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听力长对话原文1
Conversation One
W：What isit, Bob? (9)You sounded pretty serious on the phone. Have we still got a budgetproblem?
M：I don’ know. I hope not. Themeeting's on Friday. But that’s not what I want to talk to you about. Er, closethe door, will you? It’s Marsha.
W: Marsha?What about her?
M: I'mworried. I don’t know what to do. (10)She’s just not performing. We may have tolet her go.
W: Fireher? She’s been with us a long time, Bob. If she leaves, it’ll be a big loss tous. She’s done really excellent work.
M：Yes. But lately, the lastmonth or so, in fact, there have been a lot of problems. She’s changed. Notonly does she have a tendency to be moody all the time, but she missesappointments, doesn’t follow through on projects, and doesn't seem to plananything till the last minute.
W: Em, didshe ever explain why she didn’t show up for the Denver trip?
M：No. She said she was sorryand that it wouldn’t happen again. (11) Something about a mix-up onarrangements to get to the airport. Now, whenever anybody mentions the subjectto her, she just goes silent. I don’t know. Thank goodness, David pulled us outof the hole on that one.
W: Yes, hedid a really fine job, filling in for Marsha like that at the last minute.
M：(12)I don’t think it was thefirst time he’s had to do that. If we knew all the facts, I think we’d findthat he's been covering for Marsha on quite a few projects.
9. Whatdid the man do before he came to see the woman?
10. Whatdoes the man say about Marsha?
11. Howdid Marsha explain why she didn't show up for the Denver trip?
12. Whatdoes the man say about David?
听力长对话原文2
Conversation Two
M：You also hire the mistressesof Oxford High School for girls. How many girls do you have here?
W：We have 615 girls.
M: in yourexperience, do girls do better academically and later professionally insingle-sex schools?
W：Yes. I think they do betteracademically and you can measure that very crudely from the examinationresults, (13) I also think they do better academically because they have moreopportunities to take the leading role in discussions and in managerial responsibilities.(14)I think they see the role models of the chief positions in the school beingheld by women.
M：I wonder if you could saythen in a few words what the advantages are for a girl at a single-sex school.Well, I think within the classroom, she’s going to have full opportunity toexpress her own opinions. She isn’t going to be shouted down by over-confidentyoung gentlemen.
W: Areteenagers in particular, do you think, sheltered too much from contact with theopposite sex? Does this cause them difficulties when they find themselves inmixed groups?
M：Well, I would like to findthe parents who could shelter girls from the opposite sex if they live in Oxford.(15)They encounter boys all the time socially out of school, and throughdebating societies and things like that, some school activities as well.
M: So, nodisadvantages at all?
W：I don’t think there are anydisadvantages. I think that it’s grossly overstated that one needs to havecontact with the opposite sex right through the whole of life, in the classroomand outside the classroom and at all ages.
13. Whatdoes the woman say about the girls in her school?
14. Whatdo we learn about the woman's school?
15. What does the woman say about the girls' social life?
