四级复合听写练习10篇(S)
2015英语专业四级考试听写模拟试题第1-10篇

第1篇TeamworkTeamwork is just as important in science as it is on the playing field or in the gym. Scientific investigations are almost always carried out by teams of people working together. Ideas are shared, experiments are designed,data are analyzed, and results are evaluated and shared with other investigators. Group work is necessary, and is usually more productive than working alone.Several times throughout the year you may be asked to work with one or more of your classmates. Whatever the task your group is assigned, a few rules need to be followed to ensure a productive and successful experience.What comes first is to keep an open mind, because everyone's ideas deserve consideration and each group member can make his or her own contribution. Secondly, it makes a job easier to divide the group task among all group members. Thirdly, always worktogether, take turns, and encourage each other by listening, clarifying, and trusting one another. Mutual support and trust often make a great difference.Useful words and expressions:playing field n. 运动场productive adj. 多产的,有生产价值的productive force 生产力productive labor 有价值的劳动a productive farm 肥沃的农场a productive writer 多产作家investigation n. 调查,研究(be) under investigation 在调查研究中bear investigation 经得起考查,不怕追查keep an open mind 不抱成见,抱着虚心态度make a great difference 有很大差别,有很大影响听力源文件下载地址:/s/1i3iV5Tb第2篇Mistakes Are Good TeachersAfter the birth of my second child,I got a job at a restaurant. Having worked with an experienced waitress for a few days,I was allowed to wait on tables on my own. When Saturday night came,I was luckily given the tables not far from the kitchen.However,I still felt a little hard to carry the heavy trays. So I moved slowly, minding every step. I remembered how happy I was when I saw a tray standing next to the tables. It looked different from the one I was trained on,and it had nice handles which made it easier to move around. I was pleased with everything and began to believe I was natural at this job. Then, an old man came to me and said that was his wife's walker. I stood frozen as ice,but my face was on fire. Since then, I have learned to be more careful and not to be too sure of myself. (164 words)Useful Words and Expressions :tray [trei] ;n.盘子,托盘handle ['heendl] n.把手,手柄frozen (freeze的过去分词)adj.冷冻的,冷藏的frozen food冷冻食品frozen assets冻结的资产keep. . . frozen 冷藏听力源文件下载地址:/s/1i3iV5Tb第3篇Time Has the Power to Change AttitudeLast week, my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home.My earliest memories of my father are of a tall, handsome, successful man devoted to his work and family but uncomfortable with his children. As a child, I loved him;as a school girl and young adult, I feared him and felt bitter about him.On the first day of my visit, we did some shopping,ate on the street table,and laughed over my son's funny facial expressions. Gone was my father's critical air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my father who seemed so friendly and interesting to be around?The next day, my dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him until that moment. After so many years, I'm at last seeing another side of my father.Useful Words and Expressions:devote [di'vaut] 投人于,献身be devoted to 专心于devote oneself to sth.献身于,致力于He's devoted to me.他对我忠心耿耿。
英语四级复合式听力练习8题

Around the world young people are spending (36) ___________ sums of money to listen to rock music. Forbes Magazine (37) ____________ that at least fifty rock stars have (38) ____________ of between two million and six million dollars (39) ____________ year.“It doesn’t make much sense,”says Johnny Mathis, one of the (40) ____________ music millionaires, who made a million dollars a year when he was most popular, in the 1950s. “Performers aren’t (41) ____________ this kind of money. In fact, nobody is.”But the rock stars’ admirers seem to (42) ____________ . Those who love rock music spend about two billion dollars a year for records. They pay 150 million to see rock stars in person.Some (43) ____________ think the customers are buying more than music. According to one theory, (44) _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________. There is no gulf between the audience and the performer. Every boy and girl in the audience thinks, “I could sing like that.” (45) __________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________. Young people are glad to pay to worship a rock star because it is a way of worshipping themselves.Luck is a key word for explaining the success of many. In 1972 one of the luckiest was Don McLean, who wrote and sang “American Pie.” McLean earned more than a million dollars from recordings of “American Pie.” Then, too, (46) _________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________.Compound Dictation Exercises (2)A growing number of scientists insist that answers to the world’s problems will not come from a (36) ____________ array of electronics and machines. Instead, as they see it, solutions must (37) _____________ from a better understanding of the humans that drive the system and from a fuller (38) ____________ of the limits and potential of the earth’s resources.What this means is an increased (39) ____________ on the life and earth sciences, on sociology, psychology, economics and even philosophy.More and more of the best minds in science, particularly young researchers, are being drawn into these (40) ____________ fields.Industry officials are concerned by a (41) ____________ rate of innovation in technology. Patent applications by Americans have been (42) ____________ in the U. S. since 1971. Yet many scientists seem to be saying: The need for better televisions, bigger power plants and faster airplanes – markers of rapid-fire technological creativity – is becoming (43) ____________ at best.(44) ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________.All this is not to say that technological creativity will not play a critical role in solving energy and food shortages, or that (45) _____________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________.Where the real challenge lies is (46) _____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________.London is the center of the international art market and Sotheby’s, which has its (36) ____________ there, is the world’s biggest and oldest seller of art and antiques. If you were lucky enough to own a priceless “Old Master”, an Impressionist, or a (37) ____________ antique, and you wanted to sell it, you would probably put it up for auction at Sotheby’s.Sotheby’s auctions are (38) ____________ by some of the world’s richest people, who spend millions of pounds on art and antiques each year. (39) ____________, the company is very proud of its status and its 250-year-old (40) ____________. But, earlier this year, that reputation came under threat, when a journalist (41)____________ Sotheby’s staff of bringing art treasures to London illegally. If these (42) ____________ are true, they will severely damage London’s (43) ____________ as a center of the world’s art trade.As if that were not bad enough, (44) _______________________________________________________________________________________ from European Union regulations. If passed in Britain, the EU laws would make London a much less attractive place to purchase art treasures. Buyers and sellers would then look elsewhere for the best prices and could stop coming to London altogether.The problems began last year, (45) _______________________________________________________________________________________________. He made this allegations in a book and television program, which used hidden camera to film Sotheby’s staff. Watson says (46) __________________________________________________________________________________________________, and that the international art trade needs to be cleaned up.Compound Dictation Exercises (4)In the medical profession, technology is advancing so fast that questions of law and ethics cannot be discussed and answered fast enough. Most of these questions (36) ____________ ending or beginning a human life. For example, we have the medical ability to keep a person (37) ____________ “alive” for years, on machines, after he or she is “brain dead”. But is it ethical to do this? And what about the (38) ___________? In other words, is it (39) ____________not to keep a person alive if we have the technology to do so?And there are also many ethical questions involving the (40) ____________ of a human baby. External fertilization, for example, is becoming more and more common. By this method, couples who have difficulty (41) ____________ a child may still become parents. At a cost between $70,000 and $75,000 for the (42) ____________ of one such baby, should society have to pay for this especially when there are many (43) ____________ children who need parents? (44) ______________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________; is this fertilized egg a human being? If the parents get a divorce, to whom do these frozen eggs belong?And there is the question of surrogate mothers. There have been several cases of a woman (45) _______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________. After delivering the baby, the surrogate mother sometimes changes her mind and wants to keep the baby. Whose baby is it? (46) _______________________ ____________________________________________________________________.As heart disease continues to be number-one killer in the United States, researchers have become increasingly interested in (36)____________ the potential risk factors that (37) ____________ heart attacks. High-fat diets and “life in the fast lane” have long been known to contribute to the high (38) ____________ of heart failure. But according to new studies, the list of risk factors may be (39) ____________ longer and quite surprising.Heart failure, for example, appears to have seasonal and (40) ____________ patterns. A higher percentage of heart attacks occur in cold weather, and more people experience heart failure on Monday than on any other day of the week. In addition, people are more (41) ____________ to heart attacks in the first few hours after waking. Cardiologists first observed this morning (42) ____________ in the mid-1980s and have since discovered a number of possible causes. An early-morning rise in blood pressure, heart rate, and concentration of heart (43) ____________ hormones, plus a reduction of blood flow to the heart, (44) _______________________________ __________________________________________________________________.In other studies, both birthdays and bachelorhood have been implicated as risk factors.Statistics reveal that (45) ______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________. And unmarried men are more at risk for heart attacks than their married counterparts. (46) ________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________.Compound Dictation Exercises (6)Some people cannot learn in ordinary schools. Often some physical or (36) ____________ handicap prevents a child from learning. In education today new methods are being used in special schools to help the handicapped learn.