2012年6月英语四级全真预测试卷听力(4)
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Section A
11．W：Come along now．Open your mouth．I can’t give you the injection with your mouth closed, can I?
M：I…I…I don’t want an injection．I hate needles．
Q：Where is the conversation most probably taking place?
12．M：This stew is delicious．I’d love to be able to make it myself．
W：Why not? You can get all the ingredients at any supermarket．Here, let me get a pencil and paper．
Q：What will the woman probably do next?
13．M：The basketball team is in the play-offs and I don’t have a ticket．I guess I’ll just watch it on TV．Do you want to come over?
W：Actually I have a ticket．but I’m not feeling welt．You can have it for what it cost me．
Q：What does the woman mean?
14．W：Have you finished the assignment given by Professor Smith? I don’t think you have much difficulty doing that experiment?
M：NO．but I didn’t expect it would take me most of the day．
Q：What does the man mean?
15．W：You don’t look smart this morning．I can see you’re not happy．Come on．what happened?
M：I had never expected this would have happened to me．We had a power failure at home last night and I missed most of the football match．
Q：What can we infer from the conversation?
16．W：Well，I do like this campus，all the big trees，the green lawns，and the old buildings with tall columns．It’s really beautiful．
M：It sure is．The architecture of these buildings is in the Greek style．It was popular in the 18th century here．
Q：What are the speakers talking about?
17．W：When is Mike coming?
M：Well，he said he’d be here at half past six，but if you know him，it will be at least eight O’clock．
Q：What do we know about Mike?
18．M：Can we travel to New York together?
W：Certainly．I’ll pick you up at 2：00 and we should arrive in New York by 5：00 if the traffic isn’t too heavy．
Q：What means of transportation are the man and the woman using?
Now you’ll hear two long conversations．
Conversation One
M：Yael, what’s that in your hand?
W：Come on, Don. Haven’t you seen a cigarette before? Every day in the United States，about 1,500 girls begin smoking, and I figured, why not do my share?
M：But Yael, don’t you know that tobacco kills more than 140,000 women each year, and that half of those women are between the ages of thirty-five and sixty-nine?
W：Yeah．but that’s why I smoke a brand with low nicotine and tar content．
M：Although tobacco companies advertise some cigarettes as "light", this is just an advertising ploy to obscure the risks associated with smoking-smoking a light cigarette is just as risky as smoking a regular one．In fact，research shows that people who smoke light cigarettes actually smoke differently in order to get higher levels of nicotine．
W：I didn’t know that．
M：The one thing you can say about tobacco companies is that they are really savvy about marketin9．While tobacco ads that target men focus on cigarettes as macho or cool，tobacco ads that target women focus on social and political themes important to women． For example，ads will say that you’ve come a long way，or that you’ve found your voice，or encourage you to just be yourself, as if smoking has anything to do with progress and self-expression．Young women are especially vulnerable to these ads because addiction，disease，and premature death seem so remote to them．And the thing is，people who have smoked as few as one hundred cigarettes report having difficulty quitting．
W：S0．Don．can you pass me that ashtray?
M：With pleasure, Yael, as long as you put it out．
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19. What are the speakers talking about?
20. How many women die of smoking each year?
21. Which statement is true about a light cigarette?
22. What themes are the most popular among women in tobacco advertisements?
Conversation Two
M: Hello.
W: Oh, hello. You must be a new student. Did you find it OK?
M: Well, I got a bit lost because I asked a stranger. But I got it eventually.
W: Oh. Dear, Have you come far today?
M: Only from Brighton. I was staying with my brother.
W: Oh. Good, How did you get here?
M: My brother took me to the railway station. And I got on a bus at this end.
W: Aha. Well, you’d better tell me your name so I can find your form.
M: It’s Mark Bum.
W: Burn, Bum. Ah, yes. Oh, you’ve changed since this photo. What happened to your beard and moustache? And not wearing glasses, either.
M: No, I thought I’d better look smarter.
W: Here is the key to your room. It’s 501.
M: Thanks. How do I get there?
W: Go to the end of this corridor, turn left and it’s the third door on the right.
M: Thank you. Oh, here’s a meeting for new students. What time is that?
W: Half past five in the Common Room on the ground floor at the other end of the corridor.
M: Thanks a lot. Goodbye.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. How did Mark get there?
