5月21日托福模考 Listening Part

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Conversation 1

* 1.Why does the student go to see the woman?

A. To make sure he has completed enough course work to graduate

B. To find out when his student loan must be paid back

C. To pick up an administrative form

D. To complain about a library fine

* 2.What is the student's problem?

A. He forgot to return some library books.

B. He cannot start paying off his student loan yet.

C. He paid his graduation fee too late.

D. He owes money to the music library.

* 3.Who is Professor Williams?

A. The head of the library

B. The director of a play the student was in

C. The student's music professor

D. The person who arranged a job interview for the student

* 4.What is the most likely reason the student did not receive the notice from the library?

A. He recently moved.

B. He has been out of town.

C. The library just mailed it the day before.

D. The library sent it to Professor Williams.

* 5.What can be inferred about the student when he says this:

A. He is not sure how to respond to the woman.

B. He feels he has been treated unfairly.

C. He wonders if there is another solution.

D. He does not think the woman's suggestions will work.

Lecture 1

* 6.What does the professor mainly discuss?

A. The process by which molten rock can enter the ocean

B. The formation of hydrothermal vents

C. The differences between geysers and hydrothermal vents

D. The mineral composition of hydrothermal vent chimneys

* 7.According to the professor, what is the main difference between geysers and hydrothermal vents?

A. Where they occur

B. What causes them

C. The size of their plumes

D. The temperature of the water they emit

* 8. What aspect of hydrothermal vents is of most significance to the professor?

A. Their role in supporting unusual life forms

B. Their role in affecting the chemical composition of the oceans

C. Their role in affecting the movement of ocean plates

D. Their role in affecting the temperature of ocean water

* 9.What conditions are needed for hydrothermal vents to form? （click 2 answers)

A. Heated rock beneath the ocean floor

B. Rocks on the ocean floor with high mineral content

C. Cracks in the ocean floor

D. Strong ocean currents

* 10. What are two differences between black smokers and white smokers?（click 2 answers)

A. Black smokers emit water at a higher temperature.

B. Black smokers are more common than white smokers are.

C. Black smokers are found in deeper ocean water.

D. Black smokers release different types of minerals than white smokers release.

* 11. What does the professor say about the chimney structures that grow around hydrothermal vents?

A. They last only a few years.

B. They are formed by a single mineral.

C. They can grow very tall.

D. Their growth rate depends on the temperature of the water emitted from the vent.

Conversation 2

* 1.Why does the professor criticize the man's efforts on an assignment?

A. He did not follow the professor's earlier advice.

B. He did not get the professor's approval for his paper topic.

C. He did not discuss some material that the professor considers important.

D. He did not read more than one novel by the same author.

* 2.What is the man's initial reaction to the professor's criticism?

A. He is unhappy that the professor did not read his paper carefully.

B. He is embarrassed because he knows he did not put much time into this assignment.

C. He did not realize that this assignment was so important to his class grade.

D. He does not think that the problem is as important as the professor does.

* 3.The professor suggests that the student failed to discuss an important fact about the main character, Antoinette, in The Wide Sargasso Sea. What fact was it?

A. The novel is told entirely from Antoinette's point of view.

B. Antoinette is based on a character from another novel.

C. Antoinette has been the subject of many literary studies.

D. Antoinette's experiences are based on the life of a famous writer.

* 4.Why does the professor discuss the setting of The Wide Sargasso Sea?

A. To encourage the man to analyze that aspect of the novel more thoroughly

B. To identify one aspect of the novel that has made it very popular with the public

C. To emphasize that authors often choose places they have lived as settings for their novels

D. To explain why the author named her novel after a place rather than a character

* 5.What does the man imply about rewriting his paper?

A. He is not sure that he understands what the professor expects from him.

B. He is not confident that he will be able to produce a better paper.

C. He would like to attend one of the professor's writing conferences first.

D. He would prefer to discuss Jane Eyre in a different paper.

Lecture 2

* 6.What aspect of drawing is the talk mainly about?

A. How to make a drawing look like a photograph

B. How to draw figures in motion

C. How to develop a more abstract style

D. How to convey a personal point of view

* 7.Why does the professor discuss a drawing of his son?

A. To give an example of art that creates a powerful response

B. To explain a technique he uses for drawing the human figure

C. To describe the bond that exists between children and animals

D. To inform students about a gallery show that will open soon

* 8.When the professor talks about tourists, what point is he making about artists?

A. The best artists provide the type of art the public demands.

B. Artists should find personal connections with things they observe .

C. Artists should produce work with a wide variety of content.

D. New artists need to gain familiarity with the work of established artists.

* 9.What does the professor strongly encourage his students to do in order to become better artist? (click 3 answers)

A. Avoid copying his style of drawing.

B. Pay less attention to current artistic trends.

C. Choose a great artist as a role model.

D. Develop their own way of communication artistically.

E. Study art in another country.

* 10.Why does the professor want students to use cameras in a class exercise?

A. So that they can take pictures of their own artwork

B. So that they can see what the world looks like through a camera lens

C. So that they can practice some techniques used by famous photographers

D. So that they can analyze which images they find emotionally powerful

* 11.Why does the professor say this:

A. To call attention to his desire to become a famous artist

B. To acknowledge that he may be overemphasizing his point

C. To explain why he chooses dramatic subjects for his artwork

D. To confirm that students understood the main point in his last class

Lecture 3

* 12. What is the purpose of the lecture?

A. To analyze the relationship between an animal's visual perception and its body structure

B. To make students aware of potential bias in interpretations of animal behavior

C. To argue that human vision is inferior to the vision of certain animals

D. To evaluate methods researchers use to determine the characteristics of an animal's vision

* 13.What feature does the professor describe as being common to both an insect and a fiddler crab?

A. They both have compound vision.

B. They both have a panoramic field of vision.

C. They both have eyes on stalks.

D. They both defend their territory in a similar manner.

* 14.According to the professor, what detail about the fiddler crab makes it easy to observe?

A. It remains close to its home.

B. It moves very slowly.

C. lts shell is easy to identify.

D. lts eyestalks can be seen from far away.

* 15.According to the professor, what is the most important distinction that a fiddler crab must make?

A. The distinction between mudflats and other surfaces

B. The distinction between predators and prey

C. The distinction between crabs and predators

D. The distinction between male crabs and female crabs

* 16.How would a fiddler crab react to a ball thrown in the sky above it?

A. As if the ball were a rival crab

B. As if the ball were a potential mate

C. As if the ball were a predator

D. As if the ball were potential prey

* 17.What does the professor imply when she says this:

A. Students should take notes on the point she is making.

B. Students should not be surprised by the fact she is citing.

C. She realizes that her statement contradicts what students have learned.

D. She is aware that her statement does not seem logical.