浙江省杭州市2023-2024学年高二下学期6月期末英语试题

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本试卷分选择题部分和非选择题部分。选择题部分1页至 10页，非选择题部分11页至12页。满分150分,考试用时120 分钟。
考生须知：
1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号、座位号填写在答题卡上。
2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节(共5 小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Where des the cnversatin take place?
A. At a htel. B. At a bank. C. At a plice statin.
2. What will the speakers d?
A. Bard the flight. B. Chse seats. C. Land at the airprt.
3. What is the man ding?
A. Ordering a dish.
B. Buying sme fruits.
C. Recmmending a restaurant.
4. What is the theme f the party?
A. Cstume display. B. Old caps. C. 1970's style.
5. Why des the man visit the library?
A. T return a bk. B. T find a bk. C. T explre an authr.
第二节(共15 小题;每小题1.5 分,满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5 秒钟；听完后，各小题
将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. Why is the wman upset with the man?
A. He lst sme files at wrk.
B. He came hme t early frm wrk.
C. He frgt abut her mther's birthday.
7. What des the wman advise the man t d?
A. Make an aplgy. B. Get a cake quickly. C. Hurry t wrk.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What is the purpse f the curses?
A. T teach children abut gratitude.
B. T train children fr sme qualificatins.
C. T prepare children with cmmunicatin skills.
9. What is a gd part f wrking at Skyfrd in the man's pinin?
A. Strng scial bnds. B. Free use f a car. C. Lng summer hlidays.
10. What des the man want t d in the future?
A. D sme field wrk. B. Get prmtin at Skyfrd. C. Try a different jb.
听第8段材料，回答第11 至13题。
11. What's the prbable relatinship between the speakers?
A. Schlmates. B. Rmmates. C. C-wrkers.
12. What d we knw abut De Neve Plaza?
A. It is clse t the tennis curt.
B. It is where mst teachers live.
C. Its buildings are named after the btanical name.
13. What is Filla?
A. A restaurant. B. A campus. C. A sprts facility.
听第9段材料，回答第14 至17题。
14. What prblem des the wman have?
A. Settling int a new envirnment.
B. Perfecting her English prnunciatin.
C. Distinguishing different British accents.
15. Which TV shw can help students learn the Irish accent?
A. Deadwater Fell. B. This Cuntry. C. The IT Crwd.
16. What accent des the man think is similar t a Califrnian ne?
A. The Scttish accent.
B. The Glucestershire accent.
C. The Nrthern Ireland accent.
17. Why didn't the wman finish watching Derry Girls?
A She lst interest in it.
B. It was t difficult t understand.
C. She switched t reading the nvel.
听第10段材料，回答第18 至20题。
18. Wh is prbably Nra O’Dnnell?
A. A newspaper editr. B. A weather reprter. C. A news bradcaster.
19. Where did the air accident take place?
A. Near Alaska. B. Abve Prtland. C. In Frt Wrth.
20. Which event invlved injuries?
A. The air accident. B. The explsin. C. The snwstrm.
第二部分：阅读(共两节，满分50分)
第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Applicatin Requirements fr LSU
T apply fr admissin t Luisiana State University (LSU), yu’ll need t cnsider the fllwing requirements:
● Academic Recrd:
◯A high schl GPA f at least 3.0 based n 19 cre units. If yu have a 3.77GPA r abve yu have a very gd chance f being admitted.
◯LSU cnsiders yur academic perfrmance in high schl and wh yu are as a student, nt nly inside but als utside the classrm.
◯LSU is a test-ptinal institutin, which means yu can chse whether r nt t submit standardized test scres (SAT r ACT).
Test Scres:
◯If yu decide t submit test scres, the minimum requirements are:
SAT: At least 1030 (with at least 450 in critical reading and 460 in math).
ACT: At least 23.
● Applicatin Submissin:
◯Use the Cmmn Applicatin fr first-year applicants. It serves as bth the applicatin fr admissin and the applicatin fr all merit-based schlarships ffered by LSU.
