Question

【题目】听下面一段对话，完成五道小题，每小题仅填写一个词。这段对话你将听两遍。

Answer 1

【答案】

(1) horseback

(2) 5

(3) 8,000

(4) in good repair

(5) 35 blacksmiths

【解析】听力原文：

New York is one of the last American cities to have some of its policemen on horseback. The New York police have 5 horses that they use in certain parts of the city. The horses are expensive to feed, but it is even more expensive to take care of them.

When the horses must walk on the streets, they need special horseshoes. In fact, they need more than 8,000 of them each year. Every police horse in New York gets new shoes every month. Keeping these shoes in good repair is the only job of six blacksmiths. There are only about thirty-five of these blacksmiths in the whole United States.

A blacksmith's job is not an easy one. He must be able to shape a shoe from a piece of a plain metal and then fit it to the horse's hoof. The blacksmith must bend down all the time when he is fitting the metal and must hold the back of the horse's leg while he works. Clearly, a blacksmith must be very strong. But even more important, he must be able to deal about horses--for before the blacksmith can finish his work, he has to get the horse to lift its leg.