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TEST 24. 8 A 9 A 10 A 11 C 12 C 13 B
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Woman:
Hello, I’m Sarah Brown, and I’m here to tell you about my job as a weather
forecaster. I’ve
been a weather forecaster for a television company for seven years, and two
years ago I became the head of the weather department. Now, I divide my time
equally between presenting weather forecasting on television and managing the
weather department which has a staff of eleven. At thirty years old I’m the
youngest ever head of weather and the first woman to do the job. Since
our news and weather service goes out all round the world, we all take turns
to work at night. I prefer that to doing the show when I have to get up at
four in the morning. I normal work an eight-hour day and in that time I do
ten or twelve forecasts. Before
doing a weather forecast, I study data on the computer. This is the
information I use in my forecasts. There isn’t much time to learn what I have
to say, but fortunately I’ve never forgotten my words so I don’t get nervous. My
husband and I try to have the same free days, but neither of us has a regular
pattern of work. He’s a pilot on long-distance flights, so although he works
hard he has a lot more time at home than I do. We moved to our present house
about a year ago, and he’s enjoying painting it. I
took up flying as a hobby five years ago. I hope to get my pilot’s licence
this year, but because of the job, I haven’t been to the flying school for
ages. For exercise I swim and ski and I like running. I’m really proud of
myself for running in the London Marathon – it’s a forty-kilometre race and I
never thought I could manage it! My husband plays tennis, and we sometimes
play together, but he’s better than me so I never win. Because
I’m on world news, people sometimes recognise me in really distant places.
Once, in an Indian village, and old man took me to have my photo taken with
all his family. I get some lovely letters – one person wrote to say that my
smile made her feel happy all day. People occasionally even write and ask me
to marry them! |
Người
phụ nữ: Xin chào, tôi là Sarah Brown và tôi ở đây để kể cho bạn nghe về công
việc của tôi với tư cách là người dự báo thời tiết. Tôi
đã làm người dự báo thời tiết cho một công ty truyền hình được bảy năm và hai
năm trước tôi trở thành trưởng phòng thời tiết. Bây giờ, tôi chia đều thời
gian của mình cho việc trình bày dự báo thời tiết trên truyền hình và quản lý
bộ phận thời tiết với đội ngũ nhân viên gồm 11 người. Ở tuổi ba mươi, tôi là
người phụ trách thời tiết trẻ nhất và là người phụ nữ đầu tiên đảm nhận công
việc này. Vì
dịch vụ tin tức và thời tiết của chúng tôi được phát đi khắp thế giới nên tất
cả chúng tôi đều thay phiên nhau làm việc vào ban đêm. Tôi thích điều đó hơn
là thực hiện buổi biểu diễn khi tôi phải thức dậy lúc 4 giờ sáng. Bình thường
tôi làm việc tám tiếng một ngày và trong thời gian đó tôi thực hiện mười hoặc
mười hai dự báo. Trước
khi làm dự báo thời tiết, tôi nghiên cứu dữ liệu trên máy tính. Đây là thông
tin tôi sử dụng trong dự báo của mình. Không có nhiều thời gian để học những
gì tôi phải nói, nhưng may mắn là tôi chưa bao giờ quên lời nên không lo lắng. Tôi
và chồng cố gắng có những ngày rảnh rỗi như nhau, nhưng cả hai chúng tôi đều
không có lịch làm việc đều đặn. Anh ấy là phi công trên những chuyến bay đường
dài nên mặc dù làm việc chăm chỉ nhưng anh ấy có nhiều thời gian ở nhà hơn
tôi. Chúng tôi chuyển đến ngôi nhà hiện tại khoảng một năm trước và anh ấy rất
thích sơn nó. Tôi
bắt đầu đam mê bay như một sở thích cách đây 5 năm. Tôi hy vọng sẽ lấy được bằng
phi công trong năm nay, nhưng vì công việc nên đã lâu rồi tôi không đến trường
dạy bay. Để tập thể dục, tôi bơi, trượt tuyết và tôi thích chạy. Tôi thực sự
tự hào về bản thân khi tham gia London Marathon - đó là một cuộc đua dài 40
km và tôi chưa bao giờ nghĩ mình có thể vượt qua được! Chồng tôi chơi quần vợt
và thỉnh thoảng chúng tôi chơi cùng nhau, nhưng anh ấy giỏi hơn tôi nên tôi
không bao giờ thắng. Bởi
vì tôi đang theo dõi tin tức thế giới nên đôi khi mọi người nhận ra tôi ở những
nơi rất xa. Một lần nọ, tại một ngôi làng ở Ấn Độ, ông già đưa tôi đi chụp ảnh
cùng cả gia đình ông. Tôi nhận được những lá thư đáng yêu – có người viết nói
rằng nụ cười của tôi khiến cô ấy vui cả ngày. Thỉnh thoảng có người còn viết
thư hỏi cưới tôi! |
TEST 15
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16 Café 17 12
/ twelve 18 5.99 / five (pounds) (and)
ninety-nine (p/pence) 19 Shirley 20 (the)
bank Audioscript Man: Can I help you? Woman: I’m looking for
the new Brad Smith video about a boy who works as a waiter. My daughter wants
it, but I don’t know the name. Man: Oh yes. It’s
called Blue Café. Woman: My daughter is
13. Is she old enough to watch it? Man: It’s for anyone
who is 12 or older, so she’ll be OK. Woman: I hope it’s not
too expensive. Some videos are nearly twenty pounds. Man: It’s five
pounds ninety-nine. We’re selling it at a special price today. Woman: Great. Can I
have one, please? Man: I’m sorry. I’ve
just sold the last one. You’ll have to go to our other shop. Woman: Oh dear.
