1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 27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 27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】 Town and Country Life in England There is a big difference between town life and country life in England. In the country, everybody knows ever
5、ybody else. They know what time you get up, what time you go to bed and what you have for dinner. If you want help, you will always get it and you will be glad to help others. In a large town like London, however, it can sometimes happen that you have never seen your next door neighbor and you do no
6、t know his name or anything about him. People in London are often very lonely. This is because people go to different places in the evenings and at weekends. If you walk through the streets in the centre of London on Sunday, it is like a town without people. One is sorry for old people living on the
7、ir own. They could die in their homes and would not be discovered for weeks or even months. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 A Change in Womens Life The important change in womens life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on womens economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school
8、at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at
9、work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life and with both husband and
10、wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them. (154 words) 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 A Popular Pastime of the English People One of the best means of understanding the people of any nation is watching what they do with their
11、 non-working time. Most English men, women and children love growing things, especially flowers. Visitors to England in spring, summer, or autumn are likely to see gardens all the way along the railway lines. There are flowers at the airports and flowers in factory grounds, as well as in gardens alo
12、ng the roads. Each English town has at least one park with beautifully kept flower beds. Public buildings of every kind have brilliant window boxes and sometimes baskets of flowers are hanging on them. But what the English enjoy most is growing things themselves. If it is impossible to have a garden
13、, then a window box or something growing in a pot will do. Looking at each others gardens is a popular pastime with the English. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 British and American Police Officers Real policemen, both in Britain and the U.S., hardly recognize any common points between their lives and what they
14、see on TV if they ever get home in time. Some things are almost the same, of course, but the policemen do not think much of them. The first difference is that a policemans real life deals with the law. Most of what he learns is the law. He has to know actually what actions are against the law and wh
15、at facts can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a lawyer, and whats more, he has to put it into practice on his feet in the dark, and running down a narrow street after someone he wants to talk to. Little of his time is spent in talking with beautiful girls or in br
16、avely facing cruel criminals. He will spend most of his working life arranging millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, ordinary people who are guilty or not of stupid, unimportant crimes. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Living Space How much living space does a person need? What happens wh
17、en his space needs are not met? Scientists are doing experiments on rats to try to determine the effects of overcrowded conditions on man. Recent studies have shown that the behaviour of rats is greatly affected by space. If rats have enough living space, they eat well, sleep well and produce their
18、young well. But if their living conditions become too crowded, their behaviour and even their health change obviously. They can not sleep and eat well, and signs of fear and worry become clear. The more crowded they are, the more they tend to bite each other and even kill each other. Thus, for rats, population and violence are directly related. Is this a natural law for human society as well? Is enough space not only satisfactory, but necessary for human survival? These are interesting questions. 【知识模块】 听写
