1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 46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 46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】 Time Is a Tyrant Today, we are slaves of speed and success syndrome. No sermons are strong enough to dissuade us to spare some moments from ou
5、r busy schedule, to sit or stand and stare at the supreme beauty that nature unfolds away from the maddening crowds. Lost in the comforts of present-day life, the mind has missed its moorings in the maze of woes and worries, cares and calculations, as a result of which we are caught in the cross-fir
6、e of mental chaos and physical crisis. The very meaning of our life has acquired new connotations and our concerns and considerations, sans compassion, are soaked in tensions and traumas because we are moving away from such forces of nature as can provide genuine and innocent rest and rapture. Racin
7、g against time, we are hell-bent to break new records and meet deadlines, even if we have to become robots or mechanized beings. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 No Meat Successful businesses adopt the philosophy that the customer is always right and McDonalds, famous for serving hamburgers, hasnt ignored that. S
8、o much so that it is opening, next year, its first totally vegetarian restaurant in India. About 40% of households in the country are vegetarian, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, and the company, the worlds second biggest food outlet, wants to beef up its operation. Vegetari
9、anism has been around for centuries. According to the Vegetarian Society in Britain, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras favored the practice due to concerns about cruelty to animals. He also thought it could be a healthier lifestyle as it prevented men from being violent. Nowadays, t
10、he pressure on natural resources from rearing animals has been turning environmentally-conscious people into veggies. Some people are even stricter about eating animal products than vegetarians. They are known as vegans and they do not eat dairy products and eggs either. 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 Faking It
11、 A BBC investigation has highlighted the growing problem of an industry where students can try to deceive teachers by paying to have their coursework written for them. Universities are well set up to detect more traditional forms of plagiarism where extracts of someone elses work are used. But accor
12、ding to Birmingham City Universitys professor Robert Clarke, this is much harder to identify in a bespoke essay, original but written by someone else. He thinks this should concern us all and asks: “Would you want to be treated by a nurse whos cheated on her assignment?“ There are serious implicatio
13、ns for any student found to be buying an essay in this way. A student can be stripped of their degree or thrown out of university. This form of cheating is not a crime, although there are some in academic circles who think it should be. And the offence is the students. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Sorry! Is “
14、sorry“ the hardest word? Not for the British Education Secretary Michael Gove, who has apologized recently to his former French teacher for misbehaving in class. In a letter published in a magazine, Mr. Gove says: “It may be too late to say Im sorry. But, as my mum told me, its never too late to set
15、 the record straight.“ Researchers suggest that people have too high an expectation of the power of saying sorry. Dutch psychologist David De Cremer and his colleagues say in a study published in Psychological Science that receiving an apology isnt as healing as people like to think. Nevertheless, a
16、pologies might be an important social tool as they reaffirm the existence of rules that need to be observed. In Britain, the word “sorry“ is often said and heard. If you step on someone elses toe by chance you have to apologize but the person whose foot was squashed has to do it too. It conveys the
17、idea that none of you is left with hard feelings. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Standard of Living vs. Quality of Life When you think about standard of living, you can think about things that are easy to quantify. We can measure factors like life expectancy, inflation rate and the average number of paid vacati
18、on days workers receive each year, for example. Quality of life is more subjective and intangible. What would be considered a good quality of life by one person may not be considered as such by another. The main difference between standard of living and quality of life is that the former is more obj
19、ective, while the latter is more subjective. Standard of living factors such as gross domestic product, poverty rate and environmental quality, can all be measured and defined with numbers, while quality of life factors like equal protection of the law, freedom from discrimination and freedom of religion, are more difficult to measure and are particularly qualitative. Both indicators are flawed, but they can help us get a general picture of what life is like in a particular location at a particular time. 【知识模块】 听写