◯If yu’re interested in the Ogden Hnrs Cllege, this applicatin als serves as yur Ogden Hnrs Cllege applicatin.
◯Create an accunt as a First-Year Student n the Cmmn App.
◯Search fr “Luisiana State University” and add LSU t yur clleges.
◯Cmplete all sectins under the Cmmn App and LSU tabs.
◯Once everything is cmplete, submit yur applicatin.
◯The applicatin fee is $50.
●Additinal Cnsideratins:
◯While nt required, yu may chse t submit letters f recmmendatin frm yur teachers.
◯If yu’re an internatinal applicant, TOEFL scre is preferred.
1 What is the key factr that affects admissin t LSU?
A. High schl GPA.B. Critical Reading and math ability.
C. Standardized test scres.D. Participatin pints in the classrm.
2. What must be ffered during the admissin applicatin prcess?
A. The applicatin fee.B. The TOEFL test scre.
C. Three different applicatins.D. A teacher’s recmmendatin letter.
3. Where is this text prbably taken frm?
A. A test intrductin.B. An admissin guide.
C. An applicatin letter.D. A freshman handbk.
B
Abut 15 years ag, I was wrking at a sewing (缝纫) machine when I lst fcus and put the needle straight thrugh my left middle finger — the wund never quite recvered. It’s the kind f warning teachers tell new sewists, but it als creates a metaphr fr a feeling that maybe familiar t the 7.7 millin peple wh enjy sewing as a hbby: the effect f sewing lives n under ur skin. It’s a theme that runs thrugh histrian Barbara Burman’s bk explring the cultural histry f sewing: The Pint f the Needle: Why Sewing Matters. Fr Barbara, her wn interest in sewing is smething that can be traced back thrugh her life.
“I grew up in a pr husehld, and I had tw very practical parents,” she recalls. “My mther actually taught sewing, dressmaking, and sft tailring, s I was surrunded by peple making things and talking abut tls. My interest in sewing cmes frm an interest in the histry f rdinary peple, particularly wmen’s lives. I feel that it’s a kind f untld stry. We’re s used t it that we dn’t think abut it. We put ur clthes n, and there we are. But I wanted t lk at what sewing actually means at an individual level, as well as a mre glbal level.”
We ntice the inventin f electricity and cuntless ther creatins — but sewing, despite the fact that we culdn’t g abut ur daily lives withut it, is ften verlked. When I ask Barbara why the stry f sewing is largely untld, she has sme insight.
“Mstly because it’s cnnected s thrughly with wmen, and wmen have always been, as it were, ‘secnd rate’,” she explains. “We’ve als lived with this quite false separatin between wrking with ur brains and wrking with ur hands. S manual wrk is thught f as secndary t head wrk. But, in fact, ur hands, and particularly ur sense f tuch, give us such a huge amunt f infrmatin in the wrld. Cuntless studies have cnfirmed hw beneficial crafts can be fr ur mental health and well-being.”
4. What des the underlined part in paragraph 1 imply?
A. Sewing may cause physical injury t sewists.
B. Sewing is rted in peple’s life fr a lng time.
C. Sewing hlds a deep meaning fr sewing lvers.
D. Sewing is ppular with a large number f peple.
5. What’s mainly talked abut in paragraph 2?
A. Hw Barbara’s parents taught her t sew.
B. What sewing meant t the general public.
C. Hw Barbabra gt interested in sewing.
D. What family envirnment Barbara grew up in.
6. Why is the stry f sewing ignred accrding t Barbara?
A. Wmen and manual wrk are undervalued.
B. Peple take n interest in the histry f sewing.
C. Sewing is nt as imprtant as ther inventins.
D. Peple prefer technlgy rather than hand-craft.
7. What des Barbara think f sewing?
A. It is a dying craft.B. It is a secndary jb.
C. It is a dangerus practice.D. It is a rewarding skill.
C
Mst peple walk. But that seemingly simple act is actually a series f mvements, each requiring their wn timing and path. Nt nly that, everybdy has a special style f walking, and if yu knw smene well enugh, yu can prbably identify him by his mvements, even frm far away.
