1、专业英语四级（听力）模拟试卷 208及答案与解析 SECTION B CONVERSATIONS In this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation , five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause
2、. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have thirty seconds to preview the questions. （ A） Its about old peoples beliefs. （ B） Its about peoples various feelings towards old age. （ C） Its about old peop
3、les unattractiveness. （ D） Its about peoples reluctance to look after the old. （ A） To look into the mental health of old people. （ B） To explain why people have negative views on old age. （ C） To help correct some false beliefs about old age. （ D） To identify the various problems of old age. （ A） P
4、eople change in old age a lot more than at the age of 21. （ B） There are more sick people in old age than in middle age. （ C） We should not expect more physical illness among old people. （ D） We should expect to find old people unattractive as a group. （ A） Family feeling is gradually disappearing.
5、（ B） It is hard to comment on family feeling. （ C） More children are indifferent to their parents. （ D） Family feeling remains as strong as ever. （ A） Negative. （ B） Positive. （ C） Ambiguous. （ D） Neutral. （ A） Examples of different types children. （ B） How to run parenting workshops. （ C） The way t
6、o communicate with children. （ D） The way to control children. （ A） An author running parenting workshops. （ B） An engineer dealing with electric sockets. （ C） A psychologist who runs a parenting workshop. （ D） An author who likes to punish her children. （ A） On no occasion. （ B） On rare, important
7、occasions. （ C） On every occasion. （ D） On not-so-important occasions. （ A） I am the parent, and I am comfortable being in charge. （ B） Please dont annoy me, or I will punish you. （ C） I am the parent, and Ill let you decide. （ D） I would like you to play with something else. （ A） They see it as enc
8、ouragement. （ B） They see it as a challenge. （ C） They see it as a danger. （ D） They see it as a risk. （ A） It has nothing to do with the mans presentation. （ B） It focuses on young men and mobile phones. （ C） It shows how important mobile phones are to the old. （ D） It shows 70% of teenagers use th
9、eir phones once a day. （ A） Making phone calls to their friends. （ B） Sending text messages. （ C） The graph they would design. （ D） Losing part of their identity. （ A） He is not sure about it. （ B） He thinks its 7:30pm or 8:00pm. （ C） He thinks its between 10:30pm and 11:00pm. （ D） He thinks its bet
10、ween 7:30pm and 11:00pm. （ A） On the belt. （ B） In the pocket. （ C） In the handbag. （ D） In the schoolbag. （ A） Because she thinks voicemail is a better topic. （ B） Because she thinks video is out of date. （ C） Because she thinks there are not enough video users. （ D） Because many phones doesnt have
11、 the function yet. （ A） How students care about the information on the leaflet. （ B） What kind of food the woman eats. （ C） To what extent people care about diet and nutrition. （ D） Whether the woman has developed a good eating habit or not. （ A） She likes burgers best. （ B） She never eats spaghetti
12、. （ C） She likes to eat cauliflower. （ D） She eats what is thought healthy. （ A） She is too busy to have breakfast. （ B） She prefers a bar of chocolate to breakfast. （ C） She gets up too late. （ D） The smell of breakfast puts her off. （ A） It contains too many eggs. （ B） It is too fatty. （ C） It is
13、OK on a regular basis. （ D） It is nutritious. （ A） Once in a while. （ B） Once in a moon. （ C） Seldom. （ D） Once a day. 专业英语四级（听力）模拟试卷 208答案与解析 SECTION B CONVERSATIONS In this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation , five questions will be asked about what was said.
