1、大学英语四级（听力）练习试卷 10及答案与解析 Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marke
2、d A, B, C and D. （ A） It will try its best to include Taiwan in the 2008 Olympic torch relay route, （ B） It refuses to include Taiwan in the 2008 Olympic torch relay route. （ C） It gives no comment on this affair. （ D） It will definitely include Taiwan in the 2008 Olympic torch relay route. （ A） Chi
3、nese government. （ B） The International Olympic Committee. （ C） The State General Administration of Sports. （ D） The National Peoples Congress. （ A） About 15,000. （ B） About 1,500. （ C） About 150,000. （ D） About 5,100. （ A） Sense of sight. （ B） Sense of hearing. （ C） Sense of smell. （ D） Sense of ta
4、ste. （ A） Sound travels five times faster through air than through water. （ B） Sound travels five times faster through water than through air. （ C） Sound travels three times faster through air than through water. （ D） Sound travels three times faster through water than through air. （ A） Through a wi
5、de variety of high-frequency sounds. （ B） Through a wide variety of low-frequency sounds. （ C） Through a narrow range of high-frequency sounds. （ D） Through a narrow range of low-frequency sounds. （ A） Through the sense of touch. （ B） Through the sense of smell. （ C） Through intense narrow-band puls
6、es of sound. （ D） Through intense broad-band pulses of sound. 大学英语四级（听力）练习试卷 10答案与解析 Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question
7、, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. 1 【听力原文】 A top sports official in Chinas mainland has said that the mainland will “try its best“ to include Taiwan in the torch relay route of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. “We are holding active consultations wit
8、h the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games about how to let the people in Taiwan share the Olympic glory,“ said Lin Peng, head of the State General Administration of Sports, on the sideline of the ongoing annual full session of the 10th National Peoples Congress. “As I know, many
9、people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan,“ Lin told the deputies representing Taiwan Province during a panel discussion. However, he said that the exact route of the 2008 Olympic torch relay is not finalized yet, and the f
10、inal plan still needs to be approved by the International Olympic Committee. “The 2008 Games is a grand event for people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. There are many other things we can do in terms of cross-Straits cooperation for the Games,“ said Liu. The Beijing Olympics torch relay is expe
11、cted to start in March 2008 and last until August 8, when the Games is scheduled to open in the Chinese capital. The relay will involve some 15,000 torch bearers. 1 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 4 【听力原文】 The vast oceans of the world are dark, deep and mysterious places
12、 where eyesight counts for little as soon as you venture very far beneath the surface. For humans, who live in a world dominated by visual stimuli, to exist in such conditions would be impossible. But for whales and dolphins that live in the ocean or, in the case of a few species, muddy rivers, the
13、darkness is unimportant. What is important to them is sound. Sound is an efficient way to transmit and sense information, especially as it travels five times faster through water than through air. If humans shout to someone, it is unlikely that they will be heard a kilometer away. But if a whale sho
14、uts in an ocean channel, another whale may hear it tens, if not hundreds, of kilometers away. Whales and dolphins use sound in two ways: for communication and for echolocation. Dolphins and toothed whales communicate through a wide variety of high-frequency sounds. But as well as using sounds to com
15、municate, toothed whales and dolphins also rely on echolocation to learn about their immediate environment, including prey that might be waiting nearby. They produce intense short broad-band pulses of sound in the ultrasonic range. These clicks are brief, typically less than one millisecond long but they are repeated many times each second. 4 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力
