爱华网祁营洲发布2011年12月完整可复制版四级听力真题、答案及原文
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Part ⅢListening Comprehension
Section A
Short Conversations
11. A) Read the notice on the window.
B) Go and ask the staff.
C) Get a new bus schedule.
D) Board the bus to Cleveland.
原文：
W: This crazy bus schedule has got me completelyconfused. I can’t figure out when my bus to Clevelandleaves?
M: Why don’t you just go to the ticket window andask?
Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?
12. A) He was looking forward to seeing thegiraffes.
B) He enjoyed watching the animalperformance.
C) He got home too late to see the TVspecial.
D) He fell asleep in the middle of the TVprogram.
原文：
W: I really enjoyed the TV special about draftslast night. Did you get home in time to see it?
W: Oh, yes, but I wish I could have stayed awake longenough to see the whole thing.
Q: What does the man mean?
13. A) She wants to take the most direct way.
B) She may be late for the footballgame.
C) She is worried about missing herflight.
D) She is currently caught in a trafficjam.
原文：
W: Airport, please. I’m running a little late. Sojust take the fastest way even if it’s not the mostdirect.
M: Sure, but there is a lot of traffic everywhere todaybecause of the football game.
Q: What do we learn about the woman from theconversation?
14. A) At arestaurant.
B) In a fish shop.
C) At a clinic.
D) On a fishing boat.
原文：
W: May I make a recommendation, sir? Our seafoodwith this special sauce is very good.
M: Thank you, but I don’t eat shellfish. I’m allergic toit.
Q: Where does this conversation most probably takeplace?
15. A) He is an experienced sales manager.
B) He is being interviewed for ajob.
C) He is a close friend of the woman.
D) He is good at answering trickyquestions.
原文：
W: now one more question if you don’t mind, whatposition in the company appeals to you most?
M: Well, I’d like the position of sales manager if thatposition is still vacant.
Q: What do we learn about the man?
16. A) The man should consider his privacyfirst.
B) The man will choose a low-rentapartment.
C) The man is not certain if he can find a quieterplace.
D) The man is unlikely to move out of thedormitory.
原文：
M: I don’t think I want to live in the dormitory next year.I need more privacy.
W: I know what you mean. But check out the cost ifrenting an apartment first. I won’t be surprised if you change yourmind.
Q: What does the woman imply?
17. A) The woman is going to makeher topic more focused.
B) The man and woman are working on a jointproject.
C) One should choose a broad topic for a researchpaper.
D) It took a lot of time to get the man on theright track..
原文：
M: You’re on the right track. I just think you need tonarrow the topic down.
W: Yeah, you’re right. I always start by choosingtwo boarder topics when I’m doing a research paper.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
18. A) They went camping this time last year.
B) They didn’t quite enjoy their lastpicnic.
C) They learned to cooperate under harshconditions.
D) They weren’t experienced in organizingpicnics.
原文：
W: This picnic should beat the last one we went to, doesn’tit?
M: Oh, yeah, we had to spend the whole timeinside. Good thing, the weather was cooperative thistime.
Q: What do we learn about the speakers from theconversation?
Long Conversation One
19. A）He likes Sweden better thanEngland.
B）He prefers hot weather to coldweather.
C）He is an English living inSweden.
D）He visits London nearly everywinter.
20. A）The bad weather.
B）The cold houses.
C）The gloomy winter.
D）The long night.
21. A）Delightful.
B）Painful.
C）Depressing.
D）Refreshing.
22. A）They often stay up latereading.
B) They work hard and playhard.
C) They like to go camping in summer.
D) They try to earn more and spendmore.
原文：
M: When I say I live in Sweden, people always want to knowabout the seasons.
W: The seasons?
M: Yeah, you know how cold it is in winter? Whatis it like when the days are so short?
W: So what is it like?
M: Well, it is cold ,very cold in winter.Sometimes it is cold as 26 degrees below centigrade. And of coursewhen you go out, you’ll wrap up warm. But inside in the houses it’salways very warm, much warmer than at home. Swedish people alwayscomplain that when they visit England, the houses are cold even inthe good winter.
W: And what about the darkness?
M: Well, yeah, around Christmas time there’s onlyone hour of daylight, so you really looks forward to the spring. Itis sometimes a bit depressing. But you see the summers are amazing,from May to July in the North of Sweden the sun never sets. It’sstill light in the midnight. You can walk in the mountains and reada newspaper.
