标准听力(四)—标准听力(六)(17)

为听音重点。
【解 析】选[D]。对话中男士提到I have some friends who would like to meet you（我有几个朋友想见你），由此可知，男士暗示女士抽时间跟他的朋友们见面，故答案为[D]。16. W: You are late again! We’ve been expecting you for an hour. For what reason this time?
M: I’m terribly sorry. I couldn’t start my car, and then I had to send for my mechanic to fix it. I really don’t know things would turn out to be like this.
Q: What can we infer from the conversation?【听前预测】由选项中的The man，driver，car等可知，对话与男士的汽车有关。
【解 析】选[D]。对话中女士提到You are late again!（你又迟到了！），[D]中的not seem to have a good sense of time与女士所说的late again相对应，故答案为[D]。turn out to be…意为“结果是…”。17. M: How are you doing with your plan?
W: No one knows how to do the work correctly, so we have to learn how to do it by a process of trial and error. But I think things are getting better and better.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation about the woman?【听前预测】由选项中的She is worried/needs等可知，女士的话为听音重点。
【解 析】选[B]。对话中女士提到，No one knows how to do the work correctly…learn…by…trial and error（没人知道怎么正确开展工作，通过…不断摸索…来学习），[B]是对女士的话的同义转述，故为答案。trial and error意为“反复实验（以摸索到好方法）”。18. W: Hi, Peter. I was surprised to see you in the class in children’s literature yesterday. Are you also majoring in elementary education?
M: No, I’m not. But as a psychology major I can use this to fulfill the requirement in developmental psychology.
Q: What do you learn from the conversation?【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的The woman，The man，majoring in可知，对话与男士和女士的专业有关。
【解 析】选[D]。对话中女士提到Are you also majoring in elementary education（你的专业也是初等教育？），由其中的also推断出[D]的表述正确，故答案为[D]。elementary education意为“初等教育”。
Now you will hear the two long conversations.
Conversation One
【听前预测】预览四道题各选项，由选项中的police officer，Detective/Patrol work等可知，对话可能与警察的工作有关。

W: Welcome to our program, Mr. Smith.
M: Thank you.
W: Mr. Smith, how long have you been a police officer?
M: I’ve been a police officer for thirty years.
W: Thirty years. And you’ve had different types of assignments on the police force, I guess.
M: Yeah, I’ve done everything from patrol to undercover work to detective work, and now I’m supervising investigations.
W: Mr
. Smith, I think most people would say that being a police officer is a very stressful job. Would you agree?
M: Yes, it’s definitely a stressf