Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the passage. What recommendation does the professor make about volume
Always use a microphone.
B. Avoid large rooms.
C. Never vary the volume.
D. Not to shout.
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TEXT D One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is, of course, the voice of the advertisers. Its shrilling clamour(喧闹声)dominates our lives. It shouts at us from the television screens and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from every page of the newspaper; plucks at our sleeves on the escalator; signals to us from the mad-side Billboards all day and flashes messages to us in coloured lights at night. Advertising has been among England’s biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to demonstrate achievement. Why all this fantastic expenditure Perhaps the answer is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer. At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer appeal to all his other problems of man-hours and machine tolerances and stress factors. So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find eleven ways of making it appeal to purchasers after they finish it, by pretending that it gives status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness. If the advertising agency can do this authoritatively enough, the. manufacturer is in clover (养尊处优). Other manufacturers find advertising saves them from changing their product. And manufacturers hate change. The ideal product is or another, some alteration seems called for how much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself. Advertisers are appreciated by manufacturers because they ______.
A. advise them on ways of giving a product customer appeal
B. accept responsibility for giving a product customer appeal
C. advise them on the best time to go ahead with production
D. consult them during the design and development stages
CoherenceCoherence determines whether a speech is logical and thus makes sense. The speaker must make (31) that his utterances and paragraphs are presented in a logical sequence se that his thoughts and ideas are readily acceptable. A speech may be compared (32) a freight train. The locomotive is the thematic statement in a speech that gives the train (speech) its direction. Each car is an utterance in a paragraph or a paragraph in a speech that must follow the (33) of the train, for it must go where the locomotive goes. It is couplings that hold the cars together, ensuring that all the cars will arrive at same destination as the locomotive. (34) ; the same way, a speaker must supply the links between the utterances and paragraphs to give his listeners a directional signal to indicate (35) is to follow and how it (36) to what is preceded.Since transmitting ideas orally requires attention to the perceived coherence pf speaker’s message, the audience do not have the luxury of going back (37) his points as they do in reading an essay; nor do they have punctuations the help them (38) one idea from another. Hence, speakers use signposts in the form of carefully worded phrases and sentences to help listeners (39) the movement of ideas within a speech and perceive the overall message structure. Summaries are (40) signposts in ensuring that listeners are able to see the overall structure: preliminary and final summaries are especially helpful in laying our or pulling together the major divisions of the speech. 39()
How does the woman feel
A. She didn’t hear clearly.
B. She was pleased.
C. She didn’t believe the man.
Question 26 and 27 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news. Which of the following statements is NOT true
A. Floating ice makes it difficult for polar bears to hunt seals.
B. Arctic sea ice melts at a rate of 8%.
C. Sea ice decreases to the lowest height in September.
D. The sea ice this year is 500,000 square miles less than in the 1970s.