(37) ____________ the many interesting schools for handicapped persons, there is one which is being (38) ____________ in the southern part of New Jersey, U. S. A. It is called the Bbancroft Community. Here handicapped young (39) ____________ will be trained to support themselves and to get along in the (40) ____________ world.The Bancroft Community is not (41) ____________ by walls of any kind. Its director (42) ____________ that it be open so that students may gradually develop (43) ____________ relations with the rest of the world. Bancroft Community students (44) ______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________. Gradually, as they become able, they will buy their own furniture, paying for it out of their own earnings. They will pay rent and pay for their food, too. (45) _____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________.As a step toward the goal of becoming independent, each handicapped person will decide what kind of work he wants to be trained to do. (46) ____________________________________ _________________________________________________________. They will be trained by townspeople for whom they will work without pay.The truth is that radio has not been eclipsed by television and cable and the Internet. In fact, radio is as (36) ____________ as it has ever been. According to the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association, 675 million radio receivers are (37) ____________ in use in the United States; on average, Americans over the age of eleven spend three hours and eighteen minutes of (38) ____________ listening to at least one of them.I don’t mention this to make the (39) ____________ that radio is “better”than other electronic media, but I will say that it is different, very different. Radio is special to people. And in an (40) ____________ when we in the West have so many other media (41) ____________ to us, media that can “do” so much more than radio ever could, radio still (42) ____________ a kind of loyalty that (43) ____________ channels and Web sites cannot claim.This loyalty is largely due to radio’s very limitations. (44) ___________________________ _______________________________________________________. That is, it has to speak to us, through either words or music. Couple this with the fact that radio is a curiously intimate medium: people tend to feel that they are connecting with their radios one-on-one. This is generally not the case with television, (45)__________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________. But because radio is a “smaller”medium (many low-powered mom-and-pop operations, which were never part of television, still exist on radio), (46) __________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________.Compound Dictation Exercises (8)One of the basic ingredients of American popular culture is consumption, and it is the advertising industry that makes mass consumption possible. Advertising sells us (36) ____________, beauty, youth, fashion, happiness, success, status and (37)____________. When Clavin Klein, for example, advertises blue jeans, he is selling us sex (38) ____________, not jeans. Polo sells us fashion status and Miller Beer offers us macho (男子的)good times.Research has shown that the average adult can be (39) ____________ to 500 advertisements each day from radio, television, newspapers and magazines.In 1987, $109 billion was spent on advertising in the United States and these (40) ____________ are growing at a faster rate than the (41) ____________ national product. Although advertising costs are (42) ____________ on to customers, advertising can also save consumers’money by (43) ____________ more customers to manufacturers, thus making possible mass production and mass consumption, which leads to lower prices. Color television sets, for example, cost $800 to $1,000 when they first went on the market in the later 1950s, but (44) __________________________________________________________________.Advertising is an important element of our culture because it reflects and attempts to change our life styles. (45) _______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________.It is estimated that, by the time a person raised in the United States reaches the age of 21, he or she has been exposed to 1 million to 2 million advertisements. (46)____________________________________________________________________________________________. It influences our choice to wear Reebok running shoes, brush our teeth with Crest, and feed out cats Fancy Feast.Keys Compound Dictation Exercises (1)Around the world young people are spending (36) unbelievable sums of money to listen to rock music. Forbes Magazine (37) claims that at least fifty rock stars have (38) incomes of between two million and six million dollars (39) per year.“It doesn’t make much sense,” says Johnny Mathis, one of the (40) older music millionaires, who made a million dollars a year when he was most popular, in the 1950s. “Performers aren’t (41) worth this kind of money. In fact, nobody is.”But the rock stars’ admirers seem to (42) disagree. Those who love rock music spend about two billion dollars a year for records. They pay 150 million to see rock stars in person.Some (43) observers think the customers are buying more than music. According to one theory, (44) rock music has a special appeal because no real training is needed to produce it. There is no gulf between the audience and the performer. Every boy and girl in the audience thinks, “I could sing like that.” (45) So rock has become a new kind of religion, a new form of worship. Young people are glad to pay to worship a rock star because it is a way of worshipping themselves.Luck is a key word for explaining the success of many. In 1972 one of the luckiest was Don McLean, who wrote and sang “American Pie.” McLean earned more than a million dollars from recordings of “American Pie.” Then, too, (46) like most performers, McLean writes his own music, so he earns an additional two cents on every single record of the song.Keys Compound Dictation Exercises (2)A growing number of scientists insist that answers to the world’s problems will not come from a (36) flashier array of electronics and machines. Instead, as they see it, solutions must (37) evolve from a better understanding of the humans that drive the system and from a fuller (38) appreciation of the limits and potential of the earth’s resources.What this means is an increased (39) emphasis on the life and earth sciences, on sociology, psychology, economics and even philosophy.More and more of the best minds in science, particularly young researchers, are being drawn into these (40) developing fields.Industry officials are concerned by a (41) declining rate of innovation in technology. Patent applications by Americans have been (42) dropping in the U. S. since 1971. Yet many scientists seem to be saying: The need for better televisions, bigger power plants and faster airplanes –markers of rapid-fire technological creativity – is becoming (43) marginal at best. (44) The market in the industrialized nations for this kind of technology is reaching a saturation point.All this is not to say that technological creativity will not play a critical role in solving energy and food shortages, or that (45) answers to environmental difficulties will not come from further advances in the same technologies that may have helped cause the problems.Where the real challenge lies is (46) in finding ways to produce goods to meet the world’s needs, using less of the raw materials that are becoming scarce.Compound Dictation Exercises (3)London is the center of the international art market and Sotheby’s, which has its (36) headquarters there, is the world’s biggest and oldest seller of art and antiques. If you were lucky enough to own a priceless “Old Master”, an Impressionist, or a (37) valuable antique, and you wanted to sell it, you would probably put it up for auction at Sotheby’s.Sotheby’s auctions are (38)attended by some of the world’s richest people, who spend millions of pounds on art and antiques each year. (39) Consequently, the company is very proud of its status and its 250-year-old (40) reputation. But, earlier this year, that reputation came under threat, when a journalist (41) accused Sotheby’s staff of bringing art treasures to London illegally. If these (42) allegations are true, they will severely damage London’s (43) credibility as a center of the world’s art trade.As if that were not bad enough, (44) London’s art dealers and auction houses are facing an even bigger threat from European Union regulations. If passed in Britain, the EU laws would make London a much less attractive place to purchase art treasures. Buyers and sellers would then look elsewhere for the best prices and could stop coming to London altogether.The problems began last year, (45) when a journalist from Britain’s Times newspaper, Peter Watson, claimed that senior staff at Sotheby’s were at the center of a widespread smuggling operation. He made this allegations in a book and television program, which used hidden camera to film Sotheby’s staff. Watson says (46) the program, which was shown last February, proves that art treasures were being illegally exported to London on a regular basis and that the international art trade needs to be cleaned up.Keys Compound Dictation Exercises (4)In the medical profession, technology is advancing so fast that questions of law and ethics cannot be discussed and answered fast enough. Most of these questions (36) involve ending or beginning a human life. For example, we have the medical ability to keep a person (37) technically“alive” for years, on machines, after he or she is “brain dead”. But is it ethical to do this? And what about the (38) alternative? In other words, is it (39) ethical not to keep a person alive if we have the technology to do so?And there are also many ethical questions involving the (40) conception of a human baby. External fertilization, for example, is becoming more and more common. By this method, couples who have difficulty (41) conceiving a child may still become parents. At a cost between $70,000 and $75,000 for the (42) delivery of one such baby, should society have to pay for this especially when there are many (43) orphan children who need parents? (44) A fertilized human egg might be frozen for a long time before it is implanted in the mother’s body; is this fertilized egg a human being? If the parents get a divorce, to whom do these frozen eggs belong?And there is the question of surrogate mothers. There have been several cases of a woman (45) who is paid to carry the baby of another woman who is medically unable to do so. After delivering the baby, the surrogate mother sometimes changes her mind and wants to keep the baby. Whose baby is it? (46) Is it the surrogate’s because she gave birth? Or is it the biological parents?As heart disease continues to be number-one killer in the United States, researchers have become increasingly interested in (36) identifying the potential risk factors that (37) trigger heart attacks. High-fat diets and “life in the fast lane” have long been known to contribute to the high (38) incidence of heart failure. But according to new studies, the list of risk factors may be (39) significantly longer and quite surprising.Heart failure, for example, appears to have seasonal and (40)temporal patterns. A higher percentage of heart attacks occur in cold weather, and more people experience heart failure on Monday than on any other day of the week. In addition, people are more (41) susceptible to heart attacks in the first few hours after waking. Cardiologists first observed this morning (42) phenomenon in the mid-1980s and have since discovered a number of possible causes. An early-morning rise in blood pressure, heart rate, and concentration of heart (43) stimulating hormones, plus a reduction of blood flow to the heart, (44) may all contribute to the higher incidence of heart attacks between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m..In other studies, both birthdays and bachelorhood have been implicated as risk factors.Statistics reveal that (45) heart attack rates increase significantly for both females and males in the few days immediately preceding and following their birthdays. And unmarried men are more at risk for heart attacks than their married counterparts. (46) Though stress is thought to be linked in some way to all of the aforementioned risk factors, intense research continues in the hope of further comprehending why and how heart failure is triggered.Compound Dictation Exercises (6)Some people cannot learn in ordinary schools. Often some physical or (36) mental handicap prevents a child from learning. In education today new methods are being used in special schools to help the handicapped learn.