Part Ⅲ
Listening Comprehension
Section A
11. What can we infer from the conversation?
【答案】C. The man is looking for an apartment.
【解析】從對話中看出女士在推銷，而男士正在找apartment building。。

12. What is the woman eager to know?
【答案】B How the pictures will turn out.
【解析】女士想知道的是if the shots I took are as good as I thought. 照片是不是和她想的異樣好。這里shots指照片。turn out指照片拍出來的效果。因此選B。

13. What does the man mean?
【答案】C The suitcase can be fixed in time.
【解析】男士說到find a handle后面提到 but that shouldn’t take too long說明不是沒有handle可以匹配。因此排除A,B。

14. What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
【答案】B He needs a vehicle to be used in harsh weather.
【解析】男士說到truck需要operate for long periods of time in very cold temperatures，因此選擇選項B。very cold temperatures對應(yīng)harsh weather.

15. What do we learn about the woman?
【答案】A She has made up her mind to resign.
【解析】從文中女士強硬的口氣I could no longer live with…可以看出她下定決心。因此選擇A。

16. What does the women want to do？
【答案】D Replace the shirt with one of some other material.
【解析】女士首先提到exchange the shirt，后面又解釋了原因allergic to wool，從男士的回答也可以看出換成別的材質(zhì)。因此選擇D。

17. Where does this conversation most probably take place?
【答案】D At a “Lost and Found”
【解析】男士首先問Did anyone happen to turn in a new handbag?，女士又問了他handbag的詳細信息，可見是在失物招領(lǐng)處，選D。

18. What does the man plan to do with his old house?
【答案】C Convert in into a hotel
【解析】but后面是真正意圖: turning it into a guest house。guest house 意為賓館，因此選C。
19. What is the key to write a good classical detective story according to the man?
【答案】D Careful plotting and clueing.
【解析】對話中提到it must be so carefully plotted and so carefully clued，對應(yīng)D選項。

20. What does the man mainly need when working on a book?
【答案】D To be entirely alone.
【解析】對話中can’t even bare anybody else, be completely alone都說明該作家需要獨立的寫作空間，因此選擇D。

21. What does the man say about writers?
【答案】C They look at the world in a detached manner.
【解析】關(guān)鍵詞detachment 分離。作家提到作者的經(jīng)歷和寫作。雖然說道some experiences overwhelm everyone, 但是后面的but暗示了答案，stand aside、detachment都對應(yīng)了C選項。

22. What does the woman say about British railways?
【答案】B Like it or not, you have to use them.
【解析】在對話一開始，女士就提到了There’s only one railway system, if you don't like a particular railway, you can’t go and use another. 因為只有一條鐵路，即使不喜歡，也只能乘坐，換句話說不論喜歡與否都得用它。因此選擇B。

23. What do some people who write to the man complain about?
【答案】D The monopoly of British Railways.
【解析】對話中談及monopoly，鐵路壟斷，因此選D。其他選項均未涉及。

24. What does the man say threatens the existence of railways?
【答案】B Competition from other modes of transport.
【解析】對話中modes of transport are all around對應(yīng)選項B。

25. What does the man say about railways in other countries?
【答案】D They lose a lot of money.
【解析】男士以德、法兩國鐵路為例，每年鐵路都有大量虧損。因此選擇D。而B選項中disappearing僅僅是美國的情況。

Section B
Passage One
文章解析：
本文是一篇地理科學類文章，有點難度，關(guān)鍵是對一些專有名詞的把握。文章開始先指出全球變暖帶來最主要的威脅是極地冰蓋的融化，并給出了相應(yīng)的事實和數(shù)據(jù)加以證明。接著更多例子表明南極洲的冰蓋在過去的130萬年間至少坍塌過一次。相關(guān)高等學府的學者和科學家也相繼用實驗證明南極洲西部曾是一片汪洋。最后引用Herman Engleheart的話，再次提醒我們，西南極洲大冰原很可能再次融化消失。
其實按常理來說，如果聽力文章比較有難度的話，題目的難度相對應(yīng)會降低。所以大家在遇到此類題型時不必驚慌。提取關(guān)鍵信息、邊聽邊記筆記，運用好背景知識等就能把題目做出來。平時也要注意擴大閱讀范圍，增長見識。關(guān)于環(huán)境保護和全球變暖之類的文章屢見不鮮，要求考生在這方面要引起足夠的重視。

難點詞匯：
West Antarctic ice sheet西南極洲大冰原 ice shelf 冰架 anchored 固定的
fossil 化石 microscopic marine plants 海洋微生物 geological 地質(zhì)的

答案及解析：
26. What is one of the most frightening threats of global warming according to the passage?
【解析】C) Many coastal cities will be covered with water.
細節(jié)題。本題不難，從聽力開頭即可聽到 “raising sea level so much that coastal cities from New York to Los Angles to Shanghai will be flooded” 所以選C選項。

27. What do scientists disagree on?
【解析】B) How unstable the West Antarctic ice sheet is.
細節(jié)題。本題不難。注意關(guān)鍵句 “but Antarctic experts disagree strongly on just how unstable it is” 即可得出答案。

28. What is the latest information revealed about the West Antarctic ice sheet?
【解析】A）It collapsed at least once during the past 1.3 million years.
細節(jié)題。注意提取關(guān)鍵信息 “new evidence reveals that all or most of the Antarctic ice sheet collapsed at least once during the past 1.3 million years” 所以選A選項。

29. What the scientists’ latest findings suggest?
【解析】A) The West Antarctic region was once a open ocean.
細節(jié)題。聽力最后的例子說明了這一點“which suggest that the region was once open ocean not solid ice”， 而其他選項都不是最新的發(fā)現(xiàn)。

Passage Two
30 B）Whether a deleted photo is immediately removed from the web.
【解析】聽力一開始作者就建議我們嘗試刪除自己上傳的照片“Take a photo and upload it to Facebook, then after a day or so, note what the URL link to the picture is and then delete it.”，由此可知應(yīng)該選B。

31 B) The way they store data.
【解析】“Why do "deleted" photos stick around so long? The problem relates to the way data is stored on large websites”，從這句話可知圖片之所以不能立即刪除跟它們存儲的方式有關(guān)。


32 C) When the URL is reused.
【解析】“In the case of Facebook, the company says data may hang around until the URL in question is reused”，從這句話可知只有URL被再次用到才會被刪除。

Passage Three
33. A
解析：第一段原文可以找到對應(yīng)句子，即some iced coffees contain as many calories as a hot dinner.

34. B
解析：第一段原文中有對應(yīng)語句，即Better skip dinner or hit the gym afterwards.

35. C
解析：在此句中，“The WCRF has estimated that 19,000 cancers a year in Britain could be prevented…”，關(guān)鍵詞prevented可以得知答案為C選項。

Section C
36. diverse
37. tragic
38. commit
39. outcome
40. scale
41. colleagues
42. accurate
43. averages
45. Students with high hope set themselves higher goals and know how to work to attain them,
46. went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right.
47. Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be.