1、雅思（听力）模拟试卷 1及答案与解析 一、 Listening Module (30 minutes the beginners course, which is probably what youd be looking at, is 320 - no, sorry 330 - its just gone up - and the pilot course is 430. Maria: Right. Man: And you also have to become a member of our club so that youre insured. Thatll cost you 12 a
2、 day. Everyone has to take out insurance, you see. Maria: Does that cover me if I break a leg? Man: No, Im afraid not - its only 3rd party and covers you against damage to other people or their belongings, but not theft or injury. You would need to take out your own personal accident insurance. Mari
3、a: I see! And whats the best way to get to your place? By public transport or could we come by bike? Were pretty keen cyclists. Man: Its difficult by public transport though there is a bus from Newcastle; most people get here by car, though, cos were a little off the beaten track. But you could ride
4、 here OK. Ill send you a map. Just let me take down a few details. Whats your name? Maria: Maria Gentle. Man: And your address, Maria? Maria: Well, Im a student staying with a family in Newcastle. Man: So its care of . Maria: Care of Mr and Mrs. McDonald. Man: Like the hamburgers! Maria: Yes, exactl
5、y. Man: McDonald . Maria: The post office box address is probably best. Its R.O. Box 676, Newcastle. Man: Is there a fax number there, because I could fax you the information? Maria: Yes, actually, there is. Its 0249 thats for Newcastle and then double seven five four three one. Man: OK. Now if you
6、decide to do one of our courses, youll need to book in advance and to pay when you book. How would you be paying? Maria: Uh . by credit card if thats OK. Do you take Visa? Man: Yes, fine. We take all major cards, including Visa. Maria: OK then. Thanks very much. Maria: Hi, Pauline. Pauline: Hi, Mari
7、a! Whats that youre reading? Maria: Just some information from a paragliding school-it looks really good fun. Do you fancy a go at paragliding? Pauline: Sure! Do you have to buy lots of equipment and stuff? Maria: Not really. The school provides the equipment but wed have to take a few things along.
8、 Pauline: Such as? Maria: Well, it says here. Clothes: wear stout boots, so no sneakers or sandals I suppose, and clothes suitable for an active day in the hills, preferably a long-sleeved t-shirt. Thats probably in-case you land in the stinging nettles! It also says we should bring a packed lunch.
9、We do not recommend soft drinks or flasks of coffee. Water is really the best thing to drink. Er. we need to bring suntan lotion and something to protect your head from the sun! Pauline: OK that sounds reasonable. And where would we stay? Maria: Well look! They seem to operate a campsite too, becaus
10、e it says here that its only 10 a day to pitch a tent. Thatd be fine, wouldnt it? And that way wed save quite a bit because even a cheap hotel would cost money. Pauline: Um. or perhaps we could stay in a bed-and- breakfast nearby. It gives a couple of names here we could ring. I think I might prefer
11、 that. Hotels and youth hostels would all be miles away from the farm and I dont fancy a caravan. Maria: No, I agree. But lets take a tent and pray for good weather. Pauline: OK - lets do it. What about next weekend? Maria: No, I cant - Im going on a geography field trip. Pauline: . and then its the
12、 weekend before the exams and I really do need to study. Maria: OK, then. Lets make it the one after the exams. Pauline: Fine - well need a break by then. Can you ring and let me know . 1 【正确答案】 C 2 【正确答案】 C 3 【正确答案】 D 4 【正确答案】 McDonald/Macdonald/MacDonald 5 【正确答案】 Post Office Box/PO Box 676 6 【正确答案
13、】 775431 7 【正确答案】 credit card/Visa 8 【正确答案】 DF 【试题解析】 你必须选对两个答案才能得分。正确答案也许并不是你从录音机听到的单词。 Questions 8 的选项 E就是一个例子。注意这类单词是发何变换说法的。 9 【正确答案】 AF 10 【正确答案】 after (the) exams 【试题解析】 Question 10 是一个不同类型的题目。注意听录音。 11 【听力原文】 Announcer: The Goodwood Museum is currently celebrating some of the most extravagant
14、 types of car design in its festival of speed. Heres our reporter Vincent Freed, whos on site, to tell us about some of the cars on display. Reporter: Well, here I am, standing in front of one of the most prestigious cars ever built, the Duesenberg, a fantastically expensive, luxurious car built in
15、the early part of the 20th century and bearing all the glamorous qualities of the jazz age. How many were there? Well, only 473 Duesenberg J-types were ever built and the model here is one of the rarest. Each had a short 125-inch chassis or framework and the body was always in the form of an open tw
16、o-seater. The technology behind the cars 6.9-litre engine was extraordinary. It featured capsules of mercury in the engines to absorb vibration and provide an incredibly smooth ride. In fact, these cars offered unparalleled performance . in an age when 160 kilometres per hour was considered very fas
17、t, the Duesenberg promised a top speed of 180 kilometres per hour and could do 140 kilometres per hour in second gear. Duesenberg, who designed the car, sold it as a frame and engine . this was typical of the age again and many prestige manufacturers such as Rolls-Royce did exactly the same. Owners
