# Mount Rushmore

- 科目：雅思听力真题（Part 2）
- 考频：中频
- 最近考试：2019.1.12/2015.11.7/2010.8.21
- 题目数：10
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- 数据更新：2026-10-29

## 题目原文

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 Section two. You will hear part of a talk about Mount Rushmore given by a tour guide. 
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 First, you have some time to look at questions eleven to fifteen. 
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 Now listen carefully and answer questions eleven to fifteen. 
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 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Mount Rushmore. To start your visit, I'm just going to give you a brief account of the history of the memorial before letting you roam about on your own. I won't keep you long. Okay? 
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 Mount Rushmore is South Dakota's top tourist attraction and features the heads of four United States presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. 
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 Each head is eighteen meters tall, which is taller than the heights of eleven people combined. 
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 The sculptor initially wanted to depict the presidents from head to waist, but due to a lack of funding, the construction had to stop before this vision could be realized. In total, it cost the government one million dollars to sculpt the heads at Mount Rushmore. 
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 Before the construction of the president's heads, the mountain was just bare rock and forest, attracting only a few hikers a year. The new carving at Mount Rushmore has become an iconic symbol of presidential greatness and has appeared in works of fiction and other popular works. The sculpture has also worked perfectly as a way to develop tourism, which was its intended purpose, and now attracts over two million people a year. 
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 The original plan was to carve the president's faces into the granite pillars known as the needles. However, the sculptor soon realized that these rocks were too eroded and delicate to support such a large sculpture. Instead, he chose to locate the carving at Mount Rushmore due to its grand appearance and brightly lit rock faces that experience maximum exposure to sunlight throughout the day as a result of the southeast orientation. 
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 Upon seeing Mount Rushmore, the sculptor declared, "America will march along that skyline." 
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 The name of Mount Rushmore also has an interesting history. The location was originally known as the Six Grandfathers. However, during an expedition in eighteen eighty-five, the mountain was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer who joked that his annual treks to the mountain had earned him the right to have it named after him. Forty years after the mountain was renamed, Charles E. Rushmore donated five thousand dollars towards the sculpting of the president's heads, the largest single contribution. 
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 In nineteen twenty-seven, the construction work started, and seven years later was complete with no fatalities. 
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 So that's the history for you. If you'd like any more information, please feel free to ask me questions, or you can soak up the information from our fantastic guidebook. 
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 Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions sixteen to twenty. 
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 Now listen and answer questions sixteen to twenty. 
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 Now I'm going to give you a plan of the site, and I'd just like to point out where everything is so that you can explore everything for yourself. We're currently standing at the entrance, which is marked with the arrow on the map. If you follow the trail up to our left, you will find the information center. There's a great photo booth there where you can have your photograph taken with Mount Rushmore in the background for a fee of only ten dollars. What a great souvenir. 
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 In front of us is the refreshment center, where you can help yourselves to coffee, locally grown tea, and a delicious selection of cold drinks and biscuits. 
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 Be sure to stay hydrated as it can get really hot up here. 
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 To our right, not far up the trail is the gift shop. Here we sell copies of the guidebook, and it's also the perfect place to pick up some small souvenirs for yourself, your family and friends. Now, further up the trail behind the gift shop is a big stone building with a workshop. This is where all of our souvenirs are made by hand, which you can purchase in the gift shop like I said before. 
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 Some are even carved from pieces of rock taken from Mount Rushmore itself. 
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 If you carry on walking up the trail past the workshop, you'll find our state-of-the-art visitor center, where you can find maps of the walking trails here at Mount Rushmore. 
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 Now for the real treat. After you have walked past the visitor center, you can follow the trail up to the left, which will take you to our wooden shelter. From here, you will have the best view of Mount Rushmore that there is, an experience not be forgotten. 
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 Right. If anyone wants a guided tour, then I'm starting at the information center. If you'd like to follow me, this way, please. 
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 That is the end of section two. You now have half a minute to check your answers.

## 题目与答案

### 11. 11 The government finally paid _____ to complete the heads of four United States Presidents.

11 The government finally paid _____ to complete the heads of four United States Presidents.

**答案**：one million

原文定位：In total, it cost the government one million dollars to sculpt the heads at Mount Rushmore

同义替换：「complete」↔「sculpt」

### 12. 12 The purpose of the construction of the president`s heads is to develop _____ .

12 The purpose of the construction of the president`s heads is to develop _____ .

**答案**：tourism

原文定位：The sculpture has also worked perfectly as a way to develop tourism, which was its intended purpose, and now attracts over two million people a year

### 13. 13 The carvings face _____ to experience maximum exposure to sunlight.

13 The carvings face _____ to experience maximum exposure to sunlight.

**答案**：southeast

原文定位：Instead, he chose to locate the carving at Mount Rushmore due to its grand appearance and brightly lit rock faces that experience maximum exposure to sunlight throughout the day as a result of the southeast orientation

### 14. 14 In 1885,the mountain was renamed after a _____ .

14 In 1885,the mountain was renamed after a _____ .

**答案**：lawyer

原文定位：However, during an expedition in eighteen eighty-five, the mountain was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer who joked that his annual treks to the mountain had earned him the right to have it named after him

### 15. 15 It took _____ years to finish the project.

15 It took _____ years to finish the project.

**答案**：seven

原文定位：In nineteen twenty-seven, the construction work started, and seven years later was complete with no fatalities

同义替换：「finish」↔「complete」

### 16. information centre

information centre

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- B
- C
- D
- E

**答案**：A

原文定位：If you follow the trail up to our left, you will find the information center

同义替换：「」↔「information center」

### 17. refreshment centre

refreshment centre

- A
- B
- C
- D
- E

**答案**：C

原文定位：In front of us is the refreshment center, where you can help yourselves to coffee, locally grown tea, and a delicious selection of cold drinks and biscuits

同义替换：「」↔「refreshment center」

### 18. gift shop

gift shop

- A
- B
- C
- D
- E

**答案**：E

原文定位：To our right, not far up the trail is the gift shop

同义替换：「」↔「gift shop」

### 19. workshop

workshop

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- B
- C
- D
- E

**答案**：D

原文定位：Now, further up the trail behind the gift shop is a big stone building with a workshop

同义替换：「」↔「workshop」

### 20. visitor centre

visitor centre

- A
- B
- C
- D
- E

**答案**：B

原文定位：If you carry on walking up the trail past the workshop, you'll find our state-of-the-art visitor center, where you can find maps of the walking trails here at Mount Rushmore

同义替换：「」↔「visitor centre」

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