剑桥雅思5 test 4 section 3听力原文与答案

这篇雅思听力Section 3由一位老师和两名同学一起讨论某个公司构成，正好是目前Section 3的主流出题趋势。题目方面，前面的四道填空稍微偏简单一些，后面的选择和匹配都比较符合现在的考试难度。尤其是第25题和第26题将考察重点放在人名和观点的匹配上，是听力Section 3独有的考察套路，大家可以稍加注意一下。

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剑桥雅思5Test4听力Section3答案解析

雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 4 section 3 雅思听力高频词汇

剑5 test 4 Section 3雅思听力原文

TUTOR: Right, Jason and Karin, now I asked you to look at the case study for Box Telecom as part of your exam assessment. It’s interesting because they are in the middle of problems at the moment and I want you to track how they deal with them. Let’s start with you, Karin. Having read through the case study, can you just summarise what the problems were that Box Telecom had to take on board?

KARIN: Um, yeah… Well of course what first came to their attention was that, despite a new advertising campaign, they were suffering from falling sales – and this is something that had many causes. On top of that immediate problem, what had also happened over the last two years was that, although they had invested in an expansion plan, they had to face up to increased competition. And, before they had a chance to get to grips with the effects of that, they were stalled by a strike and it was just when they were thinking about making a colossal investment in new machinery for their plants. So they were really in trouble. Q21, Q22

TUTOR: Yes, I think that’s fair. And Jason, you contacted the company, didn’t you?What did the company define as the reasons for these problems?

JASON: Well, I think they’ve hit on the right things – it would be easy to say they had invested too heavily, or at the wrong time, but in fact the signs were good and what they were set back by was high interest rates. At the same time, their longer-term problems, which were affecting their market share, were eventually credited to poor training – and having looked at the details in their last report I think that’s right. Q23, Q24

TUTOR: So, onto the larger issues then. Karin, what do you think the company will do?

KARIN: Hmm… Well, obviously they have the choice of accepting the very favourable terms that another company – KMG Plc- have given them to buy them out. That would mean creating a new company with a new image. Or they could decide on a bolder move and offer some new shares if they wanted. But I think they’re much more cautious than that and expect they will start trying to find individuals who’d be prepared to back them with some of the capital they need. Q25

TUTOR: Well, you mustn’t always assume that dramatic problems require dramatic solutions. Sometimes there’s a simple fix such as changing the guy at the top. If they truly are cautious, then I suspect they will seek to shut down some of their shops. But a more ambitious approach, and one which I think would have more chance of success, would be to alter how they’re running things – the management layers and the processes. So in your analysis try to think of all the options. Jason? Q26

JASON: Yes, it’s interesting because I’ve found it a really useful company to study. Its problems cross all types of industries and it’s lucky it’s so big – a smaller or even medium-sized company would have gone under by now.

TUTOR: Ah well in fact, what I want you two to do is to go away when we’ve finished our discussion today and write a report. We’ve looked in general at the telecommunications market in the UK over the last few sessions and I want you to take Box Telecom as an example and suggest some ways in which they might overcome their problems. And outline the reasons why you think as you do – but try and keep it intrinsic to the company rather than dragging in other examples. Is that OK, Karin? Q27

KARIN: Yes, I think I can do that. Personally I’ve got great hopes for it. I think it will recover. That advertising campaign they did was very strong and they’re very innovative with their products – they set new trends. The company’s got to recover, don’t you think, Jason? Q28

JASON: Hmmm – I’m not sure. I think it can but it’s not a foregone conclusion unless they manage to attract the right level of investment. The company definitely needs a boost and to attract more highly skilled workers if their recovery is to be long-lasting. When I was talking to the marketing manager he said to me that he thinks the company had got a great management team – but he would say that, wouldn’t he? – but they are suffering from having to work with outdated production machinery and that could cost a lot to put right. Q29

TUTOR: Well, personally I think the stock market is to blame. I think they were expecting too much of the company and then inevitably it looked bad when it didn’t perform. The market should have had more realistic expectations. And I disagree with you about the advertising campaign Karin. That’s where they could do with some innovation – to get sales kick-started. Anyway, let’s see what you come up with… [fade] Q30

剑5 test 4 Section 3雅思听力答案

21. sales

22. competition

23. interest rates/rates of interest

24. training

25. A

26. B

27. A

28. C

29. B

30. D

剑桥雅思5 test 4 Section 2听力原文与答案

这篇雅思听力Section 2是比较典型的组织介绍场景，也是现在雅思听力比较喜欢考察的四大场景之一。不过题型上出现了大量的表格，而表格现在已经失去了剑桥雅思考试委员会的宠爱，在最近几年出现的频率不高。

容易出错的地方主要是第12题和第19题。前者的同义替换比较隐蔽，用begin with代替first，而且离上一道题目很近，非常容易漏过去。后者则是单纯的单词问题，不少同学不太清楚newsletter(简讯，内部通讯)是什么意思，犹犹豫豫没敢写，最后只能空着。

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剑桥雅思5Test4听力Section2答案解析

雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 4 section 2 雅思听力高频词汇

剑5 test 4 Section 2雅思听力原文

Good evening everyone and thank you for coming to the Soccer Club meeting. It’s good to see so many parents and children here tonight, and I know you are looking forward to a great football season. Now I’d like to take a few minutes to tell you about some changes to the Soccer Club for the coming season.

Now, this season we’ll be playing all our matches for both the junior and senior competitions at King’s Park, instead of Royal Park, which was used last season.

Now for meetings, we’re going to use the clubhouse in King’s Park, and the next meeting will be held in the clubhouse on the 2nd of July. Q11

As usual, we hope to begin the season with a picnic next Saturday at the clubhouse. Please try and come to the picnic as it’s always good fun. The last week of the season we usually have a dinner and presentation of prizes to the players, and more information about this will be given to you later in the season. Q12, Q13

This season we have more teams than ever. We hope to have ten teams, instead of five, in the junior competition and they will play on Saturday mornings, beginning at 8.30 a. m. Training sessions will be held in King’s Park on Wednesday afternoons for the juniors and they will be wearing red shirts again this year. Q14, Q15

In the senior competition, there’ll be four teams, the same as last year, and their games will be played on Saturday afternoons starting at 2.30, no sorry, it will be a 2 o’clock start, and the training session for seniors is planned for Sunday afternoons. Q16, Q17

Now I’d like to introduce you to the new committee for the Soccer Club for this season. Firstly, let me welcome Robert Young, the new President, who will manage the meetings for the next two years. Robert’s son has been playing football with the club for over five years now, and many thanks to Robert for taking on the job of President.

Next we have Gina Costello, she’s the treasurer, and she will collect the fees from you for the season. Please try and give Gina your fees as early as possible in the season, as the club needs the money to buy some new equipment. Q18

Then there’s David West who has volunteered to be the club secretary, and one of the many jobs he will have is to send out newsletters to you regularly. If you have any information that may be useful, please let David know so that it can be included in these newsletters. Q19

Also I’d like to introduce you to Jason Dokic who is the Head Coach. For all the new members here tonight, this is the third year that Jason has been with us as Head Coach, and we are very lucky to have such an experienced coach and former player at our club. He will continue to supervise the teams, at training sessions and on match days. Q20

Now before we finish and have some refreshments, does anyone have any questions they’d like to ask the new committee?

剑5 test 4 Section 1雅思听力答案

11. clubhouse

12. picnic

13. prizes

14. 10

15. Wednesday afternoon(s)

16. 4

17. Sunday afternoon(s)

18. collect (the) fees/collect (the) money

19. send (out) newsletter(s)

20. supervise (the) team

剑桥雅思5 test 4 section 1听力原文与答案 host family applicant

这篇Section 1的听力题目非常典型，不仅内容是雅思听力中十分喜爱的租房场景(雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 4 section 1 雅思听力高频词汇)，而且出题方式上也基本涵盖了Section 1所有的干扰项类型。大家做完之后一定要记着多琢磨琢磨，然后再做做精听，以便将题目的作用最 大化。

易错点主要是第3题。虽然录音中女生明显是想要强调她只能在这里待4个月，但题目问的是intended，也就是想要待多久。这点跟原文中的plan对应，因此确定答案是1 year。这道题也最好地说明了雅思听力的出题方式其实更加注重题目，而非原文的特点。

点击查看这篇雅思听力具体题目的答案解析：剑桥雅思5Test4听力Section1答案解析

剑5 test 4 Section 1雅思听力原文

ADVISER: Good morning, how can I help you?

STUDENT: Good morning. Umm, I understand you help fix up students with host families.

ADVISER: That’s right… are you interested in…?

STUDENT: Yes…

ADVISER: Well please sit down and I’ll just take a few details.

STUDENT: Thank you.

ADVISER: Right now… what name is it?

STUDENT: Jenny Chan.

ADVISER: Can you spell that please?

STUDENT: Yes… J-E-N-N-Y C-H-A-N. Example

ADVISER: Right… and what is your present address?

STUDENT: Sea View Guest House, 14 Hill Road. Q1

ADVISER: OK, and do you know the phone number there?

STUDENT: Yes… I have it here, ummm… 2237676, but I’m only there after about 7 pm.

ADVISER: So when would be the best time to catch you?

STUDENT: I suppose between 9 and, let me see, half-past, before I leave for the college. Q2

ADVISER: Great… and can I ask you your age?

STUDENT: I’ve just had my nineteenth birthday.

ADVISER: And how long would you want to stay with the host family?

STUDENT: I’m planning on staying a year but at the moment I’m definitely here for four months only. I have to get an extension to my permit. Q3

ADVISER: You’re working on it? Fine… and what will be your occupation while you’re in the UK?

STUDENT: Studying English?

ADVISER: And what would you say your level of English is?

STUDENT: Umm. Good, I think I’d like to say ‘advanced’ but my written work is below the level of my spoken, so I suppose it’s intermediate. Q4

ADVISER: Certainly your spoken English is advanced. Anyway, which area do you think you would prefer?

STUDENT: Ummm, well I’m studying right in the centre but I’d really like to live in the north-west. Q5

ADVISER: That shouldn’t be a great problem… we usually have lots of families up there.

ADVISER: And do you have any particular requirements for diet?

STUDENT: Well, I’m nearly a vegetarian… not quite. Q6

ADVISER: Shall I say you are? It’s probably easier that way.

STUDENT: That would be best.

ADVISER: Anything about your actual room?

STUDENT: I would prefer my own facilities – ‘en suite’, is that right? And also if it’s possible a TV and I’d also like the house to have a real garden rather than just a yard, somewhere I could sit and be peaceful. Q7

ADVISER: Is that all?

