1听音作答
- A. Spending their holidays in a novel way.
- B. Exploring more summer holiday resorts.
- C. Surfing online to check out the best deals.
- D. Renting a car instead of driving their own.
答案A
解析女士想instead of our usual holiday rental试租房车并自由探索，改变以往度假方式，故选A…
2听音作答
- A. He did not like to be locked into one place.
- B. He did not find holiday homes appealing.
- C. He was well travelled.
- D. He once owned a van.
答案D
解析男士说 'I think my grandfather had a van like that'，祖父曾拥有一辆房车，对…
3听音作答
- A. Generate their own electricity.
- B. Drive under any weather condition.
- C. Receive instructions via computers.
- D. Ensure the safety of passengers.
答案A
解析女士介绍现代房车 'I've seen quite a few with solar panels that provi…
4听音作答
- A. Riding one's mountain bike on vacation.
- B. Slowing down in one's increasingly hectic life.
- C. Enjoying the freedom to choose where to go and work.
- D. Having one's basic needs covered while away from home.
答案C
解析女士向往 'freedom to go anywhere you want and work from anywhere…
5听音作答
- A. Her physical health has deteriorated these past few weeks.
- B. She has lagged behind most of her co-workers in output.
- C. Her job performance has worsened over the past month.
- D. She has missed several important appointments lately.
答案C
解析经理说 'Over the past month or so... your performance has dippe…
6听音作答
- A. Penalty for curtailed output.
- B. Some problems at home.
- C. Disturbance of her mind.
- D. Serious health issues.
答案B
解析女士回答 'I'm going through some unfortunate family issues at th…
7听音作答
- A. The woman's whole-hearted support.
- B. The woman's work proficiency.
- C. His management capability.
- D. His engaging personality.
答案B
解析经理说 'I personally really value your proficiency at your job.…
8听音作答
- A. The man will help the woman get back to her usual self.
- B. The man will be back at his 100% in a couple of weeks.
- C. The woman will be off work on the next two Mondays.
- D. The woman will resume her work in two weeks.
答案C
解析女士请求take the next two Mondays off，男士明确同意，故选C。A泛述男士帮助恢复状态，未表达…
9听音作答
- A. It can have an impact on our moods and emotions.
- B. It can improve our financial status significantly.
- C. It can help us achieve better work performance.
- D. It can enable us to live a healthier and longer life.
答案D
解析原文 'higher levels of education can lead to better health and…
10听音作答
- A. One's health tends to differ before and after marriage.
- B. The spouse's level of education can impact one's health.
- C. The wealthier one's spouse is, the healthier one becomes.
- D. One's health status is related to one's social background.
答案B
解析新研究发现配偶教育较高者倾向于健康更好，调整本人教育、社会背景和婚前婚后健康等因素后仍成立，故选B。A/D是控制因素，不…
11听音作答
- A. They had more education than their spouses.
- B. They had much in common with their spouses.
- C. They benefited a lot from their career achievements.
- D. They showed interest in their spouses' occupations.
答案A
解析原文 'Women in this sample had lower levels of education... th…
12听音作答
- A. Finding out the changing climate patterns.
- B. Identifying the cities' geological features.
- C. Forecasting flood risks accurately.
- D. Eliminating their root cause.
答案C
解析原文 'accurately forecasting flood risks is a key challenge fo…
13听音作答
- A. To validate his hypothesis about the gravity of floods.
- B. To determine the frequency of high tides causing floods.
- C. To see the feasibility of his project on flooding.
- D. To improve his mathematical flooding model.
答案D
解析原文 'use those data to validate and improve his mathematical …
14听音作答
- A. To forecast rapid floods in real time.
- B. To classify the flooding data processed.
- C. To study the consequences of high tides on flooded areas.
- D. To teach local citizens how to collect data of incoming floods.
答案A
解析原文 'Loftus' mission is to know where the water goes before i…
15听音作答
- A. They tracked the rising tides with video-cameras.
- B. They set up Internet-connected water-level sensors.
- C. They used newly-developed supercomputing facilities.
- D. They observed the direction of water flow on the spot.
答案B
解析原文 'set up a group of 28 internet-connected water-level sens…
16听音作答
- A. To debate the validity of current survey data.
- B. To argue about the value of a college degree.
- C. To account for the drastic decline in employment among men.
- D. To compare men without college degrees with those who have.
答案C
解析讲座开头问What has actually caused this decline，随后依次分析低工资、岗位学历要求、…
17听音作答
- A. The issue of changing job requirements.
- B. The increase in women taking up jobs.
- C. The impact of inflation.
- D. The factor of wages.
答案D
解析原文 'First, the researchers considered the issue of wages'，对应…
18听音作答
- A. The sharp decline in marriage among men with no college degrees.
- B. The wage gap between those with college degrees and those without.
- C. More jobs requiring their holders to have a college degree nowadays.
- D. Men's unwillingness to accept low wages in times of growing inflation.
答案A
解析原文 'They identified two new potential explanations. The firs…
19听音作答
- A. More and more people attach importance to protecting endangered animals.
- B. An increasing number of people demand to free animals being kept in cages.
- C. More and more people prioritize animal welfare when buying things to wear.
- D. An increasing number of people follow the latest trend of becoming vegetarians.
答案C
解析原文 'animal welfare came top of a list of issues that people …
20听音作答
- A. Utilized a silk substitute made from mushrooms.
- B. Refrained from using chemicals in their products.
- C. Labelled all their products as vegan.
- D. Avoided the use of leather and fur.
答案D
解析原文说设计师have avoided leather and fur for some time，故选D。A蘑菇丝绸替代…
21听音作答
- A. Whether they can be regarded as ethical.
- B. Whether they can be considered sustainable.
- C. Whether they actually signify a substantial change.
- D. Whether they effectively protect animals at large.
答案A
解析原文 'it is unclear whether these new products can be consider…
22听音作答
- A. The belief is less prevalent that the world is going to hell.
- B. The environmental welfare has worsened in the world.
- C. The world has seen more violence in recent years.
- D. The era we live in is the most peaceful in history.
答案D
解析原文 'We are living in history's most peaceful era... Those ar…
23听音作答
- A. They did not wish to live in the previous century.
- B. They were convinced by the statistics presented to them.
- C. They believed the world was deteriorating.
- D. They were actually not in their right mind.
答案C
解析原文 '65% of British and 81% of the French said they thought t…
24听音作答
- A. Our ancestors' influence.
- B. Our psychological biases.
- C. The current state of affairs.
- D. The subjectivity of mass media.
答案B
解析绝望情绪best explained as the result of various psychological bi…
25听音作答
- A. Paying attention to negative information.
- B. Calculating dangerous risks to our survival.
- C. Vacuuming up depressing or enraging stories.
- D. Spreading exciting news around us far and wide.
答案A
解析原文 'it was a very good thing that our attention could be eas…