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2010年12月大学英语四级试题听力原文和答案

2010年12月大学英语四级试题听力原文和答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled How Should Parents Help Children to Be Independent? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 目前不少父母为孩子包办一切2. 为了让孩子独立, 父母应该……How Should Parents Help Children to Be Independent?...Part II Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.A Grassroots RemedyMost of us spend our lives seeking the natural world. To this end, we walk the dog, play golf, go fishing, sit in the garden, drink outside rather than inside the pub, have a picnic, live in the suburbs, go to the seaside, buy a weekend place in the country. The most popular leisure activity in Britain is going for a walk. And when joggers (慢跑者) jog, they don’t run the streets. Every one of them instinctively heads to the park or the river. It is my profound belief that not only do we all need nature, but we all seek nature, whether we know we are doing so or not.But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived (丧失). I spent my boyhood climbing trees on Streatham Common, South London. These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and odd new perceptions about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found.The truth is to be found elsewhere. A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (多动症). Those whose accommodation had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%.A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten children who could play in a natural environment had less illness and greater physical ability than children used only to a normal playground.A US study suggested that when a school gave children access to a natural environment, academic levels were raised across the entire school.Another study found that children play differently in a natural environment. In playgrounds, children create a hierarchy (等级) based on physical abilities, with the tough ones taking the lead. But when a grassy area was planted with bushes, the children got much more into fantasy play, and the social hierarchy was now based on imagination and creativity.Most bullying (恃强凌弱) is found in schools where there is a tarmac (柏油碎石) playground; the least bullying is in a natural area that the children are encouraged to explore. This reminds me unpleasantly of Sunnyhill School in Streatham, with its harsh tarmac, where I used to hang about in corners fantasising aboutwildlife.But children are frequently discouraged from involvement with natural spaces, for health and safety reasons, for fear that they might get dirty or that they might cause damage. So, instead, the damage is done to the children themselves: not to their bodies but to their souls.One of the great problems of modern childhood is ADHD, now increasingly and expensively treated with drugs. Yet one study after another indicates that contact with nature gives huge benefits to ADHD children. However, we spend money on drugs rather than on green places.The life of old people is measurably better when they have access to nature. The increasing emphasis for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years. And study after study finds that a garden is the single most important thing in finding that quality.In wider and more difficult areas of life, there is evidence to indicate that natural surroundings improve all kinds of things. Even problems with crime and aggressive behaviour are reduced when there is contact with the natural world.Dr William Bird, researcher from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, states in his study, “A natural environment can reduce violent behaviour because its restorative process helps reduce anger and impulsive behaviour.”Wild places need encouraging for this reason, no matter how small their contribution.We tend to look on nature conservation as some kind of favour that human beings are granting to the natural world. The error here is far too deep: not only do humans need nature for themselves, but the very idea that humanity and the naturalworld are separable things is profoundly damaging.Human beings are a species of mammals (哺乳动物). For seven million years they lived on the planet as part of nature. Our ancestral selves miss the natural world and long for contact with non-human life. Anyone who has patted a dog, stroked a cat, sat under a tree with a pint of beer, given or received a bunch of flowers or chosen to walk through the park on a nice day, understands that.We need the wild world. It is essential to our well-being, our health, our happiness. Without the wild world we are not more but less civilised. Without other living things around us we are less than human.Five ways to find harmony with the natural worldWalk: Break the rhythm of permanently being under a roof. Get off a stop earlier, make a circuit of the park at lunchtime, walk the child to and from school, get a dog, feel yourself moving in moving air, look, listen, absorb.Sit: Take a moment, every now and then, to be still in an open space. In the garden, anywhere that’s not in the office, anywhere out of the house, away from the routine. Sit under a tree, look at water, feel refreshed, ever so slightly renewed.Drink: The best way to enjoy the natural world is by yourself; the second best way is in company. Take a drink outside with a good person, a good gathering: talk with the sun and the wind with birdsong for background.Learn: Expand your boundaries. Learn five species of bird, five butterflies, five trees, five bird songs. That way, you see and hear more: and your mind responds gratefully to the greater amount of wildness in your life.Travel: The places you always wanted to visit: by the seaside,in the country, in the hills. Take a weekend break, a day-trip, get out there and do it: for the scenery, for the way through the woods, for the birds, for the bees. Go somewhere special and bring specialness home. It lasts forever, after all.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

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are exhausting the energy resources on earth. At the same time, we emit the greenhouse gases in our
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only cause serious air pollution but also waste energy. Citizens should be encouraged to take public
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新东方四级模拟题作文范文听力原文及答案

新东方大学英语四级考试模拟题作文范文、听力原文及答案作文范文As the picture depicts, a young man is busy dealing with a variety of social media, such as Facebook, Blogger, YouTube and Twitter. It seems that the young man is under great pressure and almost loses his balance of life.Nowadays, many young men like him are addicted to updating their social media content day and night. Several factors lead up to this problem. Firstly, young men like the new ways of interacting with their friends, which provide them with the firsthand information. Secondly, it is a fashion for young people to use social media to reach out to their friends. Thirdly, the high-tech gadgets such as mobile phones and tablet computers also facilitate the wide use of social media among young men.As far as I’m concerned, it is advisable for young people to use social media in a sensible way. They should be encouraged to make more contact with their friends in real life circumstances. Besides, they should pay enough attention to the time they have wasted on social media.听力文本Section A1. M: Mother’s Day is coming and I’m thinking of a gift for my mom. Any idea? Don’t say flowers like carnation.W: Yes, you’re right, flowers are fancy but impractical. So, if I were you, I would go straight to ask her for her wish. And Tip Two, mind your budget.Q: What does the woman want the man to do?2. M: What would you like for supper? I think I’ll have soup and some vegetables. I’m on a diet.W: How pathetic you are! I don’t care much about my weight. I just eat whatever I like at the moment.Q: What will the woman most probably do?3. M: The driver must have been drunk driving. See, damaging his car and being questioned by the police.W: Not really. Seems his car was destroyed by the car right behind. He’s beyond punishment.Q: What do we learn about the driver?4. W: It really drives me crazy. I lost my mobile phone. I must have left it behind in the supermarket when I was selecting some snacks this afternoon.M: Don’t worry. But, why not phone the manager of the supermarket right away? Let’s find the number on their website.Q: What do we learn about the woman from the conversation?5. M: How about going to dinner tonight with me, Jane? Then we can discuss the annual plan for English Corner together.W: OK, I’d love to. It’s time we formulate our plan. And I’ve already done with my assignments today.Q: Why did Jane agree to accept the invitation?6. W: We have to admit that it is quite hard to get funds and hands to sponsor the sports meeting this year.M: No worries. Our students will help out. And it won’t cost much if we get fewer games. Q: What does the man mean?7. W: Hi, Mr. Fond, I am so sorry that I fail to finish my project on time. And I run out of excuses. I think I am not capable enough to handle this course.M: Never mind. P lease don’t give it up. As long as you’re willing to work harder, I still think you will make it.Q: W hat’s the relationship between the two speakers?8. W: Eric has been taking five courses this term, but it seems he won’t drop anyone of them. Sounds amazing to me.M: Really? For me, I’m struggling with the three courses I took. I think that he must be working very hard.Q: What does the man mean?Conversation OneM: I’ve learnt English for four or five years. I’ve memorized a large number of English words. Still, I can’t communicate with my foreign teachers fluently. What should I do?W: I have the same problem myself too. But I’ve read some articles about improving oral English. There’re some effective ways to our needs. See what they can help.M: Great. What have you read? Share them with me.W: The first tip is to feel relaxed when speaking English, either with foreigners or with our classmates.M: That’s a good point. Sometimes I feel stressed when speaking English face-to-face with others. The result is that my mind goes totally blank. Next time, I would rather keep silent. W: The second tip according to the article is that you shouldn’t feel ashamed of making mistakes. It’s all right as long as you can learn something from your mistakes.M: That sounds useful to me too. Next time, I’ll take an easy attitude towards my mistakes. Relax, and speak more in the conversation with others.W: The third tip is to get more chances to open your mouth to speak, in particular with native speakers. But it’s hard to find many foreigners available on our campus.M: Social media. They will help us out in this respect. Maybe we can start with writing in English, by interacting with native speakers online. Then we can start to talk with them onlinewith microphones or have a video conversation with them.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. What’s the problem with the man’s oral English?10. Why does the man sometimes choose to keep silent when talking with others?11. How can they get more chances to talk to native speakers?Conversation TwoW: Here we have Professor Charles Bolden with us today. He’s the president of Maryland College, a community college. My first question, Prof. Bolden, what are the standards for you to choose prospective students every year?M: As a community college, we offer courses in a variety of fields, but we mainly focus on social sciences. As long as a student has a strong interest in social sciences, he will be welcome to apply. W: Is one’s interest so important?M: That’s our first requirement of a potential student. If a student shows no interest in our courses, he’ll be advised to apply elsewhere. Although our school is just a community college, getting into our community is very difficult: only 30% of the applicants can have the chance to study in our college each year.W: What are your other requirements?M: Of course, one must have much background knowledge about the subject he’s interested in. We will have a written test on that before granting admission to students. Thirdly, he must get references from his high school teachers. Lastly, we’ll have interviews with students who have applied. However, if a student has a good record of academic study in his high school and has done much volunteer work, he will be very competitive.W: After a student gets admitted, how should he get ready for his college life?M: Good question. Getting his admission letter is the first step. He should get psychologically ready for very hard tests and strict professors. We encourage students to develop independent thinking, so he’s supposed to contribute to his growth in this aspect.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. What’s the first requirement of the students applying to Maryland College?13. What’s the percentage of the applicants being accepted every year into Maryland College?14. What is expected of a student to be competitive in getting enrolled?15. What is a student supposed to do after attending college?Section BPassage OneTwo girls were best of friends, since their childhood. When they were small kids, they used to go to school together, play together and sometimes even stay at each other's places. They were next door neighbors and thus their parents were friends as well. The best friendsgraduated from school and went to pursue higher studies in the same college.After some days, one of the friends found the other behaving in a very strange manner. At first, the other friend thought it was just the studies getting on to her. However, with time, she became even more moody and frustrated. Finally, her friend confronted her with the problem. She broke down into tears and confessed that she was going around with a guy, who was taking drugs and forced her to take them too.Her friend contacted the college counselor, who was a psychologist and narrated all the problem to her. The girl was then advised by her friend to leave this guy, as he was torturing her unnecessarily. After a lot of persuasion, the girl finally agreed to leave him. She was given basic counseling and was offered with medical help. All this while, her friend never left her side and always stood by her.Finally, they graduated. They both went on to become successful professionals, but never let each other down by indulging themselves into bad habits. They lived happily ever after, as close friends.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.Why were the two girls so close when they were very young?17. What was wrong with one of the girls?18. Who came to help the girl in trouble out?Passage TwoThe eyes are often referred to as the “windows to the soul” since they are capable of revealing a great deal about what a person is feeling or thinking. If you engage in conversation with another person, taking note of eye movements is a natural and important part of the communication process. When judging body language, pay attention to the follow eye signals:•Eye gazeWhen a person looks directly into your eyes when having a conversion, it indicates that they are interested and paying attention. However, prolonged eye contact can feel threatening. On the other hand, breaking eye contact and frequently looking away may indicate that the person is distracted, uncomfortable, or trying to conceal his or her real feelings.•BlinkingBlinking is natural, but you should also pay attention to whether a person is blinking too much or too little. People often blink more rapidly when they are feeling distressed or uncomfortable. Infrequent blinking may indicate that a person is intentionally trying to control his or her eye movements.•Pupil sizeOne of the most subtle cues that eyes provide is through the size of the pupils. While light levels in the environment control pupil expansion, sometimes emotions can also cause small changes in pupil size. For example, you may have heard the phase “bedroom eyes” used to describe the look someone gives when they are attracted to another person.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. What does prolonged eye contact indicate?20. What does blinking eyes rapidly mean when talking with others?21. What may cause the changes in pupil size besides the light levels in the environment? Passage ThreeHaving “Fire Officer”on your CV shows you are a team player, not afraid to take responsibility and that you feel part of a community. But if you want to be a fire marshal, you must be confident, not liable to panic, have a strong voice and not be afraid to shout.Green Flag, a famous supermarket, has fire drills at least six times a year. Up to 800 people get out of the building and are urged by fire officers with loud-speakers and reflective jackets. Ann Housley, a market researcher with Green Flag, says that being a fire officer adds interest to her job. “It is exciting. A fire emergency could happen at any time, so we always have our reflective jackets on the back of chairs.”It’s important, says Ann, that people use fire exits and never attempt to take the lifts. Nor must they try to grab their belongings. Paul Archer, a fire officer, says he has been to fires at banks and “been surprised to find customers refusing to leave their money or bags behind. They just wouldn’t believe the fire alarm. They were prepared to put money in front of their personal safety”.Many offices don’t take fire precautions seriously. Paul has even been called to check a fire drill at a utilities company where the central security room had sent fire engines to an address in a different county. Meanwhile, evacuated staff waited in the rain for 30 minutes.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. What’s the most admired quality of a fire officer?23. How does Ann Housley consider fire drills in her company?24. What should people do first when the fire alarm goes off?25. Why are fire engines sent away in a fire drill at a utilities company?Section CT oday, one out of every four African children does not go to school. In the Dominican Republic, only twenty-two percent of children who 26. enroll in primary education complete the full eight-year program. And in Haiti, only about half of the adult population can read and write.Limited education, or a complete lack of education, is closely linked to 27. poverty in developing countries. In order to break the 28. cycle of being poor, Children of the Nations places great emphasis on the importance of education. It 29. seeks to provide children with every positive opportunity that education can afford.Its goal is to educate children in order to equip and empower them to become the leaders of tomorrow. With substantial help, the organization can 30. accomplish this goal byproviding three necessary components: to ensure that quality education 31. is accessible to all children in its programs, to provide the best education possible, and to training and 32. instructing the best teachers.Funds collected and other 33. generous gifts allow the children in its programs to attend school from preschool through primary and secondary school, and on to the university level. Students 34. desiring to enter a skill-based vocation may opt to attend vocational skills centers and trade schools rather than a traditional university.In many of the communities, this organization operates its own schools and skills centers. In other areas, it 35. partners with government-run schools to provide the children with a high-quality education.选择题答案1. A2. C3. A4. B5. C6. D7. C8. A9. D 10. A 11. C 12. C 13. B 14. D 15. C 16. A 17. D 18. C 19. C 20. D 21. C 22. C 23. A 24. A 25. B26. enroll 27. poverty 28. cycle 29. seeks to 30. Accomplish 31. is accessible to 32. instructing 33. generous 34. desiring to 35. partners with36. J 37. C 38. A 39. N 40. H 41. B 42. L 43. D 44. F 45. O 46. G 47. F 48. H 49. B 50. I 51. B 52. E 53. A 54. D 55. C 56. A 57. D 58. B 59. C 60. B 61. A 62. C 63. D 64. B 65. A翻译题答案Confucius, the famous educator of ancient China, was born in today’s Qufu, Shandong Province in the year 551 B.C. His family was poor, but he worked very hard at his studies even when he was a child. He became a petty official in his early twenties. As he had great learning, worked in earnest and was outstanding in performing his duties, he had already earned a high reputation by the age of 30. Confucius visited many principalities in the hope of rendering service to the princes, but none of them would accept his political views. Consequently, he changed his mind and decided to devote all his energies to education, which made him become the first individual to initiate a private school in the history of China’s education.。