14、Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have thirty seconds to preview the questions
15、. 1 【听力原文】 M: Today, weve Professor McKay on our morning talk show. Good morning, Professor McKay. W: Good morning. M: (1)Ive heard that you and your team have .just completed a report on old age. W: Thats right. M: Could you tell me what your report is about? W: Well, (1)/(2)the report basically lo
16、oks into the various beliefs that people hold about old age and tries to verify them. M: And what do you think your report can achieve? W: (2)We hope that it will somehow help people to change their feelings about old age. The problem is that far too many of us believe that most old people are poor,
17、 lonely, and unhappy. As a result, we tend to find old people, as a group, unattractive. And this is very dangerous for our society. M: But surely we cannot escape the fact that many old people are lonely and many are sick. W: No, we cant. But we must also remember that the proportion of such people
18、 is no greater among the 60-70 age group than among the 50-60 age group. M: In other words, there is no more mental illness, for example, among the 60s-70s than among the 50s-60s. W: Right! And why should there be? Why should we expect people to suddenly change when they reach their 60th or 70th bir
19、thday any more than they did when they reached their 21st? M: But one would expect there to be more physical illness among old people, surely. W: (3)Why should one expect this? After all, those people who reach the age of 65 or 70 are the strong among us. The weak die mainly in childhood, then in th
20、eir 40s and 50s. M: Do you find that young people these days are not as concerned about their parents as their parents were about theirs? W: (4)We have found nothing that suggests that family feeling is either dying or dead. There do not appear to be large numbers of young people who are trying, for
21、 example, to have their dear old mother locked up in a mental hospital. M: Dont many more parents live apart from their married children then used to be the case? W: True, but this is because parents and their married children usually live in separate households because they prefer it that way, not
22、because the children refuse to have mum and dad living with them. M: (5)Is this a good thing, do you think? W: (5)I think that its an excellent arrangement. We all like to keep part of our lives private, even from those we love dearly. I certainly dont think that its a sign of the increased loneline
23、ss of old age. 1. What is Professor McKays report about? 2. What is the purpose of Professor McKays report? 3. What do we learn from the conversation about Professor McKays view? 4. What does Professor McKay think about family feeling? 5. What is Professor McKays attitude toward more parents living
24、apart from their children? 1 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据选项中的 Its about，可以推断本题是问某事物的内容，听音时应重点关注相关信息。录音开头，男士提到，我听说您跟您的团队完成了一项关于老年人的报告。再结合后面女士 (McKay教授 )的解释 “该报告主要是调查人们对老年人的各种观念 ”， B项与录音相符，故选 B。 A项 “它是关于老年人的信仰的 ”是利用录音原词 old people和 beliefs制造的干扰，可排除。录音确实提到人们会认为老年人不太讨人喜欢 (unattractive)，这是该报告想要纠正的观念，并非它调研 的主题， C也排
25、除。 “人们不愿意照顾老年人 ”在录音中并未提到，也可排除。 【知识模块】 对话 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 选项均为不定式，推断本题可能问计划、打算或目的，听音时应注意相关内容。录音开头提到，该报告主要是调查人们对老年人的各种观念并尝试证实这些观念的对错，接着女士解释说她们希望这会帮助人们改变对老年人的观念， C项与录音相符。 D“确认老年人的各种问题 ”为强干扰项，录音中提到，该报告核查的主要是人们对老年人的观念 (the various beliefs that people hold about old age)，而非 the various problems of old a
26、ge，故 D错误。 【知识模块】 对话 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 录音中男士提到，人们一般会认为老年人更多身体疾病。女士用问句反驳说： “为什么人们应该这样认为 ?”接着后面解释到 “那些活到 65或 70岁的都是我们中的强壮者。虚弱的在儿童期或者到四、五十岁就死了 ”，由此可见，McKay教授认为人们不应该认为老年人有更多身体疾病， C正确。 【知识模块】 对话 4 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 由选项中的关键词 family feeling，以及各选项内容，预测本题跟family feeling的变化情况有关。录音中女士 (McKay教授 )提到，她们没有证据表明家庭感情变弱或
27、消亡 (nothingeither dying or dead) ，因此可以说家庭感情仍跟以前一样牢固， D符合录音，同时排除 A、 B、 C。 【知识模块】 对话 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本题询问 McKay教授对于父母不跟孩子一起居住的态度。对于这个话题， McKay教授提到，她认为这是一个 极好的安排 (an excellent arrangement)，由此可知她的态度是积极的，故选 B。 【知识模块】 对话 6 【听力原文】 M: (7)Julie Ross is the author of Practical Parenting. She has been runnin
