1、大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 14及答案与解析 Section A （ A） To keep the secret. （ B） To have a good rest. （ C） To reduce the workload. （ D） To talk to him about the problem. （ A） Speak to her previous employer. （ B） Get a job working on campus. （ C） Attend Career Services workshop. （ D） Get a job application from hi
2、m. （ A） He couldnt hold back the secret. （ B） He couldnt help the woman at all. （ C） He couldnt possibly tell the boss. （ D） He couldnt decide who told the boss. （ A） Take a class together with Mary. （ B） Ask Mary to help him choose a topic. （ C） Change the topic of his research project. （ D） Sign u
3、p for a different political science course. （ A） She is busier than the man. （ B） She is not as busy as the man. （ C） She is unable to help the man. （ D） She is lucky not to work with the man. （ A） Hes eager to start his new job. （ B） His job starts early next week. （ C） He believes the job intervie
4、w went well. （ D） His professor mistook about the job. （ A） Its realistic. （ B） Its ridiculous. （ C） Its worth a try. （ D） Its not going to work. （ A） He feels comfortable with the course. （ B） He doesnt like the course. （ C） He cant understand the course. （ D） He doesnt want to answer the question.
5、 （ A） She is going to study abroad. （ B） She has received a letter from a Japanese friend. （ C） She is going to work in Japan. （ D） She has got a job at a travel agency. （ A） He told her abot an interesting movie. （ B） He recorded some tapes especially for her. （ C） He helped her get into the progra
6、mme. （ D） He gave her a good grade in her Japanese class. （ A） A good command of a foreign language. （ B） Preparedness to work hard. （ C） Outstanding academic results. （ D） Capability of adapting to a new environment. （ A） He is not promoted. （ B） He doesnt finish his work. （ C） He is full of stress
7、. （ D） He is lack of money. （ A） Learn to meditate or learn yoga. （ B） Walk to the supermarkets. （ C） Go mountain-climbing once a week. （ D） Take part in a bicycle race. （ A） They can help lessen the pressure. （ B） People mainly get them from their meals. （ C） They enable the body to deal with stres
8、s better. （ D） They are useless to stressful people. （ A） Having dinner and seeing a movie. （ B） Attending a concert with their parents. （ C） Preparing a big meal. （ D） Going swimming with their friends. Section B （ A） How to choose pet dogs. （ B） Different breeds of dogs. （ C） How to care for dogs
9、properly. （ D） How to train a puppy. （ A） By working in a library. （ B） By visiting an experienced dog trainer. （ C） By buying a dog from a pet store. （ D） By reading books about dogs. （ A） They are big and aggressive. （ B） They provide companionship and protection. （ C） They dont need too much livi
10、ng space. （ D） They are easy to train. （ A） It is obviously a mental process. （ B） It is more of a physical process than a mental action. （ C） It is a process that involves ones entire body. （ D） It involves the muscles as well as the brain. （ A） To exercise their muscles. （ B） To show that they und
11、erstand the music. （ C） To fully enjoy the music. （ D） To experience the feeling of being a conductor. （ A） Body gestures. （ B） Music appreciation. （ C） The participation of muscles in mental acts. （ D） The definition of the thinking process. （ A） They were mostly endangered. （ B） They were limited.
