1、雅思（听力）模拟试卷 8及答案与解析 一、 Listening Module (30 minutes Then for dessert theres traditional plum pudding or apple pie, plus coffee. JOAN: That sounds really good for 12. Did you book it? PETER; Well, I said Id check with the staff first. But they did say theyd hold the booking until next Wednesday anyway
2、. Oh, and if we go ahead, theyd like a 50 【 Q7】 deposit. JOAN 50 is normal, thats fine. PETER: And they want a letter. JOAN: Right. to confirm. PETER; And they say with such large numbers we have to choose the menu in advance. 【 Q8】 JOAN: That wont be a problem. Ill put up a notice with details of t
3、he restaurant. and the menu. When did you say they wanted confirmation by? PETER: It was . lets see, the 4th of November. 【 Q9】 JOAN; Where do you think I should put up the notice? Where everyones guaranteed to see it. PETER; On the cafe noticeboard I should think. JOAN: Hardly anyone looks at that.
4、 PETER; Well, the Newsletter is probably your best bet. 【 Q10】 JOAN: Good idea. Ill go and do that now. 1 【正确答案】 Rajdoot 2 【正确答案】 Park View (Hotel) 3 【正确答案】 London Arms 4 【正确答案】 208657 5 【正确答案】 no/non(-)smoking section/area 6 【正确答案】 Lentil curry 7 【正确答案】 fifty pound(s)/ 50 deposit/deposit (of) 50/fi
5、fty pound(s) 8 【正确答案】 choose/decide (on)/select (the) menu 9 【正确答案】 4 November. 10 【正确答案】 (the) Newsletter 11 【听力原文】 TUTOR; . So, Ill hand over now to Julie Brooks. JULIE BROOKS: Thank you. Welcome to the Sports Centre. Its good to see that there are so many people wanting to find out about our spor
6、ts facilities. First of all, membership. All students at the college are entitled to become members of the Sports Centre, for an annual fee of 9.50. To 【 Q11/Q12】 register with us and get your membership card, you need to come to 【 Q13】 reception, between 2 and 6 pm, Monday to Thursday. Im afraid we
7、 cant register new members on Friday, so its Monday to Thursday, 2 to 6, at reception. Now, there are three things that you must remember to. bring with you when you come to register; they are: your Union card, a recent passport-sized photograph of yourself, and the fee. It doesnt matter whether you
8、 bring cash or a cheque. We cant issue your card unless you bring all three; so, dont forget: your Union card, passport photo and fee. Then once you have got your sports card, you will need to bring it with you whenever you come to book or use any Sports Centre facilities. 【 Q14/Q15】 Booking over th
9、e 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. We are now open from 9am to 10pm on 【 Q16】 weekdays and from 10am to 6pm on Saturdays. For those of you who are up and about early in the morning, we ar
10、e 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 all 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, t
11、his 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 badminton and aerobics. On the other side of the reception area there is the dance studio; this provides a smaller, more intimate space, 【 Q17/Q18】
12、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, its on the other side of the car park, there are 【 Q19/Q20】 the squash courts (six of them), and at the far end of the building a fitnes
13、s 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 here on the campus, we also have an arrangement with the local tennis club, which is only two miles away, entitling our students to us
14、e 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 of 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
15、 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】 book 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 21 【听力
16、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. Oh youve made the jigsaw for blind children, with the bleeper. JOHN BROWN: When they put a piece in correctly, thats right.
