W: I see. Let me have a look. Well, we’ll be happy to change it for you. But I am afraid we don’t have another pink one. M: Oh? What will I do then?

W: Would you like to choose a different color? We do have this camera in black

and orange.

M: My wife doesn’t like either of those colors.

W: If you want, we can order another camera just like this one. There wouldn’t be any extra charge for it.

M: That sounds fine. Would you please go ahead and do that?

W: We’d be very happy to but it’ll take at least a week. Maybe ten days. We’ll call you when it comes in. M: Thank you very much. W: You are welcome. 第九节：

W: Hi, Joe! Many people in our department are leaving for Thanksgiving. What

are you going to do?

M: I think I’ll just stay at home. I may see some friends and watch a few DVDs. And I probably would go to the Ottawa Car Show. What about you, Ariel? What’s your plan?

W: I am going to do some traveling with my family. M: Oh, where to?

W: Toronto. And on our way, we’re going to visit my aunt, Valley, in Kingston. M: That’s exciting. How long do you plan to stay?

W: Two days. I have a get-together party with my college friends on the tenth in Toronto. Oh, I’m afraid I’ve got to go now. My husband is waiting for me. And we’ll have to pick up Daniel from school. Have a nice holiday, Joe! Man: Thank you. You too! 第十节：

Where can you look if you want to know how tall the tallest person in the world is, or who the oldest person in the world is? There is only one place where you’ll find all these information, and that’s in the Guinness Book of World Records. This morning we have someone from the Guinness Company that produced that famous book, Thomas Manning. “Welcome to the program, Thomas!” “Thanks, Sue. It’s a pleasure to be here.” “Perhaps you could start by telling us where the idea for the book came from.” “Well, it was first suggested in the early 1950s. Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of Guinness, was out shooting birds with some friends. A bird flew away so quickly that no one was able to shoot it. Sir Hugh wondered whether this bird was the fastest bird in Europe, and if it wasn’t the fastest, he wondered what was.” “So I suppose he went to the nearest library to look for the information and he couldn’t find it?” “Yes, that’s exactly what happened. And this made Sir Hugh think there must be other people in the same situation who wanted this kind of information. He thought that, like himself, people would be interested in finding facts of all records to satisfy their curiosity.” “So the idea for a book of records was born. And when did the first book come out?”“A few years later, in 1955. So, to ask your first question: the tallestperson in the world is 231.7cm tall. And the oldest person is Jeanne. L. Calment, who was born in February, 1875.”“There are also some rather strange records, aren’t there, Thomas?” “Yes ,that’s right. Did you know, Sue, that the shortest time it is taken …”

2013年全国高考英语(新课标、江西、云南、河北卷)听力原文

1.A: I’ve got my camera with me. Am I allowed to take photos for you? B: I think so. It doesn’t say you can’t.

2. A: I really like living here in this flat, because it’s so near to central town. B: That’s true. But it gets really noisy at night.

3. A: Hi, Maggie. I’m coming, but it’s snowing and the traffic is moving slowly. B: Ok, David. Take your time. We’ll wait for you, so we can have dinner

together.

4. A: Celia, you see those girls over there? They need another player for a

basketball game. Would you like to join them?

B: Seems like it’s a game for fun. Sure, I’ll be there in minute.

5. A: I won’t have anything to wear to work on Monday unless I pick up my

clothes at dry cleaners’.

B: Then you’d better hurry. It closes at noon on Sundays. A: Oh! I should have gone there on Saturday.

6. A: Alright, Sara, we know that you are planning something big for John’s

birthday. Could you tell us just what you have in your mind?

B: I want to make his birthday a very special event. John has a sister living in France. And I’ll send her a plane ticket, so that she can be here for his birthday.

A: Boy! What an excellent plan! That’s something special. I can’t guess some secret plans and we are waiting for the right time to tell him. B: Well, I didn’t want to say anything until I was sure she could come. 7. A: Hey, Peter, I’m sorry! B: Hi, Diana, what’s wrong?

A: We were going to Hong Kong this weekend, but I’m afraid I can’t go. B: How come?

A: I have a really big geography test and I have to study for it. B: We can go next week instead.

A: No, I don’t want to ruin your weekend. You go ahead and please take the book I bought to my friend Sally. Tell her I have to study all weekend, because I can’t afford to fail the test.

B: Ok, then I’ll go with them. But it’s a pity you can’t come. 8. A: Hello, this is Andrea.

B: Hello, Andrea, this is Alex. I have some very big news for you. Miranda was very satisfied with you and said she was very much looking forward to working with you. Isn’t that wonderful? Congratulations dear! How does it feel to be Miranda’s new assistant? How I imagine that you’ll just be delighted with this news. So let’s see, you can start on Monday, right? A: Umm, well, I don’t think I can start on Monday. I am visiting my father in Baltimore. And because I don’t live in New York, I’ll need a couple of days to find a flat and buy some furniture and move my things from Avon. B: Oh, well then, in that case I suppose Wednesday will be good. Ok, see you then!

9. A: Hello, Mr. Jan Erick Freedman. You’re a frequent traveler. And we also

know that you eat out twice a day. How can you get so far and eating out. B: When I my first job back in 1982 and started travelling. I had no other choice but eat out I found that I felt different due to what I was eating, so I tried to find places that served food that made me feel good. The secret was the quality of the food and how well the food was prepared. I made an effort to find out good restaurants as well as nice dishes. A: How did you manage to make a list of 218 favorite restaurants? B: I’ve lived in cities and when I moved back to Sweden from the United States, people asked me where to go and eat and went to the cities I know. I got a lot of ideas. Then I wrote about restaurants for a Swedish club magazine and some suggested I gather information about restaurants together since I had all the facts about the restaurants I’ve been to. I started to do that.