英语四级听力-短对话 301

 Section C Compound¹ Dictation

Some years ago, an American policeman found a woman lying near a lonely road. She did not appear to have had an (36) ______ . But she was trembling and clearly in a state of shock. So he (37) ______ her to the nearest hospital. She began to tell the doctor on duty the story which was astonishing and (38) ______ . She had been driving along a country road when she had been stopped by a flying saucer² landing³ in front of her. She had been forced to leave the car and enter the flying saucer by (39) ______ which looked like human beings and which could easily make themselves (40) ______ although they could not speak. It was as though they could read her thoughts and she could read theirs. They (41) ______ her politely and allowed her to leave after carrying out a number of tests on her. As she otherwise seems to be (42) ______ , the doctor decided⁴ that she was probably (43) ______ from the side effects of some drug. The woman insisted on being allowed to go home. (44) __________________________________________________________ .

The police then started to make inquiries⁵ and soon discovered that there was already a search going on for the woman, whose husband had reported that she had disappeared. (45) __________________________________________________ . In front of the car, the surface of the road had been completely destroyed not by an explosion⁶ or anything of that kind, (46) ___________________________________________________ .

答案解析：

36. 答案：accident

解析：根据冠词an，可以预测此处是个以元音开头的名词，注意双写字母c。

37. 答案：rushed

解析：本篇全文都是用过去时态表达的，因此填词时要注意时态一致。注意过去式、过去分词听不清词尾时要根据语法知识补上。

38. 答案：awe-inspiring

解析：根据并列结构中and前的astonishing可知此处很可能也是个-ing结尾的形容词。注意这个合成词中有连字符；不要漏掉不发音字母e。

39. 答案：creatures

解析：根据其后定语从句中的human beings，可知此处是个复数名词。

40. 答案：understood

解析：根据前面的make themselves可预测此处是个分词或形容词，注意understand的过去分词有两个o。

41. 答案：treated

解析：根据句子结构，此处需要过去时态的谓语动词。此词中的/i:/音是由字母组合ea发出的。

42. 答案：normal

解析：根据语义及系动词be，可知后面应该是个描述“她”的状况的形容词。

43. 答案：suffering

解析：根据前面的was probably可预测此处是个分词或形容词，注意有两个f。

44. 标准答案：But when she gave her address, it was in a town over a thousand miles from the hospital

听音关键：address, a thousand miles from the hospital

答案重构：But her address was in a town more than a thousand miles away from the hospital

画龙点睛：主从复合句的重点在主句信息。可以用turned out to be代替was。

45. 标准答案：Her car had been found with the driver's door open and the engine running

听音关键：car, found, door open, engine running

答案重构：The drive's door of her car had been found open and its engine running

画龙点睛：with+名词+形容词/分词，表伴随状态，应该学会使用。如果改写，必须保证原意不变。

46. 标准答案：but as though a large, circular⁷, white, hot object had burned through it

听音关键：a large circular white hot object, burned

答案重构：but as if a large, round, white, hot object had burnt through it

画龙点睛：as though可换成as if，此处是虚拟语气，要用过去完成时体现出来；burned可换成burnt。

1 compound   

n.化合物；大院；adj.化合的；vt.加重；使化合

参考例句：

• Air is a mixture,not a compound of gases.空气是气体的混合物，不是化合物。
• How many households in the compound?院内有几家住户？

2 saucer   

n.茶碟，茶托，小圆盘

参考例句：

• A teacup should stand in a saucer.茶杯应放在茶托上。
• I slopped tea in the saucer.我把茶溅到了茶托里。

3 landing   

n.登陆；着陆；楼梯平台

参考例句：

• Owing to engine trouble,the plane had to make a forced landing.由于发动机出了毛病，飞机不得不进行迫降。
• When are we landing?我们什么时候着陆？

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 inquiries   

n.调查( inquiry的名词复数 )；疑问；探究；打听

参考例句：

• He was released on bail pending further inquiries. 他获得保释，等候进一步调查。
• I have failed to reach them by postal inquiries. 我未能通过邮政查询与他们取得联系。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 explosion   

n.爆发，发出，爆炸

参考例句：

• The police arrived right at the moment of the explosion.警察就在爆炸的那个时候赶到了。
• The shock of the explosion was felt far away.爆炸引起的震动很远都可感觉到。

7 circular   

adj.圆(形)的，环形的；循环的；n.传单，通报

参考例句：

• The bright boy altered it to a circular form.这个聪明的男孩把它改成了圆形。
• The lamp stands on a circular base.这盏台灯是装在圆形底座上的。