大学英语四级改革适用(听力)模拟试卷78(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷78(题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. What is the main subject of the conversation?2. What is different every year according to the woman?3. What suggestions does the woman give to the participants?
9．
A．An annual cycling event.
B．Major Canadian bicycle races.
C．The contribution of cycling to health.
D．How to increase one’s speed in a bicycle race.
正确答案：A 涉及知识点：听力
10．
A．The length of the course.
B．The route the cyclists take.
C．The number of participants.
D．The month in which the tour is held.
正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力
11．
A．Have lunch before the tour.
B．Drink water at the relay stations.
C．Bring water and lunch with them.
D．Bring candy and chocolate to improve energy.
正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力
听力原文：W: Can you sell yourself in two minutes? Go for it.M: With my qualifications and experiences, I feel I am hardworking, responsible and diligent in many projects I undertake. Your organization could benefit from my synthetical and interpersonal skills.W: Why did you leave your last job?M: Well, (4) I’m hoping to get an offer of a better position. If an opportunity knocks, I will take it. I feel I have reached the “glass ceiling”in my current job. I feel there’s no opportunity for advancement.W: What makes you think you would be successful in this position?M: (5) My graduate school training combined with my internship should qualify me for this particular job. I am sure I will be successful.W: What personality traits do you admire, then?M: I admire an honest, flexible and easy-going person who possesses the “can-do”spirit.W: (6) What leadership qualities have you developed as an administration personnel? M: I feel that I’m good at motivating people and leading them to work together as a team.W: What do you find frustrating in a work situation?M: (7) Sometimes the narrow-minded people who are not receptive to new
ideas make me feel frustrated.W: How do you handle conflicts with your colleagues in your work?M: I will try to present my new ideas in a more clear and civilized manner in order to get my points across.W: How long would you like to stay with this company?M: I will stay as long as I can continue to learn and to grow in my field.W: We will let you know the result probably next Wednesday. I hope to give you the positive reply.M: OK, thank you very much. Goodbye.4. Which of the following is the reason the man left his last job?5. Why does the man think he is qualified?6. What do we learn about the man?7. When does the man feel frustrated?
12．
A．He has never been promoted and feels dull about his work.
B．He doesn’t like the glass ceiling in his office.
C．He hopes to get an offer of a better position.
D．He feels it is an advancement to get this new job.
正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力
13．
A．He possesses the “can-do”spirit.
B．He is hardworking, responsible and diligent.
C．He is qualified with his graduate school training and internship.
D．He is good at motivating people and leading them to work together.
正确答案：C 涉及知识点：听力
14．
A．He is an honest, flexible and easy-going person.
B．He worked once as an administration personnel.
C．He is a salesman and this time he is selling himself.
D．He has just lost his job and is hunting for another one.
正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力
15．
A．When he can’t get his point across.
B．When people are not receptive to new ideas.
C．When he comes into conflict with his colleagues.
D．When it is impossible to learn or to grow in his field.
正确答案：B 涉及知识点：听力
Section B
听力原文：When US spacewoman Joan Higginbotham is not flying and
working in space, she might be found somewhere on earth giving a speech. Higginbotham, who grew up in Chicago (1) and became an engineer before joining NASA, that is, the National Air and Space Administration, gives about a dozen speeches a year. (2) Each speech is different because she tailors her remarks to each audience. Through interviews and E-mails, she finds out in advance her listeners’educational level and what information they want to know. On the subject of space walks, for example, audiences vary in their interests and how much complexity they can comprehend. To elementary school children, Higginbotham may discuss a problem that many kids want to know about. “How do spacemen in a spacesuit eat, drink, and go to the bathroom?”Her answer is “the spacesuit is really a small spacecraft with room for food and water containers, and a waste-collection system”.
(3) To a high school audience, she might satisfy a curiosity that often arises in her pre-speech interviews with students who obviously have seen many sciencefiction movies. (3)“Do spacemen carry weapons in case they encounter enemies in space?”Her answer is “No”. To scientists, she might provide technical details on such topics as the design of spacesuits that protects spacemen from the deadly temperature extremes of space. Just as elaborate preparation is required for success in space, Higginbotham says that it’s important for speakers to learn as much as possible about their listeners before a speech because every audience is different.1. What did Joan Higginbotham do before joining in NASA?2. How does Higginbotham prepare her speech on space walks?3. What does the high school audience want to know about space travel?
16．
A．She was a tailor.
B．She was an engineer.
C．She was an educator.
D．She was a public speaker.
正确答案：B
解析：事实细节题。

