1、专业英语四级（听力）模拟试卷 70及答案与解析 SECTION B PASSAGES Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow. 1 In Asia, the percent of the students whose eyes are being damaged is_. （ A） 19% （ B） 90% （ C） 20% （ D） 10% 2 Which of
2、the following is INCORRECT about Dr. Ian Morgans suggestion on protecting young peoples eyes? （ A） Whatever the weather is, they should spend more time outdoors. （ B） They should play outdoors and enjoy more sunlight. （ C） Their academic pressure should be minimized. （ D） Parents should take infants
3、 outdoors at noon. 3 The connection of Singapore with high levels of short-sightedness is to prove that_. （ A） genetic factors play a more important role （ B） environmental factors play a big role （ C） both genetic factors and environment do harm to people （ D） both genetic factors and environment h
4、ave something to do with short-sightedness 4 How many companies are presenting products in the Consumer Electronics Show? （ A） More than twenty thousand. （ B） More than three thousand. （ C） More than two hundred. （ D） More than three hundred. 5 The experts predict that one strong sales area of the s
5、how will be_. （ A） netbook （ B） mobile phone （ C） three-DTV （ D） digital tablet 6 According to the passage, which of the following statements is INCORRECT? （ A） Google is launching the “ superphone“ product to compete with iPhone. （ B） Apple is going to introduce the digital tablet product. （ C） Son
6、y is introducing new television sets for watching three-D TV. （ D） Panasonic and the Discovery Channel plan to start their own three-D channels. 7 What standard introduced by Ford in 1913 is considered advanced even today? （ A） Mass production. （ B） Labor practices. （ C） Safety measures. （ D） Medica
7、l care. 8 All of the following are the goals of the five-dollar-a-day minimum wage EXCEPT_. （ A） to recruit good mechanics （ B） to keep best mechanics （ C） to discourage part-time workers （ D） to obstruct the growth of labor unions 9 Which is NOT mentioned as an employees good personal habits? （ A）
8、Good hygiene. （ B） Self-control. （ C） Hardworking. （ D） Trustworthy. 10 Before 1850s, what was an American college used for? （ A） Firming students Christian faith. （ B） Teaching the traditional courses. （ C） Creating knowledge and passing it on. （ D） Shaping students moral character. 11 Which is NOT
9、 mentioned as the first modern universities in America? （ A） Cornell. （ B） Columbia. （ C） Yale. （ D） Harvard. 12 All of the following are the changes of modern universities EXCEPT_. （ A） bringing in a new kind of faculty （ B） introducing gradual training of Ph. D （ C） expanding in size but not in co
10、urse offerings （ D） pioneering the course elective system 13 What does the pencil counting experiment suggest? （ A） Children are capable of counting complex numbers. （ B） Children are hard to report the number of blue or red ones. （ C） Children cannot count the blue and red ones separately. （ D） Chi
11、ldren cannot find the total number without directions. 14 According to the passage, what is guiding the childrens growth? （ A） A biological clock of human body. （ B） An internal clock of computing. （ C） Childrens self-consciousness. （ D） The introduction of mathematics. 15 When can children set the
12、table with impressive accuracy? （ A） After they learn to walk and talk. （ B） After they could count things. （ C） Before they could walk and talk. （ D） Before they could count things. 16 What is the passage mainly about? （ A） To explain that people are born to compute. （ B） To illustrate childrens co
13、unting skills. （ C） To prove that people gradually learn to compute. （ D） To suggest the ways to learn computing. 17 The passage mainly aims to_. （ A） explain why time flies when people having fun （ B） prove time slows when people having fun （ C） explain the brain activity when people having fun （ D
14、） illustrate why time flies 18 According to the passage, when bored, people usually_. （ A） trigger less brain activity （ B） concentrate on time passing （ C） pay less attention to duration （ D） care less about time passing 19 The brain spreads resources_if its busy focusing on many aspects of a task.