(37)Among the many interesting schools for handicapped persons, there is one which is being (38) established in the southern part of New Jersey, U. S. A. It is called the Bancroft Community. Here handicapped young (39) adults will be trained to support themselves and to get along in the (40) outside world.The Bancroft Community is not (41) surrounded by walls of any kind. Its director (42) insists that it be open so that students may gradually develop (43) normal relations with the rest of the world. Bancroft Community students (44) will live in apartments or in a house, cooking their own meals, washing their own clothes, and learning to perform other tasks. Gradually, as they become able, they will buy their own furniture, paying for it out of their own earnings. They will pay rent and pay for their food, too. (45) They will learn to expect telephone bills for the calls they make every month.As a step toward the goal of becoming independent, each handicapped person will decide what kind of work he wants to be trained to do. (46) While some of the training will be carried on within the Bancroft Community itself, most of the students will receive job training in nearby towns. They will be trained by townspeople for whom they will work without pay.The truth is that radio has not been eclipsed by television and cable and the Internet. In fact, radio is as (36) popular as it has ever been. According to the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association, 675 million radio receivers are (37) currently in use in the United States; on average, Americans over the age of eleven spend three hours and eighteen minutes of (38) week-day listening to at least one of them.I don’t mention this to make the (39) case that radio is “better” than other electronic media, but I will say that it is different, very different. Radio is special to people. And in an (40) era when we in the West have so many other media (41) available to us, media that can “do” so much more than radio ever could, radio still (42) inspires a kind of loyalty that (43) premium channels and Web sites cannot claim.This loyalty is largely due to radio’s very limitations. (44) Radio can’t dazzle us with visual spectacles; it has to capture and hold our attention aurally. That is, it has to speak to us, through either words or music. Couple this with the fact that radio is a curiously intimate medium: people tend to feel that they are connecting with their radios one-on-one. This is generally not the case with television, (45) where the individual viewer invariably senses that he or she is nothing more than an anonymous, statistically insignificant part of a huge and diverse audience. But because radio is a “smaller” medium (many low-powered mom-and-pop operations, which were never part of television, still exist on radio), (46) the individual listener can somehow believe that the signal is traveling direct and uninterrupted from the studio microphone to his set alone, that the announcer is speaking and playing records just for him.Compound Dictation Exercises (8)One of the basic ingredients of American popular culture is consumption, and it is the advertising industry that makes mass consumption possible. Advertising sells us (36)sexuality, beauty, youth, fashion, happiness, success, status and (37) luxury. When Clavin Klein, for example, advertises blue jeans, he is selling us sex (38) appeal, not jeans. Polo sells us fashion status and Miller Beer offers us macho (男子的)good times.Research has shown that the average adult can be (39) exposed to 500 advertisements each day from radio, television, newspapers and magazines.In 1987 $109 billion was spent on advertising in the United States and these (40) expenditures are growing at a faster rate than the (41) gross national product. Although advertising costs are (42) passed on to customers, advertising can also save consumers’money by (43) delivering more customers to manufacturers, thus making possible mass production and mass consumption, which leads to lower prices. Color television sets, for example, cost $800 to $1,000 when they first went on the market in the later 1950s, but (44) thanks to mass production and consumption, some sets now sell for less than $200.Advertising is an important element of our culture because it reflects and attempts to change our life styles. (45)New cultural trends and fashions are first transmitted to the mass culture through advertisements.It is estimated that, by the time a person raised in the United States reaches the age of 21, he or she has been exposed to 1 million to 2 million advertisements. (46) The cumulative effects of this lifelong exposure play a significant role in shaping our behaviour, social beliefs and values. It influences our choice to wear Reebok running shoes, brush our teeth with Crest, and feed out cats Fancy Feast.。
专四听写训练20篇

1专四听写训练20篇Dictation 1 Forest Fire 150 wordsForest fire or wildfire is often used to signify an uncontrolled intense fire / that breaks out inthe wooded areas / due to many factors ranging from natural to manmade causes. / Wildfires canbe witnessed throughout the world and they usually occur in cycles. / Mild forest fires are often considered beneficial, / as growth of many plant species depend on it. / Many plant species also depend on wildfires for reproduction. / However, the large fore st fires can have serious damagingeffect on the surrounding environment. /Due to the extensive size and the immense speed, / a forest fire can easily spread to a vast area. / Besides, it can also change its direction / and overcome occasional barriers like roads, rivers and fire breaks. / Forest fires break out in areas like grassland, woodland and bush. / Some important causes of it are lightning and volcanic eruptions. / Besides these, sparks from rock falls can also ignite forest fires. /Dictation 2 Job Hunting 150 wordsJob hunting is a stressful problem for everyone. / Whether someone getting a job right out of school / or someone seeking a better position than the one they just left, / it is not something thatcomes easy to most people. / However, with preparation and planning, / the difficulties can be focused on / and the situation can become less stressful. / For example, dressing correctly is an important step for any applicant. / Also, if you dress correctly, / you will feel more confident in your ability to get the job. / Men should wear a dress shirt and tie or even a suit if they possess one./ Women should wear a suit or other clothing suitable for the occasion. / It is better to dress too conservatively than not conservatively enough. / Always use honesty as some interviewers will beable to detect problems in your resume. / Good manners and correct speech are essential in impressing the interviewer. /Dictation 3 Vocational Schools 150 wordsThe universities are not able to meet / all the growing needs of the society for future development. / Vocational schools have arisen to fill these needs / by providing a more detailed knowledge than that provided by universities. / This has led to a weak base of theory for many workers. / Their focus, practical application, is much more detailed / than the theory provided at college. / Many students choose to go to vocational schools instead of universities. / This has led many college graduates to question the value of their degrees. / They should not, as the levels of education offered by different vocational schools are unequal. / Some of these schools are privateand offer a flexible schedule for students / who may be working or are even in school at university./ On the other hand, because they are run by individuals, / the teaching quality and the teaching resources / offered by many vocational schools maybe of low quality. /2Dictation 4 National Race 150 wordsThe whole question of the changing role of Blacks in American society / as been the sub jectof newspaper articles around the world so frequently / that visitors to the United States do not know / what to expect when they arrive. / They may be surprised when they see that Blacks and Whites work side by side / in offices, factories, and schools across the country. / The majority of Blacks in the United States, however, / live in and around only a small number of American cities./Many dark-skinned visitors arrive in the United States / fearing personal attack or expecting various degrees of racial prejudice. / Some forms of discrimination still exist, unfortunately, / especially in the areas of the housing, schools, and jobs. / The school equality is still more a dreamthan a reality. / There are still too many areas of the country / where Black Americans do not enjoythe same full opportunities as White Americans. /Dictation 5 A Positive View of Every Day 149 wordsIf your life feels like it is lacking the power that you want and the motivation that you need, / sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view. /By training your thoughts to concentrate on the bright side of things, / you are more likely to have the incentive to follow through on your goals. / You are less likely to be held back by negative ideas / that might limit your performance. /Your life can be enhanced, and your happiness enriched, / when you choose to change your perspective. / Don’t leave your future to chance, / or wait for things to get better mysteriously ontheir own. / You must go in the direction of your hopes and aspirations. / Begin to build your confidence, / and work through problems rather than avoid them. / Remember that power is not necessarily control over situations, / but the ability to deal with whatever comes your way. / Dictation 6 Languages in America 151 wordsThe United States is primarily an English speaking country. / The majority of the population speaks English as their native language. / Business, education and most public aspects of life are conducted in English. / Across the country, people pronounce English sounds in several different ways / and some regional vocabulary differences exist, / but for the most part, Americans speak one common language. / This language is sometimes called American English. / However, not everyone in the U.S. is a native speaker of English. / Most immigrants to the country are speakers of other languages. / There are hundreds of communities around the U.S. / where English is not the most commonly used language. / Chinese, Italian, German, Armenian, Greek, Vietnamese andFrench / are all spoken in numerous communities in the U.S. / Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language after English in the U. S. / It is widely spoken in New York and across the southern part of the country. /Dictation 7 Halloween 151 wordsIt’s October the 31st, and across Britain and the USA, / thousands of children are dressing up3as monsters, ghosts / and witches and going to their neighbors’ houses / to ask for sweets or to play tricks on them if they refuse. /Many houses have lanterns made from pumpkins in their windows. / These lanterns have frightening faces cut into them. /What is the reason for all of this? It’s Halloween! / To an outsider, this may seem a strange festival, / but it is a very popular one and an important part of the culture in Britain and the USA. /The holiday once had a religious significance. / November the 1st is All Saint’s Day, / and October the 31st was believed to be a day / when all the spirits came back to the world of the living. / In modern times, this has changed to be a day / when children dress up as monsters, ghosts and witches. /Dictation 8 Universities in the UK 151 wordsUniversities in Britain are a magnet for overseas students. / There are currently over 200 000 from outside Britain studying at British universities. / The largest single group is Chinese students./ There are currently 50 000 in the UK. /The British government expects the total number of overseas students to be around 900 000by 2020, / and also