Listening to them makes me （)to study abroad in the future.

A.It is about English teachers in a school.

B.It is about teachers' accomplishments.

C.It is about teachers' frustrations.

D.It is about training of English teachers.

Mr. Ma: No, not at all. What do you want to know？

Student: How long have you been teaching English？

Mr. Ma: 20 years.

Student: Wwa! 20 years! That's almost as old as I am! What kind of mining have you had？

Mr. Ma: I graduated from a four-year-teacher's college about 20 years ago. I learned both English and pedagogy during my college years.

Student: Have you been to an English speaking country？

Mr. Ma: Yes. Last summer I was awarded a study-abroad scholarship in Canada.

Student: What did you do in Canada？

Mr. Ma: A Canadian college ran a teacher's training program for us Chinese teachers. We learned how to organize English classes. The program was very successful.

Student: What is your most significant accomplishment in teaching English？

Mr. Ma: One of my students won first prize in National Competition of English Skills five years ago.

Student: Competition of English Skills？ What was that？

Mr. Ma: It was a competition that included speaking, listening, creating an English web page and writing English subtitles for drawings.

Student: That must have been very challenging.

Mr. Ma: Yes, I was very proud of my students. And I was very proud of myself.

Student: Are you bothered by any problems in your teaching？

Mr. Ma: Yes, of course, I am sometimes frustrated when I see the poor scores of my students in a class quiz or examination. Sometimes I don't know how to help them move forward in their studies.

Student: What is your plan to help your students get better scores in the future？

Mr. Ma: I hope to try some new interactive ways of teaching in my next term.

Student: Thank you very much for answering my questions. I have learned a lot from this interview.

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A．It is about English teachers in a school.

B．It is about teachers' accomplishments.

C．It is about teachers' frustrations.

D．It is about training of English teachers.

A.By listening to the sounds.

B.By repeating the sounds.

C.By listening to their own babbling.

D.By uttering the sounds.

Peter became angry and said that_____.

A．he was tired to listen to them

B．the listening to them was tired for him

C．he was tiring listening to them

D．he was tired of listening to them

参考答案：错误

"Theories around at that time said that infants perceived speech sounds by producing them," says Jusczyk. In other words, by listening to themselves babble, babies learned to tell one sound from another. Mom, Dad, or the babysitter would reinforce these sounds by repeating their utterances like, "Baba! That's bottle."

Researchers, however, had not developed methods of deciphering what went through a baby's mind before baby uttered his first "Ma" or "Papa". So Jusczyk and other experimentalists devised techniques that allow them to study the pre-babbler. They have demonstrated that speech is the culmination of a tremendous amount of learning. Long before a baby utters his first "baba", the researchers discovered, his mind is furiously sorting out the sounds and shapes of words and sentences.

Colleagues credit Jusczyk for being one of the key experimentalists to bridge the gap between the study of infant speech perception and language development. "Peter is the father of a lot of this work," says Robin Cooper, an associate professor of psychology, who studies infant language acquisition.

In their decades-long search for the universal truths about language acquisition, Jusczyk and collaborators around the world have found that at every stage of development, babies know a lot more than they'd been given credit for. The very seeds of language learning, in fact, start to develop in the womb (子宫).

Researchers cannot easily investigate language perception in the womb, however. So they study newborn babies' reactions to sounds that mimic the muffled language that penetrates the womb. In this technique, newborn babies listen to filtered recordings of a woman (the baby's mother or another mother) speaking, while sucking on a pacifier (婴儿用的橡皮奶头) that is attached to a pressure transducer (传感器). Filtering erases the crisp edges of words, while leaving intact other features such as rhythm, melody, pitch, and intonation—similar to what a fetus (胎儿) hears in the womb. "It's kind of like listening to a stereo next door," says William Fifer, an associate professor of developmental psychobiology at Columbia University. "You hear a lot of bass, but not the crisp, clear high frequencies."

Using this technique, Fifer and his colleagues found that newborns suck harder on the pacifier when listening to filtered recordings of their own mother's voice in comparison to another mother's. The newborns thus recognize and prefer their own mother's voice, concludes Fifer.

In further studies, Jusczyk and postdoc Thierry Nazzi found that newborns prefer filtered recordings of their own native language over that of a foreign language. "Babies like what they know," says Jusczyk. "Newborns," he says, "apparently learn the rhythm of their native language and of their mother's voice while in the womb."

How do babies recognize different sounds？

A．By listening to the sounds.

B．By repeating the sounds.

C．By listening to their own babbling.

D．By uttering the sounds.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

听力原文： Professor Wang is a physics teacher in Beijing. Once she was explaining to one of her classes about sound. She decided to test the students to see how well they had under- stood her. "I have an uncle in Xinjiang." she said. "Sup- pose I was calling him on the phone from here, and at the same time you were 25 metres away, listening to me. Who would hear me first, my uncle or you - and for what reason？" Ma Hue at once answered, "Your uncle, Professor Wang, because sound- waves travel slower than electricity.”

"Good," said the professor, but then another boy raised his hand.

"Yes, Li Ming？" said Professor Wang.

" Of course your uncle would hear you first," Li Ming said, "but that' s because of the time difference. When it ' s nine o' clock here, it' s seven o' clock in Xinjiang."

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A．By asking some students to explain the reason.

B．By giving them a test on the speed of sound.

C．By using a vivid question to check them.

D．By asking the students to restate his words.

hey are saying.

A.how

B.why

C.what

A.Right.

B.Wron

C.Doesn't say.