Listening Comprehension長對話2

　　答案

　　Conversation One

　　聽力原文

　　M: When I say I live in Sweden, people always want to know about the seasons.

　　W: The seasons?

　　M: Yeah, you know how cold it is in winter? What is it like when the days are so short?

　　W: So what is it like?

　　M: Well, it is cold, very cold in winter. Sometimes it is cold as 26 degrees below centigrade. And of course when you go out, you’ll wrap up warm. But inside in the houses it’s always very warm, much warmer than at home. Swedish people always complain that when they visit England, the houses are cold even in the good winter.

　　W: And what about the darkness?

　　M: Well, yeah, around Christmas time there’s only one hour of daylight, so you really looks forward to the spring. It is sometimes a bit depressing. But you see the summers are amazing, from May to July in the North of Sweden the sun never sets. It’s still light in the midnight. You can walk in the mountains and read a newspaper.

　　W: Oh, yeah, the land of the midnight sun.

　　M: Yeah, that’s right, but it’s wonderful. You want to stay up all night, and the Sweden’s made most of it. Often they. And the Swedes makes most of it often they started work earlier in summer and then leave at about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so that they can really enjoy the long summer evenings. They’d like to work hard, but play hard, too. I think Londoners work longer hours, but I’m not sure this is a good thing.

　　19.

　　A)He likes Sweden better than England.

　　B)He prefers hot weather to cold weather.

　　C)He is an English living in Sweden.

　　D)He visits London nearly every winter.

　　20.

　　A)The bad weather

　　B)The cold houses.

　　C)The gloomy winter.

　　D)The long night.

　　21.

　　A)Delightful.

　　B)Painful.

　　C)Depressing.

　　D)Refreshing.

　　22.

　　A)They often stay up late reading.

　　B)They work hard and play hard.

　　C) They like to go camping in summer.

　　D) They try to earn more and spend more.

　　19. What do we learn about the man from the conversation?

　　B)He prefers hot weather to cold weather.

　　解析：

　　本題為推斷題。根據文章大意可推斷得出。整篇文章中，分別有兩處暗示信息，一處是男士說，“Swedish people always complain that when they visit England, the houses are cold even in the good winter.”，瑞典人在冬天去拜訪英格蘭時，會抱怨英格蘭室溫太冷。另一處是男士在談到冬天天氣時，說道：“It is sometimes a bit depressing.”長時間寒冷的天氣令人沮喪。因此可推斷得出，男士更喜歡hot weather，熱天氣。所以，答案為：He prefers hot weather to cold weather.

　　20. What do Swedish people complain about when they visit England in winter?

　　B)The cold houses.

　　解析：

　　對話中，當男士介紹瑞典的極寒天氣時，談到只要穿暖，出門很暖，而室內更暖和，為了強調這一觀點，男士繼續說道：“Swedish people always complain that when they visit England, the houses are cold even in the good winter.”說是瑞典人在冬天去拜訪英格蘭時，會抱怨英格蘭室溫太冷。所以，答案為：The cold houses.

　　21. How does the man describe the short hour of daylight around Christmas in Sweden?

　　C)Depressing.

　　解析：

　　女士問：“And what about the darkness?”男士答道：“around Christmas time there’s only one hour of daylight, so you really looks forward to the spring.”臨近圣誕節的時候，每天僅有一小時為白天，所以人們都非常向往春天，希望春天快點到來。然后，進一步強調性地評論道：“It is sometimes a bit depressing.”有時候真有點令人沮喪。因此，本題答案為：Depressing.

　　22. What does the man say about the Swedish people?

　　B)They work hard and play hard.

　　解析：

　　男士在談到瑞典的極晝天氣時，著重談了瑞典人在極晝天氣的工作情況，并進一步對瑞典人的工作習慣進行了評價。男士說道：“They’d like to work hard, but play hard, too.”瑞典人既能在工作時努力工作，又能在能玩時拼命玩。所以，本題答案為：They work hard and play hard.

　　這篇長對話是圍繞瑞典的天氣展開，主要談到瑞典冬天的極寒和夏天的極晝天氣。文章一開頭即說到人們喜歡詢問瑞典的季節情況。接下來對具體情況進行了描述，包括：極寒天氣下的氣溫、室外和室內溫度狀況，另外，就瑞典室溫與英國室溫進行了對比，再次強調證明瑞典室溫很高;而極晝天氣則談的是瑞典人的工作時間和工作習慣，另外，就瑞典人工作時認真忙、能玩時拼命玩的習慣和英國人工作勤奮、工作時間長進行了對比。

　　這篇對話考查細節信息抓取能力。整體難度不大，并且以男士提供的信息為主。但許多考生可能因為對瑞典(Sweden)和與瑞典相關的一系列名詞不熟悉而糾結，因此忽略了真正需要聽清的其實并不太難的關鍵信息。這就提醒大家在做題時，切勿因為個別詞語不熟悉，而慌張。