1听音作答
- A. Met the computer technician.
- B. Told the man about her trouble.
- C. Call the man's company.
- D. Visit Alpha Maintenance.
答案C
解析原文女士说 'I spoke to a lady there last Tuesday'（there 指男方公司 Alp…
2听音作答
- A. Consulted someone in charge.
- B. Came as soon as possible.
- C. Informed the central office at once.
- D. Designated an engineer to the case.
答案B
解析男士说'I got the call this week and came as soon as I could'，表明…
3听音作答
- A. Frustration.
- B. Intimidation.
- C. Desperation.
- D. Indignation.
答案D
解析女士提到'my manager is rather indignant'，表明她的经理对于技术人员来晚了感到愤怒，因此正…
4听音作答
- A. Whether the content has been backed up.
- B. Whether they can find someone else.
- C. Whether all data stored on the hard drive has got lost.
- D. Whether they need to wipe the system directories clean.
答案A
解析女士说'My manager would know'，表明她的经理知道是否数据已经备份，因此正确答案是A。选项B、C和D…
5听音作答
- A. It's boring.
- B. It's challenging.
- C. It's a beautiful thing.
- D. It's unlike most jobs.
答案A
解析问的是『很多人会怎么说法律职业』。原文男士说 'A career in law is a beautiful thing…
6听音作答
- A. Arbitrating between disagreeing solicitors.
- B. Preventing disputes from escalating.
- C. Buying and selling property.
- D. Mediating land disputes.
答案D
解析Most of my work involves mediating land disputes直接支持D。A冲突双方是…
7听音作答
- A. Courts are intended for fixing major legal disputes.
- B. Courts are getting too bureaucratic to function.
- C. Courts can be frustrating and expensive.
- D. Courts can be frightening and arbitrary.
答案C
解析男士说'courts, like all bureaucracies really, can be very messy…
8听音作答
- A. The ability to make arguments in a unique way.
- B. The skill of preventing conflicts between parties concerned.
- C. The skill of foreseeing any potential stakes in their work.
- D. The ability to express themselves clearly and forcefully.
答案D
解析男士提到'any law professional needs to be very eloquent at artic…
9听音作答
- A. They looked into the relationship between one's prior knowledge and creativity.
- B. They offered novel ways to help older adults to keep their memories from aging.
- C. They proposed an explanation for old people's difficulty in retrieving memories.
- D. They advanced a new model concerning human information storage and retrieval.
答案C
解析研究人员在综述中 propose an explanation for 老年人记忆提取困难：先前知识拥挤、要检索的材料多…
10听音作答
- A. Young adults rely on memory while older adults keep notes as a reminder.
- B. Older adults often retrieve irrelevant memories along with what they want.
- C. Young adults accumulate knowledge much more quickly than older adults.
- D. Older adults generally perform cognitive tasks much slower than young adults.
答案B
解析研究表明'older adults often retrieve other irrelevant memories a…
11听音作答
- A. They show preserved, and sometimes enhanced, creativity.
- B. They frequently suffer from disorderly crowded memories.
- C. They can rely on their accumulated wisdom in an emergency.
- D. They may well be served by forgetting their prior knowledge.
答案A
解析证据表明'older adults show preserved and at times enhanced creat…
12听音作答
- A. They are actually proud of the work and admire the people behind.
- B. They are worried about being alienated from the outside world.
- C. They are rarely in control of many things related to their work.
- D. They are longing to share the profit made from their work.
答案C
解析文章提到'workers are often not in control of how they work, when…
13听音作答
- A. The steady decrease in productivity.
- B. The adverse effect on physical health.
- C. The feeling of being time poor.
- D. The rising economic inequality.
答案C
解析文章提到'Long working hours contribute to the feeling of time po…
14听音作答
- A. It alters the structure of work.
- B. It puts jobs and wages at risk.
- C. It liberates people from tedious and laborious work.
- D. It creates new work opportunities in the IT industry.
答案B
解析文章提到'automation puts jobs and wages at risk'，表明自动化使工作和工资面临风险…
15听音作答
- A. Finding meaning in work.
- B. Prioritizing life over work.
- C. Improving relationships in the community.
- D. Realizing one's social value in the workplace.
答案B
解析后工作理论家认为'life should be seen as an end in itself'，主张生活本身应该是目…
16听音作答
- A. Affect our attitude to novel tasks.
- B. Distinguish us in the social world.
- C. Outweigh IQ in importance.
- D. Impact academic achievements.
答案D
解析题目问对努力的个人信念，直接定位 Even our personal beliefs about effort can …
17听音作答
- A. By pressing a hidden button.
- B. By pushing a big button on top.
- C. By pressing two buttons at the same time.
- D. By helping the babies push the right button.
答案A
解析实验者通过'Out of sight of the babies, we turned on the music toy…
18听音作答
- A. Perform difficult tasks successfully just by observing how adults acted.
- B. Make generalizable inferences about persistence from a few examples.
- C. Adapt themselves to different social contexts.
- D. Work hard to interact with experimenters.
答案B
解析研究表明'babies learned that effort was valuable after watching …
19听音作答
- A. Offering advice on overcoming habitual lateness.
- B. Exemplifying various recreational opportunities.
- C. Scrutinizing individuals' defining traits.
- D. Suggesting ways for setting priorities.
答案A
解析演讲者提到'If you always run late, that means you must be failing…
20听音作答
- A. Make the breakfast simpler.
- B. Take the alarms seriously.
- C. Ready yourself in the early dawn.
- D. Get prepared the night before.
答案D
解析演讲者提到'do as much as you can to ready yourself the night befo…
21听音作答
- A. Finish the prior task 30 minutes earlier.
- B. Keep ourselves from hitting a bump.
- C. Leave time in between activities.
- D. Try to avoid possible hold-ups.
答案C
解析演讲者提到'Learn to leave time in between tasks and meetings'，建议在…
22听音作答
- A. Their lifestyles vary.
- B. Their traits vary.
- C. They have different customs.
- D. They have different feels.
答案D
解析文章提到'Different cities have different feels for visitors'，表明游…
23听音作答
- A. They are not as willing to help strangers.
- B. They are not as patient with one another.
- C. They violate traffic rules more frequently.
- D. They become more easily irritated in public.
答案A
解析一项研究发现'people here are less willing to volunteer to help str…
24听音作答
- A. It was practiced by Boston's founding fathers.
- B. It is not deemed exotic by Proper Bostonians.
- C. It was adopted by Boston's upper class.
- D. It is not part of Boston's local culture.
答案D
解析Thomas O'Connor说'The idea of a stranger greeting another str…
25听音作答
- A. Stick to its own way of showing courtesy to strangers.
- B. Follow the examples set by Paris and New York City.
- C. Learn from the world's major cities in promoting tourism.
- D. Take pride in its history and adhere to its cultural tradition.
答案B
解析演讲者提到'If those cities can make the effort, maybe Boston shou…