-
篇原文
5
0
英语专业四级听写．
英语专业四级听写
50
篇原文
!
Passage 1
Town
and Country Life in England
There
is
a
big
difference
town life and
country life in England. In the
between
country,
everybody knows everybody else.
They know
what
time
you
get
up,
what
time
you
go to bed
and what you have for dinner. If
you want help,
you
will
always
get
it
and
you
will
be glad to
help others.
In a large
town like London,
however, it can
sometimes happen that you have
never seen
your
next
door
neighbor
and
you
do
not know
his
name or anything about him.
People in
London
are
often
very
lonely.
This
is because
people go to
different places in
the evenings and
at weekends. If
you walk through
the streets in
the
centre
of
London
on
Sunday,
it
is like a town
without people. One is sorry for
old people
living on their
own. They could
die in their
homes
and
would
not
be
discovered
for weeks or
even months.
(154 words.)
A Change in Women's
LifeThe
important change in women's
have begun to has only recently
life-pattern
's economic
its full effect on
womenposition.
Even
a
few
years
ago
most
girls
left school at the
first opportunity,
and
However, job. took a full-time most of
Passage 2
them
at left
work usually when they married,
they
once
and
never
returned
to
it.
Today
the
school-leaving age is sixteen, many
girls
stay
at
school
after
that
age,
and
though
women tend to marry younger, more
married
women
stay
at
work
at
least
until
shortly
many Very is born.
child before their
first
more afterwards return to full-time or
part-time
work.
Such
changes
have
led
to
a
new relationship in marriage, with
husband
and the duties of
greater accepting a
share
satisfactions of family life and with
both
husband
and
wife
sharing
more
equally
in
providing the money, and
running the
home,
on
interests
the
abilities
and
according
to
each of them. (154 words)
Passage 3
A
Popular Pastime of the English
People
One of the best means of understanding
the
people of any nation is
watching what
they
do with
their non-working time.
Most English
men, women and children
love
growing things, especially flowers.
Visitors to England in spring, summer,
or
way the gardens to see
all are autumn
likely
along
the railway lines. There are
flowers
at the airports and flowers in factory
grounds,
as
well
as
in
gardens
along
the
roads.
Each
English
town
has
at
least
one
park
with
beautifully
kept
flower
beds.
Public buildings of every kind have
brilliant window boxes and sometimes
baskets of flowers are hanging on them.
But what the English enjoy most is
growing
things themselves.
If it is impossible
to
something
box a garden,
have a then widow or
growing
in
a
pot
will
do.
Looking
at
each
other's gardens is a
popular pastime
with
the
English. (144words.)
Passage 4
British
and American Police Officers
common
recognize
any
the
U.S.,
hardly
Real
policemen,
both
in
Britain
and
home
get
ever
—
if
they
and
what
they
see
on
TVpoints
between
their
lives
in time.
think
not
the
policemen
do
about
the
same,
of
course,
but
Some
things
are
much of them.
law. the deals with
that a
policeman's
real life The
first difference is
Most of
what he learns is the law. He has to know actually
what actions
are against the law and
what facts can be used to prove them in court.
He has to know nearly as much law as a
lawyer, and what's more, he has
narrow
a running down feet, in the dark and, to put it
into practice on
his
street
after someone he wants to talk to.
bravely
or
girls
in
in
talking
with
beautiful
Little
of
his
time
is
spent
arranging
working
life
spend
most
of
his
facing
cruel
criminals.
He
will
millions
of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of
sad, ordinary
(177words) unimportant
crimes. not of stupid, people who are
guilty
—
or
Passage
5
Living Space
How much
living space does a person need? What happens when
his space
needs are not met?
Scientists are doing experiments on rats to try to
determine the effects of overcrowded
conditions on man. Recent studies
have
shown that the behavior of rats is greatly
affected by space. If
their
produce
sleep
well
and
enough
living
space,
they
eat
well,
rats
have
young
well. But if their living conditions become too
crowded, their
behavior and even their
health change obviously. They can not sleep and
they crowded The more and worry become
clear. fear eat well, and signs
of
Thus,
each
other.
and
even
kill
each
are,
the
more
they
tend
to
bite
other
natural
a
related.
