LESSON 16: LISTENING

PRACTICE
Talks and Announcements
1. What does the teacher ask the 6. What is the purpose of the talk?
students to bring with them? A. To postpone the paper that the students
A. A bottle of water will hand in next time
B. A pen and a notebook B. To give requirements of the work to
C. The bus ticket the students
D. The museum ticket C. To ask the students to write down the
2. What is the main idea of the talk? purpose of their work
A. The teacher tells the students to clean D. To ask the students to avoid including
the lab. details in their work next time
B. The teacher informs the students of 7. What will the teacher probably do
some rules in the lab. next?
C. The teacher tells the students not to A. Read an important sentence from a
touch anything dangerous in the lab. certain kind of material
D. The teacher tells the students to take B. Talk about the word order in word
everything before leaving the lab. framing
3. What is the purpose of the talk? C. Ask students to study the emphasis of
A. To encourage the students to the textbook
participate in the New Year concert D. Make sentences from the textbook
B. To inform the students that there is an 8. What does the teacher ask the
audition on next Friday students to do?
C. To encourage the students to help with A. Change the topics of their reports
the New Year concert’s decoration B. Work as a group to complete their
D. To inform the students that there is a reports
New Year concert C. Write another report
4. What is the most important rule in the D. Hand in all the reports
library? 9. What does the teacher ask the
A. To keep quiet students to do?
B. To put everything in order A. Get fully prepared for the coming test of
C. To return the books on time literature
D. Not to talk to anyone else B. Study literature and science in two days
5. What time can the students go to the C. Finish the literature homework in six
gym? days
A. 9:30 am this Friday D. Finish the assignment of literature in
B. 5:30 pm next Friday four days
C. 4:00 pm next Saturday 10. Why is the principal talking to all the
D. 8:30 am next Saturday students?
A. To ask the students to play computer
games
B. To ask the students to take as many
classes as possible every day
C. To ask the students to learn more on
weekends
D. To encourage the students to enroll
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Conversations
11. What habit has the girl recently got 18. What form of exercises does the girl
into? mention?
A. Telling jokes (A) Wearing arm weights while you are
B. Falling asleep during meals swimming
C. Staying late after class (B) Jogging vigorously in one place for a
D. Eating in the cafeteria long time
12. What was the girl doing at (C) Using bicycles that require you to
lunchtime? use both your arms and legs
(A) Giving a lecture (D) Walking slowly while swinging your
(B) Discussing some questions about arms back and forth
political science 19. What is the main topic of the
(C) Working on a science problem conversation?
(D) Reading a masterpiece of science (A) Food packaging
fiction (B) Varieties of fish
13. How does Mr. Howl feel about (C) A new snack food
visitors at his lectures? (D) An artificial food flavoring
(A) They make him feel good. 20. Why are flavorings added to the
(B) They make no impact on him. dough?
(C) They bore him. (A) To preserve it longer
(D) They make him angry. (B) To give it a particular taste
14. When does Mr. Howl's class (C) To make it smoother
probably meet? (D) To increase its price
(A) In the late morning 21. What would be a good reason for
(B) Immediately after lunch buying the product?
(C) In the mid-afternoon (A) Its low purchase price
(D) After the evening meal (B) Its wide availability
15. According to the conversation, what (C) Its good nutritional value
is one problem with arm exercises? (D) Its high water content
(A) They can't get rid of flabby arms. 22. When will the new product be
(B) They can damage arm muscles. available?
(C) They aren't acceptable to most people. (A) In a few weeks
(D) They can raise one's blood pressure (B) In two or three months
16. How did the girl obtain the (C) In about two years
information about arm exercises? (D) In ten years
(A) By talking to an expert 23. What is the boy eager to tell the
(B) By reading an article other student?
(C) By attending an exercise class (A) That he will be performing in a concert
(D) By listening to the radio (B) That he had a conversation with the
17. According to the conversation, what director of a choir
are the experts now recommending? (C) That he heard a new musical
(A) Exercising the entire body composition by Barbara Johnson
(B) Having your blood pressure taken daily (D) That he has been translating some
(C) Losing weight prior to exercising Latin poems for a class
(D) Weighing in before each exercise
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24. What can be inferred about the two 26. What will the boy probably send to
students? Barbara Johnson?
(A) They are members of the Latin club on (A) Some photographs that he took of her
campus. during the concert
(B) They work as editors. (B) A tape recording that he made of the
(C) They attended the same concert. concert
(D) Music is their major field of study. (C) A review of the concert that he wrote
25. What was Barbara Johnson's for the campus paper
reaction to the boy's comments? (D) The corrected text for the program
(A) She was upset. of the concert
(B) She was confused.
(C) She was amused.
(D) She was grateful.
Academic Talks and Discussions
27. What is the main idea of the talk? 31. What is the discussion mainly
(A) How people keep dogs about?
(B) Why people kept dogs in the old days (A) An expression related to apple
(C) The changes in the reason for people (B) The origin of "apple pie order"
keeping dogs (C) The meaning of "apple pie order"
(D) The reason for people keeping dogs (D) The development of the expression
nowadays "apple pie order"
28. Why did people keep dogs in the 32. Why does the teacher talk about
past? housewives in New England?
(A) For entertainment (A) To tell the students the early history of
(B) For protection America
(C) For food (B) To show apples were very popular in
(D) For companionship New England
29. Why does the speaker mention (C) To explain how the meaning of the
hunting? expression is related to apple pie
(A) To explain how dogs hunt (D) To describe the life in New England
(B) To demonstrate dogs can be good 33. What caused the Trojan War
hunters according to the ancient myth?
(C) To show dogs are willing to obey (A) Minerva
their masters (B) A marriage
(D) To emphasize dogs are smart (C) Juno and Venus
30. What is the main reason for people (D) A golden apple
keeping dogs nowadays? 34. What is the teacher going to talk
(A) For protection about next class?
(B) For companionship (A) Expressions related to life in New
(C) For dogs to take the place of the child England
in the family (B) Expressions related to Greek
(D) For dogs to take the place of a child's mythology
best friend (C) Expressions related to animals
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35. What did the speaker probably talk 39. That kind of assignment does the
about before? speaker discuss with the students?
(A) How the car was invented (A) Reading magazine articles
(B) The losses caused by traffic accidents (B) Reviewing books
(C) Advances in car designs (C) Writing research papers
(D) The benefits of cars to society (D) Selecting information sources
36. How did the car affect the workforce 40. What does the speaker warn the
in the 1950's and 1960's? students against?
(A) It allowed workers to spend more time (A) Gathering irrelevant materials
at home. (B) Stealing another person's ideas
(B) It gave workers opportunities for better (C) Sharing notes with someone else
training. (D) Handing in assignments late
(C) It let workers live far from their jobs. 41. Whom does the speaker mention as
(D) It eliminated many factory jobs. likely plagiarizers?
37. What problem did city merchants (A) Research assistants
face? (B) Magazine publishers
(A) The lack of a qualified sales force (C) Unscrupulous authors
(B) A decline in the number of customers (D) Inexperienced students
(C) Difficulty in transporting merchandise 42. According to the speaker, how
(D) Increased property costs should most of the notes be taken?
38. According to the speaker, why are (A) In the student's own words
some people moving back to the city? (B) In direct quotations
(A) Job opportunities are better there. (C) In short phrases
(B) Prices are lower in downtown stores. (D) In shorthand
(C) Highway commuting has become
unpleasant.
(D) Property is more valuable in the cities.

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