SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes) Part A: Note-taking and Gap-filling Directions: In this part of the test you will hear a short talk. You will hear the talk only once. While listening to the talk, you may take notes on the important points so that you can have enough information to complete a gap-filling task on a parate ANSWER BOOKLET. You are required to write ONE word or figure only in each blank. You will not get your ANSWER BOOKLET until after you have listened to the talk. Many changes are expected to take place in transportation ________(1) in the twenty-first century. The prent forms of transportation will be very different in design, ________(2) and technology. The automobile will remain the most important method of travelling, but it will become totally _________(3) and have a telephone. It will be smaller and more _________(4). Gasoline mileage may ri to one hundred miles per gallon. Other methods of transportation in cities will include
__________(5) and other rapid transit systems, bus and “people movers.” __________(6) will still be the cheapest way for long-distance travelling between cities, but they will be more ___________(7), with sleeper ats, video games,
___________(8) and even ___________(9) rvices. Trains will change even more: they will move ___________(10) the tracks and will probably at a speed of ___________(11) miles per hour. The airplanes of the future will be
_____________(12), faster, _________(13) and more economical, becau they will be made of _____________(14). They will carry as many as 1,000 pasngers and have computers as __________(15). In the pasnger area, ____________(16) arrangements will be more comfortable and each pasnger will have a private ____________(17). So in the new century our world will become smaller, becau people will travel more ___________(18) and ___________(19) than they do today. There will be much more contact between people from different __________(20). Part B: Listening and Translation Ⅰ. Sentence Translation Directions: In this part of the test, your will hear 5 English ntences. You will hear the ntences only once. After you have heard each ntence, translate it into Chine and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.劝学教案
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_____________________________________________________________________________ Ⅱ. Passage Translation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages. You will hear the passages only once. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chine and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening.
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en answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage. U only information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Questions 1～3 Centuries of baffling legal terminology will be laid to rest next week in one of the biggest shake ups in civil court history. From Monday, people bringing cas will be known as claimants not “plaintiffs” while a “writ” will become a claim form. Lay people will no longer have to struggle with baffling Latin words and phras in an already confusing legal system. The changes, part of the “big bang” in civil legal procedure, are being driven by the Lord Chancellor's Department after recommendations from Lord Wolf, the Master of the Rolls. A spokesman for the department said “This will make the law easier to follow ,taking out the more difficult language and replacing it with words and phras which people can understand.” He likened the problem to receiving a quote from a plumber or builder where tho inexperienced in such matters tended to go along with the technical detail without really understanding what is being propod. As an illustration he added :“People don't like declaring that they don't understand something, so that when a lawyer says they have to sign an affidavit (a written statement in the new language) they agree without knowing what it is.” Chrissie Maher, founder director of the Plain English Campaign, has been lobbying for 30 years to get the courts to simplify their language. Two thousand Plain English members will be in court on Monday to make sure
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that the lawyers sick to the new language. Ms Maher said many people who spent years involved in litigation could not understand the outcome of their ca becau it was told to them in legal jargon. She said: “It's humiliating for people who have to pay for the privilege of listening to lawyers.” And she added: “It cannot stop here, the criminal courts must change now.” Monday's changeover includes new procedures which will allow court urs a “fast-track” option for small cas and a more hands-on approach by the judges aimed at saving time and money. Ian Magee, chief executive of the Court Service, said: “We hope the civil justice reforms will make courts easier to u. The replacement of legal and Latin terms with plain English phras is part and parcel of that process. Many current terms are confusing and difficult to understand for people who do not u courts regularly and we hope the new phras will help people follow proceedings more easily.” For the first time, all 226 county courts in England and Wales will be clod tomorrow to allow installation of software to accommodate the new vocabulary and the other changes. Ian Walker, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, said that while he welcomed the reforms he thought Monday would cau many problems for lawyers not fully acquainted with the new procedures. “It's all very well expecting us to be proactive and dynamic but if the technology can't deal with the changes then there will be problems.” Some lawyers have expresd sadness at the end of a language they have spent all their working lives getting to understand. But there will be a period of grace for tho who fi
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nd difficulty in breaking old habits and cannot adjust immediately to speaking in plain English. 1. Why does the spokesman for the Lord Chancellor's Department make the comparison between plumber / builder and lawyer? 2. Explain briefly the Plain English Campaign and the major procedures of the civil justice reforms. 3. What are the respons of lawyers to the language reform? Questions 4～6 Legs are a funny business. Especially if you are trying to turn them on an expensive, computerid Italian wood-working machine but do not have the skills to program it properly— as one small Esx company found to its cost. Until Dr. David Hall took over as director, the 20 employee Thames Gateway Technology Centre—manufacturer of reproduction furniture in Loughton —was about to spend a fortune on diamond-tipped tools to keep the machines running. Working the machines at the wrong speeds was destroying conventional tools and the company knew in ,but could not afford to nd its staff to Italy for training. Dr. Hall had the answer. The university of East London had technology students who were learning exactly the computer aided design skills the company needed. Why not let them work for the company half a day a week? They would get exposure to employment skills, argued Dr. Hall, and at the same time solve the company's technical problems. The scheme was so successful that the university is building it into a final-year project, and helped inspire a government-backed initiative in east London to encourage high-tech enterpri in the area through technology transfer. It is hoped this move will lead to the regeneration of a region
that has been badly hit by industrial decline, high unemployment and the lack of information technology skills to support new business. The Thames Gateway Technology Centre was founded last summer with the help of a ま 7.8m government grant from the Single Regeneration Challenge Fund. It will act as an agency to transfer technology and skills from higher education centres in London's East End to the local community. The centre will make available the resources and experti of three east London universities —the University of East London, Queen Mary &