15、 （ A） averagely （ B） thickly （ C） thinly （ D） wildly 20 According to the passage, paying heed to time passing_. （ A） benefits to the development of the brain （ B） helps people reflect more of life （ C） enables more time for the brain to rest （ D） helps the brain get more accurate perception of the r
16、eality 专业英语四级（听力）模拟试卷 70答案与解析 SECTION B PASSAGES Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow. 1 【听力原文】 The strong emphasis on educational achievement in China, Japan and other parts of South East-Asia may be
17、coming at a heavy price.(1)Researchers say that hard work at school plus the lack of exposure to outdoor light is damaging the eyes of almost nine out of ten students with one in five at serious risk of visual impairment and blindness. The scientists say that young people need up to three hours a da
18、y of outdoor light, but many infants are also missing out as they nap during lunch time. Dr. Ian Morgan, the lead author of the study, stated: Weve got the massive educational pressures and weve got the construction of a childs day in a way that really minimizes the amount of time they spend outside
19、 in bright light. The scientists say that genetic factors, long thought to play a big role in short-sightedness, are not as important as the environment. They point to Singapore as a place with several distinct ethnic groups, all of whom are now suffering high levels of short-sightedness. The author
20、s suggest that required time outdoors should be considered by educational authorities across South-East Asia as a way of dealing with the problem. 1 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (1)可知，十个学生当中有九个学生的眼睛受到了损害。所以答案为 B。 【知识模块】 短文 2 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 推理排除题。由句 (21)和 (22)可知，科学家认为年轻人一天需要暴露在户外光线中三小时，但许多婴儿错过了户外时间，因为他们
21、在午饭时睡午觉。孩子们在户外明媚的阳光下嬉戏的时间已经少得无法再少，学业压力应该减少。所以答案为 A。 【知识模块】 短文 3 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 语义理解题。 句 (3)中，首先介绍了科学家们认为环境是导致近视的重要因素，基因在其次。接着用新加坡是一个多种族的国家，可同样饱受着高近视率折磨的例子来证明上述结论。所以答案为 B。 【知识模块】 短文 4 【听力原文】 This years Consumer Electronics Show opened on Thursday in Las Vegas. The event is the worlds biggest technol
22、ogy trade show.(4)More than three hundred companies are presenting more than twenty thousand new products. The goal is to build excitement, make deals and hopefully get good reviews in the media.(5)The experts predicted that one area of strong sales this year will be mobile phones. That includes fif
23、ty-two million smartphones expected to be sold in the United States. Smartphones run applications and access the Internet. (6 - 1)Google is launching the Nexus One which it calls a “ superphone“. The Nexus One will compete with Apples popular iPhone. Apple is reportedly about to introduce a new digi
24、tal tablet. Tablets are easy-to-hold screens that let you read and watch media or search the Web. An example is the Amazon Kindle. Like netbooks, tablets cost less than traditional laptop computers. But that can also mean smaller profits for manufacturers and sellers.(6 - 2)Companies like Sony and P
25、anasonic are introducing new television sets for watching three-dimensional TV. A three-D TV costs more than three thousand dollars. Americans are expected to buy four million of them this year.(6-3)Sports broadcaster ESPN and the Discovery Channel plan to start their own three-D channels. 4 【正确答案】
26、D 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (4)可知，三百多家公司展出了超过两万多件新产品。所以答案为 D。 【知识模块】 短文 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (5)可知，专家们预 测今年最具竞争力的领域将会是移动电话领域。所以答案为 B。 【知识模块】 短文 6 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 推理排除题。由句 (61)和 (62)可知，谷歌推出一个被称为 “超级电话 ”的产品 Nexus一代，这个产品将和现在市场上热卖的 iPhone争夺市场。据报道，苹果公司将向消费者们介绍新型的平板数字电脑。像索尼和松下这样的公司向消费者们展示了可以看 3D电视的新型电视机。所以 A、
27、 B、 C均正确。由句(63)可知，体育广播电视台 ESPN和探索 发现频道计划开始创办他们自己的 3D电视频道 。所以 D不正确，故为答案。 【知识模块】 短文 7 【听力原文】 Although Henry Fords name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, (1)he should receive equal credit for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 that would be considered advanced even by
28、 todays standards. Safety measures were improved, and the work day was reduced to eight hours, compared with the ten- or twelve-hour day common at the time. In addition, sick leaves as well as improved medical care for those injured on the job were instituted. The Ford Motor Company was one of the f
29、irst factories to develop a technical school to train specialized skilled laborers and an English language school for immigrants. (2)The most widely acclaimed innovation was the five-dollar-a-day minimum wage that was offered in order to recruit and retain the best mechanics and to discourage the gr
30、owth of labor unions. Ford explained the new wage policy in terms of efficiency and profit sharing. He also mentioned the fact that his employees would be able to purchase the automobiles that they produced. In order to qualify for the minimum wage, (3)an employee had to establish a decent home and
31、demonstrate good personal habits, including self-control, simple life, hardworking and trustworthy. There can be no doubt that, at a time when immigrants were being taken advantage of in frightful ways, Henry Ford was helping many people to establish themselves in America. 7 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句
