Besides movie roles, Kelly Chen also plays an important social role - \大使) of the Workplace English Campaign (活动)\people to study the English language.
At press conferences, she, as the ambassador, often teaches her fans to speak native English. She has even suggested that reporters should master the language so they would be able to communicate with international pop stars.
Kelly's tip for good English is \watch English movies or TV programs. When you meet a new word, you can imagine when you can use it in real life,\
四. 篇章训练
Directions: In this section, you will hear each passage four times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second and third times, you are required to write down the whole passage you have just heard. For the sentences in the passage, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Passage 1
Time spent at a university is a most worthwhile period in a young person's life. This is a time when a student begins to form his or her ideas about life in general. Attending classes and studying in the library keep a student busy and provide him or her with access to valuable information, adding to his or her knowledge base.
Campus life can also be rich and colorful. Most universities offer a variety of extracurricular activities such as sports events, contests, and other social gatherings, enabling the students to experience relief from study and homework. Students often form lifelong friendships through the varied experiences of university life.
During the time a student spends at university, he not only develops his intellectual abilities, he also develops social skills as well as knowledge and wisdom necessary for choosing a future career. By learning how to balance intense study and recreation, a student will be well prepared for the challenges of future responsibilities.
Passage 2
People say that high school is the best time of your life. During these three years, there is more to a teenager's life than just homework and classes. As this year is flying by, it's a bit scary to realize that high school is close to coming to an end. Have you done anything meaningful and memorable before you graduate?
A sentimental (感伤的) teenager made a list of 20 things that high school students should do before graduation, so that they will not regret not having done them. Here are some of the suggestions:
1. Make a speech or sing a song in front of your class no matter how shy you are. 2. Bow to your most respected teacher and say \
3. Say \4. Remember to keep every classmate's phone number.
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5. Try a new haircut and wish for a new start.
Passage 3
When hot summer comes, light and cool food gets more popular. Salads are one of them. Made from uncooked vegetables, they are not only healthy, but can be tasty.
There are thousands of different salads. But simple ones are easy to make.
Here's how to make a simple salad. This one goes well with a main meat dish and rice.
First you need some vegetables, such as a lettuce (生菜), some tomatoes, a cucumber and a couple of peppers (青椒). From the supermarket, buy a salad dressing (沙拉酱). Wash the vegetables carefully. Chop them into pieces and put them in a bowl. Add the dressing. Mix the vegetables and the dressing up. And there you have your salad!
五．复合式听写模拟题
Directions: In this section, you will hear each passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Passage 1
Leaving a tip in a restaurant has become a custom in most countries. The word \the Latin word \meaning free. Tips are defined as small gifts of money for service in addition to the payment due.
The practice of tipping has a little interesting history. The custom can be traced back to the Roman era. The Romans were the first civilization to use coins. It is possible the word \from the word stipend. A more common belief is tips were first given in the 18th century England. A popular coffee house equipped each table with a coin box. The label of each box read \promptness (迅速).\Dropping a coin into the box would result in quick service. Also, the first letter of each word is T.I.P.-tip.
(44)In America and Europe it is customary to tip anywhere from 10% to 20%. Taxi drivers, waiters in restaurants, and hotel bellboys, all expect a little something. People working at these jobs usually receive a low basic salary. Tips are quite necessary to supplement their income. (45) Today most people decide the size of tip according to the quality of the service... If the service and food are not satisfactory, a small tip or possibly no tip will be left. For excellent food and service most people are quite happy to leave a tip.
For whatever reason, tipping will continue to be practiced in most countries. Tipping does have its place in our modern society.
(46) It will also remain a somewhat personal expression of gratitude.
Passage 2
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill.
In the room of 200, he asked, \
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He said, \crumple (揉皱) the bill up. He then asked, \ \into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. \Still the hands went into the air.
\you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.
(44) We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value: dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you. (45) The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by who we are.
You are special---Don't ever forget it.\
(46) Count your blessings, not your problems.
Passage 3
After staying in Manchester for four months, I have come to understand better why British like talking about the weather-it is changing every minute so that people never find it a boring topic to talk about! It's like a computer game that constantly offers you new and unexpected data to keep you going on and on without getting tired. We had some lovely sunny days right after we came to Manchester which made us forget about the warnings we got from our friends how awful the weather could be. Now we know that was only a friendly welcome and we'd better get prepared for something tough. It can be overcast (阴沉的) in the early morning, then a drizzle (毛毛雨), then a sunny spell, then clouds, then blue sky for a short while, clouds again followed by rain and finally end up with a windy night. (44) I used to keep a weather record on my calendar with all these details. In the end, I found that the weather was always so changeable that I simply put down \
(45) I have got used to waking up with a raining scene outside the window. Tutors will greet us by saying \have a non-Manchester weather today.\take and umbrella or not. (46) There is a saying here that it only rains when you forget to take an umbrella. From our experience, we've learnt this is quite true.
Passage 4
Tekley raced across the bridge over the Jordan River. He looked down on the enormous cross-shaped roof of St. George Cathedral (大教堂). Every day he worked as a shoe keeper there. Although it wasn't the biggest cathedral, it was by far the most beautiful.
