闵行区2013学年第二学期高三年级质量调研考试英语试卷录音文字材料
Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. M: Fax the copy of the agreement for me and make 5 copies for Mr. Smith.
W: Certainly, Sir. As soon as I finish typing the letter.
Q: What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?
2.W: Could you tell me the starting time for both performances?
M: The first begins at 7:00 o’clock, and it lasts two hours. The second follows immediately
after a ten-minute break.
Q: At what time does the second show start?
3.W: May I make a recommendation, sir? The fish with our special sauce is good. It’s fresh
from the ocean.
M: Thank you, but I don’t care for seafood.
Q: Where does the conversation probably take place?
4.W: This coffee never seems to taste quite right to me. Maybe we should buy a different brand.
M: Why not a new coffee pot?
Q: What does the man suggest?
5. M: I just read your blood test report, and everything seems OK.
W: I see. Then there is nothing to worry about.
Q: How does the woman probably feel now?
6. M: What about going for a bike-ride? It stopped raining half an hour ago.
W: But the road might still be wet.
Q: What does the woman mean?
7.W: Tom, how are you finding life on campus this year?
M: Much the same as the last.
Q: What does Tom mean?
8. W: Is that maths course really as hard as everybody says?
M: Worse, believe it or not.
Q: What does the man imply?
9. M: Let’s ask Mike to introduce the musicians to the audience at the beginning of the concert.
W: Ask Mike? He’ll be playing the violin himself.
Q: What does the woman mean?
10.W: Hey! Your exam is over, isn’t it? Why aren’t you cheerful?
M: Oh, I don’t know. It isn’t that the questions were too hard, but I always feel uneasy when
the exam doesn’t seem to have much to do with the book.
Q: What does the man think of the exam?

Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
Mrs. Taylor was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast and boasted of the fact that she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished for a driving offence.
Then one day she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without stopping.
When Mrs. Taylor came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason why she had not stopped at the red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak with old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished what he was saying, Mrs. Taylor opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she chose a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.
When she had successfully done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now, it’s your turn. I suppose you drive a car, and that you have no doubts about your eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen attempts, he had still not succeeded. The case against Mrs. Taylor was dismissed and her record remained unbroken.
(Listen again, please.)
Questions:
11. What did Mrs. Taylor often boast?
12. According to the judge, why didn’t Mrs. Taylor stop at the red light?
13. How did Mrs. Taylor prove that the judge was wrong?
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
By the end of the term I hope you’ll be convinced that formal writing always requires revision. Sometimes it requires a fairly major rewriting of the paper. Some students may have the mistaken idea that revision means simply making corrections in spelling and grammar. I call that proof-reading. What I expect you to do as you revise is to value and improve the overall effectiveness of your paper. But how can you tell if your paper is effective? Well, for example, start by asking yourself these questions: Is the topic restricted enough to be fully discussed within the given links? Are the main ideas clear? Are they supported by the specific details in the examples? Do they move smoothly from one idea to the next? You’ll need enough time for a possible major repair, that is, you may have to make a lot of changes before your paper becomes really clear to the reader. So I’ll expect a draft of each paper two weeks before the final due date. That way I can criticize it and get it back in time for you to revise it. Then you can turn in a final draft for grading. This process may seem like a great deal of trouble at first but I think you will find it valuable. In fact after you finish this course I doubt that you will ever turn in a term paper without first revising it carefully.
(Listen again, please.)
Questions:
14. What should the students’ aim be when they revise their work?
15. When should the first draft be turned in?
16. What is the purpose of the talk?

Section C
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
W: I enjoy going through secondhand bookstores, don’t you, David? It’s interesting to see what people used to enjoy reading. Did you see this old book of children’s stories?
M: Some of these books aren’t so old, Jenny. See? This mystery was published only six years ago. It costs 75 cents. You can’t beat that!
W: Hey! Look at this!
M: What? Are you getting interested in 19th century poetry all of a sudden?
W: No. Look! Someone gave this book as a present and wrote a note on the inside of the front cover. It’s dated 1893. Maybe it’s worth something.
M: Everything on that shelf is worth 50 cents.
W: But if this is a signature of someone who is well known, it might bring a lot more. I hear William Shakespeare’s signature is worth about a million dollars.
M: Oh, I can hardly read what that one says. Who wrote it?
W: The name looks like Harold Dobson. Wasn’t he a politician or something? I’m going to buy this book and see if I can find a name like that in the library.
M: Good luck! Your poetry book may make you rich, but I’ll bet my 75-cent mystery is a better buy.
(Listen again, please.)

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
M: Hello, I’m carrying out some market research of Beauty Fitness Club. Would you be able to spare a few minutes to answer a few questions?
W: Sure, as long as it doesn’t take more than 5 minutes.
M: OK, first of all, may I have your membership number, please?
W: Urm…It’s PTF78196.
M: So that’s PTF78196. OK, your occupation?
W: I’m an accountant in an oil company.
M: OK, now I’d like to ask you some questions relating to the club. What do you think of our classes?
W: Urm, I really enjoy them. I attend rock climbing and yoga.
M: If the scale is one to five. Five is the best. How would you rate your instructors?
W: Oh, I would say… the top score, definitely. They’re extremely professional and supportive.
M: Do you have any suggestions for the improvement?
W: Well, the only thing I would say is the evening class. Yoga, I mean, can get very busy. Maybe the club could think about running another class in the evening.
M: Well, thanks. We take the view of our customers very seriously and I’m sure you’ll see some exciting improvement in the near future.