2009年6月英语四级听力冲刺练习下载(4)

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

22.

[A] She's worried about the seminar¹.

[B]The man keeps interrupting her.  

[C] She finds it too hard.  

[D] She lacks interest in it.

23.

[A] The lecturers are boring.  

[B] The course is poorly designed.  

[C] She prefers Philosophy to English.  

[D] She enjoys literature more.

24.

[A] Karen's friend.  

[B] Karen's parents.  

[C] Karen's lecturers.  

[D] Karen herself.

25.

[A] Changing her major.  

[B]Spending less of her parents' money. 

[C] Getting transferred² to the English Department. 

[D] Leaving the university.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken. After you hear a question, you must choose the best and from the four choices marked [A], , [C] and [D]. Then mark the corresponding³ letter on Answer sheet with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26.

[A] Rent a grave⁴.  

[B]Burn the body. 

[C] Bury the dead near a church.  

[D] Buy a piece of land for a grave.

27.

[A] To solve the problem of lack of land.  

[B]To see whether they have decayed⁵.  

[C] To follow the Greek religious practice.  

[D] To move them to a multi-storey graveyard⁶. 

28.

[A] They should be buried lying down.  

[B]They should be buried standing⁷ up.  

[C] They should be buried after being washed.  

[D] They should be buried when partially⁸ decayed. 

29.

[A] Burning dead bodies to ashes. 

[B]Storing dead bodies in a remote place.  

[C]Placing dead bodies in a bone room.  

[D] Digging up dead bodies after three years.

Passage Two

Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

30.

[A] Many foreign tourists visit the United States every year.  

[B]Americans enjoy eating out with their friends.  

[C] The United States is a country of immigrants⁹.  

[D] Americans prefer foreign foods to their own food.

31.

[A] They can make friends with people from other countries.  

[B]They can get to know people of other cultures and their lifestyles.  

[C] They can practice speaking foreign languages there.  

[D] They can meet with businessmen from all over the world.

32.

[A] The couple cook the dishes and the children help them.  

[B]The husband does the cooking and the wife serves as the waitress.

[C] The mother does the cooking while the father and children wait on the guests.

[D] A hired cook prepares the dishes and the family members serve the guests

Passage Three

Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard

33.

[A] He took them to watch a basketball game.  

[B]He trained them to play European football.  

[C] He let them compete in getting balls out of a basket.  

[D] He taught them to play an exciting new game.

34.

[A]The players found the basket too high to reach.  

[B]The players had trouble getting the ball out of the basket.  

[C] The players had difficulty understanding the complex rules.  

[D] The players soon found the game boring. 

35.

[A] By removing the bottom of the basket.  

[B]By lowering the position of the basket.  

[C] By simplifying the complex rules.  

[D] By altering¹⁰ the size of the basket. 

 

22. D 23. C 24.B 25.A 26.D 27.A 28.B

29. C 30. A 31.B 32.C 33.D 34.C 35.C

 

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

M: Hey, Karen, you are not really reading it, are you?

W: Pardon?

M: The book! You haven't turned the page in the last ten minutes.

W: No, Jim, I suppose I haven't. I need to get through although, but I keep drifting¹¹ away.

M: So it doesn't really hold your interest? 

W: No, not really. I wouldn't bother with it, to be honest, but I have to read it for a seminar. I'm at the university.

M: It's a labor¹² of labor then rather than a labor of love. 

W: I should say, I don't like Dickens at all really, the author, indeed, I am starting to like the whole course less and less. 

M: It's not just the book, it's the course as well?

W: Yeah, in a way, although the course itself isn't really that bad, a lot of it is pretty good, in fact, and the lecturers are fine. It's me, I suppose. You see, I wanted to do philosophy rather than English, but my parents took me out of it.

M: So the course is OK as such. It's just that hadn't been left to you. You would have chosen a different one.

W: Oh, they had my best interest at heart, of course,[24B] my parents. They always do, don't they? They believe that my job prospects¹³ would be pretty limited with the degree of philosophy. Plus they give me really a generous allowance¹⁴, but I am beginning to feel that I'm wasting my time and their money. They would be so disappointed though if I told them I was quitting.

22. D

Why can't Karen concentrate on the book?

23. C

Why is Karen starting to like the course less and less?

24.B

 Who thinks Philosophy graduates have limited job opportunities?

25.A

 What is Karen thinking of doing?

