1、国家公共英语四级（听力）练习试卷 2及答案与解析 PART A Directions: For Questions 1-5, you will hear a conversation. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice
2、. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. 1 PART B Directions: For Questions 6-10, you will hear a passage. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below. 6 After taking up residence in Mem
3、phis, Elvis was doing all of his _. 7 The size of the city of Memphis is _. 8 Memphis is famous for _. 9 What kind of music is Nashville famous for? 10 Little Rock is the _ of Arkansas. PART C Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seco
4、nds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. 11 Special Olympics is organized for _. （ A） the mentally challen
5、ged athletes （ B） children （ C） university students （ D） old people 12 The 2007 Special Olympics will be held in _. （ A） Beijing （ B） Shanghai （ C） Guangzhou （ D） Chengdu 13 Which of the following is INCORRECT according to the speaker? （ A） Yao Ming will be one of the spokespersons for Special Olymp
6、ics. （ B） Yao Ming is the highest profile athlete in China. （ C） Yao Ming will participate in the Special Olympics. （ D） Yao Ming is the top NBA center for the Houston Rockets and promises to be even better. 14 What is the most important factor for a dogs survival? （ A） Sharp vision. （ B） Acute hear
7、ing. （ C） Keen sense of smell. （ D） Legs. 15 Which of the following animals is NOT colorblind? （ A） Monkey. （ B） Dog. （ C） Cat. （ D） Tiger. 16 Which of the following is INCORRECT? （ A） It is really hard to explain why dogs and cats are colorblind. （ B） Some colorblind animals have dull-colored coats
8、. （ C） Some colorblind animals hunt for food in the dark of night. （ D） Some colorblind animals graze in the dim twilight hours. 17 What is the main purpose of the speaker? （ A） To introduce the Indian people who have tattoos. （ B） To tell us how to get a tattoo. （ C） To introduce the history and fu
9、nction of tattoos. （ D） To show us how a tattoo influences the wearers in many ways. 18 The tool for tattoo-making penetrates the skin _. （ A） by one million meters （ B） by one centimeter （ C） by one millimeter （ D） by a million millimeters 19 Which is INCORRECT among the following statements? （ A）
10、The word tattoo was first mentioned as far as 3000 B. C. （ B） More widely recognized are tattoos found on Egyptian and Nubian mummies dating from about 2000 B. C. （ C） Europeans were shocked by tattooed Indians and Polynesians at circuses and fairs during the 18th and 19th centuries. （ D） The practi
11、ce of tattooing has different meanings to various cultures. 20 What is the most common motive for tattooing? （ A） Celebration. （ B） Identification. （ C） Decoration. （ D） Punishment. 国家公共英语四级（听力）练习试卷 2答案与解析 PART A Directions: For Questions 1-5, you will hear a conversation. While you listen, fill out
12、 the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. 1 【听力原文】 M: Hello everybody. This is Mark. I am just sitting here in
13、 a room, in a big classroom, and I am talking to my friend, Eric. Eric comes from Oklahoma. Where do you come from exactly, Eric? W: I come from southern Oklahoma about a fifteen-minute drive from the Texas border. The nearest big city is Dallas, which is about ninety minutes by car. M: Dallas is in
14、 Texas, isnt it? W: Thats right. Dallas, Texas. M: Wow, right OK, so youre a southerner? W: Aah. yes, I am a southerner. M: What differences are there between the north and the south in the United States? W: Well, there are a lot of areas of the north and areas of the south so its difficult to chara
15、cterize. but. you know. basically. the area that I come from. maybe people are a bit more friendly and, helpful, for instance if you have car trouble, its very likely that a nice person will stop and try to help you instead of a bad person stopping and trying to hurt you. M: Right. right. W: . or so
16、mething. not to say that people in the north wont help you out too. but I think. there is a bit more of a friendly helpful spirit. in the part of the south that I come from. M: I see. I think a lot of warm countries. the people have a kind of a laid-back relaxed helpful friendly sort of attitude. I
17、think thats a common thing. 1 【正确答案】 Southern 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 15 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 friendly 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 warm 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 classroom 【知识模块】 听力 PART B Directions: For Questions 6-10, you will hear a passage. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice.
