Part II Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the quest ions will be spoken only once. After you hear a quest ion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices, marked A), B, C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet T with a single line through the center：
News Report One
An 81 year old man ended up in Germany by accident. After trying to get from Newcastle, Great Britain to Rome, Ital y. The old-age pensioner was on a mission to see the Pope to his head of the Catholic church and decided to make his way there by car. lle was surprised when his GPS system told him he had arrived. Al though there were no signs of a
ny of the famous buildings or architecture. The man parked but didn t put on the hand break of his car properly llis car rolled backwards, and in a striking display of irony, hit a sign saying Rome. the small town in North Germany he had mistakenly plugged into the GPS system. Police said that the car had come to a halt after hitting the sign, but did not appear to be serious ly damaged, al though an balance was called to check on the pensioner. The man who lives in the UK and is originally Italian might have been confused by the fact that Rone is written Roma in Italian and Rom in German
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
Question 1: What did the old-age pensioner plan to do?
Question 2: What finally happened to the old man
News Report Two
Glasgow has pledged to become the first carbon neutral city in the UK.
The citys council and Scottishpower have announced a range of strategies in an at tempt to reduce carbon emissions ahead of the new national targetof2045
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomed the pledge and said: Today s announcement between Scottishpower and Glasgow City Council-to make Glasgow the UK s first net-zero city-is a very welcome step. Reaching our goals will need exactly this kind of partnership approach-with Government, business, local authorities and citizens all playing their part,
Speaking ahead of the All Energy Conferenee being held in Glasgow Scottishpower chief executive Keith Anderson said: We have a large supply of renewable energy on our doorstep and one of only two low emission zones in action across the UK. Now, we need to invest in the technologies and programs that trans form the rest of Glasgows economy and make us net zero before anyone else
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
Q3: What do we learn from the news report?
Q4: what did Scottishpowers chief executives say ahead of the All Energy
Conference?
News Report Three
A Japanese IT firm has officially introduced an office cat policy to combat the stressful environment of the workplace. A total of nine furry friends freely wander around the office and do whatever their little hearts desire. Hidenobu Fukuda. who heads the firm, introduced the cat policy upon request from one of his employees, allowing staffers to bring their own cats to work. Employee Eri Ito, is grateful for the an imal's comfort ing ways. "Cats are sleeping just beside us. It's healing. she said. Not only does Fukuda encourage bringing cats to the job, but he also encourages his employees to rescue cats from over populated shelters or streets. lle gives 5000 yuan, about 45 US dollars, a month to those who rescued a cat. What s positive for the money, there are still some obstac les. Somet imes, the cat will walk on the phone and cut off the call. Or they shut down the computers by walking on to the office, Tto says, Still cats in the workplace have been a tremendous su
ccess for the company. The policy has led to various companies doing the same.
Questions 5 to7 are based on the news report you have just heard
Q5: What do we learn from the news report about the Japanese IT firm
Q6: What does Hidenobu Fukuda encourage his employees to do?
Q7: What did the news report say about the policy?
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversat ion and the questions will be spoken only once, After you hear a quest ion, you mist choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.
Conversation One
四级听力 M: Has Jimmy been coming in lately?
W: No, I havent seen him around. Why? Has he been causing any trouble?
M: No, that I know of. But I need to see him because my friends and I lent him some money last month and we haven t heard from him since I heard he comes here a lot. So, I thought I d come in and check with you.
W: Well, thats funny. Some other fellow came in asking for Jimmy just yesterday. A real nervous, pushy type of fellow saying he needed Jimmy for some study pro ject they were working on. But I can t quite remember what it was all about, Is this a lot of money we are talking about here?
M: No, just 60 pounds between the three of us, but still, a bit to much to just let go. He told us he got into an accident. Nothing serious mind you. But he damaged someone s car and wanted to get some money together to make up for the damage he d caused.
W: Hmm, isnt that sort of thing usually covered by insurance? And then, if you still want to g
ive money as some sort of apology or something. he probably shouldn t have to go around borrowing it from people.
M: You think Jimmy is just making it al/ up. See, I didnt think it was a bit weird for him to be asking for money for that sort of thing and his story was a bit vague to begin with. But I thought maybe he doesn t want his parents to know about what happened. So, he d rather come to us and keep things quiet. Anyway, Jimmy is a good guy, so we didn t make a fuss about.
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