2010年6月大学英语四级考试听力原文.doc

2010年6月大学英语四级考试听力原文11. W: Just imagine we have to finish reading 300 pages before Monday, how can the professor expect us to do it in such a short time?M: Yeah, but what troubles me is that I can’t find the book in the library or in the university bookstore.Q: what does the man mean?12. M: Do you think I could borrow your car to go grocery shopping? The supermarkets outside the city are so much cheaper. I’d also be happy to pick up anything you need. W: Wow, I don’t like to let anyone else to drive my car. Tell you what, why don’t we go together?Q: What does the woman mean?13. M: Forgive the mess in here. We had a party last night. There were a lot of people and they all brought foodW: Yeah, I can tell. Well, I guess it’s pretty obvious what you’ll be doing most of today. Q: What does the woman think the man will do14. W: What time would suit you for the first round talks with John Smith?M: Well, you know my schedule. Other than this Friday, one day is as good as the next. Q: What does the man mean?15. W: I was so angry yesterday. My biology teacher did not even let me explain why I missed the field trip. He just wouldn’t let me pass.M: That doesn’t seem fair. I’d feel that way too if I were you.Q: What does the man imply?16. M: I really c an’t stand the way David controls the conversation all the time. If he’s going to be at your Christmas party, I just won’t come.W: I’m sorry you feel that way. But my mother insists that he come.Q: What does the woman imply?17. W: You’re taking a course with Professor Johnson. What’s your impression so far? M: Well, many students can hardly stay awake in his class without first drinking a cup of coffee.Q: What does the man imply?18. W: Have you ever put a computer together before?M: No, never. But I think if we follow these instructions exactly, we won’t have much trouble.Q: What are the speakers going to do?Long ConversationsConversation 1W: What sort of hours do you work, Steve?M: Well I have to work very long hours, about eleven hours a day.W: What time do you start?M: I work 9 to 3, then I start again at 5:30 and work until 11, six days a week. So I have to work very unsocial hours.W: And do you have to work at the weekend?M: Oh, yes, that’s our busiest time. I get Wednesdays off.W: What are the things you have to do and the things you don’t have to do?M: Uh, I don’t have to do the washing-up, so that’s good. I have to wear white, and I have to keep everything in the kitchen totally clean.W: What’s hard about the job?M: You are standing up all the time. When we are busy, people get angry and shout, but that’s normal.W: How did you learn the profession?M: Well, I did a two-year course at college. In the first year we had to learn the basics, and then we had to take exams.W: Was it easy to find a job?M: I wrote to about six hotels and one of them gave me my first job, so I didn’t have to wait too long.W: And what’s the secret of being good at your job?M: Attention to detail. You have to love it. You have to show passion for it.W: And what are your plans for the future?M: I want to have my own place when the time is right.Q19-Q22Q 19. What does the man say about his job?Q 20. What does the man think is the hardest part of his job?Q 21. Where did the man get his first job after graduation?Q 22. What does the man say is important to being good at his job?Conversation 2W: Now you’ve seen this table of figures about the pocket money children in Britain get? M: Yes. I thought it was quite interesting, but I don’t quite unders tand the column entitled change. Can you explain what it means?W: Well, I think it means the change from the year before. I am not a mathematician, but I assume the rise from 70p to 90p is a rise of 25 percent.M: Oh yes, I see. And the inflation rate is there for comparison.W: Yes. why do you think the rise in pocket money is often higher than inflation?M: I am sorry I’ve no idea. Perhaps parents in Britain are too generous.W: Perhaps they are. But it looks as if children were not better off in 2001 than they were in 2002. That’s strange, isn’t it? And they seem to have been better off in 2003 than they are now. I wonder why that is.M: Yes, I don’t understand that at all.W: Anyway, if you had children, how much pocket money would you give them?M: I d on’t know. I think I’ll probably give them 2 pounds a week.W: Would you? And what would you expect them to do with it?M: Well, out of that, they have to buy some small personal things, but I wouldn’t expect them to save to buy their own socks, for example.W: Yes, by the way, do most children in your country get pocket money?M: Yeah, they do.Q23-Q25Q23. What is the table of figures about?Q24. What do we learn from the conversation about British children’s pocket money?Q25. Supposing the man had children, what would he expect them to do with their pocket money?Passage 1As the new sales director for a national computer firm, Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company’s district managers. Everyone arrived on time, and Alex’s presentation went extremely well. He decided to end the meeting with the conversation about the importance of the district managers to the company’s plans. “I believe we are going to continue to increase our share of the market,” he began, “because of the quality of the people in this room. The district manager is the key to the success of the sales representatives in his district. He sets the term for everyone else. If he has ambitious goals and is willing to put in long hours, everyone in his unit will follow his example.” When Alex was finished, he received polite applauses, but hardly the warm response he had hoped for. Later he spoke with one of the senior managers. “Things were going so well until the end”, Alex said disappointedly. “Obviously, I sai d the wrong thing.” “Yes”, the district manager replied. “Half of our managers are women. Most haveworked their way up from sales representatives, and they are very proud of the role they played in the company’s growth. They don’t care at all about politi cal correctness. But they were definitely surprised and distressed to be referred to as ‘he’ in your speech.”Questions 26 to 29 are based on the question you have just heard.Q26 Who did Alex Gordon speak to at the first meeting?Q27 What did Alex want to emphasize at the end of his presentation?Q28 What do we learn about the audience at the meeting?Q29 Why did Alex fail to receive the warm response he had hoped for?Passage 2The way to complain is to act business-like and important. If your complaint is immediate, suppose you got the wrong order at a restaurant, make a polite but firm request to see the manager. When the manager comes, ask his or her name. And then state your problem and what you expect to have done about it. Be polite! Shouting or acting rude will get you nowhere. But also be firm in making your complaint. Besides, act important. This doesn’t mean to put on airs and say “do you know who I am?” What it means is that people are often treated the way they expect to be treated. If you act like someone who expects a fair request to be granted, chances are it will be granted. The worst way to complain is over the telephone. You are speaking to a voice coming from someone you cannot see. So you can’t tell how the person on the line is react ing. It is easy for that person to give you the run-around. Complaining in person or by letter is generally more effective. If your complaint doesn’t require an immediate response, it often helps to complain by letter. If you have an appliance that doesn’t work, send a letter to the store that sold it. Be business-like and stick to the point. Don’t spend a paragraph on how your uncle John tried to fix the problem and couldn’t.Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.Q30. What does the speaker suggest you do when you are not served properly at a restaurant?Q31. Why does the speaker say the worst way to complain is over the telephone?Q32. What should you do if you make a complaint by letter?Passage 3Barbara Sanders is a wife and the mother of two children, ages 2 and 4. Her husband, Tom, is an engineer and makes an excellent salary. Before Barbara had children, she worked as an architect for the government, designing government housing. She quit herjob when she became pregnant, but is now interested in returning to work. She's been offered an excellent job with the government. Her husband feels it's unnecessary for her to work since the family does not need the added income. He also thinks that a woman should stay home with her children. If Barbara feels the need to do socially important work, he thinks that she should do volunteer work one or two days a week. Barbara, on the other hand, has missed the excitement of her profession and does not feel she would be satisfied doing volunteer work. She would also like to have her own income, so she does not have to ask her husband for money whenever she wants to buy something. She does not think it's necessary to stay home every day with the children and she knows a very reliable babysitter who's willing to come to her house. Tom does not think a babysitter can replace a mother and thinks it's a bad idea for the children to spend so much time with someone who's not part of the family.Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.Q33. What was Barbara's profession before she had children?Q34. What does Barbara's husband suggest she do if she wants to work?Q35. What does Tom think about hiring a babysitter?篇章听力Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in the school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he does not know, better in finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful, persistent, and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling or unless he is very unusual and very lucky for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated, and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school or than any of his teachers have done for years. He has solved the mystery of language. He has discovered it. Babies do not even know that language exists and he has found out how it works and learned to use it appropriately. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, by trying it out and seeing whether it works by gradually changing it and refining it until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, including many of the concepts that the schools think only they can teach him and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.。

2010年12月英语四级真题及答案(含解析)

2010年12月英语四级真题答案解析【作文范文】范文1:Today in China, many families have only one child. So the children usually doted upon by all family members. Gradually some of them get used to depending on their parents and family members, as a result they lack the ability to face their lives by themselves.There are some ways to help children to be independent. First, the child should have a chance to see the world around him individually to understand that there are various people and competitions in their lives, and learn to find his right position in the society only by individual efforts. Second, it is impossible to ask a child not to depend on parents at once.The parents may give the child enough help and space to make him feel comfortable. A child needs help from their families. Because without any help, the child may lose his faith. Thirdly, parents can help their children make their own decisions, which can challenge his ability to deal with problems. A child should be praised when he is successful or encouraged when he fails.To be independent is vital for the children, because no parents can go with their children for the whole life. Only an independent person can live and enjoy a full and meaningful life.范文2：Nowadays, more and more parents indulge their children too much, showing too much love to them. The parents get used to make an arrangement of everything for their children. As result, many adult children will not deal with things by themselves but depend on their parents strongly.How should parents help children to be independent? On the one hand, parents should try to tell the children the importance of independence at an early age. If the children have no awareness early, how can we expect them to achieve independence later. On the other hand, let the children always have a try by themselves before asking for help. Let them know that independent thinking is an absolute necessity in their life.Helping children towards independence will always be our businesses.【快速阅读】（1）选A: People instinltively seek nature in different ways.解析：问题是作者的profound belief，第一段的最后一句给出了答案，whether we know we are doing so or not （不管我们知道与否）相当于句中的instinctively（本能地）.（2）选D: Things that are purchased.解析：文中第二段最后一句给出了答案，“odd new perceptions about what is best for child ren, that is to say, things that can be bought”，奇怪的新观念，什么对孩子最好，能买到的东西。

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2010年12月英语四级真题听力短对话原文2010年12月英语四级真题听力短对话原文: 【四级听力短对话】11. M: Oh my god! The heat is simply unbearable here. I wish we’d gone to the beach instead. W: Well, with the museums and restaurants in Washington I’ll be happy here no matter what the temperature. Q：What does the woman mean? 12. M: How’s the new job going? W: Well, I’m learning a lot of new things, but I wish the director would give me some feedback. Q：What does the woman want to know? 13. M: Can you help me work out a physical training program, John? W: Sure, but whatever you do, be careful not to overdo it. Last time I had two weeks’worth of weight-liftingin three days and I hurt myself. Q: What does the man suggest the woman do? 14. M: I have an elderly mother and I’m worried about her going on a plane. Is there any risk? W: Not if her heart is all right. If she has a heart condition, I’d recommend against it. Q: What does the man want to know about his mother? 15. M: Why didn’t you stop when we first signaled you at the crossroads? W: Sorry, I was just a bit absent-minded. Anyway, do I have to pay a fine? Q: what do we learn from the conversation? 16. M: I’m no expert, but that noise in your refrigerator doesn’t sound right. Maybe you should have it fixed. W: You’re right. And I suppose I’ve put it off long enough. Q: What will the woman probably do?17. M: I did extremely well on the sale of my downtown apartment. Now, I have enough money to buy that pieceof land I’ve had my eye on and build a house on it. W: Congratulations！Does that mean you’ll be moving soon? Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation? 18. W: My hand still hurts from the fall on the ice yesterday. I wonder if I broke something. M: I’m no doctor, but it’s not black and blue or anything. Maybe you just need to rest it for a few days. Q: what do we learn about the woman from the conversation?。

2010年英语专四考试听写参考答案

2010年英语专四考试听写参考答案：（仅供参考）听写mp3下载请至文末。

Freshmen's WeekBritain has a well-respected higher education system and some of the top universities and research institutions in the world. But to those who are new to this system, it can sometimes be confusing.October is usually the busiest month in the academic calendar. Universities have something called Freshmen's Week for their newcomers. It's a great opportunity to make new friends, join lots of clubs and settle into university life.However, having just left the comfort of home and all your friends behind, the prospect of meeting strangers in classrooms and dormitories can be worrying.Where do you start? And who should you make friends with? Which clubs and society should you join?Luckily, there will be thousands of others in the same boat as you. They worry about starting their university social life on the right foot. So just take it all in slowly. Don't rush into anything that you'll regret for the next three years.2010年英语专业四级考试听力理解部分参考答案：1. D room services2. D air tickets, local transport and all meals3. A The traveller is reluctant to buy travel insurance4. C Mark doesn’t know the exact number of the delegates yet5. A the arrival time of the guest speakers6. B two7. D an airline company8. C her laptop9. C in her client’s office10. D the check book inside bore her name11. D the Arts ans Science program12. B Thirty thousand dollars13. A federal loans14. D Australia15. D take children to watch sports events16. B spend more time with chidren17. C Australia18. B infected children and women19. D it has worked in five countries till now20. A the importance of government support21. C a 23-year-old woman22. B two months later23. A all parties have agreed upon it24. D the end of 201125. C the prison authorities26. A to be imprisoned and fined27. B public use of the beach28. A The airport was shut down for Friday29. C 2130. A The rescue operation involved many people※第一部分参考答案：Britain has a well-respected higher education system and some of the top universities and research institutions in the world. But to those who are new to this sysytem, it sometimes can be confusing.October is usually the busiest month in the academic calendar. Universities have something calledFreshman's Week for their newcomers. It's a great opportunity to make new friends, join lots of clubs and settle into university life.However, having just left the comfort of home and all your friends behind, the prospect of meeting strangers in the classroom and dormitory can be worrying. Where do you start? Who should you make friends with? Which clubs should you join?Luckily, there will be thousands of others in the same boat with you. They worry about starting their university social life on the right foot. So just take it all in slowly. Don't rush into anything that you'll regret for the next three years.※第二部分材料出处2010年英语专业四级考试听力听写部分原文，来自BBC英文一篇报道。

2010年英语四级CET4考试听力真题、答案及原文(12月)

2010年英语四级CET4考试听力真题、答案及原文（12月）听力试题Section A11. [A] The man should visit the museums. [C] The beach resort is a good choice.[B] She can’t stand the hot weather. [D] She enjoys staying in Washington.12. [A] Her new responsibilities in the company.[B] What her job prospects are.[C] What the customers’ feedback is.[D] The director’s opinion of her work.13. [A] Combine her training with dieting.[B] Repeat the training every three days.[C] Avoid excessive physical training.[D] Include weightlifting in the program.14. [A] When she will return home.[B] Whether she can go by herself.[C] Whether she can travel by air.[D] When she will completely recover.15. [A] The woman knows how to deal with the police.[B] The woman had been fined many times before.[C] The woman had violated traffic regulations.[D] The woman is good at finding excuses.16. [A] Switch off the refrigerator for a while.[B] Have someone repair the refrigerator.[C] Ask the man to fix the refrigerator.[D] Buy a refrigerator of better quality.17. [A] He owns a piece of land in the downtown area.[B] He has got enough money to buy a house.[C] He can finally do what he has dreamed of.[D] He is moving into a bigger apartment.18. [A] She is black and blue all over.[B] She has to go to see a doctor.[C] She stayed away from work for a few days.[D] She got hurt in an accident yesterday.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. [A] She was a bank manager.[B] She was a victim of the robbery.[C] She was a defence lawyer.[D] She was a witness to the crime.20. [A] A tall man with dark hair and a moustache.[B] A youth with a distinguishing mark on his face.[C] A thirty-year-old guy wearing a light sweater.[D] A medium-sized young man carrying a gun.21. [A] Identify the suspect from pictures. [C] Have her photo taken for their files.[B] Go upstairs to sign some document. [D] Verify the record of what she had said. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22. [A] By reading a newspaper ad. [C] By listening to the morning news.[B] By seeing a commercial on TV. [D] By calling an employment service.23. [A] She could improve her foreign languages. [B] She could work close to her family.[C] She could travel overseas frequently. [D] She could use her previous experiences.24. [A] Taking management courses. [C] Working as a secretary.[B] Teaching English at a university. [D] Studying for a degree in French.25. [A] Prepare for an interview in a couple of days.[B] Read the advertisement again for more details.[C] Send in a written application as soon as possible.[D] Get to know the candidates on the short list.Section BPassage OneQuestions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.。

