1、2006 年专四听力答案PART I DICTATIONThe InternetThe Internet is the most significant progress in the field of communication. /lmagine 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 t
2、he Internet. /Yet the Internet has the potential for good and bad. /0ne 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, chat rooms and so on./These appli
3、cations 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.PART LISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A CONVERSATIONS Qu
4、estions I to 3 are based on the following conversation.M: Hello.W: Oh, hello, you must be a new student. Did you find us, Ok?M: Well, I got a bit lost and I had to ask a stranger, but I got here eventually.W; Oh, dear. Have you come far today?M; Only from Britain. I was staying with my brother.W: Oh
5、, good. (1) How did you get here?M: (1) My brother took me to the railway station and I got a bus at this end.W: Aha, well, youd better tell me your name, so I can find your form.M: It s Mark Bern.W: Bern, Bern. Ah, yes. Oh, youve changed since this photo. (2) What happened to your beard and moustac
6、he, and you are not wearing glasses, either?M: No, I thought Id better look smarter.W: Here is the key to your room. It is 501.M: Thanks. How do I get there?W: Go to the end of this corridor, turn left and its the third door on the right.M: Thank you. Oh, there is a meeting for new students. What ti
7、me is that?W: (3) Half past five in the Common Room on the ground floor at the other end of the corridor.M: Thanks a lot. Bye.Key: 1.C 2.A 3.BQuestions 4 to 6 are based on the following conversation.W: Hi, Steve, how are things?M: Hi, Maggie. Good, thanks. Whats new with you?W: Oh, I was just wonder
8、ing if you wanted to go out tonight.M: Well, (4)1 was thinking of going to the university library to do a bit of study. What have you got in mind?W: I thought we could just go for a walk, maybe down to that park near the beach.M: Tonight? (5) You must be joking. Its too cold.W: Oh, yes. Its too cold
9、, but I still want to go out somewhere. That new Tom Cruises film is on in town. How about that?M: Ok, what time does it start?W: Oh, I think its half past eight or something. I will just get the paper and have a look. Just turn on for a minute. Look, the film got fantastic review in the paper last
10、week.M: Ok,ok. (6) Where are we going to meet?W: (6)ltd be easier if we met at the cinema.M: Ok. Where is it?W: Oh, you know, the Olyang.M: Where is that?W: (6) Near the Town Hall and opposite the bank.M: Oh, yeah. I know where it is. Ok, look, I will meet you there at fifteen past eight.Key：4.D 5.B
11、 6.D Questions 7 to 10 are based on the following conversation.W: What are you reading. Bill?M: Its this weeks New Scientist ,whyI .W: I was just wondering. It looks interesting. (9) But Ive never actually read it myself. Its for real scientistsor can ordinary people like me understand it?M: Oh, its
12、 for anyone really. It usually has articles and stories about character affairs and about science as well as papers about new development and research. I am reading about new telephone that allows you to see the person you are speaking to as well as hear him.W: Oh,Ive heard about it. (7)/(9)ls it on
13、 the market yet? Can I buy one?M: No, not this one. (8) But the company has made other models to try out on business. This one is special because its color and the image is moving.W: Oh, thats interesting.M: You see the first video phones that what they called were made in Japan. But they can only s
14、how a still, black and white image. So this video phone is much better than that. (8) Mind you and Im not sure I want one, would you?W: (8) Well, no. I dont think I would. I bet it costs a lot of money. Does it say how much it costs?M: Yes, the early black and white ones cost several hundred pounds,
15、 (7) but the one the story is about costs several thousand pounds.W: En. Why does anybody want one, do you think?M: Business organizations that need to frequently contact overseas organizations would want it. (10) Its like a face-to-face conversation. So maybe a lot of overseas travel can be avoided
16、.W: (9) Yes, I suppose so.Key: 7.C 8.C 9.B 10.A SECTION B PASSAGES Questions II to 13 are based on the following passage.If youre in a western country, you often see people walking their dogs. It is still true that a dog is the most useful animal in the world. (13) However the reason why one keeps t
17、he dog has changed. (11) Once upon a time, a man met a dog and wanted it to help him in the fight against other animals. And the dog listened to him and did what he told him to do. Later people used dogs for hunting other animals. And dogs did not eat what they got until their masters agreed. (11) D
18、ogs were also used for driving sheep and guarding chickens. But now people in towns and cities do not need dogs to fight other animals any more. Of course, they keep them to frighten thieves. But the most important reason for keeping dogs is that they feell only in the city. For a child, a dog is hi
19、s best friend when he has no friends to play with; for a young wife, a dog is her child when she does not have her own; for old people, a dog is also a child when their real children have grown up and left. (12) Now people do not have to use a dog, but they keep it as a friend,just like a member of
20、the family.Key: 11.D 12.A 13.DQuestions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage.I am going to work in a totally new environment. Ill have to get used to different working conditions. I am used to working in quite high-tech sort of industry that has got lots of machinery and everything. But now I