A new paper published in the Jurnal f Nnverbal Behavir presents a technique fr making assumptins abut a persn’s entire persnality based n their walk. The 29 participants first tk the Big Five Inventry, a cmmnly used persnality test helping predict patterns in a persn’s thught and behaviur, scial skills, tendency t wrry, creativity and intellect and extraversin (外向性). The researchers then recrded and analyzed the gaits (步态) f each participant.
“We fund that larger relative-upper-t-lwer bdy mvement was a strng predictr f aggressin,” says c-authr Liam Satchell, a PhD student at the University f Prtsmuth. This research mathematically explains previus research where “distinctive” gait was helpful in predicting upcming crimes thrugh security cameras. If plice fficers were trained in recgnizing aggressive gaits, they might be able t prevent crimes befre they happened. Satchell adds, “Pssibly a further scientific explratin culd reveal mre evidence that the behavirs f anther persn can be predicted frm hw they mve thrugh space.”
One such study has cme ut recently. PLOS Cmputatinal Bilgy published a mdel t predict the prbability f the path and timing f the parts f the mvement shared by all peple, and even the mvements shared by peple wh have similar persnality traits (特点) r are in the same mds — like peple wh are aggressive r bad-tempered.
Dr. Lars Lau Rakêt, a pstdctral researcher at the University f Cpenhagen, says, “In ur mdel, we can cmbine infrmatin frm thusands f mvement patterns t get precise infrmatin abut the structure f the mvement, which ultimately allws us t judge whether the mvement f an individual differs significantly frm what we wuld expect t see in a given situatin.”
8. What did the study participants experience in the research?
A. They had their persnality assessed.B. They cmpleted a series f physical tasks.
C. They were mnitred thrugh security cameras.D. They were bserved in varius scial situatins.
9. Accrding t Satchell, in what field may their research results be applied?
A. Scientific explratin.B. Behaviral crrectin.
C. Security service.D. Persnality develpment.
10. What can Dr. Lars Lau Rakêt’s mdel assist researchers t d?
A. Recver missing infrmatin.B. Cpy human behavirs.
C. Adjust undesirable persnalities.D. Identify unique mvements.
11. What is the main purpse f the article?
A. T discuss hw experiments change ur perspective.
B. T present a new mdel fr predicting human behavir.
C. T highlight the imprtance f applying cmputer science.
D. T intrduce the findings abut a persn’s pace and persnality.
D
During the last 12 mnths, have yu lked at phtgraphs with family r friends? During the last 12 mnths, have yu taken any phtgraphs r vides t preserve memries? In the natinwide survey in 1995 f nearly 1, 500 peple, 91% f respndents (受访者) said they’d lked at phtgraphs with family r friends and 83% had taken a phtgraph in the past year. If the survey were repeated tday, thse numbers wuld certainly be higher. The ppularity f smartphne cameras and scial media has led t an increase in pht-taking and sharing, frm capturing everyday mments t special ccasins.
S are all f these captured mments, these persnal memries, a part f histry? Fr histrians Ry Rsenzweig and David Thelen, the answer is YES, and they believe the very cncept f histry is develping. They led the 1995 survey t understand hw peple thught abut the past. This grundbreaking study was welcmed by histrians and thse wrking in museums, because it helped them t think abut the public’s understanding f their field.
Little did Rsenzweig and Thelen knw the subject f histry was abut t be affected by a hst f technlgies. Fr example, ver a third f the survey’s respndents said they had researched their family histry. The activity gt much easier the fllwing year, when Paul Brent Allen and Dan Taggart launched Ancestry.cm, which is nw ne f the largest nline genealgical (宗谱的) databases. Researching yur family tree n lnger means studying dcuments in the lcal library.