12、 （ C） They would never be exhausted. （ D） They were difficult to recover. （ A） They are already extinct on land or in the air. （ B） They are important species for conservation. （ C） They are symbols of different countries. （ D） They are examples of zoo animals. （ A） Fish are much more important food
13、 sources. （ B） The sea pollution is more serious. （ C） Threats to fish havent received widespread media coverage. （ D） More and more animals feed on fish. （ A） To tell us the resources of the sea are unlimited. （ B） To tell us there are threats to animals and birds. （ C） To tell us people should pro
14、tect sea resources. （ D） To tell us people should love fish. Section C 25 The family in Britain is changing. The once typical British family headed by two parents has undergone【 B1】 _changes during the twentieth century. In particular there has been a rise in the number of single-person households,
15、which【 B2】_from 18 to 29 percent of all households between 1971 and 2002. By the year 2020, it is【 B3】 _that there will be more single people than married people. Fifty years ago this would have been socially【 B4】 _in Britain. In the past, people got married and stayed married. Divorce was very diff
16、icult, expensive and took a long time. Today, peoples【 B5】 _on marriage are changing. Many couples, mostly in their twenties or thirties, live together without getting married. Only about 60% of these couples will【 B6】 _get married. In the past, people married before they had children, but now about
17、 40% of children in Britain【 B7】 _unmarried parents. In 2000, around a quarter of unmarried people between the ages of 16 and 59 were living together in Great Britain. Before 1960 this was very【 B8】 _. People are generally getting married at a later age now and many women do not want to have childre
18、n immediately. They prefer to【 B9】 _their jobs and put off having babies until their late thirties. The number of single-parent families is increasing. This is mainly due to more marriages【 B10】 _divorce, but some women are also choosing to have children as a single parent without being married. 26
19、【 B1】 27 【 B2】 28 【 B3】 29 【 B4】 30 【 B5】 31 【 B6】 32 【 B7】 33 【 B8】 34 【 B9】 35 【 B10】 大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 14答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 W: Id rather not talk about it. Just dont ask. M: Come on. I think you need to let off some steam. Q: What does the man advise the woman to do? 1 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 对话中女
20、士提到，她不愿意讨论这件事，让男士不要问了，由男士回答时提到 “我认为你应该发泄出来 ”可知，男士建议女士和他谈谈这个问题，故答案为 D)。 let off steam表示 “宣泄情绪 ”。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【听力原文】 W: Im pretty confident the company where I worked the past two summers will hire me full time after graduation. M: Well, just in case that it doesnt work out, Career Service is having a
21、 workshop on campus next Thursday on applying for a job. They had one here last year, and I know a lot of people found it helpful. Q: What does the man suggest the woman do? 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 男士首先说以防万一，然后提到职业服务 (部 )下周四要在校内开一次关于求职的讨论会，去年听过的人都觉得很受益，由此可知，男士建议女士去听一下，故答案为 C)。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【听力原文】 W: I am u
22、pset. You told my boss I had a part-time job? M: I am sorry. I couldnt help it. Q: What does the man mean? 3 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 对话中女士问男士是不是他告诉老板她在兼职，男士回答说 I couldnt help it， A)(他没能隐瞒这个秘密 )正是对男士的话的同义转述，故答案为A)。 hold back指 “隐瞒 ”。 can could(not)help(doing)sth表示 “忍不住做了某事 ”。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【听力原文】 M: The researc
23、h project from my political science course on the presidency is due in just two weeks. But theres so much to talk about, I dont know how to even begin to pick a subject. W: You know, Mary is doing her graduate work in political science. She would certainly know how to narrow the topic down. Q: What
24、does the woman suggest the man do? 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 对话中女士说玛丽正在做政治学的毕业论文，她肯定知道怎样缩小话题范围，由此可知，女士建议男士去找玛丽帮忙进行选题，故答案为 B)。 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 M: Gosh! There seems to be no end to the work I have to do. W: Im glad Im not in your shoes. Q: What does the woman mean? 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 对话中男士提到他要做的工作似乎没有尽头，也就是