2010年英语四级模拟题(含答案)

Part ⅠWriting(30 minutes) 欢迎下载Directions:For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: Aid Education in China. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given in Chinese below:1. 每年，高校许多大学生受到鼓舞去贫困地区支教。

2. 支教活动的意义。

3. 我的看法。

提示:在实考试卷中，该试题在答题卡1上。

Aid--Education in ChinaPart ⅡReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)Directions:In this part,you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7,markY(for YES)if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N(for NO)if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG(for NOT GIVEN)if the information is not given in the passage.For questions 8-10,complete the sentences with information given in the passage.Will We Run Out of Water?Picture a “ghost ship” sinking into the sand, left to rot on dry land by a receding sea. Then imagine dust storms sweeping up toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers from the dry seabed and spewing them across towns and villages.Seem like a scene from a movie about the end of the world? For people living near the Aral sea (咸海) in Central Asia, it‟s all too real. Thirty ye ars ago, government planners diverted the rivers that flow into the sea in order to irrigate (provide water for ) farmland. As a result, the sea has shrunk to half its original size, stranding (使搁浅) ships on dry land. The seawater has tripled in salt content and become polluted, killing all 24 native species of fish.Similar large--scale efforts to redirect water in other parts of the world have also ended in ecological crisis, according to numerous environmental groups. But many countries continue to build massive dams and irrigation systems, even though such projects can create more problems than they fix. Why? People in many parts of the world are desperate for water, and more people will need more water in the next century.“Growing populations will worsen problems with water,” says Peter H.Gleick, an environmental scientist at the Pacific Institute for studies in Development, Environment, and Security, a research organization in California. He fears that by the year 2025, as many as one--third of the wor ld‟s projected (预测的) 8.3 billion people will suffer from water shortages.WHERE WATER GOESOnly 2.5 percent of all water on Earth is freshwater, water suitable for drinking and growing food, says Sandra Postel, director of the Global Water Policy Project in Amherst, Mass. Two--thirds of this freshwater is locked in glaciers (冰山) and ice caps （冰盖）. In fact, only a tiny percentage of freshwater is part of the water cycle, in which water evaporates and rises into the atmosphere, then condenses and falls back to Earth as precipitation (rain or snow).Some precipitation runs off land to lakes and oceans, and some becomes groundwater, water that seeps into the earth. Much of this renewable freshwater ends up in remote places like the Amazon river basin in Brazil, where few people live. In fact, the world‟s population has access to only 12,500 cubic kilometers of freshwater—about the amount of water in Lake Superior(苏必利尔湖). And people use half of this amount already. “If water demand continues to climb rapidly,” s ays Postel, “there will be severe shortages and damage to the aquatic (水的) environment.”CLOSE TO HOMEWater woes(灾难) may seem remote to people living in rich countries like the United States. But Americans could face serious water shortages, too especially in areas that rely on groundwater. Groundwater accumulates in aquifers (地下蓄水层)，layers of sand and gravel that lie between soil and bedrock. (For every liter of surface water, more than 90 liters are hidden underground.) Although the United States has large aquifers, farmers, ranchers, and cities are tapping many of them for water faster than nature can replenish(补充) it. In northwest Texas, for example, overpumping has shrunk groundwater supplies by 25 percent, according to Postel.Americans may face even more urgent problems from pollution. Drinking water in the United States is generally safe and meets high standards. Nevertheless, one in five Americans every day unknowingly drinks tap water contaminated with bacteria and chemical wastes, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In Milwaukee, 400,000 people fell ill in 1993 after drinking tap water tainted with cryptosporidium (隐孢子虫)，a microbe (微生物) that causes fever, diarrhea (腹泻) and vomiting.THE SOURCEWhere so contaminants come from? In developing countries, people dump raw (未经处理的) sewage(污水) into the same streams and rivers from which they draw water for drinking and cooking; about 250 million people a year get sick from water borne (饮水传染的) diseases.In developed countries, manufacturers use 100,000 chemical compounds to make a wide range of products.Toxic chemicals pollute water when released untreated into rivers and lakes. (Certain compounds, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (多氯化联二苯)，or PCBs, have been banned in the United States.)But almost everyone contributes to water pollution. People often pour household cleaners, car antifreeze, and paint thinners (稀释剂) down the drain; all of these contain hazardous chemicals. Scientists studying water in the San Francisco Bay reported in 1996 that 70 percent of the pollutants could be traced to household waste.Farmers have been criticized for overusing herbicides and pesticides, chemicals that kill weeds and insects but insects but that pollute water as well. Farmers also use nitrates, nitrogen--rich fertilizer that helps plants grow but that can wreak havoc (大破坏) on the environment. Nitrates are swept away by surface runoff to lakes and seas. Too many nitrates “over enrich” these bodies of water, encouraging the buildup of algae, or microscopic plants that live on the surface of the water. Algae deprive the water of oxygen that fish need to survive, at times choking off life in an entire body of water.WHAT’S THE SOLUTION?Water expert Gleick advocates conservation and local solutions to water--related problems; governments, for instance, would be better off building small--scale dams rather than huge and disruptive projects like the one that ruined the Aral Sea.“More than 1 billion people worldwide don‟t have access to basic clean drinking wa ter,” says Gleick. “There has to be a strong push on the part of everyone—governments and ordinary people—to make sure we have a resource so fundamental to life.”提示:在实考试卷中，8-10题在答题卡1上。

2010英语专四听力真题、原文+听力答案

2010年英语专四听力真题Part I DICTATION (15MIN)Listen to the floowing passage. Altogether thepassage will be read to you four times. During thefirst reading, which will be done at normal speed,listen and try to understand the meaning. For thesecond and third reading, the passage will be read sentece by sentece, or phrase by phrase,with intervals of 15 sencond. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during thetime you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through yourwork once more.Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.Freshmen’s WeekBut to those who are new to this system, it can sometimes be confusing. October is usually the busiest month in the academic calendar. Universities have something called F reshmen’s Week for their newcomers. It’s a great opportunity to make new friends, join lots of clubs and settle into university life. However, having just left the comfort of home and all your friends behind, the prospect of meeting strangers in classrooms and dormitories can be worrying. Luckily, there will be thousands of others in the same boat as you. They worry about starting their university social life on the right foot. So just take it all in slowly. Don’t rush into anything that you will regret for the next three years.PART ⅡLISTENING COMPREHE (20 MIN)In sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and thenanswer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on youranswer sheet.SECTION A CONVERSATIONSIn this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefullyand then answer the questions that follow.Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation. At the end of theconversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to theconversation.1. The following details have been checked during the conversation EXCEPTA. number of travelers.B. number of tour days.C. flight details.D. room services.2. What is included in the price?A. Air tickets and local transport.B. Local transport and meals.C. Air tickets, local transport and breakfast.D. Air tickets, local transport and all meals.3. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?A. The traveler is reluctant to buy travel insurance.B. The traveler is ready to buy travel insurance.C. The traveler doesn't have to buy travel insurance.D. Travel insurance is not mentioned in the conversation.Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation. At the endof'theconversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to theconversation.4. Which of the following details is CORRECT?A. Mark knows the exact number of airport buses.B. Mark knows the exact number of delegates' spouse.C. Mark doesn't know the exact number of delegates yet.D. Mark doesn't know the number of guest speakers.5. What does Linda want to know?A. The arrival time of guest speakers.B. The departure time of guest speakers.C. The type of transport for guest speakers.D. The number of guest speakers.6. How many performances have been planned tbr the conference?A. One.B. Two.C. Three.D. Not mentioned.7. Who will pay for the piano performance?A. Pan-Pacific Tours.B. Johnson & Sons Events.C. Conference delegates.D. An airline company.Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the endof'theconversation,you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to theconversation.8. What is NOT missing in Mary's briefcase?A. Her cheque book.B. Her papers for work.C. Her laptop.D. Her appointment book.9. Where was Mary the whole morning?A. At the police station.B. At a meeting.C. In her client's office.D. In the restaurant.10. Why was Mary sure that the briefcase was hers in the end?A. The papers inside had the company's name.B. The briefcase was found in the restaurant.C. The restaurant manager telephoned James.D. The cheque book inside bore her name.SECTION B PASSAGESIn this section ,you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully andthen answer the questions that follow.Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, yottwill be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.11. We learn from the passage that about two-thirds of the courses are taught throughA. the School of Design and Visual Arts.B. the School of Social Work.C. the School of Business.D. the Arts and Sciences program.12.What is the cost of undergraduate tuition?A. Twenty thousand dollars.B. Thirty thousand dollars.C. Twenty-seven thousand dollars.D. Thirty-eight thousand dollars.13.International students can receive all the following types of financial assistance EXCEPTA. federal loans.B. private loans.C. scholarships.D. monthly payment plans.Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, youwill begiven 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.14. According to the passage, mothers in ____ spend more time looking after children.A. FranceB. AmericaC. DenmarkD. Australia15. Which of the following activities would Australian fathers traditionally participate in?A. Feeding and playing with children.B. Feeding and bathing children.C. Taking children to the park and to school.D. Taking children to watch sports events.16. According to the study, the "new man" likes toA. spend more time at work.B. spend more time with children.C. spend time drinking after work.D. spend time on his computer.17.It is suggested in the passage that the "new man" might be less acceptable inA. France.B. Britain.C. Australia.D. Denmark.Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, youwill be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.18.The services of the new partnership are provided mainly toA. mothers of infected babies.B. infected children and women.C. infected children in cities.D. infected women in cities.19.Which of the following details about Family Health International is INCORRECT?A. It is a nonprofit organization.B. It provides public health services.C. It carries out research on public health.D. It has worked in five countries till now.20.The example of Cambodia mainly showsA. the importance of government support.B. the importance of public education efforts.C. the progress the country has made so far.D. the methods used to fight AIDS.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTIn this section ,you will hear several news items.Listen to them carefully and then answer thequestions that follow.Questions 21 and 22 are based on the followingnews. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer thequestions. Now. listen to the news.21. According to the news, the victim wasA. a 17-year-old girl.B. a 15-year-old boy.C. a 23-year-old woman.D. an l 8-year-old man.22.We learn from the news that the suspects were arrestedA. one month later.B. two months later.C. immediately.D. two weeks later.Questions 23 and 24 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.23.The Iraqi parliament can vote on the security agreement only afterA. all parties have agreed on it.B. the US troops have pulled out.C. the cabinet has reviewed it.D. the lawmakers have returned from Mecca.24.According to the news, the US troops are expected to completely pull out byA. mid-2009.B. the end of 2009.C. mid-2011.D. the end of 2011.Questions 25 and 26 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.25.The following are involved in the operations to rescue the children in Honduras EXCEPTA. the police.B. the district attorney.C. the prison authorities.D. Institute of Childhood and Family.26. What punishment would parents face if they allowed their children to beg?A. To be imprisoned and fined.B. To have their children taken away.C. To be handed over to the authorities.D. None.Question 27 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item. you will begiven 5 seconds to answer the question. Now, listen to the news.27.What is the news item about?A. Coastlines in Italy.B. Public use of the beach.C. Swimming and bathing.D. Private bathing clubs.Question 28 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will begiven 5 seconds to answer the question. Now, listen to the news.28.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the news?A. The airport was shut down for Friday.B. There was a road accident involving two buses.C. Local shops were closed earlier than usual.D. Bus service was stopped for Friday.Questions 29 and 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item,you will begiven 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.29.How many people were rescued from the apartment building?A. 17.B. 24.C. 21.D. 41.30.Which of the following details in the news is CORRECT?A. The rescue operation involved many people.B. The cause of the explosions has been determined.C. Rescue efforts were stopped on Thursday.D. The explosions didn't destroy the building.2010年英语专四听力原文+答案Part I DICTATION (15MIN)Freshmen's WeekBritain has a well-respected higher education system and some of the top universities and research institutions in the world. But to those who are new to this system, it can sometimes be confusing.October is usually the busiest month in the academic calendar. Universities have something called Freshmen's Week for their newcomers. It's a great opportunity to make new friends, join lots of clubs and settle into university life.However, having just left the comfort of home and all your friends behind, the prospect of meeting strangers in classrooms and dormitories can be worrying. Where do you start? And who should you make friends with? Which clubs and society should you join?Luckily, there will be thousands of others in the same boat as you. They worry about starting their university social life on the right foot. So just take it all in slowly. Don't rush into anything that you'll regret for the next three years.PART ⅡLISTENING COMPREHE (20 MIN)SECTION A CONVERSATIONSQuestions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation.W: OK. So let’s go through the travel details again. Two adults, eight days in Britain from April26th to May 3rd (Q1), flying from Beijing to London, and back with Air China, and y ou’re in adouble room.M: Yes, that’s right. Umm, do you know what the flight times are?W: The outward flight from Beijing is, ur … let me see, yes, 10:30 in the morning, and thereturn is, I think it’s early evening, yes, 7:15, 15 minutes past seven in the evening, local time,that is (Q1).M: Right, that’s fine. Oh, sorry. I can’t remember what else you include in the price, apart fromthe air-tickets. Is it all meals or just breakfast?W:Yes, it’s full board, so all meals, and transport from the ai rport to your hotel. Everything isincluded (Q2).M: Good!W: Now, can you tell me if you need travel insurance?M: Yes, yes, we do.W: OK. Well, that’s an extra 300 Yuan each, is that OK?M: Well, there is no choice, is there? I mean we have to h ave it, don’t we? (Q3)W: Yes, I’m afraid so.M: Well, all right then.Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation.M: Pan-Pacific Tours. How can I help you?W: Good afternoon! Can I speak to Mark, please?M: Speaking.W: Oh, hello, Mark! This is Linda from Johnson & Sons Events.M: Hello, Lindia! What can I do for you?W: I was just wanting to clear up a few details of the conference event we’re organizing.M: Right! What do you need to know?W: Well, first, I’ve got t o have numbers, delegates to the conference, their husbands or wivesand so on for the transport as much as anything else.M: So far we’ve got 183 who’ve booked up and we might get a few more.W: Does that include husbands and wives as well?M: No rea lly. I’ll e-mail you the exact number, because I haven’t counted them yet (Q4).W: Fine.M: And there’ll be 6 guest speakers.W: 6?M: Yes. Who want picking up from the airport by car, not in a fleet of buses?W: Right! You’ll let me know when they are arriving, won’t you (Q5)?M: Just as soon as I know.W: Now, special events. You wanted a local style dance for the opening ceremony, didn’t you(Q6)?M: That would be great! I’m sure everyone will enjoy it.W: And we’ll have to fly the dance rs in specially.M: Sure!W: And then after the welcoming feast, there’s going to be a piano performance, right (Q6)?M: Yes, so we’ll have to contact the airline company about it. They are sponsoring the event(Q7).W: So we’ll send the bill direct to them for it.M: You could do.W: Well, that’s all my queries for the time being.M: OK. If you need anything else, just pick up the phone or drop me an email.W: I will. Thanks. Bye!M: Bye!Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation.W: Sorry, I’m late, James.M: It’s all right, Mary. Where have you been?W: At the police station.M: Where?W: At the police station. I’ve lost my briefcase.M: Oh, no! What happened? Was there anything important in it?W: Yes! My cheque book, all the papers I need for work, my appointment book (Q8).M: Ah! That’s terrible! How did you lose your briefcase?W: Well, as you know, I was with my client at a meeting all morning (Q9) and we had lunchtogether, after lunch I went shopping, and when I wanted to buy something I couldn’t find mycheque book, then I remembered that was in my briefcase and my briefcase was in my car.M: So you went back to your car?W: Yes, I went back to my car. No briefcase! But luckily my laptop was there (Q8).M: And then you went to the police?W: Not immediately. Before I went to the police station, I called my client’s office. No luck. Theysaid the briefcase wasn’t there.M: Excuse me! I’ve got a phone call. Yes, yes, there is. Mary Hopkins. Oh, really? I’ll tell her. Itwas very kind of you to call. Bye!W: Who was that?M: That was the manager of the River Sun Restaurant. Just after lunch today, he found abriefcase under a table, when he opened the case, he found a lot of papers. He said they hadthe name or our company on them, and he found a cheque book with the name of Hopkins on it--- M. Hopkins --- M for Mary (Q10).W: Ah! Thank god!SECTION B PASSAGESQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage.Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri is a medium-sized university. It has 11,000students, 12% of them are international students, mostly graduate students. The universityhas schools for law, medicine and social work. It also has a Business School, a School ofDesign and Visual Arts and a School of Engineering and Applied Science. But more than 60% ofcourses are taught through the Arts and Sciences Program (Q11). The new scholl year thatbegins this fall will cost about $ 50,000 for undergraduates, that includes 12 months of livingexpenses estimated at $20,000 (Q12). Graduate tuition differs by program. Tuition for theMaster of Social Work Program, for example, will cost $27,000 in the coming year. The Masterof Business Administration Program will cost about $38,000. The university offers financialassistance to international students including first year students, but says its resources arelimited. Scholarships are available. The university also offers a monthly payment plan tospread out the cost of tuition. It offers loan programs. International students in the UnitedStates generally cannot receive federalstudent loans (Q13), but they maybe able to take outprivate loans as many American students do. Washington University in St. Louis was namedEliot Seminary when it opened in 1853. Later the name was changed to honor the first Americanpresident --- George Washington.Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage.A new study from the University of New South Wales has discovered that during the workingweek, Australian fathers only spend an average of just over a minute each day alone with theirchildren. Australian mothers, on the other hand, spend 3 hours a week purely looking after theirchildren (Q14). On much greater disparity than in other countries, like America, Denmark, Italyand France, working couples divide the child-care more evenly. According to the author of thestudy, traditionally, Australian fathers appear to like the fun aspects of parenhood, but stayaway from daily child-care activities. So while they tend to be happy taking the kids to the parkor to sports event, they are unlikely to participate regularly in feeding, bathing, or taking thekids to school (Q15). In short, Australian parenting is seen as a woman’s job and aman’shobby. However, the last 20 years have seen the arrival of the so-called “new man” --- the manwho is willing to share the housework and child-care.The “new man” has a picture of hischildren on his computer desktop at work;he never misses the kids’ school plays and hepasses on a drink after work so that he can get home in time to read their bedtime story (Q16).This new study suggests that the new man feels a little more at home in Europe than inAustralia (Q17). Indeed, a poll conducted in the UK indicated that almost 70% of British womenthought that men were as good at raising children as women.Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage.UNICEF is joinning with a nonprofit group to bring AIDS prevention programs to more womenand children in five countries (Q19A). UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Fund, will work withFamily Health International. The new partnership will be established at first in Guyana, India,Malawi, Nigeriaand Zambia. One of the goals is to improve care for babies infected withH.I.V.,the virus that causes AIDS. Another is to prevent the spread of H.I.V. from mother to child.Activities will depend on the needs of each country. In some cases, anti-AIDS drugs will beprovided to infected parents of children. Women and children living in rurual communities willreceive most of the services (Q18). Both UNICEF and Family Health International will expandtheir partnership into more countries in the future. Family Health International has been workingon public health issues since 1971 (Q19B). The organization is based in North Carolina and hasprograms in 70 countries (Q19D). It does research on infectious diseases and reproductivehealth, and also provides services (Q19C). Experts say an important part of fighting AIDS ispolitical will (Q20). One example they point to is Cambodia. That country has been gettingattention for its progress in reducing some of the highest infection ratesin Asia. Expertspraise the government for supporting public education efforts and programs.SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTNews Item 1 (For Questions 21 and 22)Four American teenagers, all children of U.S. militarypersonnel, have been arrested on charges ofattempted murder after a woman was knocked offher motorbike with rope strung across two poles,Japanese police said. The four suspect --- two 15-year-old boys, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man --- were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan PoliceDepartment said. They are accused of causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-oldrestaurant employee by stringing a rope between poles across a road (Q21). U.S. Forces inJapan was informed of the August incident in late October (Q22), a public information officersaid. There was no clear explanation for the delay in the handover of the suspects to police,other than it involved rules between Washington and Tokyo covering U.S. Forces and theirdependents in Japan. The U.S. military presence and its impact on Japanese residents havebeen a thorny issue over the years.News Item 2 (For Questions 23 and 24)Iraqi lawmakers are expected to vote on a security agreement by Wednesday, which will keepthe U.S. troops here until the end of 2011, the parliament’s speaker said yesterday. After hoursof heated debate, Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani announced that the vote is scheduled forWednesday and can be put forward provided parties in the parliament would reach anagreement on the pact (Q23). The long-delayed agreement passed the Iraqi cabinet last weekand wen to the parliament for reviewing. The vote date was originally set for tomorrow. Thesecurity agreement will replace the UN mandate to grant U.S. military presence in Iraqlegal status from 2009. The U.S. has agreed to pull troops out of Iraqi cities and towns bymid-2009 and leave Iraq by the end of 2011 (Q24). The Iraqi government wants the parliamentto make the decision before lawmakers would set out for a pilgrimage trip to Mecca nextweek.News Item 3 (For Questions 25 and 26)Honduran authorities dedicated to the protection of children and adolescents haveundertaken a campaign to protect youngsters who beg on the streets. In the capital ofTegucigalpa alone, the effort has resulted in the rescure of 350 children, city officials say. TheHonduran Insitute of Childhood and Family, together with the police and the distric attorney,carry out operations around the country to rescure the children and punish the parents (Q25). “Many children are used for begging,” said Nora Urbina, special prosecutor for children’s issues. “Many children are rented and that is precisely what we hope to punish, because Article I-70 ofthe Juvenile Penal Code sets apenalty of up to six years in detention.” Those children who arerescued are taken to the Honduran Institute of Childhood and Family and then handed over totheir parents with the promise that their rights will be protected. Parents who allow theirchildren to be exploited in this way face, in addition to as many as six years in prison, theequivalent of a $500 fine (Q26).News Item 4 (For Questions 27)A campaign is getting under way in Italy to take back large stretches of the country’s beachesfrom private bathing clubs, which usually charge to use them (Q27). This has been a summer ofdiscontent, because despite government efforts, an entire coasline has been monopolized byprofiteering bathing clubs. Italy has some of Europe’s finese beaches, buty they are oftenburied under a mountain of deck chairs and umbrellas. The government says the state owns theshoreline and swimming should be free (Q27).News Item Five (Question 28)The Northwest braced for blizzards Friday night --- icy roads created from storms this weekparalyzed much of the greater Seattle-Washington area, where schools were closed and busroutes were suspended Friday (Q28D) as roads were too icy to navigate. Two charter busescarrying 80 people that collided and skidded off a road were pulled to safety (Q28B). The busescrashed through a metal railing and hung precariously over Interstate 5 for several hoursbefore tow trucks pulled them back on the road. The snowfall closed the airport for severalhours (Q28A), and cut into local business hours for retail shops (Q28C) during the busiestshopping season of the year.News Item Six (Question 29 and 30)Hundreds of emergency workers combed the site of a five-story apartment building (Q30A) insounthern Ukraine Thursday after a series of explosions reduced it to rubble (Q30C, D),authorities said. The blasts Wednesday night in the Black Sea resort town of Yevpatoria left atleast 17 people dead and 24 others missing, according to Igor Krol, a spokesman for theUkraine’s Emergency Situ ations Ministry, 21 people have been rescued (Q29). “We are nowinvestigating all possible reasons for the explosions,” Krol said. Volodymiyr Shandra, UkrainianEmergency Situations minister, told local media that oxygen canisters being stored in thebasement of the building could have triggered the blasts (Q30B). Television footage showedrescuers trying to free people buried underneath fallen debris, while others scrabbled throughwires, construction rods and boulders (Q30D).2010英语专四听力答案1-5 DDACA 6-10 BDCCD 11-15DBADD 16-20BCBDA21-25CBADC 26-30ABACA。

