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2018-2019学年江苏省海安高级中学高一下学期6月月考英语试题
2018-2019学年江苏省海安高级中学高一下学期6月月考英语试题 注意事项: 1.本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题),满分150分,考试时间120分钟。 2.所有试题的答案均填写在答题纸上(选择题部分使用答题卡,请将选择题的答案直接填涂到答题卡上),答案写在试卷上的无效。 第I卷 (三部分 共90分) 第一部分 听力 (共两节,满分20分) 做题时,先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。 第一节 (共5小题;每小题1分,满分5分) 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后,你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. How does the man plan to find a used car? A. Through a car dealer. B. On the Internet. C. From the newspaper. 2. Where is the man going? A. To a supermarket. B. To the woman’s. C. To a park. 3. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A book. B. A writer. C. A bookstore. 4. What season is it now? A. Spring. B. Autumn. C. Winter. 5. What present has the man bought? A. A book. B. Some flowers. C. A pair of gloves. 第二节 (共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分) 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从每题所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟;听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料,回答第6至7题。 6. What are the speakers doing? A. Interviewing a champion. B. Reporting a match live. C. Talking about a new world record. 7. What do we know about Paul Timmons? A. He breaks a world record. B. He is talented in competing. C. He isn’t in the lead all the time. 听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。 8. What is the woman probably? A. A writer. B. A reporter. C. A tour guide. 9. What is on the man’s right? A. A statue. B. A park. C. A palace. 听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。 10. When did the man buy the T-shirt? A. Yesterday. B. A couple of days ago. C. A few weeks ago. 11. Why does the man want to change the T-shirt? A. He wants a bigger size. B. He doesn’t like the style. C. He prefers another color. 12. What will the woman do next? A. Change the T-shirt for the man. B. Have a word with her manager. C. Give the man’s money back. 听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。 13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Mother and son. B. Wife and husband. C. Employer and employee. 14. What does the woman advise the man to do? A. Balance the budget. B. Buy a cheaper guitar. C. Find another job. 15. What is the man’s problem? A. He can’t join a band. B. He can’t make ends meet. C. He can’t find a satisfying job. 16. How does the man feel about the woman’s words? A. Impatient. B. Embarrassed. C. Disappointed. 听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。 17. What prize did the youngest group get? A. The second prize. B. The third prize. C. The fourth prize. 18. What should Eastside practise more? A. The dance. B. The music. C. The song. 19. Why did The Storm win the first prize? A. They danced wonderfully. B. The guitarist played very well. C. The singer performed perfectly. 20. What kind of person is the speaker? A. Humorous. B. Serious. C. Boring. 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。 A Summer Activities Students should read the list with their parents/careers, and select two activities they would like to do. Forms will be available in school and online for them to indicate their choices and return to school. Before choices are finalised, parents/careers will be asked to sign to confirm their child’s choices. Activity Description Member of staff Cost Outdoor Adventure (OUT) Take yourself out of your comfort zone for a week, discover new personal qualities, and learn new skills. You will be able to take part in a number of activities from canoeing to wild camping on Dartmoor. Learn rock climbing and work as a team, and enjoy Mr. Clemens £140 the great outdoor environment. WWI Battlefields and Paris (WBP) On Monday we travel to London. After staying overnight in London, we travel on Day 2 to northern France to visit the World War I battlefields. On Day 3 we cross into Belgium. Thursday sees us make the short journey to Paris where we will visit Disneyland Paris park, staying until late to see the parade and the fireworks. Our final day, Friday, sees us visit central Paris and tour the main sights. Mrs. Wilson £425 Crafty Foxes (CRF) Four days of product design centred around textiles. Making lovely objects using recycled and made materials. Bags, cushions and decorationsLearn skills and leave with modern and unusual textiles. Mrs. Goode £30 Potty about Potter (POT) Visit Warner Bros Studio, shop stop to buy picnic, stay overnight in an approved Youth Hostel in Streatley-on-Thames, guided tour of Oxford to see the film locations, picnic lunch outside Oxford’s Christchurch, Miss Drake £150 boating on the River Cherwell through the University Parks, before heading back to Exeter. 21. Which activity will you choose if you want to go camping? A. OUT. B. WBP. C. CRF. D. POT. 22. What will the students do on Tuesday with Mrs. Wilson? A. Travel to London. B. See a parade and fireworks. C. Tour central Paris. D. Visit the WWI battlefields. 