1、2010浙大考博英語聽力原文與答案An aerial view of Disneyland in 1956. The entire route of the Disneyland Railroad is clearly visible as it encircles the park.Disneyland Park was opened to the public on Monday, 【July 18, 1955】. However, a special International Press Preview event was held on Sunday, July 17, 1955,

2、which was only open to invited guests and the media. The Special Sunday events, including the dedication, were televised nationwide and anchored by three of Walt Disneys friends from Hollywood: Art Linkletter, Bob Cummings, and Ronald Reagan. ABC broadcast the event live on its network; at the time,

3、 it was one of the largest and most complex live broadcasts ever.The event did not go smoothly.The park was overcrowded as the by-invitation-only affair was plagued with counterfeit tickets. All major roads nearby were empty. The temperature was an unusually high 101 F (38 C), and a plumbers strike

4、left many of the parks 【drinking fountains dry】. Disney was given a choice of having working fountains or running toilets and he chose the latter. This, however, generated negative publicity since Pepsi sponsored the parks opening; enraged guests believed the inoperable fountains were a cynical way

5、to sell soda. Theasphalt that had been poured just that morning was so soft that ladies high-heeled shoes sank in. Vendors ran out of food. A gas leak in Fantasyland caused Adventureland,Frontierland, and Fantasyland to close for the afternoon.Parents were throwing their children over the shoulders

6、of crowds to get them onto rides such as the King Arthur CarrouseThe park got such bad press for the event day that Walt Disney invited members of the press back for a private second day to experience the true Disneyland, after which Walt held a party in the Disneyland Hotel for them. Waltand his 19

7、55 executives forever referred to the day as 【Black Sunday】. Every year on July 17, cast members wear pin badges stating how many years it has been since July 17, 1955. For example, in 2004 they wore the slogan The magic began 49 years ago today.But for the first twelve to fifteen years,Disney did o

8、fficially state that opening day was on July 18, including in the parks own publications. Disneyland referred to July 17, 1955, as Dedication Day in one of its July, 1967, press releases. On Monday July 18, crowds started to gather in line as early as 2 a.m., and the first person to buya ticket and

9、enter the park was David MacPherson with 【admission ticket】 number 2, as Roy O. Disney arranged to pre-purchase ticket number 1. Walt Disney had an official photo taken with two children instead, Christine Vess Watkins (age 5 in 1955) and Michael Schwartner (age 7 in 1955), and the photo of the two

10、carries a deceptive caption along the lines of Walt Disney with the first two. guests of Disneyland. Vess Watkins and Schwartner both recei-heeled shoes sank in. Vendors ran out of food. A gas leak in Fantasyland caused Adventureland,Frontierland, and Fantasyland to close for the afternoon.Parents w

11、ere throwing their children over the shoulders of crowds to get them onto rides such as the King Arthur CarrouseThe park got such bad press for the event day that Walt Disney invited members of the press back for a private second day to experience the true Disneyland, after which Walt held a party i

12、n the Disneyland Hotel for them. Waltand his 1955 executives forever referred to the day as 【Black Sunday】. Every year on July 17, cast members wear pin badges stating how many years it has been since July 17, 1955. For example, in 2004 they wore the slogan The magic began 49 years ago today.But for

13、 the first twelve to fifteen years,Disney did officially state that opening day was on July 18, including in the parks own publications. Disneyland referred to July 17, 1955, as Dedication Day in one of its July, 1967, press releases. On Monday July 18, crowds started to gather in line as early as 2

14、 a.m., and the first person to buy a ticket and enter the park was David MacPherson with 【admission ticket】 number 2, as Roy O. Disney arranged to pre-purchase ticket number 1. Walt Disney had an official photo taken with two children instead, Christine Vess Watkins (age 5 in 1955) and Michael Schwa

15、rtner (age 7 in 1955), and the photo of the two carries a deceptive caption along the lines of Walt Disney with the first two. guests of Disneyland. Vess Watkins and Schwartner both received 【lifetime passes】 to Disneyland that day, and MacPherson was awarded one shortly thereafter, which was later

16、expanded to every single Disney-owned park in the A Harvard Extension School class at Boylston Hall. Through the 1950s, most Extension courses cost $5 each (slightly more than two bushels of wheat). Now any Harvard staff member can take a graduate-level course for $40 a semester, making it possible

