最新版英语听力教程 Model Test6-part c

　　[00:28.50]You'll hear three pieces of recorded material.

[00:33.18]Before listening to each one,you will have time to

[00:38.14]read the questions related to it.

[00:41.80]While listening,

[00:44.67]answer each question by choosing A,B,C or D.

[00:50.00]After listening you will have time to check your answers.

[00:55.43]You will hear each piece once only.

[00:59.56]Questions 11-13 are based on the following monologue 1.

[01:04.91]You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11-13.

[01:11.29]M:Last week I bought a football' for my little nephew.

[01:18.08]He was delighted with it,and ran out into the garden to kick it about

[01:23.75]Two apple trees substituted for goal posts.

[01:28.29]and I had to act as a goalkeeper.

[01:32.26]He kept me busy there for more than an hour

[01:36.21]--and he is only five.

[01:39.58]Every boy has a natural impulse to kick a football about.

[01:45.14]And famous football stars are the gods of those little boys.

[01:50.71]How many dream that one day they will be gods too

[01:56.27]--professional footballers?

[02:00.14]If a schoolboy plays very well,

[02:03.90]he may find himself in an important match,

[02:08.44]a schoolboy international for example.

[02:12.57]The big clubs send "scouts 3" to these events to look for promising 4 young players

[02:19.23]An outstanding boy may be invited by a "scout 2"

[02:24.09]to register with the club that he represents,

[02:28.82]as an "associated schoolboy".

[02:32.89]Clubs may register schoolboys over the age of thirteen,

[02:38.25]although they are not allowed to

[02:41.20]play in matches until they have reached the official school-leaving age.

[02:46.77]But they are well coached and trained.

[02:50.92]When one of these boys leaves school,

[02:55.28]he may,if he wishes,

[02:58.94]become an apprentice 5 footballer to the team he has been associated with.

[03:05.10]Thus he is taught his job in the same way as any other apprentice;

[03:10.98]moreover,he is paid while he is being taught.

[03:16.02]At eighteen the apprentice is compelled to make up his mind

[03:21.48]whether to become a professional

[03:25.14]or to return to being an amateur

[03:29.19]This decision has to be very carefully considered.

[03:34.65]He must remember that he'll always have to face very strong competition from younger

[03:41.20]and perhaps better players

[03:44.86]always waiting andanxious to take hisplace.

[03:49.83]Questions 14-17 are based on a monologue about Architects.

[03:56.59]You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 14--17.

[04:04.53]W:We have all heard stories of the architect who forgot

[04:12.26]to provide stairs or lifts in the block of flats he was designing.

[04:18.32]There are even sillier tales of houses designed without any doors.

[04:24.57]Certainly,many strange buildings can be seen.

[04:30.03]In past centuries,

[04:34.00]there were hardly any building restrictions 6,

[04:38.65]and rich people could build whatever they wanted.

[04:43.22]Sometimes their ideas were very odd indeed

[04:48.37]and resulted in strange 'follies 7',

[04:52.73]such as a triangular 8 cottage,

[04:57.27]or a house in the form of a pyramid,

[05:01.71]or a house disguised as a windmill.

[05:06.26]But nowadays there're a great many restrictions,both official and aesthetic 9

[05:12.32]and the architect must know all of them.

[05:16.76]The artistic 10 and creative aspects are

[05:20.81]only a small part of the modern architect's work.

[05:25.49]He or she

[05:28.54]doesn't simply design a building and then wait for someone else to build it

[05:34.50]They must know all the qualities of the materials used

[05:40.24]and have to take into consideration heating,lighting,

[05:45.23]ventilation,insulation,drainage,and many other aspects

[05:50.38]that never worried our ancestors at all.

[05:55.24]In all building work

[05:59.08]there're three main parties:the client,the architect and the builder.

[06:05.84]The client tells the architect what he wants,or,at least,

[06:10.70]gives him some idea of the kind of building

[06:15.25]he or she has in mind.

[06:19.12]The architect then visits the site

[06:23.06]and prepares rough plans for the client's approval.

[06:27.81]Various authorities concerned are also consulted.

[06:32.78]When all the work has been approved in principle,

[06:37.45]and the plans satisfy the client,

[06:41.82]the architect can then prepare working

[06:46.07]drawings and detailed 11 instructions for the builder.

[06:50.75]Different builders are then invited to submit estimates for doing the work;

[06:57.31]the most economical estimate is usually accepted.

[07:02.77]So the work begins.

[07:06.00]A modern architect is the leader of a team of specialists,

[07:11.36]and must co-ordinate all their services.

[07:16.11]There is no other profession

[07:19.88]that involves so many suppliers,contractors,consultants,authorities andtradesmen

[07:26.75]There are few jobs that are more difficult to carry out,

[07:31.89]and few that give more satisfaction when a project is completed successfully

[07:38.87]Questions 18-20 are based on the following Interview with a Biologist

[07:45.42]You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 18-20.

[07:51.35]W:Whales,I believe,are very sensitive animals;what

[07:58.09]has been the effect of pollution on them?

[08:02.35]M:There's been very little direct effect so far as we know to date.

[08:08.31]There are some bits of information about high levels of mercury

[08:13.95]and heavy metals in certain whale bodies,

[08:18.63]whales which are caught and processed in the normal way,

[08:23.48]whales which are washed up dead,

[08:27.64]but there's no direct evidence that it's the pollution

[08:32.68]which has caused the deaths.

[08:36.02]One example where there may be more direct evidence

[08:41.06]is in the Mediterranean 12...

[08:44.72]umm...there is a steel factory...umm...

[08:49.76]pouring very heavily contaminated water. .er...off France

[08:56.42]and there are records there of whales which appear to be burnt

[09:02.09]by the high acid concentration in the water

[09:06.74]Another kind of pollution apart from the chemical sort's sound pollution;

[09:13.30]with all the heavy ship traffic in the seas

[09:17.77]sound pollution is very considerable

[09:21.89]and the whales do communicate by sound.

[09:26.44]We know very little about the effect of all the noise in the ocean

[09:31.72]on the whale's behaviour,

[09:34.88]but it is a very serious question to consider.

[09:39.32]Can the whales still maintain contact with one another,

[09:44.18]can they still talk to one another with all the background noise

[09:49.85]increasing year by year?\

[09:53.29]W:Of course whales have to find each other for the purpose of mating and

[09:59.54]for other purposes over quite long distances,don't they?

[10:04.68]M:That's correct.The noises which the whales make...

[10:09.67]they range in frequency from very low notes to very high notes

[10:15.31]and certain frequencies have the potential ability of

[10:20.67]travelling over several hundreds of miles,

[10:24.82]perhaps even thousands of miles,

[10:29.08]but with the background noise again,

[10:32.92]whether the sound really can be picked up over that distance by the whales

[10:39.29]is a matter of real doubt now.