1、专业英语四级（短文听力）模拟试卷 13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 Where is the West Point located? （ A） 80 kilometers north of the Hudson River. （ B） 80 kilometers north of New York
2、City. （ C） 60 kilometers west of Washington headquarters. （ D） 60 kilometers west of the Hudson Fort. 2 When was the military academy West Point established? （ A） In 1802. （ B） In 1779. （ C） In 1858. （ D） In 1760. 3 According to the passage, the West Point international students require the followin
3、g qualifications EXCEPT （ A） nomination by their governments. （ B） serving in their nations armed forces. （ C） satisfying the physical and educational requirements. （ D） doing well on the Test of English as a Foreign Language. 4 According to the speaker, what is Stowes best writing about? （ A） Life
4、of American natives. （ B） Plantation life in the south. （ C） Village life in New England. （ D） Village life in England. 5 According to the passage, Stowes works should belong to （ A） realism. （ B） romanticism. （ C） naturalism. （ D） modernism. 6 Which description of Stowe is INCORRECT? （ A） Stowe was
5、 an independent woman. （ B） Stowe tended to describe settings in detail. （ C） Stowe wrote about New England life. （ D） Stowe was the only one who used local dialect in writing. 7 What do the students do after the introduction of basic film terminology? （ A） Show a film. （ B） Try to recite them. （ C）
6、 Look at the history of movies. （ D） Hold a seminar. 8 The seminar will be arranged on （ A） Tuesday. （ B） Wednesday. （ C） Thursday. （ D） Friday. 9 The Gold Diggers represented the following EXCEPT （ A） the escapist trend in films. （ B） the characteristics of films during the depression. （ C） one sta
7、ge in films development. （ D） science fiction film in modern time. 10 If the films showed are familiar to the students, the students should （ A） submit an extensive written critique. （ B） try to see them again with new eye. （ C） watch them twice. （ D） drop the course. 专业英语四级（短文听力）模拟试卷 13答案与解析 SECTIO
8、N 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】 West Point is a college for future Army officers. It has more than four thousand military students. (1) The school is located about eighty ki
9、lometers north of New York City. West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States. General George Washington built a fort there during the Revolutionary War to protect the Hudson River from the British. He moved his headquarters to West Point in 1779 in the middle of
10、 the war. (2) In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation to establish the military academy. The education centered on civil engineering. West Point graduates designed many roads, bridges, harbors and railways for the young nation. Today, math and science are still a large part of the edu
11、cation. But military students can choose from almost fifty areas of study. If military students major in the humanities, they must have engineering minor. Not all the young men and women at West Point are American. This year, fifty-eight are from other countries. Up to sixty military students can be
12、 international students. (3) International students are nominated by their governments. They must satisfy physical and educational requirements and do well on the Test of English as a Foreign Language. After graduation, they return home to serve in their nations armed forces. Other services besides
13、the Army also accept foreign students at their academies. 1 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 短文 2 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 短文 3 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 短文 4 【听力原文】 Harriet Beecher Stowe is best known for her novel Uncle Toms Cabin, a book that details the harshness of plantation life in the south. The book was extremely popular in t
14、he United States. Ironically though, for all the attention given to Uncle Toms Cabin, its far from Stowes best work. (4)Actually, her best work has nothing to do with the south at all. In fact, Stowes best writing is about village life in the New Englands states in the 19th century. In recording to
15、the customs of the villages she wrote about, Stowe claimed that her purpose was to reflect the images as realistically as possible. She usually succeeded, for her settings were often described accurately and in detail. In this sense, (5) she was an important forerunner to the realistic movement that
16、 became popular later in the 19th century. (6)She was one of the first writers to use local dialect for her characters when they spoke. And she did this for 30 years before Mark Twain popularized the use of local dialect. It makes sense that Stowe would write about New England life, since she was bo
17、rn in Connecticut. As a young woman there, she worked as a teacher. The teaching job helped lead to her first published work, a geography book for children. Later when she was married, her writing helped her support her family financially. 4 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 短文 5 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 短文 6 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】
18、短文 7 【听力原文】 To get us started this semester I am going to spend the first two classes giving you background lectures about some basic cinematic concepts. (7)Once you are a little more familiar with basic film terminology, we will be ready to look at the history of movies in the United States. Youll
19、be expected to attend showing of films on Tuesday evenings at 7 oclock in Jennings Auditorium. Thats our lab. (8) Then during our Wednesday seminar, well discuss in depth the movie we saw the night before. We are not covering silent films in this course. We will begin with the first talking motion p
20、icture, The Jazz Singer, released in 1927. The next week, well be looking at (9) The Gold Diggers of 1933 , a piece that is very representative of the escapist trend in films released during the depression. Some of the films we will be watching will probably be new to you, like Frank Capras Why We F
21、ight. (10) Others you might have already seen on TV like Rebel Without A Cause starring James Deane, or Stanley Coopers Doctors Strange Love. However, I hope you see even familiar film with new eye. In the last three weeks of the course, we will be watching films from the 1980s and youll choose one of them as a subject for an extensive written critique. Well talk more about the requirements of the critique later in this semester. 7 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 短文 8 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 短文 9 【正确答 案】 D 【知识模块】 短文 10 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 短文