STUDENT: Well… I’m really serious about improving my English so I’d prefer to be the only guest if that’s possible? Q8

ADVISER: No other guests… Yes, you get more practice that way. Anyway, obviously all this is partly dependent on how much you’re willing to pay. What did you have in mind?

STUDENT: I was thinking in terms of about ￡60-￡80 a week, but I’d go up to a hundred if it was something special. Q9

ADVISER: Well I don’t think we’d have any problems finding something for you.

STUDENT: Oh, good.

ADVISER: And when would you want it for?

STUDENT: I’d like to move in approximately two weeks.

ADVISER: Let me see, it’s the 10th today… so if we go for the Monday it’s the 23rd March. Q10

STUDENT: Yes.

ADVISER: Right… good, and if I could ask one last question…

剑5 test 4 Section 1雅思听力答案

1. 14 Hill Road

2. between 9 and 9.30/9-9.30

3. 1 year

4. intermediate

5. Northwest

6. vegetarian

7. (a) (real) garden

8. (the) only guest

9. 100

10. 23rd March/Monday 23rd March

剑桥雅思5 test 3 section 4听力原文与答案 household waste recycling

这篇Section 4虽然由10道填空题构成，但并不是现在比较流行的提纲型填空题，而是单句填空和表格填空。相比较而言，后两者的难度要大于前者，尤其是在定位句子方面。单句填空和表格填空因为没有太过明显的定位词，很容易漏掉。

该部分的易错点主要是32题和36题。前者主要难在incineration的拼写上。而后者则由不少同学把roads听成了rose。

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剑桥雅思5Test3听力Section4答案解析

雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 3 section 4 雅思听力高频词汇

剑5 test 3 Section 4雅思听力原文

STUDENT: Well, my group has been doing a project on how household waste is recycled in Britain.

We were quite shocked to discover that only 9% of people here in the UK make an effort to recycle their household waste. This is a lower figure than in most other European countries, and needs to increase dramatically in the next few years if the government is going to meet its recycling targets.

The agreed targets for the UK mean that by 2008 we must reduce our carbon dioxide emissions by 12.5%, compared with 1990. And recycling can help to achieve that goal, in two main ways: the production of recycled glass and paper uses much less energy than producing them from virgin materials, and also recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions from landfill sites and incineration plants. Q31/Q32

As part of our project, we carried out a survey of people in the street, and the thing that came up over and over again is that people don’t think it’s easy enough to recycle their waste. One problem is that there aren’t enough ‘drop-off’ sites, that is, the places where the public are supposed to take their waste. Q33

We also discovered that waste that’s collected from householders is taken to places called ‘bring banks’, for sorting and baling into loads. One problem here is taking out everything that shouldn’t have been placed in the recycling containers: people put all sorts of things into bottle banks, like plastic bags and even broken umbrellas. All this has to be removed by hand. Another difficulty is that toughened glass used for cooking doesn’t fully melt at the temperature required for other glass, and so that also has to be picked out by hand. Q34

Glass is easy to recycle because it can be reused over and over again without becoming weaker. Two million tons of glass is thrown away each year, that is, seven billion bottles and jars; but only 500,000 tons of that is collected and recycled. Q35

Oddly enough, half the glass that’s collected is green, and a lot of that is imported, so more green glass is recycled than the UK needs. As a result, new uses are being developed for recycled glass, particularly green glass, for example in fibreglass manufacture and water filtration. A company called CLF Aggregates makes a product for roads, and 30% of the material is crushed glass. Q36

For recycling paper, Britain comes second in Europe with 40%, behind Germany’s amazing 70%.

When recycling started, there were quality problems, so it was difficult to use recycled paper in office printers. But these problems have now been solved, and Martin’s, based in South London, produces a range of office stationery which is 100% recycled, costs the same as normal paper and is of equally high quality.

But this high quality comes at a cost in terms of the waste produced during the process. Over a third of the waste paper that comes in can’t be used in the recycled paper, leaving the question of what to do with it. One firm, Papersave, currently sells this to farmers as a soil conditioner, though this practice will soon be banned because of transport costs and the smell, and the company is looking into the possibility of alternative uses. Q37

Plastic causes problems, because there are so many different types of plastic in use today, and each one has to be dealt with differently. Pacrite recycles all sorts of things, from bottles to car bumpers, and one of its most successful activities is recycling plastic bottles to make containers which are used all over the country to collect waste. Q38

The Save-a-Cup scheme was set up by the vending and plastics industries to recycle as many as possible of the three-and-a-half billion polystyrene cups used each year. At the moment 500 million polycups are collected, processed and sold on to other businesses, such as Waterford, which turns the cups into pencils, and Johnson & Jones, a Welsh-based firm, which has developed a wide variety of items, including business cards. Q39, Q40

Well, to sum up, there seems to be plenty of research going on into how to re-use materials, but the biggest problem is getting people to think about recycling instead of throwing things away. At least doing the research made us much more careful.

剑5 test 3 Section 4雅思听力答案

31. 12.5%

32. incineration plants

33. drop-off

34. cooking

35. 500,000

36. roads

37. soil conditioner

38. containers

39. pencils

40. business cards

剑桥雅思5 test 3 section 3听力原文与答案 Feedback Form

虽然这部分出了10道填空，与目前考试的整体趋势不太符合。但这一课程反馈场景却是现在经常考察的内容。其中出现的handout，outline等词汇更是大家一定要掌握的(雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 3 section 3 雅思听力高频词汇)。

该部分的易错点主要是25题和29题。其中25 题很容易写成beginning，但它一方面不能跟in搭配，另一方面也不符合题目中too much这一条件(听力中说的是一开始作业太少)。因此得继续往后听，确定答案为second half。29题则是单纯的太过隐蔽，说完答案之后才提到too much，很容易反应不过来(剑桥雅思5Test3听力Section3答案解析)。

剑5 test 3 Section 3雅思听力原文

ANNIE: Oh Ben – I just remembered I never filled in that form for Nick – did you do it?

BEN: The course feedback form?

ANNIE: Yes. If you want, we can do it together, I’ve got mine here.

BEN: Is that OK?

ANNIE: Yeah.

BEN: OK, let’s have a look then. What do we have to do?

ANNIE: Let’s fill in the top first, let’s see, Course, Course code…

BEN: Er, it’s Communication in Business.

ANNIE: OK, Communication… in… Business, I do know that, but what’s the code?

BEN: CB 16 something, CB 162, isn’t it?

ANNIE: Mmm, that’s it, OK and dates, when did we start? I remember, my birthday’s on May 4th and it was the day after, it must have been May 5th. Q21

BEN: Gosh, doesn’t seem that long ago, does it?

ANNIE: No, and we finish at the end of this week, on Friday, so that’s July 15th?

BEN: Er 16th, Monday was the 12th. Right, that was the easy bit, now let’s have a look – “Please give your comments on the following aspects of the course”, OK, what’s the first one? Oh, course organisation. What do you think? Q22

ANNIE: Er, clear? It was, wasn’t it?

BEN: Yes, I think the organisation was clear. OK, anything else for course organisation? Q23

ANNIE: It was a good thing he gave us the course outline at the beginning, in the first session, that was useful, so I’ll put that down, shall I? Now, going on to suggestion for improvement, one thing that wasn’t so good, I think we could have done a bit more work at the beginning, I mean at the beginning it seemed dead easy. Q24

BEN: Yeah.

ANNIE: I thought it was going to be really easy and then all of a sudden in the second half of the course we got a whole load of work, reading to do and essays and things. Q25

BEN: Yes, it’d be better if it was more even. OK, now course delivery, does that mean teaching?

ANNIE: Yeah, I suppose so. Well, what I thought was really good on this course was the standard of teaching. Actually – I mean some of the teachers were better than others – but the standard generally was fine. Much better than other courses I’ve been on. Q26

BEN: Yeah, I agree. Let’s put that then. What about suggestions for improvement?

ANNIE: I… I didn’t think it was all that wonderful when we had great long group discussion sessions that went on for hours and hours. I don’t mean we shouldn’t have group discussions, just that they shouldn’t go on too long. Q27

ANNIE: Now, on to materials and equipment.

BEN: Oh, now what was good about some sessions was the handouts. Q28

ANNIE: Yes, I thought all the handouts were good actually, and some were great, with website addresses and everything.

BEN: One problem though with materials was the key texts.

ANNIE: Yes! There just weren’t enough copies on reserve in the library. And if you can’t get the key texts before the session, how are you supposed to do the reading? And not enough computers. You have to wait ages to get one.

BEN: OK, testing and evaluation – well, I don’t know, it’s hard to say until we’ve got our written assignments back.

ANNIE: Don’t talk about it, I only got mine in yesterday, it was a real struggle. I hate to think what mark I’ll get.

BEN: Yes, but at least we’ve done the oral presentation – I thought that was good, the way I got my feedback really quickly.

ANNIE: Yes, it was. And I liked the way we knew what we’d be evaluated on, we knew the criteria, so we knew we had to think about clarity, organisation, and so on.

BEN: Yeah, but I’m not so sure about the written work. One thing I think is that there’s just too much, it’s really stressful. Q29

ANNIE: Yes, I’d agree and I don’t see why they can’t let us know the criteria they use for marking.

BEN: The written assignments? But he told us.

ANNIE: No, for the final exams. What are they looking for – what are the criteria? What makes a pass or a fail?

BEN: Yeah, I never thought of that. It’d be really useful.

ANNIE: OK, any other comments?

BEN: I thought student support was excellent. Q30

ANNIE: Yeah, me too. OK, excellent. Other comments?

BEN: No, I can’t think of anything else.

ANNIE: Nor me. OK, so that’s done. Thanks, Ben.

BEN: No, thank you.

