英语专四听力原文和答案

2009年专四听力答案

PART I DICTATION

New Year's Eve

For many people in the west, New Year's Eve is the biggest party of the year. /lt's the time to get together with friends or family/and welcome in the coming year. / New Year's parties can take place in different places. /Some people hold a house party; others attend street parties;/ while some just go for a few drinks with their friends. /Big cities have large and spectacular fireworks displays. / There is one thing that all New Year's Eve parties have in common,/ the countdown to midnight./ When the clock strikes 12, people give a loud cheer and sing songs./ It's also popular to make a promise in the New Year. /This is called a New Year's resolution. / Typical resolutions include giving up smoking and keeping fit. /However, the promise is often broken quite quickly /and people are back into their bad habits within weeks or days. PART ⅡLISTENING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A CONVERSATIONS

Questions I to 3 are based on the following conversation.

W: Hi, Mark. How are you?

M: (2) Actually, I'm really fed up, Linda. It's Jean.

W: (2) Jean? Who is Jean?

M: Oh, nobody really. (1) Just a most stunningly attractive girl in my year school. W: Oh, is that all? (1) So what's the problem?

M: (1) Well, the thing is I just don't know how to make her notice me, or...

W: Wait a minute. I've got a brilliant idea I (3) Why don't you try talking to her?

M: (3)But I wouldn't know what to say. 1...

W: Look, she's in your chemistry class, isn't she? You're good at chemistry. (3) You could offer to help her with her chemistry homework. How about that?

M: Not bad. Just one problem.

W: What?

M: (3) She's better than me at chemistry.

W: OK, then? (3) Well, there is that party at John's on Friday night. You could invite her.

M: ( 2/3 ) Just another small problem. John's her boyfriend.

Key:1.B 2.C 3.A

Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation.

W: Yes, can I help you?

M: Yes, you see I bought this personal stereo at your shop three days ago. And I'm afraid that it hasn't really matched up to what I was told about it.

W: I see. What exactly is the matter?

M: (4/6) Well, first of all, there's this large scratch across the front of it.

W: But you should have noticed that when you bought it.

M: But it was in the box and all sealed up.

W: (4) Well, I am sorry, but it really is your responsibility to check the goods when you buy them. How were were to know that it wasn't you who made the scratch?

M: That's ridiculous. (6) But, anyway, it's not the most important thing. I really am not happy about this other thing.

W:And what is that?

M: Look, it says here that the noise from it should be undetectable by other people, W: Yes, that's right.

M: But people can hear it and it's really embarrassing on the bus and the underground. W: Well, I am sorry. (5)But it must be the way you are wearing the headphones.

M: (5) Look, I know how to put earphones in my ears. Thank you very much. But what I want to know is what you are going to do about it all.

W: (7) Well, I suppose we could exchange it for another model if you really aren't happy with it.

M: No, I certainly am not.

W: (7) Well, if I just could have the receipt.

M: Yes, well there is a slight problem about this receipt.

Key: 4.C 5.A 6D 7.B.

Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation.

W: Hello, Happy Time Catering Services Victoria speaking. How can I help you?

M: Hello, Victoria. This is Joe Smith from Country Holidays. (8/9) I wonder if you could do some catering for us next week. (10) We're having a small reception. It's to launch our summer holiday advertising campaign. Would you be free?

W: When exactly is it, Mr. Smith?

M: April 21st, that's Thursday. Oh, sorry, no. (9)lt should be Friday.

W: Oh, Yes, I can do that. ( 10) Where will you be holding at?

M: We thought we would have had it at head office and use the conference room because there is enough room for everyone there.

W: OK, what aort of things would you like?

M: Just a light lunch I think. So that People can eat while they move around and talk to each other. ( 10)You did something similar for us last year. We will be happy to have

the same menu again.

W: Right, I will look at my dairy and see what you had last time. Oh, I nearly forgot to ask you, (10) how many should I cater for?

M: Well, I think most people will be able to come, perhaps around 30. No, let's say 35, to be sure.

W: Right, thank you for getting in touch Mr. Smith. I will send confirmation of the arrangements by the end of this week.

M: OK.

Key: 8.C 9.A 10.D

SECTION B PASSAGES

Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage.

For shopaholics, the post-Christmas period means only one thing—sales! (12) Across the country, prices are slashed on clothing, electronics, home furnishings and more, (11) but London is the place for serious shopping and you can certainly pick up some amazing bargains. (12) The sales start on Boxing Day—26th, December and continue for the month of January, but the keenest bargain hunters get there early to be first through the doors, (12) In Oxford Street queues formed outside shops ahead of pre-dawn openings for the start of their sales. At Brent Cross, in north London, more than 1 ,000 people were queuing at 3:30a. m. for the ' Next' clothing store's sale which began at 4 a. m. Some people even camped outside the shops to be the first in the line.

(13) Some people are taking their friends shopping with them and buying their Christmas presents in the sales. A practical but unromantic way of making sure you get the gift you really want. For a less exciting but less stressful shopping experience, online retailers are also getting in on the act with January sales of their own. (13) The

most organized of all are those who are already doing their present shopping for next Christmas in the Jyuary" sales.