The survey als asked whether respndents had watched a mvie r televisin shw abut histry in the last year; fur-fifths respnded they had. The survey was cnducted shrtly befre the 1 January 1995 launch f the Histry Channel, which pened the fldgates n histry-themed TV. Nwadays, streaming services let peple watch histrical dcumentaries nn stp n demand.
Tday, peple aren’t just watching histry. They’re recrding it and sharing it in real time. As these technlgies becme cmmnplace, they are rewriting the fficial accunt f histry. Maybe the best way t think abut Rsenzweig and Thelen’s survey is that it ffered a snapsht (快照) f public habits, as thse habits were abut t change unavidably.
12. What is the 1995 survey mainly abut?
A. Different family traditins.
B. Public understanding f histry.
C. Effects f persnal memries n family histry.
D. The behavir f camera and scial media users.
13. What might be a part f histry accrding t Rsenzweig and Thelen?
A. Live-streaming services.B. Persnal pinins n histry.
C. Phts taken by smartphnes.D. The idea f genealgical database.
14. Accrding t the last paragraph, the 1995 survey______.
A. fails t keep up with technlgyB. just reflects public habits back then
C. suggests the imprtance f histryD. prvides cntexts fr histrical research
15. What culd be the best title fr the passage?
A. Technlgy Speeds the Develpment f Histry
B. Smartphnes May Rewrite the Official Histry
C. Histrians Find a New Way t Explre the Past
D. Technlgy Can Change Our Cncept f Histry
第二节(共5 小题;每小题2.5分,满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Stp Cmparing Yurself t Others
Thedre Rsevelt nce said, “Cmparisn is the thief f jy.” But hw can we stp playing the cmparisn game? Here are my tips.
___16___
Besides scial media, are there any ther situatins that cause yu t play the cmparisn game? Is there a certain persn wh is cnstantly shwing ff abut this r that? Are there certain activities, like strlling (漫步) thrugh a high-end shpping mall, that make yu envius?___17___ Write hw each negatively affects yu. Try t stp yurself next time.
● Remind yurself that ther peple’s “utsides” can’t be cmpared t yur “insides.”
Usually, yu can’t use their utward appearance t judge the reality f their life.___18___ Yu may have had the experience f being shcked when a cuple that appeared t be happy and slid annunce their divrce. Cntinue t wish thers well, f curse, but remind yurself that yu dn’t actually knw what ges n behind clsed drs.
● Repeat whenever necessary: “Mney desn’t buy happiness.”
It’s well established that wealth isn’t assciated with increased happiness. I used t dance flamenc at a fancy resrt where very rich peple g, and a manager there nce tld me she’d never seen s many unhappy peple in her life. ___19___ Their inability t prvide lasting cntentment is usually mre disappinting than anything else.
● Be grateful fr the gd in yur life.
If yu cmmit yurself t being deeply grateful fr what’s gd in yur life and remind yurself f it daily, yu’ll be far less defenseless t cmparisn and envy. If smene r smething triggers (引发) that ugly feeling f negative cmparisn, stp and remind yurself f what’s gd in yur life, right nw. ___20___
A. There is s much.
B. Identify the causes and cntrl yur envy.
C. Use cmparisn t make yurself a better persn.
D. Mney and things prvide temprary bsts f jy.
E. Make a list f wh and what yu frequently cmpare yurself t.
F. Being envius f anther persn’s mney may be a waste f time.
G. Peple carefully select and share the scial media versins f their lives.
第三部分：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共15 小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Our small hmetwn had a traditin in which the students at an elementary schl put n a Tm Thumb Wedding, a mck (模拟) wedding event perfrmed by kids. I was in the first grade. When the ___21___ were handed ut that spring, I was ___22___ as a bridesmaid (伴娘).
Mney was ___23___ then, as it remained thrughut my ___24___, but my mther always fund a way. My mm wuld wrk her jb utside the hme, take care f the husewrk and cking, ___25___ all the demands f the family, and then sit dwn at the sewing machine t ___26___ the dress. While she had sme sewing ___27___, it wasn’t smething she did ften, s there were ___28___ during the prcess. Yet I never heard her ___29___ abut having t d it.