剑5 test 3 Section 3雅思听力答案

21. 5th May

22. 16th July

23. clear/was clear

24. (course) outline

25. (the) second half

26. (standard of) teaching

27. (group) discussion

28. handouts

29. written work

30. student support

剑桥雅思5 test 3 Section 2听力原文与答案

虽然这篇雅思听力所讲的留学申请过程并不算是Section 2常考的内容，但其题型跟现在Section 2出题方式多样化的趋势还是比较一致的，包括了多选、填空、以及单选这三种。其中多选和单选的难度都算正常，填空要偏简单一些。

整体来说，这10道题目中除了第13题的答案藏的有些隐蔽之外，并没有什么易错点。无论是出题方式和听力原文难度都十分正常。大家可以用它来大致评估下自己目前的水平。

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雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 3 section 2 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思5 Test3听力Section2答案解析

剑5 test 3 Section 2雅思听力原文

MAN: As I said earlier, there is I think at Rexford an excellent combination of physical and geographical advantages – as well as having a rural setting and still being close to central London, something that will certainly be of interest to you is that Rexford is just 35 minutes from London Airport. At Rexford, we have a strong research capability. We came 7th out of 101 universities in last year’s research assessment, carried out by a government body and did particularly well in your particular subjects, engineering, and science. Actually we got a top research grade of five for engineering, geography and computer sciences. One further point – and I know from talking to you individually that a number of you may be looking for some experience in the industry after the course – is that all our science and engineering research departments have unusually close relationships with industry in the area. Anyway, that’s enough sales talk from me… I’ll just take a sip of this coffee that’s just arrived, thank you, and then I’ll say something about what actually happens when you apply. Q11/Q12

Right… Now if you do decide to make an application, what you do is send it directly to me in my department. I will then immediately send confirmation and the application process begins. Er… I’d like to say at this point that you shouldn’t worry if this process doesn’t work all that quickly I mean occasionally there are postal problems, but most often the hold-up is caused by references – the people you give as referees, shall we say, take their time to reply. Anyway, it’s absolutely normal for this process to take three to four months. What I do in this period is keep in touch with you and reassure you that things are moving along. Q13

One of the ways we’ve devised to help you decide about applying as well as later when you’ve been accepted… hopefully… is to put you in contact with, if possible, a student from your own country who is at present studying with us. What you can do is phone them up – we will, of course, liaise between you – and discuss your concerns with them. That way you can get an objective opinion of what you can expect if you come to live and study at Rexford – not only the academic atmosphere but important details like what the leisure facilities are like and whether the English weather and food are really as awful as everybody says! Q14/Q15

If you decide you can face it, the contact can also help you just before you leave, with tips on what to pack and that sort of thing. At the moment I think we’ve got two second-year students and one postgraduate from this country.

Now to move on to the other concerns you expressed earlier. At a UK university – as I’m sure you know – you will be in an environment where independent learning is the norm, which takes most students a while to adjust to, and at a time when you will be separated from your normal surroundings and, in most cases, your family. This can be a difficult time. But remember that something like 25% of our student body are international students like yourselves, and that there are several organisations in the university and city whose main purpose is to offer help and ensure that your time with us is enjoyable and useful. Q16

One or two of you touched on the subject of accommodation earlier. So I’ll just add a few points: it is the University’s policy to give priority in the allocation of residence places to three categories, and those are: visiting students, exchange students and new postgraduate students. However, demand exceeds supply, so there is still a need to put your name down early for campus accommodation, particularly if your family is accompanying you. This means that the earlier you decide whether you want to study with us… and so get the procedure moving, the better it will be for everybody. Yes? Q17

WOMAN: What if you would prefer to live outside the university?

MAN: If you’re planning to live off-campus, you’ve got to sort things out even earlier. As with everything in short supply, the good accommodation gets snapped up months before the beginning of term – in other words, if you’re starting in October you need to be thinking about it in June or at the very latest July. So you do need to think very carefully about what you need, how much you can afford to pay, well in advance. What you can’t do is leave it until a few days before the start of term. The agencies in town are pretty good – it’s just a matter of contacting them in good time. Of course, we have a full-time accommodation officer available to help all students. She’ll get in touch with you when you’re accepted – she’s got plenty of contacts in the town and will deal with the agencies on your behalf. Q18/Q19

One or two of you asked me earlier about your level of spoken English. Obviously most of you have already achieved a lot – I wish I could speak your language half as well. Having said that though, I’m afraid the lecturers will make little or no allowance for the presence of non-native speakers in the audience. So anything you can do to improve your spoken English – even beyond the pretty high levels most of you have already reached – will help make your stay with us that bit more fun for you. Some extra practice before you arrive is worth more than.., for example, private lessons afterwards, when you won’t really have time. Oh… and one last thing before I invite further questions: it’s very important that you… Q20

剑5 test 3 Section 2雅思听力答案

11-12. CE

13. references

14. country

15. weather

16. C

17. C

18. A

19. B

20. C

剑桥雅思5 test 3 Section 1听力原文与答案 Mintons Car Mart

这篇雅思听力讲述了顾客买车咨询的过程。这一场景虽然不像求职、租房那么热门，但时不时也会出现一次，大家还是需要注意一下，尤其是那些跟汽车有关的词汇。此外还需要说明的是第1题的答案。很多同学可能都没有带后面litres的单位，导致出错。但是现在雅思考试题目一般都会自带单位，所以不用太过担心。

易错点主要是第2题，第5题和第6题。第2题是单纯的拼写，本身不难;第5题主要是double和r的连读，导致很多同学反应不过来，积累下读音就好;第6题则是离第5题太近，很容易漏掉。

点击查看这篇雅思听力对应的高频词汇与具体题目的答案解析：

剑桥雅思5 Test 3听力Section 1答案解析

雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 3 section 1 雅思听力高频词汇

剑5 test 3 Section 1雅思听力原文

MAN: Good morning, please take a seat. How can I help you?

WOMAN: Well, I’m thinking of buying a new car and I’d like some advice.

MAN: Sure, yes. Had you got any particular make in mind?

WOMAN: I’m interested in a Lida – I’ve had one before and liked it. But I haven’t really made up my mind. Example

MAN: Sure. We’ve got various models. Umm, right. What about the engine size? Any ideas?

WOMAN: The one I’ve got at the moment’s a 1.2 litre engine but I find it a bit slow on long journeys. I’d like a bit more power this time … a 1.4 should do, I don’t think I need a 1.6 or anything. Q1

MAN: Right. Well I think the model you’re looking at is the Max. Here’s a picture.

WOMAN: Oh, yes … have you got one in?

MAN: Yes. I’ll take you to have a look at it in a minute. I’ll just get a few more details. Er … Is there anything else to do with the engine? What kind of gear change do you want? I presume you’d want a manual?

WOMAN: I’d want automatic – I’ve never driven a car with manual gears. Q2

MAN: Right. Well now, here’s the colour chart for the Max. Have you given that any thought? This blue’s very popular at the moment.

WOMAN: Yes, it is nice, I like blue. What’s it called? ‘Royal’?

MAN: Yes.

WOMAN: But actually, I think I prefer this lighter shade here – ‘Sky’. Q3

MAN: Yes, that’s popular too.

WOMAN: I think I’ll go for that.

MAN: You might have to wait a week or so for that colour, but I assume that’d be OK?

WOMAN: Oh yes, fine.

MAN: Well, we can go outside and you can have a good look at one, and perhaps take it out. But first, can I just ask you about finance? The cash price is going to be somewhere in the region of seven and a half thousand. How would you like to pay? Are you in a position to pay cash, or would you need credit?

WOMAN: I’d like credit provided the terms are reasonable. Q4

MAN: Well you can discuss that with my colleague in a moment; we have various arrangements. And would you be interested in us taking your present car as part exchange?

WOMAN: Yes.

MAN: OK, fine. So I’ll just need some details from you and then we can do a valuation… Is that OK?

WOMAN: Fine, yes.

MAN: Could I have your full name?

WOMAN: Wendy Harries, that’s H-A-double R-I-E-S. Q5

MAN: And is that Mrs … Miss … Ms …?

WOMAN: It’s Doctor, actually. Q6

MAN: Oh, right. And your address?

WOMAN: 20 Green Banks.

MAN: Is that ‘Green’ spelled as in the colour?

WOMAN: Yes, that’s right.

MAN: OK.

WOMAN: Alton.

MAN: Is that O-L-T-O-N?

WOMAN: Not quite, it begins with an A, not an O. Q7

MAN: Oh yes, that’s in Hampshire isn’t it?

WOMAN: That’s right.

MAN: And do you know your postcode?

WOMAN: Yes. It’s GU8 9EW.

MAN: Do you have a daytime phone number?

WOMAN: Well, I work at the hospital but it’s a bit difficult to get hold of me. I can give you a number just for messages, and then I’ll get back to you when I can. Is that OK? Q8

MAN: That’s fine.

WOMAN: It’s 0-7-9-8-2-5-7-6-4-3.

MAN: Fine. And about the car you have now, what make is it?

WOMAN: It’s a Conti.

MAN: Do you know the year or the model name?

WOMAN: I think it’s 1996, and it’s called a Lion – like the animal. Q9

MAN: Then it must be 1994, because they brought out the Fox after that.

WOMAN: Oh right, yes.

MAN: Mileage? Roughly?

WOMAN: I’m not sure. I know it’s less than seventy thousand.

MAN: OK. What colour is it?

WOMAN: It’s grey, metallic grey.

MAN: Right, and one last thing – what sort of condition would you say it’s in?

WOMAN: I’d probably describe it as reasonable. Do you need to see it? It’s parked outside. Q10

MAN: Not at the moment, no. Perhaps you could call in one day next week…

剑5 test 3 Section 1雅思听力答案

1. 1.4 liters

2. automatic

3. light/sky

4. credit

5. Harries

6. Doctor

7. Alton

8. messages

9. Lion

10. reasonable

剑桥雅思5 test 2 Section 4听力原文与答案 Antarctica

这篇听力所讲的南极一直都是雅思听力Section 3和Section 4十分经常考察的内容，题型上也是现在常见提纲型填空题，虽然难度稍微偏低一些，但已经算是剑桥雅思4-9上跟目前考试比较相似的不多的Section 4之一。大家一定要好好珍惜。

易错点主要是33和37。其中33题science因为在句首，出现的比较突然，有些容易反应不过来。不过，这在现在看来属于比较常规的出题思路，只要稍加注意就好。37题则是容易错在干扰项上。前面说了一个英国一般成人需要的热量，而非在南极的情况。

点击查看这篇雅思听力中需要大家掌握的重点词汇与具体题目的答案解析：

雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 2 section 4 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思5 Test 2听力Section 4答案解析

剑5 test 2 Section 4雅思听力原文

Tonight I’m going to talk to you about that remarkable continent Antarctica – remote, hostile and at present uninhabited on a permanent basis. For early explorers, it was the ultimate survival contest; for researchers like me, it remains a place of great intellectual challenge; while for the modern tourist, it’s simply a wilderness of great beauty.

