1、专业英语四级(听力)模拟试卷 323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) More and more parents take care of their children full time. ( B) More parents have more than one kid. ( C) Par
3、ents are too busy to look after their children. ( D) Parents have a bad relationship with their children. ( A) It hinders children from learning how to socialize. ( B) It makes parents far away from social life. ( C) It brings some mental problems to children. ( D) It influences the life quality of
4、the whole family. ( A) They are not so necessary for children. ( B) They can be gained only at school. ( C) They could be got from different people. ( D) They may bring some potential problems. ( A) They do not love children at all. ( B) They do not give so much love as parents. ( C) They do not pay
5、 attention to children. ( D) They do not care about safety issues. ( A) Parents should spend more time with their children. ( B) Children should be taken care of by both parents. ( C) Not every family could afford one parent staying at home. ( D) Parents should try to make more money for the family.
6、 ( A) It makes him healthy and spirited. ( B) It is the best way to relax himself. ( C) It lets him know more about the world. ( D) It helps him develop different skills. ( A) His teachers. ( B) His schoolmates. ( C) His family. ( D) His friends. ( A) He came back the next weekend. ( B) It took 15 h
7、ours to drive all together. ( C) He spent a good night in Mexico. ( D) They had to eat and drink on the way. ( A) It uses lots of gas but has a lot of fun. ( B) It is too expensive to buy. ( C) It is typical for road trips. ( D) It is big enough to carry people. ( A) It is more difficult. ( B) It is
8、 a little bit strange. ( C) It is more expensive. ( D) It is more popular. ( A) It took him a month. ( B) He started the trip in China. ( C) He took the train across Russia. ( D) He went to Russia all by himself. ( A) He saved up for the trip for months. ( B) He researched the trip several months ag
9、o. ( C) He made some new friends as companions. ( D) He learned some local languages in Russia. ( A) There were no trees or plants along the way. ( B) There were some camels in sight in Siberia. ( C) There was almost nothing for miles around. ( D) There were scattered trees only in flat areas. ( A)
10、Dried fish. ( B) Russian delicacies. ( C) Noodles. ( D) Meat. ( A) Go to Russia again in several years. ( B) Go to another country soon. ( C) Do some business with Russians. ( D) Become a tour guide in Russia. ( A) There were too many singers. ( B) The man didnt win the prize. ( C) Most of the singe
11、rs didnt do their best. ( D) It took such a long time. ( A) He became relaxed when he started to sing. ( B) He was not nervous during the whole process. ( C) He thought he was the best singer of all. ( D) He had always been dreaming about winning. ( A) He likes country music except for Johnny Cash.
12、( B) He prefers newer country music to older country music. ( C) He never listens to country music except in competitions. ( D) He likes all types of music except for country music. ( A) You can get a new CD with one dollar. ( B) Used CDs are always cheaper than new ones. ( C) The price of used CDs
13、depends on the CD itself. ( D) How much you pay is up to your bargaining skills. ( A) The tickets are too expensive. ( B) The stage is too far away. ( C) It is too loud and noisy. ( D) He can hardly talk with the singers. ( A) It was in the swimming pool. ( B) It lasted for about two days. ( C) It w
14、as all great fun. ( D) Only two men were on the course. ( A) She set up her own equipment. ( B) Somebody checked her and everything. ( C) She dived with a partner she didnt know. ( D) She went down maybe fifteen meters. ( A) She enjoyed it a lot. ( B) She freaked out. ( C) She panicked a bit. ( D) S
15、he felt calm and relaxed. ( A) He had a great time. ( B) He failed the course. ( C) He went up quickly. ( D) He helped the woman a lot. ( A) She is not allowed to dive again. ( B) She still freaks out when diving. ( C) She still feels shameful about the past. ( D) She cannot go diving on her own. 专业
16、英语四级(听力)模拟试卷 323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. D
17、uring 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. 1 【听力原文】 M: Hello, Ruth. Nice to see you again. You seem to be very busy recently, arent you? W: Hey, Mike. Youre right
18、. I am busy with my essay. M: What are you writing about? Do you mind telling me something about it? W: Sure, of course not.(1-1)I am doing some research about relationship between parents and children. M: Really? Say something in more detail. W: Havent you noticed that there are more and more paren
19、ts just staying at home, taking care of their children full time, instead of working out? M: Sure, thats more and more common. So what do you think about stay-at-home parents? W: Like one parent staying at home with a child? M: Yeah, one parent staying at home and the other one working. W: Ah, I thi
