1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 56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 56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】 “Packaging“ a Person A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however,
5、 does no harm when it shows the persons unique qualities to their advantage. To display personal charm in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A master packager knows how to integrate art and nature without any traces of embellishment, so that the p
6、erson so packaged is no commodity but a human being, lively and lovely. A young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a moment of doze. Packaging for the m
7、iddle-aged is primarily to conceal the furrows ploughed by time. If you still enjoy lifes exuberance enough to retain self-confidence and pursue pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your charm and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has be
8、en, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Henry Ford Henry Ford didnt always pay attention in school. One day, he and a friend took a watch apart. Angry and upset, the teacher told him both to stay after school. Their punishment was to stay until
9、they had fixed the watch. But the teacher did not know young Fords genius. In ten minutes, this mechanical wizard had repaired the watch and was on his way home. Ford was always interested in how things worked. He once plugged up the spout of a teapot and placed it on the fire. Then he waited to see
10、 what would happen. The water boiled and, of course, turned to steam. Since the steam had no way to escape, the teapot exploded. The explosion cracked a mirror and broke a window. The young inventor was badly scalded. Fords year of curiosity and tinkering paid off. He dreamed of a horseless carriage
11、. When he built one, the world of transportation was changed forever. 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 To Be or Not to Be “To be or not to be!“ Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world. They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most fa
12、mous words in Shakespeare works because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know whether he wa
13、s alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: “I think, therefore I am.“ Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacting with new friends. What is supremely true of living objects is only l
14、ess true of ideas, which are also alive. Where your thoughts are, there will your life be also. If youre interested in characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people; if you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living
15、in a world of passion and imagination. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 The Nobel Academy For the last 82 years, Swedens Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today the Academy is co
16、ming under heavy criticism both from the without and from within. Critics contend that the selection of the winners often has less to do with true writing ability than with the peculiar internal politics of the Academy and of Sweden itself. According to the cultural editor for one of the countrys tw
17、o major newspapers, the prize continues to represent “what people call a very Swedish exercise: reflecting Swedish tastes“. The Academy has defended itself against such charges of provincialism in its selection by asserting that its physical distance from the great literary capitals of the world act
18、ually serves to protect the Academy from outside influences. This may well be true, but critics respond that this very distance may also be responsible for the Academys inability to perceive accurately authentic trends in the literary world. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Turning off TV I would like to propose
19、that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening, right after the early evening news, all television broadcasting in the United States be prohibited by law. Let us take a serious, reasonable look at what the results be if such a proposal were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour
20、. Without the distraction of TV, they might sit around together after dinner and actually talk to one another. It is well known that many of our problems everything, in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illness are caused at least in part by failure to co
21、mmunicate. By using the quiet family hour to discuss our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better. On evenings when such talk is unnecessary, families could rediscover more active pastimes. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they might take a ride together to watch the sunset. 【知识模块】 听写
