TC EMPLOYEE: Hi. Can I help you?
VISITOR: I’d like to find out if you have any excursions suitable for families.
TC EMPLOYEE: Sure. How about taking your family for a cruise? We have a steamship that takes passengers out several times a day 【Example】 – it’s over 100 years old.
VISITOR: That sounds interesting. How long is the trip?
TC EMPLOYEE: About an hour and a half. And don’t forget to take pictures of the mountains 【Q1】. They’re all around you when you’re on the boat and they look fantastic.
VISITOR: OK. And I assume there’s a café or something on board?
TC EMPLOYEE: Sure. How old are your children?
VISITOR: Er, my daughter’s fifteen and my son’s seven.
TC EMPLOYEE: Right. Well there are various things you can do once you’ve crossed the lake, to make a day of it. One thing that’s very popular is a visit to the Country Farm. You’re met off the boat by the farmer and he’ll take you to the holding pens, where the sheep are kept. Children love feeling them!
VISITOR: My son would love that. He really likes animals.
TC EMPLOYEE: Well, there’s also a 40-minute trek round the farm on a house 【Q2】, if he wants.
VISITOR: Do you think he’d manage it? He hasn’t done that before.
TC EMPLOYEE: Sure. It’s suitable for complete beginners.
VISITOR: Ah, good.
TC EMPLOYEE: And again, visitors are welcome to explore the farm on their own, as long as they take care to close gates and so on. There are some very beautiful gardens along the side of the lake which also belong to the farm 【Q3】 – they’ll be just at their best now. You could easily spend an hour or two there.
VISITOR: OK. Well that all sounds good. And can we get lunch there? 【Q4】
TC EMPLOYEE: You can, and it’s very good, though it’s not included in the basic cost. You pay when you get there.
VISITOR: Right.
VISITOR: So is there anything else to do over on that side of the lake?
TC EMPLOYEE: Well, what you can do is take a bike over on the ship and then go on a cycling trip. There’s a trail there called the Back Road – you could easily spend three or four hours exploring it, and the scenery’s wonderful. They’ll give you a map when you get your ticket for the cruise – there’s no extra charge. 【Q5】
VISITOR: What’s the trail like in terms of difficulty?
TC EMPLOYEE: Quite challenging in places. It wouldn’t be suitable for your seven-year-old. It needs someone who’s got a bit more experience. 【Q6】
VISITOR: Hmm. Well, my daughter loves cycling and so do I, so maybe the two of us could go, and my wife and son could stay on the farm. That might work out quite well. But we don’t have bikes here… is there somewhere we could rent them?
TC EMPLOYEE: Yes, there’s a place here in the city. It’s called Ratchesons. 【Q7】
VISITOR: I’ll just make a note of that – er, how do you spell it?
TC EMPLOYEE: R-A-T-C-H-E-S-O-N-S. It’s just be the cruise ship terminal.
VISITOR: OK.
TC EMPLOYEE: You’d also need to pick up a repair kit for the bike from there to take along with you, and you’d need to take along a snack and some water – it’d be best to get those in the city.
VISITOR: Fine. That shouldn’t be a problem. And I assume I can rent a helmet from the bike place? 【Q8】
TC EMPLOYEE: Sure, you should definitely get that. It’s a great ride, but you want to be well prepared because it’s very remote – you won’t see any shops round there, or anywhere to stay 【Q9】, so you need to get back in time for the last boat.
VISITOR: Yeah. So what sort of prices are we looking at here?
TC EMPLOYEE: Let’s see, that’d be one adult and one child for the cruise with farm tour, that’s $117, and an adult and a child for the cruise only so that’s $214 dollars altogether. Oh, wait a minute, how old did you say your daughter was?
VISITOR: Fifteen.
TC EMPLOYEE: Then I’m afraid it’s $267 【Q10】 because she has to pay the adult fare, which is $75 instead of the child fare which is $22 – sorry about that.