17、to earn a masters degree for $400. It was 1835, and John Lowell Jr., the wealthy young scion of a prominent Boston family, sat by the Nile River in Luxor, a cradle of Egyptian civilization. Sick with fever, he drafted a long revision to his will and mailed it home to a cousin. Months later, Lowell w

18、as dead.That revamped will included a bequest that has rippled ever wider across almost two centuries. Most notably, it led to creation of the Harvard Extension School, which is celebrating its centennial year, with the official anniversary in February.8 +Lowells ideaublications. Disneyland referred

19、 to July 17, 1955, as Dedication Day in one of its July, 1967, press releases. On Monday July 18, crowds started to gather in line as early as 2 a.m., and the first person to buy a ticket and enter the park was David MacPherson with 【admission ticket】 number 2, as Roy O. Disney arranged to pre-purch

20、ase ticket number 1. Walt Disney had an official photo taken with two children instead, Christine Vess Watkins (age 5 in 1955) and Michael Schwartner (age 7 in 1955), and the photoof the two carries a deceptive caption along the lines of Walt Disney with the first two. guests of Disneyland. Vess Wat

21、kins and Schwartner both recei aduate courses across 65 fields, taught by faculty from nine of Harvards 10 Schools. The modern Extension School has embraced video learning and podcasts. One hundred and fifty courses are available online, expanding the Schools reach to students in 122 countries. Abou

22、t 20 percent of its students take courses exclusively online.！ k！ t+ V9Increasingly, said Michael Shinagel, the Extension Schools longtime dean, “the lectern is electronic.” Yet it was the forward-thinking Lowell, born in 1799 near the dawn of the American republic, who launched this thriving Harvar

23、d institution. Half of his wealth the princely sum, in those days, of $250,000 in 1839 established the Lowell Institute, the Extensions precursor. His bequest is a trust, active to this day, charged with offering public lectures in Boston on the arts, sciences, and naturcreation of the Harvard Exten

24、sion School, which is celebrating its centennial year, with the official anniversary in February.8 +Lowells idea was simple, but brilliant. Everyday people wanted to learn,he thought, and just needed a forum that allowed them to do so. In the 19th century, that method mostly involved public lectures

25、. In the 20th century, it was usually classroom study, and in the 21st, the trend is toward 【distance learning on the Web】. But what has been true of the Extension School from its earliest incarnation is its devotion to public learning, and its students fierce desire to be taught.Evolving far beyond

26、 its origins as a lecture series, the Extension School is now a degree-granting institution with 14,000 students that this year is offering close to 【700】undergraduate and grgovernment scholar A. Lawrence Lowell became trustee of the institute in 1900, and by 1906 was promoting “systematic courses o

27、n subjects of liberal education,” as he called them, taught by Harvard faculty.His vision of transforming a lecture program into a school of public education gained traction in1909 when he was named president of Harvard. His first step in office was not the curricular reform for which he later becam

28、e famous. (Among other things, Lowell invented the idea of “concentrations.”) Instead, he 【pressed to create a University Extension】.His desire, according to Shinagel, who has written a new history of the School called “The Gates Unbarred,” was “to carry out more completely the iions precursor. His

29、bequest is a trust, active to this day, charged with offering public lectures in Boston on the arts, sciences, and natural history, to students regardless of gender, race, orage. The first Lowell lecture, on geology, was held in 1840, in an era of rising working-class clamor for education. The publi

30、cs response was tumultuous, with tickets being distributed amidst near-mob scenes. The institutes collegiate “courses” which were lecture series on a single topic sometimes drew 10,000 applicants.By 1898, more than 4,400 free lectures and courses had been offered through the Lowell Institute. Around

31、 that time, Boston schoolteachers were looking for ways to earn a bachelors degree at night. The Lowell lectures and the lobbying teachers created a perfect storm of sorts, and by 【1910】 University Extension at Harvard was founded.Another visionary with the Lowell surname created the modern school.