W: Oh, yeah, the land of the midnight sun.
M: Yeah, that’s right, but it’s wonderful. Youwon’t stay up all night. And the Swedes makes most of it often theystarted work earlier in summer and then leave at about 2 or 3 inthe afternoon, so that they can really enjoy the long summerevenings. They’d like to work hard, but play hard, too. I thinkLondoners work longer hours, but I’m not sure this is a goodthing.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you havejust heard.
19. What do we learn about the man from theconversation?
20. What do Swedish people complain about when they visitEngland in winter?
21. How does the man describe the short hour ofdaylight around Christmas in Sweden?
22. What does the man say about the Swedishpeople?
Long Conversation Two
23. A）Management.
B）French.
C）English literature.
D）Public Administration.
24. A）English teaching.
B）Staff training.
C）Careers guidance.
D）Psychological counseling.
25. A）Its pleasant environment.
B）Its worldwide fame.
C）Its generous scholarship.
D）Its well-designed courses.
原文：
W: What kind of training does one need to go into this typeof job?
M: That’s a very good question. I don’t think there is any,specifically.
W: For example, in your case, what was your educationalbackground?
M: Well, I did a degree in French at Nottingham.After that, I did careers work in secondary schools like thecareers guidance people. Here is in the university. Then I wentinto local government because I found I was more interested in theadministrative side. Then progressed on to universities. So therewasn’t any plan and there was no specific training. There areplenty of training courses in management techniques and committeework which you can attend now.
W: But in the first place, you did a Frenchdegree.
M: In my time, there wasn’t a degree you could dofor administration. I think most of the administrators I’ve comeacross have degrees and all sorts of things.
W: Well, I know in my case, I did an Englishliterature degree and I didn’t really expect to end up doing what Iam doing now.
M: Quite.
W: But you are local to Nottingham, actually? Isthere any reason why you went to Nottingham University?
M: No, no, I come from the north of England, fromwest Yorkshire. Nottingham was one of the universities I put on mylist. And I like the look of it. The campus is justbeautiful.
W: Yes, indeed. Let’s see. Were you from the industrialpart of Yorkshire?
M: Yes, from the Woolen District.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you havejust heard.
23. What was the man’s major at university?
24: What was the man’s job in secondary schools?
25. What attracted the man to NottinghamUniversity?
Section B
Passage One
26. A) Characteristics of Japanese artists.
B) Some features of Japanese culture.
C) The art of Japanese brushpainting.
D) The uniqueness of Japanese art.
27. A) To calm themselves down.
B) To enhance concentration.
C) To show their impatience.
D) To signal their lack of interest.
28. A) How listeners in differentcultures show respect.
B) How speakers can win approval from theaudience.
C) How speakers can misunderstand theaudience.
D) How different Western and Eastern art formsare.
原文：
While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving aspeech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience thatincluded visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many ofher Japanese listeners have their eyes closed. Were they tuned offbecause an American had the nerve to instruct Japanese in their ownart form or they deliberately tried to signal their rejection ofher? Obcamp later found out that her listeners were not beingdisrespectful. Japanese listeners sometimes closed their eyes toenhance concentration. Her listeners were showing their respect forher by chewing on her words. Some day you may be either a speakeror a listener in a situation involving people from other countriesor members of minority group in North America. Learning howdifferent cultures signal respect can help you avoidmisunderstandings. Here are some examples. In the deaf culture ofNorth America, many listeners show applause not by clapping theirhands but by waving them in the air. In some cultures, bothoverseas and in some minority groups in North America, listenersare considered disrespectful if they look directly at the speaker.Respect is shown by looking in the general direction but avoidingdirect eye contact. In some countries, whistling by listeners is asign of approval while in other courtiers it is a form ofinsult.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have justheard.
26. What did Obcamp’s speech focus on?
27. Why do Japanese listeners sometimes close their eyeswhile listening to a speech?
28. What does the speaker try to explain?
Passage Two
29. A) Directing personnel evaluation.
B) Buying and maintainequipment.
C) Drawing up plans for in-servicetraining.
D) Interviewing and recruitingemployees.
30. A) Some of his equipment was damaged in afire.
B) The training program he ran wasfailure.
