1、大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 22及答案与解析 Section A （ A） The woman has exaggerated the situation. （ B） The woman should protest against heavy assignment. （ C） The history teacher really gives a difficult assignment. （ D） The woman should cancel the camping trip this weekend. （ A） He didnt think the course was use
2、ful. （ B） He thought the course was wonderful. （ C） He wanted to take more optional courses. （ D） He couldnt understand the professors lecture. （ A） The football match will be wonderful. （ B） Most people think the match will be exciting. （ C） He does not share Edisons opinion. （ D） He really agrees
3、with Edison. （ A） He is working hard now to earn money. （ B） He is going to drop out of school forever. （ C） He is Janes best friend and tells her everything. （ D） He doesnt have enough money to stay at school. （ A） Make a selection. （ B） Get the prices. （ C） Have a rest. （ D） Have lunch. （ A） She m
4、isses school quite often. （ B） She hates coming to school. （ C） She is a good student. （ D） She wasnt really sick. （ A） Get some food and eat at the park. （ B） Stop drinking and go to the park. （ C） Stay at home and enjoy the food. （ D） Go to the cafe for some drinks. （ A） Have a look at the menu. （
5、 B） Read the instructions. （ C） Tell the woman a story. （ D） Give the woman a lesson. （ A） The story of a Chicago retailer. （ B） The development of the catalogue sales business. （ C） The relationship among farmers, Ward and Sears. （ D） The relationship between the catalogue and textbooks. （ A） He wa
6、nted to beat Ward. （ B） He wanted to help his brother Ward. （ C） He enjoyed competition in this business. （ D） He thought this business was profitable. （ A） Farmers. （ B） Business people. （ C） City people. （ D） Students. （ A） Schools were short of textbooks at that time. （ B） Students might order th
7、ings from the catalogues. （ C） They helped students with spelling and adding. （ D） They helped students become familiar with a variety of goods. （ A） To have her teeth filled. （ B） To have her teeth pulled. （ C） To have her teeth cleaned. （ D） To have her teeth examined. （ A） Have ones heart transpl
8、anted. （ B） Put men onto the moon again. （ C） Advance the tooth-filling technique. （ D） Have ones teeth transplanted. （ A） Tooth transplants are expensive. （ B） Dentists are working on tooth transplant. （ C） Tooth transplants have been successful. （ D） Tooth transplants have failed. Section B （ A） I
9、t is impossible to prevent children from being injured. （ B） Too many methods have been taken to protect children. （ C） More children died from injuries in developing countries. （ D） Nobody knows that accidents dont have to happen. （ A） Leaving the wells open. （ B） Forbidding drunken people to drive
10、. （ C） Having a guard at the window. （ D） Making children learn about poisons. （ A） Children aged below 5. （ B） Children aged from 5 to 14. （ C） Children aged from 15 to 19. （ D） Children aged over 19. （ A） They often take place in the major industries. （ B） British trade unions are more powerful. （
11、 C） There are more trade union members in Britain. （ D） Britain has fewer working days through strikes every 3 years. （ A） They are against the British law. （ B） They are unpredictable. （ C） They involve workers from different trades. （ D） They occur frequently these days. （ A） Trade unions in Brita
12、in are becoming more popular. （ B） Most strikes in Britain are against the British law. （ C） Unofficial strikes in Britain are easier to deal with now. （ D） Employer-worker relations in Britain have become tenser. （ A） Willpower and hardship. （ B） Pleasure, joy and hardship. （ C） Freedom, joy and pl
13、easure. （ D） Joy, freedom and willpower. （ A） Eating more. （ B） Taking exercises. （ C） Avoiding stressful stuff. （ D） Being loved. （ A） Your blood will flow slowly. （ B） You will wrinkle less and look younger. （ C） You will be able to walk hours every day. （ D） You will have more willpower to quit s
14、moking. （ A） Smokers are more mature than those who dont smoke. （ B） Sometimes people wont feel the stress even when they are stressed. （ C） When we exercise and eat right, only our brain and face are benefited. （ D） Our diet, lifestyle and perception of stress have great impact on ourselves. Sectio
15、n C 25 The appeal of advertising to buying motives can have both negative and positive effects. Consumers may be 【 B1】 _to buy a product of poor quality or high price because of an advertisement. For example, some advertisers have 【 B2】 _peoples desire for better fuel economy for their cars by adver
16、tising automotive products that【 B3】 _gasoline mileage(里程 ). Some of the products work. Others are worthless and a waste of consumers money. Sometimes advertising is intentionally 【 B4】 _. A few years ago a brand of bread was offered to dieters with the 【 B5】 _that there were fewer calories in every
17、 slice. It 【 B6】 _ that the bread was not dietetic, but just regular bread. There were fewer calories because it was sliced very thin, but there were the same number of calories in every loaf. On the positive side, emotional appeals may respond to a consumers real 【 B7】_. Consider fire insurance. Fi
