2004年MBA听力材料及参考答案(5)(doc)
2004年MBA听力材料及参考答案(5) 　　Mock Test Five 　　Part A 　　Directions：For Questions 1-5, you will hear some announcements abut radio programs. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you’ve heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word or number in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. (5 points) 　　M:Good afternoon. This is Caroline Barnes with a look at some of today’s programs here on BBC radio. At 3 o’clock just after Woman’s Hour on Radio 4 there’s the first episode of our new classic serial, Jane Austin’s Sense and Sensibility with Susan Allender as Elinor. On 4 later this evening there’s more drama at 8:30 when you can hear George Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man, the famous story of the chocolate soldier. Before that on 4 Roy Plomley’s guest in Desert Island Discs at 7:30 is the American film actor and director Clint Eastwood, who’ll be telling us which eight records he would take with him to a desert island. This evening’s concert from the Royal Albert Hall is on Radio 3 at 7:45．It includes music by Sir Edward Elgar and Vaughan Williams played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle and the Elgar Violin Concerto will be played by the young Korean violinist Kim So Hwan. Finally in Kaleidoscope on Radio 4 at the later time than usual of 9:40, you can hear reviews of the new Star Trek film and new novels by John Fowles and Margaret Drabble. And of course there’s news every hour on the hour with comments and reports in PM at 5 o’clock followed by half an hour of news at 6．And now it’s time for the news summary at… (233 words) 　　W: Now you will hear the recording again. 　　That is the end of Part A. 　　M: Part B 　　Directions：For questions 6-10, you will hear a monologue on Hospital Staff. While you listen, complete the sentences. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You nowhave 25 seconds to read the sentences below. 　　(5 points) 　　W:The physicians in a hospital form the core of the medical staff. But they could not provide effective medical care to their patients without the help of numerous other medical employees. From the viewpoint of the patients, the nursing staff is particularly important. Nurses are usually in close contact with patients as long as they are in the hospital. 　　A nurse does not study for as many years as a doctor. However, each must be equally dedicated. Caring for sick persons requires a great deal of patience and concern. Most nurses work long days, and they often must work at odd hours or during the night. 　　Under the supervision of the head nurse, the nursing staff must provide nursing services on a 24-hour basis and attend to patients’ needs. This responsibility continues around the clock, and so nurses must work in shifts. A shift is a period of duty, usually eight hours in length. The nurses on the ward rotate their shifts. Some take turns working night duty; others work odd shifts. 　　A nurse must always be alert. She can never afford to be careless. This is true in all nursing situations, but it is especially true in the intensive care unit. Patients under intensive care are critically ill, and they must be monitored at all times. The nurses who do intensive care duty have one of the most demanding jobs in the hospital. 　　Serving as a nurse can be a very rewarding job. But it is not an easy one. Not every person is suited to become a nurse. Only very dedicated people have chosen nursing as a profession. (271 words) 　　M: Now you will hear the recording again. 　　That is the end of Part B. 　　W: Part C 　　Directions：You will hear three pieces of recorded material. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answers. You will hear each piece once only. (10 points) 　　Questions 11—13 are based on the following conversations between two students. You now have 15 seconds to read questions 11—13． 　　M:How did you do on the exam? 　　W:I passed, but I didn’t do so well. The essay question was the worst part for me. How about you? 　　M:I did all right on everything except the essay question, too. I wasn’t really prepared to write about the tribes in the rainforests of Brazil. We studied the rainforests for only a few days. I didn’t think it would be on the test. 　　W:Me either. I thought for sure that he would ask us something about the Incas in Peru or maybe the mountain peoples in Chile. I studied most of the material on these groups and didn’t spend much time on the people of the rainforest. Do you know how much the exam counts towards our final grade? 　　M:I think it’s 30 percent. 　　W:Thirty percent! Oh no, I’m in deep trouble this time! That means I’ll have to get A’s on everything else to get a decent grade. M:That may not be too hard. We’ve already gone through most of the readings the class is supposed to cover. After next week it will just be review. But then there is the final paper, of course. 　　W:Yes. I was hoping to do well on this test so I could relax when writing my paper, but now it looks like I’ll have to spend more time preparing to write that paper. 　　M:Well, I will too. Hey, I’m kind of hungry. I think I’ll go to get some lunch. Do you feel like joining me? 　　W:I’d love to, but I have to go home and study. I’ll call you later. (275 words) 　　M:You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to Questions 11—13． 　　Questions 14—16 are based on a talk in a music class. You now have 15 seconds to read questions 14—16． 　　W:It may seem strange that we’re discussing music from a Broadway production in this class, “The Lion King” especially, since it’sbased on a popular Hollywood movie. I mean music performed for Broadway theater in the heart of New York city surely would seem to be in the western tradition of popular music and not have much in common with the music we have been studying in this course, such as gamelan music of Indonesia, or Zulu chants of South Africa, music that developed outside the western tradition of Europe and America. But in fact, musicians have a long-standing tradition of borrowing from one another’s cultures. And this production’s director intentionally included both western and non-western music. That way, some of the rhythms, instruments, harmonics typical of non-western music contrast with and complement popular music more familiar to audiences in North America and Europe, music like rock, jazz or Broadway style show tunes. So I want to spend the rest of this class and most of the next one on music from the show “The Lion King” as a way of summarizing some of the technical distinctions between typical western music and the non-western music that we’ve been studying. Now the African influence on the music is clear and the story takes place in Africa. So the director got a South African composer to write songs with a distinctly African sound. And the songs even include words from African languages. But we’ll get back to the African influence later. First let’s turn to the music that was written for the shadow puppet scenes in “The Lion King”, music based on the Indonesian music used in the shadow puppet theater of that region. (282 words) 　　M: You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to questions 14—16． 　　W:Questions 17—20 are based on the following conversation between a man and a woman about Shakespeare. You now have 20 seconds to read questions 17—20. 　 　　M:Did you see the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, last night? 　　W:Yes, it was excellent. I really like Shakespeare. 　　M:I do too. You know, I’m taking a class in Shakespeare now. Did you know that a lot of people are saying that Shakespeare isn’t the man we think he is? 　　W:Well, I’ve heard something about that, but I can’t remember exactly what people are saying. What have you heard? 　　M:Well, my professor was just discussing this yesterday. In most books it was written that Shakespeare was born in Stratford on Avon. 　　W:Yeah, I know that. 　　M:But for this man who was called Shakespeare, or Shagsper, or something that sounds like that, there is no evidence that he was literate. There are a few signatures that are written like an illiterate man and there is nothing else — not a single letter, not a single clue that he might have been a writer. And his parents were illiterate and so were his daughters! In addition, there is no evidence that he owned a single book or that he ever went to school. In fact, there is now evidence that there wasn’t even a school in the little village of Stratford. 　　W:Wow, what a mystery. I didn’t know all that. So what does your professor say about who wrote the plays? 　　M:Well, one likely candidate is the Earl of Oxford, but nobody knows for sure. The Earl was a lord and leading member of the court, so he couldn’t sign his name to his own work. It seems possible that the Earl of Oxford, whose name was Edward de Vere, might have used William Shakespeare’s name to fool people. 　　W:But what about this Shakespeare then? Wouldn’t he know his name was being used? 　　M:Yes. So now some people are saying that the Earl of Oxford gave money to Shakespeare to keep him quiet. And that’s the money that he used to build the house that tourists all go to now in Stratford! W:Wha...
2004年MBA听力材料及参考答案(5)(doc)