2010年12月大学英语四级听力真题（附原文及答案）范文

2010年12月大学英语四级听力真题（附原文及答案）范文第一篇：2010年12月大学英语四级听力真题(附原文及答案)范文2010年12月大学英语四级听力真题（附听力原文及答案）11.M: Oh my god!The heat is simply unbearable here.I wish we’ve gone to the beach instead.W: Well, with the museums and restaurants in Washington I’ll be happy here no matter what the temperature.Q：What does the woman mean?12.M: How’s the new job going?W: Well, I’m learning a lot of new things, but I wish the director would give me some feedback.Q：What does the woman want to know?13.M: Can you help me work out a physical training program John? W: Sure, but whatever you do be careful not to overdo st time I had two weeks’ worth of weight-lifting in three days and I hurt myself.Q: What does the man suggest the woman do? 14.M: I have an elderly mother and I’m worried about her going on a plane.Is there any risk? W: Not if her heart is all right.If she has a heart condition, I’d recommend against it.Q: What does the man want to know about his mother? 15.M: Why didn’t you stop when we first signaled you at the crossroads? W: Sorry, I was just a bit absent-minded.Anyway, do I have to pay a fine? Q: what do we learn from the conversation? 16.M: I’m no expert, but that noise in your refrigerator does n’t sound right.Maybe you should have it fixed.W: You’re right.And I suppose I’ve put it off long enough.Q: What will the woman probably do?17.M: I did extremely well on the sale of my downtown apartment.Now, I have enough money to buy that piece of land I’ve had my eye on and build a house on it.W: Congratulations！Does that mean you’ll be moving soon? Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation? 18.W: My hand still hurts from the fall on the ice yesterday.I wonder if I broke something.M: I’m no doctor, but it’s not black and blue or anything.Maybe you just need to rest it for a few days.Q: what do we learn about the woman from the conversation?长对话（19~21）M: Mrs.Dawson, thanks very much for coming down to the station.I just like to go over some of the things that you told police officer Parmer at the bank.W: All right.M: Well, could you describe the man who robbed the bank for this report that we’re filling out here? Now, anything at all that you can remember would be extremely helpful to us.W: Well, just, I can only remember basically what I said before.M: That’s all right.W: The man was tall, six foot, and he had dark hair, and he had moustache.M: Very good.All right, did he have any other distinguishing marks? W: Um, no, none that I can remember.M: Do you remember how old he was by any chance? W: Well, I guess around 30, maybe younger, give or take a few years.M: Mm, all right.Do you remember anything about what he was wearing? W: Yes, yes, he had on a dark sweater, a solid color.M: OK.Um, anything else that strikes you at the moment? W: I remember he was wearing a light shirt under the sweater.Yes, yes.M: All right.Mrs.Dawson, I really appreciate what you’ve been through today.I’m just going to ask you to look at some photographs before you lea ve if you don’t mind.It won’t take very long.Can you do that for me? W: Oh, of course.M: Would you like to step this way with me, please? W: OK, sure.M: Thank you.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19.What do we learn about the woman? 20.What did the suspect look like?21.What did the man finally asked the woman to do?长对话（22~25）W: Good morning, I’m calling about the job that was in the paper last night.M: Well, could you tell me your name? W: Candider Forsett.M: Oh yes.What exactly is it that interests you about the job? W: Well, I thought it was just right for me.M: Really? Um… Could you tell me a little about yourself? W: Yes.I’m 23.I’ve been working abroad.M: Where exactly have you been working? W: In Geneva.M: Oh, Geneva.And what were you doing there? W: Secretarial work.Previous to that, I was at university.M: Which university was that? W: The University of Manchester.I’ve got a degree in English.M: You said you’ve been working in Geneva.Do you have any special reason for wanting to come back? W: I thought it would be nice to be near to the family.M: I see, and how do you see yourself developing in this job? W: Well, I’m ambitious.I do hope that my career as a secretary will lead me eventually into management.M: I see.You have foreign languages? W: French and Italian.M: Well, I think the best thing for you to do is do reply a writing to the advertisement.W: Can’t I arrange for an interview now?M: Well, I’m afraid we must wait until all the applications are in, in writin g, and we’ll then decide on the short list.If you are on the short list, of course we should see you.W: Oh, I see.M: I look forward to receiving your application in writing in a day or two.W: Oh, yes, yes, certainly.M: Ok, thank you very much.Goodbye.W: Thank you.Goodbye.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22.How did the woman get to know about the job vacancy? 23.Why did the woman find the job appealing? 24.What had the woman been doing in Geneva? 25.What was the woman asked to do in the end?Section B Passage One One of the greatest heartbreaks for fire fighters occurs when they fail to rescue a child from a burning building because the child, frightened by smoke and noise, hides under a bed or in a closet and is later found dead.Saddest of all is when children catch a glimpse of the masked fire fighter but hide because they think they have seen a monster.T o prevent such tragedies, fire fighter Eric Velez gives talks to children in his community, explaining that they should never hide during a fire.He displays fire fighters’ equipment, including the oxygen mask, which he encourages his listeners to play with and put on.“If you see us,” Velez tells them, “don’t hide!We are not monsters.We have come to rescue you.” Velez gives his presentations in English and Spanish.Growing up in San Francisco, he learnt Spanish from his immigrant parents.Velez and other fire fighters throughout North America, who give similar presentations, will never know how many lives they save through thei r talks.But it’s a fact that informative speaking saves lives.For example, several months after listening to an informative speech, Pete Gentry in North Carolina rescued his brother who is choking on food, by using the method taught by student speaker, Julie Paris.In addition to saving lives, informative speakers help people learn new skills, solve problems and acquire fascinating facts about the exciting world in which they live.Why do some children trapped in a burning building hide from masked fire fighters? What does the passage tell us about fire fighter Eric Velez? What do we learn about Pete Gentry? What message is the speaker trying to convey?Passage Two Some people want to make and save a lot of money in order to retire early.I see people pursuing higher paying and increasingly demanding careers to accomplish this goal.Theymake many personal sacrifices in exchange for income today.The problem is that tomorrow might not come.Even if it all goes according to plan, will you know how to be happy when you are not working if you spend your entire life making money? More importantly, who will be around for you to share your leisure time with? At the other extreme are people who live only for today.Why bother saving when I might not be here tomorrow, they argue.The danger of this approach is that tomorrow may come after all.And most people don't want to spend all their tomorrows working for a living.The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older.You maybe surprise to hear me say that if you must pick an extreme I think it's better to pick the spend-all approach.As long as you don't mind continuing to work, assuming your health allows, you should be OK.At least, you are making use of your money, and hopefully deriving value and pleasure from it.Postponing doing what you love and being with people you love until retirement can be a mistake.It may never come.Retirement can be a great time for some people.For others, it is a time of boredom, loneliness and poor health.Why do some people pursue higher paying but demanding careers?What is the danger facing people who live only for today?What does the speaker seem to advocate?Passage Three Imagine that someone in your neighborhood broke the law, and the judge put the whole neighborhood under suspicion.How fair will that be? Well, it happens everyday to high schoolers.Just because some students have stolen things in shops, all of us are treated like thieves.Even though I’d never steal.Store employees looked at me like I’m some kind of hardened criminal.For example, during one lunch period, myfriend Denny and I went to the Graben Gore Restaurant to have a hot dog.We arrived to find a line of students waiting outside.A new sign in the window told the story.“No more than two students at a time”.After 15 minutes, we finally got in.But the store manger laid the evil eye on us.I asked him about the new sign, and he said, “You kids are stealing too much stuff.” You kids? T oo much stuff? We were not only assumed to be thieves, but brilliant, greedy thieves.The most annoying thing though, is the way employees watched my friends and me.It’s horrible.Once, at a drug store, I was looking around and found a guy standing on a large box, stocking the shelves.He was watching my hands, more than he was watching his own.I showed him that my hands were empty.He got down off his box and rushed off, as if he was going to get the store manger.How crazy is that!33.What does the speaker find to be unfair?34.What measure did the Graben Gore Restaurant take to stop stealing?35.What happened in a drug store that greatly annoyed the speaker Section C Writing keeps us in touch with other people.We write to communicate with relatives and friends.We write to preserve our family histories so our children and grandchildren can learn and appreciate their heritage.With computers and Internet connections in so many households, colleges, and businesses, people are e-mailing friends and relatives all the time--or talking to them in writing in online chat rooms.It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop.Students are e-mailing their professors to receive and discuss their classroom assignments and to submit them.Theyare e-mailing classmates to discuss and collaborate on homework.They are also sharing information about concerts and sports events, as well as jokes and their philosophies of life.Despite the growing importance of computers, however, there will always be a place and need for the personal letter.A hand-written note to a friend or a family member is the best way to communicate important thoughts.No matter what the content of the messag e, its real point is, “I want you to know that I care about you.” This writing practice brings rewards that can’t be seen in bank accounts, but only in the success of human relationships.Section A短对话答案11.A)The man should visit the museums.B)She can’t stan d the hot weather.C)The beach resort is a good choice.D)She enjoys staying in Washington.答案：D 解析：Woman最后说到I’ll be happy here no matter what the temperature.这表明了她待在这里很愉快，很享受待在华盛顿，故选D。

