1、大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 32及答案与解析 Section A （ A） At a theatre. （ B） At a booking office. （ C） At a railway station. （ D） At a restaurant. （ A） The man is inviting the woman to dinner. （ B） The woman is too busy to join the man for dinner. （ C） The woman is a friend of the Stevensons. （ D） The man is going
2、 to visit the Stevensons. （ A） The professors presentation was not convincing enough. （ B） The professors lecture notes were too complicated. （ C） The professor spoke with a strong accent. （ D） The professor spoke too fast. （ A） The furnished apartment was inexpensive. （ B） The apartment was provide
3、d with some old furniture. （ C） The furniture in the market was on sale every Sunday. （ D） The furniture he bought was very cheap. （ A） The man is thinking about taking a new job. （ B） The man likes a job that enables him to travel. （ C） The man is sure that he will gain more by taking the job. （ D）
4、 The man doesnt want to stay home and take care of their child. （ A） Hed better submit his resume at once. （ B） Not all applicants will be interviewed. （ C） She does need his help for the moment. （ D） There might not be any interview at all. （ A） The man will go in for business right after high scho
5、ol. （ B） The woman is not happy with the mans decision. （ C） The man wants to be a business manager. （ D） The woman is working in a kindergarten. （ A） Join her in hiking. （ B） Be more flexible. （ C） Lend her his gym shoes. （ D） Take more exercise. （ A） How to spend Thanksgiving Day. （ B） Preparing f
6、ood on Thanksgiving Day. （ C） The origin of Thanksgiving Day. （ D） What to do after Thanksgiving meal. （ A） It has something to do with the English customers. （ B） Its traditional foods include roast potatoes and ducks. （ C） It does not fall on a fixed date every year. （ D） It makes people exhausted
7、 and costs a lot. （ A） He plays football. （ B） He watches TV. （ C） He goes hunting. （ D） He does some exercise. （ A） Hed like to stay with his family. （ B） Hed like to help his wife do the washing-up. （ C） Hed like to go bowling. （ D） Hed like to deal with the leftovers. （ A） To go to the airport. （
8、 B） To work with Jane Smith. （ C） To offer some information. （ D） To meet Jane Smith. （ A） She is a quite young lady. （ B） She is middle-aged. （ C） She is 40 years old. （ D） She is of the retirement age. （ A） Shed like to meet Jane Smith. （ B） She is usually smartly dressed. （ C） She is taller than
9、Jane Smith. （ D） She once was Jane Smiths colleague. Section B （ A） To protect persons and property. （ B） To collect taxes. （ C） To teach and train citizens. （ D） To save natural resources for future use. （ A） By selling services that make life comfortable. （ B） By selling land containing oil. （ C）
10、By selling public lands. （ D） By selling coal and other natural products. （ A） Environmental pollution and protection. （ B） Taxes and services for the public. （ C） Police efforts to protect people. （ D） Peoples attitude toward taxes. （ A） He didnt like physics any more. （ B） His eyesight was too poo
11、r. （ C） Physics was too hard for him. （ D） He had to work to support himself. （ A） He was not happy with the new director. （ B） He was not qualified to be an engineer. （ C） He wanted to travel. （ D） He found his job boring. （ A） He wanted to work with his friend. （ B） He enjoyed traveling around the
12、 world. （ C） He wanted to go to Spain. （ D） He was rejected by the engineering firm. （ A） He enjoyed teaching English. （ B） He wanted to earn more to support his family. （ C） The owner of the school promised him a good position. （ D） He could earn more as a teacher than as a travel agent. （ A） It ca
13、n he cooked in many ways. （ B） It is delicious but inexpensive. （ C） It gives higher yields than other grain crops. （ D） It grows easily in various conditions. （ A） Fried potatoes. （ B） Tomato juice. （ C） Sweet corn. （ D） Chocolate beans. （ A） They led to the discovery of America. （ B） They made nat
14、ive American foods popular. （ C） They brought great wealth to Spain. （ D） They made native American life styles well-known. Section C 25 Gates was born and【 B1】 _in Seattle. At, the age of 14, he founded a computer programming company with three friends, and they had【 B2】 _$20,000 by selling their t
