1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 16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 16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】 Want to Go “Resorting“? Even before the American Revolution of the late 1700s, / Cape May merchants advertised in Philadelphia newspapers, / i
5、nviting people to resort in Cape May./ Americas first seaside resort also became a cool summertime retreat for wealthy planters from the American South./ Thats why you see columned mansions there./ And plenty of stately, / English-style Victorian houses and grand old hotels, too./ In fact, Cape May
6、boasts the single greatest concentration of late 19th Century architecture in the world! / More Victorian homes, even, than youll find in any one place in England./ Cape May is also famous for its brightly painted gingerbread accents/ gingerbread meaning fancy wooden decorations from the time when p
7、eople in town had a saying: / Decorate everything, including the decoration! / 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 By Most Accounts, Yiddish Is Dying A funny thing is happening in the world of language instruction. / Only its not funny at all for one language in particular. / Because of the growing importance of glo
8、bal commerce and contact, / foreign language instruction is booming at U.S. colleges./ But because of the tight economy, / many colleges are eliminating fulltime language-teaching positions or filling them with cheaper lecturers who are not faculty members at all./ This is the case at the University
9、 of Marylands flagship College Park campus, / a prestigious state-run school in the eastern United States. / To save costs, the university plans to cut its one Yiddish teaching position./ Its the latest blow in what has been a steady decline in the study and use of Yiddish, / which began among Europ
10、ean Jews in the Middle Ages as a conversational Germanic language that uses Hebrew characters. / 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 OECD Says Unemployment Will Continue to Rise Indications that unemployment continues to rise/ is grim news for leaders heading to the G-20 summit in the United States next week. / The
11、Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports unemployment reached its highest level among industrialized nations of 8. 5 percent in July. / OECD unemployment division chief Stephan Scarpetta says/ the number of jobless among the OECDs 30 member countries is expected to c
12、limb even higher next year, to nearly 10 percent./ That translates into 57 million people out of work./ Unfortunately, despite the most recent indicators/ that suggest the economic recovery somewhat earlier than we were expecting only a few months/ it will take far longer for the recovery to materia
13、lize in terms of significant improvement in the labor market. / The United States, Spain and Ireland are among those corntries with the fastest rising unemployment. / All three were affected by the collapse of high housing prices. / The damage spread to other sectors of the economy. / 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正
14、确答案】 A Perfect Match Is Matchless Matches appear in every aspect of our life./ The word “match maker“ is not unfamiliar to us, / but a qualified one is one who can make a perfect match that will result in a great marriage and love./ A career or job that is matched with your personalities, / characte
15、rs and strengths will make you grow and develop fast and makes you happy. / A match of Hank Williams voice and Don Helms steel guitar gives us the amazing song Cold Cold Heart. / However, / what if you see someone wearing a black suit with white sports shoes or someone says A and does B? / It does n
16、ot impress us a lot or it makes us feel uncomfortable, or even annoys us. / In general, / a perfect match is matchless, and it will lead to success, / smaller ones or big ones. / 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Salvor Battle Between Adobe and Apple for Flash Mobile communications devices could be theTESTing grou
17、nd for the next generation of media technology for the World Wide Web. / If you ever looked at pictures or video on the Web, / you already know Adobe Flash Player./ Right now, Adobe Flash Player is probably the most common way to watch media on the Internet./ But new mobile devices areTESTing Flashs
18、 market position. / The research company IDC says, fifty five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year. / The handheld devices serve as a telephone and as an e-mail and Web connection. / Adobe makes Flash and other popular products like Photoshop and Acrobat. / The software company has developed Flash Lite, / a version of Flash for mobile phones and some other home electronic devices. / Adobe is also developing Flash 10.1. / It is meant to work with personal computers, / smartphones and other devices using different operating systems. / 【知识模块】 听写