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W: Ok, so let’s go through the travel details again. Two adults, eight days in Britain from April 26th to May 3rd, flying from Beijing to London and back with Air China, and you are in a double room.M: Yes, that’s right. Umm, do you know what the flight times are?W: The outward flight from Beijing is … umm, let me see. Yes, 10:30 in the morning. And the return is … I think it’s early evening. Yes, 7:15. Fifteen past seven in the evening. Local time, that is.M: Right, that’s fine. Oh, sorry, I can’t reme mber what else you include in the price, apart from the air tickets. Is it all meals or just breakfast?W: Yes, it’s full board. So all meals, and transport from the airport to your hotel. Everything is included.M: Good.W: Now can you tell me if you need travel insurance?M: Ah, yes. Yes, we do.W: Ok, well, that’s an extra 300 Yuan each. Is that OK?M: Well, there is no choice, is there? I mean we have to have it, don’t we？W: Yes, I’m afraid so.M: Well, all right then.M: Pan-Pacific Tours. How can I help you?W: Good afternoon. Can I speak to Mark, please?M: Speaking.W: Oh, hello, Mark. This is Linda from Johnson & Sons Events.M: Hello, Linda. What can I do for you?W: I was just wanting to clear up a few details of the conference and the events.M: Right, what do you need to know?W: Well, first I’ve got to have numbers — delegates to the conference, their husbands or wives, and so on — for the transport as much as anything else.M: So far, we’ve got 183 who’ve booked up. And we might get a few mor e.W: Does that include husbands and wives as well?M: Not really. I’ll e-mail you the exact number because I haven’t counted them yet.W: Fine.M: And there’ll be six guest speakers.W: Six?M: Yes, who want to be picked up from the airport by car, not in your fleet of buses.W: Right. You’ll let me know when they are arriving, won’t you?M: Just as soon as I know.W: Now, special events. You wanted a local-style dance for the opening ceremony, didn’t you? M: It would be great. I’m sure everyone will enjoy it.W: And we will have to fly the dancers in specially.M: Sure.W: And then after the welcoming feast, there is going to be a piano performance, right?M: Yes, but we’ll have to contact the airline company about it. They are sponsoring the event. W: So we will send the bill direct to them for it.M: You could do it.W: Well, that’s all my queries for the time being.M: Ok, if you need anything else, just pick up the phone or drop me an e-mail.W: I will. Thanks. Bye.W: Sorry, I’m late, James.M: It’s al l right, Mary. Where have you been?W: At the police station.M: Where?W: At the police station. I’ve lost my briefcase.M: Oh, no. what happened? Was there anything important in it?W: Yes, my cheque book, all the papers I need for work, my appointment book.M: Oh, that’s terrible! How did you lose your briefcase?W: Well, as you know, I was with my client at meeting all morning and we had lunch together. After lunch, I went shopping. And when I wanted to buy something, I couldn’t find my cheque book. The n I remembered that it was in my briefcase. And my briefcase was in my car.M: So you went back to your car?W: Yes, I went back to my car. No briefcase. But luckily, my laptop was there.M: And then you went to the police?W: Not immediately. Before I wen t to the police station, I called my client’s office. No luck. He said the briefcase wasn’t there.M: Excuse me. I’ve got a phone call. Yes? Yes, there is. Mary Hopkins. Oh, really? I will tell her. It was very kind of you to call. Bye.W: Who was that?M: That was the manager of the Riverside Restaurant. Just after lunch today, he found a briefcase under a table. When he opened the case, he found a lot of papers. He said they had the name of our company on them, and he found a cheque with the name of Hopkins on it. M. Hopkins, M for Mary.W: Ah, thank God.SECTION B PASSAGESIn this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, is a medium-sized university. It has 11,000 students. 12% of them are international students, mostly graduate students. The university has schools for law, medicine and social work. It also has a Business School, a School of Design and V isual Arts and a School of Engineering and Applied Science. But more than 60% of courses are taught through the Arts and Sciences program. The new school year that begins this fall will cost about 50,000 dollars for undergraduates. That includes 12 months of living expenses estimated at 20,000 dollars. Graduate tuition differs by program. Tuition for the Master of Social Work program, for example, will cost 27,000 dollars in the coming year. The Master of Business Administration program will cost about 38,000 dollars. The university offers financial assistance to international students, including first-year students, but says its resources are limited. Scholarships are available. The university also offers a monthly payment plan to spread out the cost of tuition. It offers loan programs. International students in the United States generally cannot receive federal student loans. But they may be able to take out private loans, as many American students do. Washington University in Saint Louis was named Eliot Seminary when it opened in 1853. Later the name was changed to honor the first American President, George Washington.A new study from the University of New South Wales has discovered that during the working week, Australian fathers only spend an average of just over a minute each day alone with their children. Australian mothers, on the other hand, spend 3 hours a week purely looking after their children, a much greater disparity than in other countries, like America, Denmark, Italy and France, where couples divide the childcare more evenly. According to the author of the study, traditionally Australian fathers appear to like the fun aspects of parenthood but stay away from daily child-care activities. So while they tend to be happy taking the kids to the park or to sports events, they are unlikely to participate regularly in feeding, bathing or taking the kids to school. In short, Australian parenting is seen as a woman’s job and a man’s hobby. However, the last 20 years have seen the arrival of the so-called “new man” — the man who is willing to share the housework and child-care. The “new man” has a picture of his children on his computer desktop at work. He never misses the kids’ school plays, and he passes on a drink after work so that he can get home in time to read their bedtime stor y. This new study suggests that the “new man” feels a little more at home in Europe than in Australia. Indeed, a poll conducted in the UK indicated that almost 70% of British women thought that men were as good at raising children as women.UNICEF is joining with a nonprofit group to bring AIDS-prevention programs to more women and children in 5 countries. UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, will work with Family Health International. The new partnership would be established at first in Guyana, India, Malawi, Nigeria and Zambia. One of the goals is to improve care for babies infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Another is to prevent the spread of HIV from mother to child. Activities would depend on the needs of each country. In some cases, anti-AIDS drugs would be provided to infected parents or children. Women and children living in rural communities will receive most of the services. Both UNICEF and Family Health International will expand their partnership into more countries in the future. Family Health International has been working on public health issues since 1971. The organization is based in North Carolina and has programs in 70 countries. It does research on infectious diseases and reproductive health, and also provides services. Experts say an important part of fighting AIDS is political will. One example they point to is Cambodia. That country has been getting attention for its progress in reducing some of the highest infection rates in Asia. Experts praise the government for supporting public education efforts and programs.Four American teenagers, all children of US military personnel, have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike with a rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said. The four suspects — two 15-year-old boys, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man — were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said. They are accused of causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-old restaurant employee by stringing a rope between poles across a road. US Forces in Japan was informed of the August incident in late October, a public information officer said. There was no clear explanation for the delay in the handover of the suspects to police, other than it involved rules between Washington and Tokyo covering US forces and their dependents in Japan. The US military presence and its impact on Japanese residents have been a thorny issue over the years.Iraqi lawmakers are expected to vote on the security agreement by Wednesday, which will keep the US troops here until the end of 2011, the parliament speaker said yesterday. After hours of heated debate, speaker Mahmoudal-Mashhadani announced that the vote is scheduled for Wednesday, and can be put forward provided parties in the parliament would reach an agreement on the pact. The long-delayed agreement passed the Iraqi cabinet last week and went to the parliament for reviewing. The vote date was originally set for tomorrow. The security agreement will replace the UN mandate to grant US Military presence in Iraq legal status from 2009. The US has agreed to pull troops out of Iraqi cities and towns by mid-2009 and leave Iraq by the end of 2011. The Iraqi governmentwants the parliament to make the decision before lawmakers would set out for a pilgrimage trip to Mecca next week.Honduran authorities dedicated to the protection of children and adolescents have undertaken a campaign to protect youngsters who beg on the streets. In the capital of Tegucigalpa alone, the effort has resulted in the rescue of 350 children, city officials say. The Honduran Institute of Childhood and Family, together with the police and the district attorney, carry out operations around the country to rescue the children and punish the parents. “Many children are used for begging,” said Nora Urbina, special prosecutor for children’s issues. “Many children are rented and that is precisely what we want to punish, because Article 170 of the Juvenile Penal Code sets a penalty of up to 6 yea rs in detention.” Those children who were rescued and taken to the Honduran Institute of Childhood and Family and then handed over to their parents with the promise that their rights will be protected. Parents who allow their children to be exploited in this way face, in addition to as many as 6 years in prison, the equivalent of a $500 fine.A campaign is getting underway in Italy to take back large stretches of the country’s beaches from private bathing clubs, which usually charge to use them. This has been a summer of discontent because despite government efforts, an entire coastline has been monopolized by profiteering bathing clubs. Italy has some of the Europe’s finest beaches, but they are often buried under a mountain of deck chairs and umbrellas. The government says the state owns the shorelines and swimming should be free.The Northwest braced for blizzards Friday night. Icy roads created from storms this week paralyzed much of the greater Seattle, Washington area, where schools were closed and bus routes were suspended Friday as roads were too icy to navigate. Two charter buses carrying 80 people that collided and skidded off a road were pulled to safety. The buses crashed through a metal railing and hung precariously over Interstate 5 for several hours before two trucks pulled them back on the road. The snowfall closed the airport for several hours and cut into local business hours for retail shops during the busiest shopping season of the year.Hundreds of emergency workers combed the site of a five-story apartment building in southern Ukraine Thursday after a series of explosions reduced it to rubble, authorities said. The blasts Wednesday night in the Black Sea resort town of Y evpatoria left at least 17 people dead and 24 others missing, according to Igor Krol, a spokesman for the Ukraine’s Emergency Situations Ministry. 21 people have been rescued. “We are now investigating all possible reasons for the explosions,” Krol said. V olodymiyrShandra, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations minister, told local media that oxygen canisters being stored in the basement of the building could have triggered the blasts. Television footage showed the rescuers trying to free people buried underneath fallen debris, while others scrabbled through wires, construction rods and boulders.Britain has a well-respected higher education system and some of the top universities and research institutions in the world. But to those who are new to this sysytem, it sometimes can be confusing.October is usually the busiest month in the academic calendar. Universities have something called Freshman's Week for their newcomers. It's a great opportunity to make new friends, join lots of clubs and settle into university life.However, having just left the comfort of home and all your friends behind, the prospect of meeting strangers in the classroom and dormitory can be worrying. Where do you start? Who should you make friends with? Which clubs should you join?Luckily, there will be thousands of others in the same boat with you. They worry about starting their university social life on the right foot. So just take it all in slowly. Don't rush into anything that you'll regret for the next three years.※第二部分材料出处2010年英语专业四级考试听力听写部分原文，来自BBC英文一篇报道。

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新东方四级模拟题201010答案范文听力原文作文题Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minute to write a short essay on the topic of Online Shopping. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given bellow:1. 越来越多的人喜欢网上购物；2. 也会带来一些问题；3. 我的看法。

