Lesson 11

听力部分

听力练习

一级练习：听力选择［难度系数★］

本课的主题“违法行为”在四级听力考试里多次出现。先听一段简单的四级听力段落，试一试！

1. A. She was found stealing in a bookstore.

B. She caught someone in the act of stealing.

C. She admitted having stolen something.

D. She said she was wrongly accused of stealing.

2. A. A book.

B. $3,000.

C. A handbag.

D. A Christmas card.

3. A. She was questioned by the police.

B. She was shut in a small room for 20 minutes.

C. She was insulted by the shoppers around her.

D. She was body-searched by the store manager.

4. A. They refused to apologize for having followed her through the town.

B. They regretted having wrongly accused her of stealing.

C. They still suspected that she was a thief.

D. They agreed to pay her $3,000 damages.

听力原文如下

An elderly woman yesterday made a legal claim against a department store because it had wrongly accused her of stealing a Christmas card. Ms. Doss White, 72 years old, is claiming $3,000 damages from the store for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment. Ms. White visited the store while doing Christmas shopping, but did not buy anything. She was followed through the town by a store manager. He had been told that a customer saw her take a card and put it in her shopping bag. He stopped her at a bookstore as she was reading a book. Ms. White said, “This man, a total stranger, suddenly grasped my bag and asked if he could look in it.” She was taken back to the store and shut in a small room in full view of shoppers for 20 minutes until the police arrived. At the police station she was body-searched and nothing was found. Her lawyer said the department store sent an insincere apology and they insisted that she may have been stealing. The hearing continues today.

Q: 1. What does the story tell us about the old woman?

2. What was said to have been stolen?

3. What happened to Ms. White after she was taken back to the store?

4. What was now the attitude of the department store in this legal case?

听说练习

一级练习：口语问答［难度系数★］

本课主题在较长的四级听力段落题里出现。以下录音的速度适当放慢了，挑战一下吧！

1. Why did the speaker go to a cafe? 计时1分钟，回答开始…

2. What did the speaker find out on board the plane in shock? 计时1分钟，回答开始…

3. What was in the speaker's case? 计时1分钟，回答开始…

听力原文如下（阴影部分为答案核心内容）

I had to go to Amsterdam last week for a conference. I arrived at the airport in plenty of time and checked in, but I only had one small case so I decided to take it on the plane as hand luggage.(1)As the flight was not due to board for 45 minutes, I went to a cafe, sat down, and ordered a cup of coffee.

While I was sitting there drinking my coffee and reading the paper, I was vaguely aware of a woman and her child coming to sit at the next table. I did not pay much attention to them, though, and when my flight was called I reached for my case and left.

An hour later, the plane was in the air and I decided to look at the conference program to see what I wanted to attend.(2)Imagine my horror when I opened the case and found that it was full of picture books and children's toys—(3)and imagine what the woman must have thought about a case full of men's clothes and scientific papers!

二级练习：复读与背诵［难度系数★★］

刚才口语问答的答案是本课主题的关键表达，一定要积累成自己的口语素材。

第一步：看着上面画线的文字跟读一遍。录音中读一句停止后，您读一句。

第二步：请自己说出下面句子空白的部分，同声跟读已写出的部分。

第一遍：

1. ______ flight was not due to board for 45 minutes, _____________, sat down, _____________________.

2. ____________________________ the case __________________ full of picture books and children's toys.

3. ________________________ the woman must have thought about a case ____________________ men's clothes and scientific papers!

第二遍：

1. As the _________________________________, I went to a cafe, sat down, and ordered a cup of coffee.

2. Imagine my horror when I opened _______ and found that it was ___________.

3. _________________ imagine what ______________________ full of ____________________!

