英语专业四级考试历年听写原文

专业四级考试听写评分标准

1. 听写共分15小节，每节1分，扣分一律写在试卷右边的空白处。大错误下面画线。小错误用圆圈表示，重复错误用三角记号表示。

2. 每节最多扣1分。

3. 重复错误，仅扣一次分。

4.错误共分两类：小错误（minor mistakes）和大错误（major mistakes），分不扣0.25分和0.5分。

A. 小错误：

1）单词拼写错一到两个字母。例：

steadily → staedily； harbor → habor

两个字母以下的词、次序颠倒算小错。

2）标点符号错误（含大小写）。例：

World War I → world war one

, and then adopted → . And then adopted

3) 冠词、单复数错误。例：

until the beginning → until beginning; parent → parents

4）小错误扣分标准：小错误在一节中出现一次，留作总计；出现两次：扣0.5分；

出现三次：扣0.5分后留作总计；出现四次：扣1分。

5）未扣分小错误的扣分标准：

累计2 ~ 4 个：扣0.5分

累计5 ~ 8 个：扣1分

B. 大错误：漏写、加词、造词、换词（冠词作小错计）、大移位、时态错误，每个错误扣0.5分。例：

loved → love；task — test； trip — trap； flee — flea；have finis hed — finsh（ed）

5. 一些特例的扣分标准：

下列情况不扣分：

World War I → World War One

race car → racecar

well-balanced → well balanced

90 percent → 90%

6. 总分只有0.5分时，以1分计算；其余总分中如含小数点的，小数舍去，保留

整数，如12.5 → 12；7.5 → 7

7. 空白卷一律打0分。

英语专业四级考试历年听写原文

（1993年——2006年）

Package Holidays (1993)

Package holidays, covering a two weeks' stay in an attractive place, are increasingly popular. Once you get to the airport, it is up to the tour operator to see that you get safely to your destination．Everythin g is laid on for you．There is, in fact, no reason for you to bother to arrange anything yourselves．You make friends and have a good time. But there is very little chance that you will really get to know the local people．This is even less likely on a coach tour, when you spend almost your entire time traveling．Of course, there are carefully planned stops for you to visit historic buildings and monuments. You may visit the b eautiful, the historic, the ancient. But time is always short．There is also the added disadvantage of being obliged to spend you holiday with a group of people you have never met before．

The American Family (1994)

The American family unit is changing. There used to be mainly two t ypes of families, the extended and the nuclear. The former included mot her, father, children, and some other relatives such as grandparents, l iving in the same house or nearby. Then as the economy progressed from

agricultural to industrial, people began moving to different parts of t he country in order to search for job opportunities. These moves split up the extended family. The nuclear family consisting of only parents a nd children has therefore b ecome far more wide spread. Today’s family, however, can be composed of diverse combinations. With the divorce rate nearly one in two, there's an increase in single-parent homes—a fathe r or mother living with one or more children. Blended families occur wh en divorced men and women remarry and combine the children from former marriages into a new family. On the other hand, there is an increase in childless couples while one in rive Americans lives alone.

Unidentified Flying Objects (1995)

There are many explanations for why UFOs visit the Earth. / The mos t popular one is that they maybe visitors from other planets./ To fly s uch aircraft, their builders must develop different forms of aviation,/ because they seem to fly much faster than normal aircraft./ The UFOs, i t is believed, must contain scientists/ from other planets who are stud ying life on earth./ It is even believed that several such aircraft may have landed on earth/ and the space visitors may be living amongst us. / But there are also less fantastic explanations available./ Although s ome sightings of UFOs are difficult to explain, most can be explained q uite easily./ In many cases the observers might have made a mistake./ T