25、说他很忙，女士听后说 Im glad Im not in yourshoes，言外之意就是她不像男士那么忙，故答案为 B)。 be in sb s shoes表示 “处于某人的地位或处境 ”。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【听力原文】 W: Congratulations, Tom! I heard you got a job with the Wilson Company. M: Hm, thanks, Prof. Smith, but its a little soon for congratulations. All I got so far is an interview, early n
26、ext week on Tuesday. Q: What does the man mean? 6 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 对话中女士即史密斯教授祝贺男士找到工作，男士解释说 All I got so far is an interview，由此可知，教授把男士工作的事 弄错了，故答案为 D)。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【听力原文】 M: Ken and Sandra hope to sell their house for $3 million. W: Yeah, they always think big. Q: What does the woman think of Ken a
27、nd Sandras plan? 7 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 对话中男士说肯和桑德拉希望他们的房子能卖三百万，女士听后说they always think big(他们总是有大胆的想法 )，由此可知，女士认为他们的计划值得一试，故答案为 C)。 think big表示 “计划做一些有困难的事情，但会给人留下深刻印象或获得巨大的利润 ”. 【知识模块】 听力 8 【听力原文】 W: Do you like the course were taking? M: Its beyond me. Q: What does the man mean? 8 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 对话中女士
28、问男士是否喜欢他们正在上的课，男士回答说 Its beyond me， C)He cant understandthe course正是对男士的话的同义转述，故答案为 C)。 be beyond sb表示 “对于某人来说， 难以想像、理解或估计 ”。 【知识模块】 听力 9 【听力原文】 M: Say, Rason, what are you watching? W: An old Japanese film. I wonder if Im going to spend all my next year there, Id better start familiarizing myself w
29、ith the culture. M: You mean you are accepted into the programme? W: Yes. M: Thats wonderful. You must be excited. W: Excited and nervous. You know I owe a lot to Professor Mercheno. He wrote a letter of recommendation for me and he bought me a set of practise tapes and a book which goes with them.
30、Just so I can work on my basic conversation skills. M: How much Japanese can you understand? W: Not a lot at present. But I signed up for intensive Japanese this semester. M: I wish I were as talented as you are in foreign languages. Id like to study abroad. W: Then why dont you? The university has
31、lots of overseas programmes that dont require any mastery of a foreign language. The tuition is about the same. You just have to be the kind of person who is receptive to new ways of looking at things and willing to adjust to a different kind of life style. M: I had assumed that all programmes requi
32、re you to know a foreign language. I might check into this. W: You wont regret it. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. Why is the woman so excited? 10. Why does the woman feel grateful to Professor Mercheno? 11. What is required for the man to study abroad, accord
33、ing to the woman? 9 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 对话开头女士提到 Im go ing to spend all my next year there，男士问女士是不是被那个项目录取了 (accepted into the programme)，女士给予肯定回答，男士随后提到 You must be excited，女士回答说 Excited and nervous，接下来男士表示他希望自己也能像女士那样有学习语言的天赋，他也想去国外学习(study abroad)，由此可知，女士因为要出国留学才这么激动，故答案为 A)。 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 C 【试
34、题解析 】 选项中的 He， recordedtapesfor her 和 helped her表明，本题考查 He对女士的帮助。对话中女士提到 I owe a lot to Professor Mercheno He wrote a letter of recommendation for me 由此可知，教授帮助女士申请了这个出国留学项目，故答案为 C)。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 选项中的 command of foreign language， academic results和Capability表明，本题可能与出国应具备的能力有关。对话中女士提到 “
35、 出国项目不要求掌握一门外语。学费也差不多。你需要 接受看待事物的新方法，并且愿意适应一种不同的生活方式 ”，由此可知，答案为 D)(适应新环境的能力 )。 【知识模块】 听力 12 【听力原文】 W: Are you OK? You look really tired. M: I am. I cant seem to sleep at night. Ive been under a lot of pressure lately. W: Whats up? M: Ive got a million things to do. Im busy at work. Im working on the
36、 house too, you know. Im trying to fix it up. I need to finish it before winter. Just lots of deadlines. W: Any way I can help? M: Thanks, but not really. Its just things I have to do. W: Well, you need to manage that stress a little better. Are you getting any exercise? M: Who has time? W: You real
