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Listening Examination Paper A

Listening Examination Paper A
Listening Examination Paper A

Listening Examination Paper A

I. Directions: You’re going to hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Choose the best answer to the question you’ve heard.(20%)

1. a. In a bank b. In a bookstore

c. In a supermarket

d. In a restaurant

2. a. A teacher b. A manager c. A supervisor d. An editor

3. a. The thunderstorm b. The weather

c. The sun

d. The stormy weather

4. a. In a bookstore b. In a library

c. In a laboratory

d. In a video store

5. a. Teacher and student b. Husband and wife

c. Doctor and patient

d. Friends

6. a. Call John b. Wait a little longer

c. Check the time

d. Go without John

7. a. A doctor b. A patient c. A teacher d. A waiter

8. a. To a theater b. To a hospital

c. To a grocery store

d. To a drug store

9. a. In a post office b. In a bank

c. In a travel agency

d. In a department store

10. a The study of English b. An advanced English course

c. A part-time job

d. Summer vacation plans

II. Passage. A man of bad memory

Directions: Listen to the story and choose the best answer to each question you hear. (10%)

1. a. Lack of confidence. b. Lack of intelligence

c. Carelessness

d. Absent-mindedness

2. a. He often had to be reminded to go to class at the university

b. He often had to be reminded to meet people at the appointed time.

c. He sometimes forgot what he was talking about in the middle of a sentence.

d. He sometimes forgot to take meals

3. a. To accompany his children on a train ride.

b. To have a holiday with his children on the beach

c. To go and visit his friend of his in a seaside town with his children.

d. To stay home and take care of his children.

4. a. He forgot where he was going

b. He forgot his friend’s address.

c. He forgot to tell his wife where he was going.

d. He forgot to take the train tickets.

5. a. Professor Rudd was an old man.

b. Mrs Rudd was actually more intelligent than her husband.

c. Mrs Rudd was an indispensable companion to her husban

d.

d. Professor Rudd’s reputation was falling rapidly.

Directions: Listen to the story again and write down your answer to each of the following questions.(10%)

1.How far was the seaside town?

2.Why didn’t Richard tell his children the name of the town?

3.What did Mrs Rudd do when her husband came back home the first time?

4.When did Richard return home the second time?

5.Why was Richard back again? Write out a possible reason.

III. Directions: You’re going to hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Choose the best answer to the question you’ve heard.(20%)

1. a. They are very good friends b. They are fond of animals

c. They haven’t seen each other for a long time.

d. They don’t expect to meet each other in the zoo.

2. a. He had prepared for the exam.

b. He couldn’t prepare for the exam without notes.

c. He didn’t have to prepare for the exam.

d. He would ask John to help him for the exam.

3. a. He will join them later.

b. He will bring his girlfriend along with him.

c. His girlfriend will join them.

d. He will not be able to join them.

4. a. He wants to know how to spend such a hot day.

b. He’d like to go.

c. The warm weather is quite pleasant.

d. The weather is too hot for a picnic.

5. a. He will help the woman after he finishes his work.

b. He’d like to work here.

c. He doesn’t want to help the woman.

d. He enjoys his work.

6. a. The woman is sick b. The woman is confident

c. The woman is worried about her interview.

d. The woman is feeling better.

7. a. He wasn’t able to get the book b. He couldn’ t find the book

c. He forgot to go to the library

d. The library closed too early

8. a. She is on a diet b. She like apples

c. There is nothing else to eat.

d. She is not very hungry.

9. a. She thinks Professor Bush is strict with himself.

b. She doesn’t think Professor Bush is strict.

c. She agrees with Henry

d. She believes Henry is right

10. a. The woman has lost Tom’s phone number.

b. The man wants to install a phone.

c. Tom will keep his promise.

d. Tom hasn’t sent the man his phone number yet.

IV. Directions: You are going to hear ten short statements. Each will be read just once. Listen carefully and choose the answer which is closest in meaning to the statement you hear. (20%)

1. a. We have to be at the airport at 5 o’clock

b. We have to be at the airport at 5:15

c. We have to be at the airport at 5:30

d. We have to be at the airport at 5:45

2. a. It’s a fine day today b. Jack thinks it will rain today

c. Jack likes fine weather

d. It’s not a fine day today

3. a. I do very well in biology b. I do better in chemistry.

c. Chemistry is harder than biology

d. Biology is as easy as chemistry

4. a. he is a pilot b. he is a teacher c. He is a farmer d. He is a lawyer

5. a. My brother does not like swimming b. My brother likes nothing

c. My brother likes swimming best. d My brother like dancing better.

6. a. Bob studies well b. Bob is catching up in his studies

c. Bob is very well

d. Bob has some difficulties in his studies.

7. a. Rose postponed her visit to her aunt.

b. Rose intended to visit her aunt with her son.

c. After Peter finished his exam he would visit his aunt.

d. As soon as Peter finished the exams they would go together.

8. a. I remember Linda’s address b. I’ve forgotten Linda’s address.

c. I’m not sure if I have Linda’s address with me.

d. I don’t know Linda’s address.

9. a. Bill was the last one to pick up his passport.

b. Bill didn’t remember picking up his passport.

c. Bill didn’t forget to pick up his passport after all.

d. Bill remembered to ask who had picked up his passport.

10. a. Learn while you are young b. Old people can still learn

c. One won’t learn when he is too ol

d.

d. Old people have a keen desire to learn

V. Directions: You will hear a passage. It will read three times. Listen carefully and supply the missing words. (20%)

Some people have good memories, and __________________________. There are other people who can only remember things _____________________ The famous _______________, Charles Dickens said that he could walk down any long street in London and then ________________________________ he had passed.

A good memory is _____________________________. Everyone learns his or her own language by ______________________________what he or she

hears _________________________________________, and children who live abroad with their parents __________________________________________. But it is not so easy to learn a second language in school, because __________________________________________. What’s more, they are ________________________________.

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