Is
this
rats,
population
and
violence
are
directly
for
law
for human society as well? Is enough space not
only satisfactory,
but necessary for
human survival? These are interesting
questions.(147
words)
Passage 6
The United Nations
In 1945, representatives of 50 nations
met to plan this organization.
joined.
nations war, many more Nations. was It called the
United After
the
General
the
is
Nations.
the
parts
two
There
are
major
of
United
One
called
Assembly. In the
General Assembly, every member nation is
represented
and has an equal vote.
The second part is called the Security
Council. It has representatives
States,
the
United
nations
are
permanent
members:
of
just
15
nations.
Five
every
are
elected
10
other
members
Russia,
France,
Britain
and
China.
The
two
years by the General Assembly.
The
major job of the Security Council is to keep peace
in the world. If
necessary, it can
send troops from member nations to try to stop
little
wars before they turn into big
ones.
It is
hard to get the nations of the Security Council to
agree on when
this is necessary. But
they did vote to try to stop wars. (156 words)
Passage 7
Plastic
We use plastic wrap to protect our
foods. We put our garbage in plastic
bags or plastic cans. We sit on plastic
chairs, play with plastic toys,
drink
from plastic cups, and wash our hair with shampoo
from plastic
bottles!
Plastic doesn't grow in nature. It is
made by mixing certain things
together. We call it a produced or
manufactured material. Plastic was
plastic That and cotton. from plants,
such as wood 1860s first made in
the
was soft and burned easily.
The first modern plastics were made in
1930s. Most clear plastic starts
out
as thick, black oil. That plastic coating inside a
pan begins as
natural gas.
Some
been
developed.
of
different
plastics
have
years,
Over
the
hundreds
are
hard and strong. Some are soft and bendable. Some
are clear. Some
are many-colored.
There is a plastic for almost every need.
Scientists
use to find even
ways They
continue
to experiment with plastics.
hope to
them! (160 words)
Passage 8
Display
of Goods
Are supermarkets designed to
persuade us to buy more?
This
supermarket
entrances.
vegetables
and
are
displayed
near
Fresh
fruit
gives the impression that only healthy
food is sold in the shop. Basic
other.
near
each
are
sugar
and
tea,
not
put
like
everyone
foods
that
buys,
They
are kept in different aisles so customers are
taken past other
attractive foods
before they find what they want. In this way,
shoppers
are encouraged to buy
products that they do not really need.
Sweets are often placed at children's
eye level at the checkout. While
parents are waiting to pay, children
reach for the sweets and put them
in
the trolley.
More is bought from a
fifteen-foot display of one type of product than
from a ten-foot one. Customers also buy
more when shelves are full than
when
they are a half empty. They do not like to buy
from shelves with
those
with
is
something
wrong
on
them
because
they
feel
there
few
products
products that are
there. (166 words)
Passage 9
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born in Germany in
1879. His father owned a factory
that
made electrical devices. His mother enjoyed music
and books. His
rules. the
religion'sobserve they did not many of parents
were Jewish
but
Albert was
a quiet child who spent much of his time alone. He
was slow
to
talk and had difficulty learning to read. When
Albert was five years
when
wonder
filled
with
a
compass.
The
child
was
old,
his
father
gave
him
he
discovered that the compass needle always pointed
in the same
to
the
north.
He
asked
his
father
and
his
uncle
what
caused
—
directionthe
needle to move. Their answers about
magnetism and gravity were
time
thinking a lot of understand. the boy to Yet he
spent difficult for
behind had to be
that he felt something hidden about them. He said
later
things. (143 words.)
Passage
10
Private Cars
Chinese
some
ordinary
standard
of
living,
With
the
increase
in
the
general
families begin to
afford a car. Yet opinions of the development of a
private car vary from person to person.
It gives a much greater degree of
comfort and mobility. The owner of a
car is no longer forced to rely on
public transport, and hence no
strongly
others
or
taxis.
However,
irritation
caused
by
waiting
for
buses
object
to developing private cars. They maintain that as
more and more
gas poisonous volume of
produced and run in the street, a large cars are
will be given off, polluting the
atmosphere and causing actual harm to
the health of people.
question a difficult developed in China
is should Whether private cars
be
car private and independence
a comfort to answer,
yet the
desire
for the
can bring
will not be eliminated.(143words)
Passage 11
A Henpecked
Husband and His Wife
There was once a
large, fat woman who had a small, thin husband. He
had
evening. every Friday given his
weekly wages company job a in a big and
was
As soon as he got home
on Fridays, his wife used to make him give her
all his money, and then she used to
give him back only enough to buy his
lunch in his company every day.