When the dress was ____30____, it lked just like the picture, and it was a wnder t me. I remember my happiness and ____31____ when putting it n fr the big event. N____32____ dress since has ever made me feel like I did the night f the Tm Thumb Wedding all thse years ag. It was as if a piece f my mther’s ____33____ was in every stitch (针脚).
Nw I am a mm. And while I never put tgether a small frmal dress fr my daughters, I have stayed up nights labring n similar prjects ____34____ by lve. I d it because that is what my mther gave me: the life lessn that it isn’t abut the mney yu ____35____, but the lve yu give.
21. A. prizesB. partsC. prgramsD. newsletters
22. A. knwnB. praisedC. prmtedD. named
23. A. tightB. valuableC. essentialD. sufficient
24. A. childhdB. experienceC. careerD. perfrmance
25. A. makeB. renewC. rejectD. meet
26. A. pull upB. piece tgetherC. try nD. clean ut
27 A. tipsB. machinesC. skillsD. materials
28. A. frustratinsB. criticismsC. expectatinsD. initiatives
29. A. wrryB. jkeC. cmplainD. warn
30. A. expsedB. finishedC. wavedD. washed
31. A. ambitinB. interestC. prideD. curisity
32. A. mind-createdB. stre-bughtC. self-designedD. hand-painted
33. A. heartB. adviceC. wisdmD. luck
34. A. assessedB. witnessedC. replacedD. fueled
35. A. raiseB. acceptC. dnateD. spend
第二节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Yu culd use Lunar New Year as a reasn t clean yur rm, as it is a traditin t clean yur space befre the start f the new year. If that idea des nt seem celebratry, yu can mark the year f the dragn with sme tasty fd items that are enjyed ___36___ (typical) at this time.
Fds and their meanings are central t celebrating Lunar New Year. Here are tw fd items ___37___ (cnnect) t the hliday, their meanings and ___38___ yu may be able t find them.
Sticky rice cakes, called nián ag in Mandarin, ___39___ ( make) frm sticky rice flur and sugar. While this fd is eaten year rund, it represents “an increase in prsperity(兴旺)”during the new year and raising yur status. Yu can make sticky rice cakes at hme, buy ___40___ (they) frm an Asian grcery stre, r rder nline.
Dumplings make a lvely dinner fr meat-eaters and vegetarians alike. The ___41___ (varius) f fillings (ften meat, egg, tfu r vegetables) means yu can enjy plenty f flavrs wrapped ___42___ delicius dugh (面团). The dumpling shape, like ___43___ very full half-mn, represents wealth. Dumplings are sld ___44___ (freeze) at mst grcery stres r can usually ____45____ (rder) fresh frm Chinese restaurants. Yu can als make dumplings if yu are up t the challenge. Try ut the recipe at America's Test Kitchen Kids.
While yu enjy the abve fd, wish friends and family “xīnnián kuàilè!” . That is Mandarin fr“ new year happiness!”
第四部分：写作(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(满分15分)
假定你是李华，你校外教Ian分配给你一个任务：以“Bdy Language”为主题设计一项课堂活动。请给他写一封电子邮件介绍你的设计，内容包括：
1. 活动方式；
2. 设计意图。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。
Dear Ian,
I can't wait t share with yu my idea fr the class activity n the tpic f “Bdy Language”.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Yurs,
Li Hua
第二节(满分25 分)
阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整短文。
When Mr. Bruin, ur teacher, annunced a cmpetitin t end ur kitchen skills unit, where participants must ck withut recipes, using nly the ingredients (原料) prvided by the judges, I recalled what always happened in my family.
