1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 133及答案与解析 一、 PART I DICTATION Directions: Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage wi
2、ll be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. 专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 133答案与 解析 一、 PART I DICTATION Directions: Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage
3、will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done a
4、t normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. 1 【正确答案】 The Modern Family Father leaves for work in the morning after breakfast. / The two children take the bus to school, / and mother stays home cooking and cleaning / until father and the kids return home in the evening. / Th
5、is is the traditional picture of a happy family living in Britain. / The past 20 years have seen enormous changes in the lives and structure of families in Britain. / The biggest change has been caused by divorce. / As many as 2 out of 3 marriages now end in divorce, / leading to a situation where m
6、any children live with one parent / and only see the other at weekends or holidays. / There has also been a huge rise in the number of women with children who work. / The large rise in divorces has meant / many women need to work to support themselves and their children. / Even when there is no divo
7、rce, / many families need both parents to work in order to survive. / 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 Famous Universities Many countries have excellent universities. / There are, however, few world famous ones. / These universities have achieved their fame / through a combination of both their age / and the high
8、 levels of quality in their instruction. / Throughout their histories, / each one has been a testing ground for the leadership of the nation. / In the United States, Harvard and Yale attract thousands of foreign students / who would use what they learn for the advancement of their own nations. / In
9、this way, these schools have developed an interesting method of international communication. / Graduates around the world are able to connect with each other / by having graduated from one of the finest universities in the world. / Leaders in every field, whether government officials or ground-break
10、ing scientists, / who graduated from the same school have a direct link to each other / and understand each other much better. / 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 Mothers Day Does your mother know how much you appreciate her? / Well, Mothers Day is the time to show her./ Its a chance to say thank you, or to tell y
11、our mum how much you love her. / In Britain, Mothers Day, or Mothering Sunday, / falls on a different day each year, / because it takes place a few weeks before the festival of Easter. / But it is always in the early springtime, which seems appropriate,/ as the season when new plants emerge, / and b
12、aby birds and animals are born. / In the USA, Mothers Day takes place a little later, in May, / and many other countries also celebrate their mothers on different days of the year. / It began many years ago, when children, / especially girls, as young as 10 would live and work away from home / as ho
13、usemaids and other types of servant. / Mothering Sunday was a day when everyone was allowed to go to their home village or town, and visit their mothers. / 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 Glaciers Glaciers are formed in places where the temperatures are extremely cold. / This could even include places that are a
14、t sea level, / but are mostly places that are high up on mountains. / In such cold places it snows most of the year. / This snow will settle down and when it snows again / the lower layer of snow gets compressed. / Every time it snows, the below layers will compress more, / finally turning into hard
15、 ice. / This ice is what forms the glacier. / When the temperature rises slightly, / the outer edges of the formed glacier and fresh snow will melt. / For a glacier to form and sustain itself it is of prime importance / that the amount of snow that falls on it must be more than the amount of glacier
16、 that has melted. / This is the only way in which the glacier will be able to maintain itself / and keep increasing in size year after year. / 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 April Fools Day 1st April is a day to be careful, or you could easily get tricked by someone. / Its April Fools Day, a day when people tra
17、ditionally like / to try to make a fool of someone else and laugh at them. / There are lots of theories surrounding the origins of the day, / but one explanation is connected with the change in the calendar in the 16th century, / which meant that 1st April was no longer the beginning of the year. /
18、Those who still celebrated the New Year on 1st April were called fools. / So what kind of tricks do people play on April Fools Day? / Well, there are lots of simple tricks / that you can play on your friends. / For example, you could wear a black sweater / and pull a piece of white thread through it, / so that people try to pull it off. / You could change the time on someones alarm clock / so that theyre late for work. / 【知识模块】 听力
