1、大学英语四级（听力）练习试卷 45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） Their prices are higher. （ B） People cannot telephone them. （ C） Their staff may take less trouble to satisfy customers. （ D） One has to queue up to pay in them. （ A） Because women spend a lot of their time there just gossiping. （ B） Because town shops are larger and rather che
3、aper. （ C） Because people like to shop where they are less well-known. （ D） For people get personal service in his shop. （ A） They tend to forget it. （ B） They will not consider it. （ C） It does not seem worth their while. （ D） They take it for granted. （ A） To categorize the different kinds of shar
4、ks. （ B） To warn humans of the dangers posed by sharks. （ C） To describe the characteristics of shark teeth. （ D） To clear up misconceptions about sharks. （ A） All sharks have teeth. （ B） A shark can have six rows of teeth. （ C） A shark can have hundreds of teeth. （ D） All sharks have extremely shar
5、p teeth. （ A） A shark attacks a person for no reason. （ B） A shark attacks a person every time it sees one. （ C） A shark attacks a person only if it is bothered. （ D） A shark attacks a person only at night. （ A） Unbelievable. （ B） Quite reasonable. （ C） Silly. （ D） Unrelated to his bad driving. （ A）
6、 He drives too fast. （ B） There is poor light. （ C） He was careless. （ D） His car broke down. （ A） He drove with great care. （ B） He set an example to other drivers. （ C） He broke every rule there was. （ D） He obeyed most regulations. （ A） To confuse the evidence against him. （ B） To help the prosec
7、utor in court. （ C） To make the witnesses agree. （ D） To create a good impression in court. 大学英语四级（听力）练习试卷 45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 o
8、nce. 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】 Nowadays a superficial traveler in rural England might conclude that the only village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the inhabitants or selling antique
9、s to visitors. Nevertheless, this would really be a false impression. Admittedly there has been a contraction of village commerce, but its vigor is still remarkable. Our local grocers shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. 26 Women
10、 sensibly prefer to go there and exchange the local news while doing their shopping, instead of queuing up at a supermarket. 27 And the shopkeeper knows well that personal service has a substantial cash value. His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any
11、 time. 28 His assistants think nothing of bicycling down the village street in their lunch hour to take a piece of cheese to an old age pensioner(领养老金者 )who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing. The more wealthy customers telephone their shopping lists and the goo
12、ds are on their doorsteps within an hour. They have only to hint at a fancy for some commodity(商品 )outside the usual stock and the grocer, a red-faced figure, instantly obtains it for them. 1 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 4 【听力原文】 Most people picture sharks as huge, po
13、werful, frightening predators, ready at any moment to use their sharp teeth to attack unwary swimmers for no reason. 29 This idea of sharks, however, contains many misconceptions. First, there are about 350 species of shark, and not all of them are large. A second misconception concerns the number a
14、nd type of teeth, which can vary tremendously among the different species of shark. A shark can have from one to seven sets of teeth at the same time, and some types of sharks can have several hundred teeth in each jaw. It is true that the fierce and predatory species do possess extremely sharp and
15、brutal teeth used to rip their prey apart. 30 Many other types of sharks, however, have teeth more adapted for grabbing and holding than for cutting and slashing. Finally, not all sharks are predatory animals ready to strike at humans without warning. In fact, 31 only 12 of the 350 species of shark
16、have been known to attack humans, and a shark needs to be provoked in order to attack. The types of shark that have the worst record with humans are the tiger shark, the bull shark, and the great white shark. However, for most species of shark, even some of the largest types, there are no known inst
17、ances of attacks on humans. 4 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 7 【听力原文】 Alan Tong was the worst driver in town. He had an accident of some kind almost every week. Every day his mother worried that the police would turn up to arrest him. 32 This wasnt a foolish worry becau
18、se they usually called on the Tong household about once a week to deliver a speeding ticket or to serve him notice to appear in court. 33 Most of his accidents were caused by his carelessness. He drove through red lights. He turned right without signaling. 34 In short, there wasnt a traffic regulati
19、on Alan had not broken. But luckily, he had never hurt anyone or even gone to the hospital. Although Alan wasnt popular with the police, he was very popular with his lawyer, Mr. Tsui, who had earned a lot of money from Alans cases. One day Alan was working in the garage spray painting his ear when h
20、is mother walked in. “Why are you painting one side of the car red and the other side blue?“ “Because every time I have to go to court for a traffic offense, there are always two witnesses. What color was the car? the prosecutor always asks, and the two witnesses always give the same answer. 35 Well
21、, in the future, one witness will say it was red and the other will say it was blue. Mr. Tsui will then say to the judge, Your honor, the witnesses cannot even agree on the color of the ear involved in the accident. And the judge will have to dismiss the case against me. “ 7 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 9 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力
