阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语问答问题（请注意问题后词数要求）。A nurse of 78 this weekend celebrates 60 years of walking the wards - and she has no plans to retire.Jackie Reid was 18 when she started work in 1953 - when the National Health Service (NHS) was just five years old - and is believed to be the oldest nurse in Britain.The diabetes(糖尿病) specialist had to retire at 65 but returned as a nurse within two weeks and still does up to four seven-and-a-half hour shifts(轮班）each week.Mrs. Reid said: "Nursing is hard if you do it correctly but I love my job. Working for the NHS has been my life. I have no other hobbies because I have worked all my life.Jackie has worked at a number of different hospitals--including one in Scotland.Her specialist field has been diabetes for the past 40 years. She retrained after her 12-year-old daughter Michelle developed the disease. She currently works at Southend Hospital, Essex.Over the last 60years she has treated tens of thousands of patients.Jackie believes nursing should be protected from government cuts. She said: "There're lots of things I would say to the government. If you are going to get good care you have to have the resources(资源), you can't do it without enough money. They shouldn't need the cuts that there are in the NHS. It's hard now because there's a shortage of staff."Jackie has lived alone in Grays, Essex, since her husband did three years ago.The couple have two daughters Michelle, 50, and Karen, 54.Jackie added: "My youngest daughter worried about me - she doesn't think I should work as much as I do. I constantly say 'don't worry about me, I'm fine', but she never believes me. I don't like the thought of giving it up and will try to keep going forever."【小题1】 In which year was the NHS set up? (within 2 words)【小题2】 What does Jackie think of nursing? (within 6 words)【小题3】When did Jackie retrain in the field of diabetes? (within 6 words)【小题4】What does Jackie wish the government to do? (within 7 words)【小题5】 Why does Jackie's daughter worry about her? (within 8 words) - 跟谁学
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Conversation 1(场景分类&&论文材料)
Narrator Listen to a conversation between a student and a professor.
OK, let&s see. Right. （2）Modern Stagings of a Shakespearian Classic. Well, like I told you last week, I think that&s a great topic for you paper. So the title would be something like ... uh ...
I am not really sure, probably something like 20th century stagings of A Midsummer Night&s Dream.
Yes, I like that. Straightforward and to the point. So how is the research going?
Well, that&s what I came to talk to you about. （1）I was wondering if you happen to have a copy of the Peter Brook production of A Midsummer Night&s Dream in your video collection. I&ve been looking for it everywhere and I am having a really hard time tracking it down.
（3）That&s because it doesn&t exist.
You mean in your collection ? Or at all?
I mean at all. That particular production was never filmed or recorded.
Oh no. I had no idea. （3）From what I read, that production, like, it influenced every other production of the play that came after it.So I just assumed it had been filmed or videotaped.
Oh, It definitely was a landmark production. And it&s not like it ran for just a week, but either it was never filmed or if it was the film&s been lost. And it&s ironic because there&s even a film about the making of the production, but none of the production itself.
（5）So now what do I do? If there is no video.
Well, think about it. This is the most important 20th century staging of A Midsummer Night&s Dream, right?
（3）But how can I write about Brook&s interpretation of the play if I can&t see his production.
Just because there&s no recording doesn&t mean you can&t figure out how it influenced other productions.
Yeah, I guess there&s enough material around, but it will be a challenge.
True. But think about it, you are writing about dramatic arts, the theater, and that&s the nature of theater, isn&t it?
You mean because it is live, when the performance is finished ...
That&s it. Unless it&s filmed, it&s gone. But that doesn&t mean we can&t study it. （4）And of course some students in this class are writing about productions in the 19th century, there are no videos of those. You know, one of the challenges for people who study theater is to find ways of talking about something that&s really so transient, about something that, in a sense, doesn&t exist.
track v. 追踪
landmark n. 里程碑
ironic adj. 讽刺的
midsummer adj. 仲夏的
dramatic adj. 戏剧的
transient adj. 短暂的
subsequent adj. 后来的&
1. Why does the man visit the professor?
解析：主旨题，注意&I was wondering if&&后面的内容，学生是问教授拿一些论文材料。
答案：To ask for source material for his paper.