thinks that a quarter of these will be Chinese. / But why is the UK such a popular destination for university students? /Well, the quality of your course is guaranteed. / All courses are assessed by an independent system, / so you can be assured that your course is officially approved / and has wide internationalrecognition. / The British education system is very flexible / in order to provide for the needs of a modern, complex society. / Degree courses are usually 3 years long, which is shorter and more intensive than in other countries. / There are lots of scholarships available. /Dictation 9 Money and Happiness 151 wordsIt seems only natural that happiness should flow from having more money. / Even if theydon’t admit it, / people still be have as though it were true. / More money means you can have what you want and do what you want. / The house you dream of? It’s yours. / The new car you desire? Here are the keys. / The freedom to enjoy your favorite pastimes? / Here’s your racket, thecourt is down there, just past the pool. /So the puzzle is this: why do social scientists consistently find only moderate relationships / between having more money and being happy? / Some have even suggested that this moderate connection might be exaggerated. / In reality money might have very little to do with happiness atall. /Most puzzling, though, is that people often seem aware at some level / that money won’tmake them happy. / And yet they continue to work away earning money they don’t objectively need. /Dictation 10 Tea Party Food 151 wordsA tea party without good food is just as distasteful as a cake without sugar. / So along with4cups of tea, / you need to arrange variety of party foods, / like cookies, snacks, chips and starters. /A bite of sugar and spice will always enhance the flavor of tea party. / Sandwiches, pizzas, finger chips and French fries serve as good side dishes for tea. / Cream cheese salad, pudding and saladsare good delicacies for tea parties. / Children love to relish chicken pies, apple pies, cakes and chocolates. / Above all, remember it’s a tea party, / so serve different varieties of tea to your guests./ Black, green and white will be the ideal for your guests. / You can also brew some spicy herbal tea or flavored tea. / For kids, you can serve cream, honey, milk and sugar. / You can organize glasses of wine late in the evening / or punch a bottle of champagne also. /Dictation 11 Adventure 151 wordsThe idea of adventure has always captured the imagination. / The idea that just over the nexthill there will be excitement and mystery / is a big part of what makes us human. / This is just as true of ancient times as it is today. / Famous explores set out in small boats / or journeyed across immense deserts and oceans. / Early explorers like Christopher Columbus or Zheng He / traveled to foreign places for the glory of their nations. / More importantly, they set out to test themselvesagainst the forces of nature and the pursuit of knowledge. / Other explorers today do the same thing. / People are going to space in pursuit of the last frontier / or seeking in the depths of sciencefor new knowledge. / Most people, in their daily lives, / do not have the opportunity to truly test themselves in these ways. / Modern living has given them the opportunity, however, with adventuring events. /Dictation 12 Office Conflict 148 wordsThe office can be very demanding on the lives of the workers. / Stress can build up andexplode into problems. / This can seriously influence the productivity and efficiency of a business./ The problems that upset an office can vary drastically / depending on the nature of the employeesor even the employers. / Employees may feel that they are being overworked or underpaid. / Theymay also feel that this signals the loss of appreciation on their work, / causing increasing tension as they complain about work. / They may also have personality differences which can cause conflict. / This can be seen in offices where too close relationships develop. / People in authority may tend to place more value / on these relationships than on the work itself. / They may have lostsight of the goal / of forwarding the development of the company. / Gossiping about co-workers and the company is a frequent example of this. /Dictation 13 Food and Culture 148 wordsThe culture of food and dining in the West is a little different from that in China. / The proper western dinner at a fine restaurant / is one of manners, focusing on conversation. / You are expected to have knowledge of table manners / such as what folk or knife to use as these are essential in western dining. / The meal would consist of several courses including a soup or salad,/ an appetizer, the main dish, and a dessert. / The atmosphere will be filled with light music / thatwould only serve as background as people converse with each other. / The decorations are usually5sparse / and are only meant to highlight the atmosphere / that is being created by the music. / Thistype of dining is different from the dining experience in most restaurants in China. / However, with the increase in internationalism, / more restaurants are opening which reflect the more western dining style. /Dictation 14 In-service Education and Vocational Development 148wordsMany people feel that the successful finding of a job is the end of their schooling. / This ideais rarely true, however, / as each field of work requires a thorough knowledge of it. / This may go beyond that which could be learned in high school or university. / Universities, with their complete curriculum, / are intended to first teach us about everything. / Later studies fill in the gapof knowledge by offering more specialized courses. / Universities, however, are meant to teach thetheories of any particular field, / not the practical knowledge needed to do our jobs. / The rise of vocational school has risen / to fill a gap of practical knowledge. / Vocational schools can aid us in this / by teaching us to be especially good at one thing. / If a person has enough health and energy,as well as determination, / he may go to Night School or take a self-teaching program. / Dictation 15 Hospitality 148 wordsAn American friend has invited you to visit his family. / You’ve never been to an American’s home before, / and you’re not sure what to do. / Should you take a gift? How should you dress? / What time should you arrive? / What should you do when you get there? Glad you asked. / Whenyou’re the guest, you should just make yourself at home. / That’s what hospitality is al l about: / making people feel at home when they’re not. /The question of whether or not to bring a gift often makes guests nervous. / Giving your hosta gift is not just a social nicety in some culture it’s expected. / But in American culture, a guestis not obligated to bring a present. / Of course, some people do bring a small token of appreciationto their host. / Appropriate gifts for general occasions might be flowers, candy or / if the family has small children toys. /Dictation 16 The Football Field Length 148 wordsKnowledge about the football field length / does not seem like something fans and players have to be aware of, / but it is certainly something that the most passionate fans will know. / The length of a football field, / be it American football or soccer, / is universally known and all professional stadiums and grounds adopt these measurements. / In soccer, there may be some minor differences in the football field length from stadium to stadium, / and this occurs because these stadiums are historical monuments / that have been around before the measurementswerestandardized. /On the other hand, American football requires that the football field length / be uniformacross all the grounds and the stadiums in the country. / The National Football League has laid down / particular guidelines and rules about the football field length, / and this cannot be altered. /6As a player, one must be completely aware about these football field dimensions. /Dictation 17 Culture 152 wordsThe cultural values of a community give it an identity of its own. / A community gains a character and a personality of its own, / because of the culture of its people. / Culture is shared bythe members of a community. / It is learned and passed from the older generations to the newer ones. / For an effective transfer of culture from one generation to another, / it has to be translatedinto symbols. / Language, art and religion serve as the symbolic means of / transfer of cultural values between generations. /Culture is a bond that ties the people of a region or community together. / It is that one common bond, / which brings the people of a community together. / The customs and traditions that the people of a community follow, / the festivals they celebrate, the kind of clothing they wear,the food they eat, / and most importantly, the cultural values they adhere to, bind them together. /Dictation 18 Fashion 152 wordsEvery year London Fashion Week attracts retailers, fashion leaders, / and the press to showsof all that’s new in British fashion. / Outrageous designs, original fabrics, and beautiful slim models / are displayed on the catwalk / in an atmosphere of extravagant elegance. / However, howmuch of this gets translated into street fashion, appearing in high street shops? / And how many ofus actually follow the trends we see? /We all need to be comfortable with what we wear. / After all, first impressions count, / andwe want our appearance to be consistent with the image we would like to project. / How can we do this without becoming a fashion slave? / We are bombarded with magazines that show us the new fashions for each season, / and where we can buy trendy clothes for reasonable prices. / Thedistinction between what we see on the catwalk / and what’s on displ ay in the high street is becoming increasingly blurred. /Dictation 19 American Society 147 wordsThe United States, like other countries has its rich and poor people, its rich and poor neighborhoods. /Americans love and many are themselves living example s of the “self-made man.” /You will hear this expression often. / But for every person who is successful, / they are usually better educated than their parents / and therefore more likely to have good, well paying jobs. /In addition to the fact that the United States includes people / whose families originally came from many other parts of the world, / Americans move across the nation in great numbers. / One study reported that one of every five families / in the United States moves every three years. / Thiscontinuous mixing of people into new communities is an important observation / to consider whentrying to understand the meaning of class in America. / We have already discussed the questioning,/ “do-it-yourself” American personality that is another important consideration. /7Dictation 20 Recreation 147 wordsRecreations are an important part of people’s life. / For example, after hours of attentive study, / students feel like having a football game to relax their nerves. / Workers, too, find it very satisfying to sit in front of a TV set for an hour or two / when they come back from a day’s tiring work. / Besides, recreations serve as a pleasing way for the retired people / to pass their excessivetime. / Everywhere you go, you will find that during their spare time, / people are engaged in recreational activities of one kind or another. /Generally speaking, there are two kinds of recreations: / physical activities and intellectual activities. / Physical activities, on the one hand, keep one fit and develop team spirit. / Basketball is an example. / On the other hand, intellectual activities such as playing chess and reading novels/ can train one’s brains and provide temporary escape from one’s troubles. /。
2021年12月大学英语四级真题复合式听写

