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98年8月托福听力试题 2

36. When do the students pay for the meals they contract for? (C)

37. How does the new plan benefit the students who eat all their meals at the school cafeteria? (D)

38. How can weekend guest eat at the cafeteria? (A)

Questions 39 to 42. Listen to this talk being given to college campus.

I was really glad when your club invited me to share my coin collection. It's been my passion since I collected my first Lincoln dime in 1971. That is the current coin with Abraham's image. Just a little history before I started my own collection. Lincoln pennies are made of copper and they were the first the United States coins to bear the lightness of the president. It was minted in 1909 when the country was celebration the centennial of Lincoln's birth than 1809 that the decision was made to redesign the one-cent piece in his honor. Before that, the penny has an American Indian head on it. The new penny was designed by artist Victor David Braner. It is interesting because he put his initials DVB on the reverse of the coin ad the original design. There was a general abort when the initial was discovered. And only a limited numbers of coins were strutted with the initials on them. Today a penny with the initials from a San Francisco mint called the 1909s' DVB was worth 500 dollars. Now when I started my coin collection, I began with penny for several reasons. There were a lot of them, several hundred billion were minted and there were a lot of people collecting them. So I have plenty of people to trade with and talk to about my collection. Also it was the coin I could afford to collect as a young teenager. In the twenty-five years since then, I have managed to acquire over three hundred coins; some of them are very rare. I will be sharing with you today some of my rare specimen including the 1909s' DVB.

39. Why does the woman collect coins? (C)

40. Why were letters DVB on pennies? (D)

41. What was one of reasons the collector collected coins as a teenager? (B)

42. What will the speaker do next? (B)

Question 43 to 46. Listen to talk from a biology class.

Today I want to talk to you about the wasps and their nests. You recall the biologist divided species of wasps into two groups solitary and social. Solitary wasps as the name implied do not live together with other wasps. In most species the male and female get together only to mate and then the female does all the work of building the nest and providing the food for the offspring by herself. Solitary wasps usually make nest on the ground and they separate the chambers for the individual offspring with the grass, stone or mud, whatever is handy. What about social wasps? They form a community and work together to build and maintain the nest. A nest begins in the spring when the fertile female called the queen build the first new compartment in the nest and lay eggs. The first offspring are females but cannot lay eggs. These females called workers. They build a lot of new compartments and the queen lays more eggs. They also care for the new offspring and defend the nest with their stingers. By the way only the female have stingers. Most social wasps make nest of paper. The female produces the paper by chewing out fibers or old wood. They spread the papers in thin layers to make cells, which the queen lays her eggs. Most of you I'm sure have seen these nests suspended from the trees. They may also be built on the ground in abundant road bowls.

43. Who builds the nest of solitary wasps? (C)

44. Why the female wasps are more dangers to people than the male wasps are? (D)

45. What is the main function of the queen ? (B)

46. What are the nests of social wasps made of? (C)

Question 47 to 50. Listen to a talk in class about United States history.

What was the most popular mix about the United States in the 19th Century was that of the free and simple life of the farmer. It was said that the farmers worked hard on their own land to produce whatever their families' needed. They might sometimes trade with their neighbors, but in general they could get along just fine by relying on themselves, not on commercial ties with others. This is how Thomas Jefferson idealized the farmers at the beginning of the 19th century. And at that time, this may have been close to the truth especially on the frontier. But by the mid century sweeping changes in agriculture were well under way as farmers began to specialized in the raising of crops such as cotton or corn or wheat. By late in the century revolutionary invents in farm machinery has vastly increased the production of specialized crops and extensive network of railroads had linked farmers throughout the country to market in the east and even overseas. By raising and selling specialized crops, farmers could afford more and finer goods and achieved much higher standard of living but at a price. Now farmers were no longer dependent just on the weather and their own efforts, their lives were increasing controlled by the banks, which had powder to grant or deny loans for new machinery, and by the railroads which set the rates for shipping their crops to the market. As businessmen, farmers now had to worry about national economic depression and the implement of world supply and demand on for example, the of price of wheat in hands. And so by the end of the 19th century, the era of Jefferson's independent farmer had come to a close.

47. What is the main topic of the talk? (D)

48. According to the professor, what was the major change in the agriculture during the 19th century? (A)

49. According to the professor, what was one result of the increased use of machinery on farms of the United States? (B)

50. According to the professor, why was world market important for the United States agriculture? (C)

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1. (A) She plans to send out all the invitations.

(B)She's a new student.

(C)She thinks the man is right.

(D) She invited the man to a party.

2. (A) he didn't know what hospital Bill was in

(B)he took Bill to the hospital.

(C)He's sorry the woman hurt herself.

(D) He forgot to call the woman.

3. (A) She hasn't heard from the professor in a week.

(B) The class has extra time to complete the assignment.

(C) She only just found out about the economics paper.

(D) She won't see the professor until next week.

4. (A) The doctor has stopped seeing new patients.

(B)The doctor's once will be closed tomorrow.

(C)The doctor's schedule is filled tomorrow.

(D)The doctor can see the man tomorrow.

5. (A) Where the meeting is being held.

(B)Where Joe will meet her.

(C)What the topic of the meeting is.

(D) What Joe was wearing.

6. (A) She doesn't know the person cal hug.

(B)She'll pay for the call.

(C)She'll charge the purchase.

(D) She'll call Mike back.

7. (A) Go to the library.

(B)Check her calendar

(C)Attend the performance

(D) Get exercise.

8. (A) They're extremely noisy.

(B) They should have arrived by now.

(C)They should be allowed to fly there.

(D)They're not on a definite schedule.

9.(A) She's very interested in the idea.

(B)She thinks they should invite more people.

(C)She can't afford a holiday in June.

(D)She's doubtful about the weather in June.

10.(A) She bought the woman some chocolates.

(B) He will get angry soon.

(C)He's also ready for dinner.

(D)He wants to buy some candy.

11.(A) She didn't clean the apartment.

(B)Her roommate is messy.

(C)She needs to clean the lab.

(D)She'll help the man clean his apartment.

12. (A) She thought the man's lawn was too dry.

(B) She thought the man's laundry was done badly.

(C) She was sorry the man couldn't finish his laundry.

(D) She saw the man run out.

13.(A) his coach didn't help him enough ..

(B) He had no chance of winning

(C)He didn't follow his coach's advice

(D)His coach didn't listen to him

14.(A) She often goes to the Variety Theater.

(B) She expected the theater to close down

(C) She's surprised by the news.

(D) She likes the new theater in town.

15. (A) They aren't very good because they're so different.

(B) He thinks they should each do both.

(C) They should each do a different one.

(D) It doesn't matter which one they do

16. (A) Wash fewer clothes at a time

(B) Use a different washing machine.

(C) Let her use the washing machine first.

(D) Wash his clothes by hand

17. (A)She is going to drop the class too.

(B)She doesn't know how to swim.

(C) It took her a long time to learn to swim.

(D) She teaches swimming.

18. (A) She'll give the man a hew prescription right away.

(B) She'll be away from the office for two days.

(C)The man doesn't need anything for his cough.

(D)the man should continue using the medicine.

19. (A) Buy the pants the woman showed him..

(B) Wait until the pants are on sale.

(C) Look for the pants in a different color.

(D) Look at pants made of a different material.

20. (A) She didn't require any papers last semester.

(B) She was more flexible last semester.

(C) She grades papers very quickly

(D) She isn't teaching this semester

21. (A) The women don't want to go to any more barbecues.

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