2. What is the subject of the man&s paper?
解析：推断题，学生寻找Shakespeare的资料，是写关于他的论文，而没有提及有作品之间的对比，所以不选D选项（A comparison of different film versions of Shakespeare&s play）
答案：Modern interpretations of a play by Shakespeare.
3. What do the speakers say about Peter Brook&s production of A Midsummer Night&s Dream? Click on 2 answers.
解析：细节题，定位A Midsummer Night&s Dream. 文中2次直接或间接说到电影版本不存在，并且对其他作品有深远影响。the play that came after it同义替换为subsequent productions
答案：It influenced subsequent productions.
Film versions of it probably do not exist.
4. What point does the professor make when she mentions that some students are writing about 19th century productions of Shakespeare&s plays?
解析：意图推测题，因为男生没有视频资料可参考，这些学生也没有，所以他们面临相同的问题。
答案：Theater students often face the same problem the man is facing.
5. Why does the professor say this?
解析：复听意图推测题，教授强调说这个是20世纪最重要的表演，说明学生可以通过寻找其他资料写好这篇论文，所以是说服学生写这个作品。
答案：To convince the student to write about the production.
Lecture 1 Art History(学科分类&&艺术史)
Narrator：Listen to part of a lecture in an art history class.
Good morning, ready to continue our review of prehistoric art? Today, we will be covering the Upper Paleolithic Period, which I am roughly defining as the period from 35,000 to 8,000 BC. A lot of those cave drawings you have all seen come from this period. But we are also be talking about portable works of art, things that could be carried around from place to place. Here is one example. This sculpture is called the Lady with the Hood, and it was carved from ivory, probably a mammoth&s tusk. Its age is a bit of a mystery. According to one source, it dates from 22,000 BC. But other sources claimed it has been dated closer to 30,000 BC. Amy?
（11）Why don&t we know the exact date when this head was made?
That&s a fair question. We are talking about prehistory here. So obviously the artists didn&t put a signature or a date on anything they did. So how do we know when this figure was carved?
Last semester I took an archaeology class and we spent a lot time on, studying ways to date things. One technique I remember was using the location of an object to date it, like how deep it was buried.
That would be Stratigraphy. Stratigraphy is used for dating portable art. When archaeologists are digging at a site, they make very careful notes about which stratum(strata), which layer of earth they find things in. And, you know, the general rule is that the oldest layers are at the lowest level. But this only works if the site hasn&t been touched, and the layers are intact. （7）A problem with this dating method is that an object could have been carried around, used for several generations before it was discarded. So it might be much older than the layer or even the site where it was found. The stratification technique gives us the minimum age of an object, which isn&t necessarily its true age. Tom, in your archaeology class, did you talk about radiocarbon dating?
Yeah, we did. That had to do with chemical analysis, something to do with measuring the amount of radiocarbon that&s left in organic stuff. Because we know how fast radiocarbon decays, we can figure out the age of the organic material.
The key word there is organic. Is art made of organic material?
Well, you said the lady with the hood was carved out of ivory. That&s organic.
Absolutely. Any other examples?
Well, when they did those cave drawings. Didn&t they use, like charcoal or maybe colors, dyes made from plants?
Fortunately, they did, at least some of the time. So it turns out that radiocarbon dating works for a lot of prehistoric art. But again there&s a problem. （8）This technique destroys what it analyzes, so you have to chip off bits of the object for testing. Obviously we are reluctant to do that in some cases. And apart from that, there&s another problems. The date tells you the age of the material, say, a bone or a tree, the object is made from, but not the date when the artist actually created it.So, with radiocarbon dating, we get the maximum possible age for the object, but it could be younger. Ok, let&s say our scientific analysis has produced an age range. Can we narrow it down?
Could we look for similar styles or motives? You know, try to find things common to one time period.
We do that all the time. And when we see similarities in pieces of art, we assume some connection in time or place. But is it possible that we could be imposing our own values on that analysis?
I am sorry. I don&t get your point.
（9）Well, we have all kinds of pre-conceived ideas about how artistic styles develop. For example, a lot of people think the presence of details demonstrates that the work was done by a more sophisticated artist. While a lack of detail suggests a primitive style. But trends in art in the last century or so certainly challenge that idea. Don&t get me wrong though, analyzing the styles of prehistoric art can help dating them. But we need to be careful with the idea that artistic development occurs in a straight line, from simple to complex representations.