18、 You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below. 6 【听力原文】 M: What state were you born in, Aaron? W: I was born in Tennesee. M: What part of Tennesee? W: Memphis, Tennesee. M: Memphis, Tennesee. Right. That is where Elvis comes from. W: Actually, I believe he was born in Missis
19、sippi. M: Was he? W: Yeah, originally and, urn, he sort of took up residence in Memphis when he was doing all of his recording and performing. M: Right. W: So that is where he based himself and he made, you know, “Elvis“ synonymous with Memphis. M: Right. Memphis is a pretty big city, hey? W: Ahm. I
20、 dont know a whole lot about Memphis. I would not call it a big city but I would call it a. I would say a small-size big city. M: It is kind of famous for music, isnt it? W: Yeah, blues. M: Country music? W: No, country music is more east Tennesee, Nashville. M: Nashville. So is Memphis west Tennese
21、e? W: Yeah, it is west Tennesee. It is right on the Mississippi River across from Arkansas and very close to Mississippi. M: Across from Arkansas? W: Yeah. M: Right next to Arkansas? W: Yeah, that is where Bill Clinton is from, actually. M: And the capital of Arkansas is Little Rock, isnt it? W: Tha
22、t is right. M: Right. OK. W: I believe I have an uncle living right there somewhere. M: Right. I would like to go there. W: (laughs) M: So you were born in. 6 【正确答案】 recording and performing 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 small-size big 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 blues 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 Country music. 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确
23、答案】 capital 【知识模块】 听力 PART C Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to c
24、heck your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. 11 【听力原文】 Every time before the Olympics, there is this very special event called the Special Olympics. It is a stage where the mentally challenged athletes can bring their skills together from around the world and compete to see
25、 who is the best! Every year there are different spokespersons that will back the event in order to give it more exposure and awareness, so more people can take part in making the event better. What is really special this time around is that the 2007 Special Olympics will be held in Shanghai, China,
26、 our very own backyard! The year 2007 promises to be the biggest Special Olympics to date. There will be just tens of people filing in to China to take place in the competition or in the audience stands. How do I know it will be the biggest? Because I hosted a few events for the Special Olympics and
27、 met most of their spokespersons for 2007. Our friend Yao Ming was the first. They call him the moving great wall, and standing at 7 feet 6 inches tall, there is no bigger Chinese athlete that is as high profile and known in the world as he is! He is the top NBA center for the Houston Rockets and pr
28、omises to be even better yet. 11 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 14 【听力原文】 Mans best friend is colorblind, but, fortunately, his survival does not depend upon the ability to see colors. His keen sense of smell compensates for his inability to see colors, and enables hi
29、m to differentiate between things. Extensive scientific testing on dogs supports the conclusion that they live in a colorless world. The testing done primarily focused on the dogs responses to colors for food. Dogs could not tell the difference between one color, a signal for food, and other colors,
30、 those were not for food. Similar tests conducted on cats produced similar results, which led scientists to conclude that they, too, are colorblind and live in a gray world. The inability of most animals to see colors, from an evolutionary standpoint, is quite simple to understand. Many colorblind a
31、nimals have dull-colored coats, hunt for food in the dark of night, or graze in the dim twilight hours. Their other senses have developed to the point where the lack of color vision in no way impairs them. For them, life in a colorless world is neither a handicap, nor a threat to their survival. The
32、 only animals, other than man, scientists can conclusively say have color vision are monkeys and apes. Both can be trained to open a colored door, behind which there is food, and man can be trained to open a refrigerator door of any color! 14 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 16 【正确答案】 A 【知识模
33、块】 听力 17 【听力原文】 Whether they are on arms, legs, ankles or buttocks, tattoos are painted all over our bodies by injecting ink into our skin. A needle attached to a hand-held tool injects ink into the cells of the dermis a section of our skin that keeps tattoos from fading and stretching. The tool mov
34、es the needle up and down at a rate of several hundred vibrations per minute and penetrates the skin by about one millimeter. The ink that is left in the skin after the injection process is the tattoo. Decorating our bodies with tattoos is a popular fad among many people. The word tattoo originates
35、from the Tahitian word tattau, which means “to mark“ and was first mentioned in explorer James Cooks records from his 1769 expedition to the South Pacific. However, some scientists believe that the earliest known evidence of tattooing dates back to markings found on the skin of the Iceman, a mummifi
36、ed human body that dates as far back as 3300 B. C. More widely recognized are tattoos found on Egyptian and Nubian mummies dating from about 2000 B, C. Classical authors mention the use of tattoos in connection with Greeks, ancient Germans, Gauls, Thracians and ancient Britons. Tattooing was redisco
37、vered by Europeans when they came into contact with Polynesians and American Indians through their explorations. Because tattoos were considered so exotic in European and US societies, tattooed Indians and Polynesians amazed crowds at circuses and fairs during the 18th and 19th centuries. The practice of tattooing has different meanings to various cultures. Decoration was the most common motive for tattooing and that still holds true today. 17 【正确 答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 18 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 19 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 20 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力
