01年英语专四听力原文和答案

2001

年专四听力答案

PART

Ⅰ

DICTATION

Characteristics of a Good Reader

To

improve

your

reading

habits

,/you

must

understand

the

characteristics

of

a

good reader. /First, the good reader usually reads rapidly./0f course, he does not read

every piece of material at the same rate. /But whether he is reading a newspaper or a

chapter in a physics text,/his reading rate is relatively fast./He has learned to read for

ideas

rather

than

words

one

at

a

time./Next,

the

good

reader

can

recognize

and

understand

general

ideas

and

specific

details./Thus

he

is

able

to

comprehend

the

material with a minimum of effort and a maximum of interest. /Finally, the good reader

has at his command several special skills ,/which he can apply to reading problems as

they occur. /For the college student, the most helpful of these skills include/ making

use of the various aids to understanding that most textbooks provide /and skim-reading

for a general survey.

PART

Ⅱ

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A CONVERSATIONS

Questions I to 3 are based on the following conversation.

W: Hi, you had an encounter with an elephant yesterday?

M: Yeah, (1) it scared me to death.

W:What happened?

M:

I was walking in the park (1) when a female elephant

came charging at

me

right from behind.

W:How terrifying!

M: Yes. As I wag running I tripped and fell to the ground. Just as I turned around

the tusks were already about a foot from my chest.

W:She was trying to stab you with her tusks?

M: She was going for a kill. (2) I just had time to grab the tusks and kind of pulled

them past my body. And one tusk stabbed into the earth about a few centimeters from

my

head.

I

held

on

and

she

just

tried

to

stab

me.

Miraculously

she

didn't

touch

anything vital.

W:When she stabbed into the earth, she must liTive been right on top of you?

M: Oh yes, she was. (3) Her eyeballs were about two inches from my eyeballs.

W: Just at that second when you were staring at her in the eye, was there anything

going through your head or were you over- whelmed with terror?

M:My thought was. If you let go of these tusks, you are dead meat.

W: Well,what did happen? Why didn't you die?

M:

Usually

the

elephant

is

just

as

scared

as

you

are.

Someone

came

up

and

screamed at the elephant. That probably distracted her and she decided to run away.

Key:1.B

2.C

3. A

Questions 4 to 6 are based on the following conversation.

M: Math department, Doctor Webster speaking.

W:

Hello,

Prof.

Webster,

this

is

Janet

Hill

calling.

I

live

two

doors

down

from

your teaching assistant, Don Williams. (4) Don asked me to call you because he has

lost his voice and can't talk to you himself.

M:Lost his voice? Oh, what a shame! Is there anything I can do for him?

W: Well, he has a class this afternoon from 2:30 to 4:00 and he won't be able to

teach it. But he doesn't want to cancel it, either.

M:Does he want me to try to find somebody else to teach the class?

W: No, not exactly. (5) What he wants to do is to get someone to go in for him,

just to pass back the mid-term exams.

M;His class is at 2:30, you say? Well, I'm free at that time and I was going to be

on campus anyway; so I could do it for him. What room is his class in?

W: Cater Hall, Room 214. (6) Will you need his office key to get the exams? He's

given it to me and I could bring it to you.

M:

Actually,

that

won't

be

necessary.

We

have

a

master

key

in

the

math

department. So I can get into his office if necessary

W: Thank you very much, Prof. Webster.

M:My pleasure.

Key: 4.C

5. A

6.B

Questions 7 to 10 are based on the following conversation.

M: Hey, Jane. What's so interesting'?

F:

I'm

reading this

fascinating article on the societies of the Ice Age during the

Pleistocene period.

M: (7)The Ice Age? There weren't any societies then. Just a bunch of cave people.

F: That's what people used to think. But a new exhibit of the America museum of

natural history showed Ice Age people were surprisinglyadvanced:

M: Oh, really? In what ways?

F:

Well,

Ice

Age

people

were

the

inventors

of

language,

art,

and

music

as

we

know it. And they didn't live in caves, they built their own shelters.

M: What did they use to build them? The cold weather would have killed off most

of the trees so they couldn't have used wood.

F: (8) In some of the warmer climates, they did build the houses of wood. In other

places, they used animal bones and skins or lived in natural stone shelters.

M: How did they stay warm? Animal skin walls don't sound very sturdy.

F: (9) Well, in the early Ice Age, they often faced the house towards south, to take

the advantage of the sun, a primitive sort of solar heating.

M:

Hey,

that's

pretty

smart.

I

guess

I

spoke

too

soon.

(10)

Can

I

read

that

magazine

article

after

you've

done?

I

think

I'm

going

to

try

to

impress

my

history

teacher with my amazing knowledge of the Ice Age civilization.

F:What a show off.

Key: 7.A

8.C

9.D

10.B

SECTION B

PASSAGES

Questions II to 13 are based on the following passage.

(11)

There

is

probably

no

area

of

human

activity

in

which

OUT

values

and

lifestyles are reflected more vividly than they are in the clothes that we choose to wear.

The dress of an individual is a kind of

set of information and is usually the basis on which immediate impressions are formed.

(12) Traditionally a concern for clothes was considered to be a feminine preoccupation,

while

men

took

pride

in

the

fact

that

they

were

completely

lacking

in

clothes

consciousness.

Time has changed as masculine dress takes on greater variety and color. As early as

1955 ,a research revealed that men attached high importance to the value of clothing in

daily

life.

White-collar

workers

in

particular

viewed

dress

as

a

symbol

capable

of

manipulation, which could be used to impress or influence others, especially in work

situations. (13) Although blue collar workers were less aware that they might be judged

on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that

any difference from

the accepted

pattern of dress would draw ridicule from fellow workers.

Since

that

time,

the

pattern

has

changed:

the

typical

office

worker

may

now

be

wearing the blue shirt, and the laborer a white shirt; but the importance of dress has not

diminished.

Key: 11.A

12. A

13.D

Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage.

(14)To

work

in

an

international

organization,

such

as

the

United

Nations

or

the

European Commission, you need to be accredited by one of the various international

translators' or interpreters' associations. To achieve this,

you must undergo strict and

lengthy

training,

either

at

an

accrediting

organization's

own

school,

or

on

a

postgraduate course at university.

But a qualification in languages is not the only route into the job. At the European

Commission, for example, a recent intake of trainee interpreters included several with

degrees in subjects like economics,linguistics,philosophy,law and,of course,languages.

(16)

To

become

a

successful

interpreter,

candidates

need

to

be

at

a

high

level

in

between three and five languages. However,

regardless

of

how

many

languages

they

speak,

(16)

they

voll

only

be

required

to

translate from their acquired languages into their mother tongue.

(15) Compared with using a foreign language, manipulating their own language is

more crucial for them. With this skill, and a lot of practice, they will be able to clearly

communicate information or messages which have been expressed in a very

different way in another language.

Yet, while interpreters may be seldom noticed, they are always looking carefully

at the people for whom they are interpreting, (16)ln particular, they are looking at the

body language of the speaker, because they must also use this information when they