1、大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 116及答案与解析 Section C 0 More and more of the worlds population are living in towns or cities. The speed at which cities are growing in the less developed countries is【 B1】 _. Between 1920 and 1960 big cities in developed countries increased two and a half times in size, but in other
2、 parts of the world the growth was eight times their size. The【 B2】 _size of growth is bad enough, but there are now also very disturbing signs of trouble in the【 B3】 _ of percentages of people living in towns and percentages of people working in industry. During the nineteenth century cities grew【
3、B4】 _ the growth of industry. In Europe the proportion of people living in cities was always smaller than that of the workforce working in factories. Now, however, the【 B5】 _ is almost always true in the newly industrialised world: the percentage of people living in cities is much higher than the pe
4、rcentage working in industry. Without a base of people working in industry, these cities cannot【 B6】 _their growth; there is not enough money to build adequate houses for the people that live there,【 B7】 _ the new arrivals. There has been little opportunity to build water supplies or other【 B8】 _. S
5、o, the figures for the growth of towns and cities【 B9】 _ proportional growth of unemployment and underemployment, a growth in the number of hopeless and【 B10】 _ parents and starving children. 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9】 10 【 B10】 10 In the humanities, auth
6、ors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can【 B1】 _ three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive, and process. Factual writing provides【 B2】 _ information on an author, composer, or artist or on a type of music, literature, or art. Examples of factual writing include notes o
7、n a book jacket or 【 B3】 _ cover and longer pieces, such as an article describing a style of music which you might read in a music【 B4】 _ course. This kind of writing provides a context for your study of the humanities. As its name【 B5】 _, descriptive writing simply describes, or provides an image o
8、f, a piece of music, art, or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artist used in a painting or the【 B6】 _ a composer included in a musical composition, so as to make pictures or sounds in the readers mind by【 B7】 _ specific details of the work. Descriptive writing in
9、 the humanities, particularly in literature, is often mixed with【 B8】 _ writing. Process writing explains a series of actions that【 B9】 _ a result. It tells the reader how to do something, for example, explaining the technique used to shoot a film. This kind of writing is often found in art, where u
10、nderstanding how an artist created a certain effect is important. Authors may【 B10】 _ use more than one type of technique in a given piece of informational writing. 11 【 B1】 12 【 B2】 13 【 B3】 14 【 B4】 15 【 B5】 16 【 B6】 17 【 B7】 18 【 B8】 19 【 B9】 20 【 B10】 20 There are between 3,000 and 6,000 public
11、languages in the world, and we must add approximately 6 billion private languages since each one of us【 B1】 _ has one. Considering these facts, the possibilities for breakdowns in communication seem【 B2】_ in number. However, we do communicate successfully from time to time. And we do learn to speak
12、languages. But learning to speak languages seems to be a very【 B3】 _ process. For a long time, people thought that we learned a language only by imitation and association. For example, a baby touches a hot pot and starts to cry. The mother says, “Hot, hot! “ And the baby, when it stops crying,【 B4】
13、_ the mother and says, “Hot, hot! “ However, Noam Chomsky, a famous expert in language,【 B5】_ that although children do learn some words by imitation and association, they also combine words to make meaningful sentences in ways that are【 B6】 _, unlearned and creative. Because young children can make
14、 sentences they have never heard before, Chomsky suggested that human infants【 B7】 _ the ability to learn language. Chomsky meant that【 B8】 _ all the differences between public and private languages, there is a universal language 【 B9】 _ that makes it possible for us, as infants, to learn any langua
15、ge in the world. This theory explains the【 B10】_ that human infants have for learning language. But it does not really explain how children come to use language in particular ways. 21 【 B1】 22 【 B2】 23 【 B3】 24 【 B4】 25 【 B5】 26 【 B6】 27 【 B7】 28 【 B8】 29 【 B9】 30 【 B10】 大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 116答案与解析
16、Section C 【知识模块】 听力 1 【正确答案】 alarming 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 sheer 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 comparison 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 as a result of 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 reverse 【知识模 块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 pay for 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 let alone 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 facilities 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 represent 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 despairing
17、 【知识模块】 听力 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 be classified into 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 background 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 album 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 appreciation 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 implies 【知识模块】 听力 16 【正确答案】 instrument 【知识模块】 听力 17 【正确答案】 calling up 【知识模块】 听力 18 【正确答案】 critical 【知识模块】 听力 19 【正确答案】 bring about 【知识模块】 听力
18、 20 【正确答案】 actually 【知识模块】 听力 【知识模块】 听力 21 【正确答案】 necessarily 【知识模块】 听力 22 【正确答案】 infinite 【知识模块】 听力 23 【正确答案】 mysterious 【知识模块】 听力 24 【正确答案】 imitates 【知识模块】 听力 25 【正确答案】 pointed out 【知识模块】 听力 26 【正确答案】 unique 【知识模块】 听力 27 【正确答案】 are born with 【知识模块】 听力 28 【正确答案】 underneath 【知识模块】 听力 29 【正确答案】 mechanism 【知识模块】 听力 30 【正确答案】 potential 【知识模块】 听力