20、nk its really bad if a child stays at home with one parent actually. M: Really? Why would you say that? W: I think children who are brought up like that generally dont know how to socialize with other people except for their parents. M: Oh, well, why would you think that? W: Well, theyre really not
21、given the opportunity to interact with different people. I mean, they spend pretty much all day, every day, with that one parent, and I think its a real shame. They dont learn how to share or, you know, how to get along with and talk to different people. M: Well, I think that the child will actually
22、 get more interaction if theres a stay-at-home parent because the parent will be able to take him to different activities and to other houses to have playmates at the same time. Hell be able to spend more time with that parent and have socializing time with family members. W: But I think children co
23、uld get those same experiences from different people who look after them. It wouldnt necessarily have to be their family members who looked after them surely. M: Well, sure, but I think that its different when a person who is not related takes care of a child. Im sure that they do their best but the
24、 love is not there. The caretaker would not love the child as much as the parent would and if theres one person taking care of ten different children at the same time, I would wonder about the amount of attention that the child would get, and safety issues as well. W: But I think youve got to look a
25、t the practical aspect of this. Its not always practical for people who dont have much money to have one parent staying at home all of the time. M: Thats true. I really agree about that. W: Oh, its good we agree on one thing. 1. What is the womans essay about? 2. What is the womans opinion about chi
26、ldren staying at home with one parent? 3. What does the woman say about childrens social experiences? 4. What does the man think about caretakers taking care of children? 5. What do the speakers agree on? 1 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 本题考查推理。由句 (1 1)和句 (1 2)可知,女士在向男士介绍自己的论文,询问男士难道没有发现越来越多的家长待在家里全职照看孩子,而非外出工作。由此
27、推断,女士的论文主要讲述的是更多的家长全职照看孩子,因此A为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 本题考查人物观点。由句 (2)可知,女士认为全职家长培育出来的孩子除了与其父母交流外,普遍不知道如何同他人交往。因此 A为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题考查人物观点。由句 (3)可知,女士认为孩子们可以从照看他们的不同的人那里得到类似的社交经历,不一定非得从家人那里得到。因此 C为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本题考查人物观点。由句 (4)可知,男士认为看护人员不会像父母一样爱孩子。因此 B为答案。
28、【知识模块】 对话 5 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题考查推理。由句 (5 1)可知,女士认为,对并没有太多钱的人来说,留一名家长长期在家是不太现实的;由句 (5 2)可知,男 士表示认同。因此C为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 6 【听力原文】 W: Hey, I heard you are just back from a trip. No wonder you look so healthy and spirited. M: Nice to see you here. You are right. I did enjoy it a lot. W: You like taking tri
29、ps, dont you? M:(6)Absolutely, thats the best way to relax myself. W: Tell me something about road trips! I bet you know a lot about it! M:(7)Yeah. Ah, me and my friends, when we were in high school we took a lot of road trips to lots of different places. W: OK. M: We would go down to California, ah
30、, sometimes Mexico. One time when I was living in Wyoming, at one weekend we drove from Wyoming, through Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico and back at the same weekend. W: Wow! Well, actually for people who are not familiar with the United States, how far is that? M: Its a long way. I dont know. It t
31、ook probably about 15 hours one way. W: Wow! M:(8)So, thirty hours all together. But it was fun. We drove down to Mexico, and had a good night, a good meal, a little bit of drinks and drove back the next day. W: So you went to Tijuana? M: No, we went to, ah, Ciudad Juarez. W: OK. Nice. M: That was r
32、eally fun and a lot of other trips we took, ah, when I lived in Oregon, when wed go down to California, and wed surf. W: Oh, really? M: Yeah! W: Oh, youre a surfer? M: A little bit, a little bit of surfer. W: OK. What kind of car do you drive? What do you use for this road trip? M: Well, typical Ame
33、rican. Uh, a four-wheel drive vehicle, big vehicle. Lots of gas but a lot of fun. W: Oh man, youre from Oregon: youre supposed to be a tree hugger! M: Yeah. But therere good things. One rule we had on our road trips was that when we saw any lake or big body of water we had to stop and swim in. It wa
34、s a good thing to do. W: Well, you live in Japan now. Do you ever take road trips in Japan? M: I took a road trip from Niigata up around Hokkaido and back, so it was a long road trip actually. W: Wow! Whats the difference between a road trip in Japan and a road trip in America? M: Well, a road trip
35、in Japan. Its a little bit more difficult to get around. Its a little bit more expensive. Uh, in America road tripping is sort of something a lot of people do. W: Yeah! M: And in Japan, when we do that it is a little bit strange, a little bit different, and not very normal. W: Yeah, thats true. OK,