23. How long does Potty about Potter last? A. Two days. B. Four days. C. Five days. D. One week. B On the day the tornado(龙卷风) hit, there was no sign fierce weather was on its way— the sky was blue and the sun had been out. The first warning my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 p.m., from some text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel from the national television to our local Pensacola, Florida, station. Soon the tornado was on top of us. It was the loudest thing I have ever heard. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. And the wind began to roar(咆哮) through the house, most likely through blown-out windows and the door to our garage. Everything was moving. And the back wall of the house came off and flew into the darkness outside. We had three flights of steps to get to the storeroom down there, the relative safety of the first floor. I didn’t know how or if we would make it down the steps. It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. As we finally reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch flew over our heads, missing us by inches. By the time I reached the storeroom, the tornado had been over us for about a minute. Jimmy pushed me down to the storeroom floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I held Jimmy’s arm as the tornado blew the door open. My knees were full of glass, but I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house. All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over. Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Amazingly, none of us were seriously injured. 24. Where did the couple learn about the coming fierce weather? A. From the dark sky. B. From the national station. C. From the local news report. D. From the text sent by their neighbors. 25. What can we infer from paragraph 2 about the couple? A. They were hit by a tree branch. B. They tried to get out of the house. C. Their garage was blown to pieces. D. Their house was badly destroyed. 26. What do we know about Jimmy when the author reached the storeroom? A. He was in great danger. B. He flew out of the house. C. He was seriously injured. D. He got inside the storeroom. C Last year Congress issued a moral call to action when it ordered the National Institutes of Health to reevaluate its ethical oversight (伦理上的疏忽) of government-funded primate (灵长类) research. Although the scientific community widely sees nonhuman primates as essential for advances in biomedicine (they have caused major gains in the fights against AIDS and neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, for example), researchers agree more can be done to treat the animals more humanely and conduct research less wastefully. To that end, the NIH gathered famous scientists last September to discuss the future of primate-based research—and they agreed that data sharing is the way forward. Researchers could reduce experiments on nonhuman primates by studying data that have already been collected to answer new questions, says David O’Connor, a pathologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. O’Connor is walking the walk: his laboratory studies the Zika virus in primates, and he immediately posts all the results online. The goal is to figure out ways to fight Zika as quickly as possible without placing an undue burden on research primates. The Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science, which uses rhesus macaques, small South Asian monkeys, to study the molecular basis of brain development, also makes all results public. O’Connor says this practice should be more widespread so that “researchers who are using this scarce but vital resource can learn as much as possible from as few animals as necessary.” Still, he is skeptical that data sharing will catch on because it would require a change in “normative behavior”—science’s strong culture of secrecy, in which data are kept under wraps until they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. One step toward full transparency is to follow the lead of human clinical trials, says Christine Grady, a bioethicist at the NIH. U.S. law requires most clinical trials to register online and make their results public, even if a study fails or is inconclusive. This ensures that other researchers can learn from a trial regardless of its results—a move that could also safeguard primates against being used for the same thing twice. Nancy Haigwood, director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, also says data sharing is “the way of the future.” Her center hosts 4,800 primates to study a variety of human diseases. She currently contributes results from her center to O’Connor’s Web site. “I don’t see a drawback,” she says. “We have to share data more quickly.” 27. What does Congress think of the primate research? A. It has done a great deal of good to advances in biomedicine. B. It is a huge waste of money to conduct research on primates. C. Primate-based research must be stopped for moral reasons. D. Proper attention should be given to treating primates humanely. 