1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 21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 21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】 Stress Stress is what you feel when you react to pressure, either from the outside world or from inside yourself. Stress is a normal reaction
5、for people of all ages. Most people think that pressure is always a bad thing. In fact, a little bit of stress is good. Without stress, most of us couldnt push ourselves to do well, especially in difficult things. People usually complain about feeling pressed for time when they are under certain pre
6、ssure. It is true that you cant always control the things that are stressing you out, but you can control how you react to them. The way you feel about things results from the way you think about things. If you change how you think, you can change the way you feel. Try the following tips to deal wit
7、h your stress: *Make a list of the things that are causing your stress. *Give yourself an excuse. *Dont promise to do things you cant do or dont want to do. *Find someone to talk to. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Love Is a Telephone Love is a telephone which is always silent when you are hoping for a call, but
8、 rings when you are not ready for it. As a result, we often miss the love coming from the other end. Love is a telephone which is seldom program-controlled or directly dialed. You cannot get an immediate answer with a simple “hello“, let alone go deep into your lovers heart with one call. Usually it
9、 has to be relayed by an operator, and you have to wait patiently. Love is a telephone that is always busy. When you are ready to dial for love, you only find, to your disappointment, the line is already being used by someone else. Love is a telephone, but it is difficult to know when to dial. You w
10、ill miss the opportunity if your call is either too early or too late. 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 Jealousy The experience of jealousy varies enormously from age to age, from culture to culture, from couple to couple, from person to person, and can be different within the same person from time to time. In th
11、e United States, there has been a change of attitude toward jealousy in recent years. “Normal“ jealousy, which had been seen as an inevitable accompaniment of love and support of marriage, has come to be seen by some as evidence of personal insecurity and weakness in the relationship, and therefore
12、a threat to the partnership. Most jealous flashes come from feeling left out of an activity involving your partner and another person or other people. When your partner pays attention to another, your first reaction is to note that they are “in“ and you are “out“. You feel excluded, ignored, unappre
13、ciated. This kind of experience is not uncommon, and dealing with it gracefully is part of the etiquette of our time. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Differences Between Television and Radio Announcers When television first began to expand, very few of the people who had become famous as radio announcers were ab
14、le to be equally effective on television. Some of the difficulties they experienced when they were trying to adjust themselves to the new medium were technical. When working on radio, for example, they had become used to seeing on behalf of the listener. This art of seeing for others means that the
15、announcer has to be very good at talking. In the case of television, however, the announcer sees everything with the viewer. His duty, therefore, is completely different. He is there to make sure that the viewer does not miss any point of interest, to help him focus on particular things, and to help
16、 him understand the images on the television screen. Unlike his radio colleague, he must know the value of silence and how to use it at those moments when the pictures speak for themselves. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 The African Elephant The African elephant, the largest land animal remaining on earth, is o
17、f great importance to African ecosystem. As a big plant-eater, it largely shapes the forest-and-savanna surroundings in which it lives, setting the terms of existence for millions of other animals that live in its habitat. It is the elephants great desire for food that makes it a disturber of the en
18、vironment and an important builder of its habitat. In its continuous search for the 300 pounds of plants it must have every day, it kills small trees and underbushes, and pulls branches off big trees. This results in numerous open spaces in both deep tropical forests and in the woodlands that cover
19、part of the African savannas. What worries scientists now is that the African elephant has become an endangered species. If the elephant disappears, scientists say, many other animals will also disappear from vast areas of forest and savanna, greatly changing and worsening the whole ecosystem. 【知识模块】 听写
