1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 19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 19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】 Time Management Time is something from which we cant escape. Even if we ignore it, its still going by, ticking away, second by second, minute
5、by minute, hour by hour. So the main issue in using your time well is, “Whos in charge?“ We can allow time to slip by and let it be our enemy. Or we can take control of it and make it our ally. By taking control of how you spend your time, youll increase your chances of becoming a more successful st
6、udent. Perhaps more importantly, the better you are at managing the time you devote to your studies, the more time youll have to spend on your outside interests. The aim of time management is not to schedule every moment so we become slaves of a timetable that governs every waking moment of the day.
7、 Instead, the aim is to make informed choices as to how we use our time. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Charity Shops The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you wont find in the shops anymore. The thing I like bes
8、t about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods. Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets pai
9、d. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than 110 million a year, funding medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, a
10、nd much more. 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 Passive Learning We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively. We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning; we achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place i
11、n the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, its not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers. Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem.
12、It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor. Thats what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch
13、 to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Different “Styles“ of Directions I travel a lot, and I find out different “styles“ of directions every time I ask “How can I get to the post office?“ In Japan, p
14、eople use landmarks in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.“ In the countryside of the American Midwest, instead
15、of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. For example, people will say, “Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile.“ People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measure distance in time, not miles. “How far away isthe post office?“ yo
16、u ask. “Oh,“ they answer, “its about five minutes from here.“ You say, “Yes, but how many miles away is it?“ They dont know. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Rain Forests Rain forests are the lungs of the planet, storing large quantities of carbon dioxide and producing a significant amount of the worlds oxygen.Ra
17、in forests have their own perfect system for guaranteeing their own survival. The tall trees make a cover of branches and leaves which protect themselves, smaller plants and the forest animals from heavy rain, dry heat and strong winds. Amazingly, the trees grow in such a way that their leaves and b
18、ranches, although close together, never actually touch those of another tree. Scientists think this is a deliberate method to prevent the spread of any tree diseases and make life more difficult for leaf-eating insects. They are not called rain forests for nothing! Rain forests can produce 75% of their own rain, at least 80 inches of rain a year is normal. And in some areas, there may be as much as 430 inches of rain annually. This is real rain. In just two hours, streams can rise 10 to 20 feet. 【知识模块】 听写
