聽力原文：M: So, Juliet you.., you have a very powerful voice, with a wonderful range from high to low... does it take a lot of looking after?

W: Urn... not more so than anybody else, I don't think.., urn, but err, I'm very lazy, I'm sure I'm doing a lot of things wrong.., urn, but err, so far so good. I do look after it in the fact that I try not to get very tired, or wear myself out, because not just, you know talking does as much damage, and laughing the wrong way, as singing does...

M: Is that so? I didn't realize that...

W: Yeah... Some people talk... If you talk like this, you put a lot of strain on the back of cords there, urn, that does a lot of damage to your voice over a number of years, so you try and, I try and talk the way I'm talking now, not very fast, not very high-pitched, and without much pressure on my voice.

M: When you're singing, your voice sounds wonderfully relaxed, but that's not the idea that most people would have of the music business as a whole. Is the, is the life-style. very stressful?

W: Yes, as a matter of fact, it's very demanding, urn, it's probably like a, an executive job, urn, here you can't come home at a certain nine-to-five, you can't spend a lot of your time with people around you, you feel detached because you know, it's like, I, I... I don't necessarily have a schedule, I might work on weekends, um, but... I don't actually mind, but it's like your family, your boyfriend, or your husband, or whatever, they can't get to see you, it's like last night, I, err it's like I was supposed to be going out to have dinner with old friends, you know with some friends, and, I ended, I was at a studio, and I said, oh I should be finished around seven, and of course eleven o'clock came, and I was still at the studio, and everybody was raving mad, and I got there only to find that everybody was getting ready to leave the restaurant... Things like that do happen, you know you can't, you.., you're not tied to that, and because of that sometimes you feel you can't do things that other people, nine-to-five, can do. You might have a day off on a Tuesday, and all your nine-to-five friends have got to get up to go to work, so they don't necessarily want to go out on the town or to the countryside or to the beach, the way you might want to on a Saturday, and so you find that you, you change, and you hang around with more people in the business, because their schedules all fit yours...

M: You mean it is your music career that determines the pattern of your social life?

W: Yes, I mean you can have more of a social life within the business. It's not that you just want to hang out with the famous people, it's just that they're the ones that are available...

Questions:

11. What is the job of the woman being interviewed?

12.Which of the following types of work is compared with the woman's job in the interview?

13.According to the interview, which of the following statements is NOT true?

14.Why did the woman let down her friends by being late at the restaurant last night?

15.What is the main topic of this interview?

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A．An actress.

B．A singer.

C．A dancer.

D．An air-hostess.

聽力原文：M: Juliet, you chose not to go to college. Why? Was it about money?

W: Well. I don't want to sit here to say I was too poor to go to college. But the fact is that we didn't have the money, though my mum probably could have made enough somehow. I probably could have worked harder at school and gotten better grades, so, it is really I didn't get to go to college. I had a wish to go to school every other week. It wasn't just my path.

M: At the time did you feel that you were missing something?

W: My best friend went off to university and I just remember every time I talk to her. It all sounded so fun and so great. Here I was Selling 10 shoes and getting on the bus every day to work in town. We both thought the other's life was so much more exciting. I was trying hard to make enough to pay for my own flat every two months and that seemed so exciting to her. And she would talk about studying for finals, and going to parties. and I thought, God, she is so perfect.

Why did the woman not go to college?

A．She didn't pass the exam.

B．She wasn't interested in college.

C．She couldn't afford college education.

聽力原文： Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Alice Brown. As you know, we hold a series of events during the school year on various culture topics. I am happy there's such a large crowd of both students and professors, that's it, the second of our time, our city art presentation this year. I see that almost every seat is taken. Tonight, we are lucky to have our guest, the man of considerable fame in the world of music. He began to play the piano at age of 5, by the time he was 10, he was already composing in playing his own pieces. He's a graduate of the famous Juliet School in New York City. Our guest has spent at least 45 years of his very successful career touring the world playing in concert. We are fortunate that he's consented to come share some of his experiences with us. He has had many adventures along the way, lost instruments, miss connections, no hotel room, locked concert halls, and so on. He's played for all of the well-known conductors, not only in North America but all over the world. The title of his talk is the country tour 40 years on 4 continents. Please join me in welcoming Mr. Daniel Robinson, one of the foremost pianists of our day.

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A．To present an award to a musician.

B．To thank the organizers of "Time Out for the Arts."

C．To invite musicians to join the concert tour.

D．To introduce the guest speaker for the evenmg.

And researchers say that like those literary romantics Romeo and Juliet, they may be blind to the consequences of their quests for an idealized mate who serves their every physical and emotional need.

Nearly 19 in 20 never-married respondents to a national survey agree that "when you marry you want your spouse to be your soul mate, first and foremost", according to the State of Our Unions: 2001 study released Wednesday by Rutgers University.

David Popenoe, a Rutgers sociologist and one of the study's authors, said that view might spell doom for marriages.

"It really provides a very unrealistic view of what marriage really is," Popenoe said. "The standard becomes so high, it's not easy to bail out if you didn't find a soul mate."

The survey points to a fundamental dilemma in which younger people want more from the institution of marriage while they seemingly are unwilling to make the necessary commitments.

The survey also suggests that some respondents expect too much from a spouse, including the kind of emotional support rendered by same-sex friends. The authors of the study also suggest that the generation that was polled may more quickly leave a margin because of infidelity than past generations.

Popenoe said the poll, conducted by the Gallup organization, is the first of its kind to concentrate on people in their 20s. A total of 1,003 married and single young adults nationwide were interviewed by telephone between January and March. The margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points.

Respondents said they eventually want to get married, realize it's a lot of work and think there are too many divorces. They believe there is one right person for them out there somewhere and think their own marriages won't end in divorce.

Since the poll is the first of its kind, researchers say it is impossible to say if expectations about marriage are changing or static.

But scholars say the search for soul mates has increased over the last generation--and the last century--as marriage has become an institution centering on romance rather than utility.

"one hundred years ago, people married for financial reasons, for tying families together, they married for political reasons," said John DeLamater, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. "And most people had children."

Those conditions are no longer the case for young adults like David Asher, a 24-year-old waiter in a Trenton cafe who has been in a relationship for about two years. He wants to wait to make sure he's ready to exchange vows.

"I know a lot of it has to do with financial reasons," he said. "Maybe if you're going to have children, marriage is the best bet."

But the main reason for matrimony: "If you're in love with someone, it's sort of like promising to them you are in love."

"That's all well and good," said Heather Helms-Erikson, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "But passion--partly in endorphin- caused physiological phenomenon--has been known to diminish in time."

What's the best title of this passage?

A．Marriage Scholars Worry Search for "Soul Mates" is Unrealistic.

B．People Should Seek for Romeo and Juliet.

C．Marriage Should Happen between Soul Mates.

D．Search for "soul Mates" Should be Superseded by Reality.