Key:11.C 12.A 13.D

Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage.

(14)Ballroom dancing used to be seen as something rather unfashionable that old people might do. (15) For the past five years though, the popularity of ballroom dancing has soared thanks to a reality TV show. Strictly Come Dancing is one of the big TV shows. ( 16) Millions of people tune in every Saturday night to watch the show which airs from September right up to Christmas. (16) In the show a number of professional ballroom dancers each dance with a celebrity. Every week they have to learn a different ballroom dance and perform it live on TV on Saturday night. The show demonstrates how glamorous ballroom dancing is. The celebrities get to wear colorful dresses and suits to dance in, and it looks like a lot of fun. The TV programme also shows what good exercise it can be to ballroom dance and what hard work is involved in learning the dances and performing them properly. Dance schools around the country have seen a boost in the number of people wanting to learn how to dance.

(17) And it's not only old people who are interested. Lots of children and young people in their 20s are keen to learn.

Key: 14.B 15.D 16.A 17.C

Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage.

(18) Recently, a couple in New Zealand were forbidden from naming their baby son 4Real. Even though New Zealand has quite liberal rules about naming children, names beginning with a number are not allowed. They decided to call him Superman instead. In many countries around the world, unusual names for children are becoming

more popular, especially since the increasing trend for celebrities to give their children unusual names. (19) Some parents choose names which come from popular culture. For example, there have been six boys named Gandalf after the character in the Lord of the Rings novels and films. Equally names related to sport are fairly common —since 1984, 36 children have been called Arsenal after the football team. Other parents like to make up names, or combine names to make their own unique version, a method demonstrated by Jordan, the British model, who recently invented the name Tidarnii for her daughter by combining the names Thea and Amy (the two grandmothers) - She was quoted as saying that the accent and double letters were added tomake the name 'more exotic'. (20) Other countries have much stricter rules when it comes to naming children. Countries including Japan, Denmark, Spain, Germany and Argentina have an approved list of names from which parents must choose.

Key: 18.C 19.D 20.A

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

News Item I

Eleven fishing boat crew who had been stranded since October in a remote part of Russia's Far East have been rescued after sheltering nearly three months at an abandoned military base. (21 )The eight men and three women took refuge at the base after their small boat collided on October 10th. Their attempts to fix one of the boats did not succeed, (22) and they had to remain at the abandoned base where there were only flour and -cooking fat. Other supplies at the base, which was abandoned in 2003 including Christmas ornaments, and the crew members put them up on a small tree inside their quarters, but supplies began running low and early this week, five set off on foot across snow fields. On Friday, after fours days of trudging, they reached a

working military radio station, (23) the center called rescuers and helicopters were sent to take the eleven to the regional capital.

Key:21.B 22.C 23.A

News Item 2

(24) Spain's King Juan Carlos with 32 years on the throne turns 70 Saturday, but after years of undeniable adulation among Spaniards for putting down an attempted coup in 1981 , (25) he's recently faced more difficult times. Small groups of leftists have burned his photo, and fiery criticism has also come from the right with one leading conservative radio host calling for him to step down. Juan Carlos fired back with a rare public defense of his reign in a recent speech. "It's been the longest period of stability and prosperity in Spain ever in a parliamentary monarchy " , the King said.

Key:24.B

25.D

News Item 3

It goes against religious taboos in Iraq to involve women in fighting, but three recent suicide bombings carried out by women could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate. (26) In November 4th, a woman detonated an explosive vest next to a U.S. patrol in Diyala's regional capital, Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Bagdad (27) wounding seven U. S. troops and five Iraqis. (26) On December 7th, a woman attacked the offices of a Diyala-based Sunni group, fighting al-Qaida in Iraq, (27) killing 15 people and wounding 35 , (26) then on December 31st, a bomber in Baqouba, detonated her suicide vest close to a police patrol (27) wounding five policemen and four civilians.

Key:26.A 27.B

News Item 4

(28) Chinese government is poised to conduct its first national survey of pollution sources in February to help control environmental deterioration in the country. The study will identify and collect data on the sources of industrial, agricultural and residential pollution for two months. Last year, China's environment was facing a grave situation with several major rivers and lakes clogged by industrial waste. (29) China's environmental cleanup is compromised by more than two decades of rapid economic growth and a lack of technology especially. (30) Every province, autonomous region and municipality has set up a census office and will report to a main center staffed by officials from sovemment departments. Data will be reviewed multiple times before being put into a database and will be analyzed in the second half of 2008. Findings will be examined and approved by mid-2009.