28. The underlined phrase “walking the walk” in Paragraph 2 shows that O’Connor _______. A. is the leader in fighting Zika virus in primates B. is walking away from his own responsibility C. is carrying out what he has said he should do D. is taking a tough road when posting his data 29. According to O’Connor, what might prevent scientists from sharing their data? A. The deep-rooted culture that data should be kept secret until published. B. The fact that scientists are reluctant to change their way of research. C. The requirement that most clinical trials should be registered online. D. The fear that they will be laughed at if a study fails or is inconclusive. 30. What could be the best title for the passage? A. The Merciless Practice of Primate Research B. To Treat Primates More Humanely: Transparency C. To Abandon Experiments on Primates: Final Goal D. The Burden of Research on Nonhuman Primates D You’ve probably heard such reports. The number of college students majoring in the humanities (人文学科) is decreasing quickly. The news has caused a flood of high-minded essays criticizing the development as a symbol of American decline. The bright side is this: The destruction of the humanities by the humanities is, finally, coming to an end. No more will literature, as part of an academic curriculum, put out the light of literature. No longer will the reading of, say, “King Lear” or D.H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” result in the annoying stuff of multiple-choice quizzes, exam essays and homework assignments. The discouraging fact is that for every college professor who made Shakespeare or Lawrence come alive for the lucky few, there were countless others who made the reading of literary masterpieces seem like two hours in the dentist’s chair. The remarkably insignificant fact that, a half-century ago, 14% of the undergraduate population majored in the humanities (mostly in literature, but also in art, philosophy, history, classics and religion) as opposed to 7% today has given rise to serious reflections on the nature and purpose of an education in the liberal arts. Such reflections always come to the same conclusion: We are told that the lack of a formal education, mostly in literature, leads to numerous harmful personal conditions, such as the inability to think critically, to write clearly, to be curious about other people and places, to engage with great literature after graduation, to recognize truth, beauty and goodness. These serious anxieties are grand, admirably virtuous and virtuously admirable. They are also a mere fantasy. The college teaching of literature is a relatively recent phenomenon. Literature did not even become part of the university curriculum until the end of the 19th century. Before that, what came to be called the humanities consisted of learning Greek and Latin, while the Bible was studied in church as the necessary other half of a full education. No one ever thought of teaching novels, stories, poems or plays in a formal course of study. They were part of the leisure of everyday life. It was only after World War II that the study of literature as a type of wisdom, relevant to actual, contemporary life, put down widespread institutional roots. Soldiers returning home in 1945 longed to make sense of their lives after what they had witnessed and survived. The abundant economy afforded them the opportunity and the time to do so. Majoring in English hit its peak, yet it was this very popularity of literature in the university that spelled its doom, as the academicization of literary art was accelerated. Literature changed my life long before I began to study it in college. Books took me far from myself into experiences that had nothing to do with my life, yet spoke to my life. But once in the college classroom, this precious, alternate life inside me got thrown back into that dimension of my existence that bored me. Homer, Chekhov and Yeats were reduced to right and wrong answers, clear-cut themes and clever interpretations. If there is anything to worry about, it should be the disappearance of what used to be an important part of every high-school education: the literature survey course, where books were not academically taught but thoroughly introduced—an experience unaffected by stupid commentary and useless testing. The literary classics are places of quiet, useless stillness in a world that despises (鄙视) any activity that is not profitable or productive. Literature is too sacred(神圣的) to be taught. It needs only to be read. Soon, if all goes well and literature at last disappears from the undergraduate curriculum—my fingers are crossed—increasing numbers of people will be able to say that reading the literary masterworks of the past outside the college classroom, simply in the course of living, was, in fact, their college classroom. 