“and became an engineer before joining NASA”表明Joan Higginbotham 在加入美国宇航局之前是一名工程师。

故答案选B。

知识模块：听力
17．
A．Basing them on science-fiction movies.
B．Including interesting examples in them.
C．Adjusting them to different audiences.
D．Focusing on the latest progress in space science.
正确答案：C
解析：事实细节题。

由“Each speech is different because she tailors her remarks to each audience.”她为不同的听众准备了不同的演讲。

tailor 在此意为“调整，使适应”，与C 项中的adjust 是同义词。

知识模块：听力
18．
A．Whether spacemen carry weapons.
B．How spacesuits protect spacemen.
C．How NASA trains its spacemen.
D．What spacemen eat and drink.
正确答案：A
解析：事实细节题。

题目问的是中学的听众关于太空旅行想知道什么。

由“To a high school audience”以及他们的问题“Do spacemen carry weapons in case they encounter enemies in space?”可知他们想知道宇航员是否携带武器，以防在太空遭遇敌人。

所以A 选项符合。

知识模块：听力
听力原文：Katherine Gram graduated from the University of Chicago in 1938 and got a job as a news reporter in San Francisco. Katherine’s father used to be a successful investment banker. (4) In 1933, he bought a failing newspaper, The Washington Post. Then Katherine returned to Washington and got a job, editing letters in her father’s newspaper. She married Phillip Gram, who took over his father-in-law’s position shortly after and became a publisher of The Washington Post. But for many years, her husband suffered from mental illness and he killed himself in 1963. After her husband’s death, Katherine operated the newspaper. In the 1970s, the newspaper became famous around the world and Katherine was also recognized as an important leader in newspaper publishing. (5)She was the first woman to head a major American publishing company, the Washington Post Company. In a few years, she successfully expanded the company to include newspaper, magazine, broadcast and cable companies. She died of head injuries after a fall when she was 84. More than three thousand people attended her funeral, including many government and business leaders. Her friends said she would be remembered as a woman who had an important influence on events in the United States and the world. Katherine once wrote, “The world without newspapers would not be the same kind of world.”(6)After her death, the employees of The Washington Post wrote, “The world without Katherine would not be the same at all.”4. What do we learn from the passage about Katherine’s father?5. What does the speaker tell us about Katherine Gram?6. What does the comment by employees of The Washington Post suggest?
19．
A．He suffered from mental illness.
B．He bought The Washington Post.
C．He turned a failing newspaper into a success.
D．He was once a reporter for a major newspaper.
正确答案：B
解析：事实细节题。

文中提到有精神疾病的是Katharine 的丈夫，故 A 不符合题意；使濒临倒闭的报纸死灰复燃的是Katharine，她也曾经是一家报纸的记者，因此C、D 不符合题意。

由“In 1933, he bought a failing newspaper, The Washington Post.”可知答案为B。

知识模块：听力
20．
A．She was the first woman to lead a big U.S. publishing company.
B．She got her first job as a teacher at the University of Chicago.
C．She committed suicide because of her mental disorder.
D．She took over her father’s position when he died.
正确答案：A
解析：事实细节题。

由“She was the first woman to head a major American publishing company, the Washington Post Company.”可知Katharine 在美国是第一位管理主要的出版公司的女性。

Katharine从芝加哥大学毕业，故 B 不符合题意；从4 题得知是Katharine 的丈夫有精神疾病，故 C 不符合题意；根据“After her husband’s death, Katherine operated the newspaper.”可知Katharine 是在其丈夫去世后接管华盛顿邮报，故排除D。

知识模块：听力
21．
A．People came to see the role of women in the business world.
B．Katharine played a major part in reshaping Americans’mind.
C．American media would be quite different without Katharine.
D．Katharine had exerted an important influence on the world.
正确答案：D
解析：事实细节题。

根据文章最后华盛顿邮报员工对Katharine 的评价“The world without Katherine would not be the same at all.”可看出华盛顿邮报员工认为Katharine 对世界影响巨大（exert an important influence on）。