32、 (1)可知，福特制定的 labor practices以当今的标准衡量也十分先进。所以答案为 B。 【知识模块】 短文 8 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 推理排除题。由句 (2)可知，福特创立 5美元最低工资制，以雇用和保留最好的技师，以及抑制工会的发展，此处未提及 discourage part-time workers。所以答案为 C。 【知识模块】 短文 9 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 推理排除题。由句 (3)可知，福特提出职员应该养成良好的个人习惯，包括自制、节俭、勤劳和诚信，此处没有提及卫生。所以答案为 A。 【知识模块】 短文 10 【听力原文】 Before 1850s,
33、 the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating back to colonial days.(4)They were small, church-connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students. Between the mid-century and the end of the 1800s, more than nine thousand young Ame
34、ricans went to Germany for advanced study.(5)Some of them return to become presidents of colleges Harvard, Yale, Columbia and transform them into modern universities. The new presidents broke all ties with the churches and brought in a new kind of faculty. Professors were hired for their knowledge o
35、f a subject. The new principle was that a university was to create knowledge as well as pass it on. Graduate training leading to the PhD was introduced.(6)The new university greatly expanded in size and course offerings, breaking completely out of the old, constricted curriculum of mathematics, clas
36、sics, rhetoric, and music. The president of Harvard pioneered the elective system, by which students were able to choose their own course of study. The notion of major fields of study emerged. Students were also trained as economists, architects, agriculturalists, social welfare workers, and teacher
37、s. 10 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 语义理解 题。由句 (4)可知，以前美国的大学机构主要用于塑造学生的道德品质。所以答案为 D。 【知识模块】 短文 11 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 推理排除题。由句 (5)可知，选项中只有 Comell没有提及。故答案为 A。 【知识模块】 短文 12 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (6)可知，新型的大学不仅扩大了规模还增加了新的课程，打破了传统的课程 数学、经典著作、美学和音乐的限制。所以答案为 C。 【知识模块】 短文 13 【听力原文】 People appear to be born to compute. The
38、counting skills of children develop so that it is easy to imagine(8)an internal clock of computing guiding their growth.(9)Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive accuracy one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are so capable o
39、f anything that they have placed five knives, spoons and forks on the table and, a bit later they can tell the total number of these silverwares. Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of psychologists has explained the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual prog
40、ress depends. Children were observed as they slowly grasped concepts that adults take for grantedquantity is unchanged as water pours from a short glass into a tall thin one. Psychologists have since demonstrated that(7)young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number
41、of blue or red pencils, but must be led to find the total. Such studies have suggested that the introduction of mathematics is mastered gradually, and with effort. They have also suggested that(10)the very concept of abstract numbers that applies to any class of objects and is a factor for doing any
42、thing more mathematical and demanding than setting a table is far from born to be. 13 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (7)可知，小孩子很容易数出蓝色或红色铅笔的数量，但需要指导才能算出总数。所以答案为 D。 【知识模块】 短文 14 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (8)可知，内在的 “计算钟 ”在引导儿童的成长。所以答案为 B。 【知识模块】 短文 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (9)可知，孩子们在 学习走路和说话后不久，就能准确地摆出餐具。所
43、以答案为 A。 【知识模块】 短文 16 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 主题总结题。由句 (10)可知，文章旨在证明计算能力不完全是天生的，还需要后天的指导和学习。所以答案为 C。 【知识模块】 短文 17 【听力原文】 Scientists have come up with a theory for why time flies when you are having fun. Scans have shown that patterns of activity in the brain change depending on how we focus on a task. Concen
44、trating on time passing, as we usually do when bored, will trigger brain activity which will make it seem as though the clock is ticking more slowly. A research result showed that a network of brain regions was activated when more subjects were paid attention to duration.(9)It is thought that if the
45、 brain is busy focusing on many aspects of a task, then it has to spread its resources thinly, and pays less heed to time passing. Therefore, time passes without us really noticing it, and seems to go quickly. However, if the brain is not stimulated in this way, it concentrates its full energies on
46、monitoring the passing of time.(10)This may make time seem to drag, but in fact it is probably a more accurate perception of reality. Indeed, the researchers found that the more volunteers concentrated on the duration of the images, the more accurate were their estimates of its duration. Lead resear
47、cher Dr. Jennifer Coull said many of the areas of the brain involved in estimating time were the same that played a key role in controlling movement, and preparing for action. 17 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 主题总结题。由句 (7)可知，全文主要介绍为何人们愉悦时感觉时光飞逝。所以答案为 A。 【知识模块】 短文 18 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (8)可知，当人们 无聊时，对于时间的专注会刺激大脑活动，这让你觉得时钟好像是慢下来了。所以答案为 B。 【知识模块】 短文 19 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (9)可知，当大脑专注于一项活动的很多方面时，它只能稀疏地分配资源。所以答案为 C。 【知识模块】 短文 20 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 语义理解题。由句 (10)可知，当感觉时间过得慢时，大脑能够更准确地察觉现实。所以答案为 D。 【知识模块】 短文