31. The author mentions “two hours in the dentist’s chair” in Paragraph 3 to indicate that _______. A. the average literature class in college is two hours long B. reading literary works is made unbearable by professors C. it actually does not take long to read the classics of literature D. college students don’t spend much time on literary masterworks 32. The sharp drop in the number of majors in the humanities _______. A. has given rise to quite a shock in the intellectual world B. promises the remarkable destruction of the humanities C. shows more people read literature outside the classroom D. has caused the author to reflect on the nature of literary creation 33. Which of the following opinions may the author hold? A. The disappearance of literature should be strongly applauded. B. Literature teaching can improve our critical thinking ability. C. Reading literature doesn’t require specialized knowledge and skills. D. Literature should be taught through analyzing different writing styles. 34. According to the author, the problem of literature teaching lies in the fact that _______. A. it is a relatively recent phenomenon in education B. literature teaching is not profitable or productive C. people are interested in something more practical D. it is turned into a depressing competition for grades 35. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage? A. To urge college students to read more literary classics. B. To introduce the present situation of literature teaching. C. To voice his opinion on the reduction of literature teaching. D. To show his serious concern for college literature teaching 第二节 (共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分) 根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 From now on, never spend your limited time thinking of reasons for your failures and weaknesses. Instead,realize that seeds of success were planted within you when you were born. ___36____ The seeds , and the power to grow them, are contained in the most powerful machine ever created: the human mind. Success is a choice but not a chance. ____37____ You were also born rich. You can be a success if you make the right choice. ____38____ Your level of self -confidence is always based on the degree of control that you are able to exercise over yourself, and thus over your life. People with low self-confidence are people who do not believe that they have any power, or responsibility for their lives. They are mere victims.(受害人) You can exercise control over your life only to the degree that you believe that you are responsible for everything that happens in your life. Failures think that everything happens by accident and chance and they have no responsibility for it. _____39_____ Everything happens as a result of something. ___40____ We are responsible for what we choose to think and believe. One generally rises to the level that one experts. We are responsible for setting our expectations. Our success is dependent upon our level of confidence. A. You were born a winner. B. Don’t lose heart even if you’re in face of failure. C. But successful people realize they are responsible. D. If we can recognize the cause, we can control the effect. E. Only you yourself have the power to make those seeds grow. F. You cannot be successful without first developing your self-confidence. G. Success depends on your cooperation with others as well as your own effort. 第三部分 语言知识运用(共三节,满分50分) 第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分) 阅读下面的短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 You’ve had a problem, and you’ve thought about it until you’re tired; 41 it, maybe sleep on it, and then flash! When you aren’t thinking about it, ___42 the answer has come to you, as a gift from the God. Of course, all ideas don’t occur like that but so many 43 , particularly the most important ones. They burst into the mind, glowing with the heat of creation. How they do it is a mystery but they must come from 44 . All of us have experienced this sudden arrival of a new idea. However, it is the easiest to examine it in the great creative personalities, many of 45 experienced it in a special form and have written it down in their life stories and letters. One can draw 46 from genius(天才)in any field, from religion, art and music, 47 in mathematics, science and technical invention. Take the example of Richard Wagner 48 his opera “The Rheingold”(《莱茵的黄金》). Wagner had been __49 with the idea of the Rheingold for several years, and for many months had been 50 to begin this composition. On September 4, 1818, he reached Specie, when he was ___51 . He went to a hotel, could not 52 for noise out and fever within, took a long rest the next day, and in the afternoon rested on a couch 53 to sleep. Then at last the miracle happened which his unconscious mind had been 54 for such a long time. Falling into a sleeplike condition, he suddenly felt as though he were 55 in a flood of water, and rush and roar(咆哮)soon took 56 shape within his brain. He realized that the Rheingold, which he 57 have carried about within him but yet he had never able to put it into 58 had at last taken its shape within him. In this example, the conscious mind at the moment of 59 knew nothing of the actual processes by which the _ _60 was found. 