While others looked on in horror,

　　[18:32.00]Andersen jumped out of his vehicle

　　[18:34.41]and crawled into the car through the shadowed rear window

　　[18:37.80]to try to free the infant. Seconds later,

　　[18:42.07]the car was enclosed in flames.

　　[18:45.24]But to everyone’s amazement,

　　[18:47.65]Andersen was able to pull the baby to safety.

　　[18:51.25]While the baby was all right, Andersen

　　[18:53.99]was seriously injured. Two days later he died.

　　[18:59.13]But his heroic act was published widely in the media.

　　[19:03.17]His son was soon adopted by relatives.

　　[19:06.46]The most remarkable part of the story unfolded only last week.

　　[19:11.60]Karen and her boyfriend Michael were looking

　　[19:14.98]through some old boxes

　　[19:16.51]When they came across some old newspaper clippings.

　　[19:20.12]“This is me when I was a new born baby.

　　[19:23.19]I was rescued from a burning car.

　　[19:25.37]But my mother died in the accident,” explained Karen.

　　[19:29.20]Although Michael knew Karen’s mother

　　[19:31.39]had died years earlier,

　　[19:33.25]he never fully understood the circumstances

　　[19:35.87]until he skimmed over the newspaper article.

　　[19:39.26]To Karen’s surprise,

　　[19:41.45]Michael was absorbed in the details of the accident.

　　[19:44.40]And he began to cry uncontrollably.

　　[19:47.79]Then he revealed that the man that pulled Karen

　　[19:51.40]from the flames was the father he never knew.

　　[19:55.12]The two embraced and shed many tears,

　　[19:58.07]recounting stories told to them about their parents.

　　[20:02.99]Questions29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　[20:09.23]29. What happened twenty-five years ago?

　　[20:27.37]30. What does the speaker say about Michael’s father?

　　[20:46.40]31. Why did Michael cry uncontrollably

　　[20:51.42]when he skimmed over the newspaper article?

　　[21:08.24]Passage Three

　　[21:11.29]Americans suffer from an overdose of work.

　　[21:15.45]Regardless of who they are or what they do.

　　[21:18.73]Americans spend more time at work

　　[21:20.92]than that any time since World War II.

　　[21:23.99]In 1950,the US had fewer working hours

　　[21:28.74]than any other industrialized country.

　　[21:31.70]Today, it exceeds every country but Japan

　　[21:34.65]where industrial employees load 2155 hours a year

　　[21:40.99]compared with 1951 in the US

　　[21:45.37]and 1603 in the former West Germany.

　　[21:50.51]Between 1969 and 1989, employed Americans

　　[21:55.87]add an average of 138 hours to their yearly work schedules.

　　[22:01.55]The workweek has remained above 40 hours.

　　[22:04.95]But people are working more weeks each year.

　　[22:08.67]Specifically pay time off holidays, vacations,

　　[22:13.91]sick leave shrank by 50% in the 1980s.

　　[22:19.05]As corporations have experienced stiff competitions

　　[22:23.17]and slow in growth of productivity,

　　[22:25.35]they have pressed employees to work longer.

　　[22:29.18]Cost-cutting lay-offs in the 1980s

　　[22:32.46]reduce the professional and managerial runs,

　　[22:35.74]leaving fewer people to get the job done.

　　[22:38.70]In lower paid occupations

　　[22:41.65]where wages have been reduced,

　　[22:43.84]workers have added hours in overtime

　　[22:46.57]or extra jobs to preserve their living standard.

　　[22:49.96]The government estimates that more than 7 million people hold a second job.

　　[22:55.43]For the first time,

　　[22:57.83]large numbers of people say they want to cut back

　　[23:00.45]on working hours even it means earning less money.

　　[23:04.39]But most employers are unwilling to let them do so.

　　[23:08.54]The government which has stepped back from its traditional role

　　[23:12.59]as a regulator of work time

　　[23:15.10]should take steps to make shorter hours possible.

　　[23:19.54]Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　[23:26.11]32. In which country do industrial employees

　　[23:31.90]work the longest hours?

　　[23:47.81]33. How do employed Americans manage to work more hours?

　　[24:08.54]34. Why do corporations press their employees

　　[24:14.01]to work longer hours according to the speaker?

　　[24:31.48]35. What does the speaker

　　[24:34.65]say many Americans prefer to do?

　　[24:50.78]Section C

　　[24:53.30]Directions: In this section,

　　[24:56.25]you will hear a passage three times.

　　[24:59.09]When the passage is read for the first time,

　　[25:01.94]you should listen carefully for its general idea.

　　[25:05.00]When the passage is read for the second time,

　　[25:08.06]you are required to fill in the blanks numbered

　　[25:10.90]from 36 to 43 with the exact words

　　[25:14.62]you have just heard. For blanks numbered

　　[25:18.01]from 44 to 46 you are required

　　[25:20.96]to fill in the missing information.

　　[25:23.81]For these blanks, you can either use the exact words

　　[25:27.52]you have just heard or write down the main points

　　[25:30.59]in your own words. Finally, when the passage

　　[25:34.41]is read for the third time, you should check

　　[25:37.14]what you have written.

　　[25:39.39]Now listen to the passage.

　　[25:42.45]Nursing, as a typically female profession,

　　[25:46.72]must deal constantly with the false impression

　　[25:49.56]that nurses are there to wait on the physician.

　　[25:53.06]As nurses, we are licensed to provide nursing care only.

　　[25:58.32]We do not have any legal

　　[25:59.84]or moral obligation to any physician.

　　[26:03.34]We provide health teaching, assess physical

　　[26:06.84]as well as emotional problems,

　　[26:09.46]coordinate patient-related services,

　　[26:11.87]and make all of our nursing decisions based upon

　　[26:14.71]what is best or suitable for the patient.