17、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. So, name of designers. JOHN BROWN: Well, Ann helped me with some of the electronics work. MARY COLLINS: Then you must put her
18、name in as well. Right. Ann Ray. JOHN BROWN: Sorry. Its ANNE and her surname is spelt R-E-A. 【 Q21】 MARY COLLINS: Good start! OK. REA. And age is easy. Youre both 16. What have 【 Q22】 you called the design? Keep it short. JOHN BROWN: What about jigsaw puzzle design for visually handicapped? MARY COL
19、LINS: Too long. Just say blind puzzle, thatll do. 【 Q23】 JOHN BROWN: OK. MARY COLLINS: Right now, size of equipment? JOHN BROWN: Ive got it noted down here, urn, yes, length, sorry, width is 20 cm. 【 Q24】 MARY COLLINS: OK. JOHN BROWN: Length is 50 cm, and then the depth is. well, its very little. MA
20、RY 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 actually battery. MARY COLLINS: OK, write battery. JOHN BROWN: Fine, OK. Its the next bit that Im really not sure what
21、 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. 【 Q25】 MARY COLLINS: Thats fine. Put that in. JOHN BROWN: OK, and of course we think its educational. 【 Q26】 MARY COLLINS: Th
22、ere you are, youve done it. Anything else? JOHN BROWN: Well, I think the price is good. 【 Q27】 MARY COLLINS: Thats probably the most important factor. JOHN BROWN: OK. cheap price. MARY COLLINS: Which brings us on to the next bit. Whats the cost? JOHN BROWN: Well, the pieces we made out of old wood,
23、they cost, ooh, $5. MARY COLLINS: And the electrics? JOHN BROWN: They were more expensive, say, $9.50. Brilliant. Now what do they 【 Q28】 mean by other comments? MARY COLLINS: Its just a chance for you to say anything about the equipment, and problems you envisage. JOHN BROWN: Well, we would really
24、like help with making plastic instead of wooden pieces. MARY COLLINS: Well, put something like, need help to make plastic pieces. 【 Q29】 JOHN BROWN: OK. And the other thing is, wed like to develop a range of sizes. MARY COLLINS: Thats fine, then, just put that. And the last bit is, when will you sen
25、d 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 date is 1 July. Why not say that? 【 Q30】 JOHN BROWN: OK, thats what Ill put. MARY COLLI
26、NS: 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 【正确答案】 Anne Rea 22 【正确答案】 (both) 16 (years old) 23 【正确答案】 Blind (Jigsaw) Puz
27、zle 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 (its) educational 26 【正确答案】 price (is) good/inexpensive/not 27 【正确答案】 expensive/cheap (price)/(is) good price 28 【正确答案】 electrics 【 NOT electric】 29 【正确答案】 plastic pieces/in plastic 【 NOT
28、pieces】 30 【正确答案】 1 July. 31 【听力原文】 PAUEA: 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 concentrating on in the last few years. Ted Hunter is a member of the Domesticated Ostrich Farming As
29、sociation, 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 all tend to feature the same range of meats - beef, lamb, chicken, pork, that sort of thing
30、. 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 outside Australia, where it comes from. It looks and tastes rather like 【 Q31】 rabbit, thoug
31、h its slightly darker in colour, but it is rather tough, so thats a 【 Q32】 problem for some people. Crocodiles are also being farmed for their meat. This is rather like chicken, pale and tender, and its getting quite fashionable. Some people also find its rather fatty, but I think it makes a really
32、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 【 Q33】 similar taste and texture to beef. However, its much better for you than beef, as well see later. Most people think of
33、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 to Europe and America where they were made into ladies fans 【 Q34】 and
34、 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 【 Q35】 treated to produce about half a square metre of leather - very delicate, fine stuff of very good quality. At the same time, some of t
35、he meat was used for biltong - the air-dried strips 【 Q36】 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 are recognising its value as a food source. Ostri
36、ch meat is slightly higher in protein than beef- and 【 Q37】 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 50 kg, mostly from the hindquarters of the
37、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 - even a fertilised ostrich egg isnt cheap so
38、 you need quite a bit 【 Q38】 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 【 Q39】 minders, and need a lot of attention from the people looking after them. In addition, ostriches cant be intensively farm
39、ed - 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 【 Q40】 the farmers can use incubators and hatched chicks are nourished well and protected from danger, the fa
40、ilure 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 ostriches. So its pos
41、sible, 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 38 【正确答案】 C 39 【正确答案】 C 40 【正确答案】 B
