1、大学英语四级（听力）练习试卷 29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 was located in New York city. （ B） It was one of Americas liberal arts universities for deaf people. （ C） It was the worlds only liberal arts university for deaf people. （ D） It enrolled students from all over the world. （ A） He thought that sign languages are substandard la
3、nguages. （ B） He thought that sign languages are natural languages. （ C） He thought that sign languages are artificial languages. （ D） He thought that sign languages are international languages. （ A） Consumers are adequately informed about the environmental impact of products they buy. （ B） Consumer
4、s are being confused and misled by the huge amount of environmental claims of household products. （ C） Consumers protest that many household products make false environmental claims. （ D） Governments should take measures to test the environmental claims made by products. （ A） His friend might have g
5、iven him the wrong key. （ B） He didnt know where the back door was. （ C） He couldnt find the key in the mailbox. （ D） It was too dark to put the key in the lock. （ A） He broke the front door. （ B） He tried to get into the house through a window. （ C） He found a neighbor of his friend to help him. （
6、D） He found a police to help him. （ A） He looked silly with only one leg inside the window. （ B） He knew the policeman wouldnt believe him. （ C） The torch light made him look very foolish. （ D） He realized that he had made a mistake. （ A） Sign languages. （ B） Natural languages. （ C） Artificial langu
7、ages. （ D） Genuine languages. 大学英语四级（听力）练习试卷 29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 answe
8、r from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. 1 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 3 【听力原文】 Consumers are being confused and misled by the huge amount of environmental claims made by household products, according to a “green labeling“ study published by Consumers International on Friday. The st
9、udy was written and researched by Britains National Consumer Council (NCC) for lobby group Consumers International. It was funded by the German and Dutch governments and the European Commission. “While many good and useful claims are being made, it is clear there is a long way to go in ensuring shop
10、pers are adequately informed about the environmental impact of products they buy,“ said Consumers International director Anna Fielder. The 10-country study surveyed product packaging in Britain, Western Europe, Scandinavia and the United States. It found that products sold in Germany and the United
11、Kingdom made the most environmental claims on average. The report focused on claims made by specific products, such as detergents, insect sprays and some garden products. It did not test the claims, but compared them to labeling guidelines set by the International Standards Organization (ISO) in Sep
12、tember 1999. The ISO labeling standards ban vague or misleading claims on product packaging, because terms such as “environmentally friendly“ and “non-polluting“ cannot be verified. 3 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 4 【听力原文】 My friend, Vernon Davies, kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away fo
13、r a week. He asked me to feed the birds for him and said that he would leave the key to his front door in my mailbox. Unfortunately, I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse, it was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found the key V
14、ernon gave me could not unlock either the front or the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of what Vernon would say when he came back. I was just going to give up when I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed it under the window. As the barrel
15、was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb up and open the window. I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone was shining a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernons neighbors. “What are you d
16、oing up there?“ said the policeman. Feeling like a complete fool, I replied, “I was just going to feed Mr. Daviess birds.“ 4 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 7 【听力原文】 Sign language has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language
17、study realized that sign languages are unique-a speech of the hands. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: Whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a l
18、earned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the worlds only liberal arts university for deaf people. When Bill Stoke went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course i
19、n signing. He had been taught a sort of gesture code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English, At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English. But Stoke believed the “hand talk“ his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might d
20、eaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on earth? Stoke devoted his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture. For decades educators fought his idea that sign languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. 7 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力