28、g parenting workshops for about 18 years now. Hey, Julie. Good morning. W: Good morning. M: So lets go right into some of the things that parents used to do, corporal punishment for example, to try and discipline their kids, at least gain control. Firstly, you say that parents should not say “No“ al
29、l the time. So lets use an example here, my son is playing with the safety pin in the electric socket. I am probably gonna say, Jack, no, dont do that. Whats a better way to go about it? W: Well, I actually believe that “no“ should be used in those occasions. It should be our word that can stop our
30、children. But if they get desensitized to it, then when you say “no, dont stick that into the socket“, they are not gonna be able to listen to it. M: (8)So only on rare occasions when its absolutely important to use the word “no“. What about the I-message? Give me an example of that. W: I am a big b
31、eliever in I-messages. And they sound like this. When you throw the ball in the house, I feel annoyed because it could break something. I would like you to play with something else instead. What we wanna do here is we want to make it about us in terms of setting the rules, as parents. We are suppose
32、d to be the leaders in the house. (9)And now I-message does refer to “I am the parent, I am in charge, and I am comfortable being in charge“. M: Tell me how this next concept is. That is the “when and then“ rule the best example I can think of your children are eating dinner but they wanna go out an
33、d play. OK, so, a lot of people will say, hey, if you eat all of the food on your plate, you can go out and play. Whats wrong with that? W: Children hear the word “if“ as a challenge, as a threat. And they will rise to that challenge. Its like “Really? If.? OK, lets just test that out“. But the eith
34、er-or, or the when-then choices, when youve done these -order things. So that its a work first, play later. When youve done the meal, then you can go outside. M: (10)So they dont hear the word “if“ as encouragement. They see it as a challenge and they are gonna rebel against it. W: You bet. 6. What
35、is the conversation mainly about? 7. Who is Julie Ross? 8. According to the man, when should parents say “no“ to their kids? 9. What does I-message refer to? 10. How do children see the word “if“? 6 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 题目问对话讨论的主题是什么。结合整个对话，可以知道对话的主题是如何跟孩子沟通， C项概括了对话的主题，故为答案。其他三项均是利用录音原词制造 的干扰项，均不能概括对话内容
36、，可排除。 【知识模块】 对话 7 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 题目问 Julie Ross的身份，录音开头部分，男士介绍女士身份时，提到她是实用育儿这本书的作者，并说她经营一个育儿工作坊已经 18年， A项与对话意思相符。 【知识模块】 对话 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 题目问在什么场合，父母应该跟孩子说 “不 ”。录音中男士提到，只有在很少场合，并且对孩子说 “不 ”很重要的时候，父母应这么做，据此可知， B为答案。 A“没有场合 ”、 C“每个场合 ”过于绝对，首先可以排除； D项的 not-so-important与录音的 when its absolutely impor
37、tant相反，也可排除。 【知识模块】 对话 9 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 题目问 I-message是指什么。录音中女士提到， I-message是指 “我是父母，我处于掌控的地位，而且这种掌控地位让我觉得很舒服 ”， A项概括了此处的意思，故为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 10 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 题目问小孩子如何看 if这个词。录音结尾部分，男 士总结女士的话时说到，小孩子并不会把 if看成是一种激励，而是视之为挑战， B项与录音相符，故选 B，排除 A。 C项的 a danger和 D项的 a risk在录音中未提及，也可排除。 【知识模块】 对话 11 【听力原文】
38、M: Hi. Mary. How are you? W: Fine, thanks. How are things going? With the presentation, I mean. M: Not too bad, actually. I found that survey you sent me really useful. W: (1)The one about young people and mobile phones? M: Yes. It shows how incredibly important mobile phones are to young people. Fo
39、r example, did you know that 75 percent of teenagers use their phones at least once a day? W: 75 percent! Thats quite a lot. M: (2)But actually texting is an even bigger thing with young people nowadays. About 90 percent of them send at least one text massage a day. And if you look at the UK as a wh
40、ole, people are sending over 2 billion text messages a month. Whats so amazing is that theyve gone from zero to 2 billion in such a short time. W: Thats an amazing increase. You know, we could design a graph to show that. M: Great idea! By the way, what do you think the peak time for sending text me
41、ssages is? W: I dont know. Seven thirty? Eight oclock at night? M: (3)Well, it is at night but apparently its between ten thirty and eleven. W: Thats quite late. Im surprised. M: What you have to remember about mobiles is that theyre part of young peoples self-expression and part of their identity.