18、able to afford the hefty 9,000 price tag for the basic car would then commission a coachwork company to build a body tailored to their own individual requirements. The Duesenbergs great attraction for the driver, was its instrument panel which offered all the usual features but also several others i
19、ncluding a stop-watch. It was the Duesenbergs technology that lay behind its success as a racing car and they dominated the American racing scene in the 1920s winning the Indianapolis Grand Prix in 1924, 25 and 27. On to another celebrity, the 1922 Leyat Helica. Only 30 of these French propellor car
20、s were built and the model here at Goodwood, which was the fourth to be made, is thought to be the only surviving example still capable of running. The brains behind this car was Marcel Leyat who was an aviation pioneer first and foremost, and the influence of flying is quite apparent in the car. Th
21、e Leyat very strongly resembles a light aircraft with its front propellor but in this case its minus any wings of course! Its quite odd to think that this car was whirring through France, just as the Duesenberg was blasting down roads at 160 kilometres per hour across the Atlantic. The Leyats were u
22、sed regularly in France in the 1920s and were even produced in saloon and van form, as well as two-seater. The Leyat matched its propellor drive with its equally bizarre steering which used the rear rather than the front wheels! But despite looking rather frail, it was a tough machine. In fact, when
23、 troops tried to steal it during the Second World War, the cars baffling design was clearly beyond the would-be thieves and it ended up being driven into a tree, breaking the propellor. And now for the Firebird . 11 【正确答案】 473 【试题解析】 Section 2 一般是 1个人的讲话。阅读题目内容和标题，试着从讲话和图画中猜测该题的场景。注意：这里所有的题目都是摘要填充的形
24、式。在脑子里把这些摘要变成疑问句，例如： Number made = How many were made? 听之前，把所有摘要都照这样变换一下。判断缺少了什么类荆的信息 (名词、数字、形容词等 )。题目的顺序与录音讲话的先后顺序一致。 12 【正确答案】 (open) 2/two(-)seater 13 【正确答案】 smooth 14 【正确答案】 180 kilometres 15 【正确答案】 frame (and) engine 16 【正确答案】 instrument panel/instruments/stop-watch 17 【正确答案】 30 18 【正确答案】 light
25、 aircraft/plane 19 【正确答案】 wings 20 【正确答案】 rear wheels 21 【听力原文】 Tutor: Good morning everyone. Well I think we can start straightaway by getting Rosie and Mike to do their presentation. Would you like to start, Rosie? Rosie: Yes, well, um, weve done a survey on local entertainment. Basically, we trie
26、d to find out how students feel about the entertainment in the town and how much they use it. Mike: Yes, so weve called our project Out and About . Tutor: Yes, thats a good title! Out and About. Rosie: We wanted to find out how well students use the entertainment facilities in town . whether they ge
27、t to see the latest plays, films . that kind of thing. Tutor: Now, we have our own facilities on campus of course . Rosie: Oh, yes, we deliberately omitted those as we really wanted to examine outside entertainment in the town as opposed to on the university campus. Mike: Actually there were a lot o
28、f areas to choose from but in the end we limited ourselves to looking at three general categories: cinema, theatre and music. Tutor: Right. Rosie: OK. Well, er. first of all cinema. In the town, there are three main places where you can see films. Theres the new multi-screen cinema complex, the old
29、Park cinema, and a late-night Odeon. Mike: So if you look at this chart . in terms of audience size, the multi-screen complex accounts for 75% of all cinema seats, the Park Cinema, accounts for 20% of seats and the late-night Odeon has just 5% of seats. Rosie: As you probably know, the complex and t
30、he Park show all the latest films, while the late-night cinema tends to show cult films. So, when we interviewed the students, we thought the complex would be the most popular choice of cinema.but surprisingly it was the late-night Odeon. Mike: Yeah, and most students said that if they wanted to see
31、 a new film, they waited for it to show at the Park because the complex is more expensive and further out of town so you have to pay more to get there as well. Tutor: Yes, and that adds to the cost, of course, and detracts from the popularity, evidently. Rosie: Well, next, we looked at theatres. The
32、 results here were interesting because, as you know, theres a theatre on campus, which is popular. But theres also the Stage Theatre in town, which is very old and architecturally quite beautiful. And theres the large, modern theatre, the Ashtop, that has recently been built. Tutor: So you just look
33、ed at the two theatres in town? Mike: Yes. But the thing about the theatres is that theres a whole variety of seat prices. Also, the types of performance vary . so students tend to buy seats at both and like using both for different reasons and if they want cheap seats at the Ashtop, they can just s
