1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 17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 17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】 Professor Bumble Professor Bumble is not only absent-minded but short-sighted as well. His mind is always busy with learned thoughts and he se
5、ldom notices what is going on around him. On a fine day recently, he went for a walk in the countryside. But as always, he read the book as he walked. He hadnt gone far when he ran into a large cow and fell down. He had lost his spectacles in the fall, and he thought he had stumbled over a fat lady.
6、 “I beg your pardon, madam,“ he said politely before searching for his glasses. As soon as he had put the glasses on, he realized his mistake. Soon he was concentrating on his book again and paying no attention to anything else. He had scarcely been walking for five minutes when he fell over again,
7、losing both his book and his glasses. This time he became very angry. Seizing his umbrellas, he struck the “cow“ in anger. Then, after finding his glasses, he realized with horror that he had made a second mistake. A large fat woman was running away from him in terror. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Teamwork Te
8、amwork is just as important in science as it is on the playing field or in the gym. Scientific investigations are almost always carried out by teams of people working together. Ideas are shared, experiments are designed, data are analyzed, and results are evaluated and shared with other investigator
9、s. Group work is necessary and is usually more productive than working alone. Several times throughout the year, you may be asked to work with one or more of your classmates. Whatever the task your group is assigned, a few rules need to be followed to ensure a productive and successful experience. W
10、hat comes first is to keep an open mind because everyones ideas deserve consideration and each group member can make his or her own contribution. Secondly, it makes a job easier to divide the group task among all group members. Thirdly, always work together, take turns, and encourage each other by l
11、istening, clarifying, and trusting one another. Mutual support and trust often make a great difference. 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 Mistakes Are Good Teachers After the birth of my second child, I got a job at a restaurant. Having worked with an experienced waitress for a few days, I was allowed to wait on t
12、ables on my own. When Saturday night came, I was luckily given the tables not far from the kitchen. However, I still felt a little hard to carry the heavy trays. So I moved slowly, minding every step. I remembered how happy I was when I saw a tray standing next to the tables. It looked different fro
13、m the one I was trained on, and it had nice handles which made it easier to move around. I was pleased with everything and began to believe I was natural at this job. Then, an old man came to me and said that was his wifes walker. I stood frozen as ice, but my face was on fire. Since then, I have le
14、arned to be more careful and not to be too sure of myself. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Time Has the Power to Change Attitude Last week, my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home. My earliest memories of my father are of a tall, handsome, successful man devoted to his work and family but uncomfo
15、rtable with his children. As a child, I loved him; as a school girl and young adult, I feared him and felt bitter about him. On the first day of my visit, we did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my sons funny facial expressions. Gone was my fathers critical air and strict rul
16、es. Who was this person I knew as my father who seemed so friendly and interesting to be around? The next day, my dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him until
17、that moment. After so many years, Im at last seeing another side of my father. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Experiences Speak There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guidebook in hand. Of course, we may study with our guidebooks the history and spec
18、ial developments of a town and get to know them. But then, if we take our time and stay in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we look at it as a whole, we begin to have some questions, which even the best guidebooks do not answer. Why is the town just like this, this shape, this
19、plan, and this size? Here even the best guidebook fails us. We cant find in it the information about how a town has developed to the present appearance. However, we may get some idea of what it used to look like by walking around the town. A personal visit to a town may help us better understand why it is attractive than just reading about it in a guidebook. 【知识模块】 听写
