[外语类试卷]大学英语四级改革适用(听力)模拟试卷156.doc

[外语类试卷]大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷156Section C0 Think back to your college days, the good old days when life was easy. Stay up all night partying or even studying? No problem. Eat pizza every night and【B1】______ entire bags of potato chips at one sitting. Hey, no sweat. You were a mean and oh-so-young machine.But then【B2】______ happens. You graduate, get a job, get married, have kids, and around the age of 35 you're no longer so young and so【B3】______. In fact, you've added a few pounds around the middle. With each【B4】______ year you seem to put on another pound or two. By the time you've hit your mid forties you may find yourself looking in the【B5】______ and wondering, what happened?What happened is this. Around the age of 35 or so, your metabolism(新陈代谢)may start to slow down. Plus, you【B6】______ lose muscle mass, which slows your metabolism even more. The slower your metabolism, the slower the【B7】______ at which your body burns calories. Even if you're eating less than you used to, you'll start 【B8】______.However, just because you're not a spring chicken anymore doesn't mean that you have to get fat. In fact, the antidote(矫正方法)is pretty simple: exercise and eat less. Lifting weights or otherwise【B9】______ working your muscles will add or at least maintain muscle mass, which will help maintain your metabolism. The fewer calories you【B10】______ in the first place, the fewer you need to burn.Maybe you can't stay young forever, but you can stay slim.1 【B1】2 【B2】3 【B3】4 【B4】5 【B5】6 【B6】7 【B7】8 【B8】9 【B9】10 【B10】10 A big trend in the U.S. toy industry has more consumers switching off their high-tech gadgets (小机件)to play with classic toys, like board games. This is【B1】______ true among the so-called millennial(千禧)generation—those bom in the 1980's and 90's. However, these millennials are not playing the classic American games they【B2】______ with, choosing instead new games from Europe. Many of these【B3】______ "Euro games" have become popular around the world because they are not language based. They use【B4】______ and have simple rules.In the next year, market research firm Euromonitor International expects【B5】______ sales of board games and puzzles to grow by more than 1 percent. Still no【B6】______ video game sales, which are expected to grow 6 percent.While many board games also have popular【B7】______ mobile apps, many millennials, including Kristie Nehme, say there is one thing a board game can offer that a video game cannot.Nehme said the more personal aspect of just being with friends and seeing each other in person is probably the main difference, the main【B8】______.Toy Industry Association's Adrienne Appell says one of the biggest toy trends reported is that people are【B9】______ more traditional toys. The reason for this, she says, is that the new generation just wants to【B10】______ he phone and the tablet(平板电脑), and connect face-to-face with other people.11 【B1】12 【B2】13 【B3】14 【B4】15 【B5】16 【B6】17 【B7】18 【B8】19 【B9】20 【B10】20 Of the 143 native languages in Mexico, 60 are at risk of being silenced forever, linguists say. But Mexico isn't the only country losing its voices: If nothing is done, about half of the 6,000-plus languages spoken today will【B1】______ by the end of this century, according to UNESCO's Endangered Languages Programme website.It's【B2】______ to save languages because they "are the primary connection for human culture," says K. David Harrison, a linguist and co-leader of National Geographic's Enduring Voices【B3】______.Harrison said that Mexico is a good example of that and each of the Mexican indigenous(本土的)languages contains millions of years of human experience, wisdom, and practical knowledge about the natural environment.Another linguist Leon Pasquel argues that to preserve Mexico's threatened languages, there should be an integrated policy to【B4】______: bilingual(双语的)education and design of school【B5】______ and bilingual materials. But more importantly, teacher training is basic to achieve this goal and that is what we lack. Because Spanish is the【B6】______ language in the workplace and Mexicans are【B7】______ taught Spanish in school, many Mexicans may have less interest in their region's native tongue. But everybody should learn an indigenous language【B8】______ Spanish.Losing languages is "neither【B9】______ nor irreversible(不可逆转的)," according to UNESCO's Endangered Languages website. There are many efforts under way worldwide to 【B10】______ learning and speaking of languages in decline, especially for younger generations.21 【B1】22 【B2】23 【B3】24 【B4】25 【B5】26 【B6】27 【B7】28 【B8】29 【B9】30 【B10】。