First, some facts and figures. Antarctica is a place of extremes – the highest, coldest and windiest continent and over fifty-eight times the size of the UK. The ice-cap contains almost 70% of the world’s fresh water and 90% of its ice, but with very low snowfall, most of the continent technically falls unbelievably into the category of ‘desert’! Huge icebergs break off the continent each year, while in winter half the surrounding ocean freezes over, which means its size almost doubles. Q31, Q32

Research and exploration has been going on in Antarctica for more than two hundred years, and has involved scientists from many different countries, who work together on research stations. Here science and technical support have been integrated in a very cost-effective way – our Antarctic research programme has several summers-only stations and two all-year-round ones; I was based on one of the all-year-round ones. Q33

The research stations are really self-contained communities of about twenty people. There’s living and working space, a kitchen with a huge food store, a small hospital and a well-equipped gym to ensure everyone keeps fit in their spare time. The station generates its own electricity and communicates with the outside world using a satellite link. Q34

Our station – Zero One – had some special features. It wasn’t built on land but on an ice-shelf, hundreds of metres thick. Supplies were brought to us on large sledges from a ship fifteen kilometres away at the ice edge. Q35

Living in the Antarctic hasn’t always been so comfortable. Snow build-ups caused enormous problems for four previous stations on the same site, which were buried and finally crushed by the weight. Fortunately no-one was hurt, but these buildings became a huge challenge to architects who finally came up with a remarkable solution – the buildings are placed on platforms which can be raised above the changing snow level on legs which are extendable. Q36

Food is one of the most important aspects of survival in a polar climate. People living there need to obtain a lot more energy from their food, both to keep warm and to undertake heavy physical work. Maybe you know that an adult in the UK will probably need about 1,700 kilocalories a day on average; someone in Antarctica will need about 3,500 -just over double! This energy is provided by foods which are high in carbohydrate and fat. Q37

Rations for fieldwork present an additional problem. They need to provide maximum energy, but they must also be compact and light for easy transport. Special boxes are prepared, each containing enough food for one person for twenty days. You may be familiar with coffee processed by freeze-drying, which preserves the quality of the food product while making a large saving in weight – well, this type of presentation is ideal in our situation. It wasn’t available to earlier polar explorers, whose diet was commonly insufficient for their health.

I think that being at the cutting edge of science has a special appeal for everyone working in Antarctica, in whatever capacity. As a marine biologist, my own research was fascinating; but it’s perhaps climate change research that is the most crucial field of study.

Within this general field, surveying changes in the volume and stability of the ice-cap is vital, since these may have profound effects on world sea levels and on ocean currents. A second important area is monitoring the size of the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica, since this is an indicator of global ultra-violet radiation levels. Thirdly, bubbles in the ice-sheet itself provide an index of pollution because frozen inside them are samples of previous atmospheres over the past 500,000 years, and these provide us with evidence for the effects of such human activities as agriculture and industry. Q38, Q39

There are an increasing number of opportunities for young people to work for a period in Antarctica – not only as research assistants in projects like mine, but also in a wide range of junior administrative and technical positions including vacancies for map-makers. I hope that the insights I’ve provided will encourage you to take up these opportunities in this fascinating continent. Q40

剑5 test 2 Section 4雅思听力答案

31. 58

32. desert

33. science

34. (small) hospital

35. ship

36. platforms

37. 3500

38. (ocean) currents

39. pollution

40. young

剑桥雅思5 test 2 Section 3听力原文与答案 student life video project

这部分的内容为两个学生和老师讨论某项作业，是现在雅思听力Section 3最常考察的场景。不过现在考试中更多采用选择和匹配的形式，而非填空(毕竟填空要简单许多)。所以大家做完题目之后可以做做精听，分析题目的意义并不大。

易错点主要有两个：一是24题的slang(俚语，俗语)，好多同学听到之后不会拼写;二是27题的editing集合了多种语音现象，非常容易听不出来。这一点的听力原文为how important editing is。首先是important的尾音/t/发生了浊化，变成/d/，其次是editing的e出现变音，发的是/ə/，最后important和editing之间又有连读，所以大家没听出来的话也不必担心。

点击查看这篇雅思听力中需要大家掌握的重点词汇与具体题目的答案解析：

雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 2 section 3 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思5 Test 2听力Section 3答案解析

剑5 test 2 Section 3雅思听力原文

TUTOR: First of all I’d just like to say, Cristina and Ibrahim, that I really enjoyed watching your video about student life last week, and I could see that the rest of the group did too. You did really well, and I hope that you got a lot out of it. I’d like to use this tutorial as a feedback session, where you reflect on the experience of doing the project. So Cristina, I was wondering, what did you enjoy most about making the video?

CRISTINA: I liked using the camera.

TUTOR: Is it the first time you’ve operated one like that?

CRISTINA: Yes, it is.

TUTOR: Well the results were very good! Anything else?

CRISTINA: I also enjoyed visiting one of the British students we filmed. I’d never been inside a British home before. Q21

TUTOR: OK Cristina, thanks. What about you, Ibrahim? What did you enjoy?

IBRAHIM: Well for me it was a very good chance to get to know students who are on other courses, because everyone in our group is studying English, and we don’t usually have much to do with the rest of the college.

TUTOR: Yes, good. Do you think you’ll maintain the contact now?

IBRAHIM: I hope so. I’ve invited three of them to have dinner with me next week. Q22

TUTOR: Great! If you haven’t decided what to make yet I can tell you they’ll love trying Arab dishes. And of course, it’s good for your English too. Cristina, what did you find? What was the most useful aspect of the project from the point of view of the English practice?

CRISTINA: I think, when we were being shown how to edit the film, we had to follow the instructions. And that was very good practice for me. And I also learned some technical words that I hadn’t heard before. Q23

TUTOR: What about you Ibrahim? What was the most useful for your English?

IBRAHIM: It was listening to the British students, because they don’t speak as slowly as most of the tutors on our course. I think they speak at natural speed, so it forces me to get used to it. And they use a lot of slang. Q24

TUTOR: So you learned some new words which will be useful?

IBRAHIM: Yes.

TUTOR: Good. I’m glad it helped. Well, we’ve talked a little bit about enjoyment, and about language practice. Were there any other benefits? What else did you feel you’d learnt from the project? Was it useful in other ways?

CRISTINA: Yes, well firstly, I learned how to use a video camera. And also, I think I really learned a lot about working together with other people. I’ve never done anything with a group before, and we had to find ways of cooperating, erm, and compromising, and sometimes persuading people, when they don’t agree with you. Q25, Q26

TUTOR: Yes, that is a very useful experience, I know.

TUTOR: What about you, Ibrahim?

IBRAHIM: Well, I think I learnt a lot about how important editing is. When you’re filming you think that everything’s going to be interesting, but in fact we cut around half of it in the end, and then it was much better. Q27

TUTOR: Good. Well, one last thing I’d like to ask. What mistakes do you think you, as a group that is, made? I mean, to put it another way, if you had to do it all over again, is there anything you’d do differently?

CRISTINA: We didn’t plan very well. For example, we didn’t decide on dates when we’d complete each separate step of the project, and we should have agreed about that in the beginning, because we were always late with everything! Q28

TUTOR: Right. Anything else?

CRISTINA: I think we should have tried to experiment more with the camera. I mean with angles, and the focus and that kind of thing. Q29

TUTOR: So you should have been more ambitious? Do you agree, Ibrahim?

IBRAHIM: Not really. In fact, I think we were too ambitious. We were inexperienced, and we didn’t have a lot of time, and we tried to do too much, to make a long film. Next time I would make a shorter one and try to get the quality better. Q30

TUTOR: Well, that’s very interesting. Next semester we will be doing another video project – with a different content, of course – but you’ll have an opportunity to put into practice what you’ve learnt this time. Do you have any ideas about…

剑5 test 2 Section 3雅思听力答案

21. home/student’s home

22. (have) dinner

23. technical

24. slang

25. cooperating/cooperation

26. persuading

27. editing

28. complete

29. experiment

30. long

剑桥雅思5 test 2 Section 2听力原文与答案 Bicycles for the world

这部分介绍了某个自行车慈善组织的情况，前面的5道单选和后面的3道多选都比较符合目前考试的套路和难度，是非常好的练习材料。大家做完之后一定要注意总结下它的干扰项到底是怎么设置的。如何在错误的情况下仍然能够诱使大家去选它。但中间的简答就比较坑一些。尤其是第16题，接连说了两个比较大的数字，非常容易反应不过来。做错的同学完全不用伤心。

点击查看这篇雅思听力中需要大家掌握的重点词汇与具体题目的答案解析：

雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 2 section 2 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思5 Test 2听力Section 2答案解析

剑5 test 2 Section 2雅思听力原文

My name’s Dan Pearman and I’d like to talk about the work of Pedal Power, a small charity based mainly in the UK. I’ll be giving our contact details at the end, if anyone would like to find out more about how to support us.

But first, how the charity began. I got the idea of exporting bicycles to developing countries while I was in Ecuador. I went there in 1993 just after graduating from university. After three years of studying, I wanted adventure. I loved travelling, so I decided to join a voluntary organisation and was sent to Ecuador to carry out land surveys. The project came to an end after five years and when I returned to the UK in 1998, I started planning Pedal Power. Q11

Where I lived in Ecuador was a very rural area. My neighbour had the only bicycle in the village, whereas everyone else walked everywhere. My neighbour’s business was unusually successful, and for years I couldn’t understand why. Then I realised having a bike meant he could get where he wanted to go without much trouble. Other local carpenters could only accept jobs in a three-kilometre radius, so no matter how skilled they were, they could never do as many jobs as my neighbour. Q12

At Pedal Power, we collect second-hand bikes in the UK and send them to some of the poorest regions in the world. When we distribute bikes overseas we don’t give them away for free. We’d like to, but long term that doesn’t really help the local economy. The demand for bikes is enormous, which makes them very expensive locally. So we sell them for 5% of the normal price. But in order to continue operating we need to have a constant supply of bikes which we send out every six months. Q13

One example of a town that’s received bicycles from Pedal Power is Rivas. It was the first place I sent a full container of bicycles to. Most people there now own a bicycle. The local economy has developed so much, you wouldn’t recognise it as the same place. In fact, there are more bikes than on the streets of Amsterdam, if you’ve ever been there. Q14

But Pedal Power still needs your help. You may have read about some of our recent problems in the British media. In August 2000, we simply ran out of money. We had containers of bikes ready to send, but no money to pay the bills. It was a terrible situation. We managed to ensure the bikes went out on time, but the other problems carried on for several months. Q15

Fortunately in October 2001 we won an Enterprise Award which helped us enormously. We invested fifteen of the seventy-five-thousand-pound prize money to help secure our future. Winning the award helped raise our profile, and the money enabled us to pay all our shipping costs, which represent our greatest expense. Pedal Power changes lives – when someone gets a bicycle from us, they see a 14% increase in their income. We’re currently looking to invest in computers so that our office staff can do an even better job. Because of our work, people in a number of countries now have a better standard of living – so far we’ve provided 46,000 people with bikes. But we’d like to send more, at least 50,000 by the end of the year. Q16, Q17

