Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
PART III LISTENING COMPREHENSION (20MIN.)
In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything once only. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response for each question on your answer sheet.
SECTION A STATEMENT
In this section you will hear nine statements. At the end of the statement you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following nine questions.
1. What did Harrison say?
A. The university students can go to the concert if they are free.
B. The university students needn't pay for the concert tickets.
C. There was no charge for the concert.
D. All the concerts in the university are free to the students.
2. What does the speaker mean?
A. Columbus traveled around the world.
B. Columbus's belief changed peoples' minds at his time.
C. Columbus held that no one else could travel around the world.
D. Columbus's belief was so new that people of his time couldn't understand it.
3. What does the speaker say?
A. His old flat is the same size as mine.
B. His house is the same size as mine.
C. His house is larger than mine.
D. He has moved into my house.
4. What did Mr. Johnson do?
A. He drove his car in the middle of the road.
B. He took the bird to the middle of the road.
C. His car ran over the bird in the middle of the road.
D. He stopped his car as he saw the bird.
5. What does the speaker like about his teaching?
A. The routine job.
B. Good pay.
C. Staying with the young.
D. More holidays.
6. What can be leant about Susan?
A. Susan finally started her car.
B. Susan has been driving for hours.
C. Susan still is having trouble with her car.
D. Susan has spent hours learning to drive.
7. What's Mary's problem?
A. She couldn't get along well with her classmates.
B. She lagged behind her classmates.
C. She will leave school with her classmates.
D. She has quitted school.
8. What does the statement mean?
A. He dreamed of passing all the examinations.
B. He didn't expect that he could pass all the examinations.
C. He was unable to pass all the examinations.
D. He failed in all his examinations.
9. What do we know about Peter?
A. Peter was beaten in the Marathon competition.
B. Peter recorded a sports program on a VCR.
C. Peter had never attended Marathon competition.
D. Peter set a new world record for Marathon.
SECTION B CONVERSATION
In this section, you will hear eight short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following eight questions.
10. What does the man think about the film?
A. He finds it fascinating.
B. He finds it dull.
C. He thinks it too long to see through.
D. He takes no interest in film.
11. What can we infer about the woman's partner?
A. She is excited about going home.
B. She is going over her accounts.
C. She will not go back home.
D. She finds the vacation too short.
12. What does the man mean?
A. They should take another road.
B. They won't be allowed to take that turn.
C. The road is closed at the moment.
D. They are too busy to go to the airport.
13. What does the woman mean?
A. The trees need to be cut down.
B. The trees help cool the house.
C. She needs to buy air conditioner.
D. She wants to have the trees removed.
14. When does the man want to help the woman?
A. Anytime but now is suitable for him.
B. He'd like to start now.
C. He prefers some time later.
D. He asks the woman to decide.
15. What are they talking about?
A. graduation ceremony.
B. summer vacation plans.
C. school courses.
D. job hunting.
16. Bob went to sleep so soon because _____.
A. he was making an experiment on sleeping.
B. he reset the clock.
C. he took some sleeping pills.
D. he felt exhausted after working for a whole day.
17. What did the woman do about her suit？
A. She reduced the size of it by herself.
B. She asked somebody else to make it smaller.
C. She made it longer by herself.
D. She asked somebody else to make it longer.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Questions 18, 19 and 20 are based on the following news item. At the end of the news item you will be given 30 seconds to answer the three questions.
Now listen to the news.
18. The aim of the conference is all of the following but _____.
A. to review a cease-fire agreement.
B. to appeal to the world for aid.
C. to review a disarmament agreement.
D. to look at Somalia's political future.
19. The conference is proposed by _____.
A. the Ethiopian government.
B. the United States.
C. the United Nations.
D. the warring factions.
20. If no agreement can be reached, _____.
A. the US Forces will withdraw from the country.
B. the US Forces will take over from the UN.
C. the UN will postpone its decision.
D. the UN forces will move away from the country.
Question 21 is based on the following news item. At the end of the news item you will be given 10 seconds to answer the following question.
Now listen to the news.
21. The Iraq factory must be dismantled because it can _____.
A. produce animal feed capable of being used as biological weapons.
B. produce materials for weapons of mass destruction.
C. produce massive weapons for germ warfare.
D. produce biological weapons。
Questions 22 and 23 are based on the following news item. At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the following two questions.
Now listen to the news.
22. For what was Italy criticised?
A. putting Ocalan to prison.
B. setting Ocalan free.
C. letting Ocalan leave Italy.
D. harboring Ocalan.
23. Turkey would take necessary measures if _____.
A. Ocalan were given protection.
B. Ocalan were treated badly.
C. Ocalan disappeared.
D. Ocalan took a hostile action.
Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news item. At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the following two questions.
Now listen to the news.
