最新版英语听力教程 Model Test7-part b

　　[00:04.18]For Questions 6-10,

[00:07.65]you will hear a monologue 1 about Sports.

[00:12.02]While you listen,

[00:14.94]complete the sentences or answer the questions.

[00:19.80]Use not more than 3 words for each answer.

[00:24.16]You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below

[00:30.93]W:Generally speaking,sport is popular inBritain and that's

[00:29.93]largely due to the fact that we all have to

[00:34.50]play sports throughout our school lives.

[00:38.47]So for years we play indoor and outdoor sports indoors.

[00:44.22]Indoor sports usually in the gym,er...

[00:48.79]the gymnasium,on the mats,the bars,the ropes,the horse,and so on;

[00:55.27]and outdoor team games according to the tradition of your school and

[01:01.01]to some extent being male or female--

[01:04.96]boys play football or rugby in winter,girls play netball and

[01:10.52]hockey;in the summer,

[01:13.76]boys play cricket and tennis,girls play rounders and tennis.

[01:20.11]But that's just in school.

[01:23.87]There are lots of more individual sports which

[01:28.23]people may begin at school or later in life,such as

[01:33.20]badminton,squash,sailing,horse-riding,

[01:38.45]target shooting with rifle or pistol,skiing swimming,and so on.

[01:44.93]Even fishing,which you may think of more as a hobby than a sport and yet

[01:50.88]and yet it is so popular and there areso many people

[01:55.35]who go fishing and so of course there're a lot of competitions and that

[02:01.10]perhaps entitles it to be called a sport.

[02:05.67]Apart from all the sports in which people participate,

[02:10.84]there are of course the spectator sports.

[02:14.97]Horse racing 2 and motor racing are obvious examples of sports

[02:20.53]which only professionals can participate in.

[02:24.89]Football is still the greatest draw,however,and,

[02:29.47]of course,British football fans're well-known for their disorderly behaviour at

[02:35.63]home and abroad

[02:39.00]no one seems to know exactly why British football fans are so rough and violent

[02:45.66]but there is no doubt that they are!

[02:49.74]Spectator sports have been much affected 3 by the

[02:54.39]increasing amount of TV coverage 4 given to sports

[02:59.43]and the steady improvement in the quality of the filming and reporting.

[03:05.49]The whole of Saturday afternoon is devoted 5 entirely 6 to sport on both TV and radio

[03:12.85]and there are periods of the year when there are

[03:16.90]several major sporting events on simultaneously,which means that

[03:23.38]the media are almost entirely dominated by sports programmes.