1、2001 年专四听力答案PART DICTATIONCharacteristics of a Good ReaderTo improve your reading habits ,/you must understand the characteristics of a good reader. /First, the good reader usually reads rapidly./0f course, he does not read every piece of material at the same rate. /But whether he is reading a newsp
2、aper 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
3、 maximum of interest. /Finally, the good reader has at 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 textbooks provide /and skim-
4、reading for a general survey.PART LISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A CONVERSATIONSQuestions I to 3 are based on the following conversation.W: Hi, you had an encounter with an elephant yesterday?M: Yeah, (1) it scared me to death.W:What happened?M: I was walking in the park (1) when a female elephant c
5、ame charging at me right from behind.W:How terrifying!M: Yes. As I wag running I tripped and fell to the ground. Just as I turned around the tusks were already about a foot from my chest.W:She was trying to stab you with her tusks?M: She was going for a kill. (2) I just had time to grab the tusks an
6、d kind of pulled them past my body. And one tusk stabbed into the earth about a few centimeters from my head. I held on and she just tried to stab me. Miraculously she didnt touch anything vital.W:When she stabbed into the earth, she must liTive been right on top of you?M: Oh yes, she was. (3) Her e
7、yeballs were about two inches from my eyeballs.W: Just at that second when you were staring at her in the eye, was there anything going through your head or were you over- whelmed with terror?M:My thought was. If you let go of these tusks, you are dead meat.W: Well,what did happen? Why didnt you die
8、?M: Usually the elephant is just as scared as you are. Someone came up and screamed at the elephant. That probably distracted her and she decided to run away.Key:1.B 2.C 3. A Questions 4 to 6 are based on the following conversation.M: Math department, Doctor Webster speaking.W: Hello, Prof. Webster,
9、 this is Janet Hill calling. I live two doors down from your teaching assistant, Don Williams. (4) Don asked me to call you because he has lost his voice and cant talk to you himself.M:Lost his voice? Oh, what a shame! Is there anything I can do for him?W: Well, he has a class this afternoon from 2:
10、30 to 4:00 and he wont be able to teach it. But he doesnt want to cancel it, either.M:Does he want me to try to find somebody else to teach the class?W: No, not exactly. (5) What he wants to do is to get someone to go in for him, just to pass back the mid-term exams.M;His class is at 2:30, you say?
11、Well, Im free at that time and I was going to be on campus anyway; so I could do it for him. What room is his class in?W: Cater Hall, Room 214. (6) Will you need his office key to get the exams? Hes given it to me and I could bring it to you.M: Actually, that wont be necessary. We have a master key
12、in the math department. So I can get into his office if necessaryW: Thank you very much, Prof. Webster.M:My pleasure.Key: 4.C 5. A 6.BQuestions 7 to 10 are based on the following conversation.M: Hey, Jane. Whats so interesting?F: Im reading this fascinating article on the societies of the Ice Age du
13、ring the Pleistocene period.M: (7)The Ice Age? There werent any societies then. Just a bunch of cave people.F: Thats what people used to think. But a new exhibit of the America museum of natural history showed Ice Age people were surprisinglyadvanced: M: Oh, really? In what ways?F: Well, Ice Age peo
14、ple were the inventors of language, art, and music as we know it. And they didnt live in caves, they built their own shelters.M: What did they use to build them? The cold weather would have killed off most of the trees so they couldnt have used wood.F: (8) In some of the warmer climates, they did bu
15、ild the houses of wood. In other places, they used animal bones and skins or lived in natural stone shelters.M: How did they stay warm? Animal skin walls dont sound very sturdy.F: (9) Well, in the early Ice Age, they often faced the house towards south, to take the advantage of the sun, a primitive
16、sort of solar heating.M: Hey, thats pretty smart. I guess I spoke too soon. (10) Can I read that magazine article after youve done? I think Im going to try to impress my history teacher with my amazing knowledge of the Ice Age civilization.F:What a show off.Key: 7.A 8.C 9.D 10.BSECTION B PASSAGESQue
17、stions II to 13 are based on the following passage.(11) There is probably no area of human activity in which OUT values and lifestyles are reflected more vividly than they are in the clothes that we choose to wear. The dress of an individual is a kind of “sign language“ that communicates a complex s
18、et of information and is usually the basis on which immediate impressions are formed. (12) Traditionally a concern for clothes was considered to be a feminine preoccupation, while men took pride in the fact that they were completely lacking in clothes consciousness.Time has changed as masculine dres
19、s takes on greater variety and color. As early as 1955 ,a research revealed that men attached high importance to the value of clothing in daily life. White-collar workers in particular viewed dress as a symbol capable of manipulation, which could be used to impress or influence others, especially in
20、 work situations. (13) Although blue collar workers were less aware that they might be judged on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that any difference from the accepted pattern of dress would draw ridicule from fellow workers.Since that time, the pattern has changed: the typical office wo
21、rker may now be wearing the blue shirt, and the laborer a white shirt; but the importance of dress has not diminished.Key: 11.A 12. A 13.D Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage.(14)To work in an international organization, such as the United Nations or the European Commission, you ne
22、ed to be accredited by one of the various international translators or interpreters associations. To achieve this, you must undergo strict and lengthy training, either at an accrediting organizations own school, or on a postgraduate course at university.But a qualification in languages is not the on
