Listening

Part 1

1．warming up

Pay attention to the following words and phrases which you will hear while listening.

North Pole北极

celebrate one's birthday 庆祝生日

blow away 吹走

thaw 烘烤

2．Listen to the tape and choose the correct answers.

1)Who traveled to the North Pole with me?

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A．My friends.

B．My family.

C．None.

D．My sisters.

2)What was the weather like on the first day?

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A．Snowy and windy.

B．Windy and sunny.

C．Snowy and rainy.

D．Sunny and windy.

3)What should I do before the wind became strong?

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A．Put up my tent.

B．Sleep in the sleeping bag.

C．Find a hole.

D．Make a fire.

4)When was my birthday?

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A．November 10th.

B．November 1st.

C．November 20th.

D．November 12th.

5)Which one is not true?

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A．I hurt my foot in the accident.

B．I had to thaw my birthday cake over the fire.

C．On the 22nd day, my workday was increased to 12 hours a day.

D．I waited to get better at last.

3．Listen to the tape once more and fill in the blanks.

1)I made a journey to ________ to celebrate my birthday .

2)Luckily, ________ ________ and I weren't blown away by the howling ________.

3)I had fallen into a very deep ________ and was hanging on the ________.

4)With my ________ and ________, I put my tent up.

5)It's an experience I shell never ________ and shall ________ for the rest of my life.

Part 2

Dick and Becky live in England. They have a farm, a shop and a tea-shop. People come to the tea-shop to drink tea and have lunch.

1．Listen to the tape. Tick the words you hear on the tape.

2．Listen to the tape again. Complete the words on the diagram.

3．Answer the following questions.

1)Do their two children work on the farm after they graduated from school?

2)How do they raise their chickens?

3)Do they sell cakes made by themself? Why?

“Hi! John．” Mary ran towards me with a rare bright smile on her face, saying, “I’m going to have a   16 performance tonight．I hope you’ll come．Here is the  17 ．” She left in a hurry, disappearing in the crowds of people  18  ．
"Is that true?" I asked myself．She was a quite  19  girl．I had never seen her making up or wearing attractive clothes, for she did not know how to   20  indeed．
I arrived at the   21  with the ticket, and found my seat．Her performance was the seventh one．I knew I would   22  from a hard time before her turn, for I had no   23  of art, but her performance was   24  watching, no matter how long I would wait．Time went slowly．I  25    with myself not to fall asleep．
"Let’ s welcome the next exciting dance - Latin !"   26  filled the hall at once．
I opened my eyes as large as possible,  27 to lose anything．Wearing a golden and shining skirt, Mary appeared on the stage．Dancing with a charming smile, she was fully  28  in the Latin music．At this moment, she looked like a pretty butterfly   29 on the splendid stage．   
After all the performance   30  , I waited for her at the gate．
"Hi!" She stood in front of me with a bag and her crystal high-heeled shoes in her hands, and  31 as she used to be, but the making-up still could be seen．
"How do you feel?" There was not a little bit tired  32  on her face．
"  33 !" I answered．
"Thank you! I knew it would be．" She could not  34  her excitement, laughing like a child．Looking at the shining crystal high-heeled shoes in the wonderful starry night, I   35 that every girl has a pair of special shoes which are like the crystal shoes of Cinderella．

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It was on a warm day last summer. I was walking by the sea. The waves came and went. But I didn’t see them. I was lost in my thoughts.

A row of small holes soon caught my eyes. They lay in the sandy earth by the side of a road. In a minute I would have stepped on them.

What are these holes? I wondered. It had an answer soon. A fat, hairy insect crawled up from the earth. It had a wide tail. It was using the tail to dig in the ground.

The insect moved round and round in one spot(地点). Soon it had made another hole. When it was finished, the insect hid at the bottom. It covered its head with sand.

By now my thoughts of the early morning had gone. This new hole and the insect were all my world. So I sat quite still by the side of the road. And I waited.

As I watched, a small ant crossed the road. It passed my foot, and then it crossed the sandy earth. In a little while it reached the edge of the hole. I saw it start to fall in. The ant tried to turn back. But it couldn’t.

And then I knew. I knew why the holes were there. For just then the fat insect came up out of the hole. It ate the ant who was trapped there.

Later I learned the insect’s name. It’s called ant lion. It digs holes to catch ants.

I’ll never forget that day. The holes looked so small to me. But to the ant and the ant lion they were the whole world.

I took my walks by the sea that summer. But I never again learned as much as I did on the one.

1. What did the ant lion use to dig holes?

  A. Its tail       B. Its feet.            C. Its head         D. Its whole body

2. Why did the ant lion hide in the hole?

  A. To keep the sun away           B. So no one would catch it.

  C. So the ant wouldn’t see it        D. To keep warm.

3. Why did “I” sit down by the side of the road?

  A. To think                           B. To eat her lunch

C. To watch the little holes          D. To catch ants.

4.Why did the ant lion dig the holes?

  A. To play a game                 B. To catch its food

  C. To hide its eggs                   D. To hide from its enemy

5.Why did “I” never forget that day?

  A. Learned something          B. Had a nice time

  C. Saw the ant lion whenever she took a walk

  D. Felt sorry for the ant.