03~15年专四听写原文

2003~2015

年英语专业四级考试（真题卷）听写脚本

Salmon(2003)

Every year, millions of salmon swim from the ocean/ into the mouths of rivers and

then steadily up the rivers./ Passing through waters, around rocks and waterfalls,/

the fish finally reach their original streams or lakes./ They dig out nests in the

riverbed and lay their eggs./ Then, exhausted by their journey,/ the parent salmon

die./

They

have

finished

the

task

that

nature

has

given

them.

/Months

or

years

later,

/the young fish start their trip to the ocean. /They live in the salt water from two

to seven years,/ until they, too, are ready to swim back to reproduce. /Their life

cycle helps man provide himself with a basic food

—

fish./ When the adult salmon

gather at the river mouths for the annual trip up the rivers,/ they are in the best

possible condition,/ and nearly every harbor has its salmon fishing fleet /ready to

catch thousands for markets.

Money(2004)

Money is accepted across the world as payment for goods or services. / People use

money to buy food, clothes and hundreds of other things. / In the past, many

different things were used as money. / People on Pacific islands once exchanged

shells for goods. / The Chinese used cloth and knives. / In Africa, elephant tusks or

salt

were

used.

/

Even

today,

some

people

in

Africa

are

still

paid

in

salt.

/Coins

were

first invented by the Chinese. /Originally, they were round pieces of metal with a

hole in the center, / so that a piece of string could keep them together. / This made

doing business much easier, / but people still found coins inconvenient to carry/

when they wanted to buy something expensive. /To solve this problem, the Chinese

again came up with the solution. /They began to use paper money for coins. / Now

paper notes are used throughout the world./

The wrist watches(2005)

It

is

generally

believed

that

wrist

watches

are

an

exception

/

to

the

normal

sequence

in the evolution of man's jewelry. / Reversing the usual order, they were first worn

by women, / and then adopted by men. / In the old days, queens included wrist

watches

among their crown jewelry.

/ Later,

they

were

worn by Swiss workers

and

farmers.

/

Until

World

War

I,

Americans

associated

the

watch

with

fortune

hunters.

/ Then army officers discovered that the wrist watch was most practical for active

combat. / Race car drivers also loved to wear wrist watches, / and pilots found

them most useful while flying. / Soon men dared to wear wrist watches without

feeling self-conscious. / By 1924, some 30 percent of men's watches

were

worn on

the wrist. / Today, the figure is 90 percent. / And they are now worn by both men

and women / for practical purposes rather than for decoration.

The Internet(2006)

The Internet is the most significant progress in the field of communications. /

Imagine a book that never ends, a library with a million floors, / or imagine a

research project with thousands of scientists / working around the clock forever. /

This is the magic of the Internet. / Yet the Internet has the potential for good and

bad. / One can find well-organized information-rich websites. / At the same time,

one

can also find

wasteful

websites. / Most

websites are known as different Internet

applications. / These include online games, chat rooms (chat rooms) and so on. /

These applications have great power, too. / Sometimes the power can be so great

/ that young people may easily become victims to their attraction. / So we need to

recognize the seriousness of the problem. / We must work together to use its power

for better ends./

Advertising(2007)

Advertising has already become a very specialized activity in modern times. / In

today's business world, supply is usually greater than demand./ There is great

competition between manufacturers of the same kind of product,/ because they

want to persuade customers to buy their particular brand./ They always have to

remind their customers/ of the name and the qualities of their products by

advertising./ The manufacturer advertises in newspapers and on the radio./ He

sometimes employs salesgirls to distribute samples of his products. / He sometimes

advertises on the internet as well./ In addition, he always has advertisements put

into television programs that will accept them./ Manufacturers often spend huge

sums of money on advertisements./ We buy a particular product because we think

that is the best./ We usually think so because the advertisements say so./ People

often don’t ask themselves if the advertisements are telling the truth, /when they

buy advertised products from the shops./

Choose a career(2008)

When students graduate from college,/ many of them do not know how they want

to spend their working lives /and they sometimes move from job to job until they

find something that suits them/ and of equally importance to which they are

suited./ Others never find a job in which they are really happy. /They remain all

their lives square pegs in round holes. /When we choose our careers, we need to ask

ourselves two questions./ First, what do we think we would like to be? /Second,