Now there are many ways in which you can support the work of Pedal Power, not just by taking a bike to a collection in your area. I should also like to say if you do have a bike to donate, it doesn’t matter what condition it’s in – if we can’t repair it, we’ll strip it down for spare parts. Of course, to do that we always need tools, which are expensive to buy, so we welcome any that you can give. Also, you could help by contacting the voluntary staff at our offices, they’ll be able to suggest activities you could organise to bring in funds for us. People do all kinds of things – including, of course, sponsored bike rides. Also, we’re always interested to hear of other places that would benefit from receiving a consignment of bikes, and welcome suggestions from people who’ve been to developing regions on their travels. We hope that by talking on radio programmes like this, we will be able to raise public awareness, which will lead to government organisations also giving us regular financial support, something that we really need. Q18/19/20

If you’d like some more information about where to donate an old bicycle or offer help in other ways please contact us on …

剑5 test 2 Section 2雅思听力答案

11. C

12. C

13. A

14. C

15. A

16. 75000 pounds

17. computers

18-20. CEF

剑桥雅思5 test 2 Section 1听力原文与答案 Library information

图书馆场景是现在听力考试中非常容易出现的内容，除了考察借书流程之外，还经常考察图书馆举办的各项活动。因此大家要注意总结下这一场景下经常出现的词汇(雅思听力场景词汇 图书馆)。

这十道题目的易错点主要有两个：其一是第3题的125 pounds，答案之前先说了个25十分具有迷惑性，而且125的100读的是a hundred而非one hundred，不太容易分辨。其二是第8题的card。答案出现的太过突然，而且前面关于打印具体多少钱的论述因为十分陌生，很容易让大家思考里面是否存在答案，进而忽略后面的内容。

点击查看这篇雅思听力对应的题目答案解析：剑桥雅思5 Test 2听力Section 1答案解析

剑5 test 2 Section 1雅思听力原文

LIBRARIAN: Good morning, North College Library. How can I help you?

MAN: I was wondering if it was possible to join the library.

LIBRARIAN: Are you a student at North College?

MAN: No, I’m not, but someone told me it was possible to join, even if I wasn’t.

LIBRARIAN: That’s right, it is. Are you over 18? That’s our minimum joining age. Example

MAN: Yes, I am.

LIBRARIAN: That’s no problem then.

MAN: Could you tell me what I have to do to join?

LIBRARIAN: Well, you’ll need to come into the library and fill out some forms. You’ll also need to bring two passport photos with you. We also need two documents for ID, so a driving license would be fine. Q1

MAN: I’ve got that and what else? A credit card?

LIBRARIAN: No, it needs to have your address on it.

MAN: Shall I bring a bank statement, would that do? Q2

LIBRARIAN: That’ll be fine.

MAN: Good. Does it cost anything to join?

LIBRARIAN: Well, it’s free for students here but otherwise it’s ￡125 per year or ￡25 if you’ve got a current student card from another college. Q3

MAN: I was at Westerley College until last year but now I’ve got a job at Jefferson’s steel factory. Er, it’s more expensive than I thought. My local library is free.

LIBRARIAN: But you’ll find they don’t have the range of reference books or facilities which we buy for our students. That’s why you have to pay to be an external member.

MAN: I see. How many books can I borrow?

LIBRARIAN: We allow twelve items borrowed at any one time if you’re a student, and that includes CDs, DVDs and videos. However, it’s only eight items for members of the public. Q4

MAN: Fine. And how long can I have them for?

LIBRARIAN: Well, you can have both fiction and reference books for four weeks which isn’t bad really.

MAN: And what happens if I return them late?

LIBRARIAN: Like all libraries there’s a fine system in place. The minimum fine is ￡1.50 but it can be much higher for some items – up to ￡5 per week. We’ll give you a booklet with all the details when you join. You can always renew items if they’re not required by anyone else by telephoning or logging on to our website. Q5

MAN: What about the computers? Can I use them free of charge?

LIBRARIAN: For college students it’s free, but for external members like yourself, the first hour is free and then we make a nominal charge of ￡1 per hour thereafter.

MAN: Do I have to book in advance for them?

LIBRARIAN: Oh, yes, it’s advisable. Most people tend to book twenty-four hours in advance although sometimes you can get one with only six hours’ notice. However, the earliest you can book a computer is forty-eight hours before you need it, and you can only book one hour at a time. If no-one else has booked the computer out, then you may be able to have another hour if you want. We have a wide range of databases, so the computers are in great demand. Q6

MAN: I’m thinking of doing some writing and I might need to access national newspapers. Do you have them on these databases?

LIBRARIAN: We do indeed. We’ve got all the big nationals, The Guardian and The Observer, The Independent and The Times and Sunday Times. We’ve also got all the local papers and a wide selection of magazines. Q7

MAN: Excellent. I assume you have photocopying facilities?

LIBRARIAN: Of course. 5p a sheet for both A4 and A3 black-and-white copies and 40p a sheet for colour. You can get a card from the counter here – it doesn’t take coins. Q8

MAN: OK. Oh by the way, another thing I was wondering about was if you ran any writing classes through the library?

LIBRARIAN: We do, but you’ll have to speak to John Grantingham about that. He’s our resident author. He runs the creative writing classes.

MAN: John… Grant…. Could you spell that for me please?

LIBRARIAN: Certainly. G – R – A – N – T – I – N – G – H – A – M. Q9

MAN: Are the classes here at the library?

MAN: Yes – he’s here on Thursday evenings, oh no sorry, Friday – he’s just changed it. You can contact him by emailing the library.

LIBRARIAN: Okay. Right, well that’s about all I need to know. Thank you. I’ll be along later this week to join. Thanks. Bye.

剑5 test 2 Section 1雅思听力答案

1. (passport) photos

2. (a) bank statement

3. 125 (per year)

4. 8

5. 1.50

6. 48

7. local papers

8. card

9. Grantingham

10. Friday

以上就是关于“剑桥雅思5 test 2 Section 1听力原文与答案”的内容，词汇方面点击查看：雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 2 section 1 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思5 test 1 Section 4听力原文与答案 saving for the future

该部分前5道题目和后5道题目的难度差异非常大。前面太过简单，要低于目前正常考试Section 4的水平，后面难度又太大，要高于正常Section 4的水平。后5道题目中，除了39和40之外，其他三道题都非常容易犯错，不仅句子关键词不明朗，不容易定位，而且空前后词的提示也十分弱，让人不知道答案究竟是哪个。如果大家这三道题目全对，基本就具备了雅思听力7分以上的实力。

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雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 1 section 4 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思5 Test 1听力Section 4答案解析 saving for the future

剑5 test 1 Section 4雅思听力原文

OK, so we’ve been looking at the attitudes of various social and cultural groups towards the management of their personal finances – how important they feel it is to save money, and what they save their money for. One aspect that we haven’t yet considered is gender. So if we consider gender issues we’re basically asking whether men and women have different attitudes towards saving money, and whether they save money for different things.

Back in 1928 the British writer George Bernard Shaw wrote in his Intelligent Women’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism that ‘A man is supposed to understand politics, economics, and finance and is, therefore, unwilling to accept essential instruction.’ He also said, ‘A woman, having fewer pretensions, is far more willing to learn’. Now, though these days people might question a lot of the assumptions contained in those statements, recent research does suggest that there are some quite fundamental differences between men and women in their attitudes to economic matters. Q31, Q32

Let’s look at what men and women actually save for. Research studies of women in North America have found that women are far more likely to save for their children’s education and they are also more likely to save up in order to buy a house one day. The same studies have found that men, on the other hand, tend to save for a car, which by the way takes a surprisingly large amount of the household budget in North America. But the other main priority for men when saving money is their retirement. When they’re earning, they’re far more likely to put money aside for their old age than women are. Q33, Q34

Now, this is rather disturbing because in fact, the need for women to save for their old age is far greater than for men. Let’s consider this for a moment. To start with, it is a fact that throughout the world, women are likely to live many years longer than men, so they need money to support them during this time. Since women are likely to be the ones left without a partner in old age, they may, therefore, have to pay for nursing care, because they don’t have a spouse to look after them. Furthermore, the high divorce rates in North America are creating a poverty cycle for women. It is the divorced women who will most often have to look after the children and thus they need more money to look after not just themselves but others. Q35

So what can be done about this situation? The population in North America is likely to contain an increasing number of elderly women. The research indicates that at present for women it takes a crisis to make them think about their future financial situation. Q36

But of course, this is the very worst time for anyone to make important decisions. Women today need to look ahead, think ahead – not wait until they’re under pressure. Even women in their early twenties need to think about pensions, for example, and with increasing numbers of women in professional positions, there are signs that this is beginning to happen. Then research also suggests that women avoid dealing effectively with their economic situation because of a lack of confidence. The best way for them to overcome this is by getting themselves properly informed so they are less dependent on other people’s advice. A number of initiatives have been set up to help them do this. This College, for example, is one of the educational institutions which offers night classes in Money Management, and increasing numbers of women are enrolling in such courses. Here, they can be given advice on different ways of saving. Many women are unwilling to invest in stocks and shares, for instance, but these can be extremely profitable. It is usually advised that at least 70% of a person’s savings should be in low-risk investments but for the rest, financial advisors often advise taking some well-informed risks. Initiatives such as this can give women the economic skills and knowledge they need for a comfortable, independent retirement. Q37, Q38, Q39, Q40

The increasing proportion of elderly women in the population is likely to have other economic consequences …

剑5 test 1 Section 4雅思听力答案

31. politics 政治

32. learn 学习

33. children’s education 儿童教育

34. a car 一辆车

35. nursing care 护理

36. crisis 危机

37. early twenties 20年代初期

38. confidence 自信心

39. money management 财务管理

40. low-risk investment 低风险投资

剑桥雅思5 test 1 Section 3听力原文与答案

该部分的课程咨询场景其实更常见于Section 1，现在的考试中Section 3还是以课堂反馈、作业讨论为主。前面的5道选择题都十分简单，不仅选项和题干比较简短，而且干扰项的设置也不怎么具有迷惑性。后面5道总结型填空的难度较大，主要体现在节奏快，答案不明显上。纵观这10道题目，并没有哪一道特别容易错，或者设置的十分巧妙的。

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雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 1 section 3 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思5 Test 1听力Section 3答案解析

剑5 test 1 Section 3雅思听力原文

ANDREW: Excuse me, I was told to come here for advice about, erm, Management Diploma courses?

MONICA: You’ve certainly come to the right place. Hi, my name is Monica.

ANDREW: Nice to meet you. My name is Andrew, Andrew Harris.