One day, the small man came home very
excited. He hurried into the
living-
room. His wife was listening to the radio and
eating chocolates
there.
“
You
will
never
guess
what
happened
to
me
today,
dear,
”
he
s
thousand ten added, and
few He waited for a seconds then
“
I won
on the
lottery!
”
“
That is
wonderful!
”
said his wife
delightedly. But then she pulled
a
long face and added angrily,
“
But how could you afford to
buy the
ticket?
”
(148 words)
Passage
12
A
Young
Man's
PromiseOne
day
a
young
man
was
writing
a
letter
to his girl friend who lived
just a few miles away in a nearby town.
He was telling her how much he
loved
her and how wonderful he thought she was. The more
he wrote, the
more poetic he became. Finally, he said
that in order to be with her he
would
suffer the greatest difficulties, he would face
the greatest
with
minute
only
one
In
fact,
to
spend
dangers
that
anyone
could
imagine.
her, he would swim
across the widest river, he would enter the
deepest
forest, and he would fight
against the fiercest animals with his bare
hands.
He finished the
letter, signed his name, and then suddenly
remembered
that he had forgotten to
mention something quite important. So, in a
postscript below his name, he added:
doesn't if it you on Wednesday night,
“
By the way, I'll be over to
see
rain.
”
(154
words)
Passage 13
A Kind Neighbor
Mr. and
Mrs. Jones' apartment was full of luggage,
package, furniture
ring.
doorbell
they
heard
the
when
Both
of
them
were
very
busy
and
boxes.
Mrs.
Jones went to open it and she saw a middle-aged
lady outside. The
lady said she lived
next door. Mrs. Jones invited her to come in and
OK,
”
that's
sit.
“
Oh,
to
was
no
place
for
her
apologized
because
there
know,
As
you
new
you
to
your
home.
“
I
said
the
lady.
just
come
to
welcome
in some parts of this city neighbors
are not friendly at all. There are
some apartment houses where people
don't know any of their neighbors,
friendly very building
this
everyone is
even not the
ones next
door. But
in
e like one big happy family. I'm sue
you'll with everyone else. We arbe
very
happy here.
”
Mr. and Mrs.
Jones said,
“
But madam, we
are not
new dwellers in this
department. We've lived her for two years. We're
moving out tomorrow.
”
(163 words)
Passage 14
That
Isn't Our FaultMr. and Mrs. Williams got married
when he was
twenty-three, and she was
photographer
a
party,
a
big
and
they
twenty.
Twenty-five
years
later,
had
came
and took some photographs of them.
Then the photographer gave Mrs.
Williams a card and said,
“
They'll be
dy
next
Wednesday.
You
can
get
them
from
studio.
”
rea
“
No,
”
Mrs.
William
said,
“
Please send them to
us.
”
The
photographs arrived a week later, but Mrs.
Williams was not happy
photographer's
drove to car into them. She when she
saw got her and the
went inside and
said angrily,
“
You took some
photographs studio. She
of
me
and
my
husband
last
week,
but
I'm
not
going
to
pay
for
them.
”
“
Oh,
Why
not?
”
the photographer
asked.
“
Because my husband
looks like a
monkey,
”
Mrs.
William
't
fault.
Why
“
that
isn't
our
“
Well,
”
the
photographer answered,
you think of
that before you married
him?
”
(148
words)
Passage 15
A
Guide's
AnswerNorthern
the
United
States
between
Civil
War
started
in
the
the In 1861,
and the Southern states.
The war continued with great bitterness until
1865, when the Northerners were
victorious. However, even today, many
Northerners.
the
or
forgiven
have
not
forgotten
their
defeat,
Southerners
A few years
ago, a party of American tourists were going round
one of
the battlefields of the Civil
War with a guide who came from one of the
Southern states. At each place, the
guide told the tourists stirring
a few
Southern soldiers had conquered powerful forces
stories about how
of Northerners
there.