15、raffic-counting system to local governments. In 1975, he【 B3】 _of his law course at Harvard to found the Microsoft Software Company in Washington. Gates【 B4】 _of the【 B5】 _computer industry began in 1980-1981, when he【 B6】 _an operating system and licensed it to IBM. MS-DOS became the【 B7】_operating
16、 system for nearly all IBM 【 B8】 _computers. During the 1980s, Microsoft also developed more specialized software. When the company went public in 1986, Gates became a multimillionaire at the age of 31. Five years later, he was ranked as the worlds richest man. In the 1990s, Gates made a fresh【 B9】
17、_from sales of Windows, a system that enables a computer to be operated with on-screensymbols【 B10】 _complex keyboard commands. A revised version was launched amid huge publicity in 1995. 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 32
18、答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 W: George, look at the long waiting line. Im glad you have made a reservation. M: More and more people enjoy eating out now. Besides, this place is especially popular with overseas students. Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place? 1 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 2 【听力
19、 原文】 M: I wonder if you can drop by tomorrow evening. The Stevensons are coming over for dinner. Id like you to meet them. W: Sure, Id love to. Ive heard they are very interesting people. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? 2 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块 】 听力 3 【听力原文】 W: The presentation made by Professor
20、Jackson was too complicated to understand. M: Well, I think he didnt speak slowly enough for us to take notes. Q: What is the mans complaint? 3 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 4 【听力原文】 W: Youve got your apartment furnished, havent you? M: Yes. I bought some used furniture at the Sunday market, and it was a real
21、bargain. Q: What does the man mean? 4 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 M: Mary doesnt want me to take the job. She says our child is too young and the job requires much traveling. W: You should talk to her again and see if you could find a way out. Think about the gains and losses before you make a decis
22、ion. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? 5 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 6 【听力原文】 M: Hello. Im calling about your help-wanted ad in the newspaper. May I submit my resume when I come for an interview? W: You have to send your resume first. Only after screening them will we conduct personal interviews. Q:
23、 What does the woman imply? 6 【正确 答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 7 【听力原文】 M: After high school, Id like to go to college and major in business administration. I really like power and enjoy telling people what to do. W: You are very ambitious. But Id rather spend my college days finding out what children are intere
24、sted in. Childs psychology is for me. Q: What do we learn from the conversation? 7 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 8 【听力原文】 M: Do you think I should join the group of hikers, Mary? W: Why not? If I were in your shoes, I certainly would. As the saying goes, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Q: What does
25、 the woman suggest the man do? 8 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 9 【听力原文】 M: Come in and have a seat please, Ann. Please make yourself at home. W: I am really grateful for your invitation. I know Thanksgiving is a very traditional family holiday and I am so glad to be with an American family on this occasion. M:
26、 10 On the fourth Thursday of November every year, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. You know its origin? W: Yeah, 10 it has something to do with the first settlers and Indians. M: Right. The first settlers in Massachusetts started this custom. And large dinners with many relatives are common th
27、roughout America on this special day. W: Do you have traditional dishes that you serve every year? M: Yes, we do. 10 The traditional foods of Thanksgiving meal include roast turkey, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and bread pudding. I hope you have good appetite today. W: What do men do while women are
28、doing the cooking? M: 11 Its the same every year football. We watch one game after another on Thanksgiving. I always think wed better go out and get some exercise, but every year we fail. 11 We are glued to the tube! When I was young, I always went hunting with my father on Thanksgiving Day morning.