42、The most popular place you carry your phone is in your pocket. (4)And the last place you should keep your phone is on your belt. Thats a really big fashion mistake for most of the teenagers in the survey anyway. Now, you were going to talk about the different functions of mobile phones, Mary, werent
43、 you? Which functions did you decide to cover? W: Well, the most popular, obviously, is text messaging. But you seem to have a lot of information on that already. So I will leave that to you, if thats OK M: Fine, so you wont cover text messaging, but.? W: I think video is still a pretty specialized
44、thing at the moment. (5)Not that many phones have it yet. So Im not covering that. But the other thing Im going to look at is voicemail. Its not quite as popular with teenagers as the other functions but about two thirds still use it. M: OK. Lets talk about it next week. 1. What do we learn from the
45、 conversation about the survey sent by the woman? 2. According to the man, what is the bigger thing with young people today? 3. What does the man think the peak time for sending text messages is? 4. According to the man, what is the least popular place to carry the phone? 5. Why wont the woman cover
46、 video? 11 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 录音中男士说女士发给他的那份调查很有用，女士询问是否是那份关于年轻人和手机的调查，男士给出了肯定回答，由此可见，女士发送的报告是关于 “年轻人和手机 ”的， B项用 focuses on同义替换了录音的 about，故为答案。A项与男士说的 really useful相矛盾，可排除； C项错在 the old，应是 young men； D项错在 70应是 75。 【知识模块】 对话 12 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 录音中男士提到，现在，发短信 (texting)对于年轻人来说是一个更重要的事情，因此 B为答案。 A项的 Making
47、 phone calls录音并未提及；女士提及的画图表是为了表明人们发短信的变化趋势， C与题目所问无关；录音提到，手机是年轻人身份认同的一部 分，并非年轻人失去了部分身份认同，因此排除 D。 【知识模块】 对话 13 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 由选项的主语 He可推断本题问某位男士的情况。录音中男士提到，发短信的高峰期的确是在晚上，但时间段明显是 10： 30到 11： 00， C项与录音相符。干扰项 B的 7： 30pm或 8： 00pm是女士认为的高峰时间，故排除。 【知识模块】 对话 14 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 四个选项都是表示地点的介词短语，因此在听到地点时，应留意相
48、关信息。题目问男士认为人们最少放手机的地方是哪里 。录音中男士提到，人们最少放手机的地方是在皮带上，抓听到这个信息，很容易就选出 A。 【知识模块】 对话 15 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 根据选项中的 Because可推断本题问原因。题目问为何女士不讲视频。录音中女士提到不讲视频的原因是许多手机还不具备视频功能， D项与录音相符。 【知识模块】 对话 16 【听力原文】 M: Hi, Im from the Students Union. Were doing a survey of students eating habits. Is it all right if I ask you
49、 a few questions? W: Will it take long? M: No, not really. Five minutes maybe? There arent all that many questions. W: And whats it for exactly? M: Well, we wanted to get an idea of the sort of things students eat on a regular basis, and (6)find out how aware people are about diet and nutrition. The idea is to produce an information leaflet about healthy eating. W: Yes, I suppose something like that would be quite useful, a leaflet I mean, especially for new students. Anyway, what do you want to know
