英文 B2 聽力練習 第 2 回
English listening practice, B2, round 2 — 11 recordings, 30 questions
每一段都是母語錄音。建議先到網站聽、作答，再回來看逐字稿。
內容
第 1 段 你聽到一位男士談在家工作。
逐字稿（聽完再看）
旁白You hear a man talking about working from home.
你聽到一位男士談在家工作。
男Everyone warned me that working from home would be lonely, and I was prepared for that. What I wasn't ready for was how hard it is to stop. My office is my kitchen table, so I end up answering emails at ten at night.
大家都警告我在家工作會很孤單，這我有心理準備。我沒料到的是停下來有多難。我的辦公室就是廚房的餐桌，所以我常常晚上十點還在回信。
第 2 段 你聽到兩個朋友談一部電影。
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旁白You hear two friends talking about a film.
你聽到兩個朋友談一部電影。
女I thought the ending was a bit disappointing.
我覺得結局有點讓人失望。
男Really? I thought it was the best part. It's the beginning that drags — nothing happens for forty minutes.
真的嗎？我覺得那是最精彩的部分。拖戲的是開頭，前四十分鐘什麼事都沒發生。
女Hmm, that's fair.
嗯，這倒是。
第 3 段 你聽到一位女士談一家飯店。
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旁白You hear a woman talking about a hotel.
你聽到一位女士談一家飯店。
女The room itself was tiny, but that didn't bother me — I was hardly in it. What made the stay was the staff. Nothing was too much trouble; they even found me a doctor at midnight when I was ill.
房間本身很小，不過我不在意，我幾乎都不在房裡。讓這次住宿加分的是員工。什麼要求都不嫌麻煩，我半夜生病時他們甚至幫我找了醫生。
第 4 段 你聽到一位男士談成年後學游泳。
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旁白You hear a man talking about learning to swim as an adult.
你聽到一位男士談成年後學游泳。
男I'd always told people I didn't like water. The truth is, I was embarrassed. When I finally booked lessons, I chose an early-morning class so that nobody I knew would see me.
我一直跟別人說我不喜歡水。其實是我覺得丟臉。我終於報名上課時，選了一大早的班，這樣就不會被認識的人看到。
第 5 段 你聽到一個學生和老師談作業。
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旁白You hear a student talking to her teacher about a project.
你聽到一個學生和老師談作業。
女I've finished the research, but I'm struggling to organise it. I've got far too much information, and I don't know what to leave out.
我已經查完資料了，可是不知道怎麼整理。我的資料太多了，不知道該刪掉哪些。
第 6 段 你聽到一位女士談她開的餐廳。
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旁白You hear a woman talking about the restaurant she owns.
你聽到一位女士談她開的餐廳。
女When we opened, we tried to please everybody — pizza, curry, burgers. It was a disaster. Now we serve twelve dishes, all from my mother's region of Italy, and we're full every night.
剛開的時候我們想討好每個人，披薩、咖哩、漢堡都賣，結果一團糟。現在我們只賣十二道菜，全是我媽媽家鄉義大利那一區的菜，每天晚上都客滿。
第 7 段 你聽到兩位同事談一場會議。
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旁白You hear two colleagues talking about a meeting.
你聽到兩位同事談一場會議。
男That meeting was a waste of time.
那場會議根本是浪費時間。
女I know. We spent an hour discussing the problem and didn't agree on a single solution.
我知道。討論問題花了一個小時，連一個解決辦法都沒談定。
男Next time, someone should prepare some options beforehand.
下次應該有人事先準備幾個方案。
第 8 段 你聽到一位男士談他讀過的一本小說。
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旁白You hear a man talking about a novel he has read.
你聽到一位男士談他讀過的一本小說。
男I almost gave up after the first chapter — the writing seemed so plain. But gradually I realised that was the point. The simple language makes the terrible events even more powerful.
看完第一章我差點放棄，文字顯得太平淡了。可是慢慢地我發現那正是重點：簡單的文字讓那些可怕的事件更有力量。
第 9 段
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女Hi, I'm Freya, and for the last six years I've worked as a guide on volcanoes in Iceland. People often think I must have studied geology, but in fact my degree was in history. I started as a summer assistant at a hotel and was asked to help on a tour when one of the guides fell ill. The tours usually last about five hours, and most of that time is spent walking across lava fields. The most important piece of equipment isn't a helmet — it's a good pair of boots, because the rock is incredibly sharp. Before every tour, we check readings from the national weather office, since gas levels can change quickly. The hardest part of the job is actually the wind, which can be strong enough to knock you over. The best moment, for me, is when visitors see the glow of lava for the first time — most of them go completely silent. In winter there are fewer tours, so I spend those months teaching first aid. Next year I'm hoping to start my own small company, offering tours for photographers.
