1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 20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 20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】 Juana Lopezs Invention One day, Juana Lopez had an idea for a dish washing machine that worked without using water. She went to see several di
5、shwasher manufacturers about producing the machine, but none of them were interested. Juana found investors to back her idea and founded her own production company. She spent millions of dollars on developing her own dishwasher and it was launched three years later. From then on, sales were very goo
6、d, better even than Juana had hoped. But Global Domestic, one of the companies that she had been to, made its own waterless dishwasher. Juana obtained one and found that it used the technical ideas she had developed. She had obtained legal protection for these ideas so that other companies could not
7、 use them. After a long legal process, Global Domestic was forced to stop making its competing dishwasher and to pay Juana several million dollars. Now Juanas waterless dishwasher has 40% of the worldwide dishwasher market and this is increasing every year. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Rising Sea Level Latest
8、 research predicts that the global sea level is expected to rise 9 to 88 centimeters by 2100, with a “best estimate“ of 50 centimeters. This is due to global warming which is causing the ice caps to melt. This great rise of close to one meter would threaten huge areas of low-lying coastal land as we
9、ll as major cities such as London, New York and Tokyo. In many places, 50 centimeters would see entire beaches being washed away. On low-lying Pacific islands, the highest point is only two or three meters above the current sea level. If the sea level was to rise by 50 centimeters, big parts of thes
10、e islands would disappear under the water. Even if they remain above the sea, many island nations will have their supplies of drinking water reduced because sea water will pollute their freshwater. There are also tens of millions of people living in low-level coastal areas of southern Asia, such as
11、the coastlines of Pakistan and India, who would be in danger. 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 What Is a Father? A father is a person who is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic. He growls when he feels good, and laughs very loud when he is scared half-to-death. A father never feels entirely worthy o
12、f the worship in a childs eyes. He is never quite the hero his daughter thinks. Never quite the man his son believes him to be, and this worries him sometimes. A father is a person who goes to war sometimes and would run the other way except that war is part of his only important job in his life, wh
13、ich is making the world better for his child than it has been for him. I dont know where father goes when he dies, but Ive an idea that, after a good rest, wherever it is, he wont just sit on a cloud and wait for the girl hes loved and the children she bore. Hell be busy there too repairing the star
14、s, oiling the gates, improving the streets, smoothing the way. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Little Boys Big Idea The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) is running a project to encourage young inventors. Samuel Houghton, a five-year-old boy, has become the youngest Briton to hold a patent after wat
15、ching his father struggling in the garden.Samuel developed a garden tool after watching his father, Mark, use two brushes to sweep up leaves outside their house. His father used a large brush to gather leaves and small branches, and then got a small brush to pick up what was left. Samuel came up wit
16、h the idea for a labor-saving tool, which has been patented and named the Improved Broom. It is a simple idea that combines two ordinary brooms with different-sized bristles and brush-heads to enable different-sized dirt to be swept up more efficiently. “The small one gets the first bits and the one
17、 at the back gets those left behind,“ Samuel explains. The IPO says that Samuel is its youngest known patent holder. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Cultural Differences Meeting people from another culture can be difficult. Different cultures emphasize the importance of relationship building to a greater or less
18、er degree. For example, business in some countries is not possible until there is a relationship of trust. Even with people at work, it is necessary to spend a lot of time in “small talk“, usually over a glass of tea, before they do any job. In many European countries like the UK or France people fi
19、nd it easier to build up a lasting working relationship at restaurants or cafes rather than at the office. Even within Northern Europe, cultural differences can cause serious problems. Certainly, English and German cultures share similar value; however, Germans prefer to get down to business more quickly. We think that they are rude. In fact, this is just because one culture starts discussions and makes decision more quickly. 【知识模块】 听写
