2012年12月四级真题听力答案解析

2012年12月四级听力解析

Part III Listening Comprehension

Section A Short Conversations

11.【听前预测】选项描述的都是人的行为动作，由重复出现的to the park推测，本题可能考查去公园做某事。【解析】选D)。对话中女士说: “I just heard about a really beautiful park in the east end of town. There are a lot of roses in bloom.”男士回答：“why don’t we walk over there and see for ourselves?”。由此可知，男士和女士Q: What will the speakers probably do? 将去公园赏花，故答案为D)。Why don’t we…?是建议的常用句式。

12. M: My presentation is scheduled for 9:30 tomorrow morning at the lecture hall. 12.【听前预测】根据选项中的talk和presentation提示，知道与演讲有关。选项均以She开头，结合She is going to see you there. to meet the man推测，本题考查的是女士的情况，女士的话为听音重点。【解析】选C)。对话中男士邀请女士参加他第二天上午9:30的演讲，听到女士一开始的回答Oh, sorry. I was about to tell you that I have an appointment with my dentist at 9 o’clock tomorrow. Q: What do we learn about the woman? 便可知，女士无法参加男士的演讲,故答案为C)。sorry常用于拒绝邀请或请求。

13. W: How long have you been running this company? 13.【听前预测】选项中的He，successful businessman，company? 可知对话与公司的经营情况有关。男士的话为听音重点。【解析】选A)。M: Twenty years if you can believe that. I brought it from small operation to what it is today. Q: What do we learn about the man? 由此可知，男士是个很成功的商业人士，故答案为A)。

14. 【听前预测】选项中重复出现的Susan提示，对话可能与Susan有关。M: Have you read the news on the campus net? Susan has won the scholarship for next year. W：She certainly deserves it. Q: What does the woman mean? 【解析】选A)。对话中男士提到Susan获得了明年的奖学金，女士回答说她一开始就知道Susan会获得奖学金，她是个聪明又勤奋的女孩，即，女士对Susan非常有信心，故答案为A)。

15. 【听前预测】选项中重复出现了take和by，bus和train，以及to Miami，结合比较级more comfortable and convenient，cheaper，faster可知，对话与去迈阿密是乘坐汽车还是火车有关。W: Taking a bus to Miami, it’s cheaper than going by train. M: That’s true. But I’d rather pay a little more for the added comfort and convenience. Q: What does the man mean?【解析】选B)。对话中女士说坐汽车去迈阿密比坐火车要便宜。男士先肯定了女士的观点(That’s true.)，随即用But转折，说自己宁愿意多花点钱，就为图个舒服和方便，暗含之意是，坐火车去迈阿密虽然会多花点钱，但值得，故答案为B)。

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16.【听前预测】选项中重复出现了Antiques（old furniture），结合Preservation，replaced 等推测，本题可能与旧家具是否应该保留有关。M: I think it’s time we got rid of all this old furniture. W: You are right. We need to promote our image besides it’s not a real antique. Q: What do the speakers mean?【解析】选C)。对话中男士提到是时候处理掉(got ride of)所有的旧家具了。女士表示赞成，并给出原因：需要提升形象；这些家具又不是真正的古董。由此可知，男士和女士都认为应该把这些旧家具换掉，故答案为

C)。

17.【听前预测】选项中重复出现了storm，结合roads were closed，The man，stayed at the lab，got home late等推测，对话与暴风雨的影响有关，听音时尤其要留意暴风雨对男士的影响。W: That was some storm yesterday. How was I afraid I couldn’t make it home. M: Yeah, most of the roads to my house were flooded. I didn’t get home from the lab until midnight.【解析】选C)。Q: What do we learn from the conversation.对话中女士提到了前一天的雷雨，说自己当时真担心回不了家。男士回答时提到自己回家的大多数道路都被淹了，他一直待在实验室，直到半夜才回到家可知，男士因暴风雨很晚才到家，故答案为C)。

18.【听前预测】选项中的The woman’s sons/kids，might enjoy team sports，can play soccer，Children should play sports等提示，本题可能考查男士给女士的建议，该建议可能与让女士的孩子参加体育活动有关。M: Why don’t you get them into some team sports? My son and daughter play soccer every Saturday. And they both look forward to it all week. Q: What does the man mean? 【解析】选B)。对话中女士说自己的儿子经常抱怨无聊。男士建议女士让孩子参加团体运动，并提到了自己的儿女，言外之意即他的子女很喜欢团队运动，女士的孩子可能也会喜欢，故答案为B)。

Section B Long conversations

W: So John, I hear you and Arthur share a job, don’t you?

M: Yeah. We’ve shared a sales job at Sonatech for about two years now.

W: Well, how do you divide up your schedule?

M: You know we both sales representatives, and we take orders over the phone. When we started job sharing it was difficult, because we both worked all day Monday. I worked Tuesday and Thursday and Arthur worked Wednesday and Friday. The problem was that when I was in the office on Tuesday, I would talk to people, then they would call back on Wednesday with a question. But Arthur couldn’t answer the question and he couldn’t ask me about it because I wasn’t in the office. So he had to ask the people to call me back the next day, Thursday. Of course, they didn’t like to wait until the next day to have their question answered.

W: Yes, that sounds like a problem.