24. Which of the following does Mark NOT used to wear?
25. Where is the meeting for new students to be held?
Section B
Passage One
Sports and games make our bodies strong, prevent us from getting too fat, and keep us healthy. But they are not their only use. They give us valuable practice in making eyes, brain and muscles work together. In tennis, our eyes see the ball coming, judge its speed and direction and pass this information on to the brain. The brain then has to decide what to do, and to send its orders to the muscles of the arms, legs, and so on, so that the ball is met and hit back where it ought to go. All this must happen with very great speed, and only those who have had a lot of practice at tennis can carry out this complicated chain of events successfully. For those who work with their brains most of the day, the practice of such skills is especially useful.
Sports and games are also very useful for character training. In their lessons at school, boys and girls may learn about such virtues as unselfishness, courage, discipline and love of one’s country; but what is learned in books cannot have the same deep effect on a child’s character as what is learned by experience. The ordinary day school cannot give much practical training in living, because most of the pupils’ time is spent in classes, studying lessons. So it is what the pupils do in their spare time that really prepares them to take their place in society as citizens when they grow up. If each of them learns to work for his team and not for himself on the football field, he will later find it natural to work for the good of his country instead of only for his own benefit.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What do we have to do when we play tennis?
27. Which of the following can a child’s character be most deeply influenced by?
28. What is of the greatest importance to a football team?
Passage Two
Rainforests circle the globe for twenty degrees of latitude on both sides of the equator. In that relatively narrow band of the planet, more than half of all the species of plants and animals in the world make their home. Several hundred different varieties of trees may grow in a single acre, and just one of those trees may be the habitat for more than ten thousand kinds of spiders, ants, and other insects. More species of amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles live in rainforests than anywhere else on Earth.
Unfortunately, half of the world’s rainforests have already been destroyed, and at the current rate, another 25 percent will be lost by the year 2010. Scientists estimate that as many as fifty million acres are destroyed annually. In other words, every sixty seconds one hundred acres of rainforest is being cleared. By the time you finish listening to this passage, two hundred acres will have been destroyed! When this happens, constant rains erode the former forest floor, the thin layer of soil no longer supports plant life, and the ecology of the region is altered forever. Thousands of species of plants and animals are condemned to extinction and, since we aren’t able to predict the ramifications of this loss to a delicate global ecology, we don’t know what we may be doing to the future of the human species as well
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. Where do more than half of all the species of plants and animals live?
30. What is the current rate of destruction?
31. What will NOT happen if the rainforest continues to be cleared?
Passage Three
After you decide what kind of car you want, which options you need, and how much you can afford to spend, you should shop at several dealerships. Buying a car is one of the few purchases that you will make in the United States that allows for negotiation. In the case of cars, new and used, the sticker price posted on the window is not fixed, and the car dealer will expect you to bargain. It has been estimated that fewer than 20 percent of all new car buyers end up paying an amount even close to the list price.
To save the most money, use the following strategies when you negotiate. In the first place, don’t mention that you have a car to trade in until you have agreed on a price for the car you want to buy. If the salespersons know in advance, they may quote you a high price for the trade-in, but the price of the new car may be adjusted to include the added amount. In addition, buy a car that is already on the dealers lot instead of ordering a car. The dealer has to pay insurance and finance charges for every car in the inventory and is usually willing to sell one for less money in order to reduce the overhead expenses. Furthermore, try to buy your new car at the end of the year, just before the next year’s models arrive in the fall. Dealers are usually glad to move these cars off their lots to make room for the new models. If you can’t wait until fall to buy your car, at least wait until the end of the month, when the dealer is trying to reach a set sales quota in order to earn a bonus from the manufacturer. Finally, don’t mention to the car dealer that you intend to pay cash or use a bank for financing until the deal is closed. Some dealers will offer a lower price if they believe that they will have the opportunity to arrange the financing and collect a commission.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?
33. According to the author, when should a buyer purchase a new car?
34. Which of the following is NOT recommended for getting the best price on a new car?
35. What can be inferred from the passage?
Section C
British workers are suffering "email stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
Staffers are left tired, (36) frustrated and unproductive as they (37) struggle to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
When researchers (38) fitted monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing emails up to 40 times an hour.
About 33 percent said they felt stressed by the (39) volume of emails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to (40) respond.
Just 38 percent of workers were (4l) relaxed enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
Researchers found that many workers felt "(42 ) invaded" by emails interrupting them as they tried to (43) concentrate on their work. (44) They felt pressured to switch applications to see whether the emails were urgent.
Karen Renaud, a computer scientist at Glasgow University, and Judith Ramsay, a psychologist at Paisley University, surveyed almost 200 workers.
They concluded, "Email has become an indispensable tool in business. (45) However, there is evidence that email can exert a powerful hold over its users and that many computer users experience stress as a result of email-related pressure."