At last, one of the tourists,
a lady who came from the North, stopped
the guide and said to him,
“
But surely the Northern
army must have won
at least one
victory in the Civil
War?
”
“
Not as long
as I'm the guide
here,
madam,
”
answered the
Southern
guide.(147 words)
Passage 16
A
Qualified Pilot
The captain of a small
ship had to go along a rocky coast, but he was
unfamiliar with it, so he tried to find
a qualified pilot to guide him.
pretended
fisherman
a
local
small
one
of
the
ports,
and
in
He
went
ashore
that he was a pilot because he needed
some money. The captain took him
on
board and asked him where to steer the ship.
After half an hour the captain began to
suspect that the fisherman did
not
really know what he was doing and where he was
going.
“
Are
you
sure
you
are
a
qualified
pilot?
”
he
asked.
“
Oh,
yes,
”
answered
the fisherman.
“
I
know every rock on this part
of
the
coast.
”
Suddenly
there
was
a
terrible
crash
from
under
the
ship.
At once the
fisherman added,
“
And that's one of
them.
”
(138 words)
Passage
17
Living
Things React
You and all organisms
live in an environment. An environment is made up
of everything that surrounds an
organism. It can include the air, the
water, the soil, and even other
organisms.
An organism responds to
changes in its environment. When an organism
respond
living ways. in it
a responds to change, reacts certain All things
in some way.
Have you ever
noticed how plants and insects respond to light?
Plants
bend toward light. Insects fly
toward light.
respond
trees
on
some
in
other
ways.
The
leaves
Living
things
also
respond
to a change in
season. In autumn, they change colors and then
fall off
save
Squirrels
in
season.
respond
to
a
change
Animals
the
branches.
also
nuts for the winter.
Bears sleep through the winter in a cave.
you may shiver
if many in ways, too. You You respond to your
environment
environment? in your you
respond to
changes are cold. What other
ways do
(156 words)
Passage 18
Flowering Plants
What are
the parts of a flower?
eggs make The
parts. female
parts
can have
male parts and
female
Flowers
that become seeds. The male
parts make pollen. Pollen is a powdery
make seeds, pollen To to make seeds.
material that is needed by the eggs
and eggs must come together. The wind,
insects, and birds bring pollen
ke
a
to
eggs.
Many
animals
love
flowers'
bright
colors.
They
also
linectar,
drink While they
flowers. This is called nectar. sugary liquid in
pollen rubs off on their bodies. As
they move, some of this pollen gets
delivered to the female flower parts.
Animals
contain
seeds.
turn
into
fruits
that
Over
time,
the
female
parts
often eat the fruits
and the seeds pass through their bodies as waste.
seeds planting plants by the not know
they are working for animals The
do
as they travel to different places.
(147 words)
Passage
19
Finding the Direction and Location
How can you tell which direction? By
day, look for the Sun. It is in the
afternoon. At night, use the Big east
in the morning and the west in the
Dipper to help you find the North Star.
It would be better to bring a
compass
because its needle always points north.
How do you know how far you have gone?
You could count every step. Each
step
is about two feet. You'd better wear a pedometer
which is a tool
that counts steps. If
you know where you started, which direction you
are heading, and how far you have gone,
you can use a good map to figure
out
exactly where you are.
Today there is
a new way for travelers to figure out where they
are. It
is the GPS. It has 24
satellites that orbit the earth and constantly
you
as
a
small
receiver
carry
you
positions.
broadcast
their
Someday
may
hike and use GPS to find out if you are
there yet!
Passage 20
Waves
How does light get from the sun to the
earth? How does music get from
in
waves!
—
the stage to the
audience? They move the same way
Light
and sound are forms of energy. All waves carry
energy, but they
kinds
through
different
Light
and
sound
travel
may
carry
it
differently.
sound
walls,
but
cannot
move
through
example,
of
matter.
For
light
waves
waves can. That is why you can hear
people talking in another room even
though you cannot see them.
The energy of some waves is destructive. An
earthquake produces seismic waves.
Catch a wave. Ask a friend to stand a
few feet away from you. Stretch
a
spring between you. Shake the spring to transfer
energy to it. What
happens? The spring
bounces up and down in waves. When the waves reach
your friend, they bounce back to you!
