1、雅思（听力）模拟试卷 57及答案与解析 一、 Listening Module (30 minutes they are: your Union card, a recent passport-sized photograph of yourself, and the fee. It doesnt matter whether you bring cash or a cheque. We cant issue your card unless you bring all three; so, dont forget: your Union card, passport photo and fe
2、e. Then once youve got your sports card, you will need to bring it with you whenever you come to book or use any Sports Centre facilities. Booking over the phone is not allowed, so you have to come here in person, with your card, when you want to book. Our opening hours seem to get longer every year
3、. We are now open from 9am to 10pm on weekdays and from 10am to 6pm on Saturdays. For those of you who are up and about early in the morning, we are introducing a 50 per cent morning discount this year. This is because the facilities tended to be under-used in the mornings last year. It means that a
4、ll the sessions will be half-price between 9am and 12 noon on weekdays So, what exactly are the facilities? What sports can you play here? Well, this room we are in at the moment is called the Main Hall, and its used mainly for team sports such as football, volleyball and basketball, but also for ba
5、dminton and aerobics. On the other side of the reception area there is the dance studio; this provides a smaller, more intimate space, which we use for ballet, modern dance and martial arts not at the same time, of course. Then in a separate building, which you may have noticed on your way here . .
6、. its on the other side of the car park . . . there are the squash courts(six of them), and at the far end of the building a fitness room. This is our newest facility, only completed in the Spring, but it is already proving to be one of the most popular. As well as all these facilities available her
7、e on the campus, we also have an arrangement with the local tennis club, which is only two miles away, entitling our students to use their courts on weekday mornings in the Summer. So, I think that there should be something here for everybody, and I hope to see all of you at the Centre, making use o
8、f the facilities. If, in the course of the year, you have any suggestions as to how the service we provide might be improved or its appeal widened, Ill be interested to hear from you. 11 【正确答案】 ( )9.50 12 【正确答案】 year / annum NOT annual 13 【正确答案】 reception NOT Sports Centre 14 【正确答案】 card 15 【正确答案】 b
9、ook 16 【正确答案】 weekdays 17 【正确答案】 Reception(Area) 18 【正确答案】 Dance Studio 19 【正确答案】 Squash Courts 20 【正确答案】 Fitness Room 20 【听力原文】 john brown: Good morning, Mrs Collins. I just wondered if you could help me with this entry form for the Young Electronic Engineer competition. mary collins: Hello, John.
10、Oh youve made the jigsaw for blind children, with the bleeper. john brown: When they put a piece in correctly, thats right. mary collins: OK, lets have a look at the form. john brown: Right, thanks. Ive never filled in one of these before, so . . . mary collins: Well, lets just do it in pencil first
11、. So, name of designers . . . john brown: Well, Ann helped me with some of the electronics work. mary collins: Then you must put her name in as well. Right . . . Ann Ray. john brown: Sorry. Its ANNE and her surname is spelt R-E-A. mary collins: Good start! OK . . . REA. And age is easy. Youre both 1
12、6. What have you called the design? Keep it short. john brown: What about jigsaw puzzle design for visually handicapped? mary collins: Too long. Just say blind puzzle, thatll do. john brown: OK. mary collins: Right now, size of equipment? john brown: Ive got it noted down here . um, yes, length, sor
13、ry, width is 20 cm. MARY COLLINS: OK. john brown: Length is 50 cm, and then the depth is. well, its very little. mary collins: What would you say? I think you can be approximate. john brown: Id say 2.5 cm. mary collins: And the electricity supply? Is it mains operated? john brown: No it isnt, its ac
14、tually battery. mary collins: OK, write battery. john brown: Fine, OK. Its the next bit that Im really not sure what to put. mary collins: Well, special features means, what is really new about this, you know, suitable for the group you made it for. john brown: Well, its safe for children. mary coll
15、ins: Thats fine. Put that in. john brown: OK, and of course we think its educational. mary collins: There you are, youve done it. Anything,else? john brown: Well, I think the price is good. mary collins: Thats probably the most important factor. john brown: OK . cheap price. mary collins: Which brin
16、gs us on to the next bit. Whats the cost? john brown: Well, the pieces we made out of old wood . they cost, ooh, $5. mary collins: And the electrics? john brown: They were more expensive . say, $9.50. Brilliant. Now what do they mean by other comments? mary collins: Its just a chance for you to say
17、anything about the equipment, and problems you envisage. john brown: Well, we would really like help with making plastic instead of wooden pieces. mary collins: Well, put something like, need help to make plastic pieces. john brown: OK. And the other thing is, wed like to develop a range of sizes. m
18、ary collins: Thats fine, then, just put that. And the last bit is, when will you send the equipment? john brown: Well, weve got a lot of work on at the moment and we want to get it as good as we can. mary collins: Well, say 25 June? john brown: Cant we make it later? mary collins: Well, the last dat
