Tape Scripts For CET-6 Model Test
Section A Short Conversations
11. M: Because the tuition rate is going up, I won't be able to stay here next year.
W: You speak Italian so well I Why don't you tutor students in Italian?
Q: What does the woman suggest to the man?
12.M: Could you do me a favor, Anna? We had a German patient yesterday and we can't communicate with him. Nobody in the hospital speaks German.
W: All right, let's see if I can be of help.
Q: What is the woman going to do?
13.W: If we post the card next Monday, then Dad and Mom will receive it right on Christmas Eve.
M: Right. But what if there should be a delay? You know this is not something impossible.
Q: What does the man imply?
14. M: What would you like to see first, the reptiles or the monkey house?
W: I'd like to see the seals. It's almost their feeding time.
Q: Where are the two speakers most likely to be?
15. W: During the last thunderstorm, I noticed several leaks in my living room ceiling.
M: Maybe you have some broken shingles. I have the number of a good roofing company.
Q: What can we conclude from the conversation?
16. W: How did you like the performance,?
M: Generally speaking, it was very good. The part of the maid was done beautifully, but I thought the man who played the salesman was too dramatic to be realistic.
Q: How does the man feel about the salesman in the play?
17. M: What's wrong with the booking office? I told them I needed a ticket on March 30th, and they sent me one for tomorrow, March 13th.
W: Probably something was wrong with their ears or perhaps you didn't make yourself clear.
Q: What's the date when the conversation takes place?
18. M: I can hardly breathe. Would you please put your cigarette out?
W: I'm sorry that I'm bothering you, but this is the smoking section. Why don't you ask the stewardess to change your seat?
Q: What does the woman think the man should do?
Long Conversation 1
W: Hi, Tom!
M: Judy. I haven't seen you in weeks. Where have you been?
W: In Florida.
M: What vacationing! While the rest of us studying on the campus in February cold?
W: Not exactly. I spent most of my time under water.
M: I don't understand.
W: I was on a special field trip. I went with my marine biology class.
M: So you went scuba diving. What were you looking for? Sunken treasure? , ,
W: You might say so. The sea's full of treasures. All kinds of strange fascinating organisms. Our class concentrated on studying plankton.
M: I found plankton were too small to be seen.
W: That's a common misconception. The term plankton covers a wild variety of freely flowing plants and animals, from microscopic one cell organisms to larger ones, such as the common jellyfish.
M: Jellyfish may be large enough to be seen. But they are transparent, aren't they?
W: Yes, most planktons have transparent tissues as protected camouflage, it makes them practi¬cally invisible to predators.
M: But not invisible to your biology class, I hope.
W: By concentrating, I was able to see the outlines of lots of different plankton plants and ani¬mals. In fact, our professor even took photographs of gastropods, which are small oceanic snails.
M: How would the snails show up in the photographs of their transparence?
W: We scoured it with harmless green dye since particles of the dyes stuck to their tissues, the snails appeared in green outline in the photographs.
M: That sounds like an interesting trip. But I think if I'd been in Florida in February, I'd much rather spend my time just swimming and lying in the sun.
Q 19: Why was the woman in Florida?
Q 20: Where did the woman spend most of her time while she was in Florida?
Q 21: What is NOT true about plankton according to the woman?
Long Conversation 2
W: Richard, what's that under your paper?
M: What's what?
W: Lift up your arm. What's this?
M: Oh, that. Uh, that's a grocery list. I've got to pick up some things on my way home.
W: Do you really expect me to believe that?
M: Well, that's what it is.
W: (reading) Soren Kierkegaard, Denmark, 1800s, Hegel, Germany, Sartre, Paris, 1900s... An interesting "grocery" list, Mr. Jackson.
M: Oh, gee, let me see that. Oh, my gosh, they must be my notes. How did they get here?
W: I'd like to see you in my office, please. ( They leave the classroom and go to the office down the hall. ) Now, Richard, would you care to explain how the answers to the test questions ap¬peared on your desk?
M: I can't. Someone must have left them on my desk.
W: Someone left them on your desk \ Someone with handwriting identical to yours left them on your desk? I'm afraid I can't accept that answer.
M: Are you accusing me of cheating?
W: Yes, I am.
M: You can't do that without proof! I'm going to call my counselor!
W: By all means, do that. In the meantime, however, don't come to class again. I am extremely dis¬appointed in your behavior.
M: (grumbling to himself as he leaves) What a pig-headed, narrow-minded jerk!
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the dialogue you've just heard.
Q: What's the relationship between these two speakers?
Q: What does the woman mean when she says "an interesting ' grocery' list"?
Q: What makes the woman believe that it is the man who wrote the list?