36、great. Thanks a lot, Steve. M: Alright. 6. What does the man say about taking trips? 7. Who did the man use to take road trips with? 8. What do we know about the mans trip to Mexico? 9. What does the man say about the four-wheel vehicle? 10. Which is NOT the mans opinion about the road trip in Japan
37、? 6 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本题考查人物观点。由句 (6)可知,男士说旅行是他放松的最好方式。因此 B为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 7 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 本题考查细节。由句 (7)可知,男士说当他和他的朋友还在高中时,就曾多次开车长途旅行,去过很多不同的地方。因此 D为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 8 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题考查行为特征。由句 (8)可知,男士描述了去墨西哥的旅行:总共花费了 30个小时,但是很有趣。他们开车到达墨西哥并度过了一个 美好的夜晚,品尝了一顿佳肴和一些饮料,然后第二天开车返回。因此 C为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 9 【正确答案
38、】 A 【试题解析】 本题考查人物观点。由句 (9)可知,男士说他那次旅行开的是典型的美式车,四轮驱动,虽然耗油量大,但是却乐趣非凡。因此 A为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 10 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 本题考查细节。由句 (10一 1)可知,在日本开车长途旅行更加困难一些,也更昂贵,故排除 A和 C;由句 (10一 2)可知,这在日本也会显得有点奇怪和不同,比较不太寻常,故排除 B。因此 D为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 11 【听力原文】 W: Hey, Devon. Nice to see you here. M: Hi, Mary. I didnt expect to see yo
39、u here. W: What have you been doing recently? We havent met for quite a long time. M: Yeah, because I have been abroad for a couple of months. W: Really? Where have you been? M: Russia, actually. W: Cool! Nice country, isnt it? M: Yeah, fantastic, really.(1)The more exciting thing is I took the trai
40、n across Russia. W: You took the train across Russia? Are you serious? M: Yes. I started in Moscow, traveled through Russia, Mongolia, and ended up in China. W: Wow! Thats a long way! M: Yes, it was. It took three weeks. I did it as part of a tour with ten other people. W: Man, thats a cool trip. Th
41、at must cost a lot of money. M: It did cost a lot of money but not a lot of people can say they have done that,(2)and I researched the trip several months before I actually took it. A friend and I did it together and there was one other American and the rest of the people were from Switzerland. W: C
42、ool! What was the landscape like? M:(3)A lot of it was flat and for miles around you could see absolutely nothing, and as you got into Siberia there was scattered trees, and when we got into Mongolia you could see some camels every once in a while, but besides that there was a whole lot of nothing.
43、W: Wow! Just wild camels? M: Yes. I saw that more than once. W: So how did you eat on this train? M:(4)We stopped several times along the way and upon every platform you could buy food that local people were selling. A lot of it consisted of dried fish and other types of Russian delicacies and a lot
44、 of noodles that you heated up with hot water. Every train had hot water on it on every carriage, so you were always able to make noodles if you were desperate. W: So was this a luxurious train or was it a pretty basic one? M: It was pretty much the most basic you could get. W: Wow! Would you do it
45、again? M: Great question! Would I do it again?(5)Yes, I would do it again but I would wait several years to do it. One, because it does cost a lot of money, and two, because there are many other things to do and to see. W: OK. 1. What do we know about the mans trip? 2. How did the man prepare for th
46、e trip? 3. What does the man say about the landscape there? 4. Which is NOT mentioned as the food the man could eat on the train? 5. What will the man probably do? 11 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题考查事物特征。由句 (1)可知,男士提到关于他的出国旅行更刺激的是他坐火车横穿了俄罗斯。因此 C为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 12 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 本题考查行为。由句 (2)可知,男士说在出发旅行前的几个月,他就对
47、此次旅行做了研究调查。因此 B为答案。 【 知识模块】 对话 13 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本题考查事物特征。由句 (3)可知,此处多为平原,几英里内几乎看不到任何东西。因此 C为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 14 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 本题考查细节。由句 (4)可知,男士称火车途中会停站几次,每个站台上都可以买到当地人售卖的食物,包括鱼干和其他种类的俄罗斯小吃,还有可以用开水加热后食用的方便面。 D在对话中未提及,故为答案。 【知识模块】 对话 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 本题考查行为。由 句 (5)可知,男士说他将会再进行一次这种旅行,但是要等到几年后。因此 A为
48、答案。 【知识模块】 对话 16 【听力原文】 W: Hey, Matt. Congratulations to you! Youve won the prize in the singing competition. M: Thanks a lot. I was just going to tell you. It seems that youve already known. W: Are you kidding? I have watched the competition from the start to the end. M: Really? Well, thanks for co
49、ming. Did you enjoy it? W:(6)Not really. Most of the singers didnt give their best performance, did they? M: Yeah. Maybe they were too nervous. W: Except you. How could you be so calm? I mean, I didnt find you were nervous at all. M:(7)I was, actually. But once I started to sing, I forgot all about the audience and the competition. I just wanted to show my best and enjoyed the moment of music that belonged to me. W: OK. You seem to be crazy about music, arent you? M: Of course. W: What is your favorite kind of music ? M