Section B
Passage One
Human beings enjoy challenges. Many of them like physical challenges. They ask themselves questions like these: How fast can I run? How high can I climb? How deep can I dive? How far can I swim? How long can I hold my breath? How much can I lift? How high can I jump? Because people enjoy challenges, they like to play sports and watch other people play sports. They like climbing, running, diving, lifting, jumping, and so on. Every four years millions of people all over the world enjoy the international sports competition called the Olympics. There are challenges that are not physical challenges. There are social and intellectual challenges, too. Leonardo da Vinci, who lived in Italy during the fifteenth century, enjoyed every possible challenge. He was an artist and painted the well known picture, the Mona Lisa. He was an engineer who made plans for a city with roads under the street for traffic. He was an inventor who invented a device to let people breathe under water. He was a scientist, and he learned a great deal about human structure.
Another kind of challenge faced the Egyptians between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago when they decided to build the first pyramid. They used six million tons of rock. That is enough to build a ten foot wall around all of France. Four hundred thousand men worked for twenty years to build it.
So, for thousands of years, people accepted challenges. Today we still have many challenges before us. Medical science faces the challenges of conquering the many diseases which still attack human beings. Engineers and planners must build new cities and new kinds of transportation. Scientists must develop new forms of energy. And many of us are interested in the challenge of space. We live in an age of challenge.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. When people participate in sporting activities, what kind of challenge do they face?
【解析】選[B]。預(yù)讀選項(xiàng)可知此題詢問的是challenge的類型。在聽的過程中需要留意涉及類型的細(xì)節(jié)。文中開頭的Many of them like physical challenges后用一系列的例子，如How fast I can run？...They like climbing, running...表明，當(dāng)人們參加體育活動(dòng)時(shí)他們面對(duì)的是physical challenges。
27. Which belongs to social challenge?
【解析】選[D]。預(yù)讀選項(xiàng)可以推測此題是考查對(duì)四種行為在細(xì)節(jié)上的區(qū)分。在聽的過程中需要留意文中出現(xiàn)了哪幾種行為、分別是為了說明什么問題而出現(xiàn)。
28. How do people react to the category of social challenges?
【解析】選[C]。預(yù)讀選項(xiàng)可以推測此題是考查They對(duì)them的態(tài)度。在聽問題時(shí)需要留意They和them分別指代的是什么。
Passage One
Human beings enjoy challenges. Many of them like physical challenges. They ask themselves questions like these: How fast can I run? How high can I climb? How deep can I dive? How far can I swim? How long can I hold my breath? How much can I lift? How high can I jump? Because people enjoy challenges, they like to play sports and watch other people play sports. They like climbing, running, diving, lifting, jumping, and so on. Every four years millions of people all over the world enjoy the international sports competition called the Olympics. There are challenges that are not physical challenges. There are social and intellectual challenges, too. Leonardo da Vinci, who lived in Italy during the fifteenth century, enjoyed every possible challenge. He was an artist and painted the well known picture, the Mona Lisa. He was an engineer who made plans for a city with roads under the street for traffic. He was an inventor who invented a device to let people breathe under water. He was a scientist, and he learned a great deal about human structure.
Another kind of challenge faced the Egyptians between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago when they decided to build the first pyramid. They used six million tons of rock. That is enough to build a ten foot wall around all of France. Four hundred thousand men worked for twenty years to build it.
So, for thousands of years, people accepted challenges. Today we still have many challenges before us. Medical science faces the challenges of conquering the many diseases which still attack human beings. Engineers and planners must build new cities and new kinds of transportation. Scientists must develop new forms of energy. And many of us are interested in the challenge of space. We live in an age of challenge.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. When people participate in sporting activities, what kind of challenge do they face?
【解析】選[B]。預(yù)讀選項(xiàng)可知此題詢問的是challenge的類型。在聽的過程中需要留意涉及類型的細(xì)節(jié)。文中開頭的Many of them like physical challenges后用一系列的例子，如How fast I can run？...They like climbing, running...表明，當(dāng)人們參加體育活動(dòng)時(shí)他們面對(duì)的是physical challenges。
27. Which belongs to social challenge?
【解析】選[D]。預(yù)讀選項(xiàng)可以推測此題是考查對(duì)四種行為在細(xì)節(jié)上的區(qū)分。在聽的過程中需要留意文中出現(xiàn)了哪幾種行為、分別是為了說明什么問題而出現(xiàn)。
28. How do people react to the category of social challenges?
【解析】選[C]。預(yù)讀選項(xiàng)可以推測此題是考查They對(duì)them的態(tài)度。在聽問題時(shí)需要留意They和them分別指代的是什么。