1、大学英语四级（听力）练习试卷 17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） The beginning of the United States. （ B） The American Civil War. （ C） The 19th century. （ D） Its unclear. （ A） They appreciated it very much. （ B） They thought it would lay down a solid foundation for the new republic. （ C） They all hated it. （ D） Generally they were not satisf
3、ied with it. （ A） How did both the Constitution and democracy become so workable and sustainable? （ B） How did both the Constitution and republic become so workable and sustainable? （ C） How did the system of democracy become so workable and sustainable? （ D） Not given. （ A） Wide coverage of events.
4、 （ B） Quick speed of production. （ C） Immediacy of reporting. （ D） Focus on local events. （ A） Because people scan for the news they are interested in. （ B） Because different people prefer different newspapers. （ C） Because people are rarely interested in the same kind of news. （ D） Because people h
5、ave different views about what makes a good newspaper. （ A） Because it tries to serve different readers. （ B） Because it has to cover things that happen in a certain locality. （ C） Because readers are difficult to please. （ D） Because readers like to read different newspapers. （ A） Newspaper readers
6、 apply reading techniques skillfully. （ B） Newspaper readers jump from one newspaper to another. （ C） Newspaper readers appreciate the variety of a newspaper. （ D） Newspaper readers usually read a newspaper selectively. 大学英语四级（听力）练习试卷 17答案与解析 Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 sh
7、ort 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 marked A, B, C and D. 1 【听力原文】 Well, good morning. Last week we went through the begin
8、ning of the new republic. There are a number of myths we need to clear up. The first is that the legislators of the US Constitution saw the document as what it was. In fact, a lot of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention hated it. So many compromises had to be made in order to secure agreem
9、ent that many participants viewed it, as Alexander Hamilton put it, “a weak and worthless fabric“. Fifteen delegates refused to sign it, and even the Constitutions biggest supporters saw it as little more than a makeshift measure after a few years passed, the new delegates could meet at another conv
10、ention and try to pass something better. Another myth that has been propagated in history was that the Founding Fathers believed in democracy. The truth is the Founding Fathers, that is, the men who framed the Constitution, disagreed about many things, but on one point they were in complete agreemen
11、t: that democracy meant mass rule and if uncontrolled, it would pose a grave threat to life, liberty and property, and so on. There was nothing unusual in the Founding Fathers suspicion of democracy; it was conventional wisdom in the 18th century. Even well into the 19th century, in the United State
12、s as well as Western Europe, the word “democracy“ had a boring connotation, especially among conservatives. The question then becomes “how did both the Constitution and democracy become so workable and sustainable?“ And thats what well deal with in the next class. 1 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 D 【知识
13、模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 4 【听力原文】 A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business and fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features a
14、s well, from editorial pages to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to them, in and out, glancing at one piece, reading a
15、nother article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality, its immediate relation to wh
16、at is happening in your world and your locality now. But the immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: What each person does is to put t
17、ogether out of the pages of that days paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading. 4 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 C 【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
