1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 171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 171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 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race Oxford and Cambridge are the oldest and most famous universities in Britain, / and there has always been a great rivalry between the two institutions. / But the most public competition b
5、etween the two is the annual Boat Race. / Both universities are located near rivers, / and rowing is a popular and prestigious sport. / The very first race took place in 1829, / when a Cambridge student challenged a school-friend studying at Oxford. / Ever since, the defeated team from the previous
6、year challenges the opposition to a rematch. / The only times when no Boat Races took place / were during the First and Second World Wars. / 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Body Art Body art is the use of the human body as a form of self-expression. / Tattooing and piercing are both forms of body art. / And both
7、 have become more socially acceptable in the United States. / Tattooing is the art of injecting colors into the skin to create designs. / Piercing is putting holes in the body for wearing jewelry. / Ancient societies used body art to represent many different things, / including social position and r
8、eligious beliefs. / In the United States, tattoos were considered mostly for military men or laborers, / or young people who disobeyed their parents. / But in recent years, all kinds of people have gotten tattoos. / 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 Wine It is hard to say how long people have been drinking wine. /
9、 Wine is far older than recorded history. / Some experts say it is even as old as civilization itself. / The first wine ever made was probably an accident. / People in ancient times might have picked ripe grapes. / Some juicy grapes at the bottom of the container were crushed together. / As the grap
10、es broke open, / yeasts on the skins went to work turning sugar from the fruit into alcohol. / This is the fermentation process that turns grape juice into wine. / 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Bamboo Bamboo is a type of grass with a hard, woody, hollow stem. / There are 1,500 different species of bamboo, / oc
11、curring naturally in every continent except Europe and Antarctica. / Bamboo is among the fastest growing plants on the planet / One Japanese species rockets skywards at a rate of a metre a day. / Some bamboos can reach a lofty 35 metres in height / while others are only half a metre tall. / Bamboo i
12、s famous as the major food source of rare animals / such as the giant panda and red panda. / It is also economically important to humans as a building material and as food. / 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 American Indians American Indians are the native people in the United States. / They belong to more than f
13、ive hundred Indian tribes. / Many tribe members live on reservations. / These are areas that the United States government set up for native tribes / that had lost their lands to European settlers. / Some reservations are larger than American states. / The Bureau of Indian Affairs supervises these territories. / Tribes on reservations have limited self-rule. / Generally, American Indians do not enjoy the same economic and educational success as other Americans. / 【知识模块】 听写