作文范文Online ShoppingThere are an increasing number of college students who love going shopping online. They are in some sense getting addicted to online shopping for reasons of being convenient, time saving, cost efficient or good after-sale service. The products they purchase via the internet range from learning materials in relation to their study to the articles necessary in their daily lives.No doubt, there is a different side of online shopping as well. In the first place, many products bought this way may turn out to be of low quality, as against what is advertised on the web. In the second place, the shoppers may be cheated, getting nothing after paying a certain amount of money. Lastly, after-sale service may not be guaranteed, for some onlineshops may go bankruptcy or change hands.As for me, I think we should be careful with online shopping, just as the proverb goes: “Look before you leap”. In other words, one should make sure that the price of the product is reasonable and the quality is reliable in advance.试题答案1. B2. D3. A4. C5. C6. D7. D8. check his e-mails only twice a day 9. assess his workload 10. books 11. C 12. D 13. D 14.B 15. A 16. B 17.B 18. C 19. D 20. B21. A 22. B 23. C 24. A 25. D 26. D 27. C 28. B 29. B 30. D31. C 32. A 33. C 34. D 35. B 36. website 37. rarely 38. shorthand 39. independent 40. signifying 41. formula 42. Accompanied 43. readership44. Then an odd thing happened: people made fun of the prose, but they kept reading Pitchfork.45. Pitchfork’s re views of artists previously considered unknown or underground, began to act as stepping-stones to mainstream coverage.46. by 2005, they had performed on Saturday Night Live, been nominated for two Grammys47. M 48. I 49. B 50. K 51.L 52. E 53. F 54. H 55. C56. O 57. C 58. B 59. D 60. A 61. D 62. C 63. D 64. A65. B 66. B 67. A 68. B 69. B 70. D 71. D 72. C 73. A74. C 75. C 76. B 77. D 78. B 79. B 80. D 81. A 82. A83. A 84. C 85. D 86. B87. hard for him to catch up with his fellow students88. did the mobile phone I just bought cost me too much89. get used to working nonstop for a couple of hours90. should fail to work on his computer without power91. closely related to environmental degradation听力原文Section A11. M: Tracy, I missed Prof. Shoesmith’s class yesterday for some reasons I can’t tell you now. Could you tell me the assignments he gave us?W: No worries. Prof. Shoesmith was out for a conference and failed to give the lesson. He will not be available to make up for it till next Tuesday.Q: What can’t we infer from the dialogue?12. W: I’m awfully sorry I’m late again, but I got caught in a traffic jam;you know what transportation was like this time of day.M: Well, it appears that you have more traffic jams than other colleagues. It’s the fourth time you are late within two weeks.Q: What did the man try to indicate?13. W: Eric said that Tokyo is a great place for holding academic conferences.M: He’s certainly in a position to say that. After all, he’s been there qui te often.Q: What does the man consider Eric?14. W: Mr. Johnathon, I wonder whether it’s possible for me to take a vacation early next month. I want to have a chance to get together with my family members.M: Did you fill up a request form? It’s of nec essity to go through some formalities.Q: What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?15. W: Since you have made so many business trips, you must have visited many cities all over the city.M: I wish I had, but besides many domestic cities, New York and London are the only two foreign cities I’ve ever been to.Q: What does the man mean?16. W: Would you please, Mr. Smith, tell me what do you feel about child labor?M: We are supposed to take care of them as young children.Q: What’s the man’s attitude towards child labor?17. M: That photo definitely highlights Bob’s hair color. How do you consider that?W: As a matter of fact, I think it makes his hair look messier than it really is. But, that’s what I really think about the picture.Q: What does the woman think of the photo?18. M: Did Iris go to the computer room with you yesterday? She told me she had to retrieve some important information to finish her term paper. W: Yes. But on usual occasions, even if she hadn’t had much homework to do, she would prefer staying in her dormitory to going anywhere else. Q: What does the woman imply?Conversation 1M: Good morning Butner. Good to have you here.W: Thank you. Good morningM: And let me start with you, because this clearly was a labor of love for you, I believe, as you have spent the last seven years of your life documenting the lives of these more than 400 teenagers that you connected with in such a real way. Why did you want to do this?W: You know, I always say this project found me; I didn’t go looking for it. And I think I just have a real sensitivity towards teenagers. And I think that kids are, it’s a misrepresented segment of society. I think there’s a lotof suspicion about teenagers. I think that society doesn’t really know who they are. And I’m always rooting for the underdog.M: Is that the common thread that you found? Did you find that they are, for the most part, the underdogs; I mean that they are really living such complicated lives at such young ages?W: Oh, absolutely! I think that life is moving really fast these days, and I think that these kids are forced to grow up. And they didn’t ask to grow up this quickly. But it’s been thrust upon them, and they’ve had to, really rally. And I think a lot of kids are facing very big issues in life, you know, much bigger than we had ever, or at least I had ever faced.M: Alright, well, that’s a good message to end on. so much more we’d love to talk with you about. Thank you.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. What is the most probable relationship between the man and woman?20. According to Robin, what kind position are teenagers in?21. Why does Robin assume that teenagers are living complicated lives?22. What has the woman been doing in the past seven years? Conversation 2W: Morning! So early of you!M: Hi, I am working on a research task of Prof. Stevenson’s class.W: I missed the class yesterday. Anything interesting?M: Well, yes, very interesting. His class was about corporate culture and took the Swedish furniture retailer IKEA as an example.W: Oh, really?M: Right, with IKEA’s mission statement “A better life for the majority of people”. Have you b een in an IKEA store before?W: Of course. Yeah. Actually my love of its products and working atmosphere pushed me to work part-time in one of its stores last semester. M: Oh. It is a pity you missed yesterday’s class.W: And maybe I will choose IKEA as the start of my career after graduation.M: That’s great you set a goal so early. And this part might be useful for you.W: Hmm, about its recruitment principles.M: See, although getting highly-skilled people is important for IKEA, they will not choose someone with a conflict of value systems with the company. “Anyone expecting a flash car or status symbols has no future with us” is what they say. And only those who wholly understand and buy into the company’s philosophy can get promoted.W: Interesting. Thanks for the information!M: Pleasure!Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. How does the woman feel when she knew the class was about IKEA?24. What does the woman think of IKEA’s products?25. Wh at is IKEA’s philosophy according to the man?Section BPassage OneNi Dan, 20, and two of his classmates were sitting at the front of a long queue outside Gate No. 6 of the Shanghai Expo Park. They had been there for six hours and it was just 4 a.m. Su nday. “We chose to visit Expo today for three reasons: it’s Expo’s 100th day, it’s the two-year anniversary of the Beijing Olympic Games, plus it’s the eighth day of the eighth month,” Ni said. Eight is considered by many Chinese an auspicious number that brings fortune. Coming early is a crucial link to get the limited reservation tickets for the China Pavilion and shorten the hours of waiting outside other pavilions. But a front position on the queue is not enough, “dashing as fast as you can is a must to secure a ticket”, according to instructions posted online by experienced visitors. Tickets to the China Pavilion, given out free to visitors who came early, are used to curb waiting hours. With the ticketing system, it usually takes about an hour to enter the China Pavilion. While other popular pavilions often require three to five hours. At its peak, visitors had to wait for eight hoursto get into the SaudiArabia Pavilion. As of 9:36 a.m., more than 127,000 visitors have entered the 5.28-square-km Expo Park.Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. Which of the following is not the reason why Ni Dan chose the date for a visit to the Shanghai Expo?27. How to get into the Chinese Pavilion for visitors?28. Since when have there already been 127,000 visitors into the Expo Park?Passage TwoLife as we know it would simply not exist without plants. Biodiversity -- the web of all life on Earth -- depends fundamentally on plants and fungi. Plants are used by every human being on the planet, every single day. Just think of what you ate for breakfast this morning, the cup of coffee at your desk, the clothes you’re wearing. Plants provide the human race with food, fuel, medicine, clothing and shelter, whether we live in the countryside or a modern city, in Europe or sub-Saharan Africa. Plants provide invaluable services, they provide us with the very air we breathe, clean water and fertile soil and they help regulate the climate. Plants also provide habitats and food for mammals, birds and invertebrates around the globe. But we are living in an age of acute plant blindness. Somehow, while we make great strides in technology, many of us have forgotten the fundamental importance of the very things on which our lives ultimatelydepend. Plant diversity is being destroyed at a greater rate than ever before and much of this is due to habitat loss through changes in land use. We believe that economic development must go hand in hand with care for the environment. At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and other botanic gardens around the world, our plant scientists and horticulturists are working towards effective, science-based conservation solutions to ensure that we leave a healthy and hopeful world to the next generation. Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. What does biodiversity depend mainly on, according to the passage?30. What does the phrase “plant blindness” refer to?31. In order to leave a healthy and hopeful world to the next generation, what do we have to do?Passage ThreeWhy aren’t there more women physicists, and in senior positions? One factor may be unconscious biases that could keep women physicists from advancing—and may even prevent women from going into physics in the first place.Amy Bug, a physicist at Swarthmore College, examined the bias question. Her researchteam trained four actors—two men, two women—to give a 10-minute physics lecture. Real physics classes watched the lecturers. Then the 126 students were surveyed.When it came to questions of physics ability—whether the lecturer had a good grasp of the material, and knew how to use the equipment—male lecturers got higher ratings by both male and female students.But when asked how well the lecturer relates to the students, each gender preferred their own. And while female students gave a slight preference to female lecturers, male students overwhelmingly rated the male lecturers as being superior. The research appears in the journal Physics World. Bug says the results may be evidence of inherent biases that could hold women back—along with economic inequalities, such as lower wages and smaller start-up grants. Which reduce career acceleration and thus the amount of force available to crack the glass ceiling? Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 32. According to the passage, what’s the factor that woman physicists are fewer than men physicists?33. How many students were surveyed in the lectures?34. Which of the following sentences is wrong when asked how well the lecturer relates to the students.35. Which of the following is the other field also mentioned in the passage, in which women suffer a lot from gender discrimination?Section CIn 1995, Ryan Schreiber was a 19-year-old Minneapolis record-store clerk who wanted to publish a rock-music fanzine but lacked access to a photocopier. Instead, he started a website, called it Pitchfork and began posting his thoughts on bands like Sonic Youth, Fugazi and the Pixies —groups whose songs rarely appeared on the radio or MTV. It was the first golden age of “indie” artists, back when the word was shorthand for music released on independent record labels, signifying the artistic freedom and cachet that came from operating on the fringes.By 2000, Schreiber had moved the site to Chicago, acquired some freelance writers and codified the Pitchfork review into a signature formula — a long, rambling personal opinion of an album, accompanied by a rating on a scale from 0.0 to 10.0. But the site’s readership was still, to use his word, “negligible.” That changed in October of that year, when Pitchfork posted a fawning, grandiloquent 10.0 review of Radiohead’s experimental rock album Kid A. Critic Brent DiCresc enzo’s paean included lines like “butterscotch lamps along the walls of the tight city square bled upward into the cobalt sky” and became an Internet sensation — for all the wrong reasons.Then an odd thing happened: people made fun of the prose, but they kept reading Pitchfork. Schreiber and his writers knew what they were talking about; Kid A., which laterdebuted at No. 1 on Billboard, really was a 10.0 album. Pitchfork’s reviews of artists previously considered unknown or underground, began to act as stepping-stones to mainstream coverage. In the year of 2000, Modest Mouse moved from independent label Up Records to Sony-owned Epic; by 2005, they had performed on Saturday Night Live, been nominated for two Grammys. Their songs are now used in car commercials.。

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听力原文Section A短对话(11~18)11.M: Oh my god! The heat is simply unbearable here. I wish we’ve gone to the beach instead.W: Well, with the museums and restaurants in Washington I’ll be happy here no matter what the temperature.Q：What does the woman mean?12.M: How’s the new job going?W: Well, I’m learning a lot of new things, but I wish the director would give me some feedback. Q：What does the woman want to know?13.M: Can you help me work out a physical training program John?W: Sure, but whatever y ou do be careful not to overdo it. Last time I had two weeks’ worth of weight-lifting in three days and I hurt myself.Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?14.M: I have an elderly mother and I’m worried about her going on a plane. Is there any risk?W: Not if her heart is all right. If she has a heart condition, I’d recommend against it.Q: What does the man want to know about his mother?15.M: Why didn’t you stop when we first signaled you at the crossroads?W: Sorry, I was just a bit absent-minded. Anyway, do I have to pay a fine?Q: what do we learn from the conversation?16.M: I’m no expert, but that noise in your refrigerator doesn’t sound right. Maybe you should have it fixed.W: You’re right. And I suppose I’ve put it off long enough.Q: What will the woman probably do?17.M: I did extremely well on the sale of my downtown apartment. Now, I have enough money to buy that piece of land I’ve had my eye on and build a house on it.W: Congratulations！Does that mean you’ll be moving soon?Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?18.W: My hand still hurts from the fall on the ice yesterday. I wonder if I broke something.M: I’m no doctor, but it’s not black and blue or anything. Maybe you just need to rest it for a few days.Q: what do we learn about the woman from the conversation?长对话（19~21）M: Mrs. Dawson, thanks very much for coming down to the station. I just like to go over some of the things that you told police officer Parmer at the bank.W: All right.M: Well, could you describe the man who robbed the bank for this report that we’re filling out here? Now, anything at all that you can remember would be extremely helpful to us.W: Well, just, I can only remember basically what I said before.M: That’s all right.W: The man was tall, six foot, and he had dark hair, and he had moustache.M: Very good. All right, did he have any other distinguishing marks?W: Um, no, none that I can remember.M: Do you remember how old he was by any chance?W: Well, I guess around 30, maybe younger, give or take a few years.M: Mm, all right. Do you remember anything about what he was wearing?W: Yes, yes, he had on a dark sweater, a solid color.M: OK. Um, anything else that strikes you at the moment?W: I remember he was wearing a light shirt under the sweater. Yes, yes.M: All right. Mrs. Dawson, I really appreciate what you’ve been through today. I’m just going to ask you to look at some photographs before you leave if you don’t mind. It won’t take very long. Can you do that for me?W: Oh, of course.M: Would you like to step this way with me, please?W: OK, sure.M: Thank you.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. What do we learn about the woman?20. What did the suspect look like?21. What did the man finally asked the woman to do?长对话（22~25）W: Good morning, I’m calling about the job that was in the paper last night.M: Well, could you tell me your name?W: Candidate Foreset.M: Oh yes. What exactly is it that interests you about the job?W: Well, I thought it was just right for me.M: Really? Um… Could you tell me a little about yourself?W: Yes. I’m 23. I’ve been working abroad.M: Where exactly have you been working?W: In Geneva.M: Oh, Geneva. And what were you doing there?W: Secretarial work. Previous to that, I was at university.M: Which university was that?W: The University of Manchester. I’ve got a degree in English.M: You said you’ve been working in Geneva. Do you have any special reason for wanting to come back?W: I thought it would be nice to be near to the family.M: I see, and how do you see yourself developing in this job?W: Well, I’m ambitious. I do hope that my career as a secretary will lead me eventually into management.M: I see. You have foreign languages?W: French and Italian.M: Well, I think the best thing for you to do is do reply a writing to the advertisement.W: Can’t I arrange for an interview now?M: Well, I’m afraid we must wait until all the applications are in, in writing, and then decide on the short list. If you are on the short list, of course we should see you.W: Oh, I see.M: I look forward to receiving your application in writing in a day or two.W: Oh, yes, yes, certainly.M: Ok, thank you very much. Goodbye.W: Thank you. Goodbye.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22. How did the woman get to know about the job vacancy?23. Why did the woman find the job appealing?24. What had the woman been doing in Geneva?25. What was the woman asked to do in the end?Section BPassage OneOne of the greatest heartbreaks for fire fighters occurs when they fail to rescue a child from a burning building because the child, frightened by smoke and noise, hides under a bed or in a closet and is later found dead. Saddest of all is when children catch a glimpse of the masked the fire fighter but hide because they think they have seen a monster. To prevent such tragedies, fire fighter Eric Velez gives talks to children in his community, explaining that they should never hide during a fire. He displays fire fighters’ equipment, including the oxygen mask, which he encourages his listeners to play with and put on. “If you see us,” Velez tells them, “don’t hide! We are not monsters. We have come to rescue you.” Velez gives his presentations in English and Spanish. Growing up in San Francisco, he learnt Spanish from his immigrant parents. Velez and other fire fighters throughout North America, who give similar presentations, will never know how many lives they save through their talks. But it’s a fact that informative speaking saves lives. For example, several months after listening to an informative speech, Pete Gentry in North Carolina rescued his brother who is choking on food, by using the method taught by student speaker, Julie Paris. In addition to saving lives, informative speakers help people learn new skills,solve problems and acquire fascinating facts about the exciting world in which they live.26 Why do some children trapped in a burning building hide from masked fire fighters?27 What does the passage tell us about fire fighter Eric Velez?28 What do we learn about Pete Gentry?29 What message is the speaker trying to convey?Passage TwoSome people want to make and save a lot of money in order to retire early. I see people pursuing higher paying and increasingly demanding careers to accomplish this goal. They make many personal sacrifices in exchange for income today. The problem is that tomorrow might not come. Even if it all goes according to plan, will you know how to be happy when you are not working if you spend your entire life making money? More importantly, who will be around for you to share your leisure time with? At the other extreme are people who live only for today. Why bother saving when I might not be here tomorrow, they argue. The danger of this approach is that tomorrow may come after all. And most people don't want to spend all their tomorrows working for a living. The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older. You maybe surprise to hear me say that if you must pick an extreme I think it's better to pick the spend-all approach. As long as you don't mind continuing to work, assuming your health allows, you should be OK. At least, you are making use of your money, and hopefully deriving value and pleasure from it. Postponing doing what you love and being with people you love until retirement can be a mistake. It may never come. Retirement can be a great time for some people. For others, it is a time of boredom, loneliness and poor health.30 Why do some people pursue higher paying but demanding careers?31 What is the danger facing people who live only for today?32 What does the speaker seem to advocate?Passage ThreeImagine that someone in your neighborhood broke the law, and the judge put the whole neighborhood under suspicion. How fair will that be? Well, it happenseveryday to high schoolers. Just because some students have stolen things in shops, all of us are treated like thieves. Even though I’d never steal.Store employees looked at me like I’m some kind of hardened criminal. For example, during one lunch period, my friend Denny and I went to the Graben Gore Restaurant to have a hot dog. We arrived to find a line of students waiting outside. A new sign in the window told the story. “No more than two students at a time”. After 15 minutes, we finally got in. But the store manger laid the evil eye on us. I asked him about the new sign, and he said, “You kids are stea ling too much stuff.” You kids? Too much stuff? We were not only assumed to be thieves, but brilliant, greedy thieves. The most annoying thing though, is the way employees watched my friends and me. It’s horrible.Once, at a drug store, I was looking around and found a guy standing on a large box, stocking the shelves. He was watching my hands, more than he was watching his own. I showed him that my hands were empty. He got down off his box and rushed off, as if he was going to get the store manger. How crazy is that!33. What does the speaker find to be unfair?34. What measure did the Graben Gore Restaurant take to stop stealing?35. What happened in a drug store that greatly annoyed the speaker?Section CWriting keeps us in touch with other people. We write to communicate with relatives and friends. We write to preserve our family histories so our children and grandchildren can learn and appreciate their heritage. With computers and Internet connections in so many households, colleges, and businesses, people are e-mailing friends and relatives all the time -- or talking to them in writing in online chat rooms. It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop. Students are e-mailing their professors to receive and discuss their classroom assignments and to submit them. They are e-mailing classmates to discuss and collaborate on homework. They are also sharing information about concerts and sports events, as well as jokes and their philosophies of life.Despite the growing importance of computers, however, there will always be a place and need for the personal letter. A hand-written note to a friend or a family member is the best way to communicate important thoughts. No matter what the content of the message, its real point is, "I want you to know that I care about you." This writing practice brings rewards that can’t be seen in bank accounts, but only in the success of human relationships.。