Section B 

Passage One

In Greece, only rich people will rest in peace for ever when they die. Most of the population, however, will be undisturbed for only three years, then they will be dug up, washed, compressed¹⁵ into a small tin box, and placed in a bone room. If the body has only partially decayed, it is reburied in a smaller cheaper grave, but not for long, the body will be dug up again some time later when it has fully¹⁶ decayed. Buying a piece of land for a grave is the only way to avoid this process. The cost of the grave is so great that most people choose to rent a grave for three years and even after being dug up, lasting¹⁷ peace is still not guaranteed. If no one pays for renting space in the bone room, the skeleton¹⁸ is removed and stored in a building in a poor part of the town. Lack of space in Amphons is the main reason why the dead are dug up after three years. The city is so overcrowded that sometimes dead bodies are kept in hospitals for over a week until a grave is found. Amphons city council¹⁹ wants to introduce cremation²⁰ that is burning the dead bodies as a means of dealing²¹ with the problem. But the Greek Church resists this practice, they believe the only place where people burn is a hell²², so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept²³ of life after death. To save space, the church suggested burying the bodies standing up instead of lying down. Some people proposed²⁴ building multi-storey underground grave yards.

26. D

What must Greeks do to keep the dead resting in ever-lasting peace?

27.A

 Why are most dead bodies in Amphons dug up after three years?

28.B

 What suggestions does the church give about the burying of the dead bodies?

29. C

What practice does the Greek church object to?

If you visit a big city anywhere in the world, you will probably find a restaurant would serve the food of your own native country. Most large cities in the United States offer international sample of foods. Many people enjoy eating the food of other nations. This is probably one reason why there are so many different kinds of restaurants in the United States. A second reason is that many Americans come from other parts of the world. They enjoy tasting the foods of their native lands. In the city of Detroit, for example, there are many people from western Europe, Greece, Latin²⁵ America, and the Far East. There are many restaurants in Detroit which serve the foods of these areas. There are many other international restaurants too. Americans enjoy the foods in these restaurants as well as the opportunity to better understand the people and their way of life. One of the most common international restaurants to be found in the United States is the Italian restaurant. The restaurant may be a small business run by a single family. The mother of the family cooks all of the dishes, and the father and children serve the people who come to eat there. Or it may be a large restaurant owned by several different people who worked together in the business. Many Italian dishes that Americans enjoy are made with meats, tomatoes and cheese. They are very delicious and tasty. 

Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

30. A

Why are there so many international restaurants in the United States?

31.B

 Why do Americans like to go to international restaurants apart from enjoying the foods there?

32.C

 How is it typical Italian family restaurant run in the United States?

Passage Three

One winter day in 1891, a class of training school in Massachusetts, U. S. A, went into the gym for their daily exercises. Since the football season had ended, most of young men felt they were in for a boring time. But their teacher, Janes Nasmith had other ideas. He had been working for a long time on the new game that would have the excitement of American football. Nasmith showed the men a basket he had hung at the each end of the gym, and explained that they were going to use a round European football, at first everybody tried to throw the ball into the basket no matter where he was standing. “Pass! Pass!” Nasmith kept shouting, blowing his whistle to stop the excited players. Slowly, they began to understand what was wanted of them. The problem with the new game, which was soon called “basketball”, was getting the ball out of the basket. They used ordinary food baskets with bottoms, and the ball, of course, stayed inside. At first, someone had to climb up every time a basket was scored. It was several years before someone came up with the idea of removing the bottom of the basket and letting the ball fall through. There have been many changes in the rules since then, and basketball has become one of the world’s most popular sports.

33.D

 What did Nasmith do to entertain his students one winter day?

34.C

 According to the speaker, what was the problem with the new game?

35. C

How was the problem with the new game solved?