My mm knew hw t make seven meals. She kept all seven recipes in a pink binder (活页夹), each ne labelled with a day f the week. On Mndays was Meatlaf (烘肉卷). And it had been Tuna Tuesdays and Spaghetti Saturdays fr, like, my entire life. I hated it. Oh, nt nly I, but als my yunger brther, Gergie. “Nt every meal has t start with the same letter as a day f the week. And all f it tastes awful,” I cmplained at the dining table. “Yeah! Meatlaf's awful,” repeated Gergie.. My mm's eyes flashed. But at least I had smene at my back.
My thught was interrupted by the wrds f Tania, my best friend. “I'm ttally ging t win,” she annunced. “I've gt talent in my genes.” It was true. Tania's dad was the best ck ever. I thught abut my genes. I didn't knw much abut them. S, if I wanted t win, I needed practice. Tnight, I was making supper.
My attempt, unfrtunately, prved a failure. I cmbined chclate chips, marshmallws, carrts, ptates, and kidney beans in a pt, which turned ut a burnt mess, much t my wn disappintment. Gergie even cheered when my mm ffered the remaining meatlaf as a mre appealing ptin. As I was puring it int the garbage can, Mrs. Benny, my neighbr, sptted me. “What's that?” she asked. “Supper,” I said. “Gd t knw,” said Mrs. Benny. “It's nice f yu t help yur mther, even if it didn't wrk ut. Yur mm wrks hard.” “Actually, I was just practicing fr a cking cmpetitin at schl. We have t cme up with ur wn recipes fr it. But I'm a lst cause.”Mrs. Benny lked thughtful, “Why dn't yu cme ver t my place? I'll ffer yu sme help.”
注意：
1.续写词数应为150 左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The next day I was standing in Mrs. Benny's garden, surrunded by red tmates and rws f greens.
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When I gt hme with tw cntainers f tmat jam, my mm was lying n the sfa, a wet clth n her frehead.
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2023学年第二学期杭州市高二年级教学质量检测英语试题参考答案
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
1-5 BAACB 6-10 CBCAB 11-15 ACACC 16-20 BACBB
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
21-23 AAB 24-27 CCAD 28-31 ACDD 32-35 BCBD
第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
36-40 BEGDA
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
41-45 BDAAD 46-50 BCACB 51-55 CBADD
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
56. typically 57. cnnected 58. where / hw 59. are made 60.them61. variety 62. in
63.a64. frzen 65, be rdered
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
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W : I lst my checkbk and wuld like t repen a savings accunt .
M : Please sit dwn and I will help yu prepare the relevant frms .
W : Okay . Thank yu .
Text 2
M : Did yu hear that ur flight 235 t Paris is barding ?
W : Yes , let ' s g . D yu have yur barding pass and passprt ready ?
M : Yes , here they are . I hpe we have gd seats .
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W : Gd evening , sir .
M : Gd evening . What d yu recmmend ?
W : Our steamed fish head cvered with chilies is very ppular .
M : That sunds gd . I ' ll have that .
Text 4
M : Hey , guys , I ' m thrwing a surprise birthday party fr my father next weekend .
W : That sunds fun . Are we ging t have a theme ?
M : Yes , it ' s ging t be a 70s theme . Bring smething frm that age . I ' ll wear an ld cap .
W : That sunds like riginal . I ' m definitely cming .
Text 5
W : Gd afternn . Hw can I help yu ?
M : Hi . I ' m lking fr a bk n ancient Greek histry fr my research .
W : I ' d like t prpse this , a histry f Greece by Jhn S . Halliday . It ' s a cmprehensive guide .
M : Great . I ' ll take it . Thank yu very much .
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W : Dad , yu ' re hme . Where have yu been ?
M : I ' ve been busy with sme files in my cmpany . Why ?
W : Did yu cmpletely frget ? It ' s mm ' s birthday tday . We were suppsed t have a birthday dinner fr her M : Oh , where is mm ?
W : Well , when yu didn ' t cme hme , she was annyed . She said she needed t g fr a walk t cl ff . Yu did bring the cake , at least .
