1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 162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 162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】 Vocational Education in the US There is a long history of vocational education in the US. / Dating back to colonial times, the government has supported programs to train skilled workers. / It started out as a way to teach
5、 students to farm and work in industries. / But as the American economy grew, / so too has vocational training. / Today, vocational education is usually called career and technical education, or CTE. / Students in high schools and trade schools can earn degrees in many areas. / They include nursing,
6、 engineering, accounting, biotechnologies, web design and auto mechanics. / Career and technical education is different from traditional school / because it is much more “hands-on.“ / 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Adult Education Millions of people are enrolled in evening adult education programs across Americ
7、a. / Community colleges have become popular and their enrollments have increased rapidly. / Large universities are offering more courses in the evenings for adult students. / One reason for this is that many older people are changing their professions. / Another reason is that repair costs have incr
8、eased. / Adults taking courses like electrical repair / hope that the high costs for repairs can be avoided. / Advanced technology is the most important reason for the rise in adult education. / Engineers, teachers and businessmen have found / that more education is needed to do their jobs well. / 【
9、知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 A Scottish New Year If youre invited to a Scottish home on New Years Eve, / its important to know what to bring with you: / a lump of coal, some shortbread and some whisky. / The coal signifies warmth, / so youre wishing that the people you visit will have enough heat in the coming
10、 year. / The shortbread represents food, / so youre hoping that the people will have enough to eat. / And whisky was called “the water of life“ by Scots, / so it means you want the hosts to have enough to drink. / 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Cheerleading Cheerleaders are part of athletic competitions through
11、out the United States. / They lead the crowd in cheering for the team it likes best. / Most cheerleaders in the early years were men. / That changed during World War n, / when large numbers of young men left the country to fight. / From that time on, more than 90% of cheerleaders have been female. /
12、 Today most American high schools include cheerleading among their student athletic activities. / The cheerleaders must be in good physical condition. / They must be able to jump high, turn circles in the air and lift each other. / 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Soap Operas A soap opera is a serial on televisio
13、n or radio / where each episode links to the next episode. / So youre always left at the end of one short episode / wondering whats going to happen next / Soap opera is generally about neighbours, friends, family. / There may be controversial subjects like drug taking, or violence, divorce. / So it would cover all the things that you could imagine possibly happening in peoples lives. / The term soap opera comes from the 1950s, / when radio in America started advertising soap products / and they devised little stories to sell these soap products and they called them soap operas. / 【知识模块】 听写
