1、专业英语四级（短文听力）模拟试卷 8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 Ronaldo first became the star of a soccer club at the age of （ A） twelve. （ B） fourteen. （ C） sixteen. （ D） eighteen.
2、 2 Which is NOT mentioned as Ronaldo reputation? （ A） Outstanding agility. （ B） Explosive pace. （ C） Finishing skills. （ D） Unusual alertness. 3 When did Ronaldo prove to the world he still could play? （ A） In the Brazilian World Cup. （ B） In the English World Cup. （ C） In the 1998 World Cup. （ D） I
3、n the Korean and Japanese World Cup. 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 show wi
4、ll be （ A） netbook. （ B） mobile phone. （ C） three-D TV. （ 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） Sony is i
5、ntroducing new television sets for watching three-D TV. （ D） Panasonic and the Discovery Channel plan to start their own three-D channels. 7 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
6、 red ones. （ C） Children cannot count the blue and red ones separately. （ D） Children cannot find the total number without directions. 8 According to the passage, what is guiding childrens growth? （ A） A biological clock of human body. （ B） An internal clock of computing. （ C） Childrens self-conscio
7、usness. （ D） The introduction of mathematics. 9 When can children set the 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. 10 What is the passage mainly about? （ A） T
8、o explain that people are born to compute. （ B） To illustrate childrens counting skills. （ C） To prove that people gradually learn to compute. （ D） To suggest the ways to learn computing. 专业英语四级（短文听力）模拟试卷 8答案与解析 SECTION B PASSAGES Directions: In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen t
9、o the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow. 1 【听力原文】 Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Limal was born on 22 September 1976 in a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro. Like most of his childhood friends, Ronaldo began his soccer career playing barefoot in the streets of his neighborhood. (1) At
10、 the age of 14. he joined a soccer club and only two years later became the star of the club scoring a total of 58 goals in 60 matches and (2) earning himself a reputation for his explosive pace and outstanding finishing skills. His goal-scoring record and unusual alertness led him to be included in
11、 the Brazilian World Cup winning team the following year. After the World Cup, many top European football clubs were trying to sign him. Since his transfer to Dutch team, Ronaldos biography is one of success after success. Since the 1998 World Cup he has suffered two serious knee injuries that have
12、severely limited his appearances. Just when people began to wonder whether Ronaldo would be able to continue with his football career, he proved to the world that he still could play. (3) In the World Cup held in Korea and Japan, the magical striker won the Golden Shoe award. He helped Brazil captur
13、e its fifth World Cup championship. It was the third time that Ronaldo has ever played in the World Cup. 1 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 短文 2 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 短文 3 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 短文 4 【听力原文】 This years Consumer Electronics Show opened Thursday in Las Vegas. The event is the worlds biggest technology trade show. (
14、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 fifty-two millio
15、n smartphones expected to be sold in the United States. Smartphones run applications and access the Internet. 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 digital tablet. Tablets
16、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) Companies like Sony and Panasonic are introduci
17、ng 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)Sports broadcaster ESPN and the Discovery Channel plan to start their own three-D channels. 4 【正确答案】 D 【知识模 块】 短文 5 【正确答案】 B
18、 【知识模块】 短文 6 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 短文 7 【听力原文】 People appear to bore to compute. The 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
19、knife, one spoon , one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are capable of anything that they have placed five knives, spoons and forks on the table and, a bit later amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of psychologists has ex
20、plained the subtle forms of daily learning on which intellectual progress 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 chi
21、ldren, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number 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 the (10)very concept of abstract numbers that applies to any class of objects and is a factor for doing anything more mathematical and demanding than setting a table is far from born to be. 7 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 短文 8 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 短文 9 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 短文 10 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 短文