41. A. forget B. remember C. catch D. adopt 42. A. obviously B. generally C. suddenly D. naturally 43. A. occur B. do C. come D. happen 44. A. nowhere B. anywhere C. somewhere D. nothing 45. A. who B. that C. them D. whom 46. A. strength B. attention C. messages D. examples 47. A. even B. just C. yet D. only 48. A. appreciating B. writing C. playing D. recording 49. A. occupied B. committed C. devoted D. tired 50. A. hesitating B. struggling C. promising D. managing 51. A. happy B. nervous C. guilty D. sick 52. A. practice B. analyze C. sleep D. reply 53. A. pretending B. intending C. demanding D. asking 54. A. talking about B. worrying about C. dealing with D. going after 55. A. lying B. crying C. sinking D. swimming 56. A. suitable B. musical C. beautiful D. huge 57. A. must B. should C. could D. can’t 58. A. style B. effect C. use D. form 59. A. performance B. experiment C. creation D. celebration 60. A. solution B. question C. reason D. result 第二节 语法填空 (共10小题;每小题10分,满分10分)。答案写在答题卡上 An American boy went ______61______(miss) three days ago, ____62____ has received people’ great interest. Several people gave different descriptions of his ________63________(disappear). His sister, ___64___(age) nine, says she heard her brother return home at about 11p.m. When she went to bed, she was frightened at lots of strange creatures _____65_____(stand) inside a spaceship outside. She is sure the aliens took her brother.[来源:学+科+网Z+X+X+K] His parents became worried and called the police when their son didn’t show ____66____ for lunch the next day. Some people also say that aliens took one of them aboard the UFO so that they could do research on her. _____67_____(luck), she returned safely. When ___68___ (ask) about the possibility that the boy ____69______(take) by aliens, the police say ____70____they haven’t dismissed the idea, they will not give up until they find out what happened. 第三节 71. 短文改错(共10小题;每小题l分,满分10分) 答案写在答题卡上 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。 修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词; 2. 只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。 Yesterday a school boy is daydreaming in class. Not knowing that he was doing, he put a pen cap into his mouth. A few minutes late, he was terrified to find he had swallowed it! The teacher was shocking when the boy stood up and said, “I’ve just swallowed a pen cap.” He was quickly sent the nearest hospitals. There a doctor examined him but said the best treatment was to take some medicine so that the pen cap could pass natural. Three hours later, the boy successfully made it. “She is really lucky,” said the doctor. “It’s very not rare that small children put things into their mouths for a fun. It’s very dangerous.” 第四部分 课本知识回归 (共两小节 总分15分) 第一节 单词拼写 根据中文或首字母提示填出单词的正确形式。(每空1分,共5分)(请将内容写在答题卡上) 72. The law requires equal treatment for all, r____________ of race, religion, or sex. 73. She broke her ankle and walked a_________ towards home.(笨拙) 74. I did not get the ____________ that they were unhappy about the situation(印象) 75. Two people have been critically i_____________ in an accident. 76. It is important that an (青春期的) boy should have an adult with whom he can talk. 第二小节 课本原句翻译(共5句;每句2分,共10分)(请将内容写在答题卡上) 77、除此之外,VR技术还可以用来在安全的环境中训练一些技能,否则这些技能训练可能相当危险。 _______________________________________________________________________________ 78、在现实中,他因为残疾不能走路,但是借助VR工作室里的便利,他能看见并抚摸一头狮子。 ________________________________________________________________________________ 79、当他们到处转悠时,发现远处有一个人背靠树坐着——那人至少四米高。________________________________________________________________________________ 80、足球对我来说很重要,但我们的友谊也同样重要。________________________________________________________________________________ 81、但是,如果当初我终止了我们的友谊,那我们俩都会一无所得。 ________________________________________________________________________________ 第五部分 书面表达 (满分25分) 假如你是李华,你有一位名叫Jack的英国笔友。最近,他在给你的一封来信中提到,自己参加的学校足球队在一场十分重要的比赛中不幸失利,从而错过了赢得冠军的机会,心情非常低落。请根据以下要点给他写一封回信,帮助他走出目前的困境。 描述问题 1. 不幸失利 2. 错过机会 3. 情绪低落 分析问题 1. 表示理解 2. 对待输赢的态度 3. 过程比结果更重要 建议和希望 1.汲取教训 2. 重树信心 3. …… 注意:全文150词左右。开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。 Dear Jack, After reading your letter, I know that _______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Yours truly Li Hua 2019级高一下阶段测试答案 听力 阅读理解A: ADAB: CDA C: DCAB D:BACDC 七选五E A FCD 完型填空 ACBCD DABAB DCBDC BADCA 语法填空61. missing 62. which 63. disappearance 64. aged 65. standing 66. up 67. Luckily 68. asked 69. was taken 70. while/though/although 改错【答案】1.is→was 2. that →what 3. late→later 4. shocking →shocked 5. sent 后面添加to 6. hospitals →hospital 7. but →and 8. natural→naturally 9. She →He 10. 