1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 44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 44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】 Truthfulness Truthfulness is a virtue. It is very easy and often very difficult to be truthful. Ordinarily, by truthfulness we mean speaking t
5、ruth. But one should be truthful in his words, his thoughts and his actions. If he speaks truth and does the reverse then he is not truthful. Therefore, to be truthful is really a very difficult thing. We believe that there is reward in heaven for our noble deeds. Similarly we are given harsh punish
6、ment for our vices and misdeeds. Truthfulness is a means of getting reward from God. God is omniscient. He observes all our actions. To be truthful is to win the favour of God. Truthfulness has a deep impact upon our moral character. A truthful person is trusted in every work. He is respected everyw
7、here. Even his children enjoy the result of his virtue of truthfulness. The character of a truthful person shines like gold. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Pocket Money It is very often told by people that whatever wealth one may have, it will be easily exhausted within a short time if one does not add somethin
8、g to it. Since extravagance brings even a millionaire into want it is necessary on the part of every student to practice the habit of thrift from his very childhood. The essence of thrift should not be underestimated at any cost. The habit of saving should be practiced not only by students it should
9、 be practiced by all. Whatever little the income of an individual may be, he should try to save a portion of it to employ it at the time of his dire need or during calamity. Every student in schools and colleges is provided with some pocket money to meet his small expenses. I am provided the pocket
10、money by my elder brother. Though the amount is meager, it helps me very often to buy something of great use. 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 College Library An educational institution without a library is just a house without a kitchen. When students read in classes, their desire for knowledge increases. Desire
11、 for knowledge is best satisfied when students enter a room of books. In college libraries, there are rich varieties of journals and periodicals. It is rightly said that a library is a reservoir of knowledge. Although many students go to library, it is a place of silence. Everybody treats it as a sa
12、cred place. There are different catalogues of books. All the catalogues are kept at the counter of the library. It is easy for students to consult the catalogue there. The librarian looks after the library. There is a reading hall, and then students enter there with books, their faces beam with joy.
13、 The silence of the reading hall is highly encouraging. It seems that in that silence letters of books become really eloquent. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正 确答案】 A Big Girls Blouse Perhaps because of traditional beliefs that men are tougher than women, its common for British people these days to joke about mens we
14、aknesses. A man who complains hes ill with a cold might be told he just has “man flu“. The implication is a woman keeps working when she has a cold, while a man exaggerates its effects, in order to get some sympathy and get out of doing any work. According to the British saying, such a man is being
15、“a big girls blouse“, a jokey way of saying hes not as manly and brave as he could be. The American milquetoast isnt an exact equivalent, as it has a greater emphasis on meekness rather than an unmanly nature. Big girls blouse has working-class links, being more common in downmarket British tabloid
16、newspapers such as The Sun and The Mirror. It has been suggested that Hylda Baker invented the phrase in her stage act. If she didnt, where big girls blouse came from is likely to remain a mystery. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案 】 Myth of Equal Justice for Women In the political field, in the services, and in sc
17、hools, colleges and universities women serve along with men and have generally distinguished themselves. Scores of women in this country hold position of responsibility and are to be found in many professions where they were seldom seen before. Politics and legislation are, however, dominated by men
18、, there being only a sprinkling of women. Strangely, there are not many women legislators even in the advanced countries of the world. In Japan, in particular, their tally is unusually small; somehow the Japanese, though a highly advanced nation, are basically conservative in this sphere. Japan is r
19、eferred as “a Mans Land“. Britain has had a woman Prime Minister, but according to the most progressive American and Japanese groups, it will be many decades before their country has a woman President or Prime Minister. The American Presidency, like the French, is regarded as an exclusively male preserve. 【知识模块】 听写