23、ly route into the job. At the European Commission, for example, a recent intake of trainee interpreters included several with degrees in subjects like economics,linguistics,philosophy,law and,of course,languages.(16) To become a successful interpreter, candidates need to be at a high level in betwee
24、n three and five languages. However,regardless of how many languages they speak, (16) they voll only be required to translate from their acquired languages into their mother tongue.(15) Compared with using a foreign language, manipulating their own language is more crucial for them. With this skill,
25、 and a lot of practice, they will be able to clearly communicate information or messages which have been expressed in a verydifferent way in another language.Yet, while interpreters may be seldom noticed, they are always looking carefully at the people for whom they are interpreting, (16)ln particul
26、ar, they are looking at the body language of the speaker, because they must also use this information when they translate what he or she said.Key: 14.B 15.A 16.BQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage.How many of you drink cola? Nearly everybody. (17) Did you know that cola started out
27、 not as a soft drink but as acure for headache back in the late 1800s? John S. Pamberton, a druggist from Atlanta, had experimented for many monthstrying to find a cure for the common headache. He worked in his backyard, mixing and heating different combinations of oilsand flavors until he found one
28、 that seemed promising. (18) Pamberton bottled the mixture and began selling it in drugstoresas concentrated syrup that the customer had to mix with water before drinking. Colas transformation from concentrated syrupto a carbonated soft drink came about quite by accident. One day, a customer came in
29、to a drugstore complaining of a head-ache and asked for a bottle of cola syrup. He wanted to take it right away. So he asked the clerk to mix the medicine while hewaited. The clerk,instead of walking to the other end of the counter to get plain water, (19) suggested mixing the syrup withsoda water.
30、The customer agreed, and after drinking it, remarked how good it tasted. (19) The clerk continued offering the mixture and the cola grew in popularity. Today carbonated cola is sold in most countries around the world. And althought they no longer contain the ingredients to kill headaches, they are s
31、till very refreshing.Key: 17.B 18.C 19.D 20.C SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTNews Item I(21) “Commonwealth leaders agree to lift Nigerias three and a half years suspension on May 29, the day the military government hands over power to an elected president, “ the organizations Secretary General announced ye
32、sterday.(22) Nigeria was suspended from the 54-nation group of mainly former British colonies in 1995 after it executed nine minority rights activists, including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. But now that the country has embarked on a return to democracy. Commonwealth heads of government have agreed to end
33、the estrangement. Secretary General Chief Amecka Anyaoku said in a statement, “Im delighted that an unfortunate episode in Nigeria-Commonwealth relations will now come to an end and Nigeria is resuming its rightful place in the Commonwealth.Key: 21.C 22.A News Item 2The space shuttle Discovery made
34、a rare night landing at the Kennedy Space Center early on Thursday. (23) The night landing, the eleventh in the centers ninety-four shuttle missions, ended a ten-day mission to outfit the orbiting international space station. (24) Although the spacecraft created a sonic boom that could be heard alon
35、g much of Floridas eastern seaboard, witnesses on the ground could not see the orbiter until it was directly over the runway lights. Scattered showers off the Florida coast had threatened to postpone the shuttles return, but forecasters gave the green light when they decided no rain would fall withi
36、n forty-eight kilometers of the space center.Key: 23.C 24.ANews Item 3(25)“ Five people died, two were missing, and at least eighteen were injured on Wednesday when an Italian patrol boat vessel collided with a dinghy filled with refugees crossing the Adriatic Sea from Albania,“ authorities said.“Th
37、e victims were believed to be Albanians from either Albania or Kosovo, “ said authorities from Italys tax police division, which along with the coast guard patrols the nationas coast. The cause of the collision was not immediately known. (26) There A Three Albanians, believed to have smuggled the re
38、fugees, were arrested a few hours after the accident.Key: 25.D 26.BNews Item 4(27) “ Malaysian authorities are discussing possible salvage efforts with Sun Cruises, the Singapore owner of a luxury liner which sank off Malaysia last week, “ a news report said yesterday, “ Sun Cruises has received som
39、e advice from Malaysia on the matter, “ the Business Times newspaper quoted companys spokeswoman, Judy Chu, as saying. Chu and other Sun Cruise officials could not immediately be reached for further comment, as they were away in Indonesia. The Sun Vista went down in international waters, the nearby
40、Malaysia may have the right to order the wrecks removal, the newspaper said. Salvage experts said the wreck of the Sun Vista, which sunk in sixty meters of the water, poses no threat to ships passing over it, but Malaysia may still want it removed.Key: 27.ANews Item 5(28) An international Roman Cath
41、olic organization says human rights violations have sharply increased in the Central American countries. The organization, Pax Christi, made the statement to the UN Human Rights Commission. (29) It said that murder, torture and disappearances have risen in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Pax Ch
42、risti said that security forces in Guatemala completely destroyed six villages, killing all citizens. It said 1500 persons are killed in Guatemala every month. The Catholic organization said killings and disappearances have increased in El Salvador since the rightist election victory there last March. (30) Pax Christi also charged that officials in Honduras were responsible for mistreating refugees from EL Salvador.Key: 28.A 29.C 30.D
