1听音作答
- A. By slapping some butter on it.
- B. By enhancing its nourishment.
- C. By growing it in South Dakota.
- D. By cooking it in vegetable oil.
答案A
解析根据新闻报道，Tariq通过在玉米上涂抹黄油使它变得更美味，'Everything changed for 7-year…
2听音作答
- A. To introduce their corn to tourists.
- B. To attend an honorary ceremony.
- C. To share experience with other corn growers.
- D. To exhibit their corn at the state's Corn Palace.
答案B
解析Tariq和他的家人被邀请到南达科他州参加荣誉仪式，'Tariq and his family were invited…
3听音作答
- A. Stole mail several times.
- B. Forged postal keys illegally.
- C. Attacked postmen on multiple occasions.
- D. Broke a number of postal collection boxes.
答案A
解析根据新闻报道，Jordan Jax和Tarad Goodman偷了邮件，'Jax and Goodman stole m…
4听音作答
- A. A sentence for life.
- B. Loss of all their possessions.
- C. Twenty-three years' hard labor.
- D. Up to fifteen years in prison.
答案D
解析Jordan Jax和Tarad Goodman因邮件盗窃和持有被盗邮政钥匙而面临高达十五年的监禁，'Jax and G…
5听音作答
- A. It escapes regulation and misleads consumers.
- B. It ignores economically feasible recycling options.
- C. It creates waste and severely impacts the environment.
- D. It produces clothes affordable only to a tiny minority.
答案C
解析服装行业因制造浪费和严重环境影响而受到抨击，'the clothing industry has come under …
6听音作答
- A. To cut consumers' expenses in buying quality clothes.
- B. To enable the whole fast-fashion industry to be sustainable.
- C. To incentivize manufacturers to be more consumer-friendly.
- D. To urge manufacturers and consumers to reduce waste.
答案D
解析研究者提出生产税等政策是为了激励制造商和消费者减少浪费，'Researchers put forth policy co…
7听音作答
- A. Recognizing the impact on consumers.
- B. Identifying the source of the problem.
- C. Abandoning the current business model.
- D. Establishing powerful regulatory bodies.
答案B
解析为了消除服装行业造成的危害，首先应该确定问题在供应链中的源头，'In order to devise effective…
8听音作答
- A. The city's rush-hour traffic is intolerable.
- B. She cannot avoid rush-hour traffic.
- C. The local government is inefficient.
- D. The city is too big to move around easily.
答案A
解析女士提到了高峰时段交通非常糟糕，'Rush hour in this city is killing me'，表明城市的…
9听音作答
- A. Upgrading subway carriages.
- B. Increasing the number of bus routes.
- C. Air conditioning the city's subway.
- D. Learning from other big cities.
答案C
解析女士建议地铁系统应该有空调，'the subway system could have air conditioning…
10听音作答
- A. He suffers from rush-hour crowding too.
- B. He is fortunate to live very near to work.
- C. He takes a half-hour bus ride to work.
- D. He is going to move closer to his office.
答案C
解析男士提到他乘坐公交车上班，'Bus number 36 goes straight from my house to t…
11听音作答
- A. Recommend to her a good house near his office.
- B. Send her his housing agent's telephone number.
- C. Tell her exactly what kind of property to look for.
- D. Make sure the agent finds something good for her.
答案B
解析女士在听到男士推荐房产经纪人后请求“could you send me his number please?”，男士回答…
12听音作答
- A. He was remembered for the scar on his cheek.
- B. He received a heart operation a few days ago.
- C. He used to wear a sad face in school.
- D. He had some plastic surgery done.
答案D
解析男士提到Johnny做了整形手术，'He had some plastic surgery done'，所以正确答案是D…
13听音作答
- A. The man's deep sympathy for Johnny.
- B. The man's use of the expression "fixed".
- C. The man's covering up of what happened.
- D. The man's good memory of his childhood.
答案B
解析女士听到“He had it fixed”后追问“Fixed? What do you mean? You can't …
14听音作答
- A. It gave him a noticeable smartness.
- B. It made him appear even more manly.
- C. It seemed to give him a certain uniqueness.
- D. It seemed to make up for his physical defects.
答案C
解析男士说“I thought it added character, like it gave him a certain…
15听音作答
- A. Liberal.
- B. Hostile.
- C. Indifferent.
- D. Critical.
答案D
解析说话者对Johnny的女朋友持批评态度，认为她过于肤浅和自私，'That's so superficial and se…
16听音作答
- A. Through deliberation.
- B. Through evolution.
- C. Through invention.
- D. Through collaboration.
答案B
解析根据研究者，语言是通过进化而非发明产生的，'Researchers don't think language was i…
17听音作答
- A. With people imitating sounds around them.
- B. With people interacting with animals close by.
- C. With people showing each other things nearby.
- D. With people trying to string sounds together.
答案A
解析根据第一种理论，语言的起源是人们模仿周围的声音，'language started with people making…
18听音作答
- A. Making sounds can free one's hands for doing other things.
- B. Making sounds proves markedly easier than sign languages.
- C. Making sounds enables one to express their ideas more explicitly.
- D. Making sounds helps one communicate with people they can't see.
答案D
解析说话理论认为，发声有助于与看不见的人交流，'the theory goes, is that talking out l…
19听音作答
- A. Well disciplined.
- B. Quite confident.
- C. Somewhat selfish.
- D. Highly intelligent.
答案C
解析根据新研究，炫耀社会地位的人被认为更关心自己的利益而不是帮助他人，'people believe someone who…
20听音作答
- A. When they wanted to have a competitive team member.
- B. When they were looking for a cooperative workmate.
- C. When they found collaboration essential to them.
- D. When they were seeking someone to help them.
答案A
解析当寻找竞争团队成员时，参与者更可能选择那些显示自己财富或地位的人，'participants were more lik…
21听音作答
- A. Avoid frightening competitors.
- B. Make clear their social goal.
- C. Adopt persuasive strategies.
- D. Consider the consequences.
答案D
解析在网上分享财富和地位时，人们需要考虑后果，'But it could also signal to potential …
22听音作答
- A. Much evidence of humans capturing animals.
- B. More images of animals than humans.
- C. Fewer images of buildings than animals.
- D. Little proof of human fascination with animals.
答案B
解析在最古老的洞穴绘画中，有比人类更多的动物图像，'there are more images of animals tha…
23听音作答
- A. They were open to the public.
- B. They were primarily native.
- C. They were kept by royalty.
- D. They were hardly injured.
答案C
解析我们了解到，已知的第一批动物收藏是由皇室保存的，'The first known collections were he…
24听音作答
- A. To enable the public to watch animals close by.
- B. To introduce to Egyptians animals from Punt.
- C. To protect the endangered animals.
- D. To show off her riches and power.
答案D
解析埃及女王创建动物园可能是为了炫耀她的财富和权力，'it might have been to show off her …
25听音作答
- A. It was part of the royal estate.
- B. It was a shelter for wild animals.
- C. It was the kingdom's best-equipped zoo.
- D. It was the first public exhibit of animals.
答案A
解析直接依据“In England, King Henry I set up a collection of animals…