大家好，我是芙蕾雅，過去六年在冰島當火山嚮導。大家常以為我一定是讀地質的，其實我的學位是歷史。我一開始在一家飯店當暑期助理，有一次一位嚮導生病，他們請我幫忙帶團。行程通常大約五個小時，大部分時間都在熔岩原上走。最重要的裝備不是安全帽，而是一雙好鞋，因為岩石非常尖銳。每次出團前，我們都會查看國家氣象局的數據，因為氣體濃度變化很快。這份工作最難的其實是風，強到能把人吹倒。對我來說最棒的時刻，是遊客第一次看到熔岩發出的紅光，大部分人都會完全安靜下來。冬天行程比較少，所以那幾個月我教急救。明年我希望開一家自己的小公司，專門帶攝影師的團。
第 10 段 說話者 1
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旁白Speaker 1
說話者 1
女I moved to Lisbon for a job, and the first month was miserable. It rained every day, my flat was cold, and I didn't know a soul. I'd actually booked a flight home when a colleague invited me to a party, and everything changed after that.
我為了工作搬到里斯本，第一個月過得很悲慘。每天下雨，公寓很冷，一個人也不認識。我其實都訂好回家的機票了，結果一位同事邀我去派對，從那之後一切都變了。
旁白Speaker 2
說話者 2
男I went to Japan to teach English for a year, planning to come back and work in finance. But I became so interested in teaching that I did a master's in education instead. I've been a teacher ever since.
我去日本教一年英文，本來打算回來做金融業。可是我對教書太有興趣，就改讀了教育碩士。之後就一直當老師。
旁白Speaker 3
說話者 3
女When I arrived in Mexico, the couple who lived downstairs more or less adopted me. They showed me where to shop, corrected my Spanish and invited me for lunch every Sunday.
我到墨西哥時，住樓下的一對夫婦幾乎把我當自己的孩子照顧。他們帶我去買東西、糾正我的西班牙文，每個星期天都請我吃午餐。
旁白Speaker 4
說話者 4
男I spent six months in Norway as a student. It went so fast. I'd only just started to feel at home when it was time to leave, and I've regretted not extending my stay ever since.
我當學生時在挪威待了六個月，時間過得好快。我才剛開始覺得像家，就得離開了，從那之後我一直後悔沒有延長。
旁白Speaker 5
說話者 5
女I'd studied German for years at school, so I thought I'd be fine in Berlin. But people spoke so fast, and used so much slang, that I could barely follow a conversation for the first six months.
我在學校學了好幾年德文，以為到柏林沒問題。可是大家講話好快，又一堆俚語，前六個月我幾乎跟不上對話。
第 11 段
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男My guest today is Jade Okafor, whose mobile game about looking after a forest has been downloaded ten million times. Jade, where did the idea come from?
今天的來賓是潔德·奧卡福，她做的照顧森林手機遊戲已經被下載一千萬次。潔德，點子是從哪來的？
女From my little brother, actually. He was obsessed with games where you destroy things, and I wondered whether a game about growing things could be just as exciting. I made the first version for him as a birthday present.
其實是我弟弟。他超迷那種破壞東西的遊戲，我就想，一個讓東西成長的遊戲能不能一樣刺激。第一版是做給他當生日禮物的。
男Did you have any training in game design?
你受過遊戲設計的訓練嗎？
女Not really. I studied mathematics, which helped more than you'd think — a lot of game design is about balancing numbers. Everything else I learnt from online videos.
其實沒有。我讀數學，這比你想的更有幫助，遊戲設計很多是在平衡數字。其他的都是看網路影片學的。
男The game has no adverts, which is unusual. Why is that?
這個遊戲沒有廣告，很少見。為什麼？
女I hate being interrupted when I'm playing. Instead, players can pay a small amount for extra trees, but you can finish the whole game without spending anything.
我玩遊戲時最討厭被打斷。所以玩家可以花一點錢買額外的樹，不過一毛不花也能破完整個遊戲。
男What surprised you most after it came out?
遊戲推出後，最讓你意外的是什麼？
女How many older people play it. I'd assumed the players would be teenagers, but a third of them are over sixty. Lots of them write to me about their real gardens.
有那麼多年紀大的人在玩。我原本以為玩家會是青少年，結果有三分之一超過六十歲。很多人寫信跟我聊他們真正的花園。
男Has success changed your life?
成功改變了你的生活嗎？
女I've been able to hire four people, which is wonderful. But I still work from my kitchen table — I'm not ready for a proper office yet.
我請得起四個人了，這很棒。不過我還是在廚房餐桌上工作，還沒準備好要有正式的辦公室。
男What's next?
接下來呢？
女A game about the ocean. Part of the money it makes will go to groups that clean up beaches.
一個關於海洋的遊戲。它賺的錢有一部分會捐給淨灘團體。