24. How long has the Indonesian forest been on fire?
A. Six months.
B. Over a year.
C. Almost one year.
D. Six years.
25. The fires have caused direct or indirect losses in all of the following areas EXCEPT ______ as mentioned in the news.
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on Answer Sheet Two.
Now, listen to the passage.
Camping Holidays
To many people, camping seems to be an ideal way of spending a holiday. / Not only is it cheaper, / it can also be far more convenient and enjoyable. / If you have young children, / camping has particular advantages. / There is always plenty for them to do, / and they enjoy the freedom of camping compared to the discipline of staying in a hotel. / Above all, camping provides a complete change for everyone, / and afterwards you return refreshed to your normal way of life./
To some people, however, all these advantages are outweighed by the disadvantages. / Such people will point out that on a camping holiday the mother still has to cook for everyone. / What is worse, she has to prepare meals / without the help of all the equipment in her kitchen at home./ Under bad weather, there may be too many flies and mosquitoes. / For these people a holiday in a hotel is well worth the extra expense.
The second and third readings. You should begin writing now.
The last reading. Now, you have two minutes to check through your work.
(a two-minute interval)
This is the end of the Dictation.
TAPESCRIPT OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION
PART III LISTENING COMPREHENSION
In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything once only. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response for each question on your answer sheet.
SECTION A STATEMENT
In this section you will hear nine statements. At the end of the statement you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following nine questions.
1. Harrison said the concert was free to all the university students.
2. Columbus was ahead of his times in his belief that the world was round.
3. Since he moved out of his old flat, he has lived in a house twice as large as mine.
4. At the sight of the bird in the middle of the road, Mr. Johnson brought his car to a standstill at once.
5. I have to teach the same course books several times, which is sometimes boring and not well-paid, but by and large I quite delight in being with young people.
6. Susan still hasn't succeeded in getting her car started after trying hard for several hours.
7. Mary finds it difficult to catch up with her classmates, and her mother is afraid that she will drop out of school.
8. He passed all the examinations, which is beyond his wildest dreams!
9. Peter beat the world record for Marathon in Asian Games.
SECTION B CONVERSATION
In this section, you will hear eight short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following eight questions.
10. F: The new film on space exploration is pretty interesting.
M: Pretty interesting? I can spend hours there.
11. M: Is your partner looking forward to going home for the vacation?
F: She's counting the days.
12. F: We can turn down this road to get to the airport.
M: But it is the busiest at this time of the day.
13. M: Those trees in front of your house are beautiful.
F: Yeah, and useful as well. They cut down on the need for air conditioning.
14. F: When would you like to help me review my lessons?
M: Now is as good a time as any.
15. M: I hope to find a job during summer vacation and earn some money. How about you?
F: I'm going to take a correspondence course so that I can graduate sooner.
16. F: Why did Bob fall asleep so quickly?
M: He had been working in the lab around the clock.
17. M: Your suit looks better now.
F: Thanks. I had it taken in.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Questions 18, 19 and 20 are based on the following news item. At the end of the news item you will be given 30 seconds to answer the three questions.
Now listen to the news.
A wide-ranging conference is due to begin in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa shortly, which will look at Somalia's political future and review January cease-fire and disarmament agreement. The UN-sponsored meeting which is due to last for five days is being attended not only by the warring fractions and political representatives, but also by community leaders, intellectuals and women's groups. It comes amid growing international pressure to bring peace to Somalia. A BBC correspondent in Addis Ababa says if no workable agreement is reached, some UN representatives have speculated that the UN which has postponed its decision on a mandate to take over from the US forces may withdraw from the country.
Question 21 is based on the following news item. At the end of the news item you will be given 10 seconds to answer the following questions.
Now listen to the news.
The UN says a UN team is close to destroying Iraq's largest complex capable of producing biological weapons. A UN official in Baghdad said the team should finish dismantling the factory by mid-June. Iraq insists the plant produces animal feed. But the UN official says the site near Baghdad can also be used to produce materials for germ warfare and therefore must be dismantled. Under the terms that ended the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq is to be stripped of weapons of mass destruction and the means to produce them.
Questions 22 and 23 are based on the following news item. At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the following two questions.
Now listen to the news.
Italy was sharply criticised for allowing the Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan to leave the country on Jan. 6 and disappear again. Turkish officials urged their country's neighbors in the Caucasus not to harbor the Kurdistan workers Party leader, who is said to be now in Nagorna Karabakh, an American enclave within Azerbaijian. Any such protection, Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said, would be regarded as a hostile act for which Turkey would 'take necessary measures.'
Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news item. At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the following two questions.
Now listen to the news.
Economic experts now estimate that the Indonesian forest fires which have been blazing intensely for nearly a year could cost the region up to six billion dollars. This includes direct losses, such as agricultural output and indirect costs like medical bills and a drop in tourism. Figures were arrived at by the world-wide Fund for Nature and Research Group funded by western governments, the economy and the environment program for southeast Asia.
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