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2010年12月四级作文范文(新东方版)北京新东方学校国内部王菲作文：1，目前不少父母为孩子包办一切2，为了让孩子独立，父母应该。

how shuould parents help children to be independent?There is no denying the fact that independence plays an increasingly important part in our daily life and we can’t help asking such a question: how should parents help children to be independent?To begin with, it is imperative that parents provide opportunities to children and allow them to participate in the social games which contribute to the independence of the children. What’s more, under the excessive care and protection of parents, these children are lack of the ability to overcome thedifficulties that abound in their real life. Therefore, it’s a must for parents to cultivate the independence which helps their children easily conquer and frustration and depression。

To conclude, it's essential for us to dispose of the problem of children’s in dependence timely and effectively. Parents should help children develop strong independence and the abilities needed in the future. Only in this way can they be ready to confront any challenges in the society of fierce competition。

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09级四级模拟题6参考答案2010年12月英语四级听力原文Q11.M: Oh my god! The heat is simply unbearable here! I wish we‟d gone to the beach instead.W: Wow, with the museums and restaurants in Washington, I‟d be happy here no matter what the temperature.Q: What does the woman mean?Q12.M: How‟s the new job going?W: Well, I‟m learning a lot of new things, but I wish the director would give me some feedback.Q: What does the woman want to know?Q13W: Can you help me work out a physical training program John?M: Sure, but whatever you do, be careful not to overdo it. Last time I had two weeks worth of weightlifting in three days and I hurt myself.Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?Q14M: I have an elderly mother and I‟m worried about her going on a plane. Is there any risk?W: Not if her heart is all right. If she has a heart condition, I‟d recommend against it.Q: What does the man want to know about his mother?Q15．M: Why didn‟t you stop when we first signaled you at the crossroads?W: Sorry, I was just a bit absent-minded. Anyway, do we have to pay a fine?Q: What do we learn from the conversation?Q16．M: I‟m no expert, but that noise in your refrigerator doesn‟t sound right. Maybe you should have it fixed.W: You‟re right. And I suppose I‟ve put it off long enough.Q: What will the woman probably do?Q17．M: I did extremely well on the sale of my downtown apartment. Now I have enough money to buy that piece of land I‟ve had my eye on. and build a house on it.W: Congratulations! Does that mean you will be moving soon?Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?Q18．W: My hand still hurts from the fall on the ice yesterday. I wonder if I broke something.M: I‟m no doctor. But it‟s not black and blue or anything. Maybe you just need to rest it for a few days.Q: What do we learn about the woman from the conversation?长对话1M : Mrs. Darlson Thanks very much for coming down to the station .I just like to go over some of the things that you told to the police officer Palar at the bank .W :All rightM : Well, Could you describe the man who rob the bank for this report that we‟re filling out here ? now anything at all you can remember would be extremely helpful to us W: Well ,just ,I can only remember basically what I said beforeM :That‟s all rightW: The man was tall ,six foot ? and he had dark hair and he had a moustacheM: Very good ,all right ,did he have any other distinguishing marks ?W: Eh , no, none that I can rememberM: Do you remember how old he was by any chance?W: Oh ,well ,I guess around thirty ,maybe younger .give or take a few yearsM :En ,all right ,do you remember anything about what he was wearing ?W: Yes yes , he had on a dark sweater ,a solid colorM :Ok ,anything else that strikes you at the moment ?W:I remember he was wearing a light shirt under the sweater yes yesM : All right Mrs. Darlson ,I really appreciate what you have been through today. I …m just going to ask you to look at some photographs b efore you leave if you don‟t mind .It won‟t take very long .Can you do that for me ?W: Oh of courseW: Would you like to step this way with me please ?W: OK ,sureM: Thank you !Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. what do we learn about the woman ?20. what did the suspect look like ?21. what did the man finally ask the woman to do ?长对话2W: Good morning, I am calling about the job that was in the paper last night.”M: “Well, Could you tell me your name?”W: “Candid Forseat.”M: “Oh yes, what did exactly is it that interests you about the job”W: “Well, I thought it was just right for me.”M: “Really, en, could you tell me a little about yourself”W: “Yes I am twenty- three, I‟ve been working abroad”M: “Where exactly have you been working?”W: “In Geneva.”M: “Oh, Geneva, and what were you doing there?”W: “Secretarial work, previous to that, I was at university”M: Which university was that?W: The University of Manchester, I‟ve got a degree in EnglishM: You said you‟ve been working in Geneva, do you have any special reason for wanting to come back?W: I thought it would be nice to be near to the familyM: I see and how do you see yourself developing in this job?W: Well, I am ambitious. I do hope that my career in secretary will lead me eventually into managementM: I see, you have foreign languages?W: French and ItalianM: Well, I think the best thing for you to do is to reply in writing to the advertisementW: Can‟t I arrange for an interview now?M: Well, I am afraid we must wait until all the applications are in in writing and we will then we decide on the short list, and if you are on the short list, of course we shall see you W：Oh, I seeM:I look forward to receiving your application in writing in a day or twoW：Oh, yes, yes, certainlyM:Ok. Thank you very much, good byeW：Thank your goodbyeQuestions 22-25 are based on the conversation you‟ve just heard.22. How did the woman get to know the job vacancy?23. Why did the women find the job appealing?24. What has the woman been doing in Geneva?25. What was the woman asked to do in the end?篇章1One of the greatest heartbreaks for firefighters occurs when they fail to rescue a child from a burning building because the child, frightened by the smoke and noise, hides under a bed over a closet, and is later found dead. Saddest of all is when children catch the gleams of the masked firefighter but hide, because they think they have seen a monster. To prevent such tragedies, firefighter Eric Voles gives talks to children in his community, explaining that they should never hide during a fire. He displays firefighter‟s equipment including the oxygen mask which he encourages his listeners to play with and put on. “If you see us”, Voles tells them, “don‟t hide, weare not monsters. We‟ve come to rescue you.” Voles gives his presentations in English and Spanish, growing up in San Francisco, he learnt Spanish from his immigrant parents. Vulres and other firefighters throughout the North America who give similar presentations will never know how many lives they‟ve saved through their talks. But it‟s a fact that informative speaking saves lives. For example, several months after listening to an informative speech, Pea Gangatre in North Carolina rescued his brother who was chocking on food by using the method taught by student speaker Julie Perris. In addition to saving lives, informative speakers help people learn new skills, solve problems and acquire fascinating facts about the exciting world in which they live.Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.Question 26: Why did some children trapped in the burning building hide from masked firefighters?Question 27: What does this passage tell us about firefighter Eric Voles?Question 28: What do we learn about Pea Ganatre?Question 29: What message is the speaker trying to convey?篇章2Some people may want to make and save a lot of money in order to retire early. I‟‟ve seen people pursuing higher pay and increasingly demanding careers to accomplish this goal. They make many personal sacrifices in exchange for income today. The problem is that tomorrow might not come even if all goes according to plan.We don‟t know how to be happy when you are not working.if we spend our entire life making money. More importantly, who will be around for you to share your lesuire time with? At the other extreme are people who live only for today. “Why bother save when tomorrow may not come.?” they argue. The danger of this approach is that tomorrow may come after all. Our most people don‟t want to spend all their tomorrows working for a living. The earlier neglected saving however makes it difficult not to work when you are older. You may be surprised to hear me say that if you must pick an extreme, I think it‟s better to pick the spend-all approach. As long as you don't mind continuing to work assuming your healthy lives you should be ok. At least you are making use of your money and hopefully deriving value and pleasure from it. Postponing doing what you love and being with people you love until retirement can be a mistake It may never come. Retirement can be a great time for some people, for others it is a time of boredom, loneliness and poor health.question 30-32 are based on the passage you have just heard.question 30 Why do some people pursue higher pay and demanding careers?question 31 What is the danger facing people who live only for today?question 32 What does the speaker seem to advocate?篇章3Imagine that someone in your neighborhood broke the law and the judge put the whole neighborhood under suspicion, how fair would that be? Well! It happens everyday tohigh-schoolers. Just because some students have stolen things in shops, all of us are treated like thieves. Even though I never steal, store employees look at me like I‟m some kind of hardened criminal. For example, during one lunch period, my friend Danny and I went to the Grabbing-Gorestaurant to have a hot dog. We arrived to find a line of students waiting outside. A new sign in the window told the story-----“no more than two students at a time”. After fifteen minutes, we finally got in. But the store manager laid the evil eye on us. I asked him about the new sign, and he said, “You kids are stealing too much stuff!” “You kids? Too much stuff?” We were not only assumed to be thieves, but brilliant, greedy thieves. The most annoying thing though, is the way the employees watch my friend and me. It‟s horrible! Once, at a drug store, I was looking around and found a guy standing on a large box, stocking the shelves. He was watching my hands more than he was watching his own. I showed him that my hands were empty. He got down off his box and rushed off as if he was going to get the store manager. How crazy is that!Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.Q33: What does the speaker find to be unfair?Q34: What measure did the Grabbing-Go restaurant take to stop stealing?Q35: What happened in a drug store that greatly annoyed the speaker?复合式听写Writing keeps us in touch with other people. We write to communicate with relatives and friends. We write to preserve our family histories so our children and grandchildren can learn and appreciate their heritage. With computers and Internet connections in so many households, colleges and businesses, people are emailing friends and relatives all the time. We‟re talking to them in writing in online chat rooms. It is cheaper than calling long distance and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop. Students are emailing their professors to receive and discuss their classroom assignments and to submit them. They‟re emailing classmates to discuss and collaborate on homework. They‟re a lso sharing information about concerts and sports events as well as jokes and their philosophies of life. Despite the growing importance of computers, however, there‟ll always be a place and need for the personal letter. A handwritten note to a friend or a family member is the best way to communicate important thoughts. No matter what content of the message, its real point is I want you to know that I care about you. This writing practice brings rewards that can‟t be seen in bank accounts but only in the success of human relationships.。

