1998年1月大学英语四级考试听力材料
　　Section A
　　1. M: 1 would like two tickets for the 9 o'clock show this evening.
　　W: I'm sorry. Sir. They are sold out. But we have a few left for tomorrow.
　　Q：What do we learn from this conversation?

　　2. W: I'd love to see a different type of movie for a change.I'm tired of movies about
　　romantic storles.
　　M: I agree. Let's go and see a new movie at the Royal Theatre. I hear it's a real
　　story of two prison breakers.
　　Q: What kind of movie does the woman find boring?

　　3. M: What do you think of Professor Brown's lecture?
　　W: The topic was interesting, but the lecture was much more difficult to follow than
　　I had expected.
　　Q: What does the woman say about the lecture?

　　4. M: I'd like to have a talk with your director sometime this week. Could you arrange
　　it for me?
　　W: He's rather busy these days. But I'll see what I can do.
　　Q: What's the man asking the woman to do?

　　5. M: Why did Margaret call yesterday?
　　W: She wanted to pick up some magazines she lent me.
　　Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

　　6. W: You seem to have a lot of work to do at your office. You're always staying late
　　and working overtime.
　　M: That's true. But it's no bother to me. The work is interesting. I don't mind
　　extra hours at all.
　　Q: How does the man feel about his job?

　　7. M: Well, the holiday is well soon be here.
　　W: Yes, isn't it exciting by this time next week, we'll be on the plane?
　　Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

　　8. M: What happened to you? You are so late.
　　W: The bus I took broke down in front of the hospital and I had to walk from there.
　　Q: Why was the woman so late?

　　9. M: It's such a beautiful day. Why not sit out in the back yard for a while and enjoy
　　it?
　　W: I'd love to. But there's a lot of laundry to do.
　　Q: What will the woman probably do?

　　10.M: I believe you have a room to let.
　　W:That's so. Yes, won't you come in?
　　Q: What can we learn from the conversation?

　　Section B Compound Dictation
　　(S1) world's
　　(S2) architecture
　　(S3) artificial
　　(S4) success
　　(S5) Despite
　　(S6) experiences
　　(S7) romantic
　　(S8) high school physical education was difficult, because all of the equipment was too
　　big for the then five-year-old student.
　　(S9) that in graduate school he's studying how to make them think like people.
　　(S10) rnichael is smart, but he is like every other kid.