VISITOR: That’s OK. Er, so how do …
Complete the notes below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
听前预测：定位词 photos；提示词 the。此处应填名词，且为照相的目标。
题目解析：例子之后的“And don’t forget to take pictures of the mountains”直接带出答案， 其中 take pictures 和题干 take photos 为同义替换，此处需填写的是照相的内容或目标，因此答案为 mountains。
听前预测：定位词 a 40-minute ride；提示词 on、a。此处应填单数名词，且根据 ride 和 on 可以预测出答案应为某种交通工具或者动物的名词。
题目解析：答案对应的原文信息为“there’s also a 40-minute trek round the farm on a horse”， 其中 also 体现了与上一点 feed the sheep 的并列关系，题干 include 被替换为 there’s，定位词 a 40-minute 原词重现，ride 被替换成 trek，答案的关键信息为介词 on 之后所接的单数名词，因此答案为 horse。
听前预测：定位词 by the lake；提示词 visitors、walk、farm’s。此处应该填名词，且此名词应该为农场的某一个部分 / 地方。
题目解析：本题先是出现提示词 visitors，然后出现 walk 的同义替换 explore，接着答案对应句“There are some very beautiful gardens along the side of the lake which also belong to the farm”出现，其中 along the side of the lake 对应题干 by the lake，which also belong to the farm 与题干 the farm’s 对应，因此答案为 garden(s)。
听前预测：定位词 extra cost；提示词 available。此处应填名词，且是一种可以购买的东西或服务。
题目解析：文中先出现“And can we get lunch there?”这一问题其实可以理解为“Is lunch available there?”接下来的 not included in the basic cost 和 You pay when you get there 都对应题干 extra cost，因此答案为 lunch。
听前预测：定位词 cycling trips、Back Road；提示词 a、provided。此处应填单数名词，且应为骑自行车所需的某种工具。
题目解析：定位词出现之后需要随时注意答案的出现。答案对应的原文信息为“They’ll give you a map when…”，其中 give 和 provided 为同义替换，冠词 a 之后的可数名词单数形式 map 即为答案。
听前预测：定位词 suitable、who；提示词 only、have some。此处应填名词。
题目解析：在定位词 suitable 之后紧接着出现了答案对应信息“It needs someone who’s got a bit more experience”，其中 who’s got 为 who has got 的缩写，got 和题干 have 为同义替换，a bit more 对应题干中的 some，答案为 experience。
听前预测：定位词 bikes；提示词 hired from。此处应填地名或表示地点的专有名词。
题目解析：解题关键是抓取 hired 在文中的对应词 rent（…is there somewhere we could rent them），紧接着出现了信号词“there’s a place…”，并给出了拼写。本题为人名、地名类拼写题，属于送分题。
听前预测：定位词 a repair kit、food and drink；提示词 a、hired。此处应填单数名词，且为骑自行车的人所需要的某种东西。
题目解析：在前面出现 a snack and some water（=food and drink）后，应警惕答案随时可能出现。“And I assume I can rent a helmet from the bike place?”中的 and 为逻辑连词，表示已经从上一点 food and drink 过渡到下一点了，rent 对应题干 hired， 因此答案为 helmet。
听前预测：定位词 no；提示词 or、accommodation。此处应填名词，且该词应该是与住宿对应的某种基本设施或服务。
题目解析：文中先出现“but you want to be well prepared”，提示我们之所以要做足准备，是因为那边不提供“............ 和住宿”。接下来我们在 because 之后听到了答案对应信息“you won’t see any shops round there, or anywhere to stay”， 其中 won’t see any 对应 no，anywhere to stay 对应 accommodation，因此答案为 shops。
听前预测：定位词 total cost；提示词 whole family、$。此处应填表示金额的数字。
题目解析：本题干扰信息较多，先是出现了 117 和 214，但是紧接着出现了一个“Oh, wait a minute…”，该表达提示我们刚刚听到的信息肯定不是正确答案。在工作人员和游客确认了他女儿年龄后，他说“Then I’m afraid it’s $267”，之后出现的 $75 和 $22 分别说的是单个 adult fare 和 child fare，不符合题干中限定的 total cost for whole family，因此答案为 267。