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2010年6月大学英语四级考试听力原文11. W: Just imagine we have to finish reading 300 pages before Monday, how can theprofessor expect us to do it in such a short time?M: Yeah, but what troubles me is that I can’tfind the book in the library or in theuniversity bookstore.Q: what does the man mean?12. M: Do you think I could borrow your car to go grocery shopping? The supermarketsoutside the city are so much cheaper. I’d also be happy to pick up anything you need.W: Wow, I don’t like to let anyone else to drive my car. Tell you what, why don’t we go together?Q: What does the woman mean?13. M: Forgive the mess in here. We had a party last night. There were a lot of people andthey all brought foodbe doing most of today.W: Yeah, I can tell. Well, I guess it’s pretty obvious what you’llQ: What does the woman think the man will do14. W: What time would suit you for the first round talks with John Smith?M: Well, you know my schedule. Other than this Friday, one day is as good as the next.Q: What does the man mean?15. W: I was so angry yesterday. My biology teacher did not even let me explain why Imissed the field trip. He just wouldn’t let me pass.M: That doesn’t seem fair. I’d feel that way too if I were you.Q: What does the man imply?16. M: I really c an’t stand the way David controls the conversation all the time. If hegoing to be at your Christmas party, I just won’t come.W: I’m sorry you feel that way. But my mother insists that he come.Q: What does the woman imply?17. W: You’re taking a course with Professor Johnson. What’s your impression so far? M: Well, many students can hardly stay awake in his class without first drinking a cup ofcoffee.Q: What does the man imply?18. W: Have you ever put a computer together before?M: No, never. But I think if we follow these instructions exactly, we won’t have muchtrouble.Q: What are the speakers going to do?Long ConversationsConversation 1W: What sort of hours do you work, Steve?M: Well I have to work very long hours, about eleven hours a day.W: What time do you start?M: I work 9 to 3, then I start again at 5:30 and work until 11, six days a week. So I have towork very unsocial hours.W: And do you have to work at the weekend?M: Oh, yes, that’s our busiest time. I get Wednesdays off.W: What are the things you have to do and the things you don’t have to do?-up, so that’s good. I have to wear white, and I haveM: Uh, I don’t have to do the washingto keep everything in the kitchen totally clean.W: What’s hard about the job?M: You are standing up all the time. When we are busy, people get angry and shout, butthat’s normal.W: How did you learn the profession?M: Well, I did a two-year course at college. In the first year we had to learn the basics, andthen we had to take exams.W: Was it easy to find a job?M: I wrote to about six hotels and one of them gave me my first job, so I didn’wait too long.W: And what’s the secret of being good at your job?M: Attention to detail. You have to love it. You have to show passion for it.W: And what are your plans for the future?M: I want to have my own place when the time is right.Q19-Q22Q 19. What does the man say about his job?Q 20. What does the man think is the hardest part of his job?Q 21. Where did the man get his first job after graduation?Q 22. What does the man say is important to being good at his job?Conversation 2W: Now you’ve seen this table of figures about the pocket money children in Britain get?tand the column entitledM: Yes. I thought it was quite interesting, but I don’t quite underschange. Can you explain what it means?W: Well, I think it means the change from the year before. I am not a mathematician, but Iassume the rise from 70p to 90p is a rise of 25 percent.M: Oh yes, I see. And the inflation rate is there for comparison.W: Yes. why do you think the rise in pocket money is often higher than inflation?M: I am sorry I’ve no idea. Perhaps parents in Britain are too generous.W: Perhaps they are. But it looks as if children were not better off in 2001 than they werein 2002. That’s strange, isn’t it? And they seem to have been better off in 2003 than they arenow. I wonder why that is.M: Yes, I don’t understand that at all.W: Anyway, if you had children, how much pocket money would you give them?M: I d on’t know. I think I’ll probably give them 2 pounds a week.W: Would you? And what would you expect them to do with it?M: Well, out of that, they have to buy some small personal things, but I wouldn’them to save to buy their own socks, for example.W: Yes, by the way, do most children in your country get pocket money?M: Yeah, they do.Q23-Q25Q23. What is the table of figures about?Q24. What do we learn from the conversation about British children’s pocket money?Q25. Supposing the man had children, what would he expect them to do with their pocketmoney?Passage 1As the new sales director for a national computer firm, Alex Gordon was lookingforward to his first meeting with the company’s district managers. Everyone arrived on s presentation went extremely well. He decided to end the meeting withtime, and Alex’the conversation about the importance of the district managers to the company’s believe we are going to continue to increase our share of the market,” he began,of the quality of the people in this room. The district manager is the key to the success ofthe sales representatives in his district. He sets the term for everyone else. If he hasambitious goals and is willing to put in long hours, everyone in his unit will follow hisexample.” When Alex was finished, he received polite applauses, but hardly the warmresponse he had hoped for. Later he spoke with one of the senior managers. “Thin going so well until the end”, Alex said disappointedly. “Obviously, I sai d the wrongthing.”“Yes”, the district manager replied. “Half of our managers are women. Most haveworked their way up from sales representatives, and they are very proud of the role theyplayed in the company’s growth. They don’t care at all about politi cal correctness. Butthey were definitely surprised and distressed to be referred to as ‘he’ in your spe Questions 26 to 29 are based on the question you have just heard.Q26 Who did Alex Gordon speak to at the first meeting?Q27 What did Alex want to emphasize at the end of his presentation?Q28 What do we learn about the audience at the meeting?Q29 Why did Alex fail to receive the warm response he had hoped for?Passage 2The way to complain is to act business-like and important. If your complaint isimmediate, suppose you got the wrong order at a restaurant, make a polite but firmrequest to see the manager. When the manager comes, ask his or her name. And then stateyour problem and what you expect to have done about it. Be polite! Shouting or actingrude will get you nowhere. But also be firm in making your complaint. Besides, actimportant. This doesn’t mean to put on airs and say “do you know who I am?” Wh means is that people are often treated the way they expect to be treated. If you act likesomeone who expects a fair request to be granted, chances are it will be granted. Theworst way to complain is over the telephone. You are speaking to a voice coming fromsomeone you cannot see. So you can’t tell how the person on the line is reacting. It is easyfor that person to give you the run-around. Complaining in person or by letter isrequire an immediate response, itgenerally more effective. If your complaint doesn’toften helps to complain by letter. If you have an appliance that doesn’ｔwork, send a letterto the store that sold it. Be business-like and stick to the point. Don’t spend a paragraphon how your uncle John tried to fix the problem and couldn’t.Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.Q30. What does the speaker suggest you do when you are not served properly at arestaurant?Q31. Why does the speaker say the worst way to complain is over the telephone?Q32. What should you do if you make a complaint by letter?Passage 3Barbara Sanders is a wife and the mother of two children, ages 2 and 4. Her husband,Tom, is an engineer and makes an excellent salary. Before Barbara had children, sheworked as an architect for the government, designing government housing. She quit herjob when she became pregnant, but is now interested in returning to work. She's been offered an excellent job with the government. Her husband feels it's unnecessary for her towork since the family does not need the added income. He also thinks that a woman should stay home with her children. If Barbara feels the need to do socially important work, he thinks that she should do volunteer work one or two days a week. Barbara, onthe other hand, has missed the excitement of her profession and does not feel she wouldbe satisfied doing volunteer work. She would also like to have her own income, so shedoes not have to ask her husband for money whenever she wants to buy something. Shedoes not think it's necessary to stay home every day with the children and she knows avery reliable babysitter who's willing to come to her house. Tom does not think a babysitter can replace a mother and thinks it's a bad idea for the children to spend so much time with someone who's not part of the family.Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.Q33. What was Barbara's profession before she had children?Q34. What does Barbara's husband suggest she do if she wants to work?Q35. What does Tom think about hiring a babysitter?篇章听力Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in the school building, is smarter,more curious, less afraid of what he does not know, better in finding and figuring thingsout, more confident, resourceful, persistent, and independent than he will ever be again inhis schooling or unless he is very unusual and very lucky for the rest of his life. Already,by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people around him, andwithout any school type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated, and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school or than any of histeachers have done for years. He has solved the mystery of language. He has discovered it.Babies do not even know that language exists and he has found out how it works andlearned to use it appropriately. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, by trying it out and seeing whether it works by gradually changing it and refining it until it does work. And while hehas been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, including many of the concepts that the schools think only they can teach him and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.。

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作文范文Online ShoppingThere are an increasing number of college students who love going shopping online. They are in some sense getting addicted to online shopping for reasons of being convenient, time saving, cost efficient or good after-sale service. The products they purchase via the internet range from learning materials in relation to their study to the articles necessary in their daily lives.No doubt, there is a different side of online shopping as well. In the first place, many products bought this way may turn out to be of low quality, as against what is advertised on the web. In the second place, the shoppers may be cheated, getting nothing after paying a certain amount of money. Lastly, after-sale service may not be guaranteed, for some online shops may go bankruptcy or change hands.As for me, I think we should be careful with online shopping, just as the proverb goes: “Look before you leap”. In other words, one should make sure that the price of the product is reasonable and the quality is reliable in advance.试题答案1. B2. D3. A4. C5. C6. D7. D8. check his e-mails only twice a day 9. assess his workload 10. books11. C 12. D 13. D 14.B 15. A 16. B 17.B 18. C 19. D 20. B21. A 22. B 23. C 24. A 25. D 26. D 27. C 28. B 29. B 30. D31. C 32. A 33. C 34. D 35. B 36. website 37. rarely 38. shorthand39. independent 40. signifying 41. formula 42. Accompanied 43. readership44. Then an odd thing happened: people made fun of the prose, but they kept reading Pitchfork.45. Pitchfork’s reviews of artists prev iously considered unknown or underground, began to act as stepping-stones to mainstream coverage.46. by 2005, they had performed on Saturday Night Live, been nominated for two Grammys47. M 48. I 49. B 50. K 51.L 52. E 53. F 54. H 55. C56. O 57. C 58. B 59. D 60. A 61. D 62. C 63. D 64. A65. B 66. B 67. A 68. B 69. B 70. D 71. D 72. C 73. A74. C 75. C 76. B 77. D 78. B 79. B 80. D 81. A 82. A83. A 84. C 85. D 86. B87. hard for him to catch up with his fellow students88. did the mobile phone I just bought cost me too much89. get used to working nonstop for a couple of hours90. should fail to work on his computer without power91. closely related to environmental degradation听力原文Section A11. M: Tracy, I missed Prof. Shoesmith’s class yesterday for some reasons I can’t tell you now. Could you tell me the assignments he gave us?W: No worries. Prof. Shoesmith was out for a conference and failed to give the lesson. He will not be available to make up for it till next Tuesday.Q: What can’t we infer from the dialogue?12. W: I’m awfully sorry I’m late again, but I got caught in a traffic jam; you know what transportation was like this time of day.M: Well, it appears that y ou have more traffic jams than other colleagues. It’s the fourth time you are late within two weeks.Q: What did the man try to indicate?13. W: Eric said that Tokyo is a great place for holding academic conferences.M: He’s certainly in a position to say that. After all, he’s been there quite often.Q: What does the man consider Eric?14. W: Mr. Johnathon, I wonder whether it’s possible for me to take a vacation early next month. I want to have a chance to get together with my family members.M: Did you fill up a request form? It’s of necessity to go through some formalities.Q: What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?15. W: Since you have made so many business trips, you must have visited many cities all over the city.M: I wish I had, but besides many domestic cities, New York and London are the only two foreign cities I’ve ever been to.Q: What does the man mean?16. W: Would you please, Mr. Smith, tell me what do you feel about child labor?M: We are supposed to take care of them as young children.Q: What’s the man’s attitude towards child labor?17. M: That photo definitely highlights Bob’s hair color. How do you consider that?W: As a matter of fact, I think it makes his hair look messier than it really is. But, that’s what I really think about the picture.Q: What does the woman think of the photo?18. M: Did Iris go to the computer room with you yesterday? She told me she had to retrieve some important information to finish her term paper.W: Yes. But on usual occ asions, even if she hadn’t had much homework to do, she would prefer staying in her dormitory to going anywhere else.Q: What does the woman imply?Conversation 1M: Good morning Butner. Good to have you here.W: Thank you. Good morningM: And let me start with you, because this clearly was a labor of love for you, I believe, as you have spent the last seven years of your life documenting the lives of these more than 400 teenagers that you connected with in such a real way. Why did you want to do this?W: You know, I always say this project found me; I didn’t go looking for it. And I think I just have a real sensitivity towards teenagers. And I think that kids are, it’s a misrepresented segment of society. I think there’s a lot of suspicion about teena gers. I think that society doesn’t really know who they are. And I’m always rooting for the underdog.M: Is that the common thread that you found? Did you find that they are, for the most part, the underdogs; I mean that they are really living such complicated lives at such young ages? W: Oh, absolutely! I think that life is moving really fast these days, and I think that these kids are forced to grow up. And they didn’t ask to grow up this quickly. But it’s been thrust upon them, and they’ve had to, real ly rally. And I think a lot of kids are facing very big issues in life, you know, much bigger than we had ever, or at least I had ever faced.M: Alright, well, that’s a good message to end on. so much more we’d love to talk with you about. Thank you.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. What is the most probable relationship between the man and woman?20. According to Robin, what kind position are teenagers in?21. Why does Robin assume that teenagers are living complicated lives?22. What has the woman been doing in the past seven years?Conversation 2W: Morning! So early of you!M: Hi, I am working on a research task of Prof. Stevenson’s class.W: I missed the class yesterday. Anything interesting?M: Well, yes, very interesting. His class was about corporate culture and took the Swedish furniture retailer IKEA as an example.W: Oh, really?M: Right, with IKEA’s mission statement “A better life for the majority of people”. Have you been in an IKEA store before?W: Of course. Yeah. Actually my love of its products and working atmosphere pushed me to work part-time in one of its stores last semester.M: Oh. It is a pity you missed yesterday’s class.W: And maybe I will choose IKEA as the start of my career after graduation.M: That’s great you set a goal so early. And this part might be useful for you.W: Hmm, about its recruitment principles.M: See, although getting highly-skilled people is important for IKEA, they will not choose someone with a conflic t of value systems with the company. “Anyone expecting a flash car or status symbols has no future with us” is what they say. And only those who wholly understand and buy into the company’s philosophy can get promoted.W: Interesting. Thanks for the information!M: Pleasure!Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. How does the woman feel when she knew the class was about IKEA?24. What does the woman think of IKEA’s products?25. What is IKEA’s philosophy according to the man?Section BPassage OneNi Dan, 20, and two of his classmates were sitting at the front of a long queue outside Gate No. 6 of the Shanghai Expo Park. They had been there for six hours and it was just 4 a.m. Sunday. “We chose to visit Expo today for three reasons: it’s Expo’s 100th day, it’s thetwo-year anniversary of the Beijing Olympic Games, plus it’s the eighth day of the eighth month,” Ni said. Eight is considered by many Chinese an auspicious number that brings fortune. Coming early is a crucial link to get the limited reservation tickets for the China Pavilion and shorten the hours of waiting outside other pavilions. But a front position on the queue is not enough, “dashing as fast as you can is a must to secure a ticket”, according to instructions posted online by experienced visitors. Tickets to the China Pavilion, given out free to visitors who came early, are used to curb waiting hours. With the ticketing system, it usually takes about an hour to enter the China Pavilion. While other popular pavilions often require three to five hours. At its peak, visitors had to wait for eight hours to get into the SaudiArabia Pavilion. As of 9:36 a.m., more than 127,000 visitors have entered the 5.28-square-km Expo Park.Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. Which of the following is not the reason why Ni Dan chose the date for a visit to the Shanghai Expo?27. How to get into the Chinese Pavilion for visitors?28. Since when have there already been 127,000 visitors into the Expo Park?Passage TwoLife as we know it would simply not exist without plants. Biodiversity -- the web of all life on Earth -- depends fundamentally on plants and fungi. Plants are used by every human being on the planet, every single day. Just think of what you ate for breakfast this morning, the cup of coffee at your desk, the clothes you’re wearing. Plants provide the human race with food, fuel, medicine, clothing and shelter, whether we live in the countryside or a modern city, in Europe or sub-Saharan Africa. Plants provide invaluable services, they provide us with the very air we breathe, clean water and fertile soil and they help regulate the climate. Plants also provide habitats and food for mammals, birds and invertebrates around the globe. But we are living in an age of acute plant blindness. Somehow, while we make great strides in technology, many of us have forgotten the fundamental importance of the very things on which our lives ultimately depend. Plant diversity is being destroyed at a greater rate than ever before and much of this is due to habitat loss through changes in land use. We believe that economic development must go hand in hand with care for the environment. At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and other botanic gardens around the world, our plant scientists and horticulturists are working towards effective, science-based conservation solutions to ensure that we leave a healthy and hopeful world to the next generation.Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. What does biodiversity depend mainly on, according to the passage?30. What does the phrase “plant blindness” refer to?31. In order to leave a healthy and hopeful world to the next generation, what do we have to do?Passage ThreeWhy a ren’t there more women physicists, and in senior positions? One factor may be unconscious biases that could keep women physicists from advancing—and may even prevent women from going into physics in the first place.Amy Bug, a physicist at Swarthmore College, examined the bias question. Her researchteam trained four actors—two men, two women—to give a 10-minute physics lecture. Real physics classes watched the lecturers. Then the 126 students were surveyed.When it came to questions of physics ability—whether the lecturer had a good grasp of the material, and knew how to use the equipment—male lecturers got higher ratings by both male and female students.But when asked how well the lecturer relates to the students, each gender preferred their own. And while female students gave a slight preference to female lecturers, male students overwhelmingly rated the male lecturers as being superior. The research appears in the journal Physics World. Bug says the results may be evidence of inherent biases that could hold women back—along with economic inequalities, such as lower wages and smallerstart-up grants. Which reduce career acceleration and thus the amount of force available to crack the glass ceiling?Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. According to the passage, what’s the factor that woman physicists are fewer than men physicists?33. How many students were surveyed in the lectures?34. Which of the following sentences is wrong when asked how well the lecturer relates to the students.35. Which of the following is the other field also mentioned in the passage, in which women suffer a lot from gender discrimination?Section CIn 1995, Ryan Schreiber was a 19-year-old Minneapolis record-store clerk who wanted to publish a rock-music fanzine but lacked access to a photocopier. Instead, he started a website, called it Pitchfork and began posting his thoughts on bands like Sonic Youth, Fugazi and the Pixies — groups whose songs rarely appeared on the radio or MTV. It was the first golden age of “indie” artists, back when the word was shorthand for music released on independent record labels, signifying the artistic freedom and cachet that came from operating on the fringes.By 2000, Schreiber had moved the site to Chicago, acquired some freelance writers and codified the Pitchfork review into a signature formula — a long, rambling personal opinion of an album, accompanied by a rating on a scale from 0.0 to 10.0. But the site’s readership was still, to use his word, “negligible.” That changed in October of that year, when Pitchfork posted a fawning, grandiloquent 10.0 review of Radiohead’s experimental rock album Kid A. Critic Brent DiCrescenzo’s paean included lines like “butterscotch lamps along the walls of the tight city square bled upward into the cobalt sky” and became an Internet sensation — for all the wrong reasons.Then an odd thing happened: people made fun of the prose, but they kept reading Pitchfork. Schreiber and his writers knew what they were talking about; Kid A., which laterdebuted at No. 1 on Billboard, really was a 10.0 album. Pitchfork’s reviews of artists previously considered unknown or underground, began to act as stepping-stones to mainstream coverage. In the year of 2000, Modest Mouse moved from independent label Up Records to Sony-owned Epic; by 2005, they had performed on Saturday Night Live, been nominated for two Grammys. Their songs are now used in car commercials.。