去掉fun前面的a 单词拼写 72. regardless 73. awkwardly 74. impression 75.injured 76. adolescent 第六部分 书面表达 Dear Jack, After reading your letter, I know that you are now in low spirits because your school football team has been unlucky to lose an important match and miss the chance to win the championship. You have every right to feel ashamed of the disappointing result. However, you should know that winning isn’t everything. Actually, in defeat, you can still find something more precious than victory, such as friendship, team spirit and respect. After all, the meaning of a game, in its real sense, lies in the pleasure its process brings, rather than the stress its result gives. So, right now, the most important thing you should do is to learn the lesson from this failure, which will help you achieve success in the games to come. Besides, don’t lose heart. Confidence also plays an important role in a game. If my suggestions above may help you, I think you and your football team will win more victories in the future. 听力录音材料: Text 1 W: Why don’t you go to a dealer to check out the used cars? M: No, thanks. I’m sure I’ll find an ad in the newspaper that suits me. Text 2 M: Hi, Jane. Could you give me a ride? I want to buy some food for the picnic. W: OK. I’m going home but I can drop you at the supermarket. Text 3 M: Have you heard that Nick Hornby’s going to be at the City Nights Bookstore? W: Nick Hornby? I love his books. What’s he doing there? M: Giving a talk about his new novel How to Be Good. Text 4 W: Nice weather we’re having. M: Yes. Isn’t it a nice surprise? At this time it’s usually much cooler and raining already. W: Well, this weather will probably end soon; all the leaves on the trees are brown, and it’s been pretty cold at night. Text 5 W: Is the book in this bag for Mum? I didn’t think she was interested in flowers. M: I thought she’d like it — to give her some good ideas for the garden. W: I thought you were going to get those gloves I showed you in that shop last Saturday. Text 6 W: Here they come, Steve. It’s the final 50 metres. M: Yes, and Ricky Evans is in the lead. W: He sure is. M: But here comes Paul Timmons! Wow! Look at him go! W: It’s very close … and … It’s Timmons! Paul Timmons is the new European champion! Timmons wins gold! M: A great gold medal! W: … and in record time, too! M: Wow! Is that a new world record? W: No, but it’s a new European record! M: An excellent performance by Paul Timmons! Text 7 W: This is the most beautiful palace in the city, but it’s not as big as the one we’ve just visited. M: How many palaces are there in the city? W: Three. M: Just three? I thought there are more. W: On your right, you can see a statue of Paulo Pimentez. M: I’m sorry. Who’s he? W: He was a famous writer who lived and died in the city. M: I think I saw another statue of him in the park. It was beautiful! W: That wasn’t a statue of Paulo Pimentez you saw in the park. There are a lot of statues in the city. Text 8 W: Can I help you? M: Yes, I bought the T-shirt in the sale here a couple of weeks ago. I think it was … W: I see, yes … M: And I’ve only worn it a few times, but when I looked at it yesterday I just thought, no, I don’t like it. I don’t think it suits me. The colour’s not really right for me. Do you know what I mean? W: Well … um, do you have any receipt, or proof of purchase? M: No, no, I didn’t keep the receipt, sorry. W: Well, we can’t normally exchange goods without proof of purchase, you see. M: Oh no. W: I can speak to the manager if you like, see what he says. M: Well yes, if you would … because I would like to change it. Text 9 M: I’m broke again. Could you lend me some money? W: Broke again? Jeff, this is the third time you’ve asked me for help! M: I know, I’m sorry. But my old guitar broke, and I had to buy a new one. W: Look Jeff, if you want to play in a band, that’s OK with me, but you can’t keep asking me to pay for it! M: OK, OK, you’re right. But what do you think I ought to do? W: Well, I think you had better go on a budget. Make a list of all your income and all your expenses. Don’t spend more than you earn. M: But my expenses are always larger than my income. W: Then maybe you should work more hours at the computer store. M: I already work 15 hours a week! Maybe I should just drop out of school, work full-time, and play in the band in the evenings. W: Come on, Jeff, when I was your age … M: I know, I know. When you were my age you were already married and working and going to school … Text 10 W: Thank you to all the competitors. I won’t say much because I know you’re all anxious to hear the results — it was a very difficult decision and I’ll start with the band which came in fourth. That’s Texas Team, who are the youngest group here today. Unfortunately, the violinist played so quietly that we couldn’t hear him. So bad luck to Texas Team. Third was Eastside. They are such good dancers they should enter for a dance competition. And with a bit more practice on the music they’ll do very well. In second place is Third Avenue. They did well, especially their young guitarist, but the singer looked so unhappy we thought maybe he didn’t want to win! Never mind — you nearly won, so better luck next time. Congratulations to The Storm who are our winners today. The singer had such a great voice that we had to give them first place. Well done. 查看更多