（10）What you are saying is, I mean, I get the feeling that this is like a legal process, like building a legal case, the more pieces of evidence we have, the closer we get to the truth.
Great analogy. And now you can see why we don&t have an exact date for our sculpture, the lady with the hood.
prehistoric adj. 史前的
paleolithic adj. 旧石器时代的
portable adj. 手提的；便携的
carve v. 雕刻
ivory n. 象牙
mammoth n. 长毛象
tusk n. 长牙
archaeology n. 考古学
stratigraphy n. 地层学
stratum/strata n. 层；地层
intact adj. 完整的
discard v. 抛弃
stratification n. 层理；成层
radiocarbon n. 放射性碳
organic adj. 有机的
decay v. 衰退；[核]衰减
charcoal n. 木炭
dye n. 染料
chip off 切下；削去
reluctant adj. 不情愿的
impose v. 利用
conceive v. 设想
analogy n. 类比
sculpture n. 雕塑
hood n. 头巾&
6. What is the talk mainly about?
解析：主旨题，文中讲了几种测定物品年代的方法，主要说明了它们各自的局限性。
答案：Limitations of some techniques for dating artifacts.
7. According to the professor, when might stratigraphy provide misleading information about a portable object?
解析：细节题，定位misleading information原文中对应A problem with this dating method. 文中说物品可能被用了好几代才被丢弃，年代比发现它的地址久远。
答案：When the object is older than the site at which it was found.
8. What are two disadvantages of radiocarbon dating? Click on 2 answers
解析：推测题，定位radiocarbon dating，文中说这种方法需要从材料中拿下一部分（destroy同义替换为causes damage to）并且只能推测出材料的年代而不是这个作品被制造出来的年代。
答案：It causes damage to the material being analyzed.
It cannot prove when a piece of art was made.
9. What is the professor&s opinion about the practice of dating a piece of art by analyzing its artistic style?
解析：推测题，定位artistic style，注意but后面的内容。文中说上个世纪这种方法受到怀疑。
答案：Some analysts make questionable assumption when using it.
10. How does the woman summarize the professor&s main point in the talk?
解析：推测题，文中女学生将教授的观点与a legal process类比。
答案：By drawing a parallel with a process common to the legal field.
11. Why does the professor say this?
解析：复听意图推测题，短对话中教授说That&s a fair question（这是一个值得研究的问题），这句话紧跟其后，为了解释为什么这个问题值得探讨。
答案：To explain why the question is worth discussing.
Lecture 2 Environmental Science(学科分类&&环境科学)
Narrator：Listen to part of a lecture in an environmental science class.
Ok, so we have been talking about theories that deal with the effects of human activity on the climate. But today I&d like to talk a little bit about other theories that can explain variations in climate. And one of the best-known is called the Milankovitch Hypothesis. Now what the Milankovitch Hypothesis is about?（12）It says that variations in earth&s movements, specifically in its orbit around the sun, these variations lead to differences in the amount of solar energy that reaches the earth. And it is these differences in the amount of energy that&s reaching earth from the sun, it is what causes variations in earth&s climate. （13）Ok, a lot of people think of earth&s orbit around the sun as being perfectly circular, as smooth and as regular as, say, the way that hands move on a well -made watch, but it just doesn&t work that way. You are probably aware that the earth&s orbit around the sun, it is not shaped like a perfect circle. It is more of an oval, it is elliptical. But the shape of this orbit isn&t consistent, it varies over time, over a period of about a thousand years. Sometimes it is a little more circular, sometimes it is more elliptical. And when earth&s orbit is more elliptical, earth is actually closer to the sun during part of the year. （14）Which makes earth, and in particular, the northern hemisphere, warmer. And why is that important? Well, because most of the planet&s glaciers are in the northern hemisphere, and if it gets too warm, then glaciers will stop forming. And we&ve already talked about how that affects earth&s overall temperature. The second movement involved in the hypothesis has to do with axial tilt. The tilt of earth&s axis, that imaginary pole that runs through the center of the earth. And depending on the angle it tilts at, the seasons can be more or less severe. It makes winters cooler and summers warmer, or what some might say it is doing now, it makes summers less hot, and more importantly, the winters less cold. Which just like what I mentioned before, can also stop, prevent glaciers from forming, or cause them to melt. There is a third movement the hypothesis covers called precession. Precession, basically is the change in the direction of earth&s axis of rotation.