最新版英语听力教程 Model Test3-part c

[00:03.68]You'll hear three pieces of recorded material.

[00:08.33]Before listening to each one,you'll have time to read the questions related 1 to it.

[00:14.71]While listening,answer each question by choosing A,B,C or D.

[00:21.55]After listening you'll have time to check your answers.

[00:26.41]You'll hear each piece once only.

[00:30.28]Questions 11-13 are based on the following monologue 2 about Advertising 3 in Britain.

[00:37.43]You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11-13.

[00:43.36]M:I was born in Britain in 1966,

[00:50.08]so I suppose advertising has always been part of my life.

[00:55.54]As a child,I was always aware of advertisements in magazines and newspapers,

[01:02.30]and on boardings in the street,

[01:06.06]on posters in public transport and so on.

[01:10.43]But there have been changes in advertising in Britain over the past 30 years or so.

[01:16.67]The first thing that comes to mind is the amount of advertising

[01:22.31]we live with nowadays.

[01:26.07]There is,quite simply,

[01:29.31]a lot more advertising than there used to be.

[01:33.86]Nowadays,whatever you're doing in your daily life

[01:39.00]it's quite difficult to get away from advertisements in one form or another

[01:45.06]They're all around you

[01:48.30]Another noticeable 4 change is the use of new media for advertising.

[01:54.47]I suppose I'm thinking mainly of television,

[01:58.91]which has developed over the last 30 years

[02:03.59]and is now an integral 5 part of life for most people.

[02:08.63]There are TV sets in most homes.

[02:12.78]TV advertising,consequently,has developed at an enormous 6 rate

[02:18.74]and is perhaps the most important form of advertising,

[02:23.78]certainly one of the most influential 7 in Britain today.

[02:28.74]A third big change has been in advertising psychology--

[02:33.99]in how advertisers aim to persuade people to buy their products.

[02:39.74]Originally,adverts were very simple.

[02:43.81]Either they simply gave straight information about a product or,

[02:49.67]if they set out to persuade,they did this in a very direct way.

[02:55.41]They would say,for example "Buy our product.It is very good;

[03:00.87]better than other products".

[03:04.11]But now,with more goods available and with more competition

[03:09.36]from different products on the market,

[03:13.12]advertising techniques have become more persuasive 8,

[03:17.85]and more sophisticated 9.

[03:21.72]W:Questions 14-17 are based on a Critical Comment.

[03:27.28]You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 14-17.

[03:32.92]M:The writers of murder stories go to a great deal of trouble to

[03:40.37]keep us guessing right up to the end.

[03:44.21]In actual fact,people often behave more strangely in real life

[03:49.56]than they do in stories.

[03:53.04]The following advertisement once appeared in a local newspaper:

[03:58.18]'An opportunity to earn `250 in a few minutes.

[04:03.75]A man...willing to take chances wanted for an out-of-the-ordinary job

[04:10.41]which can be performedonly once.'

[04:14.67]A reader found this offer very generous and applied 10 to the advertiser,

[04:21.33]but a bit suspicious,he gave a false name.

[04:25.77]Soon afterwards,he received a reply.

[04:30.13]Enclosed in the envelope

[04:33.48]was a typed note instructing him to ring a certain number

[04:39.72]if he was still interested.

[04:43.17]He did so and learnt on the telephone

[04:47.32]that the advertiser wanted him to get rid of somebody

[04:52.68]and would discuss it more fully 11 with him next day.

[04:57.64]But the man told the police and from then on acted under their instructions.

[05:04.30]The police saw the two men meet

[05:08.17]and watched them as they drove away together.

[05:12.42]In the car the advertiser came to the point at once:

[05:17.78]he told the man he wanted him to shoot his wife.

[05:22.74]The reason he gave was that he was suffering from an incurable 12 disease 13

[05:28.62]and wanted to live in a warmer country,but his wife objected to this.

[05:34.47]Giving the man some money,

[05:37.74]the advertiser told him to buy a gun

[05:42.00]and warned him to be careful of the dog which,

[05:47.04]though it would not bite,might attract attention.

[05:51.79]He also gave him a photograph of his wife

[05:56.05]so that he would be able to recognize her.

[06:00.02]After that,the advertiser suggested that the man should'do the job' next morning

[06:06.68]Meanwhile,he would prepare his wife

[06:10.83]by telling her that a young man was going to call.

[06:15.28]After the murder,they would meet again outside a railway station

[06:21.44]and the money would be paid as arranged.

[06:25.52]The second meeting never took place,

[06:29.28]for the advertiser was arrested shortly afterwards

[06:34.45]and charged with attempting to persuade someone to murder his wife

[06:40.01]W:Questions 18-20 are based on the following conversation about Family Roots.

[06:47.17]You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 18-20.

[06:52.81]M:You know time is--

[06:58.12]W:So you're...uh.,like resident 14 Astorians.

[07:03.47]M:We're old-time natives here.

[07:07.44]W:That must be really...uh...funny for you or...not funny,but unique.

[07:14.89]I'd like to know what that feels like to have lived in one place,

[07:20.76]for so long and see the changes that..uh..

[07:26.22]are happening to the place where you're living in. What's that like?

[07:31.58]M:Well,part of it's strange because there're not that many changes.  W:Oh.

[07:38.06]M:You know it's interesting to see the town...uh...grow,

[07:43.62]but just as a lot of things'll come in,at the same time otherthings'll go out

[07:50.18]so the population has stayed very much the same--

[07:54.85]in fact the population is less than it was,like in elementary school,

[08:01.31]cause there was a huge population at the time

[08:05.56]But,I really like this town.

[08:09.80]I think it's a beautiful place.

[08:13.24]But it's different having grown up here.

[08:17.21]W:And your parents and grandparents lived here.

[08:21.97]M:Right,and great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents

[08:28.03]There were originally five families who settled in Astoria

[08:33.49]after Lewis and Clark came in 1804 and 5

[08:39.65]and then John Jacob Astor came later,

[08:44.51]but the first settlers were a group of five.

[08:48.88]W:You know...you...you look a little Dutch.

[08:54.47]M:I am Dutch and Irish  W:And Irish!

[08:59.61]M:Right,but they originally split 15 this whole town into five sections.

[09:05.88]One section for each family.

[09:09.54]Like we have a large map in the basement that's called Van Deusan's Astoria,

[09:16.20]that just shows our family section of town

[09:20.56]which unfortunately didn't turn out to be the commercial section

[09:25.60]W:Do your parents ever comment on changes that are occurring?

[09:30.96]M:Uh...they...I think they kind of feel basically 16 like I do,

[09:37.83]that a lot of things really don't change much.

[09:42.69]They'd actually like to see more industrial things come in,

[09:47.83]which...you know,more young people are fighting against...

[09:53.79]you know,keeping the environment clean and so on,

[09:58.75]but they would like to see it grow a little bit,

[10:03.19]cause it hasn't changed basically.

[10:07.24]And they saw it when it was really developing during World WarII.

[10:13.41]It was a lot larger