1、2022年上海秋考英语听力文本I. Listening ComprehensionSection A Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conve
2、rsation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. M: Im baking cupcakes, but Ive run out of sugar. Would you please spare me a spoonful? W: Sure, Ill fetch you a packet.Q: What will the woman off
3、er to the man?2. W: Havent seen the dog for two days. I dont know if anything terrible has happened to it.M: Wed better prepare for the worst.Q: How does the woman most probably feel?3. M: Can you recommend something that a schoolboy of seven or eight will really like?W: Id suggest this toy train, s
4、ir. This new brand is popular these days.Q: What is the man most probably doing?4. M: I put my notebook on the bench a while ago, but now its gone.W: Well, you should have kept an eye on it.Q: What does the man imply about the woman?5. W: As you can see from the city map, the gallery is too far away
5、 from here. We dont have enough time to go there.M: How about the Memorial Hall nearby? I heard its breathtaking.Q: What are the speakers mainly talking about?6. M: Linda, youll have your chess game tomorrow. Youd better stay at home to do more practice.W: Dad, it was yesterday.Q: What do we learn a
6、bout Linda from the conversation?7. W: Charles, what do you think of the stage play?M: The storyline fascinates me a lot, yet the lighting and setting still need improving, let alone the music.Q: Which aspect of the stage play does the man like?8. M: The flower show in the forest park closes today.
7、Do you want to join me for the last chance?W: Good idea. Um, the movie can wait.Q: Where is the woman most probably going?9. W: I cant get on well with my roommate, Kate. Shes so weird.M: Well, shes just different. After all, diversity is a fact of life.Q: What does the man imply?10. M: Im going to
8、Beijing next week, but I havent found a hotel within my budget.W: Why bother? My parents can put you up for a couple of days.Q: What does the woman mean?Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be as
9、ked several questions. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on
10、 the following passage.Everbrown is a small town with a history of 1400 years. Each summer, the 300 hot springs nearby attract about 40000 tourists. For the rest of the year, it is home to just 3000 people. It is not the kind of place youd expect to find Kitten Coffee, a famous food company. After u
11、niversity in 1992, Miss Rosemary, founder of the company, wanted nothing more than to live in a small town. With jobs hard to come by in Everbrown, she and her husband had to move into a cabin with no electricity or running water, and began to run a fruit stand specifically for tourists during the s
12、ummer months. They quickly realized that they needed to set up a business that could be successful all year round. In 1996, they began roasting coffee beans in their garage, giving the business the name Kitten Coffee. As sales quickly took off, it soon became apparent that their product was going to
13、 be better known than the town from which it came. Since then, Kitten Coffee has become one of the biggest success stories. Its special image of a brown kitten appears in grocery stores and cafs across the country.Questions:11. What is the population of the town Everbrown?12. What can be learned abo
14、ut the company?13. What is the talk mainly about?Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. Breaking through tightly sealed packaging can exhaust and frustrate you. Five years ago, as a pioneer in e-commerce, we set up a team and announced a multi-year initiative to reduce your frus
15、tration. We named it Keep It Simple packaging or KIS packaging for short. At that time we made an introduction video and got a great many comments like this: “The old packaging took scissors and sweat to open. The new way is perfect.” Since the launch five years ago, our KIS team has worked hard. We
16、 launched with 29 products. Today we offer more than 300,000 different products in KIS packaging, and theyve been ordered more than 85 million times. In addition to being frustration-free, this packaging is also better for the environmentno clear plastic materials and its smaller. KIS packaging has
17、so far eliminated over 27.4 million pounds of packaging material. We still have further to go on this initiative and well keep after it. We want to say thank you to the millions of customers and thousands of sellers who have supported us on this journey so far. If youd like to share your feedback an
18、d suggestions with us this holiday season, you can reach us anytime at our website. Your comments are the driving force behind hundreds of packaging improvements every year.Questions:14. What can be learned about KIS packaging?15. What has the KIS team done so far?16. What is the speaker mainly talk
19、ing about?Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.W: Hey, Steven! I heard you are going to Paris as an exchange student, but you dont seem excited.M: The school doesnt have an on-campus dormitory for exchange students. Im thinking of renting an apartment.W: Good idea!M: But t
20、he places close to campus are expensive, and the affordable ones are too far.W: Cant you take buses?M: Sometimes I have to stay on campus late for tons of laboratory work and assignments after buses stop running.W: HmmThats a point for being close to campus. Why not find a home stay family?M: You me
21、an living with a local family?W: Yeah, you get your meals as well.M: But the problem is my schedule. I might not be able to have dinner at usual time. And I may wake people up when I come back late.W: Thats true.M: Now my only hope is to find a roommate. Together, we can afford a place close enough
22、to the school.W: But you may have different schedules. You could wake up your roommate as well.M: I hope I can find one among my classmates. So we share the same schedule, and he might even give me a ride if he could drive.W: Brilliant.(Now listen again. )Questions:17. What are the speakers mainly talking about?18. According to the man, why does he have to live outside the campus?19. What does the man expect his life to be like in Paris?20. Why does the man want to choose a classmate as his roommate?Thats the end of Listening Comprehension.
