1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 29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 29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】 A Henpecked Husband and His Wife There was once a large, fat woman who had a small, thin husband. He had a job in a big company and was given
5、his weekly wages every Friday evening. As soon as he got home on Fridays, his wife used to make him give her all his money, and then she used to give him back only enough to buy his lunch in his company every day. One day, the small man came home very excited. He hurried into the living-room. His wi
6、fe was listening to the radio and eating chocolates there. “You will never guess what happened to me today, dear,“ he said. He waited for a few seconds and then added, “I won ten thousand dollars on the lottery!“ “That is wonderful!“ said his wife delightedly. But then she pulled a long face and add
7、ed angrily, “But how could you afford to buy the ticket?“ 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 A Young Mans Promise One day a young man was writing a letter to his girl friend who lived just a few miles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful he thought she was. The more he w
8、rote, the more poetic he became. Finally, he said that in order to be with her he would suffer the greatest difficulties, he would face the greatest dangers that anyone could imagine. In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest
9、, and he would fight against the fiercest animals with his bare hands. He finished the letter, signed his name, and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mention something quite important. So, in a postscript below his name, he added: “By the way, Ill be over to see you on Wednesday nigh
10、t, if it doesnt rain.“ 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 A Kind Neighbor Mr. and Mrs. Jones apartment was full of luggage, packages, furniture and boxes. Both of them were very busy when they heard the doorbell ring. Mrs. Jones went to open it and she saw a middle-aged lady outside. The lady said she lived next do
11、or. Mrs. Jones invited her to come in and apologized because there was no place for her to sit. “Oh, thats OK,“ said the lady. “I just come to welcome you to your new home. As you know, in some parts of this city neighbors are not friendly at all. There are some apartment houses where people dont kn
12、ow any of their neighbors, not even the ones next door. But in this building everyone is very friendly with everyone else. We are like one big happy family. Im sure youll be very happy here.“ Mr. and Mrs. Jones said, “But madam, we are not new dwellers in this apartment. Weve lived here for two year
13、s. Were moving out tomorrow.“ 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 That Isnt Our Fault Mr. and Mrs. Williams got married when he was twenty-three, and she was twenty. Twenty-five years later, they had a big party, and a photographer came and took some photographs of them. Then the photographer gave Mrs. Williams a ca
14、rd and said, “Theyll be ready next Wednesday. You can get them from studio.“ “No,“ Mrs. Williams said, “please send them to us.“ The photographs arrived a week later, but Mrs. Williams was not happy when she saw them. She got into her car and drove to the photographers studio. She went inside and sa
15、id angrily, “You took some photographs of me and my husband last week, but Im not going to pay for them.“ “Oh, why not?“ the photographer asked. “Because my husband looks like a monkey,“ Mrs. Williams said. “Well,“ the photographer answered, “that isnt our fault. Why didnt you think of that before y
16、ou married him?“ 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 A Guides Answer In 1861, the Civil War started in the United States between the Northern and the Southern states. The war continued with great bitterness until 1865, when the Northerners were victorious. However, even today, many Southerners have not forgotten the
17、ir defeat, or forgiven the Northerners. A few years ago, a party of American tourists were going round one of the battlefields of the Civil War with a guide who came from one of the Southern states. At each place, the guide told the tourists stirring stories about how a few Southern soldiers had con
18、quered powerful forces of Northerners there. At last, one of the tourists, a lady who came from the North, stopped the guide and said to him, “But surely the Northern army must have won at least one victory in the Civil War?“ “Not as long as Im the guide here, madam,“ answered the Southern guide. 【知识模块】 听写
