1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 37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 37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】 Everything Matters In life, one step creates the next. Each day is of equal importance, no matter how good or bad. There is no moment in life
5、that does not matter. No matter how insignificant it is, each choice, each day, or each idea is the birth of the next. Something simple can completely reshape your life. It is just like the Butterfly Effect and you never know what is at the end. It is a signpost in life, a trail marker. It is a day
6、you will never forget, the day you opened that envelope and your future was revealed. But what about all those days in between the ones that make and break you, the days that are nothing special? If I have learned anything, it is that everything matters. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Abundance Abundance is a l
7、ife style, a way of living your life. It is not something you buy now and then pull down from the cupboard, dust off or use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard. Abundance is a philosophy. It appears in your physiology, your value system, and it carries its own set of beliefs. You walk wit
8、h it, sleep with it, bathe with it, feel with it, and need to maintain and take care of it as well. Abundance doesnt always require money. Many people live with all that money can buy yet live empty inside. Abundance begins inside with some main self-ingredients like love, care, kindness and gentlen
9、ess, thought-fulness and compassion. Abundance is a state of being. It radiates outward. It shines like the sun among many moons in the world. Abundance is seeing people for their gifts but not what they lack or could be. 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 American English vs. British English In the early 18th cent
10、ury, English spelling was not standardised. Differences became noticeable after the publishing of influential dictionaries. Todays British English spellings follow, for the most part, those of Samuel Johnsons A Dictionary of the English Language, whereas many American English spellings follow Noah W
11、ebsters An American Dictionary of the English Language. Webster was a strong proponent of English spelling reform for reasons both philological and nationalistic. Many spelling changes proposed in the United States by Webster himself, and in the early 20th century by the Simplified Spelling Board, n
12、ever caught on. Among the spelling reform supporters in England, the influence of those who preferred the Norman (or Anglo-French) spellings of words proved to be decisive. Later spelling adjustments in the United Kingdom had little effect on todays American spellings and vice-versa. In many cases,
13、American English strayed in the 19th century from mainstream British spelling, but it has also kept some older spellings. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 We Are Standing Here “We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite.“ I do not know who wrote those words, but I have
14、always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just like a sculptor carving a statue from a shapeless stone. The past is gone and static. The future is before us and dynamic. E
15、ach day will bring with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our businesses, if we will only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor. We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor
16、and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Get a Thorough Understanding of Oneself In all ones lifetime it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. But it is precisely oneself that one has the least
17、 understanding of. When you are going upwards in life you tend to overestimate yourself. When you are going downhill you tend to underestimate yourself. It is likely that you think it wise for yourself to know your place and stay aloof from worldly wearing a mask of cowardice, behind which the flow
18、of sap in your life will be retarded. To get a thorough understanding of oneself is to gain a correct view of oneself and be a sober realist aware of both ones strength and shortage. You may look forward hopefully to the future but be sure not to expect too much, for ideals can never be fully realized. You may be courageous to meet challenges but it should be clear to you where to direct your efforts. 【知识模块】 听写
