
County animal control officers came and captured the snake.
Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.
未听先知:预览两道题各选项,第 1题选项均为描述人物心理状态的形容词,因此此题考查的是人物心理。第 2题
各选项主语均为 It,由选项中出现的 crawled、wound up、was killed 和scales 等词可推测,It 指蛇;再结合本题选项
中出现的 the woman 和steering wheel 可推测,本篇新闻与某位女士遭遇蛇的经历有关,涉及女士当时的心理活动等
方面内容。
1. How did Kelly Swisher feel when she first came across the rat snake?
答案:B
详解:新闻中女士提到,她在周四遇到的那条蛇把她吓得魂不附体。因此答案为 B。
2. What does the report say about the snake?
答案:D
详解:新闻中提到了 Swisher 对食鼠蛇的描述:它身上粗糙,鳞片很大。因此答案为 D。
News Report Two
(3)Fast food, it turns out, isn’t quite as fast as it used to be. A new study finds that MacDonald’s posted its slowest
drives-through times since this survey was first conducted fifteen years ago. As MacDonald’s, customers will spend on
average three minutes and nine seconds from the time they placed their orders until they received their food. That’s about
ten seconds more than the industry average--and a lot slower than a decade ago, according to the study, which was
commissioned by QSR, an industry trade publication. And MacDonald’s wasn’t alone in slowing down: Other chains also
saw their drive-through performance slow down. (4)Among the reasons for the slower service, today there are more choices
on the menu, and the products themselves are more complex and take longer to prepare. Speed, of course, is essential to the
drive-through experience. And drive-throughs are hugely important to chains, such as MacDonald’s, Burger King and Taco
Bell. “Usually the drive-through accounts for sixty to seventy percent of all business that goes through a fast-food
restaurant,” notes Sam Ochers, editor of QSR. Of course, consumers also want their orders prepared correctly and on that
score, Ochers says, “accuracy is still really high.”
Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
未听先知:预览两道题各选项,由其中反复出现的 fast-food 可推测,新闻内容与快餐有关。其中第 3题各选项均为
概括性比较强的名词短语,可能考查新闻主旨;结合第 4题各选项语义可推测,此题考查出现某个问题的原因。
3. What is the news report mainly about?
答案:A
详解。新闻开头就提到,事实证明快餐没有以前那么快了,接下来就讲到了得出这一结论的依据——针对快餐业
的一项新研究。因此答案为 A。
4. What has slowed down MacDonald’s drive-through service?
答案:C
详解:新闻中提到,服务速度变慢的原因是如今菜单上的选择多了,而且商品本身更复杂,需要更多的时间去准
备。因此答案为 C。
News Report Three
(5)The first private mission outside of Earth’s orbit is closed to many of our think. U.S. government officials are set to
approve a mission by privately-held space company Moon Express to travel outside of Earth’s orbit in late 2017. (6) Moon
Express’s mission involves plans to land a suitcase-sized package of scientific equipment on the moon for ongoing
exploration and commercial development. The decision involved months of lobbying and coordinated conversations
between a number of factual agencies. Under international treaties, the U.S. is responsible for the cargo of both public and
private spacecraft. This makes commercial space travel a complex legal issue not just domestically, but abroad. (7)A Moon
Express representative declined to comment on the story but noted that the company is very optimistic about its proposal.
Moon Express is not the only company seeking for the rights to travel to outerspace. Elon Musk’s space X aims to send an
unmanned aircraft to Mars by 2018.
Questions 5 and 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.