32、Harvard-educated was published in 1988. Grishams next novel, The Firm, was one of the biggest hits of 1991, spending 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Grisham lives with his wife and two children, dividing their time between their Victorian home on a 67 acre farm in Mississippi and a 2

33、04 acre plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia.( u# P& F4 S/ J& T; yWhen hes not writing, Grisham devotes time to charitable causes, including mission trips with his作者：zjumseJohn Grisham was born on February 2, 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, in the USA. His father was a construction worker and mov

34、ed his family all around the southern states of America, stopping wherever he could find work. Eventually they settled in Mississippi. Graduating from law school in 1981, Grisham practiced law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation (訴訟). In

35、1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990.7 i+ V% One day at the Dessoto County courthouse, Grisham heard the horrifying testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim. He decided to write a novel exploring what would have happened if the girls father had murdered her

36、attackers. He proceeded to get up A Time to Kill, whichB. It earned Grisham great fame.C. It brought Grisham wealthD. It was carried by The New York Times as a series.50. It can be inferred from the passage that Grisham has built ballfields onhis property _.答案應(yīng)該為 C. to see his childhood dream being

37、realized in the childrenMy surprise over the past few winters has been the personality transformation my parents go through around mid-December as they change from Dad and Mominto Grandpa and Grandma. Yes, they become grandparents and are completely different from the people I know the other eleven

38、and a half months of the yearThe first sign of my parents change is the delight they take in visiting toy and childrens clothing stores. These two people, who usually dislike anything having to do with shopping malls, become crazy consumers. While they tell me to budget my money and shop wisely, the

39、y are buying up every doll and dump truck in sight. And this is only the beginning of the holidays When my brothers children arrive, Grandpa and Grandma come into full form.First they throw out all ideas about a balanced diet for the grandkids. While we were raised in a house where everyone had to t

40、ake two bites of corn, beets(甜菜), or liver (foods that appeared quite often on our table despite constant complaining), the grandchildren never have to eat anything that doesnot appeal to them. Grandma carries chocolate in her pockets to bribe(賄賂)the littlest ones into following her around the house

41、, while Grandpa offers“surprises” of candy and cake to them all day long. Boxes of chocolate-pie disappear while the whole-wheat bread get hard and stale. The kids love all the sweets, and when the sugar raises their energy levels, Grandma and Grandpa can always decide to leave and do a bit more sho

42、pping or go to bed while my brother and sister-in-law try to deal with their highly active kids.Once the grandchildren have arrived, Grandma and Grandpa also seem to forget all of the responsibility lectures I so often hear in my daily life. If Mickey screams at his sister during dinner, he is “deve

43、loping his own personality”; if Nancy breaks Grandmas mirror, she is “just a curious child”. But, if I track mud into the house while helping to unload groceries, I become “careless”; if I scold one of the grandkids for tearing pages out of my textbook, I am “impatient”. If Paula talks back to her m

44、other, Grandma and Grandpa smile at her spirit. If I say one word about all of this excessive love, Mom and Dad reappear to have a talk with me about petty jealousies.6.As regards his parents shopping for the grandchildren, the author _.A. feels jealous B. feels amazedC. thinks it unnecessary D. thi

45、nks it annoying7. What happens after the kids have had all the sweets?A. They get highly energetic. B. They quiet down.C. They want more sweets. D. They go to bed.8. Which of the following is NOT true of the visiting children?A. They behave very well.B. They like chocolate very much.C. They receive

46、toys from their grandparents.D. They are having a lot of fun.The huge growth of global ecotourism industry is becoming an increasing concern for conservationists with mounting evidence that many wild species do not respond well to contact with human beings. overexposure to tourists has been linked t

47、o stress, abnormal behavior and adverse health effects in species such as polar bears, dolphins and gorillas（大猩猩）, says a report in New Scientist.While regulated ecotourism can help conservation efforts by encouraging people to manage endangered species and their habitats, many projects are poorlyde

48、signed and unregulated, its says. “Many ecotourist projects are unaudited, unauthorized and merely hint they are based on environmentally friendly policies and operations”While regulated ecotourism can help conservation efforts by encouraging people to manage endangered species and their habitats, “many projects are poorly designed and hint they are based on environmentally friendly policies and operations.”4 B3 Q( C2 s; 3 e, a4 UEcotourism is growing by 10 to 30 percent a year andan estimated 20 percent of to