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  Listening to a radio broadcast in a foreign language is difficult for many of us. We may have studied the language for several years, and are able to read it, perhaps even write in it. But listening and understanding the spoken language require special skills. Some people have a natural ability that help them to learn language quickly. Others must study for a long time, Everyone, however, can improve his or her listening skill with practice.

  We are good listeners in our own language because we have had years of practice. We understood the grammar and the words. We also understand the cultural style of our language. We know what to expect a person to say to us in almost any situation. We have been in similar situations in many times, and we have heard it all before. We can understand, even if we don't listen carefully.

  But this is not true with a foreign language. We must listen with our full attention. And we must try not to let the cultural style of our own language affect our understanding of the foreign language.

  Listening to a foreign language broadcast is easier if we know something about it. There are clues that can help us. One clue is the time of day. Morning programs often contain many short items of news, information or entertainment. The items are short because most of us are getting to go to work in the morning and don't have time to listen long programs. Evening programs are different. There is time for more details about the subjects discussed.

  We can get a clue about the program from the music at the beginning, but we have to be familiar with the music of the foreign culture. The kind of music serious and slow, or fast and light can tell us what kind of program will follow. The name of the program can give us good information about what it will contain.

  Another good clue is the broadcaster. The more we listen to the same person, the easier it will be to understand him. His speaking style will become familiar to us.

  Furthermore, the broadcaster provides clues to the organization of the broadcast at the beginning of the program. The broadcaster usually gives you the highlights of the program to prepare you for the details that will follow.

1.We are good Listeners in our own language because ________.

[  ]

A.we have a natural ability of learning language

B.our language is much easier

C.we listen to our language more carefully

D.we have practiced it for years

2.In order to make it easier to listen to a foreign language broad cast we should ________.

[  ]

A.listen with our full attention

B.try not to let our own language affect our understanding of the foreign language

C.try to get as familiar with the time, the music and the broadcaster as possible

D.all of the above

3.If you do not have enough time, you can listen to ________.

[  ]

A.evening programs

B.programs with light music

C.morning programs

D.more details

4.You can know what details will follow from ________ of the program.

[  ]

A.the music
B.the broadcaster
C.the name
D.the time

5.What does the passage mainly talk about?

[  ]

A.Why we listen to a foreign broadcast.

B.What we need to do to understand a foreign broadcast.

C.The difference between our own language and the foreign language.

D.The problems with listening to a foreign broadcast.

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  It was a simple letter asking for a place to study at Scotland's oldest university which helped start a revolution in higher education.A 140-year-old letter written by a lady calling for her to be allowed to study medicine at St Andrews University has been discovered by researchers.Written by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1873, the seven-page document, which urged the university to allow women to study medicine at the institution, was released yesterday on International Women's Day.

  The document was discovered buried in the university archives(档案)by part-time history student Lis Smith, who is completing her PhD at St Andrews Institute of Scottish Historical Research.She said:“We knew that Sophia Jex-Blake and her supporters, in their effort to open up university medical education for women, had written to the Senatus Academicus(校评议委员会)at St Andrews in an attempt to gain permission to attend classes there, but we didn't know documentary evidence existed.While searching the archives for information about the university's higher certificate for women, I was astonished to come across what must be the very letter Jex-Blake wrote.”

  In the letter, Sophia and her supporters offered to hire teachers or build suitable buildings for a medical school and to arrange for lectures to be delivered in the subjects not already covered at St Andrews.Although her letter was not successful, it eventually led to the establishment of the Ladies Literate in Arts at St Andrews, a distance-learning degree for women.The qualification, which ran from 1877 until the 1930s, gave women access to university education in the days before they were admitted as students.It was so popular that it survived long after women were admitted as full students to St Andrews in 1892.

  Ms Jex-Blake went on to help establish the London School of Medicine for Women in 1874.She was accepted by the University of Berne, where she was awarded a medical degree in January 1877.Eventually, she moved back to Edinburgh and opened her own practice.

(1)

Sophia wrote a letter to St Andrews University because she wanted ________.

[  ]

A.

to carry out a research project there

B.

to set up a medical institute there

C.

to study medicine there

D.

to deliver lectures there

(2)

Lis Smith found Sophia's letter to St Andrews University ________.

[  ]

A.

by pure chance

B.

in the school office

C.

with her supporters'help

D.

while reading history books

(3)

Sophia's letter resulted in the establishment of ________.

[  ]

A.

the London School of Medicine for Women

B.

a degree programme for women

C.

a system of medical education

D.

the University of Berne

(4)

When did St Andrews University begin to take full-time women students?

[  ]

A.

In 1873.

B.

In 1874.

C.

In 1877.

D.

In 1892.

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