MONICA: So, Andrew, have you seen our diploma course prospectus yet?

ANDREW: Yes, I’ve already looked at it. In fact, I thought the information on course content was really useful, but I’m afraid I’m a bit confused by all the different ways you can do the course: full-time intensive, part-time and so on.

MONICA: Well, let’s see if I can help. I think each course type has its advantages and disadvantages, so it really depends on you – your own study habits, and your financial circumstances, of course. Are you working at the moment?

ANDREW: Yes. I’ve been working in the administration section of the local hospital for the last three years. And before that I worked in the office of a computer engineering company for two years. So, I’ve got about five years of relevant work experience. And what I’m hoping to focus on is Personnel Management. Q21

MONICA: I see. And are you planning to leave your current job to study, or are you thinking about just taking a year off?

ANDREW: I want to know what my options are, really. I don’t want to quit my job or anything and my employers are keen for me to get some more qualifications but obviously, it would be better if I could do a course without taking too much time away from work.

MONICA: Right, so you don’t really want to do the full-time course, then?

ANDREW: No, not really. It’s also a question of finances. You see, my office has agreed to pay the cost of the course itself, but I would have to take unpaid leave if I want to study full-time and, well, I don’t think I could afford to support myself with no salary for a whole year. Q22

MONICA: OK. Well, you have two other possibilities: you could either do the part-time course – that would be over two years and you wouldn’t have to take any time off work – or you could do what we call a ‘modular’ course. You could do that in eighteen months if you wanted – or longer, it’s quite flexible and it would be up to you. Q23

ANDREW: Mmm. So what does the part-time course involve?

MONICA: For that you would join an evening class and have a lecture twice a week. Then, you’d have to attend a seminar or discussion workshop one weekend a month.

ANDREW: What kind of coursework would I have to do?

MONICA: Well, it’s a mixture. You’d be expected to write an essay each month, which counts towards your final assessment. You have a case study to do by the end of the course, which might involve doing a survey or something like that, and also you need to hand in a short report every four weeks. Q24/Q25

ANDREW: So, that’s quite a lot of work, then, on top of working every day. It sounds like a lot of studying – and really tiring.

MONICA: Yes, you certainly wouldn’t have much free time!

ANDREW: What about the ‘modular’ course? What would I have to do for that?

MONICA: That’s where you get the opportunity to study full-time for short periods. That way you can cover a lot of coursework and attend lectures and seminars during the day. And each module lasts for one term, say, about twelve weeks at a time. There are obvious advantages in this – the main one being that you can study in a much more intensive way, which suits some people much better. Q26, Q27, Q28

ANDREW: And how many of these ‘modules’ would I have to do to get the diploma?

MONICA: The current programme is two modules – and then you have to choose a topic to work in more depth – but you can base that on your job, and so you don’t need to be away from the office, and how long it takes is up to you. The important thing is that you don’t have to study and work. You can focus on one thing at a time. Q29, Q30

ANDREW: Yes, I can see that. It certainly sounds attractive! It would be more expensive, though. I mean, I’d have to support myself without pay for each module.

MONICA: That’s true, so that might be a problem for you. Look, why don’t you talk this over with your employers and …

剑5 test 1 Section 3雅思听力答案

21. B

22. A

23. C

24-25. BD

26. full-time

27. a term / one term

28. intensive

29. two modules / two terms

30. a topic / one topic

剑桥雅思5 test 1 Section 2听力原文与答案

虽然现在考试Section 2仍然会出现填空，但一方面出现的概率比较小，另一方面哪怕出现了也只是作为点缀。很少像剑桥雅思5 test 1 Section 2这样10道题目全都是填空。但这篇文章录音的内容还是比较符合现在考试的情况的，大家做完题目之后可以做下精听。

该部分的易错点有两个，一是第12题和第13题之间间隔太短，很容易听到12之后漏了13，二是第20题的sharp藏的比较隐蔽，听力原文中的句子结构与题干的句子结构完全不同，十分容易忽略。

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剑桥雅思5 Test 1听力Section 2答案解析

雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 1 section 2 雅思听力高频词汇

剑5 test 1 Section 2雅思听力原文

Hello and welcome to today’s ‘Buyer Beware’ program, where we give you some tips on how to spend your money wisely. Now, in today’s show we’re looking at beds for children and babies. Let’s start by looking at baby cots, that’s for children of up to three years old. We tested three different cots all in the budget price range and, as usual, we will feature the good points, the problems and our verdict.

The first cot we looked at was by Baby Safe and it had several good points to recommend it. Our testers liked the fact that it had four wheels, so it was easy to move around. The only slight problems with this cot were that it had no brakes, but they didn’t think that mattered too much. At first, they were a bit concerned about the sidebar, because they felt babies could trap their fingers in it, but our testers felt that this was unlikely to happen so they have given this one a verdict of ‘satisfactory’. Q11, Q12, Q13, Q14

The next cot was by Choice Cots and this time our testers were pleased to find a cot which is simple to put together – unlike others we looked at. On the minus side, our testers did not like the fact that the side of the cot did not drop down, making it difficult to pick up newborn babies. However, the real problem with this cot was the space between the bars; our testers found they were too wide and a baby could easily trap his head. We felt this was a real safety hazard and so we have labeled this one dangerous, I’m afraid. Q15, Q16, Q17

And finally better news for the Mother’s Choice cot. This cot was slightly different in that, although the sidebar did not drop down, the base could be raised or lowered into two different positions making it safe as well as convenient. The negatives for this one were quite minor; the only niggle everyone had was the fact that it has no wheels and the only other problem anyone could find, was that there were pictures which were simply stuck on and so could easily become detached. The makers have now promised to discontinue this practice. As this cot will then be safe in every way, we have made the Mother’s Choice cot our best buy. Congratulations Mother’s Choice! Q18, Q19

So, what features should you look for in a baby’s cot? Well, obviously safety is a very important factor as well as comfort and convenience. We recommend that, if you are buying a cot, do make sure that any metal present is not rusted or bent in any way. You should ensure your cot has only rounded or smooth edging without any sharp edges, this is especially important for wooden cots. Q20

And now on to beds for toddlers …

剑5 test 1 Section 2雅思听力答案

11. move around

12. brakes

13. fingers

14. satisfactory

15. put together

16. too wide

17. dangerous

18. wheels

19. best/best buy/safe

20. sharp

剑桥雅思5 test 1 section 1听力原文与答案 Dreamtime travel agency

剑桥雅思5 test 1 Section 1的内容是最近两年间Section 1最喜欢考察的旅游咨询场景，而中间的多选所询问的哪些项目包含在套餐价格之内更是这一场景下经常考察的内容。大家做完题目之后记得总结一下需要额外付钱和不需要额外付钱都有哪些表达。

题目上来讲，该部分考察的数字过多，难度与现在考试相比较低。容易错的主要是第7题的280。因为连读的原因，很容易听成290。做错的同学可以多多注意一下/ei/和/ai/这两个读音的区分。

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雅思备考听力篇 剑5 test 1 section 1 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思5 Test 1听力Section 1答案解析

剑5 test 1 Section 1雅思听力原文

RECEPTIONIST: Good afternoon, Dreamtime Travel. How can I help you?

CUSTOMER: Oh hello. I’m interested in the holidays you offer along the coast near here.

RECEPTIONIST: Yes. We operate several tours up the coast. Where in particular did you want to go?

CUSTOMER: Well, I like the sound of the holiday that mentioned whales. Was it ‘Whale Watching’?

RECEPTIONIST: Oh, that’s our Whale Watch Experience. It’s very popular and it’s based in a lovely little town with nice beaches. Example

CUSTOMER: Oh right, and how long does it last?

RECEPTIONIST: It’s two days – that includes four hours’ travel time each way from here.

CUSTOMER: Good, I don’t want to be away any longer than that. So is that by coach?

RECEPTIONIST: Actually it’s by minibus. We like to keep those tours small and personal so we don’t take a whole coachload of people. In fact, we only take up to fifteen people on this tour, although we do run it with just twelve or thirteen. Q1, Q2

CUSTOMER: Oh, right. So do you run these tours often?

RECEPTIONIST: Well it depends on the time of year. Of course, in peak times like the summer holidays, we do them every weekend, but at the moment it’s usually once a month at most.

CUSTOMER: And when is the next one going?

RECEPTIONIST: Mmm, let me see. Um, there’s one in three weeks’ time which is April the 18th, and then we don’t have another one until June the 2nd. Q3

CUSTOMER: All right, and is April a good time to go?

RECEPTIONIST: Pretty good. Though the really good time is later in the year. I have to say though that the whale sighting is only one of the many things offered.

CUSTOMER: Really?

RECEPTIONIST: Yes. The hotel itself where you stay has great facilities. It’s called The Pallisades.

CUSTOMER: The Paris what?

RECEPTIONIST: No, it’s actually The Pallisades, P-A-L-L-I-S-A-D-E-S. It’s right on the main beach there. Q4

CUSTOMER: Oh, I see.

RECEPTIONIST: All of the rooms have nice views and the food is really good there too.

CUSTOMER: Oh right.

CUSTOMER: And what about the other things? You know, that are included in the price.

RECEPTIONIST: Oh, there are lots of things. If you don’t want to do the whale watch cruise, your guide will take anyone who is interested either on a bushwalk through the national park near the hotel, and there’s no extra charge for that, or on a fishing trip. That’s an extra $12 I think. And there’s also a reptile park in town – that costs more or less the same. Q5/Q6

CUSTOMER: No, I think I’d prefer whales to snakes.

RECEPTIONIST: Yeah. And if you just want to relax you are free to sit by the hotel pool or go down the beach. Oh, and they also have tennis courts at the hotel, but you have to pay for those by the hour. But there are table tennis tables downstairs and they’re part of the accommodation package. Just speak to your guide. Q5/Q6

CUSTOMER: Well that sounds good. So how much is the basic tour price?

RECEPTIONIST: At this time of year it’s usually around $300 but let me check. Er… oh, it’s actually $280. Q7

CUSTOMER: And the next tour, are there any places on that one?

RECEPTIONIST: How many people is it for?

CUSTOMER: There are two of us.

RECEPTIONIST: Yes, that should be fine. Can I just mention that we require all bookings to be made at least fourteen days before you travel to avoid cancellations of tours. And if you cancel within seven days of departure you will have to pay 50% of your total booking. Q8

CUSTOMER: OK.

RECEPTIONIST: And you also need to pay a 20% deposit at the time of booking. Q9

CUSTOMER: Can I pay that by credit card?

RECEPTIONIST: Yes, you can.

CUSTOMER: All right, what I’ll do is I’ll talk to my partner and get back to you.

