1听音作答
- A. It is absurdly expensive.
- B. It is appropriately priced.
- C. It brings shame on the university.
- D. It caters to students and teachers.
答案B
解析女士认为食堂的食物价格是完全合理的（perfectly appropriate），虽然男士觉得价格荒谬，但女士并不同意，…
2听音作答
- A. They never really appeal to her.
- B. They are never actually good value.
- C. They are within students' budgets.
- D. They always come at a high speed.
答案A
解析女士说她从不渴望甜食或任何花哨的美食，所以她已经忘了甜品的事情，说明甜食对她没有吸引力。
3听音作答
- A. The food.
- B. The space.
- C. The speed.
- D. The environment.
答案C
解析男士明确说食堂最好的一点就是速度（the speed），当他没有太多午餐时间又想吃点实在的东西时，大学食堂总是一个好选择…
4听音作答
- A. A complete refurnishing.
- B. A ruinous burning down.
- C. A substantial expansion.
- D. A massive renovation.
答案D
解析对话中提到食堂几年前进行了一次大规模翻新（massive renovation），花费了不少钱，这使得食堂变成了一个非常…
5听音作答
- A. They have a poor work ethic.
- B. They don't get along with managers.
- C. They are struggling in the workplace.
- D. They aren't as varied as their predecessors.
答案A
解析女士指出人们常说当今年轻人职业道德差，但这种看法并不公正。实际上，这个年龄段的年轻人和其他任何一代人一样多元化。
6听音作答
- A. Learning about the way they adhere to their own values.
- B. Recognizing how they try to strike a work-life balance.
- C. Knowing how they struggle to connect with managers.
- D. Understanding the way they seek career advancement.
答案B
解析男士说管理者要认识到年轻人希望在工作和个人生活之间取得平衡的方式，这对与年轻员工更好相处非常重要。
7听音作答
- A. In terms of the number of hours spent.
- B. By the amount of work they perform.
- C. In terms of the work done in 8 hours.
- D. By the quality of the work they do.
答案D
解析男士说年轻人认为生产力不应该用工作时长来衡量，因为一个人可以工作八小时却几乎没有完成任何有意义的事情，年轻人更看重工作质…
8听音作答
- A. Those whose culture facilitates their advancement.
- B. Those allowing them to do projects of their choice.
- C. Those whose values align with their own.
- D. Those refraining from discrediting their perspectives.
答案C
解析男士说年轻员工必须觉得有必要留在一家价值观与自己一致的公司，这样的公司才能吸引年轻人。
9听音作答
- A. They may unconsciously help customers choose greener dishes.
- B. They may unintentionally encourage customers to eat meat.
- C. They raise customers' environmental awareness.
- D. They enable customers to eat in a healthy way.
答案B
解析新研究表明，虽然听起来违反直觉，但在菜单上设置专门的素食区域可能会无意中鼓励顾客吃肉，而非引导他们选择更环保的菜品。
10听音作答
- A. By inviting them to taste different kinds of food.
- B. By observing the eating behaviour of strict vegetarians.
- C. By comparing participants eating vegetarian food frequently with those doing so rarely.
- D. By requiring participants to choose a meal as if they were feasting at a family gathering.
答案C
解析研究涉及750人，其中一半经常吃素食，一半很少吃素食，不包括严格素食者。他们被给予不同的菜单并被要求选择一顿饭，就像和朋…
11听音作答
- A. They are less likely to choose a vegetarian dish.
- B. They find vegetarian dishes become more appealing.
- C. They tend to consume larger portions of unhealthy food.
- D. They are less likely to choose dishes recommended by chefs.
答案A
解析研究发现，将素食菜品作为主厨推荐或提供更吸引人的描述等改变菜单设计的方式，对经常吃素食的人反而产生了反效果，使他们更不太…
12听音作答
- A. They have found a solution to the global problem of air pollution.
- B. They have managed to freeze polluting particles to around -18℃.
- C. They have been seeking a way to prevent pollutants from penetrating indoors.
- D. They have been cooperating closely on developing a new type of air-conditioner.
答案C
解析诺丁汉特伦特大学和中国科学院一直在寻找一种方法来防止致命的室外空气污染渗入室内，这是他们的研究目标。
13听音作答
- A. They can be costly and inefficient.
- B. They are constantly being perfected.
- C. They are by-products of health research.
- D. They can save over 40,000 lives each year.
