ROSIE Colin, I'm really struggling to think of a topic for our human geography assignment.
COLIN Me too, Rosie. I'll tell you what, let's think about the different aspects of human geography and see if we can narrow the topic down a bit to help us decide.
ROSIE OK. So one aspect is population. That would be all about population density and migration and so on. Lots of facts and statistics. Maybe a bit boring?
COLIN Yeah, but quite straightforward to find on the internet.【Q21】
ROSIE Suppose so. How about health? I'd never thought about the links between that and geography until Professor Lee gave us that lecture on cholera. How in the 19th century, a physician used street plans and plans of water supplies to find the source of a cholera epidemic.
COLIN Yes, fascinating, wasn't it?【Q22】 Or we could do something more general like economies.
ROSIE So how financial and commercial factors are linked to the physical environment?
COLIN Yeah.
ROSIE I thought that had been taken off the syllabus for this year.【Q23】
COLIN Has it?
ROSIE I not sure but it might be best to avoid it.
COLIN OK. Maybe we could do something on culture. We had that lecture about culture and geography last week.
ROSIE I didn't get much out of that. It was all so general and the lecturer didn't give any useful examples.【Q24】
COLIN Yeah, I hardly took any notes. It didn't seem worth it.
ROSIE Me neither.
COLIN We could focus on poverty. That's something that's a global problem.
ROSIE The trouble is, Dr Lee was saying, that you have to be careful with some of the figures relating to poverty. They're sometimes deliberately manipulated.【Q25】
COLIN You mean the information gets changed for political reasons?
ROSIE That sort of thing, yes.
ROSIE So what are we going to do our assignment on? I'll tell you what. One of the possibilities we have discussed is urbanisation and now over half the world population lives in cities. That really important
COLIN OK good idea Rosie Let do that
ROSIE I love living in a big city but of course there are problems
COLIN Things like theft and robbery?
ROSIE Yes, but where I come from, that's linked to another more serious issue, which is that a lot of people don't have jobs.【Q26】 That's getting worse and worse. And we also still have quite a lot of people who are homeless, though that's not quite so bad as it was.
COLIN It would be nice to talk about some positive developments, like some of the new developments on the outskirts of cities.
ROSIE Yeah, they've opened some massive new shopping centres outside my city.
COLIN Yeah, the same with mine, but it means a lot of the shops in the city centre are closing down. But the outskirts are ideal for buildings that need a lot of space, like for conferences. They've opened a couple of big ones.【Q27】
ROSIE Yes, we've got some too. It'd be nicer to have more facilities for things like football too, but that's not happening where I live.
COLIN Same in my area.
ROSIE We could include something about developing disused industrial sites. It seems like a good idea because you're not doing any harm to the natural environment.
COLIN Yeah, but aren't the buildings architecturally significant?
ROSIE Not really. And what people forget is that they often used quite dangerous materials, chemicals
and things, which haven't been properly cleared away, so the whole site has to be made safe.
COLIN Mm, that can't be cheap. And I bet it's often not budgeted for.【Q28】
ROSIE You're right.
COLIN Have you read about Masdar City?
ROSIE In Abu Dhabi? Yes. It was designed to be a green city, wasn't it? That might be a good example of a city which set out to depend entirely on renewable energy.【Q29】
COLIN Yes, we should say something about that It was designed to be totally pedestrianised too wasn't it with the transport underground
ROSIE Yes, and they had big plans for recycling to reduce waste to the lowest possible level But let's stick to talking about power sources.
COLIN Then there's that ecotown in England, Greenhill Abbotts. It set out to conform to the usual principles, sustainability and so on. A lot of people were against it at first. They said the plans were unrealistic. I'm not sure how far they've got with it - I'll check.【Q30】
ROSIE Right. So it looks as ...
What is Rosie and Colin's opinion about each of the following aspects of human geography?
Choose FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-G, next to Questions 21-25.
听前预测：定位词为 population。
题目解析：配对题本质是考查同义替换的识别。本组配对题主要考查选项部分替换，在审题时考生需要重点阅读选项信息并有意识记忆关键词，做到在听题并匹配时对选项信息有预期感。该组配对题选项多且长，审题和迅速匹配难度还是比较大的。开篇稍作背景介绍，时间不长。当 population 原词出现时，提示准备听取该题。女生先提出“Lots of facts and statistics...”，跟选项 C 信息 a small number of statistics 矛盾，故排除。接着女生又提出“Maybe a bit boring?”，男生回答 Yeah，跟选项 G 信息 interesting 矛盾，故排除。接着男生提到 but quite straightforward to find on the internet，该句中的 straightforward 意为“简单的”，跟选项 D 信息 easy 进行替换，女生表示同意“Suppose so.”，因此确认选项 D为该题正确答案。
听前预测：定位词为 health。
题目解析：定位词 health 原词出现，准备听取。女生提到 I'd never thought about the links between that and geography，意为“我从没想到它和地理还能有关系”。该句跟选项 B 信息 may not be relevant 矛盾，故不选。接着男生提到“fascinating, wasn't it”， 意 为“ 非常有趣，对吧 ”。 此处的 fascinating 跟选项 G 信息 interesting 进行替换，因此可确认选项 G 为该题正确答案。
听前预测：定位词为 economies。
题目解析：定位词 economies 原词出现，准备听取。女生提到“I thought that had been taken off the syllabus for this year.”，意为“我记得这个话题今年好像已经不在课程大纲里了”。由此说明该话题跟课程内容无关，跟选项 B 信息 not be relevant to their course 表达一致。随后女生还提到“I'm not sure. But it might be best to avoid it.”，说明女生对此不确定，但是认为最好还是避开这个话题，男生表示同意“OK.”，因此可以确认选项 B 为该题正确答案。
听前预测：定位词为 culture。
题目解析：定位词 culture 原词出现，准备听取。女生先提出 It was all so general，其中 general 意为“内容太宽泛了”，跟选项 A 信息 vague（含糊的，不明确的）进行替换。接着女生提到 the lecturer didn't give any useful examples，该句中的 didn't give any useful examples 跟选项 F 信息 no useful research 表达并不完全一致，属于选项信息不完整的干扰陷阱，因此选项 F 不选。接着男生表示同意“Yeah, I hardly took any notes, it didn't seem worth it.”，故确认选项 A 为该题正确答案。
听前预测：定位词为 poverty。
题目解析：定位词 poverty 原词出现，准备听取。女生提到 you have to be careful with some of the figures relating to poverty—they're sometimes deliberately manipulated，意为“对于一些与贫困相关的数据，你必须格外谨慎——这些数据有时会被故意篡改”。接着男生提出“You mean the information gets changed for political reasons?”，该句表示信息会出于政治目的而被篡改，接着女生表示同意“That sort of thing, yes.”。该部分的 deliberately manipulated、information gets changed 说明数据和信息可能会被故意篡改，不一定真实可靠，跟选项 E 信息 not be reliable 进行替换，故确认答案。