RECEPTIONIST: Fine. So I’ll make a provisional booking, shall I? – two for the Whale Watch Experience. Let me issue you with a customer reference number for when you call back. Do you have a pen?

CUSTOMER: Yes.

RECEPTIONIST: OK, it’s three nine seven, four five, T. That’s T for tango. When you call back, ask to speak to the Tour Manager, that’s me, Tracy. Q10

CUSTOMER: Fine, I will.

剑5 test 1 Section 1雅思听力答案

1. (by) minibus

2. 15 (people)

3. April 18th

4. Pallisades

5-6. BD

7. 280

8. 14

9. 20%

10. 39745T

剑桥雅思4 test 4 Section 4听力原文与答案 Sharks in Australia

可能是因为英国、澳大利亚、加拿大、新西兰等英联邦国家都靠海的原因，像鲨鱼这种海洋生物一直都是雅思听力Section 4(现在叫Part 4了)考察的重点。因此，剑桥雅思4 test 4的这篇听力文段还是很值得大家精听一下，总结下与鲨鱼相关的词汇的。

但该部分这10道题目的难度要明显低于正常考试。前面的填空结构太过简单，很容易让人在听之前猜到答案的大致范围;而后面的选择，无论是选项和是题干都太过简短，更加类似于Section 2的出题方式。

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雅思备考听力篇 剑4 test 4 section 4 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思4 Test 4听力Section 4答案解析

剑4 test 4 Section 4雅思听力原文

Today we’re going to look at one of my favourite fish – the shark. As you know, sharks have a reputation for being very dangerous creatures capable of injuring or killing humans, and I’d like to talk about sharks in Australia.

Sharks are rather large fish, often growing to over ten metres and the longest sharks caught in Australia have reached sixteen metres. Sharks vary in weight with size and breed, of course, but the heaviest shark caught in Australia was a White Pointer – that, this article is from Laokaoya website, weighed seven hundred and ninety-five kilograms – quite a size! Sharks have a different structure to most fish: instead of a skeleton made of bone, they have a tough elastic skeleton of cartilage. Unlike bone, this firm, pliable material is rather like your nose, and allows the shark to bend easily as it swims. The shark’s skin isn’t covered with scales, like other fish: instead the skin’s covered with barbs, giving it a rough texture like sandpaper. As you know, sharks are very quick swimmers. This is made possible by their fins, one set at the side and another set underneath the body, and the tail also helps the shark move forward quickly. Q31 Q32

Unlike other fish, sharks have to keep swimming if they want to stay at a particular depth, and they rarely swim at the surface. Mostly, they swim at the bottom of the ocean, scavenging and picking up food that’s lying on the ocean floor While most other animals, including fish, hunt their prey by means of their eyesight, sharks hunt essentially by smell. They have a very acute sense of smell – and can sense the presence of food long before they can see it. Q33 Q34

In Australia, where people spend a lot of time at the beach, the government has realised that it must prevent sharks from swimming near its beaches. As a result, they’ve introduced a beach-netting program. Beach-netting, or meshing, involves setting large nets parallel to the shore; this means that the nets on New South Wales beaches are set on one day, and then lifted and taken out to sea on the next day. When shark-netting first began in 1939, only the Sydney metropolitan beaches were meshed – these beaches were chosen because beaches near the city are usually the most crowded with swimmers. Ten years later, in 1949, systematic meshing was extended to include the beaches to the south of Sydney. As a result of the general success of the program in Sydney, shark-meshing was introduced to the state of Queensland around 1970. The New Zealand authorities also looked at it, but considered meshing uneconomical – as did Tahiti in the Pacific. At around the same time, South Africa introduced meshing to some of its most popular swimming beaches. Q35 Q36

When meshing began, approximately fifteen hundred sharks were caught in the first year. However, this declined in the years that followed, and since that time, the average annual catch has been only about a hundred and fifty a year. The majority of sharks are caught during the warmest months, from November to February, when sharks are most active and when both the air and the ocean are at their maximum temperature. Q37 Q38

Despite quite large catches, some people believe that shark meshing is not the best way to catch sharks. It’s not that they think sharks are afraid of nets, or because they eat holes in them, because neither of these is true. But meshing does appear to be less effective than some other methods, especially when there are big seas with high rolling waves and strong currents and anything that lets the sand move – the sand that’s holding the nets down. When this moves the nets will also become less effective. Q39 Q40

剑4 test 4 Section 4雅思听力答案

31. 795

32. tail 尾巴

33. floor 地面

34. sense of smell 嗅觉

35. A

36. A

37. B

38. B

39-40. BE

剑桥雅思4 test 4 Section 3听力原文与答案

这篇Section 3的整体难度要小于现在考试的正常难度。原因有二：其一，前半部分全都是表格填空题，而不是现在更为常见的选择。通常来说，填空的难度要远小于选择。其二，后半部分的匹配以同近义词的替换为主，而没有出现当下Section 3更为常见的词义解释、句子替换，造成难度小了许多。

易错点主要是23和24题，不少同学不太熟悉string和crystal的拼写，导致听到之后没能写出答案了。

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雅思备考听力篇 剑4 test 4 section 3 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思4 Test 4听力Section 3答案解析

剑4 test 4 Section 3雅思听力原文

MIKE: Hi Sue.

SUE: Hi Mike, so what happened to you last week?

MIKE: Oh, I was sick with the flu. What’s this I hear about a big assignment we’ve got to do?

SUE: Well, basically, we’ve got to find two science experiments to do with a group of eight-year-old children at the local primary school, and we’ve got to complete it by the end of the week.

MIKE: Oh, that sounds like hard work. Where are we supposed to get the ideas for these experiments from?

SUE: Well, I managed to get hold of two books from the library.

MIKE: Oh, well done!

SUE: How about if we take a look at the experiments in this book first and see if anything looks suitable? I can make notes as we go, about equipment and the purpose of the experiments.

MIKE: OK, let’s see, um, the first experiment is called ‘Make your own hovercraft’, which sounds very ambitious! Mind you, you only need twenty balloons and a table – you don’t need any special engines or anything like that! Q21

SUE: What do you do with it all?

MIKE: Er, you blow up the balloons and you balance the table on them, upside down of course, and the kids get to ride around on it. You know, the other kids sort of push them around the room. The main purpose is to show how hovercrafts work, and how things hover around on just a cushion of air.

SUE: OK, that doesn’t sound too bad.

MIKK: OK, ready for number two?

SUE: Uh – huh.

MIKE: Now this one is called ‘Unusual Measures of Lengths’, and you basically use lots of paperclips. The kids go around the class measuring things – you know, how long the desk is, and that sort of thing, um, and then they all compare their answers. Er, and, basically, because not all paperclips are the same lengths, they should come up with some strange answers. It’s supposed to demonstrate the importance of having fixed units of measurement. Q22

SUE: Hmm, yes, that’s not bad.

MIKE: OK, now for number three you need rock salt or copper sulphate. Q23

SUE: Oh, I’m not sure about that!

MIKE: Well, just put down the rock salt then, um, apart from that you only need ajar of water. Um, and basically you dissolve lots of salt into the water and watch the crystals form, so it basically teaches the kids about growing crystals. Q24

SUE: I suppose it would be nice to grow something. Hmm, let’s move on and have a look at number four.

MIKE: OK, this one is called ‘Spinning color wheel’. It looks like you get some cardboard and draw a circle on it, divide it into six equal segments and color each one in using different colors, then you thread a piece of string through the middle. Q25

SUE: So we’d need some string as well.

MIKE: Yes, sorry… um… and you spin the wheel around and if you can get it spinning fast enough, hopefully the colors all merge and show up as white.

SUE: Oh, I didn’t know that. What’s the principle behind it?

MIKE: Well it’s pretty elementary physics, really. It teaches them about how white light or ordinary light is made up. Q26

SUE: Hmm, well that doesn’t sound too bad. Now there’s only one more left in this book isn’t there? What does that one say?

MIKE: Um, well it’s another one where they’d get to make something.

SUE: Sounds very interesting.

MIKE: You need quite a lot of equipment actually – a hand drill, an old record, a pin or needle, some paper and a bolt.

SUE: Hmm, go on, what do they have to do?

MIKE: Well, they basically make a record player. The main idea is to teach them about recording sound, but hopefully, they’d also see that you need motion and an amplifier to make the sound heard.

SUE: OK, well it does sound interesting. Shall we go through all of those again and decide if any of them are going to be suitable?

MIKE: Right, number one. I thought this one sounded nice: there’d be lots of activity and it doesn’t need too much in the way of equipment.

SUE: Yes, that’s true, but don’t you think it’s a bit risky to get a group of eight-year-olds pushing each other around a classroom like that? Someone could get hurt. No, I don’t like the sound of that one at all! Q27

MIKE: Maybe you’re right.

SUE: What about number two, with the paperclips? It sounds tame enough.

MIKE: Yes, a bit too tame if you ask me. I think it needs to be something a bit more active and interesting than that, don’t you? Q28

SUE: Yes, I suppose you’re right. We won’t get a very good mark if the children don’t actually enjoy the experiments, and I suppose we could turn them off science for good! Well, what about the next one, number three?

MIKE: Now, I quite like the idea of this one.

SUE: Yes, so do I, but I seem to remember when we did it at high school we had to wait up to a fortnight before we saw any halfway decent results. Q29

MIKE: Oh, yes well, that won’t be any good then. We’ll only see the kids for one or two hours at the most.

SUE: Yes, and we have to do the experiments and write up our results within a week, so that one won’t do at all.

MIKE: OK, well, what did you think of number four?

SUE: I like the idea of it, but do you think it will be a bit elementary for them?

MIKE: Well they are only eight you know!

SUE: I know, but you know what I mean. Don’t you think the activity itself is a bit babyish?

MIKE: Hmm, maybe you’re right.

SUE: They might have fun but, I mean, cutting out a circle and coloring it in?

MIKE: OK, well, what about number five?

SUE: I thought this one sounded a bit too good to be true – great equipment!

MIKE: Yeah.

SUE: But don’t you think it’s a bit ambitious for this age group? I mean, I don’t want to start off something and then have to abandon it if they just can’t cope with it. I could see us ending up doing just about all of the work for them. Q30

MIKE: I guess you’re right. Oh well, maybe we could store that idea away for later.

SUE: Yep, let’s hope this second book has something better!

