1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 7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 pas
2、sage 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 1 Fast Food Restaurants in the USA 2 Differences Between Television and Radi
3、o Announcers 3 Empty Nest Syndrome 4 Vacation and Happiness 5 Plants 专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 7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 t
4、o understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage 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 1 【正确答案】
5、 Fast Food Restaurants in the USA In the USA, there are many types of restaurants. / Fast food restaurants are very famous. / You can find McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken in many countries around the world. / You look at a menu above the counter, / and say what youd like to eat. You pay the per
6、son who serves you. / You take your food and sit down or take it away. / Theres no need to leave a tip. In a coffee shop you sit at the counter or at a table. / You dont wait for the waitress to show you where to sit. / She usually brings you coffee when you sit down. / You tell her what youd like t
7、o eat and she brings it to you. You pay the cashier as you leave. / A diner is like a coffee shop but usually looks like a railway carriage. / In a family restaurant the atmosphere is casual, but the waitress shows you where to sit. / Often the waitress tells you her name, but you dont need to tell
8、her yours. / If you dont eat everything, your waitress gives you a doggy bag to take your food home. / You add an extra fifteen percent to the bill as a tip. (175 words) 【试题解析】 这是一篇关于美国快餐店的短文。除了要注意容易拼错的词如“restaurant”， “waitress” “atmosphere”以外，还要注意两个陕餐店的名称的拼写，这两个快餐店大家都十分熟悉，但是真正细心去记这两个名称拼写的人可能不是很多。所以
9、在此提醒各位考生，现在的社会文化交流很广泛，我们在生活当中会越来越多地接触到英美的知名产品和商家，做个有心人，去记住这些产品和商家名称的拼写还是很有必要的。 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Differences Between Television and Radio Announcers When television first began to expand, / very few of the people who had become famous as radio announcers / were able to be equally effective on telev
10、ision. / Some of the difficulties they experienced / when they were trying to adjust themselves to the new medium were technical. / When working on radio, for example, they had become used to seeing on behalf of the listener. / This art of seeing for others means that the announcer has to be very go
11、od at talking. In the case of television, however, the announcer sees everything with the viewer. / His duty, therefore, is completely different. / He is there to make sure that the viewer does not miss any point of interest, / to help him focus on particular things, / and to help him understand the
12、 images on the television screen. / Unlike his radio colleague, he must know the value of silence and how to use it at those moments / when the pictures speak for themselves. (157 words) 【试题解析】 本文讲述了电视播音员和广播电台播音员的区别。首先，要注 意短文的时态。文章的前半部分是过去时，而后半部分是现在时。在听写过程中考生要注意根据自己的语法知识避免时态错误。其次，短文中生词较少，但有些句子较长，考生要
13、特别注意对长句的理解。例如： “When television first began to expand， very few of the people who had become famous as radio announcerswere able to be equally effective on television ”电视发展初期，那些有 名的广播电台播音员上了电视，但他们的表现却不尽如人意。 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 Empty Nest Syndrome While income worry is a rather common problem of the a
14、ged, / loneliness is another problem that aged parents may face. / Of all the reasons that explain their loneliness, a large geographical distance between parents and their children is the major one. / This phenomenon is commonly known as “Empty Nest Syndrome“. In order to seek better chances outsid
15、e their countries, / many young people have gone abroad, / leaving their parents behind with no clear idea of when they will return home. / Their parents spend countless lonely days and nights, taking care of themselves, / in the hope that someday their children will come back to stay with them. / T
16、he fact that most of these young people have gone to Europeanized or Americanized societies / makes it unlikely that they will hold as tightly to the value of duty / as they would have if they had not left their countries. / This geographical and cultural distance also prevents the grown-up children
17、 from providing response/ in time for their aged parents living by themselves. (167 words) 【试题解析】 本文讲述了 “空巢综合症 ”这一社会现象。首先，考生要注意一些派生词，例如 “loneliness”， “geographical”， “countless”， “Europeanized”，“Americanized”等。如果掌握了前后缀知识，这些单词就很容易写对了。其次，短文的句子较长，所以考生听写时要注意方法。初听时要尽量听懂全文的大意。记录句子时，要注意理清句子的结构，抓住句型和关键词 (主语
18、和谓语 )。 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Vacation and Happiness Vacations are a chance to take a break from work, / see the world and enjoy time with family. / But do they make you happier? / Researchers from the Netherlands set out to measure the effect that / vacations have on overall happiness and how long it l
19、asts. / The study showed that the largest lift in happiness comes from the simple act of planning a vacation. / The effect of vacation anticipation lifted happiness for eight weeks. / After the vacation, happiness quickly dropped back to baseline levels for most people. /How much stress or relaxatio
20、n a traveler experienced on the trip appeared to influence post-vacation happiness. One reason vacations dont increase happiness / after the trip may have to do with the stress of returning to work. /And for some travelers, the holiday itself was stressful. / The study didnt find any relationship be
21、tween the length of the vacation and overall happiness. / Since most of the happiness boost comes from planning and anticipating a vacation, / the study suggests that people may get more out of several small trips a year than one big vacation. (178 words) 【试题解析】 本文讲述了旅行和陕乐的关系。旅行的烁主要来自于前期的盼望和准备。要注意短文
22、中几个容易拼错的单词， “Netherlands”， “anticipation”， “rest-vacation”和 “boost”。另外，考生可以根据评分方式，学会取舍。因为听写的评分不是根据写出的单词个数的多少而是以是否表达清楚原文的主要意思为依据的，然后以是否有小的错误，如单复数、大小写、定冠词等分层次扣分，也就是说，扣分有主要和次要信息之分，因此听的时候也要分清重点和非重点；另外，听写的全部内容根据意群分成 15分，每个意群最多扣 分，如果在听的过程中有个别词或词组一下反应不出来，就不要苦苦纠缠某个单词，要跟着录音进行下一意群的听写，避免个别词或句的错漏影响其他内容的听写。 【知识模
23、块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Plants Plants are very important living things. /Life could not go on if there were no plants. / This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. / Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. / Animals get their food by eating plants and other anim
24、als./ Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live. / This is why we find that there are so many plants around us. / If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are two kinds of plants: / flowering plants and non-flowering plants. / Flowering plants can make se
25、eds. / The seeds are protected by the fruits. / But a few fruits have no seeds at all. / An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit. / Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. / They grow from spores. (150 words) 【试题解析】 这是一篇关于植物生长以及开花和不开花植物的区别的短文。整篇文章基本没有生词，只是在文章的结尾出现了一个考生不常见的词： “spore”，意为 “胚芽 ”，正确拼写出这个单词需要考生在听写时利用自己的语音知识进行分辨。另外，这篇短文中还出现了列举事项，例如 “from air， water and sunlight”，很多考生会在听写过程中 用错标点，在列举事项时将逗号换成顿号。想要避免这样的情况就需要考生在平时练习的过程中养成严谨的习惯，不但要注意听解、拼写正确，还要注意断句和标点的准确性，把出错的概率降到最低。 【知识模块】 听写