29、 W: What do you do after the meal? M: 12 After dinner wed like to go bowling. Its a fun thing to do together as a family. After a couple of games, we go back home and eat the leftovers. W: I think that Thanksgiving and Christmas are the most important holidays in the States, just like Spring Festiva
30、l in China. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. What are the two speakers mainly talking about? 10. What is true about Thanksgiving Day? 11. What does the man do when his wife is cooking? 12. What would the man like to do after meal? 9 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】
31、 C 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 13 【听 力原文】 M: Hello, Mary, youre just the person Im looking for! W: Oh good! What can I do for you? M: Have you got a minute? W: Yeah, of course. M: Well, its about Jane Smith, you know. She is coming here soon. You know her, dont you? W: Mm,
32、actually I do. 15 She and I worked together for quite some time. Why do you ask? M: Well, she is coming today and weve got to go to the airport to meet her. But, you know, she is just a stranger to me. So I wondered if you could. W: 13 Oh I see! You hope I can tell you what she looks like? M: Yes! W
33、: 14 Well, she is in her 40s but she doesnt really look middle-aged. And shes usually smartly dressed with brown short hair. Actually, she is good-looking. M: Uh huh. Eh, how tall is she? W: 15 Mm, a bit taller than me but. average height, Id say. By the way, she wears glasses. M: Oh I see. Im sure
34、I could find her at the airport, because I have a much clearer idea about her now. Thank you for your help. W: Dont mention it. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 13. What does the man hope the woman to do? 14. How old is Jane Smith? 15. What do we know about the w
35、oman according to the conversation? 13 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 16 【听力原文】 18 We use all sorts of services without thinking about how we get them. But such services cost money. We pay for them through taxes. What would happen if everyone in the city sto
36、pped paying taxes? The water supply would stop, the street might not get cleaned, and there would be no police force to protect people and property. 16 The chief duty of every government is to protect persons and property. More than three fourths of the money spent by our government is used for this
37、 purpose. The next largest amount of public money goes to teach and train our citizens. Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries. Public money is used to pay the teachers and other public officials. 17 Years ago the government made money from the sale of public lands. But mos
38、t of the best public lands have now been sold. The money raised was used to help pay the cost of government. There are still some public lands that contain oil, coal, gas and other natural products. They could be sold, but we want to save them for future years. So we all must pay our share for the s
39、ervices that make our lives comfortable. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. What is the chief duty of every government? 17. How did the government raise money in the past? 18. What is the passage mainly about? 16 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 17 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 18 【正确答案】 B
40、【知识模块】 听力 19 【听力原文】 When I was at school, my ambition was to be a pilot in the Air Force. But my eyesight wasnt good enough. So I had to give up that idea. I went to university and studied physics. I wanted to stay on there and do research. 19 But my father died at about that time. So I thought Id b
41、etter get a job and earn my living. I started working in an engineering firm. I expected to stay in that job for a long time. 20 But then, they appointed a new managing director. I didnt get on with him, so I resigned and applied for a job with another engineering company. I would certainly have acc
42、epted the job if they had offered it to me. But on my way to the interview, 21 I met a friend who was working for a travel agency. He offered me a job in Spain. And I had always liked Spain, so I took it. I worked in the travel agency for two years and then they wanted to send me to South America. B
43、ut I had just got married. So I decided to stay here. 22 Then we had a baby and I wasnt earning enough to support the family. So I started giving English lessons at a school in the evening. I liked English teaching more than working for the travel agency, and then the owner of the school offered me
44、a full-time job as a teacher. So I resigned from the agency. Two years later, the owner of the school wanted to retire, so he asked me to take over as the director. And here I am. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. Why did the man give up studying physics? 20. Why d
45、id the man resign from the engineering firm? 21. Why did the man take the job at the travel agency? 22. Why did the man start to teach English part-time? 19 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 20 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 21 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 22 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 23 【听力原文】 Columbus sailed from Spain in September 1492, lo
46、oking for gold. Native Americans greeted him, offering gifts of corn. Columbus found little gold on that trip, but he collected many plants, including corn, to bring back to Spain. Columbus didnt know it, but the corn was much more valuable than gold. Farmers from Europe to Asia accepted it immediat
47、ely. 23 They grew it on cold mountainsides and in tropical forests. Today it feeds millions of people all over the world. 24 On his second trip, Columbus brought back a bag of chocolate beans to make chocolate. Europeans and Asians love this new drink, and soon they were paying a great deal of money
48、 for the beans. Chocolate beans became so valuable in Central America that they were used as cash for 200 years. Tomatoes and potatoes took some time to become popular. Eventually, however, they became the basis of a lot of popular food. It is hard to imagine life without fried potatoes and chocolat
49、e. 25 Thanks to native American cultures, many people are able to enjoy lots of tasty food. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. Why is corn feeding millions of people today? 24. What did Columbus bring back on his second trip? 25. What was the result of Columbus two trips to America? 23 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 24 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 25 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 【 知识模块】 听力 26 【正确答案】 brought up 【知识模块】 听力 27 【正确答案】 earned 【知识模块】 听力 28 【正