2021年12月大学英语四级真题复合式听写Section CTime is, for the average American, of utmost importance. To the foreign visitor, Americans seem to be more concerned with getting things accomplished on time (according to a predetermined schedule) than they are with developing deep interpersonal relations. Schedules, for the American, are meant to be planned and then followed in the smallest detail.It may seem to you that most Americans are completely controlled by the little machines they wear on their wrists, cutting their discussions off abruptly to make it to their next appointment on time.Americans’ language is filled with references to time, giving a clear indication of how much it is valued. Time is something to be “on,” to be “kept,”“filled,”“saved,”“wasted,”“gained,”“planned,”“given,”“made the most of,” even “killed.”The international visitor soon learns that it is considered very rude to be late -- even by 10 minutes -- for an appointment in America.Time is so valued in America, because by considering time to be important one can clearly achieve more than if one “wastes” time and doesn’t keep busy. This philosophy has proven its worth. It has enabled Americans to be extremely productive, and productivity itself is highly valued in America. Many American proverbs stress the value of guarding time, using it wisely, and setting and working toward specific goals. Americans believe in spending their time and energy today so that the fruits of their labor may be enjoyed at a later time.。
四级复合听写练习10篇(S)

1Some teachers seem to be good teachers, but they are not. their students have no special to find with them. They are not good teachers because they have no special , no special , no fight. They know their well. They have . Their courses are and taught., like Socrates. This kind of teacher is more interested in the subject being taught than in students or social . A good teacher is always to bring about a social structure in which people will be free to be themselves.2The has probably changed people's way of life more than any other of the last century.More than ,television,air travel ,or even computers,automobiles have where people live and work , . Before there were cars,people generally on foot or by horse overroads.Whether they lived in the city or the ,they rarely went farther than a few from home.They saw the same people and places year after year. The car opened up whole new worlds..People with cars could live father from their jobs,and so the age of commuting began.New suburbs sprang up around the cities.. 3In early days no (医科的)college took a woman student. Elizabeth Blackwell, however, was to become a doctor. The young American wrote again and again to a number of medical colleges, asking if she could be (录取), but each time the answer was NO. Then one day, to her surprise, she got a letter from the of a college in Geneva(日内瓦), which said YES.. But later the important people of that college learned that Liza's application(申请)had the support of a famous doctor, and.4Summer Vacation is Too Long. Frederick M. Hess is the of studies at the American Enterprise Institute,which is a that conducts research on many . He says that a long summer vacation doesn't in today's world.Can American students take a summer vacation?In a summervacation, kids spend time sending messages, watching TV, playing video games and doing shopping in the mall..Summer vacation once made sense in the past when you didn't need an education to get a good job..5Teaching penmanshipAs you prepare to become school teachers, you'll be hearing a lot of about the of teaching penmanship, the quality of one's handwriting. Now years ago when I was studying education in college, reading, writing and were the basic of elementary school education.. That is, the neatness of a child's handwriting. Back then, penmanship was often taught as a from the first grade right up through the long after the children had moved from writing in block capital letters to cursive scipt. It was considered so important that sometimes prizes were even .6As a professor at a large American university, : "I'm only a 1050." The unlucky students are the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to whether they will be to the college or university of their choice, or even to get a at all.The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1 100 or 1550, has becomes the focus . It is obvious that , then a great amount of their is put in the number..The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a university, they fear that many of life's doors will remain closed.7The History of Harvard UniversityStarted in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all in the United States. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth were Harvard. They were all started before the American Revolution made the thirteen into states. In the early years, these schools were .Only young men attended college. All the students studied the same and everyone Latin and Greek. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world..In 1782, Harvard startedLater, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard Law School. In 1825,8Science's Lingua FrancaWhile many rural languages are going , new urban hybrid languages may help to . Hundreds of new forms of English have already been spawned around the world. Some are losing their as much communication—economic, cultural, and political—. "Swedish, like many European languages, is now more a of solidarity than one for science, university education, or European communication,"Scott Montgomery- a Seattle-based and author of The Chicago Guide to Communication Science—shows that English has as the preferred world language for science."Because of its scale and dynamism, science has become the and dynamic creator of new language in the world today., the lingua franca of scientific effort," Montgomery said.9Instead of , teens are now on their Web logs, or . A study showed that one in five teens in America has a blog, and about twice as many read them. But some schools have prohibited (禁止) students from . Other schools have tried to prohibit teens from keeping online journals even at home.They maintain that a ban on blogging violates (违反) their right to free speech.Blog critics say that kids don't know about and that it's imperative (必须的) to place limitations on students. They shouldn't post about themselves, .10Encouragement and Praise-holicFor years we have been told thatBut child experts are now learning that too much praise can lead toPraise-holic kids who expect it at may become teens who seek to same kind of from friends when askedThe implication(含义) of saying "You are the prettiest girl in class,"or talking about the goals she succeeded but not her , is that you love her onlyAnd this over to the classroom.原文重现3)college took a woman student. Elizabeth Blackwell,again to a colleges, asking if she could ), but4Frederick M. Hess is the studies at the AmericanHe says today'sstudents take a summer summertime5Teaching penmanshipto school teachers, you'll be hearing a lot ofabout the penmanship, the quality of one'staught as afrom writing in block capitalimportant that sometimes prizes were even7The History of Harvard Universityin the United States. Yale, Princeton, and8Science's Lingua Francaas much communication—than one for science, orMontgomery- a and Guide toCommunication Science—the lingua franca of9schools have prohibited (禁止必须的) to placeabout themselves, 10。
专4听写10篇

听写10篇Dictation1Valentine’s Day情人节(157words)It’s that time of the year when couples show their love for each other/by sending cards, flowers and chocolates./But Valentine’s Day is not only about public displays of affection:/in recent years it has also become big business./In the UK alone,more than20million pounds is spent on flowers,/whilst in the United States over1billion dollars is spent on chocolates./ Although Valentine’s Day has become a global industry/with more than80million roses sold worldwide,/the origins of the day are unclear and hidden in the mists of time./Nobody knows exactly who St Valentine was,/although some historians suggest he was a Roman killed in the third century AD by a Roman Emperor./It is said that the first recorded Valentine’s card/was sent by the imprisoned Duke of Orleans in1415./It is believed that he sought solace from his confinement/by writing love poems to his wife./Dictation2Soap Opera肥皂剧(154words)Where did the expression“soap opera”come from?/In the early days of TV,there were often dramas on during the day./Back in those days,it was traditional for the husband to go out to work/and for the wife to stay at home and look after the house and the children./Most of these daytime dramas were aimed at entertaining the housewives/who would traditionally be at home, probably doing the washing./Companies selling washing powder would advertise their products/ at times when these dramas were on,/and sometimes those companies would even sponsor the drama.Hence the word‘soap’./So what about the word opera?/Well,that’s because these dramas are often an exaggeration of real life./They are supposed to represent ordinary lives but,/to make them entertaining,lots of dramatic events,like murders,divorces,affairs etc.,/all happen probably much more regularly/ than they would in a normal neighbourhood./Dictation3Music音乐(154words)Music is the abstract art of arranging vocal or instrumental sounds/in a manner that produces a flowing,/unified and thoughtful composition that has melody,harmony,rhythm./In contrast to the other arts,music is not a readily tangible form of expression./Music may be called both the most mathematical and the most abstract of the arts./Unlike words,images,or dance, however,/musical tones in themselves have no concrete associations,/and only gain meaning when they are combined into patterns./Through the centuries various philosophers have attempted to integrate theories/on the essence of music with their particular world views./Many non-Western cultures and some Western writers as well have perceived it as an inherently mystical force,/able to unlock elemental truths or principles/that cannot be translated into written or graphic form./Music is an important part of our lives,/and has been an important part of every civilization known to man./Dictation4Divorce离婚(151words)Marriage is a sacred institution,/wherein two individuals take the wedding vows of love/and cherish and respect each other for life./Many times it so happens that these two individuals discover/they were never meant to be together and file for a divorce./Marriage involves physical, emotional,/mental and financial investments and letting it all evaporate in thin air is not a very easy process./Yet,50%of the marriages end in a divorce/and67%of second marriages too end up in divorce./It is seen that the rate of divorce in America is the highest in the world./ Divorce is a stressful event that usually means a loss of family,love,/dreams and feelings of betrayal and loneliness./Marriage is a major relationship in society./Ending this important relationship and reasons for divorce/lead to an emotional upheaval in the lives of the individual’s seeking a divorce./Dictation5Elephants大象(157words)Elephants are the largest animals that live on land./There are two different kinds of elephants/—the African elephant and the Asian elephant./You can identify an African elephant from an Asian elephant/from the size of their ears and the tusks and their height./The ears and the tusk of an Asian elephant are smaller in size compared to an African elephant./An African elephant is taller and bigger in size than an Asian elephant./An average life span of an elephant is sixty years./In captivity,an elephant can live up to eighty years./An adult elephant experiences most of the human illness attributed to old age./An adult elephant is active reproductively till the age of fifty./An elephant would live till its last tooth wears out./Once that happens,an elephant would starve itself to death./If the elephant is well protected,/it can live up to the seventy years and more./Dictation6Eye Protection保护眼睛(141words)The