（17）It will take me a million years to explain even just the basics of this movement as precession is quite complex. And all these details are way beyond our scope. What&s important for you to understand is that these three movements, well, they are cyclical, and they work together to form, to produce complex but regular variations in earth&s climate, and lead to the growth or decline of glaciers. Now, when Milankovitch first proposed this theory in the 1920s, many of his colleagues were skeptical. Milankovitch didn&t have any proof. （15）Actually there wouldn&t be any evidence to support his hypothesis until the 1970s, when oceanographers were able to drill deep into the seafloor and collect samples, samples which were then analyzed by geologists. And from these samples they were able to put together a history of ocean temperatures going back hundreds of thousands of years, and this showed that earth&s climate had changed pretty much the way Milankovitch&s hypothesis suggested it would. So this evidence was pretty strong support for the Milankovitch Hypothesis. And by the 1980s, most people accepted this theory. However, in the late 1980s, some scientists were exploring Devil&s Hole, which is basically an extensive water-filled cave, far from the ocean, in Nevada, in the western United States. Over millions of years, groundwater left deposits of a mineral called calcite, on the rock within Devil&s Hole. （16）And by studying these calcite deposits, we can determine the climate conditions, the temperatures over the last half million years. Well, the Devil& s Hole findings contradicted the ones obtained during the 1970s, so basically the question was, were the ages of one or both the samples were wrong, or were scientists misunderstanding the significance of the evidence. Well, in the 1990s, a new study was done on the two samples. And the ocean floor samples were found to be correct, as were the samples from Devil&s Hole. And now it is generally believed that the sample from Devil&s Hole correspond to variations in local climate, in the western United States, rather than global climate changes.
hypothesis n. 假设
orbit n. 轨道
oval n. 椭圆形
elliptical adj. 椭圆的
circular adj. 圆形的
hemisphere n. 半球
glacier n. 冰河；冰川
axial tilt 轴倾角
axis n. 轴线
tilt n. 倾斜
pole n. 杆
rotation n. 旋转
skeptical adj. 怀疑的
oceanographer n. 海洋学家
drill v. 钻孔
deposit n. 沉淀物
mineral n. 矿物
calcite n. 方解石
contradict v. 反驳
correspond v. 符合，一致&
12. What is the lecture mainly about?
解析：主旨题，文章讲了地球运动对气候的影响。
答案：A hypothesis that explains how changes in Earth&s motions affect climate.
13. Why does the professor compare Earth&s movements to a watch?
解析：意图推测题，注意but后面的内容。教授说很多人认为地球运动类似手表指针运动，这种观点是不对的，所以是为了澄清这个误区。
答案：To clarify a common misunderstanding.
14. Why does the professor mention Northern Hemisphere glaciers?
解析：推测题，定位Northern Hemisphere glaciers，注意教授自问自答部分。教授说北半球温度如果太高，冰川就会停止形成，而温度又跟地球的运动轨道有关，所以地球运动轨迹影响冰川的形成。
答案：Their formation could be affected by changes in Earth&s orbit.
15. What is the significance of the evidence found on the ocean floor?
解析：细节题，定位ocean floor原文中为seafloor. 原文中strong support for同义替换为confirm.
答案：It confirmed Milankovitch&s hypothesis.
16. What did calcite deposits from Devils Hole reveal?
解析：细节题，定位calcite deposits from Devils Hole，原文中说在这里的发现与1970年的发现相抵触，而1970年的发现与Milankovitch相符，所以这个发现是与Milankovitch的相抵触。
答案：Evidence that contradicted Milankovitch&s hypothesis.
17. Why does the professor say this?
解析：意图推测题，教授夸张地说这个需要花一百万年解释这个，之后又说这些细节超出了要讨论的范围，因此他不会讲。
答案：To inform the students about what he will not discuss.
Conversation 2(场景分类&&学生打工)
Narrator：Listen to a conversation between a student and a food service manager.
Excuse me, Mrs. Hanson. My name is John, John Grant. I work as a waiter in the campus dining hall, in the faculty dining room.
What can I do for you, John?
Well, I work week nights, except for Friday. （1）I was wondering if I could switch from working the dinner service to working at lunch.