Where’s that? Man: It’s in Shirley
Street. That’s S H I R L E Y. Woman: Oh, that’s
where the post office is, isn’t it? Man: Yes, the video
shop’s not far from there, just across the road from the bank. It’s only five
minutes from here. Woman: OK. Thanks for
your help. |
21 Teale 22 travel 23 hall 24 2.30 / 14.30 / two
thirty / half past two 25 3.85 / three (pounds)
(and) eighty-five (p/pence) Audioscript Man: Now listen
carefully, everybody. Here is some excellent news. Next Thursday a most
interesting visitor is going to come to talk to us. He is the astronaut Dr
Robert Teale, that’s T E A L E. I’m sure a lot of you have heard of him. He’s
very famous for his journeys into space. He’s going to talk to us
about space travel. Only he can tell us just what it’s like to travel round
the earth in a spaceship, past the moon and the stars. The whole school is going to
listen to Dr Teale. We will use the school hall because none of the
classrooms will be big enough. Classes will finish at twenty past two on
Thursday because the talk will start at half past. Don’t be late. If your parents would like to
hear Dr Teale, we have a few extra seats. The ticket price for them will be
three pounds eighty-five, but of course for students it is free. |
TEST 16
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16 September 17 Jarvis 18 78
/ seventy-eight (pounds) 19 223 20 bookshop
/ book shop Audioscript Woman: Westwood
English School. Man: Hello, I want
to ask about evening classes, please. Woman: Yes, they’re on
Thursdays. But this term will finish at the end of August. We’ll start again
on the twenty-second of September,
but you can book your place now. Man: It’s for a
Chinese friend. He wants an easy class. Woman: Well, there’s a
two-hour class for beginners. Man: Mmm. My friend
would like something shorter. Woman: Well, we have a
fifty-minute speaking class. That would be good for him. The teacher is Miss
Jarvis. That’s J A R V I S. The
students all like her. Man: How much does
that class cost? Woman: It’s seven
pounds fifty per class or if you pay for all twelve classes now, it’s only seventy-eight pounds – it’s cheaper
that way. Man: Right. Woman: Can your friend
come to the school soon and book his place? The address is two hundred and twenty-three, Fitzroy
Square. Man: Is that in the
centre of town? Woman: Well, it’s
about twenty minutes’ walk from the station. We’re just by the bookshop. Man: Right. Thank
you. Woman: Goodbye. |
21 9.30
/ 21.30 / nine thirty / half past nine 22 (the)
entrance 23 (the) lions 24 games 25 4.65
/ four (pounds) (and) sixty-five (p/pence) Audioscript Woman: Thank you for
calling Finchester Zoo. The zoo is open on six days and closed on Mondays.
The opening hours are from ten a.m. until it gets dark. This is half past
nine in the summer and four o’clock in the winter. There is a guided tour of the zoo every hour. Visitors for the tour should wait at the
entrance which is where the tour begins. Our guide will meet you there.
The tour finishes at the café. You should not feed the animals but you can watch when we give
them something to eat. Every day at
two o’clock the lions are given their food and the elephants get theirs at
three o’clock. There is a shop in the zoo where you can buy books and games.
All the family will like playing these. There is also a café which sells
snacks. Tickets for adults cost six pounds eighty-five and children’s
tickets are four pounds sixty-five. A family ticket, for two adults and three
children, is eighteen pounds seventy-five. For more information … |
TEST 17
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16 7
/ 7th / seventh (September) 17 Saturday 18 JAGGARD 19 (11)
Park (Road) 20 photos / photograph(s) Audioscript Tony: Hello, is that
Sally? Sally: Yes? Tony: This is Tony
Bassett. We were at Romford School together. Sally: Oh hello, Tony!
I remember you well. Tony: There’s going
to be a party for the pupils in our year at Romford School. Sally: Oh – when will
it be? Tony: Well, we
started at that school on the fourth of September, but the party has to be on
the seventh – almost exactly ten years later. Sally: That’s a
Saturday, isn’t it? I know our first day at school was a Tuesday. Tony: That’s right.
Do you remember my sister, Margaret? It’s at her house. Sally: Oh yes … she
got married, didn’t she? Tony: Yes. She’s
Margaret Jaggard now. Sally: Is that J A
double G A R D? Tony: That’s right.
She lives in Park Road at number eleven, near the park entrance. Sally: That’ll be easy
to find. Can I bring something to eat or drink? Tony: There will be
enough food, but everybody’s going to bring some photos – we’ll enjoy looking
at them. Sally: I’ll put the
date in my diary. |
21 March 22 (The)
Visitor(s)(‘s)(s’) (Centre) 23 2.15
/ 14.15 (p.m.) (in the afternoon) / two fifteen / (a) quarter past two 24 (many different) toy(s)
(and books) 25 (£)4.25 / four pounds
(and) twenty(-)five (p/pence) Audioscript Sea World is not open at the
moment, but here is some information. We are open six days a week, from
Tuesday to Sunday, from nine a.m. until five thirty p.m. Visitors are welcome
from April to February, but we have to close in March for painting and
repairs. Every
morning at eleven, there is a short film about the sea. Go to the Visitor
Centre to watch this.
The film is followed by a short talk about the different animals living in
the sea. The dolphin show begins at two fifteen every afternoon, but to
make sure we can start on time, we ask everyone to be in their seats by two
o’clock. The shop at Sea World is open
all day. Children will like the many different toys and books on sale there.
There is also a café, where you can get drinks and snacks. Adult tickets cost seven
pounds and tickets for children are four pounds twenty-five. There are
special prices for school groups. Thank you for calling Sea
World. |