1 seminar   

n.研究小组，研讨会，(大学的)研究班

参考例句：

• The seminar aims to provide an overview on new media publishing.研讨会旨在综览新兴的媒体出版。
• The seminar was to discuss diversification of agriculture.该研讨会讨论的是农业多种经营。

2 transferred   

转移，迁移( transfer的过去式和过去分词 )； 转让； 转移（感情）； 改变

参考例句：

• The remaining twenty patients were transferred to another hospital. 其余的二十名病人被转送到另一家医院去了。
• The farm has been transferred from father to son for generations. 这农场由父亲传给儿子，已传了好几代。

3 corresponding   

adj.符合的，一致的，相同的，相应的，相当的

参考例句：

• We shall take the corresponding measures.我们将采取相应措施。
• Finally,some corresponding advices are put forword based on the above experiments.最后提出了几个相应的建议。

4 grave   

n.墓穴，坟墓，雕刻工，抑音；adj.庄重的，严肃的，重大的，低沉的；vt.雕刻

参考例句：

• Marriage is the grave of love.婚姻是爱情的坟墓。
• This is a very grave matter indeed.这问题的确非常严重。

5 decayed   

a.腐败的，被蛀的

参考例句：

• New Shoreham, now sadly decayed, has barely 100 inhabitants. 如今已经衰落的新肖勒姆仅有100 名居民，很令人伤感。
• The place stank of decayed fish. 那地方有烂鱼的臭味。

6 graveyard   

n.坟场

参考例句：

• All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.全镇的人都象流水似地向那坟场涌过去。
• Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.居住在墓地旁边会使我毛骨悚然。

7 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

8 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

9 immigrants   

n.移民( immigrant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Illegal immigrants were given the opportunity to regularize their position. 非法移民得到了使其身份合法化的机会。
• Immigrants from all over the world populate this city. 这个城市里生活着来自世界各地的移民。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 altering   

v.改变，更改( alter的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The eighteenth century sought to refine upon Shakespeare by altering and adapting his plays. 18世纪，人们试图通过改编莎士比亚的作品来超过他。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Without altering the selection, you then set the background color to black. 在没有改变选择的情况下，又将背景颜色设置成黑色。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

11 drifting   

a.弥漫的

参考例句：

• Some people enjoy that kind of life, drifting from pillar to post. 有些人喜欢这种生活，到处漂泊游荡。
• The ship was found after drifting on the ocean for six months. 那条船在海上漂流了6个月后找到了。

12 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

13 prospects   

n.希望，前途(恒为复数)

参考例句：

• There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
• They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。

14 allowance   

n.津贴，补贴，零用钱

参考例句：

• My monthly allowance is 50 yuan.我每月的津贴是50元。
• I have to work to earn my allowance.我非得工作挣零用钱。

15 compressed   

adj.压缩的，压紧的

参考例句：

• Her lips compressed into a thin line. 她的双唇抿成了一道缝。
• The poet compressed many thoughts and emotions into a few well-chosen words. 诗人将丰富的思想感情浓缩于几个精选的词语里。

16 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

17 lasting   

adj.永久的，永恒的；vbl.持续，维持

参考例句：

• The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
• We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。

18 skeleton   

n.骨骼，框架，骨干，梗概，提要

参考例句：

• A long illness made a skeleton out of him.长期的卧病使他骨瘦如柴。
• Her notes gave us just the bare skeleton of her theory.她的笔记只给我们提供了她的理论的梗概。

19 council   

n.理事会，委员会，议事机构

参考例句：

• The town council passed a law forbidding the distribution of handbills.市议会通过法律，禁止散发传单。
• The city council has declared for improving the public bus system.市议会宣布同意改进公共汽车系统。

20 cremation   

n.火葬，火化

参考例句：

• Cremation is more common than burial in some countries. 在一些国家，火葬比土葬普遍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Garbage cremation can greatly reduce the occupancy of land. 垃圾焚烧可以大大减少占用土地。 来自互联网

21 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

22 hell   

n.地狱，阴间；用以咒骂或表示愤怒，不满

参考例句：

• It's a hell of a hike from Sydney to Perth.从悉尼到珀斯的徒步旅行简直苦死了。
• The boss really gave me hell today.老板今天着实数落了我一通。

23 concept   

n.概念，观念，思想

参考例句：

• A small baby has no concept of right and wrong.婴儿没有是非概念。
• He was asked to define his concept of cool.他被要求说明自己关于“酷”的定义。

24 proposed   

被提议的

参考例句：

• There is widespread discontent among the staff at the proposed changes to pay and conditions. 员工对改变工资和工作环境的建议普遍不满。
• an outcry over the proposed change 对拟议的改革所发出的强烈抗议

25 Latin   

adj.拉丁的，拉丁语的，拉丁人的；n.拉丁语

参考例句：

• She learned Latin without a master.她无师自通学会了拉丁语。
• Please use only Latin characters.请仅使用拉丁文字符。