Directions
In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
真题一 （点击查看听力MP3）
Perhaps because going to college is so much a part of the American dream, many people go for no (26) _____ reason. Some go because their parents expect it, others because it’s what their friends are doing. Then, there’s the belief that a college degree will (27) _____ ensure a good job and high pay.
Some students (28) _____ through for years, attending classes, or skipping(逃课)them as the case may be, reading only what can’t be avoided, looking for less (29)_____courses, and never being touched or changed in any important way. For a few of these people, college provides no (30) _____, yet because of parental or peer pressure, they cannot voluntarily leave. They stop trying in the hope that their teachers will make the decision for them by (31) _____ them.
To put it bluntly(直截了当地), unless you're willing to make your college years count, you might be (32) _____ doing something else. Not everyone should attend college, nor should everyone who does attend begin right after high school. Many college students (33) ____ taking a year or so off. A year out in the world helps some people to (34) _____ their priorities and goals. If you're really going to get something out of going to college, you have to make it mean something, and to do that you must have some idea why you’re there, what you hope to get out of it, and (35) _____ even what you hope to become.
真题二（点击查看听力MP3）
Looking at the basic biological systems, the world is not doing very well. Yet economic indicators show the world is 26____. Despite a slow start at the beginning of the eighties, global economic output increased by more than a fifth during the 27____. The economy grew, trade increased, and millions of new jobs were created. How can biological indicators show the 28____ of economic indicators?
The answer is that the economic indicators have a basic fault: they show no difference between resource uses that 29____ progress and those uses that will hurt it. The main measure of economic progress is the gross national product (GNP), 30____, this totals the value of all goods and services produced and subtracts loss in value of factories and equipment. Developed a half-century ago, GNP helped 31____ a common way among countries of measuring change in economic output. For some time, this seemed to work 32____ well, but serious weaknesses are now appearing. As indicated earlier, GNP includes loss in value of factories and equipment, but it does not 33____ the loss of natural resources, including nonrenewable resources such as oil or renewable resources such as forests.
This basic fault can produce a 34____ sense of national economic health. According to GNP, for example, countries that overcut forests actually do better than those that preserve their forests. The trees cut down are counted as income but no subtraction is made for 35____ the forests.
真题三（点击查看听力MP3）
My favorite TV. show? "The Twilight Zone. " I(26)like the episode called "The Printer'sDevil. " It's about a newspaper editor who's being(27) out of business by a big newspapersyndicate--you know, a group of papers(28)by the same people.He's about to(29)when he's interrupted by an old man who says his name is Smith. The editor is not only offered $ 5,000 to pay off his newspaper's(30), but this Smith character also offers hisservices for free. It turns out that the guy operates the printing machine with amazing speed, and soon he's turning out newspapers with31 The small paper is successful again. The editor is/(32)athow quickly Smith gets his stories--only minutes after they happen--but soon he's presented with acontract to sign. Mr. Smith, it seems, is really the devil! The editor is frightened by this news, but he is more frightened by the idea of losing his newspaper, so he agrees to sign. But soon Smith is(33)the news even before it happens--and it's all terrible--one disaster after another. Anyway, there is a little more to tell, but I don't want to(34)the story for you. I really like these old episodes of "The Twilight Zone" because the stories are fascinating. They are not realistic. But then again, in a way they are, because they deal with(35).