development of business and entertainment/has led to increasing numbers of problems for our eyes./Eye strain caused by the excessive watching of TV,/computer monitors,books,and other devices has become a severe problem./This is a concern among children/who are becoming more and more addicted to video and computer games./They spend long hours staring at the screen with few breaks./Other things can also cause poor eyesight./Pollution can damage the eyes,as well as a poor diet./This is especially true for the poor in society/as they may not be able to afford the food necessary/to provide everything that their bodies need./There is also an increase of people born with bad eyesight,/and others develop poor vision at an early age./This can be caused by the misuse of a person’s eyesight./Dictation7The Invention of Shoes鞋子的发明(158words)The invention of shoes can be linked back to past civilizations/and to our ancestors who needed protecting covering for their feet/during harsh winters or while climbing rocky grounds./ Our ancestors covered themselves with clothing made of animal skin,grass and other materials,/ however,there was no such clothing for the feet./Since thousands of years ago,man had no suitable means of transport/and so while walking long distances,/the feet was prone to get hurt or injured./To safeguard the feet,sandals were invented/and as time advanced,sandals evolved as shoes./Various researches suggest that thesigns of first footwear that resembled shoes/were found in Spanish caves some15000years ago./ These drawings suggest men who have tied their feet with animal and fur skins around their feet./Some figures suggest grass padding and papyrus leaves trapped around the feet./This all possibly hint that our ancestors were the first inventors of shoes./Dictation8Alcohol on Campus校园里的饮酒现象(151words)Most American colleges and universities take a spring break./Students might go home to their families/—or spend a week partying on a warm beach with no parents around./ In the United States,the legal age to drink alcohol is twenty-one/—one of the highest in the world./Americans debate whether it should be lowered,/or whether young drinkers would only drink more./In parts of Europe,the legal drinking age for beer,/and sometimes hard liquor, is sixteen./Yet France may raise the age limit for beer and wine sales to eighteen,/the same as for hard liquor there./Rules on alcohol differ from college to college in the United States./Many schools require all first-year students to take an alcohol prevention and education program./Some have a"zero tolerance"policy where alcohol is banned from all buildings./Parents are informed of violations and students may be suspended./Dictation9The Fast Food Restaurants in the United States美国的快餐店(153words)The favorite food in the United States is the hamburger,/a kind of round sandwich of cooked ground beef./The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant./At fast food restaurants,people order their food,/wait a few minutes,and carry it to their tables themselves./ People also take their food out of the restaurant/and eat it in their cars or in their homes./At some fast food restaurants,people can order their food,/pay for it and pick it up without leaving their cars./There are many kinds of fast food restaurants in the United States./The most numerous sell hamburgers,French fries and milkshakes./In addition,fast food restaurants that serve Chinese food,/Mexican food,Italian food,chicken,seafood and ice cream are very numerous./The idea of a fast food restaurant is so popular/that nearly every kind of food can be found in one./Dictation10The New Consumptive Attitude新的消费观(144words)The economic success of China is changing the way Chinese people look at money./The people,who now have more money available,/are beginning to enter into a material consumer culture./This new excess has allowed more spending on movies,/books,concerts,dramas,and a host of other things./This has dramatically changed since when people were interested more in buying food than in entertainment./These new consumptive habits and attitudes/have created many differences in society./This is especially true of the gap between generations./Young people today focus a lot of their attention on brands,/which are made up of both international and domestic name brands./The desire to possess these famous name brands in clothing and electronics,/has led to the massive increase in these industries./Another interesting effect has been the rise of tourism/and its related industries within China./。
巅峰听力Part4复合式听写

巅峰听力Part4复合式听写大学英语四级考试听力训练之复合式听写(一)复合式听写要求在听完一篇约250词的文章后,把文章中空缺的内容补充完整。
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第二遍:遇到要填写的单词处,略有停顿,遇到句子有较长时间停顿;第三遍:语速正常。
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We have(S2)__________ a range of different models to see which is the best (S3) _________ for money. After a number of different tests and interviews with people who are (S4) _________ with different cameras being assessed, our researchers (S5) _________ the Olympic BY model as the best auto-focus camera available at the moment. It costs $200 although you maywell want to spend more – (S6) _________ as much as another $200 – on buying (S7)__________lenses and other equipment. It is a good Japanese camera, easy to use. Equivalent German models tend to be (S8)__________ and slightlyless easy to use, whereas the American versions are considerably more(S9) ____________.The Olympic BY model weighs only 320 grams, which is quite a bitless than other cameras of a similar type. Indeed one of the other models we look at weighed almost twice as much. Similarly, it is smaller than most of its competitors, thus fitting easily into a pocket or handbag. All the people we interviewed expressed almost total(S10)______________ with it. The only problem was a slight awkwardnessin loading the film.Drill 2 (P125-126)The Library of Congress is America’s national library. It hasmillions of books and other objects. It has newspapers, (S1)________ publications as well as letters of (S2) _________ interest. It also has maps, photographs, art (S3)_________, movies, sound recordings andmusical (S4)____________. All together, it has more than 100 million objects.The Library of Congress is open to the public Monday through Saturday, except for public holidays. Anyone may go there and read anything in the collection. But no one is (S5)________ to take books out of the building.The Library of Congress was (S6)___________ in 1800. It started with eleven boxes of books in one room of the Capitol Building. By 1814, the collection had increased to about 3,000 books. They were all(S7)________ that year when the Capitol was burned down during America’s war with Britain.To help rebuild the library, Congress bought the books of President Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Jefferson’scollection included 7,000 books in seven languages. In 1897, the library moved into its own building – acrossthe street from the Capitol. Today, three buildings hold thelibrary’s collection. The library provides booksand materials to the US Congress and also lends books to other American libraries, government (S8)__________ and foreign libraries. It buys some of its books and gets others as (S9)________. It also gets materials through its copyright office. Anyone who wants copyright protection for a publication in US must send two copies to the library. This means the Library of Congress receives almost everything that is (S10)___________ in the United States.Drill 3 (新东方英语背诵美文30篇-摘取梦想的启明星)Good Mistakes by Dave BalchIt’s good to make mistakes, and here’s why.First of all, mistakes are a clear (1)________ that you are trying new things. It’s always good to try newthings because when you are trying new things you are growing. Ifyou never try anything new, how can you (2)_______? How can you expand? How can you (3)____________? The simple answer is, “You can’t.”Look around you. With very few (4)_________, either everything you see in your physical world or every single (5)_________ of every single thing is the result of someone trying something new.Another good thing about mistakes is this: when you are making mistakes, you are (6)_____________. Consider this: Edison failed 10,000 times before he perfected the light bulb. When asked how it felt to fail that many times, re remarked that he had n’t failed 10,000 times, but (7)______________ had learned 10,0002things that didn’t work.Finally, when you make a mistake you are that much closer to(8)_____________. Why?Because when all is said and done, you will have tried some finite (9)___________ of things before you succeeded. Every time you made a mistake you (10)_____________ one of those things and are one step closer.But this all doesn’t mean that you should forge ahead with disregard for the (11)____________ of a mistake. Quite the contrary, when you try something new you have to be willing to set some(12)____________ limits so that, in the event that it doesn’t work out the way you want it to, you will be in aposition to try again.We all have limited (13)______________ in the form of time and money so don’t blow them all on oneapproach to a problem. Realize that it probably won’t be perfect the first time and allocate these resourcesappropriately so you can learn, (14)____________, and try it again. Only by embracing and using your mistakes in this way can you make significant (15)_____________ in your business and your career.There is an old axiom that goes, “If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.” So goforth and make mistakes. And learn, and grow, and prosper.Drill 4 The Beauty of Nature by Ralph Waldo EmersonNature satisfies by its loveliness, and without any mixture of corporeal benefit. I see the spectacle of (1)_____________ from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to (2)___________, with emotions which an angle might (3)____________. The long slender bars of cloud (4)__________ like fishes in the sea of crimson (深红色的) light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that (5)___________ sea. Iseem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate(膨胀) and conspire(合作,协力) with the morning wind. How does Nature deify(神化) us with a few and cheap elements! Give mehealth and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic (8)____________ and dreams.Drill 5 Success Is on the Other Side by Stuart RosenEverybody want success. Some people aim for it; others just talk about it. We all know what it looks like, when someone else has it. Oftentimes it just seems like something too far (1)_____ ____ ________.The truth is: Success is closer t han you think. It’s just on the other side. You have to want it enough, andbe willing (2)__________ to get it.On the other side of fearFear is you biggest obstacle – fear of (3)_________; fear of the judgment of others; fear of actually (4)____________. It will trip you up every time. It will cause you to make decisions that may seem “right” atthe time, but they’re preventing you from actually (5)______________ that wall.On the other side of excusesSuccess has no excuses. You (6)_______ get it or you don’t. Theminute you find a reason not to takeanother step towards success is the (7)_________ you stop being successful. In the symphony of success, excuses are just (8)____________.On the other side of obstaclesEveryone faces changes; different ones at different times. We all handle the same (9)____________ differently; we all have different results. It’s how you handle each one and what you (10)_______ ________ the results that count. An obstacle is something you either find away around o r allow to stop you. Remember, you’ve got to get(11)__________ obstacles in order to succeed.On the other side of failuresNot everything words; even if it works for other people, the samething just doesn’t work for us. So3what? Failure can either become an obstacle and an (12)___________or it can become your (13)_________ in what not to do.It takes (14)___________, commitment and follow-through.They call it a ladder of success for a reason, because you need to (15)__________ it in order to ge t somewhere. It’s not a escalator. You just don’t (16)__________ there and let it do the work for you. Youhave to do the work yourself. Sometimes it will be easy; other timesyou’ll be carrying a heavy load on your(17)_____________. The ladder remains the same. Success still(18)_________ on the other side. It’s goingto take determination and (19)__________ on your (20)_______ to get up and over that wall.Which side do you want to be?Drill 6 You’re A Beautiful Person by Anonymous(无名氏)I with that I could tell every person that I meet that he or she isa beautiful person – and(1)_______ _____ _______ it. I with I could look them in the eyes and tell them of their beauty and have them accept the words for what they truly are – the truth, (2)____________.You and I both know that most people will (3)___________ their beauty, expressing what they feel is modesty of humility. It’s easier for us to be told that we’re (4)________ ________________ -- our own beauty is something(5)_____________________________.You could help me to (6)________ people ______ their innate beauty. You could agree with me in an effort (7) ____ _____________ ________________. You could give a few specifics to illustrate just what we’re talking about when we say the person is beautiful. You could reassure the person that I’m not saying it to flatter or to win the person over or (8)________________________________________________, but just trying to express (9)______ ________ the beauty I see when I look into that person’e ey es and see humanbeing there, the person who gets happy and hurt and(10)___________________________.You can help me by (11)______ the person that beauty isn’t about (12)_________________________, but about the part of us(13)____________________________________. It’snot all physical and it’s not all spiritual, but a tender combination of all that we are.4KeysDrill 11. quality2. investigated3. value4. familiar5. recommend6.perhaps7. additional8. heavier9. expensive 10. satisfactionDrill 21. popular2. historical3. prints4. instruments5. permitted6. established7. destroyed8. agencies9. gifts 10. published Drill 31. sign2. improve3. innovate4. exception5. detail6. learning7. rather8. success9. number 10. eliminated 11. consequences 12. reasonable 13. resources 14. modify 15. advancesDrill 41. morning2. sunrise3. share4. float5. silent6. elements7. moonrise8. philosophyDrill 51. out of reach2. enough3. failure4. succeeding5. getting over6. either7. the moment8. noise9. challenges 10. do with 11. passed 12. excuse 13. teacher 15. effort 15. climb 16. stand 17. shoulders 18.waits 19. persistence 20 part Drill 61. have them believe2. plain and simple3. deny54. talented or intelligent5. th at we don’t want to face6. convince …of7. to reinforce the message 8. get something out of the person 9. in words10.who laughs and who cries 11. reminding12. comparing ourselves with others 13. that shines when we love others and love life.6。
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No.1Many things about language are a mystery and will remain so. However, we now do know something about it. First, we know that all people have a language of some sort. No human race anywhere on earth is so backward that it has no language of its own at all. Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped but, the languages they speak are by no means like this. In all the languages existing in the world today, there are complexities that must have been there for years. Third, we know that all languages are perfectly adequate. Each is a perfect means of expressing its culture. And finally, we know that language changes over time, which is natural and normal if a language is to survive. The language which remains unchanged is nothing but dead.No.2To improve your reading habits, you must understand the characteristics of a good reader. First, the good reader usually reads rapidly. Of 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 in 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 text books provide and skim-reading for a general survey. No.3Money is accepted across the world as payment for goods or services. People use money to buy food, clothes and hundreds of other things. In the past, many different things were used as money. People on Pacific islands once exchanged shells for goods. The Chinese used cloth and knives. In Africa, elephant tusks or salt were used. Even today, some people in Africa are still paid in salt. Coins were first invented by the Chinese. Originally, they were round pieces of metal with a hole in the center, so that a piece of string could keep them together. This made doing business much easier, but people still found coins inconvenient to carry when they wanted to buy something expensive. To solve this problem, the Chinese again came up with the solution. They began to use paper money for coins. Now paper notes are used throughout the world. No.4It is generally believed that wrist watches are an exception to the normal sequence in the evolution of man's jewelry. Reversing the usual order, they were first worn by women, and then adopted by men. In the old days, queens included wrist watches among their crown jewelry. Later, they were worn by Swiss workers and farmers. Until the World War I, Americans associated the watch with fortunehunters. Then army officers discovered that the wrist watch was most practical for active combat. Race car drivers also loved to wear wrist watches, and pilots found them most useful while flying. Soon men dared to wear wrist watches without feeling self-conscious. By 1924, some 30 percent of man's watches were worn on the wrist. Today, the figure is 90 percent. And they are now worn by both men and women for practical purposes rather than for decoration.No.5The Internet is the most significant progress in the field of communications. Imagine a book that never ends, a library with a million floors, or imagine a research project with thousands of scientists working around the clock forever. This is the magic of the Internet. Yet the Internet has the potential for good and bad. One can find well-organized information-rich websites. At the same time, one can also find wasteful websites. Most websites are known as different Internet applications. These include online games, chartrooms and so on. These things have great power, too. Sometimes the power can be so great that young people may easily become victims to their attraction. So we need to recognize the seriousness of the problem. We must work together to use its power for better ends.No.6The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum was opened in Geneva in1988. It tells us the story of men and women who in the course of the major events of the last 150 years have given us assistance to victims of war and natural disasters. The organizationwas established in 1863 and was based on an idea by a Swiss businessman called Henry Durant. He had witnessed the heavy casualties caused by the battle of Solferino in Italy in which 40,000 people were killed, wounded or missing. He had seen the lack of medical services in the great suffering of many of the wounded that simply died from lack of care. The International Red Cross or Red Crescent exists to help the victims of conflict and disasters regardless of their nationalities. The symbol of the organization was originally just a red cross. It has no religious significance. The founders of the movement adopted it as it attributes to Switzerland. However, during the Russo-Turkish war, the Turks felt the cross could be seen as an offensive to Muslim soldiers and the second symbol, the Red Crescent was adopted for use by national organizations in the Islamic world. Both are our official symbols. No.7The most common type of child abuse is beating with the hands over an instrument, usually a cane in some places. Nearly a third of the abused children we see are in the age group between six and ten, and about sixty-five percent of them are boys. This is the age group when children are first expected to study hard in school. Boys, of course, attract more abuse such as beating because once again parental expectations are high and boys tend to be more energetic and difficult to control than girls. Most experts seem to agree that child abuse is caused by a combination of social and psychological factors. Families who beat their children are not particularly different from other people. The only difference that exists between them is that they lack skills in establishing good relationships withtheir children. These families too, generally speaking, have other problems, such as marriage problems or financial problems. Some parents are hurting their children because they strongly believe in the use of traditional disciplinary methods. But many of them have emotional problems. They are often the victims of the violence themselves. Sometimes they even bear an unreasonable hatred for a child because they believe that the child has brought the family bad luck.No.8While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed. Were they tuned off because an American had the nerve to instruct Japanese in their own art form or they deliberately tried to signal their rejection of her? Obcamp later found out that her listeners were not being disrespectful. Japanese listeners sometimes closed their eyes to enhance concentration. Her listeners were showing their respect for her by chewing on her words. Some day you may be either a speaker or a listener in a situation involving people from other countries or members of minority group in North America. Learning how different cultures signal respect can help you avoid misunderstandings. Here are some examples. In the deaf culture of North America, many listeners show applause not by clapping their hands but by waving them in the air. In some cultures, both overseas and in some minority groups in North America, listeners are considered disrespectful if they look directly at the speaker. Respect is shown by looking in the generaldirection but avoiding direct eye contact. In some countries, whistling by listeners is a sign of approval while in other courtiers it is a form of insult.No.9Obtaining good health insurance is a real necessity while you are studying overseas. It protects you from minor and major medical expenses that can wipe out not only your savings,but you dreams of an education abroad.There are often two different types of health insurance you can consider buying:international travel insurance and student insurance in the country where you will be going. An international travel insurance policy is usually purchased in your home country before you go abroad. It generally covers a wide variety of medical services,and are often given a list of doctors in the area where you will travel who may even speak your native language. The drawback might be that you may not get your money back immediately. In other words,you may have to pay all your medical expenses and then later submit your receipts to the insurance company.On the other hand, getting student health insurance in the country where you will study might allow you to only pay a certain percentage of the medical cost at the time of service and thus,you don’t have to have sufficient cash to pay the entire bill at once. Whatever you decide,obtaining some form of health insurance is something you should consider before you go overseas. You shouldn’t wait until you are sick with major medical bills to pay off.No.10There are between 3000 and 6000 public languages in the world, and we must add approximately 6 billion private languages since each one of us necessarily has one. Considering these facts, the possibilities for breakdowns in communication seem infinite in number. However, we do communicate successfully from time to