Light waves travel 300,000 kilometers
(186,000 miles) per second! They
can
also travel through a vacuum. That is why light
from the sun and
distant stars can
travel through space to the earth.(175 words)
Passage
21
Soils
soils. of many
different kinds
There are
and rock types of different
Different soils have
have
soils
other.
Some
minerals
in
them
than
soils
others.
Some
them
more
water
in than
in
animal
material
have
more
plant
and might
them, too.
different in soils are found of
Different kinds
of
kinds
are
several
the
parts
of
world. There
areas,
In
some
found
soils
in
the
United States.
very are Other soils of soil the
has a lot clay.
good
a
has
soil
kind
is
sandy.
Loam
a of that
mixture of clay and sand.
In some places, soil layers are
very thick. Lots of
plants
grow
in
places
with
a
thick
soil layer. In
much
are
places soil layers
dry
and
windy
thin
are
on mountains
thinner.
Layers
of
soil
because
gravity pulls the soil
downhill.
affects place
a particular
The
type of
soil
in
(150
there.
can
grow
what
kinds
of
plants
words)
Passage 22
Crisis
Life is a contest!
Who will win? A bluebird and sparrow both compete
for
space
to
build
their
nests.
A
fast-
growing
maple
tree
and
slower-growing
dogwood compete for the sunlight they
both need. Oil competes with coal
and
nuclear power as an energy source for electric
power plants.
There
is
a
problem.
There
is
a
limited
amount
of
space
for
birds,
sunlight
for trees, and
energy for people! If we do not cut back on our
uses of
some of our resources, someday
they will be gone!
How can we use
energy today and know we will have enough to go
around
in
the
future?
We
can
choose
alternate,
or
replacement,
energy
resources.
It takes the earth millions of years to
create coal, oil, and gas. They
are
nonrenewable resources.
Solar
energy,
wind
energy
and
water
energy
are
renewable.
What
other
ways
we
conserve our resources? How can we make sure there
is always enough
to go around? (159
words.)
Passage 23
America's Worst Surprise
December 7, 1941 was one of the worst
days in American history. Nearly
all
Americans who are
old enough to
remember that day
can still
remember
what they were doing at
the
moment they
heard
“
the
news
”
.
The news
was
that America had been attacked!
Shortly before 2:00 P.M., a radio
dispatch came into Washington from
Honolulu,
Hawaii.
“
Air
Raid,
Pearl
Harbor
—
This
is
no
drill.
”
Japanese
planes had begun an attack on the
largest American military base in the
Pacific.
They
first
destroyed
places
on
the
ground.
Then
they
bombed
the
ships
in the harbor.
No one had expected the
attack. So no one was prepared for it. And it
did not take long for the Japanese to
do their damage. When the smoke
cleared, the Navy counted its losses.
Eighteen ships had been sunk or
badly damaged. Nearly 150 planes had
been destroyed. More than 2,400
Americans had been killed and more than
1,200 wounded. (157 words)
Passage 24
Great
Depression in the U.S.
In 1929, the
bills started to come in. American industry had
produced
factories
them.
So
to
buy
all
of
Americans
too
many
goods.
could
not
afford
had to cut down on their production.
Many workers lost their jobs.
Investors tried to get their money
back. But businesses did not have
enough money to pay them. Banks tried
to get their money back from
owned
many
people
pay,
either.
Too
the
investors.
But
investors
could
not
money. And few of them could pay their
bills.
During the next few years,
business got worse and worse. By 1932, banks
all over the country were closing.
More
closed.
So
more
businesses
could
People
without
money
not
buy
goods.
Americans million than
12
1932, lost
their jobs. By
more and more people
were jobless.
Millions more were earning barely enough to live
on. The
(151 experienced never before.
great depression they had was country in
a
words)
Passage 25
A
Place of Our Own
buy when we usually
very careful
are We all
something for the house. Why?
Because we have
to live
with it for a long time.
We paint a
room to
colours the so we choose make
it
brighter,
carefully.
the to match in buy new curtains
order We
newly
decorated
room,
so
they
must
be the right
to as
furniture round so move
colour. We the
or
we
buy
new
furniture
——
make
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
上一篇：最新50个初中英语作文好句
下一篇：安保常用英语50句