Renaud said, "(46) Email is the thing that now causes us the most problems in our working lives. It’s an amazing tool, but it’s got out of hand. "
Section A
11．W：Come along now．Open your mouth．I can’t give you the injection with your mouth closed, can I?
M：I…I…I don’t want an injection．I hate needles．
Q：Where is the conversation most probably taking place?
12．M：This stew is delicious．I’d love to be able to make it myself．
W：Why not? You can get all the ingredients at any supermarket．Here, let me get a pencil and paper．
Q：What will the woman probably do next?
13．M：The basketball team is in the play-offs and I don’t have a ticket．I guess I’ll just watch it on TV．Do you want to come over?
W：Actually I have a ticket．but I’m not feeling welt．You can have it for what it cost me．
Q：What does the woman mean?
14．W：Have you finished the assignment given by Professor Smith? I don’t think you have much difficulty doing that experiment?
M：NO．but I didn’t expect it would take me most of the day．
Q：What does the man mean?
15．W：You don’t look smart this morning．I can see you’re not happy．Come on．what happened?
M：I had never expected this would have happened to me．We had a power failure at home last night and I missed most of the football match．
Q：What can we infer from the conversation?
16．W：Well，I do like this campus，all the big trees，the green lawns，and the old buildings with tall columns．It’s really beautiful．
M：It sure is．The architecture of these buildings is in the Greek style．It was popular in the 18th century here．
Q：What are the speakers talking about?
17．W：When is Mike coming?
M：Well，he said he’d be here at half past six，but if you know him，it will be at least eight O’clock．
Q：What do we know about Mike?
18．M：Can we travel to New York together?
W：Certainly．I’ll pick you up at 2：00 and we should arrive in New York by 5：00 if the traffic isn’t too heavy．
Q：What means of transportation are the man and the woman using?
Now you’ll hear two long conversations．
Conversation One
M：Yael, what’s that in your hand?
W：Come on, Don. Haven’t you seen a cigarette before? Every day in the United States，about 1,500 girls begin smoking, and I figured, why not do my share?
M：But Yael, don’t you know that tobacco kills more than 140,000 women each year, and that half of those women are between the ages of thirty-five and sixty-nine?
W：Yeah．but that’s why I smoke a brand with low nicotine and tar content．
M：Although tobacco companies advertise some cigarettes as "light", this is just an advertising ploy to obscure the risks associated with smoking-smoking a light cigarette is just as risky as smoking a regular one．In fact，research shows that people who smoke light cigarettes actually smoke differently in order to get higher levels of nicotine．
W：I didn’t know that．
M：The one thing you can say about tobacco companies is that they are really savvy about marketin9．While tobacco ads that target men focus on cigarettes as macho or cool，tobacco ads that target women focus on social and political themes important to women． For example，ads will say that you’ve come a long way，or that you’ve found your voice，or encourage you to just be yourself, as if smoking has anything to do with progress and self-expression．Young women are especially vulnerable to these ads because addiction，disease，and premature death seem so remote to them．And the thing is，people who have smoked as few as one hundred cigarettes report having difficulty quitting．
W：S0．Don．can you pass me that ashtray?
M：With pleasure, Yael, as long as you put it out．
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19. What are the speakers talking about?
20. How many women die of smoking each year?
21. Which statement is true about a light cigarette?
22. What themes are the most popular among women in tobacco advertisements?
Conversation Two
M: Hello.
W: Oh, hello. You must be a new student. Did you find it OK?
M: Well, I got a bit lost because I asked a stranger. But I got it eventually.
W: Oh. Dear, Have you come far today?
M: Only from Brighton. I was staying with my brother.
W: Oh. Good, How did you get here?
M: My brother took me to the railway station. And I got on a bus at this end.
W: Aha. Well, you’d better tell me your name so I can find your form.
M: It’s Mark Bum.
W: Burn, Bum. Ah, yes. Oh, you’ve changed since this photo. What happened to your beard and moustache? And not wearing glasses, either.
M: No, I thought I’d better look smarter.
W: Here is the key to your room. It’s 501.
M: Thanks. How do I get there?
W: Go to the end of this corridor, turn left and it’s the third door on the right.
M: Thank you. Oh, here’s a meeting for new students. What time is that?
W: Half past five in the Common Room on the ground floor at the other end of the corridor.
M: Thanks a lot. Goodbye.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. How did Mark get there?
24. Which of the following does Mark NOT used to wear?
25. Where is the meeting for new students to be held?
Section B
Passage One
Sports and games make our bodies strong, prevent us from getting too fat, and keep us healthy. But they are not their only use. They give us valuable practice in making eyes, brain and muscles work together. In tennis, our eyes see the ball coming, judge its speed and direction and pass this information on to the brain. The brain then has to decide what to do, and to send its orders to the muscles of the arms, legs, and so on, so that the ball is met and hit back where it ought to go. All this must happen with very great speed, and only those who have had a lot of practice at tennis can carry out this complicated chain of events successfully. For those who work with their brains most of the day, the practice of such skills is especially useful.