第三步：自己试着完整地背诵一遍。（计时3分钟，背诵开始…）

词汇和语法

第1组近义词辨析：“有经验的”

临考情境模拟：请将本部分学习时间控制在8分钟内，请把计时器调到8分钟。计时开始！

一级练习：［难度系数★］

先看简单的英文解释（朗文），体会一下这些词的语境区别。

* hardened

someone who has had a lot of experience dealing with difficult situations and is therefore less affected（不良影响）by them

* sophisticated

someone who is sophisticated has a lot of knowledge and experience of clever, fashionable things, and shows this by the way they talk and behave

* skilled

someone who is skilled has the training and experience that is needed to do something well

二级练习：［难度系数★★］

请以最快的速度把以下三栏内容用线连接起来。

第2组近义词辨析：“职业的”

临考情境模拟：请将本部分学习时间控制在8分钟内，请把计时器调到8分钟。

一级练习：［难度系数★］

先看简单的英文解释（朗文），体会一下这些词的语境区别。

* professional

showing that someone has been well trained and is good at his/her work

* occupational

relating to the particular type of job that you do

* vocational

vocational training or schools teach you the skills to do a particular job

二级练习：［难度系数★★］

请以最快的速度把以下三栏内容用线连接起来（选词填空时请注意词汇的正确形式，尤其是主被动问题）。

词汇测试

一级练习：［难度系数★］

本课新学的词汇出现在四级和六级考试中。挑战一下吧！

临考情境模拟：每题控制在1分钟内，本级测试限时7分钟，请把计时器调到7分钟。计时开始！

考查词汇：guilt

1. The traffic police were searching for evidence to prove the accused man's ______, but in vain.

A. mistake

B. guilt

C. fault

D. defect

［四级真题］

2. It does not alter the fact that he was the man ______ for the death of the little girl.

A. accounting

B. guilty

C. responsible

D. obliged

［四级真题］

考查词汇：particular

3. Mrs. Smith was so ______ about everything that no servants could please her.

A. specific

B. spec

C. precise

D. particular

［四级真题］

4. I went along thinking of nothing ______, only looking at things around me.

A. in particular

B. in harmony

C. in doubt

D. in brief

［四级真题］

考查词汇：encourage

5. After the Arab states won independence, great emphasis was laid on expanding education, with girls as well as boys ______ to go to school.

A. to be encouraged

B. been encouraged

C. being encouraged

D. be encouraged

［四级真题］

考查词汇：screw

6. He ______ his head, wondering how to solve the problem.

A. scrapped

B. screwed

C. scraped

D. scratched

［六级真题］

考查词汇：encouragement

7. If a person talks about his weak points, his listener is expected to say something in the way of ______.

A. persuasion

B. remedy

C. encouragement

D. compromise

［六级真题］

二级练习：［难度系数★★］

本课新学的词汇在较难的专业四级考试里出现，挑战一下吧！

临考情境模拟：每题控制在2分钟内，本级测试限时2分钟，请把计时器调到2分钟。计时开始！

考查词汇：mixture

For decades McDonald's cooked its French fries in a mixture of about 7 percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef fat. The mixture gave the fries their unique____.

A. flavour

B. fragrance

C. smell

D. perfume

［专业四级真题］

三级练习：［难度系数★★★］

本课新学的词汇在需要翻译的难句里出现，挑战一下吧！

临考情境模拟：每题控制在3分钟内，本级测试限时9分钟，请把计时器调到9分钟。计时开始！

考查词汇：mixture

1. Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in

societies where people are similar in many ways.

［四、六级考试阅读长难句］

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考查词汇：greet

2. Of course, it would be as dangerous to overreact to history by concluding that the majority must now be wrong about expansion as it would be to re-enact the response that greeted the suggestion that the continents had drifted.

［四、六级考试阅读长难句］

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考查词汇：declare

3. There are several steps that can be taken, of which the chief one is to demand of all the organizations that exist with the declared objectives of safeguarding the interests of animals that they should declare clearly where they stand on violence towards people.

［四、六级考试阅读长难句］

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语法积累

临考情境模拟：请将本部分学习时间控制在10分钟内，请把计时器调到10分钟。计时开始！

原文：“You should have declared that. Perfume is not exempt from import duty. ”

译文：“你刚才应该申报，香水要上进口税的。”

• 虚拟语气：sb. should have done sth.