C) Two of his workers were injured atwork.
D) Two of his employees committedtheft.
31. A) A better relationship with his boss.
B) Advancement to a higherposition.
C) A better-paying job in anothercompany.
D) Improvement in the company’smanagement.
32. A) She has more self-confidence than Chris.
B) She works with Chris in the samedivision.
C) She has more management experience thanChris.
D) She is competing with Chris for the newjob.
原文：
Chris is in charge of purchasing and maintainingequipment in his Division at Taxlong Company. He is soon going tohave an evaluation interview with his supervisor and the personneldirector to discuss the work he has done in the past year. Salary,promotion and plans for the coming year will also be discussed atthe meeting. Chris has made several changes for his Division in thepast year. First, he bought new equipment for one of thedepartments. He has been particularly happy about the new equipmentbecause many of the employees have told him how much it has helpedthem. Along with improving the equipment, Chris began a program totrain employees to use equipment better and do simple maintenancethemselves. The training saved time for the employees and money forthe company. Unfortunately, one serious problem developed duringthe year. Two employees the Chris hired were stealing, and he hadto fire them. Chris knows that a new job for a purchasing andmaintenance manager for the whole company will be open in a fewmonths, and he would like to be promoted to the job. Chris knows,however, that someone else wants that new job, too. Kim is incharge of purchasing and maintenance in another Division of thecompany. She has also made several changes over the year. Chrisknows that his boss likes Kim’s work, and he expects that his workwill be compared with hers.
Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have justheard.
29. What is Chris’s main responsibility at TaxlongCompany?
30. What problem did Chris encounter in hisDivision?
31. What does Chris hope for in the near future?
32. What do we learn about Kim from the passage?
Passage Three
33. A) They help us see theimportant values of a culture.
B) They guide us in handling humanrelationships.
C) They help us express ourselves moreeffectively.
D) They are an infinite source of humanknowledge.
34. A) Their wordings may become different.
B) The values they reflect maychange.
C) Their origins can no longer betraced.
D) They may be misinterpreted.
35. A) Certain values are shared by alarge number of cultures.
B)Some proverbs are assuming more and more importance.
C) Old proverbs are constantly replaced by newones.
D) Certain valueshave always been central to a culture.
原文：
Proverbs, sometimes called sayings, are examplesof folk wisdom. They are little lessons which older people of aculture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life.Many proverbs remind people of the values that are important in theculture. Values teach people how to act, what is right, and what iswrong. Because the values of each culture are different,understanding the values of another culture helps explain howpeople think and act. Understanding your own culture values isimportant too. If you can accept that people from other culturesact according to their values, not yours, getting along with themwill be much easier. Many proverbs are very old. So some of thevalues they teach may not be as important in the culture as theyonce were. For example, Americans today do not pay much attentionto the proverb “Haste makes waste”, because patience is notimportant to them. But if you know about past values, it helps youto understand the present and many of the older values are stillstrong today. Benjamin Franklin, a famous American diplomat, writerand scientist, died in 1790, but his proverb “Time is money” istaken more seriously by Americans of today than ever before. Astudy of proverbs from around the world shows that some values areshared by many cultures. In many cases though, the same idea isexpressed differently.
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have justheard.
33. Why are proverbs so important?
34. According to the speaker what happens to someproverbs with the passage of time?
35. What do we learn from the study of proverbs from aroundthe world?
Section C
Compound Dictation
Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoymy own (36) company, I no longer imagine I can getthrough a (37) single day much less all my life (38)completely on my own. Even if I am on(39) vacation in the mountains, I am eatingfood someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has(40) built, wearing clothes someone else hassewn from cloth woven by others, using (41) electricity someone else isdistributing to my house. (42) Evidence of interdependence iseverywhere; we are on this (43) journey together.
(44) As I wasgrowing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence notinterdependence was everything. “Make your ownway”,“Stand on your own two feet” or mymother’s favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequencesof some action:“Now that you’ve made your bed, lie onit！”Total independence is a dominant thing in ourculture. I imagine that (45) what myparents were trying to teach me was to take responsibilities for myactions and my choices. But the teaching was shapedby our cultural imagines. And instead, I grew up believing that Iwas supposed to be totally independent and consequently became veryreluctant to ask for help.
(46) I woulddo almost anything not to be a burden, and not require any helpfrom anybody.