答案A
解析文章指出虽然有一些现有的室内空气净化技术，但它们可能效率低下、昂贵或会产生有害副产品。
14听音作答
- A. They keep their windows closed.
- B. They spend a lot more time indoors.
- C. They make more use of air-conditioners.
- D. They try various ways to purify indoor air.
答案B
解析文章提到当室外空气质量差时，人们往往会花更多时间待在室内，但室外污染也会导致室内污染，人们仍然会受到影响。
15听音作答
- A. It shows the importance of eliminating indoor pollution.
- B. It may change the way of future environmental research.
- C. It demonstrates the fruitful cooperation between UK and Chinese scientists.
- D. It may make household appliances serve an additional air cleaner function.
答案D
解析龚攀教授直接表示，研究使得为家用电器增加空气净化功能成为可能。D概括 additional air cleaner fu…
16听音作答
- A. It distinguishes different species of animals.
- B. It reflects distinct traits in animal behaviour.
- C. It demonstrates animals' ability to recognise themselves.
- D. It gauges the level of intelligence of various animal species.
答案C
解析镜子测试是一种展示动物自我识别能力的测试，只有少数动物（如人类、猿类、海豚和一些鸟类）能在镜子中认出自己。
17听音作答
- A. It meets few of the behavioural criteria set in the mirror test.
- B. It behaves similarly to animals capable of self-recognition.
- C. It removes marks from itself to show self-awareness.
- D. It matches children over 18 months in intelligence.
答案B
解析研究表明这种鱼在行为上满足了镜子测试最初设定的所有标准，其行为与其他能够自我识别的动物在功能上非常相似。
18听音作答
- A. They have conclusively established the criteria of animal intelligence.
- B. They have advanced the concept of self-awareness to a higher level.
- C. They incorporate more perspectives than one.
- D. They raise more questions than answers.
答案D
解析演讲者明确指出他们的研究结果提出的问题比答案更多，需要更丰富的自我理论和更大的测试组合才能确定自我意识的各个层面。
19听音作答
- A. Small children are even more keen on screens than their elders.
- B. Both parents and children preferred to read electronic books.
- C. Parents differed from children in reading behavior.
- D. Children reading electronic books learned more.
答案D
解析研究发现阅读电子书的儿童比阅读纸质书的儿童学到了更多新词汇，电子书中的儿童对内容的评论也更多。
20听音作答
- A. They came to conflicting conclusions.
- B. They were based on small samples.
- C. They yielded unanticipated findings.
- D. They were focused on younger kids.
答案A
解析之前的研究结论存在矛盾：一些研究发现电子书支持故事理解和词汇增长，但也有研究表明儿童在电子书上投入的学习精力更少，父母讨…
21听音作答
- A. Those that prove simple enough for them to comprehend.
- B. Those that produce both audio and visual effects on them.
- C. Those that draw their attention to the educational content.
- D. Those that contribute to their increased interest in reading.
答案C
解析录音指出电子书的额外功能可能增加儿童的参与度，但如果这些功能没有将注意力引向教育内容，就不能起到支持性作用。
22听音作答
- A. Regret having wasted much time in making them.
- B. Think how different we could have made them.
- C. Keep ourselves from regretting them.
- D. Live with them for the time being.
答案C
解析演讲者认为如果你的生活充满遗憾，你是在浪费时间。你不应该后悔那些让你成为今天的自己的决定，应该避免后悔过去的决定。
23听音作答
- A. It has made us the person we are now.
- B. It has been made with a lot of thinking.
- C. It stems from our valuable knowledge.
- D. It benefits us greatly one way or another.
答案A
解析演讲者强调你做过的每一个决定，无论是积极还是消极的，都让你成为了今天的自己，所以不应该后悔过去的决定。
24听音作答
- A. Challenging things to do.
- B. Beautiful things to share.
- C. Choices to make.
- D. Lessons to learn.
答案D
解析演讲者说生活充满了需要学习的教训，我们不能让遗憾阻止我们前进，人生就是不断学习的过程。
25听音作答
- A. Foreseeing the possibility for regret later.
- B. Making proper use of the lessons learned.
- C. Perfecting the decision-making strategies.
- D. Seeing them as obstacles to moving forward.
答案B
解析演讲者明确指出，当我们做出糟糕的决定时，真正重要的是你如何利用从中学到的教训，而不是纠结于后悔。