视听综合1【听力题】
Watch the excerpts from the TED Talk, and then make your choice which matches the meaning of the underlined phrases you hear.
(1) [单选题]
So I got out of school, I got a job, I got a paycheck, I got myself to the art store, and I just went nuts buying supplies.
A、did something in a hurry and with a lot of excitement
B、went completely crazy
C、spent someone else’s money
正确答案：A
(2) [单选题]
And then when I got home, I sat down and I set myself to task to really try to create something just completely outside of the box. But I sat there for hours, and nothing came to mind .
A、entered your mind and appeared in your thoughts
B、was forgotten as soon as you think of it
C、was something that bothers you a lot
正确答案：A
(3) [单选题]
I found myself in a state of constant creation, thinking only of what’s next and coming up with more ideas than ever.
A、finding and writing down an idea
B、imagining or thinking of something new
C、remembering something important
正确答案：B
(4) [单选题]
When I think back to my three years away from art, away from my dream, just going through the motions , instead of trying to find a different way to continue that dream, I just quit, I gave up.
A、doing something without thinking and without any passion
B、quitting doing something
C、struggling to do something difficult
正确答案：A
(5) [单选题]
As I destroyed each project, I was learning to let go , let go of outcomes, let go of failures, and let go of imperfections.
A、not fail anymore
B、free yourself of something that has been bothering you
C、stop holding on and fall down
正确答案：B
Passage 1
1【连线题】
Directions: You are going to read a passage with 10 statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter.
Ecotourism: Traveling the world to help save it
第一组数据
1、The outings programs organized by the Sierra Club enable donors to develop a lasting emotional commitment to nature.
2、Tourists who can come into contact with on-the-ground activists and local experts may get a view that they wouldn’t get on an ordinary tour.
3、According to a recent survey by an American association, a lot of Americans are fond of conservation-oriented tourism.
4、Over more than 30 years, the work of a large number of volunteers has resulted in the creation of national parks and wildlife reserves in several countries.
5、As a non-profit organization, Seacology aims to protect both island environments and cultures.
6、Seacology could collect more money by opening its fund-raising expeditions to the public.
7、Instead of just being a passerby in a tour, more and more people would like to have real experiences and know local people deeply.
8、The rich wildlife of Yunnan Province is at stake because of man-made dams and deforestation.
9、It is likely that the first coastal and marine national park of Scotland will be built on the Argyll Islands.
10、The non-profit-meets-travel model of Blue Ventures has been used as an example by its national government for other marine-protected areas.
第二组数据
A、As a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s, Lynn Franco, now a 62-year-old psychoanalyst who lives in Berkeley, California, has always been interested in the underdeveloped regions she traveled through. The longtime interest was what led her to join a March trip to Borneo with Seacology, a non-profit organization that seeks to preserve island environments and cultures by providing services in exchange for local conservation efforts.
B、”The project we visited was a micro-hydroelectric generator,” Lynn Franco said, “which was funded by Seacology and built by the community in exchange for the community’s preservation of some of the surrounding lands.” Lynn Franco and her husband met residents, participated in a traditional dance, hiked through the rain forests and explored the nearby coral reefs on scuba-diving (水肺潜泳) expeditions. They were able to enter a society more quickly and deeply than would otherwise have been available to them.
C、As exotic destinations become more commonplace and travelers seek out more unusual and broadening experiences, non-profit groups are responding by promoting and helping to organize ecotourism to raise awareness and fund for their causes. According to the International Ecotourism Society, the market for conservation-oriented tourism continues to grow. In 2004, worldwide ecotourism and nature tourism were growing three times faster than the tourism industry as a whole. The popularity of nature-based travel led the UN to hold a World Ecotourism Summit and declare 2002 the International Year of Ecotourism. A recent study by the Travel Industry Association of America shows that over 55 million Americans are interested in this sustainable travel, which protects both environment and culture.
D、Duane Silverstein, executive director of Seacology, said, “These people are looking for two things: access to unique areas that most tourists can never visit, and a way to improve the quality of life of the people and places they do visit.” This year, Seacology opened its fund-raising expeditions to the public for the first time. The trips visit project sites in remote places like Fiji, where the group built a kindergarten in return for the establishment of a 17-square-mile marine reserve, and Tonga, where a floating medical clinic was set up as encouragement for the creation of a nature preserve. These fund-raising trips were initially limited to major donors, but their success made it increasingly obvious that Seacology could raise more money by opening the trips to the public.