18、re insurance may be sold by appealing to fear of loss. But fear of loss is the real reason for fire insurance. The security of knowing that property is protected by insurance makes the purchase of fire insurance a 【 B8】_investment for most people. If consumers consider the quality of the insurance p
19、lans and the message in the ads, they will 【 B9】 _the advertising. Each consumer must evaluate her or his own situation. Are the benefits of the product important enough to justify buying it? Advertising is 【 B10】 _to appeal to consumers, but it does not force them to buy the product. Consumers stil
20、l control the final buying decision. 26 【 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 22答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 W: How can our history teacher give us such a difficult assignment and only allow us a weekend to finish it? My plan to go cam
21、ping on this weekend is totally ruined. M: Monica, dont be such a drama queen. Im sure you can finish the project well and enjoy your weekend at the same time. Q: What does the man mean? 1 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 由男士提到的 dont be such a drama queen(别这么小题大做的 )表明，男士觉得女士夸大了事实，故答案为 A)。 drama queen意为 “小题大做、大惊小怪的人
22、”。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【听力原文】 W: I heard that you had taken an optional course last semester. Hows it going? M: Terrific! The professor really made me love biology. Q: What did the man imply? 2 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 女士问男士他选的选修课怎么样，男士回答 Terrific!(太棒了 )，由此可推测出，男士认为选修课很好，故答案为 B)。留意男士说话的语气。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【听力原文】 W: Edis
23、on seems to believe that this years football league match will be wonderful. M: Nonsense. Most others, including me, think differently. Q: What does the man mean? 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 由男士提到的 nonsense(胡说八道 )表达反对的意思以及 most others， including me， think differently可知，他与 Edison的观点不同，故答案为C)。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【听力原
24、文】 M: Jane, is Jack really calling it quits? W: I dont think so. What I hear is that he is going to be working for the next semester so that he can save enough money to come back the next year. Q: What can we learn about Jack? 4 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 对话中女 士提到，她听说杰克下学期将要去工作，这样就能攒够钱明年再回来上学。由此可知，杰克因为没有足够的钱而不
25、能留在学校，故答案为D)。 call it quits意为 “停止 ”。 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 M: Do you have time to stop for lunch? W: Yes, Im hungry. This snack bar has a good selection and the prices are moderate. Q: What are the two speakers going to do? 5 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 男士问有没有时间停下来吃午饭，女士回答 yes，然后提到 Im hungry，由此可知，他们将会去吃午饭，故答案为 D)。
26、 【知识模块】 听力 6 【听力原文】 W: Jennifer is taking a sick leave today. Would you please stop by her house and tell her the assignment for today? M: No problem. Ill bet she hates missing a day. She always likes school so much. Q: What does the man think of Jennifer? 6 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 由男士提到的 Ill bet she hates
27、missing a day She always likes school so much(我打赌她讨厌缺一天的课。她总是那么喜欢学校 )可知，男士认为珍妮弗是一个好学生，故答案为 C)。 stop by意为 “顺便拜访 ”。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【听力原文】 M: Its such a beautiful day! Lets go out and have a walk in the park. W: Its a good idea. Lets go to the convenience store and get some drinks and snacks first. Q: Wha
28、t will the man and the woman do? 7 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 由男士提到的 have a walk in the park和女士提到的 get some drinks and snacks first可知，他们将会去买一些食物到公园吃，故答案为 A)。 【知识模块】 听力 8 【听力原文】 W: Ive been studying the manual for about an hour but I cant make head or tail of it. M: Let me have a look. Two heads are better than
29、 one. Q: What will the man do? 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 由男士提到的 let me have a look可知，男士将要阅读指南 (the manual)，故答案为 B)。 makehead or tail of sth意为 “理解桌事物 ”。 two heads are better than one意为 “三个臭皮匠胜过一个诸葛亮 ”。 【知识模块】 听力 9 【听力原文】 W: What are you doing? M: Im ordering some filing cabinets out of a catalogue. W: What d
30、o you need them for? M: Theres so much stuff piling up in my dormitory room. If I dont do something soon, I wont be able to move in there. W: Do you usually order from a catalogue? M: Sometimes. Why? W: Oh, its just in the history class today we were talking about how the catalogue sales business fi
31、rst got started in the US. A Chicago retailer, Montgomery Ward started it in the late 1800s. It was really popular among farmers. It was difficult for them to make it to the big city stores so they ordered from catalogues. M: Was Ward the only one in the business? W: At first, but another person nam
32、ed Richard Sears started his own catalogue after he heard how much money Ward was making. M: What made them so popular? W: Farmers trusted Ward and Sears for one thing. They delivered the products the farmers paid for and even refunded the price of things the farmers werent satisfied with. The catal
33、ogues became so popular that in some countries school teachers even used them as textbooks. M: Textbooks? W: Yeah, students practice spelling the names and adding up the prices of things in the catalogues. M: Was everybody that thrilled about it? W: Thats doubtful. Say they drove some small store ow
