1、专业英语四级（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 pass
2、age 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（听力）模拟试卷 46答案与解析 一、 PART I DICTATION (15 MIN) Directions: Listen to the
3、 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 of
4、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】 Personal Progress个人的进步 In many parts of the world, / personal influence is essential in achieving success. / This is not true in the United States
5、, / where success usually results from hard work, education, skill, and personal initiative. / America is truly a “do-it-yourself” society; / success is not dependent on family origins or the help of an influential person. / Personal progress is the result of individual effort. / Because effort and
6、initiative are so important in America, / there are many customs that may be different from those practiced in other countries. / For example, it is not considered dishonorable to quit a job, / even if you have had it for only a short time. / Moving from job-to-job, or “job-hopping”, as it is called
7、, / is quite acceptable in the United States. / Frequently, the opportunity to change jobs / offers workers a chance to move up to a better position. / 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Uniform制服 Americans are pound of their variety and individuality, / yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform, / w
8、hether it is the uniform of an elevator operator or the uniform of a five-star general. / Why are uniforms so popular in the United States? / Among the arguments for uniforms, / one of the first is that in the eyes of most people / they 15look more professional than civilian clothes. / People have b
9、ecome conditioned to expect superior quality from a man who wears a uniform. / The television repairman who wears uniform tends to inspire more trust / than one who appears in civilian clothes. / Faith in the skill of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. / What easier way is there for a nurs
10、e, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter / to lose professional identity than to step out of uniform? / Uniforms also have many practical benefits. / They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are tax-deductible. / 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 Opportunity机会 The air we breathe is so freely avail
11、able that we take it for granted. / Yet without it we could not survive more than a few minutes. / For the most part, the same air is available to everyone, / and everyone needs it. / Some people use the air to sustain them / while they sit around and feel sorry for themselves. / Others breathe in t
12、he air and use the energy it provides / to make a magnificent life for themselves. / Opportunity is the same way. It is everywhere. / Opportunity is so freely available that we take it for granted. / Yet opportunity alone is not enough to create success. / Opportunity must be seized and acted upon i
13、n order to have value. / So many people are so anxious to “get in” on a “ground floor opportunity”, / as if the opportunity will do all the work. / Thats impossible. / 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Switch开关 An electric switch is often on a wall near the door of a room. / Two wires lead to the lamp in the room.
14、 / The switch is fixed in one of them. / The switch can cause a break in this wire, and then the light goes. / The switch can also join the two parts of the wire again, then we get a light. / Switch can control many different things. / Small switches control lamps and radio sets because these do not
15、 take a large current, / larger switches control electric fires. / Other switches can control electric motors. / Good switches move quickly. They have to stop the current suddenly. / If they move slowly, an electric spark appears. / It jumps across the space between the two ends of the wire. / This
16、is unsafe and it heats the switch. / Very big switches are sometimes placed in oil. / Sparks do not easily jump through oil, so the oil makes the switch safer. / 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Typhoon 台风 Some of the worst storms are typhoons. / Every year, about 80 typhoons hit different places around the world
17、. / The strongest ones are usually around the Pacific Ocean / and the South China Sea. / Most of them happen in July, August and September. / Why? When lots of seawater gets hot in the summer sun, / it evaporates into the air. / This makes the air hotter, too. / When the air gets warm enough, / it s
18、tarts to move higher up into the sky. / Then, cooler air around it rushes in to fill the space that is left. / Once the air gets warmer, it starts to move more quickly, making wind. / The wind goes in circles, and it keeps moving higher in the sky. / The warmer the air gets, the quicker the wind moves. / And when the wind moves faster than 30 meters a second, a typhoon begins. / 【知识模块】 听写
