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(N): Listen to a man asking a woman for directions.
(M): Can you tell me how to get to the Music Building from here? I have a lecture to attend there.
(W): Oh, are you new to campus?
(M): Yes, I just got here last night.
(W): Well, to get to the Music Building, you have two choices. If you want to go right now you can walk straight down this street until you're past the Commons, and then turn right. The Music Building will be straight ahead.
(M): How long will it take to get there?
(W): About twenty minutes.
(M): What's my other choice?
(W): If you don't mind waiting around for a while, you can take the shutde bus. The bus only takes about five minutes to get there.
(M): But I have to wait for the bus?
(W): That's right.
(M): Well, I guess I might as well walk.
1. WHERE DOES THE MAN WANT TO GO?Script Audio:
2. HOW MANY DIFFERENT ROUTES TO THE MUSIC BUILDING DOES THE WOMAN SUGGEST?
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3. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH TAKING THE SHUTTLE BUS?
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4. WHAT DOES THE MAN FINALLY DECIDE TO DO?
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(N): Listen to a woman talk to a friend about her vacation.
(M): How was your trip to Wyoming last summer?
(W): It was fantastic. Some of the most beautiful scenery in the country is in Wyoming.
(M): Where did you go in Wyoming?
(W): We drove by Devil's Tower National Monument, and we spent a few days in Laramie. But we spent most of our vacation in Yellowstone National Park.
(M): You went to Yellowstone? I wish I could've gone! I've heard that Yellow-stone is just magnificent.
(W): It's the oldest and largest national park in the United States. And it's got spectacular waterfalls, hot springs, and geysers.
(M): Did you see Old Faithful?
(W): Of course we saw Old Faithful. It's the best known of the geysers there. We couldn't visit Yellowstone without seeing Old Faithful.
(M): Do you think you'll be taking another vacation in Yellowstone again? If you do, I'd like to go next time.
5. HOW DOES THE WOMAN DESCRIBE HER WYOMING VACATION?Script Audio:
6. HOW DID THE WOMAN PROBABLY TRAVEL ON VACATION?
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7. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DID THE WOMAN DO ON VACATION?
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8. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS A WELL- KNOWN SIGHT IN YELLOWSTONE?
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9. WHAT WOULD THE MAN LIKE TO DO?
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(N): Listen to a conversation between two friends.
(M): How are you going to spend this year's Thanksgiving vacation?
(W): I'm going to spend it with my family. We celebrate very traditionally. We go to my grandparents' house and have a big Thanksgiving dinner. It's really the only time in the year that my whole family gets together.
(M): In my family we just have a big feast, too. We don't really stop and think about how Thanksgiving Day developed, how new colonists in Massachusetts had a three-day feast to give thanks for surviving the first terrible winter and for gathering their first corn harvest the following year.
(W): Did you know that the original Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in July?
(M): No, I thought Thanksgiving had always been in November.
(W): The first Thanksgiving was celebrated on July 30, 1623. After that, Thanksgiving was celebrated at many different times. It wasn't until 1863 that Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as a day of thanksgiving, and this holiday has been celebrated in November ever since.
10. WHAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS CONVERSATION?Script Audio:
11. HOW WILL THE WOMAN SPEND THANKSGIVING?
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12. WHAT WERE THE MASSACHUSETTS COLONISTS THANKFUL FOR?
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13. ACCORDING TO THE SPEAKER, WHEN IS THANKSGIVING CELEBRATED TODAY?