故答案为D。

知识模块：听力
听力原文：Members of the city council and distinguished guests, (7) it is my privilege to introduce to you today Mr. Robert Washington, chief of our city’s police force. He will address us on the subject of the Community Policing Program. Most of you know that Mr. Washington has a distinguished record as head of our police force for more than ten years. However, you may not know that (8) he also holds a master’s degree in criminology and studied abroad for a year with the international police force which deals with crimes around the world. Mr. Washington first introduced the Community Policing Program 8 years ago. (9) The idea behind the program is to get the police officers out of their cars and into our neighborhoods where they can talk directly to merchants and residents about the real dynamics of our city. These officers do more than make arrests. They try to find ways to help solve the problems that contribute to crime in the first place. Often that means hooking people up with services offered by other city agencies, such as schools, hospitals, housing, drug treatment centers. (10) And the program seems to be working: crime is down and our citizens report that they feel more secure. Today Mr. Washington is going to tell us more about this program. Now let’s welcome Mr. Robert Washington.7. What is the purpose of the speaker’s remarks?8. What does the speaker say about Mr. Robert
Washington?9. What is the idea behind the Community Policing Program?10. How has the Community Policing Program turned out to be?
22．
A．To introduce the chief of the city’s police force.
B．To comment on a talk by a distinguished guest.
C．To address the issue of community security.
D．To explain the functions of the city council.
正确答案：A
解析：事实细节题。

根据“it is my privilege to introduce to you today Mr. Robert Washington, chief of our city’s police force”可知说话人要介绍市警察局局长Mr. Robert Washington。

知识模块：听力
23．
A．He has distinguished himself in city management.
B．He is head of the International Police Force.
C．He completed his higher education abroad.
D．He holds a master’s degree in criminology.
正确答案：D
解析：事实细节题。

由“he also holds a master’s degree in criminology”可知Mr. Robert Washington 同时拥有犯罪学的硕士学位。

知识模块：听力
24．
A．To coordinate work among police departments.
B．To get police officers closer to the local people.
C．To help the residents in times of emergency.
D．To enable the police to take prompt action.
正确答案：B
解析：事实细节题。

题目问的是建立the Community Policing Program的真正意图是什么。

根据关键句“get the police officers out of their cars and into our neighborhoods”，可知是加强警民联系。

B 项与原文意思一致。

知识模块：听力
25．
A．Popular.
B．Discouraging.
C．Effective.
D．Controversial.
正确答案：C
解析：事实细节题。

关键句是“And the program seems to be working”，work 在此句中意为“起作用的”。

同时通过其后提到的犯罪率下降和居民安全感的
增加，可推断出the Community Policing Program 很有效。

即，C 项Effective “有效的”，符合题意。

知识模块：听力
Section C
听力原文：Students’pressure sometimes comes from their parents. Most parents are well (1) meaning, but some of them aren’t very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in (2) adjusting to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children’s difficulties. For one thing, parents are often not (3) aware of the kinds of problems their children face. They don’t realize that the (4) competition is keener, that the required standards of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change. (5) Accustomed to seeing A’s and B’s on high school report cards, they may be upset when their children’s first (6) semester college grades are below that level. At their kindest, they may gently (7) inquire/enquire why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on. (8) At their worst, they may threaten to take their children out of college, or cut off funds. Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and think it only right and natural that they (9) determine what their children do with their lives. In their involvement and identification with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that each person must (10) develop in his or her own way. They forget that their children, who are now young adults, must be the ones responsible for what they do and what they are.
Students’pressure sometimes comes from their parents. Most parents are well【B1】_______, but some of them aren’t very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in【B2】_______ college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children’s difficulties. For one thing, parents are often not【B3】_______ of the kinds of problems their children face. They don’t realize that the【B4】_______ is keener, that the required standards of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change.【B5】_______ seeing A’s and B’s on high school report cards, they may be upset when their children’s first【B6】_______ college grades are below that level. At their kindest, they may gently【B7】_______ why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on.【B8】_______, they may threaten to take their children out of college, or cut off funds. Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and think it only right and natural that they【B9】_______ what their children do with their lives. In their involvement and identification with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that each person must【B10】_______ in his or her own way. They forget that their children, who are now young adults, must be the ones responsible for what they do and what they are.
26．【B1】
正确答案：meaning 涉及知识点：听力
27．【B2】
正确答案：adjusting to 涉及知识点：听力28．【B3】
正确答案：aware 涉及知识点：听力29．【B4】
正确答案：competition 涉及知识点：听力30．【B5】
正确答案：Accustomed to 涉及知识点：听力31．【B6】
正确答案：semester 涉及知识点：听力32．【B7】
正确答案：inquire/enquire 涉及知识点：听力33．【B8】
正确答案：At their worst 涉及知识点：听力34．【B9】
正确答案：determine 涉及知识点：听力35．【B10】
正确答案：develop 涉及知识点：听力。