剑4 test 4 Section 3雅思听力答案

21. 20 balloons

22. units of measurement/measurements/measurement units

23. rock salt/salt

24. crystals

25. strings/piece of string

26. (ordinary) (white) light

27. H

28. B

29. E

30. C

剑桥雅思4 test 4 Section 2听力原文与答案

该部分前5道选择题的难度比较正常，出题方式和套路都比较符合目前考试的情况，但后5道填空题则过于简单了一些。10道题目中的易错点主要有两个：第15题的听力原文说的太有迷惑性，不少同学都会忽视every night前面的nearly，进而选错答案。而第17题nearest station中nearest的尾音读的太弱，很容易写成near station。

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雅思备考听力篇 剑4 test 4 section 2 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思4 Test 4听力Section 2答案解析

剑4 test 4 Section 2雅思听力原文

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If you want to hear about special offers, please press one. If you want to hear our latest price lists, please press two. If you want to make a complaint, please press three. If you want information about our new walking holidays, please press four now. Q11

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But the pride of Travelite is the level of guidance and support we offer on our walks. All are planned in detail by our highly trained guides, who all work in a variety of different Travelite locations, so we can guarantee standards. Each day we offer three separate walks catering for all skills and fitness levels. Q13

We also pride ourselves on our friendly service, particularly important for the increasing numbers of people who choose to holiday alone. Unlike almost all travel operators who happily charge large supplements for single rooms, we guarantee that no single client will pay more, even when only double rooms are available for them. And the day doesn’t end with the return to base… after our dinner at communal tables designed to make all our guests feel part of a family atmosphere… Entertainment is laid on nearly every night with tour leaders on hand to organize lectures, games, quizzes and respond to any special requests from guests. Q14 Q15

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For the fourteen-day holiday, our special price is six hundred and ninety dollars per person and that includes all the offers for the three- and seven-day holidays plus… membership of a local walking club… so you can better enjoy the full flavor of the local life. Q19 Q20

For further information, please contact your local travel agent. Thank you for calling the Travelite Travel Agency Information Line… (fade out)

剑4 test 4 Section 2雅思听力答案

11. B

12. A

13. A

14. A

15. B

16. 180

17. nearest station

18. local history

19. 690

20. (local) walking club

剑桥雅思4 test 4 Section 1听力原文与答案 goodbye party for John

这篇雅思听力Section 1的主题为告别聚会。考到了具体的地址，人员，日期，物品等细节。其中易错点有三个：第1题的college dining room答案偏长，很容易漏单词;同时dining容易双写n，造成拼写错误。第3题的students离第2题的答案太近。很多同学听到第三题的时候还在写第2题的答案，造成漏听。最后是第8题，答案之前说了一句we don’t ask them to bring more drinks。不少同学都没有识别出否定，导致将drinks当成了第8题的答案，将music当成了第9题的答案。

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雅思备考听力篇 剑4 test 4 section 1 雅思听力高频词汇

剑桥雅思4 Test 4听力Section 1答案解析

剑4 test 4 Section 1雅思听力原文

LISA: Hi Tony, thanks ever so much for coming. You know we’ve been asked to organize something for John’s farewell?

TONY: Yeah, sure, it’s about time we started working out details.

LISA: Exactly. We don’t want to leave it so late that it’s double the work.

TONY: Mmm, mm, right, do you want me to take notes?

LISA: That’d be great, thanks.

TONY: Right, first thing is, when is the best time to hold it?

LISA: Well, he leaves on the twenty-fourth of December.

TONY: So what about the twenty-second? Example

LISA: Yeah, I think that’s about right. We want it quite near the time, don’t we?

TONY: Sure, and what about a venue? In college? A hotel?

LISA: I think a hotel will probably work out rather expensive, and I’ve been looking at the College Dining Room; that seems pretty reasonable. Q1

TONY: Fine, yeah, why not?

LISA: And then we ought to be thinking about invitations… Who mustn’t we forget to invite?

TONY: Well, obviously John and his wife.

LISA: Right.

TONY: And the Director.

LISA: Ah ha.

TONY: The office staff. Q2

LISA: Yep, and all the teachers and all the students. Q3

TONY: Anyone else?

LISA: Faculty Heads?

TONY: No, better draw the line, I don’t think it’s necessary.

LISA: Yeah, you’re right.

TONY: I don’t mind writing the invitations. When shall we get them out for?

LISA: Enough time but not too early. What about the fifteenth of December?

TONY: Well, there are exams on the sixteenth – better avoid them.

LISA: Tenth? Q4

TONY: Yeah, that should do it.

LISA: So what does that leave? Oh yes, a present.

TONY: Would you mind doing that?

LISA: No, not at all; we usually go round with an envelope during the coffee break, don’t we? Q5

TONY: Yeah, coffee break’s always the best time, ‘cos people have got their money handy.

LISA: Yeah, exactly. Do we suggest an amount? Or does it seem a bit unfair?

TONY: No, I think people welcome it. We suggested six dollars last time, is that OK? Q6

LISA: Yeah, plenty I would have thought, which should leave us with about ninety dollars.

TONY: Have you any ideas for presents?

LISA: Well, I’ve been having a little think. I thought, you know, he loves music.

TONY: Yeah, and books.

LISA: So, I thought I’d check on prices for, well, perhaps CD players.

TONY: Yeah, that’s a, that’s a good idea, and also I thought maybe, you know, a set of dictionaries. I heard him say he needed a good one. Q7

LISA: The other thing he was saying last week was that his computer printer had broken.

TONY: Umm. No, I’d be really frightened about getting the wrong type.

LISA: OK, yeah.

TONY: The other thing is something for the home – Jill suggested a coffee maker.

LISA: Oh yeah. I’ll certainly find out what they cost. OK, have you got all that down?

TONY: Yes.

LISA: Now we need to think a little more about the money. I know we’ve got a set amount from the Social Fund.

TONY: Right, what does that cover?

LISA: It’s meant to cover the cost of the room.

TONY: Yeah.

LISA: And a certain amount for food.

TONY: And also drinks?

LISA: Oh yeah, certainly.

TONY: But will it be enough?

LISA: What we’ve done in the past is to ask guests to bring some snacks.

TONY: Right.

LISA: We don’t ask them to bring more drinks because we figure that’s.., that should come from the Social Fund.

TONY: OK. Anything else for the guests to bring?

LISA: Well, some music, because there’ll be a tape deck there in the room, and we can have some dancing later on. Q8

TONY: Anything else?

LISA: Well, it’s just a thought, but a couple of years ago we had a really good party

where we set up2 you know, some simple games.

TONY: Yeah, great. Wasn’t it based on photos from the students and teachers?

LISA: That’s right.

TONY: So we should ask the guests to bring photos. OK. I’ll put it on the invitations. Q9

LISA: Now the last thing is, who shall we ask to do the speech? Q10

TONY: Don’t you think it might be nice to have one of the students?

LISA: Well then, the Student Leader?

TONY: Yeah, much better than the Director giving speeches again.

LISA: OK then, I’ll ask her. Lovely! So, is that all?

TONY: Looks like it.

LISA: Great. Thanks ever so much… (fade out)

剑4 test 4 Section 1雅思听力答案

1. College dining room

2. office staff

3. students

4. 10th December

5. coffee break

6. 6

7. dictionaries

8. music

9. photos

10. speech

剑桥雅思4 test 3 Section 4听力原文与答案

这篇雅思听力Section 4的主题为学校里新的学生会建筑。题型包括单句填空、表格填空、单选和多选，比较复杂。虽然现在考试Section 4中也会出现单选和多选，但一般题型只有两种，而且提纲型填空才是主流题型。除此之外，该部分中的多选也跟目前考试不太一样。现在考试中多选多为两个题号，代表两个独立的题目，答对一个就有一份。而不是像这道题一样，必须两个选项都选对才有分数(雅思听力多选题怎么评分)。所以大家在做这部分的时候，以音频为主即可，不必太过重视题目。

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剑桥雅思4 Test 3听力Section 4答案解析

雅思备考听力篇 剑4 test 3 section 4 雅思听力高频词汇

剑4 test 3 Section 4雅思听力原文

We’re very grateful that the Committee has agreed that a representative for the Students’ Union can present students’ suggestions about the design for the proposed new Union building. We appreciate that some of our ideas may not be feasible in the circumstances, but we do feel that it is important that the ultimate beneficiaries of the facilities should have some say in its design.

If I could start by briefly explaining what steps were taken to find out student opinion and how we have arrived at conclusions. Firstly, a meeting was held in the current Union for our SU Committee to explain the options. Then we invited all students to submit written suggestions for the design, placing cards in a suggestion box. These suggestions then provided the basis for the design of a questionnaire, this article is from Laokaoya website, which was completed by approximately two thousand of the College students over a period of three weeks. Finally, the SU Committee collated the results and drew up a report. If I can just hand around a copy of that report. This presentation is essentially a summary and discussion of the key points of this report. Q31, Q32

So, in broad terms, the consensus was as follows. Firstly, regarding the crucial matter of the site, we presented the three options that you have proposed. One: in the city center, near the Faculty of Education: two: on the outskirts of the city, near the park, and three: out of town, near the halls of residence. We asked students to cite reasons for and against these sites and, and there was remarkable agreement on all three. Site One was unpopular because of traffic and parking problems. Site Two had a number of supporters, mainly because it was close to most lecture rooms. And Site Three, out of town, near the halls of residence, was clearly the most popular because of access from living quarters. It was clear that the Union was mainly to be used after lectures. It was also felt that the larger site would allow more room for a choice of facilities. Q33 Q34 Q35 Q36 Q37

Our second area of interest was obviously the facilities: there was minimal interest in having a library on the premises, but one option seemed to be a reading room instead -more useful. We would like the current table games room to be replaced with a small gym. And, if possible, a small swimming pool – not, of course, Olympic-sized! There was a large number of respondents in favor of a travel agent’s and insurance center. We also request that there be the offices of the Student Counselling Centre, moving this from the Refectory. There was, however, much disagreement about whether to build a drama theatre. Just over forty percent of the respondents were in favor, but a largish minority were strongly against it, claiming that it is elitist and a waste of funds. Essentially the jury is out on that. Q38 Q39

Finally, given the number of unfortunate incidents in the current Union over the past few months, a strong point was repeatedly made about security. The recommendations would be at least video surveillance and security personnel who would check Student Union cards on request. We doubt if it would be feasible to have a check at the reception of all people coming in. Q40

Well, this is the summary of the views of the student population. As I say, fuller details are given in our report but I’m happy to take any questions if you have them… (fade out)

剑4 test 3 Section 4雅思听力答案

31. questionnaire 问卷调查

32. approximately 2000 大约2000

33. education 教育

34. halls of residence 公寓楼

35. traffic parking 交通停车场

36. lecture rooms 演讲室

37. facilities 设施

38. DF

39.B

40. AC