E、Tourism can be a powerful conservation tool, said Alasdair Harris, founder and executive director of Blue Ventures, a British non-profit that offers three-to-six-week expeditions for scientists and volunteers to its marine field station in Andavadoaka, Madagascar. The non-profit-meets-travel model has worked well for the organization. In three years, Blue Ventures has won the UN’s SEED Award and opened the world’s first community-run marine-protected area for octopus (章鱼), which has improved catches among local octopus fishermen and led the national government to use the project as a model for other marine-protected areas in the country.
F、Gabrielle Johnson, 35, a teacher from Santa Barbara, California, traveled to Andavadoaka as a volunteer in 2004. “I loved interacting with the local people, and learning how they respect the area where they live while still having to fish and depend on that for a living,” she said. “And getting to dive every day, getting to know the corals and the fish and collecting data was amazing.”
G、Blue Ventures’ latest project is to develop a community-run eco-lodge in Madagascar. The group will also offer short-term marine survey expeditions to the Argyll Islands, which are being considered a possible location for Scotland’s first coastal and marine national park.
H、Well-established non-profit groups like the Nature Conservancy, whose Yunnan Great Rivers Project supports sustainable ecotourism development in China’s Yunnan Province, are also using local connections to draw attention to large programs. Yunnan’s lush landscape is rich with rare plants and animals that are threatened by dams and deforestation, and the Nature Conservancy has worked with the tour company, Mountain Travel Sobek, to develop river-based ecotourism in the area. Mountain Travel Sobek now offers rafting (漂筏运动) trips that benefit the Great Rivers Project as well as guide-training courses for local citizens.
I、”The travelers are getting more sophisticated about how they spend their money, and possibly this trend will continue and exert more influence on their decision to buy a trip,” said Nadia Billia Le Bon, director of Polar and Special Programs for Mountain Travel Sobek. But the rivers themselves were the big attraction for Jon McKee, 61, who traveled to Yunnan in February to visit both the Yangtze and the upper Lancang on back-to-back trips. “I do river trips all over the world,” said Jon McKee, “and to be honest, I’m usually very much focused on the river running. The guides over there were very passionate about ecotourism and coming up with a way for the locals to get a new cash economy.”
J、Because non-profits are now marketing these new trips to the general public, an expedition can be an opportunity to attract new members. “Very often, we get people on our trips who don’t think of themselves as environmentalists; they just want to have a fun vacation,” said Tanya Tschesnok, a spokeswoman for Sierra Club Outings, the Sierra Club’s travel arm. “Major donors have come to the club through the outings program. It’s a subtle approach that is extremely effective in fostering a lasting emotional commitment to nature.”
K、Conservation-oriented travel is territory long occupied by groups like Sierra Club Outings and Earthwatch Institute. Earthwatch Institute was founded in 1971 to support scientific research by offering the public a chance to work alongside experts on field expeditions. In 2005, the organization attracted 4,190 volunteers from 79 countries. It is perhaps the most successful model for this kind of travel: Returnees make up a third of each year’s volunteers, and over 35 years, volunteer work has led to the creation of national parks or wildlife reserves in places like Vietnam, Argentina and Australia.
L、”People selfishly want experiences that are real, so they show no interest in canned tours,” said Blue Magruder, director of public affairs for Earthwatch. “And an increasing number of people want their time on the planet to count. Anything that lets people get to know locals as individuals and colleagues rather than just someone they take a picture of is going to be beneficial.”
M、Tanya Tschesnok of Sierra Club Outings stresses that even though some of the organization’s trips go to places that aren’t normally accessible to the public, the real distinguishing feature of non-profit-led expeditions is access to people who frame a destination in a new way. “Organizations, including ours, give people access to on-the-ground activists and local experts,” she said. “This is the view of the place that they would not get on a mainstream tour.”
正确答案
1.– J
2.– M
3.– C
4.– K
5.– A
6.– D
7.– L
8.– H
9.– G
10.–E