• 常见结构1：sb. should have done sth. 某人本该做某事

• 常见结构2：It is(high)time that sb. did/were... 是做某事的时候了（不做就晚了）

• 写作中何时使用：表示该做而未做的事情，含有责备、不满的含义。

语法链接

请用线画出下面句子中的虚拟语气部分并把全句翻译为中文。

At least sorting out the things she should have discarded years ago was now being made easier for her.

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阅读部分

一级练习：［难度系数★］

本课的主题“违法行为”在六级阅读里出现。试一试下面的文章和题目！

临考情境模拟：请在5分钟内读完文章，4分钟做完题。请把计时器调到9分钟。计时开始！

Joe Templer should have known better: after all, he works for a large auto-insurance company. It won't hurt to leave the key in the truck this once, he thought, as he filled his gas tank at a self-service gas station. But moments later as he was paying the money he saw the truck being driven away.

In 1987, 1.6 million motor vehicles were stolen in the United States—one every 20 seconds. If current trends continue, expert predict annual vehicle thefts could exceed two million by the end of the decade.

Vehicle theft is a common phenomenon, which has a direct impact on over four million victims a year. The cost is astonishing.

Many police officials blame professional thieves for the high volume of thefts. It is major money-maker for organized crime. Typically, stolen cars are taken to pieces and the parts sold to individuals. But as many as 200,000 cars are smuggled out of the country every year. Most go to Latin America, the Middle East and Europe.

Only about 15 percent car thefts result in an arrest, because few police departments routinely conduct indepth auto-investigations. When thieves are arrested, judges will often sentence them to probation, not immediately put them in prison because the prisons are overcrowded with violent criminals.

One exception is a Michigan program that assigns 92 police officers to work full-time on the state's 65,000 car theft cases a year. Since 1986, when the effort began, the state's auto-theft rate has fallen from second in the nation to ninth.

How can you protect your car? If you live in a high-theft area or drive an expensive model, consider a security system. It may cost anywhere from $25 to $1,000. Some systems engage automatically-simply removing the key disables the fuel pump and the starter. When cars are equipped with such systems, thefts may drop by one-third. In some states, you may be able to use a device that transmits radio signals, allowing stolen cars to be tracked by police.

S1. What is the passage mainly about?

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S2. What does the author think Joe Templer should be blamed for?

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S3. How serious did the author think the annual vehicle theft could be in the United States in 1989?

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S4. What are the two ways thieves sell the stolen cars?

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S5. What type of security system can help the police track down a stolen car?

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写作部分

本课主题是“犯罪行为——海关走私”，The New York Times（《纽约时报》）多次报道海关走私事件。一起来看一篇报道，并积累成写作素材。

写作素材

Customs Officer Charged In Drug Smuggling

A customs inspector was arrested yesterday and charged with conspiring to import more than 300 pounds of cocaine and 4 pounds of heroin into the United States through Kennedy International Airport from 1994 to 1996.

Since July 1996, agents of the Customs Service have been investigating the smuggling of narcotics from the West Indies, principally Guyana and Trinidad, on commercial airline flights arriving at Kennedy.

The United States Attorney's office said the Customs Service learned that a drug organization in Queens was evading inspections by making cash payoffs to Alberto Camacho of 95-35 Lamont Avenue in Elmhurst, Queens.

The prosecutor's office said the drug ring gave Mr. Camacho 30 photographs of drug couriers and told them the flight they were taking to the United States. Mr. Camacho provided the organization with his work schedule so the couriers could be routed to his station upon arrival, the statement said.

Typically, Mr. Camacho would approach the couriers, escort them to a customs inspection area, conduct a cursory examination and then safely pass the couriers, and their drugs, through customs, the statement said.

Along with Mr. Camacho, who is said to have been paid more than $100,000, nine others were arrested. Three suspects remain at large. Mr. Camacho was arraigned in Brooklyn and released on $300,000 bail.