34、it further from the front. Rosie: What we did find that was very interesting is that there are periods during the year when students seem to go to the theatre and periods when they go to the cinema and we really think thats to do with budget. If you look at this graph, you can see that um, theres a
35、peak around November/December when they go to the theatre more and then a period in April/May when neither is particularly popular and then theatreer viewing seems to trail off virtually while the cinema becomes quite popular in June/July. Tutor: Mmm. I think youre probably right about your conclusi
36、ons . Mike: Well, lastly we looked at music. And this time we were really investigating the sort of small music clubs that offer things like folk or specialise in local bands. Tutor: So not musicals as such . Mike: Thats right. Rosie: We looked at three small music venues and we examined the quality
37、 of the entertainment and the venue and gave a ranking for these: a cross meaning that the quality was poor, a tick meaning it was OK and two ticks for excellent. First of all, The Blues Club, which obviously specialises in blues music. This was a pretty small place and the seating was minimal so we
38、 didnt give that a very good rating. Mike: No! We dont recommend that one really. Rosie: Then The Sansue which plays a lot of South American music was a big place, very lively, good performers so two ticks for that one. The Pier Hotel is a folk venue . a good place for local and up-and-coming folk a
39、rtists to play. Not the best of venues as its in a basement and a bit dark, but the quality of the entertainment was reasonable and the lighting was very warm, so we felt it deserved an average rating. Finally, theres the Baldrock Cafs which features big rock bands and is pretty popular with student
40、s and we enjoyed ourselves there as well, so top marks for that one. Tutor: And then did you get any information from the students as to which of the clubs they preferred? 21 【正确答案】 Out and About 【试题解析】 题目的顺序与录音讲话的先后顺序一致。该部分有 4个种题型：摘要填充、图表、选择题和表格填充。仔细读图。阅读问题，划出关键词以帮助你读图，例如 Question 24: “relativepopu
41、laritycinemas” 。柱形图的每个柱子表示每个电影院是最受欢迎的？哪个最不受欢迎的？ 22 【正确答案】 (the)university/campus 23 【正确答案】 B 24 【正确答案】 C 25 【正确答案】 B 26 【正确答案】 A 27 【正确答案】 【试题解析】 在表中的中间一栏，你需要听出一个代表音乐类型的单词。在右边一栏，你需要选择上面方框中给出符号选项 .确保你使用了正确的符号。 28 【正确答案】 South American 29 【正确答案】 30 【正确答案】 31 【听力原文】 Lecturer: In the last lecture, we lo
42、oked at the adverse effects of desert dust on global climate. Today were going to examine more closely what causes dust storms and what other effects they can have. As you know, dust storms have always been a feature of desert climates, but what we want to focus on today is the extent to which human
43、 activity is causing them. And it is this trend that I want to look at, because it has wide-ranging implications. So, what are these human activities? Well, there are two main types that affect the wind erosion process, and thus the frequency of dust storms. There are activities that break up natura
44、lly wind-resistant surfaces such as off-road vehicle use and construction and there are those that remove protective vegetation cover from soils, for example, mainly farming and drainage. In many cases the two effects occur simultaneously which adds to the problem. Lets look at some real examples an
45、d see what Im talking about. Perhaps the best-known example of agricultural impact on desert dust is the creation of the USAs dust bowl in the 1930s. The dramatic rise in the number of dust storms during the latter part of that decade was the result of farmers mismanaging their land. In fact, chokin
46、g dust storms became so commonplace that the decade became known as the Dirty Thirties. Researchers observed a similar, but more prolonged, increase in dustiness in West Africa between the 1960s and the 1980s when the frequency of the storms rose to 80 a year and the dust was so thick that visibilit
47、y was reduced to 1,000 metres. This was a hazard to pilots and road users. In places like Arizona, the most dangerous dust clouds are those generated by dry thunderstorms. Here, this type of storm is so common that the problem inspired officials to develop an alert system to warn people of oncoming
48、thunderstorms. When this dust is deposited it causes all sorts of problems for machine operators. It can penetrate the smallest nooks and crannies and play havoc with the way things operate because most of the dust is made up of quartz which is very hard. Another example - the concentration of dust
49、originating from the Sahara has risen steadily since the mid-1960s. This increase in wind erosion has coincided with a prolonged drought, which has gripped the Saharas southern fringe. Drought is commonly associated with an increase in dust-raising activity but its actually caused by low rainfall which results in vegetation dying off. One of the foremost examples of modern human-induced environmental degradation is the drying up of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Its ecological demise dates fr