34、ners out of business. Sears and Ward sold stuff in such large quantities. They were able to undercut the prices at some small family-owned stores. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. What are the two speakers mainly talking about? 10. Why did Richard Sears start h
35、is own business in catalogue? 11. Who were the main customers of Sears and Wards business? 12. Why were the catalogues used as textbooks? 9 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 选项均为名词词组且概括性很强，这表明本题考查对话的主题。对话开头引出对话的话题： orderingout of a catalogue( 从目 录上订购 ) 。下面的对话对目录订购做了进一步的讨论，引出目录销售行业的刨始人及其发展和影响。 B)的概括性最强，且切中对话主题，故为答案。 【
36、知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 选项中的 he wanted to beat Ward help his brother和 enjoyed competition表明，本题可能考查 he做某事的原因。由女士提到的 Richard Sears started his own catalogue after he heard how much money Ward wasmaking可知，西尔斯看到沃德挣钱之后才开始开创自己的目录。 D)中 profitable是对 make money的同义转述，故答案为 D)。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】
37、选项表明，本题与某一行业的人群有关。由女士提到的 it was really popular among farmers可知，农民很喜欢这样的交易方式，故答案为 A). 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 选项 C)和 D)中的 they helped students表明，本题可能考查 they对学生们的帮助，由 B)猜测 they可能是指目录。由女士提到的 students practice spellingand addingin the catalogues 可知，学生们利用目录来练习拼写和加法， C)的表述与此一致，故为答案。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【听力原
38、文】 M: Mary. I heard that you are suffering from toothache these days. Hows that with you now? W: Its gone, thanks. I went to the dentist last night, and he took care of me. M: What exactly is troubling you then? W: The last tooth on the upper right-hand side. Its been severely decayed and finally I
39、had it filled at the dentists. M: I hate having my teeth filled. Its not just the pain I hate. I also hate the sound of drilling. W: So do I. Id rather have a tooth pulled than filled. M: Have you ever had one of your teeth pulled? W: No, but the one the dentist just filled will have to come out som
40、eday. He says it cant be filled again. M: Teeth keep causing trouble, and nobody really does anything about it. I cant understand why. W: They can put men onto the moon, but they cant keep people from having trouble with teeth. M: They can give somebody a different heart. Why cant they give him diff
41、erent teeth? W: Ive heard theyre working on that. My dentist says theyre working on tooth transplant right now. M: But on second thought, Im not sure Id want to eat with some other persons teeth. W: Well, thats not how it works. The idea is to develop a plastic tooth that can be placed into the hole
42、 where your own tooth came out. M: Really? It sounds like a good idea. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 13. Why did the woman go to the dentist? 14. What does the man hope the dentists can do? 15. What does the womans dentist tell her? 13 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 选项均以不定式开
43、头以及选项中的 have her teeth filled pulledcleaned表明 ，本题可能考查女士去看牙医的原因或目的。对话中女士提到 and finally I had it filled at the dentists，其中的 it指牙齿，由此可知，女士去牙医那里是为了补牙，故答案为 A)。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 选项均以原形动词开头表明，本题可能考查行为或建议。由男士提到的 They can give somebodya different heart Why cant they give him different teeth?可知，男士
44、通过类比说明他希望医生能够像移植心脏一样可以移植牙齿， D)的表述与此一致，故为答案。 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 B)、 C)、 D)均与牙移植技术的现状有关， A)讲的是手术的成本，与其他三项明显不同，根据命题规律，可首先排除。由女士提到的 my dentist says theyre working on tooth transplant right now可知，如今牙医们正致力于牙齿移植技术的研究，故答案为 B)。 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 16 【听力原文】 Preventing childhood injuries would seem
45、a tough task. But theres a long list of proper ways to make the world safer for children. The World Health Organisation wants its 193 member nations and especially those in the developing world, where most deaths from injury occur to know that accidents dont have to happen. Many prevention strategie
46、s applied by rich societies are only now being adopted in the developing world. They include strict drunken-driving laws; requirements that wells be covered; installing window guards in upper-story apartments; and establishing poison-control centres and burn units. Traffic injuries are perhaps the m
47、ost dramatic example of how much could be gained if prevention measures could be carried out more broadly. Traffic injuries are the leading cause of death worldwide for 15- to 19-year-olds and the second leading cause for children 5 to 14. But the use of seat belts, child seats and helmets is still
48、not required in many countries. For society, the payoff of prevention efforts is huge. For every $1 invested in bike helmets and child seats, for example, $29 is saved in health care, disability and lost income costs. But for individuals, prevention is often economically burdensome. Parents have to
49、work longer and harder if they want to improve their childrens safety condition. At the same time, some countries have risks not widely shared by others. Death rates from burns are 11 times as high in developing countries as in industrialised ones. European and American boys and girls have virtually equal rates of death from fire. In South Asia and Southeast Asia, however, girls mortality is three times that of boys because girls assist in family cooking at a