time. And we do learn to speak languages. But learning to speak languages seems to be a very mysterious process. For a long time, people thought that we learned a language only by imitation and association. For example, a baby touches a hot pot and starts to cry. The mother says, “Hot, hot!”And the baby, when it stops crying, imitates the mother and says, “Hot, hot!”However, Noam Chomsky, a famous expert in language, pointed out that although children do learn some words by imitation and association, they also combine words to make meaningful sentences in ways that are unique, unlearned and creative. Because young children can make sentences they have never heard before, Chomsky suggested that human infants are born with the ability to learn language. Chomsky meant that underneath all the differences between public and private languages, there is a universal language mechanism that makes it possible for us, as infants, to learn any language in the world. This theory explains the potential that human infants have for learning language. But it does not really explain how children come to use language in particular ways.No.11Some people want to make and save a lot of money in order to retireearly. I see people pursuing higher paying and increasingly demanding careers to accomplish this goal. They make many personal sacrifices in exchange for income today. The problem is that tomorrow might not come. Even if it all goes according to plan, will you know how to be happy when you are not working if you spend your entire life making money? More importantly, who will be around for you to share your leisure time with? At the other extreme are people who live only for today. Why bother saving when I might not be here tomorrow, they argue. The danger of this approach is that tomorrow may come after all. And most people don't want to spend all their tomorrows working for a living. The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older. You maybe surprise to hear me say that if you must pick an extreme I think it's better to pick the spend-all approach. As long as you don't mind continuing to work, assuming your health allows, you should be OK. At least, you are making use of your money, and hopefully deriving value and pleasure from it. Postponing doing what you love and being with people you love until retirement can be a mistake. It may never come. Retirement can be a great time for some people. For others, it is a time of boredom, loneliness and poor health.No.12To see if hair color affects a person’s chances of getting a job, researchers at California State University asked 136 college students to review the resume and photograph of a female applicant for a job as an accountant. Each student was given the same resume. But the applicant’s picture was altered, so that in some photos her hair was golden, in some red and in some brown. The result? With brown hair, the woman was rated mote capable, and she was offered a higher salary than when she had golden or red hair. Other studies have found similar results. Many respondents rate women with golden hair as less intelligent than other people, and red heads as more temperamental. Women with red or golden hair are victims of the common practice of stereotyping. A stereotype is a simplistic orexaggerated image that humans carry in their minds about groups of people. For example, "lawyers are shrewd and dishonest" is a popular stereotype. Stereotyping can occur in public speaking classes. When trying to choose a speech topic, some males think that women are uninterested in how to repair cars, while some females think that men are uninterested in creative hobbies, such as knitting and needle point. We should reject stereotypes, because they force all people in a group into the same simple pattern. They fail to account for individual differences, and the wide range of characteristics among members of any group. Some lawyers are dishonest, yes, but many are not. Some women don’t like repairing cars, yes, but some are enthusiastic mechanics.No.14Wilma Subra had no intention of becoming a public speaker. After graduating from college with degrees in chemistry and microbiology, she went to work at Gulf South Research Institute in Louisiana. As part of her job, she conducted field research on toxic substances in the environment, often in minority communities located near large industrial polluters. She found many families were being exposed to high, sometimes deadly levels of chemicals and other toxic substances. But she was not allowed to make her information public. Frustrated by these restrictions, Subra left her job in 1981, created her own company, and has devoted the past two decades to helping people fight back against giant industrial polluters. She works with families and community groups to conduct environmental tests, interpret test results, and organize for change. Because of her efforts, dozens of toxic sites across the country havebeen cleaned up. And one chemical industry spokesperson calls her "a top gun" for the environmental movement. How has Subra achieved all this? Partly through her scientific training, partly through her commitment to environmental justice. But just as important is her ability to communicate with people through public speaking. "Public speaking,”she says, "is the primary vehicle I use for reaching people. "No.15Anewbookissuretobediscussed, and debated, atcollegesthisfall. ThebookiscalledMyFreshmanYear."WhataProfessorLearnedbyBeco mingaStudent. ThewriterisRebekahNathan. Theprofessorwantedtoknowwhymanyofherstudentsdidnot complete th eirworkoraskforhelp. Shedecidedtodoa researchproject. Shegottheapprovaloftheuniversityethics committee. Suchgroupsconsidermoraland legalissues instudies.Inthespringof 2002, she applied toherownuniversityunderthename"RebekahNathan"andw as admitted. Shelivedinstudenthousing. Shetookfiveclassesduringherfirsttermandtwointhesecond semester. Shedidprettywell, althoughshegotoneC, amarkofaverage. Shealsoplayedsports,InMyFreshmanYear, shedoesnotidentifyanystudentsbyname, butshedoesdiscusswhattheytoldherabouttheirlives. RebekahNathanwritesthatstudentsdonothaveenoughtimetobe interest ed intheirclasses. Theyarebusywithactivitiesandjobs. Theytrytolearnonlyasmuchastheyhaveto. Butshesaystheywillreadthematerialifitisdirectlylinkedtowhatisbeingdiscussedinclass. Theprofessorsaysheryearasastudentchangedthewaysheteaches. Shegiveslessreadingnow. Sheasksquestionsdesignedtogetstudentstospeakmore. Sheoffershelp. 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1Some teachers seem to be good teachers, but they are not. their students have no special to find with them. They are not good teachers because they have no special , no special , no fight. They know their well. They have . Their courses are and taught., like Socrates. This kind of teacher is more interested in the subject being taught than in students or social . A good teacher is always to bring about a social structure in which people will be free to be themselves.2The has probably changed people's way of life more than any other of the last century.More than ,television,air travel ,or even computers,automobiles have where people live and work , . Before there were cars,people generally on foot or by horse overroads.Whether they lived in the city or the ,they rarely went farther than a few from home.They saw the same people and places year after year. The car opened up whole new worlds..People with cars could live father from their jobs,and so the age of commuting began.New suburbs sprang up around the cities.. 3In early days no (医科的)college took a woman student. Elizabeth Blackwell, however, was to become a doctor. The young American wrote again and again to a number of medical colleges, asking if she could be (录取), but each time the answer was NO. Then one day, to her surprise, she got a letter from the of a college in Geneva(日内瓦), which said YES.. But later the important people of that college learned that Liza's application(申请)had the support of a famous doctor, and.4Summer Vacation is Too Long. Frederick M. Hess is the of studies at the American Enterprise Institute,which is a that conducts research on many . He says that a long summer vacation doesn't in today's world.Can American students take a summer vacation?In a summervacation, kids spend time sending messages, watching TV, playing video games and doing shopping in the mall..Summer vacation once made sense in the past when you didn't need an education to get a good job..5Teaching penmanshipAs you prepare to become school teachers, you'll be hearing a lot of about the of teaching penmanship, the quality of one's handwriting. Now years ago when I was studying education in college, reading, writing and were the basic of elementary school education.. That is, the neatness of a child's handwriting. Back then, penmanship was often taught as a from the first grade right up through the long after the children had moved from writing in block capital letters to cursive scipt. It was considered so important that sometimes prizes were even .6As a professor at a large American university, : "I'm only a 1050." The unlucky students are the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to whether they will be to the college or university of their choice, or even to get a at all.The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1 100 or 1550, has becomes the focus . It is obvious that , then a great amount of their is put in the number..The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a university, they fear that many of life's doors will remain closed.7The History of Harvard UniversityStarted in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all in the United States. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth were Harvard. They were all started before the American Revolution made the thirteen into states. In the early years, these schools were .Only young men attended college. All the students studied the same and everyone Latin and Greek. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world..In 1782, Harvard startedLater, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard Law School. In 1825,8Science's Lingua FrancaWhile many rural languages are going , new urban hybrid languages may help to . Hundreds of new forms of English have already been spawned around the world. Some are losing their as much communication—economic, cultural, and political—. "Swedish, like many European languages, is now more a of solidarity than one for science, university education, or European communication,"Scott Montgomery- a Seattle-based and author of The Chicago Guide to Communication Science—shows that English has as the preferred world language for science."Because of its scale and dynamism, science has become the and dynamic creator of new language in the world today., the lingua franca of scientific effort," Montgomery said.9Instead of , teens are now on their Web logs, or . A study showed that one in five teens in America has a blog, and about twice as many read them. But some schools have prohibited (禁止) students from . Other schools have tried to prohibit teens from keeping online journals even at home.They maintain that a ban on blogging violates (违反) their right to free speech.Blog critics say that kids don't know about and that it's imperative (必须的) to place limitations on students. They shouldn't post about themselves, .10Encouragement and Praise-holicFor years we have been told thatBut child experts are now learning that too much praise can lead toPraise-holic kids who expect it at may become teens who seek to same kind of from friends when askedThe implication(含义) of saying "You are the prettiest girl in class,"or talking about the goals she succeeded but not her , is that you love her onlyAnd this over to the classroom.原文重现3)college took a woman student. Elizabeth Blackwell,again to a colleges, asking if she could ), but4Frederick M. 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