M : The cake was what I suppsed t
W : Yes . Yu were . She asked yu t pick it up this mrning befre yu left fr wrk . If I were yu , I wuld drive dwn t the bakery right away and get a cake befre she returns .
M : Okay
Text 7
W : Eric , it ' s gd t wrk at Skyfrd Adventure Center fr children , right ?
M : Yes . The cmpany ffers training fr the staff , helps them get qualificatins that will be useful t them and s n . We ffer many curses fr children , especially n their interpersnal and scial develpment . Often the parents tell us hw grateful they are . That ' s ne thing I like abut wrking here .
W : What else ?
M : The pays are nt bad , especially when yu remember it ' s a small cmpany and in a year I hpe t get a car . And scially , it ' s great . Several f the peple I wrk with are nw mre than just clleagues . We g n hliday tgether during ur winter break in summer . Of curse , we dn ' t get much time ff .
W : Nw . Tell me , what are yur plans fr the future ?
M : I ' ll be happy in this field f wrk fr sme time . My ambitin is t becme assistant manager here , thugh mving up t that psitin might take me sme time .
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M : Hey , Eva , have yu had a chance t explre campus yet ?
W : Nt really . I ' m still trying t figure ut where everything is .
M : Well , let me give yu a little tur then , We ' re currently n De Neve Plaza , where mst undergraduates live . And all the buildings here are named after trees r plants like acacia and hlly .
W : Cl . I didn ' t knw that . Where d yu live ?
M : I live in curtside near the tennis curt . Speaking f which , there are plenty f sprts activities here besides tennis . We ' ve gt utdr gyms , basketball curts , vlleyball and even a swimming pl .
W : That sunds like a lt f fun . And what abut fd ptins ?
M : Oh , yu ' ll lve it . There are fur different restaurants t chse frm , and Filla has the best variety . Persnally , I ' m all abut the vegetarian ptins , especially the sushi .
W : Yum , that sunds delicius . I ' ll definitely live n campus nw .
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W : Mr . Simpsn , culd yu recmmend sme TV shws ?1 have a prblem . I just can ' t tell ne accent frm anther here .
M : Oh , it ' s a big headache fr many students . Yu ' d better watch sme English prgrams like BBC Learning English during the winter hlidays .
W : But if I nly listen t the BBC News , I wn ' t ever get used t ther accents . Wuld yu please give me sme mre tips ?
M : First ff , I ' d say the IT crwd . Yu will be immersed in the Irish accent and standard British accent . The next shw is t help yu get familiar with the Scttish accent . That is Deadwater Fell . Then let me share sme less knwn accent in the UK with yu , which is the Glucestershire Accent . This cuntry , a British situatin cmedy , will shw yu this special accent , a bit mre like a Califrnian ne .
W : That sunds terrific . Once my cusin watched Derry Girls . It has a distinct Nrthern Ireland accent . I watched it with her fr quite a while ut f curisity , but the nvelty sn disappeared . I just gave up in the end . M : Well , yu knw , nly persistence will bring results .
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W : Gd evening t ur viewers in the west . I ' m Nra O ' Dnnell . Thank yu fr being with us n Mnday night We want t begin tnight with a majr new develpment after that terrifying incident in the sky . A dr plug blew ut mid - flight n an Alaska Airlines Being 737 Max . Hundreds f flights were canceled after that scary incident at 16,000 feet . In Prtland , a schlteacher fund the missing dr plug in his backyard .// An explsin that was mst likely caused by a gas leak largely ruined a htel in dwntwn Frt Wrth at 4 ' clck in the afternn . This is a 20- strey histric building built in 1920. The plice taped ff a big part f dwntwn , at least a cuple f blcks in each directin .21 peple were injured .// After a weekend ' s heavy snw , mre extreme weather is sweeping the middle f the cuntry , bringing snwstrm warnings and trnad threats . Nearly 250 millin Americans are in the path f dangerus weather acrss 47 states .// Let ' s bring in Mike Bates frm the Weath。