Sports and games are also very useful for character training. In their lessons at school, boys and girls may learn about such virtues as unselfishness, courage, discipline and love of one’s country; but what is learned in books cannot have the same deep effect on a child’s character as what is learned by experience. The ordinary day school cannot give much practical training in living, because most of the pupils’ time is spent in classes, studying lessons. So it is what the pupils do in their spare time that really prepares them to take their place in society as citizens when they grow up. If each of them learns to work for his team and not for himself on the football field, he will later find it natural to work for the good of his country instead of only for his own benefit.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. What do we have to do when we play tennis?
27. Which of the following can a child’s character be most deeply influenced by?
28. What is of the greatest importance to a football team?
Passage Two
Rainforests circle the globe for twenty degrees of latitude on both sides of the equator. In that relatively narrow band of the planet, more than half of all the species of plants and animals in the world make their home. Several hundred different varieties of trees may grow in a single acre, and just one of those trees may be the habitat for more than ten thousand kinds of spiders, ants, and other insects. More species of amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles live in rainforests than anywhere else on Earth.
Unfortunately, half of the world’s rainforests have already been destroyed, and at the current rate, another 25 percent will be lost by the year 2010. Scientists estimate that as many as fifty million acres are destroyed annually. In other words, every sixty seconds one hundred acres of rainforest is being cleared. By the time you finish listening to this passage, two hundred acres will have been destroyed! When this happens, constant rains erode the former forest floor, the thin layer of soil no longer supports plant life, and the ecology of the region is altered forever. Thousands of species of plants and animals are condemned to extinction and, since we aren’t able to predict the ramifications of this loss to a delicate global ecology, we don’t know what we may be doing to the future of the human species as well
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. Where do more than half of all the species of plants and animals live?
30. What is the current rate of destruction?
31. What will NOT happen if the rainforest continues to be cleared?
Passage Three
After you decide what kind of car you want, which options you need, and how much you can afford to spend, you should shop at several dealerships. Buying a car is one of the few purchases that you will make in the United States that allows for negotiation. In the case of cars, new and used, the sticker price posted on the window is not fixed, and the car dealer will expect you to bargain. It has been estimated that fewer than 20 percent of all new car buyers end up paying an amount even close to the list price.
To save the most money, use the following strategies when you negotiate. In the first place, don’t mention that you have a car to trade in until you have agreed on a price for the car you want to buy. If the salespersons know in advance, they may quote you a high price for the trade-in, but the price of the new car may be adjusted to include the added amount. In addition, buy a car that is already on the dealers lot instead of ordering a car. The dealer has to pay insurance and finance charges for every car in the inventory and is usually willing to sell one for less money in order to reduce the overhead expenses. Furthermore, try to buy your new car at the end of the year, just before the next year’s models arrive in the fall. Dealers are usually glad to move these cars off their lots to make room for the new models. If you can’t wait until fall to buy your car, at least wait until the end of the month, when the dealer is trying to reach a set sales quota in order to earn a bonus from the manufacturer. Finally, don’t mention to the car dealer that you intend to pay cash or use a bank for financing until the deal is closed. Some dealers will offer a lower price if they believe that they will have the opportunity to arrange the financing and collect a commission.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?
33. According to the author, when should a buyer purchase a new car?
34. Which of the following is NOT recommended for getting the best price on a new car?
35. What can be inferred from the passage?
Section C
British workers are suffering "email stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
Staffers are left tired, (36) frustrated and unproductive as they (37) struggle to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
When researchers (38) fitted monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing emails up to 40 times an hour.
About 33 percent said they felt stressed by the (39) volume of emails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to (40) respond.
Just 38 percent of workers were (4l) relaxed enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
Researchers found that many workers felt "(42 ) invaded" by emails interrupting them as they tried to (43) concentrate on their work. (44) They felt pressured to switch applications to see whether the emails were urgent.
Karen Renaud, a computer scientist at Glasgow University, and Judith Ramsay, a psychologist at Paisley University, surveyed almost 200 workers.
They concluded, "Email has become an indispensable tool in business. (45) However, there is evidence that email can exert a powerful hold over its users and that many computer users experience stress as a result of email-related pressure."
Renaud said, "(46) Email is the thing that now causes us the most problems in our working lives. It’s an amazing tool, but it’s got out of hand. "
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