19、e is 1 July. Why not say that? john brown: OK, thats what Ill put. mary collins: So thats the lot! john brown: Thats brilliant. Thanks very much, Mrs Collins. Ill send it off straightaway. mary collins: Glad to be of help. Very best of luck to you both. john brown: Thanks, bye. mary collins: Bye. 21
20、 【正确答案】 Anne Rea 22 【正确答案】 (both)16(years old) 23 【正确答案】 Blind(Jigsaw)Puzzle NOT Jigsaw 24 【正确答案】 MUST BE IN ORDER 20(cm)50(cm)2.5(cm)/ 2 and a half(cm) 25 【正确答案】 safe for children 26 【正确答案】 (its)educational 27 【正确答案】 price(is)good / inexpensive / not expensive / cheap(price)/(is)good price 28 【正确答案
21、】 electrics NOT electric 29 【正确答案】 plastic pieces / in plastic NOT pieces 30 【正确答案】 1 July ALTERNATIVE FORMS ACCEPTED 30 【听力原文】 paula: Today Id like to introduce Ted Hunter, who used to rear sheep and poultry but who is here to tell us about a rather unusual type of livestock that hes been concentra
22、ting on in the last few years. Ted Hunter is a member of the Domesticated Ostrich Farming Association, and is here to tell us about the possibilities of breeding and rearing these birds here in this country. ted: Thank you, Paula. When you look at international restaurant menus and supermarkets they
23、 all tend to feature the same range of meats - beef, lamb, chicken, pork, that sort of thing. But people are always interested in something different and were now finding that farming can bring new types of meat to our tables. The kangaroo is one animal thats now being farmed for its meat and eaten
24、outside Australia, where it comes from. It looks and tastes rather like rabbit, though its slightly darker in colour, but it is rather tough, so thats a problem for some people. Crocodiles are also being farmed for their meat. This is rather like chicken, pale and tender, and its getting quite fashi
25、onable. Some people also find its rather fatty, but I think it makes a really tasty sandwich. Now a third type of meat becoming increasingly available, and the one that I think is by far the nicest of the three, is ostrich, which most people say has a similar taste and texture to beef. However, its
26、much better for you than beef, as well see later. Most people think of ostriches as wild animals, but in fact ostriches have been farmed in South Africa since around 1860. At first they were produced for their feathers. In Africa they were used for tribal ceremonial dress and they were also exported
27、 to Europe and America where they were made into ladies fans and used for decorating hats. Later, feather fans and big, decorated hats went out of fashion but ostriches were still bred, this time for their hide. This can be treated to produce about half a square metre of leather - very delicate, fin
28、e stuff of very good quality. At the same time, some of the meat was used for biltong - the air-dried strips of meat popular in South Africa as a sort of fast food. However, recently theres been more and more interest in the development of ostrich farming in other parts of the world, and more people
29、 are recognising its value as a food source. Ostrich meat is slightly higher in protein than beef- and much lower in fats and cholesterol. It tastes good too. A series of European taste tests found that 82% of people prefer ostrich to beef. And one ostrich produces a lot of meat - from around 30 to
30、50 kg, mostly from the hindquarters of the bird. Farmed ostriches dont need African climates, and in fact ostrich farming is now becoming well established in other parts of the world. However, setting up an ostrich farm isnt something to embark on lightly. Mature breeding birds are very expensive -
31、even a fertilised ostrich egg isnt cheap so you need quite a bit of capital to begin with. Then the farmer needs special equipment such as incubators for the eggs. The young chicks are very dependent on human minders, and need a lot of attention from the people looking after them. In addition, ostri
32、ches cant be intensively farmed - they need space and exercise. But in spite of this they make good farming sense. A cow produces only one calf a year whereas a female ostrich can lay an egg every other day. And because the farmers can use incubators and hatched chicks are nourished well and protect
33、ed from danger, the failure rate on farms is very low indeed and almost all the fertilised eggs will hatch out into chicks which will in turn reach maturity. This is very different from the situation in the wild, where the vast majority of chicks will die or be killed before they grow up into mature
34、 ostriches. So its possible, once the initial outlay has been made, for the farmer to be looking at very good profit margins indeed. Ostrich farming is still in its early days outside Africa but we hope that ostrich meat will be freely available soon and before long will be as cheap as beef. 31 【正确答
35、案】 rabbit(meat) 32 【正确答案】 (rather)tough 33 【正确答案】 beef 34 【正确答案】 (ladies)(feather)fans 35 【正确答案】 (delicate)(fine)(good quality)leather 36 【正确答案】 meat 37 【正确答案】 A / has more protein than beef 38 【正确答案】 C / the price of ostrich eggs 39 【正确答案】 C / need looking after carefully 40 【正确答案】 B / farmed birds are very productive
