1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 14及答案与解析 一、 PART I DICTATION (15 MIN) Directions: Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the pa
2、ssage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minute 专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 14答案与解析 一、 PART I DICTATION (15 MIN) Directions: Listen to
3、 the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read 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
4、 of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minute 1 【正确答案】 Blog One study found that more than one hundred eighty million people around the world have started a blog./ And more than three hundred forty
5、 million people around the world read blogs. / Another study found bloggers in sixty-six countries on six continents. / It found blogs in eighty-one languages. People in many professions, / including the entertainment industry and news organizations, are writing blogs./ VOA writers are among them./
6、Alex Belinda is the chief writer of the VOA news blog. / He discusses issues of freedom of the press and VOA programming./ He also answers questions, comments and criticism from the public./ On a recent blog, Mister Belinda wrote about VOAs rules demanding accuracy and objectivity./ He wrote that VO
7、A rules state that VOA reporters “do not speak for the United States government.“/ He also wrote that the idea that any government agency can tell VOA what to say is false. / 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 New Wedding Forms Weddings in America are often big, complex and costly events. / Usually a religious lead
8、er or judge performs the marriage ceremony./ But now people can choose a friend or family member to perform the ceremony./ That person can become an official marriage officiant online through some unusual Web sites. / One Web site is called Church of the Latter-Day Dude. / Its members do not believe
9、 in telling people what to do./ In fact, they do not believe in doing much at all. / But they are happy to provide people with a “certificate of ordination“./ The Web site says the document legally permits a person to perform a wedding ceremony in most states. / But it also says a person should chec
10、k with the local government to see if this is permitted./ Other Web sites offering free and immediate ordination services include the Universal Life Church Monastery and the Church of Spirtual Humanism. / 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 Martin Luther King In the years since his death, Doctor King has often been
11、called one of the most honored Americans in history./ But for many, his work for racial equality remains unfinished. / In the past forty years, African Americans have become successful in education, business, entertainment and politics./ The rise of Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Oba
12、ma is a powerful sign of racial progress. / If elected in November, Mister Obama would become Americas first black president./ Yet experts say the black population as a whole has not reached equality with white people socially and economically. / Black Americans experience greater rates of poverty a
13、nd crime than whites. / Civil rights leaders say that/ forty years after his death, many African Americans still seek Doctor Kings dream of equality and opportunity. / Martin Luther King Junior is best remembered for his nineteen sixty-three I Have a Dream speech. / It brought together millions of p
14、eople in the United States and around the world to work for racial justice. / 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Online Free Library Books are a high cost of higher education. / But the Global Text Project hopes to create a free library of one thousand electronic textbooks for students in developing countries. / Th
15、e aim is to offer subjects that students may take in their first few years at a university./ The books could be printed or read on a computer or copied onto a CD or DVD. / Two professors in the United States are leading the Global Text Project. / Richard Watson is the acting head of the department o
16、f management information systems at the University of Georgia. / And Donald McCubbrey is a professor of information technology and electronic commerce at the University of Denver, in Colorado. / Professor Watson tells us that the idea for this project goes back several years. / He was teaching a com
17、puter programming class but did not have a good textbook./ So he asked his students to each write part of a book that he would organize and edit. / 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 The Bill of the Global Warming Solutions Act of Two Thousand Six Environmentalists are praising a bill passed this week in California
18、/ the Global Warming Solutions Act of Two Thousand Six. / It would make California the first American state to restrict the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. / Opponents say it would damage the states economy, / one of the largest in the world./ State lawmakers sent the bill to G
19、overnor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday./ That was a day after the Republican governor reached agreement on the plan with the Democratic majority in the Legislature. / California is the nations most populated state and the worlds twelfth largest producer of greehouse gases./ The plan calls for a reduction of about twenty-five percent by two thousand twenty/ to return to nineteen ninety levels. / The governor, in an order last year, / called for the cuts, along with much greater ones by two thousand fifty. / 【知识模块】 听写