Tekley rushed down the narrow stairs that were carved into a wall of stone facing the cathedral. He dashed around to the front door where he spotted Nahmen, the oldest shoe keeper. The white-haired man sat in the sun on a stone ledge.
\
\are growing dim; I have to feel my way with my stick. And the legs don't move as fast as they
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used to.\
(44) Tekley felt sorry for the old man and wondered how much longer he would be a shoe keeper. Tekley knew Mr. Nahmen's son had died, leaving four grandchildren to care for. (45) The old man needed this job to provide for his family.
Tekley peered inside the cathedral and breathed in the sweet aroma (芳香) of burning incense (香). When his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he saw the priest standing tall behind the low altar. He turned from the cathedral and joined Nahmen on the stone ledge (突出部分). (46) They watched as the first group of tourists slowly made their way down the narrow steps. Tekley smiled when he saw the large group. As the youngest shoe keeper, he would be last in line to keep a tourist's shoes.
Passage 5
Half a century ago, Edmund Hillary, a beekeeper from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa (夏尔巴人) from Nepal, reached the top of Mount Qomolangma（珠穆朗玛）.
Over fifty million years ago, Qomolangma was born. Fifty years ago, two men reach its summit. The blink of time, representing man's attempt to reach the highest spot on Earth, is best measured not by years but by the stories of those who've tried. 1,200 people have successfully climbed Qomolangma. Nearly 200 have died trying.
What Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did that bright, blue day fifty years ago is nearly impossible, even for the most seasoned climber, to imagine. There are no fixed ropes and aluminum(铝) ladders, no GPS. Quite simply, two men tied together hacked steps in the ice and climbed to over 29,000 feet.
At 11:30 a.m. they reached the highest point in Earth. (44) Neither man had any idea how much it would change their lives. A year and a hundred public appearances later, both men had become fatigued with the fame.
Hillary and Tenzing spent a total of fifteen minutes on the summit. (45) They thought, once they‘d climbed it, it was unlikely anyone would ever make a similar attempt. They couldn't have been more wrong. Last year alone, 500 climbers set out to summit, and there have been any number of superlatives: first woman, first without oxygen, first solo, youngest, oldest, blind, and the first descent on skis, snowboard, and glider. (46) But seeing it now through Hillary‘s eyes, it‘s impossible to make comparisons.
Passage 6
Try answering these questions: Can lightning strike the same place twice? Can lightning occur without thunder? Are you really safe in your car during a storm?
Each year in the US, about 96 people are struck and killed by lightning. Five to thirty times that number are struck and injured! There are precautions you can take if you are in a storm, and it is often ignorance that leads to injury.
Lightning is an electrical discharge produced by thunderstorms. It is often mistakenly believed that lightning can occur without thunder. This is because the sound of thunder rarely travels farther than ten miles. So you are seeing the lightning but are unable to hear the thunder associated with it due to distance.
(44) Thunder is the result of lightning, therefore one without the other is impossible.
That lightning can strike the same place twice is without a doubt. One bad storm saw lightning
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strike the Empire Building fifteen times in twenty minutes.
Generally you are safe in your car. The metal body of the car provides the real safety. (45) This does not mean your car cannot be struck by lightning. Traveling in your car during a storm is still not wise and you should not do so unless unnecessary.
(46) The chances of being struck and killed by lightning are actually quite slim, about 350,000 to 1. So you can learn some correct ways to decrease your odds even more.
Lightning can be a very beautiful phenomenon to watch. The key to this romance, however, is common sense and safety.
Passage 7
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Michelle Kwan, the Hong Kong-born US
figure-skating superstar, as Washington's first Public Diplomacy Ambassador tasked with promoting American values around the world.
Kwan, a two-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated figure-skater in US history, will visit China early this year on the first mission of her non-salaried career as goodwill envoy, Rice said.
\heights of artistic and athletic excellence through her discipline, her drive and her determination \ \all around the world by helping to tell American's story through her own story.\
Kwan, at 26, is one of the world's best known athletes. (44) She said she always wanted to serve our country, to contribute and to make a difference.
\feel that in this position, I can do just that,\she said. \look forward to sharing my experience and my story.\
But the skater insisted she saw her role as \
(45) Kwan began skating at the age of five and won her first competition when she was seven. She is currently a student in political science and international relations at the University of Denver, Rice's Alma Master.
Rice recalled that she had also been a figure skater in her youth and suggested Kwan's career could parallel her own. (46) She joked that Kwan was on her way to become Secretary of State.
Passage 8
Boys can seem like totally unimaginable alien (外国的，外星的) creatures that are difficult to understand and even harder to get to know. Some girls think of boys as the enemy---the kind that chases them at recess, cuts ahead of them in the lunch line, or teases them at the bus stop. But, if girls are lucky, they might even count boys among their friends.
Are boys and girls different? Of course they are. There are many physical differences between boys and girls, as well as differences at the rate and ways their bodies and minds grow and change. For example, you may have noticed that girls tend to mature faster than boys. The girls you know probably learned to read earlier and mastered math concepts sooner than your boy classmates. (44) These differences are a result of the natural way our bodies and brains grow.
But there are other, less visible ways that boys and girls differ. These differences are not so much because of the way boys and girls are born, (45) but the way that the world treats each sex and what it expects of them.
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