华研外语听力 长对话 Test 4

TEST 4

Now you'll hear the two long conversations.

conversation one

M:Hi Jane ,please come in and take a seat.

W:Well,you would like to check the progress of the website-design,right?

M:Yes,but it seems that we've got some problems with the BBS.The part-time web designer was not as good as what we had thought before .She informed us just now that she could not complete this task.

W:Well,didn't you talk with her about what she should do at the beginning?

M:Not really.She was recommended by Sampson and from what he told me ,she sounded to be pretty qualified to do the job.I'm not asking for a terrific web design but to build up a structure with all the basic elements of web design.

W:Did you ask her why she wasn't frank with you in the beginning if she couldn't do the BBS?

M:I did .But she said it was a communication problem.

W:So now what do you plan to do since she got the job half done?

M:On one side ,I will not pay her full fees since she wasn't honest with me in the beginning .On the other side ,I have to search around for another guy to complete the job.

W:I agree.That should also teach her a lesson .For us ,I think we had better turn to our Part-time Job Center for help.There ,we can get a professional to work at it.

19 What problem did the speakers encounter?

20 How did the man find the website designer?

21 What did the part-time web designer explain about the situation?

22 What did the woman suggest they do inthe end?

conversation two

M:I didn't see you in creative writing class today .What happened?

W:Oh ,just a dentist appointment .That's all .Say ,did we get a new assignment for next week?

M:Yeah,A really interesting one,actuslly.We're supposed to write a short story that has some sort of limitation or,or,constraints imposed on it.

W:What do you mean?Like rhyming in a poem?

M:Well ,that'll be an idea .But what we write has to be prose,like prose poetry.Just to make rhyme in a poem is too easy ,I guess.I think Prof.Eliot really wants to challenge us ,to put our creativity to the test.

W:Well,did she give any hints about what she has in mind?

M:Not really,but I may have an idea of the kind of thing she's looking for.I just finished a really strange book by some French guy.He wrote a whole book without even using a single e.

W:A whole book without a single e?How's it possible?But ,wait a minute.I didn't know you can read French.

M:I can't .I read the English translation.But get this .There's not one e in that either .

W:No way .Think of the words you couldn't use .

M:I know ,but that translator manages it.I got the book at home if you want to check out for yourself.What's really amazing to me is that leaving e in French is no easy job and doing it in English gonna involve a complete different group of words .It's real work of mind.

W:Sometime you have to show me that book.But right now I'd better get going on the writing for next week.

23What are the speakers assigned to write?

24Why did the man mention a book by French author?

25What point does the man make about the letter e ?