　　[26:17.99]If, in any circumstance,

　　[26:20.51]we feel that a physician’s order

　　[26:22.48]is inappropriate or unsafe,

　　[26:25.54]we have a legal responsibility to question

　　[26:28.17]that order or refuse to carry it out.

　　[26:31.89]Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off.

　　[26:36.59]All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession.

　　[26:40.74]The emotional and physical stress, however,

　　[26:43.58]that occurs due to odd working hours

　　[26:45.99]is a prime reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction.

　　[26:50.91]It is sometimes required that we work overtime,

　　[26:54.52]and that we change shifts four or five times a month.

　　[26:59.00]That disturbs our personal lives,

　　[27:01.74]disrupts our sleeping and eating habits,

　　[27:04.59]and isolates us from everything

　　[27:07.10]except job-related friends and activities.

　　[27:10.71]The quality of nursing care

　　[27:12.57]is being affected dramatically by these situations.

　　[27:16.40]Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates,

　　[27:20.11]as experienced nurses

　　[27:22.30]finally give up trying to change the system.

　　[27:26.13]Consumers of medically related services

　　[27:29.08]have evidently not been affected enough yet

　　[27:32.36]to demand changes in our medical system.

　　[27:35.86]But if trends continue as predicted,

　　[27:39.25]they will find that most critical hospital care

　　[27:42.43]will be provided by new, inexperienced,

　　[27:46.58]and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.

　　[27:51.88]Now the passage will be read again.

　　[27:54.61]Nursing, as a typically female profession,

　　[27:58.98]must deal constantly with the false impression

　　[28:01.94]that nurses are there to wait on the physician.

　　[28:05.66]As nurses, we are licensed to provide nursing care only.

　　[28:10.90]We do not have any legal

　　[28:12.55]or moral obligation to any physician.

　　[28:15.83]We provide health teaching, assess physical

　　[28:19.65]as well as emotional problems,

　　[28:21.96]coordinate patient-related services,

　　[28:24.80]and make all of our nursing decisions based upon

　　[28:27.97]what is best or suitable for the patient.

　　[28:31.14]If, in any circumstance,

　　[28:33.98]we feel that a physician’s order

　　[28:35.62]is inappropriate or unsafe,

　　[28:38.47]we have a legal responsibility to question

　　[28:41.31]that order or refuse to carry it out.

　　[28:44.81]Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off.

　　[28:50.50]All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession.

　　[28:55.31]The emotional and physical stress, however,

　　[28:58.26]that occurs due to odd working hours

　　[29:00.67]is a prime reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction.

　　[29:05.69]It is sometimes required that we work overtime,

　　[29:09.85]and that we change shifts four or five times a month.

　　[30:18.17]That disturbs our personal lives,

　　[30:21.01]disrupts our sleeping and eating habits,

　　[30:23.52]and isolates us from everything

　　[30:25.71]except job-related friends and activities.

　　[30:29.60]The quality of nursing care

　　[30:32.11]is being affected dramatically by these situations.

　　[30:36.23]Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates,

　　[30:40.16]as experienced nurses

　　[30:42.35]finally give up trying to change the system.

　　[32:01.42]Consumers of medically related services

　　[32:03.94]have evidently not been affected enough yet

　　[32:06.61]to demand changes in our medical system.

　　[32:09.67]But if trends continue as predicted,

　　[32:12.62]they will find that most critical hospital care

　　[32:15.68]will be provided by new, inexperienced,

　　[32:19.07]and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.

　　[33:52.19]Now the passage will be read for the third time.

　　[33:57.33]Nursing, as a typically female profession,

　　[34:01.38]must deal constantly with the false impression

　　[34:04.00]that nurses are there to wait on the physician.

　　[34:07.61]As nurses, we are licensed to provide nursing care only.

　　[34:13.19]We do not have any legal

　　[34:14.51]or moral obligation to any physician.

　　[34:18.11]We provide health teaching, assess physical

　　[34:21.72]as well as emotional problems,

　　[34:24.35]coordinate patient-related services,

　　[34:26.64]and make all of our nursing decisions based upon

　　[34:29.38]what is best or suitable for the patient.

　　[34:32.66]If, in any circumstance,

　　[34:35.17]we feel that a physician’s order

　　[34:37.14]is inappropriate or unsafe,

　　[34:40.42]we have a legal responsibility to question

　　[34:42.94]that order or refuse to carry it out.

　　[34:46.66]Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off.

　　[34:51.47]All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession.

　　[34:55.51]The emotional and physical stress, however,

　　[34:58.25]that occurs due to odd working hours

　　[35:00.98]is a prime reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction.

　　[35:05.79]It is sometimes required that we work overtime,

　　[35:09.41]and that we change shifts four or five times a month.

　　[35:13.89]That disturbs our personal lives,

　　[35:16.73]disrupts our sleeping and eating habits,

　　[35:19.68]and isolates us from everything

　　[35:21.76]except job-related friends and activities.

　　[35:25.70]The quality of nursing care

　　[35:27.67]is being affected dramatically by these situations.

　　[35:31.60]Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates,

　　[35:35.43]as experienced nurses

　　[35:37.62]finally give up trying to change the system.

　　[35:41.22]Consumers of medically related services

　　[35:44.29]have evidently not been affected enough yet

　　[35:47.68]to demand changes in our medical system.

　　[35:50.85]But if trends continue as predicted,

　　[35:54.57]they will find that most critical hospital care

　　[35:57.63]will be provided by new, inexperienced,

　　[36:01.86]and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.

　　[36:07.72]This is the end of listening comprehension.