Key：28.C 29.A 30.B 当我被上帝造出来时，上帝问我想在人间当一个怎样的人，我不假思索的说，我要做一个伟大的世人皆知的人。于是，我降临在了人间。

我出生在一个官僚知识分子之家，父亲在朝中做官，精读诗书，母亲知书答礼，温柔体贴，父母给我去了一个好听的名字：李清照。

小时侯，受父母影响的我饱读诗书，聪明伶俐，在朝中享有“神童”的称号。小时候的我天真活泼，才思敏捷，小河畔，花丛边撒满了我的诗我的笑，无可置疑，小时侯的我快乐无虑。

“兴尽晚回舟，误入藕花深处。争渡，争渡，惊起一滩鸥鹭。”青春的我如同一只小鸟，自由自在，没有约束，少女纯净的心灵常在朝阳小，流水也被自然洗礼，纤细的手指拈一束花，轻抛入水，随波荡漾，发髻上沾着晶莹的露水，双脚任水流轻抚。身影轻飘而过，留下一阵清风。

可是晚年的我却生活在一片黑暗之中，家庭的衰败，社会的改变，消磨着我那柔弱的心。我几乎对生活绝望，每天在痛苦中消磨时光，一切都好象是灰暗的。“寻寻觅觅冷冷清清凄凄惨惨戚戚”这千古叠词句就是我当时心情的写照。

最后，香消玉殒，我在痛苦和哀怨中凄凉的死去。

在天堂里，我又见到了上帝。上帝问我过的怎么样，我摇摇头又点点头，我的一生有欢乐也有坎坷，有笑声也有泪水，有鼎盛也有衰落。我始终无法客观的评价我的一生。我原以为做一个着名的人，一生应该是被欢乐荣誉所包围，可我发现我错了。于是在下一轮回中，我选择做一个平凡的人。

我来到人间，我是一个平凡的人，我既不着名也不出众，但我拥有一切的幸福：我有温馨的家，我有可亲可爱的同学和老师，我每天平凡而快乐的活着，这就够了。

天儿蓝蓝风儿轻轻，暖和的春风带着春的气息吹进明亮的教室，我坐在教室的窗前，望着我拥有的一切，我甜甜的笑了。我拿起手中的笔，不禁想起曾经作诗的李清照，我虽然没有横溢的才华，但我还是拿起手中的笔，用最朴实的语言，写下了一时的感受：

人生并不总是完美的，每个人都会有不如意的地方。这就需要我们静下心来阅读自己的人生，体会其中无尽的快乐和与众不同。

“富不读书富不久，穷不读书终究穷。”为什么从古到今都那么看重有学识之人？那是因为有学识之人可以为社会做出更大的贡献。那时因为读书能给人带来快乐。

自从看了《丑小鸭》这篇童话之后，我变了，变得开朗起来，变得乐意同别人交往，变得自信了……因为我知道：即使现在我是只“丑小鸭”，但只要有自信，总有一天我会变成“白天鹅”的，而且会是一只世界上最美丽的“白天鹅”……

我读完了这篇美丽的童话故事，深深被丑小鸭的自信和乐观所折服，并把故事讲给了外婆听，外婆也对童话带给我们的深刻道理而惊讶不已。还吵着闹着多

看几本名着。于是我给外婆又买了几本名着故事，她起先自己读，读到不认识的字我就告诉她，如果这一面生字较多，我就读给她听整个一面。渐渐的，自己的语文阅读能力也提高了不少，与此同时我也发现一个人读书的乐趣远不及两个人读的乐趣大，而两个人读书的乐趣远不及全家一起读的乐趣大。于是，我便发展“业务”带动全家一起读书……现在，每每遇到好书大家也不分男女老少都一拥而上，争先恐后“抢书”，当我说起我最小应该让我的时候，却没有人搭理我。最后还把书给撕坏了，我生气地哭了，妈妈一边安慰我一边对外婆说：“孩子小，应该让着点。”外婆却不服气的说：“我这一把年纪的了，怎么没人让我呀？”大家人你一言我一语，谁也不肯相让……读书让我明白了善恶美丑、悲欢离合，读一本好书，犹如同智者谈心、谈理想，教你辨别善恶，教你弘扬正义。读一本好书，如品一杯香茶，余香缭绕。读一本好书，能使人心灵得到净化。书是我的老师，把知识传递给了我；书是我的伙伴，跟我诉说心里话；书是一把钥匙，给我敞开了知识的大门；书更是一艘不会沉的船，引领我航行在人生的长河中。其

实读书的真真乐趣也就在于此处，不是一个人闷头苦读书；也不是读到好处不与他人分享，独自品位；更不是一个人如痴如醉地沉浸在书的海洋中不能自拔。而是懂得与朋友，家人一起分享其中的乐趣。这才是读书真正之乐趣呢！这所有的一切，不正是我从书中受到的教益吗？

我阅读，故我美丽；我思考，故我存在。我从内心深处真切地感到：我从读书中受到了教益。当看见有些同学宁可买玩具亦不肯买书时，我便想到培根所说的话：“世界上最庸俗的人是不读书的人，最吝啬的人是不买书的人，最可怜的人是与书无缘的人。”许许多多的作家、伟人都十分喜欢看书，例如毛泽东主席，他半边床上都是书，一读起书来便进入忘我的境界。

书是我生活中的好朋友，是我人生道路上的航标，读书，读好书，是我无怨无悔的追求。

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