Part BListening ComprehensionDirections: In this part of the test there will be some short
Part B Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
听力原文:W: Hi, Juan. You are finally back! I called your home two weeks ago and your mom said you'd gone to a work camp. What is it?
M: It's a kind of holiday for young people without enough money. What you usually do is to pay your own fare to the country, stay on a farm and pick the crop that's in season at the time. You save on accommodation because you sleep in tents on the farm and the farmers pay you a wage for what you've picked. The good thing is that you often get a chance to travel and make friends on the camp. But I found things were not what I had thought first.
W: Why? Didn't you enjoy it? How did you know about the work camps?
M: Well. I heard about this company, Teencamp, who would put you in touch with work camps in Britain from some friends of mine. They'd been on a camp and enjoyed it, although they warned me that it wasn't very easy work and it wasn't well-paid. But I liked the idea of meeting lots of people from different countries. Earning money wasn't really the main aim for me. So I enrolled with Teencamp and I was soon booked to go to a farm in Wales to pick potatoes for a month.
W: All the way from Spain to Wales to pick potatoes? Anyway, how was the camp in Wales?
M: Well, two friends and I arrived at the farm and they told us there wasn't any work for us. They said they had told Teencamp five weeks before that they wouldn't have any work. We rang Teencamp and they promised to find another place for us. Anyway, there we were, stuck in the middle of Wales with no work. One of the managers of the farm suggested there might be a farm near London that might have work for us. So we went there.
W: What did you do there?
M: Well, they did have work—picking fruit. But I can't say it was a very good experience really.
W: Why not?
M: Well, for a start, we had to work really hard, 12 hours a day.
W: Did they pay you well?
M: Well. They paid us for each basket we picked, which didn't really give us a good wage. The rest of the conditions weren't very good either. There was about one shower between about 30 of us. Luckily some people were too tired to be bothered taking a shower so that we had less of a wait. And we didn't tend to do much in the evening either. We could have gone to the pub, but we were too tired, so it wasn't good for making friends, which was really my main reason for going to the camp in the first place.
W: How long did you stay there?
M: Anyway, after 10 days we were told of another work camp in Kent and we went there and it was much better. We had a caravan to stay in and three clean showers for the group. They only had work for four days but they were really kind to us and let us stay for the rest of the month free of charge without working. So we spent the rest of the month there.
W: So do you think you will recommend your friends to go to work camps?
M: Yeah, but I'll warn people to be careful. Most work camps are like the one in Kent but a few are just after cheap labor and nothing else.
Questions:
1.Which of the following is NOT the advantage of going on a work camp?
2.How did Juan hear about work camps?
3.What happened when Juan and his two friends arrived in Wales?
4.How long did Juan actually work for?
5.What can we conclude from the conversation?
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A.You needn't pay your accommodation.
B.You may make friends on the camp.
C.You will be paid to do jobs on the camp.
D.You will get free lunch and supper.