2024年4月29日发(作者：)

201806CET6（1）

长对话1：西班牙蔬菜汤

M: What’s all that? Are you going to make a salad?

W: No, I’m going to make a gazpacho.

M: What’s that?

W: Gazpacho is a cold soup from Spain. It’s mostly vegetables. I guess you can call it a

liquid salad.

M: Cold soup? Sounds weird.

W: It’s delicious. Trust me! I tried it for the first time during my summer vacation in Spain.

You see, in the south of Spain, it gets very hot and summer, up to 42 degrees Celsius, so a cold

gazpacho is very refreshing. The main ingredients are tomato, cucumber, bell peppers, olive oil

and stale bread.

M: Stale bread? Surely you mean bread for dipping into the soup.

W: No. bread is crushed and blended in, like everything else. It adds texture and thickness to

the soup.

M: um…and is it healthy?

W: Sure. As I said earlier, it’s mostly vegetables. You can also add different things if you like

such as half-boiled eggs or cured ham.

M: Cured ham? What’s that?

W: That’s another Spanish delicacy. Have you never heard of it? It’s quite famous.

M: No. Is it good too?

W: Oh, yeah, definitely. It’s amazing. It’s a little dry and salty. And it is very expensive

because it comes from a special type of pig that only eats a special type of food. The ham is

covered in salt to dry and preserve it, and left hung for up to two years. It has a very distinct favor.

M: um, sounds interesting. Where can I find some?

W: It used to be difficult to get Spanish produce here, but it's now a lot more common. Most

large supermarket chains have cured ham in little packets. But in Spain, you can buy a whole leg.

M: A whole pig leg? Why would anybody want so much ham?

W: In Spain, many people buy a whole leg for special group events such as Christmas. They

cut it themselves into very thin slices with a long flat knife.

Q1 What do we learn about gazpacho?

Q2 For what purpose is stale bread mixed into gazpacho?

Q3 Why does the woman think gazpacho is healthy?

Q4 what does the women say about cured ham?

1 A It is a Spanish soup

2 C To make it thicker

3 B It is mainly made of vegetables

4 D It comes from a special kind of pig

长对话2：买酒送上司

M: Hello, I wish to buy a bottle of wine.

W: Hi, yes. What kind of wine would you like?

M: I don’t know. Sorry, I don’t know much about wine.

W: That’s no problem at all. What’s the occasion and how much would you like to spend?

M: It’s for my boss. It’s his birthday. I know he likes wine but I don’t know what type. I also

did not want anything too expensive. Maybe middle range. How much would you say is a middle

range bottle of a wine approximately?

W: Well, it varies greatly. Our lowest prices are around 60 dollars a bottle but those are table

wines. They are not very special and I would not suggest them as a gift. On the other hand, our

most expensive bottles are over a hundred and fifty dollars. If you are looking for something

priced in the middle, I would say anything between 30 dollars and 60 dollars would make a decent

gift. How does that sound?

M: um, yeah. I guess something in the vicinity of 30 or 40 would be good. Which type would

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you recommend?

W: I would say the safest option is always a red wine. They are generally more popular than

whites and can usually be paired with food more easily. Our specialty here are Italian wines and

these tend to be fruity with medium acidity. This one here is a Chianti which is perhaps Italy's

most famous type of red wine. Alternatively, you may wish to try and surprise your boss with

something less common such as this Zinfandel. The grapes are originally native to Croatia, but

this winery is in eastern Italy. And it has more spicy and peppery flavor. So, to summarize, the

Chianti is more classical and Zinfandel more exciting. Both are similarly priced, and just under 40

dollars.

M: I'll go with Chianti then, thanks.

Q5 What does the woman think of table wines?

Q6 What is the price range of wine the man will consider?

Q7 Why does the woman recommend red wines?

Q8 What do we learn about the wine the man finally bought?

5 C They do not make decent gifts

6 D $30-$40

7 A They go well with different kinds of food

8 C It is Italy’s most famous type of red wine

Passage One ： 战时密码

Many people enjoy secret codes. The harder the code, the more some people will try to figure

it out. In wartime, codes are especially important. They help army send news about battles and the

sizes of enemy forces. Neither side wants its codes broken by the other. One very important code

was never broken. It was used during World War II by the Americans. It was a spoken code never

written down. And it was developed and used by Navajo Indians. They were called “the Navajo

code talkers” the Navajos created the code in their own language. Navajo is hard to learn. Only a

few people know it. So it was pretty certain that the enemy would not be able to understand the

cold talkers. In addition, the talkers used code words. They called a submarine an iron fish and a

small bomb thrown by hand a potato. If they wanted to spell something, they used code words for

letters of the alphabet. For instance, the letter A was ant or apple or eggs. The code talkers worked

mostly in the islands in the Pacific. One or two would be assigned to a group of soldiers. They

would send messages by field telephone to the code talker in the next group. And he would relay

the information to his commander. The code talkers played an important part in several battles.

They helped troops coordinate their movements and attacks. After the war, the US government

honored them for what they had accomplished. Theirs was the most successful wartime code ever

used.

Q9 What does the speaker say many people enjoy doing?

Q10 What do we learn about Navajo code talkers?

Q11 What is the speaker mainly talking about?

9 B Decoding secret message

10 D They helped the U.S army in World War Two

11 A A military code that was never broken

Passage Two：科技会给未来经济/工作带来哪些变化

If you are young and thinking about your career. You want to know where you can make a

living. Well, it’s going to be a technological replacement of a lot of knowledge-intensive jobs in

the next twenty years. Particularly, in the two largest sectors of labor force with professional skills.

One is teaching and the other healthcare. You have so many applications and software and

platforms that are going to come in and provide information and service in these two fields, which

means a lot of healthcare and education sectors would be radically changed and a lot of jobs will

be lost. Now, where will the new jobs be found? Well, the one extra economy can’t be easily

duplicated by even smart technologies is the caring sector, the personal care sector. That is, you

can’t really get a robot to do a great massage or physically therapy. Or you can’t get the kind of

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