37、ly should ride a bicycle to the store, or walk to work a couple of days a week, or go swimming at the community centre. It helps me to get exercise when Im busy. M: That is a good suggestion. Its just the time, you know. Im always thinking of what I should be doing. W: No wonder you cant sleep. A lo
38、t of people learn to meditate or learn yoga. Meditation and yoga are supposed to be good ways to deal with stress. M: Yoga? Maybe Ill call the community centre. They might have some classes there. W: You know, another thing you can do is to take vitamins. You use up a lot of vitamins and you dont ge
39、t them in your meals all the time. They wont help the stress, but they might help your body handle it better. You really should take vitamins every day. M: Yeah, I should get some. Thanks. W: How about going out with Rosa and me this Friday? Itll do you good. M: You know, youre right about all of th
40、is. Lets go somewhere Friday night, have dinner, see a movie. Thatll be fun. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. Whats the mans problem? 13. What does the woman suggest the man do to deal with stress? 14. What does the woman say about vitamins? 15. What does the
41、 man suggest doing this Friday night? 12 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 选项中的 He， not promoted， full of stress和 lack of money表明，本题可能与 He遇到的问题有关。对话开头男士说他晚上睡不着觉，最近压力很大，由此可知，男士的问题就是压力大，故答案为 C)。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 选项均以原形动词开头以及其中的 Learn to meditate和 Go mountainclimbing表明，本题可能与缓解压力的建议有关。对话中女士提到冥想和瑜伽应该都是减压的好方法，由
42、此可知，她 建议男士学习冥想或是练习瑜伽，故答案为 A)。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 选项中的 They can， lessen the pressure和 enable the body to deal with stress表明，本题考查 They在缓解压力方面的效果。由 B)中的 get them from their meals可知， They应该是某种食品或营养物质。对话中女士提到 They wont help the stress， but they might help your body handle it better，由此可知，维他命能帮助身
43、体更好地对抗压力，故答案为 C)。 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 选项中的 Having dinner， Attending a concert和 Preparing a big meal表明，本题可能与计划或建议有关。由男士提到的 Lets go somewhere Friday night， have dinner,see a movie可知，男士建议周五晚上一起吃饭，并且去看场电影，故答案为 A)。 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 16 【听力原文】 Is your family interested in buying a dog? A dog ca
44、n be a happy addition to your family, but if you choose the wrong kind of dog, the consequences can cause you a lot of trouble. Families should sit down and thoroughly discuss the problems involved before buying a dog. Even if the children in your family are the ones who want the dogs, the parents a
45、re the ones who are really responsible for seeing that the animal is properly cared for. If you dont know much about dogs, its a good idea to go to the library or the ASPCA for books about various kinds of dogs, as well as books about how to train a puppy. When a book describes a dog as an ideal hun
46、ting dog, it probably means that the dog wont be happy living in a small apartment. Dog breeds vary in popularity as the years go by. One of the most popular dogs these days is the German shepherd. This is because it provides protection as well as companionship. The family should be warned that thes
47、e dogs grow up to be very big, and may be too powerful for children to handle. If space is limited, a toy dog may be a good choice. These dogs are very small and easy to train. They dont need to be walked daily, since they can exercise in the space available in the home. Questions 16 to 18 are based
48、 on the passage you have just heard. 16. What is the passage mainly about? 17. How does the speaker suggest people get information about dogs? 18. Why is the German shepherd a popular dog according to the passage? 16 【正确答案】 A 【试 题解析】 选项概括性强表明，本题可能考查短文的主题。短文一开始就提到，小狗可以给家庭带来快乐，但如果选择不慎的话，就会带来许多问题，接下来详细
49、说明了选择宠物狗应做的相关准备，结尾以牧羊犬为例指出如何根据家庭居住环境选择宠物狗，由此可知，短文主要讲述了如何选择宠物狗，故答案为A)。 【知识模块】 听力 17 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 选项均以 “By+现在分词 ”开头表明，本题考查救某事的方式。短文中提到 lts a good idea to go to the library or the ASPCA for books about various kinds of dogs(去图书馆或美国防止虐待动物协会找关于各种狗的书籍是个不错的主意 )，由此可知，说话者建议人们通过阅读书籍来获取关于狗的知识，故答案为D)。 【知识模块】 听力 18 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 选项中的 They， big and aggressively和 easy to train表明，本题与They的特点有关，听音时注意听明白 They指代什么。短文中提到，德国牧羊犬是现在最受欢迎的狗之一，这是因为他们 能起到陪伴和保护的作用 (This
