Good morning and thank you for coming here today. I’d like to bring you up to date with changes in the school that will affect your children.
As you know, the school buildings date from various times: some from the 1970s, some from the last five years, and of course Dartfield House is over a century old. It was commissioned by a businessman. Neville Richards, and intended as his family home, but he died before it was completed. His heir chose to sell it to the local council, who turned it into offices 【Q11】. A later plan to convert it into a tourist information centre didn’t come about, through lack of money, and instead it formed the nucleus of this school when it opened 40 years ago.
The school has grown as the local population has increased, and I can now give you some news about the lower school site, which is separated from the main site by a road. Planning permission has been granted for development of both sites. The lower school will move to new buildings that will be constructed on the main site. Developers will construct houses on the existing lower school site 【Q12】. Work on the new school buildings should start within the next few months.
A more imminent change concerns the catering facilities and the canteen. The canteen is always very busy throughout the lunch period – in fact it’s often full to capacity, because a lot of our pupils like the food that’s on offer there. But there’s only one serving point, so most pupils have to wait a considerable time to be served 【Q13】. This is obviously unsatisfactory, as they may have hardly finished their lunch before afternoon lessons start.
So we’ve had a new Food Hall built, and this will come into use next week. It’ll have several serving areas, and I’ll give you more details about those in a minute, but one thing we ask you to do, to help in the smooth running of the Food Hall, is to discuss with your children each morning which type of food they want to eat that day 【Q14】, so they can go straight to the relevant serving point. There won’t be any junk food – everything on offer will be healthy – and there’s no change to the current system of paying for lunches by topping up your child’s electronic payment card online.
You may be wondering what will happen to the old canteen. We’ll still have tables and chairs in there, and pupils can eat food from the Food Hall or lunch they’ve brought from home 【Q15】. Eventually we may use part of the canteen for storage, but first we’ll see how many pupils go in there at lunchtime.
OK, back to the serving points in the Food Hall, which will all have side dishes, desserts and drinks on sale, as well as main courses.
One serving point we call World Adventures 【Q16】. This will serve a different country’s cuisine each day, maybe Chinese one day and Lebanese the next. The menus will be planned for a week at a time, so pupils will know what’s going to be available the whole of the week.
Street Life is also international, with food from three particular cultures. We’ll ask pupils to make suggestions 【Q17】, so perhaps sometimes there’ll be food from Thailand, Ethiopia and Mexico, and then one of them will be replaced by Jamaican food for a week or two.
The Speedy Italian serving point will cater particularly for the many pupils who don’t eat meat or fish 【Q18】: they can be sure that all the food served there is suitable for them. There’ll be plenty of variety, so they shouldn’t get bored with the food.
OK, that’s all on the new Food Hall. Now after-school lessons. There are very popular with pupils, particularly swimming – in fact there’s a waiting list for lessons. Cycling is another favourite, and I’m delighted that dozens of pupils make use of the chance to learn to ride in off-road conditions. It means that more and more cycle to and from school every day. As you know, we have a well-equipped performance centre, and we’re going to start drama classes 【Q19/Q20】 in there, too. Pupils will be able to join in just for fun or work up to taking part in a play – we hope to put on at least one a year. We already teach a number of pupils to use the sound and lighting systems in the centre. And a former pupil has given a magnificent grand piano to the school, so a few pupils will be able to learn at the school instead of going to the local college, as many of them do at the moment.
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
听前预测：定位词为 Dartfield House school；限定词为 used to be。
题目解析：定位词原词出现，首先听到 B 选项的相关信息，在录音中被替换为 family home，但说的是 intended as（本来打算），之后提及在完工之前委托人就去世了，表明这个愿望没有实现，不符合题干 used to be 这一要求，故 B 不能选。继而听到 C 选项的相关信息，local council 原词出现，随后出现答案句“… who turned it into offices.”，其中 offices 对应 building，符合题干要求。最后 a tourist information centre 原词出现，但说的是 didn’t come about（没有实现），故 A 不能选，因此答案为 C。
听前预测：定位词为 lower school；限定词为 planned。
题目解析：定位词原词出现，先听到的是 A 选项的相关信息，录音中说“The lower school will move to new building that will be constructed on the main site.”，而题干说的是 all buildings，A 选项属于偷换概念。继而答案句出现“Developers will construct houses on the existing lower school site.”，其中 houses 对应 B 选项中的 new homes，且该句表述符合题干要求。紧接着听到“Work on the new school buildings should start within the next few months.”，未提及 C 选项中的 on lower school site，故 C 不能选，因此答案为 B。实际上这些新教学楼是建在之前提到的 main site，而现在的 lower school site 则会搬空，用来建住宅。本题考查对选项信息完整度的甄别，难度较大，注意判断每一题结束的位置。
听前预测：定位词为 catering、changed；限定词为 because of。
题目解析：定位词 catering 原词出现，changed 为录音中 change 的同义替换。随后介绍餐厅午餐时间人多，之后 But 引出答案句“But there’s only one serving point, so most pupils have to wait a considerable time to be served.”，其中 wait a considerable time 对应 A 选项，因此答案为 A。随后听到 unsatisfactory，对应 C 选项的 dissatisfaction，但录音中没有提到 menus，而是说“they may have hardly finished their lunch before afternoon lesson start.”（他们可能还没吃完午饭，下午的课就开始了。），故 C 不能选。注意 不要推断得出 B 选项。录音中只是说学生可能时间来不及，解释说明 unsatisfactory 的原因，并没有提及学校更改上课时间。
听前预测：定位词为 Parents；提示词为 are asked to。
题目解析：本篇独白的对象为家长，因此定位词在录音中被替换为代词 you。可借助提示词来定位，听到 one thing we ask you to do 后，随即出现答案句“… is to discuss with your children each morning which type of food they want to eat that day, so they can go straight to the relevant serving point.”（每天早上与你的孩子讨论当天他们想吃什么饭，这样他们就可以直接去相关柜台。），对应 A 选项。随后提到了学校提供健康食物而非垃圾食物，而 C 选项偷换概念，说家长建议孩子吃健康食物，故 C 不能选。紧接着提到家长可以继续给小孩的饭卡充值，但这并不是学校要求家长做的事，不符合题干的要求，故 B 不能选。
听前预测：定位词为 existing canteen。
题目解析：定位词在录音中被替换为 old canteen，随后出现答案句“… pupils can eat food from the Food Hall or lunch they’ve brought from home.”（学生们可以在那吃从新餐厅买的食物或从家里带来的午餐。），因此答案为 C。本题的关键在于审题时要区分 A、C 选项的信息差异，两者都提及 food，但 A 选项强调旧餐厅仍然提供食物，C 选项强调食物能带进去吃。录音中没有提及 B 选项的信息，故 B 不能选。