21、 am going to a place that(14) has no machinery as such, apart from a typewriter. The place has no electricity at all, no photocopiers,all the things that you just take for granted here. They just wont be there any more. Ill be staying near the school in quite a small village. And (15)1 will be stayi
22、ng in a teachers house, living with two or three other volunteer teachers. Ill have to get used to not having the variety of different foods that you have here like twenty different varieties of breakfast serial. (16) And the range of food there is much smaller, not many choices. Ill also have to ge
23、t used to getting water from a well, not having electricity which means gas lamps in the evening; which means the difficulty of preparing for the next days lessons in poor light; which means different ways of getting your clothes washed. (17) There will be all sorts of big differences like that, but
24、 Ill have to get used to when I arrive there.Key: 14.B 15.D 16.A 17.CQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage.The most common type of child abuse you know is beating with the hands or with an instrument usually a cane in some places. Nearly a third of the abused children we see are (18)
25、 in the age group between six and ten, and about sixty-five percent of them are boys. (18) This is the age group when children are first to expect to study hard and parents have great expectations of their progresses in school. Boys of course attract more abuse such as beating because (20) once agai
26、n parental expectations are high, and boys tend to be more energetic and difficult to control than girls. Most experts seem to agree that the child abuse is caused by a combination of social and psychological factors. Families who beat their children are not particularly different from other people.
27、 (20) The only difference that exists between them is that they lack skills in the establishing good relationships with their children. These families too .generally speaking, have other problems such as (19) marriage problems or financial problems. Some parents are hurting their children because th
28、ey strongly believe in the use of traditional discipline methods. But many of them have (19) emotional problems. (20) They are often the victims of violence themselves. Sometimes they even bear an unreasonable hatred for a child because they believe that the child has brought the family bad luck.Key
29、: 18.B 19.A 20.CSECTION C NEW BROADCAST News Item I(21) American coast guard officials in Florida say they have returned to Cuba a group of would-be migrants who try to (22) make their way to the United States in an unusual vessel, a floating truck. They said one of their planes spotted the Cubans m
30、ore than halfway through their journey, and the coast guard could not believe their eyes when they saw the vessel. The Cubans had attached floats and propellers to (22) a 1951 shabby truck.Key: 21.D 22.BNews Item 2All large and medium-sized Chinese cities will have greater air quality monitoring by
31、2010, says a government official. The government has spent 150 million yuan on air quality monitoring systems across China since 2000 when officials began paying greater attention to air quality monitoring. (23) More than 220 cities now have air quality monitoring systems and 42 others will have sys
32、tems in place by the end of this year.Key：23.DNews Item 3(25) Storms sank two river ferries in southern Bangladesh on Sunday and some (24)90 passengers were reported missing while at least another 68 died. One of the packed ferries carrying around 150 people capsized early on Sunday on the Meghna ri
33、ver and (25)50 were rescued. A second ferry sank on the same river just one kilometer away leaving 40 passengers missing after (25) 6 were rescued.Key：24.B 25.ANews Item 4(26) The Indonesian government has given official approval for an Australian consulate in Dili. The first Australian consulate of
34、ficials will travel to the East Timor capital next week as well as serving the consular needs of Australian in the region. The consulate will facilitate Australian support to the United Nations assistance mission in East Timor. The announcement follows in principle their agreement reached on the ope
35、ning of the consulate between Australian prime minister and Indonesian president in Barley last month.Key：26.CNews Item 5(27) PepsiCo of the US and Unilever of the UK have become the latest foreign entrance in Chinas competitive bottle tea market. The two companies launched Liptons iced tea in Guang
36、zhou last week in a 50-50 venture. (28) “PepsiCo is contributing its bottling facilities and distribution networks to the alliance while Unilever provides the famous tea brand and recipe.” company executive said. China has a growing bottle tea market estimated to be worth 10 billion Yuan. It has bee
37、n dominated in recent years by two Taiwanese brands .Master Kang and Uni-President. Three other big brands. Nestle, Guangdong based Jianiibao and Lipton, have just entered the market this year. Swiss company Nestle is working in conjunction with Coca Cola.Key：27.A 28.CNews Item 6(29) The Isreali pea
38、ce camp has launched tfa,e biggest protest in years (30) with more than 100 000 people protesting on Saturday and demanding the country leave Gaza, after Palestinian militants dealt Israels army its deadliest blow since 2002. Crowds at Tel Avivs main square added to the growing call for withdrawal from the war-torn territory. (30) The killing of 13 soldiers by militants in the Gaza strict last week has deepened already strong support in Israel for Prime Minister Sharons Gaza pullout plan which is being delayed by hardliners in his right-wing Likud party.Key: 29.B 30.D