That&s going to be a problem. I am afraid we don&t have any openings at lunch time. A lot of students want to work then, so it is really rare for us to have an open spot at that time of day.
（2）Oh, you see, I have joined this group, the University Jazz Band, and the band&s practice time is right around dinnertime. You know, it is so hard to get into this group, I must have auditioned like ten times since I have been at the school, so I am ... Anyway, so I was really hoping to have the dinner hour free so I can go to practice.
Well, we do have other open times, like breakfast.
Eh, that won&t work, I am sorry. I mean that, I can&t work that early. I have this very important music class I got to take, and it is like, first thing in the morning.
Well, if you don&t mind working in the kitchen, we&ve got some pretty flexible hours for students doing food-prep work, anything from early morning to late afternoon.
What&s prep work?
（3）You prepare food for the cooks. You know, like cutting up vegetables for soup, or cleaning greens for salads.
Oh, that doesn&t sound, （4）I mean... Being a waiter, I get to see a lot of the professors, like in a different light, we joke around a little you know. In the classroom, they always have to be pretty formal, but ...
Well, the money is no different since we pay students the same amount for any of the jobs here in food service, so it&s up to you.
Oh, man. I always thought that sacrificing for my art, that&d mean working long hours as a musician for, like, no money. I didn&t think it&d mean, peeling carrots.
（5）Let me see, I am offering you something that has the hours you want, it is right here on campus, and you make as much money as you did being a waiter, quite a sacrifice.
I am sorry, I know you are just trying to help. I guess I should look into the food-prep job.
Ok, then, I&ll tell the kitchen manager that you will stop by tomorrow to talk about the job and schedule your hours. And I will let the dining hall manager know that he needs to find a new waiter for the evening.
Oh, OK, I guess that&s it. Um, thanks Mrs Hanson.
switch v. 转换
spot n. 地点
audition v. 试音；试唱
peel v. 剥
ingredient n. 原料
1. Why does the man go to see the woman?
解析：主旨题，注意&I was wondering if&&后面的内容，他想把工作时间从晚上调到中午。
答案：?To ask for a change in his work schedule.
2. What activity does the man want to be able to do at dinnertime?
解析：细节题，定位dinnertime，audition同义替换为rehearse.
答案：Rehearse with a school music group.
3. The woman asks the man to consider a different job. What kind of work would the man have to do for the new job?
解析：推断题，文中说让他做一些食物准备工作，就是将食物的材料准备好。
答案：Get ingredients ready for a meal.
4. What does the man imply about his job as a waiter?
解析：推断题，定位waiter，注意I mean后面的内容，他说可以跟教授在不同场合相处，说明可以更好的了解教授。
答案：It allows him to get to know the professor better.
5. What does the woman imply when she says this?
解析：复听意图推测题，从女人的语气用辞可以看出她有些不高兴。她提供了符合男生时间的工作，并且薪水相同，而男生却不满意。
答案：The man does not appreciate the opportunity she is offering him.
Lecture 3 History(学科分类&&历史)
Narrator：Listen to part of a lecture in a history class. The professor has been discussing ancient Egypt.
（6）Ok, so one of the challenges that faced ancient civilizations like Egypt was timekeeping, calendars. When you have to grow food for whole cities of people, it is important to plant your crops at the right time. And when you start having financial obligations, rents, taxes, you have to keep track of how often you pay. So today we will look at how the Egyptians addressed these problems. In fact, they ended up using two calendars, one to keep track of the natural world, or their agriculture concerns, and another one, that was used to keep track of the business functions of the Kingdom. So let&s take a look at the hows and whys of one ancient Egyptian calendar system, starting with the Nile River. （7）Why the Nile? Well, there&s no other way to put it. Egyptian life basically revolved around the mysterious rise and fall of the river. The success of their agriculture system depended upon them knowing when the river would change. So, naturally, their first calendar was divided up into three seasons, each based on the river&s changes: inundation, subsidence and harvest. The first season was the flooding, or inundation, when the Nile valley was essentially submerged in water for a few months or so. And afterwards during the season of subsidence, the water would subside, or recede, revealing a new layer of fertile black silt and allowing for the planting of various crops. And finally the time of the year would arrive when the valley would produce crops, such as wheat, barley, fruit, all ready to harvest.
Ok, so it was important to the ancient Egyptians to k...
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